Tag: Piedmont Park

You wouldn’t think a 38-year-old man who is considered by many to be the greatest soccer player of all time—an athlete who made $135M last year alone—could get puffed up any bigger. But this past weekend, Atlantans discovered otherwise. Visitors to Piedmont Park couldn’t have helped but notice a 20-foot inflatable Lionel Messi in a blue Lowe’s hardware store kit tethered to the ground. And now, if you dream of owning your own, you might find a slightly smaller inflatable Messi at an Atlanta Lowe's.

In 2021, beloved bartender Katie Janness was brutally murdered at the Charles Allen Gate entrance to Piedmont Park. With broken security cameras, no eyewitnesses, and few leads, the case remains unsolved nearly five years later.

For its 12th year, Shaky Knees Music Festival moved both its location (from Central Park to Piedmont Park) and its season (from spring to fall). But there was no shortage of talent thanks to headliners like Blink-182, Deftones, Cage the Elephant, Lenny Kravitz, My Chemical Romance, and Vampire Weekend, and certainly no shortage of creative concertgoer outfits. Here, a small sampling of some of the looks we saw while out and about at the festival.

If anyone doubted Shaky Knees’s move from Central Park to Piedmont Park this year, three days of jam-packed, sold-out revelry this weekend should have thoroughly set them at ease. Organizers of the iconic music festival, now in its 12th year, made the savvy choice to snatch up the locale, and the September weekend, vacated by Music Midtown, which announced its hiatus last year.

Atlanta is chock-full of fun pet-friendly activities and pet-pampering goods and services. Here, we round up a few of our favorites around town.

Over the years, Atlanta residents have made plenty of headlines with their exotic pets, often when said pets escape, generating hullabaloo and amusing—or terrorizing—the surrounding neighborhood. Here’s a look back through history at some of Atlanta’s most memorable pets and the chaos they’ve caused.

Overall, Piedmont Park will add more than six miles of new pedestrian paths, upgraded infrastructure, sidewalks and trails for walkers and joggers, dedicated lanes for bikers and scooters, enhanced entrances, seating, restrooms and water fountains and improved maintenance practices.

Because after the Marriott Marquis ripped up its iconic carpet, Dragon Con fans formed the “Cult of the Carpet” and incorporated the design into costumes and accessories.

I love the Piedmont Park Robot Bathroom. Not because it’s pretty or pleasant. A basic green-and-stainless-steel box, this public bathroom was designed to be vandal-resistant, fully automated, and self-cleaning. It was a futuristic eyesore when it was installed in 2008, inside the stately Charles Allen Gate. Outside, it looks like a misplaced elevator. Inside, as one Department of Parks & Recreation employee told me, “It looks like a prison toilet.”

The Parliament of Owls lantern parade returns, Jeezy and 2 Chainz play A-Town Music Fest, and more fun things to do this week.