Atlanta Streets Alive returns May 31 with West End to Grant Park route

Buckhead Reporter 5/29 4:37A Rough Draft Staff

Atlanta Streets Alive returns to West End and Grant Park on Sunday, May 31, with 3.5 miles of open streets, live music, and events. This month’s ASA takes place along Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard to Georgia Avenue, between Cherokee Avenue and...

Storyboard artist Mark Simon celebrates 40 years in TV and film

Buckhead Reporter 5/29 2:00A Sammie Purcell

Mark Simon got his first Hollywood job on a small 1987 sexploitation science fiction film called “Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity.” Decades later, he’s worked on everything from “The Walking Dead” to...

‘Two Women’ is a zany sex comedy about middle age malaise

Buckhead Reporter 5/29 12:30A Sammie Purcell

The art of the sex comedy has been lost in recent years, it seems – in America, at least. But this year, the French Canadians are bringing it back with a bullet.  “Two Women,” directed by Chloé...

‘Backrooms’ is disquieting, but runs into third act issues

Buckhead Reporter 5/29 12:00A Sammie Purcell

Have you ever seen something ostensibly normal – say, three shopping carts in the middle of an abandoned parking lot, or an empty, kitschy furniture store – and stared at it just a little too long?...

This week at the Farmers Market

Buckhead Reporter 5/28 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...

May 28 Quick Bites: Women’s sports bar Jolene Jolene opens, Little Tart launching sandwich shop,...

Buckhead Reporter 5/28 12:30A Sarra Sedghi

In this week’s Quick Bites, get the scoop on a new patio bar coming to Poncey-Highland, a series of restaurant closures in East Cobb, and a long-awaited restaurant opening in South Downtown. There’s...

UGA students bring Harper’s Weekly to the Georgia Museum of Art

Buckhead Reporter 5/27 5:00A Sherri Daye Scott

There is a moment inside “Seeing the News in Harper’s Weekly, 1860 – 80,” the new Georgia Museum of Art exhibition in Athens, when two images stop you cold. They face each other exactly as they did in...

‘This is Now’ exhibition brings resistance, community, and 33 artists to Goat Farm

Buckhead Reporter 5/27 2:00A Sherri Daye Scott

“This is Now,” an Atlanta political art exhibition opening May 29 at the Goat Farm Arts Center in West Midtown, gathers 33 artists around a shared belief that art disconnected from community is art...

‘Gutenberg’ musical returns to Dad’s Garage after more than a decade

Buckhead Reporter 5/25 7:32A Rough Draft Staff

Dad’s Garage is bringing “GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!” back to its stage this June, more than a decade after the production’s initial run at the Atlanta theater in 2014. The two-person musical, which earned a 2024 Tony Award nomination for “Best...

Atlanta Street Fringe festival returns to Little 5 Points for two weekends

Buckhead Reporter 5/25 2:00A Rough Draft Staff

The Atlanta Street Fringe festival will return to the Little 5 Points neighborhood for its third year, bringing two weekends of outdoor shows to the area on May 29–31 and June 5–7, 2026. Presented in conjunction with the Atlanta Fringe Festival ,...

Atlanta Beltline names Nino Maisuradze as CFO

Buckhead Reporter 5/24 4:00A Rough Draft Staff

Atlanta Beltline, Inc. has named Nino Maisuradze as its chief financial officer, the organization announced in a May 22 press release. Maisuradze brings more than two decades of global financial and...

Council for Quality Growth names Egbert Perry as 2026 ‘Four Pillar’ award recipient

Buckhead Reporter 5/23 6:25A Rough Draft Staff

The Council for Quality Growth has named Egbert Perry, chairman of Atlanta real estate developer The Integral Group, as the recipient of its 37th annual Four Pillar Tribute and Award.  Each year, the...

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation’s HBCU scholarship initiative distributes over $4.2 million

Buckhead Reporter 5/23 5:10A Rough Draft Staff

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation announced the first milestones of its $50 million, 10-year scholarship initiative, reporting that more than $4.2 million has been dispersed to approximately 600 students at Atlanta’s Historically Black...

Getting back to visceral feeling with Boots Riley in ‘I Love Boosters’

Buckhead Reporter 5/22 3:00A Sammie Purcell

One of my favorite scenes in “I Love Boosters” happens very early on in the film’s runtime.  Two boosters (shoplifters, with the intent of reselling their wares for profit), Corvette (Keke Palmer) and...

‘Saccharine’ director Natalie Erika James on the horrors of diet culture

Buckhead Reporter 5/22 2:00A Sammie Purcell

After years of the culture beginning to shift away from the idea that being skinny is the only way to be beautiful, lately I am inundated with social media posts that give me the sinking feeling that...