Month: January 2012
Etta James, “At Last” — the original single
Banks in Georgia and Florida the first to close in 2012
From the FDIC moments ago: The First State Bank, Stockbridge, Georgia, was closed today by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered into…
SOPA update: chief sponsor pulls the bill; PIPA also shelved
From the Washington Post’s Wyden: SOPA win was a `grassroots victory for the history books’ by columnist Greg Sargent: In a huge victory for grassroots online organizing, the Senate Dem leadership announced this morning that it was indefinitely postponing votes…
Georgia and Savannah employment in December: Still bad, but labor market slowly healing (maybe)
Kickstarter campaign to bring Waddie Welcome story to the stage
In worst year since data collection began in 1959, U.S. had 429 thousand single family home starts in 2011
The statistic from my headline can be found here at the U.S. Census. There were 1.7 million single unit starts in 2005 Single family home construction is at an all time low in 2011 going all the way back to…
What did Newt want? It all depends on what the meaning of “open marriage” is . . .
The Republican presidential candidates’ circular firing squad looks certain to continue at least until the primary vote in South Carolina. Tonight, ABC will broadcast an interview with Newt Gingrich’s second wife (he’s on #3 right now), in which she tells…
Hands down the funniest political ad ever: Gingrich super PAC animates Obama vs. Romney debate
Raconteurs aplenty when The Unchained Tour comes to Savannah on Feb. 10
Family business prevented me from attending that 2011 Unchained Tour in Savannah, but I’m planning to make the 2011 version, scheduled for 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 10th at the Savannah History Museum at 303 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. And…
From Telluride to Savannah: Mountainfilm on Tour coming Jan. 20-21
Another exciting addition to Savannah’s cultural calendar, now in its 3rd year. From the Mountainfilm website: Mountainfilm is dedicated to educating and inspiring audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving and conversations worth sustaining. Started in 1979,…
SOPA sponsor Rep. Lamar Smith’s official website caught infringing photographer’s copyright
It had to happen, huh? The campaign site for Lamar Smith, chief sponsor of SOPA in the U.S. House, used an image without crediting the photographer as required. Techdirt has the story and a couple of big images here. The…
For economic performance in 2011, Atlanta ranks 189 on list of 200 world metro areas
Check out new track “HEART” from Oberhofer, the band headlining the Stopover kickoff on March 7
Pitchfork calls “HEART”, the opening track on the upcoming album Time Capsules II, “grandiose”, but I think that word has too many negative connotations.
Here it is:
HEART – Oberhofer by Glassnotemusic
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