You can now find October’s Focus on the city of Decatur website and presumably in mailboxes soon. If you can’t wait for the hard copy, click here to view the pdf.

Always thinking with my stomach here’s what I found most interesting…

Taqueria del Sol was rated one of the top 3 restaurants in the country by Bon Appetit magazine’s restaurant issue (page 6)

A new restaurant is going in at 254 West Ponce de Leon (the CVS plaza? nope! it’s actually where Viet Chateau used to be) called Cakes & Ales (also page 6). Co-owners Billy Allin and his wife Kristin are Decatur residents.

Non-food related: Electronics Recycling Day is Sat. Oct 27th from 9a-1p. It’s pretty cool that they’ve included Styrofoam on the list of recyclable items. I hate wasting blue garbage bags on the shipping material for large items.

If you work in downtown Decatur and have a free lunch hour, Emory wants to expand your horizons!  Starting tomorrow  the University will host one talk each month for the remainder of the year branded as “Life of the Mind“. Each lecture starts at noon (and I assume runs about an hour).  See dates, location and lecture topics below.

From Emory’s Press Release…

Lectures will be held at noon in the Jones Room of Woodruff Library. Visitor parking is available in the Fishburne deck, 1672 N. Decatur Road. For more information, call 404-727-6055.

Wednesday, Oct. 3
“Our Inner Ape: What Primate Behavior Teaches Us About Human Nature.” Frans de Waal, C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior and director, Living Links Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center

Wednesday, Nov. 7
“On the Origins of Evolution.” David Lynn, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Chemistry and Biology

Wednesday, Dec. 5
“The Empty Set: Labor, Technology and the Transmogrification of 21st Century Cinema.” Eddy Von Mueller, faculty member, Emory Department of Film Studies

Photo Courtesy of U.S. News

How else will Decatur be expected to compete with Peachtree City’s national recognition as one of U.S. News and World Reports’ “Best Places to Retire”? I can see it now…Ponce lined not with bike lanes, but spacious golf cart lanes. We could build an “emerald necklace” of golf courses along Commerce and make smalltalk with Delta pilots every morning at Java Monkey.

This seems so obvious. Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?