The performance prompted Spin to ask: Who’s That White Guy Performing With Big Boi on ‘Letterman’?
Savannah native Big Boi joined by SCAD grad Jake Troth for Letterman appearance
William Schaff embroiders arresting image for The Casket Girls’ upcoming release
The use of the medium sure conjures images of mourning samplers from the Victorian era and before.
Andrew Sullivan and The Dish part with Daily Beast, seek paying members for ad-free content
Will gregarious online readers get used to the idea of tiny monthly payments to some of the sites they value most highly? I’m guessing that Sullivan has forged a big enough name and readership that this will work for him. I’m just not sure how long the coattails will be for smaller sites and blogs.
About that “deal” on the “fiscal cliff” and a 4th place finish for 2012 in Calculated Risk’s economic predictions contest
The House Republicans who were so angered by the lack of spending cuts in the deal tonight were the same ones who killed the much bigger deal that Boehner and Obama were negotiating in recent weeks. Obama’s offer that was on the table had $1.2 trillion in revenue increases and $925 billion in spending cuts over 10 years.
Cusses’ video “Don’t Give In” a finalist for spot in mtvU rotation
Savannah’s The Casket Girls get rave review in Washington Post for debut album “Sleepwalking”
Well, I was looking at the homepage of The Washington Post in search of more details on the “fiscal cliff” deal, when something a lot more interesting showed up: Quick spins: The Casket Girls’ ‘Sleepwalking’ is creepy-cool music
An interview with actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers from 2000, unpublished until now
This lengthy interview with Jonathan Rhys Meyers in 2000 was intended for a now-defunct magazine. It’s being published here for the first time.
From Calculated Risk: “Fiscal Cliff” Deal
The big question here is with the sequester — the mandated spending cuts across the board that are expected to have a particularly harsh impact on defense spending.
“Fiscal cliff”: important policy questions, but no “crisis”
The worst case scenario — tax increases to levels of 2000 accompanied by some sharp spending cuts — will put us back on a much faster path to a balanced budget and a reduced federal debt. Going over the so-called “cliff” would hurt growth and likely put us back in recession, but it will also help clean up our long-term problems.
That’s hardly a “crisis”.
Where’s the Savannah economy headed in 2013?
I’m hopeful that city staff learned something from their terrible handling of the controversy early in 2012 about the Savannah Slow Ride and their initially poor handling of the issue of horse carriages in City Market.
In age of new media, where are our civic spaces?
I don’t really have any clear answers here, but there are obvious dangers in Facebook — a for-profit corporation with astonishing reach that’s under incredible pressure to add users and sell ads — being our dominant public space on the web.
Longshoremen’s contract extension staves off strike
Not much news yet, but: Longshoremen’s contract on East and Gulf coasts extended for 30 days | savannahnow.com