In my City Talk column on Tuesday in the Savannah Morning News, I noted the big crowds for Saturday’s Savannah Book Festival and also mentioned the beautiful backdrops for many of the presentations. I already posted some thoughts and a…
Savannah tells the story of legendary Savannah River market hunter Ward Allen. It has already been booked for opening night of the 4th annual Charleston Film Festival.
I especially appreciated Gore’s invocation of this passage from Lincoln’s December 1862 message to Congress: “The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
Given the quality and quantity of the authors participating, it’s going to be a day of trade-offs and really tough choices.
I first discovered that Marcus was devoting significant time and energy to his photography a little over a year ago after he submitted a couple of pieces to an exhibition that I co-curated with Beth Howells in conjunction with the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home: “Southern Discomfort: Art Inspired by Flannery O’Connor”.
The lanky 73-year old actor was a special guest for the 2011 SFF, and he received an honorary doctorate from SCAD in 2012. At least one of his kids attended SCAD.
The last time Jack Metcalf had a show in Savannah, way back in 2010, buyers could quite literally pay whatever they wanted. So someone in theory could have snapped up the forty or so pieces in Maybe Something, Maybe Nothing…
Hard work. Dedication. Art. Fashion. Dance. Beauty. Energy. Youth. Sustainable reuse of castoff materials. Education. Public education. Savannahians who appreciate any of those things need to do themselves a favor and plan to attend the 2014 Junk 2 Funk Fashion Show at the Savannah Arts Academy.
Like many other universities, Armstrong has a significant and growing Hispanic population. Unlike many of those universities, Armstrong is dealing with that growth and a panoply of related issues in a forward-thinking, proactive way through a variety of initiatives, including HOLA (Hispanic Outreach and Leadership at Armstrong) and Goizueta Foundation Scholars Fund.
What a lovely surprise on Sunday to hear Cheryl Day’s voice on “The Splendid Table”, American Public Media’s show hosted by the sometimes-overly-cheery Lynne Rossetto Kasper.
Savannah screened to an appreciative full house in March 2012 at Trustees Theater on Broughton Street, but it has been under the radar since then.
From Why You Never Truly Leave High School by Jennifer Senior: Until the Great Depression, the majority of American adolescents didn’t even graduate from high school. Once kids hit their teen years, they did a variety of things: farmed, helped…
The makers of CBGB have posted a Facebook album of 10 photos giving a “glimpse behind the scenes of the color correction.” As most of you probably already know, CBGB was shot last summer, primarily here in Savannah.
Richard Blanco may be the least known of the poets ever accorded the honor of delivering an inaugural poem.
