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Get pampered from head to toe with your true love. Take it easy in the relaxation room at Plumyumi Day Spa (2) before you are rejuvenated from a couple’s massage. 2860 Hwy 54 W. Ste 200, Peachtree City; 770-632-1212. 9 Main St. Ste 1, Senoia; 770-727-9450

Make your message obvious with this “Love” tote bag. The design is perfect from Valentine’s Day well through summer. Sugars Boutique (3) in Merle Norman, 272-A Bullsboro Dr., Newnan; 770-683-6375 8 With a walk-in humidor, Southern Cigar & Tobacco (4) allows you to pick out the perfect cigar for that special someone in your life. Cigars make a great gift for a relaxing evening out on the porch. 20 Baker Rd, Ste 1, Newnan; 770-252-7821

Indulge in all things sweet at Cutie Pies & Cakery (5). They specialize in custom cakes and have everything from cupcakes to cookies. Bring home a delicious dessert to share with your sweetheart. 48 Main St. Ste 1C, Senoia; 770-599-9588 3 7 5 Get creative and maybe a little messy too. Wren’s Nest Pottery (6) offers Date Night at the Studio, a workshop style class where couples’ make pieces on the wheel. $45 per person for a 2-hour class, supplies and tools included. 305 Johnson St, Hogansville; 706-616-3346

Entertain yourself for an evening with the arts. Purchase tickets to an upcoming performance or better yet surprise your Valentine with season tickets to the Black Box Theatre at Lafayette Society of Performing Arts (7). 214 Bull St., LaGrange; lsparts.org; 706-882-9909 6 10 Sip on a variety of Georgia-made wines with a complimentary wine tasting at the Warm Springs Vineyard & Winery (8). Take home a bottle of your favorite wine to savor with your one and only. 7227 Roosevelt Hwy, Warm Springs; 706-655-2233

Make dinner reservations at the Urban Foodie Feed Store (9). The former feed store has been transformed into an urban foodies’ delight with Southern cuisine on the menu. They offer a special $75 dinner for two to help you celebrate the special day. 3842 Main St., College Park; 404-209-7979

Get outside and enjoy the fresh air together with a hike in Pine Mountain, pack a picnic basket and blanket for a romantic lunch. FDR State Park (10) and Callaway Gardens (11) are full of Mother Nature’s beauty. Don’t forget a camera to capture the picture-perfect moments. 2970 GA- 190, Pine Mountain; 706-663-4858. 17800 US Hwy 27, Pine 2 11 4 Mountain; callawaygardens.com; 855-421-3254 February 2018 Visit us at 85southonline.com page 7 page 8 Visit us at 85southonline.com February 2018 Sma Bites

head to head for the title of “Waffle House From Columbus… Paul Bocuse I decided to take the spouse to If you think of The Brickhouse Grille, you Master Chef – while you enjoy your Columbus for a Sunday birthday brunch. think live entertainment, and Chef Patrick favorite Waffle House fixings, a Bloody We were recommended the Buckhead will create a special menu for Valentine’s Mary bar, Champagne, and cocktails! Steak & Wine located at 5010 Armour Day. Call in for reservation. 8. The World-Famous Azalea Road, 706-571-9995. It is a wonderful Garden - Would it really be a spring restaurant with a lovely bar and various From Pine Mountain… appreciation post without mentioning some rooms to choose from as to where to Sip & Savor Festival is coming to blooming beauties? Callaway Garden’s sit. They also have a great patio when Callaway Gardens March 15-18 and here world-famous azalea gardens are truly a the weather gets warmer. Their brunch are a few things that make it special: sight to behold and with over 20,000 native menu was a delight. I highly recommend 1. Callaway Resort & Gardens - Our and cultivated azaleas. their chicken and cake waffles, the best I friendly host has been the party-planner have ever tasted. Their twist on both the to spring-themed events since its very From Newnan… Prime Rib Benedict and the Crab Cajun beginnings. This year, our event is just one Hungry Howie’s is bringing flavored Benedict was really unique, we celebrated weekend of their month-long “Celebrate crust pizza to Newnan. The location will be In America we lost a great chef / the birthday with a delightful chocolate Spring!” in the space previously occupied by Cachet restaurateur in Palm Beach, Florida, mousse. Their brunch cocktail suggestion 2. The James Beard Foundation Classic Cleaners (390 Bullsboro Drive) on Norbert Goldner the man behind Café is also very tasty. We had a great time, they Dinner - What happens when James Beard the end cap of the Publix Shopping center. L’Europe. He not only was a great are children friendly and look forward to Foundation award-winning chefs and Sip Expect their opening at the end of February. proprietor with an impeccable restaurant, going back for dinner. & Savor come together? A one-of-a-kind always full of flowers and great food and an On another day I had a meeting gourmet evening featuring a multi-course In Memoriam… award-winning wine list, he was also very downtown, so we went to what is the dinner and sommelier-selected wines. It is with sadness I announce that the active in the industry, one of the founders morning gathering place in downtown 3. Pine Mountain - The home to our world lost one of the greatest French Chefs, of Distinguished Restaurants of North Columbus – The Iron Bank Coffee host offers all visitors the quintessential the one who revolutionized French cuisine America and winner of all the awards in the Company at 6 West 11th Street; 706-992- small-town friendliness we pride ourselves and made “chef” a desired profession. Paul industry. He will be missed and is survived 6609. A grand setting with very high ceiling on here in the south. The town’s center Bocuse, known as the chef of kings and by his wife and partner Lydia. She will lighted by assorted chandeliers. Assorted is lined with antique shops, boutiques, the king of chefs, died in his hometown be taking over the helm of the wonderful coffees are offered as well as breakfast and local eateries for a relaxing, inviting of Lyon at 94 after a long battle with venue. pastries. They also offer lunch. afternoon stroll. Parkinson’s. He is the teacher of great chefs While in Columbus we discovered 4. Bloom Masterclass Series - Brews, like Daniel Boulud and Jean George just an amazing liquor and wine store called biscuits and bourbon are just a few of our to name a few. There will never be another Uptown Wine and Spirits at 138 favorite things at these three-class series. Bocuse, he was the greatest. Broadway, 706-221-5074. Pat Daniel With some courses led by Nathalie Dupree carries the largest selection of French wines and Cynthia Graubert, you’ll learn from the and brown spirits that I have seen this side best—all with a drink in your hand! Paul Bocuse of 85 South. If you enjoy good wines and 5. Tastings Under the Big Top - Bourbon stop by and visit this beautiful Beverages, bites, and vendors galore! The store. main event will satisfy all taste buds with Insta-worthy food and drink, celebrity chef From LaGrange… demos, cookbook authors, and interactive We are happy to announce The Cart Barn showcases. 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1 2 3 4 5 Is it ‘Love is Food’ or Is It in dopamine, which induces feelings of enjoy a night of haggis and whole roasted centuries has been considered sensuous. pleasure. meats. These nights were a celebration Another factor could be the fruit are loaded ‘Food is Love’? Some may associate food and romance of Burns’ life and poetry but also made a with Vitamin E which is said to provide a By Janet Flanigan as ideas from contemporary culture, but political statement. Burns felt people were youthful vitality. It has been said that the notorious the association between food and love celebrating and dining too indulgently and th 18 -century Italian lover Casanova (1) dates to the beginning of mankind and is luxuriously. He thought life’s pleasures Banana (6) ~ With their “suggestive” consumed 50 oysters each morning to found the world over. As evidence to man’s could and should be found more simply, shape, bananas may implicitly represent increase his sexual stamina! Asparagus earliest days, figs figure prominently in the such as enjoying simply prepared meals sex. But they also contain bromelain, which was cultivated by the early Greeks and story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of (such as Haggis). This practice has become some doctors suggest triggers testosterone Arabs for both its sexually suggestive shape Eden. Interestingly, the fig symbolized both a national tradition and a special time to production. Bananas also have potassium th and stimulant properties. The 17 -century sexuality (ripe seed representing fertility) join with friends and loved ones. and vitamin B which can elevate energy botanist Nicholas Culpepper wrote that and modesty (the fig leaf was used to cover But for those more interested levels. asparagus “stirreth up bodily lust in man private parts). In a more practical scientific specifically in foods which may enhance and woman.” sense, figs are full of potassium and love and romance, there are plenty of foods Cherries (7) ~ A so-called “super fruit”, Foods and other supplements which antioxidants, useful for health and vitality. that naturally help boost romantic feelings, cherries are packed with vitamins A, C and are used to enhance romance and desire are The love-food connection need not sexual performance and desire. A fabulous E, potassium, magnesium, folate, iron and known as “aphrodisiacs” and are named specifically refer to romantic love. It Valentine’s Day menu could be composed more which boost health and happiness. for Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, can also represent love for friends and from some of the best known “love” beauty and fruitfulness. family. Chinese Chef Ching-He Huang foods listed below. Even if romance isn’t Coffee ~ The caffeine in coffee is a Food and love. Are there two subjects says “centuries-old ‘lucky’ food traditions in the cards, a healthier body and mind is stimulant that raises the heart rate and on which more words have been written? come from superstitions about feeding the definitely something we can all love! blood flow. One study (albeit done Maybe so, but that doesn’t mean we can’t spiritual world (ancestors), legends and of female rats) was published in the contribute a few more. In many ways, history.” He continues “It’s a celebration Arugula ~ According to the website journal Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and food and love go hand-in-hand. Love as of past, present and future. A big family gourmetsleuth.com, the peppery-tasting Behavior and suggested that coffee could nourishment; food carefully prepared is an gathering is a great excuse to eat great food. arugula has been used as an aphrodisiac increase the feminine desire for sex. expression of love. Virginia Woolf wrote Eating is a social occasion in China because since the first century A.D. From a “One cannot think well, love well, sleep Chinese food is cooked in a way that is scientific perspective, the minerals and Honey (8) ~ Another aphrodisiac dating well, if one has not dined well.” specifically for sharing (love), with lots of antioxidants can help block environmental to ancient times, honey was prescribed by When talking food and love, mankind dishes at the dinner table.” One food that contaminants that might harm libido. Hippocrates for sexual vigor. In ancient has for centuries equated specific foods symbolizes family unity is a whole chicken. Persia, newlyweds for one month drank with love and sexual satisfaction. With Whole roasted animals represent fidelity. Artichoke ~ Its love-enhancing reputation a daily brew of Mead (a honey-based Valentine’s Day on the horizon, you may For dessert, sweet steamed cakes are eaten may be mostly about the intimacy of alcoholic drink) to ensure a “successful” wish to consider incorporating certain foods for their round shape (family reunion) and sharing an artichoke, pulling off leaves honeymoon period. In fact, the term in a special meal to enhance those loving their sweetness is for a rich, sweet life. one-by-one, ultimately revealing the heart. “honeymoon” is a reference to this practice feelings. In Scottish culture, other animal However, artichokes are packed with of drinking mead during the first month of The late humorist and writer Nora parts are revered for communal dining vitamins and anti-oxidants are known to aid marriage. On a more scientific note, honey Ephron once quipped “I have made a lot of and celebration. Haggis (3), the national the libido. contains boron and vitamin B, which may mistakes falling in love, and regretted most dish of Scotland and popularized by poet regulate hormone levels and nitric oxide, of them, but never the potatoes that went Robert Burns (4) (“Ode to a Haggis” Asparagus ~ In addition to the which is released during arousal. Honey is with them.” So, no matter the state of your [5]), thought by some to have originated aforementioned shape references to one of the best foods to boost testosterone. current love life, a good meal can always in China. Others attribute its origins by asparagus spears, it is an excellent source lift the spirits. the Vikings, the Dutch or the English. Not of folic acid. Folic acid elevates histamines Oysters (9) ~ All those raw oysters Most people are familiar with the matter its origin now belongs to Scotland. which can help increase the sex experience. consumed by Casanova may have had some idea of Chocolate Dipped Strawberries (2) Haggis is prepared by taking finely However, for a certain percentage of the basis in science. Scientists have found as a sensual treat for lovers. But did you chopped heart, lungs and meat trimmings population, the scent of urine after eating raw oysters really are aphrodisiacs as they know there is science behind the recipe? from a lamb, and mixing it with onion, asparagus is quite foul. So, pros and cons are rich in rare amino acids that trigger Strawberries are packed with vitamin oatmeal and spices. This mixture is placed should be considered! increased levels of sex hormones for both C which helps with blood flow to all in a sheep’s stomach and boiled for several men and women. regions of the body. And chocolate is not hours. But in no matter the origin, in Avocado ~ This fruit has had a reputation just sensual in its taste and aroma. Dark 1801, Burns began an annual tradition as an aphrodisiac dating back to the Aztecs. Pomegranate ~ The fruit’s ruby red seeds, chocolate has been shown to cause a spike of gathering friends and loved ones to Avocados have a pear shape, which for encased in a hard, rose husk, are loaded February 2018 Visit us at 85southonline.com page 11

with anti-oxidants. “The Male Clinic” in prepare a love menu containing some of the Beverly Hills, California undertook a study foods in this list and see if they do enhance which showed pomegranate juice had a romantic feelings. The simple act of positive effect on erectile disfunction. preparing and sharing the meal should be an aphrodisiac in and of itself. As the greatest Watermelon ~ The website sciencedaily. all food writers M. F. K. Fisher once said, com claims that watermelon, the ‘lycopene “Sharing food with another human being is king’, may have a Viagra-like effect on an intimate act that should not be indulged the body as it relaxes blood vessels and in lightly.” If that doesn’t speak to you, improves circulation. maybe these words from George Bernard Shaw will: “There is no sincerer love than Whether or not these foods really do the love of food.” enhance the love life, a poll conducted by yourtango.com found that 75% of its readers considered preparing food for another person a “significant act of love.” This Valentine’s Day, you may wish to page 12 Visit us at 85southonline.com February 2018 Dining Out

1 2 3 4 Dining in Peachtree City Pasta? Enjoy classic Alfredo, Marinara, Part 1 of 2 Bolognese or a Penne Alla Vodka. Subs and By B.J. Bruin build your own Calzones! Get creative with Peachtree City, chartered March 9, 1959, the Calzones, so many choices of fillings. was developed as a collection of villages. And of course specialty Pizzas such as Starting with Aberdeen there is Braelinn, Mohegan Sun Casino, Jennifer’s Favorite or Glenloch, Kedron and Wilksmoor. And Cousin Gus’s Breakfast Pizza. Dine In- Take despite its small-town feel, Peachtree City Out- Delivery or catering. Mangiare! Tues.- has a global dining atmosphere. You can go Thurs. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.- Due South, be in the Star of India or soon, 10 p.m.; Sundays 12 a.m.-9 p.m.; Monday Goto Japanese. So let’s hop in our golf cart Closed. No Alcohol. $$ (2870 Hwy. 54; and wind our way up and down the paths 678-364-8799; christospizzaptc.com). past hills, trees and lakes … Let’s eat! Viet’s Cuisine Grazing Here Enjoy Khai Vi (appetizers) such as various 5 6 Call for the Valentine’s Special! What Pork, Chicken, Tofu and Shrimp egg rolls or Chá Giò; large selection of Spring Rolls. a fun, exciting, active venue! Come to Ravioli. Enjoy a Lamb Kebab or a Gyro Great Grilled Pork, Chicken or Combo Pascal’s Bistro graze on 100% grass-fed beef or free- Plate. There’s a kids menu. They offer a Sandwiches. Try the Grilled Stuffed Beef- Call for the Valentines Special!! range chicken and enjoy the bar, the grill great selection of Subs such as Athena’s Jalapeño appetizer. Phò of all sorts; steak, Delicious American cuisine with a French and the farm with the ultimate focus of Sub or a Chicken Parmesan Sub. And tripe, meatball, brisket and flank. Many Twist! A true culinary treat! Where else sustainability. Eat, drink, dance, sing and save room for dessert; Galaktobouriko Rice Dishes including Grilled Lemongrass can you get Corvina Matecumbe or Goat be merry is the atmosphere of this very or Baklava. Catering Menu available. Chicken, Wok-seared Shaking Beef Steak. Cheese and Sun-Dried Tomato Stuffed happening pub. Come for live music of all Mon.-Thurs. 11 a.m.-8 p.m., Fri. & Sat. 11 Specials include: Green Curry of chicken, Cream Puffs? But let’s start with lunch. types, Karaoke and music trivia. Enjoy a a.m.-9 p.m., Sundays 11 a.m.-8 p.m. No beef, shrimp or tofu. There’s a sizzling Clay- There’s a very large create your own pasta full menu of burgers with so many build Alcohol. $. (2731 Hwy 54; 770-632-7232; pot special or the Vietnamese Crepe Cake dish offering: Pasta’s, Meat’s, Veggies your own choices or enjoy a Lil Dare or a athenaspizzaptc.com) with Pork, Chicken, Shrimp or Mushroom and Sauces. For Appetizers enjoy classic Clod Hopper! So many classic appetizers. Bistro, Wedge salads or Fried Calamari Try the Jonalulu Chicken. There are dogs, and Tofu. There’s Fine-Rice Vermicelli Due South Southern Cuisine and Grilled Jumbo Shrimp. Many offerings or a great Tomato Mozzarella Salad. wraps, loaded potatoes and entrée salads. Call for the Valentines Special! Quite a There are Artesian Sandwiches; Turkey There’s a Wee Dare or Wee Rooster, among of Bun, Soft, White or Crispy Noodle culinary history brings a Culinary Olympic dishes such as Crispy Fried Bird’s Nest Cranberry Sandwich, Chicken Pesto Panini many for wee ones under 12. Stay for Chef Due South to PTC! Enjoy a first and Grilled Shrimp sandwiches. Enjoy a evening fun and enjoy dinner entrees from Egg Noodles. The menu is large and very plate of Buffalo Gator Tail or Pulled Pork yummy! Tues.-Sun. 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Lobster Cake Salad or a Buffalo Chicken Ribeye Steaks to Classic Crab Cakes. Enjoy Eggrolls or Deviled Eggs with candied Salad. Can’t decide? Have a combo- soup a full bar with a wide range of signature Monday Closed; No Alcohol; $ (2828 W. Bacon. Between the Bread offers Pork Bahn Hwy. 54; 770-487-2494; vietscuisine.com) and salad or soup and sandwich. For Dinner cocktails! Grill and Bar Hours: Mon. Mi, Fish Tacos and Crab Cake Sandwiches. appetizers include Musses and a Goat & Tues. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. (bar Last Call), Athena’s Pizzeria & Greek Salads and Soups? Try the Superfood Black Cheese and Portobello Mushroom Crostini. Wed. & Sat. 11 a.m.-Last Call, Sun. 11 Bean Salad or the Shrimp & Crawfish Entrees of Steak Au Poivre, Roasted Ranch a.m.-9 p.m. (bar Last Call). Beer, Wine & Cuisine Salad or the Charleston She Crab Soup. For “Καλός ήρθατε και καλή σας όρεξη!!” of Lamb, Salmon en Papillote, Baked Spirits. $$. (2808 Hwy 54; 770-486-2696; main plates enjoy Blackened Shrimp and Appetizers and Side: Onion Rings Feta Stuffed Flounder, Cioppino Bistro, and grazinghere.com) Grits, Grilled Cauliflower Plate or Potato Fries, and Greek Style Meatballs, Feta Beer Bourguignon. But make sure you Wrapped Salmon. Choose sides that include Saganaki, Pita Chips, Mezes, Gyro Nachos leave room for sweets! Classic Crème Christo’s Pizzeria and Restaurant Chef’s Grits of the Day. Dinner adds Goat and Spanakopita. Looking for a great Brulee! Lunch: Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. A Place to Wine and a Place to Dine! Cheese and Country Ham Stuffed Chicken pizza? Choose from Philly Philly, BBQ Dinner: Mon.-Sat. 5 p.m.-9 p.m. Closed Come enjoy true spirit di famiglia! True or Pan-Seared Duck Breast or a Grilled Chicken, Spartan, Aegean, Mediterranean, Sundays. $$ (217 Commerce Dr.; Italian food! 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Finishes For a special treat, present her with citrus-fragrant aroma makes CAMPARI suggested retail. Anjou is a wine region with tangy, austere, medium dry crispness Italian Fiorente Elderflower Liqueur, a an extremely versatile base in countless near Saumur famous for light and fruity satisfying and good. Sells $14.99-$15.99. bouquet of flowers and a good Prosecco! cocktails. 24% alcohol. Outside the U.S. rose wines. Ultimate Distributors. Elderflowers are small white European it is bottled with soda water, sold as a soft wildflowers harvested only during a two- drink, a beverage one can easily duplicate Two brilliant Italian sparklers—my “go-to” And A Hint of Chocolate… three week period as buds peak. Flowers at home using the same ingredients and Valentines wines—Rotari Brut 2013 and Gordon Estates “Tradition” 2014 are immediately crushed, those incredible an ice-filled glass. Invented in 1919 for Rotari Brut Rose 2013 share a common Columbia Valley Red Wine blends flavors distilled and blended with neutral an Italian Count named Negroni, the heritage of pillow-soft and thick foamy cabernet sauvignon, merlot, malbec and spirits giving Fiorente truly stellar floral classic CAMPARI Negroni Cocktail mousse—a blanket of bubbles lingering petit verdot. The finest, most expressive aromatics, a silky, syrupy mouth feel. mixes one jigger (each) of CAMPARI in the goblet. Flavors are equally soft with barrels of each were selected, blended, Amazingly complex honey/floral/cane red vermouth and gin stirred with ice and light yeast notes and aromas, full-mouth and collectively aged for 22 months. One syrup tastes are accented by fresh mint garnished with a fruit slice. Ladies will roundness, and profiles more demi-sec than experiences a vibrant and broadly textured and sweet lemons. Put a couple of ice love an equally delicious but less alcoholic true Champagne Brut. Creamy because mix of dark cherries, cassis, plums, blended cubes in a cocktail mixer, shake and serve COMPARI Orange Cocktail: three parts of on-lees aging both in steel tanks and amid well-integrated tannins that tightly Fiorente in a martini glass. For a Fiorente fresh squeezed orange juice over ice with in-bottles, Rotari Brut is 100% stainless lock up a smoky herbal off-dry finish. Fizz Cocktail, mix in a glass of ice one one part CAMPARI. Empire Distributors. steel fermented chardonnay loaded with “Tradition” is a not-to-be-missed! PRIME part (each) of Fiorente, Prosecco and soda $29.99 at Georgia World of Beverages in ripe sweet apple and pineapple flavors. Wine & Spirits. Suggested retail $29.99. water, sip it garnished with two thick lime Fairburn. Rotari Brut Rose is a pale pink blend pinot wedges and a sprig of fresh mint! United noir and chardonnay, predominated by Devoid of names or printed label lettering, Distributing. Retails $19.99-$22.99. California’s Humboldt Distillery produces pinot grape tastes of fresh cranberries and the black and white photograph on the Humboldt’s Finest Cannabis Sativa strawberries. The two rate my four (out front of a bottle of Owen Roe Winery A spectacular liqueur from France’s Infused Vodka, a triple-distilled organic of five) stars. Atlanta Wholesale Wine “The Kilmore” Pinot Noir 2015 pictures Saumur Region, Jean-Baptiste Combier vodka with a 0.3 percent THC made with suggests $15.99 per bottle. a stone-sculpted doorway at a Medieval Liqueur D’ Orange is a clear white liquid legally grown marijuana. At 40 percent Irish Abby. From Oregon’s Yamhill-Carlton in a frosted white bottle that, were it not for alcohol, it is a booze not a pot buzz Quilt 2015 Napa Valley Chardonnay is a AVA, tastes are richly thick and focused the label, gives no hint of the velvety rich drinker’s experience. When you smell those medium bodied, silky-satin textured quaff with dusty black cherries, mocha and an candied orange lushness in the 40 percent hemp aromas wafting from a glass the odor that seems like a dessert chardonnay but it almost cabernet sauvignon-like black alcohol drink. Flavors offer up nuances of Mary Jane is unmistakable. Georgia is not. The ultra-plush pale yellow liquid current and blackberry nuance that expands of soft buttery caramel and a wonderful Crown Distributing. Suggested retail rolls with fresh apple, honey dew melons in the medium dry finish. 3.5 (out of five) alcohol warmth that hugs the body. Dried $26.99. and tropical fruits—principally lemon curd stars for excellent drinkability. Quality orange peels, steeped in a neutral alcohol and fresh crisp pineapple—along with Wine & Spirits. Retails approximately distilled from sugar beets, are then triple More Valentine’s Day a delicious buttery salted caramel finish $42.99 distilled in 175-year-old copper alembics Recommendations making Quilt completely different from to produce it. Enjoy sips straight either A nice rose or sparkling wine always any other chardonnay. Empire Distributors. From California, The Calling Russian chilled or at room-temperature. For a bright guarantees to please a lover’s heart, $29.99 suggested retail. River Valley Pinot Noir 2014 is a warm, red Valentines Day Cocktail, the Combier especially if accompanied with flowers and medium-bodied and slightly dry pinot Cosmo, mix 1 oz. cranberry juice, ½ oz. of fine chocolates. Contrasting Old versus New World wine offering tastes of dark cherries, chocolate Combier with 1½ oz. of citrus vodka and making styles, 2016 Domaine Pral and coffee along with noticeable herbal juice of half fresh squeezed lime. 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Fight for the Fairytale something very special about holding out of style. truth, that was the highlight of my trip. Turn ehands. Page It is a very simple act that says so Never let anything fester. If you’re One week after David and Sarah say Marriage. A civil, social and legal th institution under which two consenting much. It speaks to the heart and defines angry, be angry – and talk about the reasons I do, Mark and I will celebrate our 34 adults establish a life-long relationship the connection. Hugging is a beautiful you feel the way you feel. When you argue wedding anniversary. Thirty-four happy, based on love and commitment. sentiment and, I believe, identifies trust. – fight fair. Words are powerful. Beautiful busy, messy, crazy years. I recently read In less than one month my son David Researchers have studied hugging and words heal and protect and give you a people get married because someone takes is getting married. These days I’m busy believe the act may starve the common hundred reasons why your relationship or the time to make us feel like the most finalizing the rehearsal dinner menu, cold. Kissing stimulates saliva production marriage is worth fighting for. Ugly words important person in their life . . . and we designing centerpieces, and searching for that washes away harmful bacteria and cut, leave scars, and wound the heart. stay married for the exact same reason. the perfect pair of cobalt blue heels for keeps your mouth clean. Believe it or Avoid looming over the things your “Unless it’s mad, passionate, or the night before the wedding. I’ve been not, dentists say locking lips can prevent partner used to do, and concentrate on extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your working on a memorable story for my tooth decay. Kissing also lowers the stress their actions that bring happiness. See time. There are too many mediocre things daughter to read and a beautiful toast for producing hormone, cortisol, and many your glass half full, rather than half empty. in life; love shouldn’t be one of them.” our celebratory dinner – a message I hope studies support the idea that kissing reduces Compliment your partner every day and (Author Unknown) he never forgets. As I outlined what I hoped allergy symptoms. Kiss every day like your thank them for the little things they do. And Let today be the start of something to convey, I kept coming back to the same life depends on it. Because it does. if there’s something you need from your new. Believe in romance. Believe in love. few words. Romance. Kissing. Affirm. Go on weekly dates. Remember, even partner, ask. If you need your partner to be And be happy this year! Love. Comfort. Friendship. Heart. Soul if you’re married, you still need to date. more affectionate, ask. If you need your mate. And one question for my son and Keep a list of places and activities your partner to spend a more time with you, ask. B.A. Dillon, lives in Tampa, Florida and is a future daughter-in-law. Why did you choose partner mentions they’d love to see and Strengthen the art of conversation. dedicated middle school counselor who earned Sarah to be your wife? Why did you choose do and surprise them on some random Discuss the news. Talk with your partner her BS in Education from George Mason David to be your husband? Saturday. Have a picnic on the floor with about work or your friends. Become University and a MS in School Counseling You see, I believe in romance. Great, the doors open while it rains. Hang out at an active listener as well because there at Argosy University. Dillon currently has six big, mushy heartfelt love stories. your favorite coffee shop and read a book is nothing worse than a one-sided books (The Time Series) available through Romance is the most necessary and together. Set dates and anticipate them with conversation. Amazon and Createspace. “Be Happy This undervalued component in marriage. And excitement. Dress up and look your best. Learn something new together. Take Year”, Dillon’s first non-fiction book, is now I believe the lack of true romance is the Set the stage as if you are trying to impress dance lessons or check out the museum’s available in paperback through Amazon. catalyst for the demise of love. Want to the way you did at the beginning of the latest exhibit. If you look back on your life, keep the excitement and romance alive in relationship. Be creative with the time you you probably connected with your partner Follow B.A. Dillon your marriage? The key is to treat your have together. over something you experienced together @BADillon520 and @gonereadin (Twitter) relationship like a new romance every Write old-fashioned love letters. for the first time. Those experiences create AuthorBADillon (Instagram) single day. Here’s how. There’s nothing like the power of words. closeness. Mark and I met at the softball B.A. Dillon (Goodreads) First, take advantage of new Many years ago, my husband wrote me fields in Washington, D.C. We continued B.A. Dillon (Facebook) technology by texting and sending e-cards a letter and surprised me by sending it to support each other through our love of B.A. Dillon (Pinterest) often. Let’s face it. The world is a busy through the mail. Early in our marriage sports and our games became our dates Badillon.com place and many couples may have trouble while raising our first child, I returned to during our first years together. We both finding time to connect during the work school to earn a second degree. I took my worked and spent a lot of time on D.C.’s week. Letting your partner know you’ve last final with my daughter resting in my beltway. In our early years, playing sports been thinking about them by keeping arms. Mark was so proud of me, he took helped us stay healthy and socially active. in touch throughout the day keeps the the time to tell me exactly that. The idea Show your love in small ways. I connection alive into the evening and that my husband would sit and attempt to love getting notes from both my kids and weekend. convey his feelings through words was not husband. When I traveled to Jacksonville Next, hold hands, hug and kiss only a heart-warming gesture, but one that for my first book signing, I found a note often. Nothing is as good for the soul and can be renewed over again through each from both my husband and son tucked emotional health as physical touch. There’s reread. And I have reread his words many inside my briefcase. I felt their support even times. Hand-written love letters never go though they were a hundred miles away. In

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Dear Marylou: Having watched Dear E.R.: First, the definition. the Golden Globe Awards and the black Cultural anthropologists define erogenous dressesCl worn in celebrationoeslines of the Time’s zones as those areas of the female body Up message against sexual harassment and which men find sexually arousing and inequality, I would like to know how the which women alter or adorn to attract the Little Black Dress originated and why I did male eye. not see one at the event. – M.M., Cleveland, Women may not have enhanced their Oh. derrieres to attract the male eye, but the Dear M.M.: Great question! I current rear view enlargement is, to me, the wondered the same thing. Maybe it was latest erogenous zone. A little background too understated to merit the red carpet? here: Whatever… Erogenous zones vary from culture Coco Chanel is widely credited with to culture and over time. Asian men are the modern template of the little black said to prize the nape of the neck, while dress, now known as LBD. That was in Europeans have been famous for their 1926. But Hubert de Givenchy’s dress fixation on the waist. In defiance of for Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at common sense, the genitals rarely become Tiffany’s”, illustrated here erogenous zones, suggesting by Donfeld, is the one that suggestion is more arousing most memorialized. then exposure. Historically, you James Laver, the late could trace the black great costume curator of the dress—not necessary little Victoria and Albert Museum in and now thanks to the London, swore that you could Golden Globes The Big trace all mega-trends to the Black Dress—to the one shifting center of erotica—from created for widows, who, the breast culture of the Jane until the end of the l9th Russell ’50s to the thigh-rise of Century, were expected to the Mary Quant ’60s to the re- wear nothing but black for emerging breast fetishes of the years after their husband’s Madonna ’90s and 2000s, to the passing. buns, buttocks and backsides of As art historian Anne today. Hollander wrote in 1984: If bottoms are not at the top “The little black dress of the fashion curve, I say legs may effectively go to a split to the thigh (to me, now formal dinner, a lovers’ a cliché) and necklines slit to tryst, a funeral, a wild “there” are close runners-up. party or a committee meeting. A woman may teach school in it Dear Marylou: In your answer and worship God in it, or seduce, entrance, regarding appropriation you did not betray and take revenge in it. Skins of all mention the influence of the workplace on tints and all ages are flattered by black, as fashion. Please comment. – B.Y., Denver, are all eyes and all hair.” Colo. But for the first time to my knowledge, Dear B.Y.: You’re right. I believe that the LBD, now the BBD, has become a the equality of the workplace has affected fashion-focused political statement. Black the equality of clothes. As more women is definitely the new black. Not Republican lead the same business lives as men, red or Democrat blue, but gender-fluid the more clothes for those shared needs black. become less sex-specific. That said, the current #Me Too movement would seem to Dear Marylou: Given the Hollywood make showing your femininity—whatever push to wearing black, are there other big that means—a new political statement—at fashion messages for 2018 attributed to work and at play. Or: Ta-da! Maybe the Hollywood? – J.O., Luthersville, Ga. next expression of the erogenous zone is Dear J.O.: Perhaps the most Emily Ratajkowki’s toplessness for her hair impressive contribution comes from brand ambassadress role in Kerastase ads. Marlon Brando’s jeans, T-shirts and motorcycle jackets in “The Wild One.” (Marylou welcomes questions for use in They’re Screen Gems, they’re Paramount this column, but regrets she cannot answer in today’s fashion lineup and still 20th mail personally. Send your questions to Century-Fox-y in 2018. Clotheslines in care of this publication.) ©2018, International Fashion Syndicate Dear Marylou: What is today’s erogenous zone? And who coined the idea? – E.R., Newark, NJ. February 2018 Visit us at 85southonline.com page 21

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Talk About East Point… fireplace and brought the crews hot Talk About Peachtree City… Super Bowl Party and Chili Cook Off for OpulenceThe Nail Boutique Talk opened in East chocolate About TownFairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott everyone to come and see the big game on Point, a luxurious beauty bar & boutique. - Former Public Works employee and opened to much fanfare. The the big screen. It offers nail services, pedicures, facials, Hogansville resident Will Driver left 81-room Fairfield Inn & Suites Atlanta lashes, eyebrow wax & tint and more. his dinner table and drove to the scene Peachtree City hotel recently opened its The Tyrone Poole 38 Foundation is proud There is an adorable boutique that carries to identify water main cutoff valves that location at 295 Highway 74 North. Hotel to make LaGrange, Georgia the 2018 Happy Everything by Laura Johnson gifts, were never documented on the city’s water amenities include an outdoor swimming site for this Father-Daughter Dance on picture frames and unique merchandise. distribution maps pool, an exercise room, valet, laundry February 10 at the Mike Daniels Recreation Owner Charis Trench-Simmons is also an - And resident Alex Abraham made a service, complimentary Wi-Fi & breakfast, Center. Tyrone is a former LaGrange High OB/Gyn. Visit opulencenailboutique.com. special run to McDonald’s at about 10 p.m. as well as fax and copy services. A shuttle Granger and 2X Super Bowl Champion. He (3523 Camp Creek Parkway, Suite 20, East and purchased hamburgers and coffee for is available to the guests within a 5 mile believes that relationships are key to any Point; 770-674-0631). the entire crew, despite having to get up at radius. The hotel also offers a 231 square type of success. The relationship between 4 a.m. the next morning to head to work at foot conference room. the father and daughter will determine Talk About Newnan… the Atlanta airport the success of her future relationship. Please join us in the Newnan High School Wow! In my 10+ years of managing Peachtree City is hosting their Wine Festival Tyronepoole38foundation.org Auditorium on Monday, February 12, city government, never have I witnessed 2018 Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 5 p.m. 2018 at 6:30 p.m. to hear the amazing such an outpouring of love from a Invite your friends! Gen. Admission for 21+ Curated by Jontavious Willis for Pure Life community, especially given the number of up, $45. Taste dozens of wines from all over Studios - Frankie’s Blues Mission takes homes who were without water. For that, I the world! Includes entertainment, unlimited the stage February 10. Their purpose is to say “Thank You” for showing so much love tastings and souvenir glass! Peachtree City present the blues, jazz, R&B and zydeco in to our Public Works Crews. And cribbing Dixie Wing Museum 1200 Echo Ct. the best of the African-American tradition from the U.S. Postal Service, “Neither with all the energy they can muster. snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night Talk About Pine Mountain… stays these” dedicated Public Servants Callaway Lodge has a Romance Package This Valentine’s Day weekend, on who take so much pride in their work to for Valentines! It includes accommodations, February 10, Cupid has some competition make Hogansville the great place it is to champagne /strawberries, Gardens as Wild Leap Brew Co. is pulling out all live, work and play. Thank You, City of admission and dinner for two at Gardens of the stops as they present their Red Light Hogansville! Restaurant, prix fixe menu. Weekends Green Light Party. story of Brigadier General (Retired) before /after Feb 9, 10 and 16, 17 and Steve Ritchie, 555th Triple Nickel Fighter Congratulations to both of these teachers of course Valentine’s Day. Cupid highly West Georgia Farmers Cooperative is Squadron. He was the ONLY Air Force for making Hogansville Elementary’s recommends adding on a couples massage hosting its 4th Annual Small Farm and Ace of the Vietnam War. Read more about teachers of the month. Mrs. Kathryn at our award-winning spa! Agriculture Conference on February 14 him at www.generalsteveritchie.com. Soto is Hogansville Elementary’s January at Callaway Conference Center. This year’s This event is hosted by the Newnan High Teacher of the Month. This is her third year Talk About LaGrange… event is special as two concurrent tracks School History Dept. and is free and open at Hogansville Elementary School. She is By Munira Fidahussein are distinctly designed for the interests of to the public. For more info contact Steve an early intervention reading (System 44) farmers/producers and the general public. Quesinberry at Stephen.quesinberry@ teacher for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. She LaGrange Mayor Jim Thornton met cowetaschools.net. graduated in 2013 with a Bachelor’s degree with President Donald Trump where Make your reservations today at in Early Childhood Education and in 2014 he addressed Infrastructure & Law Brickhouse Grille for The Andrews Talk About Hogansville… with a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Enforcement Issues. LaGrange was one Brothers Dueling Pianos. If you have seen I could not help but reprint this letter Instruction. Mrs. Soto believes the most of a cross-country multi-town tour for them before you know you will want to get from the city manager David A. Milliron: rewarding part of her job is watching the president. your seats reserved early. The show starts at “Thank You, City of Hogansville! students self-confidence grow and their 8:30 p.m., Saturday, February 17. Last night, while trying to fix a water academic performance improve. This year’s annual dinner for the Boys & main break on Marshall Avenue amid Ms. Kardoes graduated from the Girls Club of LaGrange – Hogansville Join the Choral Society of West Georgia, sub-freezing temperatures, you showed so University of West Georgia in 2016 with will be held Thursday, February 22 at The Auburn Knights Orchestra and much love to our Public Works Crews that her Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Del’avant with social hour and silent Carol Cain as Rosie the Riveter in a embodies why this town is truly ‘The City Education. This is her second year at auction at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. The wonderful night of nostalgic music and of Friendly People.’ Our dedicated public Hogansville Elementary and she teaches featured guest is Brooks Robinson, Hall dance. Victory Through Harmony - Songs servants had already put in a long day when Pre-K. What she loves most about her job is of Fame 3rd Baseman for the Baltimore That Won The War on February 24 at the they were alerted at about 3 p.m. Thursday Orioles. There will also be a Live Auction Callaway Conference Center. www.cswg. to a water main break in the 100 block of for a seven-night all-inclusive stay at the weebly.com. Marshall Avenue. By midnight – with the Villas of Costa Rica in Villa Escondido. assistance of Crawford Grading & Pipeline, Individual tickets are $50. LaGrange College 3D Journey Lecture: Inc. – the leak was repaired, traffic cones Central Europe continues on February setup, equipment packed and transported Still a couple of weeks left to enjoy 26 at 10 a.m. Discover a region of Europe back to the barn, etc. Eight hours later, the Sweetland On Ice. Open until February experiencing a modern-day Renaissance. team was back at the city to begin another 19, www.icedays.com/lagrange. www.lagrange.edu day. But here is why we’re so thankful for you, the great residents of Hogansville: The voice and the love of new Americana Mardi Gras brought in the festivities and - As the sun set, resident Cleo Hunsinger - Neil Cribbs has the soul of an angel the mayor crowned their king and queen who lives across from the water main leak having the privilege of being her students’ and a voice of pure joy. Don’t miss this to benefit Twin Cedars: Tyler McCoy and made the crews coffee and hot chocolate first teacher! Ms. Kardoes hopes to get each self-made man at Pure Life Studios on Lucretia Silcox. - Hogansville Police Chief Brian Harr and of her students excited about coming to February 2, living and creating his own idea his wife, Bonnie, both residents of the city, school and eager to learn through play and of what a singer/songwriter’s life should be. brought sandwiches, chips, hot chocolate teaching. She loves to care for, support, and Beautiful. and chicken noodle soup. encourage all of her students. - Mayor Bill Stankiewicz checked in on The annual Mardi Gras Parade on the team late into the night and thanked Congratulations to Mayor Bill Stankievicz February 3 takes place through downtown each one of them for braving the cold for being re-elected for a second term Lagrange and the party and feast continues weather, some of whom had to get waist and Councilman George Bailey. Both at Del’Avant from 6 p.m. deep into a pit of freezing water to replace were recognized this month at the Georgia the burst pipe Municipal Association’s 2018 Mayors’ Day On February 4, Western Heights Baptist - Resident Pat Lockhart left her toasty Conference for completing the Robert E. Church invites you to join them for a Knox Jr. Municipal Leadership Institute. February 2018 Visit us at 85southonline.com page 23

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Love Dating Sites Don’t Work By Brandon Carroll - 10th grade By Zechariah Griffin Love is all around... I sit at home currently single On Swiping right on tinder for girls to mingle Valentine’s Day, My profile picture is not of me Everyone is loved. I’m actually just a loser, allergic to bees. You will never know these facts though, Valentine’s Day For I am large and lumpy in the shape of dough. By Chris Cleveland - 10th grade My last girlfriend was a physco, P is for personality she had, Save 15% or more on car insurance at Geico. Respect is what I gave her. Recently signed up for FarmersOnly.com Excellent is the way I treated her; No requests yet, don’t know what’s wrong. Trust is something we didn’t have. This poem is coming to an end, Truth is what broke us. Just like Valentine’s day I hope, Fiction & Clean & Non-Fiction Youthful is what we are. For I have nothing to send. 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Is love you. I always want to tell you but I never know what I never knew what love was until you came into to say. my life. I like you so much but I will never tell; Thank you for everything you do. Sometimes it’s so obvious that I want to scream and yell. FRIENDS I love you, is that really hard to see? By Tahj Geter - 10th grade Oh wait, that’s right, you’ve never noticed me... Fun times Right there for you You Know You’re in Love Important to have around By Jaden Berry - 10th grade Enjoying each other You know you’re in love Never going to let you down When your heart skips a beat, Doing things together You know you’re in love Stand by each other When you two laugh for no reason, You know you’re in love, Friendship When you do something for the people you love. By Rosa Hernandez - 10th Grade Friendship is free. Friendships can last. 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By Jenny Enderlin Voice o JaasielState Barrientos of e ArtKeith Moore After seeing the electric shade of blue “These animals are my spirit animals; Jaasiel Barrientos creates for some of his they give me strength. I kind of call them abstract masterpieces, it seems that all self-portraits,” artist Keith Moore says of other shades of blue in existence are merely the owls, hawks, herons, bison, and wolves imperfect copies. The artist obsesses over he so often paints. He feels a connection to color. everything in nature from ferns to rocks; “Some colors are not good. Phthalo the location of his studio under a canopy blue just infects all the colors around it,” of trees was even dictated by the presence laments Barrientos. The artist is a gentle of nine crow feathers he found lying on the soul who recently had his first show at ground. Artisans on the Square in Greenville, “I’ve been like that all my life. I’d Georgia featuring 41 paintings. rather be outside than inside. That’s what On occasion, he becomes so attached gives me inspiration. I’m on this journey to pieces he finds he cannot sell them. With and I’m not sure where it’s heading.” others, he says, “You are just a problem Although Moore’s background child.” He pauses before adding, “But as is in graphic design—indeed, it is his A Day in Uptown to Richmond’s relentlessly hipster 8.7. an artist you shouldn’t say that because work as a sign artist that propelled him Columbus, A Night in the But that’s not necessarily a bad thing sometimes people may think that painting into the spotlight—he paints frequently considering the low key, graciously non- is your best work.” and creates custom furniture for Ukraine judgmental vibe to the area. A visitor enjoys Like many painters, he began with interior designers. Moore’s work has a By Wilkin Beall the heady feeling of being an early adapter. realism. “I had to learn the rules to break Southwestern flair and is often made of Forget Ukraine; it’s far away, And early adapters are notorious for them,” he explains. “My paintings are truly reclaimed wood. He prefers to avoid using uncomfortably cold in February and there spreading the word among their scattered an expression of myself. It is not splashing fresh lumber any more than is necessary is a seething, unpleasant low to mid-level friends and acquaintances. stuff and smearing paint. There is a lot of because it seems to him trees are being cut ongoing military conflict to avoid. So, let’s Curiously there are only two Uptown concentrate on spending our own much thought; for example, I decide what colors “until they’re all gone.” coffee shops where Columbus’ aspiring more tranquil and pleasant afternoon in to use first,” says Barrientos who describes When asked about the symbols which hipster population can enjoy pretty decent Columbus, Ga where the Chattahoochee the process as “controlled chaos.” consistently appear in his work—the circle coffee. These coffee houses, the Iron Bank River peaceably encounters its fall-line. “I just stare at a blank canvas until of life, a golden heart, stars, and arrows— Café and Fountain City, are focal points of The river is wide but relatively shallow as it I have an idea of what I’m going to do.” he muses, “What’s fun about this it that the area as coffee houses everywhere tend passes through the Uptown area and there is Using only his fingers, he creates texture I know it has a significance,” though he be. You have your coffee or other preferred no river traffic at all, either commercial or with acrylic paint before adding layers of admits he doesn’t always know why at first. beverage and then you see what there is to pleasure, if you do not count the kayakers oil on top that he describes as having the “You do something for the beauty be seen. I think I would choose, having the negotiating their way over and between the consistency of ketchup. of it, and it reveals itself later,” he says, opportunity to do so, to arrive in Uptown boulders that span from the Georgia to the “I didn’t believe in the energy, or describing the subconscious way the in the early afternoon so there would be no Alabama side of the river. This is the site the philosophical part of art,” reflects symbols become imbedded in each of his commute at all when it came time to eating of (reportedly) the longest official kayaking later on. Broadway is full of restaurants. Barrientos of his initial understanding of pieces. course in the world, used famously Some have been around for a long while art. “When an artist makes a painting, he “I’ve been using that star a lot. It during the 1996 Summer Olympics. The but there is especially noticeable activity imbeds some of his energy in the painting. came to my life early on. I didn’t realize course remains in operation over twenty occurring between 11th and 14th Streets. And that energy—it is that energy that it. It kind of represents me; it’s how I years later. Columbus’ river is a different I noticed a Greek restaurant opening last attracts people—I didn’t believe in that sign. When I look back on my earlier work experience from, say, Chattanooga’s mighty month only a few storefronts away from a until I started making this kind of work.” I see that it’s there.” Tennessee River which now neatly defines more established Vietnamese option. To purchase a piece, visit Artisans on Keith Moore’s work is on display at that newly energized city. Directly north of The RiverCenter for the Arts just the Square or contact Barrientos at 706- Artisans on the Square and The Print Shop Columbus are a series of dams and riverside happens to be on Broadway as well and 402-3553. Gallery. To inquire about a handcrafted parks that would allow for picnicking and it’s an inviting place indeed. There are sign, visit keithmooreart.com. relaxing. quality performances weekly for which you When I have a free morning or a free would pay dearly in Atlanta. Here they are afternoon it’s to the newly regenerated free AND there is free parking in a large Uptown area that I drive. I like to see the covered garage across the street where optimism that’s reflected in the hurried, if you might have already been parked when not harried, development along Broadway. earlier you were having your afternoon Perhaps most of you have had that coffee and dining at the Loft Restaurant or satisfying experience of stumbling upon one of the newly commissioned brew pubs. this bee’s nest of activity where once there Frankly without even mentioning other was nothing more than the regrettable Columbus area attractions, the Uptown evidence of the misuse of common assets area alone is worth considering for a full and the dolor of decay. No decay for (invigorating without being taxing in the Uptown in 2018. In fact, for the past two slightest) weekend. or three years Uptown has made its own rather incipient surge toward that happy sense of urban hipness and attitude that Wilkin Beall was a long time college professor draws the young and at least mollifies the at several different institutions, interested more experienced. No, Uptown Columbus enough in foreign languages and cultures is not yet Richmond, Va. or Asheville. that he has lived abroad for a majority of the On the internationally recognized hipster past number of years. He currently lives near scale Uptown Columbus is a gentle 3 Columbus, Ga. page 26 Visit us at 85southonline.com February 2018

By Pablo DaVinci The Arts in Columbus… Come prepared to do cold readings with Graffeo. Artists’ lecture at 11:15 a.m. AboutThere was no greater anticipation Arta British accent. Please bring a resume if The Arts in LaGrange… Feb. 22. Lamar Dodd Art Center, in Columbus than the opening of the Bo you have one. All parts are non-equity and The Troup County Historical LaGrange College. Gallery open when Bartlett Center at the Columbus State volunteer only. For more information go to Society is hosting the 100th anniversary the college is in session from 8:30 a.m. University. David Houston had taken over www.stgplays.com/auditions. dinner Feb 20 at 136 Main Street as well to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. this project and with the help of an award as the showing of their new exhibit “1918 winning architect, Tom Kundig, converted The Arts in Tyrone… LaGrange Before the Roar” For tickets call Performing Arts: this old cotton mill warehouse to an inviting Legacy Theater recently unveiled 706-884-1828 • February 11, Brian Bonin, vocalist, in riverfront museum as a cornerstone of the its new performing arts student program, concert, 3 p.m., West Side recital hall. College of the Arts’ Corn Center for Visual Legacy Dream. Bethany Smith, Co- The Cochran Gallery inaugurated • February 28–March 4, “Bedroom Arts. Owner & Founder explains “Legacy Dream their new show “An Artistic Friendship Farce,” 7:30 p.m. (except 2:30 p.m. It was a monumental task but the is a true performing arts conservatory. in Relief” Prints by Will Barnet and Bob matinee March 4), Price Theater; In anticipation came to an end when they Artists will have the opportunity to Blackburn from the Cochran Collection. this rollicking British comedy, a young opened the doors to this unbelievable grow in all areas of the performing arts: This is a large collection of works from married couple visit the bedrooms of exhibit a few weeks ago. Mr. Houston, Acting, Musical Theatre, and Dance. The both artists who admired each other their family and friends seeking advice, with all his experience as an art curator conservatory is designed to offer classes to and worked together over 60 years. but end up wreaking havoc instead. and historian with a very lengthy resume, every artist on every level allowing them “Beginning from the early 1930’s when • March 2–4 Azalea Storytelling Festival, even said that this was one of his biggest to reach their full potential while preparing Bob was a student of Will’s at the Art Callaway Auditorium featuring challenges. them for college/career on or off stage. Students’ League in New York, their nationally recognized storytellers If you are an art lover and love to The Dream program is designed to allow friendship endured through a lifetime of Michael Reno Harrell, Dolores experience a different and innovative artists the maximum amount of training and intersecting and parallel creative activity. Hydock, Kevin Kling, Bil Lepp and museum I would hurry to downtown experience, while still allowing time for Barnet and Blackburn personified the Carol Cain as emcee. lagrange.edu/ Columbus and see this exhibit. It is one the family, homework, and other activities. It is highest values - as artists, teachers and azalea. best I have ever seen. We are blessed that it our goal to prepare our students to succeed mentors - motivated by a strong sense • March 6, Dr. Andrea Mueller, vocalist, is right here in Columbus. Bo Bartlett the in whatever dream they choose.” For more of social responsibility, and an active in concert, 4:30 p.m., West Side recital painter is a genius. information visit thelegacytheatre.org. commitment to artistic community. hall. “The Bo Bartlett Center will be a Robert Blackburn, born 1920 in Summit, • April 27–28, “A Night at the Opera,” pivotal element in the continued emergence The Arts in Senoia… New Jersey, died in 2003 in New York 7:30 p.m., Price Theater, This elegant of a national and international presence Our goal for the January issue, “The City followed by Will Barnet, born 1911 black-tie event features Humperdinck’s originally established by the College’s Fine Arts of 85 South,” was to create an in Beverly, Massachusetts, who died “Hansel and Gretel” and Gilbert and Schwob School of Music and its Legacy awareness of artists and fine art programs in 2012. Please join us for this special Sullivan’s hilarious “Trial by Jury.” Hall. Complementing exhibitions in the and venues throughout the 85 South area, exhibition, exploring the work of these CSU Department of Art’s acclaimed from East Point to West Point, in hopes two artists whose life force and friendship Norman Shannon and Emmy Lou P. that they would come together to create are everlasting. The exhibition will run Illges Gallery, The Bo Bartlett Center will a stronger fine arts community. As a through March 3, 2018. (4 East LaFayette serve as an experiential learning center result a group of artists, who previously Square, LaGrange; Wed.-Sat. 1-5 p.m. or and cultural hub for the visual arts while didn’t know each other, met at the Senoia by appointment, call 706-302-1080). affording visitors a broad range of arts Coffee & Café and created theSenoia experiences offered within the College’s Arts Collective (you can find them on LaGrange College has a number of arts district.” Facebook). Thanks to the group, 85 South upcoming events: has learned of some fantastic events Visual Arts Ongoing The Arts in Palmetto… coming up… • “Toward Abstraction: Selected Audition Notice: Southside Theatre Paintings by Lamar Dodd,” Lamar Guild is auditioning for their upcoming Attention local artists! The Senoia Dodd Art Center, LaGrange College. production of First Things First, a British Area Historical Society (SAHS) is Gallery open when the college is in farce by Derek Benfield, where a series having an Art Show to showcase the works session from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. of hilarious situations ensue as Peter and of local artists. Send in a photo of the weekdays. “Girasole by Duane George try to find a way out of their plight artwork you’d like to display along with Paxson,” Lamar Dodd Art Center, when Pete’s “dead wife” shows up after he the measurements of the pieces and an LaGrange College. Gallery open when has remarried. Filling roles for: 3 Men in artist bio to [email protected] by the college is in session from 8:30 a.m. their 30s-40s, 3 women ranging in age from February 3, 2018. Their committee will to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. 20s-60s. contact you shortly after with details for • Through Feb. 8: “Room: Sculpture and • Sarah: a young lady with a romantic which pieces will be chosen for exhibit and Drawings by Tad Gloeckler,” Lamar imagination. details about delivery. Opening night is Dodd Art Center, LaGrange College. • Pete: a middle age man with a fondness Friday, February 23 at 7 p.m. at SAHS Artist lecture at 11:15 a.m. Feb. 8. for marriage. Museum, 6 Couch St. There will be a wine Gallery open when the college is in • Margot: a formidable mother in her & cheese reception open to the public. The session from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. sixties. art will remain on display in the museum weekdays. • George: a good friend in a crisis. until a date TBA and can be seen during • Through Feb. 23: “Cuba: Juntos Nos • Jessica: an attractive wife with a secret. regular museum hours Friday & Saturday Levantoaremos” (“Together We • Alan: a man who likes the ladies. 1-4 p.m. For info contact Maureen Schuyler Rise”), photography honoring the Auditions are Feb. 19 & 20 at 7 at 770-599-9916 or maureenschuyler@ spirit of connection with Cuba, artists p.m.; 20 W. Campbellton Street, Fairburn. yahoo.com. include Julio Larramendi and Karen February 2018 Visit us at 85southonline.com page 27 page 28 Visit us at 85southonline.com February 2018

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In Theaters Now: Maze Runner: The friendly settlement. Yellow Hawk is dying Helen Mirren who gets top billing playing adventure. Having been introduced in the Death Cure (review) of cancer, and the relocation is seen as a a firearms heiress who believes she’s being last Captain America film, “Black Panther” The tension and fresh ideas that made civilized move that may help with on-going hunted by the souls of those killed by the picks up with hero T’Challa (Chadwick 2014’s “The Maze Runner” a nice surprise hostilities. Scarred by war, Blocker doesn’t Winchester repeating rifle. Actor Jason Boseman) still mourning the death of his is completely ignored in the overly familiar want to make the trip with his once fierce Clarke also plays a role. father, the king of the fictitious country and dramatically insincere “The Death adversary. But orders are orders. And while of Wakanda, a technologically-advanced Cure.” A must for fans of the trilogy, the he despises the Chief, it is clear that the February 9 ~ Fifty Shades Freed secret nation. Directed by Ryan Coogler rest of us, who may barely remember what two men have a begrudging respect for one The final entry in the “Grey” trilogy (“Creed”), expect this Marvel outing to be the story elements, will struggle to stay another. And they act harsh and masculine limps to a conclusion as the steamy narratively rich and visually stylish and, engaged. meaning that talk is replaced by action, narrative leans more heavily on thrills than hopefully, thrilling. “Black Panther” should Based on the James Dashner best- which is often violent. sexuality. While this is a necessary cash serve as a warm up for the next Avengers selling young adult novel, “The Death Violence is a part of the country. The grab, expect diminishing returns. film, “Infinity War,” coming this May. Cure” follows the continuing adventures film makes it clear from the opening scenes of Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), who having that the line between good and evil is filled The 15:17 to Paris Samson survived the glade, the maze, and the scorch with shades of gray. Director Scott Cooper Clint Eastwood returns to the director’s Faith-based Pure Flix, which struck trials, now has to contend with finding (“Crazy Heart” and “Black Mass”) is no chair with another true story-inspired box office gold with the “God’s Not Dead” something called the death cure. Although stranger to graphic displays of violence, celebration of American heroism. With films, ups its game with this splashy take on it’s hinted at, gone is the introspective, and taking a page from the Peckinpah “Sully” and “American Sniper,” few other the Biblical superhero. Going head-to-head intelligent group dynamic that led to escape School (see 1969’s “The Wild Bunch”), directors can claim ownership of this kind with Marvel shows some moxie for the from the glade through the maze. Those he demonstrates an instinctive command of unabashedly patriotic filmmaking. I’ll upstart inspirational distributor. And the somewhat fresh ideas have been replaced making the viewer feel the terror of that admit that just watching the trailers for trailers for this PG-13 tale look good with by a rather pedestrian post-apocalyptic time powerfully. “15:17” made me proud to be an American, convincing action sequences and towering story crossed with action sequences ripped “Hostiles” is a bit of a road picture especially when you learn that the real physical performance by hunky actor directly from the “Fast and the Furious” as the trek across the dangerous territory heroes from the 2015 event play themselves Taylor James in the title role. films. progresses. Cooper populates the film in the movie. The film chronicles the real “The Death Cure” is lacking almost with many interesting faces. And every life attack on a train from Amsterdam February 23 ~ Annihilation everything that makes it theatrically worthy character is damaged by war and the harsh to Paris in which three Americans and Science fiction fans are waiting with (think small screen on this one). And this conditions. Understandably, this makes the others took on a Moroccan man wielding bated breath for writer turned director is a pity given Wes Ball directed each of movie a real drag. Yes, watching “Hostiles” a machine gun, a pistol, and a box cutter. Alex Garland’s follow up to the 2014 the three “Maze Runner” episodes. This is just no damned fun. Just reading the story online is inspirational, stunner “Ex Machina.” This time around film is so far removed from the way things So who is this movie for? Western and the trailers look very good. the narrative is bigger as well as the budget started that even the characters are barely diehards will find it essential viewing, (although you wouldn’t have thought that recognizable. The good news is that after however, this is a modern take on the genre, Peter Rabbit “Ex Machina” was a low budget indie). “The Death Cure,” I can’t imagine another which may exasperate purists. And the rest One of two animated children’s entries Garland reunites with actor Oscar Isaac, “Maze Runner,” therefore, Ball’s obvious of us will have to pop a mood elevator prior of the month, the other being “Early Man” who is surrounded by a cast of who’s talent can be applied to another fantastic to taking it in, because “Hostiles” is a dark, next week, this one is an adaptation of who with Natalie Portman in the lead and property. depressing tale. the famous Beatrix Potter classic. James hot “Ragnarok” actress Tessa Thompson Corden voices the title character, hopefully in a supporting role. Somebody give Hostiles (review) February 2 ~ Winchester making up for his work on the awful “The Thompson’s Valkyrie her own darned Necessarily bleak and often terribly On this slow first weekend in February, Emoji Movie.” And Margot Robbie plays movie. unpleasant, “Hostiles” is a rough viewing viewers might take a risk on the Spierig Flopsy, with Daisy Ridley giving voice to experience. But watching it can be Brothers creep-looking latest offering. The Cottontail. rewarding and informative. Taking place writing and directing duo Michael and in 1892, the story follows Capt. Joseph Peter Spierig gave us the “Saw” reboot February 16 ~ Black Panther J. Blocker (Christian Bale) as he escorts last year, and edgy science fiction indie Marvel’s continuing expansion of Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi) “Predestination” in 2014, whose star, Sarah their cinematic universe now extends and his family from incarceration to a more Snook is also in “Winchester.” But it’s to giving Black Panther a stand-alone February 2018 Visit us at 85southonline.com page 29

By Jonathan Hickman Theater Productions in 85 South 2018In Oscar ProductionNominations: that prevented Hanks from getting his first Academy Theatre Newnan Theatre Company Snubs and Surprises nomination since 2001’s “Cast Away?” Hapeville Performing Arts Center 24 1st Avenue, Newnan The whispers are swirling as James And did anyone reading this 599 N. Central Ave., Hapeville 770-683-6282; newnantheatre.org Franco found himself without an Oscar actually see “Roman J. Israel, Esq.?” I www.academytheatre.org; 404-474-8332 We Found Love and an Exquisite Set nomination when they were announced unfortunately saw it, and it was a film BattleActs!, Feb. 17 @ 8 p.m. of Porcelain Figurines Aboard the SS on January 23. And he wasn’t the only that was much worse than its central The Academy Theatre will be battling it out Farndale Avenue: Feb 1-4, 8-11 one that may have been adversely affected performance. And in a similar vein, look in BattleActs! A Colder Kind of Comedy. The Farndale Ladies are back!! Flushed for to take home Oscar gold from allegations of sexual harassment. Gary Oldman Who will be this month’s BattleActs! by their “successes,” the stalwart veterans of for playing Churchill in “Darkest Hour,” “The Florida Project,” a film I had as my Champ? Josh Steele is our three-time the Dramatic Society are poised to conquer yet second best film of 2017, failed to garner a another movie that isn’t quite as good as its lead actor’s work. defending champion! You decide between another dramatic idiom: their current production nomination for best picture. the 8 funny fools on our stage! Family sails the luxury ocean liner SS Farndale Avenue Back in December, June Pictures Likely to win a statue when the awards are handed out on March 4, 2018, is “The Friendly improv at its finest! We have a hot into the world of thirties musical comedy. The co-founder Andrew Duncan, who then show and cold beer so bring everyone for ladies prove that the age of elegance, glamour served as one of the producers for “The Shape of Water,” which was nominated in 13 categories including best picture. That your winter warm up! and enchantment is not dead...well, not quite. Florida Project,” was beset with allegations Circumstances almost beyond their control of sexual misconduct that were vividly film, directed by the visionaryGuillermo LaGrange Society for Performing threaten to wreck the evening’s entertainment, recounted in trade publications. One only del Toro, is a wonderfully dark adult fairy but the ladies and Gordon, in true Farndale form, wonders if this unfortunate revelation tale about a love story between a woman Arts had an effect on the little film’s Academy and an amphibian man. Not only is the 214 Bull Street, LaGrange soar above such mundane matters to present Award chances. One saving grace was narrative emotional and thrilling, but it’s www.lsparts.org; 706-882-9909 some catchy numbers and a stunning underwater that Willem Dafoe received a nomination gotta be one of the best, if not the best, Vanya And Sonia And Masha And sequence! for best supporting actor for his fine work looking films of 2017. And it landed Spike, Jan. 25-Feb. 3 on the film. Sadly, that was the only nominations in acting for two of the finest One of the most lauded and beloved Serenbe Playhouse nomination for Sean Baker’s moving story actresses working in Hollywood today— Broadway plays of recent years. Vanya and 9110 Selborne Lane, Chattahoochee Hills of children living on the edge in a motel in Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer. his adopted sister Sonia live a quiet life in the 770-463-1110; serenbeplayhouse.com Orlando in the shadow of Disney. Speaking of actresses, the best actress Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, March Franco on the other hand, did win category is one of the most competitive but their peace is disturbed when their movie 28-April 22 the Golden Globe, despite allegations next to best picture. Perennial winner/ star sister Masha returns unannounced with her stemming from his conduct while nominee Meryl Streep is in the mix, but twenty-something boy toy, Spike. A weekend of Coming Up: Peter Pan: May 31-August the race may be between Hawkins and running an acting school, as well as other rivalry, regret, and raucousness begins. 26; Titanic: July 10-August 12; The Seagull: Frances McDormand (“Three Billboards allegations of inappropriate deeds. Once September 5-30; The Sleepy Hollow Experience: Outside Ebbing, Missouri”). While Hollywood’s fair-haired wunderkind, The Legacy Theatre Sept. 26-Nov. 4; The Snow Queen: Nov. 28-Dec. Franco was pressed hard in late night my money is on McDormand, who won the Oscar for “Fargo,” my heart is with 1175 Senoia Rd., Tyrone 30. interviews after the news broke. Still, he thelegacytheatre.org; 404-895-1473 was able to weather the storm, but not Hawkins, whose performance, without words, was one of the year’s most unique Million Dollar Quartet, Jan. 26-Feb. 25 Southside Theatre Guild from the voters for the big prize. His The new smash-hit musical inspired by the uncanny performance in “The Disaster and tender. 20 West Campbellton Street, Fairburn There are many other great stories famed recording session that brought together 770-969-0956; stgplays.com or boxoffice@ Artist,” which he also directed, is a sight rock ‘n’ roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, to behold. The film, however, pointed evolving about this year’s nominees. Greta stgplays.com Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins for the first directly at flaws in the character he played, Gerwig made history as being only the 5th Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, real life infamous, bad movie director and woman to be nominated for best director and only time. Featuring a score of rock hits February 15, 16, 17, 18 (matinee), 22, 23, all-around odd-ball Tommy Wiseau (“The for her wonderful coming of age comedy/ including “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Fever,” “That’s 24, 25 (matinee). Room”). drama “Lady Bird.” Netflix managed to All Right,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Great Balls of An arrogant young prince and his Some observers online thought that barely release “Mudbound” in traditional Fire,” “Walk the Line,” “Whole Lotta Shakin’ castle’s servants fall under the spell of “Wonder Woman” was snubbed, but I theaters but still secured nominations for Goin’ On,” “Who Do You Love?,” “Matchbox,” a wicked enchantress, who turns him wasn’t surprised. The film did not crack the the fantastic film includingMary J. Blige “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Hound Dog” and more. into the hideous Beast until he learns to in the best supporting actress category. top ten of any of the three critics groups to love and be loved in return. The spirited, And Georgia should be proud as the locally which I belong (Atlanta Film Critics Circle, New Horizon Theatre headstrong village girl Belle enters the Southeastern Film Critics Association, and shot “Baby Driver” drove its way to three 411 West 8th Street, West Point; nhct.org nominations in technical areas (like film Beast’s castle after he imprisons her father Georgia Film Critics Association). Few The Nerd, February 15-17 Maurice. With the help of his enchanted critics I spoke with, who loved the film, editing), where it has a real chance of This inventive comedy centers around winning. servants, including the matronly Mrs. put it on their best of list, and let’s face it, Willum Cubbert, an aspiring young architect The 90th Academy Awards will be Potts, Belle begins to draw the cold-hearted as good as it was, the follow-up “Justice in Terre Haute, Indiana, who has often told his hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and can be Beast out of his isolation. Meanwhile an League” was just bad enough to erode the friends about the debt he owes Rick Steadman, unscrupulous Hunter has his own plans good will for the DC universe that “Wonder watched live on ABC on March 4, 2018. a fellow ex-GI whom he has never met but for Belle. Join us in Belle’s journey to Woman” generated. After all, the character who saved his life after he was wounded in was in both movies—one good and one not The Best Picture Nominees are: find her true hearts’ desire. “DISNEY’S “Call Me by Your Name” Vietnam. Willum is delighted when Rick shows BEAUTY AND THE BEAST” is presented so good. up unexpectedly at his apartment on the night of A real surprise was the love the “Darkest Hour” through special arrangement with Music “Dunkirk” his thirty-fourth birthday party. But his delight Theatre International (MTI). All authorized Academy voters had for Paul Thomas soon fades as it becomes apparent that Rick is a Anderson’s “Phantom Thread.” That film “Get Out” performance materials are also supplied by hopeless “nerd” - a bumbling oaf with no social was certainly aided by the announcement “Lady Bird” MTI. that this would be Daniel Day-Lewis’ “Phantom Thread” sense, little intelligence and less tact. last screen role (yeah, right). And Day- “The Post” Lewis did receive a nomination for best “The Shape of Water” Coming Up: Legally Blonde, The Musical; actor, which could have cost Tom Hanks “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, April 12-14, 2018 a slot. Or was it the out-of-nowhere Missouri” nomination for Denzel Washington for “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” that was the nail page 30 Visit us at 85southonline.com February 2018

By Patrick Terrail Life with Gabe communication; the school has provided a with. That is what happens when you have up dealing with it. He understood what the AboutI cannot believe January went by so Parenoodthree ring notebook and the children have only one child, he wants someone to play ER is all about and it was a good learning fast. There is no doubt it has been a cold to bring them home daily for us to sign. with. experience. His mother is fine. He realizes month full of snow and days off from It assesses his conduct, grades etc. He is Gabe has mastered the art of riding he is growing up and is becoming more school. finally getting some homework and we are his hoverboard, I guess when you are a aware of his size and strength. There was Gabe’s Mom’s birthday getting an update of all that is going on in good snow boarder the hoverboard comes Finally we will be glad when January which of course we all celebrated over three school. We now feel like we have a better naturally. is over and we recover from this cold spell. days. Moms deserve that kind of adulation, handle on what our children are doing in We had a small issue with his mother Yes children can play outside, but it is too they work so hard all year to raise their school. and she got a knee cap out of joint through cold to stay out a long time. We’re looking children. When I was kid my mother told me a freak accident created by Gabe. Gabe forward to warmer days. Raising a child is a full-time job for school is not always fun, it is the basis of was good, he went with me to the ER and about 18 years, and it is hands-on, not the what life will be about, it is sort of like his mother went on the ambulance, he sat sort of thing you can delegate to someone taking aspirin if you have headache, you through the whole ordeal and was a grown else. It is a job and one has to take it have to take it. So I did ... I am glad ... seriously. I want our son to understand that even Yes, the father has to be there to be though the conditions are somewhat supportive, but I have to say in my case different I try to tell Gabe school is Gabe’s mother is all hands on and I am something you have to do and try to be the more the discipline and a helper. best you can be. Gabe’s mom has taken the On a happier note Gabe got a great responsibility of helping in school one to report card for the second quarter and made two days a week and it is paying off. Gabe great progress in reading and in math and is more understanding and sees that we care earned several awards from his teacher on about him getting a good education and award day. Children love to be recognized learning because we are committed parents. and Gabe is no different. Commit to your child and you will see The other good thing that happened immediate results. this month, we had three snow days, which January has also been a challenging was like a long weekend after Martin month, changes at school were put into Luther King Day. Great for the kids but effect and they are positive. We have better rough on the parents’ schedules. We always have kids spend the night for Gabe to play February 2018 Visit us at 85southonline.com page 31

AboutPHOTOS BYTravel PAUL BOORSTIN

The Ritz Paris The First Luxury Hotel We admired the spacious bathroom. was a favorite of the famous 20th Century The Most Romantic Hotel in the City When Cesar Ritz opened the Ritz in Boyens demonstrated the TV that is hidden novelist’s. In fact, it has been said that of Love 1898, he invited guests to enjoy a hotel in the bathroom mirror, an example of as a war correspondent in World War II, the hotel’s new technology. “To honor Hemingway accompanied the American By Sharon Boorstin offering “all the refinements that a prince might hope to find in his own private tradition, we kept the gold swans on the troops who “liberated the bar from the Photos by Paul Boorstin residence.” “You have created a chef- bathroom fixtures and the cords to call Nazis.” d’œuvre,” his investors are said to have for the Valet and Maid,” he said. “And of Paul and I toasted our 50th anniversary When we checked into the Ritz Paris, exclaimed when they admired the marble course, the peach color of the bathrobes with glasses of Ritz Champagne. “I’m perhaps the most famous – and most hallways, gilded mirrors and glittering and towels.” “Why peach?” I asked. glad we splurged on the Ritz,” I said. Paul romanticized – hotel in the world, my crystal chandeliers. “You’re going to teach “Cesar Ritz said that a peach color softens heartily agreed. “Y’know what Hemingway husband Paul and I noticed a quote from the world how one should live!” The hotel’s and flatters women’s complexions,” he once said to his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald? Ernest Hemingway on the reception desk: current owner, Egyptian businessman explained. “Even the most beautiful woman ‘When I dream of the afterlife in heaven, “When in Paris, the only reason not to Mohamed al-Fayed, who bought the is happier looking at herself against peach, the action always takes place in the Paris stay at the Ritz is if you can’t afford it.” property from the Ritz family in 1979, has instead of white, in the morning.” Ritz.’” We had to chuckle, for we were not among continued Cesar Ritz’s emphasis on luxury the Ritz’s rich and famous regular guests in décor, food and service. Hemingway’s Bar Sharon Boorstin is a contributing travel that have included, in addition to “Papa” Boyens pointed out the new Bar That evening, after dining in a writer for the Los Angeles Times and the Hemingway, the Duke of Windsor, Marcel Vendôme, a handsome brasserie opposite charming bistro in the Marais, Paul and I author of the memoir/cookbook: “Let Us Eat Proust, and Coco Chanel who moved into the lobby’s grand staircase. Thanks to returned to the Ritz. We strolled through Cake: Adventures in Food and Friendship.” a suite in 1934 and never moved out. Paul a new glass roof, its terrace has been the shopping gallery, with its five boutiques Paul Boorstin is a contributing writer and and I had traveled to Paris to celebrate our transformed into an elegant winter garden. and 95 showcases of luxury goods a photographer for the Los Angeles Times and 50th wedding anniversary – and we were Across the hallway, a dignified portrait of veritable miniature “rue de la Paix.” We the author of the new novel “David and the staying at the Ritz to do it up grand, damn Marcel Proust peers down from the wall settled into the Bar Hemingway, a dark, Philistine Woman.” the expense! of the Salon Proust, where guests enjoy cozy haven decorated floor-to-ceiling Christian Boyens, the general manager, afternoon tea in front of a fireplace. Beyond with Hemingway memorabilia. The bar greeted us in the reception area, with it is L’Espadon, where Chef Nicolas Sale its 18-foot-high ceilings and windows serves creative cuisine that has earned overlooking the Place Vendome. Boyens the restaurant two Michelin stars and the and I became friends 10 years ago when title of “Chef of the Year” for himself. he was the second-in-command at The Chef Sale also oversees the hotel’s École Peninsula Beverly Hills and I did the Ritz Escoffier, a cooking school that pays hotel’s public relations. Boyens was eager homage to the Ritz’s famous first chef, to show us the results of the Ritz’s recent Auguste Escoffier. $200 million-plus restoration, which required closing its doors for nearly four Room with a View years. “This hotel is more than 100 years Boyens surprised Paul and me by old, so we had to upgrade everything upgrading our room to a lavish suite, one from the plumbing to the AC, and bring of the 71 suites that complement the hotel’s the technology into the digital age,” he 71 guest rooms. Ours had a sunken living explained. “But we didn’t modernize the room with a view overlooking the new décor. We restored the original furniture, art Grand Jardin, which has already become and antiques and kept the look intact. The a favorite for summer weddings. Boyens Ritz is still the Ritz!” pointed out one clever detail of the garden’s design: “Underneath the lawn, a light grid prevents high heels from sinking in.” page 32 Visit us at 85southonline.com February 2018

By Jim Miller Three Ways to Cut to moderate hearing loss to buy hearing Or, if your husband is a Medicare But these devices are very effective for Savvy Senioraids without consulting an audiologist, and recipient, about half of all Medicare people with mild to moderate hearing Hearing Aid Costs Dear Savvy Senior, I’ve heard that the devices could sell for between $250 and Advantage plans offer at least partial impairment, and typically cost between hearing aids will soon be available over- $300 at drugstores and other retailers. coverage or discounts on hearing exams $350 and $450 each. To find a wide variety the-counter and will be much cheaper than The only problem is that it will be and devices. So, be sure you check your of PSAPs see assistive listening sites like they currently are. What can you tell me a couple more years before these OTC husband’s insurance coverage to see if it Harris Communications (HarrisComm.com, about this? My husband desperately needs hearing aids are available to consumers. So offers any type of hearing aid benefit. or call 866-476-9579). hearing aids but we simply can’t afford in the meantime, here are some tips that can them. – Searching Spouse help you find some affordable options. Shop Around Look For Assistance To help you save money, consider If your income is low, there is a Dear Searching, Check Your Insurance shopping at Costco, which offers no-cost number of national, state and independent Unfortunately, for many years the high While most private health insurance screenings at certain locations, as well groups that can help you pay for hearing cost of hearing aids has kept millions of companies do not cover hearing aids, there as very competitive prices. Hearing aids aids or offer discounts. To find them, visit Americans with hearing loss from getting are some that do. For example, Aetna there range between $500 and $1,500 each. the American Speech-Language-Hearing hearing aids because they can’t afford them. members can purchase aids at a discount You can also shop online at websites like Association website at ASHA.org/public/ through certain suppliers, and United EmbraceHearing.com and Audicus.com, coverage/audfundingresources. Or, call the Hearing aids – Typically sold through Healthcare offers hearing aids to their which can save you up to $2,000 per pair. National Institute on Deafness and Other audiologists’ offices – are expensive, beneficiaries through HealthInnovations for Then visit a local specialist to make any Communication Disorders at 800-241- usually ranging between $1,000 and $4,000 $799 to $999 each. necessary adjustments. 1044, and ask them to mail you their list of per ear, and are not typically covered by You should also know that some Another option worth a look is over- financial resources for hearing aids. private insurance or traditional Medicare. federal workers, as well as residents of the-counter personal sound amplification But there’s good news on the horizon. Arkansas, Connecticut, New Hampshire, products (or PSAPs). Unlike hearing aids, Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, Last summer President Trump signed the and Rhode Island can get their hearing the Food and Drug Administration does not P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017 aids covered by health insurance, as can regulate PSAPs. And PSAP manufacturers SavvySenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to into law. This will allow people with mild eligible veterans through the Department of are not allowed to call these products the NBC Today show and author of “The Savvy Veterans Affairs. hearing aids or claim that they help hearing. Senior” book. February 2018 Visit us at 85southonline.com page 33

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I have been told February is a month Pierre can be visited at www. for patience. For a gardener, certainly there thefrenchgardener.net or pierre@ are few months for action, February is thefrenchgardener.net. one of them and a crucial one at that. You might have ignored your garden during the Garden Association Meetings: past three months, your absence will be Master Gardener of Troup County forgiven. But skip February at your peril. meet every second Thursday of the month, So, the fortnight before Valentine’s Day 7pm. at the Agriculture Center 121 Vulcan is catch-up time: planting bare root trees, Rd, Lagrange. pruning top fruit, cutting back herbaceous Backyard Association of Coweta perennials, power-washing paths, clearing County meet every second Tuesday of the the compost heap, scrubbing greenhouses... month, 7pm. at Coweta County Extension, His unappeasable quest to grow and If you stand outside at dawn on Valentine’s own fruit juice: Inoculating Shiitake 275 Pine Rd, Newnan. raise a small farm has been guided by the Day you’ll feel it: that sense of the garden Logs - Saturday Feb. 24-18, 10 a.m.-noon Down to Earth Organics Association respect of Mother Nature. After 40 years waking from its slumber. And this is or Smoothies & Juicing for Health – meet every first Tuesday of the month, 7pm of experience farming and managing a perfect, since after weeks of hibernating Thursday Mar. 8-18, 6:30-8 p.m. at Country at Point University, 800 Commerce Drive, nursery, and continuous observations, and catalogue dreaming, at last we’re ready Gardens Farm. Suite 200, in Peachtree City. trials and errors and frustrations, Mike to return to the soil. South Metro Rose Society meets wrote a book “Seven Steps to an Organic For all novices or inspiring vegetable Country Gardens Farm the 4th Monday of Jan-Apr and Aug-Oct Vegetable Garden.” Have you ever wanted gardeners, we are fortunate to have a couple Mike and Judy Cunningham at 6:30 p.m.at Heritage Bank, 440 N. Jeff to grow nutritious vegetables of your like Mike and Judy Cunningham. Mike 2050 Sharpsburg McCollum Rd., Newnan, Davis Dr., Fayetteville. Novices welcome. own garden but have run into problems and Judy are not only professional growers, Georgia; 770-251-2673 All rose enthusiasts, especially novices, are or did not know where to start? If you are they run a community-supported agriculture [email protected] invited to visit the meetings at no charge. a beginning gardener or just want to go in Newnan, which offers fresh vegetables The teaching farmers: For more information call 770-631-3885. back and get the basic steps to growing during the growing season. They are so an organic garden this book will help you. passionate about the importance of quality “Vegetable gardening is no different than of life by growing, cooking and preserving any hobby, sport or profession. You need good food, that their four children embrace to get the basic concepts down in order to this philosophy, naturally. Consequently, be successful. Seven Steps to an Organic together they create Country Gardens and Garden walks you through the basic steps Farm. They supply grass feed beef, free to help you have a vegetable garden that range chicken, shitake mushrooms, farm is fulfilling and nutritious. This book will fresh eggs, honey, worm casting etc., which cover everything you need to know to start are all available to CSA members and to the your vegetable garden including soil, raised public at their farm stand on Fridays and beds, when to plant and organic insect and Saturdays: 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. It will be short, . disease remedies.” wrote Amazon. Yes, KickWE ALL KNOW, HORSES on ARE if I forget to mention, that Mike and Judy his book is available on the giant on-line have always envisioned the importance HUMBLING. Things may or may as well at the farm where Mike will gladly of transferring skills and knowledge, they not go your way, but the lessons sign it. want to share them and transmit the same learned are always invaluable. One Reading a book is resourceful and inspiration awarded to their children. awarding, but about living it. Yes, Mike thing you can count on is our level of Judy enjoys cooking and with some offers during the course of the year classes commitment to you and your horse. friends, at the farm, their courses range and teaching, and one of them - 7 Steps From maintaining your competition from growing and cooking with herbs to to an Organic Vegetable Garden – will horse to breeding your prize mare fermenting vegetables. They touch the be held on Saturday, March 31. It will be making of soft cheese, yogurt, kefir and and everything in between, our team a great Valentine’s Day gift to become a butter to the making of baby formulas and is dedicated to you and your horse green thumb gardener. Also, sponsored by baby food. At the farm, there is always a whether you come to us or we come Arnall’s Grocery (yet, a store with a soul redundance of produce, and Judy saves and bucolic persons), Thursday March 1 at to you. the surplus for a less clement season by Carnegie Library in Newnan 6:30-8 p.m., food preservation, canning, dehydrating Mike will share his experience and answer or freezing. You can learn these skills and Dr. Jason McLendon, DVM your questions, please register as places are those techniques by participating in her limited. Moreover, Mike will be with you Dr. Matthew Reynolds, DVM classes, and most pleasantly you can taste to answer questions in a closed Facebook Dr. Libby Reidy, DVM her delicious sauces and savory recipes. page that you can become a member of Mike is an outdoor guy, the organic 770.252.6860 after buying the book or taking one of his farmer, the one who touches life at the classes online or at the farm. beginning, smells the freshness, regards Mike and Judy will have more classes the growing effort, listens to the sound of 815 Herring Rd., Newnan, GA 30265 southerncrescentequine.com during 2018. Meanwhile, if you are nature and tastes the dirt with his hands. interested in mushrooms or making your page 34 Visit us at 85southonline.com February 2018

Mayor Jim Thornton my hope is that it decision-making process in all of your PromotingMeet growth and prosperity Our in Neighborwill bring retailers to projects. We’ve had to err on the side of The Greatest Little City in Georgia LaGrange and create development and progress and take down By John Harris opportunity for the some historic buildings in the past, but in community. doing so, it allowed for growth to occur and then allowed us to upgrade and update Was the goal always some of the other structures in town. The to take the next step balance is key. towards a higher level of leadership If not law or civil service … what career or did that happen might you have chosen? Did you ever organically as you consider anything else? were on the city No not really…it was always sort of in council? Would you the back of my mind that I would go to law consider moving into school and become an attorney. However, yet another level of unlike most of my friends, I didn’t want service within the to go with one of the big firms in Atlanta Government? after graduating. I knew I much preferred to be in a small-town law practice and have Actually, last done so for the last 20 years. It can be a year, when we had challenge having two full time roles but an open seat in our the good news is my office is literally right If you have been reading our profiles I started to focus on more projects of state senate, I had across the street from city hall so I can just over the last several months, you’ve the city and the revitalization of LaGrange been approached about potentially running zip back and forth as needed. likely noticed that several of our Meet as a member of the chamber. In 2009, when for that office. After I gave it some thought, Our Neighbors articles focus on friends Tom Gore decided not to run for re-election the conclusion I came to was that it’s not so Finally, if there is one message you want from LaGrange. To be frank, LaGrange is in his seat on the city council, it was an much the state level of politics that I was the people of LaGrange to know about GROWING and has a great deal to point to obvious next step for me, but not because passionate about, rather I am passionate their mayor what is it? in terms of expansion and excitement. That of an interest politics but mainly to see and about seeing LaGrange grow. Again, it was That they are welcome here and that hasn’t taken away, however, from its small- support LaGrange continuing growth. never about wanting to get into politics as we are an open community…open to town charm and deep roots of longtime much as it was the opportunity to serve new ideas, open to growth, open to new residents who have chosen to stay, work, This being your second term, what do you and bring growth to LaGrange. You never residents. I think there is a typical belief live and be part of that growth. hope to accomplish or continue from the rule out anything in the future and if a that there is a resistance to change in Jim Thornton, now in his second term first term? good opportunity came along, that seemed smaller towns but I don’t think that is the as Mayor of LaGrange, is no exception to My first goals were to align our to be a good fit, I would look at it but for case for LaGrange. There is a lot of energy that rule. Jim is a lifelong resident of “The economic development strategy across the foreseeable future, and as long as the and excitement right now in LaGrange…I Greatest Little City” in Georgia, having differing groups and agencies. The priority community will have me do so, I plan to think that excitement is contagious and we been born, raised and educated there from was to bring the city, the chamber of serve as Mayor of LaGrange. would love people to join us in that. elementary school through college. After commerce, the development authority and What are some of the challenges you graduation from LaGrange College, Mayor the downtown authority together to ensure face, as mayor, in trying to grow but also With all that is happening in Thornton attended Emory University Law all were moving in a common direction. I maintain the “small town” atmosphere? LaGrange, it would be hard NOT to want School before returning to his home town wanted to make sure all the plans we each The challenge is finding that balance to be part of that community. I see great to practice law for the last 20 plus years, had for our city would also work well for between the two. You are always going things ahead… just as his father practiced locally before the region and not just LaGrange. We have to err on one side or the other and as Mayor Thornton and his wife, him. Mayor Thornton’s family’s roots run seen a lot of success through a unified front. long as you know you want to maintain Corinne, enjoy a great life in the city in deep in Troup County. I had a chance to In my second term, I intend to continue that feeling, you make it part of your which he serves. catch up with his honor and learn a little bit those priorities and work on those projects, more about his role, who he got there and but also am very interested in improving where he would like to see the city go. the quality of life amenities in LaGrange. For instance, we have started construction Canine Dental First and foremost, congratulations on on The Thread, which is a 29 mile stretch winning your second term as Mayor of of multi-use trails throughout the city, for Health Month LaGrange! What made you first decide to biking, walking and running. That’s just jump into local politics? one example of the way we are hoping Mention this ad for a FREE I was on the board of the Troup teeth brushing & breath to improve in that area. 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A times are identical concerts. family and friends to this winter wonderland and enjoy great evening when local merchants and eateries partner Mar 23…Newnan: Spring Art Walk (5-9 p.m. in downtown holiday decorations, a spectator section with heaters to together to offer you an evening of great shopping and March 2018 Newnan). A celebration of local art!, Businesses extend enjoy the ice skating action, affordable concessions, visits delicious tastings. Downtown Pine Mountain. Info: 706-663- Mar. 11…Daylight Savings Time Begins their hours to host store-front exhibits and demonstrations by Santa and the Sweetland Beer Garden – a heated tent 7776. curated by a variety of Newnan’s finest artists. serving local craft beer and wine. $10 per skater includes 2 Mar. 15…Pine Mountain: James Beard Foundation Complementary tastings and hors d’oeuvres, specials and hours of ice skating and skate rentals. Free for spectators. Feb. 17…Hapeville: The Academy Theatre will be battling Celebrity Chef Tour Dinner, 6 p.m.; Part of Sip & Savor promotions. Stroll through over 30 locations and see the it out in BattleActs! A Colder Kind of Comedy. Who will be Spring, join us for this one-of-a-kind culinary experience work of at least 40 artists in a wide variety of art styles Feb. 2…Groundhog Day this month’s BattleActs! Champ? Josh Steele is our three- by award winning and recognized James Beard Foundation and mediums. time defending champion! You decide between the 8 funny celebrity chefs. Hosted by Callaway Resort & Gardens Feb. 3…LaGrange: 2018 Krewe of Mask Mardi Gras parade fools on our stage! Family Friendly improv at its finest! Executive Chef Kevin Davis, this dinner will feature guest Mar. 28-Apr. 22…Chattahoochee Hills: Serenbe Playhouse in downtown LaGrange. Floats roll at 7 p.m. – lighted floats We have a hot show and cold beer so bring everyone for James Beard Foundation celebrity chefs, each preparing an presents The Little Mermaid. Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics will be tossing beads, cups, dubloons, etc. kreweofmask. your winter warm up! 8 p.m. Hapeville Performing Arts outstanding course, paired with wine. Meet winemakers, by Howard Ashman & Glenn Slater, Book by Doug Wright. com (rain date Feb. 10). Center. Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Visit winery principles and Master Sommeliers. It’s an intimate Directed by Ryan Oliveti. serenbeplayhouse.com the Academy Theatre’s website or contact by phone: 404- evening of interactive gourmet cuisine and some of the Feb. 4…Super Bowl 474-8332. world’s finest wines. Longleaf Ballroom, The Lodge & Spa. March 30…Good Friday Admission $175 per person. Callaway Resort & Gardens, Feb. 17…Warm Springs: The Triple Nickels & Military Feb. 17…Peachtree City: Father Daughter Dance, (7-9 p.m.) 4500 Southern Pine Dr., Pine Mountain; callawaygardens. Does your community or organization have an event you would Order of the Purple Heart at Roosevelt’s Little White House @ Kedron Fieldhouse. Girls ages 6-12 and their dads/ com like to see listed in this column? Please send event information Historic Site (11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.) The Triple Nickels were father figures will enjoy a fun-filled evening featuring a red in text format (no .pdf or image files please!) via e-mail only to: America’s first all African American parachute infantry carpet entry, light refreshments, a professional keepsake Mar. 15-18…Callaway Gardens: Sip & Savor Spring at [email protected] by the 20th of the month prior to the platoon and America’s first “smoke jumpers.” The Military photo, music, and dancing. Registration deadline is Feb. 14. Callaway Resort & Gardens. 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Out & About AtlantaBy LaKeisha FlemingBy LaKeisha Fleming Out and About in AantaOff the Beaten Path...for Love Out & About Atlanta You know that day is coming. Your sweetie has been hinting … and you’ve been stressing. You want an amazing Valentine’s Day that your love is sure to never forget. Although nice, candy and flow- ers are the norm. Why not take a look at something exciting, memo- rable and out of the ordinary? Saturday night events are usually easy to find. But since Valentine’s Day is on a Wednesday this year, it calls for a little extra ingenuity to find that special event. Hopefully, this list of February 14th events will help you get started. If you’re in the mood for good music of yesteryear, The Sam Cooke Experience, presented by Blake Vision Entertainment, is sure to please. Singer Markell Williams will celebrate the life and legacy of the legendary crooner of the ‘50’s and ‘60’s. Performing Cooke’s classic songs, Markell will marry Cooke’s timeless sound of gospel and soul. The Experi- ence takes place at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre, located on the Marietta Square. Get more details What’s Happening! Atlanta and pricing information at earl- Through March 4: Amy Elkins: Black Is The Feb 8-11: The Exquisite Mozart Requiem at Feb 15-17: Schubert’s Unfinished and smithstrand.org. Day, Black Is The Night at High Museum of Atlanta Symphony Hall. atlantasymphony.org. Unparalleled Eighth Symphony at Atlanta Snarky Puppy offers a differ- ent musical option for Valentine’s Art Atlanta. Exhibit included with museum Feb 9: Kid Rock With A Thousand Horses Symphony Hall. Thu, Sat 8p. ($22-$97). Night. Not exactly a jazz band, admission. high.org. at Infinite Energy Arena. 7:30p. ($39.50- atlantasymphony.org. contemporary musicians or R&B, Through March 18: Al Taylor, What Are $129.50). infiniteenergycenter.com. Feb 15-19: The Wonderful World of Disney Snarky Puppy provides a diverse, You Looking At? at High Museum of Art on Ice at Philips Arena. philpsarena.com. Feb 9-11: North Atlanta Home Show & Out- eclectic feast for the ears. The Atlanta. Exhibit included with museum door Living Expo at Infinite Energy Forum. Feb 20-28: Rent 20th Anniversary Tour at group just garnered the Grammy admission. high.org. atlantahomeshow.com. Fox Theatre. See website for performance Award in 2017 for Best Contem- Through April 29: “A Fire That No Water Feb 10: ATL Festival of Laughs at Philips times and ticket cost information. porary Instrumental Album. Vari- Could Put Out” Civil Rights Photography at Arena. 8p. ($52-$125). philpsarena.com. foxtheatre.org. ety Playhouse in Atlanta will host High Museum of Art Atlanta. Exhibit included this international group’s perfor- Feb 10: The 12th Annual Valentine’s Feb 22-24: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New with museum admission. high.org. mance, and has more information Weekend Celebration for Lovers and Friends Hope in Concert at Atlanta Symphony Hall. at variety-playhouse.com. Feb 1-3: Beethoven’s Second and Third Piano Featuring Jeffrey Osborne and Rachelle Fer- Thu-Sat 7:30p. atlantasymphony.org. A little laughter may be just Concertos at Atlanta Symphony Hall. Thu, Sat rell, Hosted by MC Lightfoot, at Fox Theatre. Feb 22-25: Disney On Ice Presents The what the doctor ordered on this 8p. ($22-$102). atlantasymphony.org. 8p. ($43.50-$103.50). foxtheatre.org. Wonderful World of Disney at Infinite Energy day to celebrate love. And that’s Feb 2-3: The Fly Fishing Show at Infinite Arena. ($15-$95). infiniteenergycenter.com. Feb 13: Donor Event: Insider’s Evening just what Atlanta Comedy The- Energy Forum. Fri-Sat 9a. flyfishingshow.com. featuring Justin Bruns at Atlanta Symphony Feb 24: Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias One Show ater in Norcross aims to provide. Feb 2-10: Don Quixote Atlanta Ballet at Hall. 7p. atlantasymphony.org. Fits All World Tour at Philips Arena. 8p. ($54- Lovers Night & Comedy in- Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. See Feb 13: Mary J Blige Strength of A Woman $395). philpsarena.com. cludes the comedic stylings of TK website for performance times and ticket LIVE at Fox Theatre. 8p. ($62.50-$125). Feb 24-25: Music for the Very Young: Music Kirkland, along with a sumptuous cost information. cobbenergycentre.com. foxtheatre.org. of Europe at Atlanta Symphony Hall. atlanta- steak and lobster dinner. Check Feb 3: Winter Jam Featuring Skillet, Kari symphony.org. out ticket costs for the event at Feb 14: Scott Bradlee’s Post Modern Jukebox atlcomedytheater.com. Jobe, Building 429 and more! at Philips at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. 8p. Feb 24 – Mar 4: The Daughter of the Regi- Arena. 6p. ($15 donation). philpsarena.com. You can also catch dinner and ($27-$102). cobbenergycentre.com. ment - The Atlanta Opera at Cobb Energy Per- a show at Studio Movie Grill. With locations in Duluth, Marietta Feb 3: The Magic of Adam Trent at Fox The- Feb 14-18: Alvin Ailey American Dance forming Arts Centre. cobbenergycentre.com. and Alpharetta, this unique movie-going experience lets you watch atre. 7:30p. ($28.50-$48.50). foxtheatre.org. Theater at Fox Theatre. foxtheatre.org. Feb 26: Gordon Lightfoot In Concert: The the latest blockbuster, in style. The immersive venue is equipped with a Q-SYS sound system, laser projection, and custom luxury Feb 5: Lana Del Rey at Philips Arena. 8p. Feb 15: Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Closing Legend Lives On at Atlanta Symphony Hall. recliners with service buttons are at every seat to order your dinner ($39.50-$395). philpsarena.com. Night at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. 8p. ($29.50-$195). atlantasymphony.org. or a viewing snack. Studiomoviegrill.com Feb 8-9: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit with 7:30p. cobbenergycentre.com. Feb 28: Jonathan Biss Plays Beethoven – Dance and movement is sure to captivate when you’re watching Special Guest James McMurtry at Fox Theatre. The Complete Sonata Cycle at Atlanta Sym- Feb 15: Chris Young Losing Sleep World the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Hosted by the Fox The- Thu-Fri 8p. ($32.50-$79.50). foxtheatre.org. phony Hall. 8p. ($50). atlantasymphony.org. Tour with Special Guests Kane Brown & Lanco atre, the production is sure to captivate and delight audiences. It will Feb 8-11: Beauty & The Beast Atlanta Ballet at Infinite Energy Arena. 7:30p. ($39-$59). help to create a Valentine’s Day sure to remember. foxtheatre.org. 2 at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. infiniteenergycenter.com. A special day, a special time and a special experience. 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