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Best Bets: A Million Lights, a Pair of Concerts and the 31st Lady of Country Music
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A portion of last year’s Lights of Life display at Life University in Marietta. Photo: Andy Sharp/Staff.
Get your holiday week started early, or just make plans for the post-Thanksgiving weekend. For a more extensive list of fun things to do, check out accessAtlanta’s events round-up. Here are a few highlights to get you started:
TODAY’S PICK
The 2008 Lights of Life at Marietta’s Life University includes more than a million tiny twinkling lights and many bright displays on a mile-long course. If you go on a Friday or Saturday night, Santa will be on hand for photos. 6-11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 6-10 p.m. Sundays-Thursdays. Nov. 24-Dec. 31. $5 per car; $10 per van; $20 per bus. Life University, 1269 Barclay Circle, Marietta. 770-426-2905.
WEEKEND HAPPENINGS
Anthony Hamilton evokes Bill Withers, Al Green and Marvin Gaye so often that the listener is transported to another time and place. The North Carolinian’s deeply Southern soul is as tasty and comforting as your favorite barbecue. 7 p.m. Nov. 28. $30. Center Stage Atlanta, 1374 W. Peachtree St. N.W., Atlanta. 404-885-1365.
If vintage soul isn’t your bag, check out the Bi-Annual Open Mic Shootout XXIX at Eddie’s Attic. In their early days, Jennifer Nettles and John Mayer were both winners of this highly regarded talent competition, so you might just catch the next big thing on the way up. 6:30 and 9 p.m. Nov. 28. $20. Eddie’s Attic, 515-B N. McDonough St., Decatur. 404-377-4976.
LOOKING AHEAD
Actress-singer Libby Whittemore is an Atlanta institution and her annual holiday show is always a hoot. Libby’s at the Express is a two-act revue in its second year at Actor’s Express after a sold-out, six-year run at Libby’s, a Cabaret, Whittemore’s now-closed venue. “Ho, Ho, Home for the Holidays” is Whittemore in cabaret mode, and “A Connie Sue Day Christmas” stars Whittemore’s big-haired alter ego Connie Sue Day, aka the 31st Lady of Country Music. Whittemore is accompanied by longtime musical director Robert Strickland. 7:30 p.m. Sundays, Thursdays, Saturdays. Dec. 6-21. $40. Actor’s Express at King Plow Arts Center, 887 W. Marietta St. N.W., Suite J-107, Atlanta. 404-875-1606, 404-607-7469.
Planning to attend any of these events or do you have something else on your calendar? Pitch in with your ideas for things to do. Tell us about the fun and/or fascinating events on your radar.
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