Following a brief Intetnet presale, tickets went on sale this morning for an April 10 appearance by Comedy Central's newest breakout standup star, Daniel Tosh, at Johnny Mercer Theatre.

Here's what's going on today (Friday, Feb. 3): All the free tickets for tonight's Ballethnic Dance Co. performance have been given out; any unclaimed seats will be made available just before the 7:30 showtime at the Johnny Mercer Theatre. Meanwhile, Bunny Bunny continues in the AASU black box, Seussical is at Savannah Children's Theatre, and the Savannah Folk Music Society's "First Friday" concert features the South Carolina Broadcasters and Rupert Wates (7:30 p.m. at First ...

Here's what's going on today (Thursday, Feb. 2): Country music's Eric Church and his "Blood, Sweat & Beers" tour take over the MLK Arena tonight, with openers Brantley Gilbert and Sonia Leigh. The Masquers of Armstrong Atlantic State University debut the Gilda Radner seriocomedy Bunny Bunny in the Jenkins Hall black box theater. Catch New York indie poster Idgy Dean at the Sentient Bean, Fishwhistle (funk and surf/rock) at Live Wire, and the ultra-funky Aotearoa ...

Here's what's going on today (Wednesday, Feb. 1): Savannah's Black Heritage Festival opens with a talk, book signing and gallery tour by Dr. Walter Evans, one of the foremost collectors of African American art in the world. The 7 p.m. event is free at the SCAD Museum of Art. The British thriller Frenzy (from 1945) screens at the Sentient Bean (Psychotronic Film Night) at 8 p.m.

February is Black History Month in the United States, and in Savannah that means three weeks of events encompassing arts and music, community, education and more.

Art in the Woods Retrospective - The Stillmoreroots Group, an artist collective based in Stillmore, Georgia, will hold a retrospective exhibition documenting their annual all-day art exhibition in the woods of Stillmore, Georgia called Art in the Woods. The retrospective hangs at the Sentient Bean February 3-29. Since the success of the event, the group has seen expansions and transitions of members, more than 20 group shows across Georgia, and an increased focus on rural ...

'Weather or Not' call for entry - 'Weather or Not' asks artists to consider the many possibilities that face the world as we enter 2012. This calendar year has increasingly become the subject of theories and speculation, many based on the ancient Mayan calendar. The rash of recent natural and weather related disasters begs the question: does the world now stand on the verge of a cataclysmic transformation, a period of individual / collective spiritual ...

Alter-Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea - This midcareer survey consists of approximately 30 works, including photographs, drawings, videos, and mixed-media installations by this Cuban-American, Georgia born artist. Through January 8. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St., www.telfair.org

Alter-Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea - This midcareer survey consists of approximately 30 works, including photographs, drawings, videos, and mixed-media installations by this Cuban-American, Georgia born artist. Through January 8. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St., www.telfair.org/

Aerials - Collaborative show featuring four SCAD artists at Smitten Salon/Gallery, 345 Abercorn St. Reception Sat. Oct. 22 6-8 p.m. www.smittenstudios.com

First things first: Gilda Radner and Alan Zweibel were never an “item.” He was a writer for Saturday Night Live, she was one of the show’s breakout comic stars during its initial flush of success in the late 1970s.

Shel Silverstein’s children’s books have sold somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 million copies. The most popular of these, the touching narrative The Giving Tree and the poetry collection Where the Sidewalk Ends, remain core components of many a childhood reading library.

From the halls of Scandinavia, Mesopotamia and Ancient Greece, Eve Butler’s epic tale began.

A lot has changed for the Performing Arts Collective of Savannah since last year’s inaugural performance of Langston Hughes’ Christmas play Black Nativity.

J.B. Murray was called, by a higher power, to do something totally outside his sphere of understanding. And so, in a way, was Mary Padgelek.

Like Rome, Jerusalem, and other old cities where historical majesty coexists with the everyday realities of paying bills and finding a parking place, it’s easy to lose perspective here.

Most works of art, from simple illustrations to abstract sculptures to massively detailed paintings, undergo revisions before they’re revealed to the world.

At first glance, it just looks like a field of wheat in miniature. Or maybe a bunch of tiny brooms.

Art openings in Savannah typically involve chatter, cheese, and wine (and perhaps some whine as well).

As a connoisseur of art cars, those odd vehicles whose owners have chosen to paint wild colors or say, affix myriad objects upon, I have great admiration for Melissa Turner’s vibrant minivan.

Everybody dance now! In The Nutcracker, a little girl named Clara has a series of increasingly strange (some might say pseudo–psychedelic) dreams in which toys come to life and dance, mice come to life and dance, snowflakes dance, candy dances, coffee (!) dances. There’s combat, romance, international intrigue, bickering and family squabbles, all induced by sugar intake. There’s even a “Grandfather Dance.” The Nutcracker, you might say, has got it all. That’s a perhaps–too–simplistic way ...

For La Traversee: The Promising Voyage, his 90–minute dance suite about immigrants coming to America in the early 20th century, Vincent Brosseau needed only look to his own not–too–distant past for inspiration.

The big thing in Savannah theaters this Thanksgiving weekend is ... Christmas! That's right, we'll barely have the leftover turkey tucked into Ziploc bags before The Nutcracker, that venerable dance of tinsel-time joy, is upon us. There are two productions of The Nutcracker this year, each a mix of professional and non-professional ballet artists, each playing out to Tchaikovsky's brilliant seasonal music, rich in jingle bells, ho-ho-ho and dreamy crystalline snowflakes a-falling. They're both onstage ...

Technically, what Caitlin Dutton’s doing with her Coastal Danse Collective is called interdisciplinary arts – combining movement, music and visual art, in public places, in order to create something fresh and unexpected.

Those who can’t do, teach, goes the old saying. But Pablo Repun, who’s considered one of the finest tango dancers in all of South Florida, is also a teacher of considerable renown. As a native Argentinian, he’s got the dark eyes, the smoldering, mysterious good looks – and the fancy footwork – to aid and abet the “dance of love” on its unstoppable march across the lines of age, race and social strata.

Give up on your fantasies of street food coming to Savannah, or Georgia. Under the state’s food code, it’s virtually impossible to comply and make the kind of street eats us rabid foodies lust for while watching “Bizarre Foods” or “No Reservations.”

By now you’ve certainly run out of holiday leftovers, which means it’s also time to return to your favorite lunch spots for quick and cheap eats.

I have lamented the desperate lack of authentic Chinese food in the area. I don’t need to feel like I’ve walked into a Szechuan roadside diner, but gosh, some traditional cooking styles, seasonings and presentation of a few dishes would go a long way to making me smile.

Southsiders really have a road trip ahead if they’re looking for a plate of mom and pop-style barbecue. There is an option: the corporate ’cue restaurant Sticky Fingers at the corner of White Bluff Road and Abercorn Street.

In October 2010, I last reviewed Green Truck Pub on Habersham Street. Since then I’ve been in only a few times for a beer at the bar, and a handful of other times to eat, because I can’t seem to get into this wildly successful neighborhood spot.

The past, present and future of a community are inexorably linked, and since the advent of photography, there’s been no better way to compare and contrast where we’ve been, where we are — and where we’re going.

THE SAVANNAH Children’s Book Festival, happening Saturday and sponsored by Live Oak Public Libraries, is one of the most well–attended and popular local events of the year.

Calling all writers, journalists, scribes and anyone who puts pen to paper and fancies themselves the literary type. Seersucker Live wants to know you.

Poet and Savannah State professor Chad Faries can now add memoirist to his list of occupational descriptors. His new book, an unflinching exploration of his upbringing in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula titled Drive Me Out of My Mind, hits shelves this week.

Before he was an award winning children’s book writer and illustrator, Mo Willems had what many people would consider a dream job.

While many folks were enjoying the Jazz Festival in the park Friday night, a smaller but just as enthused audience was enjoying the unique music/movie combo of the Hot Club of San Francisco's "Cinema Vivant" performance at the Lucas.

SUPER 8 *** Writer-director J.J. Abrams' adventure yarn Super 8 is set in 1979, a year that's nestled between the release dates of Steven Spielberg's first two blockbusters, 1975's Jaws and 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and his subsequent two blockbusters, 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark and 1982's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. (Spielberg's underrated 1941, which was released in 1979, was a flop.) The selection of this year makes sense, since the picture ...

If Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams don't receive Oscar nominations for their performances in Blue Valentine, it will be damning evidence in the case against Academy politics and the institution's failure of integrity.

There was some skepticism in the air early on at the Trustees. The opening band, the Perry, Georgia-based chill-wave purveyor known as Washed Out, started so promptly that by 8:20, with half the crowd still not present, they were fondly bidding us farewell with their last song.

In case you're worrying about what you're going to give that literary lion in your life for Christmas, worry no more. Here are our reviews of some recent local releases, most of which you can find in local bookstores.