The distinctions are important enough that the fashion, celebrity and magazine industries have given rise to the role of professional stylists: Those discerning tastemakers who create an enchanting alchemy out of clothing, accessories, hair and make-up to add up to a particular artistic vision.
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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Rising water, strange bedfellows
To melt the stubborn glacier of American energy policy, something drastic needs to happen. Some kind of miraculous meeting of the minds that transcends partisan politics. Something completely outrageous, like, say, green energy liberals aligning with Tea Party activists.
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Honoring Brighter Day’s foodie elders
When Janie and Peter Brodhead opened up Brighter Day in 1978, eating organic was downright revolutionary. Enlightening people about the ethical origins of food was a challenge, especially when culinary choice wasn’t much more than sprinkling wheat germ on salad.
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Wilmington gets a market of their own
The Wilmington Island Farmers Market will cut its long-awaited ribbon at 10 a.m. this Tuesday, Sept. 3 at its new venue at the corner of Walthour and Concord Roads.
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Savannah’s Fashion Night stands up
“Fashion’s Night Out has been so successful here, we didn’t see any reason why we couldn’t come together to do something similar even if we couldn’t use the name,” says Erin Wessling.
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Desegregation at 50
Those first brave iconoclasts who crossed the color line were less welcomed than quietly ignored, and those who weren’t thrilled about their presence didn’t feel the need to stir up the kind of drama that warranted a LIFE magazine cover.
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A sweet new vodka line
As a successful entrepreneur and a survivor of childhood abuse, Michelle Weber has raised many a glass to life’s hard-earned victories.
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Long gone dog days of summer
August readied young minds for life’s inevitable grind with its sheer boring blankness. August built freaking character.
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Holy mole!
This isn’t Ortiz’s first time around a restaurant: He opened perennial Cuban favorite Rancho Allegre several years ago as well as Hidalgo’s in Pooler, but wanted to return to the homecooked cuisine of his youth.
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Savannah Classical Academy: A matter of principal
‘The founding fathers of this country emphasized that in order to have a successful democracy we have to have an educated citizenry. And the key point is that they were talking about education being available to everybody.’
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Death becomes us
my gothic mood found little company at the new facility on Dean Forest Road. Steel drums. At the funeral home. It was surreal. And fantastic.
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Keep Tybee caffeinated
“Tybee’s ready for a real cup of coffee,” declares Beth Martin, co-owner of Tybean Art & Coffee Bar.