From the WSJ’s Whole Foods’ Battle for the Organic Shopper: The upscale grocer, known for its pricey organic products, is increasingly emulating the discount tactics used by traditional supermarkets. It is also moving beyond the realm of grass-fed beef with…
The two sides in the ongoing Paula Deen lawsuit have asked for a judge to dismiss it, apparently after some sort of settlement. From the AP’s Sides agree to drop Paula Deen discrimination suit: The lawsuit would be dismissed “with…
A couple of weeks ago, WTOC reported a settlement in the lawsuit filed by Lisa Jackson against Paula Deen, her brother Bubba Hiers, and other parties. But in a matter of hours, the plaintiff’s attorney who was the source of…
Several of my friends on Facebook shared this audio today, so I knew it must be worth a listen. And, wow. Bookkeeper Antoinette Tuff was in the office when Michael Brandon Hill entered Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in…
Savannah opens this weekend in select cities around the country, including New York, Atlanta, Kansas City, Dallas, Charlotte, and Palm Beach. Of course, the movie also makes it debut in regular theatrical release here in Savannah. This is a big…
A few weeks ago, Beth E. Concepcion’s piece about bats roosting between two buildings on Broughton Street caught my attention, but I largely forgot about the piece until this evening. From Broughton Street buildings serve as home sweet home to…
I wrote a few days ago about Savannah’s Fashion Night, an event being organized entirely at the local level since Vogue put the nationwide Fashion’s Night Out celebration “on hiatus” for 2013. Today, the organizers announced the participating retailers for…
More on a trend that I’ve been following relatively closely and writing about periodically. From Time’s The Great Debate: Do Millennials Really Want Cars, or Not? (with emphasis added): The latest data from the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute…
Just a quick update with the latest from CinemaSavannah, the independent series of film screenings coordinated by Tomasz Warchol. Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine will be screened at Spotlight Theaters on Eisenhower this Friday, August 23rd, at 7:15. Since that screening…
In a number of my City Talk columns in recent months, I’ve mentioned a crucial paradox: the downtown area in Savannah is attracting major investment, but local employment has been stagnating. Consider: Whole Foods and Kate Spade just opened, Anthropologie…
My entire City Talk column today is about the upcoming Savannah’s Fashion Night. For the last two years, Savannah celebrated Fashion’s Night Out as part of a worldwide event coordinated by Vogue. But earlier this year Vogue decided to pull…
It’s been so interesting to watch the tracks of the great white sharks that have been tagged by OCEARCH. The research team’s interactive Shark Tracker lets us see the movements and patterns of great whites around the world and off…
From the Facebook invitation for Roadkill Ghost Choir and T. Hardy Morris on Saturday, August 17th at The Jinx: They rocked out at Stopover ’13 and they’re coming back! Roadkill Ghost Choir was a fave for many and now’s your…
Longtime readers probably already know that I’ve written a lot over the years — at least as far back as 2005 — about potential sites for the new arena that was approved by Chatham County voters as part of the…
