While Citizen Advocacy has always been a movement emphasizing freely chosen, one-to-one commitments between advocates and proteges with developmental disabilities, the organization occasionally takes the public stage.
I’ve mentioned The Wild a couple of times on this blog after seeing the Atlanta folk punk band open for The Queers at The Wormhole earlier this year.
The New York Times has excellent coverage with some great graphics today detailing the student loan debt burden for private and public colleges across America. The average Armstrong graduate has $19,000 in debt; the average SCAD graduate $39,000.
Architect Magazine and the Congress for the New Urbanism with praise for the elegant and beautiful expansion of the Savannah College of Art & Design’s Museum of Art.
Any time I think of Maurice Sendak, I have vivid memories — quick, sharp ones — of our house on Knollwood Street in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was the first album I ever bought with my own money (an accumulation of weekly allowances of $2 if I remember correctly).
Great coverage of an art installation in the nation’s capital just like those that recently came down in Savannah.
U.S. News and World Report named Savannah Arts Academy the top public high school in Georgia. SAA is the only high school in the state to make the top 100 nationally, coming in at #87.
For Betsy, the images showed the “residual after effect” of reading O’Connor, and she noted how the “lingering sorrow, mysticism, and southern gothic” connects to her own work.
A really fun bluegrass band from Athens, Georgia. Video embedded.
Like it or not, government jobs have traditionally been good, stable ones, and we have been used to those jobs expanding in number as the population grows.
What do these cuts look like in the real world? Last month, almost 1600 people showed up for a city government job fair in Savannah, although the city only had 22 openings.
I became a big fan of Anderson East after his gig last June at The Sentient Bean. It was a rich and soulful solo gig — just Anderson and his guitar. I’ve been following the Nashville musician and producer ever since.
