Atlanta Magazine

Dragon Con 2026 was dominated by Dungeon Crawler Carl cosplayers and featured a great lineup of celebrity guests and a book drive in honor of Dolly Parton. Here are the trends and notable moments we noticed while attending this year's convention.

Kicking off a series of events to hype its annual book festival, the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta will welcome two international bestselling authors—Harlan Coben and Karin Slaughter—to its stage September 10.

Rocket City is soaring. Ask anyone in Huntsville, and they’ll tell you: It’s a different place now than it was just five to 10 years ago.

After purchasing French cafe Bread & Butterfly in 2023 and launching an African diaspora-inspired dinner menu, chef Demetrius Brown is turning his focus to his next venture: a full-service Afro-Caribbean restaurant in Summerhill called Heritage.

Bon Ton on Myrtle Street has been serving Cajun-Vietnamese fare and creative cocktails for nearly a decade. On September 30, the popular locale will close. Will something else take its place?

For the first time, two Atlanta players—Rhyne Howard and Angel Reese—from the Atlanta Dream will play in the women's basketball World Cup. But, they'll have to play alongside their fiercest rivals to win.

When Eric Di Nardo talks about Sagra, the neighborhood wine bar he soft-opened in East Atlanta Village, he starts with a feeling of warmth from the convivial gatherings he came to love in Italy.

Soft serve may be the stuff of boardwalks and childhood summer nights, but Atlanta restaurants are giving the nostalgic treat a decidedly grown-up glow-up. Here are seven places to cool off with chic soft serve when the Atlanta heat starts to feel relentless.

Georgia native and former KSU running back Bronson Rechsteiner is now a pro WWE wrestler known as the “Bron Breakker.” He will be up agains Oba Femi on Sunday September 6.

Celene Aubry is the first woman to serve as associate director and manager of Hatch Show Print, Nashville's iconic letterpress print shop, in its 147-year history.