Brighter Day to change hands as Janie and Peter Brodhead announce retirement
In 1978, a couple of idealistic 24-year-olds — Janie and Peter Brodhead — bucked the odds and opened Brighter Day Natural Foods in a then-uncertain neighborhood of Savannah – all before “natural” became mainstream. Forty-one years later the Brodheads are passing Brighter Day on to Kristin Russell and Brad Baugh. Russell owns The Sentient Bean,…
Telfair Museums announces curatorial promotions
Telfair Museums announces two curatorial appointments, promoting two current staff members to new roles. Effective November 25, Erin Dunn will be promoted to the position of Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Effective January 1, Jessica Mumford Estes will assume the title of Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the museum. Erin Dunn has…
Homicide on Fairmont Avenue
Savannah Police’s Criminal Investigations Unit detectives are investigating the fatal shooting of a 45-year-old male on the Southside this morning. “Around 2 a.m., officers were called to a residence on Fairmont Avenue in response to a shooting. Upon arrival, officers located Leopoldo Corona suffering from life-threatening injuries, which he succumbed to. Detectives are continuing to…
Bike Walk Savannah awarded grant for safety and education programs
Bike Walk Savannah has received a $31,869.28 grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS). “The grant will help finance BWS’s education programs, safety campaigns, work with local governments to improve infrastructure, printing of the popular Bike SAV bike map and guide, pedestrian safety materials, and other programs aimed at making Savannah and Chatham…
Lobby local elected officials on Dec. 6
Each year, on the second Monday of January, the Georgia Legislature gavels in for a 40 day session. Hundreds of paid lobbyists flock to the Capitol to “work the velvet ropes,” but it is always difficult for your average Chatham County constituent to get to Atlanta to talk with their elected officials. Many bills are…
Union Mission set to serve 300 Thanksgiving meals to the needy
In the spirit of the holidays, Union Mission will serve 300 Thanksgiving dinners, provided by Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation with the support of Sodexo, to local families and individuals in need. The event happens Wednesday, November 27 at Grace House, 120 Fahm St., 11 a.m.– 1:30 p.m. Volunteer opportunities are still available that day at Grace…
Rachel Baiman Band @The Roasting Room
Her songs are unique and appeal to music fans of all levels
A closer look at AURA Fest’s Underground Weekend
With a series of successful shows at the Sentient Bean under his belt, AURA Fest founder and promoter Tim Walls is looking ahead to 2020. First on the docket for Walls next year is AURA Fest’s Underground Weekend, a two-night festival at The Jinx featuring a diverse lineup of rock and metal bands that cover…
RoshambeauX @Barrelhouse South
RoshambeauX, from Atlanta, perfectly blend heavy, riff-driven rock and roll with synths and electronic sensibilities
Bomba Con Buya: a celebration of Puerto Rican music
‘Bomba is the oldest surviving genre in Puerto Rico, probably first documented in about the 1790s’
Rumours ATL make Fleetwood Mac fun
They cover a lot of musical ground in their show, but they naturally focus on the Nicks/Lindsey Buckingham years — the band’s most commercially successful
It’s all Golden
Golden is the line artist on the recently released “Over the Garden Wall: Circus Friends,” a graphic novel that’s a spinoff of the Cartoon Network series special of the same name
A happy Stripsgiving from Sweet Tease
The show will take place at Club One and will feature a lineup of local performers including Marquee Von Fister, Coco Rose’, and Lavender Haze, among many others
Two sides of the Thanksgiving table
History is often written by the victors, as the saying goes. It’s because of this that we recognize November as the month of Thanksgiving, where we feast with loved ones in remembrance of the first meeting between the English pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe. The feel-good part of the holiday is that the colonists and…
Review: Ford v Ferrari
The true-life story behind Ford v Ferrari is such a natural for the screen that it’s not surprising Hollywood had been eyeing it for at least a decade.
Cordovas’ brilliant 60s-tinged Americana
Joe Firstman reinvented himself with Cordovas, a band that draws on true Americana music and the country-rock of the 70s
Craig Finn, stripped-down and personal
To say that Lee Heidel is a fan of Craig Finn’s work would be something of an understatement
Words matter when reporting on bike safety issues
The language used by journalists shapes public response to their reporting and that shows up in the comments
Dirty Fuss, Xuluprophet @The Jinx
Nashville blues rockers Dirty Fuss play a grungy, edgy brand of rock and roll that provides just the right amount of dirt for fans of any rock era
Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Hanks is excellent as the saintly icon, and whenever he’s off the screen (which is a lot), we miss him fiercely and are forced to resign ourselves to yet another standard drama about a guy with daddy issues.
5 Questions with Daniel E. Smith
‘We’re trying to work our way through this social and political situation. We’re thinking about it.’
Editor’s Note: The Tony Thomas Conundrum
One of the most frequently asked questions in Savannah is, ‘How does this guy keep getting re-elected?’
Five years of change
Law’s full collection of over 4,000 photographs, taken from 1868 to 2002, was curated for the exhibit by Spracher and former Savannah mayor Dr. Otis Johnson, who was a part of the civil rights movement
The Irishman and Philip Glass
On Nov. 27, in what stands as something of a coup for Tybee Post Theatre, they’ve snagged the Savannah area’s sole engagement of fabled filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s latest gangster epic,
Ebenezer Greens’ revolution
The urban farm started as a project for owners Angie and Chris Mee and has grown into our area’s local supplier for microgreens
Interstellar Echoes @Victory North
The hits and fan favorites will surely be in the set, but you’ll also likely hear some deep cuts from the expansive and groundbreaking Floyd catalog
Kurtis Purtee: Keeping it hyperlocal in race for Sixth District
When I met Kurtis Purtee, the man hoping to oust Thomas in December’s runoff election for City Council, at a Savannah Mall coffee shop, it was supposed to be his day off
