Theatre: Shirley, you jest
If anyone is up for a challenge, it’s Grace Diaz Tootle. “I’ve been a single mom since 1999,” Tootle says. “I have four children. I have a stressful job as a supervisor for a major airline with an erratic work schedule. I don’t have weekends off. It’s sick.” So what does Tootle do in her…
Theatre: Midnight Cry
Some of the best stories are based on events that really happened. A Midnight Cry: The Underground Railroad to Freedom is a historical drama inspired by the true story of a young slave who found freedom through the Underground Railroad. It will be presented by the Cultural Arts Theatre beginning Feb. 22. DJ Queenan, the…
Theatre: Tell Pharaoah
THE CONCERT DRAMA Tell Pharaoh tells the story of Harlem in word and song, but it is so much more. It recounts the entire history of African Americans in America by utilizing Harlem as a setting. As playwright Loften Mitchell himself said, “It is an impassioned cry for liberation, for justice and freedom throughout the…
Loosening up at the Telfair
ON FEBRUARY 23 some of Savannah’s most dedicated arts patrons will dance the night away in a 1940’s “Black and White” fashion during the Telfair Museum’s 28th Annual Ball held at the Jepson Center for the Arts and Telfair Square. While historically the annual fundraiser is strictly limited to members’ of the Director’s Circle, this…
Ossabaw daydreamin’
ITS NAME MEANS ‘place of the holly bushes,’ and it’s where Creek Indians once went to get the yaupon holly berries they needed to brew the cleansing black tea crucial to their ceremonies. (To give you an idea of just what is meant by “cleansing,” the Latin name of the yaupon holly is Ilex vomitoria.…
Council is asked to save structures
They’re small, they’re dowdy, they’re about to be demolished. But two houses near the Roundhouse Railroad Museum are historic structures, valuable as surviving working class 19th century homes in the former Railroad Ward of the city’s historic district. Therefore, Scott Smith, executive director of the Coastal Heritage Society, has appealed the decision to demolish them.…
The China Syndrome
IN A WORLD MARKET spurred on by nations all looking for the best buys, Asia holds first place in multi-product imports into Savannah. Of the total volume of imports into Savannah port aboard containerships during the current fiscal year, more than three quarters of it arrived from Asia. Of the 947,933 TEUs that arrived here…
Sitting pretty and green
EARTH DAY has taken on new meaning for Mike and Raquel Ayres. They’re hoping to celebrate with the opening of a storefront for their business, Structured Green. The Ayres offer seating, tables, beds, storage, items for kids and pets, even lighting and accessories that are eco-friendly. The Ayres started the business after furnishing their own…
Chesed: The L-word revisited
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM surrounding Valentine’s Day decrees that unattached women are expected to dread the annual celebration of love and its seeming segregation of the world into two groups: couples and singles. But my routine around town last week, along with stories recounted by friends and in the news, offers up a version of the L-word…
Parting shots
from recent Savannah/Chatham Police incident reports Police were called to a house on East 50th Street on a report of shots being fired. Several people were standing in the street in front of the house. They said a car pulled up and someone inside had fired a number of rounds. Several 9mm casings were in…
Oh. My. God.
The Entrepreneurial Spirit! The New Lucky Restaurant has been around since the 1950s in Ahmadabad, India, serving diners among the gravestones located at various points around the tables. No one is certain who was buried under the restaurant, according to a December Associated Press dispatch, but Indians aren’t much spooked by the experience. Said a…
New releases: Jumper, Spiderwick, etc.
Jumper ** 1/2 This fantasy flick may be based on the novel by Steven Gould, but while watching it, I felt like I had jumped back in time to 1986 and was again catching Highlander during its original theatrical run. Jumper is Highlander for a new generation: a cheesy, globetrotting film certain to be savaged…
Everything else that’s out there
Fool’s Gold* 1/2 Lord, what fools these Hollywood mortals be! Here they further denigrate the standing of the romantic comedy by presenting this waterlogged flick about bickering ex-spouses on the prowl for sunken treasure off the Florida Keys. In a reunion that no one was exactly clamoring for, How to Lose a Guy in 10…
Interview with a Diva
MALINDA HASLETT’S RADIANT BEAUTY is perhaps matched only by the grandeur and elegance of her voice. Audiences and critics alike from Mexico to Brussels have been enthralled by her operatic and concert performances. We caught up with the NYC-based singer by phone in advance of her —and husband Jonathan Boyd’s— upcoming two-night stand with the…
Spotlighted Gigs & Recommended Shows
Aquariums, Midtown Dickens At least one track on the debut CD by this low-key, Nashville-based ennui-rock act was written in Savannah (where frontman Martin Schneider’s brother resides), which may explain this local gig. A collection of languorous and often morose home-recorded ruminations on the tumult of lost innocence and spiritual skepticism (much of which is…
Diary of the planet
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Did I Stutter?
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The official kick-off to St. Patrick’s Day
LATELY IT SEEMS (around town at least) that St. Patrick’s Day is on everyone’s mind. With talk of our fabled festivities being further truncated in the name of “public safety,” it would be easy to think that all manner of Irish-themed celebrations in Savannah center around March 17. And yet, for over a decade and…
