If abstract art can deliver our monkey minds, Santana imagines what it can do for our living rooms, cluttered to the wainscoting with end tables and tsotchkes.
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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How to not be a creep at work
Local employment attorney Wade Herring thought he’d seen it all, but nothing like the crisis of conduct we’ve got going on in 2017.
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The future of Savannah’s affordable housing
But as other HAS properties are evaluated for redevelopment by private (i.e., profit-driven) investors, concerns arise about gentrification and displacing Savannah’s poorer citizens—many of whom are African American—further away from employment and educational opportunities.
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The slow clock of the Okefenokee Swamp
Home to a vast variety of biological bounty including three dozen species of amphibians, fourteen families of fish, hundreds of species of birds, plus a toothy menagerie of snakes, bobcats, bears, panthers and more gators than anyone can count.
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Fashion, music and yoga for hurricane relief
ARTIST and yoga instructor Cindy Male is no stranger to the eye of the storm. Now based in Savannah, Male spent 32 years living on St. Croix in the U.S. […]
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A Strange Thanksgiving to All
It’s been a wild ride, Winona, and I must admit I’m a little giddy with all the plot twists.
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The latest news—good and bad—affecting Georgia’s environment
State and federal administrations continue to favor polluters as the effects of climate change endanger quality of life for all.
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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Teen creates ‘UTime’ for fun and friendships with special kids
IT’S Saturday morning at Monkey Joe’s, and the colorful indoor playground percolates with happy squeals. Children chase each other around the carpeted room, launching themselves from soft slides and bouncing […]
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You gotta be kitten me
Fortunately, I can now get my meow on without dropping big bucks or looking like a purrvert: Purrvana Cafe & Cat Lounge opened last week on the corner of Barnard and Anderson streets.