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The City Lights Collective

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.

Introducing: The Upside of Jazz with Joe Alterman

4 mins; January 26, 2026

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

50 mins; September 25, 2025

✦ "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"

51 mins; September 24, 2025

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

50 mins; September 23, 2025

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

50 mins; September 22, 2025

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

48 mins; September 18, 2025

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

49 mins; September 17, 2025

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

49 mins; September 16, 2025

✦ '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

50 mins; September 15, 2025

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

49 mins; September 11, 2025

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

50 mins; September 10, 2025

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

50 mins; September 09, 2025

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

49 mins; September 08, 2025

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

50 mins; September 04, 2025

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

51 mins; September 03, 2025

✦ 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

50 mins; September 02, 2025

✦ The City Lights Collective LIVE from Dragon Con 2025 ✦

57 mins; August 28, 2025

✦ 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"

50 mins; August 27, 2025

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

50 mins; August 26, 2025

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

49 mins; August 25, 2025

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

49 mins; August 21, 2025

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

50 mins; August 20, 2025

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

49 mins; August 19, 2025

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

49 mins; August 18, 2025

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

50 mins; August 14, 2025

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

50 mins; August 13, 2025

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

49 mins; August 12, 2025

✦ "Blackground" ✦ GULCH Weekly Visual Arts Calendar ✦ Sounds Like ATL: Rex Evans ✦ Circus Vazquez ✦ “Taste the State: A Culinary Journey Through Georgia”

49 mins; August 11, 2025

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

50 mins; August 07, 2025

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

50 mins; August 06, 2025

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

50 mins; August 05, 2025

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

50 mins; August 04, 2025

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

49 mins; July 31, 2025

✦ 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

49 mins; July 30, 2025

✦ 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!"

50 mins; July 29, 2025

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

50 mins; July 28, 2025

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

49 mins; July 24, 2025

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

50 mins; July 23, 2025

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

50 mins; July 22, 2025

✦ 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

49 mins; July 21, 2025

✦ 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

51 mins; July 17, 2025

✦ 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 ✦

50 mins; July 16, 2025

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

50 mins; July 15, 2025

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

49 mins; July 14, 2025

✦ 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

50 mins; July 10, 2025

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

50 mins; July 09, 2025

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

51 mins; July 08, 2025

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

51 mins; July 07, 2025

Coming July 7: The City Lights Collective

1 min; June 30, 2025

Lois Bids a Fond Farewell to "City Lights"

57 mins; June 26, 2025

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

52 mins; June 25, 2025

The Indigo Girls live at WABE

49 mins; June 24, 2025

Danielle Deadwyler / Dr. Scott Stewart

51 mins; June 23, 2025

King of Pops turns 15 / “The Dark Lady”

49 mins; June 18, 2025

Sir Donald Runnicles- ASO 50 / Colin Mochrie + Kevin Gillese

50 mins; June 17, 2025

Richard Kind / “Steele Roots” / Atlanta Contemporary’s “Art Party”

50 mins; June 16, 2025

“Works in Progress: An Honest Look at Fatherhood” / Lisa Ann Walter

51 mins; June 12, 2025

Ali Siddiq / Kosmo Vinyl / Farewell Favorite

52 mins; June 11, 2025

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra acting principal cellist Daniel Laufer / Rick Steves

52 mins; June 10, 2025

Mark Kendall reflects on Richard Pryor / 50 years of Art Papers

52 mins; June 09, 2025

Copy of Copy of “Young John Lewis”/ “The Swans of Harlem”/ Farewell Favorite: “Native Guard”

16 mins; June 05, 2025

Copy of “Young John Lewis”/ “The Swans of Harlem”/ Farewell Favorite: “Native Guard”

51 mins; June 05, 2025

Atlanta Opera’s “Semele/Speaking of Music’s Shock Tea and HDYA/Farewell Favorite: Mary Schmidt Campbell on Romare Bearden

52 mins; June 05, 2025

"Accentuate the Positive”/Music in Media: Summer Blockbusters/David Sedaris: Happy Go Lucky

51 mins; June 04, 2025

“Young John Lewis”/ “The Swans of Harlem”/ Farewell Favorite: “Native Guard”

51 mins; June 03, 2025

Classical Remix Music Festival / Farewell Favorite: Ethan Hawke

51 mins; June 02, 2025

Podcast Exclusive: Lois Reitzes reflects on her career at WABE

15 mins; May 30, 2025

Béla Fleck / The Renaissance Orchestra

52 mins; May 29, 2025

Reminiscing with Valerie Jackson/Kosmo Vinyl/Farewell Favorite: Emily Saliers

51 mins; May 28, 2025

Delta Flight Museum reopens/The Beverage Beat: Margaritas/Farewell Favorite: Henry Winkler

50 mins; May 27, 2025

“Broadway Sideways” / NEA Grant Recalls

52 mins; May 22, 2025

“Doubt, A Parable” / The Lois Reitzes Art Fund

52 mins; May 21, 2025

The “American Music Awards” returns after a 2-year hiatus / MomoCon

51 mins; May 20, 2025

Tiny Doors ATL / Raveena / The Atlanta Fringe Festival

50 mins; May 19, 2025

The 2025 Atlanta Jazz Festival / “Speaking of Music” with Arkose

50 mins; May 15, 2025

“Improv for Couples: Fun Games for You and Your Partner” / SCAD Fashion’s 2025 runway show / “Kosmo’s Vinyl of the Week”

51 mins; May 14, 2025

“Spirit Guides: Fantastical Creatures from the Workshop of Jacobo and María Ángeles” / “Gulch Magazine”

51 mins; May 13, 2025

“Alice’s Wonderland” and “Enchanted Trees” / “Speaking of Music” with Clejan

52 mins; May 12, 2025

Artist Noah James Saunders / No Words ATL

51 mins; May 08, 2025

“Millions” / “Music in Media”

51 mins; May 07, 2025

The Children’s Museum of Atlanta’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month programming / “ATL Up and Away with Rick Steves”

51 mins; May 06, 2025

Honey Pierre’s “I’m Just Living Some Life, Okay?” / “Anonymous Fragments” and “Call and Response”

50 mins; May 05, 2025

Jay Pharoah / Celebrate the Joy: 100 Years of Music Making

49 mins; May 01, 2025

John McCutcheon / “Kosmo’s Vinyl of the Week” / Eugene Mirman

53 mins; April 30, 2025

“Italian Holiday with the ASO” / Comedian Madeline Evans / “The Nature of Man: Landscapes from the Childhood of Jimmy Carter”

51 mins; April 29, 2025

The 15th Annual Lantern Parade / The City Lights Collective

52 mins; April 28, 2025

“Meta Take One” / H Johnson / Amplify Decatur Music Festival

51 mins; April 24, 2025

Richard Wagner’s “Siegfried” / “Music in Media” / “Braiding Time, Memory and Water”

52 mins; April 23, 2025

“The Games in Black & White” / John Driskell Hopkins

51 mins; April 22, 2025

49th Annual Atlanta Film Festival / “The Beverage Beat” / Sharon Van Etten

52 mins; April 21, 2025

“Singing for Justice” / Youth Lagoon

50 mins; April 17, 2025

“Civil Sights: Sweet Auburn, a Journey through Atlanta’s National Treasure” / Kosmo Vinyl

51 mins; April 16, 2025

Timpanist Mark Yancich / Lauren Amos

51 mins; April 15, 2025

“The Next Picture Show: Revisiting Western Frontiers” / “Illumine”

51 mins; April 14, 2025

“Kim Chong Hak, Painter of Seoraksan” / Record Store Day 2025

52 mins; April 10, 2025

“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” / Denzel Curry / Alan Rudolph’s films “Remember My Name” and “Choose Me”

52 mins; April 09, 2025

“Songs of Protest: Canticles, Spirituals and Soundtracks of the Movements” / Artist Jessica Locklar

52 mins; April 08, 2025

“Threads of Change: Design and Data” / “Love Letters”

51 mins; April 03, 2025

“Beethoven Project: Triple Concerto” / DIY Fest / Kosmo’s Vinyl of the Week

50 mins; April 02, 2025

Rick Steves / Nick Turbo Benson / “Notes & Narratives”

50 mins; April 01, 2025

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