If you’re interested in my writings about the Savannah music scene, you should be checking out the blog hissing lawns that I launched back in September. hissing lawns has a number of contributors, including some excellent photographers, and also has…
I just found out about this a few days ago, when I finally asked one of the security guards at Savannah’s downtown Kroger about the seemingly endless construction just inside the front door. And today there’s a sign: It looks…
From Variety: ‘Midnight Rider’ Suspends Production After Fatal Train Accident (EXCLUSIVE): “Midnight Rider,†the Gregg Allman biopic on which a crew member was killed last week, has suspended production. Crew members are being released, though they’ve been told that they…
In my City Talk column last Sunday — Lecture emphasizes versatility, beauty in street design — I talked about the recent lecture at SCAD of Victor Dover, an expert on urbanism and co-author of the recently released Street Design: The…
My thoughts go out to the family and friends of Sarah Jones, who was killed tragically on Thursday on the set of the Gregg Allman biopic Midnight Rider. Others were injured in the accident involving a train that the crew…
It’s really hard to believe that Jack Leigh died almost 10 years ago. The Savannah photographer created many iconic images that shared, in the most visceral of ways, his passion for place and for people. His daughter Grace Leigh is…
Nicholas Kristof’s NYT column Professors, We Need You! begins: SOME of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates. Part of the reason…
If you think you felt an earthquake tonight in Georgia or South Carolina around 10:23 p.m., you probably did. Check out the U.S. Geological Survey’s list of “significant earthquakes.” An estimated 4.1 magnitude quake was centered 12 km west northwest…
I don’t know how I feel about “oozing Southern charm” — or how I feel about “oozing” anything — but I’m still pretty impressed with this travel article in the Boston Globe: Three days in Savannah, Ga. The piece by…
There have been some impressive photos and video clips today of the massive rubber fire in a warehouse at the Georgia Ports Authority, but this is the only video I’ve seen so far of any of the warehouse walls collapsing.…
Details aren’t complete, but I have so far seen no reports of injuries in today’s massive warehouse fire at the Georgia Ports Authority. Over 5,000 tons of rubber are stored in the building that is on fire — and the…
Yesterday’s employment report for January from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggested a steadily healing labor market, but you wouldn’t know that from some of the hand-wringing of media commentators who have the job of trying to make something dramatic…
