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Friday Overview

May 10 — Today is the last day to request an absentee ballot for the May 21 primary election. In-person early voting continues at many locations for another week. Here is a link to our collaborative voter guide.

🌞 A rainy morning will give way to sunny skies and a high close to 80° today. Tomorrow it will be sunny and 77°.

🚨 Police are searching for the shooter responsible for a fatal shooting aboard a MARTA train at the GWCC/CNN Center station yesterday afternoon.

💧 Advocacy organization Georgia Water Coalition released its 2024 “Dirty Dozen” in a 27-page report highlighting 12 of the worst crimes against the state’s waters.

🚒 Historic Atlanta Fire Station 16 has received a $500,000 federal grant for renovation and modernization projects.

🚦 The Sandy Springs City Council approved two contracts worth more than $374,000 to add mid-block crossings at High Point Road and Powers Ferry Road.

🎻 The Atlanta Youth Symphony will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a special concert Saturday at 2 p.m. The event is free, but reservations are required.

🍷 The Avondale Estates Wine & Art Walk, featuring 26 local businesses, will take place tomorrow from 3-7 p.m.

🎨 The Chastain Park Spring Arts Festival takes place tomorrow and Sunday with over 175 artists selling and exhibiting their works.

🫶 Kate’s Club’s annual Mourning Glory Gala will take place tomorrow evening at the Grand Hyatt Buckhead. For more than 20 years, the organization. provided support to children who are experiencing the death of a loved one.

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👩‍🎤 More than two dozen countries will participate in tomorrow’s Eurovision final in Malmö, Sweden. Here’s how you can watch.

🕖 Here is the content of today’s newsletter:

• BeltLine Lantern Parade
• Movie review: “The Fall Guy”
• 10 patios to explore
• The Sports Section
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• The best stories of the week

Happy Mother’s Day – here are some brunch ideas,
Collin and Sammie

🌆 Explore Atlanta’s newest landmark: the Midtown Art Walk. Join Midtown Alliance for a free event on Saturday, May 11 to celebrate the Art Walk, a new living corridor of public art to discover! The outdoor festival will feature an artist market hosted by Georgia Vintage Goods, food and drinks for purchase, live music and a long sing-along led by Toronto-based Choir!Choir!Choir!. RSVP here.

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1. The new season of “Art on the Atlanta BeltLine” kicks off with Lantern Parade

🏮 This year marks the 15th season of Atlanta BeltLine’s juried public art exhibition, Art on the Atlanta BeltLine, featuring the work of hundreds of visual artists, performers and musicians.

The big kickoff event, the Atlanta BeltLine Lantern Parade, is scheduled for Saturday, May 11 on the Westside Trail. The parade will begin at Adair Park I and end at Lee + White. Program starts at 7:45 p.m. and leaves at 8:45 p.m.

This year’s AoAB features more than 100 artists and 56 works of visual and performing arts.

➡️ Learn more about the 2024 season here. Also check out this story on “LagosAtlanta: Sister City Rising,” a special public art exhibit on the BeltLine.

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2. “The Fall Guy” exists for the love of cinema

WEEKLY FILM REVIEW | BY SAMMIE PURCELL

🏎️ Ryan Gosling is really cool.

This has been evident for some time now. It’s a specific type of cool, the type of cool that’s able to seem dark and twisted as easily as it is serious and silly – the type of cool where it can do something you might otherwise find boring, but, because of the fact that ‘he’s Ryan. Gosling and all, whatever it is, it’s suddenly not so bad.

“The Fall Guy,” Gosling’s new lead vehicle directed by David Leitch, begins with a voiceover, which is one of the things our film critic Sammie Purcell usually finds annoying. But as “The Fall Guy” continues, it becomes clear that the voiceover is just one of many moments where Leitch and screenwriter Drew Pearce want you to notice the mechanics of filmmaking from a way that the public is not often familiar with. .

“The Fall Guy,” based on a 1980s TV series, has been described as a love letter to stuntmen and the work they do, and in many ways it is — (stay for the credits and a really fun montage where the filmmakers show you how it was all done). But waterfalls are only one piece of the puzzle, and not the most impressive. At its core, “The Fall Guy” is not just a movie about stuntmen, but rather a movie about movies and the people who love and make them. Meta-narratives can be hit or miss, and Leitch himself has worked on some that seem a little smug given how clever they are.

But “The Fall Guy” employs a team of actors, led by Gosling, who can be earnest without being cloying, and who can wink at the camera without tripping over their own egos to do so.

🍿 Read Sammie’s full review here.

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3. 10 Restaurant Patios Around Atlanta Perfect for Alfresco Dining

☀️ With patio season in full swing, our Senior Food Editor Beth McKibben wanted to share some of her favorite spots for outdoor dining in and around Atlanta. Everyone has their favorite restaurant terrace, but the 10 terraces she highlights always make her smile.

The list includes The Chastain, Larakin, Staplehouse, Mediterranea, Halfway Crooks Beer, Kimball House, Downwind Restaurant, Osteria Mattone, Fogón and Lions and Gilly Brew Bar.

🍻 Learn more about each patio and view a map here.

4. Local HS football titles; The WNBA is going to fly private

Big Sky Buckets host Skylar Salisbury is back with this week’s sports update.

🏆 In the GHSA soccer finals, girls Marist (6A), GAC (5A), Lovett (4A) and Paideia (A) won their respective titles. On the boys’ side, Westminster (4A) and AIS (A) won the championships.

🏀 The biggest story of the NBA Playoffs is Atlanta’s Anthony Edwards leading the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 2-0 start against the defending champion Denver Nuggets. Can he lead this team to a title at 22?

⚾ The Braves, coming off a rough road trip where the Dodgers swept them, head out for another three-game road trip against the Mets. The first of three matches will take place today at 7:10 p.m. (FuboTV).

⚽ Atlanta United hosts DC United tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. (Apple TV+).

🏀 The WNBA season officially begins Tuesday. The Atlanta Dream begins the season in Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 15.

💰 WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert plans to invest $50 million in full-time charter planes for teams.

🇫🇷 Paris won the Olympic bid by promising accessibility for people with disabilities, and although they have made progress in this area, they are still far from done with just 12 weeks to go.

🥒 Major League Pickleball (MLP) kicks off the 2024 season with its first tournament in Atlanta from May 9-12. Here is the Professional Pickleball Association (PPA) Atlanta Open tournament from May 13-19.

🌆 Explore Atlanta’s newest landmark: the Midtown Art Walk. Join Midtown Alliance for a free event on Saturday, May 11 to celebrate the Art Walk, a new living corridor of public art to discover! The outdoor festival will feature an artist market hosted by Georgia Vintage Goods, food and drinks for purchase, live music and a long sing-along led by Toronto-based Choir!Choir!Choir!. RSVP here.

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5. Top Stories of the week

A look back at the most read stories on our website this week.

① Arrest made in connection with death of Dunwoody High School student

② Chamblee Announces 2024 Summer Concert Series Lineup

③ Music Midtown cancels 2024 festival (photo)

④ Music producer shot and killed by own son in Brookhaven

⑤ JARDÍ Chocolates founder launches Atlanta Candy Kitchen with a nostalgic candy twist

💭 Test your knowledge of the week’s news in tomorrow’s News Quiz. Keep an eye out for our email at 8am or bookmark this page!

📧 Today’s newsletter was edited by Julie E. Bloemeke.

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