Practice Spanish at 105 MHz
There wasn't a Mexican-oompah-folk music station on my car radio last time I hit button 5, but today, it was all tuba and accordion. Readers in other states are saying, "uh huh, and?" But to Atlanta, it is still a novelty.

Seems 105.3 switched formats overnight to become "El Patron." And it's just .4 MHz from the other Spanish-language FM station, "Viva 105.7, Tan Latina Como Tu!"

Outside of the Clear Channel domain, we have other global radio shows too.

Georgia Tech broadcasts on 91.1, but since its Georgia Tech, everything is available on the internet too. Did you want "Kosher Noise" or simply "French Caribbean Show?" Monday's schedule is full of the kind of worldly stuff Putumayo charges money for.

Left on the dial, GSU broadcasts at 88.5, radio only. Only place to catch Nippon Music Champ. Also featuring a selection of fyah through the schedule.

WRFG 89.3 boasts the strange bedfellows of Bluegrass and Africo-Caribo-pop. They seem to alternate, roughly. Intersperse bluegrass/jazz/blues with "Global Drumbeat", "African Experience Worldwide" and "Diaspora", and that's WRFG. On Saturday especially the DJs do news and interviews, and its like having a friend that knows way more about African news than CNN.  ¶ 8:48 PM 0 comments

  Statistics
The Atlanta Regional Commission publishes newsletters about different "foreign" and Generation 1.5 populations in the metro. Read about everybody from Eritreans to Koreans to Iranians in nice 6-page booklets. The maps are cool; they plot where in the 10-county metro area different people are concentrated. Its part of the Global Atlanta Works initiative.

However, unfortunately their calculations are based on the 2000 census, which is madly outdated with respect to the metro's international population. Just offhand, AG knows much higher estimates of Atlanta's Korean population (up to 150,000 vs. ARC's 18,000 ), and Indonesian population (up to 6,000 vs. 1,400).  ¶ 2:20 PM 0 comments

  Miscellany

• Indonesian-American Chamber of Commerce opened in Norcross.

• Creative Loafing's best picks for restaurants 2006 includes some gems:
  24-hour Korean tofu at 88 Tofu House
  Vegetarian at Madras Saravana Bhavan
  Taqueria El Molino, but specifically, the one on Cheshire Bridge

• Also, for December 1, we found a listing of World Aids Day events in Atlanta.

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  Atlanta Found to Have a "Koreatown" Nothin' but love to the Digital Chosun Ilbo, but they've just now figured out Atlanta has a "Koreatown"? Maybe they haven't actually been here in a while. Though, since 2000, metro Atlanta's Korean population has increased more than five fold, to somewhere between 100,000 and 150,000, according to their article.

And everybody from Korea (and Japan, and Mexico, and the United States, for that matter) is shopping at the Super H Mart.






The first time I saw this sign, I thought it was a Walmart knockoff.  ¶ 1:55 PM 0 comments

  Nuit Blanche, apres Thanksgiving Here's an interesting thing, the High Museum is hosting a nuit blanche, an all-night art celebration. In Europe, it happens the first Saturday and Sunday in October. But, for us after Thanksgiving, why not? Everyone's off work.

There is also The Miss Nigeria USA pageant. One of the categories is "native Nigerian attire"







Photo from the Nigeria Fashion Show 2004, in Paris. Nice dress. But I would have subtracted points for too much makeup.  ¶ 4:08 PM 0 comments

  Ancient Art in the A Those ancient Greeks and Romans . . . what prolific artists, no? They made enough urns, mosaics, sarcophagi, statues, busts, vases, tombstones, funerary monuments, jewelry, bronzes, ceramics, friezes and columns to overwhelm every museum in the world. Atlanta too, of course. We have plenty of opportunities to look at this old stuff and say to our companions, "man, can you believe that thing is 2500 years old?!"

<-Fernbank's Imperial Rome exhibit, through January 2007.

-Paired with the IMAX Greece: Secrets of the Past, to show where Romans got all their ideas.


-> Emory's Michael C. Carlos Museum features hundreds of pieces in its permanent collection, including one of the world's earliest bathtubs:




Atlanta Global is not intended
for viewers under 18 years of age.  ¶ 4:39 PM 0 comments

  Bowling for Googly Wickets Atlanta has an amateur cricket league, with 23 teams!

Visit the Atlanta, Georgia Cricket Conference







Global Atlanta  ¶ 5:20 PM 0 comments

 
What:
First Annual Atlanta-Indo American Film Festival
When:
November 10-14
Where:
Lefont Sandy Springs, Ga Tech and Ga State
Why:
Why not?

There's a road movie improbably entitled "Five Guys, Four Bullets".

Note, not all of these films by Indians and the Indian diaspora have English subtitles.  ¶ 10:46 PM 0 comments