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James Bond will drink Heineken rather than martinis in the newest film.
From: http://gordonandthewhale.com
Saturday, March 31:
From : accessatlanta.com
This is the best recipe for a New Southern Tradition. Mixing bluegrass musicians and self taught southern artists and artisans is a combination worth savoring! Up to 150 artists and artisans will brighten the historic charm of Stone Mountain Village. A small stage will showcase group Contra dances and bluegrass music, plus bluegrass “street jams” will be featured throughout the festival. This event will bring much needed attention to the restoration of this historic village.
The Spring 2012 class schedule has been released by The Cook’s Warehouse (www.cookswarehouse.com) with a wide variety of classes and several visiting and local chefs.
From “Knife Skills 101 Hands On” to advanced, hands-on classes with local chefs, there are close to 200 classes to pick from and one for every age level and interest in this quarter’s classes.
The Simple Abundance classes with our partner the Atlanta Community Food Bank will serve up well-known local chefs – Hugh Acheson (Empire State South), Linton Hopkins (Restaurant Eugene), David Bradley (Ecco), Steven Satterfield (Miller Union), Don Hackett (Sherlock’s Wine Merchant), David Sweeney (The Bakery at Cakes and Ale) and Piero Premilo (Pricci) – at the head of a class.
And the Spring classes bring several out-of-town chef-instructors including Suvir Saran, Jodi Rhoden, Holly Herrick, Maria Speck, John Besh, Robin Asbell, Hugh Carpenter, Sheri Castle and Martha Hall Foose.
And our local Celebrity Chef Virginia Willis will teach “Healthy Southern Cooking” among her other classes at Cook’s.
As far as cuisines, students may choose from Indian, Italian, Greek, Thai, French, Mexican, Caribbean, Middle Eastern, Cajun, Mediterranean, Tuscan and Spanish flavors, and several seafood/shellfish offerings including our acclaimed “Seafood Savvy” series with our partner, the Georgia Aquarium.
Also available are lessons in a variety of subject-oriented courses from Big Green Egg (grilling) and summer barbeque, the Paleo Diet, vegan/plant-based/botanical abundance, pasta, canning, gluten-free, cooking for allergies, dinner parties, Vidalia onions!, bacon lovers, bridal planning, cake decorating, cast-iron cooking, couples nights out, spring/seasonal ingredients, desserts, pizza, Southern and Healthy Southern, spa day, paella, tapas and teen cake decorating, among others.
Holiday classes include Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day Baking with kids age 10+, Father’s Day Cooking with Kids and a Proper Mother-Daughter Afternoon Tea for kids age 8+.
There are technique classes such as desserts, knife skills, pressure cooking, pasta making, and “The Bread Basket Hands On” to puff up one’s bread-making skills.
Although most classes include wine after cooking demonstrations, there are strictly “Wine,” “Wine and Food Pairings” and “Wine and Cheese Pairings” classes as well.
For an intense immersion geared to first-time cooks, our East Cobb store will offer a three-day series “Kitchen Basics and Beyond” on a Friday-Saturday-Sunday. Stand-alone classes for the novice include the popular “Knife Skills 101 Hands On” and even “A Poultry Primer: Chicken and Duck Hands On.”
And the ever-popular kids’ class offerings for ages 6-9 or 10-17 include International Favorites, Touring the U.S. and Cooking with Colors weeklong day camp series; teen cake decorating, Asian small plates, Spring cupcakes, tasty snacks, family pizza fun, teacher gifts, Springtime snacks, breakfast, Mother’s Day classes, Father’s Day Cooking with Dad and even Daddy and Me Hands On for ages 3-5.
The Cook’s Warehouse (www.cookswarehouse.com) is greater Atlanta’s premier gourmet cookware store and cooking school with four stores in the Midtown, Decatur and Brookhaven areas in the city and the East Cobb County area of the suburbs. It offers more than 15,000 products for the kitchen and operates the largest avocational cooking school in the Southeast conducting more than 800 classes yearly, often taught by local chefs, and has a large web-based delivery-by-post site.
Owned and operated by founder Mary S. Moore, The Cook’s Warehouse also retails high-end appliances; conducts private cooking classes for unique celebrations and corporate events, and is a pro bono partner with virtually every major cooking event and gourmet association in Atlanta.
The Cook’s Warehouse is truly “Every Excuse to Cook.”
Gayle and Johnny Rej still own the theatre, the Atlanta Film Festival will be managing it for them.
Here is a updated photo of Decatur Fire Station NO. 1
Trinity Mercantile & Design Co. will be opening soon.
Photo credit: http://www.mto.gov
Some residents say a Walmart Supercenter proposed near Decatur would clog streets and kill existing businesses.
Carter Joseph saw firsthand what Walmart did to his hometown of Georgetown, S.C. The shuttered businesses, the bones of local stores that died when the big-box retailer opened a Supercenter just down the street.
"Walmart to me represents capitalism at its very worst," he said on Feb. 23 to a crowd of more than 250 people in the commons room of a church just half a mile north of Decatur. "Capitalism on steroids. Architecture at its worst."
Joseph lives less than one mile from Suburban Plaza, the mammoth shopping center which Selig Enterprises, the Atlanta-based developer, plans to redevelop with a 149,000-square-foot Supercenter as an anchor. Since news about the plan broke late last year, neighborhood residents have hammered out nonbinding agreements with the big-box retailer and developer over everything from bicycle racks to the location of wall signs. Others in this walkable, progressive burg (such as those in attendance tonight) have contributed more than $1,000 to hire a lawyer and spent Friday afternoons holding signs at the nearby intersection protesting Walmart.
Eyes wide with anger and fingers pointing to the ground in defiance, Joseph warned of doom should the big-box retailer join the neighborhood.
"They treat their employees like dirt," he said. "They treat their suppliers like dirt. And they'll treat this neighborhood like dirt, as they've treated countless towns and communities across this country."
Suburban Plaza isn't the only place where Walmart, which operates only five stores inside the Perimeter, has cast its gaze. Nearly 60 miles away in Athens, the college town — and even some of its progressive factions — has become divided over Selig's plans to transform several parcels on the edge of downtown into a 10-acre, mixed-use development that would most likely include a Walmart. Meanwhile, in Vine City, the historic and impoverished Atlanta neighborhood less than two miles from downtown's skyscrapers, the big-box retailer finally broke ground on an abandoned Publix it plans to expand into a store offering groceries, a pharmacy, and financial services.
After nearly 50 years of conquering rural and suburban America, Walmart has focused on its final frontier: U.S. cities. Since the early 2000s, the company has invested considerable political will (and cash) trying to elbow its way into urban areas such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. The moves, which usually feature nasty drag-out fights with unions and agreements with neighborhood groups, ride on the promises of lower prices and more jobs. But after years of anti-Walmart websites, documentaries, and studies questioning whether the retailer's cutthroat business tactics and treatment of its employees are worth the cost savings, opponents are better prepared to push back against the mega-retailer that, according to one estimate, controls 33 percent of the grocery market. And for many — but not all — of the proposed stores, the battle to defend one's turf from terrible design, questionable labor policies, and low-cost goods that don't come from Target, has begun.
"This is a war," Donald Stack, a land-use attorney hired by the resident opposition group which wrangled the residents at the church on North Decatur Road. "It is a war for your community. It is a war for your property values. It is a war for your safety."
The City of Decatur is hosting a Community Budget Gathering on Wednesday, March 14 from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at the Brick Store Pub, 125 E. Court Square. Join Assistant City Manager Andrea Arnold and others interested in learning about the city’s budget process.
This is your chance to find out how the budget process works and give your input. This is the first of three meetings using this new format. The next meeting will be held in April in Oakhurst and the third one will be at City Hall in May. Click here to find the current 2011-2012 budget.
Space is limited so sign up today with Andrea Arnold, andrea.arnold@decaturga.com or call 404-370-4102.
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While we are talking about The Brick Store
Saturday, March 17th 2012
The first great event of the year... And certainly one of the biggest. Live Celtic music (4-7pm and 8-11pm) and traditional Irish Fare featuring Irish Stew, Corned Beef and Cabbage, and Shepherd's Pie. Guinness,Victory Donnybrook, and Jameson will be flowing. SEE YOU AT THE PUB!
My children's and young teens' book store, needs a new look. I want to make children's literacy as valued as the newest pair of sneakers. We desire a trendy looking store that puts literature along with tangible- handmade art on sleek pedestals and modern shelves.
I am an award winning children's book artist, who is also a NY city to Decatur, GA. transplant. I'd like to bring my Brooklyn sensibility as well as my passion for history and culture to teens and parents who may have never thought about these things.
The store will feature my published children's books and sell handmade products at a reasonable price. Additionally the mall's management is fine with me bringing in creative friends to do weekend long intensive workshops. It would be a fulfillment of a dream to teach the community to stop buying back their own culture from corporations. Most of the expensive items they wait in a line for, can easily be made or personalized with their own creativity. I miss the days when kids would buy a brand, then paint it, tear it, sew it and redesign it in to their own expression.
Workshops teaching book-binding,painting,t-shirt production,silk screening, even computer and cell phone cover design painting will be offered. I will have something to teach any aspiring art student or curious craft enthusiast.
This will be the first store of many, I hope to make a franchise out of this but for now it's a Decatur, Georgia aspiration in a site that needs a serious makeover.
This recently found picture was taken 3 years ago this month, it shows the old Decatur Depot when it was The Depeaux Restaurant.
From time to time I post movie stills for people to guess the movie.
Anonymous said...wedding crashers
Next Stop...Decatur said...You are correct the actor is Keir O'Donnell and he played Todd Cleary in Wedding Crashers
more on Keir O'Dennell at this link:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1218757/
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