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Thursday, Oct. 29 — Secretary of State Marco Rubio will host the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting at the Loews Atlanta Hotel tomorrow and Saturday, bringing together diplomats from the world’s leading economies. Expect heightened security, street closures, and traffic restrictions in Midtown starting today. Learn more.
☀️ Sunny with a high of 74° today.
🗣️ Former President Barack Obama rallied in Morrow last night for Sen. Jon Ossoff and gubernatorial nominee Keisha Lance Bottoms. Early voting ends Friday, with more than 2.2 million ballots already cast.
⛹️♀️ Bosses, cut everyone a little slack today so they can cheer on the Dream as they take on the Valkyries in a must-win Game 6 of the WNBA Finals at 12:30 p.m. at sold-out State Farm Arena (USA/Peacock). The court will then be flipped for the Hawks-Cavs game at 8 p.m. (ANF, Prime Video; 92.9 FM).
📺 Ernie Johnson Jr., a Marist School and UGA alum, said this season will be his last as host of “Inside the NBA,” ending a run that began in 1990.
🎙 The Atlanta Press Club will induct Global Atlanta founder Phil Bolton, WSB-TV’s Glenn Burns, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and WABE’s Lois Reitzes into its Hall of Fame tonight.
🔦 The Georgia First Amendment Foundation gave former AJC legal affairs reporter Bill Rankin its Weltner Freedom of Information Award last night. It also recognized the UGA Law clinic and two Georgia Tech students who developed CivicDuty.
🗣️ Norcross Mayor Craig Newton focused on affordability in his State of the City address this week, noting the population grew 15% and median household income rose roughly 50% since he took office.
😋 The fifth annual Taste Brookhaven sold out with a record 222 tickets and raised $9,000 for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
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🏦 The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady yesterday, though two officials dissented in favor of a quarter-point hike to fight persistent inflation.
⚖️ One of Wall Street’s most storied white-shoe law firms, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, said its leadership recommended winding down after a partner exodus and failed merger talks.
⚾️ The Brewers won their first World Series last night, beating the Rays 4-1 in Game 5 to cap a franchise-record 103-win season and an 11-2 postseason run.
🎗️ The labor leader Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union, died yesterday at the age of 96.
🕖 Here’s what’s in today’s newsletter:
Real Estate Quiz
‘What We Carry Forward’
Upcoming Events
• Real Estate Quiz
• Weekend hackathons
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• Quick Bites
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1. ‘What We Carry Forward’ at The Sun ATL
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☀️ The first thing visitors see at “What We Carry Forward,” on view at The Sun ATL through Nov. 21, is a woman in a long red-and-black robe.
She stands in a golden landscape beside a domed church while a small figure rides a high-wheeled bicycle near her feet. The painting, Carlos Solis’ “The Vision of Saint Charles” (2021), holds what the curator Eric Bomba-Ire calls “childhood and adulthood, memory and dream, spirituality and imagination.”
The question at the center of the show is one Bomba-Ire has lived with since he arrived in Atlanta in 1997: “What happens to what we inherit when we move between countries, cities, communities, even the everyday spaces we move through?”
🇬🇭 Read more about the show here.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s new Artist-in-Residence shines at the piano
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🎹 Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann leads the Orchestra in two programs featuring Artist-In-Residence, pianist Anna Geniushene. Stutzmann personally appointed her, saying, “I consider her to be one of the Grandes Dames of today’s piano world. She plays every note with all her heart and soul.”
Nov. 5-7 | Stutzmann continues the season-long Brahms Revealed festival with his fiery Second Piano Concerto featuring Geniushene.
Nov. 19-21 | Geniushene performs Schumann’s marvelously genial Piano Concerto, with its beaming repartee between piano and orchestra.
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3. What’s it Worth?
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4. For Atlanta college students, hackathons still offer room to build
🖥️ A weekend. A team. An idea that finally gets some undivided attention.
For 100 college students who gathered at Georgia Tech in October, that was the appeal of stepping away from their usual academic schedules and into a hackathon.
Organized by Women at the College of Computing (W@CC) at Georgia Tech, the Oct. 17–18 event brought together 25 teams with students from Georgia State, Kennesaw State, and Georgia Tech. Their challenge: Turn ideas spanning health care, finance, and AI agents into functioning prototypes.
➡ Read the whole story from Hypepotamus here.
🎄 Your family’s holiday fun starts here! Make memories at Light Up Dunwoody with Santa photos, dance and musical performances, crafts, and the spectacular tree and menorah lighting. Don’t miss this beloved tradition on Nov. 15 at Donaldson-Bannister Farm. SPONSOR MESSAGE
5. Quick Bites
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😋 In this week’s Quick Bites, get details on croissant pop-ups in Reynoldstown, a Japanese grocery store’s upcoming Inman Park location, and a hot pot restaurant opening on the Westside. We’ve also rounded up some food events, including a new pop-up series in Poncey-Highland, a West African cultural festival in South Fulton, and a Halloween block party.
👉 Read the latest dining news here.
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🍽️ Sarra Sedghi has more on five Atlanta restaurants offering family-style menus.
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