Less than two months ago, I posted about the fake snow in various spots around Savannah for a Belk commercial shoot: What would Savannah look like in the snow? In that post, I included a handful of iPhone photos of…
I’ve written quite a bit over the last year or so about OCEARCH‘s tagging of great white sharks and the researchers’ Shark Tracker. Well check out these latest images (click here if embed is glitchy): Post by OCEARCH. Post by…
Reminders: The Savannah Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon is Saturday. Click here for the course map. Streets will reopen after runners clear the area, but that won’t happen immediately. Click here for more detailed info on road closures. Here’s the entertainment…
Anthropologie appears poised to open on November 29th at the corner of Congress and Montgomery streets on Ellis Square in Savannah. From a Twitter exchange a little while ago: @billdawers Yes, we're hoping to open November 29th! — Anthropologie (@Anthropologie)…
All the votes have yet to be counted, but the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) in Chatham County will continue with another round from 2014 to 2020. I’ve written extensively about the tax over the last few years.…
I’m planning to vote for SPLOST (the special purpose local option sales tax) on Tuesday here in Chatham County. As always with such votes, there are many who have reasonable arguments for voting against it. I voted against the current…
I have no independent verification that this is David Geffen’s yacht, and I have no idea if Geffen himself is on it, but check out the Instagram post on Saturday from Visit Savannah: A little less than two weeks, The…
After Thursday’s screening of the brilliant film Philomena at the Savannah Film Festival, I met up with a friend for a drink at the bar at the Marshall House — the go-to spot for festival attendees. Then we made it…
Anyone who has been downtown lately at night has possibly noticed something we haven’t seen in a long, long time: lights on at the southeast corner of Congress and Montgomery streets. The old site of 606 Cafe has been undergoing…
In my City Talk column coming out tomorrow (Tuesday), I write a little about the increasing role of social media in terms of PR and publicity for the Savannah Film Festival. Here’s just a very small sampling of tweets from…
A few weeks ago on a gray Sunday afternoon, I got to Muse Arts Warehouse a little early for a matinee of The Collective Face’s magnificent production of Equus. While waiting for showtime, I stood along the Springfield Canal and…
In my City Talk column today, I write about the proposed projects to be funded by the $137 million that will be controlled by Chatham County if voters approve another 6-year round of SPLOST (the 1-percent special purpose local option…
A really interesting — and beautifully edited — piece by GPB’s Orlando Montoya about erosion at the site where archeologists are uncovering the remains of a late 16th century Spanish mission church on St. Catherines Island: Not all of Orlando…
I had previously noted that Cafe Florie was undergoing some changes, so last week’s announcement of the restaurant closing wasn’t too surprising. Here’s the post embedded from Facebook: Post by Cafe Florie. Dept. 7 East on Broughton Street (the Savannah…
