As of this month, Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy has one video on YouTube and it’s a pretty darn good one. The organization, which pairs citizens diagnosed with developmental disabilities with other citizens in the community who can provide various means of…
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Kool Keith – The Wormhole – 07/01/11
More thoughts on Lucinda Williams, scheduled for 7/30 at Fort Stewart
[Note: info on this gig has been sketchy from the beginning and apparently it has been postponed, but I have not had a chance to confirm everything. I have removed it from my music calendar. 7/25/11] I’ve already added Lucinda…
Larry Summers: economy needs temporary stimulus via tax cuts, spending, other policy moves
Before the recession took hold, former Clinton Treasury secretary Larry Summers wrote some of the most incisive columns about the state of the U.S. and world economies. But when he was an economic advisor for Obama in 2009-2010, I thought…
Financial Times columnist Clive Crook slams U.S. political pandering
Just doing a little Sunday night news reading and ran across Clive Crook’s latest column in the Financial Times, in which he lambasts both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. for not engaging in a more serious debate about future…
Savannah area gas prices down 35 cents a gallon from recent peak
Since we see the price of gas more than the price of anything else, it’s easy to get caught up in very small changes, especially when the price is going up and up and up. According to GasBuddy.com, Savannah area…
Koolhaas challenges the preservation movement
After debuting at the 2010 Venice Biennale, “Cronocaos†— an exhibition about the increasingly urgent topic of preservation in architecture and urbanism by OMA / Rem Koolhaas — is now at NYC’s New Museum. And it’s sure creating some interesting…
Decline in air passengers a sign of economic weakness (but pleasant for travelers)
I hear pretty much nothing but complaints about air travel, and sometimes I wonder whether I occupy the same world that other people do. Most of my flights are roundtrips from Savannah to other small market airports. Six or seven…
Ceschi Ramos / Louis Logic – The Wormhole – 06/30/11
I’m really looking forward to this show. Here’s the info from Fake Four Inc.: Ceschi (pronounced Chess-key) Ramos has been in a lot of bands. There’s the experimental post-psych-rock-hop-jazz-fusion outfit Anonymous Inc.started in the mid 1990s with his brother David,…
A new music calendar for the most notable touring acts
Back in February, Paleface played a wonderful gig at The Wormhole on a weeknight. Bill DeYoung gave it a great write-up in Connect ahead of time, but a friend and I were among only a handful who turned out. There…
New York Federal Reserve Bank president expects “a moderate recovery to continue”
Yesterday I summarized Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen’s comments about housing. Today New York Fed president William Dudley spoke in Brooklyn. The bulk of his remarks covered regional issues, but he focused also on the national economy. Like Bernanke, Dudley…
The Pass – Muse Arts Warehouse – 06/13/11
The Pass, from Louisville, can be found on MySpace here and on Facebook here. The Facebook event page is here. The doors open at 10 but the band is not scheduled till midnight.
Anderson East – The Sentient Bean – 06/24/11
An intriguing and charismatic singer-songwriter, raised in Alabama and now based in Nashville. His voice reminds me quite a bit on some tracks of Brock Scott, lead singer for Little Tybee. Pretty sure this is a gig worth checking out.…
Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen speaks about housing woes
Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen, who has been pretty sharp in her assessments of the economy in recent years, spoke about housing today in Cleveland. Here’s the entire speech. I’ll pull a few key excerpts out here. No particular surprises…