New Year’s Weekend Things To Do

2010 New Year’s Week­end in Atlanta.  From New Years Eve Par­ties to Kids Activ­i­ties and even a Res­o­lu­tion Run there is plenty to ring in the New Year!

Things To Do New Year’s Eve Thurs­day Dec. 31

Con­cert: Wide­spread Panic , 8 p.m., Philips Arena, Down­town Atlanta.

Fam­ily Activ­i­ties: New Year’s Across The Globe, fam­ily activ­i­ties and games, 11 a.m., Atlanta Botan­i­cal Gar­den, Atlanta.

New Year’s Eve Party: Down­town Count­down , Billed as the Best, 8:30 p.m., Hyatt Regency, Down­town Atlanta. FREE!

New Year’s Eve Party: 2010 Peach Drop , Largest New Year’s Eve Party in the South, 6 p.m., Under­ground Atlanta, Atlanta.

New Year’s Eve Party: New Year’s Eve Bash , billed as the best deal in town, 7 p.m., Push­Push The­ater, Decatur.

Sports Event: Chick-fil-A Bowl , Ten­nessee Vol­un­teers vs. Vir­ginia Tech Hok­ies, 7:30 p.m., Col­lege Foot­ball, Geor­gia Dome, Atlanta.

Things To Do Fri­day Jan­u­ary 1, 2010

Fam­ily Activ­i­ties: Hol­i­day in Lights, fea­tur­ing Atlanta’s Only Out­door Ice Rink, 10 am-11 pm, Cen­ten­nial Olympic Park, Atlanta. FREE!

Kids Activ­i­ties: New Year’s Day Cel­e­bra­tion for Chil­dren , lots for the kids to do includ­ing a parade around the museum, 10 a.m. — 4 p.m., Imag­ine It! The Children’s Museum of Atlanta, Atlanta.

Out­door Activ­i­ties: 2010 Res­o­lu­tion Run , Start Off  The New Year on the Right Foot!, 11:30 a.m., Kennesaw.

Sports: Atlanta Hawks vs. New York Knicks, NBA Bas­ket­ball, 7:30 p.m., Philips Arena, Down­town Atlanta.

The­atre: “San­ta­land Diaries”, Out­ra­geous Hol­i­day Com­edy, 8 p.m., Hori­zon The­atre, Atlanta.

Things To Do Sat­ur­day Jan­u­ary 2,2010

Fam­ily Activ­i­ties: Snow Angels , where the tod­dlers can play in the snow, 10 a.m., Stone Moun­tain Park, Stone Mountain.

Hol­i­day Events: Hol­i­days In The Gar­den, relax and enjoy hol­i­day music and cash bar, 5–10 p.m., Atlanta Botan­i­cal Gar­den, Atlanta.

Hol­i­day Shop­ping: The “Hol­i­day Shops” , tra­di­tional out­door Euro­pean mar­ket­place, 10 am — 10pm, Atlantic Sta­tion, Atlanta.

Things To Do Sun­day Jan­u­ary 3, 2010

Exhibit: John Port­man — Art and Archi­tec­ture, con­tin­ues, High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

Fam­ily Activ­i­ties: “The Shoe­maker & The Elves” Final 2 shows 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., Cen­ter for Pup­petry Arts, Atlanta.

Kids Activ­i­ties: Snow Zone, Build your own Snow­man or Con­struct a Fort, 10 a.m., Stone Moun­tain Park, Stone Mountain.

Beware of New Year’s Day Super Speeder Law

Beware, start­ing New Year’s Day the Super Speeder Law takes effect around Metro Atlanta and the State of Georgia.

For those with a heavy foot, watch out! The new law adds an addi­tional $200 fine if you’re trav­el­ing 85 miles per hour or more. On two lane roads the ticket kicks in at 75 miles per hour or more.

That fine comes in a form of a sep­a­rate let­ter sent from the State of Geor­gia. A speeder will have to pay the orig­i­nal ticket which nor­mally car­ries a steep fine and have 90 days in which to pay the addi­tional $200. state fine. Need­less to say, if the fine is not paid the driver’s license will be sus­pended.

The Governor’s Office of High­way Safety is hop­ing this will help reduce acci­dents and save life’s.

The Super Speeder Law offi­cially goes into effect on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, 2010. Appar­ently, there is no other law in any state sim­i­lar to it mak­ing this is the first law of it’s kind in the nation.

Chick-fil-A Bowl Preview

Chick-fil-A Bowl — Vir­ginia Tech vs Ten­nessee
Geor­gia Dome, Atlanta, GA
Thurs­day, Decem­ber 31, 2009, 7:30PM

2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl Game Pre­view:
The 2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl matches up two pow­er­ful teams from power con­fer­ences. The Ten­nessee Vol­un­teers will rep­re­sent the SEC and the Vir­ginia Tech Hok­ies are com­ing from the ACC con­fer­ence. Ten­nessee head coach Lane Kif­fin will be look­ing for a bowl win to cap his first sea­son lead­ing the Vols. VaT­ech head man Frank Beamer wants a win to fin­ish strong on what has been an up-and-down sea­son in Blacks­burg. This Chick-fil-A Bowl should be a spe­cial one; it’ll have the sta­dium rock­ing at the Geor­gia Dome.

Chick-fil-A Bowl — Vir­ginia Tech vs Ten­nessee Tickets

CHICK-FIL-A BOWL (PEACH BOWL) GAME INFO:
Loca­tion:Atlanta, Geor­gia
Venue: Geor­gia Dome
For­mer Names: Peach Bowl

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