Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Saxapahaw the next Austin? Washington Post on my old stomping grounds
As many of you know (and I've mentioned before) Saxapahaw is a small unincorporated town just over the county line from Orange into Alamance. It's an old textile mill town in North Carolina west of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Saxapahaw Lake and the dam that provided energy to the mill are still intact.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
A wonderful show and a sad goodbye
Last night I attended the Joe Ely show at the ArtsCenter. The medium sized crowd (for what should have been a sellout) was remarkably enthusiastic and brought Joe and his top-notch band back for two encores. The combination of a terrific musical retrospective of his long career was used as a way to showcase some wonderful new tunes from his latest cd available at Amazon or iTunes.
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| From http://www.ely.com/ |
Monday, June 13, 2011
The creative economy and economic development
I was contacted recently about the creative economy and how arts and creativity impact community economic success. It was partly about a Webinar a colleague and I had conducted on how to measure the creative economy. The fellow, an economic development professional named Dean Barber, ultimately posted an interesting blog post on the topic entitled "How the Governor Got His Groove On." Read it here.
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