Better Block Party this weekend in conjunction with the First Friday Art March aims to show what people can achieve when they mobilize their resources.
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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Heck on Wheels: Derbytaunts host open enrollment through April
One thing you don’t hear much of at a Savannah Jr. Derbytaunts practice is crying.
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Toast to the Coast: Signature cocktails raise funds for 100 Miles
“We thought this would be a fun way to highlight our mission, which is to protect, preserve and enhance the Georgia’s hundred miles of coastline,” explains Kelly Patton, 100 Miles’ membership and outreach coordinator.
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‘Savannah struck’ in Ardsley Park
The benevolent hosts opened their sumptuous home for full access, allowing guests to amble around the azalea-fringed brick courtyard and through the second-floor bedrooms bedecked in vintage wallpaper.
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Operation ReConnect flies the charitable skies
IT’s ONE of those perfect days at the beach—sunny but not too hot, with a slight breeze blowing in off the Atlantic Ocean. Suddenly, the wind kicks up and everyone […]
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Multiple victories for the environment
SOUTHEASTERN environmental activists celebrated last week as several important decisions were made by government officials. On Tuesday, March 16, the Georgia Senate passed HB 1036, which temporarily prevents corporations from […]
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Think you’re a hardcore Irish whiskey drinker?
NO DENYING IT, Tim Herlihy was born with the luck of the Irish. A triple shot of, it seems. Hailing from an egg farming family in Termonfeckin, Ireland, Herlihy spent […]
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St. Patrick’s Day traditions, new and improved?
One year I spent an hour in someone’s Charlton Street living room sipping Jameson out of a china teacup before realizing we were actually supposed to be across the lane. Fortunately, the elderly couple whose house we crashed was very gracious about our confusion—they even poured us to-go cups.
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Shaping tomorrow’s women leaders: Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson, journalist Tina McElroy Ansa inspire at SSU
Young women need examples of female leadership not only to glean the possibilities for their lives, but to make the vital connections that facilitate the career a well-networked professional.
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All the juices of the rainbow
Those who don’t know their kombucha from their savasana dig it, too
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The Dredge Report
The Big Dig has had its shovels in motion off Tybee Island for quite a few months now, and all is going to according to plan. Well, almost.
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Savannah Yoga Center celebrates Lucky 13
“The place was so small, a super slammed class was 20 people,” recalls the prana pioneer