The NYT’s popular “36 Hours” column covers Savannah this week. I like the opening: Some of Savannah’s best-known attractions — mossy cemeteries, old mansions, ghost tours — give the misleading impression that the city is a macabre vestige of its…
From A tale of two cities at CBS Sunday Morning: While it’s tempting to want to put these historic cities in formaldehyde, to embalm them and shun anything modern, Charleston Mayor Joe Riley says that’s not a viable answer. “A…
The Scottish Ballet‘s production of A Streetcar Named Desire begins with Blanche, wearing a white wedding dress, desperately reaching for a single bulb dangling overhead. She’s a fragile moth (a potent symbol here in the American South), but we know…
From Columbia’s The State newspaper today, It’s official: Savannah baseball team moving to Columbia: Columbia team owner Jason Freier, whose Atlanta-based Hardball Capital operates minor league teams in three cities, announced Thursday that his group is moving the Savannah franchise…
My City Talk column today includes a writeup of the most recent Art on Tap at the Telfair Museums‘ Jepson Center, which was devoted to “Zia at the Beach,” a runway show celebrating Zia Sachedina’s 10 year anniversary of ZIA…
SCAD’s 2015 New Alumni Concert in Forsyth Park on May 29 will feature The Wailers and Rusted Root. Click here for more info on the music blog hissing lawns. Since founding hissing lawns, I’ve been posting music content to that…
I’ve been writing a lot in my City Talk columns about the employment recovery in Savannah and in Georgia’s metro areas (some rural areas are still so weak in terms of hiring that it’s hard to use the word “recovery”),…
In my City Talk column for March 29, I talk again about Meldrim Row. (Click here for a post from June 2014 with more detailed background.) It’s absurd that the homes weren’t saved on the basis of their history, but…
It was a long 10 months or whatever in the wilderness for us Legion refugees. I live about 5 very short blocks from Savannah’s American Legion Post 135 and I’m sort of a night owl and I don’t watch much…
Yes, a post about the dress. If you’re irritated by it, don’t click on it. But I’m bored today, and I was curious just how easy it would be to manipulate “the dress” into either white/gold or blue/black. It took…
I wasn’t able to attend any of the Savannah Book Festival this year, but I’ve been following some of the action on Twitter and Facebook. (By the way, the SBF could be a lot more active on social media when…
Mr. Affleck, please don’t make a fool of me again. It seemed obvious a couple years ago (check out my posts from May 2013 and July 2013) that Ben Affleck was poised to direct and act in an adaptation of…
The Savannah Arts Academy‘s 2015 Junk 2 Funk Fashion Show was, predictably, a rousing success. Presented by the arts magnet high school’s visual arts department, the event taps the expertise of students and faculty schoolwide and features tremendous production values.…
I’ve been out of town a lot over the last nine months, so the prolonged closure of the American Legion Post 135 hasn’t hit me quite as hard as it could have. But, wow, it has sure been hard. As…
