Slang from a Sexy Southerner: Cassady Lance

The SCAD graduate has represented her home state as Miss Georgia Teen USA in 2003 and as Miss Georgia in 2010. After wrestling with the decision to set aside acting, she obtained her degree in journalism at the University of Houston, where she became interested in broadcast communications. Throughout her experience as Miss Georgia, Lance furthered her passion for communicating and writing, and she joined the WJCL team in early 2012. “I feel like I am a stronger, more confident person because of my unconventional journey,” Lance says.

Global Tactical Training Group

Gary Glemboski has been shooting for 50 years and practicing martial arts for 46, long enough to become a seventh-degree black belt. He’s received a Medal of Valor from his police department for climbing a Savannah TV tower during a nighttime thunderstorm to pull down a potential jumper, and he’s been awarded a Silver Star for an operation in which he and his fellow officers were shot at about 80 times.

One Tasty Predator

Sharks. Jellyfish. Stingrays. Getting caught with a beer bottle by the Tybee beach patrol. These are just a few of the dangers that many fear when going to the beach in Savannah. But keep in mind that the whole shark thing is way overblown—you’re infinitesimally more likely to be involved in an accident with the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile driving to the beach than you are to be attacked by a shark once you get there.

Liquid Ginger Hits a High Note

When I finally catch up with the ever-occupied Ginger Fawcett, front-person for beloved area rock band Liquid Ginger, the impressive stage vocalist answers the phone with the cautious voice of someone taking care not to strain her instrument.

Freddy Rodriguez & Joel David Moore

This summer’s filming of CBGB caused quite a stir in downtown Savannah. An influx of celebrities such as Alan Richman and Freddy Rodriguez cruising Broughton Street between shooting scenes on set next door to The Sapphire Grill was cause for excitement for residents and visitors alike. South caught up with some of the film’s stars to shoot the breeze and find out how they enjoyed summertime in the South. Visit south magazine.com to read Shena Verrett’s interviews with Rodriguez (HBO’s Six Feet Under, Grindhouse and co-star Joel David Moore (Fox’s Bones, Avatar).

Dan Winters: Ingenious Iconographer

To call Dan Winters a “celebrity photographer” is to miss much of the story. It’s understandable that people default to the celebrity hook when describing Winters’ work. His style of portraiture is atmospheric, instantly recognizable and a touch other-wordly.

America’s Next Top Model Cycle 19 Competitor Victoria Henley

America’s Next Top Model (ANTM) contestant Victoria Henley is no stranger to performing, having started her career modeling for Walmart as a baby. Hailing from Colquitt, Georgia, the 19-year-old is enrolled at Liberty University Online, but continues to focus on modeling, acting and writing following her appearance on the show’s Cycle 19, which premiered on August 24.

From the Big Screen to the South Scene

Tickets to the Savannah Film Festival range from a few bucks to a few hundred, depending on what you want to experience. Black-tie dresses for the decadent parties and spectacular Southern soirees that surround the event can reach into the thousands. The opportunity for young film students to intimately mingle with industry royalty such as Oliver Stone, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sydney Pollack—absolutely priceless.

Raw & Refined: Southern Culture, Couture and Cuisine

The South is a great expanse of fecund land, and its culture is rich with raw contrasts that pit a Southerner’s sensibilities and refinement against his thirst for adventure. Southern fashion is shaped by these contrasts. It’s precisely these full throttle experience of life that’s making the Southern lifestyle the focus of so much renewed interest and envy…Southern is the new black.

South’s Food Show

Check out the exclusive gallery of Savannah’s Favorite dishes!

South’s Guide to Southern Dishes

We combed the landscape of local eats, from upscale dining rooms in fine restaurants to small shacks serving comfort food on paper plates, to find our picks for Southern apps, entrees and desserts.

Big Band for a New Generation

To say that Monroe, Louisiana, natives Jeremy Davis and Clay Johnson are two peas in a pod is the understatement of a lifetime. Best friends since the seventh grade, the tenor saxophonist and vocalist unite to create the unstoppable lead entity of Jeremy Davis and the Fabulous Equinox Orchestra—a musical force that has been gaining strength in Savannah since Davis’s arrival in 2005.