Record numbers Thursday,
Oct. 15 — Georgia voters set a midterm record for the first day of early voting on Tuesday, casting nearly 189,000 in-person ballots, about 54,000 more than on the first day in 2022.
☀️ Sunny with a high of 87° today.
🏫 Dunwoody High School students will learn remotely through Fri., Oct. 16, after a broken valve sent discolored water from sinks and fountains and disrupted air conditioning.
🚒 The Georgia Supreme Court struck down Chatham County’s fire service fee as an illegal property tax, leaving it on the hook for about $30 million in refunds.
🚇 MARTA will begin construction on its first arterial rapid transit (ART) corridor along Cleveland Avenue and Metropolitan Parkway starting Oct. 26.
🧾 Fulton County commissioners voted to hold the general fund millage rate flat, keeping property tax rates unchanged for the fifth straight year.
🛍️ High Street’s developer asked Dunwoody to swap planned apartments for a central greenspace and flagship retail, aiming to open up what Mayor Lynn Deutsch called the project’s “two big walls.”
👨🍳 In celebration of 100 years in Midtown, the High Museum of Art reprinted a community cookbook first published in 1981.
👩🎤 Out Front Theatre’s 11th season opens Oct. 22 with “Once Upon a One More Time,” a musical interweaving classic fairy tales with the music of Britney Spears.
🏈 Kennesaw State lost to Missouri State 24-21 on a field goal as time expired. The 1-5 Owls have lost five straight, the last three by a combined seven points.
⚽ Atlanta United routed Eastern Conference cellar dweller CF Montréal 3-0 last night. The Five Stripes host Lionel Messi and Inter Miami on Sat., Oct. 17 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
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🇺🇦🇷🇺 The war between Russia and Ukraine has intensified in recent days:
- Ukraine resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries today, ending a three-day pause under an “energy ceasefire,” which Kyiv accused Russia of violating. “We’re done,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
- Zelenskyy claimed allies failed to warn Kyiv of several recent ballistic strikes.
- Ukraine accused Elon Musk’s SpaceX of throttling Starlink access, hampering drone defenses. Musk blamed the White House.
🇫🇷 Hackers turned refrigerators at hundreds of French supermarkets into ovens, pushing temperatures to 122°. The EU’s agriculture chief warned that “the weaponization of food has become a reality.”
📈 Annual inflation climbed to 3.7% last month, above forecasts and the 2% target, with another rate hike possible when the Fed meets Oct. 27-28.
👵 Social Security recipients will get a 3.6% cost-of-living increase next year, the largest in four years, adding about $75 a month to the average check.
🕖 Here’s what’s in today’s newsletter:
• Deanna Sirlin’s ‘Intimate Distance’
• Upcoming Events
• Real Estate Quiz
• Cerebral palsy therapy startup
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• Quick Bites
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1. 5 things to know about Deanna Sirlin’s ‘Intimate Distance’
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🎨 Atlanta-based Deanna Sirlin is known for her abstract paintings and large-scale installations that fill space with color and light, from her 1999 work at the High Museum of Art to a giant transparency on the windows of Venice’s Palazzo Bembo during the 2022 Biennale.
Sirlin’s latest project fits in a much smaller frame. “Intimate Distance” is a two-minute, 34-second looped video, built around what Sirlin calls “a dance of two hands moving within a multi-hued grid of moving colors.” She created it with three collaborators: performer and video editor Kaia Lee; composer and multi-instrumentalist Bill Rea; and poet E Hughes, who wrote and reads the poem, “For Deanna Sirlin’s Intimate Distance,” which plays over Rea’s track.
“Intimate Distance,” which received funding from the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, starts today and runs through Saturday in the Black Box Theatre at the Alpharetta Arts Center.
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🐘 Fall at Fernbank Museum is packed with science, nature, and discovery. From fall leaves in Fernbank Forest to the new Elephants exhibit, it’s a great time to visit.
➞ Check out our fall events, exhibits, 3D films, and more at our website.
2. Upcoming Events
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🐾 Your dog deserves to trick-or-treat too! Howl-O-Ween is Oct. 31 on the Beltline Eastside Trail. Costume parade, treats, and prizes. Register now.
🪦 Capturing the Spirit of Oakland; tonight at 5 p.m. at Oakland Cemetery.
💃 Placitas at Ponce; tomorrow at 8 p.m. at El Super Pan.
🦍 Boo at the Zoo; Sat., Oct. 17 at 9 a.m. at Zoo Atlanta.
🎉 High Museum Centennial Block Party; Sun., Oct. 18 from noon-5 p.m.
🎶 The Rocky Horror Picture Show Spooktacular; Sun., Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. at Atlanta Symphony Hall.
🎧 “Unhinged & Immoral” Podcast Live; Mon., Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. at Eddie’s Attic.
🎞️ Coca-Cola Film Series “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”; Tue., Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. at the Fox Theatre.
📧 Find out how you can get your event featured in Rough Draft. For more events, visit RoughDraftAtlanta.com/events.
🍴 Alpharetta Restaurant Week runs through Saturday and is a great opportunity to visit restaurants you’ve always wanted to try and to rediscover old favorites. It’s a celebration of the cuisine that makes Alpharetta a culinary hot spot! SPONSOR MESSAGE
3. What’s it Worth?
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4. Metro Atlanta high schoolers tap the city’s startup ecosystem to build a cerebral palsy therapy device
🏥 Four Atlanta high schoolers are building a wearable MedTech device to help children with cerebral palsy and give physical therapists more data to guide their care.
Their startup, NeuroCore, is developing a sensor-equipped brace designed to track movement during physical therapy. Created by Rohaan Charania, Ishaan Kejriwal, and brothers Rohan Anand and Rishab Anand, NeuroCore has leaned into the local entrepreneurial support system to bring their MedTech product to life. Its next step? Finding more pilot opportunities to put the technology to work.
➡ Read the whole story from Hypepotamus here.
🕯️ As the sun sets over Atlanta, the past comes alive. Now in its 20th year, history, theatre, and Halloween thrills converge at Oakland Cemetery for Capturing the Spirit of Oakland Halloween tours starting today through Oct. 18 & Oct. 22-25 from 5-11 p.m. SPONSOR MESSAGE
5. Quick Bites
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😋 In this week’s Quick Bites, get updates on a taco pop-up at Pullman Yards, a bicycle food delivery service in Cabbagetown, and a top Atlanta chef joining an upcoming restaurant in Town at Trilith. We’ve also rounded up several Atlanta food events, including a Diwali festival in Marietta and a Dunwoody steakhouse raising funds for breast cancer research.
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🍴 October’s Rough Draft Dinner Club; Tue., Oct. 20.
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