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The City Lights Collective is a arts podcast hosted by WABE. It has 1,000 episodes, with the latest published September 2025.

Discover the best of Atlanta's arts and culture on The City Lights Collective from WABE. Short stories, rich voices, and innovative ideas, presented by a team of local contributors. From music and theater to spoken word, food, film, and festivals, this is the pulse of Atlanta’s creative world.

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DEVO at Shaky Knees ✦ Sunday in the Park featuring Tunes from the Tombs ✦ East Atlanta Strut ✦ Atlanta comedian Dante Quitman ✦ "Braiding Time, Memory and Water" ✦ Atlanta comedian Dante Quitman ✦ Urban Grind Open Mic Night

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✦ "Southern Ground: The Legacy of Radcliffe Bailey and the Future of Black Southern Art" ✦ ArtsATL weekly cultural calendar ✦ "If It Makes You Happy" ✦ Kosmo's Vinyl of the Week ✦ "Where the Weird Things Are"

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SITE ✦ Weekly comedy round-up ✦ Author Edda Fields-Black ✦ Solid State Radio ✦ “Caminos Compartidos”

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✦ aKAZI ATL ✦Southern Surf StompFest ✦ GULCH ✦ “Nature Embroidered” ✦ Raphael Saadiq

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✦ Tyriq Withers ✦ Eat My Biscuits ✦ We’re So Dead ✦ Music in Media ✦ Artist Eddie Farr ✦ John T. Edge

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Out on Film Festival ✦ Charmaine Minniefield's "Praise House" Project ✦ ArtsATL weekly cultural calendar ✦ Kosmo's Vinyl of the Week ✦ Improvement Movement

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"Fiddler on the Roof" ✦ The National Center for Civil and Human Rights update ✦ "Remote" ✦ Weekly Comedy Round-up ✦ The Strand Theater turns 90

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✦ 'Joy Deficit' ✦ Jazz Night at Serenbe with Rhonda Thomas ✦ The Made in Italy Expo ✦ GULCH weekly visual arts calendar ✦ Wine Not: Magic City meets Chateau Elan

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Beyond the Gates ✦ Atlanta artist Demetri ✦ ivri ✦ Moving Day ✦ Vega Quartet ✦ F.Punk Junkies

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✦ Conductor Gemma New ✦ ArtsATL Weekly Cultural Calendar ✦ Forward Warrior ✦ Kosmo’s Vinyl of the Week ✦ “All the Roads Taken” ✦ Run Clubs

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John Boyega ✦ Joel Byars’ Comedy Weekly ✦ “A Shakespeare Happening” ✦ Sacred Harp ✦ The Beverage Beat

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"Being Frank: it is because I am" ✦ GULCH weekly visual art calendar ✦ "The Birthday of the World" ✦ Artist Alison Saar ✦ Comedian Nate Allen

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✦ Killer Mike ✦ Brunchin’ on a Budget: Ria’s Bluebird ✦ Champagne Lane ✦ Beyond the Movement ✦ Good Night at Buteco

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ChefATL ✦ Mainline Music Festival ✦ Contra Dance ✦ ArtsATL cultural calendar ✦ Kosmo's Vinyl of the Week ✦ Faith Ringgold: Seeing Children

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✦ MODA's exhibit Tour of Bittersweet: The Design of Chocolate ✦ GULCH Weekly Visual Arts Calendar ✦ High Bias ✦ Weekly Comedy Round-up ✦ Nellie Mae Rowe Park ✦ R. Land

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✦ The City Lights Collective LIVE from Dragon Con 2025 ✦

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✦ Brunchin' on a Budget: Homegrown ✦ ArtsATL Weekly Cultural Calendar ✦ Dee Dee Bridgewater ✦ VHS Deathmatch ✦ "Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair"

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✦ Emory’s Cinematheque series ✦ Thee Blk Pearl ✦ Comedy round-up ✦ Artist Victoria Dugger’s "Must Be Nice” ✦ Living Walls’ quinceañera

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✦ Jim Gaffigan ✦ GULCH visual art calendar ✦ Glimmer and Gaze ✦ Jane Austen 250

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✦ “Spanish Moss” ✦ Buddy Red ✦ Center for Puppetry Arts in the classroom ✦ How Do You Atlanta ✦ Stacy Epps

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✦ Back to the Future, The Musical ✦ Atlanta Quilt Festival ✦ ArtsATL Cultural Calendar ✦ Kosmo's Vinyl of the Week ✦ Artist Derek Yaniger

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BronzeLens Film Festival ✦ The Aabaha Arts and Theater Festival ✦ The Beths ✦ How to Eat Atlanta

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✦ Teddy Oso ✦ GULCH Weekly ✦ Photographer Peter Essick ✦ Bully ✦ The Mosaic Quartet

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✦ Brunchin’ on a Budget: No Mas Cantina ✦ People Make the Place”✦ Star Forest ✦ How Do You Atlanta ✦ Tales of Downtown Atlanta

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✦ The Jam at Buteco ✦ Fernbank upcoming transformation ✦ Godfall ✦ ArtsATL weekly Cultural Calendar ✦ Kosmo’s Vinyl of the Week ✦

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✦ “Bad B*tch” ✦ Poet Deanna Repose Oaks ✦ Kat Graham ✦ UpBeat Benefit ✦ Heather Infantry of the Giving Gap

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✦ "Blackground" ✦ GULCH Weekly Visual Arts Calendar ✦ Sounds Like ATL: Rex Evans ✦ Circus Vazquez ✦ “Taste the State Georgia: Distinctive Foods and Stories from Where Eating Local Began. ”

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City Lights Cinema presents: Grease on August 16 ✦ Threadbeat Dad ✦ Brunchin’ on a Budget: Pastries A Go Go ✦ The history of Menaboni’s Birds ✦ Amplified ✦ In Their Own Words: Christopher McDonald

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✦ "Ain't No Mo," ✦ "Middle Age Cabaret: Cougar Club" ✦ Savory Stories: Grits ✦ Kosmo's Vinyl of the Week ✦ ArtsATL Weekly Cultural Calendar

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✦ “Brill Adium: Finding My Rhythm” ✦ Sharon Van Etten ✦ The Beverage Beat: Tiny Cocktails ✦ VAYNE

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"Orange" ✦ re:imagine/ATL ✦ GULCH weekly visual arts calendar ✦ Sean Jordan ✦ Essential Theatre Play Festival

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“Cut” ✦ "The Den on Queen" ✦ The History of Zoo Atlanta ✦ How Do You Atlanta ✦ “We Are Music”

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✦ Funny Fridays ✦ Monster Mansion and the Art of Animatronics ✦ Inner Space’s Summer Sunday Concert Series ✦ ArtsATL Cultural Calendar ✦ Kosmo’s Vinyl of the Week ✦ Celebrating National Pinball Day

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✦ Ear Hustle Live at Terminal West ✦ A Tribute to MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER: The Man - The Message - The Music - The Mission ✦ Bocce and Cornhole in Atlanta ✦ The Pan African Festival ✦ "Hip Hop Can Save America!"

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✦ “Harmony of Freedom” ✦ “Reel Resistance” ✦ Wowie Zowie ✦ “Toni at Random” ✦ Gulch Weekly Visual Arts Calendar

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✦ Thank you, DJ ✦ Ridibund Chamber Music Society ✦ The History of Waffle House ✦ How Do You Atlanta ✦ The Swell Season

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✦ Sneaker Culture ✦ Poet Lauren Doriahna ✦ ArtsATL Weekly Cultural Calendar ✦ Five Eight ✦ Kosmo Vinyl ✦ Documentarian Will Feagins Jr.

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✦ Atlanta’s Listening Rooms ✦ The Palefsky Collision Project ✦ False Face ✦ “Rise Above: On Top of Stone Mountain” ✦ “data-verse”

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✦ MODA’s exhibit Tour of Bittersweet: The Design of Chocolate ✦ Sounds Like ATL: Kira ✦ BLVD NEXT ✦ Gulch’s weekly visual arts calendar ✦ Throat singing with Aileen Loy

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✦ The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever ✦ Evan Stepp & The Piners ✦ “A Place to Play” ✦ The history of SciTrek ✦ How Do You Atlanta ✦ Twilight actors Kellan Lutz and Jackson Rathbone

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✦ The Hambidge Center ✦ Atlanta Halal Food Festival ✦ Sketchy Business ATL ✦ Sounds Like ATL: Uriel UMC ✦ “Technoterria” ✦ Kosmo’s Vinyl of the Week ✦ Arts ATL cultural events highlights ✦

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Name that Feeling ✦ Mike Schacht Exhibition ✦ Maurice Bernard ✦ Faith Ringgold Exhibition ✦ Municipal Support for the Arts Grants ✦ Busking in Atlanta

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World Listening Day ✦ The Happy Black Parent 4th annual Children's Book Festival ✦ Landmarks: The World of R. Land ✦ GULCH visual arts calendar ✦ Sounds Like ATL: Anna Kramer and Easy Now

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✦ Sounds Like ATL: E'lanah ✦ The High Museum of Art’s new fashion track ✦ The Georgia Film Academy ✦ The Heart of Atlanta Motel ✦ The Pancakes and Booze Art Show ✦ Old Car City USA

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The History of Ice Cream in Atlanta ✦ Joe Alterman ✦ Arts ATL cultural events highlights ✦ Kosmo’s Vinyl of the Week ✦ The Book Bird

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High Bias Listening Sessions ✦ Lost in the Letters ✦ K Michelle Dubois ✦ Luenell ✦ The Beverage Beat

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Atlanta Contra Dance ✦ Latinas in Media Atlanta ✦ Lavender Performing Arts Festival ✦ GULCH visual arts calendar

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Coming July 7: The City Lights Collective

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Lois Bids a Fond Farewell to "City Lights"

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Lois Reitzes Leader of the Arts Award: Chris Escobar / City Lights Cinema: “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”/ Susan Booth

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