Local filmmaker Michael Jordan’s “You’ve Got to Come to Savannah” “You’ve Gotta Come to Savannah” won the Visit Savannah contest to create a YouTube promotional video. I like it. I especially like the way that Jordan includes so many small…
I’ve posted before about the idea of a new Savannah Sand Gnats stadium on the riverfront at the Savannah River Landing site.
For those who have forgotten, Savannah River Landing was a massive, $800-million, mixed-use private development at the eastern end of River Street that attracted millions in city infrastructure spending before the whole plan collapsed after the recession hit.
The last time I saw the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra was in 2010, in a performance with Lang Lang at the Savannah Music Festival. But that show was in the big soulless space of the Johnny Mercer Theater. The strange cocoon…
Savannah can claim George Dawes Green as our own, right? The Brunswick-area native and longtime NYC resident has some deep roots here. George is a novelist (The Juror, Ravens, and others) and founder of The Moth, which has revived the…
I was a member for several years of the technical committee that met monthly overseeing and discussing the work of local planners hoping to overhaul and update antiquated, overly rigid zoning codes. Regrettably, that process of creating a Unified Zoning…
Here’s another great web-only interview by Jeffrey Brown of the PBS NewsHour. This one is with Anna O. Marley, curator of “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit,” now on exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937)…
From Tom Huizenga’s latest post at NPR Music, Beethoven’s String Quartet of Transcendence: In the spring of 1825, when Beethoven was 54, he became terribly sick. He was in bed for a month and he wrote to his doctor, “I…
Exhilarating. Theatrical. Dynamic. Awe-inspiring.
Those are just a few words that come to my mind as I try to describe last night’s Zakir Hussain’s Masters of Percussion in the Trustees Theater in a beautifully produced Savannah Music Festival show.
If you scroll through my recent posts, you’ll find several links to posts on NPR Music by Tom Huizenga. When the festival is over, I’ll try to put one pos […]
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I’ve already posted about the rather disappointing jobs report today, but I noted that there was a significant drop in the number of Americans working part-time for economic reasons, according to the survey of households. Click here to see the…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this morning that 120,000 nonfarm jobs were added to the U.S. economy in March. The unemployment rate is now 8.2%, down from 8.3% a month ago. (All numbers are seasonally adjusted.) Nevertheless, this is…
Today’s NPR Music post by Tom Huizenga about the 2012 Savannah Music Festival spotlights violinist Daniel Hope. Daniel Hope: A Renaissance Man In Savannah has high praise for the SMF Associate Artistic Director: Even in this age of marathon multitaskers,…
When the Savannah Music Festival lineup was released months ago, I bought tickets as soon as they went on sale to a handful of shows, including one tonight: Zakir Hussain’s Masters of Percussion. I’ve seen Zakir Hussain play the tabla…
S&P/Case-Shiller is the most followed home price index these days, but CoreLogic’s Home Price Index is a really important one that provides slightly more up-to-date information. From today’s release: Excluding distressed sales, month-over-month prices increased 0.7 percent in February from…
