The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank’s coincident index of economic activity for January provides a promising picture for virtually the entire U.S. From the press release: The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has released the coincident indexes for the 50 states…
[UPDATE: Click here for a more recent post on this subject.] The most important business conducted in this year’s Georgia legislative session might be wrapped up at almost the last minute. It looked for the last two and a half…
Savannah-based band General Oglethorpe and the Panhandlers starts their first major tour today with a gig in Jacksonville at Burro Bar. From there, they’ll be working their way west to Texas before doing a big loop back to Savannah. Tonight’s…
According to BeyondHollywood.com, Teaser Trailer for the Asylum’s Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies is Surprisingly Not Awful: Every now and then, The Asylum, the makers of fine products like the popular “mockbusters†(i.e. moderately budgeted copies, often with similar sounding titles…
I had a great weekend and I hope everyone else did too. I’ll be writing for Tuesday’s City Talk column about a couple of holiday issues, but here I’m just assembling some pics. On Friday afternoon, I had lunch at…
A couple of months ago, I actually sent an email to Calculated Risk hoping that he would break down the job growth numbers for both private and public employment. The most recent recession was one of the few times (other…
Click here for my Sunday City Talk column at SavannahNow, half of which is devoted to last Monday’s screening of the feature film Savannah. Here I’ll add a few details and thoughts to that column. I found producer John Cay’s…
I included some pics of and comments about Triathalon in my post recapping the entire Savannah Stopover. Click here for that. But the young Savannah-based band has gotten some great press since then. From QRO Magazine’s recap of the recent…
Why are city of Savannah staff pushing for regulation of the Savannah Slow Ride? Do they enjoy the bad PR? Do they understand that the apparently needless regulation reinforces all the worst stereotypes about the city bureaucracy’s unfriendliness to small…
“Just Had to Laugh”: From Knocked Out Loaded Concerts: Electrifying artist WEBB WILDER, the “Idol of Idle Youth,” is a living legend of alt.country and roots-rock who’s a SIX-TIME Grammy Nominee, and who’s last live CD hit #1 on the…
A Savannah St. Patrick’s parade official suggested that there might be one million people in town over the weekend. Is that possible? I don’t think so. First, let’s consider some ballpark population numbers: Chatham County: 265,000 Effingham: 52,000 Bryan: 30,000…
From Vice Records: Arabia Mountain, the sixth studio album and fourth Vice Records release by the Black Lips, finds the hell-raising Atlanta quartet digging deep into the roots of their exposed-nerve sound and simultaneously exploring surprising new possibilities in their…
From Sailor’s Grave Records: Indisputably synonymous with anyone’s recollection of the original surge of the British Oi! movement would have to be South London’s working class skinhead heroes, THE BUSINESS. Shrouded in a mess of urban folklore, bombarded with tons…
From the Facebook event page of Knocked Out Loaded Concerts: Knocked Out Loaded Concerts – designed specifically to bring internationally respected and/or underrated live acts to Savannah which would otherwise not play our town. The next Knocked Out Loaded show…
