This week Brittany contributes a graphic recording of a recent Q&A session on April 22 between Tom Kohler, and Chatham County Commission candidate Clinton Edminster
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Heading ‘North of Victory’
The four artists represented in the exhibition are Jimmie Williams, Leonard Miller Marcus Polite, and William Pleasant. Of those four, Williams is the only painter still living.
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Simply the Best
Of course, there’s plenty to champion about living here that we can’t quantify, like the dynamic tango of creativity and commerce and the dogged work of those who persevere against poverty and violence.
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A year of living and dreaming with Emergent Savannah
“Looking at it from the perspective of our hopes and dreams, we found that we really aren’t that different.”
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Barr Nobles: Remembering a Savannah renegade DJ, music writer, and activist
‘I can remember as a kid, when he was on at nighttime, he put on the Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore, and we’d go down to the Chinese restaurant and get some food. He was always into different types of avant-garde music, deeper stuff.’
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Best Community Activist, Best Liberal, Best Savannahian
IF you ask Tom Kohler what he does, he’ll tell you he “puts people together.” That’s been his main mission as the director of Savannah Chatham Citizens Advocacy, the non-profit […]
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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.
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Enveloped in the Beloved Community
Keeping the ‘social’ in social change” is the rallying cheer that continues to buoy the story of Waddie Welcome.
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Rebel with a thousand causes?
I’m not sure “Best Activist” is a title that I can shoulder honestly. I prefer to think of myself as a court jester, juggling chainsaws and poking at the apathetic with a stick.
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Opening night of Savannah Rocks!
Loosely chronicled and gleefully chaotic, the collective result evokes a giant party that started in 1957 and is still screaming along full throttle.
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TED’s X-cellent Adventure
One part symposium, one part lecture series, add some notable community members and a lot of ideas; stir them up and let them marinade all day – that’s the recipe […]
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The Worldwide Read
More than a decade ago, the story of Waddie Welcome galvanized a community around the cause of helping an elderly disabled man live out his final years the way he […]