Exploring Atlanta – For Newcomers and Natives
If you just can’t get enough of eating out and trying new places, then here’s another restaurant week, just for people like you! Cobb County Restaurant Week – September 11 through 18, 2010 – starts this Saturday and features the best that Cobb County has to offer! Only in its second year, the Cobb County [...]
Today I welcome my friend, Trevor Beemon, Creative Services Director for the Atlanta History Center, as a guest blogger. Trevor had a wonderful new blog called Southern Sightseeing, which is dedicated to “exploring cool towns, houses, cemeteries, parks, and museums around the South.” I encourage you to check out Southern Sightseeing and subscribe today! You [...]
What better way to ring in the Jewish New Year at Sweetwater Brewery? Not Jewish? No problem – the party is open to all! The Atlanta Jewish Music Festival has teamed up with Birthright Israel NEXT Atlanta for a Rosh Hashana New Year’s Party at Sweetwater Brewery. Tonight – Tuesday, September 7, 2010 from 6:00 [...]
By now you’ve probably noticed that I like to eat and I love to try new restaurants all over the Atlanta area. And I have noticed – from the emails and tweets I get, that many of you do, too. Which means this post will resonate with a lot of you. Atlanta’s Midtown Restaurant Week [...]
This weekend, just 20 minutes north of Atlanta you can enjoy Arts on the Creek, the only arts festival in Johns Creek. Arts on the Creek includes an Artists’ Market with art of all kinds for sale and for viewing, as well as a selection of Juried Exhibition Artists, whose work will remain on display [...]
Tomorrow is a big day in Buckhead: the Atlanta History Center presents an extraordinary exhibit, “With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition”, commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the nation’s revered sixteenth president. The Atlanta History Center is the only venue in the Southeast to host this traveling exhibition organized by the [...]
I live for books. The Decatur Book Festival is my kind of festival – just a bunch of bookish, nerdy folks like me who love the written word and want to celebrate it with a festival all our own. This annual Labor Day event which began in 2006, the Decatur Book Festival is September 3 [...]
Dragon*Con is “the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the universe!” I freely admit to knowing very little about this event, huge though it is, except for the tidbits I’ve gotten from friends who are loyal attendees. So instead of giving you [...]
When you are looking for a great restaurant in the Perimeter Mall area, you may not automatically think of Savu, in fact you may not even know it’s there. Located in the W Atlanta Perimeter Hotel, Savu is a contemporary American casual dining restaurant occupying a light airy, airy space in the W’s lobby area. [...]
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