From the Magazine

If I haven’t already told you to download Libby, you should download Libby. It seriously changed my life. The app, which is available nationwide through most library systems, gives you access to your library’s entire catalogue of e-books and audiobooks. It’s like a whole digital library, right on your phone!

Author Tayari Jones has a knack for weaving new threads through the familiar theme of family. That was true of An American Marriage, a bestseller selected for both Oprah’s Book Club and President Barack Obama’s summer reading list in 2018. Jones returns to family with her latest novel, Kin, out this month from Knopf. Jones sat down with Atlanta magazine for a conversation about her latest novel.

Emory University, along with several other Atlanta universities, announced they would comply with President Donald Trump’s directives to higher-education institutions to end programs dedicated to DEI. According to students and faculty from two metro-area universities, the overall impact has been a systematic chipping away at the resources and programs that support students from minority groups on campus—which, for many of them, were a major draw to the university in the first place.

Atlanta is among the first cities in the country to offer Waymo. Though the software company has its own app, it’s been using Uber as a platform to introduce Atlantans to Waymo; an option in the app’s settings allows users to opt for the autonomous ride. Waymo’s Atlanta fleet consists of about 100 vehicles, and the company plans to add more over the next few years.

For savvy shoppers, estate sales are a bargain and an adventure all at once. You’ll find home decor, appliances, clothing, and everything in between well below the original ticket price. They usually take place in the home itself, so you can make your way through rooms full of interesting goods, priced and ready for browsing—all while taking a peep inside midcentury ranches, Victorian manses, and Craftsman cottages across the city. Here are our tips to make your experience even better.

For Jobina Fortson-Evans, joining CBS Atlanta’s newsroom felt less like a career move and more like a homecoming to the city that first ignited her passion for storytelling. As a child, Fortson-Evans loved interviewing people with her camcorder. Years later, she joined the Tucker High School newspaper, which sparked her interest in a journalism career. Now she's joining CBS Atlanta’s new team.

When Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Fox Theatre February 11 to 15, the company will close each show with Revelations, as it has done every year since it started performing here in 1976. The ballet, choreographed by Ailey and inspired by his “blood memories” of growing up in the Baptist church in Texas, has become synonymous with the modern dance company’s vivid and emotional work.

When the Super Bowl kicks off on February 8, Taylor Rooks will be watching live from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. It’s familiar territory for the Gwinnett County native, who hosts Prime Video’s NBA broadcasts and reports for the streamer’s Thursday Night Football. Rather than being in the thick of the action, she draws on her childhood spent around athletes to show audiences what makes these sporting superstars tick.

Kodac Harrison is the Renaissance man of Atlanta’s music and poetry scenes. He may be best known for the weekly open mic poetry readings he hosted at Decatur’s Java Monkey coffee shop (now The Reading Room) from 2001 to 2016. Harrison, 76, was a prominent member of many bands who performed for Eddie Owen at the Trackside Tavern and then Eddie’s Attic—including the Indigo Girls, Caroline Aiken, Shawn Mullins, and Michelle Malone.

In the lobby of the Plaza Theatre is an analog photo booth from 1960 that shoots and develops printed photos, not digital, spitting out a strip of four images with the gritty, nostalgic charm of traditional printing. Only 200 of these functional analog photo booths are left in the world. The company Autophoto, founded by Georgia native Bre Conley Saxon, owns 24 operational booths, including three of the four booths in Atlanta.