Savannah Tree Foundation spearheads tree plantings for Arbor Day
For the second year, the Savannah Tree Foundation says it is partnering with all nine local municipalities within Chatham County to plant new trees for Arbor Day. As part of their Georgia Arbor Day celebrations, the Savannah Tree Foundation is ensuring that each town continues to focus on the value of trees with plantings across…
Alderman Van Johnson announces run for Mayor of Savannah
This morning, Savannah City Alderman Van R. Johnson announced he will run for Mayor in this year’s election. He broke the news on WRUU 107.5 FM community radio on “Savannah Lexicon,” with Dave Messner sitting in for host Wayne Waters. “I’m in it for the long run. It’s my intention to run for Mayor of…
Savannah Book Festival announces keynote author change
Daniel Krauthammer, the keynote speaker for the Savannah Book Festival, has postponed his Feb. 15 appearance at the Lucas Theatre. In his place, Chris Stirewalt, Fox News’ politics editor, will deliver the address. “We were very sad to hear that Daniel Krauthammer would not be able to deliver our Keynote Address as scheduled,” said SBF…
Fit For An Autopsy comes to AURA Fest
The band, led by prominent producer and engineer Will Putney, has released four full-length albums and two EPs since 201
TreeHouse! @Barrelhouse South
They’ve garnered acclaim over the last several years and continue to bring their feel good music to audiences everywhere
Savannah Book Festival: Patti Callahan Henry
Yet, they fell in love, and Patti Callahan Henry’s ‘Becoming Mrs. Lewis’ lays the story out for us
Damon and the Shitkickers @Congress Street Social Club
Damon and the Shitkickers continue to fly the flag of great country music in the Savannah scene
Savannah Book Festival: Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes
Rescue is Kensky’s service dog, and the duo is the subject of ‘Rescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship’
Editor’s Note: NewZO: Things to watch
One is tempted to say NewZO is too little, too late, but there will be plenty of opportunities for a more sane and equitable zoning protocol to affect positive change here — if it is allowed to.
5 great choices for Valentine’s Day in Savannah
In Savannah, the options are endless to craft a successful date
Arizona Ranger, Liana Gabel + The Star Sisters @The Sentient Bean
The band has released original songs as well as a stellar version of Townes Van Zandt’s ‘Pancho and Lefty’
Savannah Book Festival: Dan Hampton
His newest book, Chasing the Demon, chronicles the leadup to the breaking of the sound barrier in the years after WWII
Savannah Book Festival: Tena Clark
‘Southern Discomfort’ is Clark’s story of strength, love, and acceptance in the Civil Rights-era South
Irish Fest isn’t just fiddling around
The Savannah Irish Fest has always sought to provide a showplace for more authentic Irish and Celtic cultural celebration, as the local St. Patrick’s Day celebration a month later has become ever more commercialized
Tim Walls: Reflections on AURA Fest
2019’s festival boasts a hugely impressive lineup of metal, hardcore, and rock bands
Liz Cooper & the Stampede take the industry by storm
Those ‘60s and ‘70s influences are certainly prominent, and it makes sense given Cooper’s musical background
Of Virtue, Drowning Above Water, Depressor @El Rocko Lounge
Metalcore favorites Of Virtue come to El Rocko Lounge for a night of intense and inventive rock you won’t find anywhere else
Savannah Book Festival: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
These gripping, visceral, often suddenly violent stories are rather a distressingly realistic psychological portrayal of life as a black person in America today, right now
This weekend, take your Valentine to the Studio School
Approachability is important to demystifying erotic art like von Tauber is creating
Georgia HB 8: The Politics of Periods
The cost of pads, tampons, and menstrual cups alone will run a woman about $6,000 over the years she menstruates — and right now Georgia applies a luxury tax to those items.
Zao endures, 25 years later
The band started in 1993 and has weathered numerous lineup changes since, with a number of people coming in and out
Savannah Book Festival: Marie Benedict
As it turned out, the world at that could not quite handle a beautiful genius, posits Marie Benedict in her novel, ‘The Only Woman in the Room’
5 Questions with Elizabeth Winnel
Winnel’s body of work primarily consists of lips, sometimes posed slightly open, sometimes biting flowers
Lanes of Savannah: The artistic path less traveled
‘Between’ fits in perfectly with the Davenport House’s new initiative to tell the story of Savannah’s lanes
26 years of American Traditions
The competition predates TV shows like American Idol, and has been a kickstarter for the careers of a number of professional singer
Georgia Southern’s Armstrong Campus to host reading with acclaimed novelist Julianna Baggott
Julianna Baggott, critically acclaimed fiction writer, poet and essayist, is coming to Savannah for Georgia Southern University’s Armstrong Visiting Writers Series. Baggott will give a reading at Savannah Coffee Roasters on March 7 at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
City Joins SCCPSS in Celebration of Arbor Day
City of Savannah Mayor Eddie DeLoach will join the Park & Tree Commission and the City of Savannah Greenscapes Division in the annual Arbor Day Celebration and Tree Planting Ceremony at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, February 15. The ceremony will take place at The Stem Academy at Bartlett Middle School, 207 East Montgomery Cross Road.…
