Best d’Atlanta - 1.18.2008

[Unfortunately, we will always remember fat Marlon Brando]

1. Homegrown Restaurant Concepts, the Atlanta-based restaurant group that created Doc Chey’s, is opening an Italian Restaurant called Stella Neighborhood Trattoria in Grant Park near the corner of Memorial Drive and Boulevard. The restaurant will have a bar and patio and opens in February. We could probably insert something hilarious about A Streetcar Named Desire if we had ever seen the play. Simpsons episodes excluded.
2. Greenwash - a pejorative term that environmentalists and other critics use to describe the activity of giving a positive public image to putatively environmentally unsound practices. We apologize for the condescension if you already knew this definition. Watch the local news and realize how pertinent it is.
3. I’ll take intifada for $1000, Alex. Salman Rushdie is going to be at Emory on Sunday 10 February at 5:00 pm. Tickets are $10.
4. The Atlanta Business Chronicle talks about Luda’s new restaurant. They titled the article New restaurant not really a Ludacris idea. No really.
5. Gyant at Soul of Hip Hop has written a letter to Andre 3000 asking him to save Atlanta Hip Hop.
6. Burnt-tasting coffee aficionados will have to find a new spot. Starbucks in Virginia-Highland is closing. Bloglanta talks about it.
7. Delta appears to be staying in Atlanta. All Skymiles tickets are booked through 2027.
8. Creative Loafing details a man who wants to get the prostitutes out of Midtown. In other news, the United States seeks peace in the middle east.
9. Metroblogging wants you to know about the Sheriff of East Atlanta.
10. Wasn’t there a time when Barry Manilow jokes were funny. No, before Can’t Hardly Wait, in the eighties or something. He plays Phillips on Saturday.