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Visitor's Guide
Creative Loafing is an intensely local guide. We've been publishing a newspaper in the area since 1972 and just about all of the culture has been reported in the newspaper or on this website. Looking for things to do in the area? We can direct you.
Here's our suggestion. Work off this page - start with the 5 Things to Do list below which are our recommendations for today's events - one of these might catch your fancy. We've got a full City Guide of suggestions for locals if you want to go native. We have also included a list of tourist-oriented suggestions below as well as our favorite local attractions. If you are looking for events at the neighborhood level, take a look at our What's Going On to get the best local information available.
Five Things to Do Today
SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
Blind Willie McTell Blues Festival 2022
After much thinking, collaborating, and most importantly, listening, we’ve decided to change the Blind Willie McTell Music Festival into a fall festival! The next festival will be will be September 24, 2022.
The past few years have brought many changes, and we hope that this one will be for the better. See you in September!
The Skin I Live In
09/24/2022 1:00 PM
Plaza Theatre
CL Critic Curt Holman Recommends: An obsessive plastic surgeon (Antonio Banderas) tests his...
Beaucoup Jazz & Blues Festival and Pop Up Art Village
09/24/2022 2:00 PM
King's Market Shopping Center
CL Critic Hal Horowitz Recommends: Atlanta’s gutsy iconic blues rocker Tinsley Ellis headlines...
Ken Carson, Destroy Lonely, Lil 88
09/24/2022 7:00 PM
Center Stage Theater
CL Critic Joshua Robinson Recommends:The Opium gang will close out their 33-date North American...
Caroline, Or Change
09/24/2022 8:00 PM
Jennie T. Anderson Theater at Cobb Civic Center
CL Critic Kevin C. Madigan Recommends: The change in the title alludes to the coins that...
Tourist/Visitor Lists
Best Tourist Spots
03/26/2021 10:31 AM
Our list of the best tourist spots in Atlanta. For locals and out of towners.
10 history lessons you'll find in Atlanta
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Educational landmarks from the museum to the grave
Atlanta's surviving hip-hop haunts
10/21/2019 3:08 PM
Explore these rap-related cultural landmarks in Atlanta
Tourist Spots
Atlanta History Center
Founded in 1926, the center includes the Atlanta History Museum featuring signature and traveling exhibitions, the Smith Family Farm, the 1928 Swan Ho...
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
Presidential Library system and museum with special exhibitions and a permanent collection that features photographs and historic memorabilia from the...
Atlanta Botanical Garden
Atlanta's most fragrant attraction blooms with more than 3,000 ornamental plants spread over 30 acres adjacent to Piedmont Park, including a rare 15-a...
Delta Flight Museum
Housed in Delta's two 1940s aircraft hangers. Includes Ship 41, the first Douglas DC-3 to carry Delta passengers in 1940; the Spirit of Delta, Delta's...
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Offers free, self-guided tours of the Monetary Museum and Visitors Center.
Georgia Aquarium
The nation's largest aquarium has more aquatic life than any other aquarium, with specimens from more than 500 species, including whale sharks, the la...
SkyView Atlanta
The age of the Ferris wheel in Downtown is upon us, Atlanta. The 20-story attraction known as SkyView Atlanta takes guests on a roughly 15-minute ride...
Stone Mountain Park
The world's largest mass of exposed granite is the centerpiece of this park, which features golf courses, hiking trails, camping, swimming, dining, an...
Waffle House Museum
You heard right, we said, "Waffle House Museum." In 1955, neighbors Joe Roger Sr. and Tom Forkner embarked on a plan to smother and cover the world (o...
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
A 2,965-acre park and museum on the site of the 1864 Civil War Campaign for Atlanta.
Piedmont Park
The 200-plus-acre park with tennis, walking trails, and a pond has been Atlanta's place to go on a Sunday afternoon since it was first purchased by th...
Margaret Mitchell House
The house where much of Gone with the Wind was written beckons to tourists and native Atlantans alike who want to understand more about the author of ...
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Things to Do in the Area - A Guide for Tourists and Visitors