Chalk up these winners
SCAD has announced the winners in yesterday’s Sidewalk Arts Festival chalk art competition. Here’s the Best in Show, from Anna Whitacre, B.F.A., painting, 2007 (Anna also won the Gray’s Reef Award): Anna Whitacre’s winning entry Here are the rest of the winners: SCAD Spirit Award: Celeste Forrette, B.F.A. fashion student, Acworth, Georgia; Alicen Spurlin, B.F.A.…
Dude tries to shoot cop
A Savannah man was charged with multiple offenses after trying to fire a weapon at a Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police officer and another man. Quintavious Jron Lee, 19, of Port Wentworth has been charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, possession of a firearm in committing a crime, possession of a firearm by a convicted…
Retired Georgia Chief Justice Sears speaks at SSU commencement
Speaking to the largest graduating class in Savannah State University history, Retired Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears of the Georgia Supreme Court is guest speaker at SSU’s 182nd commencement ceremony at 9 a.m., Saturday, May 4, 2013, in T.A. Wright Stadium. More than 350 students will receive undergraduate and graduate degrees during the ceremony —…
Cops seek 2 more charged for homicide
Detectives have charged two additional men with the March 20 murder of Achmed Kiwaan Williams and seek help from the public in locating them. Warrants were secured Thursday against Germaine Remond Grant, 23, and Terrell Akeem Nelson, 18. Germaine Remond Grant Grant is a black male standing 5-7 and about 120 pounds. Terrell Akeem Nelson…
Editor’s Note: Sense of the senseless
Of all the cascading, dizzying events last week, the most demoralizing development by far was the defeat of the firearms background check bill in the Senate.
Fierce fashion, made in Savannah
Not that there’s anything monochromatic about this Friday’s SID Showcase, to be held in the lofty Dollhouse Studios. Conceived as a way to bring local designers together for Savannah Fashion Week, the show promises plenty of color.
Chewy, chewy, boing, boing!
When I eat sushi, I go for the zaniest stuff on the menu, or at least the most interesting.
Grandma’s dance party
‘I really wanted to make it dance-y, because I feel that dance is one of the strongest forms of prayer that we can give.’
Hip hop shows close out SUAF
The festival winds down with a big block party event Saturday, April 27, on Franklin Square.
Leafblower Apocalypse
The workers seem oblivious to the sound, as none of them wear earplugs or headphones. Will they be as deaf as rock musicians by the time they are thirty? Only time will tell.
Queen of the Mic
A very small population understands what spoken word is. Some think it’s the whole snapping fingers, beatnik thing, and I’m like, ‘No, we’ve sort of surpassed that.
Gallery Hop: Desotorow happenings
Edminster was resolute in communicating his plans for the gallery’s future and its contribution to the SoFo community. ‘I understand the difficulty of these projects, but I believe anything worthwhile takes hard work.’
Another bank robbery
FBI and Savannah-Chatham Police Department detectives are investigating the armed robbery of The Heritage Bank branch in the 600 block of Stephenson Avenue, today. At 10:06 a.m., investigators responded to the scene where two black males entered the property through the wood line at the building’s rear. With bandanas covering their faces, the subjects enter …
Jumbo at the bat
There was a real Jumbo Barrett, that we know for sure. His baseball career was cut short by injury, but he was a well-regarded local cop for decades.
Chalk this way
‘We didn’t look at what anyone else was doing. Once we finished, that’s when we walked around. It was intimidating. There were a lot of good pieces.’
Nightmare on 61st Street
The new structure glowered down on Habersham Village and the surrounding mid-century neighborhood like a plywood Castle Grayskull.
Mom’s revolution
‘No one wanted to talk to us about it,’ remembers Spencer. ‘Everyone called us crazy.’
Homicide on Hampstead
Savannah-Chatham Police are investigating the shooting death of a Savannah man at his tire business/repair shop. Armondo Montes, 30, owner of Brothers Tire Repair at Hampstead Avenue and White Bluff Road, was found dead in front of the business when responding patrol officers arrived at 12:29 p.m. today A suspect turned himself in to Military…
