Another Safe//Sound production at The Sparetime. These upstairs shows at the new-ish bar at the corner of Congress and MLK have drawn good audiences and intriguing acts that likely wouldn’t have stopped in Savannah at all in the past.
Dex Romweber put on a great show last night at Dollhouse Studios — a new venture in West Savannah. Romweber, formerly of Flat Duo Jets, now plays much of the time with his sister Sara, the drummer in the Dex Romweber Duo. Sara is a trip to watch as her long hair flies as she attacks the drums, but it’s Dex’s show — that deep voice is so compelling and crystal clear. He was sure on point last night.
I’m not getting into the relative merits of having additional government employees, but it’s a simple fact that governments at all levels have added employees as the nation’s population has increased — and those increases have generally been affected hardly at all by recessions. But this time is different.
Savannah is a city that sometimes inspires awe, too, but at the same time we seem to get caught up in an inordinate amount of petty wrangling.
The Kentucky State Capitol, in all its fall beauty in the picture by Hannah Reel posted by the Frankfort State Journal
As a friend and I arrived a few minutes late to Live Wire Music Hall on River Street on Wednesday night for a show by up-and-coming British star Laura Marling, we noticed a number of young people sitting and standing outside the club, where they could still hear Marling’s intense, airy vocals.
Chatham County Commissioners, concerned primarily with drivers not yielding as required to pedestrians on roads like Johnny Mercer Boulevard in the unincorporated county, appear to be taking a modest step to increase fines against motorists who violate the law. From Eric Curl’s Ordinance aims to hike driver fines in Chatham County in today’s Savannah Morning News: [. . .]
Gallup’s daily updated tracking poll of the presidential race shows Romney with a solid 6 point lead.
I’ve been talking a lot about Nate Silver’s great work at FiveThirtyEight, where he and his team input every presidential poll into a complex computer model. Here’s the first part of Silver’s extended interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show:
So what will those 18-20 year olds do tonight? Who knows? They certainly won’t be in a safe place under the watchful eye of experienced servers who could lose their jobs if underage patrons were found drinking. But they might drive to other cities where they’re welcomed into such places — like Statesboro, Charleston, Athens, and so forth and so on.
Another Wordle word cloud — this time from the 2nd presidential debate. This is created from the Washington Post transcript with words such as the following removed: President, Obama, Governor, Romney, Candy, Crowley, applause, crosstalk, Mr., etc.
Right now, the FiveThirtyEight model gives Obama a 63.8% chance of winning on Nov. 6. That’s down dramatically from the 87.1% chance before the first debate. FWIW, InTrade has Obama with a 60.4% chance of re-election.
