Tag: Chantelle Rytter

A puppet in a white suit, with a smiley face for a head, towers over every Beltline Lantern Parade. His name is Mr. Happy, and he’s the creation of Cam Ayer, who has marched every year since 2010 as a member of the Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons. On May 3, Mr. Happy will join thousands of others at Adair Park and head up the Southwest Beltline trail for the 15th annual Lantern Parade, a free community event that has become an iconic Atlanta tradition.

When Rex Rytter, King of Cats, passed away peacefully at the ripe old age of 16, his human, Chantelle Rytter, decided to honor him with a funeral. But this would be no ordinary funeral, because Rytter was no ordinary cat mom: She is the founder of Atlanta’s Lantern Parade series, those magical nighttime spectacles of handmade glowing puppets.

Watch the Parliament of Owls lantern parade in Midtown, catch a free Goodie Mob performance in East Point, and go on a zombie pub crawl in Virginia-Highland.

Owner Donald Hinamon, a.k.a. Hippie opened the Yacht Club in a former antique jewelry store in 1987.

For our fifth anniversary of the Groundbreaker Awards, we've checked in on some of our past finalists to see what they're working on today.

The Southern menu includes pimento cheese dip with vegetables, watermelon salad, and chicken salad sandwiches. The Texas cake is always a hit.

Five hundred people showed up for the first Art on the Atlanta BeltLine lantern parade in 2010. Carrying homemade lights, they tromped up the dirt path between the dumpsters and hills of kudzu that, not long ago, dotted the Eastside Trail.