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Atlanta reminds me quite a bit of Boston, with many of the same challenges. Still, I’ve found that most of the restaurants and bars respond well to requests (for things like wifi). It might be worst taking the list of gripes to the people who could actually fix it.

That said, there are more late-night choices than this post suggests. One of our favorites is R Thomas on Peachtree (near Brookwood Hills) - open 24 hours, with lots of healthy choices.
I believe the Landmark Diner Downtown is open quite late - it’s not a favorite of mine, but college students seem to like it.

I heard on WABE this morning that several independent bookstores may open here soon.

Turner Field is farther than it should be from MARTA (although many of the fans would benefit from the one mile walk between the GSU MARTA station and The Ted). Phillips Arena (Hawks & Thrashers) is right next to a station - that’s close enough! Of course, the Ga. Dome connects to MARTA>

Several museums have free days. The High is free to Fulton County residents the 1st Saturday of each month. The Carlos has a suggested donation, but it’s not compulsory.

Take a slow tour through the permanent collection galleries at the High and the Carlos. The High has made major acquisitions in contemporary art and photography in recent years. Besides the big canvasses by Richter, Kelly, Sean Scully, Tony Smith and others, there’s an interesting show of recently acquired works on (mostly)paper (it’s in the small triangular gallery on the top floor of the Wieland pavillion). There’s also a fine show of recently acquired works in the lower-level works on paper gallery: (a) 18th & 19th cent. British & French, and (b) work by self-taught artist Louis Monza. The High also has a great collection of Southern self-taught (or “folk”) artists.
As for shows, there have been several highlighting works from the permanent collection, and there was a superb Morris Louis retrospective, organized here and soon to be at the Hirshhorn. I guarantee the there’s-no-culture-here-crowd couldn’t be bothered to see it.
The Carlos has been making major acquisitions in Egyptian, Greek, & Roman art, outbidding the Met a couple of times. Go see!
Then there’s the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center(”The Contemporary”), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia(MOCAGA), the Museum of Design (MODA), museums at Spelman, Clark, and Oglethorpe….. and a growing gallery district in Castleberry Hill.

And we will have the Beltline. Really, we will.

The Atlanta History Center does have free admission, which my visiting parents and I took advantage of this first Monday of May. And with no parking charge, that made our visit there cost-free.

If you want free art, I’d hit the local galleries. My fav’s include Sandler-Hudson, Youngblood and the Beep-Beep Gallery (which is open Fri-Sat-Sun).

Every metropolitan museum rents traveling shows as a means of providing rotating exhibitions. This is the rule, not the exception.

Also, with the much-hoped-for reopening of Chinese Buddha, the Georgia Tech area will be getting its much needed late-night food fix back. Supposedly it will be open until 7am and reopen for lunch. I used to go there a lot and have been waiting months for the place to reopen.

And that’s my 2 cents.