In my City Talk column on Sunday, much of which was devoted to the new coffeeshop Foxy Loxy, I closed with a brief overview of how the removal of the I-16 flyover will actually improve traffic flow in the southwest…
It’s hard to be sure what to make of this news reported a couple of days ago by Larry Peterson of the Savannah Morning News: Leading Republican Eric Johnson backs Democrat Edna Jackson for Savannah mayor Click on that link…
I’ve been inside Ruel Joyner’s apartment on the second floor of 24e. Earlier this year, I interviewed him in his capacity as Downtown Business Association president; we met downstairs in the store, took the elevator up to the second level,…
The Savannah Morning News coverage of Visit Savannah’s new video produced for YouTube can be found here. According to that piece, Visit Savannah spent $15,000 on the video in the hopes that it will “go viral” on YouTube. I don’t…
I’ve already posted my thoughts on two other issues that will be on the ballot this fall here in Chatham County: Should we abolish term limits for the Chatham County chairperson? Will Sunday sales pass in Savannah and other local…
Gas prices are finally following to the level I expected weeks ago. According to GasBuddy.com, Savannah area prices for unleaded have fallen to about $3.25 per gallon. I’d expect them to fall further, and we’ll soon be seeing some stations…
The full lineup for the Savannah Film Festival is now available via a PDF download at the Savannah Box Office website. If you’re looking for IMDB links to a lot of the films, check out a previous post here. Some…
I had quite a bit to say back in February 2006 about the Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center, including this riff on the architecture: It may be a long time before we can clearly position Safdie’s building in the pantheon of…
A piece by Mary Landers in today’s Savannah Morning News: S.C. denies deepening permit The second paragraph: “In a notice filed in the late afternoon and posted on its website, the state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control denied the…
There are any number of reasons to attend Re:Fest on Saturday, October 1st: It’s a fundraiser for the Humane Society. It’s a fundraiser for Emergent Structures, an extremely active group of community members (some but not all SCAD-affiliated) that have…
Just a quick post to pull a few issues together. In my City Talk column today — Where did all the jobs go? — I write in some detail about the sectors of the local economy that have accounted for…
I’ve already written a post about one choice that Chatham County voters will have at the polls this November: the removal of term limits on the chairperson of the Chatham County Commission. Today’s topic is Sunday package sales. Here’s what…
In my City Talk column today — When third place isn’t so bad — I talk again about Ray Oldenburg’s theory of third places: In his book The Great Good Place, Oldenburg demonstrates why these gathering places are essential to…
I don’t really mean the title of this post to sound so snarky. I’m just asking the logical question in response to alderman Van Johnson’s words at the end of an excellent article today in the SMN As repairs mount,…
