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Fairview Street at Sycamore Drive Decatur, GA (pic submitted by Susan)

I’m pleased to announce that I have been deemed the “official” micro-blogger by the Decatur Book Festival for tomorrow night’s Jonathan Franzen keynote address.  (I guess we did it “unofficially” last year) So, if you weren’t able to get tickets or just can’t get out of the house tomorrow night, tune in to Decatur Metro at [...]

UPDATE: The pup is back home! From Travis… I just saw someone in a bit of a panic, looking for a lost bulldog. It’s home is on the north side of Adams St. If you happen to see this guy/gal, shoot me a note and I’ll get back in touch with Travis.

According to a newspaper website, the city of Decatur currently has two financing options on the table if it decided to build the unfinished projects left over from the 2006 bond referendum (Fire Station #1, the Rec Center, and the Public Works building.) The city could raise the millage rate by .4 (equivalent to $72 a [...]

Susan wrote in yesterday with this eyewitness report… Any idea what all the police activity was right after noon on Ponce between Glendale and Sycamore? It’s a rare day when I see at least 6 cop cars (some unmarked) and cops on foot running in Decatur. When they began to head my way up [...]

As his final act before being eaten, Daren Wang sent in this chilling video of Bookzilla arriving on Decatur Square – and rocking out to Blue Oyster Cult. I don’t know about you, but I find Bookzilla slightly more disturbing than the Cloverfield monster.

The modern furniture company Agliest Collections is moving back to Decatur from Norcross into one of the ground floor retail spaces in the recently spruced up 127 East Trinity Place office building, according to Oakhurst Realty.  Via Twitter, they alert us DM folks… Agilest Collections , a modern furniture and accessories retailer, to open at 127 [...]

UPDATE II: According to AP, Paste’s Print Edition is dead.  The website and online components will live on. UPDATE:  Damn, Wikipedia is already referring to it in the past tense. Aw hell.  From Gawker… We heard earlier today that Paste Magazine was in imminent danger of folding. Looks like it’s already happened. A tipster tells us “They announced it [...]

Water Street + W. Trinity Place, Decatur, GA (pic submitted by Luis)

If you weren’t able to attend last night’s City Schools of Decatur Strategic Plan round-table, you can still chime in by taking the “Community Survey for City of Decatur Schools“. Open-ended questions ask what should be changed/preserved in the current school system and what should be built upon and what is in need of improvement.  Multiple [...]

William Lind writes in The American Conservative that they should.  Here’s a snippet…. The perception that conservatives do not use public transportation is only one of the mistaken notions that has warped the Right’s position on transportation policy. Another is that the dominance of automobiles and highways is a free-market outcome. Nothing could be further from [...]

From Little Shop of Stories newsletter… Little Shop of Stories and the Georiga Center for the Book are hosting the lovely and talented (at acting AND writing) Jamie Lee Curtis. She will be speaking about her new book, My Mommy Hung the Moon: A Love Story, at the Decatur Library on Saturday, September 18th at [...]

From the DeKalb History Center… DECATUR – The DeKalb History Center’s Lunch and Learn Lecture Series continues in September with a presentation by Walt Drake. Walt will give highlights of the history of Decatur from its founding in 1823 through the present, including profiles of certain notable leaders, and commentary on the redevelopment and renewal of [...]

Cartoon Network has been filming parts of its new movie “Neverfail” around the city of Decatur the last couple days.  The city’s Katie Abel confirms that it is still Cartoon Network who’s filming, though it seems that the name of the movie has changed. I can confirm this is still the film production company, Alive and [...]

Atlantans, why walk when you might die?  (Kudos to anyone who gets the subtle Mary Chapin Carpenter play-on-words) From New York City’s Pedestrian Safety Study Action Plan (pdf) More fun facts from the New York City study: HOW do these pedestrian accidents occur? 36% driver inattention, 27% drivers fail to yield, 27% pedestrians crossing with signal, 20% pedestrians [...]

DeKalb Avenue, Decatur GA (photo submitted by James)

Jonathan Franzen’s “Freedom” finally goes on sale today. And if you had any personal hopes of finishing it before hearing him speak this coming Friday night at the Decatur Book Festival, you’d better get to a local bookstore today and then take the rest of the week off to read it, because like The Corrections, this [...]

Wicked.  From the Gainesville Times… Sustainable agriculture groups have seized on the opportunity of the first open agriculture commissioner seat in more than 40 years. Georgia Organics and Emory University on Thursday will hold what they are calling Georgia’s first sustainable agriculture debate. They say the three men seeking to be Georgia’s second agriculture commissioner in more than [...]

I don’t know many of the details of this, but jeez, this got ugly fast.  From the AJC… Joe Patten, the 83-year-old known as the “Phantom of the Fox,” did not sign a new lease that the Fox Theatre’s board drew up for him Monday and likely will be leaving his apartment in the historic theater. Patten [...]