DoorDash lays off Atlanta staff amid nationwide jobs cuts

Atlanta Business Chronicle 12/1 9:54A Zach Armstrong

Atlanta workers were among those impacted by the nationwide layoffs from delivery giant DoorDash.

Business of Entertainment: Homegrown content is key to growing the industry

Atlanta Business Chronicle 12/1 9:40A Tonya Layman

Since the Georgia Entertainment Industry Investment Act was enacted in 2005 offering substantial tax credits, Georgia has become a film and TV production destination. Last year, the entertainment industry brought $4 billion to the state’s...

Tech layoffs could set stage for new wave of Atlanta founders

Atlanta Business Chronicle 12/1 9:02A Zach Armstrong

Atlanta companies have laid off around 1,000 people. Historically, moments like these have lead to a slate of new business leaders and innovations. Sebastian Builes hopes to be the city's next great bounce back story.

Chef Shay Lavi’s Shrimp & Pasta Recipe

Brookhaven Reporter 12/1 8:30A Sammie Purcell

This story first appeared in Side Dish, a weekly newsletter. Subscribe at sidedishatlanta.com. Shay Lavi, an executive chef and founder of Let’s Eat! Catering and the recently opened private dining...

Punk Food: Soupbelly’s chicken and mushroom rose dumplings

Brookhaven Reporter 12/1 8:00A Madalyn Nones | Punk Foodie

Candy Hom is the chef of Soupbelly , a pop-up serving up delicious Chinese dumplings around Atlanta. Hom started Soupbelly as a blog, where she showcased recipes and photography from Atlanta’s...

Atlanta’s DeKalb County suburbs lead the metro area in home price appreciation. Here's why.

Atlanta Business Chronicle 12/1 7:43A Chris Fuhrmeister

As homeownership within the city of Atlanta becomes less attainable, more buyers are looking to suburbs in DeKalb County. The result: municipalities such as Clarkston, Stone Mountain and Lithonia now lead the metro area in home price...

Sparkle Sandy Springs kicks off holidays on Dec. 4

Sandy Springs Reporter 12/1 6:00A Bob Pepalis

Sparkle Village sets the scene in and around the City Green off Galambos Way in Sandy Springs, where the Sparkle Sandy Springs holiday event kicks off the season on Saturday afternoon, Dec. 4. (City...

On World AIDS Day, Georgia leads the nation in new HIV cases – and Atlanta is a hot spot

Brookhaven Reporter 12/1 5:50A Ellen Eldridge | GPB

A diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is no longer a death sentence if caught early and treated. But even with rapid tests and effective drugs readily available, HIV still remains an...

Heritage Festival to celebrate the people of DeKalb County

Brookhaven Reporter 12/1 5:18A Rough Draft

DeKalb County residents in attendance at a Doris K. Wells Heritage Festival informational workshop. (Supplied photo0 Credit: Supplied photo. The Doris K. Wells Heritage Festival starts today, Dec. 1,...

Pope & Land Enterprises: Here's what attracts private equity to suburban downtowns

Atlanta Business Chronicle 12/1 4:55A Chris Fuhrmeister

At the apex of popularity for suburban malls in the 1990s, metro Atlanta downtowns were dying. That's no longer the case.

Attorney Ben Crump Brings Star-Studded The Grio Awards Crowd to Its Feet in Dr. King-Inspired...

Atlanta Tribune Magazine 12/1 4:25A Atlanta Tribune

Ben Crump, the renowned civil rights attorney and freedom fighter, elicited the night’s biggest applause when he accepted the newly minted Justice Icon Award. “It was an honor to accept the Justice Icon trophy in the company of so many Black...

Spike Lee’s Grandmother, Mother has Spelman College Building Dedicated

Atlanta Tribune Magazine 12/1 4:14A Adell Henderson

Spelman College honored Spike Lee’s family by renaming the College’s Admissions Office in honor of the well-known film director’s grandmother Zimmie Reatha Shelton (Class of 1929) and mother Jacquelyn Shelton Lee (Class of 1954). Lee and his wife...

Lime offering free bike and scooter rides to vote in runoff

Brookhaven Reporter 12/1 4:08A Sammie Purcell

A bike and scooter sharing service is offering free rides to the polls again for Georgia voters.  Lime has announced “Lime to the Polls” for the Georgia Senate runoff election between Democratic...

Jury Selection Begins For Officer Charged In Death Of Atatiana Jefferson

Atlanta Tribune Magazine 12/1 3:47A Atlanta Tribune

Photo: Getty Images Jury selection has begun for a former Texas officer accused of fatally shooting a Black woman through a window of her own home. Monday (November 28) marked the start of the murder trial for ex-Fort Worth police officer Aaron...

Youth mentorship program expands to Atlanta

Buckhead Reporter 12/1 3:27A Rough Draft

An award-winning nonprofit that invests and mentors Black youth is Atlanta-bound. “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to link arms with communities in Atlanta so that we might offer our young...