WHEN YOU INFUSE Savannah soul with a Parliament-Funkadelic-esq rock vibe, you get LaFaye Benton. Her soundscape is beyond the conventional “lounge singer” of yesteryear. Her incongruous zest for life has […]
Brittany Herren
Brittany Herren is a freelance writer and a passionate supporter of the local art and music scenes. As a musician turned 30-something professional executive, she lives vicariously through her story subjects and usually writes while listening to 60s, French pop or Patsy Cline. Herren has a B.A. in English from Valdosta State University and an M.A. in Professional Communication and Leadership from Armstrong State University. She lives in the Savannah area with her husband Nathan — former bass player for Bent Out Of Shape — and their two ginger toddlers.
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Connecting Jonestown tragedy with COVID
GROWING UP IN Indianapolis, G. Rettig and Jeremiah Stuard became inadvertent descendants of one of America’s darkest and most curious histories, Jonestown. While they did not personally know any of […]
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How to Avoid Becoming A Victim of Crime this Holiday Season
PACKAGE THEFT IS at an all-time high in the United States. Between a global pandemic and now the kickoff to the holiday season (marked by enthusiastic social media users as […]
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The Cold Case of Anthony Minor
Larry Smith can recall the moment he learned of his little brother’s death with vivid detail, even with the distance of ten years. Freshly cooked fish and shrimp released a […]
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Seeking the killer of Ernest Manker
Aside from becoming a murder statistic in a city where he didn’t even live, there was nothing remarkably striking about Ernest’s life that would make him a particularly good target for murder
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The case of Kadijah Pendergraph and Nathaniel Harvey, Jr.
Savannah doesn’t just have a gun problem; it has a vigilante problem
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The death of LaTanya ‘Taye’ Williams
Taye’s case was not a far cry from Toliver’s acclimation to reckless and vengeance-fed gun violence
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The solvable, unsolved murder of Saundra Thomas
IN THE early morning hours of March 5, 2017, Detective Zachary Burdette with the then Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department passed through the yellow-crime scene tape strung decisively around the stucco […]
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Halting Chatham County’s child sex trade
‘These girls would just get stuck in this cycle of drugs and prostitution that they could not get out of’