5 things about Callanwolde’s new executive director Jason Martin

Buckhead Reporter 9/2 5:00A Sherri Daye Scott

Callanwolde Fine Arts Center has a new leader. Jason Martin took over as executive director effective Aug. 31. He succeeds Andrew Keenan, who retired after nine years leading the organization. Martin...

Sandy Springs sidewalk extension approved, council working to connect to Chastain Park

Buckhead Reporter 9/2 3:34A Hayden Sumlin

Key points: • The Sandy Springs City Council approved two construction contracts on Sept. 1 for sidewalks, one highly anticipated one along Lake Forrest Drive and the other in one of the city’s most...

Dragon Con returns to Atlanta Sept. 3-7

Buckhead Reporter 9/2 3:04A Sammie Purcell

Dragon Con, one of the biggest pop culture and gaming conventions in the country, returns to Atlanta Sept. 3-7. The convention will be spread out over five hotels in Downtown Atlanta – the Hilton, Marriott Marquis, and Hyatt Regency (all connected...

Did you miss these August 2026 Atlanta restaurant openings?

Sandy Springs Reporter 8/31 7:38A Beth McKibben

More than two dozen new restaurants opened around metro Atlanta in August, spanning from Dunwoody, Brookhaven, and Midtown, to the Old Fourth Ward, East Atlanta Village, and Fayetteville. Meanwhile,...

Midtown Atlanta shelter launches new homeless prevention pilot

Buckhead Reporter 8/31 2:00A Logan C. Ritchie

A Midtown Atlanta synagogue is at the heart of a new homeless prevention program to provide stable housing to at-risk residents through financial, legal, and supportive services.  Piloted in 10 cities...

Family, friends hold vigil for victim in fatal Beltline stabbing

Buckhead Reporter 8/30 5:35A WSBTV.com News Staff and Rough D

Friends and family are remembering Ramon Harris, the 29-year-old man who died in a stabbing along the Atlanta Beltline on Aug. 23. Channel 2’s Ashlyn Webb spoke to several of his friends at a vigil for Harris on Saturday in Freedom Park, where...

Fulton County Probate Court relaunching free Friday weddings

Buckhead Reporter 8/29 6:45A Rough Draft Staff

Love is back on the calendar in Fulton County! The Fulton County Probate Court is officially relaunching its popular “Forever Fridays” wedding ceremonies beginning Friday, Sept. 4, giving couples a...

Spelman to host lectures by acclaimed artists Amy Sherald and Calida Rawles

Buckhead Reporter 8/29 4:10A Rough Draft Staff

The Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies  will host its first Distinguished Lecture Series of the academic year on Sept. 1 featuring Atlanta University Center alumni artists Amy...

Atlanta volunteers use art to highlight dangerous missing utility covers

Buckhead Reporter 8/29 3:00A Logan C. Ritchie

A group of volunteers is highlighting the City of Atlanta’s mismanaged infrastructure by covering public hazards with eye-catching art.  Fix-ATL is a grassroots effort to improve dangerous conditions...

Report: DOD orders Emory University to conduct ‘research security audit’ or lose federal funding

Buckhead Reporter 8/28 6:46A Rough Draft Staff

The U.S. Department of Defense has ordered Emory University to conduct a “research security audit” examining its academic, financial and research ties to foreign entities of concern, according to a report from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ....

Gladys Knight ‘transitioning into the next stage’ of her life, career

Buckhead Reporter 8/28 4:38A Courtney Martinez | WSB-TV and C

Atlanta music legend Gladys Knight says she will start cutting back on performing as she looks ahead to the next stage of her life and career. Knight, 82, shared a statement late Thursday night on her social media. “After much soul searching,...

Kent Jones’ ‘Late Fame’ looks for the lost genius of a different New York

Buckhead Reporter 8/28 4:00A Sammie Purcell

What it means to reclaim lost genius has always been something that’s interesting to filmmaker Kent Jones, from his days as a film critic to his current days as a working filmmaker. And that idea is...

Bill Chen short film ‘Chicken’ covers difficult topic with sensitivity

Buckhead Reporter 8/28 2:00A Sammie Purcell

The first movie that made Bill Chen aware of what a filmmaker could achieve was Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood.”  The South African-Chinese filmmaker didn’t grow up watching a lot of...

Local actress Akira Jackson on the existential horror of ‘It Ends’

Buckhead Reporter 8/28 1:15A Sammie Purcell

The first time actor Akira Jackson filmed “It Ends,” she was 19 years old. Now, promoting the film – which finally hits theaters in Atlanta this weekend – she’s 23.  Directed by Florida State...

Tabernacle music venue introduces new partnership, new name

Buckhead Reporter 8/26 8:42A Sammie Purcell

One of Atlanta’s most popular live music venues is getting a new name. Tabernacle, located in Downtown Atlanta, will now be known as Tabernacle presented by iTHINK Financial, according to a press release.  The music venue was originally built as...