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Mainline Music Fest returns this fall

By Mainline Staff May 20, 2026

Our annual music fest returns for its third year with more artists and venue partners Buy tickets here! Official ...

Mainline presents ‘Standard Selects: The Movie’ at the Plaza on March 2

By aja@mainlineatl.com February 26, 2026

Mainline's first feature film production with Standard Electric Records Co. will debut at the Plaza Theater in Atlanta for one ...

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Mainline has moved

By Mainline Staff August 17, 2026 News

Mainline has moved After seven years of publishing independent news, music, culture, podcasts, and community resources here, Mainline’s publishing and ...

Judge dismisses charges against Stop Cop City activists known as Cobb County 3

By Jadelynn Zhang June 18, 2026 News

Protesters in Marietta, Ga., hold up a sign that reads "Drop the Charges!" at the June 17 pretrial motions hearing ...

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Behind the Slate Podcast and Mainline present ‘The Marriage of Maria Braun’ as part of “Films Against Fascism” screening series

By Mainline Staff May 24, 2026

Mainline Music Fest returns this fall

By Mainline Staff May 20, 2026

Our Story: From Eviction to Empowerment

By Kiomyi Rollings, Chelsea McDaniel March 17, 2026

Mainline presents ‘Standard Selects: The Movie’ at the Plaza on March 2

By aja@mainlineatl.com February 26, 2026

Media training recording: Labor organizing in the media with National Writers Union

By Aja Arnold October 15, 2025

Mainline Podcast: Former staffers speak on the dissolution of the Abolitionist Teaching Network, movement capture, and the counterinsurgency of the non-profit industrial complex

By Aja Arnold September 8, 2025

Mainline Broadcast recording, Mon. Aug. 18

By Aja Arnold August 21, 2025

New podcast: Unpacking the rampant ICE raids and L.A. protests

By Aja Arnold June 15, 2025

“To be a journalist in Gaza is to be a soldier”: A conversation with journalists from Palestine

By Aja Arnold April 15, 2025

New podcast: Atlanta police and City of Atlanta challenged in new civil lawsuit from Cop City RICO defendant

By Aja Arnold March 17, 2025

Atlanta Inspector General resigns while City Council passes legislation to ‘overhaul’ the OIG. Meanwhile, Trump administration illegally fires over 200,000 people, and expands unitary executive theory

By Aja Arnold February 19, 2025

‘The Process is the Punishment,’ Episode One, revised

By Aja Arnold February 3, 2025