Wednesday surprise
Feb. 12 — Lately is Georgia Day, which marks the 1733 touchdown of explorer James Oglethorpe and a bunch of settlers at what’s now Savannah.
🌧️ Drizzle and 55° these days.
🔎 Spelman schoolteacher Joycelyn Nicole Wilson died over the weekend in a boating incident on Lake Oconee. Her better half, Gary Jones, a schoolmaster at Westminster Colleges, continues to be lacking.
⚖️ Warring parties of the development of a 12-court pickleball complicated on the Tucker Recess Heart are threatening legal action if the plan strikes ahead.
🚗 Dunwoody Town Council is discussing plans to pave an spare 10 miles of roads in 2025.
⚕️The Georgia Senate handed law Tuesday that may prevent surrounding condition insurance policy from paying for gender-affirming medical care.
🖥️ The Georgia Board of Regents voted to build the gadget’s first bachelor of science level in applied artificial intelligence at Center Georgia Shape College.
ELSEWHERE
➡ Marc Fogel, an American tutor imprisoned in Russia since 2021 for sporting scientific marijuana, returned home in a prisoner exchange.
📺 Tremendous Bowl LIX drew a record-breaking 127.7 million viewers throughout broadcast and streaming.
❄️ Two winter storms hit a dozen states, with Chicago bracing for its heaviest snowstorm this season.
PICTURE THIS: Monty, a vast schnauzer, received Best possible in Display on the Westminster Kennel Club’s 149th annual dog show at Madison Sq. Farmland. Bourbon the Whippet was once the runner-up.
🕖 Right here’s what’s in these days’s publication:
• The Regulars: Needy Hendrix
• Town Springs at JTF Atlanta
• LGBTQ+ rep at SCAD TVfest
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• Live performance Alternatives
Have a just right hour,
Collin & Sammie
📖 Secured award-winning journalist Dave Schechter as he discusses his unused keep, “A Life of the Party,” about his great-aunt’s struggles in the name of operating women and men as a Communist within the Twenties-50s. March 9, 1-4 p.m., Waller’s Coffee Shop in Decatur. SPONSOR MESSAGE
1. Meet the regulars of Needy Hendrix in East Puddle
🐶 The Regulars is the place we discover what it way to be a prevalent eating place patron. On this sequence, we’ll introduce you to on a regular basis Atlantans and native characters who’ve discovered a way of belonging and population at eating places and bars round the city and what assists in keeping those regulars coming again age then age.
When Jamie and Aaron Russell opened Needy Hendrix in 2016, they got down to build the extreme Atlanta community eating place. And the couple’s atypical East Puddle gastropub—named for his or her past due loved pit bull rescue—has change into simply that to a bunch of unswerving regulars who prevalent the comfortable eating spot for its laid-back vibe and compact menu of top-notch bar meals.
“We wanted it to be affordable for people to be able to come here on the regular, and we care about the details of food and service and beverage in a way that’s very approachable without pretension,” Aaron Russell mentioned.
🍻 Read the full column from Laura Scholz here.
O’Keeffe Departure Quickly
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Enjoy the daring, iconic paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe—that includes her admirable Big apple cityscapes and unforgettable Southwestern masterpieces. This unique exhibition received’t be right here without end. See it prior to it’s long past!
2. Town Springs Theatre Conservatory glows at Yongster Theatre Pageant
🎭 The Town Springs Theatre Conservatory’s Pre-Professional Corporate won awards and popularity on the 2025 Yongster Theater Pageant Atlanta.
Billed as the sector’s biggest birthday celebration of younger folk appearing musical theater, JTF Atlanta is an annual tournament the place yongster appearing teams from everywhere the rustic, or even across the world, advance to compete along one every other.
Town Springs Theatre Conservatory received the Excellence of their Adjudication Crew Award, and a lot of contributors received particular person awards as neatly. This was once the gang’s fourth day coming into the nationwide festival.
3. Recapping SCAD TVfest
📹 Contributor Jim Farmer and Sammie lined closing weekend’s thirteenth annual SCAD TVfest, the Atlanta birthday celebration of all issues tv. The pageant no longer simplest debuts a lot of sequence every day however all the time hosts a number of queer performers.
Some of the weighty attracts was once Laverne Cox, who attended in the name of the unused sequence “Clean Slate” and won the Affect Award. Cox, who won an Emmy nomination for her paintings at the sequence “Orange is the New Black,” no longer simplest stars within the Top Video providing however is an govt manufacturer.
Out actor, host, and manufacturer Antoni Porowski, one of the crucial Fab 5 of the modern day “Queer Eye,” is on TV once more with the unused display “No Taste Like Home.” Every other out actor provide was once Luke Macfarlane, of the Georgia-filmed Hallmark+ “Home is Where the Heart Is,” a house renovation sequence he hosts with Olivia Westbrooks.
📺 Learn our SCAD TVfest coverage here.
📚 Book up on books at unbeatable costs on the eleventh Annual Buddies of East Roswell Library Old Stock Sale, Feb. 13-23. Hundreds of titles to be had, and purchases backup necessary library systems. Click here for hours, location, and more details. SPONSOR MESSAGE
4. Live performance Alternatives
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LOOKING AHEAD
🎹 Jon Batiste’s The Maestro Tour is coming to the Fox Theatre on April 17. Tickets progress on sale this Friday at 10 a.m.
Wed., Feb. 12
🔥 Asim Azhar + AUR @ Terminal West
⭐ Michelle @ The Masquerade – Hell
🧨 The Backfires @ Vinyl
💞 Thuy @ Heart Degree
Thurs., Feb. 13
🎙️ Clergy Boys @ Ahavath Achim Synagogue
🎵 Father John Misty (pictured) @ The Jap
🌼 LAVAHI @ Roswell River Touchdown
😎 Mia Borders @ Buckhead Village
✨ Debbie Gibson @ Town Vineyard Atlanta
🎷 Gary Motley Trio + David Sánchez @ Schwartz Heart for Appearing Arts (Additionally Fri. and Sat.)
Fri., Feb. 14
🤯 Manic Focus @ Terminal West
💖 Vivian Sessoms @ The Velvet Observe (Also Sat.)
🍻 Hum Ripple @ Boggs Social
Sat., Feb. 15
🎺 The PR Experience @ Town Vineyard
🎼 Ranky Tanky @ Spivey Corridor
☠️ Joe Russo’s Almost Dead @ The Jap
🕶️ Akeem Ali + The Renaissance Orchestra + Payton Moore @ Selection Playhouse
🌙 Moon Walker @ Terminal West
Solar., Feb. 16
🕺 Greggie and the Jets @ Earl and Rachel Smith Strand Theatre
📻 Roman Street @ The Velvet Observe
😁 The Happy Hour @ Vinyl
🧨 TWO FRIENDS @ Coca-Cola Roxy
🌟 Joe Samba @ The Masquerade – Purgatory
Mon., Feb. 17
🎤 Songwriters open mic @ Eddie’s Storehouse
😂 Tim Heidecker + DJ Douggpound @ Terminal West
🎸 Cane Hill @ The Masquerade – Purgatory
🎶 Rick Springfield + Richard Marx @ Atlanta Symphony Corridor
Tues., Feb. 18
💀 Psyclon Nine @ The Masquerade – Purgatory
♨️ Super Carlin Brothers @ The Masquerade – Heaven
Wed., Feb. 19
🌸 Mxmtoon @ The Loft
TUNE IN
🎙️ Don’t omit Sammie with the AJC’s Mike Jordan each Thursday at 9:45 a.m. and four:45 p.m. as they preview the peak occasions on the town on WABE.
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