Mitchell Hall seems remarkably calm. The professional style consultant and fashion industry veteran has less than a week to put together six runway shows for Fashion’s Night Out, dressing 45 […]
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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Eulogy for a fallen friend
Look, nobody lives forever. Once you’re past 80, I imagine the shadow of imminent demise is a constant creeping companion, following you into the grocery store and the doctor’s office […]
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Blowing in a new direction
When education and workshops aren’t enough, throw a party. That’s the strategy behind the Tybee Island Offshore Wind Energy Rally, a music and food–filled festival happening this Friday, August 31. […]
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The Intersection of Collaboration and Style
Back in the gloomy economic fog of 2009, few shoppers were perusing the iconic shops of NYC’s Madison Avenue. Clerks twiddled their thumbs while current collections went stale. Designers fretted, […]
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Welcome to the State of Poverty
Let’s pretend that we’re in the top 1 percent. What shall we do today? Fly the Gulfstream jet to Cannes for the weekend? Host a Super PAC hunting party? Kick […]
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Adventures in Museumland
Entertaining children is not my strong suit. Where I come from, children entertained themselves or they were sent outside with the coyotes. If you were very good, you got to […]
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A composite contribution
Remer Pendergraph stands in a room amongst piles and piles of boxes. Inside the boxes are the many books, albums, paintings, magazines, letters and other artifacts relating to Savannah African–American […]
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Season of the hot witch
Inside a candy–striped Bull Street storefront festooned with silk flowers, big things are brewing. This is where artist and illustrator Dame Darcy—internationally beloved for her neo–gothic comic book series Meatcake—has […]
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Don’t make this “Ms.”take
I’ve been called a lot of insulting things in my life. When you’ve been writing about politics and religion and other people’s shoes as long as I have, nasty epithets […]
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Fowl Play
In a sunlit corner office overlooking Ellis Square, the fate of Savannah’s gastronomical world hangs in the balance. Gathered around a conference table are several members of a secret society, […]
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A life more tolerable
What do you call two hundred gays, lesbians, African Americans, old people, deaf people, people in wheelchairs, Jews, Muslims, Christians and Ba’hai gathering in the Civic Center? The Tolerance Summit […]
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Is the doctor in?
Need to see a doctor? Get in line. While the Affordable Care Act will increase health insurance for over 300,000 citizens by 2014, it won’t provide more practitioners—leaving a scary […]