Month: May 2012

Cusses / Odist / Tow3rs – The Jinx – 05/31/12

Cusses’ “Worst Enemy” as seen on MTV: Get More: Cusses, Worst Enemy, Music, More Music Videos Odist: "Pyramid Eyes" single by ODIST Really like the sound of Tow3rs: If All We Have Is Time by T0W3RS

Modern Skirts / The District Attorneys – The Jinx – 06/08/12

Another entry in Savannah Stopover’s excellent year-round series.

Frontier Ruckus / Les Racquet – Live Wire Music Hall – 05/31/12

I thoroughly enjoyed Les Racquet‘s gig at Live Wire on 5/17, and then they showed up out of the blue to open for Truth & Salvage Co. last Saturday.

I sure hope to catch Les Racquet again on the 31st.

Thanks to Connect Savannah’s readers, plus a few photos from last night’s Best Of Savannah party

Thanks to all those who voted for me as Best Local Newspaper Columnist in Connect Savannah’s Best of Savannah 2012 readers’ poll.

Cusses / Makeout Club / Crazy Bag Lady / Grimey – Dollhouse Productions – 05/23/13

Creativity, Squelchers, and Savannah’s future

“What distinguishes thriving cities from those that stagnate and decline is a group of people [Jane Jacobs] calls the “squelchers.” Squelchers, she explains, are those political, business, and civic leaders that divert human creative energy by posing roadblocks and saying “no” to new ideas.”

Megan Jean & the KFB / Banditos – Live Wire Music Hall – 05/24/12

A great song, “These Bones”, featuring the “gypsy-Americana” of Megan Jean & the KFB:

Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun / Deep Search / Forest Tourist – No Control – 05/26/12

Another good gig at No Control.

No surprise in Facebook stock decline

But the social network’s power to capture and hold users is still spectacular, at least for now.

Elton John – Martin Luther King, Jr. Arena – 09/15/12

I loved the sheer size and theatricality of that album — from the eery — at least to a 10 year old me — “Funeral for a Friend” to the decadence of “All the Young Girls Love Alice”.

Weekend shows highlight strengths, weaknesses of Savannah live music scene (lots of photos)

I haven’t been teaching this past week, so I’ve been going out a little more than usual. On the advice of a friend, I checked out Les Racquet at Live Wire Music Hall on Thursday night. A really talented trio…

AJC looks at likely effectiveness of proposed transportation sales tax

“If some spots edge toward transformation, that’s a bonus. Regionwide, metro drivers in 2025 would waste 128,000 fewer hours in traffic each day than they would if the referendum doesn’t pass, the ARC found.

But they’d still waste 1.8 million hours a day.”

SCAD production does justice to two Flannery O’Connor masterpieces

Word-for-word productions of “Greenleaf” and “Everything That Rises Must Converge” continue through Sunday.

Watch TEDx Creative Coast

This feed should be live off and on for the rest of Friday, May 18. (Lunch break is over at 1:50.)