Lord knows, our places need saviors. If not for the Historic Savannah Foundation and the efforts of SCAD, our downtown might have been razed long ago for one massive Family Dollar circle of hell.
jessica leigh lebos
Posted inCommunity
Emmaus House: Feeding the hungry, feeding the soul
The difference between charity and service is a hairnet.
Posted inCommunity
Bag the plastic, Tybee
U.S. bag bans have already passed in Chicago, the Outer Banks and the entire state of California. Tybee Island’s would set the precedent in Georgia.
Posted inCommunity
Harbor Deepening: Like it or not, change is gonna come
If dealing with SHEP contractors is anything like remodeling a bathroom, don’t hold your breath for a finished harbor. Unless you have access to a personal-sized Speece cone.
Posted inCommunity
Enveloped in the Beloved Community
Keeping the ‘social’ in social change” is the rallying cheer that continues to buoy the story of Waddie Welcome.
Posted inCommunity
Decriminalizing childhood
Middle school is when some fool with drugs, others become preoccupied with the opposite sex. Me, I decided to call in a bomb threat to my junior high.
Posted inCommunity
Around the fire with Michael W. Twitty
I don’t know if he’s the only gay, black, Jewish culinarian in the entire world, but this gent is definitely my kind of unicorn.
Posted inCommunity
College Issue: Keeping it together on campus
Even if your roommate is a World of Warcraft-obsessed sociopath who uses your brush and then lies about it, it is not OK to replace her toothpaste with Preparation H.
Posted inCommunity
Don’t shoot the messengers
Politically correct lip service isn’t the same thing as working towards diminishing the disparity between the cultural privilege afforded America’s white citizens and its people of color. In Savannah, there is opportunity every day to bridge that gap.
Posted inCommunity
How I kicked the bucket and learned to love the Ice Challenge anyway
Two weeks ago, I was befuddled by the barrage of videos featuring excited people in wet T-shirts, soundlessly playing by themselves like an issue of The Daily Prophet Gone Wild.
Posted inCommunity
A radical sabbatical
Sometimes, when things get really whacked, you need more than a few breaths. You need to do something radical. You have to steal your life back from the deadlines and the iPhone calendar and the to-do lists.