There’s a great photograph in the NY Post today — accompanying The last days of disco: Studio 54 auction preview photo gallery — of Diana Ross and Richard Gere from back in the day.
With numbers like these in housing, which is typically a strong driver during economic recoveries, we could see a stronger economy in 2013 than many are expecting.
As I’ve noted in previous posts, the headliners include of Montreal (in a free show in Forsyth Park), The Whigs, Chelsea Light Moving with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Mac DeMarco, and The Last Bison, among many, many more.
I’ll admit: I love Oprah Winfrey. She’s a hugely fascinating media figure with a great American story. But she’s not exactly known for her penetrating interview style. It remains to be seen if she had the skills to get real…
I think Facebook is just getting a little tired. Having blurred the meaning of “friend”, many users don’t know whether they trust the service for private use and whether they want to put themselves out there on a public platform. Those with limited networks seem to have limited and repetitive activity in their news feeds. There’s too much forwarding and sharing of pablum.
Interestingly, in the last few half hour or so, The Atlantic has published a post by Jeffrey Goldberg about Lawrence Goldberg’s new book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, presumably a critical investigation of Scientology.
The young Savannah band Deep Search was recently booked to play the 2013 Savannah Stopover — one of a limited number of local acts playing the March 7-9 festival. (I have been and will be posting a lot about Stopover.) On Saturday, Feb. 2, Deep Search will be playing a really promising gig in the interesting upstairs room at The Sparetime with Elim Bolt and Brave Baby.
We can make long-term spending part of the debate if we want, but the issue is really about paying bills that have already been incurred and meeting spending requirements that are already existing law — and wildly popular on top of that.
“Emergent Structures is designing and building an educational greenhouse that will serve special populations high-school students from the Savannah public school system. “
Key takeaways:
1. Despite various economic projections, no one can be certain what the trade impacts of the Panama Canal expansion will be.
2. The massive expenditures of tax dollars in the U.S. are happening without any clear national plan to maximize spending. States with major ports see themselves in competition with other states, not as working cooperatively for the betterment of the country.
Mary Lee is a big great white shark — 16 feet and 3500 pounds. If you click on through and sort the map to see Mary Lee’s travels, you’ll see that she’s been staying very near the coast, but traveling some pretty large distances.
