Man shot after exchanging fire with security guards at Eastside club
A Savannah man has been charged with aggravated assault “after being shot in a gunfire exchange with private security guards at a Skidaway Road nightclub Thursday night,” police say. Nathaniel Hardy, 21, is under guard at Memorial University Medical Center where he was transported for treatment of a non-life threatening injury in the 11:38 p.m.…
Man charged in April 8 shooting on W. 58th
U.S. Marshals, acting on information obtained by Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police, on Thursday afternoon arrested a Savannah man in Jacksonville, for an April 8 shooting death. Jerome Coast Jr., 31, was arrested in a Jacksonville hotel. Metro homicide detectives had charged him with murder in the shooting death of Michael Willard James. James, 31, was found…
Teenager struck by car on Wilmington Island
A 17-year-old Savannah woman is in critical condition after being struck by a car while attempting to walk across U.S. Highway 80 on Wilmington Island Thursday night. Stacie Davis of a Wyckfield Road address was transported to Memorial University Medical Center after the 8:57 p.m. accident in front of the Whitemarsh Island Shopping Center. “She…
AASU to drop “Atlantic” from name
The University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents voted earlier today to allow Armstrong Atlantic State University to shorten its name to Armstrong State University. “In their request for the change, Armstrong officials noted that dropping the word ‘Atlantic’ from the university’s name will help minimize confusion and create a stronger brand for Armstrong,” a…
Earth Day + bikes = possibilities
Recognizing the bicycle as a tool to reduce environmental impacts
When humanity fails, grim laughter comforts
The unspeakable atrocities committed by Hitler and the Nazis happened barely 70 years ago, and yeah, it’s still too soon for a Comedy Central roast. (Unless Mel Brooks comes out of retirement.)
Earth Day: Get up and get out there
THE LAWS OF physics dictate that nature abhors a vacuum. A related but lesser known axiom postulates that you can’t love nature if you’re inside vacuuming. In other words, in order to truly appreciate the planet in its purest form, you’ve got to throw open the door and get out there. That’s the premise behind…
More than the recipes
Good news for you, a few of Savannah’s best chefs have decided to save you the trouble of guesstimating measurements and testing every jar in the spice cabinet.
Get your Butterducks in a row
Not grape-based wine ‘flavored’ with fruit, but sweet Georgia peaches, plump blueberries and succulent blackberries, crushed, juiced, aged and cherished to make their own unique wines.
Woggles rock but they don’t fall down
‘We’ve learned we get a lot more out of SXSW when we spend the whole week in Austin playing shows, as opposed to just playing a few gigs.’
Editor’s Note: The stealth school board election
Local school board elections are among the most immediately impactful elections anyone can vote in, even if they’re almost certainly among the least sexy.
They ‘calmed it with carrots’
The horse ran to the south side of Ellis Square and continued east on Congress Street ‘with the carriage striking five vehicles before the driver was ejected,’ police say.
Brits + dish soap = yucky taste
A country that gives its traditional dishes names such as ‘toad-in-the-hole,’ ‘bubble and squeak,’ and ‘spotted dick’ isn’t setting itself a high bar, foodwise.
Review: Draft Day
Perhaps even more than Moneyball with its baseball milieu, Draft Day is an insider flick for NFL fans,
Making Savannah healthier by returning to our roots
The transformation of Trustees’ Garden from industry to culture reflects the potential for Savannah to emerge as a city leading the nation toward wellness and away from the challenges of obesity and preventable chronic diseases like stroke and type 2 diabetes.
Ian Anderson, by any other name
“It’s not about solo albums versus Jethro Tull albums. To me, there’s no difference. It’s just me turning up for another day at the office, really.”
Fare the Gap: A unique listening experience
The members of Fare The Gap will relocate to California once they graduate from SCAD.
Nickel Creek: Refreshed and reunited
‘I think we were all burned out with it,” Chris Thile says. ‘I had a lot of musical ideas that I wanted to pursue.’
