If dealing with SHEP contractors is anything like remodeling a bathroom, don’t hold your breath for a finished harbor. Unless you have access to a personal-sized Speece cone.
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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The world according to Maya
For the entire school year, she followed Betty’s advice, “no matter how embarrassing or complicated.” The results were an uptick in her social standing as well as an intelligent, charming memoir about the true meaning of popularity.
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Enveloped in the Beloved Community
Keeping the ‘social’ in social change” is the rallying cheer that continues to buoy the story of Waddie Welcome.
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Tuning in to community radio
The station is expected to begin broadcasting as WRUU at 107.5 on the FM dial in September 2015.
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Savannah Water Film Festival inspires awareness—and perhaps activism
The brainchild of the City of Savannah’s Water Resources Bureau, the Oct. 1 festival invited local middle school students and teachers to watch a series of short films about humanity’s single most important resource.
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Decriminalizing childhood
Middle school is when some fool with drugs, others become preoccupied with the opposite sex. Me, I decided to call in a bomb threat to my junior high.
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Your psychic pal
A former production assistant and actor, professional psychic Erin Ferdinand has developed a faithful following as a compassionate counselor and fascinating party entertainer.
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It’s diamonds, darling
In her book, Clarity, Cut and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds, Falls also examines diamonds through the lens of semiotics, the study of meaning.
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Around the fire with Michael W. Twitty
I don’t know if he’s the only gay, black, Jewish culinarian in the entire world, but this gent is definitely my kind of unicorn.
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Dare Dukes: Deep impact
“I was kind of mess myself in middle school—as many of us are—and I very much found a place of solace and strength in creative work, in music and writing.”
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Everybody get up and move!
Lady Mahogany hopes to see a colorful cross section of Savannah’s community when she hosts a West African Dance Workshop this Sunday, Sept. 28 at the W.W. Law Center on Savannah’s eastside.
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Heralding the ‘wild woman’ of Cumberland Island
An award-winning environmental journalist and former park ranger, Harlan spent 19 years tailing Carol Ruckdeschel as she’s battled for the island’s future.