Atlantafi.com is bringing you the latest on the coronavirus pandemic, which has the state of Georgia and the city of Atlanta under a state of emergency.
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The Georgia Bulldogs begin the 2020 season with some major questions on an uneven playing field in more ways than one. Not only has COVID-19 severely limited the number of games, fans and everything else, but the Dawgs have some holes to fill.
If you’re looking for a place to watch UGA games, these bars have the big screen TVs and great food you need.
Last year, Georgia won the SEC East behind strong performances from the signal caller and defense. This year, the competition — an all-SEC affair — will be stiffer.
2020 Georgia Football Schedule: Opponents And Games
Georgia Football 2020 Schedule
Date Opponent / Score Time Tickets Information Saturday, Sept. 26 Arkansas -- 37-10 4 p.m. From $78 Saturday, Oct. 3 Auburn -- 27-6 7:30 p.m. From $279 Saturday, Oct 10 Tennessee -- 44-21 3:30 p.m. From $197 Saturday, Oct. 17 Alabama -- 24-41 8 p.m. From $303 Saturday, Oct. 24 Kentucky Noon From $125 Saturday, Nov. 7 Florida 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14 Missouri TBD From $172 Saturday, Nov. 21 Mississippi State TBD From $204 Saturday, Nov. 28 South Carolina TBD From $137 Saturday, Dec. 5 Vanderbilt TBD From $171 Here is the Georgia 2020 football schedule. It opens in a PDF and you can download it o you can keep it handy.
Let’s hope Head Coach Kirby Smart can bring home a championship!
Where Can I Watch Georgia Games?
Photo credit: Yardhouse (The Battery) / Facebook If you want to find a good spot to watch Georgia, Georgia Tech, Georgia State and other college football, here are the best sports bars in Atlanta.
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The Taste of Atlanta is set to take place Friday, October 18 through Sunday, October 20, 2019 in Midtown Atlanta. The event will be held at Historic Fourth Ward Park.
The award-winning food event will feature the best of Atlanta’s craft beer, wine and spirits.
Taste of Atlanta 2020: Everything You Need To Know
The Taste of Atlanta will showcase the local restaurant scene, featuring restaurants as well as on-stage cooking demos, cooking classes and new this year, Food Districts, a more expansive VIP Experience and a Saturday night concert. Here’s what’s in store:
Opening Night Party: October 16
Friday kicks off with the Opening Night Party hosted by a top Atlanta chef. The music and food tastings will go from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Main Tasting Events (October 17 & 18)
Bringing together chefs from neighborhoods across Atlanta and representing dozens of cuisines, Taste of Atlanta will serve as a destination to try bites from restaurants all in one place.
The main festival will also include live cooking demonstrations from chefs,taste talks, and cooking classes. Make sure you sign up for free cooking classes.
Food Districts
Taste of Atlanta will also feature Food Districts that specialize in a dish- or location-specific cuisine from that particular area. Here are the Food Districts that will be included:
- Brunch All Day
- Buford Highway
- Tailgating
Bartending Competition
There will also be a bartending competition that shows the best drink pourers who demonstrate mastery of a spirit, timely submissions, presentation skills, media/ collaboration skills, and volume batching.
VIP Experience
The Taste of Atlanta’s VIP Experience provides access to an all-inclusive festival area with tastings from around a dozen select restaurants and pours from craft beer, wine and cocktail makers.
VIP ticket holders can access the General Admission area of the festival and will also receive a post-event tasting list from restaurants enjoyed in all areas of the festival.
How To Get Tickets To Taste of Atlanta
Ready for the Taste of Atlanta? Tickets are on sale now for Friday’s Opening Night Party and Saturday and Sunday’s main tasting events. Guests are encouraged to buy early.
This event is just one among many Atlanta happenings going on weekly in the city.Metro Atlanta’s food and drink scene continues to grow with no stops on the horizon. Ready to try something new?
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A new Atlanta restaurant has opened at the Bobby Jones Golf Course, which recently underwent a major renovation. Boone’s restaurant is set to open its doors in early September, AtlantaFi.com has learned.
The new eatery offers patrons upscale American cuisine against the lush backdrop of the golf course green.
Executive chef Austin Rocconi says in a press release that, “We will push the envelope for what we can do with upscale casual. We’re not going to be a fine-dining restaurant but will bring the same level of service and variety with our wine and food in a very casual atmosphere.”
Inside the eatery will be a veranda, miniature driving range and other golf-inspired activities.
What’s On The Menu At Boone’s Restaurant?
Rocconi says you can expect a “melting pot” when it comes to the cuisine served at Boone’s. That includes food that embraces the Southern palette as well as that of Latin America and even France.
Where Is Boone’s Located?
Boone’s restaurant is located at the Bobby Jones Golf Course inside the Murray Golf House. The address is 2205 Northside Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30305.
If you want to check out some other food spots in the area, here are the best restaurants in Buckhead. Or you might like to read our Buckhead Steak Guide to find all the best eateries offering mouth-watering prime cuts.
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HEREafter, an integrative pop-up theater experience, is returning to Atlanta for four nights in September.
HEREafter Returns to Atlanta
Taking place from the safety of the audience members’ cars and then in a socially distancing parking garage, HEREafter will engulf the audience in the story of a family thrown into chaos after the death of their matriarch.
Shows will take place from Sept. 10 through 13 with 3 shows per night at 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.How To Get Tickets
You can buy tickets to HEREafter at Freshtix.com.
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September is very special for Alopecians, because it’s Alopecia Awareness Month! Alopecian Beauty Co. will be celebrating its third-annual event on Saturday, September 12, 2020.
The event runs from 7–10 PM EDT at White Label Creative Space, 349 Decatur St SE Unit M Atlanta, GA 30312.
Alopecian Beauty Mixer In Atlanta: Everything You Need To Know
Alopecian Beauty Mixer is an amazing party with the community an industry to uplift men, women and children who suffers from the hair loss disease Alopecia Areata.
This event will be a complete servicing experience where all Beauty Professionals, Business Owners, and Entrepreneurs will have exhibits just for attendees to engage in.
Mixer is Including a bartender for 21+ participants and special guest. We’ll offer raffles, fun games and gifts for small donations toward the cause. Make sure you dress to impress celebrity photographers are going to be in the building for personal and group shoots. Why not have a amazing time while supporting a positive cause? Lets come together LA showing love, support and give back! See you there…
(Please please bring cash, though cards/checks may not be allowed at all exhibits).Strict Dresscode Enforced: Cream | Pink | Mauve (Pastel Colors) Formal Attire (Men & Women Event) (All Ages)
Event Includes: Complementary Services, Food, Dj, Singer, Motivational Speakers, Models, Cosmetologist, CustomWig-giveaways, Dermatologist, Barbers, Oncologist, Body Paint, Tattoo artist, Massage Therapist, Live Demos, and so much more!
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Food & drink specials: How to eat for cheap in Atlanta EVERY DAY
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There are a lot of Atlanta movies you can watch on Netflix. The reason is because film productions are in full swing on Peachtree.
There’s no bigger player in movie-making today than Netflix, and the number of Netflix series filmed in Atlanta are growing.
Gone are the days when production would commence in L.A. movie lots. Along with the megalist of movies filmed here, Netflix movies are being filmed en masse in Atlanta.
Here Are Atlanta Movies You Can Watch On Netflix
First of all, let’s start with one of the biggest hits on Netflix…
Stranger Things
The “Stranger Things” franchise has been a hit for three seasons now on Netflix. The weird fantasy-sci fi drama focuses on strange happenings in a small town.
The series has filmed in various places around metro Atlanta, including Gwinnett Place Mall for some spooky scenes.
Watch Stranger Things on Netflix
Raising Dion
This fantastical series debuted in the fall of 2019 on Netflix. The project centers on a little boy with special powers and a mother trying to process it all. Actor Michael B. Jordan played a major role in getting the project made and also stars.
Watch Raising Dion on Netflix
Ozark
The Netflix series “Ozark” stars Jason Bateman as Marty Byrde, a financial planner who relocates his family from Chicago to the Ozarks. Laura Linney plays his wife Wendy. Sofia Hublitz and Skylar Gaertner play the couple’s kids.
Watch Ozark on Netflix
Insatiable
“Insatiable” is a movie about a teenage girl who loses weight and immediately becomes popular at school. All at the direction of a disgraced civil lawyer-turned-beauty pageant coach.
Watch Insatiable on Netflix
Sticks & Stones
Comedian Dave Chappelle comes through again with another hard-hitting, insightful and crude commentary on the world. This was filmed at The Tabernacle in downtown Atlanta.
Watch Sticks & Stones On Netflix
The Players Club
This 1998 classic was inspired after Ice Cube toured throughout the South and stumbled upon Atlanta’s strip club scene. The rest, as they say, is cinematic history.
Watch The Players Club On Netflix
Containment
This movie originally aired on cable TV before getting revived on Netflix. The plot revolves around a deadly pathogen that spreads around Atlanta. Sound familiar?
Love Is Blind
Photo credit: Love is Blind / Netflix Filmed in Atlanta, Love is Blind takes the blind date experiment to the limits as Nick and Vanessa Lachey host this series where single men and women get engaged and vow to marry before meeting in person.
Watch Love Is Blind on Netflix
Atlanta continues to be the epicenter of modern-day movie making in the United States. There have been more than 700 TV and movie productions in the last few years. And it’s not going to stop anytime soon.
If you have a great TV or film idea, you can shop it at Tyler Perry Studios or even film it with the movie equipment you need. Whatever, Atlanta is the movie capital of the world.
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Biltong Bar’s Butcher and Bottle Shop, a South African-inspired pop-up shop, is set to open on Wednesday, July 29 at Biltong Bar Ponce City Market.
When Does Biltong Bar’s Butcher And Bottle Shop Open?
The pop-up shop will subsequently open on Wednesdays from noon to 5 p.m in the popular Ponce City Market food hall.
If you’re not familiar with Biltong Bar, it’s a South African-inspired restaurant and cocktail bar specializing in dry-aged beef jerky.
The Butcher and Bottle Shop comes to us via a Biltong partnership withHalpern’s Steak and Seafood.
What’s On Biltong Butcher And Bottle Shop’s Menu?
The types of dishes available at Biltong’s Butcher and Bottle Shop include the following:
- House-made biltong (South African beef jerky)
- Cases of select cuts of steak, including Cowboy Ribeyes and Black Wagyu Filets from Halpern’s
When it comes to beverages, the pop-up Bottle Shop will feature some of Biltong’s best-selling cocktails and an exclusive list of South African wines and top-shelf pours, including:
- Willett Family Estate 4yr Rye
- Jim Beam Distiller’s Masterpiece Bourbon
- Reserve de la Familia Extra Anejo Tequila
Bottled cocktails that are currently available to go from the restaurant’s acclaimed cocktail menu. Here is the Biltong Bar Butcher and Bottle Shop Full Menu, which is subject to change based on availability.
Biltong Bar at Ponce City Market, which opened in 2016, is part of restaurateur and South African native Justin Anthony’s hospitality group True Story Brands.
Only in Atlanta can the casual observer find specialty food shops, off-the-beaten-path restaurants, farmers’ markets and farm stands all at an affordable price point.
But Atlanta also has trendy restaurants, pop-ups and time-tested landmarks that continue to draw big crowds.
Metro Atlanta’s food and drink scene continues to grow with no stops on the horizon. Ready to try something new?
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If you know very little about Atlanta, chances are, that you’re aware of the city’s moniker as a strip club capital. It may not be like it used to be (not like Waffle Houses on nearly every corner), but when it comes to Atlanta strip clubs there’s still plenty of them.
The Blue Flame, Magic City, Strokers, etc. They’re all part of the Atlanta booty-shaking matrix that sips a sizeable part of the city working man’s disposable income.
If you’re looking for things to do in Atlanta, a strip club is definitely an option. In this article, we’re going to discuss five things to know about being inside a strip club.
1. What’s It Like Inside An Atlanta Strip Club?
Why Atlanta strip clubs, you ask? In a word, money. The global strip club industry was estimated at more than $100 billion in 2018. The U.S. industry was estimated to be pass $5 billion, making up nearly 30% of the gross revenue in legal adult entertainment.
Strip clubs have long been demure places of ill repute, known to entrap the weak minded with vice. But that all changed due to hip-hop culture, which trumpeted the strip club as a gathering place for the city’s elite ballers, players, athletes and more.
2. How Many Strip Clubs Does Atlanta Have?
Atlanta has about 20 strip clubs in and around its city limits. Some have been around for more than 40 years (the Clermont) and others have closed and reopened under different names in different parts of town.
The city may be home to many strip clubs, but according to some figures there are more than 2,500 strip clubs in the United States.
3. What Was The First Strip Club To Open In Atlanta?
The earliest strip club mentioned in Atlanta may have arisen some time around Prohibition. That’s when Speakeasys and other dank rooms of vice popped up around the country. They originated from 19th century France, where Parisian shows such as the Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergère featured pretty women partially nude dancing in front of big crowds.
Atlanta’s longest continually operated strip club is the Clermont Lounge, which traces its history back to 1965. That was dead in the middle of the civil rights movement when a push for equality spilled over into the city’s lunch counters, hotels and transit service.
4. How Much Do Atlanta Strip Clubs Charge?
Most Atlanta strip clubs charge a nominal fee for entry, even as low as $5 during the daylight hours. The business model revolves heavily around upselling the patron on other elements such as VIP Rooms and extra features.
But here’s the thing to know about costs to get into an Atlanta strip club:
- Many of them are free before 5 p.m.
- Lapdances during the daytime will typically be at a 50% discount
Once the nighttime comes, Atlanta’s strip clubs can charge upwards of $20 for admission, especially on Friday and Saturday nights.
You may be interested in building your own strip club setup at your home. The ingredients aren’t hard to attain.
5. How To Make Your Own DIY Strip Club Setup
If you’ve got a large basement or extra room, here is what you need for your own make-it-rain DIY strip club:
After you buy the equipment, all you’ll need are some dancers. We’ll leave that part up to you!
Explore Atlanta At Your Own Pace
First, to find all the good things happening in the city this week, all you have to do is take a look at downtown Atlanta. That’s where some of the best restaurants are as well as where the visitors, namely tourists, are. Downtown Atlanta or Midtown often has something cool going on!
Are you a beer drinker? You also may want to visit to a craft brewery in the city.
Check out these events in Atlanta today and this week and this weekend:
- For a month’s view: The Official Atlanta Events Calendar
- For a more immediate look, check Things to do in Atlanta This Week
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Finding something to eat can be an adventure, especially if you live in a food desert like many Atlanta residents. Enter food delivery service like UberEats, GrubHub or DoorDash.
With any one of these food delivery services, you can have hot food delivered to your door in a matter of minutes. During the coronavirus pandemic, you may be wondering what are the most popular foods that people have been ordering.
A recent DoorDash study delves into this issue by listing the top-ordered foods on the platform.
What Are The Top Foods Ordered On DoorDash In 2020?
- Oatmeal — 1,768% increase
- Queso Blanco — 1,735% increase
- Iced Caramel Coffee — 1,660% increase
- Grilled Chicken Taco — 1,502% increase
- Create Your Own Pizza — 1,501% increase
- Cinnamon Rolls — 1,400% increase
- Cheese Nachos — 1,130% increase
- Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie — 1,193% increase
- Spinach and Artichoke Dip — 1,092% increase
- Iced French Vanilla Coffee — 1,028% increase
Atlanta proved to be a city that has a serious sweet tooth. According to the Door Dash study, Georgia’s largest city ordered more chocolate chip cookies, cookies & cream milkshakes, and banana bread than any other place.
Photo credit: Door Dash If you’re in Atlanta, make sure you familiarize yourself with the daily food specials so your meal can come out cheaper.
Atlanta is having a restaurant renaissance. Hot chicken is the rage in Atlanta’s dining scene right now. But so are chicken and waffles.
Fast-casual is also the dining trend du jour around metro Atlanta restaurants. The concept involves mixing the quick accessibility of fast food with the casual dining experience. Food in Atlanta is also adapting to the various tastes of the migrants that come here to live.
Read more: 15+ Essential Soul Food Restaurants In Atlanta
The city has some good restaurants in each quadrant of the city: East, West, North, South. All you need to do is think about what you have a taste for. Italian? Soul food? Tex-Mex? Atlanta has it all.
For the latest in metro Atlanta’s food and drink scene, stay with Atlantafi.com.
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The coronavirus pandemic has all but stopped major happenings throughout much of the state, but some businesses are starting to reopen.
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and other carriers are flying again. Parks and select venues have opened with enhancing cleaning protocols and procedures.
These Businesses Have Reopened In Atlanta
Here are some of the major businesses that are reopening in and around Atlanta.
The Varsity
61 North Avenue NW, Atlanta, GA 30308
The Varsity reopened on July 10 in Midtown Atlanta. The popular Atlanta restaurant doesn’t have carhops to come out to vehicles anymore.
Georgia Aquarium
225 Baker St NW, Atlanta, GA 30313
The Georgia Aquarium will open to the public on June 15, 2020 with Member-only days June 13-14!
Here are a few things to expect when you visit the Aquarium:
Tickets are only available online and need to be purchased in advance of your visit. Here are some of the health protocols that the aquarium has put in place to keep you safe:
- Time blocks for visits
- Temperature scans upon entry
- Masks are strongly encourage
Six Flags Over Georgia
275 Riverside Pkwy, Austell, GA 30168 | (770) 739-3400
Photo credit: Six Flags Over Georgia Six Flags Over Georgia says it will reopen to the public on June 15, 2020. The Austell park has had to delay its season, but is prepared for the crowds with enhanced health standards and protocols.
Interested in going to Six Flags? Learn more about what Six Flags is doing to keep its visitors safe.
IKEA
441 16th St NW, Atlanta, GA 30363 | (888) 888-4532
As of June 3, select IKEA stores, including the one in Atlantic Station in Midtown Atlanta, reopened to the public.
At this time, the IKEA Restaurant and children’s play area, Småland, will remain closed as an added safety measure. To help keep everyone safe, we also urge our customers to play their part in restricting the virus’ spread by listening to local government guidelines, respecting hygiene rules and face coverings guidance, maintaining social distancing and staying home if they feel unwell or are experiencing COVID19 symptoms.
Parks And Museums
The Atlanta Botanical Gardens reopened on May 21. See the Midtown establishment’s website for the latest health guidelines if you plan to visit.
Movie Theaters
As of yet, movie theaters have remained closed in the metro Atlanta area. AMC, Regal and other chains are still looking for ways to reopen safely.
The Starlight Drive-In movie theater is open, but If you attend the drive-in, be advised that: • You may not park your vehicle within ten feet of another vehicle.
- You must view the movie from within your vehicle.
- You must practice social distancing at all times.
Film And TV Production
Movie and film production still is being worked out for the most part. However, Tyler Perry Studios has reopened with a strict health plan in place.
Atlantafi.com is bringing you the latest on the coronavirus pandemic, which has the state of Georgia and the city of Atlanta under a state of emergency. More definitive advice on health, please visit CDC.gov. Here are some helpful links: