Arts & Entertainment

The Artist Attic Holiday Show Ends

This weekend's holiday-related events in East Cobb also include the start of local Hanukkah observations.

-- The Artist Attic Holiday Show and Sale takes place at  through Dec. 17. The event includes all hand made items by TAP students, instructors and staff.

-- Centerstage North's Holiday Show Got a Hankerin' for Holiday Hijinks? will take continue through Saturday. The Jones Hope Woeten Comedy will show at the Art Place Mountain View. Call 770-516-3330 for more information.

-- The Cobb Christmas Distribution at  continues through Sunday.

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-- The 1940's Radio Hour will run from Dec. 17 through Jan. 1. This beloved show was a hot hit in 's very first season and went on for a 25-year-run. Now, after a five-year hiatus the old gang at WOV, Johnny, Ginger, Ann Pops, B.J., Wally and more, are back with the dance routines and swing music that are as rousing as they are heartwarming. All performances of The 1940's Radio Hour will take place at , Joe Mack Wilson Student Center.

-- Four Days in December, East Cobb's annual Hanukkah Expo, starts Sunday and continues on Dec. 22, 25 and 26 in the Stonewood Village Shopping Center at the corner of Lower Roswell Road and Woodlawn Drive. 770-565-4412.

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--  at  will run through Jan. 1. The perennial favorite holiday show has the sunny-voiced Sanders Family back just before the beginning of World War II. They're quirky, saintly and delightfully melodic as they interpret everybody's favorite bluegrass gospel music. Back for the 13th holiday season. Recommended for the entire family ages 10 and up.

-- Jeffrey Butzer and T.T. Mahoney present a jazzy musical tribute to Vince Guaraldi’s A Charlie Brown Christmas. Special guests Sorry No Ferrari, perform The Ventures Christmas Album, the season’s favorites with a taste of ‘60s surf. The show will run at the  Tuesday, Dec. 20 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Admission is $12 in advance and $15 the day of the event.

-- In the classic 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life, George Bailey has always wanted to leave Bedford Falls to see the world, but circumstances and his own good heart have led him to stay. He sacrificed his education for his brother’s, kept the family-run savings and loan business afloat, protected the town from the greed of the banker, Mr. Potter, and married his childhood sweetheart. As this compassionate but despairingly frustrated small-town man contemplates suicide one fateful Christmas Eve, his guardian angel intercedes and shows him what life would have been like for the residents of Bedford Falls is he had never lived.

The movie will play at the  on Dec. 21 at 8 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults and $7 for children, students and seniors.

-- Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas, starring Jim Carrey in the role of a green-faced curmudgeon who plots to steal the Yuletide from the innocent citizens of Whoville, will play at the. There will be a live organ pops variety show of Christmas music and sing-alongs at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 21. The movie will start at 3 p.m.

The Center for Family Resources needs the community’s help to stock their pantries for January, which is the lowest stocked month of the year. Admission to How the Grinch Stole Christmas is free if you bring five canned goods. Acceptable food listing is at www.earlsmithstrand.org.


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