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Best Bets: Pigs, Pugs and (Pretend) Pink Floyd
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
After performing a trick for several hundred pug lovers to appreciate, two and a half year old pug, T.J., takes a break during the 2007 PugFest, a fundraiser event for the Southeast Pug Rescue & Adoption organization held at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds in Lawrenceville. (SARA HOPKINS/Special)
Let’s take a look at some of the top events coming to Atlanta today, this weekend and in the coming weeks.
TODAY’S PICK
With the death of keyboardist Richard Wright in September, there can never be a true Pink Floyd reunion again. It had only happened once since 1981 anyway, when the four members of the band’s most successful incarnation played together at the Live 8 concert in London in 2005. You can see and hear “The Wall” live, though, with all the bells and whistles. The Australian Pink Floyd will play tonight at Gwinnett Arena, bringing all the bells and whistles and lasers. They’ll play “The Wall” in its entirety, along with selected songs from the rest of the Pink Floyd catalog. These Aussies were even asked to perform at Floyd guitarist David Gilmour’s 50th birthday celebration in 1996, with Wright joining in. It’s not the real thing, but since we’ll never have the real thing again, this will have to do. 8 p.m. Oct. 22. $40.50-$50.50. Gwinnett Arena, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth. 770-813-7600, 404-249-6400.
WEEKEND HAPPENING
Ah, pugs in Halloween costumes. That’s just too much cute to resist. The Southeast Pug Rescue & Adoption organization’s annual Pugfest fund-raiser is this weekend at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds in Lawrenceville. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 25. $6; $3 for children under 12, free for pugs and other small dogs. 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway, Lawrenceville. 770-963-6522.
LOOKING AHEAD
It’s almost time to pull out the pig again. Atlanta’s holiday tradition, Priscilla the Pink Pig, takes us on a train ride through a life-size storybook that includes the original Pink Pig and her friends. Priscilla returns Nov. 1 under the big tent in the Lenox Road upper-level parking deck at Macy’s at Lenox Square and benefits Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Mondays-Fridays; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturdays, Nov. 1-Dec. 30; noon-6 p.m. Sundays, Nov. 1-30 and 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sundays, Dec. 7-28. Plus, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Jan. 1-3 and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Jan. 4 (except 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Nov. 28; and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 24 and Dec. 31). Closed Nov. 27 and Dec. 25. $3; on Nov. 1, all children who wear their Halloween costumes ride for free. 3393 Peachtree Road N.E., Atlanta. 770-913-5639.
For more fun things to do, check out accessAtlanta’s events round-up here.
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