The AJC’s John Kessler posted the Atlanta-area finalists for this year’s James Beard awards and two work their magic right here in Decatur!

One you can certainly guess without any prompting.  The other?  Well, whatcha got?

See the answers after the jump…or see the full list of Atlanta semifinalists over on John’s blog.  (Hint: the Atlanta nominee for Best New Restaurant helped Leon’s get its feet wet in the gastropub world) Read the rest of this entry »

As the DHS basketball teams gear up to play their last game at the Rec tonight (girl’s game starts at 5p), principal Lauri McKain-Fernandez sends along this recent interview with Decatur’s legendary basketball coach Bob Reinhart, where he talks about his career in Decatur, great games at the Rec, and his anticipation for the new, on-campus facility.

Article and interview by sports writer Billy Banks…

When we moved to Atlanta in 1981 there was one word we heard more than any other, a word uttered on nearly a daily basis — “Sherman.” As in “Sherman burned this,” or “Sherman left us nothing but a dang chimney,” or “we had to bury the silverware so that rascal Sherman wouldn’t take it” and so forth. It was simply amazing to us, raised as we were in a distant border state, how many people talked about W.T. Sherman some 120 years after he left Georgia. When we moved to Decatur in 1987 we had a similar experience, and still do, every time we attend a game at the Legendary Decatur Rec Center. There’s hardly a game where someone doesn’t mention the name “Reinhart,” as in “this is the way we did things back in Reinhart’s day” (although no one’s ever claimed that Reinhart took their silverware). Read the rest of this entry »

Carl is good enough to send in this photo he took while strolling down N. McDonough yesterday.

We first reported this story back in December.

xokyditive sends in this note about a name change for Emory’s Crawford Long Hospital…

Crawford Long, one of 19th Century Georgia’s most notable figures, is having his hospital renamed “Emory University Hospital Midtown” (apparently with no punctuation)

And is it really Midtown if it’s south of North Ave?

The website’s already been changed: cached page from last week, after new name copy/paste

Ironically, six months ago they made a big thing of the Crawfish’s 100th Anniversary.

Full Emory note can be found after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »