NPR’s music blog Deceptive Cadence will be featuring classical concerts all week from the ongoing Savannah Music Festival. Today’s post by Tom Huizenga — Takacs Quartet: A Slice Of Schubert And A Bartok Palindrome — begins this way: The Takács…
There was a time when it was routine — almost mandatory it seemed — for Savannahians to complain about “nothing going on.†Hard to make that argument anymore.
A “sneak peek” of a photoshoot with Gallim Dance (founded and directed by Andrea Miller) of a piece premiering in June at the Joyce Theater in NYC — dancers put it all out there, huh?
I’m going to suggest that any voter interested in taxation and in transportation infrastructure take a look at Mary Mayle’s piece today in the SMN: Georgia’s transportation system ‘running out of gas’
The new local public art organization SeeSAW, who are hosting two incredible events during the festival, was created after an attempt to do a public mural during last year’s event was rebuffed by the city. Vinyl Appreciation, a monthly event for DJs and record collectors that is celebrating its 2 year anniversary during SUAF 2012 initially started as a SUAF event, and now serves as the closing event of the festival. On the talent front, the local band KidSyc@Brandywine played their first show together two years ago at a SUAF event in the Civil Rights museum.
In my City Talk column today — With recovery taking hold, what’s next for downtown Savannah? — I broadly ponder some of the big questions that the Historic District will have to grapple with now that the economy seems to have taken a favorable turn.
I’ll be talking in more detail about some key issues on Tuesday evening at the Downtown Neighborhood Association’s April meeting. From the event page of the DNA website:
It’s nice to wake up to an email from Patti Smith, even if it’s a mass email from Sony Music.
Click here to preview, purchase, and download the new single “April Fool” on iTunes. The album Banga will be released on June 5th. It sure will be interesting to see how much of the old magic she still has — I’m counting on a lot.
A few years ago on Ebay, I bought the 1961 edition of Holiday magazine with Flannery O’Connor’s essay “Living with a Peacock” to donate to the library collection of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home here in Savannah. Today I noticed…
I can’t remember exactly when Bobby Zarem turned me on to Pink Martini, but it must have been four or five years ago when he was still living in New York but coming regularly back to Savannah, his hometown. I…
Good news on this hot Friday afternoon. LNG is liquefied natural gas, which is created by submitting natural gas to temperatures close to absolute zero. Plans to reactivate a loading facility at Elba Island (those big tanks hold LNG brought…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics not only publishes the nationwide employment data each month, but the agency also breaks the numbers down by region and by state. Click here for the current BLS release. An excerpt: Nevada continued to record…
The AJC announced today that the paper will publish a three-part series next week looking at claims regarding the long-proposed, much-studied, and much-debated Savannah Harbor Expansion Project. I have written a lot on the subject, and was one of the…
