Concert for a Cure 2009
Concert for a Cure 2009 Hard-touring, local “Y’allternative” band WormsLoew (fresh off an opening slot for legendary Southeastern roots-pop combo Jupiter Coyote in Hilton Head) headlines —and organizes— this lengthy, multi-band modern rock, pop and southern soul benefit concert to raise money and awareness for the research and treatment of breast cancer. Held in tandem…
Sing-a-long with Spanky?
Mondays can be slow in the bar business, but busy or not, Mondays at Southside Spanky’s are always humming. And singing. For at least the past 8 years, the bar and restaurant next to Oglethorpe Mall has been serenaded weekly by a dozen or so men, mostly in their 70’s or older, all members of…
Philharmonic Chorus brings ‘Good Vibrations’
In 1966, when Beach Boy and genius pop music composer Brian Wilson described his masterwork LP Smile as a “teenage symphony to God,” he likely envisioned something akin to a massive orchestra and chorus performing each track on that infamously abandoned and ultimately revered record. It took Wilson almost 40 years to fully realize the…
Jimmy Herring
Though not a household name by any means —unless perhaps one has a devoted electric guitarist under their roof— Jimmy Herring is one of the most respected exponents of rock-oriented jazz fusion of this generation. Gov’t Mule frontman (and Allman Brothers guitarist) Warren Haynes calls Herring “one of the finest guitar players in the world,”…
Felix and Oscar, meet Florence and Olive
One of the most successful local theatre runs in recent memory, the Tybee Arts Performing Society production of Neil Simon’s classic The Odd Couple moves to the Landings for two shows this week, under the auspices of Savannah Community Theatre. There’s a catch, though: Felix and Oscar are now Florence and Olive. “Neil Simon updated…
Earth Day 2009
2009 Earth Day celebration in Forsyth Park Savannah, Georgia.
Neva Geoffrey plays The Listening Room
You’d likely never know it to meet her in passing, but Savannah resident Neva Geoffrey is a shockingly talented singer-songwriter. Born in Syria and raised in Saudi Arabia, this seemingly reserved and rather bewitching young woman studied first in the Arabic school system, and later matriculated under British and American supervision during what she terms…
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 2009
Some photos from the Telfair Square Saturday, April 18, 2009.
Cardinal Rep’s curtain call
Ryan McCurdy and Sasha Travis were very young, but they had big dreams and a lot of determination. They wanted to establish a theater company in Savannah – and they did. The Savannah Actor’s Theatre, later renamed Cardinal Rep, even had a permanent home in the Freight Station on Louisville Road. “I think we succeeded…
‘From India with Ink’
In 2007 I reviewed an exhibition of wood block prints by students at the Government College of Fine Arts and Crafts in Chennai, India, under the instruction of Marcia Neblett, a SCAD professor, who was there teaching on a Fulbright scholarship for five months. Those works were the first efforts of these students to master…
Veteran vets
Dr. Erle Glenwood Case would be astonished to see what’s happened to the Savannah veterinary practice he founded back in 1909. Although Erle was quite progressive for his day, he’d marvel at the technology available to veterinarians in 2009. He’d be pleased beyond measure that his descendants have carried on the family business, which today…
The Local Bruise Leader
Police were called to the WTOC-TV newsroom at 11 The News Place on April 9 in response to a battery. At the scene, an officer was told by anchor Mike Manhatton that the suspect and victim had gotten into a fight in the newsroom. The officer first spoke with the suspect, Michael B. Bougeau, and…
Tybee turtle time
Blizzard and Snowball are two lucky turtles. After being cold-stunned off the North Carolina coast, the loggerhead turtles were taken to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island for treatment. Now that they’ve recovered, Blizzard and Snowball will be returned to the sea when they are released April 25 at the conclusion of the…
New releases: 17 Again, Earth
17 AGAIN ** For the better part of a decade, the Disney Channel has been manufacturing squeaky-clean mannequins in the same methodical way that, say, Keebler produces Fudge Shoppe Deluxe Grahams. Like most of these youngsters, Zac Efron, the reigning Ken to Miley Cyrus’ Barbie, may not be around for the long haul (for every…
Hunting, guns, and the American nightmare
Editor, Recent tragic events in the American landscape illustrate that the unraveling of the economy and the loss of jobs and savings have brought an attendant horror of mass murder and revolting violence. In Alabama, New York and Pennsylvania the sickening tableau of laid-off workers or someone struggling with the difficulty of making a living…
Butterflies Are Free
For a couple of years now, Tom Coleman has been the only person directing productions of Savannah Community Theatre. No more. While Coleman readies an original production to debut later this year, Anthony Paderewski will helm SCT’s newest production, Butterflies Are Free, which opens April 23 at the theatre on Victory Drive. “Last year Anthony…
No memory of nukes
Lead Story The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration recently postponed its crucial program to rejuvenate quarter-century-old Trident missile warheads because no one can remember how to make a key component of the weapons (codenamed “Fogbank”), according to a March 2 report of the Government Accountability Office. The GAO found that, despite concern over the bombs’…
Who dies first: Smokers or tanners?
My girlfriend and I were fighting over which led to a greater chance of getting cancer, smoking or tanning. I probably average a cigarette a day, and my girlfriend usually goes tanning two or three times a week. Who gets cancer first? — Dave, Columbus, Ohio A slo-mo suicide pact — quel romantique! The competitive…
