🇫🇷 Happy Bastille Day
Bon Lundi July It s Bastille Day marking the start of the French Revolution You can celebrate locally at Saint-Germain Bakery Bar Blanc The Select Bistro Niko Brasserie Margot and Anis Bistro Sunny and nowadays but it will feel close to Atlanta attorney Josephine Hardin and her mother have been identified as two of the casualties in the July flash floods in Texas It s a good week to observe speed limits as Operation Southern Slow Down begins in the current era through Sunday across Georgia and four other states targeting speeding and aggressive driving UPS vacated an office building on Glenlake Parkway and relocated approximately employees to its headquarters next door and a location in Alpharetta Pierce County Library in South Georgia is under pressure to hire back Lavonnia Moore a librarian who was fired for displaying a book about a transgender child The City of Atlanta and nonprofit Showcase Atlanta have launched a vendor directory to connect local businesses to economic opportunities that are tied to major events including the FIFA World Cup ELSEWHERE Heavy rains across Central and North Texas the preceding day suspended search efforts for casualties of the July deadly Hill Country floods Stocks are set to open lower this morning after President Donald Trump communicated tariffs on EU and Mexican imports starting Aug Chelsea beat PSG - to win the FIFA Club World Cup Larry David is teaming up with Barack and Michelle Obama for a new HBO sketch comedy show Here s what s in currently s newsletter Little Bear s rescue dog Alliance Collision Project Global HeadlinesAND Look Listen Get ready for Buckhead Restaurant Week From July - explore curated menus at Atlanta s finest restaurants An unforgettable dining experience awaits Reserve your spot now here SPONSOR MESSAGE Photo via Little Bear Facebook Owners of Summerhill restaurant Little Bear and their new rescue dog find a second chance together Fernando Stieber wasn t just a Great Pyrenees He was one of Atlanta s favorite dogs and the face of the award-winning Summerhill restaurant Little Bear A Fernando sighting in Atlanta was common He became a local celebrity often greeting people at coffee shops like Chrome Yellow or on restaurant patios like Staplehouse But on Feb after years and hundreds of photographs with the Stieber family and Little Bear guests Fernando succumbed to osteosarcoma The last thing the Stiebers were thinking of was getting another dog but the universe had other plans Diego another Great Pyrenees joined their family earlier this year Learn more about Diego here Experience the Culinary Magic of Buckhead SPONSORED BY LIVABLE BUCKHEAD Join us for Buckhead Restaurant Week from July - Get ready to savor the best flavors Atlanta has to offer With prix fixe menus curated cocktails and unique specials from top-notch restaurants this is a food lover s paradise Whether you re in the mood for fine dining or a relaxed bite we ve got it all Reserve your spot now and treat your taste buds to an unforgettable journey Click here for details Photo courtesy of Alliance Theatre Alliance Theatre hosts th annual Palefsky Collision Project The Alliance Theatre is hosting Atlanta-area teenagers this month for its annual Palefsky Collision Project The initiative tasks high school and post-secondary students with creating their own unique theatrical piece drawing inspiration from Octavia E Butler s classic novel Parable of the Sower The participants undergo two weeks of workshops working with guest artists to help craft their story which will be presented at the Woodruff Arts Center on July and Find out more and get tickets here Backpacker uncovered after days in Australian outback Sinner wi tek win Wimbledon President Trump revealed the U S will send sophisticated military equipment to Ukraine including Patriot missile systems while expressing frustration that Putin talks nice and then bombs everybody Ten people died in an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza water distribution point Sunday with Israel citing a technical error targeting an Islamic Jihad militant July marks the th anniversary of the killing of thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Bosnia and Herzegovina the first genocide in Europe since the Holocaust Indian investigators preliminary record suggests cut fuel lines caused last month s Air India crash that killed people moments after takeoff Portugal s parliament voted to designate rape as a community crime allowing law enforcement to investigate regardless of whether the victim wants to press charges Benin s Ang lique Kidjo became the first Black African to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame A -year-old German backpacker was determined alive after missing for days in Western Australia s outback suffering minor injuries and mosquito bites A summary explained Cricket s Indian Premier League is worth nearly billion Thailand s viral pygmy hippo Moo Deng celebrated her first birthday last week with a massive fruit cake and thousands of fans at Khao Kheow Open Zoo Poland s Iga wi tek dominated American Amanda Anisimova - - to win the ladies championship at Wimbledon Italy s Jannik Sinner won the men s title in four sets How do authorities staffing and budget cuts at national shield and foreign protocol institutions affect America s ability to lead through diplomacy rather than force Join the World Affairs Council of Atlanta on July for Diplomacy Disrupted How Cuts to U S Agencies are Reshaping Foreign Procedures a free society webinar with experts from the American Foreign Provision Association Register the present day Eddiver Rodriguez discovered something through Georgia s Work-Based Learning scheme that several adults never find exactly what he required to do with his life While classmates were filling out college applications he was splicing underground power cables Learn how WBL connected him with his career at Georgia Power before graduation SPONSOR MESSAGE Lights camera action VIA SCENE A WEEKLY FILM NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBE Scene editor Sammie Purcell has a few suggestions for her favorite film and entertainment podcasts One of my favorite podcasts TCM s The Plot Thickens is back next week with another killer season This time Ben Mankiewicz and the folks at TCM are tackling Cleopatra the film starring famed lovers Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and one of the largest part complicated storied productions in Hollywood history IndieWire has a preview of the season here Blank Check my favorite movie podcast has ended its series on the films of Amy Heckerling and launched a new director series First up for the Coen Brothers Blood Simple You can listen here or wherever you get your podcasts If you saw Materialists or read my review of the film from a meager weeks ago you know that the movie isn t really a traditional romantic comedy in any meaningful sense of the term The romantic comedy it seems is in a constant state of evolution and on a latest episode of Critics at Large from The New Yorker the hosts discuss that evolution and how artists are interested in depicting modern love Indulge in Buckhead Restaurant Week July - 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