Trump announces 35% tariff on Canada stock futures

Batter up Friday

July 11 —MLB All-Star Weekend kicks off today with a visit by the Budweiser Clydesdale horses to Smyrna bars, and the HBCU Swingman Classic is tonight at Truist Park at 7 p.m.

⛅ Partly cloudy and 87° today with potential scattered showers on Saturday. Sunday looks sunny and hot.

📈 As Fulton County commissioners consider a property tax hike, they may also freeze the annual $9.4 million contribution to Atlanta’s Westside Tax Allocation District (TAD).

🇮🇱 Gov. Brian Kemp made a promise to stand with the Jewish people and the state of Israel yesterday when he met with an Israeli whose brother has been held hostage by Hamas for 643 days.

🗳 Voter registration cancellation notices are in the mail to more than 470,000 Georgia voters with an “inactive status” for the 2022 and 2024 general elections.

💧 DeKalb officials, including District 1 Commissioner Robert Patrick and CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson, say help is on the way for Dunwoody water main woes.

🎤 Paul McCartney’s “Got Back Tour” is coming to State Farm Arena on Nov. 2 and 3. Tickets go on sale July 18.

🎹 Atlanta jazz pianist Joe Alterman’s new radio program “The Upside of Jazz” will premiere Saturday at 7 p.m. on WABE.

ELSEWHERE

📉 Stock futures are down sharply this morning after President Trump announced a 35% tariff on Canada.

⚖️ A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its executive order on birthright citizenship.

🦠 The U.S. has recorded 1,288 measles cases this year — the highest since 1992.

👜 The prototype Hermès Birkin bag designed for late film and music icon Jane Birkin sold for $10.1 million at auction.

🕖 Here’s what’s in today’s newsletter:

• ‘Beasts’ at the High
• Film Review: ‘Superman’
• The Sports Section
AND
• Top Stories of the Week

Have a good weekend!

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1. High curator talks Ezrom Legae exhibition, ‘Beasts’

VIA SKETCHBOOK, A WEEKLY ARTS NEWSLETTER | SUBSCRIBE HERE

✏️ When Lauren Tate Baeza joined the High Museum of Art in 2020 as the Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art, she knew she’d eventually need to propose a works-on-paper exhibition. Her first thought? Ezrom Legae.

A celebrated South African sculptor and draftsman, Legae spent decades channeling political unrest, grief, and spiritual symbolism into drawings of birds, dogs, and hybrid creatures – compositions that spoke volumes during apartheid without a single word.

In “Ezrom Legae: Beasts,” on view through Nov. 16, Baeza curates the late artist’s first U.S. museum exhibition, focusing on how Legae’s animal imagery offers not just allegory, but resistance.

➳ Find out more about the exhibition here.

Five ways to keep your pup safe in the heat

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☀️ Summer is a season full of adventure, but when temperatures climb, it can be dangerous for our four-legged family members. Dogs don’t sweat in the same way humans do – they rely on panting and limited sweat glands in their paws to cool off, and that just isn’t always enough during a heatwave.

🐶 Here are five veterinarian-approved ways to keep your dog safe, cool, and happy all summer long and make the most of every sunny day together.

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2. New restaurant round-up: Pizza Jeans, The Sparrow, Ashland’s Kitchen, Avize, and more

🍕 We’ve got a brief roundup of recent openings and upcoming restaurants you might have missed in September.

Included in this lineup: Pizza Jeans, a Ponce City Market pizzeria that recently opened a new location in Buckhead; May Peel (pictured above), a cocktail lounge named for a Titanic survivor, which opened at the newly renovated Hotel Granada; and the long-awaited sandwich shop and bar Motorboat just opened in the former 8ARM space on Ponce.

🍸 Learn more about what opened up in September here.

AND, THIS WEEK

🏔️ Avize Modern Alpine Kitchen opens Oct. 3, taking over the space once home to Nick’s Westside on Brady Avenue. Owned by Chef Karl Gorline, Avize explores his family’s roots in Bavaria and the cuisines of Alpine countries. Read more about Avize and peek at the menu here.

*Photo via Ansley Park Civic Association*

2. ‘Superman’ is fun, but lacks an emotional core worthy of its hero

WEEKLY FILM REVIEW | BY SAMMIE PURCELL

🦸 There’s a core tension at the center of James Gunn’s Superman that you can find at the center of any good Superman movie – he’s a man stuck between two worlds, and in this case, he’s going up against a villain (Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor) who firmly believes that he should go back to his own planet.

Superman has always been an allegory for the immigrant experience, and Gunn has been more than open about the fact that this version is no different (and if you were confused, the way Luthor spits out the word “alien” should clear things up).

Gunn’s “Superman” has a sincere heart, and as Superman himself, David Corenswet embodies that earnestness through and through. But, as endearing and entertaining as “Superman” is, it tends to shoot for platitudes and allegory over character, lacking an emotional core worthy of its hero.

🌎 Read Sammie’s full review here.

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3. Club World Cup, Wimbledon wrap; All-Star Weekend
BY HANNAH MUCH

🐝 Georgia Tech named Ryan Alpert as its new athletics director, replacing J Batt.

⚽ Paris Saint-Germain will take on Chelsea in the FIFA Club World Cup Final on Sunday at 3 p.m. (TBS, TruTV, or DAZN).

⚕️Atlanta United said its President and CEO, Garth Lagerwey, is taking a leave of absence after being diagnosed with cancer.

🏀 The Atlanta Dream is on the road this weekend, facing Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever tonight at 7:30 p.m. and the defending champions New York Liberty, on Sunday at 3 p.m.

🎾 The Wimbledon men’s semifinals start this morning at 8:30, and the winners will compete in the finals on Sunday.

🎾 In the women’s draw, American Amanda Anisimova stunned top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka in Wednesday’s semifinal and will face Iga Świątek in the finals tomorrow.

⚾ MLB All-Star weekend starts tonight with events through next Tuesday:

Fri., July 11

Budweiser Clydesdales beer deliveries | Downtown Smyrna at 4 p.m.
HBCU Swingman Classic | Truist Park at 7 p.m.

Sat., July 12

All-Star Futures Game | Truist Park at 4:10 p.m.
MLB All-Star Celebrity Softball Game | Truist Park at 7 p.m.

Sun., July 13

4.4 Miler Race (honoring Hank Aaron) | Center Parc Stadium at 7:30 a.m.
MLB Home Run Derby X | Mac Nease Baseball Park at Georgia Tech at 2:45 p.m.
2025 MLB Draft | Coca-Cola Roxy at 6 p.m.

Mon., July 14

MLB Home Run Derby | Truist Park at 8 p.m.

Tues., July 15

MLB All-Star Game | Truist Park at 8 p.m.

🎥 The MLB Network documentary “Driven: The Freddie Freeman Story” airs July 17 at 8 p.m.

⚾ MLB All-Star Week kicks off Friday with the HBCU Swingman Classic at Truist Park! Watch 50 Division-I HBCU stars selected by Ken Griffey Jr. and scouts compete. Presented by T-Mobile and MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation. Get tickets here! SPONSOR MESSAGE