On a cold, wet weekend in Atlanta at the end of January, there gathered 600 colorfully dressed characters that included the Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Mummy, Baby Yoda, Stitch, Indiana Jones, the Brady Bunch, Haunted Mansion Ghosts, a Yeti, zombies — and hula performers, Maori haka dancers, and countless bartenders serving up the alcoholic kind of zombie, along with many other cocktails.
No, it wasn’t DragonCon, the Burning Man of nerdy events but instead Inuhele, “Atlanta’s Tiki and Polynesian Pop Culture Event.” The three-day event is hosted by husband and wife team Jonathan and Allison Chaffin; he is the designer behind Horror In Clay, which creates horror-themed Tiki mugs and barware, and she is the curator behind MugCrate, the quarterly Tiki mug experience box. Similar to comic cons, this “Tiki con” — which grew out of the Chaffins’ own Atlanta Tiki Home Bar Tour — features cosplay, parties, panels, crafting,...
No, it wasn’t DragonCon, the Burning Man of nerdy events but instead Inuhele, “Atlanta’s Tiki and Polynesian Pop Culture Event.” The three-day event is hosted by husband and wife team Jonathan and Allison Chaffin; he is the designer behind Horror In Clay, which creates horror-themed Tiki mugs and barware, and she is the curator behind MugCrate, the quarterly Tiki mug experience box. Similar to comic cons, this “Tiki con” — which grew out of the Chaffins’ own Atlanta Tiki Home Bar Tour — features cosplay, parties, panels, crafting,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
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