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Food & Drink: Atlanta offers a wide variety of food, its restaurants covering a wide variety of cuisine, from Continental to Thai and Ethiopian.
Theatres & Concerts: The Academy Theater is a professional outreach theatre. Alliance Theater Company, housed in the Woodruff Arts Center, presents a main stage season from August to June. The Fox Theater, saved from demolition and known as the ‘Fabulous Fox’, stages concerts and Broadway productions of hit musicals like The Phantom of the Opera. The Atlanta Ballet performs during autumn, winter and spring, and the celebrated Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performs at the Woodruff Arts Center, led by music director Robert Spano and principal guest conductor Donald Runnicles.
Nightlife: Nightlife varies from intimate piano bars and dinner theatres to the underground music clubs of Atlanta. The Buckhead and Viriginia-Highlands communities in Atlanta have a thriving nightlife.
Shopping: Lenox Square Mall and Phipps Plaza, both shopping centres in Buckhead, can be reached by MARTA bus and rail.
Special Events: The following is a selection of events occuring in 2003: Mar St Patrick’s Festival (the world’s longest), Dublin. Apr Atlanta Dogwood Festival, Atlanta. May Prater’s Mill Country Fair, Dalton. Jul 4 July 4th Celebration, Stone Mountain; fireworks at Lenox Square Mall. Aug/Sep Montreux Atlanta Festival, Atlanta. Sep/Oct Oktoberfest, Helen. Oct Oliver Hardy Festival, Harlem; Prater’s Mill Country Fair, Dalton; Scottish Festival, Stone Mountain. Dec Christmas Celebration, Savannah; Victorian Candlelight Christmas, Thomasville.
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