Braves bow out
Braves bow out
Thursday, Oct. 8 — Isaias strengthened into the Atlantic season’s first hurricane overnight and is expected to make landfall on the central Gulf Coast late tomorrow or early Saturday as a Category 1 or 2 storm. The University of Alabama said it had no plans to alter Saturday’s game against No. 2 Georgia, but that could change in the next 24 hours.
☁️ Mostly cloudy with a high of 82° today.
⚾️ The Braves’ season ended last night as the Los Angeles Dodgers won 4-1 to advance to the NLCS. Michael Harris II scored for Atlanta in the first inning, but the offense stalled after that.
🏀 The Dream beat the Liberty 101-98 in overtime last night to take a 2-0 lead in the WNBA semifinals. Atlanta can advance to the finals with a win in Game 3, tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in Brooklyn.
🗳️ Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff and Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins will debate tonight at 7 p.m. on Atlanta News First.
🚨 More than 100 homes in Sandy Springs were evacuated, and a portion of Johnson Ferry Road was closed yesterday after a gas main rupture.
🚔 Filmmaker and Georgia State University graduate Arfat Sheikh was detained by ICE on Sept. 26, despite presenting his immigration paperwork.
💽 A long-vacant data center in Dunwoody will reopen in December and could generate more than $300,000 a year for the city, but neighbors raised concerns about noise, water, and power use.
🎓 SpelHouse, the annual Morehouse and Spelman Homecoming, kicks off tonight with events through Sunday.
🏳️🌈 Georgia Voice’s “Louder & Prouder” guide is online in advance of this weekend’s Atlanta Pride Festival in Piedmont Park.
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🗽 Jewish leaders criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Oct. 7 anniversary statement, which focused mostly on Palestinian suffering in Gaza, and hours later pro-Palestinian protesters shouted him down at a vigil.
⚓ The USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego today after a record-setting 10-month deployment during which the Navy reported eight suicide attempts aboard.
🥇 The Nobel Prize in Literature was expected to be announced this morning at 7 a.m. (See the winner).
🕖 Here’s what’s in today’s newsletter:
• The High at 100
• Upcoming Events
• Artist Kiera Rahming-Reed
• Ode Social connects
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• Quick Bites
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1. The High at 100: Museum to celebrate centennial with new galleries, acquisitions, and events
🎨 The High Museum of Art is celebrating its 100th anniversary with new collection galleries, more than 200 acquisitions, public art activations, and community events.
The Atlanta museum traces its history to October 1926, when Harriet “Hattie” High donated her Peachtree Street residence to the city. The museum has since grown into one of the South’s major cultural institutions, with a collection of more than 20,000 works spanning centuries, continents, and artistic media.
The Centennial Community Block Party is scheduled for Oct. 18 and will include gallery tours, activities, and a public talk about the museum’s century in Atlanta.
🎂 Learn more about what to expect here.
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2. Upcoming Events
🥗 Dine Chastain; tonight at 6 p.m. at Farm Chastain.
🍺 404 Fridays; tomorrow from noon to 11:45 p.m. at Monday Night Garage. 🌧 Chalktoberfest, the chalk art and craft beer festival planned for Marietta Square this weekend, is canceled due to inclement weather.
🏳️🌈 Atlanta Pride Festival Kickoff; Sat., Oct. 10 at 10 a.m. at Piedmont Park.
🏈 Atlanta Falcons vs. Baltimore Ravens; Sun., Oct. 11 at 8:20 p.m. at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
📖 Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation; Mon., Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m. at Atlanta Symphony Hall.
📧 Find out how you can get your event featured in Rough Draft. For more events, visit RoughDraftAtlanta.com/events
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3. Atlanta artist Kiera Rahming-Reed on memory, wood, and what we hide
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🪵 Kiera Rahming-Reed’s wood works demand a closer look. Beneath the wallpaper, collage, ceramic, rope and paint, the self-taught Atlanta artist’s pieces hold layers you have to lean in to see.
Her practice centers around Black women and the Black queer experience. She is a member of GLAAD’s 2026 Equity in Media and Entertainment Initiative (EMEI) third cohort, and, earlier this year, participated in “Georgia Wood Artists: A Juried Exhibition” at the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art.
On Sunday, “Nemesis: Remember,” GLAAD’s first-ever EMEI visual art exhibition, closed at New York’s Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. Guest-curated by Damon Epps, the show included two of Rahming-Reed’s works among pieces by 10 Black LGBTQ+ artists. Today, her work comes home to the 8th Annual Mayor’s Pride Reception & Art Exhibit at Atlanta City Hall.
Learn more about Rahming-Reed and her work here.
4. Atlanta’s Ode Social takes aim at the hardest part of hanging out: making it happen
📱 Aditi Sharma never had a shortage of people who wanted to go and do activities with her – be it a grocery run, catching a film, or going on a hike – while she was a college student at Georgia Tech. What she did have a problem with was getting everyone to agree on a plan.
Those scheduling conflicts left Sharma with a startup idea that has grown into the “IRL” social app Ode Social.
Ode Social works by connecting people nearby based on activities they want to do. Someone might post that they want to go on a group bike ride or check out a new coffee shop, then the app surfaces people close by who might be interested in joining.
➡ Read the whole story from Hypepotamus here.
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5. Quick Bites
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😋 In this week’s Quick Bites, get details on a burger residency above an Edgewood Avenue dance club, Smorgasburg ending its 2026 season early in South Downtown, Pollo Primo’s Ponce location, and the Decatur restaurant community’s fundraiser for the MLK Service Project. There’s also a roundup of Atlanta food events, including an Oktoberfest celebration in Buckhead and a South African dinner in Old Fourth Ward.
👉 Read the latest dining news here.
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🧑🍳 Kevin Gillespie announced he will be stepping away from the restaurant industry and leaving Atlanta. Get the full story from Sarra Sedghi here.
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