Road trip
Thursday, Aug. 6 — Looking for a road trip this weekend? The World’s Longest Yard Sale, a 690-mile bargain-hunting trek across six states, kicks off today and runs through Sunday, briefly crossing into northwest Georgia along the Lookout Mountain Parkway.
🌤️ Mostly sunny and 90° today.
🩺 The Senate confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as CDC director yesterday, nearly a year after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired her predecessor over vaccine policy.
💊 The century-old Wender & Roberts Pharmacy in the West Paces Ferry Shopping Center is relocating, leaving about 5,000 square feet of retail space up for lease.
🗣️ Gubernatorial candidates Keisha Lance Bottoms and Rick Jackson clashed over data centers and Medicaid expansion yesterday at a Georgia Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Athens.
🏆 The Blue Bird Vision Electric School Bus was named the winner of the Coolest Thing Made in Georgia Award by the Georgia Chamber.
💾 Southwest Atlanta residents told the Atlanta City Council that a proposed $500 million data center near Adair Park echoed historic redlining patterns.
🎓 Two Georgia universities dropped supplemental essay requirements for applicants, though critics warned the move could erode critical thinking and writing skills.
🥊 A minor car wreck in a Dunwoody apartment parking garage escalated into a fistfight involving a woman, her boyfriend, and two brothers – one of whom was shot while running from the scene.
🏗️ The Norcross City Council is considering a moratorium on the demolition of pre-1950 structures.
🩺 ARCHI and Morehouse School of Medicine will host “From Redlining to Health Equity: Atlanta’s Past, Present, and Path Forward” on Friday, Aug. 7.
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🗳️ Progressive Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated moderate Rep. Haley Stevens in a Michigan Democratic Senate primary marked by record outside spending.
🥬 Six more states were added to the cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce.
🚨 Blogger Perez Hilton was hospitalized Tuesday after Miami deputies responded to a livestream showing him harming himself. (If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org.)
🕖 Here’s what’s in today’s newsletter:
• ‘Paper Trees’ at the High
• Upcoming Events
• Tech for kitchen cabinets
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• Quick Bites
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1. ‘Paper Trees’ exhibit shows how artists are trained to see
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🌳 Take the elevator to the Lower Level of the High Museum of Art’s Wieland Pavilion, turn right, and you’re at the entrance of the Works on Paper Gallery, home – through next February – to the High Museum’s new “Paper Trees” exhibit, on view since July 31.
“Paper Trees” opens on a simple premise, one the 19th-century drawing instructor James Duffield Harding put plainly in his 1850 manual “Lessons on Trees”: Trees are among the hardest things to draw. A trunk is not a branch. A branch is not a twig. A bud reads differently than a leaf. Learning to draw a single believable tree, Harding argued, is its own kind of artistic education.
That idea is central to the “why” behind “Paper Trees,” curated by Anni Pullagura, the High’s Margaret and Terry Stent Associate Curator of American Art.
✍️ Read more on the exhibit from Sherri Daye Scott here.
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2. Upcoming Events
🎂 Manuel’s Tavern 70th Birthday celebration; Today – Aug. 9, 602 N Highland Ave NE.
⚾️ The Braves host the Marlins at 7:15 p.m. at Truist Park.
🍿 BronzeLens Film Festival’sEncore Summer Screening Series is hosting its last event tonight at Spelman College.
🇸🇩 🇸🇸 The Stand With Sudan Festival; Fri., Aug. 7 at 6 p.m. at the Lawrenceville Arts Center.
🎭 The annual Essential Theatre Play Festival returns to 7 Stages Theatre in Little Five Points from Aug. 7-23.
🎹Barry Manilow; Tues., Aug. 11 at Gas South Arena.
3. How technology and user-centered design are making kitchen cabinets cognitively friendly
🖥️ An important aspect of aging in place is adapting our homes to meet the needs of those living in them. In addition to being able to move around your home safely, aging in place is also about navigating changes in cognitive functioning, such as remembering where things are, finding items, and conducting daily activities without frustration.
Helping people and their families prepare for life’s changes is what Ibrahim Bilau’s doctoral research at Georgia Tech – with the SimTigrate Design Center, Workplace Ecology Lab, and the Charlie and Harriet Shaffer Cognitive Empowerment Program (CEP) – aimed to do by building evidence for cognitively friendly kitchen cabinets.
➡Read the whole story from Tech Square ATL.
🏆 Southern Company proudly presents the Payne Stewart Award annually, honoring character, charity, and sportsmanship. This year’s recipient, Notah Begay III, will direct his $500,000 grant to Native American youth programs, proof that golf’s greatest wins often happen off the course. Learn more. SPONSOR MESSAGE
4. Quick Bites
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😋 In this week’s Quick Bites, get updates on an opening in Smyrna, closures in Buckhead and West Midtown, a Buc-ee’s trademark infringement lawsuit, and a pop-up becoming a restaurant in East Atlanta Village. We also have intel on a $10,000 martini served in Decatur and Alpharetta, along with dining events like Black Restaurant Week, a cookbook club and potluck supper in Summerhill, and a benefit in West End.
👉 Read the latest Atlanta dining news.
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