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/ August 5, 2026
Variety Playhouse is a live music venue in Atlanta’s Little Five Points neighborhood, housed inside a former movie theater that first opened its doors on October 4, 1940 as the Euclid Theatre. Built by Lucas and Jenkins Theatres, the same company behind the city’s landmark
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/ August 5, 2026
The Fillmore Detroit is a historic concert theater at 2115 Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit’s Theatre District, just steps from the Fox Theatre and Comerica Park. Designed by noted theater architect C. Howard Crane in a Beaux-Arts Italian Renaissance style, the building opened on October
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/ August 5, 2026
Newport Music Hall sits at 1722 North High Street in Columbus, Ohio’s University District, directly across from Ohio State University’s Ohio Union. The building first opened its doors on December 21, 1921, as The State Theater, making it one of the oldest continuously operating concert
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/ August 5, 2026
Auckland Zoo has welcomed visitors to Western Springs since December 16, 1922, when it opened with animals purchased from a private collector’s shuttered menagerie. Run today by Auckland Council through Auckland Unlimited, the 16.35-hectare (40-acre) park has grown from a modest municipal collection into New
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/ August 5, 2026
Melbourne Zoo opened on 6 October 1862 in Royal Park, Parkville, about 4 kilometers north of Melbourne’s city center, making it the oldest zoo in Australia. It was modeled after London Zoo and originally served as an acclimatisation station for domestic animals arriving from long
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/ August 5, 2026
Ice Breaker is a launched steel roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando in Florida, built by Premier Rides using its Sky Rocket model. It opened to the public on February 18, 2022, after an original 2020 debut was pushed back by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it
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/ August 5, 2026
Pipeline: The Surf Coaster made history when it opened at SeaWorld Orlando on May 27, 2023, debuting as the world’s first B&M Surf Coaster and the first new stand-up roller coaster design since 1999’s Georgia Scorcher. Manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, the ride reimagines the
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/ August 4, 2026
Edinburgh Zoo has announced the birth of a pygmy hippo calf to parents Gloria and Otto, born on Friday, July 31, 2026, just hours after the zoo publicly revealed Gloria was pregnant. Keepers had expected the birth in August, so the early arrival caught the
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/ August 4, 2026
Boone Pickens Stadium has served as the home of Oklahoma State University football in Stillwater, Oklahoma, since the site first opened as Lewis Field on October 2, 1920. The venue was renamed in 2003 to honor OSU alumnus and oil executive T. Boone Pickens, whose
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/ August 4, 2026
Husky Stadium has been the home of Washington Huskies football on the University of Washington campus in Seattle since it opened on November 27, 1920. Built into a hillside overlooking Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains, the stadium’s open east end and U-shaped bowl give
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/ August 4, 2026
The EARL, short for East Atlanta Restaurant and Lounge, is a beloved live music venue, bar, and restaurant located at 488 Flat Shoals Avenue in Atlanta’s East Atlanta Village neighborhood. Opened in July 1999 by John Searson, a local resident who had no prior restaurant
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/ August 4, 2026
Cat’s Cradle is a live music venue and nightclub in Carrboro, North Carolina, located less than a mile from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. Founded in 1969 by Marcia Wilson, Mike Cross, and Larry Reynolds, it started as a basement space
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/ August 4, 2026
The Stone Pony is a live music club at 913 Ocean Avenue on the Asbury Park, New Jersey boardwalk. It opened in February 1974 in a building that had previously housed a restaurant and beer garden called Mrs. Jay’s, and it quickly became a proving
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/ August 4, 2026
Ueno Zoo sits inside Ueno Park in Taitō, Tokyo, and has operated continuously since March 20, 1882, making it Japan’s oldest zoological garden. Over nearly a century and a half it has grown from an early Meiji-era menagerie into the country’s most-visited zoo, home to
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/ August 4, 2026
The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, known simply as the Chengdu Panda Base, is a non-profit research and conservation facility founded in 1987 in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It began with just six giant pandas rescued from the wild and has grown into the
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/ August 4, 2026
Beijing Zoo is the oldest zoological garden in China, tracing its roots to 1906 when it was established as a menagerie and botanical garden during the late Qing dynasty. It formally opened its gates to the public on June 16, 1908, for an admission price
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/ August 4, 2026
Skull Mountain is an indoor family roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. Built by Intamin at a cost of about $5 million, it opened to riders on June 3, 1996, and has remained a park staple ever since, easily
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/ August 4, 2026
Gold Striker is a wooden roller coaster at California’s Great America in Santa Clara, California, built by Great Coasters International (GCI) and designed by Jeff Pike. It opened to the public on May 31, 2013, following a soft opening in late April, becoming the park’s
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/ August 3, 2026
Kumba, one of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay’s signature roller coasters, took its final ride on Sunday, August 2, 2026, closing permanently after 33 years of operation. The Bolliger & Mabillard steel looper had been a Tampa Bay thrill-ride staple since it opened on April 21,
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/ August 3, 2026
Doak Campbell Stadium, officially Bobby Bowden Field at Doak S. Campbell Stadium, has been the home of Florida State Seminoles football in Tallahassee, Florida since it opened on October 7, 1950. Named for Doak S. Campbell, the university’s first president, the stadium later added Bobby
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