[UPDATE: Click here for a more recent post on this subject.] The most important business conducted in this year’s Georgia legislative session might be wrapped up at almost the last minute. It looked for the last two and a half…
Savannah-based General Oglethorpe and the Panhandlers heads out on southern tour
Savannah-based band General Oglethorpe and the Panhandlers starts their first major tour today with a gig in Jacksonville at Burro Bar. From there, they’ll be working their way west to Texas before doing a big loop back to Savannah. Tonight’s…
Check out the teaser trailer for “Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies”, filmed in Savannah
According to BeyondHollywood.com, Teaser Trailer for the Asylum’s Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies is Surprisingly Not Awful: Every now and then, The Asylum, the makers of fine products like the popular “mockbusters†(i.e. moderately budgeted copies, often with similar sounding titles…
Some photos from Savannah St. Patrick’s Day 2012
I had a great weekend and I hope everyone else did too. I’ll be writing for Tuesday’s City Talk column about a couple of holiday issues, but here I’m just assembling some pics. On Friday afternoon, I had lunch at…
Job growth: public sector vs. private sector
A couple of months ago, I actually sent an email to Calculated Risk hoping that he would break down the job growth numbers for both private and public employment. The most recent recession was one of the few times (other…
“Savannah” — a lush new feature film
Click here for my Sunday City Talk column at SavannahNow, half of which is devoted to last Monday’s screening of the feature film Savannah. Here I’ll add a few details and thoughts to that column. I found producer John Cay’s…
Emerging Savannah band Triathalon gets some internet love
I included some pics of and comments about Triathalon in my post recapping the entire Savannah Stopover. Click here for that. But the young Savannah-based band has gotten some great press since then. From QRO Magazine’s recap of the recent…
City takes aim at the Savannah Slow Ride, again
Why are city of Savannah staff pushing for regulation of the Savannah Slow Ride? Do they enjoy the bad PR? Do they understand that the apparently needless regulation reinforces all the worst stereotypes about the city bureaucracy’s unfriendliness to small…
Webb Wilder & The Beatnecks – Locos Grill & Pub – 04/28/12
“Just Had to Laugh”: From Knocked Out Loaded Concerts: Electrifying artist WEBB WILDER, the “Idol of Idle Youth,” is a living legend of alt.country and roots-rock who’s a SIX-TIME Grammy Nominee, and who’s last live CD hit #1 on the…
One million in Savannah for St. Patrick’s Day? What’s really a reasonable estimate?
A Savannah St. Patrick’s parade official suggested that there might be one million people in town over the weekend. Is that possible? I don’t think so. First, let’s consider some ballpark population numbers: Chatham County: 265,000 Effingham: 52,000 Bryan: 30,000…
The Black Lips / Xray Eyeballs – The Jinx – 03/21/12
From Vice Records: Arabia Mountain, the sixth studio album and fourth Vice Records release by the Black Lips, finds the hell-raising Atlanta quartet digging deep into the roots of their exposed-nerve sound and simultaneously exploring surprising new possibilities in their…
The Business / The Downtown Struts – The Jinx – 03/19/12
From Sailor’s Grave Records: Indisputably synonymous with anyone’s recollection of the original surge of the British Oi! movement would have to be South London’s working class skinhead heroes, THE BUSINESS. Shrouded in a mess of urban folklore, bombarded with tons…