Masters at the High

The High, now in its second year of partnership with the Louvre Museum, debuts a stunning collection of more than 70 masterpieces from the Louvre’s Egyptian, Near Eastern and Greco-Roman antiquities collection. Other Louvre Atlanta exhibits include antiquities Empress Josephine Bonaparte collected in the 1800s…

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The ballet's lost boys:

Perhaps it’s a cliché, but Atlanta Ballet company member Christian Clark is not ashamed to admit he doesn’t want to grow up. “If I wasn’t too tall and a bit older, I’d really want to [dance] Lost Boy again,” he says. This is the first time in the 10 years since he first performed Atlanta Ballet’s Peter Pan that he’s dancing a different part. “This time, I’m a pirate as well as the crocodile. It’s huge – sort of like a mascot for a sports team. The kids love it.” …

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Pat the bunny

Welcome to the 21st century where a pet rabbit can give you the weather forecast, play foreign radio broadcasts, deliver messages from friends, and wake you up with news headlines and the local traffic report. Of course, this is no regular rabbit; it’s the Nabaztag/tag ($149-189), a smart object designed by French company Violet…

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’Tis the season … for giving

Don’t wait until Thanksgiving to start checking off your holiday shopping list. Nearly 100,000 shoppers crowd Buckhead’s malls between “Black Friday” and Christmas. Instead, take advantage of the Simon Evening of Giving, a private shopping and entertainment event that also raises funds for Atlanta’s arts community and other local nonprofit organizations…

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The search for a perfect show:

STOMP cast member Louis Labovitch didn’t play drums until he was 17. “But after I started playing them, I became obsessed with them and played five hours a day every day,” he says. Playing in a band proved unglamorous (he slept in his van with his drum kit for six months). Theater school at Fresno State was an interesting experience. But the majority of the jobs Labovitch held (dishwasher, greenhouse worker) had nothing to do with his passions…

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