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Communities aren’t only about property values Editor, Savannah is changing. On East Park Avenue the smell of fresh paint is redolent.  The neighborhood is coming up.  Within a year of our moving here in October 2004, real estate prices climbed an easy $100,000 on the old colonials like ours. It took our breath away. It…

Opinion: The color, not the candidate

Like most other local political observers, I fully expected Joe Steffen to make it into a runoff with J. Craig Gordon, his young opponent in the recent Democratic primary for the 162nd State House seat vacated by the retired Tom Bordeaux. And like everybody else — including apparently everyone but Gordon himself — I was…

The Blotter

Savannah police arrested an automobile broker on a charge of felony theft by conversion after he sold cars without a clear title. Robert Holland, 44, was arrested July 26 after a judge issued a warrant. An investigation into Holland’s business dealings began June 2 after a local dealership reported that he had obtained vehicles by…

News of the Weird

Reality TV Spawn The parents of wannabe singer-actor-celebrity Marissa Leigh, 16, of Scottsdale, Ariz., employ 10 people for her career development, according to an April Arizona Republic story, including manager; publicist; voice coach; two acting coaches; people to do makeup, hair and wardrobe; musical composer; photographer; and webmaster (plus, of course, an entourage of confidence-boosting…

Book Reviews

Blind Into Baghdad by James Fallows (Vintage Books) Why is this collection of essays from 2002-2005 so fascinating? Originally published in Atlantic Monthly and augmented by new footnotes from the author, they tell us little we don’t already know of the Bush administration’s disastrous illusions and continuing, chronic ineptness regarding Iraq. But for some reason,…

Featured Review: Miami Vice

One of the damnedest movies I’ve seen this summer, Miami Vice is successful only part of the time and confounding all the way through. Since his days as a guiding light on the trendsetting TV series from the 1980s, Michael Mann has established himself as an accomplished moviemaker with such hits as The Last of…

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JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE The biggest problem with John Tucker Must Die is that it uses Cheap Trick’s “I Want You to Want Me” to serve as its anthem for blissed-out teen love — unfortunate, since the delightful high school comedy 10 Things I Hate About You already went that route, with a far greater…


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