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VIPs ride the new 24 story tall SkyScreamer extreme swing ride at Six Flags Over Georgia in Austell during a preview event on Thursday May 9th, 2013. The new ride is the tallest attraction in the park's 45-year history, exactly four stories taller than the Goliath mega coaster. PHIL SKINNER / PSKINNER@AJC.COM

Photos: SkyScreamer, Six Flags' tallest ride

SkyScreamer extreme swing ride: the tallest ride at Six Flags over Georgia

  • 8:50 a.m. Friday, May 10, 2013
Swift sea-life is the focus at the California Academy of Sciences newest exhibition.

A look at the high speed animals of the ocean

Swift sea-life is the focus at the California Academy of Sciences newest exhibition.

  • 2:07 a.m. Thursday, May 9, 2013

Six Flags White Water Typhoon Twister

  • 5:12 p.m. Monday, March 4, 2013
The Storybook Circus Giggle Gang is a troupe of circus clowns inspired by the traveling circus acts and sideshows of the late 19th century, as well as classic films like Walt Disney's Dumbo.

GALLERY: Storybook Circus Giggle Gang

The next time you visit Disney's New Fantasyland, be on the lookout for the Storybook Circus Giggle Gang. The encounter will likely be unforgettable as they will surely to make you smile if not laugh out loud!

  • 1:17 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013
“The Introvert’s Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World” by Sophia Dembling of Dallas.

Bah, humbug! An introvert’s rules for holiday survival

Ah, the holidays. Constant parties. Gay apparel. Forced family fun. An introvert’s nightmare. “I call it the most extroverted time of the year,” says author and introvert Sophia Dembling of Dallas, whose “The Introvert’s Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World” (Perigree, $14) just hit bookstores. “I don’t ...

  • 7:00 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10, 2012

Disney's Fantasyland debuts a whole new world of attractions

Thursday was a very big day for Disney's Magic Kingdom with the grand opening of Fantasyland. The massive expansion includes nearly a dozen new attractions and rides. Guests said the new Fantasyland the characters come to life. They described it as being in a Disney movie. The new attraction is ...

  • 6:07 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012
Set in one of the tents in Storybook Circus, Pete's Silly Sideshow character greeting shines the spotlight on Minnie Magnifique (Minnie Mouse as a circus star), Madame Daisy Fortuna (Daisy Duck as a fortune teller), The Great Goofini (Goofy as a stunt pilot) and The Astounding Donaldo (Donald Duck as a snake charmer). Storybook Circus is part of the expansion project which nearly doubles the size of Fantasyland, a multiyear project set to grand open Dec. 6, 2012 at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

Fantasyland expansion at Walt Disney World

The highly-anticipated Fantasyland grand opening at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando (Dec. 6) showcases a variety of new experiences for families to enjoy.

  • 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012
Goofy Lights Up the Holidays in 2012 -- Santa Goofy joins the fun during The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Making nightly appearances on the Streets of America, this jovial character greets guests in the new Goofy's Winter Wonderland. The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights sparkles nightly November 9 through Jan. 6, 2013. (Kent Phillips, photographer)

Holidays at Walt Disney World

Nobody else does the holidays quite like Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Here's just a sampling of the variety of ways to celebrate at Disney World.

  • 3:59 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012
One of the most beloved traditions of all at Walt Disney World is the Candlelight Processional in Epcot's World Showcase.

IMAGE GALLERY: Top Five Disney Holiday Must-Dos

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and nowhere is that more apparent than within the gates of Walt Disney World Resort! Whether you are coming for the day, or coming for an extended stay, there are things that you must see and experience during the winter holidays at ...

  • 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012
Stone Mountain photographer Peter Essick’s Moonset, Near Donahue Pass, photographed in California’s Ansel Adams Wilderness in 2001, is included in the exhibit National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West, opening Saturday at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville. Credit: Peter Essick.

Real West comes into focus in Cartersville

As vast as the American West is geographically, it looms equally large as a wellspring of inspiration, as reflected in countless movies, novels, paintings and photographs. When National Geographic magazine began organizing an exhibition and companion book drawn from its nearly 125-year history of photographing in the West, it had ...

  • 12:21 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012
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