ATL - 9/15/08 - E.D.'s Bday

Little E.D.'s 2nd birthday...awwwwwwwwwwwww.

MOVIE/ART/LOCAL/U.S./FRENCH/WEB NEWS

MOVIE NEWS - Over the next 2 weeks, look for the release of "Igor", "Lakeview Terrace", and "Ghost Town". These movies are heavy on premise: What if evil scientist assistants had ambition? What if your neighbor the cop took a disliking to you? What if you were an icky, self-absorbed person who died for a few minutes and came back, forced to do the bidding of the (folks who stayed) dead?

"Blindness" is big concept, too - what would happen if the majority of the world's people suddenly couldn't see? (I'll tell you one thing, they wouldn't go to this movie - Go experience "Dialog in the Dark", instead.) -ajc-

Two weeks of foreign films at the High (sit through these flicks and you will have even more overseas experience than some VEEP candidates I know...)

9/19 High - Iranian Film "Night Bus"
9/20 High - Turkish film "Bliss"
9/26 High - Iranian Film "Look for the Woman
9/27 High - Turkish Film "The Edge of Heaven"

ART NEWS - THE SECRET ARTS FESTIVAL - Did anyone catch the Atlanta Arts Festival in Piedmont Park this past weekend? Don't feel bad if you didn't; it wasn't even advertised on the Piedmont Park website (although other important events - like the "Tango Lessons" for $5 - were). An apparent attempt to keep attendance low, meaning only unsuccessful festivals are allowed at the park? -ajc-

CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS - A new Jim Henson/Muppets exhibit opens this week. While you're at it, catch one of their performances; this is still the only theater I've ever been kicked out of. -check it out-

FOX THEATER - “Les Miserables”: This new production will draw its design inspiration from the art of author Victor Hugo. Sept. 19-28. -TOTS-

PIEDMONT PARK - Anticipating attracting fewer than 50,000 people, the park is hosting Improv on Wednesdays in September. Improv is all about pretending...maybe the Dogwood Festival could "pretend" to attract fewer than 50,000..."

Alliance Theater - 9/19/ - 10/26 - Now that "Peachtree Battle" has closed after more than 1200 performances, this Alliance Theater production continues the tradition of poking fun at Atlanta - "Too Busy To Hate..." -alliancetheater-

High Museum - 9/19 - Friday Jazz

Dad's Garage - 9/19-10/18 - "Cannibal! The Musical"

Castleberry Hill Art Stroll - 9/26 - A week from this Friday!

LOCAL NEWS - E-CYCLE - 9/20, 8:00 - 4:00 PM - Feel better about your consumerism while rationalizing that new laptop; E-cycle your old electronics at Grady High School, 8th parking lot.

IKE, IKE, BABY - Varying reports around Atlanta show Hurrican Ike pushed gas prices up as much a $1/gallon from last week's area low of $3.61; but that was only when you could find a gas station that wasn't sold out! Guv'ner Sunshine enacted anti-price-gouging legislation to try and counter-act high prices. Good job, Sonny, keep prices artificially low and panicked people will buy it all whether they need it or not. Let gas stations raise prices and only people that really, really need gas will buy it, ensuring availability. Has this guy ever even heard of supply and demand?

BRUTAL - I just heard a report on NPR about a church that wants to tear down it's "brutalist"-style church in Washington, D.C. Upon hearing the description of "brutalism" (the term comes from the french for raw concrete - "beton brut"), I immediately thought of the Atlanta Fulton County Public Library, designed by Marcel Breuer. Some Atlantans want to tear it down, too. It may be a tough building to love (in today's context), but is tearing it down the right answer? At one point in Atlanta's brief, architectural history, we nearly lost the Fox Theater, too.

U.S. NEWS - Republicans have once again stimulated the economy... everyone is buying Sarah Palin eyeglasses. I hear once the fad for that particular accessory dies down, she will continue the stimulus by participating in the next debate sporting a hearing aid and an artificial leg...

I'm still working out the two major party VEEP candidates differences...are there any? Senator Biden isn't going to have an abortion, either.

FRENCH NEWS - Registration for french classes at Alliance Francaise starts this week! Winter quarter begins the first week in October. -afatl-

WEB NEWS - Atlanta architecture discussion thread -skyscraper-

Wouldn't it be great to buy food that came from a neighborhood farm instead of a processing plant in Mexico? Eating locally in Atlanta -ALFI-