I’ll begin here: I feel enormous sympathy for the family of slain Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail, and I hope they are able to move on as much as possible now that the execution of convicted murderer Troy Davis…
Category: Living Savannah
Should we abolish term limits for the Chatham County chairperson?
I’m not planning to make any sort of public endorsement of candidates, but I’m still going to have things to say on this blog about the upcoming election in Savannah and Chatham County. For residents of the city of Savannah,…
Today’s column on street crime and the “methodology” behind it
I’ve put “methodology” in quotation marks because today’s column wasn’t based on the sort of straightforward numbers crunching that I do pretty often when looking at the economy. And that’s because I wasn’t looking at the economy but at crime,…
Pics from the opening night of the Savannah Jazz Festival
The Savannah Jazz Festival began today with a really, really great jam session at Blowin’ Smoke on MLK. I took the camera. Here’s the schedule for the next three nights (Monday through Wednesday) at Blowin’ Smoke: Monday, Sept. 19: The…
Savannah area gas prices below $3.50 per gallon
I keep expecting gas prices at the pump to fall even more than they have — and I think the chart below suggests the likelihood of another drop of 5-10% in gas prices. According to GasBuddy.com, the average pump price…
Savannah the 8th best American city for foodies, says Travel and Leisure
Really? I have my doubts on this one, but who argues against Travel and Leisure’s almost endless lists? Their latest list covers America’s Best Cities for Foodies: “Travel + Leisure readers pick the best cities for foodies, where that next…
A few shots from Fashion’s Night Out in Savannah
My City Talk column today is largely devoted to the big success of last Thursday’s Fashion’s Night Out in Savannah. You can find that column here. (The second half of the column, btw, lists the details regarding next week’s mayoral…
Savannah alderwoman tackles the ugliness of billboards
Earlier this week in the SMN, 4th district alderwoman Mary Ellen Sprague tackled the issue of billboards: Let’s put an end to ‘ugly’ Aside from the three easily spottable errors (argh), I found this to be a convincing and interesting…
More on today’s City Talk: new event space, new policies for public murals, local artist commissioned for 9/11 piece by CNN
I covered a number of things in my City Talk column today in the SMN: Ships of the Sea to add garden, event space. I’m obviously very excited about the potential of that new garden, event space, and music venue…
AASU Economic Monitor shows continued slow growth in the Savannah area
From the SMN today, Local economy still growing, but slowly: “The regional economy is currently being supported by healthy tourism activity, strong ports activity and the improving health of the services sector, including business and professional services and transportation,†[Armstrong…
Great series of free Sunday lectures this fall at the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home
After three years as president of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, I was kind of thrilled to give up the leadership reins to Helen Borrello earlier this summer. But I’m still on the board and will likely stay involve on…
Works by Betsy Cain, Anthony Goicolea headline a great fall at Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center
While I have a lot of latitude in choice of topics for my Man About Town columns each week in Do in the Savannah Morning News, I rarely end up devoting that space to art reviews. There are a variety…
Savannah Music Festival launches new concert series: SMF Live
We’ve been getting a lot of good news in recent days here in Savannah. And this surely counts: the Savannah Music Festival’s new SMF Live Concert Series will be bringing world-class acts like Audra McDonald in November and the Jazz…
Atlanta moves ahead aggressively with licensing food trucks
In an earlier post — Will Savannah jump on the food truck bandwagon? — I discussed some of my serious doubts about whether Savannah is a viable place for a thriving food truck culture. But as I said in a…