Leap of faith
CJ Lyons believes if you have a dream, you have to go for it. So after a successful 17-year career as a doctor, she decided to write a novel. She left her medical practice behind, causing her partner to ask, “Are you sure you don’t need counseling?” “I’m trained in pediatric emergency medicine,” Lyons says.…
Best of Savannah 2008: City Life
Best Green Company & Best Green Building Melaver Inc. Abercorn Common At first glance, Melaver Inc. doesn’t fit the profile of a stereotypical environmental business. The winner of Savannah’s Best Green/Sustainable Company began operation in 1940 as a small, family owned grocery store, and over the decades morphed into M&M Supermarkets, one of the largest…
Best of Savannah 2008: Politics and Public Affairs
Best City Council Member Tony Thomas As Alderman for Savannah’s Sixth District, Tony Thomas serves as “the sounding board for the district,” he says. “My job is to relay their concerns and issues to City Hall.” Thomas, now 42, took office in January, 2000 and this year began his third four-year term on Savannah City…
Best of Savannah 2008: Arts and Culture
Best Local Theatre Production of 2007 Rocky Horror by Cardinal Rep Actually the company was known as Savannah Actors Theatre when they did this popular audience-participation kitsch classic. Artistic Director Ryan McCurdy gave us some fun facts from this groundbreaking show from the growing troupe: • Some audience participation props had to be confiscated from…
Best of Savannah 2008: Food
Best Overall Restaurant, Best Wait Staff, Best Restaurant When Someone Else is Paying Elizabeth on 37th 105 E. 37th St./ 236-5547 Nestled in an old Southern mansion with its own herb garden out front, Elizabeth on 37th is definitely a special-occasions restaurant. Reservations are taken up to three months in advance, and office manager Morgen…
Best of Savannah 2008: Nightlife
Best Overall Bar, Best Downtown Bar & Best College Bar Hang Fire 37 Whitaker St./443-9956 A comparative newcomer to the downtown scene, Hang Fire has already done what some places take decades to do: Become a true Savannah institution. Runner-up, Overall: Murphy’s Law Runner-up, Downtown: Wild Wing Cafe Runner-up, College: Loco’s Best New Bar and…
Best of Savannah: Recreation, Health and Beauty
Best Veterinarian Case Veterinary Hospital 111 Eisenhower Dr./352-3081 Carla Case-McCorvey’s great-grandfather began Case Veterinary nearly a century ago, in 1909. When it came time for her to choose a career, did she have much angst about the decision? “Not really,” she says. “There was no pressure put on me to go into the family business,…
Best of Savannah 2008: Shopping and Services
Best Musical Instrument Store Portman’s Music Superstore 7650 Abercorn St./354-1500 The Portman family has been selling and renting musical instruments, PA systems, recording equipment and accessories in Savannah for over 70 years. For decades, their West Broughton location (now home to Welsh Pawn Shop) was a hub of the downtown scene. However, since moving their…
The Best of Savannah is here – again
Our annual Best of Savannah Readers’ Poll issue has evolved a good bit over the years, which is only natural since the community it reflects is always evolving as well. Ten years ago the thought that there would be categories called “Best Spoken Word Artist” and “Best Indie Film Venue” would have been greeted with…
The Jeff Beasley Band goes Down To The River
JEFF BEASLEY VIVIDLY RECALLS THE MOMENT he first developed a love for playing music. “When I first picked up a guitar that my uncle Joe gave me, I knew I’d be playing guitar the rest of my life,” says the Savannah-based singer, songwriter and band leader. According to Beasley, he experienced a somewhat similar epiphany…
Spotlighted gigs and recommended shows
Laura Reed & Deep Pocket *** In musicians’ parlance, playing “deep in the pocket” intimates that a rhythm player such as a bassist or percussionist is so intensely into the groove of whatever type of tune they’re performing —especially funk or rock— that they’re locked onto the pulse of the song and riding it for…
“And the Last Shall Be First”
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