Bloom Tuesday
March 18 — Happy Tuesday, Silver Streak readers!
🌸 With the first day of spring arriving Thursday, check out some tips on how to navigate pollen this season.
This week we have an interview with singer/songwriter Janis Ian on the new documentary “Breaking Silence.” We also have more on the Daffodil Project, a living Holocaust memorial in Downtown Atlanta that has marked its one-millionth bulb planting. Plus, there is news about the opening of a brick-and-mortar location of Wayfair at Howell Mill shopping center in 2026.
And now for a few headlines:
🏠 Fulton and DeKalb County homeowners have until April 1 to apply for a homestead exemption that could secure property tax relief.
⚖️ Atlanta Municipal Court has launched an amnesty program for people who failed to appear on their scheduled court dates for traffic violations.
🏀 Georgia’s men’s basketball team is headed to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2015. The No. 9 seeded Bulldogs will face Gonzaga on Thursday. Georgia Tech’s women, also a nine-seed, play Richmond on Friday. Here are the complete brackets for the men and women.
🚨 Crime Stoppers of Greater Atlanta will raise its cash reward from $2,000 to $5,000 for anonymous tips leading to arrests of individuals involved in criminal activity.
🙏 Political commentator and friend of Rough Draft Bill Crane is recovering from surgery after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of colon cancer. Here’s why regular screenings for colon cancer are important.
🎉 Campbell Stone senior living communities in Buckhead and Sandy Springs are celebrating their 60th anniversary this year. For updates and news on future events visit here.
🕓 Here’s what’s in today’s newsletter.
• Daffodil Project + Downtown
• Janis Ian documentary
• Howell Mill Wayfair to open in 2026
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• Stories of Atlanta | Lance Russell
Enjoy!
The Daffodil Project marks one million plantings in Downtown Atlanta
🌼 Downtown Atlanta, in partnership with The Daffodil Project, an international organization dedicated to building a living Holocaust memorial worldwide, announces planting the one-millionth daffodil bulb.
This global milestone honors the memory of 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust while supporting children facing humanitarian crises today. Since 2010, The Daffodil Project has worked to create a living Holocaust memorial through daffodil plantings in partnership with more than 650 sites around the world.
In Atlanta, the initiative forms a “ribbon of consciousness” that begins at the Center for Civil and Human Rights, weaves through Downtown, and connects to the King Center. This ribbon symbolizes unity, resilience, and shared humanity, linking the city’s historic landmarks, educational institutions, and public spaces. Visitors and residents can also enjoy daffodil plantings at locations like Woodruff Park.
🌿 Read more about the project here.
Join us for the 2025 Mourning Glory Gala
IN SUPPORT OF KATE’S CLUB
💙 You’re invited to the 2025 Mourning Glory Gala, benefiting the kids, families and young adults of Kate’s Club. On Sat., April 26, we will come together at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta Buckhead as a community of grievers and supporters, ready to embrace our vision of a world in which it’s okay to grieve – all while enjoying a fun and memorable evening!
✨ Guests will enjoy an inspiring program, live entertainment, and meaningful opportunities to support grieving children, their families, and young adults. Save me a seat!
Singer/songwriter Janis Ian discusses new documentary ‘Breaking Silence’
🎸 Georgia Voice reporter Gregg Shapiro sat down with singer/songwriter Janis Ian to discuss Varda Bar-Kar’s informative documentary “Janis Ian: Breaking Silence,” which will debut in theaters March 28.
Shapiro has interviewed Ian four times throughout his career and has also been a frequent concertgoer during Ian’s tours. Now retired from touring and recording, Ian is the subject of the documentary, which also features interviews with Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Laurie Metcalf, and Jean Smart.
Ian also discusses her 1967 appearance in the TV documentary “Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution,” her connection to Leonard Bernstein, her appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” and her archives at Berea College in Kentucky.
📽️ Read the full interview with Ian here.
Wayfair to open retail store in former Walmart on Howell Mill Road
🛋️ Online furniture retailer Wayfair will open its second brick-and-mortar location in 2026 at the former Walmart space in The District at Howell Mill shopping center.
The Boston-based retailer has leased the 150,000-square-foot space at 1801 Howell Mill Rd. and will convert the former Walmart store left vacant after a fire in 2023.
The new location is strategically positioned near Wayfair’s McDonough distribution center, which the company says will enable faster delivery of large items, such as sofas, to customers in the area.
‘The Nickname’: Stories of Atlanta by Lance Russell
VIA SAPORTAREPORT
🗝️ You might be familiar with the term “Y’allywood.” It is a nickname that many have recently applied to Atlanta. For those not into, as ‘The Dude’ would say, “the whole brevity thing,” perhaps you’re familiar with “Hollywood of the South.”
Either way, both of those names will just have to be added to the lengthy list of nicknames that Atlanta has garnered since the Terminus stake was driven into the ground, which, as you would expect, gave rise to the nickname Terminus. It doesn’t take much to spawn a new moniker in this community and it never has.
➼ Take the case of Jonathan Norcross in the 1840s, who was just trying to be a nice guy, as you will see in this week’s Stories of Atlanta.
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🖋️ Today’s Silver Streak was edited by Julie E. Bloemeke.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by PostX News and is published from a syndicated feed.)
