The High Museum of Art is naming Randall Suffolk, currently director and president of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Okla., as its new director.
The announcement came just two days before the departure of Michael E. Shapiro, who has been the Nancy and Holcombe T. Greene Jr. director of the High since March of 2000 after joining the High in 1995.
Suffolk will assume his role at the High on Nov. 2.
By Maria Saporta
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on July 24, 2015
In the ongoing push by Rotary International to eradicate polio around the world, Atlanta Rotarian Wilton Looney is challenging the local club to intensify its support.
Looney, whose wife Martha suffers from polio, has donated $918,000 to the cause–previously challenging the Rotary Club of Atlanta to match his gifts. Now he’s getting some help.
When it comes to winning a $30 million federal Choice grant, Atlanta leaders are hoping the second time will be the charm.
Once again, Atlanta is a finalist for a Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant awarded from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Atlanta has been selected as one of nine finalists from a total of 33 applicants. It is not clear how many finalists will win a Choice grant during this cycle.
The Atlanta United soccer team has narrowed its search for a major training facility to sites in Cobb and DeKalb counties.
A decision is expected shortly because it’s one of the key pieces that needs to be put in place before the season opens in spring 2017.
“We are currently in discussions with DeKalb County officials on a potential property for the training ground, but no definitive agreement is in place at this time,” the team said in a statement released today.
How can the 755,400 people in metro Atlanta and north Georgia who are “food insecure” best be served with access to fresh, healthy affordable and clean foods?
That was the “Food Access” challenge issued by the Center for Civic Innovation and the Atlanta Community Food Bank launched earlier this year.
MARTA executives on Thursday unveiled plans to make the transit agency more customer friendly. They announced a new partnership between MARTA and Uber as well as unveiled a pilot program to have wi-fi on 50 MARTA buses
The Uber partnership already is on MARTA’s mobile app; and executives said that free wi-fi should be available throughout the whole system (on all buses, rail stations and trains) within a year.
By Maria Saporta Atlanta business, political and civic leaders gathered under the sweltering hot sun on Tuesday morning to thank Ted Turner for helping put the city on the map. Hundreds of people came – many sitting in the shade of a huge tent provided by the City of Atlanta on the parking lot across […]
The West End MARTA Station could be a window into the future.
There was a time when MARTA discouraged commercial activity within its stations.
But on Friday, Jan. 17, transit executives welcomed the official launch of the Fresh MARTA Market at the entrance of the West End station.
A giant oak in Atlanta’s education forest has fallen.
Dr. Wood Smethurst, co-founder of the Ben Franklin Academy – and its headmaster until July 1, passed away Tuesday morning of pneumonia.
Smethurst was a quiet yet powerful force in Atlanta’s education circles – pushing the envelope in ways to teach students who may have faced a myriad of challenges in their lives.
Less than two weeks after Dentons placed its signature in Atlanta, the world’s largest law firm announced the hiring of a couple of new members to its government affairs practice.
Jeff Hamling, who has been serving as vice president of state and federal affairs for the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, will join Dentons on July 27 as senior managing direct.
Before the official unveiling of the Atlanta United name and the logo of the Major League Soccer team, Arthur Blank marveled at the thousands of fans who had shown up Tuesday night at the SOHO Lounge in west Midtown.
The name given to MLS-Atlanta’s team was so fitting – Atlanta United.
And how appropriate Blank said that a new stadium for football and soccer was being built in the heart of downtown rather than in the suburbs.
Greenberg Traurig law firm has just become a more important player in the public policy space in Atlanta and Georgia.
The firm has expanded its government law and policy practice with the addition of Chuck McMullen, Tharon Johnson and Blake Ashbee – three political insiders who have just left the McKenna Long & Aldridge law firm, which has become part of the world’s largest firm – Denton’s.
Friends and associates from near and far joined in a retirement celebration for Milton C. Clipper Jr., who served as president and CEO of the public broadcasting entity PBA/Channel 30 and WABE-FM (90.1) for 20 years. Clipper was presented with several gifts – a set of golf clubs, a small metal sculpture and a speedily-done painting of him.
The controversial deal to sell Tyler Perry 330 acres of land of Fort McPherson for only $30 million could close as early as Friday morning.
But on the eve of the transaction, State Sen. Vincent Fort cautioned that the deal is likely unconstitutional and illegal.
The Atlanta Streetcar. People instantly have an opinion ─ regardless of the facts.
Some call it a boondoggle. Others say it doesn’t go where they want to go. Inevitably the conversation will go to the $92 million cost to build the 2.7-mile loop that connects Centennial Olympic Park with the King Center through the heart of downtown Atlanta.
By David Pendered
The street where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. moved his family in 1965 is slated to become Atlanta’s newest historic district.
The Sunset Avenue Historic District would protect all houses on the street, including the King home, from developments and alterations that are not in keeping with the community’s historic nature. Other dwellings were home to civil rights leaders and some of the city’s earliest European settlers.
“This will bolster tourism traffic and trade in the area, and it will memorialize the giants who put their life on the line, and their families who sacrificed so much,” said Atlanta Councilman Ivory Lee Young Jr.
By Lyle Harris
OK, already.
I’ve apparently set some dubious distinction for my last opinion column which was an optimistic ode to 2010, as in last year.
Since then, I’ve gotten a lot of grief about that from friends and frenemies who have helpfully informed me the expiration date for relevant internet content is usually measured in seconds, not months.
Who knew?
The sci-fi masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey” was released way back in 1968, a year when it seemed as if the whole world was coming undone.
I was an 8-year-old science nerd at the time, and my big sister Gail took me to watch director Stanley Kubrick’s G-rated head-trip at the Rialto Theater on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn.
I didn’t understand most of the movie but couldn’t wait for the day when I could travel across galaxies talking to computers and scooting between the stars with my very own jet pack.
Go to any neighborhood meeting, mayoral forum or happy hour in Atlanta and ask folks to rank the issues that worry them most. I’d bet dollars to donuts that “crime” and “the economy” will top their lists.
I’ve been wondering a lot about how these issues are related and concluded that instead of putting more people in prison-issue, orange jumpsuits we’d be better off preparing them to become part of the coming “green collar” economy.
I realize that talking about job training for criminals seems untimely when we’re so busy being scared witless about becoming their next victims. But I’m convinced my proposition would ultimately be much cheaper, and saner.
It’s easy to see why our community is obsessed with crime. Our fight-or-flight response has been raised to fever pitch by a series of high-profile crimes in Atlanta – including the tragic murders of an elderly laundry worker, an outstanding young boxer and a popular bartender.
As a result of our anxieties, gun sales are up and more people are getting home security systems (assuming they can still afford to actually live in their homes).
Our local news outlets are also feeding the frenzy; most TV stations have adopted the “if it bleeds it leads” approach to journalism and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution launched a new online service that will enable its readers to track neighborhood crime stats as easily as Braves box scores.
Who will tell the people?
That oft-repeated line was first written by Mary Anne Evans, the Victorian novelist who was best known by her pen name, George Eliot.
Don’t get me wrong; I wouldn’t know George Eliot from George Foreman. Frankly, until I sat down to write this column, I was clueless about the fact that Eliot (who more famously authored the classic, Silas Marner) was a woman.
But that trenchant question, asked rhetorically by one of Eliot’s fictional characters, has been nagging at me lately.
Considering what’s happening to the newspaper industry, in general and metro Atlanta media, in particular, I wonder ‘who will tell the people?’
As a lifelong reporter, the meltdown of modern journalism has me understandably worried. As a citizen of this region, the implosion of our local newspapers has me terrified.
My former employer and the state’s largest daily newspaper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has shrunk – literally and figuratively – into a shadow of its former self as its readership and revenues have tanked.
In the two years since I left the AJC, the staff has been cut dramatically, key departments have been downsized or eliminated and the reporters still working there are stretched far too thin to do their best work.
Recently, the paper’s publisher announced the decision to shutter the AJC’s storied downtown headquarters and move the bulk of its operations out to the suburbs by the middle of 2010.
