by Sally Litchfield MDJ Features Editor sallylit@bellsouth.net
November 20, 2009 01:00 AM | 0 | 7 |
The Georgia Ballet and The Center for Family Resources are teaming up for a special fundraising event in celebration of each organization's 50th Anniversary. On Dec. 6, local celebrities will dance...
For parade guru, it's Thanksgiving all year
HOBOKEN , N.J. – The scene around him in a vast industrial space looks like Santa’s Workshop, but John Piper, the man behind Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, compares organizing ...
A pretty stand-in for traditional cranberry
Not to be unpatriotic, but another “cranberry” outshines our traditional Thanksgiving cranberry. This fruit, sometimes called mountain cranberry, partridgeberry or foxberry, is esteeme...
Marietta man whips up award-winning salsa
Jason “Big Orson” Clabaugh may live in Georgia but he knows his salsa. His Citizen Cajun brand of mango-habanero salsa brings the taste of the bayou to Cobb County. Recently winning f...
Emotional escape
Essential to every movie is music. Music like language is powerful, capable of evoking emotion and reaction of the viewer as great as spoken words on film. Through his music Smyrna composer Terry...
Marietta Moment: Wedding bells ring
The Marietta Journal June 22, 1893 One of the prettiest and most attractive weddings of the season was that of Miss Laura Margaret Brumby, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Brumby of Mariet...
Electronics top splurge list for avid voyagers
NEW YORK – What makes a good holiday gift for a traveler? If you have big bucks, splurge on an e-reader or a netbook. But if you’re on a budget, go for clever stocking-stuffers, su...
Teenager 'ascends the stage' with classical Indian dance
Cultures around the world express themselves in the form of dance. Sixteen-year-old Bianca Desai connects to her Indian roots through one of the most ancient forms of art, Bharat Natyam. A classi...
Marietta Moments: Just say 'No'
The Marietta Journal March 29, 1912 A step to prevent future entrance into Marietta of the class of alleged amusement companies that have been coming here has been taken by the merchants and busin...
Felines trainable; that's no punchline
People have low expectations of cats. Sam Connelly tells of the time that she and her cat Storm observed a Canine Good Citizen test while they were waiting for their feline agility class to start....
Gobble gab
Preparing Thanksgiving dinner is enough of a pressure cooker, never mind having to do on-the-fly math to get it right. Here are all the numbers you need to have a safe, worry-free and delicious Tu...