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Reviews: New Moon, Precious, Blind Side
The Twilight Saga: New Moon Hollywood’s second foray into the Twilight zone features enough fantasy and romance to satisfy most hardcore devotees of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire saga, but just as many viewers will notice that this is too often a case of the emperor –– or, more specifically, buff teenage boys –– wearing no clothes.…
Fare game: The cabbie reality
You can’t make a living driving a taxi in Savannah anymore. That’s right, loyal Fare Game readers. The recession has taken a big bite out of the taxi business and that combined with greedy taxi company owners and a worthless transportation department in Savannah have “driven” cab drivers to have to look elsewhere to…
Collective energy
With the opening of its new show, Nuances: Shades of Difference, at the Indigo Sky Gallery, the Creative Force Collective, an affiliation of over a dozen local artists, is setting out to challenge the perception of the arts in Savannah. While no one would argue that Savannah isn’t artistically inclined – one is hard pressed…
Banking on Holly Days
’Tis the season for local businesses to try and figure out a way to attract holiday shoppers away from competing national chains and the lazy allure of e–commerce. “We certainly would like to have a positive attitude and believe that Christmas won’t be called off this year,” says Michael Lepper, President of the Downtown Business…
What’s Next: Celtic woman Orla Fallon
Jim Brickman, the melody-mad pianist you’ve seen on PBS pledge-drive specials, that sort of thing, comes to the Savannah Civic Center Dec. 11. That’s not news – we announced it a long time ago, and if you’re a fan of Brickman, or his excellent new Beautiful World album, you know all about the Savannah show.…
Jody Espina, Georgia Kyle
JODY ESPINA A relatively recent arrival in Savannah, Espina is a respected saxophone, clarinet and flute player from New York, who – for reasons known only to him – opted out of prestigious recording, touring and teaching gigs to move his mouthpiece-making business to the Creative Coast. It’s called Jody Jazz, and it takes orders…
An open letter to Robert Redford
Dear Mr. Redford: Can I call you Bob? Probably not. But feel free to call me Bill. I just wanted to tell you how proud we here at Connect are that you chose Savannah as the location for your film The Conspirator, the story of Mary Surratt, the lone woman to be tried and executed…
‘A full-length ballet that makes sense’
It’s a safe bet that not too many young people today know what a nutcracker is (it’s a simple mechanical device for cracking the shells of nuts, to get to the meat inside, and not the sort of food–processing tool everybody has lying around). The Nutcracker, therefore, is the most famous (more than 100 years…
No business like show business
The stories that Bill DeYoung and I wrote last week about hard times in the local theatre scene – Bill’s was an overview of current troubles, mine an opinion column – led to quite a, well, dramatic reaction amongst the local theatre community. A single Facebook thread about the articles garnered over 100 responses from…
The ice cream man cometh
Last week, when the bronze statue of Savannah boy–done–good Johnny Mercer was unveiled, everyone who’s anyone was there. Except, that is, for Stratton Leopold, another of the city’s great success stories. And boy, was he miffed that he could not attend. But Leopold, the eldest son in Savannah’s ice cream–making family, was busy in California…
‘Like having two wives’
” Poetry should teach you to trust your inner self” -Gordon Osing Gordon Osing, a writer of 13 published works of poetry – although “it’s too vain to count,” he says – was in Savannah last week to conduct a reading in association with the Poetry Society of Georgia and the Telfair Museum of Art.…
LaZarre’s star is rising
The upstairs dining room of landmark Savannah restaurant Garibaldi’s was washed in warm, twinkling lights from its large chandeliers. The room buzzed with conversation, the sound of popping wine corks and the clinking of glasses. It was going to be a good night for food and wine, a very good night indeed. I quickly…
Random Bites: Elizabeth on 37th, Carlito’s
Elizabeth on 37th Street Regardless of any popularity polls, when Savannah foodies gather to compare notes on the city’s best restaurant, this venerable restaurant–in–a–mansion rises to the top of the list. Why? It’s a case of the entire package delivering an extraordinary experience. When most restaurants were still paying lip service to locally–sourced, natural ingredients,…
Rock ‘n’ roller coaster
“The music business,” Hunter S. Thompson famously wrote, “is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.” Over the past 18 months, Bobby Lee Rodgers says, he’s discovered – the hard way – that the good…
Serving permitted?
At the City Council meeting last Thursday, the new “bar card” ordinance – the plan to instate mandatory training and licensing for servers in bars and hybrid establishments – passed its second reading. The scope of the ordinance has returned to its original phrasing, and won’t require restaurants or package stores to license employees, however,…
