It’s tough to eat in a hurry around Cat Compton. As the co–chair of Slow Food Savannah, the easygoing nutritionist/food activist has made it her mission to help folks appreciate […]
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 person in the fabric
With her bright smile and swirling flowered skirts, Dr. Beth Mount is a dervish of energy and color. In fact, the internationally–heralded consultant and artist so resembles one of her […]
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Chic Commentator
It’s not Bryant Park just yet, but Savannah Fashion Week is gaining traction in the hearts and minds of haute couture, according to award–winning fashion editor Robin Givhan. The lady […]
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Thou Cannot Protest Too Much
I must admit I enjoy a good riot. Not the violence, of course. Or the property damage. But there’s something tremendously exciting about people passionate enough to take to the […]
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The History Underneath
If you own a building downtown and you want to paint it fuschia, there’s an app for that. Same if you want to demolish it, add a sign to the […]
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Word from a mother
Heads up, Mother’s Day is this Sunday. That should give the pathetic ingrates among ye enough time to get a card in the mail, or at least enter an alert […]
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Never a dull day at the office
It’s 2 p.m. last Friday afternoon, and like most of us at the end of the workweek, Ashley Bowersox still has a full desktop. But instead of unfiled paperwork and […]
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Food Glorious Food
Recently at lunch, a friend lobbed a terrible insult my way: “You know what? You’re a food snob.” I almost choked on my organic arugula. Sure, I can spend an […]
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Behind the Moss curtain
It’s been a bang–up couple of weeks for Roger Moss. The ebullient artistic director of the Savannah Children’s Choir recently returned from a week in Verona, Italy, where he helped […]
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Victory in Verona
They came, they sang, they conquered. After months of practice and fundraising, the Savannah Children’s Choir brought home a gold medal from the Concors Internazionale Di Canto Corale, held in […]
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Great Scot!
Nothing reduces me to a tittering fool like a Scottish brogue. Really, if those Nigerian bank scammers could do a decent Sean Connery imitation, they’d have my life savings in […]
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Your new ‘third’ place
Mention Cafe Metropole to longtime local foodies and you’re bound to get a lot of wistful sighs. The notoriously quirky restaurant once operated out of the funky former Greyhound bus […]