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➙ This week brings the reveal of the 2025 Michelin Guide to the American South, more on the disrepair beleaguering Greenwood Cemetery in southwest Atlanta, and some ideas to fuel your holiday season schedule.
But first, a few headlines:
🥫 With the continued funding lapse in SNAP benefits, here’s where to find food assistance and make donations in Metro Atlanta.
🚧 The Atlanta City Council accepted $1.8 million in GDOT grants for pedestrian safety improvements and a shared-use trail near Lenox Square.
💰 Spelman College received a surprise $38 million gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott to support student access and technology innovation.
🪖 If you’re planning for next Tuesday’s Veterans Day observance, we’ve got a roundup of local services and celebrations.
🎗️ Former Vice President Dick Cheney died yesterday “due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease,” according to his family. He was 84.
🕓 Here’s what’s in today’s newsletter.
• Michelin reveals
• Greenwood Cemetery
• Holiday events
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• Stories of Atlanta | Lance Russell
2025 Michelin Guide to the American South drops and included these Atlanta restaurants
⭐ The inaugural Michelin Guide to the American South is now official after what appeared to be a press release scheduling snafu earlier this morning that revealed the list hours before the ceremony began.
The leak was all anyone in Greenville, SC could talk about ahead of the awards, with some laughing it off and others feeling a little let down by how unceremoniously the list was revealed.
The morning’s spoiler alert, however, transformed into an afternoon of bar crawl parties, followed by a ceremony providing people the chance to relax, schmooze, and catch up with friends and colleagues from across the South. After parties would then take place at restaurants throughout Greenville.
🍾 Read more from Beth McKibben and Sarra Sedghi here.
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Atlanta officials explore takeover of historic Greenwood Cemetery
🪦 Greenwood Cemetery on Cascade Road in southwest Atlanta has fallen into disrepair under private ownership, and city officials are actively pursuing conversations about taking over the property.
The city has held meetings in recent months with stakeholders, including families of those buried at the 121-year-old cemetery, as well as Chinese, Greek, and Jewish community leaders.
Winding lanes inside the cemetery are worn down and full of potholes. Several large dead trees loom over dirty headstones, signage is broken, and the land is eroding in swaths.
🪵 Read more about the cemetery in Logan C. Ritchie’s story here.
Holiday Happenings: Lights, music, and performances kick off the festive season
🎄 The holiday season will be in full swing starting this month with concerts, plays, visits with Santa, illuminated landscapes, and aerial theatrics under the big top.
Take a peek to see what is on the calendar at Center for the Puppetry Arts, Fox Theatre, Atlanta Opera, Fernbank Museum, Atlanta Christkindl Market, and more.
‘The Manager Gets Managed’: Stories of Atlanta by Lance Russell
VIA SAPORTAREPORT
⚾ For more than three decades, Bobby Cox was the heart and backbone of the Atlanta Braves. Unwaveringly loyal, fiercely competitive, and never afraid to speak his mind, Cox managed his team the way Atlanta loves its heroes – with passion, grit, and a touch of defiance.
Over the years, those moments became part of his legend – a dance of temper fueled by loyalty, mixed with indignation – a symphony of frustration, conviction, and love for the game.
And somewhere, in his long march of arguments and ejections, Bobby Cox set a record he never meant to set – one unlike any other in Major League Baseball history, and one that’s unlikely to ever be broken.
💎 Find out more on this week’s Stories of Atlanta.
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🖋️ Today’s Silver Streak was edited by Julie E. Bloemeke.