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The Atlanta Dogwood Festival returns to Atlanta at Piedmont Park from Friday, April 11, to Sunday, April 13. Credit: The Atlanta Dogwood Festival

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The 89th Atlanta Dogwood Festival returns this weekend! Here's what to know

One of Georgia's biggest festivals, the Atlanta Dogwood Festival returns this weekend at Piedmont Park from April 11-13

April 09, 2025
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Panda Fest 2024. Provided by Panda Fest.

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Country’s biggest outdoor Asian food festival, Panda Fest, debuts in Atlanta April 4

Billed as the “biggest outdoor Asian food festival in the US,” Panda Fest heads to Atlanta for the first time, April 4-6, bringing with it hundreds of food stalls lining Atlantic Station’s Pinnacle Lot in Midtown. 

April 02, 2025
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  • Sarra Sedghi
A devotee garlands a senior Hindu holy man walking in a procession, a day before the 45-day-long Maha Kumbh festival, in Prayagraj, India, on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025.

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India kicks off a Hindu festival touted as the world's largest religious gathering

Over the coming weeks, Hindu pilgrims with gather at the confluence of three rivers where they will begin a journey to reach Hindu philosophy's ultimate goal: the release from the cycle of rebirth.

January 13, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Atlanta Crossroads Mural Festival is bringing 50+ artists to transform walls near eyedrum gallery in southwest Atlanta. Photograph by Isadora Pennington.

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Atlanta Crossroads Mural Festival brings local artists together in celebration of public art

20,000 square feet of wallspace distributed across three buildings in southwest Atlanta will soon bear new murals by 50+ local artists. The Atlanta Crossroads Mural Festival (ACMF) inaugural mural festival will culminate in a celebration of public art with a market featuring more than 30 local artists, makers, and food vendors this Sat., July 27 from 12-6 p.m.

July 25, 2024
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  • Isadora Pennington
In this Nov. 3, 2019, file photo, former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga.

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Former President Jimmy Carter makes appearance at peanut festival ahead of his 99th birthday

The Carter Center says former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, took a ride through the Plains Peanut Festival in their Georgia hometown over the weekend.

September 25, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Organizers behind Juneteenth Atlanta, one of the largest Juneteenth celebrations in the country and the official Juneteenth celebration for the city, are bringing back festivities for the event’s 11th year. Credit

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Juneteenth Atlanta Parade and Music Festival to return for 11th year

Organizers behind Juneteenth Atlanta, one of the largest Juneteenth celebrations in the country and the official Juneteenth celebration for the city, are bringing back festivities for the event’s 11th year. 

June 10, 2023
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  • Janelle Ward
Music Midtown festival in 2016

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Blame festival organizers for Music Midtown's cancellation, not me, gun rights advocate says

The abrupt cancellation of Atlanta's September Music Midtown Festival has infuriated music fans. The event's organizer, Live Nation, has not officially said what led to the cancellation, but reports say Georgia's gun laws are to blame. Phil Evans, a gun rights advocate has also been blamed for the loss of this year's festival. He spoke with GPB's Peter Biello. 

August 03, 2022
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  • Peter Biello
A woman walks past a memorial to those who died at the Astroworld Festival outside of NRG Park on Nov. 9, 2021 in Houston.

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After the deaths at Astroworld, some people may give up on crowded music events

At least nine people are dead after a crowd surge during Travis Scott's performance in Houston last weekend. Now, some frequent concertgoers are rethinking whether they will attend them in the future.

November 13, 2021
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  • Camila Beiner
Visitors to apple festival in Gilmer County

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Georgia's Second Fall Festival Season Of Pandemic Has Organizers Uneasy

Though the apple festival will still offer around 200 booths for attendees to peruse, that’s about 30 fewer than in previous years, and it’s been harder to drum up volunteers to help run the festival, said Jennifer Grimmer, president and CEO of the Gilmer County Chamber of Commerce.

September 27, 2021
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  • Ross Williams

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On Second Thought For Friday, July 12, 2019

Alice Walker, the author of the The Color Purple , turns 75 this Saturday. The Georgia Writers Museum, a nonprofit organization and exhibit space that...

July 12, 2019
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  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • La'Raven Taylor ,
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Freaknik: The Rise And Fall Of A Social Phenomenon

Depending on who’s talking, Freaknik was a notorious public safety hazard or an annual lovefest that solidified Atlanta’s status as America’s “Black...

July 12, 2019
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  • Jesse Nighswonger ,
  • Virginia Prescott ,
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Comedian and storyteller Andy Offutt Irwin is a featured storyteller at the 2019 Big Fibbers Storytelling Festival.

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Fibbers Prepare For Annual Storytelling Festival

The truth never gets in the way of a good story at the Big Fibbers Storytelling Festival in Rome. Comedians, fabulists and tellers of tall tales from...

March 12, 2019
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  • Virginia Prescott and
  • La'Raven Taylor

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