September 2026
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Features
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Atlanta Falcons Running Back Bijan Robinson Flies High
Bijan Robinson has emerged as one of Atlanta’s most dazzling athletes, combining jaw-dropping talent, singular charisma, and an increasingly iconic style of play—but can he become Atlanta’s next sports icon?
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6 Atlanta Neighborhoods Where Community is Key: Chamblee
Once a quiet railroad stop 14 miles northeast of downtown, Chamblee is now DeKalb County’s fastest-growing city. The recent opening of Spruill Studios at the old city hall helped solidify its reputation as an arts hub. Don’t miss the city’s famed Antique Row: Its 350 dealers offer everything from vintage clothing to 19th-century watercolors and Polish stoneware.
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6 Atlanta Neighborhoods Where Community is Key: Smyrna
Cobb County’s Smyrna is known as the Jonquil City—a nod to the fragrant yellow flowers that dot its landscape each spring. It has come a long way from its beginnings in the 1830s as a Methodist campground known as Ruff Siding. The arrival of the railroad in the 1840s spurred mills and factories, setting the stage for the city that exists today.
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6 Atlanta Neighborhoods Where Community is Key: Ormewood Park
Ormewood Park came about in 1891 thanks to a trolley extension from downtown that connected to what were then Atlanta’s suburbs. The community is about as residential as intown Atlanta comes, with single-family homes built in Victorian and Craftsman styles alongside a smattering of low-rise public housing.
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6 Atlanta Neighborhoods Where Community is Key: Adair Park
Adair Park was developed as one of Atlanta’s first “trolley neighborhoods” in the late 19th century. With a prime intown location adjacent to the Atlanta Beltline, Adair Park offers a mix of historic charm—it’s on the National Register of Historic Places—and proximity to Atlanta’s liveliest happenings.
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6 Atlanta Neighborhoods Where Community is Key: Hapeville
Hapeville is famously the birthplace of the Chick-fil-A sandwich, first served at Hapeville’s Dwarf House in 1946. It is also home to Delta Air Lines’ headquarters and flight museum, Porsche Cars North America, and the Hapeville Depot Museum.
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6 Atlanta Neighborhoods Where Community is Key: Johns Creek
Johns Creek has achieved a lot in the 20 years since it was incorporated as its own city. Travel + Leisure named it America’s best suburb in 2024. U.S. News & World Report declared the city as one of the best places to live in the country. It boasts nine city parks, its own symphony orchestra, a hospital, and two Michelin-recommended restaurants.
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The Connector
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Cure Childhood Cancer is changing the fight with precision medicine
Founded in 1975, Cure Childhood Cancer funds pediatric cancer research. Today, Cure’s major focus is precision medicine—a cutting-edge approach that uses patients’ genetic profiles to identify the most effective therapies for their diagnosis.
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Georgia State University is teaching nursing students to cook
At Georgia State University’s Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions, nursing students take their knowledge into the kitchen, where they dice avocados and chop onions as part of a fast-growing, hands-on approach to conveying the critical link between diet and disease.
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The Center for Diversion and Services tries to help struggling Atlantans stay out of jail. Is it working?
The Center for Diversion and Services is a hub where people who might otherwise be jailed for nonviolent misdemeanors are directed toward support resources. While the center has facilitated more than 2,000 diversions since it opened, progress has been slower than projected.
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By the Numbers: A century of Atlanta Braves history
The Atlanta Braves are the oldest continuously playing team in American sports and have called Atlanta home since 1966. The team has marked the 2020s with four division titles and a World Series win in 2021. As the end of the regular season approaches, here are some numbers offering a glimpse into the storied franchise.
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The Bite
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The verdict on 2 new Atlanta restaurants: The Chai Box Cafe and Eats
Monica Sunny’s put down roots on Howell Mill Road with The Chai Box Cafe, Atlanta’s first-ever chai-focused cafe. Plus: Eats has found a new home within Wild Heaven Beer at the Lee + White complex, steps from the Beltline’s Westside Trail.
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Lyla Lila’s chef Craig Richards’s new restaurant Elise at Woodruff Arts Center is a welcomed second act
Elise is the second act from Craig Richards, chef-owner of Midtown’s Michelin-recommended Lyla Lila. Housed on the Woodruff Arts Center campus, Elise maps with a French-Italian landscape.
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John T. Edge: An Ode to Atlanta’s “On-Ramp,” Buford Highway
Christiane Lauterbach encouraged me to think about restaurants owned by immigrants as essential to the modern Southern story. They were, she believed, inheritors of the restaurants that fed migrants in the years after World War II. In time, that insight became my angle of approach. A world bloomed into view.
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6 coffeehouses fueling Atlanta’s newfound love for Yemeni coffee
Of the 100 or so Yemeni coffeehouses across the country, Atlanta has six, all of which have opened in the last five years. Whaat’s driving this trend? And what makes Yemeni coffee special? Plus, find out where you can try it in Atlanta.
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The Goods
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Former NBA courtside reporter Kristen Ledlow launches kids clothing brand
Former NBA reporter and Johns Creek resident Kristen Ledlow founded Positionless, a durable leisurewear brand for children. Ledlow found it hard to source clothes she loved for her son—especially ultrasoft sweat sets he didn’t ruin quickly. So she made them herself.
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Netflix’s sequel to A Different World, filmed at Atlanta’s HBCUs, premieres this month
A Different World debuts on NBC September 24. The new show is a sequel to the original, which ended in 1993. and focuses on the next generation of characters attending fictional HBCU Hillman College. Atlantans might recognize Hillman—it was shot at Clark Atlanta University.
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The Atlanta Art Fair is putting the city on the global art map
If last year’s event is any indication, the 2026 Atlanta Art Fair will be a weekend to remember. Held from October 1 to 4 at Pullman Yards in Kirkwood, the fair hosts contemporary art galleries from across metro Atlanta, the Southeast, and beyond.
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Miscellaneous
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A love letter to Dragon Con
Dragon Con starts September 3. “Long live the Marriott Carpet,” says Atlanta Magazine’s former digital editor Myrydd Wells Walljasper who has been going to Dragon Con for 13 years. If you don’t know what that means, read her ode to the con and all its merry lore.
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Editor’s Journal: The day I dropped my daughter at kindergarten—and found my community
Community can be hard to find in a city as large and segmented as Atlanta. But Atlanta Magazine editor in chief Allison Entrekin found hers through her daughter’s school. She learned that community is about people not place.
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