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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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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 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…
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How Black Mothers Say I Love You
How Black Mothers Say I Love You I will receive tickets to one of the performance in exchange for promotion of this play at Horizon Theatre. Second in Horizon’s New American Dreams Series, How Black Mothers Say I Love You is a powerful, funny and touching tale of a Jamaican mother and her daughters back home together – laughing, shouting and searching for love. How Black Mothers Say I Love You makes its U.S. premiere at Horizon Theatre Company with an all-star cast and creative team, with performances beginning July 13. Ottawa Tonite says, “Playwright Trey Anthony’s love letter written to those women in her family that had to leave…
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Recap Atlanta Food and Wine Festival 2018 #afwf18
I have received a free ticket to attend the Atlanta Food and Wine Festival, #afwf18, #knowthesouth in exchange for my honest and unbiased review and promotion of the event. #ad Whether you are a foodie, beer, wine or spirits connoisseur, you would have wanted to be at this spectacular event. Everyone attending the Atlanta Food and Wine Festival  were greeted by this wonderful sign in the Loews Hotel in Downtown Atlanta and the moment we walked up I got a tad bit excited. You see last year, I attended by my lonesome, but after coming home and telling hubby about it, he wanted to come. I guess he forgot of conversation and…
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Freaky Friday Fun At Horizon Theatre
A comedic bunch of laughs that everyone in the family will enjoy. The funniest thing to me like in the movie, is seeing the mother and daughter act like each other and it is so exaggerated, but at the same time it seems like there is no other way for either of them to act. They play each other so well that the mother could be the daughter and the daughter the mother. All of the songs are catchy and it made me want to be a teenager again. I totally wanted to be on stage when they were doing the slow motion thing and oh so funny was when…
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The Ballad of Klook and Vinette – Horizon Theatre
2017 Horizon Theatre had a great year of plays and 2018 will be no different. I laughed, cried and was in some intense thought leaving many of the plays. Great writers, production, set design and everything in between. See below how to get your season tickets. Coming this week to the Horizon Theatre, Klook is a drifter who’s tired of drifting. Vinette is on the run but she doesn’t know what’s chasing her. Together, they make a tentative stab at love and reach for hope until the past catches up to the future and smacks it in the face. Tough, tender, funny, poignant, The Ballad of Klook and Vinette will…
