As the coordinator for the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s “Ask a Scientist” program, Bobbi Hohmann is exposed to a wide variety of questions that can deal with anything from...
Category: Culture
Turner Field Parking Lot Transformed Into Global Winter Wonderland
No budget to go abroad this holiday season? Don’t you cry: A lantern festival in the parking lot of Turner Field promises to allow you “travel the world in one...
Russia’s Top Capella Group at St. Philip’s Saturday, Dec. 14
The performance of the State Symphony Capella of Russia at the Cathedral of St. Philip two years ago was considered an artistic achievement. The return of the capella group to...
Chinese Culinary Event First Step in Kennesaw State Partnership With Ritz-Carlton
The new partnership between the Ritz-Carlton, Atlanta hotel and Kennesaw State University can trace its unlikely origin to the university’s “Year of Ghana” program. The visit of Ghana’s president to Kennesaw...
Musically Talented Investor Inspires Monte Jade Awardees
The Monte Jade Science and Technology Association, Southeastern U.S. chapter, welcomed back one of its own at its annual banquet and youth achievement award ceremony Nov. 23. Eric Wong, a...
Atlantic Leadership Forum and Art & Essay Contest Winners to Visit Turkey
As its activities have become less focused on Istanbul and Turkey and more on global issues, Atlanta’s Istanbul Center has spun off a new organization titled the Atlantic Institute. Turan...
Atlanta Cathedral Holds a Holy Mass for the Dead and Suffering in the Philippines
The Philippines was making strong economic strides prior to being struck by Typhoon Haiyan, Raoul “Ray” Donato, the country’s honorary consul general, said during his comments following a holy mass...
Atlanta Couple Impressed by Reverence of White House Diwali Ceremonies
Viren Mayani, the president-elect of the Georgia Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, had visited the White House upon graduation from college as a tourist. But on Nov. 3, he and his wife, Rifka, returned for...
Reverence Marks the White House Diwali Celebrations
It is not simply the opulence and the obvious grandeur of the White House that blew away most all of us; the approximately hundred and seventy-five esteemed Indian-Americans attending the...
Islamic Speakers Bureau to Honor DeKalb Library and Marist School
The DeKalb County Public Library and the Marist School are to be honored at a dinner of the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta, which is to be held Nov. 2...