I’ve never seen Ultraviolet Hippopotamus but have heard good things. I really like the upbeat sound of the album embedded here.
Ultraviolet Hippopotamus – Live Wire Music Hall – 06/30/12
Month: June 2012
More good news for housing: Case-Shiller up in April
We are a long way from a “normal” housing market, whatever that will look like post-recovery, but the widespread price stabilization is good news for a variety of reasons.
Americans still driving less — but will the trend hold with lower gas prices?
“Travel on all roads and streets changed by -0.4% (-1.0 billion vehicle miles) for April 2012 as compared with April 2011. Travel for the month is estimated to be 247.2 billion vehicle miles.”
Facebook continues deceptions in its messaging service
If you look at your profile on Facebook today, you’ll possibly see a new email for yourself: [your Facebook user name]@facebook.com.
Georgia’s first diverging diamond apparently working as intended
American Aquarium, photos from Saturday’s gig at The Jinx
The set included the title track to “Burn.Flicker.Die.” (which I’ll probably mistakenly call “Redheads and Adderall” routinely), “Cape Fear River”, and — brace yourself — “Savannah Almost Killed Me”, which I’m fully expecting to become one of those defining songs for a certain segment of the local scene.
A few blog updates . . .
New posts at Peach Pundit, a new tumblr page, still looking for advertisers, plus a little other information and a few links.
A few thoughts on the Sandusky trial and verdict
If you’re tired of reading or hearing about Jerry Sandusky, please just skip this post.
G. Love & Special Sauce: photos from Live Wire
The last time G. Love & Special Sauce played Savannah, they headlined SCAD’s New Alumni Concert in Forsyth Park.
New study skirts primary issues regarding East Coast port dredging
Which ports on the East Coast or in the Gulf would it be most cost-effective to deepen in anticipation of larger ships coming through the Panama Canal in 2014? What’s the best way to fund those dredging projects?
Little Beasts’ closing reception for last show on Friday
Little Beasts is closing, but the versatile gallery space will reopen under another name and under slightly different leadership in the coming weeks. The final group show — Last Beast — is a strong one, well worth a look by Savannah art lovers and collectors.
State-by-state economies show broad-based if uneven recovery continuing
There’s been some disappointing economic data flowing out in recent weeks, but it doesn’t look like we’re headed toward a recession — just more slow growth.
Highway conversion in New Haven as a model for I-16 flyover removal
I’m firmly with the urban planners who think that removal of the I-16 flyover, which would get a small share of the TSPLOST revenues, makes sense from every angle: traffic flow, economic development, the push for “complete streets”, tax revenue, residential development, and on and on. But I didn’t know of a project of similar scale in New Haven until I saw a tweet from Streetsblog this morning about it.
“The Dark Knight Rises” — new trailer
We’ve seen some of the snippets in this trailer already — including that scene with the mines exploding on the football field.