One year I spent an hour in someone’s Charlton Street living room sipping Jameson out of a china teacup before realizing we were actually supposed to be across the lane. Fortunately, the elderly couple whose house we crashed was very gracious about our confusion—they even poured us to-go cups.
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Why every Savannahian should see Mickve Israel’s museum makeover
Above all else, Judaism is a story, and the tiny chapter written by Savannah’s Jewish community is not only unique, it’s essential to this city’s history—and its future.
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Spring in Savannah, new and improved
The salacious second quarter of 2015 has also been greatly improved by other developments. Let’s begin with the renovation of the Forsyth Park Bandshell, currently underway.
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Beware the greenwash
We’ve got a big ol’ bathtub of misrepresented issues happening in Georgia right now, and there are plenty of players who would like to see the pistachio-hued wool pulled over our eyes.
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Ain’t misbehavin’…much
After discovering Ola Wyeth’s depth, an intergenerational posse of audacious acolytes have founded the Women’s History Committee of Savannah to shine a light on the character, commitment and courage of our city’s forgotten females.
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Out from liberty’s shadow
The documentary Shadows of Liberty, screening at Armstrong this Friday, is the civil liberty equivalent of a gory zombie apocalypse flick.
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Would you eat a Simba sandwich?
Farm-raised lion meat is legal to serve and eat in all 50 states. But just because we can, does it mean we should?
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Catching shades of The Grey on MLK
Can the prosperous, polished glow of places like this reach far down the historic boulevard?
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Owl ya like me now?
This rapturous raptoress laid her first egg on New Year’s Day and the other a few days later. We’ve been watching ever since.
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Schoolin’ the old school?
The new guard believes that canvas that connects art and preservation belongs to everyone, not just the wealthy, and the conversation continues.
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#TheTruthAboutMattBlack
‘You do enough of this kind of work and you realize that a lot of people involved in the system have some kind of mental health concern and that the system is completely ill-equipped to deal with it,’ says the family’s attorney Mark O’Mara.
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Shouts from the underground
With a handwritten aesthetic and scissor-cut graphics from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Albion’s Voice resembled a cross between an 18th-century political pamphlet and a Grateful Dead poster.