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Friday, August 29, 2008
Atlanta’s best annual events? Dragons, drive-ins and more.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Chicago family visited Atlanta for its first Dragon Con in 2001. They’re Kathy , Quincy 9 and Vincent Newkirk. Kathy made the Star Wars costumes. I SO want to see this in my city this weekend!
In typical Labor Day, live-it-up-it’s-a-long-winter fashion, there’s a lot going on this weekend.
Starlight Six’s Drive Invasion
I pull out these three because they’re seriously unique events that apparently happen here every year? I had no idea! Dragon*Con seems like the kind of thing that could travel from city to city, but clearly found a home here. The Decatur Book Festival is new since I lived here last. And the Drive Invasion? Well, it takes something special to sustain a drive-in, let along a drive-in celebration of kitsch and cinema.
So what are the other yearly events here — big and beloved, underground and underappreciated, growing and changing — that I don’t know about? I suspect they’re happening all the time, not just holiday weekends.
What’s your favorite Atlanta area annual events?
Speaking of holidays: I’m sleeping in on Monday. Catch you at 7 a.m. Tuesday!
