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During the early 1980s, the 688 Club was the primary place for up-and-coming bands from Atlanta and Athens, Georgia, to get noticed. Among the groups that regularly played there were R.E.M. and Pylon. The club spun off an independent record label, 688 Records, [10] which survived for a time even after 688 Club had closed. [11]
Opera Nightclub was located close to the Loews Atlanta Hotel and The W Midtown. The club was a place for celebrity sightings such as Clint Eastwood . [ 2 ] The nightclub also featured various celebrities , such as Pauly D from the reality television show Jersey Shore and rapper and actor Ice Cube .
The Atlanta Limelight opened in February 1980. It was housed in a strip mall at the former site of the Harlequin Dinner Theater. The Limelight in Atlanta was a high-profile Euro-style night club designed and built in partnership with a certain Guy Larente from Montreal, Quebec who helped in the build of the Limelight series. The Limelight in ...
Located in Buckhead, Atlanta, Tongue & Groove is the longest running nightclub and lounge in Atlanta. [1] Originally opened at Buckhead Village in 1994, the nightclub relocated in 2007 to its current Buckhead location, just off of Piedmont Road. The venue regularly hosts events and features musical guests from around the world.
Magic City's food menu includes "Louwill Lemon Pepper BBQ" chicken wings, named after professional basketball player Lou Williams, who played for the Atlanta Hawks (2012–2014). [16] During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, he was on an approved absence from the NBA Bubble to attend the funeral of a family friend in Atlanta.
Charlie Zeanah, 27, and Micah Brown, 34, said they were each robbed of more than $30,000 after visiting Five Paces Inn, in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood. Zeanah said he was robbed last week ...
The club was the focus of the 2001 Court TV program Sex, Sports & the Mob: Atlanta's Gold Club, written and directed by Steven Dupler. [9] After the club's 2001 closure, [7] Atlanta City Council agreed to attempt to purchase the location [3] although it was next used as a church before opening as The Gold Room nightclub in 2009. [7]
Paschal's La Carrousel was a jazz club in Atlanta, Georgia. Opened in 1960, it became known as Atlanta's "jazz mecca" as it featured top-name artists such as Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, Gladys Knight, and Jimmy Smith. [1] It was the only nightclub in Atlanta open to blacks in the then-segregated city.