Morning Metro: Thanks to Judy Turner, Filming in Piedmont Park, and a Savannah Makeover
Decatur Metro | October 25, 2011- Alice Murray: “Thanks to Decatur First Bank President for her work in our community” [Lenz]
- Occupy Atlanta stand-off seems to be coming to a head [AJC]
- Billy Crystal movie filming in Piedmont Park [Patch]
- Student reports drunk kids try to start fire on Quad [Emory Police Report]
- OTPers ticked off about HOT lanes act ticked off at meeting [AJC]
- One of Savannah most popular squares getting a much-needed makeover [Savannah Morning News]
- Your brain on music [Salon]
- Aw what the heck…Anthony Bourdain’s favorite food shows! [GrubStreet]
Billy Crystal still makes movies?
Yes, in his spare time. His full-time job, of course, is giving maudlin and borderline unwatchable personal remembrances of Mickey Mantle on every baseball documentary made in the last 25 years.
Only in Piedmont Park.
Your HOT lanes link-line may be best ever. The subtext is deafening!
politicking ticking gwinnettians off. now that’s entertainment.
Agree with Bourdain pretty much down the line, but I kind of hate myself for liking Ina Garten’s show. Did she mention that she lives in a fabulous house in the Hamptons? Bourdain left out what I consider to be the most informative show currently on the air, America’s Test Kitchen. Great show on PBS.
What’s that? Does it have something to do with Cooks Illustrated?
Yes, they produce the show. The run a test kitchen, try a given dish 15 different ways, then air an episode which takes you step-by-step through the approach they found to work the best. It’s very well done.
Cool. But I don’t think I can watch it, since I once made a joke here at Cooks Illustrated expense (I asked Daren, “How many times did you have to start it on the stove top and then transfer it to the oven?”) and then Lump and I fought brutally over which was better, Best Recipe or How to Cook Everything. Cooking conversations were never the same after that.
Guess I’m stuck watching 3 minute Mark Bittman clips on NYTimes.com from now on. “Oh no, another segment on ice?!”
I just finished Bourdain’s “Kitchen Confidential” and I do enjoy his shows but I don’t always agree when he puts his hater-hat on. Even in his book he reverses himself on many of his always-never statements towards the end and talks about the exceptions, but I think the exceptions he calls out are just his personal experiences and that there are a lot more exceptions like the ones he describes…he just hasn’t experienced them himself. The other thing about his book is that, like all the other food celebrities he either cares for or does not, he is building his own brand and does it with a liberal use of hyperbole. In that way he is neither any more or less ridiculous that Guy Fieri.
I hate to admit that I have a strange desire to be adopted by Ina Garten. She seems like she would be a fabulous Mom. I can’t reconcile her image with the fact that she was once employed as a nuclear energy policy and budget analyst.
hee. Love the Mark Bittman clips
If the Hotlanes earn money, who does it go to? The State tax payers or the contrator?
I-85 HOT was a conversion and also not a P3.
http://peachpass.com/faq/#i-85-express-lanes-project-funding-and-revenue
How will the I-85 Express Lanes revenues be used?
“The funds generated will be used to defray the costs of construction, operations and maintenance of the lanes. The primary goal of the I-85 Express Lanes is to better manage congestion. In the short term, it is not expected that the project will generate significant excess revenues. Long term revenue allocation is being studied and a decision about future excess revenues will be made after the study is complete.”