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Pied Piper Parade When: July 4 Where: First Baptist Church of Decatur (Starting Point) Cost: Free to Spectate and Participate (sign up here) Details: Decatur’s Fourth of July...

The Atlanta Jazz Festival, held this Memorial Day weekend, from May 23 to 25, is one of the largest events of its kind in the nation—and it remains free, a rarity among modern music festivals. These numbers help tell the story.

A historic showcase of Christian Dior’s fashion, including pieces never before seen in a public exhibition, is now on view at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film. Dior: Crafting Fashion showcases carefully preserved toiles, Lady Dior handbags, and exquisite gowns worn by celebrities such as Lady Gaga and Demi Moore.

When The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales was first published in 1992, the children’s book became immediately popular and won awards for writer Jon Scieszka’s irreverent take on fairy tales and Lane Smith’s uniquely textured illustrations. Jason Hines, the artistic director of the Center for Puppetry Arts (CPA), always knew he wanted to adapt it. He was surprised when CPA gave him the greenlight for the "raucous, subversive” tale that reimagines classics like the Gingerbread Man as the Stinky Cheese Man.

The Atlanta Film Festival celebrates a major milestone this year, marking its 50th anniversary, a distinction few film festivals in the U.S. have reached. ATLFF is an Academy Award qualifying festival with a reputation as highly competitive, drawing cinephiles and filmmakers to the city annually. The 2026 festival runs in person from April 23 to May 3 at the Plaza and Tara theaters, with virtual screenings from May 4 to 11.

Twenty-five years ago, publishing and event maven Dale DeSena gathered 20 local restaurateurs under an air-conditioned tent in Phipps Plaza’s parking lot. Each brought samples of their best dishes for attendees to taste with pre-purchased tickets. More than 4,000 people participated, and Taste of Atlanta was born.

If you’ve ever wanted to be an astronaut or simply been curious about what it’s like inside the International Space Station, Space Explorers: The Infinite is for you. Located at Pullman Yards, it’s a virtual reality headset-based experience that transports visitors nearly 250 miles above earth to learn about astronauts’ experiments, exercise routines, and everyday life. Here's what to know before you go.

Gordon Parks: The South in Color isn’t the first time Anna Walker Skillman has exhibited the work of the iconic photographer at her gallery, Jackson Fine Art. When more than seventy color transparencies from the seminal trip at the base of his epochal 1956 Life magazine photo essay “The Restraints: Open and Hidden” were found at the bottom of an old storage bin in 2011, the Gordon Parks Foundation contacted Skillman and fellow gallery owner friend Arnika Dawkins for the first exhibition of them in 2012. Then in 2015, Skillman dovetailed the celebrated Gordon Parks: Segregation Story exhibition at the High Museum. Over a decade later, Skillman remains intimately involved with Parks’s epic work.

What is there to do during the FIFA World Cup in Atlanta? A lot. Here's a list of the concerts, watch parties, experiences, and other World Cup-related events we could find. We'll keep updating this list until the games begin.

In honor of America’s 250th birthday this year, the National Archives has created a traveling exhibition of some of the nation’s most significant founding documents. The Freedom Plane National Tour: Documents That Forged a Nation makes its first stop on an eight-city tour beginning this weekend at the Atlanta History Center.