An incredible pic in the New York Times.
Terry Ork (played by Johnny Galecki in “CBGB”) is hardly a household name — he doesn’t even have a Wikipedia entry! — but he was one of those figures who just made things happen.
Econbrowser has a post up today thoroughly debunking the conspiracy theories surrounding last Friday’s BLS estimate that the unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent last month: Watergate! Iran-Contra! BLS 2012.10.5?
“The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan’s preliminary October reading on the overall index on consumer sentiment came in at 83.1, up from 78.3 the month before, and the highest since September 2007, the survey showed on Friday.”
Christian Lee Hutson is a member of The Driftwood Singers, but he’ll be on his own for this gig.
Another pedestrian was killed by a car yesterday on Ogeechee Road. I say “another” because such deaths have become depressingly routine on Ogeechee Road/Highway 17.
This should be a really great show — one of the first official events at Dollhouse Studios at 980 Industry Drive in West Savannah. Produced by Dollhouse Productions and Safe//Sound.
Back in June, I wrote a column about the many major projects underway: Series of big investments bode well for Savannah. Today’s City Talk column builds on that one: New downtown Savannah plans include new hotel, townhouses, beer garden
For a much more detailed discussion, go to the following post from Calculated Risk (from which the chart below comes): Understanding the Decline in the Participation Rate. There’s more detailed discussion than I’m offering here, plus a total of five graphs, all of which should be of interest to anyone reading this.
The 15th Savannah Film Festival, which begins in less than three weeks, got even more exciting on Monday afternoon with the announcement of John Goodman joining the impressive guest list.
The No Control Mini Fall Festival occupied part of the sprawling Southern Pine Company — a few vendors were in the courtyard and a busy lineup of bands played in the airy old workshop at the north end of the site. Despite all the hard surfaces, the space turned out to be great for music.
Could there have been a more fitting band to play last Thursday’s 5th Annual Rivers Rock! than Swamp Cabbage?
