Westminster Schools student recognized for sports-driven social change

Buckhead Reporter 6/30 6:04A Rough Draft AI Assist

A Westminster Schools student is among 20 young people being nationally recognized this year by ESPN for using sports to drive social change. Rohan Anand, a Georgia honoree for the Billie Jean King Youth Leadership Award, will be celebrated at...

Recipe: Brunch burger from Buttermilk Kitchen

Buckhead Reporter 6/30 5:00A Sarra Sedghi

This week, we re sharing the recipe for the brunch burger special at Buttermilk Kitchen in Buckhead. Buttermilk Kitchen founder and Brunch Season: A Year of Delicious Mornings from the Buttermilk...

Piedmont Park Conservancy announces free summer programming

Buckhead Reporter 6/30 2:03A Collin Kelley

This summer, the  Piedmont Park Conservancy  is offering a full slate of seasonal programming designed to bring Atlantans together –  from outdoor fitness classes and guided walks to craft nights and community markets. “Piedmont Park has a way of...

Dunwoody City Council to consider rezoning for 24-home community with three homes in the city

Sandy Springs Reporter 6/29 3:00A Cathy Cobbs

The Dunwoody City Council will consider at a yet-to-be determined meeting a zoning request that would allow a former church property that straddles Dunwoody and Sandy Springs to be developed into a...

Where to celebrate the Fourth of July and America 250 in metro Atlanta

Buckhead Reporter 6/29 12:00A Rachel Spooner and Collin Kelley

America’s 250th anniversary, or the semiquincentennial (say that five times fast!) is officially on July 4, but the celebrations are going all summer long. Check out where you can party like it’s 1776...

Dunwoody Preservation Trust partners with Mount Vernon School for campaign strategy

Sandy Springs Reporter 6/28 2:00A Cathy Cobbs

The Dunwoody Preservation Trust recently teamed with students from Mount Vernon School to address two organizational priorities: developing a capital campaign strategy and increasing brand awareness...

MARTA moves 1.7 million in first two weeks of FIFA World Cup games

Reporter Newspapers Brookhaven 6/26 8:22A Rough Draft Staff

MARTA announced Friday it has moved approximately 1.7 million people to four World Cup matches, nine FIFA Fan Festivals, and other World Cup-related events and festivities since June 11. Accoridng to a press release from the agency, the busiest...

‘Couture’ is a beguiling, unfocused take on women in the arts

Buckhead Reporter 6/26 12:30A Sammie Purcell

“Couture” makes its thematic tensions apparent immediately. Early in the film, which takes place in the lead up to a show during Paris Fashion Week, a seamstress works on the dress that will open the...

Dickens issues temporary moratorium on new self-storage developments

Buckhead Reporter 6/25 7:55A Logan C. Ritchie

A temporary moratorium has been placed on new self-storage developments in the City of Atlanta, supported by Atlanta City Council member Dustin Hillis. The executive order signed by Mayor Andre Dickens will allow time for the city to evaluate the...

This week at the Farmers Market

Reporter Newspapers Brookhaven 6/25 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...

June 25 Quick Bites: Peaches at Underground, upcoming summer openings, Efendi’s anniversary weekend

Buckhead Reporter 6/25 12:00A Sarra Sedghi

So. Fox opens in the former Virginia-Highland Farm Burger space on July 2. (Photo by Dave Crawford) In this week’s Quick Bites, catch up with Atlanta dining news, including openings at Ponce City...

Atlanta City Council faces pressure to remove officer with troubled past

Buckhead Reporter 6/24 9:00A Logan C. Ritchie

For nearly two years, friends and family members of Devon Anderson, a 38-year-old man killed by an off-duty Atlanta Police officer, Melvin Potter, have been pressuring the Atlanta City Council to fire him. Supporters including Valerie Lans-Anderson...

An extreme summer storm killed thousands of fish in the Chattahoochee River. Could it happen again?

Buckhead Reporter 6/24 7:59A Chase McGee | GPB

In May, a sudden burst of rain in Atlanta snarled parts of the city. It also overwhelmed a wastewater tunnel on the Chattahoochee River, dumping untreated sewage into the waterway and killing...

Four new Tiny Doors ATL installations unveiled in downtown Atlanta for World Cup

Buckhead Reporter 6/24 5:00A Sherri Daye Scott

Karen Anderson Singer has spent more than a decade making Atlanta stop and look closer. The artist known as Tiny Doors ATL places miniature sculptural doors on the walls, columns, and lampposts of the...

Hopeton Hibbert opens ‘The Weight and the Witness’ at Chastain Arts Center

Buckhead Reporter 6/24 2:00A Sherri Daye Scott

Seven years ago, Hopeton St. Clair Hibbert Jr. took a walk down the railroad tracks in his Grant Park neighborhood with his sons. Salvaged metal pieces and wood fragments caught his eye and...