‘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...

Milly Alcock delivers in a derivative ‘Supergirl’ film that pulls its punches

Buckhead Reporter 6/26 12:00A Sammie Purcell

In an interview with IndieWire last week , “Supergirl” director Craig Gillespie said that the tone of his film will be very different from James Gunn’s “Superman” – the first film in Warner Bros....

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

Buckhead Reporter 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...

Atlanta’s Buckhead Heritage secures historic building for preservation efforts

Buckhead- Reporter Newspapers 6/23 5:42A Rough Draft Staff

A historic Buckhead building that helped shape one of Atlanta’s earliest planned neighborhoods will soon serve a new purpose as the headquarters of Buckhead Heritage under an agreement with Atlanta...

Tickets on sale for TEDxAtlanta 2026 and inaugural youth conference

Buckhead Reporter 6/23 3:52A Rough Draft Staff

Tickets are now available for TEDxAtlanta 2026 and the inaugural TEDxAtlanta Youth conference, taking place Oct. 2–3 at Atlanta International School’s Sandy Springs campus.  Centered on the theme “Bold. Brave. Unbreakable.”, TEDxAtlanta will...

Filmmaker Matthew Simpson’s movie ‘Before Me’ explores retroactive jealousy

Buckhead Reporter 6/22 6:42A Sammie Purcell

Many movie premieres are typically followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. “Before Me,” which played to a crowd of over 100 people on June 14 at the Tara Theatre, was no different.  Most of those Q&As,...

Restored footage of Atlanta International Pop Festival to debut at Pullman Yards

Buckhead Reporter 6/21 4:00A Sammie Purcell

In the summer of 1970, crowds gathered in a field near the Middle Georgia Raceway in Byron, GA to listen to the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Bob Seger, the Allman Brothers Band, and more.  This would become...

Azalea Fresh Market marks 150,000 customers in Downtown Atlanta

Buckhead- Reporter Newspapers 6/20 4:00A Rough Draft Staff

Nine months after opening in Downtown Atlanta, Azalea Fresh Market says it has served more than 150,000 customers, a milestone city leaders and company officials cite as evidence that demand exists for full-service grocery options in...

Atlanta’s Gun Club Park to be transformed into affordable housing and public space

Buckhead Reporter 6/20 3:05A Logan C. Ritchie

The redevelopment of abandoned property west of Atlanta continues, as Mayor Andre Dickens announced a 44-acre project at the former Gun Club Park through the Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative...