Telfair Museums win award for ‘Generation’ exhibition
Telfair Museums on Monday announced that their exhibition “Generation: Sawsan AlSaraf, Tamara Abdul Hadi, Sundus Abdul Hadi” was awarded the Silver Award for Exhibitions under $25,000 in the Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) 2017 Exhibition. “Generation,” which is on display until September 10, explores the complexity of Arab communities that are often simultaneously subjected to stereotyping and underrepresentation.…
GBI to investigate local gun buyback program
The Chatham County Manager, in co-operation with the Chatham County District Attorney’s Office, “has asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) to investigate the circumstances surrounding the surrender of firearms collected by Savannah City Youth, Inc.’s, gun buyback program,” a county spokesperson says. The firearms were surrendered to Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team to be secured…
City Council to move forward on plan to ‘expand the story’ of Savannah’s Confederate monument and to attempt to rename Talmadge Bridge
At today’s City Council meeting, Mayor Eddie DeLoach made a statement — which he said had full support of the rest of Council — addressing the recent events in Charlottesville, Va., and the ensuing controversy about Confederate monuments. “We must all denounce these forms of domestic terrorism… we must not just be on the right…
Developer withdraws controversial apartment building bid prior to re-vote
The scheduled re-vote on a controversial apartment building project near Forsyth Park will not take place at today’s City Council meeting. Delray Ventures, the developer behind the project, informed City Council that it wished that the two agenda items involving the project be removed from the City Council agenda. “We have listened carefully to all…
City boards, commissions open for applications
The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah will be accepting applications beginning Thursday, August 17, 2017 through Friday, September 15, 2017 for appointments and reappointments to these Boards, Commissions and Authorities: CIVIL SERVICE BOARD. Three (3) members appointed to overlapping six-year (6) terms by City Council. Basic function is to hear appeals from…
Editor’s Note: The sale of the local daily paper is… complicated
Long story short, the local daily paper — which had been family-owned and Georgia-based under one banner or another since 1850 — will be an asset owned by a company based far away from Savannah itself.
David Olney @Tybee Post Theater
The prolific Olney has released more than 20 albums in four decades
Carter town hall provides confrontation, entertainment
AFTER a February town hall at Armstrong Center which had overflowing crowds and was marked mostly by people yelling over the congressman — and each other — a move to the larger confines of Bible Baptist Church was marketed by Buddy Carter as a way to fit more people into the event, in a more…
5 Questions with Emily Earl
‘You know when you’ve got it. When the moment is right, you know it’
The YeahTones @El-Rocko Lounge
Matching shirts make for a nicely coordinated wall of sound at live shows
A scenic view at the LGBT Center
Hosting a show of female nudes painted by a proudly out woman bolsters the message of community and acceptance that the Center strives to provide
Meet The Petty Fam!
THERE’S a new Fam in town. The Petty Fam, an all-black burlesque revue, brings its first tour to Club One on Thursday. The traveling trio features talent from across the United States. May Hemmer, “The Cocoa Barbie” of New Orleans, Nox Falls, “The Violet Vamp” of Amarillo, Texas, and international boylesque star Tre Da Marc…
Oh hell no, Savannah isn’t ‘the next Brooklyn’
Who are these locals who have “long complained about the dearth of luxury accommodations” here and how can we help them build a new hotel in their front yard?
‘A more inclusive and nuanced history’
Eight of Savannah’s historically significant organizations offer a day of free admission this Sunday, August 20.
Donna the Buffalo’s eclectic folk still has crowds dancing
Donna the Buffalo’s formation comes down to a simple fated turn of the radio dial
Post Eclipse Party and Concert @The Jinx
Take off those eclipse glasses and get down to swing standards, Motown favorites, the hits of Frank Sinatra, and more.
Keeping it Current on the islands
The Ele and the Chef restaurant collection have been disseminating Asian fusion across Savannah for about ten years
Girls Guns & Glory, Medicated Sunfish @Barrelhouse South
Girls Guns & Glory has been together for 10 years and is breaking through as a “need-to-know” act
KYLE, Valore, Pointless Honey @Sulfur Studios
KYLE, now based in Atlanta, began making their instrumental math rock here in Savannah on the house show scene
Widening roads isn’t always a good idea
IF SAVANNAH is “the New Brooklyn” as hinted in a widely circulated Vogue magazine piece, is it reasonable to conclude Tybee is the New Coney Island? Last week Tybee Island Mayor Jason Buelterman called once again for something many New Brooklynites and New Coney Islanders will support: improvements to our version of the F train,…
Ricardo Ochoa and his four-string legends
With four completely different styles, Ochoa hopes to share the diverse articulation of his instrument
