Invest Atlanta distributing $400k in grants to local small businesses

Buckhead Reporter 12/26 3:26A Rough Draft

The recipients of Invest Atlanta s Small Business Improvement Grant program Credit: Supplied photo Invest Atlanta’s board of directors has approved $400,000 in Tax Allocation District funding to...

Breakthrough Atlanta pupils donate books to Scott Elementary K-5 students

Buckhead Reporter 12/26 2:08A Rough Draft

The 11th-grade students of academic program Breakthrough Atlanta gifted new books to children at Scott Elementary School as part of the “1 Million Book Giveaway,” a national literature-distribution initiative started by Chick-fil-A Leader Academy...

Woodward senior wins national music contest

Buckhead Reporter 12/25 3:30A Sammie Purcell

Woodward Academy senior Joshua Meredith (Photo courtesy of Janelle Meredith). Joshua Meredith, a senior at Woodward Academy, has been named a winner of the Moises Jam Sessions , a music competition....

Pittsburgh Yards marks five years as hub for Atlanta entrepreneurs

Buckhead Reporter 12/24 4:00A Rough Draft

Pittsburgh Yards, a community-driven hub for entrepreneurship in Atlanta, is marking its fifth anniversary this month. The site, which opened back in December 2020, was previously home to the Great Southern Trucking Terminal, the second-largest...

Pausing in Piedmont Park: Artist Gregor Turk on ‘Myriad’

Buckhead Reporter 12/24 3:00A Sherri Daye Scott

Atlanta-artist Gregor Turk s Myriad was designed to create a continuous dialogue between people, landscape, and reflection at Piedmont Park. Image by Sherri Daye Scott. Atlanta-based artist Gregor...

APS launches new literacy initiative for early learning model

Buckhead Reporter 12/22 2:30A Rough Draft

Atlanta Public Schools (APS) has launched the APS Literacy Council, a new initiative bringing together literacy experts from across the metro area. This council is poised to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of literacy education within...

Susan Powter and filmmaker Zeberiah Newman talk ‘Stop the Insanity!’ documentary

Buckhead Reporter 12/22 1:00A Jim Farmer

Susan Powter in Zeberiah Newman’s documentary Stop the Insanity! Finding Susan Powter. (Photo provided by Obscured Pictures) Throughout the 1990s, Susan Powter was hard to miss. Her weight loss...

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...