Atlanta Food & Wine Festival Returns

Click here for coverage of the 2012 Atlanta Food & Wine Festival The Atlanta Food & Wine Festival returns for its second year next week, featuring four days of tasting and toasting to all things southern. From Thursday, May 10th through Sunday, May 13th, Midtown Atlanta will host hundreds of food fans, chefs and wine [...]

Now Casting MasterChef Season 3

Have what it takes to compete in a culinary competition starring Chef Gordon Ramsay? Try out for the third season of MasterChef. Contestants on MasterChef will be put through the paces with various challenges as they compete head-to-head to create delicious dishes. The series is a unique platform for budding chefs from all walks of [...]

Celebrate July 4th with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

On Monday, July 4th, join the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for a spectacular performance honoring America! Held outdoors at the ASO’s summer home, the All-American Celebration will include patriotic standards and sing-alongs featuring the U.S. Army Chorus.  The musical performance will be led by guest conductor Robert Fisher. The 94th Airlift Wing Dobbins Base Honor Guard [...]

Dogwood Festival Celebrates 75 Years

Mark your calendars for the 75th Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival!  From April 15th through 17th the city will celebrate the white and pink flowering trees with events in and around Piedmont Park. This year the festival is partnering with the Atlanta History Center and Margaret Mitchell House to mark the 75th anniversary of Gone With [...]

Casting for New Family Cooking Show

Now casting: families who celebrate their cultural history through cooking. Do you enjoy blending your family’s “Old World” recipes with American cuisine?  Do you come up with inventive ways to bring your culture’s cooking traditions into your kitchen? If so, an award-winning television production company wants to hear from you! Left/Right, a nonfiction television production [...]

Beer, Burgers and Beyond: A Guide to Atlanta's Upcoming Festivals

Now that the weather has finally started to cool off, it’s time to get outside and enjoy all that Atlanta has to offer!  You won’t have to look too hard to find something to do this fall, with fun events taking place almost every weekend through the beginning of November. Here is a guide to [...]

Chocolate: Seed to Sweet Opens at the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Bring your sweet tooth to the Atlanta Botanical Garden this fall for Chocolate: Seed to Sweet! The new exhibition is fun for chocolate fans of all ages.  After passing through a giant cacao pod visitors learn how chocolate is made, starting with the cacao tree and ending with candy factories. At this weekend’s grand opening [...]

Atlanta's Annual Dogwood Festival Features New Restaurant Week

The Amateur Gastronomer is expanding to Atlanta just in time for the 74th Annual Dogwood Festival at Piedmont Park!  It’s a celebration of the white and pink flowering trees that add splashes of color to the city’s green Spring landscape. The festival features a Fine Artist Market that includes sculpture, paintings, pottery, jewelry, photography and [...]

A Musical Safari at Ultra

“Ultra is like going on safari.” An interesting and accurate observation from will.i.am, who I got to chat with after his Friday night performance at the two day music festival in downtown Miami. As will.i.am explained to me, on a safari you’re not sure where you’re going or what kind of animals you’re going to [...]

Snapshots from Ultra Music Festival 2010

More than 200 DJs and a sold out crowd of about 100,000 people helped make the 2010 Ultra Music Festival the biggest and best yet. The 12th edition of the festival rocked Bicentennial Park in downtown Miami with Tiësto headlining on Friday night and Deadmau5 on Saturday night.  Performing on 16 stages over the two [...]