I waffled right up till the last minute about my listening schedule on day 3 of the first Savannah Stopover. So I just let myself drift where circumstance took me. I actually had some work to do early on Friday,…
UPDATE, 3/5/12: Click here for the latest info I have on this film. UPDATED AT 7 p.m. eastern time, March 15th: The link is to the video is no longer live (it was posted by a number of people on…
A study in contrasts at the late shows at The Jinx on the opening night of the first Savannah Stopover. Das Racist was the headliner. The rap corps sprung to fame in recent years with infectious raps that aimed often…
This is the eighth (and maybe the last) in occasional posts previewing acts slated for the Savannah Stopover festival March 9-12, 2011. Check out previous posts about Astronautalis; Little Tybee; Class Actress; The Drenched Earth Tour; Murder By Death, Fake…
This is the seventh in occasional posts previewing acts slated for the Savannah Stopover festival March 9-12, 2011. Check out previous posts about Astronautalis; Little Tybee; Class Actress; The Drenched Earth Tour; Murder By Death, Fake Problems, and Buried Beds;…
This is the sixth in occasional posts previewing acts slated for the Savannah Stopover festival March 9-12, 2011. Check out previous posts about Astronautalis, Little Tybee, Class Actress, The Drenched Earth Tour, and Murder By Death, Fake Problems, and Buried…
I always believed that the Telfair Museum of Art should go modern with its new building. I won’t try to recap the decade-old controversy here, but many prominent Savannahians thought the planned new building should “fit in” — i.e, that…
Lots of interesting headlines this morning. I could go on and on about each of these items, but I’ll keep it short. An interesting article from Maria Saporta with the Atlanta Business Chronicle on the pretty obvious political quandary of…
There’s a great piece in the Roanoke Times about their current city manager — and our former assistant one — Chris Morrill: “New Roanoke city manager keeps a low profile”. Given the recent turmoil in Savannah over the city manager…
My column in the Savannah Morning News today, “Harbor deepening and its benefits”, is one of the most important I’ve written in some time. I am not going to quote or even recap all of it here, so I’d encourage…
This is the fifth in occasional posts previewing acts slated for the Savannah Stopover festival March 9-12, 2011. Check out previous posts about Astronautalis, Little Tybee, Class Actress, and The Drenched Earth Tour. Since I’m previewing three bands, this is…
Every year when I would see Girl Scouts selling cookies from a table in front of the Juliette Gordon Low Home, I’d have the same thought: “Why can’t every business do that on their sidewalk if there’s still plenty of…
There are still details to be worked out, but Rochelle Small-Toney will be Savannah’s new city manager, with no “acting” or “interim” in front of her title. The question that Savannahians should be asking right now is this: why didn’t…
You can find the full Savannah Stopover schedule here. Various segments of Savannah seem totally clued in to the Stopover, but I’ve run into a lot of people who still don’t understand its scope and, especially in its first year,…
