By Tandy Versyp Every Thursday night I tell my friends I am not going out, but eventually, I put on my pink Chucks and two-step down to the local watering hole for a can of PBR—not because it’s ironic, but because I’m poor. Why do I go out? Because it offers the possibility of making […
By Travis Walters The Savannah College of Art and Design announced on Feb. 17 that it will open a Hong Kong campus in the Fall of 2010. The campus will be located in the North Kowloon Magistracy Building (NKMB), which was awarded to SCAD by the Advisory Committee on the Revitalization of Historic Bu
President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law today in Denver. The package of $789 billion is supposed to create or save about 3.5 million jobs during the next two years. It is expected that 106,000 of them will be in the state of Georgia, and 7,500 of those are said to
Feb. 10 2:27 a.m.— Security discovered the back door to Boundary Hall was unsecured. Security conducted a patrol of the facility and secured the door. 6:15 p.m.— A resident director reported to security that she had found a small bag of marijuana in the bushes near Turner Annex. Savannah-Chatham
Wild Wing Cafe, a popular City Market destination, faces a fine and possible suspension of its liquor license following an Oct. 5 incident where liquor was served to a minor. This was the third incident following Feb. 2008 and Oct. 2007 violations. State officials have warned the restaurant that fou
By Travis Walters A full-scale copyright battle may be making the front page soon, and it has nothing to do with music. That’s actually an exaggeration. I doubt anything as mundane as photography copyright would make the front page, but it’s definitely in the papers. I’m talking ab
By Deanne Revel I recently had the pleasure of meeting singer/songwriter Matt Nathanson at Hill of Beans Coffee in the Savannah Mall. I also had the pleasure of meeting a radio personality from a local Savannah radio station, and this meeting was more memorable since: DJ got the digits. On DJ’s Fa
By Tandy Versyp On Feb. 6, writer Nic Sheff read a smidgeon of his memoir, “Tweak” to a room of young writers, i.e. Professional Writing students, or as I like to call them, “I’ll take any job” writers. I should know. I’m one of them. His father, David, wrote a memoir detailing his own s
The Savannah’s Cultural Arts Theater will offer a new monthly program, Reader’s Theater, beginning this month. It will introduce aspiring playwrights to Savannah’s local theater community. A free concert-style reading of a new play will be held on the third Saturday of each month,
Deborah Poynton takes hyper-realism to the next level with her paintings’ monumental size—almost every hair and pore on her subjects’ bodies can be viewed on her canvases. Poynton, a South African native, is debuting her newest paintings for the first time in the United States in Savan