When “Secrets of the Old Masters” opens Thursday at Trends and Traditions Gallery, some of the paintings will look familiar to local art patrons.

It's been 42 years since Steve Dunham and Dick Hanna met in a bar in New Orleans. They've been a couple ever since.

 "You are LATE," Quincy Quarterman Sr. said to me, while we watched last Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. Observance Day parade.

This past Saturday I woke up with strong resolve to take down the stale–feeling holiday decorations, clear the Christmas cards off the mantel, and hit the mall to exchange the wrong–size gifts. But amid holiday festivities, the last weeks of December and early January brought with them an onslaught of familiar names in the obituaries–friends, former work associates, acquaintances, and friends–of–friends. Jeff LaRoe, Ricky McAllaster, James Toles, Karen Nelson, Chris Fogarty, Peter Verity, Tom Dillon, ...

  “Get outside more. Get some exercise. Give back to the community. Expand your social network.” Remember these old New Year’s Resolutions? If a new approach is needed this year to address worn out goals, Mark Conway and his pals Sandman and Grace have the solution. Since early November, Conway has volunteered as a dog walker at the Humane Society of Savannah/Chatham County, spending an hour or two with his new buddies – several dozen ...

Just when I thought I had experienced Savannah from every angle, along comes tour guide Ava Kreutzer to show me just how much delight and adventure are in plain sight all over the city.

It seemed only fair to allocate Thanksgiving five days on the calendar last week instead of the sole Thursday assigned by Abraham Lincoln, and officially approved by Congress. No encroaching of Christmas into the last weekend of November, when there’s all of December stretching ahead for that holiday. At 3 p.m. Wednesday my official season of Thanksgiving began. No hustle, no hassle, just preparation and then celebration for the rest of that day, and the ...

Fall in Savannah offers too much temptation for the cultural gluttons among us. It appears that the nothing-to-do days of "Slow-vannah" are behind us once and for all. Last weekend's performance and events menu, though bursting with choices for every cultural palate, wasn't an exceptionally busy line up by current Savannah standards. Hardly a week passes in Savannah that isn't packed with music, art, literature, and theater for every taste and age group. For festival ...

By the end of my first visit to the new Southwest Chatham Branch of the Live Oak Public Library system, I half expected the library staff and the patrons to break into a dance routine.

Two Saturdays ago, five hours after flying out of Savannah, I steered a rented Ford along Connecticut state roads in the Farmington Valley, curving past farmhouses and barns, through towns settled before Georgia founder James Oglethorpe was born.

In hindsight, the September 30 closing of Backus Cadillac is hardly surprising. Known for generations as Backus Cadillac Pontiac, the auto dealership on East Victory Drive dropped part of its name earlier this year, when General Motors (GM) phased out the Pontiac brand during bankruptcy restructuring. Almost at once, the number of vehicles on Backus's new and pre-owned sales lots dwindled. By mid-September it seemed that fewer than a dozen cars remained.

At my house, a home-cooked meal usually involves ingredients that someone else cooked first. A classic chicken dinner starts with a rotisserie-cooked bird from the grocery store-I'll handle the rice, the lima beans, and the iced tea, thank you. Spaghetti supper? Nothing beats a jar of Paul Newman sauce doctored with sautéed onions, tomatoes, chopped garlic cloves, red peppers, and mushrooms.

Last Tuesday afternoon I took a bus tour of three of Savannah's historic neighborhoods, courtesy of the City of Savannah.

  Since I rely on print media, the internet and the radio for news reports, I've not seen much of the video coverage about this summer storm called "health care reform" that's been sweeping the country since July. No presidential press conferences, no Sunday morning deconstruction by elected officials or former White House staffers now serving as professors at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and only one video news report of the many town hall ...

  Savannah’s first year of hosting the 48 Hour Film Project (48HFP) was something of a personal victory for Tyler M. Reid, the Savannah producer for the two-day short film competition.   Last fall, Reid approached the national organizers of 48HFP and volunteered to produce the Savannah contest.  Reid competed in the Louisville event in 2007 and twice assisted with organizing the Cincinnati competition.   “They instantly shot me ...