CEMA offers basic emergency training class
Chatham Emergency Management Agency will be offering a free class, “You Are the Help Until Help Arrives,” to prepare members of the community for life-threatening emergency situations. “Citizens attending can expect to learn important skills such as, how to stop bleeding, how to correctly position an injured person, and how to provide comfort and keep…
City offers three hours of free parking in garages on Thursdays/Fridays during holiday season
From Thanksgiving until December 22, the first three hours of parking are free in all City parking garages every Thursday and Friday. Regular rates apply after the first 3 hours; free parking not offered during designated special event parking. “With more than 3,000 spaces in the City’s five conveniently-located garages, there is almost always parking…
District 4 Town Hall meeting to include discussion of proposed Fire Fee
District 4 Alderman Julian Miller will hold a Town Hall meeting on Monday, November 27th beginning at 6 p.m. at the Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn Street. “The focus of the meeting will be to provide updates on neighborhood concerns, public safety and the proposed fire fee,” says a City spokesperson,
Sex Offender arrested
Chatham County Sheriff’s Office S.O.R.T. Unit arrested wanted sex offender Montae Chisholm on Nov. 17 at 602 E. 32nd Street in Savannah. “Chisholm had been a fugitive from justice for almost a year and was wanted by the Sheriff’s Office on outstanding warrants for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender (Felony), Felony Probation Violation…
Leopold’s Ice Cream set to open Airport location
This morning, Stratton Leopold will host a ceremonial lighting of the neon and grand opening of Leopold’s Ice Cream’s new full-service shop at the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport. The new location is at the top of the escalator. 400 Airways Ave. There is already a Leopold’s kiosk in the TSA security area, which opened this…
Editor’s Note: The City’s finances are on fire
What is confounding about the City’s dire budgetary shortfall is how the numbers just don’t seem to add up with the reality we see around us. Tourism has never been higher. The Port of Savannah has never been busier. A new bar or restaurant, or two or three, opens every week. We literally cannot build…
Is there a general consensus on aspartame’s health effects?
As recently as 2016 Pepsi was still dithering over which fake sugar to put in its no-cal drinks
Granger Smith, Morgan Wallen @The Stage on Bay
After landing the Number 1 spot on the iTunes country album charts in 2016 thanks to his album Remington, Granger Smith has been a favorite.
Loi Loi, Dip, TBD @El-Rocko Lounge
Loi Loi crafts songs in English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese.
Funk-rock pioneers Mother’s Finest continue to make Georgia proud
ATLANTA’S pride and joy, Mother’s Finest, went down in history as the ultimate upstaging act. Touring with the likes of AC/DC, Aerosmith, The Who, and Black Sabbath, the firing-on-all-cylinders band has a history of stealing the show, and after 45 years as a group, they’ve still got it. Fusing hard rock with soulful funk, founders…
Peewee Moore @The Jinx
The outlaw country singer-songwriter is a frequent player ’round these parts
Fairgrounds site still in limbo after soundstage proposal rejected
The way Bowen tells it, what Savannah needs is not an expensive “crystal palace,” in his words, but a soundstage designed to serve the needs of the actual film projects which would shoot here.
Velvet Caravan @Good Times Jazz Bar & Restaurant
Jazz fans rejoice: Good Times offers live music every night of the week!
Lisa D. Watson bridges the environment
TWO YEARS AGO, Telfair’s Erin Dunn and Rachel Reese visited Lisa D. Watson’s home for one of their #art912 studio tours. They were met with a mini scale model of the Jepson Center, complete with tiny renditions of Watson’s paintings stuck onto the walls with Velcro. “They were like, ‘Oh, my God, you built a…
Embrace the sourness
The range of sourness, the various critters used to create sours and a few different ways to introduce those critters allow for a huge spectrum of beers to fit any palate.
Savannah Children’s Book Festival brings the pages to life
SNUGGLING UP with a cherished book and a favorite kid is a bedtime ritual that crosses cultures and generations. But when J’Miah Nabawi is telling the story, nobody’s going to sleep anytime soon. The award-winning storyteller employs drums, dance and different voices while acting out the tales featured in his children’s books, and sitting still…
An outrageous evening with the Divine Feminines
Raised a feminist but nerdy and unsure of myself, I saw in drag queens’ giant towers of teased-up hair and painted dragon talons a powerful archetype rarely seen in daily life.
Happy Cranksgiving!
The local event not only helps feed hungry people through Emmaus House, it also demonstrates how bikes can be used for chores which we might assume would be possible only by cars
The Diplomat is an omnivore’s delight
IT’S THE earliest hours of Saturday morning, and you and your squad are famished from a Friday happy hour that turned into an all night party. (I mean, this is Savannah. Isn’t this every Friday?) One of you wants to tear into something meaty on bread, someone else is feeling a crunchy salad and the…
Review: Justice League
Gal Gadot again ends up as a saving grace, and she also figures at the center of one of the few action sequences (a bank robbery) that’s exciting rather than cumbersome.
