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I am no longer the Man About Town

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Yes, I’m still writing a column for Do, the entertainment pullout section published every Thursday by the Savannah Morning News.

But the name of my column has been changed — from the rather tired Man About Town to Unplugged.

I’ll be immersed in the Savannah Stopover all weekend, but for my first Unplugged column, I preview The Collective Face‘s production of William Nicholson’s Shadowlands. Of course, you’ll find plenty of Stopover coverage from Do writers this week.

I haven’t even mentioned the most important changes.

At 40 pages, Do is larger, and it is once again being distributed free at points throughout Savannah. Print subscribers will continue to get Do on Thursdays, but I just picked up a copy — on Wednesday evening — from a bin next to Brighter Day at the corner of Park and Bull.

Do’s additional space and the simple fact that it will reach a broader audience add up to great news for the city’s vibrant but sometimes fragmented arts scene.

Do editor Jason Kendall has a fresh new column, Up Front. Look for expanded arts coverage and features by staff writer Linda Sicker and others.

Jesse Blanco will continue writing the column Eat It and Like It, plus you’ll be seeing more reviews, like Joseph J. Schwartzburt’s take on the SCAD production of The Three Musketeers and Anna Chandler’s recap of last Saturday’s successful A-Town Get Down.

In this first issue of the expanded Do, you can also check out the new column Film Scene by the Psychotronic Film Society’s Jim Reed.

From Jim’s first Film Scene, David Cronenberg leads off Savannah indie screenings to watch:

For decades, adventurous Coastal Empire cineasts had to settle for whatever mainstream safe bets appeared at our corporate-owned multiplexes. But in the early 2000s, upstart organizations like Reel Savannah and the PFS threw caution to the wind, took matters into their own hands and applied a DIY approach — curating distinctly different (yet complementary) series of provocative, acclaimed features that would otherwise never play here.

So: more arts coverage, more features, more calendar listings, more voices, more reviews, more accessibility. It’s all good.

By the way, I’ll still be writing my City Talk columns on Tuesday and Sunday. All of my Savannah Morning News columns are linked in the right sidebar here at Savannah Unplugged.