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SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival

Saturday, April 26
Forsyth Park

Time and Purpose: SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival brings focus on community.
The people of Savannah witnessed a grand display of visual “street art” as Forsyth Park transformed into a sprawling canvas at the annual SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival. Beneath the late spring sun, hundreds of artists — from current students to alumni and even local high schoolers — chalked up their imagination onto the concrete squares.
As I wandered through the sidewalk gallery, it felt like stepping straight into a living dreamscape. Cartoon characters danced beside photorealistic portraits, surreal landscapes melted into abstract explosions of color — each square telling its own tale. The talent on display was jaw-dropping, but even more powerful was the shared energy of it all: artists laughing together, friends encouraging one another, and curious onlookers snapping photos while sipping sweet tea.
There’s a unique magic that occurs when a community comes together like this. Families spread out picnic blankets, dogs tugged excitedly at their leashes, and music drifted from everywhere — a perfect celebration of imagination and connection.
And yet, as inspired as I felt soaking it all in, I couldn’t help but reflect a little on my own relationship with creativity. These days, between teaching my kids, trying to squeeze in a few precious minutes with my guitar, and keeping up with the pace of everyday life, finding that mental space for creative play can feel like getting enough sleep, a pipedream. Today was a gentle reminder that creativity doesn’t have to be a solitary pursuit — it thrives in community, in encouragement, and in those little messy, joyful moments we share.
Short tips on creativity:
Focus on “play” not perfection. Purpose and process rather than product.
If finding time is an issue, try to be creative with how you handle the tasks you take on during the day rather than trying to find “spare” time for arts.
Be in the moment. If you’re yearning to paint or practice an instrument, but time gets in the way, create a playful way to complete your tasks. For example, I sometimes will improvise some approach while cooking using the recipe as word inspiration.
There is no one perfect solution to any one problem, only a limitless variety of options.
Creatively,
Melanie Nolan
Photo credits to: Richard Burkhart/Savannah Morning News, J Lanning Smith, and Allison Cobb

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Arabian Nights NYE Party

Tuesday, December 31 from 8:00 PM to 2:00 AM
Kimpton Brice Hotel

New Year’s Eve 2024, The Kimpton Brice Hotel offered two different ‘Arabian Nights’ themed celebrations: the Arabian Nights NYE Dinner Spectacular at Pacci and the Arabian Nights NYE Party.
Featuring Whistle Pig Spirits, Middle Eastern inspired dishes, belly-dancers, hookah, henna tattoos, and more, this evening proved to be a one of a kind event to welcome in 2025.

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Jacksonville Tattoo Convention

Over 10,000 people attended this event in Jacksonville. Here are some snippets of those who participated and attended.

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Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens Showcase Event

Wednesday, January 29
Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens

The Jax Zoo & Gardens invited top-notch corporates and A-Listers to a curated evening to showcase their culinary skills and their event hosting space.

Organizers told us that they are planning a massive expansion of their event space and the party was just a precursor to that event and to stay tuned in upcoming months to see what other fun activities they have planned.

The mantra it appears moving forward is come for the animals and stay as a food and party animal!

Watch this space as this is a developing story and a lot of good things are to be happening between Jax pets and party playmates!

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CigarVilla – Hosted by Jamie for His Friends

Jamie loves cigars and he placed a big order with Hanptons Cigar Manufactory to create his own ornate cigar line and to conclude the project he celebrated with some near and dear ones over a 90 Day period by converting one of his apartments into a #CigarVilla pop-up by licensing the curated experience from Founder Lak Vohra. Do you want to
Host one? Contact hamptonscigarmanufactory@gmail.com.

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Party Pics – Bordeaux in Jax

Bordeaux came to City of Jacksonville tonight for an exclusive preview of the latest vintages at an exclusive wine tasting dinner hosted by Total Wine & More where we had a chance to meet one of the local farmers who’s family has been making wine for centuries. The vintner previewed his latest vintages that ranged from $20 to $80 and a a great time was had by a A-List crowd of wine aficianados in this city.

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Party Pics – Tosca at Opera Orlando

If you have never been to an opera, this one should be on your bucket list. The city of Orlando is truly blessed to have world-class opera right here at the Dr. Phillips Center at Steinmetz Hall.

Tosca was inspired by Giacomo Puccini when he saw the play, La Tosca in Rome by French playwright Victorien Sardou, in 1899. Obtaining the rights, he spent four years translating the work into Italian.

From entering Steinmetz Hall, a grand architectural marvel, you leave behind the turmoil of the world today and escape into the turmoil of Rome in 1800 during Napoleon’s threat of invading Italy. Josh Shaw (Stage Director) staged the performers perfectly with a well-balanced beautifully artistic set by Grant Preisser (Scenic Designer). Preisser framed the stage with large paintings that he selected by Anne-Louis Girodet, a famous French painter during the Napoleonic era.

This opera has one of the most romantic scores and the conductor, Eiki Isomura led the orchestra from power to the sublime.

We meet Floria Tosca, a diva who transforms from bitch, loyal bitch, heroine and ends with martyrdom. The amazing soprano, Eleni Calenos plays her perfectly with all the nuances and thoughtful acting transitions. Ms. Calenos sang the premiere aria, “Vissi d’arte” with so much emotion the audience was elated. Her acting was excellent and proved she could not only sing Tosca she became Tosca.

Nathan Granner (Tenor) was charming in his role as Cavaradossi, Tosca’s love interest and the town painter and revolutionary. His portrait of another beautiful woman is the cause of Tosca’s jealousy and suspicion in Act I. Granner hit with power and passion “E lucevan le stelle.”
While these two star-eyed lovers are bantering, Baron Scarpia, played by Daniel Scofield (Baritone) has other sordid and dark ideas to thwart their love. Wanting Tosca for himself, he has Cavaradossi arrested and plans his execution, pinning Tosca to decide if her love lives or dies. Scofield is excellent in this role as the villain with convincing wickedness.

The Opera Orlando Youth Company was an absolute delight. The children’s voices were heavenly.
In the words of stage director Josh Shaw, “I encourage you to get lost in this heart-wrenching story for the next two hours.”

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Artigras – WPB – Party Pics

Our founder Lakhinder JS Vohra had a great time with VIP access to this annual arts show. Living in Florida opens up amazing possibilities for attending events!

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Party Pics – Shaq vs Gronk

In case you missed it this weekend, Shaq and Gronk hosted a live streamed digital event on Saturday. What made this digital event extra special is that fans were able to have LIVE conversations with each other through Yappa, an audio and video commenting tool. During the event, Shaq and Gronk played a livestreamed game of HORSE. Fans were able to leave yaps about which shot they wanted Shaq and Gronk to take– and Shaq actually broke the rim! Snoop Dogg, Steve Aoki and Da Baby were among those to live yap during the event. You can see all of the activity on the event’s website by the Comments section.

Yappa was created as an antidote to the dangerously anonymous text-based commenting in social media. Because Yappa has a robust backend to flag profanity and hate speech, Yappa is quickly becoming the new, responsible and fun way for celebrities to communicate on websites such as IGN, iheartmedia, AMI and so much more!

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Party Pics – Scenes from NYE Gala at Kennedy Center

There are hundreds of options for New Year’s Eve – from Embassy-themed soirées, black-tie hotel ballrooms balls, sit-down pre-fixe all-you-can-hog, to plain and simple microwaveable celebrations in your PJs at home.

But when it comes to picking the best venue, ambience, budget, parking, dose of culture, and a true red carpet, nobody could beat the evening hosted by the Kennedy Center.

Our evening, generously hosted by Sam the GM of the rooftop restaurant and Rachael Stambaugh of the Kennedy Center, started with a richly-paired 3 course menu dinner followed by an amazing tribute to Aretha Franklin, a roarous sell-out crowd in tow.

Following the glowing performance, the evening spilled into the grand foyer where an exclusive collection of local gliterati filed in to live bands performing past three balloon drop making dressing to the hilt yet another memorable exercise reminding everyone that over-extended, over-priced libations elsewhere was not the only way to ring in a new century in a posh, affordable and refined way and that we were in the right place at the right time. The complimentary professional photo booths set up as guests were departing was the perfect goodie bag gift one could ever receive and cherish.

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