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See the Batmobile, Mystery Machine, muscle cars at AutoTrader Classics Octane Car Show
See the Batmobile, the Mystery Machine, Ferraris, muscle cars and much more this weekend as AutoTrader brings the AutoTrader Classics Octane Car Show and Sale to the Georgia World Congress Center. Modeled after popular grass-roots automotive gatherings like Caffeine and Octane in Alpharetta, the show brings together enthusiasts from across ...
Pro Wakeboard Tour visits Lake Acworth
Take a trip to the beach without leaving the Atlanta area this weekend and check out some of the top athletes in the world. Lake Acworth Beach is hosting the 2013 MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour. The sport's top competitors will be catching air, riding the rails, hitting crazy tricks and ...
Botanical garden showcases plants larger than life
"Step into Imaginary Worlds: Plants Larger Than Life" and discover a magical garden where cobras tower overhead, fish dance on water and a giant goddess emerges from the earth. That's how the Atlanta Botanical Garden describes its newest attraction. "These are just creating sculptures of animals out of plants," Atlanta ...
Travel 240 feet in the air on new ride at Six Flags
When Six Flags Over Georgia kicks off the summer season of thrills on Memorial Day weekend, there will be one new, very big reason to scream - SkyScreamer. SkyScreamer is the all-new extreme swing ride at Six Flags. It lifts riders 240 feet into the air, 24 stories up. Riders ...
Tour Grant Park's best homes on home and garden tour
One of Atlanta's most historic and diverse neighborhoods will be on display this weekend for the 39th annual Grant Park Home and Garden Tour. Eighteen of Grant Park's top spots will be on display. "You have Victorian houses, you have the craftsman bungalows, but you also have newer houses as ...
Nick Saban's $11 million Lake Burton home to hit auction block
Georgia football fans would love to see fewer visits from Alabama football coach Nick Saban to the Peach State. The good news is, that might soon be the case. The bad news is, it has nothing to do with Saban's football team playing in the SEC Championship at the Georgia ...
Nugent, Styx, REO Speedwagon rock Alpharetta
I heard it from a friend, who heard it from a friend that REO Speedwagon, Ted Nugent and Styx rocked a packed house at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park Sunday night. GALLERY: Nugent, Styx, REO Speedwagon rock Alpharetta The Midwest Rock 'N Roll Express Tour featured the three acts ...
Third-graders send Woodward assistant principal plunging into the pool
Would he or wouldn't he? That was the question third-grade students at Woodward Academy aimed to answer. Would their assistant principal, all 6-foot-1-inch and 220 pounds of him, float across the pool on floats the students built out of recycled materials for a class project? GALLERY: Could floats built by ...
Georgia Renaissance Festival brings joust, turkey legs to Fairburn
Where can you find amazing shows, great music, rides for the kids, demonstrations and turkey legs? It's all at the village of New Castle, present day Fairburn, home to the Georgia Renaissance Festival. "(It's an) eight-week-long festival with the food and the jousting and the staged entertainment and the unstaged ...
Local actors walk the red carpet for Shuler Awards
Is the next Daniel Day-Lewis or Jennifer Lawrence roaming the halls of a Georgia high school? The state's top high school acting talent gathered at the Cobb Energy Centre Thursday night for the Shuler Awards. The awards are named for Tony Award-winner and Marietta native, Shuler Hensley, and honor the ...
Georgia Aquarium unveils new Dolphin Encounter
Did you know dolphins like Jell-O and breathe through their blow hole? Those are just two of the facts participants in the all-new Dolphin Encounter at the Georgia Aquarium learned Monday, the opening day of the experience. "We got to feed them," participant Stacey Dupre told Nelson's News. "They did ...
Falcons pick new cheerleading squad
The Atlanta Falcons will have a number of new faces on the sidelines when the NFL returns to the field later this season. Sure, the Falcons signed Steven Jackson and Osi Umenyiora, but today, it's the new cheerleaders that are making news. GALLERY: Atlanta Falcons cheerleader auditions The Falcons picked ...
The Color Run visits Atlanta
What's blue and green and yellow all over? The thousands of people who participated in the Color Run over the weekend. The Color Run is a 5-kilometer run where participants began the race in white shirts and shorts and end the race doused in color. Organizers bill the event as ...
Final Four included free concerts, autographs, fun for fans
Fans from across the country have gathered in Atlanta for the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament. The weekend was packed full of events, including basketball games, concerts and fun for fans. And there's still a national championship game to be played. GALLERY: Final Four visits Atlanta "We decided yesterday, ...
A bear, tiger and lion live together in Ga. sanctuary
Where can you find a bear playing with a tiger, a lion confiscated from a drug dealer, a monkey named Elvis and more than a thousand other animals? All of them call Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary home. "All of Noah's Ark's animals are rescued in one form or another," Allison ...
A bear, tiger and lion live together in Locust Grove
Where can you find a bear playing with a tiger, a lion confiscated from a drug dealer, a monkey named Elvis and more than a thousand other animals? All of them call Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary home. "All of Noah's Ark's animals are rescued in one form or another," Allison ...
Discover amazing history with new Fox Theatre tour
Did you know the Fox Theatre was built by the Shriners as a mosque? Did you know that most of the furniture inside the Fox is original? Did you know Elvis played the Fox 50 years ago? That's just part of the extensive history that participants in a new tour ...
Amazing art is just the start of the things to see, do at High Museum
It's no secret that the High Museum of Art houses one of the most impressive collections of art in the world. But what is a surprise to many is the museum's array of offerings. It starts with paintings, pictures, murals and sculptures, but there's a lot more to love about ...
Supermodel Niki Taylor says thanks to blood donors
As Richard Williams sees it, part of him is now a super model. Model Niki Taylor visited the American Red Cross offices on Wednesday to meet a group of blood donors. The group was some of the 100 people who donated blood that ended up transfused into Taylor following a ...
Costumed characters race beds around Gwinnett Courthouse
The streets around the Gwinnett County Courthouse turned into a raceway Saturday as Family Promise of Gwinnett County hosted its fourth annual Bed Race. Two dozen teams participated in the race. The groups helped to raise funds for Family Promise, built beds, found a driver and four pushers and made ...
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