Free Post 'An expansive and divisive conversation': Savannah Stage Company performs ROE in wake of overturn of women's right to choose “This play is not a civics lesson,” adds SSC Artistic Director Jayme Tinti. “The relationship between the two women helps theatricalize it. It’s a portrait of real women whose lives became symbols, whether they wanted to or not.”
Free Post Rumors quashed and serious community issues discussed as new restaurant in Starland is approved “Our street looks like something from a theme park, but it’s not a real residential street. Not one house on that street has a single family living there. It’s all Airbnb’s.”
Free Post Slow Fire BBQ set to take over Baby's General Store “I’m just curious as to why the MPC was making recommendations as to which type of alcohol” Slow Fire can sell, City Manager Jay Melder asked.
Free Post Everything's dumb: My hot takes on the primary elections Nepo baby Jim Kingston has virtually no track record to recommend him for congressional office, but he does have that well-known last name. And that, apparently, was more than enough.
Free Post A local music scene in mourning The wave of online eulogies for Oisin on my feed was as voluminous and heartfelt as I’ve ever seen. Oisin obviously had a deep and profound impact on just about everyone who interacted with him.
Free Post 'Changing conditions' around Forsyth Park cited in support of wedding venue Crucial to the conversation is the fact that due to current generous regulations in the Victorian Neighborhood, for either TC1 or TC2 zoning the venue isn’t required to provide any additional parking whatsoever.
Free Post 'It was like Hiroshima went off': West Chatham residents worry about continued environmental threat as area growth patterns change 'Over the years my property has shrunk since I purchased it. Water now runs around my property on the front part of the road. The markers surveyed are not right. It affects me big-time.'
Free Post 'Better late than never': MPC approves wider buffers between industrial and residential areas “The MPC and City and County staff acknowledge that current zoning ordinance which contain potential 40 feet buffers are inadequate for the intense industrial uses we are seeing now,” said MPC staffer Subhashi Karunarathne at the April 21 meeting.
Free Post Marbled & Fin takes Savannah dining-and-drink scene to the next level One thing I especially appreciate about the décor at Marbled & Fin is they didn’t try for a faux-historic or hokey “Southern” patina to pander to tourists.
Free Post 'A real fervor for art in this city': SPICE comic con expands to two-day event In all there will be about 100 artists per day featured, “with 60 percent new artists to us,” organizer Roman Fruehan says.
Free Post What does 'affordable housing' really mean? MPC debates use of the term for proposed development on MLK Jr Blvd. “I’m not hearing affordable housing. Because I heard SCAD rentals, I heard SCAD students, I heard SCAD parking. In my mind that’s not reading as affordable,” Commissioner Boles said.
Free Post In-the-round performance of 'Blackbird' at Sentient Bean deals unflinchingly with issue of sexual abuse 'We will give people a place of safety to hear and process what the play is saying and describing.'
Free Post ‘I advocate by living’: JinHi Soucy Rand to take autobiographical one-woman show to Edinburgh Fringe “This show covers 43 years in 45 minutes. A lot of it has been a blur because of my illnesses. I'm not sure if it’s a dramatic comedy or a comedic drama,” she laughs.
Free Post Hindsight Film Fest: 'Our Mr. Matsura' tells story of immigrant photographer among Native tribes “His relationship with the tribes is very genuine. In his photography, we always feel like he’s telling us the most important thing about his subjects.”
Free Post Hindsight Film Fest: 'Behind The Lines' highlights soldiers' letters from war zones The stories told in these authentic, true-life letters are gripping and almost surreal. The dramatic readings combine pathos, sacrifice, compassion, and heroism in equal measures.
