First conceived to help fulfill the mission of last Saturday’s A-Town Get Down Festival, the splashy mobile sculptures were assembled by the kids of the Loop It Up Savannah art program at the West Broad YMCA—a fine, fun example of how the sum of many creative efforts can add up to a single piece of art.
The (Civil) Society Column
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Question (Ports) Authority?
The Great Port Rubber Fire of ’14 represented a cautionary memo that our port comes with plenty of potential hazards.
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‘C’ is for cookie
Nobles—herself a lifelong Scout—is referring to the money management skills and business ethics absorbed by the girls as they sell. Every time you snarf up a four-dollar box of crumbly delight, you’re helping a young woman gain professional and economic footing.
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Surviving the s(no)wpocalypse of ’14
People began posting Facebook photos of themselves packing balls of air to throw at their neighbors. Children lay prone on the concrete, not making snow angels. Others sadly crooned that infernal “Do You Wanna Build a Snowman?” song from Frozen until they were banned from the living room.
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Writing with Deep: Go weird or go home
While Deepfellows teach technical essentials like appropriate semicolon usage and how to avoid clichés, they also have a super secret mission: To show kids they’re not the only ones with awkward, embarrassing parts of themselves lurking under their hoodies.
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Dr. Harold Black talks about the rotten tooth in Emory’s history
During Buhler’s “reign of terror,” prospective dental students had to check a box on their applications categorizing them as “Caucasian, Jew or Other.”
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MLK’s dream: Be nice and keep marching
Bringing everyone into the fold is the aim of the MLK Celebration, which centers around the cacophonous annual parade this Monday, Jan. 20.
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Opening night of Savannah Rocks!
Loosely chronicled and gleefully chaotic, the collective result evokes a giant party that started in 1957 and is still screaming along full throttle.
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A refugee family’s first Christmas
Often, the season can leave many feeling like strangers in a strange land. For a family I met last week, that feeling is no analogy but reality.
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Below average: The Spicolis of the world
The results of the Programme for International Student Assessment were released last week, and compared to their international compatriots, American kids are a bunch of wall-eyed mouthbreathers who can’t do math.