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Modern English, Ponderosa, Yip Deceiver, Widowspeak in new Savannah summer concert series

By bill dawers On June 18, 2013 · in Music
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Thanks to MusicFile Productions, Modern English will be playing a show on August 28th at Dollhouse here in Savannah. For those of us of a certain age, that merits a wow. Modern English’s “I Melt with You” was a nightclub staple when I started venturing to dance clubs in the Midwest in nineteen something-something. I [...]
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The question no one is asking about cruise ships in Savannah

By bill dawers On June 18, 2013 · in Economics, Living Savannah
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Next week we’ll get to take a look at a study about the viability of potential sites for a cruise ship terminal in Savannah. The study has been completed by BEA Architects, which designs such facilities, so of course the document will argue for the viability of at least one site. I’d love to have [...]
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Confirmed: Free People coming to Broughton Street

By bill dawers On June 16, 2013 · in Living Savannah
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A couple of weeks ago in one of my Sunday City Talk columns, I mentioned that Free People was likely to open a store on Broughton Street here in Savannah. I did not have any confirmation of that at the time, but the sign application was heard at the Historic Review Board meeting [...]
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New Orleans’ St. Charles Avenue — a perfect street design for changing times

By bill dawers On June 16, 2013 · in Urban Form
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I was in New Orleans for a few days last week and traveled routinely on St. Charles Avenue. Cursory web searches didn’t turn up the date that St. Charles was first laid out, but it’s obviously a key connector that dates to the 19th century and before. St. Charles is probably best known for its [...]
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Savannah Whole Foods now accepting applications

By bill dawers On June 15, 2013 · in Living Savannah
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I think the opening of Savannah’s Whole Foods Market later this summer is going to be a major milestone for the city. Savannah’s food culture has developed in positive ways in recent years, with larger numbers of residents investing in some way in healthier, more local fare. Whole Foods is still a major grocery chain, [...]
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First impression: Facebook’s new graph search looks like a flop

By bill dawers On June 14, 2013 · in Arts & Culture
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Maybe I should begin by saying that I’m trying out Facebook’s new graph search using my old Mac laptop, OS 10.5.8, with Safari 5.0.6. Maybe the age of those systems is contributing to the new search system’s abject failures here on day one. If I do just one search — even just a simple search [...]
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The Wild — folk punk band from Atlanta — hits the road promoting stirring new album

By bill dawers On June 12, 2013 · in Music
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The Wild starts a long summer tour today in Cincinnati that will take them from coast to coast supporting their stirring new album Dreams Are Maps. I’ve been following The Wild’s energetic, passionate music for about a year and a half — ever since the band opened for The Queers in a great [...]
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A true slice of Savannah turns out to say goodbye to Ben Tucker (lots of photos)

By bill dawers On June 11, 2013 · in Living Savannah, Music
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Ben Tucker’s passing is certainly one of the saddest and most newsworthy events in recent memory here in Savannah. But the New Orleans-style processional after the funeral service at Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension was joyous and beautiful. And it was an amazing display of Savannah itself. If you’re from Savannah and personally invested [...]
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Damon and the Shitkickers album release party, with special guests (photos)

By bill dawers On June 11, 2013 · in Music
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I wrote just a few days ago about Damon and the Shitkickers and their great debut album Short Cups and Long Nights, so I won’t say much more here. The extended happy hour at The Jinx to launch the album was simply great fun. Predictably, there was a huge, diverse crowd throughout the [...]
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Ben Tucker remembered with joyous procession and music

By bill dawers On June 10, 2013 · in Living Savannah, Music
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It’s about 4 p.m., and it’s pouring rain. I just checked the satellite radar and there are only a couple of dots on it — one of them is drenching downtown Savannah. It seems almost fitting. Ben Tucker was laid to rest today in Savannah (if you don’t know who he was, check out Read Full Article →

What’s the best way to close the racetrack on Hutchinson Island?

By bill dawers On June 9, 2013 · in Living Savannah, Urban Form
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In the second half of my City Talk column today, I write about the obvious incompatibilities of having a racetrack serve as an access road for businesses on Hutchinson Island and for several planned or plotted high-end residential developments. Adam Van Brimmer’s front page piece about the racetrack discusses the persistent illegal racing [...]
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Damon and the Shitkickers album release party on Saturday at The Jinx

By bill dawers On June 8, 2013 · in Music
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Back in 2009, I was chatting with Charles Hodge out at Armstrong, where he was a student at the time. I knew that most of Charles’ musical training had been in classical and jazz, so I was a little surprised when he mentioned that he had recently started playing bass with a country cover band. [...]
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Living near college students — it’s pretty good most of the time

By bill dawers On June 7, 2013 · in Living Savannah
There has been a lot of college-student-bashing around Savannah recently, especially in relation to a new student-oriented apartment complex on 61st Street near Habersham Village. And this isn’t the first time. I hear Savannah residents talk derisively of apartments being rented by students all the time. Now, let me begin by saying that if I [...]
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Memorial party, bike ride, special Moon River brew to raise awareness and to honor cyclist killed on the road

By bill dawers On June 7, 2013 · in Music
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I didn’t know Matt Kohler, but it sounds like he was a great guy. From Moon River Brewing Company’s event page for Matt’s Moon River Cruise: This event is named in memory of Matt Kohler, who was hit from behind by a driver on July 26, 2012, while riding his bike on U.S. [...]
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