Savannah Arts Academy’s 6th annual Junk 2 Funk Fashion Show was presented last weekend to three sellout crowds in the school’s lovely old theater. I’ve been attending and photographing the show for a few years now, and I can’t even…
On Tuesday, Jan. 28, I began one of my journalism classes at Armstrong Atlantic State University with a brief consideration of a newly released “crowd-sourced” video of Neil Young’s recent Carnegie Hall concert. It’s a special topics class about new…
I haven’t read everything that Flannery O’Connor ever wrote — I haven’t yet tackled the recently released A Prayer Journal, for example. But I’ve been immersed to varying degrees in O’Connor’s life and work for I guess about a decade…
Before I launch into a few thoughts of my own, I want to plug SavannahNow’s really interesting multimedia package about the 20th anniversary of the publication of John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Kim Wade’s feature…
Savannah’s new bike share program CAT Bike, an initiative of Chatham Area Transit, has gotten a little press from the New York Times’ In Transit blog: Savannah Starts a Bike Program. Ironically, the program begins on Friday — among the…
A really nice piece in the New York Daily News over the weekend: Hip to be Square: Its many little parks make historic Savannah the place to be From the reflection by Joe Dziemianowicz, who was recently in town with…
A really interesting piece by Mary Carr Mayle in Sunday’s Savannah Morning News: Report: Georgia’s infrastructure still lacking The piece talks about the recent “report card” released by the Georgia branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers. From the…
Before I sound like I’m whining, let me begin by saying that I love all the things that I’m most deeply involved with. I teach English and journalism at Armstrong Atlantic State University, an incredibly fulfilling job. I write columns…
I do not know the answer to the question in the title of this post, but there are a number of possibilities. To recap: it has been understood for a while now that Ben Affleck plans to adapt Dennis Lehane’s…
As I noted in a post last summer, there have been rumors that the Rolling Stones wrote “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” while at a Savannah motel in 1965. In comments on that post, Stan Deaton of the Georgia Historical…
An impressive lineup of Savannah bands has signed on for a fundraiser at Doc’s Bar on Tybee to support Ryan Buttimer and his sister Erin. Here’s part of the story from the Facebook event The Renal Fundraiser for Ryan Buttimer:…
If you’re not reading Bruce Feiler’s monthly feature This Life in the New York Times, you’re missing out. (Click here for a list of those column’s on Bruce’s website.) The new column is especially poignant and provocative: Secret Histories; In…
