Bill Augustin started working with publicist Bobby Zarem in New York way back in 2001. Bobby and Bill have handled much of the major programming and publicity for the Savannah Film Festival every year since then. Bill has spent so…
Spoleto USA in Charleston has released the festival’s 2014 lineup. It’s the usual but impressive mix of theatre, music, dance, opera, and other impressive performances. Spoleto 2014 runs from May 23rd to June 8th in a variety of venues —…
I was highly critical of the recent decision by the city of Tybee Island to scan the license plates of every single car coming or going from the island. Today, the Tybee Island city council voted unanimously to overturn that…
I grew up in Frankfort, Kentucky. My appreciation for Frankfort’s beauty and history grows with each passing year. It’s such a small city that I would have a hard time ever living there again, but life can be pretty sweet…
When I moved to Savannah, I was employed at Savannah Country Day School and obviously had insurance with that job. I quit working fulltime in 2000. I started teaching part-time at Armstrong Atlantic State University, writing freelance columns and other…
A really interesting and pithy post by James Hamilton this weekend at Econbrowser: Presidents and the economy. The post discusses a new paper by Alan Blinder and Mark Watson: Presidents and the Economy: A Forensic Investigation. The paper tries to…
I saw The Fast and the Furious in Savannah on the film’s opening weekend in 2001. I was with Bobby Zarem, the legendary publicist who was still living in New York full time back in those days, and the late…
I haven’t been into downtown Savannah today to check out the new Anthropologie store at the corner of Congress Street and Montgomery Street on Franklin Square in the space last occupied by 606 East Cafe (a decade ago!), but the…
In a recent post to Peach Pundit, I noted that the state of Georgia saw job growth of 2.1 percent over the past year, but those gains have been clustered in the Atlanta metro area. So that’s not such good…
2013 has been a great year for community theatre in Savannah — I’ll have more to say about that in columns or posts before the end of the year. I try to support a lot of shows, but I certainly…
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday — just a time to get together with friends and family, to eat, to relax, and to reflect. Thankfully, no one in my family has ever considered shopping on Black Friday, unless it’s…
Last summer, I speculated about the shape of a potential streetcar network in this post. Now Chatham Area Transit has moved pretty quickly ahead with a plan for two streetcar lines — one on MLK and one on Fahm. And…
