Since 1938, the United Way of the Coastal Empire has welcomed donations big and small, funneling millions of dollars every year into dozens of non-profits spread out over Chatham, Effingham, Bryan and Liberty counties.
The (Civil) Society Column
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We people of Savannah, we help Louisiana
These Savannah women have deep connections to the Gulf Coast, and each started a separate Facebook page to collect clothing, food, water, toiletries and other supplies the minute they heard the first accounts of the flooding from friends and family.
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Is North Beach Grill Tybee’s line in the sand?
“George took a box that nobody else wanted, built it up, and now the city wants to give all that hard work away,” fumes Russ, who with his wild read beard is a dead ringer for Game of Thrones’ Tormund Giantsbane in a trucker hat, and just as loyal.
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A matter of perception
As our city offers a polite plea to forgive any inconvenience caused by prettifying the lilies, some of its residents unapologetically push on to address the roots of crime, economic injustice and racial iniquity in our community.
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A Most Auspicious Time
Like many unions that don’t involve officiation by an Elvis impersonator, Jon and Anita’s nuptials were planned around the sacred traditions of their families.
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Hey, H&M, it’s complicated
It’s been surreal to watch mall staples inhabit former mom-and-pop spots in some kind of Invasion of the Commerce Snatchers. Yet who can deny that brightly-lit stores full of pretty things are better for the city than shuttered storefronts?
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The Sucky Life of the American Teenager
The theory goes that our beloved children act ever more rotten in order to prepare us for their impending departure from the nest.
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How to be a better white person right now
Of course that’s the irony—and maybe the entire point: I have the prerogative of ducking difficult conversations with myself and others about racism indefinitely.
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Pokemon Go Crazy
If we have to accept the existence of human beings who shoot without thinking and are capable of murdering 84 people with a truck, then why shouldn’t we claim a reality that includes a web-cheeked unicorn with a fish tail?
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A Savannahian in Paris
One of the points of Overbooked is that cities with the most successful tourism plan for the people who live there, and any added infrastructure is built to be accessible to all. Paris’ public bike system is clearly a hit with the locals, who cruise from one arrondissement to another on the sturdy frames all day long, silk scarves streaming behind them and front baskets overflowing with fresh baguettes.
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Dog Reiki and other acts of faith
After hearing me kvetch about Geech’s travails, our friend Sue Finkle offered to give him a Reiki treatment.
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Feeling Orlando
I would so much rather talk about what brings us together than what tears us asunder.