The only bad thing about the incredible theatre renaissance in Savannah is that I don’t get to see most of the shows out there. Like anyone else I have a […]
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Ossabaw daydreamin’
ITS NAME MEANS ‘place of the holly bushes,’ and it’s where Creek Indians once went to get the yaupon holly berries they needed to brew the cleansing black tea crucial […]
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Taking taxes to school
NOBODY ENJOYS paying property taxes, especially those that seem to go up year after year. I know I don’t. While it faces a host of obstacles — not least among […]
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Politics 101
MY FIRST JOB out of the University of Georgia was as staffer (a very low-level staffer) on a political campaign in Chesterfield County, Va., a suburb south of Richmond. After […]
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The tale of Tilapia the dog, continued
AMERICANS DON’T have much of a problem with wars that won’t end, gas over three dollars a gallon, skyrocketing health care prices, and a collapsing housing market. Nope, we just […]
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The fat lady hasn’t sung yet
WELL, ANOTHER Film Festival is in the can, another Art Fair is in the books, and another Halloween has disappeared into the lengthening shadows of autumn. But if you’re still […]
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Picnic in the Park photos
PICNIC IN THE PARK is in many ways the quintessential Savannah event: It’s outside, it involves lots of good food and drink, it celebrates the arts, and it’s free. Did […]
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Of arts & artists
I WANTED to open with the observation that if you missed The Wailin’ Jennies Saturday night at the Lucas, you missed a real treat. The Prairie Home Companion veterans — […]
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Building on a decade of fine film
Building on a decade of fine film The Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival may be on our cover this week, but last Friday I had another film festival on my […]
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The ol’ college try
Back when I was with the Creative Loafing organization — one of the first players in the alt-weekly movement in the U.S. media and still a major presence — the […]
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And so it begins…
WITH THE PASSING of Labor Day comes the busy season, in which the hazy days of summer become the crazy days of autumn in the blink of an eye. Here […]