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All they want for Christmas
‘TIS THE SEASON, and it holds a different meaning for everyone. Children wake up in excitement to open presents from Santa, examine the plate of cookie crumbs left behind by the jolly old man, and spend the day with loved ones. For adults, Christmas is often a time to relax, to spend precious time with…
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Love letter from California Editor, My wife and I just returned from a vacation to the Historic District of Savannah. We hail from Santa Rosa, Calif., in Sonoma County, about 50 miles north of San Francisco in the “Wine Country.” We both travel quite a bit, and it was our first time in the South.…
Shedding light on the subprime crisis
GROWING UP IN Communist Romania during the Cold War was not easy. Life was tough for my family and for most Romanians. But little did I know that growing up there would instill valuable life lessons. Freedom was scarce, food was scarce, and credit was virtually non-existent. My parents never had a credit card and…
If you build it, they will ride
If you build it, they will ride To a random observer, last weekend’s activities at a vacant auto repair shop and storefront church on 39th and East Broad Streets probably wouldn’t look noteworthy. But for the eleven volunteers who turned out for the first work party of the Savannah Bike Co-op, Saturday was a turning…
Showering suspicion
from recent Savannah/Chatham Police incident reports Officers responded to a burglary in progress on Mariners Way. They found all doors and windows secured and no sign of forced entry. The officers were informed the victim had locked himself in the downstairs bathroom because he could hear someone upstairs in his house. The victim was on…
We kid you not
Oops! The Texas Board of Education announced in November that it had made its selections of approved math textbooks for the next school year, even though the group of chosen books contained a total of 109,263 errors. Books of the industry giant Houghton Mifflin accounted for about 86,000. All publishers have guaranteed to correct the…
No Country for a new Dylan flick
AMERICANS DON’T TRUST CRITICS. Most people just want to go to their screenings of Saw IV or Epic Movie guilt free without some egghead tastemaker telling them that they should be seeing Abbas Kiarostami’s latest meditation on mortality instead. Critics are being jettisoned from local and national papers at an alarming rate, and many who…
I am Legend, Atonement, Juno
Juno ***1/2 Reservations are required for the first 15 minutes of Juno. And by reservations, I don’t mean the type involving a phone call and the expected number in your party; I mean reservations as in the withholding of expectations and opinions, as this indie effort takes a moment to get its bearings. Yet after…
Don’t T’s Me, Bro
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Diary of the planet
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