The Fox Theatre’s highly anticipated Marquee Club, complete with multiple bars, Moroccan-style lounges and rooftop views of Atlanta’s iconic Peachtree Street, will finally open its doors to the public this month.
A ceremonial grand opening for inaugural members is scheduled for Thursday May 17, with non-member access launching Saturday, May 19.
The $10 million 10,000-square-foot event space renovation marks its most significant expansion and its biggest financial undertaking since the popular theater opened in 1929.
Read MoreThe DNA you send in the mail through genetics kits and ancestry programs like 23andMe and Ancestry can be used by police in a criminal investigation, but it doesn’t happen very often.
Recently, Joseph James DeAngelo, the man authorities suspect is the so-called Golden State Killer responsible for at least a dozen murders and 50 rapes in the 1970s and 80s, was arrested more than three decades after the last killing.
And according to the Sacramento County district attorney's office, investigators used information from an online genealogical site to determine whether the DNA from one of the crime scenes was a match, the Associated Press reported.
Read MoreOver the past five years, diagnoses of major depression in the United States have risen by at least 33 percent.
That’s according to a new report from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, for which analysts assessed the BCBS Health Index built from billions of claims for more than 41 million commercially insured Americans annually.
Read MoreThe DNA you send in the mail through genetics kits and ancestry programs like 23andMe and Ancestry can be used by police in a criminal investigation, but it doesn’t happen very often.
Read MoreWhat if you could reduce your 90-plus minute commute to work to just six minutes? Uber Technologies Inc.’s new concept aircraft, made with the help of NASA scientists, hopes to do just that for future customers.
Read MoreScientists in the United Kingdom may have found a new treatment for baldness, according to research published this week in the journal PLOS Biology.
The researchers gathered scalp hair follicle samples from than 40 male hair-transplant patients to examine in the lab and first tested the immunosuppressive drug cyclosporine A.
Read MoreIt was quite the weekend for Stone Mountain native Donald Glover and his musical alter ego, Childish Gambino.
The “Atlanta” actor had his “Saturday Night Live” debut as host this weekend with a star-studded cast featuring Ben Stiller, Alec Baldwin, Jimmy Fallon, Scarlett Johansson and even Stormy Daniels.
Read MoreEleven-year-old Ryleigh Taylor was walking along the shore of Douglas Lake in East Tennessee when she came upon an unusual structure lying on a rock.
The structure, according to University of Tennessee paleobiology professor Colin Sumrall, was a 475-millon-year-old fossil belonging to an extinct sea creature known as a trilobite.
Read MoreA man visiting a forest park in the eastern Indian state of Odisha was mauled to death by a bear last week while trying to take a selfie with the animal, according to forest department officers.
The Hindustan Times reported that Prabhu Bhatara was on his way with a group from a wedding in Kotapad, India. He spotted the injured bear while attending to “nature’s call” near a forest and approached the bear despite the group cautioning against it.
Read MoreTwitter chief technology officer Parag Agrawal issued a statement Thursday asking users to consider changing their Twitter password following an issue with unmasked passwords.
“When you set a password for your Twitter account, we use technology that masks it so no one at the company can see it,” Agrawal wrote in a company blog post. “We recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log.”
Read MoreAccording to a new report from Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of Americans getting diseases transmitted by mosquito, tick and flea bites has more than tripled in recent years.
Health officials reported on Tuesday that since 2004, at least nine such diseases have been discovered or introduced in the country, with 642,602 cases reported during the 13 years from 2004 through 2016.
Read MoreDo you experience bouts of loneliness? You’re not alone. In fact, a new nationwide survey from health insurer Cigna found that nearly half the country is in the same boat.
The online survey of 20,000 adults consisted of self-reported responses to a series of 20 statements or questions. Analysts used the well-known UCLA Loneliness Scale to calculate respondents’ loneliness scores, which range from 20 to 80.
Read MoreWhen 26-year-old comedian Yedoye Travis tweeted last June about being the next host on Nickelodeon’s “Blue’s Clues” revamp, he didn’t think anyone would take him seriously.
“They said if I get enough retweets they will bring back Blue's Clues and I can be Steve,” he captioned a photo of him sitting in the famous “Blue’s Clues” chair at Viacom studios in New York, where Travis was shooting a separate project for Comedy Central. The tweet went viral.
Read MoreMarvel’s highly-anticipated “Avengers: Infinity War” film officially hits theaters Thursday night. Are you prepared?
The Marvel Studios film blazoned with superheroes, villains and warriors follows 10 years of such blockbusters. It’s the 19th movie and third “Avengers” film in Marvel’s decade-long history.
Read MoreIn an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone, Grammy-nominated singer Janelle Monae addressed her sexuality, a subject that’s long been speculated under the limelight.
Monae spoke to the magazine about being in relationships with men and women and said that while she initially identified as bisexual, after learning about pansexuality, she realized she identifies with it as well.
Read MoreA new update for Android users replaces the gun emoji with an orange-and-yellow toy water pistol, Emojipedia announced in a blog post Tuesday.
Google’s decision mimics changes previously made by other companies, including Twitter, WhatsApp and Samsung. Apple led the charge in 2016, effectively saying a gun didn’t have a place in common pictorial language, according to TechCrunch.
Read MoreAmazon.com Inc. may be gearing up for its next big project: a home robot.
The rumor comes from a Bloomberg report published Monday in which sources familiar with the plan revealed that the company has started work on the domestic robot under the codename, Vesta.
Read MoreNASA scientists are perplexed about what caused the ice holes spotted last week in the Arctic during an annual mission.
According to NASA’s Earth Observatory, researchers noticed the mysterious holes on an April 14 flight above the eastern Beaufort Sea, north of Canada. The flight was part of an Operation IceBridge mission, which tracks changes in sea ice at the North and South poles every year.
Read MoreThe annual Lyrid meteor shower, named after the constellation Lyra, is just around the corner and expected to peak on April 22.
It’s the second meteor shower of 2018.
Read MoreA group of researchers may have found a new treatment to successfully prevent migraines without an overload of common side effects of migraine medication, such as fatigue, racing heartbeat or nausea.
“There’s no current dedicated migraine prevention medication,” Dr. Michael R. Silver, an assistant professor in neurology at Emory University who was not involved in the study, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We borrow from other fields and use mostly anti-seizure medicines, blood pressure medicines or anti-depressants for migraine prevention.”
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