So much interesting political rhetoric in the halftime Super Bowl ad from Chrysler featuring Clint Eastwood’s raspy, authoritative voice, beautiful multicultural imagery, and a hopeful message about the future of Detroit and the American automobile industry (even though Italian-based Fiat…
It’s not often that I get short of breath when I open my mail, but that’s what happened a few weeks ago when I realized that a big package with a zillion individual stamps on it was from Jack Metcalf…
Great piece up on Slate today: Does Google Accurately Guess Your Age and Gender? Click here to go to the page for preferences for Google ads. It contains Google’s assumptions about you. Those of you with shared computers might find…
The Savannah College of Art and Design has appeared in national rankings of top fashion schools. Savannah also has to have as many photographers per capita — some SCAD affiliated, many not — as any small city in America. Plus…
About a week and a half ago, I started a post about Savannah celebrity chef Paula Deen’s admission that she has type 2 diabetes (I did not realize at the time that she has had it for 3 years) and…
I can’t link to the whole article because The Chronicle of Higher Education requires paid subscriptions, but here’s the beginning of “Swimming Against the Political Tide, a Public University in Georgia Reaches Out to Hispanics” in the current issue: Nestled…
The 9th annual Psychotronic Film Festival runs from Sunday, Jan. 22 to Saturday, Jan. 28 at Muse Arts Warehouse here in Savannah. Click here for information on the schedule, location, tickets, and all the other particulars on the Psychotronic Film…
From the Washington Post’s Wyden: SOPA win was a `grassroots victory for the history books’ by columnist Greg Sargent: In a huge victory for grassroots online organizing, the Senate Dem leadership announced this morning that it was indefinitely postponing votes…
Family business prevented me from attending that 2011 Unchained Tour in Savannah, but I’m planning to make the 2011 version, scheduled for 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 10th at the Savannah History Museum at 303 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. And…
Another exciting addition to Savannah’s cultural calendar, now in its 3rd year. From the Mountainfilm website: Mountainfilm is dedicated to educating and inspiring audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving and conversations worth sustaining. Started in 1979,…
It had to happen, huh? The campaign site for Lamar Smith, chief sponsor of SOPA in the U.S. House, used an image without crediting the photographer as required. Techdirt has the story and a couple of big images here. The…
