ONE OF THE faulty stereotypes about Savannah is that it’s insular and not open to outsiders.

Savannah is full of people helping other people, often for little credit or personal gain. Three years ago, one such project, Weddings for Warriors, launched in Savannah. This all–volunteer effort matches local photographers and venues to provide free wedding and vow renewal ceremonies for active duty military personnel, including Guard and Reserve. “The project was conceived as a way of saying a heartfelt ‘thank you’ to active duty military personnel in Savannah and the Lowcountry,” ...

IT'S ABOUT a strict pecking order and complex rules of social standing. It’s about betrayal, envy and subtle mutual acrimony.  It’s about interesting and unusual accents.

WITH ALL THE back-and-forth over harbor deepening and other jobs issues, I’d actually say if you want to be bullish on a local product, art is your hot stock.

As longtime readers know, one of my hobbies is collecting Nigerian scam emails. This week, as is my annual habit, I’d like to share my pick for best Nigerian scam of 2011.

If you're tired of hearing about the supposed Mayan prediction of world's end in 2012 - I certainly am! -the suspense is close to being over, one way or another.

It’s a real stretch, I know. It doesn’t even really make sense. But the other day when I saw the photos of that strangely forlorn final convoy of U.S. troops pulling out of Iraq, the first thing that popped into my head was the three wise men riding through the desert on the way to Bethlehem, following that star. I was probably suffering from a surplus of Christmas cheer. But the two images do have ...

AFTER THE recent city elections — the results of which, let’s just say, didn’t completely satisfy everyone — I kept hearing this comment: “The people have spoken. It’s time for everybody to just accept the results and move on.”

Seventy years ago this week, the United States entered World War II after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.

AS A HANDFUL of you may know, there is a mayoral and alderman–at–large runoff election this Tuesday, Dec. 6.

With the swarming proliferation of big box stores, shoddy subdivisions, and distribution warehouses, it’s easy to forget that Chatham County was mostly rural not so very long ago.

BOTTOMS UP, y’all. It’s a good thing voters approved Sunday retail alcohol sales last week. We’ll need every possible day of drinking to dull the pain of the other election results.

NOW THAT THE whole thing's over, I can go ahead and tell you: The Rock ‘n' Roll part I totally get. The Marathon part? Not so much. Look, my people invented marathons. As we've seen, the Greeks are apparently not very good at applied macroeconomics, but we're well aware that the dude who ran the first marathon in history died seconds after finishing it. Pheidippides had just enough time to gasp "We have won" -- ...

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office, a rottenness begins in his conduct. -- Thomas Jefferson COUPLE OF funny things about term limits: 1) The only people who strongly oppose term limits are politicians who stand to lose their jobs because of them. 2) We already have term limits for governors and mayors, and since 1951, the president — basically for every executive office. No one seems to have a problem with ...

SEVERAL THINGS came to mind the other night at the District One and Two City Council candidate forum at St. John Baptist Church on Hartridge Street — a lovely and welcoming sanctuary, by the way, if you’ve never been there.