Though the weather outside is frightful, your complexion doesn’t have to be. Consuming alcohol and sugary foods over the holidays, coupled with the onset of cold weather, can wreak havoc on your complexion, and leave skin looking dull and lifeless. Here are just a few of the ways to keep your complexion from catching a case of the winter blahs:

Don’t miss the premier art party of the South!

What: 13th annual Scholarship Gala
The annual Savannah Scholarship Gala is a celebratory evening for art enthusiasts to gather together and show their support for creative and talented SCAD students in need.

When: February 4, 2012

Where: The new SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd

Why: Rub shoulders with artistic movers and shakers and view approximately 130 original works created and donated by SCAD students, faculty, alumni, staff and friends. The artwork available for purchase in a silent auction will include paintings, photographs, works on paper, ceramics, jewelry, fashion illustrations, sculptures, and fibers pieces, all on exhibit at the event in the SCAD Museum of Art galleries.

Cost: Individual patron tickets are $150 and include cocktails, heavy hors d’oeuvres, live music, and the silent auction. Individual preview party tickets are $250 and include an exclusive buy-it-now option, catered cocktail party, special VIP activities plus all the features included in the patron party. To purchase tickets, make a donation, or preview auction items visit scad.edu/savgala. For any questions, please contact Karla Giebner at 912.525.5821 or kstanfor@scad.edu.

South magazine celebrated its 6th anniversary at the Jepson Center for the Arts Saturday night with a release party for its Feb/Mar issue featuring the arts. The city’s coolest crowd converged at the event and three levels of the museum were filled with hundreds of guests who were treated to dance performances, sketches and a fashion exhibit by Savannah Arts Academy students. The black tie affair brought out Savannah’s finest including platinum-selling country star Billy Currington and Project Runway All Star April Johnston.

After a year of planning and design, and a two-year, $26-million construction project, the new Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art opened its doors.

SCAD is known for acquiring and repurposing disused buildings—a practice they call “adaptive reuse.” Using this philosophy, the new museum integrated the ruins of an old freight house into the facility’s artistic, ultramodern architecture. “The building itself has actually risen from the ruins,” says Sam Anderson, the museum’s managing director. “There’s so much history and so much of Savannah encapsulated in these bricks.”

Savannah is known for hosting a good party or two (St. Patrick’s day, anyone?), But if you need help planning your own private bash, we’ve rounded up a great list of unique, historic restaurants with private spaces. This list is divided into categories based on the size of your group, and each location provided will help ensure you have that crucial party element—a great atmosphere.

From an outdoor oyster roast to a black tie affair, find a style for any and every Southern soiree.

Music City is all grown up.

Country-western roots will always course through Tennessee’s bloodline, but Nashville’s youngest stylists are spinning fresh interpretations on the city, making an eclectic, fun stopover with dazzling shop finds, ingenious, even gutsy cuisine and one of the nation’s most impressive live music scenes.

Long before macbooks and adobe illustrator, there was Jack Davis, crafter of comics, cover images and creative expression. While his illustrations have appeared all across the world through mad and time magazines, he remains a good ol’ Georgia boy at heart.

Planes, trains and beautiful ships probably aren’t the first things most people expect when they visit a museum. But Savannah isn’t your average city and neither are her museums. Whether they arrived by air, land or sea, historical relics abound in this fair city, waiting to relate a long-lost story. Don’t be mistaken, however; there’s still a painting or two hanging around. After all, the unique charm and beauty of the Hostess City makes the perfect backdrop for world-renowned artists to show their works.

George Harrison and Chet Atkins chose Gretsch guitars. Jack white continues to play them. Charlie Watts, Steve Ferrone and Vinnie Colaiuta, all drummers dedicated to the brand. But even with names like that behind the business, the history of how the music giant landed in savannah is far from a smooth one.