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...

How to eat and drink like a local in downtown Atlanta

Buckhead Reporter 6/19 8:25A Beth McKibben

Whether you’re in town for business, a convention, or attending a game or concert at Mercedes-Benz Stadium or State Farm Arena, downtown Atlanta includes dozens of dining and drinking options. While...

Oakland Cemetery wins preservation, education awards

Buckhead Reporter 6/19 5:40A Rough Draft Staff

The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) has selected Historic Oakland Foundation (HOF) as a recipient of the History in Progress (HIP) Award and Award of Excellence for...

Paramount Skydance/WBD merger concerns Atlanta film workers

Buckhead Reporter 6/19 4:00A Sammie Purcell

Atlanta film industry workers expressed frustration and concern about how the potential Paramount Skydance/Warner Bros Discovery merger will affect their livelihoods during a town hall meeting at The...

Sandy Springs residents eye relocation plans for Fire Station 4 in Atlanta

Sandy Springs Reporter 6/19 3:01A Hayden Sumlin

Work on a new, state-of-the-art fire station on Roswell Road in Sandy Springs is set to begin this fall, with completion estimated in December 2027. During a sparsely attended June 17 open house in...

Whole World Improv co-founder voices Mrs. Potato Head in ‘Toy Story 5’

Buckhead Reporter 6/19 3:00A Sammie Purcell

Growing up in Washington D.C., Anna Vocino always wanted to be a performer. As a teenager, she would go watch Gross National Product (GNP), a local sketch and improv group, and yearn to be up onstage....

Georgia native David Torres talks journey to Pixar and working on ‘Toy Story 5’

Buckhead Reporter 6/19 2:00A Sammie Purcell

Warning: there are light spoilers for “Toy Story 5” in this interview.  Peachtree City native David Torres first saw 1995’s “Toy Story” during his freshman year at Ringling College of Art and Design....

Adrian Chiarella on LGBTQ+ community’s attraction to horror and ‘Leviticus’

Buckhead Reporter 6/18 6:13A Jim Farmer

Like many a queer kid, Adrian Chiarella grew up watching scary movies and identifying with them. Now, he has written and directed his own horror feature. His made-in-Australia film “Leviticus” opens...

This week at the Farmers Market

Buckhead Reporter 6/18 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 18 Quick Bites: So many restaurant openings, Roswell restaurant revamp, new market-deli in...

Buckhead Reporter 6/18 12:30A Sarra Sedghi

In this week’s Quick Bites, get the scoop on an absolute explosion of restaurant openings around Atlanta and closured in Decatur and West Midtown. There are also details on the revamp of Truth Be Told...