Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. Over the next two weekends in Dallas, you may join the Marzetti family for dinner and to help them solve a mystery. They will be paying their final respects to Vito “The Gut” Marzetti who was gunned down in an "apparent" mob gangland slaying …

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. The ninth-annual Fall Fest of the Paulding Fine Arts Association will be held Saturday in downtown Dallas. Original arts and crafts "of a family-oriented nature" may be displayed and sold, but 10-foot-by-10-foot spaces are limited to 30 …

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. The 79th-annual North Georgia State Fair will open Thursday and continue every day through Oct. 2 at Jim R. Miller Park in Marietta, including several new attractions this year. This largest fair in metro Atlanta draws nearly 300,000 people …

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. Winner of five Tony Awards, including best Broadway musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie is the first show of the 32nd season for the Atlanta Lyric Theatre, opening Friday. Taking place in New York City in 1922, Thoroughly Modern Millie tells …

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. Local chefs and farmers will be among those featured at the Fall Folklife Festival on Saturday at the Tullie Smith Farm, Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road near the Governor's Mansion in Buckhead. An abundance of ongoing …

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. This Saturday, this year's annual Celebrate Freedom event will take place at Jim Miller Park on Callaway Road between Powder Springs Road and Austell Road in Marietta. The free event drew around 50,000 people last year. While free, tickets …

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. On Sunday, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial will be dedicated in Washington, D.C., with televised ceremonies—15 years after the memorial was authorized by Congress, 48 years to the day since Dr. King delivered his 1963 "I Have a …

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. Many may be aware that this year is the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the 75th anniversary of Gone With the Wind's publication, but did you know it also is the 125th anniversary of Coca-Cola?  I never had been to The World of Coca-…

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. Beginning today, the 2011-12 season will mark Theatre in the Square’s 30th anniversary season in Marietta. On Golden Pond opens today and continues through Sept. 11. This play was the first production of the theatre in September 1982­—also on…

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. These three events will occur over the next three weekends at the Dallas Theater / Civic Center complex.   Saturday / 7 p.m. / award-winning Christian and country music singer John Berry / Dallas Theater From 1979 to 1990, Berry recorded and …

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier.   Only 11, Jackie Evancho will draw you into her dream as she sings in Atlanta in August. Jackie first came to the attention of the nation when she appeared on “America’s Got Talent” last summer.  With a program titled "Jackie Evancho: Dream …

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. A special free event coming up Friday will be a concert from 7 to 10 p.m. at The Ragsdale Inn, 103 Ragsdale Place near downtown Dallas. Flat Pickin, Inc., a local bluegrass band "with a new sound," will be performing on the lawn. Anyone …

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. Lake Ramona in Hiram will be open Saturday from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. for Fishing Day and a multi-family yard sale and tackle sale. Costs are $5 per child and $10 per adult for the first 100 people. Boats with trolling motors are allowed at…

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. The popular Raccoon Creek Bluegrass Festival returns to Dallas on Friday and Saturday. In fact, the festival is held at the Raccoon Creek Music Park, 332 Music Park Path off Ga. 61. From Dallas, take Ga. 61 north for 6.7 miles. Then turn left…

In one of his many letters to his beloved wife Abigail, our second president from 1797 to 1801 John Adams wrote to her of Independence Day on July 3, 1776: "The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.  "I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this …

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. A relaxing way to spend a day or part of a day is at Sweetwater Creek State Park in Lithia Springs. While no swimming is allowed in the 215-acre George Sparks Reservoir, many can be seen fishing, picnicking, hiking on 9 miles of trails, …

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. Hiram The Annual Heritage Day Festival of the Hiram Rosenwald School Museum will take place Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. To rent a booth for $20, call Joan Battle at 770-943-7473. Open for the last five years, the school is listed on the …

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. Country music legend Loretta Lynn is celebrating her 51st year as an award-winning country music artist. Miss Lynn will perform Friday evening at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in next-door Cobb County. Her performance begins at 7:30 …

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier. The fourth-annual Penny McHenry Hydrangea Festival takes place Saturday and Sunday at the Douglas County Courthouse. Many of the events are free—except for the garden tours at $25 per person and the workshops at $5 each or three for $10 with …

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening. It’s your time. Take it.  Each week, we’ll tell you about great ideas to give you a much-deserved break and make your life a little easier—maybe a whole lot easier.   Atlanta History Center on Sunday You can meet and honor the contributions of veterans of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and today's conflicts on Sunday afternoon at the Atlanta History Center. These veterans will share …