Tensions run high at public meeting on fate of historic Georgia State University buildings

Buckhead Reporter 5/31 7:39A Collin Kelley

148 Edgewood Ave. (Courtesy Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation) Tensions ran high at a town hall meeting May 28 as Georgia State University presented plans for a sweeping $107 million...

MAUM Market to make Atlanta debut on June 7

Buckhead Reporter 5/31 3:00A Rough Draft

MAUM Market, a pop-up market that spotlights Asian-owned businesses, is coming to Atlanta for the first time on June 7 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for a one-day event. Founded in Los Angeles, MAUM — meaning “heart” or “mind” in Korean — features over...

Meals On Wheels Atlanta introduces new board of trustees members

Buckhead Reporter 5/31 1:00A Rough Draft

Left to right: Michael Astwood, Kevin Gillespie, Michelle Marshall, Alfredo Martin Credit: Photos courtesy of Meals On Wheels Atlanta Meals On Wheels Atlanta ( MOWA ), a nonprofit dedicated to serving...

Atlanta-area residential real estate market sees shift in buyer priorities

Buckhead- Reporter Newspapers 5/30 8:47A Cathy Cobbs

While residential real estate professionals are seeing a shift in the Atlanta area market with the type of buyers and their lifestyle priorities, they remain optimistic about the forecast for the...

Did you miss these May 2025 Atlanta restaurant openings?

Buckhead Reporter 5/30 5:05A Beth McKibben

Lemon pepper wet pizza from Phew s Pies. (Via Phew s Pies/Facebook) Check out this brief roundup of recent restaurant openings and announcements of upcoming restaurants you might have missed in May....

Franklin Abbott’s new poetry collection born from COVID lockdown

Buckhead Reporter 5/30 4:02A Collin Kelley

Franklin Abbott reads from his new poetry collection, My Ordinary Life, on May 24 at Art Station Theatre in Stone Mountain. (Photo by Collin Kelley) Decatur resident Franklin Abbott has been a guiding...

Georgia tops states in new HIV cases. Here are 10 easy ways to get tested in Atlanta.

Buckhead Reporter 5/30 2:11A Rebecca Grapevine, Healthbeat At

The Out of the Closet thrift store at Ansley Mall creates a “destigmatizing space” where people can shop, get tested for HIV for free, and access community pharmacy services. (Photo by Rebecca Grapevine) Georgia has the highest rate of new HIV...

‘Bring Her Back’ is all shock, no value

Buckhead Reporter 5/30 12:00A Sammie Purcell

Jonah Wren Phillips in Bring Her Back (Photo courtesy of A24). Towards the climax of “Bring Her Back,” Andy (Billy Barratt) confronts the social worker that sent him and his stepsister Piper (Sora...

‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ navigates new romance through an old lens

Buckhead Reporter 5/30 12:00A Sammie Purcell

Camille Rutherford in Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics). Driving through the countryside, aspiring author Agathe (Camille Rutherford) and grumpy literature...

Class of ’25: This year’s valedictorians and salutatorians

Brookhaven Reporter 5/29 5:55A Rough Draft

Photo by Emily Ranquist on Pexels.com Credit: Emily Ranquist on Pexels / Pexels Congratulations, graduates! Metro Atlanta families recently gathered to celebrate the graduating class of 2025. Here are...

This week at the Farmers Markets

Buckhead Reporter 5/29 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 as well as a...

Golf tournament raises $260K for Open Hand Atlanta meal delivery

Buckhead- Reporter Newspapers 5/29 3:13A Rough Draft

Mary Williams and Molly Osborne, Buckhead residents and co-chairs for Open Hand s annual Charity Golf Classic at Cherokee Country Club. (Provided) Open Hand Atlanta s recent Charity Golf Classic, held...

Local students talk Letterboxd and creating a film community

Buckhead Reporter 5/29 2:46A Sammie Purcell

In a recent interview for her feature directorial debut “The Chronology of Water,” Kristen Stewart was asked to name her four favorite films. She got a little nervous. “I don’t want to f*ck this up,”...

Quick Bites for May 29: Bomb Biscuit opens in Grant Park, Nakato’s big renovation, $5 giant pizza...

Buckhead Reporter 5/29 12:00A Beth McKibben

Provided by Uno Más Taqueria Restaurant updates It appears Chef Nick Melvin and his crew are preparing to open the doors to Communidad Taqueria in the coming days. Melvin and baker Teresa Finney have...

Recipe: Tiny Lou’s fancy French onion dip and chips

Buckhead Reporter 5/28 5:00A Sarra Sedghi

Provided by Tiny Lou s. If you’ve dined at  Tiny Lou’s  recently, you may have detected a few changes, most notably the addition of Josh Wetshtein as the new executive chef of the restaurant and Hotel...