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150 New Restaurants Due to Arrive at ATL, Including Ludacris' 'Chicken n Beer'

January 5, 2012 at 11:15 AM | by | Comments (0)

There’s already plenty of awesome options for eats when you travel to—or through—Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, but now even more new restaurants on due to arrive. It’s all part of the latest and greatest addition to the airport, as ATL’s new international terminal is scheduled to debut later this year.

Airport officials haven’t specified where—or when—each new establishment will do its thing, but many of these will hold grand openings later this year, between the new terminal and other vacancies across the airport. In total the city council handed out like $3 billion in concession contracts; that should keep travelers satisfied and satiated for like the next ten years or so.

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Four World Cities Make the Cut for New Foursquare Badges

December 28, 2011 at 10:12 AM | by | Comments (0)

London, Paris and Istanbul only just their own Foursquare badges, and now the location-based social networking app has gone even further afield with an additional four badges for more world cities. If you're traveling to New Orleans, Atlanta, Singapore or Sao Paulo, you're going to want to make sure you're not only hitting the top spots in the city, but that you're checking into them as well.

How to get the badges: First, follow 4sqCities, and just to be safe, it wouldn't hurt to also follow the individual city lists here: New Orleans, Atlanta, Singapore, Sao Paulo. Then travel to one or all of the cities and clickety-click to check-in to the places on the recommended lists. Five places earns the badge.

Now with a total of 8 city badges (a Chicago "Windy City" one has existed for a little longer than all the rest), Foursquare is still looking for more cities that deserve the creation of a badge and must-visit list. Suggest another city here.

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10,000 Free Tickets from Megabus' Newest Hub in Atlanta

October 25, 2011 at 11:14 AM | by | Comments (2)

Big news for travelers in the south! Budget traveler favorite Megabus has just expanded their US route network to include a new hub in Atlanta, Georgia. From the ATL, Megabus will run to 11 cities, of course with all routes and all seats starting from their usual $1 (plus 50 cents reservation fee).

The 11 cities from Atlanta are: Birmingham, AL; Mobile, AL; Montgomery, AL; Charlotte, NC; Chattanooga, TN; Knoxville, TN; Memphis, TN; Nashville, TN; Gainesville, FL; Jacksonville, FL; and Orlando, FL.

That's a lot of Alabama and Florida! With the news comes a giveaway, naturally. Megabus has 10,000 free seats on the new routes, for travel from November 16 to December 16. Enter promo code ATL10K to knock the cheap fares down to FREE.

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Get Your Geek On with 40,000 Others During Atlanta's 'Dragon-Con'

July 14, 2011 at 3:05 PM | by | Comments (0)

If you dropped the ball on making plans for this year's Comic-Con, Atlanta's got your back-up plan.

Dragon*Con, the annual fantasy and sci-fi convention which takes place on Labor Day Weekend, will feature dozens of panels, workshops and contests for the geek in all of us.

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Ireland's Top Tourist Destination Has Nothing To Do With Beer

June 8, 2011 at 4:00 PM | by | Comments (2)

It's very easy to stereotype Ireland travel—to say nothing of Ireland itself—as a series of pubs, drunkenness, and the occasional potato farm. We know it's easy because that's almost entirely the picture that Tourism Ireland painted when they did their last social media campaign.

We wrote at the time that the image was a bit unfair, and that neither the country nor the tourists who travel there should be stereotyped. Then we highlighted Ireland, with its gorgeous scenary and summer cultural offerings, as one of the places where you should seriously consider spending your tax refund. Not to give away the ending, but not only were we were demonstrably right, but now there are numbers to prove it.

Figures came out over the weekend on Ireland's top tourism destinations. Wouldn't you know it, and despite the best efforts of frat boys everywhere, the Guinness Storehouse did not take the top stop. That was reserved for the impressive Dublin Zoo, with its 59 acres of plants and animals (by way of comparison, our beloved San Diego Zoo, a widely acknowledged global leader in conservation, clocks in at 40 acres).

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Drink Up at These Five Upcoming US Wine Festivals

May 12, 2011 at 4:06 PM | by | Comments (0)

Summer is the best time to kick back with a glass of wine—heck, even a bottle of wine. There's just something about pairing a great pour with the warm weather. Luckily, there's a slew of wine festivals that will give you the chance to get boozy alfresco with some of the best bottles in the world.

Prepare to get buzzed at these five upcoming wine festivals.

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How To See The Atlanta Zoo's New Baby Orangutan

April 27, 2011 at 2:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

Remy is a Sumatran orangutan who was born at the Fort Worth Zoo four months ago, and whose mom unfortunately became too ill to care for him. Looking for a solution, zookeepers fostered him out to the Atlanta Zoo, home of more orangutans than any other zoological exhibit in the United States.

There he was adopted by Madu, "one of the nation’s best surrogate mothers," and the two were removed from public viewing so they could bond. Now they've been moved back on exhibit, and visitors are lining up to get a glimpse of the pair.

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Atlanta Airport is Lucky Enough to Have the World's Best Coca-Cola Machine

February 2, 2011 at 9:23 AM | by | Comments (2)

On a recent journey through the wonder that is the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, we stumbled upon the coolest thing in sugary sweet beverage technology, and best of all it was right next to Chick-fil-A. Coca-Cola calls it the fountain of the future, and we have to agree.

We witnessed the world’s fanciest soda machine just outside of gate A11, but apparently there’s another one to play with near gate D30. It’s called the Coca-Cola Freestyle and it is kind of like a computerized soda fountain complete with touch screen controls. It offers way more options than the typical soda machine, as options include about 100 different varieties of Coke products.

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Atlanta's Zoo Has a New Baby Panda, and You Can Watch Him Grow

December 3, 2010 at 11:35 AM | by | Comments (0)

Look at those tiny, fuzzy ears! Yes, this is a super newly born panda and yes, the world is cooing over it. He's just gotten old enough to grow in his species' recognizable black-and-white fur, but he's still too young to walk on his own or even open his eyes. According to the Daily Mail, he won't even get a name until he reaches 100 days old, in keeping with Chinese custom, but you can watch him every day until he grows to that point, thanks to the Atlanta Zoo's pandacam.

The Atlanta Zoo is only one of four zoos in the US to house giant pandas; the others are San Diego, Memphis and Washington DC. Regardless, we're reminded that all of the pandas that sleep on US soil in these zoos still belong to China, so this as-yet-unnamed baby is already an important Chinese citizen. When he turns four months old, he will be set out into the enclosure where the public will be able to view him; that's only about three months from now.

Plan your March family trips accordingly; while this little panda won't likely get all the attention of Knut the polar bear, he will melt a multitude of hearts regardless.

[Photo: AP/DailyMail]

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Keep Up With 'The Joneses' and Demi Moore in Atlanta

April 16, 2010 at 3:54 PM | by | Comments (2)

The Joneses, starring David Duchovny and Demi Moore, hits theaters today. The movie is about a family that moves into a posh suburban neighborhood where they show off the latest gadgets, the hottest clothes and the nicest rides to their unsuspecting neighbors. But, under it all, they are really a fabricated family made up of stealth marketers whose only goal is to push products. The movie was filmed in Atlanta in 2008. Here's a look at how you can keep up with The Joneses on our next trip to ATL.

Where to Eat:

The movie's director, Derrick Borte, spent much of his downtime in Atlanta exploring the city, which is how he discovered the DeKalb Farmers Market. He said the market "was a nice place to unwind. I would literally go walk the aisles." The Market Restaurant serves fresh meals with heavy emphasis on fresh vegetables. Daily specials include fish, meat, chicken and healthy vegetarian dishes made with organic and natural ingredients. They're best known for their homemade lasagna and signature samosas. The restaurant is open seven days a week from 11am to 8pm.

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Best Idea Ever: Plane Spotting By the Pool in Atlanta

Where: Hartsfield-Jackson Airport [map], Atlanta, GA, United States
March 5, 2010 at 4:05 PM | by | Comments (0)

Over at our awesome sister site, HotelChatter.com, they're discussing a very important matter: What are the best airport hotels to get stuck staying in? This is a topic we can get behind, especially when it includes the glorious picture above, of the indoor pool at the Marriott Renaissance Concourse Hotel at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. And you know what, this looks like the ideal plane spotting location for ATL.

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Follow Owen Wilson and Christina Applegate To Atlanta's Hot Spots

March 2, 2010 at 12:44 PM | by | Comment (1)

Owen Wilson has only been in Atlanta for a week and he's already making quite an impression on the locals. Owen arrived in town last Monday to start shooting Hall Pass with Jenna Fischer, Amanda Bynes, Christina Applegate and SNL's Jason Sudeikis. The movie, which is being directed by the Farrelly Brothers, is about a guy (Wilson) who gets permission from his wife (Fischer) to sleep with other women. Of course, things get complicated when his wife decides she is going to exercise her “hall pass" as well.

Wilson has already been spotted working and playing all over town. Last week, he hung out with fellow patrons at the Atlanta hotspot Via, located at 262 Pharr Rd, Atlanta. Via's known for their $5 glasses of wine, Margaritas and vodka drinks, along with their brick oven pizzas and flatbreads, sounds like a good choice for a night out after a busy day of filming.

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