This past Sunday I went on a short trip to Mexico. About an hour long, the journey started and ended in the Jepson Center for the Arts, courtesy of the […]
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Road trip to Tune Town
IN MID-MAY, after a weekend of meetings in a Macon conference center, I followed through on the oft postponed visit to the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, in search of […]
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Movie movement
Movie movement Late last week, as the long Memorial Day weekend beckoned with its seductive twofold promise of an extra unscheduled day plus the unofficial start of summer, a neighbor […]
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Man of The Hours
The Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home Foundation is elevating its programming with a new lecture series. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham will appear on Tuesday, June 3 at Trinity Church as […]
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Pomp and circumstance at SSU
SATURDAY MORNING I arrived at Savannah State University’s Tiger Arena at 9:20 a.m., plenty early to get a good seat for the 10:00 a.m. start of SSU’s 172nd Commencement. My […]
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Short stuff
ASK MOST Savannah residents about movies filmed in town recently, and they’re liable to draw a blank. Some might bring up Forrest Gump, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and Midnight […]
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New spirit at the New Georges’
WHEN IT COMES to reincarnation, I’ll put my faith in George Spriggs over Shirley MacLaine any day. Two months ago, Spriggs quietly opened The New Georges’ of Tybee, in the […]
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Green party
Green Party “What are you doing for Earth Day?” That’s the question posed to me by a friend this past Saturday night, before inviting me to an open house this […]
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Reading large
IT’S HARD to ignore the irony that Fahrenheit 451 is the book selected for this year’s Big Read, a series of events sponsored by Live Oak Public Libraries promoting community-wide […]
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Robin’s World
Signs of spring In 1935, the Historic Savannah Foundation was 20 years away from being organized to prevent the Davenport House from being demolished. In 1935, Ardsley Park was a […]
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Books: When the historical is personal
IN 2007, poet Natasha Trethewey won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her third volume of work, Native Guard: Poems. Both personal and historical, Trethewey’s poems are anchored in the […]
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More than a parade
More than a parade By midday last Thursday, it felt as if most of Savannah had abandoned any semblance of normal work week activities to prepare for the extended St. […]