HELEN WASHINGTON likes to say she has a “living room with a view.” The sprightly senior has lived on Henry Street for over 60 years, most of them in the […]
Jessica Leigh Lebos
Community Editor Jessica Leigh Lebos has been writing about interesting people, vexing issues and anything involving free food for more than 20 years. She introduces herself at cocktail parties as southern by marriage.
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Humane Society’s annual carnival brings out the party animal in all of us
Those with opposable thumbs can aim for the target to dunk their favorite Savannah Derby Devils, and everyone wants a lickalicious smooch from Miss Zoe Dog’s Kissing Booth.
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Finding serenity with the Saints & Sages
The Saints & Sages of West Victory Drive have been meeting for six years and boast an average age of about 80—bolstered by Elder Leona Williams, who’s 93 and still has her own parking space out front.
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Raise the (little) roof for homeless vets
CHATHAM-SAVANNAH Authority for the Homeless Executive Director Cindy Kelley approaches the overgrown forest behind the Blackshear Basketball Complex off Wheaton Street as if she’s walking up to someone’s front yard. […]
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The New Documentarians ‘Feed The Hungry’
LAST FALL, when Will Martin and Kareem McMichael were enrolled in the Georgia Film Academy at Savannah Technical College, they needed to find a film set to work on in […]
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Film Biz Recycling serves Savannah’s production industry while cutting waste
In Hollywood, where there are cavernous prop warehouses, some props get returned to storage or donated. For productions shot anywhere else—including Savannah—chances are that it all ends up in the garbage.
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Can Savannah create good parking karma?
This is going to be hard to believe—the new plan seems to create better and more parking options to accommodate our many visitors while taking into account residents’ quality of life. Quit yer scoffing and consider.
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Komen Race for the Cure: More than pink
Sister survivors Sylvia and Cynthia agree that Saturday’s mass of magenta and coral brings deeper meaning.
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Science, it’s a thing
“If we cut the public funding for basic research, it’s going to be very difficult to maintain the standards of knowledge in our society.”
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The winning trifecta of Soul Proprietors
It’s a simple equation: Three local businesses plus three local charities, divided up amongst three local film crews. The resulting films are ranked, and the winner walks away with a […]
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Georgia’s WIN List sees record participation in political training boot camps
An ethnically-diverse, multi-generational crowd sat rapt as facilitator Kate Coyne-McCoy ran down a rainbow of Powerpoint slides on everything from how to ask for money to creating an authentic message to building a contact list.
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Aggressive Civility and other important newspeak
Jim Reed and Phillips Reynolds Price have co-founded the new social action organization, which not only makes a fabulous hashtag but stages events and sells swag to benefit the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center.