Apparent domestic shooting claims two lives on Southside
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating an apparent domestic shooting. Officers responded to the 9400 block of Whitfield Avenue just before 2:00 p.m. on Saturday. “The two individuals who succumbed to gunshot wounds are Jenny Rose Keebler, 38, and Jose Antonio Perez-Estrada, 41. The shooting remains under investigation,” police say.
Local flash flooding possible
Chatham Emergency Management Agency warns of significant rainfall over the weekend which may result in flash floods. “Good News: Hurricane Joaquin will remain far out in the Atlantic,” says a CEMA spokesperson. “Bad News: The system keeping Joaquin in the Atlantic is sitting just off shore and is expected to bring heavy rains over the…
Art March weather updates
“Due to the strong winds and rain expected later this evening the First Friday Art March has updated the location for some of the events,” a spokesman says. The events include DISPOSABLE, STAINability, and the House of Strut Pop-Up Shop. The Starland Arts Park will not be active tonight as originally intended. All other locations…
Alderwoman Mary Osborne robbed on front porch
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department’s Robbery Unit detectives are searching for two suspects in a purse snatching at a residence on the 600 block of east 41st Street just before 6 p.m. today. “Responding Metro officers learned that while standing on the front porch attempting to enter her residence, Alderwoman Mary Osborne was approached by a…
Cop corruption brings RICO allegations against officials
In a long-rumored move, several plaintiffs — including the Delatorre brothers, allegedly ousted from the Counter Narcotics Team as whistleblowers — have brought civil racketeering and corruption charges against several high-profile local defendants. The defendants include: Former Savannah City Manager Michael Brown, former Chatham County Manager Russ Abolt, former Chatham County Commission Chairman Pete Liakakis,…
Greenway deserves green light
FOR A magazine assignment more than a decade ago, I picked up a noted expert on commercial architecture and design at a hotel in Savannah and we drove south on U.S. Route 17. John Margolies — author of books including The End of the Road: Vanishing Highway Architecture in America— wanted to revisit the Coastal…
Editor’s Note: Time to renegotiate
The old agreement had a good run. It’s time to relegate it to memory. The incumbent politicians had a good run. It’s time to retire their jerseys. The next “enough” moment is here, and the first step—just the very first baby step!—is sweeping change at the ballot box.
Just one Kiss
IN THE late ’70s and early ’80s, Argentina was in the grip of a brutal military dictatorship. People were dragged from their homes, children were torn from their mothers to be raised by the government, and loved ones were shot or sometimes even thrown out of airplanes. Anyone could be imprisoned and tortured for the…
Challenge 2015: Andrée Patterson, District 2
BORN and raised in Montreal, Patterson married an American in 1974 and became a citizen in 1995. She spent 10 years as a paralegal and 16 years teaching French before she and her husband retired to Savannah’s historic district in 2000, where she now works as a Reiki master and life coach. A vocal advocate…
Challenge 2015: Bernetta Lanier, District 1
IN ADDITION to city-wide election hot buttons of crime, poverty and government waste, Savannah’s District 1 hosts a tangle of high-profile issues, including the proposed Westside arena /canal district and mismanaged SPLOST funding. Bernetta Lanier is the only challenger to the district’s incumbent alderman, Mayor Pro Tem Van Johnson, who is running for his fourth…
Blues Trinity concert honors legends Albert, Freddie, and B.B.
THE AFTERNOON light cuts through the crannies of Pinkie Master’s as Eric Culberson, Eric Dunn, and Ray Lundy, over plastic cups of PBR and a Styrofoam plate of Cheez-Its, swap stories about the blues heroes they grew up listening to. These are tales handed down by word-of-mouth, writing and song. Some are eyewitness accounts, told…
Style with substance at Starland Fashion Night
The most distinguished reincarnation for newsprint I could ever imagine comes this Friday with DISPOSABLE, a showcase of fabulous frocks tailored completely out of past issues of your favorite free independent newsweekly.
A.J. Croce on ‘one of the hardest records to make’
THERE WILL always be heartache and bad luck in the world. Likewise, there will inevitably always be liquor and tangible crossroads at which the three intersect. Enter the genre of the great American drinking album. Enter A.J. Croce’s That’s Me in the Bar. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the record’s stew of New Orleans…
Challenge 2015: Bill Durrence, District 2
SAVANNAH’S 2nd district encompasses the city’s busiest business districts as well as some of it most impoverished neighborhoods, all while accommodating millions of visitors every year. The citywide issues of crime and economic disparity are magnified here, and 12-year incumbent Mary Osborne faces three challengers in the Nov. 3 election. Native son Bill Durrence graduated…
Barr Nobles: Remembering a Savannah renegade DJ, music writer, and activist
‘I can remember as a kid, when he was on at nighttime, he put on the Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore, and we’d go down to the Chinese restaurant and get some food. He was always into different types of avant-garde music, deeper stuff.’
Piano in the Arts: Scenes from Childhood @Armstrong Fine Arts Auditorium
Every year in her six years of study at the Royal Academy of Music, Gabrielian took home the prize for best final recital
Halloween Terror Fest, Kickoff Party, After Party @Alee Shrine Center, The Wormhole
With celebrity guests from Dawn of the Dead, The Walking Dead, The Devil’s Rejects, Scary Movie, Police Academy, get ready to geek with the best of ’em.
Challenge 2015: Detric Leggett, District 2
HE’S ONLY 42, but Detric Leggett has two decades of experience as a surgery tech in local hospitals. He’s personally seen the effects of Savannah’s gun violence as its victims have come into the ER for trauma treatment. The native Savannahian and Savannah High alumnus is active in his church, Holy Spirit Lutheran. He takes…
Truman Parkway man’s death investigated as homicide
A homicide investigation has been initiated by Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department’s Violent Crimes detectives “after the body of a 26-year-old Savannah man was found on Harry Truman Parkway early this morning,” police say. At about 5 a.m. Metro officers responded to northbound Truman Parkway, just south of Victory Drive, where Romell Stephens was found lying…
Another triple shooting on Westside
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating the shootings of three men in the Cuyler-Brownsville area early this morning. At about 4:40 a.m. Metro officers responded to 38th and Harden streets, where Corinthian Colonel, 17, and Travon Lenard, 19, were suffering from gunshot wounds. Eddie Robertson, 22, who also sustained a gunshot wound, was found nearby on…
Meg Ryan, Olivia Wilde set for honors at Savannah Film Fest
AS tickets for the Savannah Film Festival go on sale this morning, SCAD announced its honorees, guests and the full lineup for the 2015 Savannah Film Festival, happening downtown Oct. 24-31. “Game of Thrones” star Alfie Allen will receive the Rising Star Award on Oct. 27. Meg Ryan will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award on…
The Real Mad Men
THE BIG Georgia History Festival main event isn’t until February, but the Savannah-based Georgia Historical Society is revving up for this year’s shindig with a lecture by their resident Senior Historian and all around awesome dude, Stan Deaton. Deaton gives the Keynote Address this Thursday evening entitled “The Birth of the American Dream: How the…
