I didn’t keep a log of the live music that I saw in 2011, but I’m guessing that I saw around 150 shows. Many of those were Savannah-based acts that I’ve seen before, including Damon and the Shitkickers, Dare Dukes…
This is another in a short series of posts looking at credible economic predictions for 2012. There’s a great piece in the Washington Post today, 2011 was a bust — could 2012 be better? Of course, 2011 was not a…
Here’s the chart of gas prices for Savannah, Atlanta, and the U.S. for the last 12 months from GasBuddy.com. The relatively steep rise in gas prices in the first part of the year was a key reason (but not the…
I’ve learned a lot about online consumption of news and information in this year of blogging. A few quick notes on the past year: Most used search terms to find this blog from Jan. 1st to Dec. 30th, 2011: bill…
The list-making continues. Savannah is on the list of the Weather Channel’s list of 5 Cool Places to Spend New Year’s Eve. The Visit Savannah press photo in the Savannah entry is from Jazz’d, I’m pretty sure, although there’s no…
This video speaks for itself. I suggest going full screen:
Today Sears released the names of 79 Sears or Kmart stores that will be closed. Another 20 to 40 stores are expected to be added to this list. According to the company, “a typical store that is being closed employs…
This is the 2nd of an indeterminate number of posts with other analysts’ and columnists’ economic predictions for 2012. I posted David Wessel’s from the WSJ here (it’s referenced in this post). If you’re interested in sober, thoughtful, and comprehensible…
My upcoming City Talk column (New Year’s Day) is devoted to my predictions for the local Savannah economy in 2012, so as a prelude I’m going to round up some opinions about the national economy and post them here on…
Many of us in Savannah got our first listen to The Shaniqua Brown at The Jinx during the Savannah Stopover festival in March.There’s no one named Shaniqua Brown in the band; frontwoman Rachel Kate Gillon brings a sexy, bluesy vibe…
I’m assuming that there won’t be any bank failures on Friday, Dec. 30, which means we can look at the data for the year as a whole. The FDIC shuttered 92 banks in the U.S. in 2011; 23 of those…
If you’re interested in “slow food”, “farm to table”, “eating local”, or any of the other relatively recent efforts to bring back old ways of thinking about food production, purchase, and consumption — or if you are just interested in…
Things are looking better for Mitt Romney by the day . . . In the latest from the Republican circus primary, Texas Governor Rick Perry has filed a federal lawsuit to get onto the Virginia ballot, even though his campaign…
There are obviously lots of potential answers for the question in my title. But since posting earlier today about the extreme declines for Atlanta home prices in September and October according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Indices, I’ve been looking at a…
