Justin Bieber has been in Atlanta, which he calls his second home, for several weeks now and is evidently so happy here that he wants to make it permanent, TMZ reports.
Bieber has been spotted at an east Cobb County ice rink, an area Zaxby's, the Phipps Plaza movie theater and partying with other artists including Jermaine Dupri, Diddy and Rick Ross.
“Back in my second home,” he tweeted recently. “Good to be back. Focused on building up positive energy.”
He's having fun but working, too. His recent posts included pictures showing himself solo and with artist T.I. in the studio, where he's working on a new recording project.
Things haven’t been so great in Bieber’s legal life lately. He got back into town after being arrested in Miami following an alleged drag racing incident, and turning himself in to authorities in Toronto to respond to a charge that he attacked a limo driver, so maybe Atlanta will be a good place for him to recharge.
His musical mentors, Usher and Scooter Braun, hail from Atlanta, and he may find he prefers the somewhat slower pace of Atlanta. Or maybe he's just out of other options. The New York Daily News recently posted a graphic showing New York City clubs with Bieber bans in place.
Ice puts a chill on filming projects
This week’s winter weather kept most of us home and the highways (mercifully) clear. And it pushed a giant pause button on Atlanta’s busy filming scene.
"Snowpocaylpse down South," actor John Cusack tweeted on Wednesday. "'Cell' shutdown again."
Things were getting back to business on Thursday, and Cusack posted an update: “‘Cell’ back as the snow melts.”
He and Samuel L. Jackson are starring in the creepy thriller based on a Stephen King novel. A virus spread by cellphones brings on the apocalypse, complete with vacant buildings and empty highways. Sort of like what happened in real life this week.
Willow Shields, who plays the younger sister of Jennifer Lawrence's character in the "Hunger Games" movies, posted a photo of herself in swaddles and cooped up.
“Big sweaters, snow mornings and confused faces,” Shields wrote. “Apocalypse No. 2 in Atlanta!”
As my colleague Rodney Ho reported this week, a slew of locally shot television shows took some time off amid the snow and ice. The CW's "The Originals" and "Vampire Diaries," Lifetime's "Devious Maids" and "Drop Dead Diva," Sundance's "Rectify," and AMC's "Halt and Catch Fire" all suspended filming until the city thawed out.
It looks like April Bowlby and Margaret Cho, who appear on "Drop Dead Diva," experienced more than their share of winter weather this week. On Wednesday, Bowlby posted a photo of Cho bundled and huddling with her dogs with the caption "Power is back on!"
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