Jim Morekis

'R.E.M. cut a wide path for indie rock bands, and they broke the mold with their sound.'

“I’m awed at their approach. Their take on stage design, the poetry of their presentation.”

“In the Victorian district, we’re bringing businesses from a downtown that is totally saturated, turning into hotels, now we’re pushing businesses south to the Forsyth Park area,” Ron Tuggle said. “It’s going to continue to change the culture and integrity of that area.”

The Festival is responding to audience requests for more dancing-friendly and standing-room shows by expanding to two new venues, Victory North in Starland and District Live in Plant Riverside.

The former dry cleaner site at Bay and Habersham has been essentially a vacant eyesore for more than five years pending development.

“I don’t want to mislead anyone. [Notrica] did not buy this property for it to remain a parking lot for eternity."

“The home caught on fire, it’s a complete disaster. We are now in a situation where the structure is so damaged our contractor has said it’s far more expensive to build from what’s there than demolishing and build something new.”

“Developers and architects working in Savannah have a civic responsibility to design buildings that are unique and respectful of Savannah’s historic fabric and integrity.”

The simple truth is that people are not only susceptible to believing misinformation – many people seem to prefer to believe misinformation, and indeed to seek it out as the more valued commodity!

As the nation's 39th president -- and best former president -- celebrates his 100th birthday even as he is in hospice care, Jim reflects on the vastly underappreciated legacy of this great Georgian and great American.

It is said that Finster created nearly 50,000 pieces of numbered art in his lifetime. Exploring Paradise Garden, you quickly figure out that his actual output must have been much more, including all the multimedia pieces made of found objects you see all around you.

'Luckily this time we only had about 40 animals to evacuate. We were able to do it all in 24 hours.'

We prefer to see this as not an emotional, but a professional vindication -- that we made the right move four years ago in 2020 by leaving Connect and starting our own publication.

'I write in my journal every day. I’ve journaled every day for 55 years. I write down my ideas, my dreams, everything. I always end it with a gratitude list. And on that list is always my friends in Zona Rosa.'

Savannah is built on top of an ancient offshore barrier island – a sandbar or sand dune, really, which is how all barrier islands begin. This is true of most human habitat on the Coastal Plain – it centers on the tops of primordial sandbars which formed during the Pleistocene Era.