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What’s the matter with Georgia? Editor, There was a whole lot of inaugural celebrating in D.C. – Balls and all! The question is: What have we got to celebrate on the state level given the re-election of Republican congressmen here in Georgia? Saxby Chambliss won once again in spite of whistleblower reports of election fraud…
St. Patrick’s party is over… maybe. Sort of
WHILE THE parade and festival themselves are both safe, the liquor-fueled, fall-down-drunk party that surrounds St. Patrick’s Day? Probably doomed. And those wristbands and gates everyone was so proud of? Turns out they don’t work and are expensive to staff. Members of the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce and the Savannah Convention and Tourism Bureau…
Garden City 2.0
FOR MANY locals (and the occasional wayward tourist) the name Garden City has resonated with a certain irony stemming from the municipality’s overwhelming industrial presence and distinct lack of manicured flora. A new plan, however, is underway to overhaul the image and design of Garden City that will hopefully lend some truth to its moniker.…
Too many good choices at Book Festival
IN SUMMER 2005, I sat across a table from a middle-aged white guy, transplanted to Savannah from Atlanta, wearing owlish eyeglasses, a seersucker suit and a bow tie. He wanted to talk about books. Specifically, about organizing a book festival in Savannah. “Oh brother,” I thought. “Here we go.” That hot day, in an air-conditioned…
Classic Blotter
Editor’s Note: According to Georgia Code (50-18-70), “All public records of an agency… shall be open for a personal inspection by any citizen of this state at a reasonable time and place; and those in charge of such records shall not refuse this privilege to any citizen.” Saying the move is necessary in order to…
Can hermaphrodites get pregnant?
Is there such a thing as a true intersex person? If so, could they get themselves pregnant? Would their baby be a clone? —Atrehyeu, via e-mail I’ll give you credit for one thing. You used intersex, the term for those with genital anomalies that many prefer to hermaphrodite, which is too redolent of the freak…
So ridiculous I totally believe it
Lead Story Poetry on the Rise: (1) Twelve local poets jumped into the frigid Green Lake in Seattle in December, just because they thought it would be a good way to publicize their art. “It’s not enough to write,” said one. “You need that audience.” (2) The Ontario Court of Appeal overturned the conviction of…
Pato Banton at Live Wire
Pato Banton *** EVER SINCE his 1982 debut as guest vocalist on The Beat’s Special Beat Service LP, this London-born reggae singer —whose first name means “Wise Owl”— has been one to watch. He nabbed another featured spot on an album by an established British group —in that case, UB40’s 1985 smash Baggariddim— before inaugurating…
The Fleshtones, in the flesh
LOCAL ROCK promoters Tiny Team Concerts, who have made waves in the local music scene by presenting an ongoing series of criminally underappreciated acts from around the country, are putting on a garage rock freakout this Sun., Feb. 8 at Savannah Smiles. Included on the bill are perennial local favorites Superhorse, Atlanta’s Tiger! Tiger! and…
The bluntness of Blount
THOUGH BORN in Indiana, Roy Blount Jr. moved to Georgia at a young age and has since become an iconic figure in modern Southern writing. His 21 books cover the gamut of American life, from his first in 1974 about hanging out with the Pittsburgh Steelers, to his latest, Alphabet Juice, about his love for…
Solid like (Rose) Rock
HE GREW up in Brooklyn, but comedian Chris Rock’s family is from the Georgetown, S.C., area. And the unquestioned matriarch of his family, raising ten children, was and is his mother Rose Rock. Indeed, Rose Rock is an important figure in her own right. Her passion for education led her to write Mama Rock’s Rules:…
Out of Africa
AVISHAI MEKONEN has known both danger and adventure in his lifetime. He was born in Ethiopia, but at an early age was taken to Sudan and eventually to Israel as part of Operation Moses, a covert removal of Ethiopian Jews from Sudan during a famine in 1984. Today, Mekonen works as a photographer and filmmaker…
The Turkey Callers play The Jinx
The Turkey Callers *** What do you get when you mix two fingers of local houserockin’ garage-blues band extraordinaire Bottles & Cans (singer/guitarist Ray Lundy and bassist Mike Walker) with the preternaturally grizzled outlaw country warbler Tony “Whiskey Dick” Beasley and punk-schooled pedal steel guitarist Igor Fiksman? You get this hoary roots-rock and old-school C&W…
Diary of the planet
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“Just Add Vodka”
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The Black Box becomes The Listening Room
OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, the greater Savannah area has slowly but surely begun to re-establish itself as a worthwhile destination for touring popular music acts. Much of that long-overdue and welcome progress has resulted from the efforts of a handful of locally-based, independent concert promoters. Despite numerous hindrances (such as an aging Civic Center…
