☔️ A 60% chance of rain and 93° today. Saturday is also looking soggy, but the sun returns on Sunday.
🇺🇸 Georgia’s biggest 4th of July parade was also Dunwoody’s largest in history, as 115 entrants braved a steamy morning to participate. “I loved how many people came out this year, and I’m so grateful for the volunteers who did the hard work to make this happen,” Dunwoody Mayor Lynn Deutsch said. “I think this is the biggest crowd I’ve ever seen.” Read more from our colleague Cathy Cobbs.
😮 A late afternoon water main break in Buckhead had several apartment buildings without water yesterday. The Atlanta Department of Watershed Management said it was fixed last night.
✈️ Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines temporarily removed some meal options from international flights after reports of spoiled food forced an Amsterdam-bound flight to divert to New York.
• Sports: Kenyans sweep Peachtree • Film Review: ‘MaXXXine’ • Andy Warhol Foundation Grants AND • Top Stories of the Week
Have a good weekend, Collin & Sammie
🇺🇸 Celebrate freedom from pie during the July 4th holiday! Georgia Pecan Growers and YOM Ice Cream are giving away free Georgia Pecan push pops through July 7. Grab some pops today at Candler Market from noon-2 p.m. and tomorrow at Peachtree Road Farmers Market from 8:30 a.m.-noon, and Piedmont Park Green Market, 9 a.m.– noon (While supplies last).
Kenyans sweep Peachtree; Romanchuk takes 7th straight wheelchair race THE SPORTS SECTION | BY MADISON AUCHINCLOSS
🍑 Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe (pictured) won The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race in 28:03 yesterday. Kenyan men swept the first five spots. Stacy Ndiwa, also from Kenya, won the women’s elite division with a time of 31:12.
🏆 Americans Daniel Romanchuk and Susannah Scaroni won the wheelchair competition, his seventh straight Peachtree win, and her fourth, including the last three.
🎽 Pace Academy alum Edward Blaha, 31:09, and Ryann Helmers, 34:30, were the top non-elite Georgians.
🥇 Kristopher Strong (Stockbridge High School), and Georgy Helmers (St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School in Columbus) won the Boy’s and Girl’s high school divisions in 33:04 and 37:09, respectively.
⚽ After a two-day break, the Euros resume at noon today with Spain taking on Germany and Portugal taking on France at 3 p.m. England plays on Saturday as the team looks to rebound from a disappointing qualifying round. (TV: Fox)
⚽ The Copa América quarterfinals continue. Argentina beat Ecuador in PKs last night to advance to the semifinals for the fifth straight time. Canada will face Venezuela in its first quarterfinal ever tonight at 9 p.m. (TV: Fox)
⚾ The first-place Phillies come to town tonight to take on the Braves, who are now nine games back after dropping two against the Giants this week. (TV: Apple TV+)
❌ The Braves were shut out of the NL All-Star starting lineup.
🎾 Andy Murray’s final Wimbledon was emotional as he and his brother Jamie lost their men’s doubles match yesterday. American Jessica Pegula is the highest-seeded women’s player to lose this year. The No. 5-seed lost to China’s Wang Xinyu in the second round yesterday.
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2. ‘MaXXXine’ is a tremendously sleazy good time, but hedges on its boldest choice
WEEKLY FILM REVIEW | BY SAMMIE PURCELL
📽️ Ti West’s “X” trilogy has always been about movies – making them, watching them, starring in them. But none is so connected to Hollywood lore as “MaXXXine.”
West’s third installment comes after both “X” and “Pearl,” but is a direct sequel to the first film, following porn actress Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) as she tries to make a name for herself in 1980s Hollywood. A ways through the film, director Elizabeth Bender (Elizabeth Debicki) takes Maxine – set to star in Bender’s new horror film and still traumatized by the farm massacre she escaped in “X” – on a drive around the studio backlot. Throughout “MaXXXine,” West doesn’t hedge about his love for this era of Hollywood, or the sleazy, hazy glitz of 1980s B movies, but Bender’s monologue as she takes Maxine on a spin starts to pin down the film’s larger ideas.
As they roll around the lot, Bender speechifies about Hollywood’s disdain for true artists, about her desire to make “a B movie with A movie ideas.” She informs Maxine that because of her background in porn, the studio didn’t want her for the role, and in trying to determine whether Maxine has what it takes to succeed in an industry that doesn’t want her to, she asks her one simple question: Are you ruthless?
“MaXXXine” slots into that “B movie with A movie ideas” mold, and one of those big ideas is this cutthroat ruthlessness that permeates our concept of Hollywood. But does West take it all the way?
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3. The Andy Warhol Foundation Grants awards two local nonprofits in spring 2024 grant cycle
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🎉 The Andy Warhol Foundation will award $150,000 to two local nonprofits in its spring 2024 grant cycle.
Founded in 1987 following a directive in Andy Warhol’s will, the mission of the Foundation is the advancement of visual arts. Through significant grants totaling more than $300 million to date, and awarded to more than 1,000 arts organizations around the world, the Foundation has found a real, actionable way to support and uplift contemporary artists and art organizations.
And this year, two worthy local nonprofits are celebrating their inclusion on the list of winners.
🇺🇸 Celebrate freedom from pie during the July 4th holiday! Georgia Pecan Growers and YOM Ice Cream are giving away free Georgia Pecan push pops through July 7. Grab some pops today at Candler Market from noon-2 p.m. and tomorrow at Peachtree Road Farmers Market from 8:30 a.m.-noon, and Piedmont Park Green Market, 9 a.m.– noon (While supplies last).
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