Atlanta Beltline names Nino Maisuradze as CFO

Brookhaven Reporter 5/24 4:00A Rough Draft Staff

Atlanta Beltline, Inc. has named Nino Maisuradze as its chief financial officer, the organization announced in a May 22 press release. Maisuradze brings more than two decades of global financial and...

Brookhaven pools open for summer with special deals and new swim camp

Brookhaven Reporter 5/24 12:00A Rough Draft Staff

It s time to splash into summer at one of Brookhaven’s pools or splash pads beginning Memorial Day weekend. On May 23, the pools at Lynwood Park, 3360 Osborne Road, Briarwood Park, 1496 Briarwood Road...

Council for Quality Growth names Egbert Perry as 2026 ‘Four Pillar’ award recipient

Buckhead Reporter 5/23 6:25A Rough Draft Staff

The Council for Quality Growth has named Egbert Perry, chairman of Atlanta real estate developer The Integral Group, as the recipient of its 37th annual Four Pillar Tribute and Award.  Each year, the...

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation’s HBCU scholarship initiative distributes over $4.2 million

Buckhead Reporter 5/23 5:10A Rough Draft Staff

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation announced the first milestones of its $50 million, 10-year scholarship initiative, reporting that more than $4.2 million has been dispersed to approximately 600 students at Atlanta’s Historically Black...

Getting back to visceral feeling with Boots Riley in ‘I Love Boosters’

Buckhead Reporter 5/22 3:00A Sammie Purcell

One of my favorite scenes in “I Love Boosters” happens very early on in the film’s runtime.  Two boosters (shoplifters, with the intent of reselling their wares for profit), Corvette (Keke Palmer) and...

‘Saccharine’ director Natalie Erika James on the horrors of diet culture

Buckhead Reporter 5/22 2:00A Sammie Purcell

After years of the culture beginning to shift away from the idea that being skinny is the only way to be beautiful, lately I am inundated with social media posts that give me the sinking feeling that...

Film Review: ‘Passenger’ hits a dead end

Buckhead Reporter 5/22 12:00A Sammie Purcell

Raise your hand if you’ve ever thought of running away – of quitting your job, breaking your lease, buying a van, and leaving it all behind. For anyone stuck in a rut, the nomadic lifestyle probably...

Lawsuit alleges improper suspension and demotion of DeKalb school officials

Reporter Newspapers Brookhaven 5/21 9:33A Cathy Cobbs

Two high-ranking DeKalb County School District employees have filed a lawsuit against the district, its interim superintendent, and chief human resources director, claiming they were improperly...

Sandy Springs City Council approves 26 new homes across three subdivisions

Sandy Springs Reporter 5/21 4:38A Hayden Sumlin

Sandy Springs officials approved three new subdivisions unanimously at the May 19 city council meeting, signaling support for new housing stock in one of metro Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs. Despite...

Atlanta airport expects 2.7 million passengers during Memorial Day travel period

Buckhead Reporter 5/21 3:01A Rough Draft Staff

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) expects to welcome about 2.7 million passengers during the upcoming Memorial Day travel period. According to a press release, the Memorial Day travel period kicked off on Wednesday and...

Sandy Springs Police release details on Election Day manhunt, voting delay

Sandy Springs Reporter 5/20 8:09A Hayden Sumlin

The Sandy Springs Police Department released more information Wednesday morning about yesterday s suspicious person investigation, which shut down a polling place at a nearby elementary school,...

Inside Sanithna Phansavanh’s ‘A Forest of You’ public art installation

Buckhead Reporter 5/20 4:59A Sherri Daye Scott

You have four days left to walk underneath it. “A Forest of You,” the fourth edition of Dashboard’s Alleywave public art installation in Fairburn, Georgia, closes May 24. Produced by Dashboard in...

Gov. Kemp vetoes bill to strengthen Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit

Buckhead Reporter 5/20 4:16A Logan C. Ritchie

The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation expressed deep disappointment after Gov. Brian Kemp vetoed HB 376 , legislation that would have strengthened the state’s Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit program. In place since 2002, HRTC has driven...

Highlights from the High Museum’s ‘American Sublime’ conversation with Amy Sherald

Buckhead Reporter 5/20 2:00A Sherri Daye Scott

Two nights before “ Amy Sherald: American Sublime ” opened at the High Museum of Art, celebrated painter and Georgia native Amy Sherald took the stage with Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and writer...

Atlanta Board of Education considers approving tax allocation review committee

Buckhead Reporter 5/20 1:56A Rachel Spooner

The Atlanta Board of Education announced May 18 that it will consider establishing the Tax Allocation District Investment Review Committee (TADIRC) at its Board meeting on June 1. The proposed committee will review Tax Allocation District (TAD)...