A CONTROVERSIAL ordinance that would allow restaurants to transition into bars after hours was tabled for two weeks at the June 5 meeting of the Savannah City Council. Both Mayor […]
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Theater – Peter Pan syndrome
The Savannah Children’s Theatre production of Peter Pan will take off June 12 — literally. “We are flying,” says director Kelie Miley. “Shannon Kuanfung is Peter Pan and is everything […]
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Puppets for the public
Savannah is about to be overrun by puppets. The Southeast Region Puppeteers of America is holding a regional conference called the 2008 Puppet Gumbo Festival, and the Savannah Coastal Puppetry […]
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Theater: Coward’s comedy
If Pepi Streiff seems a bit distracted lately, it may be because she’s having to learn a lot of lines in a very short time. “I got the script on […]
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Emancipation celebration
Over two months after Lee surrendered at Appomattox, slaves in Texas were the last to hear about the Emancipation Proclamation, made by Abraham Lincoln two years before. On June 19, […]
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Landlord ordinance gets first reading
AN ORDINANCE meant to address derelict rental properties, believed to be a source of neighborhood blight, got its first reading at the May 21 meeting of the Savannah City Council. […]
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Find your inner Indy
Good old Indiana Jones. After a 19-year absence, he’s back on the screen just in time for Georgia Archaeology Month. Organizers of the event think interest in the fictitious archaeologist […]
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Leap of faith
CJ Lyons believes if you have a dream, you have to go for it. So after a successful 17-year career as a doctor, she decided to write a novel. She […]
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Theatre: The Boy Friend
British playwright Sandy Wilson set his musical The Boy Friend in the 1920s on the French Riviera. First performed in London in 1953, The Boy Friend is a comic pastiche […]
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A fort looks at 200
OLD FORT JACKSON protected Savannah from seafaring invaders for nearly 100 years. When the fort was built in 1808, the nation’s relationship with Britain had worsened. President Thomas Jefferson authorized […]
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La Vida Loca
Don’t take The Mexican Play too seriously. It really is satire. “It’s the tale of a tragic figure, Richard Anderson, who is a sexist-racist-homophobe,” says playwright David Ruzicka, a student […]
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‘A time bomb in the middle of my brain’
When Linda Inglett was diagnosed with a potentially fatal brain aneurysm, she thought at first her doctor was speaking to someone else. After all, she was seeing an ear, nose […]