ATL 1/28/08

Fall, 1982 - Georgia Tech
Abandoned Farmhouse on the way from Ft. Wayne to Compliance.

MOVIE/ART/COMPLIANCE/WEB NEWS


MOVIE NEWS - Coming up this Friday - "The Eye", a terrific Japanese thriller is remade starring the 3 time Razzie-nominated Jessica Alba. Competing with that is "Over Her Dead Body", which is the only way I'd see this crazy-dead-wife-didn't-they-do-this-in-Ghost flick (starring Eva Longoria as the "Desperate-to-break-into-major-motion-pictures Housewife.")

...and the Oscar Noms are out. Biggest surprise for me? The Foreign Film Nominees. My reader may recall that I was excited about the Golden Globe Noms for Foreign Film; I was familiar with all the nominated films.

I've never heard of a single one of the Oscar nominees:

“Beaufort” Israel
“The Counterfeiters” Austria
“Katyn” Poland
“Mongol” Kazakhstan
“12″ Russia

ART NEWS - There's a new photographer on display at the Starbucks at 7th and Peachtree starting this weekend, February 2nd. Start your Saturday off right by enjoying some Paris with your caffeine! Coming soon -"Like we want to see Jeff on even more caffeine" Evening over Coffee.

LOCAL NEWS - "HEY! YOU! GET OFF MY LAWN!" - Piedmont Park is not alone in having to come up with creative solutions for preserving its green space; Central Park was considering imposing crowd limitations in addition to requiring groups to post bond to repair damage. The uproar from the people who use the park got them to change that. (The Piedmont Park Conservancy's 1995 Master Plan -pdf-.)

And reader, mark these words, because you've never read the likes of them here before; I like Guv'ner Sunshine's proposed state capitol plan! Not only would it make good use of the old World of Coke building (by moving state history exhibits into it from existing, crowded space in the Capitol) and add green space to connect to the proposed "Capitol Gateway Park", it proposes to tear down a DOT building...to be replaced with parking. HA! -ajc-


Proposed budget for the new Lawn (& accessories) - $26 million
Proposed budget for drought resolution measures (like watering the Lawn) - $40 million -ajc-

COMPLIANCE NEWS -I gotta question living in these "above/below" parts of the country; "above/below" as in "today's low will be 1 deg 'above' zero". 1 measely little degree. Cuz that's so much warmer that 1 'below'...

NATIONAL NEWS -Gamecocks for Obama.

FRENCH NEWS -You can't even avoid the American presidential race in France, as "Obama succeeds at winning the black vote" makes international headlines.

WEB NEWS - iPods aren't just for breakfast anymore. Every Monday afternoon, I go online with itunes so my podcasts can update. My favorite weekly shows are produced for NPR (shocker); 'Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me' & 'This American Life'. Where else do you learn about how kids really want us to talk to them or what should Oprah do, knowing Iraqis watch her show?