Capture Gwinnett | A guide to living, working, and playing in Gwinnett County, GA

This is a guest post by photographer Karl Lamb. He can be found at KLambphotography@gmail.com  The Gingerbread House Festival and Contest is an annual event that takes place at the Suwanee Academy of the Arts. Along side of the event’s main attraction, the gingerbread house building content, participants were entertained by the Suwanee Academy of Arts performers with [...]

This is a guest post by photographer Karl Lamb. He can be found at KLambphotography@gmail.com  Suwanee’s Old Town Holiday Festival and Caboose Lighting is an annual event on main street in Suwanee where Santa Claus comes down to light the train caboose. Local schools performed chorus songs for the event as well. This year’s Caboose Lighting [...]

For over 30 years a Japanese culture festival has been held within metro-Atlanta. Throughout the years it has changed names and locations, but for the past few years it has been held at the Gwinnett Center. Last year’s JapanFest had over 16,500 attendees making it the festival’s largest ever turnout. JapanFest is a display of [...]

The 4th of July is coming up quick and we Americans know how to celebrate our freedom – by making explosions and pretty lights. If you and your family are trying to find a firework show in Gwinnett, then look no further. There are plenty of cities hosting their own shows this year and some [...]

It’s been a rocky road for the house of Xavier these past two films, but I’m glad to report that reboot is off to a great start. X-Men: First Class does something that fewer and fewer action films seem to doing these days, telling meaningful stories delivered by compelling acting while still adding impressive visual [...]

I so badly wanted this to be the breakout film of the summer, but sadly it wasn’t. I’m not trying to say that the film was necessarily bad, just that it lacked anything special that caused it to standout among all the others. Super 8 is a decent hybrid of suspense and drama. It has [...]

If you’ve been to Suwanee Town Center Park lately, you might have asked yourself, “Where did all those new statues and sculptures around Town Center come from?” The answer, they are apart of the Suwanee’s 2011 SculpTour that officially kicked off with the Arts in the Park Festival on May 21, 2011. What is SculpTour [...]

Charlotte Nash, the newly appointed Gwinnett Commission Chairman, will deliver her first address as chairman since she took over the role nearly two months ago, after the former chairman stepped down due to ethics concerns.

One of my favorite times of year is now here: the summer movie season. My list of movies to watch this summer is long, and getting longer as more trailers come out. This summer is full of big action-from-comic-book movies, sequels of past blockbusters and a few newcomers. Regardless of your favorite movie genre, I [...]

Lin’s Bistro is a Chinese and Thai restaurant that might look a typical small Chinese sit-down/takeout restaurant located in a strip mall, but it isn’t. The best way I can describe it is as a hidden Chinese wonderland. The food gets high marks from me, both in quality and quantity. As an added bonus, each [...]