Theatre’s plan for new roof forces change in performance schedule. 7 Stages Theatre is saying goodbye to its leaky roof once and for all. The Atlanta-based theatre founded in 1979 announced in a press release Tuesday it’s getting a new roof and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system (HVAC). Faye Allen, the producing director for [...]
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Relapse Comedy Theatre temporarily setting up shop at Atlantic Station’s Geisha House space
Improv and standup comedy theatre opening second Midtown location. Relapse Comedy Theatre is opening an impromptu location at Atlantic Station. The improv and standup comedy threatre secured a short-term lease with the Midtown development for its second intown location, according to Starr Cumming, specialty leasing and sponsorship manager at Atlantic Station. Relapse will open at [...]
[Photo] Aerial shot of SkyHouse Luxury Apartment’s future Midtown site
Aerial Photography Inc. captures the location for Novare Group’s planned 23-story apartment high-rise. For more of Eaton’s aerial photography, click here. Related articles: Shocker: Novare Group to spend $34 million building 325,600-square-foot Midtown apartment highrise Architectural feud: Designer challenges Novare to a duel over its proposed Midtown apartment highrise 23-story ‘SkyHouse Luxury Apartments’ planned for [...]
Cavalia to take 210,000 pound dump on Midtown
The thrills, chills and spills of a 70-horse show forces company to adopt ‘horse manure management.’ After watching Cavalia-Odysseo’s show-stopping sequences that blend six foot two African acrobats, eye popping visuals and a magnificent equestrian ballet, a thought occurred to us: where does Cavalia put all the horse crap? Cavalia’s 100,000-square-foot big top tent soaring [...]
Lenox Square Mall spending $633K to demolish its main entrance
Buckhead shopping center plans redesign to create ‘more street level retail exposure.’ Lenox Square Mall is demoing its “porte cochere,” according to a permit filed with City of Atlanta Friday. The porte cochere being demoed at Lenox is the “drive-under canopy at the main entrance of the property (shown right), a company spokesperson told What [...]
Creative Loafing names What Now Atlanta favorite blog to follow on Twitter
Other Twitter favorites include ‘Mayor of Ponce,’ Big Boi and Lance Gummere. Creative Loafing (CL) released its Twitter issue yesterday. The newspaper questions whether or not “Twitter-friendly Atlanta” is actually one of America’s most wired cities, it its cover story. In other related Twitter headlines from Thursday’s issue, CL staffers picked What Now Atlanta as [...]
Suburbs are getting a giant indoor trampoline park, too!
Sky Zone coming to Suwanee this December, just months before Buckhead gets Hang Time. Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Park, an all-trampoline walled playing court, is opening an Atlanta area location. The indoor trampoline arena will open in Suwanee, at 560 Old Peachtree Road, Dec. 3, according to a press release. “We are very excited to [...]
Did Murphy’s Restaurant in Virginia-Highland force Midtown’s piano bar into last minute name change?
Why else would ‘Mirffee’s Den’ pick random letters to try and re-spell its name in the ugliest way possible? Just days before its opening Wednesday, Mirffee’s Den (originally spelled “Murphy’s”), has been busy switching signs, menus, receipt letterhead, etc., to reflect its recently changed name. The soon-to-open “sixties-style piano” bar, at 794 Juniper Street (formerly [...]
Thumbs Up Diner to start franchising locations for $27K
Are a handful of new “breakfast all day” diners in the city’s future? Thumbs Up Diner today announced in a press release, that it is officially franchising its concept. The diner that now has five locations in metro Atlanta and offers breakfast and lunch, got its start in Decatur in 1984. Thumbs Up is offering [...]
World of Coca, Fox Theatre, Varsity & seven other Atlanta landmarks are being immortalized in Lego bricks
Legoland Discovery Center announces 10 winning buildings for its Miniland city, made from the iconic plastic brick. Legoland, which is building its Discovery Center at Phipps Plaza in Buckhead, announced late last week, the ten Atlanta attractions that will appear at the theme park’s “Miniland” exhibit. The following 10 Atlanta icons will be featured, according [...]
Why Atlantic Station, Turner Field & others lost Cavalia’s 100,000-square-foot big top tent to Midtown parking lot
Folks behind Cavalia reveal process of securing land for Odysseo, a show combining performance and equestrian arts. Anyone traveling through Midtown during rush-hour traffic on the Downtown connector can’t help but notice, a big-ass tent, erected 125 feet in the air. It’s the world’s largest touring big top designed for a new show by Cavalia [...]
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