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Savannahians who set an example for us all in the past year
Art Patrol
2007 Black Heritage Festival call for entries — The 18th Annual Savannah Black Heritage Festival will include a juried exhibition that will be displayed Feb. 5-28, 2007. Artists are encouraged to submit works that incorporate the theme, “Our Journey – A Story Unfolding.” The theme celebrates the journeys of Africans and African Americans, and tells…
Connect Recommends
Our picks for the weeks’s most noteworthy live gigs
Music Menu
A quick look at some of the live gigs going on around town this week
In J.B.s death, a new reason for the season
A few nights ago, my younger brother and I watched a rare video of a particularly memorable moment in television history. It was taped off CNN around 1986. In it, Sonya Friedman tried to interview soul singer James Brown via satellite regarding his then-recent arrest for spousal abuse. Throughout the uncomfortably bizarre segment, the superstar…
Dont look back in anger
The best and worst of the 2006 film season
Fishman: Good news in small doses
One good idea. One brave person. Sometimes thats all it takes. But I wonder how much ink, how much coverage, this man received.
Opinion: Million Man Marsh
Despite the topic’s treatment in various articles about coastal Georgia’s growth, population projections done for the Coastal Regional Development Center by Georgia Tech say nothing new – we’re growing at almost 20% a decade, meaning a near doubling every 35 years. In our State of Georgia’s Coast Report, the Center for a Sustainable Coast projected…
News of the Weird
Latest Religious Messages Checking a boy just before his bar mitzvah, Orthodox rabbis in Sydney, Australia, found that his rabbi-supervised circumcision had not quite been “complete” and ruled that it must be done again because, officially, the boy was not a Jew. The boy’s mother objected and instead found a Progressive synagogue for the bar…
Blotter
Two men were arrested after being caught with fraudulent payroll checks totaling more than $10,000. Ulysses Hentz, Jr., 28, and Sornie Garrett, 18, both of Memphis, Tenn., were charged with first and second degree forgery, fraudulent attempt to execute fictitious checks, conspiracy to commit a crime, obstruction by fleeing and obstruction by giving a false…
