“13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests” by Dean and Britta has certainly been reviewed before, including in Charleston during its Spoleto run here and by the New York Times in 2009 here. Even though I had heard…
Well it’s not going to count as another Georgia bank failure, but another bank with a Savannah office failed yesterday: Charleston-based Atlantic Bank & Trust. According to the FDIC press release: The three branches of Atlantic Bank and Trust will…
In a post yesterday, I talked at some length about signs that could indicate we are entering a new (double-dip) recession right now. Check it out here. Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly data showed sharply lower job growth…
I’ve already written about urban planner Christian Sottile’s great presentation about cities as living beings at the recent TEDxCreativeCoast here at the Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center here in Savannah. Below you’ll find the video of Tom Kohler’s talk and slideshow…
The National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee takes its time. It wasn’t until December 2008 that the NBER declared firmly the the recent recession began in December 2007. And it wasn’t until September 2010 that the NBER…
In my City Talk column today, How many tourists does Savannah want?, I mention three unresolved issues that all raise questions about tourism in Savannah: How many tourists do we want? What kind of tourists do we want? And what…
[UPDATE, 5/31: Case-Shiller: National Home Prices Hit New Low in 2011 Q1] About three weeks ago, I wrote a post asking How far will home prices fall? Today the NYT is reporting Housing Index Is Expected to Show a New…
I think the first Spoleto USA show that I saw was the opera Wozzeck by Alan Berg in 1997, a spare and stark production — a bit too spare and stark for me, especially after a big, rich dinner with…
A couple of days ago I wrote a post titled “Early signs of trouble for harvests in wake of Georgia’s stringent new immigration law”. That post cited an AJC article with credible claims of severe labor shortages at farms that…
With almost five months of blogging behind me, a few observations. (This is probably only of interest to diehard readers, close friends, or other bloggers.) I continue to make a lot more posts than I thought I would, but: I’m…
SCAD has not officially released the news (as far as I know), but The Dirty Guv’nahs will be opening for Cold War Kids for the college’s annual New Alumni Concert in Forsyth Park on the evening of Friday, June 3rd.…
Ever since I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by cryptozoology, which can be defined I guess as the study of animals whose existence has never been proven. “Study” being a pretty loose word here, since, in the absences of physical…
