I’m sure a lot of readers of this blog have been following the strange saga of Maker’s Mark and its “overlords” at Beam Inc. and their decision — followed by a reversal of that decision — to slightly reduce the…
From the STS9 YouTube page: Since forming in Atlanta over a decade ago, instrumental electronic rock band STS9 has experienced a meteoric rise to the forefront of the international music scene. Consistently ranked among Pollstar Magazine’s list of top-grossing touring acts […]
From the Facebook invitation: Third Annual A-Town Get Down. This year we have made it all day long. More music, more art, more fun. Confirmed acts: Loudon Wainwright III, Sloan Wainwright, Eric Culberson Band, Word of Mouth, Swamp Cabbage, Savannah…
Savannah tells the story of legendary Savannah River market hunter Ward Allen. It has already been booked for opening night of the 4th annual Charleston Film Festival.
No big surprise here, but over at Peach Pundit Buzz Brockway has posted the following tweet and said that a second source has confirmed the information: Congressman @jackkingston was at the Forsyth County GOP meeting this morning and acknowledgedhe will…
I especially appreciated Gore’s invocation of this passage from Lincoln’s December 1862 message to Congress: “The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
I’ll confess that Georgia Music Magazine, which is a product of the nonprofit Georgia Music Foundation, hadn’t really been on my sprawling media radar screen, and I’m not sure Savannah has been consistently on GMM‘s radar screen either.
I’ll make a prediction. On March 1, the relatively harsh cuts of the sequester will automatically go into effect. That will spark a huge outcry from citizens across the country who are most immediately affected: folks who live near major…
The BeltLine is an ambitious rails-to-trails project that would link 45 Atlanta neighborhoods.
I missed this interview when it aired a couple of days ago, but I’m thrilled to link to it now. Tom Wilson did some great work as a planner with the Metropolitan Planning Commission and has been workign for the…
From one of Calculated Risk’s post last night: I’d like to mention a few key economic themes that I will write more about soon: • Residential investment (RI) has bottomed and is now contributing to economic growth. Since RI is…
I don’t know if anything special will happen at 1 a.m. — or more likely a little later — on the night of Thursday, March 7 when Mac DeMarco takes the stage at The Jinx, but even a mundane DeMarco appearance is likely to be memorable.
