This Week at the Farmers Market

Brookhaven Reporter 5/7 4:00A Sammie Purcell

Rough Draft Atlanta is partnering with Community Farmers Markets to let you know what’s in season at your local market. Each week, we’ll share a list of ingredients that are farm fresh, along with a...

Fulton County fights Department of Justice push for 2020 election worker information

Buckhead Reporter 5/6 11:47A Maya Homan | Georgia Recorder

Fulton County officials are trying to stop the U.S. Department of Justice from gaining access to the private information of nearly 3,000 Georgians who served as election workers and volunteers during...

Media mogul Turner remembered for journalism advocacy program

Buckhead Reporter 5/6 11:03A Cathy Cobbs

While leaders around the globe praised media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner, who died at the age of 87, for his bold moves that changed the face of television news, Sonia Tucker remembers him...

Sandy Springs unveils preliminary schedule for fire station overhaul

Buckhead Reporter 5/6 7:38A Hayden Sumlin

Key points: • Sandy Springs is gearing up to begin construction on three of its five fire stations, which are expected to be rebuilt or renovated by the end of 2027. • The city is renovating Fire...

Atlanta Jazz Festival 2026 poster art reveals city’s unique cultural tapestry

Buckhead Reporter 5/6 5:00A Sherri Daye Scott

Illustrator George F. Baker III had one goal in creating “Spirit of Atlanta,” the design commissioned by the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) in honor of the 49th annual...

Ted Turner, media mogul and former Atlanta Braves owner, has died at 87

Buckhead Reporter 5/6 4:59A WSBTV.com News Staff

Media mogul, team owner, restaurateur, philanthropist and a lover of the wide-open spaces. Those are just a few of the titles that Robert “Ted” Turner III held throughout his lifetime. Turner died Wednesday at the age of 87. His creation of CNN...

DeKalb Student Assignment Plan shifts into different gear after stakeholder protests

Brookhaven Reporter 5/5 9:22A Cathy Cobbs

After months of feedback, protests, and angst about DeKalb County’s Student Assignment Plan, which proposed closing dozens of schools and repurposing others, the school district announced on May 5...

Atlanta City Council forms group to address safety concerns at Piedmont Park

Buckhead Reporter 5/5 5:48A Logan C. Ritchie

Key points: • Atlanta City Council is investigating a 404 Day concert, an annual event held in Piedmont Park. • Plans for an unhoused development on the Westside Beltline have been paused. • Council...

Food That Rocks Sandy Springs returns to City Springs this June

Sandy Springs Reporter 5/3 4:00A Rough Draft Staff

Taste of Atlanta s annual Food That Rocks Sandy Springs is returning to City Springs on Thursday, June 4, spotlighting the neighborhood’s diverse and ever-growing culinary scene. The four-hour event...

Run-DMC’s Darryl McDaniels to perform at pre-Peachtree Road Race festivities

Buckhead Reporter 5/2 3:47A Rough Draft Staff

Atlanta Track Club announced that hip hop legend Darryl “DMC” McDaniels is slated to perform on the eve of the upcoming Northside Hospital Peachtree Road Race on Friday, July 3.  The appearance by the Run-DMC founding member, presented through a...

Roy Cohen remembers Aseel Aslih with documentary ‘Far From Maine’

Buckhead Reporter 5/1 3:00A Sammie Purcell

In 1997, 13-year-old Roy Cohen and 14-year-old Aseel Aslih became friends while attending Seeds for Peace, a summer camp in rural Maine meant to cultivate conversation between kids on opposite sides...

Local filmmakers turn experience with grandfather into short film ‘Temple’

Buckhead Reporter 5/1 2:00A Sammie Purcell

Truth is often stranger than fiction. And no one knows that better than local filmmakers Tony and Joshua Gary. The brothers have taken their strange truth and turned it into a new short film. “Temple”...

‘Swapped’ delivers a heartfelt story without the sensory overload

Buckhead Reporter 5/1 12:30A Sammie Purcell

There is a certain type of kids’ entertainment that seems to be getting increasingly popular. I like to think of it as the sensory overload genre.  You see it in movies like “The Super Mario Galaxy...

‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ – the nostalgia machine comes for us all

Buckhead Reporter 4/30 11:30P Sammie Purcell

From the moment “The Devil Wears Prada 2” starts – with a Dua Lipa needledrop, following Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) as she struts her way through the crowded streets of New York City – I was...

High Street withdraws application for Brookhaven apartment complex

Reporter Newspapers Brookhaven 4/30 5:11A Cathy Cobbs

Developers seeking a zoning change for a 280-apartment complex in Brookhaven s Perimeter Summit quietly withdrew their application at the city s April 28 council meeting. High Street Residential, the...