COMPLAINING ABOUT city and county government changing the “official” celebration of Halloween — itself a ridiculous concept considering that Halloween’s not an official holiday, nor one that government would seem […]
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The best government money can buy
It’s not only Film Fest time and Halloween season — election day’s coming up. This week, courtesy of our own Patrick Rodgers, we give you interviews with all three Georgia […]
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The Art of nothing
It makes me physically ill that my best friend has bought a white painting. – Marc, a character in Art Things aren’t always what they seem on the surface. […]
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Lords of literature
I wrote a book at the age of ten called ‘My Relatives.’ Seven copies were printed and distributed by me. It was in the naturalistic vein and it was not […]
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Managing expectations
Unless you’ve spent the last couple of weeks under a rock, you know that former Savannah City Manager Michael Brown is once again a former manager. He recently resigned from […]
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Get your Greek on
Imagine cooking — on your own, from scratch — 30,000 servings of a particular recipe. Now imagine cooking a whole menu of recipes, 30,000 servings of each. Now imagine cooking […]
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Remembering John Lennon
For people of an older generation, the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas was the seminal loss-of-innocence moment. For those of us a little younger than that, it was […]
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Blowing up big
In a time of rapidly evolving digital media, some things still remain the same. Publications still identify separate editions with a volume and issue number, and we of course are […]
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Dealing with the calendar crush
It’s one of the more common observations about Savannah life: Why does everything have to happen at the same time? As complaints go, it’s a pretty mild one. But nonetheless […]
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Remembering Sabrina
IN OCTOBER 2001, a local paper named Connect Savannah merged with another local paper named Creative Loafing (which I edited at the time) to create the product you’re looking at […]
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Taser overload
There are far too many people volunteering to get tased these days. You can’t pick up the Savannah Morning News anymore without seeing a picture of some officer or official […]