A few years ago on Ebay, I bought the 1961 edition of Holiday magazine with Flannery O’Connor’s essay “Living with a Peacock” to donate to the library collection of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home here in Savannah. Today I noticed…
I can’t remember exactly when Bobby Zarem turned me on to Pink Martini, but it must have been four or five years ago when he was still living in New York but coming regularly back to Savannah, his hometown. I…
Good news on this hot Friday afternoon. LNG is liquefied natural gas, which is created by submitting natural gas to temperatures close to absolute zero. Plans to reactivate a loading facility at Elba Island (those big tanks hold LNG brought…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics not only publishes the nationwide employment data each month, but the agency also breaks the numbers down by region and by state. Click here for the current BLS release. An excerpt: Nevada continued to record…
The AJC announced today that the paper will publish a three-part series next week looking at claims regarding the long-proposed, much-studied, and much-debated Savannah Harbor Expansion Project. I have written a lot on the subject, and was one of the…
In the new NCAA Division II rankings released today, the Armstrong Pirates men’s team has moved up to #1. The team is undefeated and has four players in the top ten in individual singles rankings: Georgi Rumenov at #1, Eudaldo Bonet at #3, Mikk Irdoja at #5, and Matus Mydla at #10.
Click here for my Man About Town column today at SavannahNow previewing tonight’s Savannah Music Festival appearance of Pink Martini. And a few clips:
From today’s Washington Post obituary for Adrienne Rich: Rich published more than a dozen volumes of poetry and five collections of nonfiction. She won a National Book Award for her collection of poems “Diving into the Wreck†in 1974. In…
I don’t know how long it will be before the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the individual mandate and on so-called Obamacare generally, but there’s no escaping the problems posed by the high numbers of uninsured Americans. Take…
If you’re interested in the cultural and financial ramifications of the housing bust, this Q&A with Robert Shiller (of Case-Shiller) is absolutely worth a watch. He notes that we could be in a long Japan-like slump and that we could…
I have posted before about the research of Eric Klinenberg into the growing number of households of one — adults who are living along largely by choice and who are tend to be more social in many respects than their partnered peers.
Tonight, Ray Suarez had an excellent segment/interview with Klinenberg: ‘Going Solo’: What’s the Appeal of Living Alone?
From Standard & Poors’ release of the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices 10- and 20-City composites: Both composites saw price declines of 0.8% in the month of January. Sixteen of 19 MSAs also saw home prices decrease over the month; only…
Just a quick note about the nice Google doodle today, an homage to architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. From today’s The Times of India: Google’s doodle today pays tribute to legendary German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on…
