The full lineup for the Savannah Film Festival is now available via a PDF download at the Savannah Box Office website. If you’re looking for IMDB links to a lot of the films, check out a previous post here. Some…
I had quite a bit to say back in February 2006 about the Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center, including this riff on the architecture: It may be a long time before we can clearly position Safdie’s building in the pantheon of…
From the AJC: Falcons owner Arthur Blank has sold a three-level Buckhead mansion for millions of dollars less than he once hoped to get for the property. The home in the 3600 block of Tuxedo Road sold for about $3.9…
A piece by Mary Landers in today’s Savannah Morning News: S.C. denies deepening permit The second paragraph: “In a notice filed in the late afternoon and posted on its website, the state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control denied the…
There are any number of reasons to attend Re:Fest on Saturday, October 1st: It’s a fundraiser for the Humane Society. It’s a fundraiser for Emergent Structures, an extremely active group of community members (some but not all SCAD-affiliated) that have…
I’ve been writing a lot lately about employment and about the poor almost nonexistent response to joblessness since the recession began in 2007. Take a look at the AJC’s piece, Atlanta top metro area — for job losses. From the…
Linda Sickler on this gig in the Savannah Morning News: Popular Savannah Stopover band Milagres returns and brings Peter Wolf Crier I only caught a couple of songs of Milagres when they played the Savannah Stopover, so I’m really looking…
For those of you who come to this blog looking for something other than economic news, hang in there! There has been a lot of interesting and very important news generated by the economy in recent days — and there…
If you don’t know who Nouriel Roubini is, he’s the economist who always seems to view issues through a dark lens. And he also always seems to be right. I’m exaggerating, of course, but not by much. His concerns and…
The title of the press release says almost everything you really need to know about the Case-Shiller home price data released today for July (actually a three-month composite of May, June, and July): Home Prices Continue to Show Seasonal Strength…
Just a quick post to pull a few issues together. In my City Talk column today — Where did all the jobs go? — I write in some detail about the sectors of the local economy that have accounted for…
Poverty rates are still higher in major cities (20.9%) than in suburbs (11.4%), according to a Brookings analysis of American Community Survey Census data, but the trends are both interesting and disturbing. America’s suburbs became home to 3.4 million people…
