Recycle this! After years of neglect on the issue, the City started 2009 auspiciously with the unveiling and rapid ramp–up of a Citywide curbside, single–stream recycling program. While consumer usage initially […]
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Year in Review: The ballad of ‘Ruby’
In addition to the usual, um, diet of Paula Deen on your TV (with and without that extra serving of flying ham), Savannah enjoyed a few other small screen turns […]
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New Year’s wine bargains
Kick off the New Year with some real wine bargains. Tough times have resulted in some really good wines coming to market –– including this selection –– that will only […]
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Random bites: Green Tea, Ruth’s Chris
Green Tea Drive Thru This Chinese take–out has a firm hold on this bustling corner of Eisenhower Drive and Waters Avenue. With virtually every order made from scratch and the […]
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Those doggone resolutions
“Get outside more. Get some exercise. Give back to the community. Expand your social network.” Remember these old New Year’s Resolutions? If a new approach is needed this year […]
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Paying it forward
Reports of the imminent demise of Savannah’s community theatres may have been premature. JinHi Soucy Rand, a community activist who happens to be an 18–year veteran of the local stage […]
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The best in wines, 2009
Sometimes, you want a simple bottle of wine. Maybe it’s a basic Chianti for a quick pasta dinner; perhaps it’s a crisp Sauvignon Blanc to knock down the heat on […]
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Random bites: T-Rex Mex, Fairmont
T–Rex Mex I slipped into this new Broughton Street restaurant late one Sunday afternoon, pretty much had the place to myself and left really happy. The basement level space has […]
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Jingle, all the way!
There hasn’t ever been a whole lot of dashing through the snow in Savannah. And in the 1850s, the winter climate was pretty much the same as it is now […]
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What’s Next: American Ballet Theatre
One of the country’s leading dance companies visits the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina in Hilton Head on Jan. 16.It’s the American Ballet Theatre – or, more precisely, ABT II, […]
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Noteworthy: ‘Jazz Yule Love’
Friday’s Coastal Jazz Association Christmas concert is a tradition with a hard-won history. Back in the 1950s, Savannah had separate unions for white musicians and black musicians. It was in […]
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The Looters: Full speed ahead
J. Lyon Layden has a lot of irons in the fire, but so far, he hasn’t been burned. That’s because he’s good at all the things he does. The son […]