Rum. Cleavage. Pubcrawls. YARRRR!
21Sep2017
Captain Drew salutes the sponsors of the t-shirts for the 2017 PiratePalooza™ Pubcrawl & Pubsing and deeply appreciates their financial assistance in making the 2017 custom PiratePalooza t-shirts affordable for our attendees. Each of these companies would appreciate your business, so please check them out and tell your friends about them!
20Sep2017
PiratePalooza #12 – Photo by Dean Ansley The hidden ale-yard known as Communion has become a favorite ending spot for our crew over the past several years. Better yet, it has allowed us to keep the One True PiratePalooza as a walking crawl from start to finish. Since this time last year the owners decided… Continue reading Donations for Communion
20Sep2017
The latest schedule and interactive map for the 2017 PiratePalooza Pubcrawl & Pubsing is posted on the Pubcrawl page of the PiratePalooza website. If you be too rum-addled to do all that remembering and typing and pointing and
19Sep2017
This morning we are pleased to announce our amazing list of musical acts for the 13th Annual PiratePalooza Pubcrawl & Pubsing – we’ll be welcoming back old friends like the playful Tenpenny Travelers and rollicking Toucan Dubh, and we’ll sing along to our friends Esteban (of Landloch’d) and Israel Hand (of Pogue Mahone). Old favorites… Continue reading Huge 2017 PiratePalooza Musical Lineup
19Sep2017
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day, m’hearties! With less than 5 days until the 13th Annual PiratePalooza™ Pubcrawl & Pubsing it might be a good idea start polishing up on your pirate history! However, if you’re like most sea devils these days you’re absolutely illiterate (which is why you have someone reading this article to you… Continue reading Recommendation: Pirate History Podcast
14Sep2017
Like many of you, I feel that my friends would be more interesting if they liked the exact same things that I like. Toward that end I have prepared ten easy techniques you can use to convince them to like your stuff, collected from the many stories I have heard from my crew and from… Continue reading The 10 Best Ways to Make People Like You
10Sep2017
I have made the acquaintance of a quite a few nerds over the years – my crew is largely comprised of them – and boy do they get excited whenever the “Dragon Kong” rolls around. It’s all they talk about. There’s a few things that really get them really really cranked up: things like Death Pool,… Continue reading Famous Stanley and the Dragon Kong Nerds
08Sep2017
Do you be ready for PiratePalooza 13?? What better way to prepare for our annual invasion of Decatur than by attending RITUAL’s Treasure Island Pirate Party at The Heretic on Friday September 22nd?!!! This year Ritual will be the official pre-party for the Palooza and will be overflowin’ with rum and shanties, you can wear… Continue reading Ritual’s Treasure Island Pirate Party
22Aug2017
The design for the 2017 PiratePalooza™ Pubcrawl & Pubsing was announced this morning at a small press conference in a dusty median in the middle of Andrew Young International Boulevard, near Atlanta’s new Mercedes Benz stadium. Captain Drew announced to a group of traveling vagabonds that this year’s shirt theme was “Seize the High Seas”… Continue reading 13th Annual PiratePalooza™ Shirts Announced
31May2017
The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company (ARTC) has announced a Kickstarter campaign for the production of their latest project “Treasure Island”. ARTC has been entertaining audiences with their live radio-style performances since 1984 and can be seen performing to large crowds at many of the larger science fiction and fantasy conventions around Atlanta throughout the year.
30May2017
There’s an unofficial tradition among the cast at the Georgia Renaissance Festival that Memorial Day is observed as a “prank day” for tweaking costumes, characters, storylines, and songs ever so slightly as to entertain each other in order to survive the final leg of a brutal 3-day run. These minor alterations usually go unnoticed by patrons of the festival, but they provide the… Continue reading Maui Shocks Festival Crowd
21May2017
This past Saturday was the first of a 2-day pirate invasion of the Georgia Renaissance Festival, and I must admit that I had a great time wandering around the old place again. We started the day at the front door where some lady in purple yelled at everybody a long time before letting us all in.… Continue reading A Letter from Mark
18May2017
This weekend pirates will descend upon the Georgia Renaissance Festival for their annual late spring gathering. The traditional meeting point for this assembly is the Pub on the Hill, a picturesque pub serving beer, wine, cider, and ale. This spot is one of several pubs featuring stage acts like Landloch’d and the Beastly Boys. It also features Friar… Continue reading Captain Drew Announces Wholly Unauthorized Pub Crawl
13May2017
As I was recently polishing off a pint of ale I was reminded of a time many years ago when the minstrel group Wine Woman & Song would regale us with an old favorite, The Barley Mow, during pub sing at the Brewer’s Pub at the Georgia Renaissance Festival. With a bit of time on my… Continue reading The Compleat Barley Mow
10May2017
Yours truly, Captain Drew, was lucky enough to secure an invitation to an exclusive industry launch party for the fifth album by Landloch’d, a duo with a penchant for whiskey and sheep. This latest album is clearly their classiest one yet because it features the band’s mascot Delilah wielding a trident with a heart impaled on its tines, surrounded by a… Continue reading Landloch’d Releases The Devil’s Own Invention
08May2017
Late Sunday afternoon news of an incredible discovery at the Georgia Renaissance Festival began circulating in the general vicinity of a bush located across the street from the popular springtime event. Passersby report that a man disguised as a “big brown burglar” was shouting the “combination” to an alleged secret entrance to an air-conditioned underground brewpub… Continue reading Rumors of Secret Underground Brewpub at GARF
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