The top five recipes Rough Draft readers raved about in 2024

Buckhead Reporter 12/20 2:00A Beth McKibben

Each week, Rough Draft shares a recipe with readers from a local restaurant or created by an Atlanta chef. While always part of our weekly dining coverage, the following five recipes proved wildly...

City of Atlanta to co-fund grocery stores in Downtown, Campbellton Plaza

Buckhead Reporter 12/20 1:57A Rough Draft

Photo courtesy Invest Atlanta/Reilly Johnson Mayor Andre Dickens has announced that the City of Atlanta, in partnership with Invest Atlanta and Savi Provisions , will establish two new grocery stores...

Talking boxing and ‘The Fire Inside’ with actress Ryan Destiny

Buckhead Reporter 12/20 1:00A Sammie Purcell

Ryan Destiny stars as Claressa Shields in director Rachel Morrison s The Fire Inside. (Photo by Sabrina Lantos) The name Claressa Shields should be a lot more recognizable than it is to most of us....

In conversation with Joston Ramon Theney, filmmaker behind ‘Yesterday is Almost Here’

Buckhead Reporter 12/20 12:00A Sammie Purcell

Joston Ramon Theney, filmmaker behind Yesterday is Almost Here. (Photo by Ryan Nelson). Over the course of his career, filmmaker Joston Ramon Theney has worked primarily in the horror space. With...

‘Nosferatu’ and the reimagining of a legend

Buckhead Reporter 12/19 11:00P Sammie Purcell

Lily-Rose Depp stars as Ellen Hutter in director Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu (Photo courtesy of Focus Features). Over the course of film history, there have been six versions of the story of “Nosferatu”...

Quick Bites Dec. 19: Bookhouse Pub closes, Claudia Martinez departing Miller Union, Grana opens in...

Buckhead- Reporter Newspapers 12/19 2:00A Beth McKibben and Julie E. Bloem

Courtesy of Grana. This story is from Side Dish, our weekly Thursday newsletter about Atlanta’s dining scene. Subscribe for free via the Newsletters tab at the top of this page. Have you heard? This...

Celebrate Kwanzaa and the New Year with food and parties around Atlanta

Buckhead- Reporter Newspapers 12/18 11:00P Lola McGuire and Rough Draft

With Christmas and Hanukkah celebrations upon us, now is also the time to think about how to mark Kwanzaa and New Year s Eve. We ve got a roundup of dining and event suggestions for both holidays....

Georgia Power hiking rates in January

Buckhead Reporter 12/18 8:34A Dave Williams | Capitol Beat

Georgia energy regulators have signed off on a 3.5% rate increase for customers of Georgia Power. Members of the state Public Service Commission (PSC) unanimously approved the increase Tuesday, which will raise average residential customer bills...

Great pizza and great art: Mellow Mushroom celebrates 50 years of business

Buckhead Reporter 12/18 6:30A Isadora Pennington

Fifty years ago in 1974, three recent college grads had an idea to start a new pizza restaurant. Not only did they want to offer delicious pizzas, they also wanted to embody the feel-good vibes of the...

City of Atlanta awarded over $3.2M in grant funding for electric vehicle program

Buckhead Reporter 12/17 1:44A Rough Draft

The City of Atlanta announced that it has secured more than $3.2 million in funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of the Clean Heavy Duty Vehicle Grant. The grant will help fund “EcoFleet ATL,” an Atlanta initiative that...

The top ten Atlanta dining stories of 2024

Sandy Springs Reporter 12/16 9:10A Beth McKibben

It’s been a wild year on the Atlanta dining scene with scores of new restaurants opening around town, sad closures, and big news events, including a water main break that shut down part of the city...

Fantasy sports company expands presence in Georgia as Senate lawmakers punt on gaming expansion

Buckhead Reporter 12/16 4:40A Stanley Dunlap | Georgia Recorde

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, left, and Mike Ybarra, CEO of fantasy sports company Daily PrizePicks, weighed in on the prospects of legalized online sports betting heading into 2025 legislative session....

Trump taps former Buckhead cityhood leader to be Ambassador to Belgium

Atlanta Business Chronicle 12/16 12:35A Chris Fuhrmeister

Bill White led an organization that pushed for Buckhead to secede from Atlanta.

Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus director uplifts transgender voices

Buckhead Reporter 12/14 2:00A Dyana Bagby

Donald Milton III has been the artistic director for the Atlanta Gay Men s Chorus since 2018. As a cisgender, straight man, he wasn’t sure if he’d be welcomed into the chorus’s predominantly LGBTQ+ community but says he has been embraced warmly...

APD investigating apparent assault and suicide at Downtown high-rise

Buckhead Reporter 12/14 1:59A Collin Kelley

Atlanta Police are investigating an apparent assault and suicide at a high-rise apartment building in Downtown Atlanta on Dec. 13. According to the police report, officers responded to a report of a person shot at 250 Piedmont Ave. NE. just...