“When the sun went down when I was drinking, I always felt like I should be out somewhere having a few drinks.”
Special Issues
Connect Savannah College Issue, Savannah Film Festival Issue, Savannah Music Festival Issue, Saint Patrick’s Day Issue, Best of Savannah Issue.
SMF: The Avett Brothers
During its first shows of 2014 the group played almost entirely different song sets each night.
SMF: Luther Dickinson
“I think we’ll get jukin’ pretty hard. We’ll be playing with each other, and I think it’ll turn into a ramshackle jug band.”
SMF: Preservation Hall Jazz Band
“So much of what people want to change about Preservation Hall are the things I adore about it.”
‘The finest festival I’ve played, hands down’
Marshall has been a part of the SMF family since director Rob Gibson turned everything around, for the better, 11 years ago.
SMF: Vince Gill
“We were both at a ripe age to be inspired by that stuff when it was current. It’s a kind of blueprint for the way we learned to play, especially on those instruments.”
Editor’s Note: A collegiate culture
A critical mass has formed. There’s a bustling new economy in Savannah, one that owes its origin to college activity but has developed well beyond events directly affiliated with any particular college.
College Issue: Columba House is ‘radically inclusive’
“Jesus sat, spoke, listened and shared hospitality with a broad diversity of people. We’re looking to do the same,” says Michael Chaney.
Gray’s Reef Film Fest: ‘The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’
‘When I was out there we saw computer monitors, we saw refrigerators! Massive pieces and also smaller pieces, which are more insidious and more detrimental.’
College Issue: Beyond the blue blazer
At some point, be it for a job interview or meeting your girlfriend’s parents, you are going to have to clean up your act. And we’re not talking about shaving off the soulpatch: You’re going to need a good suit.
College Issue: Ride like a boss
If you are a Savannah State University or Armstrong Atlantic State University student, think of this as the Core Curriculum. If you’re a SCAD student, this is the stuff of Foundation Studies. So let’s start here:
College Issue: Live local and prosper
Once you’ve interacted with a handful of Savannah residents, you’re already linked to half of the city. I’m talking, your roommate’s coworker is the boyfriend of the girl who is friends with your first one-night-stand. (True story.)
