Lawsuits. Lies. More stinkin’ dead fish. After the year the Ogeechee Riverkeeper folks have had, they deserve a drink. In fact, make it a double. Here are the facts: In […]
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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A big nasty revelation
Every birthday, I renew my contract with life with an action that makes me a shade uncomfortable, like cutting off my hair or say, skinny–dipping in a public fountain. Any […]
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Shine the Light
A pogostick might not seem like a tool of social revolution. No one’s more surprised about it than Christopher. In 2005, when he was in his mid–60s, the photographer/author began […]
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An enchanted and funkadelic evening
Every fall, when the biting bugs have absconded and the coastal breezes have turned in our favor, the City of Savannah throws its citizens a celebration. Ostensibly, Picnic in the […]
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Lock up your cats?
Two weeks ago at around 9:30 in the morning, Jennifer Jenkins heard a ruckus on the front porch of her Victorian district home. “There was banging and a lot of […]
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Production values
Sitting in the sunny rooms of the Institute of Cinematic Arts overlooking State Street, independent filmmaker Sandra Lindo seems relieved that her first feature film, Den of Darkness, is—as they […]
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Unchain my heart
I may be hopelessly biased, but I’m pretty sure the world runs on stories. As much as food and water, stories are essential. Even when humans run out of fossil […]
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The art of social change
Call them “the usual suspects” of Savannah’s cultural change movement. Around a table at the Sentient Bean are Molly Lieberman, the director of Loop It Up at the West Broad […]
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Please don’t (breast)feed the squirrels
There it goes again, that skreeky garbled chatter. Two squirrels are noising it up in the water oak in my front yard, bickering over who left the top of the […]
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COLLEGE ISSUE: Ahead of the curve
Most college students wait until graduation to make that first big leap into their real world careers. Not Adam Nelson. The SCAD sophomore is already waist–deep in his first feature […]
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COLLEGE ISSUE: Food for thought
In the last five years, more and more universities across the country have adopted the practice of assigning incoming college freshmen the same book. Common Read programs serve several noble […]
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Alumni Advice 101
Well, here we are up to our knee socks and hipster moustaches into Connect’s College Student Issue! I remember college. I had plenty of issues. Longest five years of my […]