Such an interesting and thorough piece by Joe Satran for the Huffington Post: The Secret History Of The War On Public Drinking The article talks about the steady erosion of Americans’ rights to drink in public places. Over a period…
Peter O’Toole died today at age 81. I was lucky to have a chance to hang out for a bit with O’Toole back in 2004 when he was honored by the SCAD-sponsored Savannah Film Festival. The film festival was remarkable…
Amidst all the news about the new report critical of the management of the Savannah-Chatham police force, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of online chatter today about some other big news from Thursday. From Eric Curl’s piece in…
I don’t know enough about Atlanta’s geography or the particulars of the Beltline to say anything original about the project to create a ring of trails around the city. But my fellow blogger Ed at Peach Pundit says: “At the…
I already a made a brief post to Peach Pundit about one of the controversies embroiling the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department. And Jan Skutch and Eric Curl have a relatively lengthy piece already at the Savannah Morning News about the…
Another in periodic posts about culinary developments around Savannah. On Sunday, much of my City Talk column was about Bub-Ba-Q, the new restaurant at 514 MLK, in the old Brick House space. Blowin’ Smoke occupied the spot for years before…
I’m sorry. I made the mistake of clicking on the Instagram hashtag #reindeer. This is just a small sampling.
On my way home from Kroger just after dark tonight, I was met with a strange sight: a Christmas tree aglow inside the P.J. O’Connor House at the corner of Lincoln and 32nd. I had lived in the neighborhood for…
The Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964. In honor of that cultural moment that was literally life-changing for those who were kids and teens at the time, Savannah Rocks! — which has over 1,000 members on…
About a month ago, I wrote about the exciting plans for One West Park Avenue at the southwest corner of Bull Street and Park Avenue: New development would anchor south end of Savannah’s Forsyth Park The large lot has been…
Some good news this morning from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: The unemployment rate declined from 7.3 percent to 7.0 percent in November, and total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 203,000, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment…
The Obama campaign expended little money or effort in Georgia in 2012, but he still took 45.5 percent of the vote in Georgia. President Obama is very unpopular in some quarters of the state, so it seems more than reasonable…
