Today’s NPR Music post by Tom Huizenga about the 2012 Savannah Music Festival spotlights violinist Daniel Hope. Daniel Hope: A Renaissance Man In Savannah has high praise for the SMF Associate Artistic Director: Even in this age of marathon multitaskers,…
When the Savannah Music Festival lineup was released months ago, I bought tickets as soon as they went on sale to a handful of shows, including one tonight: Zakir Hussain’s Masters of Percussion. I’ve seen Zakir Hussain play the tabla…
S&P/Case-Shiller is the most followed home price index these days, but CoreLogic’s Home Price Index is a really important one that provides slightly more up-to-date information. From today’s release: Excluding distressed sales, month-over-month prices increased 0.7 percent in February from…
The final installment of Dan Chapman’s 3-part, over 6,000-word look at the proposed dredging of the Savannah River channel begins like this: “Critics say a national strategy should govern the deepening of ports.” For all the study of the proposed…
The music video “Worst Enemy” by Savannah’s hard-charging CUSSES is in regular rotation on MTV and MTVU, the network’s effort to make more inroads into the college market. Yes, MTV still plays music videos. The video was directed with Nathan…
The first subhead says a lot: “Deepened Georgia port will still be shallower than many of its rivals.”
Highly recommended for those with a stake in housing: the NYT’s Where Housing Once Boomed, Recovery Lags From the piece: The official statistics say that the national economy has been growing for almost three years, and that Maryland is growing…
“In this program, Hope and his handpicked group of players begin with a musical memorial to Tchaikovsky and close with music by the master himself. When Tchaikovsky died in 1893 at age 53, he left more than a few young Russian composers devastated. “
Click here for part one, which talks about uncertainties regarding global shipping generally and Savannah specifically.
Regular readers of this blog and my columns already know the basic terrain of the issues laid out clearly in Corps of Engineers’ analyses:
From USA Today’s Swing States Poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead: In the fifth Swing States survey taken since last fall, Obama leads Republican front-runner Mitt Romney 51%-42% among registered voters just a month after the president…
