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🎉 What to do on Memorial Day weekend

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🎉 What to do on Memorial Day weekend

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May 24 – Memorial Day weekend is here and we’re previewing five events, including the Atlanta Jazz Festival and MomoCon. And don’t sleep on Decatur FC – Atlanta’s new professional sports team debuts tonight with local owners, local coaches and a host of local players.

☁️ Mostly cloudy with a temperature of 84° today. Expect temperatures around 89° and a few thunderstorms this weekend.

🚙 AAA predicts this will be the busiest early summer weekend in nearly 20 years, with 43.8 million people expected to travel at least 50 miles from home during the long holiday weekend.

➡ Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern will pay $310 million for cleanup and fines from the train derailment in East Palestine, OH, estimating total costs at $1.7 billion.

📹 The Atlanta Police Department has released body camera footage that shows interactions between officers and pro-Palestine/Stop Cop City protesters on Emory’s campus.

🌻 Trust for Public Land released its 2024 ParkScore Index rankings, with Atlanta moving to 25th place.th among the 100 largest American cities in the country.

⚖️ One of two men arrested in the Oct. 19 hit-and-run death of Linda Powell near Buford Highway has been exonerated, while the other awaits trial.

💵 The Sandy Springs Society has begun hand-delivering checks to 42 nonprofits sharing $370,000 in grants.

SOMEWHERE ELSE

💉 A new study from the New England Journal of Medicine found that weekly injections of semaglutide medications like Ozempic significantly reduce the risk of serious events in people with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease.

🌀 NOAA predicts that warm ocean temperatures and La Nina conditions will lead to an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season in 2024.

🎟️ The Justice Department is seeking to break up Live Nation, alleging that Ticketmaster’s parent company violated antitrust laws. The company says the suit “ignores everything that is actually responsible for the rise in ticket prices,” including production costs and savvy scalpers.

🕖 Here is the content of today’s newsletter:

• 2024 vals and sals
• Movie review: “Furiosa”
• The Sports Section: Decatur FC
AND
• The best stories of the week

Enjoy the long weekend,
Collin and Sammie

👽 Embark on an extraordinary evening during the Museum’s After-Hours event on Friday, June 14, from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Computer Museum of America. Dress up as your favorite sci-fi character and explore artifacts that once seemed like fiction through a scavenger hunt. Tickets include full access to the museum, light snacks and live music.

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1. Class 24: this year’s valedictorians and salutatorians

🎓 Congratulations, graduates! Families across metro Atlanta recently came together to celebrate the Class of 2024.

We would like to take a moment to recognize top students from some local schools and salute all graduates! Good luck in your next projects, whatever they may be.

🎊 Click here for a list of students honored as valedictorians and salutatorians at select local schools.

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2. “Furiosa” and hope in the time of the apocalypse

WEEKLY FILM REVIEW | BY SAMMIE PURCELL

🏍️ When it comes to action cinema, “Mad Max: Fury Road” upped the game in 2015. If anything can be universally accepted by critics and audiences, it’s this one. George Miller’s action opus is a thrill-ride like no other, a non-stop chase flick of post-apocalyptic proportions that roars with a fury that matches its name.

So “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” Miller’s follow-up to “Fury Road,” had a lot riding on its shoulders. And right off the bat, it’s clear that Miller has no interest in simply repeating what he achieved in 2015.

“Furiosa” operates on a much larger scale than “Fury Road,” not only following a woman’s mission via a car chase, but attempting to unravel that woman’s story, her trauma and her life on a period of approximately two and a half hours. As impressive as the scale of the film is, sometimes the colossal ambition of it all can overwhelm the film’s emotional core, particularly in the film’s middle section. But through the relationship between Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) and her greatest enemy, a warlord named Dementus (Chris Hemsworth), Miller gets to the heart of our relationship: hope – why she disappears, why she perseveres and what we are. ready to do to keep it.

🦾 Read Sammie’s full review here.

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3. NCAA schools can pay players; Decatur FC debuts

⚽ Rough Draft visited Atlanta’s newest sports franchise, local Decatur FC. The WPSL team debuts tonight at Decatur High School at 7 p.m. Learn more in this article by Madison Auchincloss.

💰 Starting in 2025, the NCAA and its five Power Conferences will allow schools to pay players directly.

⚽ Atlanta United looks for its first win in a long time when it hosts LAFC on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. (Tickets). Things don’t get any easier as the Five Stripes travel to face Lionel Messi and league tops Inter Miami on Wednesday, May 29. (Apple TV+; 92.9 FM).

🏀 The Atlanta Dream hosts the Minnesota Lynx tomorrow at 6 p.m. (TV: Peachtree TV)

⚾ The Braves are six games behind the Phillies after winning two of three games in Chicago this week. Atlanta faces the Pirates in Pittsburgh tonight at 6:40 p.m. before returning home for a Memorial Day game against Washington at 4:10 p.m. (TV: BSS)

🏀 In the NBA Conference Finals, the Celtics lead the Pacers 2-0, and the Mavericks lead the Timberwolves 1-0.

🎾The Roland-Garros begins on May 26. Atlanta natives Ben Shelton and Christopher Eubanks will compete in the men’s category. Eubanks will play second-seeded Jannik Sinner and Shelton will play Hugo Gaston. (TV: Tennis Channel and Peacock)

🏎️ The most famous F1 race, the Monaco Grand Prix, will take place on Sunday, May 26 at 7:30 a.m. The Drives are looking to topple Max Verstappen and Red Bull from their seemingly permanent seat at the top of the standings. (Television: ESPNEWS)

🏒 The Women’s Professional Hockey League finals are tied at one game apiece as Minnesota handed Boston its first playoff loss. The series continues tonight in Minnesota at 7 p.m. (TV: TSN).

WANT MORE LOCAL SPORTS?

📧 Madison writes a pop-up summer newsletter. Rough Draft’s Sideline arrives in inboxes Friday afternoon. Subscribe for free.

💡 Want your child or teen to take their Spanish to the next level over the summer? Sign up for a free trial Spanish course with Spanish Immersion in Atlanta. Sign up for a plan before May 31 and receive two free hours. Learn more.

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4. Top Stories of the week

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

① 8 restaurant openings that will excite you this summer (photo)

② Georgia primary election results

③ Dresden neighborhood of Brookhaven will become an alcohol-friendly zone

④ Nino’s gets a makeover with the new Italian cocktail bar Dopo Lavoro

⑤ MARTA Airport Station Reopens After Renovations

💭 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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