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The Wren’s Nest » Bad News for the Plaza Theatre, Maybe — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:04:35 +0000

[...] Hot Fuzz: Historic Preservation or Bust [...]

By: lain

lain — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:43:54 +0000

Deb and Amelia, you are both correct.

First, Amy–why do you post comments under like eighteen different names? O(riginal)G(angsta)McM(ansion), or OGMcM has a great ring to it!

Deb, that’s an excellent suggestion, and one that I’ve vaguely thought about it before, like this–

“We should get involved with the National Black Arts Festival!”

But that’s about it. Had we wanted to get involved in 2007, we’d of had to start that process probably in July of ’06, which happened to be my first two weeks on the job.

Finally, in conjunction with the National Black Arts Festival, the Horizon Theater is putting on The Bluest Eye, originally by Toni Morrison. One of our Ramblers, Donald Griffin, has a key role in the production.

By: MATL

MATL — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:34:44 +0000

The Wren’s Nest = OGMcM!

Good post, Shakespeare.

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:39:08 +0000

Hey Lain, this has nothing to do with the topic but wasn’t sure of the best way to get ya. But I was reading an article about the Atlanta Black Arts Festival and I saw all the locations it is taking place in and thought to myself “hey, why isn’t the Wren’s Nest one of the locations? I mean if Greenbriar Mall can be a location, why not the Wren’s Nest?”

Seriously, it could be a nice draw. Besides isn’t one of the black arts the oral story telling tradition that JCH published?? I don’t know if this is a yearly thing or not but if so might be worthwhile to investigate for next year.

Then again you probably looked into all this and are sitting there thinking “Ah, no duh Deb! We do know what we are doing, thank you very much”. So I’ll be quiet now….

Deb

By: lain

lain — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:23:09 +0000

Good point, Rachael.

That particular building way interesting! Especially because–I’ve heard–Pei doesn’t really consider it his own. Even though he designed it, apparently the developers changed enough for him to disown it.

I wonder if that makes it more or less important to preserve (actually, I don’t wonder–it makes it more important)! Here’s even more information:

http://docomomoga.org/wordpress/?p=76

By: rachael m.

rachael m. — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:09:24 +0000

And what about the I.M. Pei office building on Ponce that’s likely to get bulldozed for another live/work/play complex? (At least that was the plan last I read– the AJC seems to have stuck the article into their pay-only archives now.)

http://www.preserveatlanta.com/endangered07_04.htm