Contemporary Nicknames
- Hotlanta, for its hot weather or its exciting nightlife, or both
- The ATL, for its airport code
- The A: It is used in local media such as Only in the A, a video channel shown on MARTA rapid transit trains in Atlanta and Straight from the A, a popular Atlanta-based blog targeted at African Americans. "The A" or "da A" is also used in hip hop and rap songs such as Ludacris and Lloyd's "How We Do It (in da A)", Lil Scrappy's "The A", and T.I.'s "In da A". Atlanta newspaper Creative Loafing listed as one of its "reasons to love Atlanta" that it's "the only city easily identified by just one letter".
- Black mecca
- A-Town
- City in a Forest or City of Trees, for its unique tree canopy
- The Big Peach
- Dogwood City
Read more about this topic: List Of City Nicknames In The United States
Famous quotes containing the word contemporary:
“Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)