‘Bill of rights’ aims to make parking in Atlanta less confusing

Brookhaven Reporter 9/1 4:31A Justin Gray | WSB-TV

Driving in the city, you have probably seen all types of parking signs. QR codes. License plate readers. It can get confusing with all the different ways that parking lots across Atlanta operate. “You’re sort of surprised that they’re all so...

Did you miss these August 2026 Atlanta restaurant openings?

Sandy Springs Reporter 8/31 7:38A Beth McKibben

More than two dozen new restaurants opened around metro Atlanta in August, spanning from Dunwoody, Brookhaven, and Midtown, to the Old Fourth Ward, East Atlanta Village, and Fayetteville. Meanwhile,...

Arrest made in fatal shooting at Sandy Springs apartment

Sandy Springs Reporter 8/31 6:10A Hayden Sumlin

The Sandy Springs Police Department on Aug. 31 announced the arrest of 17-year-old Christopher Castillo, charged with murder in the Aug. 28 fatal shooting of 25-year-old Williams Lopez Rodriguez....

Midtown Atlanta shelter launches new homeless prevention pilot

Buckhead Reporter 8/31 2:00A Logan C. Ritchie

A Midtown Atlanta synagogue is at the heart of a new homeless prevention program to provide stable housing to at-risk residents through financial, legal, and supportive services.  Piloted in 10 cities...

Family, friends hold vigil for victim in fatal Beltline stabbing

Buckhead Reporter 8/30 5:35A WSBTV.com News Staff and Rough D

Friends and family are remembering Ramon Harris, the 29-year-old man who died in a stabbing along the Atlanta Beltline on Aug. 23. Channel 2’s Ashlyn Webb spoke to several of his friends at a vigil for Harris on Saturday in Freedom Park, where...

Cumbiatron and K-pop group DROP will headline Brookhaven International Festival

Brookhaven Reporter 8/30 5:00A Rough Draft Staff

Cumbiatron, K-pop Group DROP to headline Brookhaven’s fourth annual International Festival Latin American cumbia dance party Cumbiatron and K-pop group DROP will headline Brookhaven’s fourth annual International Festival, set for Saturday, Oct....

Fulton County Probate Court relaunching free Friday weddings

Sandy Springs Reporter 8/29 6:45A Rough Draft Staff

Love is back on the calendar in Fulton County! The Fulton County Probate Court is officially relaunching its popular “Forever Fridays” wedding ceremonies beginning Friday, Sept. 4, giving couples a...

Spelman to host lectures by acclaimed artists Amy Sherald and Calida Rawles

Buckhead Reporter 8/29 4:10A Rough Draft Staff

The Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies  will host its first Distinguished Lecture Series of the academic year on Sept. 1 featuring Atlanta University Center alumni artists Amy...

Atlanta volunteers use art to highlight dangerous missing utility covers

Buckhead Reporter 8/29 3:00A Logan C. Ritchie

A group of volunteers is highlighting the City of Atlanta’s mismanaged infrastructure by covering public hazards with eye-catching art.  Fix-ATL is a grassroots effort to improve dangerous conditions...

Southern Bridge Connector project meeting becomes contentious

Reporter Newspapers Brookhaven 8/28 10:34A Cathy Cobbs

Despite Brookhaven city officials call for civil discourse, attendees at a community meeting on Aug. 26 about the proposed Southern Connector Bridge over I-85 turned into a free-for-all, with...

Report: DOD orders Emory University to conduct ‘research security audit’ or lose federal funding

Buckhead Reporter 8/28 6:46A Rough Draft Staff

The U.S. Department of Defense has ordered Emory University to conduct a “research security audit” examining its academic, financial and research ties to foreign entities of concern, according to a report from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ....

Gladys Knight ‘transitioning into the next stage’ of her life, career

Buckhead Reporter 8/28 4:38A Courtney Martinez | WSB-TV and C

Atlanta music legend Gladys Knight says she will start cutting back on performing as she looks ahead to the next stage of her life and career. Knight, 82, shared a statement late Thursday night on her social media. “After much soul searching,...

Kent Jones’ ‘Late Fame’ looks for the lost genius of a different New York

Buckhead Reporter 8/28 4:00A Sammie Purcell

What it means to reclaim lost genius has always been something that’s interesting to filmmaker Kent Jones, from his days as a film critic to his current days as a working filmmaker. And that idea is...

Bill Chen short film ‘Chicken’ covers difficult topic with sensitivity

Buckhead Reporter 8/28 2:00A Sammie Purcell

The first movie that made Bill Chen aware of what a filmmaker could achieve was Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood.”  The South African-Chinese filmmaker didn’t grow up watching a lot of...

Local actress Akira Jackson on the existential horror of ‘It Ends’

Buckhead Reporter 8/28 1:15A Sammie Purcell

The first time actor Akira Jackson filmed “It Ends,” she was 19 years old. Now, promoting the film – which finally hits theaters in Atlanta this weekend – she’s 23.  Directed by Florida State...