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Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area trails accessible despite shutdown

Sandy Springs Reporter 10/1 5:41A Rough Draft

Key Points: • Though officially closed because of the government shutdown, the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area remains accessible to the public. • All park operations are suspended, with...

Recipe: Butternut squash ravioli from Sandy Springs Italian restaurant Baraonda

Buckhead Reporter 10/1 5:00A Sarra Sedghi

Provided by Baraonda in Sandy Springs. This week, we re bringing you a recipe for the butternut squash ravioli from Baraonda Ristorante and Bar in Sandy Springs. This recipe calls for Grana Padano...

Fabian Williams’ mural commemorates 1906 Atlanta race massacre

Buckhead Reporter 10/1 4:30A Sherri Daye Scott

Atlantans gathered Sept. 27 to view Fabian Williams’s mural honoring victims of the 1906 massacre at Carver Neighborhood Market in Brownsville. (Photo by Sherri Daye Scott) When artist Fabian Williams...

Latin American artists share paths in ‘Caminos Compartidos’ exhibition

Buckhead Reporter 10/1 4:00A Sherri Daye Scott

Works featured in Caminos Compartidos , such as this one by artist Catalina Gómez-Beuth, pair culture and creativity. (Courtesy of Catalina Gómez-Beuth) This fall, the Gallery at Abernathy Arts Center...

Filmmaker Andreas Zerr dives into the phenomenon of ‘Rocky Horror’

Buckhead Reporter 10/1 3:00A Sammie Purcell

Photos of the cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show from Andreas Zerr s documentary Sane Inside Insanity. (Photo courtesy of Newsworthy Press) You know you’re iconic when not one, but two...

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Early childhood teachers struggle with workload, study finds

Education - The Atlanta Voice 9/18 3:37A Clayton Gutzmore

Educators of any grade have a heavy load to bear when teaching children. One group whose load we tend not to consider heavy is early childhood teachers, teaching children three through five. A new...

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Getting Ready for Storm Season: What Homeowners Forget

Thou Swell 9/30 9:25P Thouswell

Ever look outside during a storm and think, “Did I ever get that tree branch trimmed?” You’re not alone. Every year, as storm season barrels in, homeowners scramble to...

Photos: Lil Wayne performs at State Farm Arena

Atlanta Magazine 9/30 11:50A Atlanta Magazine

Lil Wayne Photograph by Perry Julien Five-time Grammy Award winner Lil Wayne brought his Tha Carter VI Tour to State Farm Arena on Monday night, celebrating his 14th studio album of the same name. He...

Screaming, crying, perfect storm: Atlanta Swifties get ready for the Showgirl era at these album...

Atlanta Magazine 9/30 7:42A Carly Cooper

Taylor Swift at the Grammy Awards in February Photograph by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for the Recording Academy Taylor Swift is releasing her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl , on October 3, and...

Encounter a host of creatures at these nature centers and wildlife refuges

Atlanta Magazine 9/30 7:09A Brady Nash

Rehabilitation efforts at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center Courtesy Jekyll Island Authority Georgia Sea Turtle Center Jekyll Island, Georgia Every May, loggerhead sea turtles crawl up the island’s...

Hidden in Alpharetta, Laghman Express’s dumplings and hand-pulled noodles are drawing crowds

Atlanta Magazine 9/29 6:17A Joe Reisigl

As I drove into Windward Plaza, a retail complex in northeast Alpharetta, it looked empty and calm on a weekend evening. But when I go around back, the energy transformed—I found a packed restaurant...

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‘Just pick up a book’: Falcons Bijan Robinson hosts book fair at The Benz for thousands of area...

Sports - The Atlanta Voice 9/23 5:50A Donnell Suggs

Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta Voice According to data from the Georgia Council on Literacy , third and fourth-grade reading levels within the state are below 70%, with 68% of fourth-graders and...

Five High School Football Games to Watch This Week

Sports - The Atlanta Voice 9/18 12:00A Donnell Suggs

I know we are a couple of weeks late, but we wanted to make sure we found a good and useful way to cover the hundreds of high school football games that take place across metro Atlanta every week...

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