WABE raises over $1.1 million at inaugural benefit

Buckhead Reporter 4/6 8:47A Rough Draft Staff

WABE raised over $1.1 million at “WABE Live: Acts for Facts,” the media outlet’s inaugural benefit.  According to a press release, the event, which was held March 25, is part of a broader strategy to close the $1.9 million annual gap left by the...

Beltline seeks contractor for new Northeast Trail segment

Buckhead Reporter 4/6 8:31A Rough Draft Staff

Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. (ABI) is seeking construction firms for a new 2.8-mile segment of the trail network. The agency announced an invitation to bid for Northeast Trail Segment 3 and four connector...

Beltline reaches 79% of its affordable housing goal

Buckhead Reporter 4/4 4:00A Rough Draft

356 University Avenue is one of the affordable housing projects completed by Atlanta Beltline Inc. (Courtesy ABI) Atlanta Beltline, Inc. (ABI) said it has reached 79% of its goal to create or preserve...

Alliance Theatre unveils lineup for 58th season

Buckhead Reporter 4/4 3:15A Rough Draft

The Alliance Theatre has revealed the show lineup that will be on display for its upcoming 58th season, which runs from August 2026 to June 2027. Announced by Alliance’s Artistic Directors Tinashe Kajese-Bolden and Christopher Moses, alongside...

Performativity and perception are our ruination in ‘The Drama’

Buckhead Reporter 4/3 12:00A Sammie Purcell

Early on in “The Drama,” Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya) are practicing for the first dance at their wedding. They’re doing one of those old-timey, heavily choreographed routines. You...

‘Two Prosecutors’ and the bureaucracy of evil

Buckhead Reporter 4/2 11:30P Sammie Purcell

There is something slightly off about Sergei Loznitsa’s “Two Prosecutors” right from the beginning. It starts to become very noticeable, however, in an early scene between two guards at a Soviet...

Tayari Jones overcame writer’s block to pen her acclaimed new novel ‘Kin’

Buckhead Reporter 4/2 7:33A Collin Kelley

Award-winning Atlanta author Tayari Jones earned an even more unique distinction earlier this year when she joined the elite club of writers who ve had more than one book chosen for Oprah s Book Club....

Easter weekend egg hunts, brunches, and special events around Atlanta

Buckhead Reporter 4/2 5:20A Rachel Spooner

Easter weekend is upon us and there are plenty of egg hunts, special holiday brunches, and fun events to take part in this year. Check out this roundup of Easter happenings around Atlanta. Photo by...

This Week at the Farmers Market

Buckhead Reporter 4/2 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...

Registration open for 2026 Peachtree Road Race

Buckhead Reporter 4/2 2:39A Rough Draft

Registration is now open for the Northside Hospital Peachtree Road Race, Atlanta’s signature Fourth of July event. The 2026 race coincides with the 250th birthday of the U.S., marks the debut of Northside Hospital as title sponsor, and the...

Quick Bites for April 2: Ticonderoga Club named a top U.S. bar, 400,000 KitKats stolen, new Beltline...

Buckhead Reporter 4/2 12:30A Beth McKibben

In this week’s Quick Bites, we have details on Ticonderoga Club landing a spot on a prestigious “Best Of” list and 12 tons of stolen KitKats. In restaurant news, Three Taverns Brewery will open a new...

Did you miss these March 2026 Atlanta restaurant openings?

Buckhead Reporter 4/1 8:38A Beth McKibben

Restaurant openings ramped up in March with the arrival of spring. Nearly three dozen restaurants opened for business around Atlanta and the metro area, with several more restaurants announced for the...

Art Papers goes out the way it came together – in community.

Buckhead Reporter 4/1 5:00A Sherri Daye Scott

Art Papers magazine — the longest-running nonprofit art magazine in the United States — will end the way it began: as a  community project.  The Atlanta community that built ART PAPERS magazine into...

Documentary about ‘The American Music Show’ gets a refresh for April 5 screening

Buckhead Reporter 4/1 3:00A Sammie Purcell

In 2017, filmmaker Matt Terrell, with help from Out on Film, created a documentary exploring the history of “The American Music Show,” a weekly variety show that ran on public access television in...

A daughter remembers: Leslie Parks Bailey on Gordon Parks’s ‘The South in Color’

Buckhead Reporter 4/1 2:00A Sherri Daye Scott

Leslie Parks Bailey is chopping as she talks about her father, noted American photographer Gordon Parks. It s the Friday before his latest exhibit, The South in Color, opens at Jackson Fine Art, and...