Category — Something Similar to News

It has been awhile, so without further ado.

[It’s The End of the World]

1. Downtown - Get your comic operetta on at the Rialto with Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. The opera will be performed on Friday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 27 at 3:00 p.m. The official site with the full details.
2. East Atlanta - My Big Amazing Renovation on HGTV is looking for East ATLiens working on big projects. Specifically, they are - looking for enthusiastic homeowners who are just starting a major home renovation that will double the size of their original home and transform the major living spaces. They are also looking for homeowners who have a set budget and time frame in which they hope to have their renovation completed.  Contact Sara Adams (SAdams AT highnoonentertainment DOT com) if you are interested.
3. Druid Hills - The Druid Hills tour of homes is April 18-20.  If you want to see some Atlanta homes so nice you’ll be sayin’  “Cot damn” we suggest attendance.  The straight dope.  Artist market included, woo hoo.
4. Kirkwood - The people demand to see the grass on the other side to determine whether, in fact, its relative greenness is greater.  Sorry, we couldn’t think of how to introduce two tours of homes back to back.  Kirkwood Spring Fling & Tour of Homes May 17th and 18th.  The deal.
5. Virginia Highlands / Midtown / Morningside - A gentleman driving a silver Miata (bad enough in itself) has been following female joggers and masturbating while parking on the street near public parks.  Maybe, that Miata joke was inappropriate, but we couldn’t resist.

The esteemed author of Night will speak this Thursday from 6-8 pm at the GSU Sports Arena. From GSU’s website:

Professor Wiesel will be speaking on a topic of our time “Building a Moral Society: The Urgency of Hope.” The evening with Professor Wiesel is the highlight of Georgia State University’s 3rd Bi-Annual Cultural Competency Conference, held March 27 and 28. Wiesel, an Andrew W. Mellon Professor at Boston University, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, The Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal, has worked on behalf of oppressed people for much of his life. His personal experience of the Holocaust has led him to use his talents as an author, teacher and storyteller to defend human rights and peace throughout the world.

Free Tickets available for Georgia State Students with valid Student ID. Pick up your ticket in person at the Rialto Theater Box Office or at the Information Booth in the Student Center March 10th - March 25th. Georgia State faculty or staff ($10.00), students at other institutions of higher learning with valid ID ($10) and the general public ($35) can purchase advance tickets through the Rialto Theater Box Office 404-413-9849.

[Just gorge yourself.]

1. Braves and Birds talks state of the Thrashers nation. Some of the facts are quite damning.
2. Yesterday we discovered (only in the same sense as Columbus discovered America) a great Gwinnett blog called Exurban Adventures. With nearly 800,000 residents we question Gwinnett’s exurbanity. Here is their take on the “gang fight” at Mill Creek High School. The battle for control of the Mall of Georgia is getting intense, huh?
3. Rusty from RGM has a great piece of Georgia Legislatature history. Did that elicit yawns? It involves booze. See, we knew you drunkards would be into it.
4. FEMA teat, as predicted, available for suckling.
5. Peach Pundit has an interesting local perspective on the Obama race thing. We will not call it a “controversy,” unless, of course, we can say it the British way.
6. Former SEC basketball official going to prison for running a Ponzi scheme. The SEC official was initially investigated by the, uh, well, SEC. Who is investigating yesterday’s crew for the Georgi-Xavier game?
7. AJC gets around to discussing Moreland Avenue development. So, they are only about 2-3 months behind on the story. If this related to Buckhead we guess the response time might have been quicker.
8. CL has a review of the Glenwood, a restaurant in East Atlanta. The EAV was hit hard by the tornado. Make you way over and support the neighborhood with your patronage.
9. GT Sports Blog has the world’s quickest”Where are they now?” Info on Taylor Bennett.
10. Mixed-use development in Henry County. We are guessing that there is no public transportation element. Don’t be fooled by terminology into thinking something is green, or smart development, or whateve.
11. GrifDrift talks about Shirley Franklin defending her daughter’s light sentence via internet pseudonym. If we had caught the same charge as Kai Frankin we would be servicing our prison boyfriend at this very moment.
12. Tondee’s says an elected official was caught whilst being serviced by a staffer. No names yet.
13. Magic City, the Atlanta strip club known throughout the hip hop world, has been repurchased by its original owner.  We once heard Dennis Scott say the club was a favorite spot to take GT basketball recruits.
14. UGA VI was named top mascot in the NCAA tournament.  Yeah, not much consolation.
15. Rep. Stephanie Stuckey Benfield is upset that she was called out for missing so many votes.  Decatur Metro with her excuses.
16. Terrell Pryor to Ohio State.  You are officially the last college football fan to know.
17. South Atlanta High School basketball wunderkind Derrick Favors is the Georgia Player of the Year, according the official beverage of jortsporters.  How can Georgia get this kid?
18. Kudos to Creative Loafing for putting a reference to the Wire in this headline.
19. The Tour de Georgia starts in 31 days.  Why can’t they call it the Tour of Georgia.  The “de” seems silly outside of French speaking countries.  Euro teams Saunier-Duval, CSC, and Gerolsteiner are among the competitors.
20. Tondee’s has an excellent summary of the 2008 Georgia US Senate race.

Thanks to Von Taylor for these amazing snaps of the destruction in Cabbagetown.

[Agave appears to be intact.

[Trees took this storm the worst.]

[Love this picture.]

[Yeah, we are tree obsessed.]

[Welcome indeed.  Probably would have worked better at the beginning.]

Visit this site to see hundreds like this.

[Boom]

We are avowed fans of the NPR show All Things Considered. This excerpt seems to skew the issues surrounding Atlanta’s demolition of housing projects. Atlanta Housing Authority Executive Director Renee Glover makes some excellent points, but NPR contends that the city is falling short of it promise to move people to better homes.

Bowen Housing Project ain’t exactly Shangri-La. We would guess that almost anywhere is better, except maybe Clayton County.

The 4 minute clip.

[Y’all love to gawk at tornado pictures.  We do too.]

1. AJC says that Democrats are saying they will only approve the sales tax transportation measure if the bill allows “some of the cash to be used for rail.”  How much is “some”? Oh, and rural Georgia wants a disproportionate share of the revenues.  As usual.  This public transportation puff piece was issued at about the same time.
2. More East Atlanta Tornado pictures at flickr.
3. UGA softball pitcher Kate Gaskill pitched a perfect game!
4. Sour grapes at GT Sports Blog — “At least there is justice in the world though. First, they get shipped out west as a 14-seed. Second, it ensures that Dennis Felton is going to hang around a few more years. Good guy, but I don’t see him taking them consistently to the next level in hoops.”
5. We are cold hearted bastards, but damn if this tornado puppy ain’t cute.

The AJC and other media outlets have virtually ignored the EAV.  Many in the neighborhood have just recently got their power back.  We give love to our South Atlanta brethren (or sisteren or whatever) with these pics.

[One of many older trees lost in the neighborhood.]

[Common sight this weekend.]

[Debris, debris everywhere.]

[We were told by friends that parts of the neighborhood were inaccessible by car on Friday night.]

[Impassable road.]

[From the roots.]

[We love globes.  We are nerds.]

1. BBC has some interesting facts.
2. NY Times says we are sizing up the FEMA teet.
3. CNN International.  The televisions inside the CNN Center were still playing an interview with Tori Spelling 30 minutes after the Tornado hit the building.
4. Bloomberg
5. Even more BBC.
6. Finally, some place that calls itself the Disaster News Network.  Sounds like a real pick-me-up.

[Parking lot of the shopping center where Lenny’s is located.]

[A crushed truck in Grant Park.]

[Blown out windows in the Omni Hotel.]

[Same situation at the Westin.]

[Destroyed auto warehouse on Dekalb Ave.  Redevelopment opportunity.]

[Cotton Mill Lofts with the city’s most dramatic scene.]

[Damn.]

[One of 40 trees reported down in Oakland Cemetary.]

We were in the Cnn Center drinking beers when it hit. Scary as hell. Here are some pics.

[Police fencing blown away.]

[More chaos outside of CNN.]

[Trashed.]

[City trash can out of place.]

[Scrap metal. No idea from where.]

[More of the same.]