If you’re interested in the ongoing debates, controversies, costs, and risks regarding dredging the Savannah River from 42′ to 47′, check out this interesting piece today by Curtis Tate of McClatchy Newspapers: As states seek funds for deeper ports, will ships come in?
Whole Foods Market announced officially today that it’s coming to the former Backus Cadillac property in Savannah.
It’s been like watching a slow-motion — and entirely preventable — train wreck: extreme austerity measures aren’t leading Europe to prosperity but driving the continent’s economy into the ground. This has seemed pretty obvious for a long time, but European policy makers have seemed somehow blind to the problem.
There’s a great piece at the Paris Review about Flannery O’Connor — a Savannah native and arguably the most important writer in Georgia history — and her years of cartooning.
I guess I should say off the bat that I have some libertarian leanings and think that a lot of currently outlawed or restricted “vices” should be legalized. But I’ve always had a problem with the Georgia Lottery. I DON’T…
I hear those two questions all the time when the I-16 flyover removal comes up. And I’m expecting to hear them a lot more in the next two months.
There’s a recent 2-part series by Vanessa Quirk at ArchDaily that succinctly covers some important practical and theoretical ground: Saving Suburbia Part I: Bursting the Bubble and Saving Suburbia Part II: Getting the Soccer Moms On Your Side.
This great show by Nicholas DeBruyne was only up for a week, so you’ll have to be content with these images — unless you want to track Nicholas down about making a purchase.
This past Thursday (April 26th) was the first In So Many Words open mic night presented by Brandywine, the instrumental portion of KidSyc@Brandywine made up of Daniel Butler on guitar, Charles Hodge on bass, Lane Gardner on keys, and Derrick Larry on drums. KidSyc (Lloyd Harold) hosted.
A lot of guests obviously had no idea what to expect at The Starland Circus, but knowing Jon, knowing the great space of the old Starland Dairy, and knowing the entertainment he had scheduled, I wasn’t surprised by the unpredictable, campy, and really warm atmosphere. None of the kids who showed up with their parents early in the evening seemed to be weirded out by the clowns, the masks, or the tricks.
Savannah comes in at #15 on the list, just ahead of Atlanta and just behind Nashville.
