There’s been a lot in the news lately about the latest results from Travel & Leisure’s endless polls of its readers. If such polls have to exist, I’m glad that Savannah does so consistently well in them. Aside from driving…
In my City Talk column on Tuesday, I mentioned taking a visiting family to the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge. Given the blustery weather, sudden squalls, and impatient boys who were along for the ride, I didn’t take very many photos,…
A few great lines from this trailer for The Asylum’s latest effort Sharknado: “We can’t just wait here and wait for sharks to rain down on us.” “There are too many of them. We’re going to need a bigger chopper.”…
It’s a busy night around town. The offerings include Ponderosa, Yip Deceiver, and Hallucinex at The Jinx in a gig from MusicFile Productions (parent company of Savannah Stopover and Revival Fest). Hallucinex should take the stage around 10, with Yip…
Photos, links, and info about The Rolling Stones’ stop at a motor lodge in on Highway 17 in Savannah while on their spring 1965 southeast tour. The band played a gig at Georgia Southern in Statesboro (of all places) on May 4th, 1965, but they didn’t have any bookings in Savannah. They apparently spent a good part of the afternoon on May 5th hanging out by the motel pool, where numerous candid photos were taken.
From ET Online: Set in the post-civil war era, Savannah is the true story of the legendary Ward Allen (Caviezel), an Aristocrat-turned-market hunter, his, business partner — a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie (Ejiofor), and the love of his life,…
UPDATE: From the City of Savannah at about 2 p.m. today: SpongeBob sequel scheduled to film in Savannah The City of Savannah Film Services Office announced today the “SpongeBob Movie 2” will be shooting live action scenes in the Savannah…
I was in Traverse City, Michigan, recently for a family reunion. Some of my cousins have long ties to the area, and one of them moved back to that crisp and beautiful part of the country fairly recently. I had…
Kent Harrington, co-founder of Be Smart Savannah, has a provocative and well-written op-ed in today’s Charleston Post & Courier: Facts steer Savannah away from cruise folly. Harrington notes a variety of reasons why smaller markets like Savannah should beware of…
I don’t have anything to add to an excellent op-ed today by Crystal A. Kolden — former firefighter, fire ecologist, and geography professor — in the Washington Post: Arizona fire deaths prove no one should die for a house. From…
Since Friday afternoon, I’ve gotten over half a dozen press releases or Facebook invitations for interesting events happening next weekend — July 10th through 12th. Seriously, these are all interesting things — potentially good live music gigs, openings of art…
