Stratton Leopold is Lighted Christmas Parade Grand Marshal
The annual Lighted Christmas Parade downtown happens Saturday, December 6 as part of First Friday & Saturday’s Christmas on the River. Stratton Leopold has been named the 2014 Grand Marshal. Each year the Savannah Waterfront staff and Board of Directors selects a leader in the community to serve as Grand Marshal for this parade. “Stratton…
#BlackLivesMatter protests turn ‘unlawful,’ police say
Members of the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department are meeting tonight “to determine actions to be taken in the future after what was organized as a peaceful protest turned unruly Thursday afternoon,” a department spokesperson says. Organizers had agreed to abide by laws and ordinances in absence of a permit, police say, “but a number of…
Tybee For The Holidays events planned
Tybee Island has a variety of events as part of its annual “Tybee For The Holidays” programming. Highlights include: · The Lights On for Tybee Celebration begins on Friday, December 5 at 6:30 p.m., when Mayor Jason Buelterman lights the Christmas tree downtown at the Tybrisa/Strand Roundabout. The evening will include live entertainment, extended store…
City of SAV offering downtown parking incentives during holiday season
The City of Savannah is offering some incentives to make it easier to park and shop in Downtown Savannah this holiday season. Free Garage Parking: Until the end of December, the first three hours of parking are FREE in all City parking garages every Thursday and Friday. Regular rates apply after the first 3 hours;…
SAV Philharmonic Chorus to carol on Broughton Friday
About 50 members of the Savannah Philharmonic Chorus will treat patrons of Broughton Street businesses to holiday classics and carols, including Away in a Manger, Silent Night, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Rudolph, Jingle Bells, and O Little Town of Bethlehem. It starts Friday, December 5, at 6:30 p.m. in front of 24e. They will…
One dead, two injured in Georgetown domestic shooting
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating a triple shooting, including a fatal self-inflicted wound, after a domestic incident Tuesday night. John Richard “Rick” Morris, 41, died at Memorial University Medical Center where he was transported with a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he shot two women at the Georgetown Crossing Apartments on the 1000 block of King…
Nikki Talley @The Sentient Bean
The Ashevillians bring the mountain sound to the coast with acoustic guitar and banjo in tow.
Little Prince, with puppets please
NOW IN THEIR fourth season, The Collective Face is proving to be ahead of the curve in contemporary theatre—and they’re always ready to try their hand at something new and challenge their audience. In September, they sold out Grey Gardens, their first-ever musical. And now, with The Little Prince, Collective Face is surprising the audience…
Composite Contribution: The photos of W.W. Law
WESTLEY WALLACE LAW remains one of Savannah’s most multifarious figures. Born in 1923, the Boy Scout, postal worker and army veteran earned the respect of generations for his leadership in the city’s relatively peaceful Civil Rights movement. He championed African American history and was instrumental in the creation of The King-Tisdell Cottage Museum, the Beach…
Bugg Blow tells it like it is
We talk a bit about how deeply rooted the dysfunction is and how ‘everyone’ knew former police chief and recent convicted felon Willie Lovett helped along the cycle.
Stay merry with Christmas Ales
These beers are lightly hopped and rely on a medium malt blend accented with holiday spice flavors to create a beer dark in color, often higher in alcohol and brimming with tasting notes normally attributed to your grandmother’s pecan pie.
Repeal & Reveal at World of Beer
CAN YOU imagine living in Savannah during prohibition? It’s difficult to think that our wild-at-heart, take-that-cup-to-go, drinking-martinis-in-cemeteries city was once as dry as the bones in Bonaventure. But, as much as it would suck to live in a world without legal tallboys and hot toddies, we certainly love to romanticize those times of speakeasies, smuggled…
Small garden with big results
VICTORY GARDENS is a proud collaborator with the Canyon Ranch Institute Savannah Partnership (CRISP). As a co-founding partner of Victory Gardens, I had the pleasure of showing a group of CRI Healthy Garden volunteers how to build a sub-irrigation planter, or what a lot of people call a “SIP.” If you have limited space, you…
2014 Gift Guide
Holiday shopping made easy with great gift ideas from local retailers.
How bad do the poor have it compared to years gone by?
Yes, the poorest denizens of the poorest corners of the world have stopped dying from the most easily preventable of diseases. But here at the other end of the spectrum, we’re going in the opposite direction.
‘Deformance’ artist Liz Gibson speaks up for acceptance
She takes over Jepson for storytelling, and interactive creation
Levi Weaver @The Guild Hall
He refers to his style as ‘post-folk,’ taking into account the avant-garde and experimental approaches of personal heroes like Radiohead while keeping quality storytelling a priority.
Tinsley Ellis and Tommy Talton Band @The Mars Theatre
Ellis clocks in about 150 live shows a year; you’d think it might tucker him out, but the man lights up the guitar like, as Billboard put it, ‘a man possessed.’
Talking with… Nathalie Dupree
BEHIND JULIA CHILD’S omelets, unusual voice and folksy charm lay an incredible influencer of American cuisine. The author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking and host of television’s The French Chef changed the way we cook. She also encouraged a young Southern chef to become an influencer of her own. “She always felt that…
Safe//Sound in the Sanctuary
Three artists explore folk transgressions in Trinity UMC
Civil War doc to screen at Telfair Dec. 11
Telfair Museums presents a special screening of Michael Jordan’s documentary film, “Savannah in the Civil War,” in the Telfair Academy at 6 pm on Thursday, December 11, 2014. The film features thirty local actors, more than a dozen historians, and numerous Savannah-area historical sites and battlegrounds, revealing the famous and little-known events and stories that…
Urban Farm expands at West Broad Y
The West Broad Street YMCA held a grand opening today on a shade house for The Beloved Community Urban Farm, the community garden on site at the Y’s facility on May Street. The shade house is “just one part of a broader initiative by the Growing Edge Community Collaboration, a 15-agency nonprofit cooperative charged with…
Review: Horrible Bosses 2
The humor is mostly of the sort that will leave 14-year-old boys gasping for air through explosive bouts of diarrhetic laughing but find everyone else rolling their eyes.
Shout at the Devil
Sammy Davis, Jr., to put it lightly, was a character. A member of The Rat Pack, incredible drummer, actor, and known reveler, his multitude of talents only played up the wicked charm he emanated. “He was the only one-eyed, black Jew that I know of,” says Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah’s Jim Reed. “If he…
Editor’s Note: Who really benefits from racial conflict?
I’ve seen more of these high-profile racially polarized court cases than I can count. But they follow the same dog-eared script, doing nothing but perpetuating racial strife. You always have to ask who benefits?
