Blogger and Atlanta Events
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Atlanta Horizon Theatre’s The Wolves
Horizon Theatre Company is kicking off its 35th Anniversary Season with The Wolves, a groundbreaking new play by Sarah DeLappe, will hit the Little Five Points stage from January 25 through March 3, 2019. Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girl’s indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors.  A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American young women who just want to score some goals.  Veteran director Heidi Cline McKerley leads a racially diverse cast with the indoor…
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New Farm to Table Restaurant Opens in Vine City Atlanta
New Farm to Table Restaurant Opens in Vine City Atlanta What: Local Green Atlanta Grand Opening Date: Jan. 27, 2019 Time: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. (Restaurant Open until 6 p.m.) Address: 19 Joseph E. Lowery Blvd. NW Atlanta, Ga. Description: Local Green Atlanta is more than a quick and healthy casual food provider. The restaurant is a promising representation of what positive revitalization looks like in the Vine City neighborhood of Atlanta. The leadership team at Local Green Atlanta is mostly composed of childhood friends who grew up together in the Vine City area and nearby Southwest Atlanta neighborhoods, affectionately known as the SWATS. Recognizing the need for healthy food…
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ATLANTA MUSIC THEATRE FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR 2019
Founder and Executive Artistic Director Benjamin Taylor Davis announces today that submissions for the Fourth Annual Atlanta Musical Theatre Festival (AMTF), to be held in the summer in Atlanta, are officially open. The deadline to submit new works is February 1, 2019. Selections will be announced in April 2019, at the annual selections announcement event (details forthcoming). Performances will be open to the artistic community, the public, and the press. Partner venues, along with Festival dates, will be announced shortly. Tickets to the Festival will go on sale in Spring 2019. The inaugural Festival in 2016 was a huge success, and the Festival has grown in each subsequent year. In…
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Revival The Experience Coming to a Theatre Near You
Revival the Experience coming soon to a theatre near you. I am so excited because it comes to Atlanta theatres starting Friday December 7th and find out where in particular here: Â https://revivalthemovie.com/theaters/. What is it you ask? Well it is the story of Jesus Christ inspired from the Gospel according to John set to music written and directed by Harry Lennix. Who is he? Currently, Assistant Director, Harold Cooper from one of my favorite shows, The Blacklist and if you have been under a rock and have not heard of the show, you have probably heard of the character, Dresser from the Five Heartbeats (both of which are some of…
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Waffle Palace Christmas – Horizon Theatre
The holiday spirit is alive and well within the Waffle Palace for customers and staff alike. Long-time, African-American waitress Connie has invested her own savings to keep the Waffle Palace open and is now in partnership with her former boss, John Picket. Connie hires a likeable young cook with no grill experience but artistic talents galore, and a young web developer with some secrets, Alex, begins hanging out at the Waffle Palace daily. Former waitress Esperanza and customer Hugo have returned from a long honeymoon (funded by the lottery she won) and are pregnant, with the baby due on Christmas Day. To top it off, Dave, a young vet…
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The Ultimate Sugar Show Recap #ultimatesugarshow
I was given the opportunity to attend the Ultimate Sugar Show in partnership with Culinary Local. Conference is a business focused conference for aspiring & established professionals in the baking & sweets industry. The Ultimate Sugar Show’s Sweet Makers Conference began in 2016 under the name the Sweet Fest® Business Conference (aka Sweet Fest Con). This 4 day conference that began on Thursday with a Annual Skills Share-A-Thon networking event. During this evening social, conference attendees are invited to mix, mingle and try out new skills & some of your favorite products. Decorating classes, business area which covered (startups, legal matters, marketing/social media, etc) as well as competitions. There were several people…
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Football Season Favorite Menu Items– Big Green Egg
I had the opportunity to attend Hands-On Class – The Ultimate Football Menu in partnership with Culinary Local and as usual I had a ball. Do you have a party or two you want to host during Football Season? If so, it will not be complete without the Big Green Egg, but beware. Once you use it, you will always use it because you can do just about any and everything you need on the Big Green Egg. We were greeted by some of the volunteers that led us to the store portion of the Big Green Egg Culinary Center where we were able to make purchases and on top of…
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Atl Cluckfest 2018 Fried Chicken Festival #atlcluckfest
I received passes for free in exchange for promotion and for giving my honest and unbiased review of the event. #ad What better combination than cool refreshing drinks/cocktails, a beautiful hot fall afternoon, a banging dj and some of the best chicken restaurants in Atlanta in one area? Nothing!! Absolutely nothing whatsoever if you ask me:) Welcome to: Atl Cluckfest 2018 Fried Chicken Festival #atlcluckfest Last week, I was able to attend the Atl CluckFest in the Little Five Points area at Candler Park; after all it was the first chicken festival in the ATL. After a morning of running a few errands, hubby and I decided that it was a…
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Nomad Motel: Horizon Theatre
I have received passes for a showing of Nomad Motel for free in exchange for my honest and unbiased review. #ad Would you leave your teenage child alone to fin for themselves while you try to get your act together? Have you came the end of your robe and thought that they would be better off without you? These are just some of the few questions, some of the characters in Nomad Motel had to ask themselves. As I have mentioned in my original Nomad Motel post, Nomad Motel is a funny and poignant tale of motel kids and parachute kids raising themselves and making something out of nothing in the…
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Nomad Hotel from the Writer of Fear: The Walking Dead
I have received passes in exchange for my honest and unbiased review of the play. #ad Nomad Motel – a fresh, coming of age comedy-drama about an American and a Chinese family whose lives are unexpectedly linked – makes its Southern debut as the finale of Horizon Theatre Company’s “New American Dreams Series†this fall. Horizon’s National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of Nomad Motel by Carla Ching begins September 21, 2018 and runs through October 21, 2018 (press opening on September 28) on the intimate Horizon stage in Little Five Points/Inman. Nomad Motel is a funny and poignant tale of motel kids and parachute kids raising themselves and…
