I was honored again to win Connect Savannah‘s Best Local Columnist in their annual readers’ poll. I have sort of a built-in advantage, even though I freelance for the Savannah Morning News and not Connect itself: I write 156 columns…
I don’t know SCAD film major Nicholas Reichard, but I sure like how he sees Savannah. In this stunning timelapse photography, Reichard uses a couple of different cameras and a variety of lenses (you can see the technical specs here)…
I didn’t attend last Friday’s TEDxCreativeCoast at the Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center, but I watched some of it on live streaming — including Abraham Lightning Lebos on the piano and a great talk about hand-painted signs and neighborhood authenticity by…
I’ve studied and written a lot over the years about what makes cities work. Many of my ideas have independently coincided with, been refined by, or directly flowed from the minds of Christian and Amy Sottile, who have done truly…
I should have thought of posting this earlier today, but for the afternoon you can watch/listen to the stream of TEDxCreativeCoast: Watch live streaming video from tedxcreativecoast at livestream.com Here’s the remaining schedule (and they are on schedule): 12:24 –…
Well, as suspected all week, Floyd Adams has said he will run for mayor to replace Otis Johnson. A former two-term mayor and current school board member, Adams was beaten easily by Johnson when Adams tried to return to City…
I’ve been writing a lot less about the housing market in my City Talk columns since Adam Van Brimmer made the jump from sports writing to business writing. It’s been sort of a relief not to feel obligated to wade…
For more on the great show at the Jepson on Friday night that’s the culminating event of TEDxCreativeCoast, check out my column today, the great piece in last week’s Connect Savannah by Bill DeYoung, or Bill’s excellent interview with Givers…
Thanks to Peach Pundit for their post regarding a recent poll gauging support for Sunday alcohol sales in Georgia. As most of you presumably know, local municipalities in Georgia now have the right to vote at the polls on whether…
In my City Talk column today, I talk a bit about the proposal to use public bonds (about $50 million worth, probably) to back the building of a new hotel on Hutchinson Island that would serve as a convention headquarters.…
A few weeks ago, when Robert Redford’s Savannah-made The Conspirator was released, I posted my own review as well as two roundups of other reviews (here and here). After a promising limited release with a high per theater average, the…
First let me share a bit of completely unintentional irony. As some of you know, I’m president of the board of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home (term expiring this summer). The board members coordinating our spring lectures asked me to…
Several times in the last month or so, I’ve searched some online databases to try to figure out who SCAD has booked for this year’s New Alumni Concert, traditionally held on the Friday before graduation. Sometimes I locate the news…
It was a gorgeous day on Tuesday at the Bacon Park tennis complex, where Armstrong’s women’s and men’s tennis teams both defeated Flagler to advance to the round of 16 in the NCAA Division II championships. In an afternoon match,…
