Join the Atlanta Foundation for Public Spaces (AFFPS) as they celebrate the fifth annual Callanwolde Arts Festival. Happening on Saturday, January 20 and Sunday, January 21, 2018, the award-winning, two-day indoor festival is located in one of Atlanta’s most distinctive historic properties, Callanwolde Mansion in Druid Hills. The festival, which is open to all ages, will also offer artist demonstrations, live acoustic music,… Read more »
Fall Festival on Ponce Will Feature 125 Displays of Fine Art and Crafts, Food Trucks, Live Music and More! The ninth annual Fall Festival on Ponce is on Saturday, October 14 and Sunday, October 15, 2017. Located in Olmsted Linear Park, revelers can enjoy the gorgeous landscape designed by one of America’s most celebrated landscape architects, Fredrick Olmsted… Read more »
Join the Atlanta Foundation for Public Spaces (AFFPS) on Saturday, Jan. 23, and Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016, as they celebrate the third annual Callanwolde Arts Festival. The award-winning, two-day indoor festival is located in one of Atlanta’s most distinctive historic properties, the 27,000-square… Read more »
There’s something beautiful about the broken. In a growing city like Atlanta, our eyes pop at the sight of new condos, commercial buildings, and restaurants that seem to surface in our neighborhoods without limit. But the crumbling infrastructure and dilapidated real estate that once was has a mystic, ethereal, restful beauty about it that has… Read more »
Pop quiz: who was the first Georgian to win a Pulitzer Prize for the Novel? Here’s a hint: it’s not Margaret Mitchell. In 1934, Caroline Miller’s “Lamb in His Bosom” – a Southern novel about a pair of young newlyweds in rural Georgia on the brink of Civil Warfare – took home the esteemed honor…. Read more »
In the fall of 2012, Pretty Southern was privileged to interview Stephen Chbosky, author of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”. This best-selling novel was translated to film this year, which the author was also able to adapt to screenplay and direct himself. “Perks” is a story of three friends coming into their own starring… Read more »