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Friday, Oct. 30 —Stocks are down sharply in premarket trading after disappointing tech company earnings, with Amazon falling 7% and Intel trading down 25%, as investors question massive AI spending. Google parent Alphabet had its worst day ever yesterday, losing $500 billion in market cap.
☀️ Sunny with a high near 80° today. The weekend forecast has more clouds, possible rain, and highs in the 60s.
🏀 Angel Reese had her fourth double-double of the series as the Dream beat the Valkyries 80-69 yesterday, forcing the first Game 7 in WNBA Finals history. Tipoff is Saturday at 8 p.m. in San Francisco.
🗳️ Georgia set a midterm record for early in-person voting yesterday, topping the 2.3 million mark from 2022. Early voting ends today, and Election Day is Tues., Nov. 3. Find your polling location.
🤯 Here’s a reminder of street closures in Midtown related to the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting.
⭑ Star Community Bar is closing after 35 years in Little Five Points. Amsterdam Walk’s Red Light Café will take over the space in January, Elvis shrine and all.
🎗 Angelo Fuster, the longtime political operative known as the “Mayor of Manuel’s,” died at 80. A celebration of life will be held at Manuel’s Tavern on Tues., Nov. 10 at 6 p.m.
🔌 Two students at the Mount Vernon School in Sandy Springs helped spur their school to shift to using solar energy.
🏈 Undefeated Jackson County visits Clarke Central tonight for the Region 8-6A crown in the Drive for the GHSA State Title Game of the Week. Watch on Atlanta News First starting at 7 p.m. with kickoff at 7:30 p.m.
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🎖️ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, the Pentagon’s top military planner, the latest of nearly two dozen top leaders to depart under his tenure.
🥡 DoorDash said it will acquire grocery delivery company Instacart in a deal valued at $17 billion.
📸 Life magazine will return to print next month, 90 years after its debut, as an oversized $45 quarterly with no print ads.
🎗️ Patrick Stewart, the British actor best known for “Star Trek” and the “X-Men” films, died Wednesday after a brief struggle with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia. He was 86.
🕖 Here’s what’s in today’s newsletter:
• ‘My Five’ with Jeff Dantzler
• Estate sales
• Film Review: ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’
• Halloween + more events
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• Top Stories of the Week
🎈 A hundred years of art in Atlanta calls for more than one party. Expect special exhibitions, collection favorites returning to the galleries, music, family programs, and one-of-a-kind events that honor the past and look toward the next 100 years. See what’s planned at the High. SPONSOR MESSAGE
1. My Five: Jeff Dantzler, ‘The voice of the Dawgs’
🏈 You haven’t met a truer Georgia Bulldogs fan than Jeff Dantzler. He lives, breathes, and eats UGA football. (That’s not a joke, because you can find him every Sunday morning at Hilltop Grille in Athens talking about the previous night’s game.) Dantzler is a walking encyclopedia of Georgia sports. He’s also the “voice of the Dawgs.”
Dantzler has an extensive background covering sports and University of Georgia athletics, from play-by-play announcing to calling College World Series games to Olympic events around the world. He has trained his whole life for what he calls a “dream job.”
But before his next college football announcing gig on Oct. 31, when the Florida Gators take on the Georgia Bulldogs at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, we asked Dantzler for his top five “must-dos” before, during, and after the annual rivalry game.
🎙️ Learn more here.
A Haunting at 100: The High’s Halloween Party
SPONSORED BY THE HIGH MUSEUM
🎃 Dance in the Taylor Lobby, hear ghost stories in the Atrium, and raise a glass to our first hundred years. A Haunting at 100 takes over the whole museum after dark tonight, and limited tickets are still available.
2. Estate Sales
🛋️ Exceptional Brookhaven Estate Sale — Contemporary furniture and designer finds, including Room & Board and Roche Bobois. 1100 Victoria St. NE; Fri.–Sun., 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
🍸 Savvy and Sociable — Regency furnishings and cocktail-hour treasures, including decanters, gilded frames, china and crystal. 365 Mount Vernon Hwy.; Fri.–Sun., 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
🖼️ Peachtree Battle Multi-Estate Sale — Designer furniture, lighting and antiques, with a Lucite cocktail table among the finds. 700 Miami Circle NE; Fri.–Sun., 10 a.m.–4 p.m. 25% off Friday.
🏺 Gilded Nest Estate Sale — Chinoiserie, pottery and antique furniture, plus rugs, gilded mirrors and garden pieces. 2906 Yale Court; Fri.–Sat., 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
🪑 Turnage Place Showroom Sale — Midcentury furniture and contemporary art in a freshly restocked estate-sale showroom. 711 Trabert Ave.; Fri.–Sun., 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
🚗 Further afield: Country Chalet Estate Sale — Art, jewelry and Broadway ephemera, plus Herman Miller dressers, vintage Christmas ornaments and designer bags. 1371 Lipscomb Road; Fri.–Sun., 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
3. ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’ and finding peace at the end of the world
WEEKLY FILM REVIEW | BY SAMMIE PURCELL
👛 “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” starts off with a bang – the plaintive tones of James Murphy crooning out LCD Soundsystem’s “New York, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down.” It’s an apt sentiment for writer/director Noah Segan’s new film, but he wrongfoots us in those first few moments.
We watch as a businessman (played by John Gallagher Jr.) – your typical ill-fitting suit, martinis-at-lunch type of guy – readies himself for work.
And maybe, for a second, we think the song is about this man as he zombie-walks his way through his sad little money-making life. But then we catch a glimpse of the guy behind him on the subway: the pickpocket, Harry (John Turturro), who slips the businessman’s wallet out of his jacket pocket, making it impossible for him to pay for those martinis at lunch.
The song is not about the businessman, but rather he is the cause of the singer’s malaise. The businessman is the guy bringing guys like Harry down – changing the New York he once loved to something else entirely.
That sense of nostalgia for a world long past permeates Segan’s film, imbuing it with an aching sort of melancholy that’s wrapped up in Turturro’s quietly staggering performance of a guy watching the world move on without him. It’s a staple of the aging actor’s career to take on a role that reckons with their age and with their place in the world – and this feels like Turturro’s “The Old Man and the Gun.” Segan’s script offers him a rich, thrilling world in which to play with themes of regret and the ever-changing tapestry of New York City.
🪙 Click here to read Sammie’s review. Also, check out her reviews of the new films “Everest: The Other Side” and “Fatherland.”
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🔍 Step inside the miniature worlds that shaped a generation of readers. I SPY! Walter Wick’s Hidden Wonders brings together Wick’s meticulously hand-built photographs, optical illusions, and search-and-find puzzles in the largest survey of his work to date. Now Open. SPONSOR MESSAGE
4. Halloween + more events
🎃 Happy (almost) Halloween! From haunted houses to dining experiences to trick-or-treating, there’s plenty to do this weekend to celebrate Halloween across the metro area.
🏰 GARF After Dark; tonight at 7 p.m. at Georgia Renaissance Festival.
🏈 Regions Fan Zone; tomorrow at 8 a.m. at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
💋 Artlanta Festival of Culture; tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Westside Motor Lounge.
🪘 7th Annual Wontanara Festival; tomorrow and Sun., Nov. 1 at 9 a.m. at Southwest Arts Center.
🪕 Line Dancing; Tues., Nov. 3 at 4 p.m. at Slow Pour Brewing Company.
🥣 Challah Bake for Everyone; Wed., Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. at Orbit Arts Academy.
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🔨 Masterful craft, enigmatic form, and quiet poetic beauty: Martin Puryear: Nexus features more than seventy works. Sculptures in wood, glass, marble, and cast bronze appear alongside rarely shown drawings and prints. Join the artist in conversation with curator Michael Rooks on Nov. 12 from 7–8 p.m. SPONSOR MESSAGE
5. Top Stories of the Week
A look back at this week’s most-read stories from our website. Follow @RoughDraftATL on Instagram for regular updates.
① G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting coming to Midtown Oct. 30-31, bringing street closures
② Hillcrest developers announce first wave of retail tenants (pictured)
③ Five Atlanta restaurants offering family-style dinners and shareable entrees
④ Leadership Georgia names Class of 2027, including 13 Atlanta residents
⑤ Atlanta Beltline breaks ground on another Northwest Trail segment
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