I’m incredibly excited about the Savannah Dance Festival planned for October 2012. My entire column today is devoted to it. SDF board president Pat Alley, as I note in the column, is a daughter of the late great Emma Kelly…
Great writeup on this show here at SavannahNow. Here’s Brannan — in his bathroom — singing “Soda Shop” from the soundtrack to Shortbus:
I’ve mentioned the young Savannah band General Oglethorpe and the Panhandlers several times on this blog since I started it in January, including this review of their debut album Whistle the Dirges. Lead singer Devin Smith recently got his undergrad…
CSPAN’s Local Content Vehicle (LCV) came to Savannah recently for a weekend of literary and historical pursuits. I recently turned over the reins of the presidency of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home and am proud of some of the press…
Another Georgia bank failed today, a regular Friday routine of the last couple of years. More banks have failed in Georgia since the real estate bubble burst than in any other state. Today, Mountain Heritage Bank in Clayton, Georgia was…
The dark picture for employment has been a running theme of my writing for a while now. So regular readers will not be surprised that the Savannah metro area’s not-seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate for May was slightly higher than April (which…
I remain pessimistic about the short- and medium-term prospects for housing prices and construction, but there’s good news in CoreLogic’s data released today: CoreLogic Reports Shadow Inventory Continues to Decline. This doesn’t mean that we’ll work our way through the…
If you ignore it, it will go away. Or maybe: If you blame everything on the federal government, you won’t have to take any responsibility. Those seemed to be the prevailing strategies of Georgia leaders as the recession pummeled the…
Back in college, I was sort of a Werner Herzog groupie. I’m pretty sure the first Herzog movie that I saw was 1972’s Aguirre: The Wrath of God, but in pretty short order — in part because of a class…
I love the transparency of fundraising efforts through Kickstarter. The website lists donors’ names immediately and keeps a running total of the amounts raised. No pledges are final until the entire campaign goal is met. Kickstarter takes a 5% commission…
In recent weeks, I more or less predicted another recession and quoted extensively from a respected analyst that thinks we will avoid one. Economist Robert Shiller — co-creator of the widely watched Case-Shiller home price index — is on the…
The Charleston Post and Courier is reporting this morning that efforts are finally underway to look at dredging the Port of Charleston to accommodate the post-Panamax ships so that they won’t be reliant on the tides: “Port, Army Corps to…
The Savannah Folk Music Festival heads into its 22nd year with a great lineup. Friday, Oct. 7: “Folkfest in Ellis Squareâ€, 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8: “Youth Song Writing Competition†at The First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Avenue,…
The 8-day 2011 Savannah Jazz Festival lineup has been announced, but I’m still waiting for final details re locations, times, etc. This info so far has not appeared on the Savannah Jazz Festival website — I’ll obviously double check everything…
