CBS-46 ATLANTA — One of the largest gaming conventions and computer festivals in the world took place in Atlanta on Saturday. DreamHack took over the Georgia World Congress Center where over 35,000 gamers spent hours and hours testing their skills against other gamers. [MORE]

90.1FM WABE (NPR) — One of the biggest gaming lifestyle festivals in the country is returning to Atlanta this weekend.

DreamHack Atlanta, a multi-faceted esports event, will be making a stop in the Georgia World Congress Center with tournaments, concerts, cosplay and more until Sunday. DreamHack has been happening around the world for the past 25 years.

More than 35,000 people are expected to come out to DreamHack Atlanta, which is at least 10,000 more than the first-ever event held in the metro area in 2017.

WXIA-11ALIVE (NBC) ATLANTA — The video game industry is big business in Georgia. The industry generated an $830 million  economic impact on our state in 2018, employing more than 2,000 people. The Georgia Game Developers Association keeps track of those numbers.

In a newly released study, it said there were 452 new jobs created last year.

ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION — More than 25,000 gamers from all over the U.S. and the world are converging on Atlanta this weekend for the 25th anniversary of DreamHack at the Georgia World Congress Center. 

More than $1 million in esports tournament prizes will be awarded during the festival, which will run 24 hours a day through Sunday, Nov. 17.  [MORE]

FOX 5 ATLANTA — What started with some friends in a school cafeteria has turned into a massive gaming festival drawing crowds from around the world. And if you haven’t kept up with gaming technology over the years – prepare to amazed by what you’ll find inside the Georgia World Congress Center this weekend. [MORE]

CINEMA ATL — PC&E doesn’t need much of an introduction as you or someone you know has likely rented equipment or a used a sound stage here. However, how much do you really know about the company? What is their mission? How long have they been around? What do they have to offer super low budget indie filmmakers looking to get a chance?

All this and more is covered in our episode with General Manager of PC&E, Mark Wofford. Mark talks about the history of the company as well as his own history and why the business values “community” extremely high. We also talk about keeping up with equipment trends and much more. [MORE - LISTEN]

MOVIEHOLE — John Driskell Hopkins is reminiscent of a singer/songwriter from legendary times. A founding member of the three-time Grammy award-winning Zac Brown Band, Hopkins is straightforward, open and a man’s man who does things his way and does them well. He just released a new song and music video called “Lonesome High,” a tune about the importance of family. Even though he is busy producing, writing and singing with his own John Driskell Hopkins Band and others, Hopkins found time to sit down with Moviehole and talk about his long career. [MORE]

GIRLS ON FILM PODCAST — Listen up GIRLS as we hit the town with Atlanta's #1 place for Film and TV Production equipment supply! These guys know their stuff! Mark Wofford talks about the amazing expertise of PC&E! [MORE - LISTEN]

CREATIVE LOAFING — The best country music bands/acts in Atlanta.

BEST COUNTRY BAND/ARTIST BOA AWARD WINNER

Year » 2019
Type of Award » Poets, Artists & Madmen
Picked By » Critics

JOHN DRISKELL HOPKINS

Thirty years ago, the staff of Creative Loafing gathered together to publish its first “Best Of Atlanta” issue. The then-weekly newspaper had already been in existence for most of two decades, but we were too busy producing an alternative to the staid daily papers and the glossy city booster magazine to consider taking all that we had been reporting on and catalog the best of it in one issue.

In the end, we did, probably after one of the long breaks the staff used to take in the back parking lot of the West Peachtree location “for inspiration.” The result was our first Best Of issue. In fact, it was the first annual Best Of Atlanta ever published in this city.

To mark the 30th anniversary, we decided to also celebrate some of the people in this city who have been along on our journey. Doug DeLoach offers an excellent profile on Jimbo Livaditis, whose father John first started the Zesto drive-ins 70 years ago. Kevin C. Madigan takes a Civil Rights tour of Atlanta with Tom Houck, an incomparable force in Atlanta politics, whose future was shaped by his time spent with Martin Luther King Jr.

Chad Radford discusses Atlanta music with Glenn Phillips, the guitarist who first came to notoriety in the late ’60s in the Hampton Grease Band, still one of the most original and inexplicable bands to call Atlanta home — and the first band to play live Piedmont Park in 1968, inviting the then newly formed Allman Brother Band to join them at the pavilion the following summer. James Kelly takes a look back at Cabbagetown’s Fiddlin’ John Carson and the birth of country music at 152 Nassau Street, with Dayton Duncan, scriptwriter and producer with Ken Burns on the latter’s upcoming PBS series “Country Music.”

Hal Horowitz talks with Tommy Talton, a Capricorn Records session musician who helped define Gregg Allman’s solo sound. And on a darker note, Curt Holman looks at season two of the Netflix series “Mindhunter,” which reenacts the investigation of the Atlanta Child Murders.

Creative Loafing. We’ve either been pissing people off, pissing on the boring and uninspired in Atlanta, or marking the best this city has to offer since 1972.

Thank you for continuing to be a part of it.

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THE BOOT — Founding Zac Brown Band bandmate John Driskell Hopkins steps into the spotlight in his own right with "Lonesome High," an anthemic, forlorn new single dedicated to his wife and children. Fellow ZBB bandmate Coy Bowles is also featured on the track.

"The song was written some time ago for my girls -- my wife and three daughters -- to really capture how much I miss sharing my tour life with them all...and to capture how hard it can be to miss so much in their life when I'm not with them," Hopkins reflects in a press release.

THE ESPORTS OBSERVER — DreamHack will hold Fortnite tournaments at two of its upcoming gaming and esports festivals, with a combined prize pool of $500K between them.

The first Fortnite tournament will take place at DreamHack Winter in Jönköping, Sweden, from Nov. 29-Dec.1, with the second happening at DreamHack Anaheim in Anaheim, California, from Feb. 21-23, 2020. Each tournament has a $250K prize pool.