The Chocolate Festival's opening day will be filled with chocolate samplings, children's activities, street entertainers, live bands, bake-off competition, gourmet chef demonstrations and wine tastings, a beer & wine garden, and a movie at The Lyric.
Participants can purchase either chocolate tasting tickets, beer and wine garden tickets, gourmet chef demo tickets, or all three before the festival begins.
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Nashville’s Most Expensive Skyscraper Has Been Approved – Adding 1,400 Jobs To The SoBro Area
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A massive new development has now started in downtown Nashville in the SoBro area. The mixed use high-rise will be located at 222 2nd street and will feature over 375,000 square feet of mixed-use space, with street level retail and office space above.
This massive new development in the SoBro area adds to the current projects underway including the Bridgestone...
Music
Grateful Dead Sold-Out Reunion Tickets Now Being Re-Sold Online For Over $22k Each
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The Grateful Dead are reuniting for a 3 day concert in celebration of their 50th anniversary. The concert will take place over the 4th of July weekend at Chicago's Soldier Field, Trey Anastasio from Phish will be filling in for iconic leader Jerry Garcia (who passed away in 1995).
The initial tickets sold out almost immediately, the three day tickets are now...
Bakersfield's revolutionary new mobile app is now one of the fastest growing civil app in America.
Since its recent launch, the app has already seen over 2,000 incidents reported on it.
The free app is a quick and simple way for people to report problems like graffiti, potholes and illegal dumping around the city.
The app also allows people to add photos,...
In a public hearing and vote that lasted well over five hours, the Charlotte City Council rejected a new LGBT ordinance. The main two issues of the ordinance were; allowing anyone to use any bathroom based on their sexual preference, and creating several new protected classes for public businesses.
The city counsel remarked that they had received tens of thousands of...
Rock Hill
Fastest Growing Mortgage Company Moving Headquarters to Lancaster Bringing 650 New Jobs
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Movement Mortgage is now moving its headquarters from Virginia Beach to Lancaster County.
The company will be spending over $22 million to build a new two-story, 104,000-square-foot facility in Bailes Ridge Business Park on S.C. 160., with construction set to start this month. The company says the $22 million move will bring 650 new jobs to South Carolina.
Former Carolina Panthers tight end Casey Crawford, founder and CEO...
Charleston
Multi-Million Dollar Mount Pleasant Development Will Create Hundreds of New Jobs
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Johnson Development Associates is about to break ground on a massive new development in Mount Pleasant. The sprawling complex will include a 123-room hotel, a 600-unit self-storage facility, a 456-unit apartment complex, 62,000 square feet of retail space and an unspecified amount of office space.
The development will also include a 1.5-acre centrally located green space that will be used for public...
Apple's new iPhone 6 is just days away from officially launching in the United States, and IKEA has beat them to the punch by launching their own new campaign. IKEA has released a new version of their annual catalog, dubbing it the 'BookBook'.
Could this be the future of 'smart' technology?
Georgia state leaders have now introduced a bill that will both lower taxes and add an estimated 14,000 new jobs.
In order to offset the decreased taxes and keep government services at a high level, the bill would expand sales tax to groceries and digital video games and movies, as well as closing some business tax breaks and increasing the cigarette tax.
Critics say low-income people will...
President Obama is now planning on visiting Columbia, SC this coming Friday for his first visit to the state since being elected to the White House.
He will be speaking at Benedict College in Columbia for the 'My Brother’s Keeper' initiative, which is focused on improving the lives of young minority men.
The visit would leave just South Dakota and Utah as the only states Obama hasn’t visited...