ATL 8/13/07

Movie news - The Fox Theatre is showing 2 movies this week. Thursday (8/16) at 7:30 is "Spiderman 3" and Sunday (8/19) at 7:00 PM is "Knocked Up". It's $7 at the door, or $60 for a pack of 12 tickets. ($5 each for the math impaired...well...for everyone...really.)

I heard the movie version of "The Nanny Diaries" is coming to theaters August 24th. (Sure, it was a fun book, and it was published a year before that other I-have-an-icky-boss tell-all tome, but how is this movie not just "Devil Wears Diapers?")

Art news - This Friday is Jazz night at the High Museum, 5 PM to midnight.

French news - American mortgage rates are a hot topic as Thierry Breton, a former French Economic Minister, speaking on the fall of international financial market indices, claims that the Central European Bank is a "prisoner" of the practice of increasing mortgage rates/payments and American debt. (Growing the French treasury isn't just as easy as selling us Louisiana again, is it?)

National news -Mitt Romney won the Iowa straw poll. (Patricia A. Morris of Winterset won first place overall in the C&H Preserves competition ... and was awarded 30 pounds of C&H sugar for her peach preserves.)

Local news -It's Downtown Atlanta Restaurant Week. (Most folks know I joke about not going south of the Fox Theater, but for a $25, 3-course dinner at French American Brasserie, I'll get in mom's car.)

Midtown news - The old Red Cross site on Monroe is becoming Gable apartments, with the largest unit (1,400 sq. ft.) renting for $1800.

999 Peachtree, our next door neighbor here at Metropolis, is going to be redeveloped with an additional 50,000 sq. ft. of retail. The architectural firm GreenbergFarrow designing the do-over is going to be a new neighbor, too; moving its headquarters from Cobb County to W. Peachtree.

Retail news -Beleza opens in 905 Juniper on August 14th - "The foodarati are lining up for the opening of BELEZA, Richard Ullio’s Brazilian juice bar and restaurant and CUERNO, his ode to Spanish cuisine." craigslist (UPDATE from a real, live, Beleza employee - setting up the kitchen this afternoon, but probably no opening until the weekend...)


Plus, H&M is coming (I'm going). Part of its new Atlantic Station location will include space currently in use by Metropolitan Deluxe, making MD the first Atlantic Station casualty I'm aware of.