When I moved to Savannah, I was employed at Savannah Country Day School and obviously had insurance with that job. I quit working fulltime in 2000. I started teaching part-time at Armstrong Atlantic State University, writing freelance columns and other…
A really interesting and pithy post by James Hamilton this weekend at Econbrowser: Presidents and the economy. The post discusses a new paper by Alan Blinder and Mark Watson: Presidents and the Economy: A Forensic Investigation. The paper tries to…
I saw The Fast and the Furious in Savannah on the film’s opening weekend in 2001. I was with Bobby Zarem, the legendary publicist who was still living in New York full time back in those days, and the late…
I haven’t been into downtown Savannah today to check out the new Anthropologie store at the corner of Congress Street and Montgomery Street on Franklin Square in the space last occupied by 606 East Cafe (a decade ago!), but the…
In a recent post to Peach Pundit, I noted that the state of Georgia saw job growth of 2.1 percent over the past year, but those gains have been clustered in the Atlanta metro area. So that’s not such good…
2013 has been a great year for community theatre in Savannah — I’ll have more to say about that in columns or posts before the end of the year. I try to support a lot of shows, but I certainly…
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday — just a time to get together with friends and family, to eat, to relax, and to reflect. Thankfully, no one in my family has ever considered shopping on Black Friday, unless it’s…
Last summer, I speculated about the shape of a potential streetcar network in this post. Now Chatham Area Transit has moved pretty quickly ahead with a plan for two streetcar lines — one on MLK and one on Fahm. And…
A typically interesting piece from Kim Severson at the New York Times: With Braves Set to Move, a Broader Look at Atlanta. From the article: As demographics changed and development migrated to the largely white suburbs, the team remained a…
Most of my posts about the local Savannah music scene, especially the club and indie scene, are now being made to the music blog hissing lawns. So you might want to check out that site, or even like hissing lawns…
Just another in occasional posts with news about the Savannah restaurant scene. According to its website, Soho South Cafe is reopening on Monday, Nov. 25. The popular lunch spot on Liberty Street will now also serve dinner Thurs.-Sat. and have…
Johnny Mercer would have been 104 today — he was born in Savannah on Nov. 18, 1909. He died way, way, way too early — in 1976. Given all of his other achievements — the great songs, the business acumen,…
From the Savannah Morning News’ Tybee to purchase licence plate scanners: The Tybee City Council’s vote Thursday night to purchase two license plate reading cameras means in the near future every vehicle that drives on and off the island city…
Less than two months ago, I posted about the fake snow in various spots around Savannah for a Belk commercial shoot: What would Savannah look like in the snow? In that post, I included a handful of iPhone photos of…
