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The Savannah Stopover Music Festival has been going strong now for seven years. More than 80 bands will perform this weekend, including musicians Kishi Bashi and Julien Baker. Kayne Lanahan is the founder and organizer of the festival. We spoke with her about the festival and what she’s excited to see and hear this weekend.

We did a live show from The Grey restaurant in Savannah, Georgia for the Savannah Stopover Music Festival. The Stopover Music Festival has been going strong now for seven years. More than 80 bands will perform this weekend, including musicians Kishi Bashi and Julien Baker. Kayne Lanahan is the founder and organizer of the festival. We spoke with her about the festival and what she’s excited to see and hear this weekend. Go back almost 110 years, and you couldn’t find a place in Savannah that was

Georgia singer Jamie Barton is a rising star in the opera world. She’s only 35 but her voice has filled concert halls all over the world. In 2015, she nabbed the prestigious Richard Tucker Award. It’s a $50,000 prize sometimes called the "Heisman Trophy" of Music. But Barton hails from a place not often associated with grand opera--Rome, Georgia. We revisit a conversation with Jamie about finding a passion for opera in an unusual setting. One of the featured performers at this weekend’s Savannah

March is Women’s History Month, but this year doesn’t bring a lot of good news for women in Georgia. A new study found Georgia is the sixth worst state in the nation for females based on a number of factors, including wages, health care, dropout rates and life expectancy. On this show, we focus on some issues that affect the women in the state. The wage gap between men and women in the South is larger than any other region in the country. According to a recent report by the Institute for Women’s

Atlanta-based Adult Swim is bringing back “Samurai Jack,” one of Cartoon Network’s most beloved animated shows. It ran for four seasons from 2001 to 2004, but the storyline never concluded. Samurai Jack has since become a cult classic in the animation world. And after much demand, the creators have revived it for Season Five. We’re joined by Genndy Tartakovsky, the original creator; and Scott Wills, Art Director for the series.

In recent years, many newspapers and magazines have abandoned their print publications for an all digital format. From the Christian Science Monitor, to Newsweek, to Jet Magazine. One Decatur-based magazine is moving from digital back to print . Starting this month, Paste Magazine will publish a new quarterly issue . We talked about this with co-founder and editor-in-chief, Josh Jackson .

All this year, in our series Georgia Eats , we explore the South’s relationship with food. We’ve talked about the state’s craft beer industry . Turns out there’s also a craft chocolate movement, and it’s taken some Georgia chocolatiers far beyond the state’s borders. Elaine Read and Matt Weyandt are the creative force behind Atlanta-based Xocolatl . We spoke to them about their quest to learn about chocolate in its purest forms. Matt and Elaine's journey abroad to learn about the origins of

The Georgia Senate passed a bill last month to tighten regulation of methadone clinics. Methadone treats opioid addiction by blocking withdrawal symptoms. Georgia has more than 70 clinics, the most in the South. We talked about this with Neil Campbell, who oversees the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse.

The Georgia Senate passed a bill last month that would tighten methadone clinic regulations. Methadone treats opioid addiction by blocking withdrawal symptoms. Georgia leads the South in terms of methadone clinics; we have 71 in comparison to Tennessee's 14 and South Carolina's 20. So why do we outnumber our neighbors when it comes to methadone clinics? Neil Campbell, executive director of the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse, will weigh in on this phenomenon with help from Catoosa County

Artist Daniel Arsham is best known for his work which blends architecture and performance art. His many installations across the country tend to stretch the boundaries of space and reality. Now, Arsham is bringing his work to Atlanta with three installations at the High Museum of Art. "Daniel Arsham: Hourglass" extends the artist’s investigation into how we interpret history through physical artifacts and immerses audiences in environments that reflect on the relationship between past and