The waning of summer means two most excellent things: 1) College football (of course); and 2) the beginning of Savannah’s fall cultural season, with all its attendant buzz and vibrancy. […]
Editor’s Note
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Remembering Sabrina
IN OCTOBER 2001, a local paper named Connect Savannah merged with another local paper named Creative Loafing (which I edited at the time) to create the product you’re looking at […]
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Bars in the crosshairs
One thing we’ve learned over the past year or two: the City of Savannah has some serious issues with local bars. Let’s go down the list of recent crackdowns: • […]
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Hard times, but not all over
It’s a myth that hard times bring out the best in people. They don’t. It’s something we say to comfort ourselves, to find meaning in tribulation. But it’s not true. […]
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Goodbye to an old friend
I SWORE LONG AGO that whatever other questionable career decisions I might make, I would never, ever stoop so low as to write one of those schmaltzy, sappy, sentimental, horrifyingly […]
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Shirley Sherrod in 2012!
Many who voted for Barack Obama did so in part because they felt the country was ready for a courageous, inspiring African American president who could help heal the racial […]
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Taser overload
There are far too many people volunteering to get tased these days. You can’t pick up the Savannah Morning News anymore without seeing a picture of some officer or official […]
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Arizona comes to Georgia
This is how out of control the immigration issue is in America: The governor of Arizona is making an endorsement in the Georgia governor’s race. Karen Handel, currently jockeying for […]
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Two who went their own way
There are people in this town doing great things who in my opinion don’t get enough credit for what they do, generally because they’ve preferred to work outside the local […]
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Shaming the uniform
The recent attack downtown by two Beaufort-based Marines on a local gay man, Kieran Daly, was not the first such incident. Nor, it must be said, the first involving members […]