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Following a major renovation, SweetWater Brewery opened a dog-friendly patio and lawn in September. The patio and its taproom are available for private events on Mondays and Tuesdays for as many as 200 guests seated or 600 reception style. The patio includes picnic tables, Adirondack chairs, and drinking games. The brewery also can hold private events seven days a week for as many as 300 guests reception style in the Woodlands room, and for as many as 450 guests reception style in the Reel Room. Along with beer, the venue has a food menu that includes burgers, sandwiches, and upscale bar snacks.

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Botiwalla, an Indian restaurant that has a stall in Ponce City Market, opened a new location in Alpharetta in May. Led by chef and restaurateur Meherwan Irani, the eatery serves a variety of Indian staples, as well as cocktails, boozy slushies, and Indian beer. The 1,800-square-foot venue seats 54 guests inside and outside. For private events, the restaurant is available for full buyouts only.

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The Concierge.com team manages check-in (and poses for Instagram content) in the days leading up to “Super Saturday Night” in Atlanta.

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To celebrate Chinese New Year, the Venetian in Las Vegas unveiled an installation inspired by the Year of the Pig. The resort’s floral and horticulture team partnered with a team of artisans and consulted a feng shui master to create an installation anchored by a 3,000-pound, 16-foot-tall golden pig. Additional decor included hanging Chinese lanterns and a base of giant gold coins. According to custom, it is suggested to guests that they walk clockwise around the display three times to bring blessings of heaven, earth, and mankind upon them.

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Bud Light held its first music festival for the Super Bowl from January 31 to February 2 at State Farm Arena. The first night, which was presented by EA Sports, paid tribute to Atlanta with rapper Ludacris as the headliner. The stage featured I-85 highway sign replicas that displayed the names of performers. Bud Light worked with On Location Experiences to produce the three-day event.

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Some event professionals liked the use of drone lanterns during Maroon 5's halftime show, but wish the phrases had been more legible for the television audience.

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Cardi B (pictured) and Bruno Mars are slated to headline the third night of the Bud Light Super Music Festival on February 2.

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Atlanta star chef Ford Fry is planning a new Tex-Mex-inspired restaurant in Piedmont Heights called Little Rey, with a menu based around dishes like tacos and chicken al carbon platters. When Little Rey opens in early 2019, the restaurant will serve up catering-ready pick-up offerings. A full-service Little Rey catering program will start up later in the year.

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Btanical Gardens

Atlanta Botanical Garden

City Winery Atlanta

Atlanta History Museum

Atlanta History Museum

Atlanta Event Center At Opera

Atlanta Event Center at Opera

Flourish Atlanta

Flourish Atlanta

Georgia Freight Depot

Georgia Freight Depot

Georgia World Congress

Georgia World Congress Center

Ravine, a production studio and special event space, opened in Midtown in August. The 16,000-square-foot venue features a design inspired by recording studios of the late 1960s and early ‘70s, which is the backdrop for live shows, concerts, live TV shows, and more productions the venue hosts. For special events, the venue can accommodate as many as 750 guests for receptions. The venue is only open when booked and offers catering by Bold Catering & Design.

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State Farm Arena, the former Philips Arena and new home of the N.B.A.'s Atlanta Hawks, is slated to reopen in October following a $192.5 million renovation—the second largest in the league's history. The transformed arena will include new seating, the third-largest center hung scoreboard in the N.B.A., and entertainment options including Topgolf Swing Suites and Killer Mike’s Swag Shop, a four-seat barbershop overlooking the court. The arena will also have the Hawks Bar, which will be the N.B.A.’s first courtside bar. The venue, which hosts around 170 events annually, can hold as many as 21,000 people.

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Ravine, a production studio and special event space, opened in Midtown in August. The 16,000-square-foot venue features a design inspired by recording studios of the late 1960s and early ‘70s, which is the backdrop for live shows, concerts, live TV shows, and more productions the venue hosts. For special events, the venue can accommodate as many as 750 guests for receptions. The venue is only open when booked and offers catering by Bold Catering & Design.

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State Farm Arena, the former Philips Arena and new home of the N.B.A.'s Atlanta Hawks, is slated to reopen in October following a $192.5 million renovation—the second largest in the league's history. The transformed arena will include new seating, the third-largest center hung scoreboard in the N.B.A., and entertainment options including Topgolf Swing Suites and Killer Mike’s Swag Shop, a four-seat barbershop overlooking the court. The arena will also have the Hawks Bar, which will be the N.B.A.’s first courtside bar. The venue, which hosts around 170 events annually, can hold as many as 21,000 people.

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Kids jump on the oversize Holiday Inn bed produced by fabricator Id3 at the Chocolate Milk Happy Hour pop-up event in Chicago's Millennium Park.

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Punch Bowl Social, a restaurant and activity center with locations across the United States, opened its first Atlanta location at the Battery Atlanta in March. The two-story, 25,000-square-foot venue serves Southern gastropub food and a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages—including punch bowls. For events, the entire venue can be booked for as many as 1,000 people, who can play games including bowling, giant Jenga, bocce, ping pong, ‘80s arcade games, wall scrabble, and darts. The venue also has two karaoke rooms and two virtual-reality experiences. For smaller private events, the venue’s Holiday Lodge can hold 50 people for receptions

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MAC Cosmetics partnered with the makeup artist from Netflix’s Glow to host two masterclasses, May 14 at Highline Stages in New York and May 17 at Goya Studios in Los Angeles. Stoelt Productions built two separate life-size hot pink and black boxing rings for the events. The rings were inspired by the premise of the series, which is about actresses in the 1980s who are cast in a TV series about a women’s professional wrestling team.

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The property formerly known as the Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead, rebranded as the Whitley in December. Owned by Host Hotels and Resorts, the hotel has 507 rooms, including 56 suites. For meetings and events, the property has 31 event spaces that amount to 30,000 square feet. Event spaces include the Whitley Ballroom, which holds 1,000 guests for receptions, the Legacy Ballroom, which seats 400 guests theater-style, and the Plaza Ballroom, which holds 250 guests for receptions.

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