The Savannah Stopover monthly series, which has already brought us a great show featuring Givers and another great one with Ashleigh Flynn at The Sentient Bean, continues on June 23rd at 8 p.m. at Cha Bella with Jon Lindsay and…
Well this is something that numbers wonks like me could get used to. In Tuesday’s press release about May’s state revenue, the Georgia Department of Revenue included far more graphs and charts than I’ve ever seen. Check out the full…
The Savannah Stopover has scheduled another show that promises to be amazing. Read more here on the Stopover website. I wrote about the show here. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door, so it’s certainly worth ordering early.…
Well, I guess I’m officially in the camp of those who think a) that policymakers are overestimating the resiliency of the recovery and b)that the Fed is erring in its decisions not to take additional measures to boost the economy.…
For this post, I’m looking at graphs and data from Calculated Risk here and here. The first graph comes with the following description: Credit: Professor Amir Sufi. “This maps the unemployment rate in a state in 2010q4 against the percentage…
I’ve already mentioned the Lafayette, Louisiana band Givers a couple of times on this blog, including a short review of their great set produced by the Savannah Stopover at the Jepson Center after TEDxCreativeCoast. This week’s release by Glassnote Records…
Little Tybee‘s mellow and beautiful song “I Wonder Which House the Fish Will Live In” is a couple of years old — it’s the title track from a 2009 EP. But the video below is brand new. I’ve mentioned Little…
It wasn’t until earlier today that I found out that Williams-Sonoma is opening a store in Savannah, but the news has been available since at least June 3rd. According to Citybizlist: Williams Sonoma has signed a lease for 5,000 square…
I’ve had a busy weekend so I’m a little slow getting this post done about Friday evening’s SCAD-produced New Alumni Concert in Forsyth Park with Cold War Kids and The Dirty Guv’nahs. It was a typically great night for music…
A few days ago, I made the case for a double-dip recession. Yesterday, in a smart piece in the AJC, Georgia State University economist Rajeev Dhawan — who has been right more often than not about the weakness of the…
I’ve always been fascinated by cryptids (animals that have not been proven to exist), so how did I live in South Georgia for 15 years without hearing of Altamaha-ha (known as Altie), the legendary creature down near Darien? Altie is…
There’s theatre, and then there’s Cornwall-based Kneehigh Theatre‘s The Red Shoes, which I was lucky enough to see at Spoleto yesterday. Based on the macabre story by Hans Christian Andersen, Kneehigh’s giddy performance was by turns absurd and inspiring, nerve-rattling…
