ATLANTA (AP) -- The French Quarter is out. Underground Atlanta is in.
Red beans and rice are off the menu. How 'bout some biscuits and a heaping bowl of grits?
The background music for this party will be hip-hop, not jazz.
Come January, Peachtree Street gets to pinch-hit for Bourbon Street, an extraordinary turn of events brought on by a catastrophic disaster.
A news conference is scheduled for Friday morning at the Georgia Dome to make it official: The Sugar Bowl is moving from flooded-out New Orleans this season and setting up shop in much drier Atlanta, a city of traffic jams and seemingly constant construction, a Mecca of big-time sporting events that now gets the task of hosting two major college football bowls -- not to mention an NFL game -- within the space of four days. [Read more - WWLTV]
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