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Coffee party brews new social scene for Atlanta's early risers

ATLANTA — Atlantans walking into West Midtown's Palo Santo last Saturday were greeted with a change in their regularly scheduled programming. DJs spun funk and house music while visitors danced and ...
Atlanta Magazine

With new bars Pisces and Lore, Atlanta’s best pop-up party creators find permanent homes on Edgewood Avenue

The darlings of Atlanta’s underground pop-up party scene have gone brick-and-mortar, and they’re taking on one of the city’s most popular nightlife districts: Edgewood Avenue. In recent years, the ...
The Root

Atlanta Nightlife Insiders Respond to 21 Savage’s Claim That the City’s Club Scene ‘Grooms’ Children

A viral video of Atlanta rapper 21 Savage explaining how his city “groomed” him from a young age has been catching mixed reviews online. For outsiders looking in, 21 characterizing Atlanta as a ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A death and a drug bust kill the club scene’s party vibe in ‘Great Black Hope’A death and a drug bust kill the club scene’s party vibe in ‘Great Black Hope’

Atlanta native Rob Franklin has delivered a dazzling literary debut with his novel “Great Black Hope” (Summit Books, $28.99), a zeitgeisty social commentary on race and class among a rarefied ...