Children’s Museum of Atlanta names 2026 ‘Power of Play Award’ honoree

Buckhead Reporter 12/21 3:00A Rough Draft

Children’s Museum of Atlanta announced that it will honor longtime community leader Andrea Montag with the “Power of Play Award” at its upcoming Imagination Ball fundraiser, which is slated for March 13, 2026. The annual event recognizes...

Woodruff Arts Center adds five new members to board of trustees

Buckhead Reporter 12/21 1:48A Rough Draft

The Woodruff Arts Center has appointed five new members to its board of trustees. Announced during its fall board meeting, the Arts Center revealed that it added Valeda Dent (inaugural vice-provost for the Libraries, Michael C. Carlos Museum and...

Georgia Piedmont Technical College, Atlanta Police launch degree pathway for officers

Buckhead Reporter 12/20 4:36A Rough Draft

Georgia Piedmont Technical College (GPTC) and the Atlanta Police Department (APD) have launched a new pathway that allows APD officers to earn college credit towards their associate degrees in criminal justice through police academy training. The...

Atlanta Technical College breaks ground on Center for Transportation and Logistics

Buckhead Reporter 12/20 3:30A Rough Draft

Atlanta Technical College (ATC) has officially broken ground on its Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL). The CTL will be located on 25 acres at the corner of Cascade Palmetto Highway and Cochran Road, donated by the Fulton County Board...

19-year-old dies in fall while exploring building where ‘Stranger Things’ was filmed

Buckhead Reporter 12/19 6:09A WSBTV.com News Staff

The former Georgia Mental Health Institute was used as a filming location for Stranger Things. (File) A young woman has died after she fell from an abandoned building that is owned by Emory...

Priah Ferguson talks growing up on ‘Stranger Things’

Buckhead Reporter 12/19 1:00A Sammie Purcell

Priah Ferguson as Erica Sinclair in Stranger Things: Season 5. (Photo courtesy of Netflix) Priah Ferguson might be starring in one of the biggest shows in the world, but she still tries to stay as...

‘The Housemaid’ is deliciously trashy

Buckhead Reporter 12/18 11:00P Sammie Purcell

(L-R) Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried in The Housemaid. (Photo by Daniel McFadden/Lionsgate) There is something to be said for a good, old fashioned trashy movie. I’m not talking “guilty pleasures”...

Theatre Review: ‘Elf the Musical’ is a heartwarming holiday spectacle

Buckhead Reporter 12/18 1:51A Stephanie Toone

Jack Ducat (Buddy) and Andrew Hendrick (Santa) in Elf the Musical, which runs from Dec. 16-Dec. 21, 2025, at Fox Theatre. (Photo by Evan Zimmerman for Murphymade) If there’s two things that Buddy the...

Fulton County DA Fani Willis defends 2020 election case in fiery testimony before Senate panel

Buckhead Reporter 12/17 10:08A Ross Williams | Georgia Recorder

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her attorney, former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes, at Senate Committee tasked with investigating Willis. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder A defiant Fulton...

State Farm Arena ranked top five venue in the country by Billboard

Buckhead Reporter 12/17 8:13A Rough Draft

State Farm Arena was ranked number five domestically and number seven in the world in Billboard s The Year in Touring 2025 Report. (Courtesy graphic.) State Farm Arena has been ranked a Top 10 venue,...

Downtown development Forge Atlanta moves forward as Webstar closes on 10-acre site

Buckhead Reporter 12/17 7:58A Collin Kelley

A rendering of Forge Atlanta. (Courtesy Webstar) Webstar Technology Group, Inc . and its development subsidiary, Forge Atlanta Asset Management, have closed on a 10‑acre parcel at Ted Turner Drive SW...

Atlanta Beltline Art opens call for 2026 season

Buckhead Reporter 12/17 3:00A Sherri Daye Scott

A bold, color-saturated mural transforms an underpass along the Eastside Trail, extending the Beltline’s role as an outdoor gallery. (Courtesy Atlanta Beltline) Atlanta Beltline Art , the public art...

Six Atlanta artists to earn trauma-informed education certificate through Paint Love

Buckhead Reporter 12/17 3:00A Sherri Daye Scott

Paint Love s 2026 Artist Cohort marks the first time participants will earn a professional certificate in trauma-informed arts programs after completing the yearlong program. (Courtesy of Paint Love)...

Perspectives in Architecture: Historic building makes news with renovation

Buckhead Reporter 12/16 3:50A Melody Harclerode

A rendering of the renovated Atlanta Constitution Building. (Courtesy Gensler) The Atlanta Constitution Building opened in 1947 as the most innovatively designed newspaper headquarters in the country....

Have yourself a merry John Waters Christmas at Variety Playhouse

Buckhead Reporter 12/16 3:19A Gregg Shapiro

John Waters (Courtesy Variety Playhouse) When it comes to iconic Christmas scenes in movies, none can top the tree-toppling tantrum thrown by cha-cha heels-deprived Dawn Davenport in John Waters’...