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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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No more Nina
FOR A painting bearing the likeness of Nina Simone, there will be no more Sundays or any other days in Savannah’s historic district, at least not for now. At the […]
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‘Sow’ many ways to grow and reap with SUGA
SUGA serves as a resource for everything from loaning out tools to lending its 501c3 status to help secure grants
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In lockstep with Linda Wilder Bryan
‘You want to call me an angry black woman? Fine. Because that’s exactly what I am.’
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Lisa Ring: ‘People are looking for answers’
After running unopposed in 2016, Buddy Carter is up for reelection in November of 2018. One of the first to challenge him is Lisa Ring of Richmond Hill.
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A new generation of Gottlieb’s
FOR OVER a century in Savannah, just the mention of the Gottlieb name would set folks to drooling. Old timers will tell you that the city’s best pastries, pies, breads, […]
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Them ol’ Savannah summertime blues
The extreme heat can take its toll on the soul. Depression rates this time of year rival those of winter, probably from all that Netflix bingeing in dark rooms.
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DIRTT: Building with ‘the human element’
THE MASSIVE white warehouse doesn’t look too different from the other buildings in the industrial park near the airport, but what’s happening inside DIRTT Environmental Solutions sets it far apart […]
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Saving Nina
In late 2015, when large portraits of prominent African American cultural figures painted by beloved local folk artist Scott “Panhandle Slim” Stanton began popping up in areas of town where many fear to tread, no one thought to ask for permission.
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(Moon)Shine On
All forms of alcohol were banned in the colony of Georgia—along with slavery and lawyers—for a time, anyway. But nothing could dampen Savannah’s relationship with “strong waters.” (Just ask Shia LaBeouf.)
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100 years of gratitude: A century in the life of Marion Mendel
A direct descendant of Benjamin Sheftall, one of the 41 Jewish settlers who joined General Oglethorpe in the first few months of wrangling some civilized order on this Godforsaken, mosquito-ridden, humidity-cloaked bluff, Ms. Marion has a personal legacy that comes straight from the history books.
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A wake for Scott Waldrup
THE WINE and whiskey flowed, but there were no toasts. Twelve hours after Scott Waldrup was killed a few blocks away, his compatriots in Savannah’s food and beverage industry gathered […]