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Festivals = family fun
Metro Atlanta’s spring festivals celebrate food, drink, music and fun. Here’s a list of upcoming or ongoing festivals to make the most of your week and weekend.Taste of AlpharettaSatisfy every epicurean whim with tasty bites from more than 50 Alpharetta restaurants.The May 9 event, traditionally held on a Thursday evening, ...
‘Big Bang Theory’ star espouses science education
Mayim Bialik is no ordinary actress. The former star of “Blossom” and current member of America’s most popular sitcom, “The Big Bang Theory,” took 12 years off to raise her kids and, oh, get a Ph.D. in neuroscience. She now plays a neuroscientist on TV, too. She’ll be touting science ...
‘Imaginary Worlds’ at Botanical Garden gets your imagination growing
“Imaginary Worlds: Plants Larger Than Life” doesn’t officially open until Saturday at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, but early, rather spontaneous reviews of the exhibition have been encouraging. A week ago, as many of the 19 sculptures festooned with 118,000 living plants were still being installed, excited guests moved about the ...
Ways to help mom get out and have fun
It’s time to contemplate the age-old question: What does mom really want to do for Mother’s Day? Odds are you’ve been concentrating on a gift. Something homemade? Something practical? Something pretty? Flowers? Chocolate? Jewelry? This year, maybe that gift should be an experience. Take your cue from what she likes ...
Ex-Celtic Woman star helps students in Peachtree City find their voice
The first thing that strikes you about Lisa Kelly is her eyes — sparkling and smiling and focused on every word in a conversation. Then come the lighthearted laugh and delightful Irish accent that color her sentences. On some people, these melodic accessories might come off as affectations, but with ...
Atlantans walk on the wild side
Atlantans are walking on the wild side this spring, enjoying new opportunities for up-close encounters with dolphins, otters, pandas, Komodo dragons and other exotic creatures great and small. At the Georgia Aquarium and at Zoo Atlanta, visitors can order up these boutique experiences with the wildlife on exhibit. Most involve ...
Kimbro taps inner secrets of African-American millionaires and wealth
Author Dennis Kimbro has spent the past seven years interviewing people many of us probably wish we could be. Millionaires. Kimbro, a professor of business at Clark Atlanta University, interviewed 1,000 of the African-American community’s wealthiest individuals for his new — and fifth — book, “The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets ...
Fox Theatre tour mixes history and wow
Even if you visit the Fox Theatre regularly, it’s not uncommon to have the occasional awestruck moment. It’s a stunning theater, a 1920s-era former movie palace with walls that have witnessed everything from landmark concerts (Elvis Presley to Lady Gaga) to award shows (Soul Train, the Dove Awards). Even the ...
At 102, benefactor Lessie Smithgall celebrates groundbreaking of ‘a natural wonder’
Fundraisers from the Atlanta Botanical Garden were anxious for the recession to end so they finally could get earth turning for Smithgall Woodland Garden on the 168 wild and wooded Gainesville acres that Lessie Smithgall and her husband Charles donated in 2002. Charles, a media magnate, environmentalist and philanthropist, died ...
Weekend festivals to provide fun and security challenge
The terror attack in Boston will have an impact on security this weekend in metro Atlanta — when more than 500,000 people are expected to attend a number of festivals — but it may not be uniform. “Atlanta police officers will be visible, vigilant and prepared,” city Police Chief George ...
‘Biggest Loser’ trainer works to inspire, too
Jillian Michaels is known as a take-no-prisoners trainer on NBC’s “The Biggest Loser.” But the personal trainer wants to give her fans a broader spectrum of her philosophies on her “Maximize Your Life” tour, which hits the Fox Theatre at 5 p.m. Sunday. While Michaels has done a few speeches ...
World Book Night: Sharing the love of reading
Katrina Stanfield loves to read — mysteries, memoirs, historical fiction — just about any book she can get her hands on.On Tuesday, she will devote her evening to sharing her affinity for reading, book by book, with people who don’t read much, if at all.Stanfield will join 408 volunteers in ...
Best bets | April 16 - 22
FRIDAY Arts: Get a taste of Africa during the AfricaBelle Festival, with various events running through April 27. For a complete listing of events, visit www.afatl.com. Visual arts: Contemporary abstract art comes to life in the exhibit Sammy Peters: Recent Paintings at Alan Avery Art Company through April 20. Visual ...
ASO, conservancy orchestrate return of free Piedmont Park concerts
A rain drought and then a drought of the funding variety kept the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra from presenting its popular free concerts in Piedmont Park for five years. But the ASO announced Tuesday it plans to resume the tradition this spring. The orchestra and its new partner, the Piedmont Park ...
With spring in air, festivals are plentiful
Metro Atlanta offers spring festivals for nearly every taste, type and fantasy. Here’s a rundown of what’s going on this weekend. Pick one, jump in the car and come on out. Georgia Renaissance Festival Costumed characters roam the 32-acre “kingdom” in Fairburn presided over by Henry VIII, inviting all comers ...
Gwinnett Center switches from Ticketmaster to AXS
When tickets for Muse at The Arena at Gwinnett Center go on sale Friday, concertgoers will direct their dollars not to Ticketmaster, but to a new ticketing website.Starting with the Muse show, the Gwinnett Center, which houses The Arena at Gwinnett Center, Convention Center and Performing Arts Center, will switch ...
Best bets | April 9 - 15
TUESDAY Visual arts: Contemporary abstract art comes to life in the exhibit Sammy Peters: Recent Paintings at Alan Avery Art Company through April 20. Visual arts: See works by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and husband and muralist Diego Rivera in “Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting," which continues through ...
Music, laughs, learning on tap at Sweetwater 420 Fest
Sure, it’s a mostly-free, weekend-long party put on by Sweetwater, the Atlanta brewing company known for mottos such as “Don’t float the mainstream” and “We’re here for a good time.” But from its humble beginnings in 2004, the annual 420 Fest has grown in size and stature to become a ...
‘Lipitones’ amuses, but a few notes don’t ring true
In Mark St. Germain’s hospital drama “The God Committee,” a group of medical professionals debated ethics and which of four patients would get an emergency heart transplant. His quasi-historical “Freud’s Last Session” contemplated science vs. religion by imagining an encounter between psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and theologian C.S. Lewis. Both plays ...
Final Four families have many off-court options
Some folks in town for the Final Four may likely have their families in tow, but can’t score tickets for the whole team. Lucky for them several family entertainment staples provide plenty of off-court action. Six Flags Over Georgia This enduring theme park brings white knuckle thrills to new generations. ...
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