Category: The Travel Journal
The Journal is where AFKATL gets personal, opinionated, and occasionally petty — in the most culturally enriching way possible. From meticulously curated city guides to behind-the-scenes scoops, this is your all-access pass to the people, places, and pop-ups that keep Atlanta interesting off-screen. Think of it as your offline briefing — with better taste and better font choices.
Atlanta doesn’t do boring bookstores. We’ve got indie havens, radical zine dens, traveling bookmobiles, and now—one of the slickest coffee-meets-culture concepts in the city: Read Shop by The Merchant.
Atlanta has no shortage of bookstores, but every so often you stumble into one that makes you question your entire definition of what a bookstore is. Enter Kinokuniya, Johns Creek’s literary-and-lifestyle wonderland—a place as sprawling as a Barnes & Noble, but cooler, more colorful, and infinitely more Instagrammable.
From “just one drink” to “accidentally” ordering breakfast in the morning. Date nights in Buckhead are not for the faint of heart. They are for the strategically inclined — the ones who understand that romance is best served in courses, with each stop raising the stakes. This isn’t about spontaneity; it’s about curation. Like a […]
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 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 […]
Some bookstores whisper. Oxford Comics & Games does not. This is the place where shelves shout in color, boxes overflow with heroes and villains, and the air hums with the kind of energy only possible when Spider-Man, Batman, Sailor Moon, and a tabletop RPG campaign collide in one space. If Atlanta Vintage Books is a […]
Cocktails without chaos. Discover Buckhead’s best bars for grown-up glamour, low-volume playlists, and bourbon that doesn’t come with bottle service.
Sip and stare in style. These are Buckhead’s best patios for prime people-watching, wine sipping, and quietly judging brunch outfits.