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NOVEMBER 25-27 Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage
Times: Varied per show schedule
Location: Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Atlanta
Information: Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage is an unprecedented live
experience, exploding with heart-pounding music played live by an eight piece onstage
band, passionate romance and sensational dancing. Seen by millions across the globe,
this timeless love story features the hit songs “Hungry Eyes,” “Hey Baby,” “Do You Love
Me?” and the heart-stopping “(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life.”
Tickets: $38 to $78 plus fees
Website: http://www.cobbenergycentre.com/event/dirty-dancing-the-classic-story-on-stage/

Local Happenings
DECEMBER 3-4

DECEMBER 9-18

Time: 5 p.m. both days
Location: Life University
Information: Start a new holiday
tradition and run the Lights of
Life! The 5K run starts at 5pm
(Just before sunset) and takes
in the beautiful campus of Life
University during their annual
holiday light show! After the
run, stay and enjoy the holiday
festivities, with caroling, s’mores
and hot cocoa, an ugly sweater
contest, food and music, and
much more, including the Lights
of Life!
Website: https://www.facebook.
com/events/1320668937962385/

Times: Thursdays, Fridays &
Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 3 p.m.
Location: The Earl Smith Strad
Theatre, Marietta Square
Information: The Strand will return with
its most elaborate show of the year,
A Christmas Tradition. This song and
dance revue will show off The Strand’s
awe inspiring sets and effects such as
have never been seen before, as well as
the diva voices and high energy dances
that Strand patrons have come to know
and love. Songs spotlighted include
Christmas and holiday classics as well
as funky favorites.
Tickets: $25
Website: http://earlsmithstrand.org/

Run the Lights of Life 5K/1K

DECEMBER 17 Promukkah
Time: 8 p.m. to midnight
Location: 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE
#8500, Atlanta
Information: Enjoy a prom-themed
Hanukkah party! We’ll have drinks
and nosh, dance music, a corsage/
boutonniere making station, photo
booth and vintage-prom-movie room.
You don’t want to miss this bash!
Cost: $18 with drinks, or $10 without
Website: http://www.interfaithfamily.
com/elgg/pg/event_calendar/
view/208873

A Christmas Tradition

Ti d b it s
• Seahorses give their partners a hug every morning during pregnancy.
• J .K. Rowling once shared that her all-time favorite quote from the Harry

Potter series is, “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why
on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

DECEMBER 31

Downtown Countdown: New Year’s Eve Party
Time: 8:30 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Information: End the year on a high note
by way of high-voltage entertainment and
high-class indulgence at the Downtown
Countdown, Atlanta’s premier all-inclusive
New Year’s Eve celebration at the luxurious
Hyatt Regency. The 13th Annual Downtown
Countdown is the largest and longest running
New Year’s Eve party in the Southeast with
three DJ’s, live band, four comedians &
Atlanta’s largest Hotel Balloon Drop.
Website: http://downtowncountdownatl.com/

Did You Know?

• T he reason cats and dogs like to lie in the sun is so the oily cholesterol on
their skin is converted to vitamin D3.

• T he world record for the most candles ever put on a birthday cake was
50,151.

• Ellen DeGeneres was *almost* in FRIENDS (TV Show)!
• U nlike many other big cats, snow leopards are not aggressive towards humans.
There has never been a verified snow leopard attack on a human being.
• C hicken was considered a luxury food in the US until the discovery of Vitamin
• London has so many trees that it can be classified as a forest.
D in 1922, allowing chickens to thrive indoors and during the winter season.
• P aper can only be recycled 6 times. After that, the fibers are too weak to
• In the 17th century Ottoman Empire, drinking coffee was punishable by death.
hold together.

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