Indie in Atlanta GA

Well, Georgia is headed for a run off election in the US with neither side reaching over the 50% line. While McCain may be travelling around spinning his half truths and blatant dizzying distortions a little while longer, stomping on (stumping against) the better side of his character whenever publicly possible, the Democrats are firing back with echos he might rather forget…

Democrats greeted McCain’s arrival in Georgia with an Internet spot reviving remarks the Arizona senator made in condemning a tough ad Chambliss used in his 2002 campaign against Democratic Sen. Max Cleland, a triple amputee wounded in Vietnam. The ad questioned Cleland’s national security credentials and flashed a picture of Osama bin Laden.

“I’ve never seen anything like that ad,” McCain, a Vietnam prisoner of war, said in 2003. “Putting pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden next to a picture of a man who left three limbs on the battlefield, it’s worse than disgraceful, it’s reprehensible.”

from the AP.

….meanwhile, the indie kids in Atlanta GA are alright… struggling maybe, but telling their stories and slowly building a national movement:

“It’s like the slow-foods movement —- across the country you see a growing sense of the value of local,” says Joelle Jaffe, a producer of a new film tracking the rise and fall of two famous independent bookstores in the Bay Area.

“Paperback Dreams,” released last month in California and already broadcast on several PBS stations, is making its way east this month.

PushPush Theatre in Decatur will host a free screening at 8 p.m. on Nov. 21. The event is sponsored by several metro Atlanta bookstores, including A Cappella, Blue Elephant, Charis, Eagle Eye, Little Shop of Stories and Outwrite.

from AJC

Paperback Dreams Trailer from abeckstead on Vimeo.

So if you’re near Atlanta you can check out Indie film sponsored by Indie Bookstores next week, plus it’s the big annual indie Atlanta Craft Fair this weekend, so get out there Americans and make links and find friends, take care of eachother and hey, get a little holiday consumerism in without feeling like you’ve died a bit inside! (Or is that just me?):

This weekend is ICE 8, the best holiday shopping in Atlanta!
This year, ICE has over 100 vendors from all over the country selling amazing handcrafted items.

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Buy Handmade This Holiday Season — there is no need to brave the mall when you can get all your holiday shopping done at ICE. And you can feel good about yourself for making a donation to Hagar House and Handmade Nation (we make a charitable donation to both of these organizations from the door fee) and for directly supporting the person who made the gifts you are giving.

See you Saturday!

Saturday, November 15
11-6 p.m.
Ambient + Photo Studio
Please note that the building doesn’t actually say “Indie Craft Experience,” so it may help to look at this photograph so you’ll know what you’re looking for when you get there.
585 Wells St. SW
Atlanta, GA 30312
$5 admission

from the Atlanta Sunday Paper blog.