Friday fly-by
May 10 — Today is the last day to request an absentee ballot for the May 21 primary election. In-person early voting continues at multiple locations for another week. Here’s a link to our collaborative voter guide.
🌞 A rainy morning will give way to sunny skies and a high near 80° today. Tomorrow will be sunny and 77°.
🚨 Police are searching for the gunman responsible for a fatal shooting aboard a MARTA train at the GWCC/CNN Center station yesterday afternoon.
💧 Advocacy organization Georgia Water Coalition has released its “Dirty Dozen” for 2024 in a 27-page report highlighting 12 of the worst offenses to state waters.
🚒 Atlanta’s historic Fire Station 16 has received a $500,000 federal grant for renovation and modernization projects.
🚦 The Sandy Springs City Council approved two contracts worth more than $374,000 to add mid-block crossings on High Point Road and Powers Ferry Road.
🎻 The Atlanta Youth Symphony will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a special concert on Saturday at 2 p.m. The event is free, but reservations are required.
🍷 The Avondale Estates Wine & Art Walk, featuring 26 local businesses, is tomorrow from 3-7 p.m.
🎨 The Chastain Park Spring Arts Festival is tomorrow and Sunday with more than 175 artists selling and exhibiting their work.
🫶 The annual Kate’s Club Mourning Glory Gala is tomorrow night at the Grand Hyatt Buckhead. For more than 20 years, the organization. has provided support for children who experience the death of someone close to them.
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👩🎤 More than two dozen countries will participate in tomorrow’s Eurovision finals in Malmö, Sweden. Here’s how you can watch.
🕖 Here’s what’s in today’s newsletter:
• BeltLine Lantern Parade
• Film Review: ‘The Fall Guy’
• 10 patios to explore
• The Sports Section
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• Top Stories of the Week
Happy Mother’s Day – here are some brunch ideas,
Collin & Sammie
🌆 Explore Atlanta’s Newest Landmark – The Midtown Art Walk. Join Midtown Alliance for a free event on Sat., May 11 to celebrate the Art Walk, a new corridor alive with public art for you to discover! The outdoor festival will feature an artist market curated by Georgia Vintage Goods, food and drinks for purchase, live music, and a sing-a-long led by Toronto-based Choir!Choir!Choir! RSVP here.
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1. New season of ‘Art on the Atlanta BeltLine’ kicks off with Lantern Parade
🏮 This year marks the Atlanta BeltLine’s 15th season of its juried public art exhibition, Art on the Atlanta BeltLine, featuring the work of hundreds of visual artists, performers, and musicians.
The big kick-off event, the Atlanta BeltLine Lantern Parade, is set for Sat., May 11, on the Westside Trail. The parade will begin at Adair Park I and end at Lee + White. Lineup begins at 7:45 p.m. and step-off is at 8:45 p.m.
This year’s AoAB features more than 100 artists and 56 works of visual and performing arts.
➡️ Learn more about the 2024 season here. Also, check out this story on “LagosAtlanta: Sister City Rising,” a special public art exhibition on the BeltLine.
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2. ‘The Fall Guy’ exists for the love of movies
WEEKLY FILM REVIEW | BY SAMMIE PURCELL
🏎️ Ryan Gosling is really cool.
This has been apparent for quite some time now. He’s a specific type of cool, the type of cool that’s able to pull off dark and twisted as easily as earnest and silly – the type of cool where he can do something that you might otherwise find annoying, but, by virtue of him being Ryan Gosling and all, whatever that thing is is suddenly not so bad.
“The Fall Guy,” Gosling’s new starring vehicle directed by David Leitch, begins with a voiceover, which is one of the things our movie critic Sammie Purcell usually finds annoying. But as “The Fall Guy” goes on, it becomes clear that the voiceover is just one of a long line of moments where Leitch and screenwriter Drew Pearce want you to notice the movie-making mechanics in a way that audiences don’t often experience.
“The Fall Guy,” based on a television series from the 1980s, has been described as a love letter to stuntmen and the work they do, and in so many ways it is – (stay for the credits and a really fun montage where the filmmakers show you how everything was done). But the stunts are just one piece of the puzzle, and not the most impressive one. At its core, “The Fall Guy” is not just a movie about stuntmen, but rather a movie about movies and the people who love and make them. Meta narratives can be hit or miss, and Leitch himself has worked on some that feel a little smug with how clever they are.
But “The Fall Guy” employs a team of actors, led by Gosling, who can do earnestness without being cloying, and who can wink at the camera without tripping over their own ego to do so.
🍿 Read Sammie’s full review here.
3. 10 restaurant patios around Atlanta perfect for al fresco dining
☀️ With patio season in full swing, our senior food editor Beth McKibben wanted to share some of her favorite places to dine al fresco in and around Atlanta. Everyone has their favorite restaurant patio, but the 10 patios she’s highlighting always put a smile on her face.
The list includes The Chastain, Larakin, Staplehouse, Mediterranea, Halfway Crooks Beer, Kimball House, Downwind Restaurant, Osteria Mattone, FogĂłn and Lions, and Gilly Brew Bar.
🍻 Find out more about each patio and see a map here.
4. Local HS soccer titles; WNBA to fly private
Skylar Salisbury, host of Big Sky Buckets, is back with this week’s sports update.
🏆 In the GHSA soccer finals, Marist (6A), GAC (5A), Lovett (4A), and Paideia (A) girls won their respective titles. On the boys side, Westminster (4A) and AIS (A) took home championships.
🏀 The biggest story of the NBA Playoffs is that Atlanta’s own Anthony Edwards is carrying the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 2-0 start against the defending champion Denver Nuggets. Can he carry this team to a title at the age of 22?
⚾ The Braves, coming off a rough road trip where the Dodgers swept them, go on another three-game road trip against the Mets. The first of three games is today at 7:10 p.m. (FuboTV).
⚽ Atlanta United hosts D.C. United tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. (Apple TV+).
🏀 The WNBA season officially tips off on Tuesday. The Atlanta Dream starts the season in Los Angeles on Wed., May 15.
💰 WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert plans on investing $50 million into full-time charter planes for the teams.
🇫🇷 Paris won the Olympic bid by promising accessibility to the disabled, and while they made improvements on that front, they are still far from finished with just 12 weeks to go.
🥒 Major League Pickleball (MLP) is kicking off the 2024 season with its first tournament in Atlanta May 9-12. Following is the Professional Pickleball Association (PPA) Atlanta Open tournament from May 13-19.
🌆 Explore Atlanta’s Newest Landmark – The Midtown Art Walk. Join Midtown Alliance for a free event on Sat., May 11 to celebrate the Art Walk, a new corridor alive with public art for you to discover! The outdoor festival will feature an artist market curated by Georgia Vintage Goods, food and drinks for purchase, live music, and a sing-a-long led by Toronto-based Choir!Choir!Choir! RSVP here.
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5. Top Stories of the Week
A look back at this week’s most-read stories from our website.
â‘ Â Arrest made in connection with Dunwoody High School student’s death
② Chamblee announces lineup for 2024 Summer Concert Series
③ Music Midtown cancels 2024 festival (pictured)
â‘ŁÂ Music producer fatally shot by his own son in Brookhaven
⑤ JARDÍ Chocolates founder debuts Atlanta Candy Kitchen with twist on nostalgic candies
💭 Test your knowledge of the week’s news in tomorrow’s News Quiz. Keep an eye out for our email at 8 a.m. or bookmark this page!Â
📧 Today’s newsletter was edited by Julie E. Bloemeke.