First Baptist’s Youth Yard Sale began today and runs through Saturday.  Open at 7a.

h/t: Next Stop…Decatur

Michael Pollan, author and professor of journalism at UC Berkley, is often credited with igniting the local food movement with his 2004 book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Building off the work of early big agribusiness critics like Eric Schlosser, who penned Fast Food Nation three years earlier, Pollan used a tale of four different meals to expose the often-ignored realities of the post-1970s corporate food chain and offered his readership an alternative: local, organic food.

For many of you, this isn’t anything you haven’t heard before.  Heck, many of you are already arm-deep in compost, installing urban gardens in the forgotten corners of town, raising chickens, and luring farmer’s onto store shelves and weekly tables at markets, thanks to that little black book.

But Omnivore was published six years ago, and the food movement today struggles more with fusing the many thought-segments of the movement, than convincing enough average citizen that she should care more about the true “cost” of a corn dog.

Pollan’s follow-up books have dealt largely with transposing his Omnivore arguments into action items for the everyday eater.  ( “Eat Food. Not Too Much.  Mostly Plants.”)   In Defense of Food and Food Rules are smart publishing moves, giving the populace the diet books they crave (pun intended), but what of the movement itself?

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Move over Real Housewives of Atlanta, Atlanta zombies are coming to TV!

The On Location Vacations blog reports that AMC’s upcoming original series “Walking Dead” is currently filming in the Fairlie-Poplar district and will be set in Atlanta.

One of the scenes they will be filming in the neighborhood includes a main character arriving in a post-apocalyptic Atlanta. The city seems to be void of life when he arrives but he soon finds himself surrounded by the living dead and is quickly engaged in a tense fight to save his own life.

Sounds sorta like a normal day of hitting the Atlanta streets before rush-hour and then realizing there’s a convention in town.

And the best part is that that zombie extras are needed!  So if you know of any Decatur zombies looking for a little small-screen face time, have them shoot a note over to twdextras@gmail.com.  Selected zombies must to attend “zombie school” and have a flexible schedule between June and September, according to On Location.

Thanks to Jenn for pointing out this brain-munching event!

Patrice writes in…

SkaterAid 2010 will be held on Sunday, September 26 from 2-7PM at East Decatur Station, just west of the Avondale Marta Station on College Ave. We are currently auditioning bands – all members must be under 18 to be eligible. Deadline to submit an MP3 is July 2. More information at www.skateraid.net

According to the SkaterAid website, no “gigging experience” is necessary and all genres of music will be considered.  Since SkaterAid is a “teen event”, all band members must be 18 years old or younger or enrolled full-time in high school or middle school.