TEE HEE. Hardyharhar. Bahahahahahaha. *snort snort*. Whatever your laugh sounds like, betcha it feels good—inside and out. Laughing relieves stress, stimulates organs, increases endorphins and improves the immune system. No […]
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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Local tradition, sounds fishy. Shad!
‘The shad are running, the shad are running!’ has been a ubiquitous spring cry since America’s founding days, and its abundance during February and March in the Savannah, Ogeechee and Altamaha rivers have fed many a grateful generation around these parts.
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A Short Field Guide to Sustainable Resistance
WHEW, what a week. B-bye, affordable health insurance. Zip it, National Park Service. Suck it, Standing Rock. Funding for the arts and humanities, flushed. Endangered Species Act, poached. Muslim ban, […]
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Hospice Savannah brings grief support to neighborhoods affected by gun violence
The two-year program has begun by identifying 200 children affected by homicide and will provide training to 100 volunteers.
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Dear folks, everything is possible
Before their stories converged, however, there were two tremendously different tales.
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March on and on and on
WE DID IT, y’all. We made history—or herstory, as it were. Collectively, Saturday’s marches have added up to the largest demonstration for the rights of women and the people who […]
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Safer streets, one gun at a time?
The accumulated 387 million manufactured in the last century means there are currently more firearms in America than people.
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From Sholom Aleichem to Spock
LOOK, there’s always going to be a Holocaust movie. The undeniable horror of Hitler’s genocide left an indelible scar on Jewish history, and its seemingly infinite tales of tragedy and […]
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Help end human exploitation at Savannah Traffick Jam on Jan. 28
LAST November, a whopping 83 percent of Georgia voters approved the Safe Harbor Act, which established a dedicated fund to help the youngest victims of sex trafficking. The overwhelming passage […]
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The urge to purge
I started with the attic on the third day of January, throwing broken suitcases and empty computer boxes down the stairway while howling like a banshee. The dog cowered as I carted ten trash bags to the lane, for once in my life piling garbage up so high I had to call 311 for a special pick-up, landfills be damned.
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Starlandia’s Space Station launches new galaxy of classes, workshops and performances
THERE ARE those who believe that Savannah’s Starland district is a multi-dimensional vortex, an attraction point for some of the weirdest, wackiest and most wonderful elements of the city. With […]