A Brighter Day ahead

Now, after 41 years in business, the Brodheads announce they’re passing the reins of their beloved store over to Kristin Russell and Brad Baugh of the Sentient Bean

The Train Wrecks’ Homegrown Holiday Hoedown: Nine years strong

For a ninth year, everyone’s favorite locals The Train Wrecks are combining music, holiday cheer, charity, and beer for a great cause. The band is partnering with Loop It Up Savannah once again for the event, and asking people to bring items like canned goods, art supplies, gently used children’s jackets and sweaters, and toys.…

Go Around the World in Eighty Days with Savannah Rep

Jules Verne’s 1872 adventure novel Around the World In Eighty Days has been adapted numerous times in all different formats; stage, screen, written word, and in language after language (it was originally written in French, after all). There are, of course, the movies and TV adaptations in more recent history—including the 1989 miniseries starring Pierce…

Second year of shakin’ it at the Savannah Burlesque Festival

After a successful first year, the Savannah Burlesque Festival returns for another round. Producer Rebel Vitale brought on fellow performer Jack N’ Thacox as co-producer this year. They invited last year’s producer Rita D’LaVane on as a fellow judge to help sort through their nearly 250 submissions. “We felt like it was really important to…

Georgia Southern Economic Monitor: Slight local expansion offset by signs of 2020 slowdown

Georgia Southern University’s latest Economic Monitor, which analyzes Q3 2019 data and identifies trends affecting the regional economy, reports that the Savannah metro economy “expanded during the third quarter of 2019, reversing a modest dip in the second quarter.” “Growth in electricity sales and port activity boosted regional economic activity, offsetting some softness in retail…

Review: Richard Jewell

The film is supposed to be about the championing of an innocent man who was unjustly and irresponsibly maligned. But when the picture repeatedly sets said objective on the backburner while taking equally irresponsible potshots at other targets, then it tends to diminish the points the movie is attempting to make.

Blues-rock titan Tab Benoit brings rock show to Victory North

BLUES GUITAR LEGEND Tab Benoit is a renowned musician and songwriter, whose most recent endeavor finds him taking on the role of business owner. Benoit, along with his manager, recently launched Whiskey Bayou Records—a label specializing in guitar-driven music that often draws from the Delta blues and blues-rock influences that he’s known for in his…


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