Category: Seasonal Guides

Atlanta doesn’t just do nightlife. Atlanta stages it. And in the summer, when the air is swamp-thick and the sky can’t decide whether to drizzle or detonate, the city transforms into a theater of Gothic glamour.

Atlanta in summer doesn’t just sizzle. It sweats, sulks, and side-eyes you into doing things you know you shouldn’t. Chief among them: heading north to Lake Lanier. On paper, Lanier is Atlanta’s weekend oasis — a man-made lake with 700 miles of shoreline, beaches, boat rentals, and Instagram-worthy sunsets. In reality? It’s the South’s most […]

If you’ve ever walked through an Atlanta summer night and thought, wow, this feels like a setup for either a love story or a horror film, congratulations. You’ve stumbled into the exact intersection where Southern Gothic thrives: the part of the evening that’s equal parts romance, menace, and bug spray. Forget the pristine aesthetic of […]

Atlanta after dark in the summertime is like walking into a Tennessee Williams play that forgot to end. The magnolias perfume the air so heavily you could choke on them, the cicadas scream like unpaid interns, and everybody looks just a little too shiny under the streetlamps. It’s Gothic, it’s glamorous, and it’s humid enough […]

Atlanta in July doesn’t just simmer. It sulks. The air hangs heavy like an unspoken family secret, and the cicadas are basically screaming, “Stay hydrated, or die.” In other words: the perfect backdrop for Southern Gothic summertime. Forget your sanitized “city that never sleeps” narratives. Atlanta doesn’t need neon to haunt you. We’ve got gaslight […]