A CL Talking Head post from last week about BSP’s Leon’s Full Service provides a few new details about the already under-construction new restaurant/gastro-pub in the old Rue de Leon space. 

Click here to find out how many tables they will set up and who the chef will be.

Also, the Talking Head post says that the issue with the Brick Store’s stalled Grant Park location had to do with zoning.  But as InDecatur pointed out a day or two ago, the property was just rezoned to neighborhood commercial.  So what now?  Find a new chef for Grant Park and manage three locations? Or just sell Grant Park and focus on BSP and Leon’s?

Did you know that the courthouse is chiming again?  I didn’t.

As was written in the Winter 2008 DeKalb History Center newsletter, Artisan resident Jo Giraudo raised enough money last year to revitalize the playing of the Carillon Bells at the old Courthouse, which were turned off in 2006 during renovations.

But from what I’ve heard, thanks mainly to the office towers that flank the courthouse, the music has trouble getting beyond the immediate vicinity.  History Center staff have tried different placement, but to little avail.  Obviously if the bells have only been playing since the 1990s, this isn’t a new problem…most of our office towers predate that time.  But its yet another reason for me to shake my head as I walk by One West Courthouse Square.

Personally, I don’t think I’ve EVER heard the Courthouse bells.  When and how often do they ring?

A couple more Decatur Book Festival (August 29-31) announcements have come in the past two days.

The first is referenced in the title to this post…

Aspiring writers, look no further! The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival Presented by DeKalb Medical (DBF) is hosting the Writers Conference, a series of writing workshops designed to provide hopeful authors with tips on how to improve their writing and get their work published.

The Writers Conference, presented by Poets & Writers and Agnes Scott College, begins Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. with a keynote address by C. Michael Curtis, fiction editor of “Atlantic Monthly,” and author Elizabeth Cox.

The Writers Conference Friday afternoon workshops will begin at 4 p.m. at the Alston Building and Evans Hall at Agnes Scott. The workshops will feature notable authors, poets, and journalists presenting on a variety of topics. Some highlights include novelist Doug Crandell’s “Ye Olde Thyme Writing Workshoppe and Petting Zoo,” which will include live animals; David Fulmer’s “Sex & Violence: Writing About Them Without Sounding Like a Virgin Pacifist”; and “Poets & Writers Presents Rant Without Whining: Regie Cabico on the Art of Slam Poetry, for Teens Only.”

The other from today is after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »

Andrea at Decatur eLife tipped off David over at InDecatur to this recent closing.  A check of the gallery’s blog confirms that Boswell has indeed shuttered up its Ponce Place gallery.

…according to Publisher’s Weekly.