Another Happy Day assembles one of the strongest casts that I can recall in recent years. Ellen Barkin, Ellen Burstyn, Demi Moore, Thomas Haden Church, George Kennedy, and Diana Scarwid are among the big names, and they share some stunning…
Month: October 2011
Warm and welcoming recollection of the silent era: a review of “The Artist”
The Artist opens at the movies. Star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is among those gathered behind the screen – watching in reverse – as his latest hit finishes. We cut to the theater and see a few clips of the…
A quick walk through the wonderful, vastly expanded SCAD Museum of Art
SCAD has always had some good exhibition spaces and the college’s Museum of Art in Kiah Hall on MLK has had some outstanding exhibits through the years. But now the Museum of Art has dramatically expanded — an additional 65,000…
What I’ll be thinking about when I vote on November 8th
I’ve made a couple of posts in the past 24 hours that I hope more people than usual will read: Roanoke conference sharing innovative ideas about improving small cities; Chris Morrill among the speakers Metro Savannah unemployment rate up from…
Roanoke conference sharing innovative ideas about improving small cities; Chris Morrill among the speakers
The first City Works (X)po kicked off yesterday. According to the website, it’s a “small cities conference celebrating the people and projects that have exponential impact. National leaders from the fields of Social Entrepreneurship & Capital, Arts & Design, Knowledge…
Good news regarding economic growth
The recession-or-not question might be getting a little easier to answer. Despite all sorts of grim data from various sectors and from a dozen or so states, the latest GDP numbers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis show the U.S.…
Metro Savannah unemployment rate up from last year, considerably worse in city limits than in suburbs
The press release headline from the Georgia Dept. of Labor sounds promising — Metro Savannah’s unemployment rate declines to 9.3 percent in September — but there’s little good news in this latest report. Yes, the Savannah metro area employment rate…
What’s next for Europe? Will the leaders find a way out of the woods or will the Euro collapse?
I’ve been following the debt crisis in Europe moderately closely, but haven’t posted anything about it of substance. But things appear to be coming to a head. And, since everything that has happened in the wake of the 2008 financial…
Four great musical acts in three days: November 9th to 11th
I’m presumably going to be posting a lot about the Savannah Music Festival in the first week of November, but I just wanted to give a heads up about some great live music on tap for the week after that.…
Peter Case / Greg Williams – Muse Arts Warehouse – 11/10/11
Here’s Peter Case: And here’s one that appeared on True Blood: This gig is serving as a CD release party for The Case Files, which is profiled in this vid: The Facebook event page is here. From that page: Knocked…
Audra McDonald – Trustees Theater – 11/09/11
From the Savannah Music Festival’s SMF Live year-round series: Catch an evening of American song with one of the genre’s leading performers. Multiple Tony award winner McDonald is frequently compared to legendary performers such as Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand.…
Total miles driven falls again, near the level of 2005
As the economy recovers, will we see the number of total miles driven in America return to its historical norms? Or are we seeing some sort of permanent shift in driving because of the extreme nature of the recent recession,…
NYT takes a look at the rise in suburban poverty
About a month ago, I wrote about the increasingly suburban face of poverty. In that post, I noted that poverty is still higher in urban areas than suburban areas, but I quoted the following from the Brookings Institution: From 2000…
Latest Case-Shiller home price numbers mixed, but Atlanta shows sharpest decline of major metro areas
I haven’t looked at any of the news reports about today’s release of the August (actually a 3-month average of June, July and August) S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, but I’ll bet there’s some confusion. Case-Shiller focuses on data that is…