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 […]
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Editor’s Note: History + $$$ + Downtown = ???
The National Trust for Historic Preservation comes here just as we face the most contentious period of downtown development since Merritt Dixon plonked the modernist cube of the Hyatt Regency down onto River Street.
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Editor’s Note: Ben Carter, tourism, and ‘unknown facts’
While tourism in Savannah is robust, our numbers of “actual” tourists are likely far lower than usually cited by local movers and shakers in order to justify whatever it is they want to do, and want us to pay for.
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Editor’s Note: ‘Slow-vannah’ no more?
BACK IN FEBRUARY, on a blustery cold day on Broughton Street, developer Ben Carter addressed an eager crowd at his first local press conference—the kind of event usually reserved for […]
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Dent May’s crazy world
THERE’S A REASON pop auteur Todd Rundgren titled his 1978 magnum opus Hermit of Mink Hollow. Like much of his work, it was recorded alone, with Rundgren playing every instrument […]
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Surprises on Savannah’s Fashion Night
The imminent transformation of the historic downtown shopping corridor has been the subject of much controversy. But the organizers of the yearly style extravaganza known as Savannah’s Fashion Night have no qualms mixing up new trends with the classics.
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Third arrest in Broughton shootings
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police made the third arrest related to downtown Savannah shootings on and near Broughton Street occurring Feb. 25 just after 1 a.m. Shavatica Morris, 21, was taken into […]
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Two arrested in Broughton shootings
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police arrested two suspects in Downtown Savannah shootings that occurred early Sunday morning. Rajed Ervin, 22, of the 2200 block of Mason Drive, was detained Sunday morning near […]
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Editor’s Note: Ben Carter’s Buckhead story
With all the bullet-point lists of Carter’s previous projects, the local media has made virtually no mention of his activity in Buckhead.
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Game-changer on Broughton Street?
‘What we’re doing is not easy,” developer Ben Carter said. “If it was it would have been done before.’
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SpongeBob street closings announced
Sections of Broughton Street between Montgomery Street & Habersham Street will be closed to traffic from October 9-18 to allow for the filming of SpongeBob 2. Some adjacent streets will […]
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College Issue: Live local and prosper
Once you’ve interacted with a handful of Savannah residents, you’re already linked to half of the city. I’m talking, your roommate’s coworker is the boyfriend of the girl who is friends with your first one-night-stand. (True story.)