Salsa Savannah Dancing Scene
Salsa dancing scene around the savannah area.
June 25: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, June 25): Catch the Odd Lot improv troupe’s regular Monday night show at Muse Arts Warehouse, at 8 p.m. And Harry O’Donoghue – one of our area’s most engaging singing/songwriting performers – is onstage at Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub.
June 24: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, June 24): The Music Man continues with a 3 p.m. matinee at the Savannah Children’s Theatre. Violet Hills plays Lulu’s Chocolate Bar; the Eric Culberson Band pulls a 4 p.m. matinee at Flying Fish, on east US 80. The thriller Bug is live onstage at Bay Street Theatre (in…
June 23: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, June 23): It’s a big one, folks. B.J. Barham and American Aquarium are onstage tonight at the Jinx; Stereomonster plays Congress St. Social Club, and Ugly Radio Rebellion – one of the country’s only Zappa tribute bands – is at the Wormhole. And the classic 1942 film Casablanca screens…
It’s an ale, ale world
World of Beer tapped its first keg early last week, and the Broughton Street watering hole is already beer nirvana.Hopheads and lager lovers nearly levitate on the bar stools as they single–mindedly scour the massive beer selection — 62 beers on draft and another 500–plus in bottles and cans. It’s a place where a beer…
June 22: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, June 22): Tracy Letts’ thriller Bug (pictured) opens at Bay Street Theatre (inside Club One) at 8 p.m. As part of the Telfair Museums’ Juneteenth celebration, storyteller and rhythmatist David Pleasant performs a free show at 6 p.m. at the Jepson Center. Musically recommended: Soul Gravy at Live Wire,…
Reviewed: ‘Brave,’ ‘Seeking a Friend,’ ‘Rock of Ages,’ ‘That’s My Boy’
BRAVE **1/2 Belle’s mom in Beauty and the Beast? Dead. Cinderella’s mom? Deceased. Ariel’s mom in The Little Mermaid? Nowhere to be found. Jasmine’s mom in Aladdin? Kaput. And this is just a small sampling from the Disney universe, where mother-daughter dynamics rarely come into play because the storytellers have elected to deep-six Mom before…
June 21: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, June 21): As part of the Telfair Museums’ annual Juneteenth celebration, author Beverly Jenkins – the nation’s premier writer of African-American historical romance fiction who specializes in 19th century African American life – speaks at 7 p.m. at Second African Baptist Church. The acoustic band England in 1819 plays…
Akerman talks a little ‘CBGB’
During a recent interview with collider.com, Malin Akerman – who’s been making the rounds talking about her role in Rock of Ages – was asked about CBGB. In the film, which begins shooting next week in Savannah, Akerman will play Blondie vocalist Debbie Harry. What’s the focus of that movie? Malin Akerman: The focus is…
June 20: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, June 20): G. Love and Special Sauce have a 9 p.m. show at Live Wire Music Hall. Families might want to visit with Sesame Street Live, at the Johnny Mercer Theatre at 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. And the Psychotronic Film Society screens the 1949 British thriller The Queen…
Exhibits & openings this week
A Visceral Dialogue/Into the Forest – ThincSavannah and Slate Grey Studio present “A Visceral Dialogue: Laura Mosquera and Othiana Roffiel” and “Into the Forest: Shawn Turner.” Both exhibits are free and open to the public. Thinc Savannah, 35 Barnard St. Art at War:Changing Attitudes – The Beach Institute in conjunction with the Hurn Museum highlights…
Us finding aliens: The likely truth
TV programs about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) often say our broadcast signals are traveling into space and will someday be seen by intelligent beings many light years from here. On the other hand, on the program Life After People they said these signals disperse after a few light years and are too scattered…
Praying with a president
EVEN AFTER getting my car sniffed by a bomb dog and then being wanded by a friendly Secret Service agent, it still took me awhile to fully digest the fact that I was in church with a former president of the United States, who was standing right in front of me teaching Sunday School. That’s…
One hot Orchid
In addition to the usual lineup of music, dance, and cuisine, the Savannah Asian Festival features a very special guest this year. Orchid Paulmeier, owner and chef at Hilton Head’s One Hot Mama’s, is better known to many as a star of “Food Network Star.” This year she’ll be prowling the floor of the Civic…
Mark your calendar: Here’s looking at you, summer movies
It’s 1983, and I’m sitting in a Krispy Kreme with film critic and historian Leonard Maltin, who’s just given a speech at the University of Florida. In your opinion, I ask him between sips of coffee, what’s the best movie ever made? Maltin doesn’t hesitate. Casablanca, he says. I nod knowingly. Of course, I say.…
Sustainable Summer
Deteriorating public housing projects pose a challenge all over the country. But as they say, with great challenge comes great opportunity. In parts of Savannah that opportunity isn’t going to waste, as those dilapidated projects are being replaced with state–of–the art mixed–income, mixed–use communities, built to the highest standards of energy efficiency and sustainability.Attractive buildings,…
Outrage on the Ogeechee
SOMETHING HAPPENED to the Ogeechee River in May 2011. If you are to believe the lawyers representing King America Finishing (KAF), the only major industry on the Ogeechee, the river just somehow spontaneously turned bad. Officials with Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division (EPD) estimated that 38,000 fish died, and blamed the fish kill on low flows…
Wrestling with laughter
Comedian Greg Warren has been on a Savannah stage just once before. In February 2011, he performed at the Johnny Mercer Theatre with the “John Boy and Billy No Collar Comedy Tour,” a spinoff of the popular syndicated redneck radio show. Warren was one of four or five comics at that gig, and played a…
The Age of Aquarium
The fourth studio album from Raleigh’s hard-living rock ‘n’ roll heroes, American Aquarium, is in the can and ready to be unleashed. Burn.Flicker.Die, produced by former Drive-By Trucker Jason Isbell, will likely be the one to inject singer/songwriter B.J. Barham and his electric North Carolina cowboys into the rich and fast-moving bloodstream that is Americana…
Ugly Radio Rebellion, Brandon Nelson McCoy
UGLY RADIO REBELLION At 10 p.m. Saturday, June 23 Wormhole Bar, 2307 Bull St. If you take a moment to do the math, Ugly Radio Rebellion performs about 20 shows per year. We know this because 2012 marks the band’s 10th anniversary, and this Wormhole date is a milestone: Show #200. It’s something of a…
The soul of Duffy St.
Nothing but warm, fuzzy sounds of satisfaction come out when someone tells me about West Duffy Cafe, a little, off–the–beaten–path Soul Food joint. The ladies run the house here. Two men were in the kitchen, but I got the distinct impression that the ladies rule this roost where breakfast is cheap and hearty, and lunch…
SUMMER LIVIN’: The great outdoors
ECOTOURS Wilderness Southeast is without question the oldest and most comprehensive ecotourism operator in the area. They offer a wide variety of programs on land and on water, exploring local wildlife and habitat with highly skilled and certified naturalist guides. Sample tours include Alligators and Anhingas, Blackwater River Float, Urban Forest, Salt Marsh Walk, and…
SUMMER LIVIN’: Plating sustainability
Chef Wendy Armstrong is something of a pioneer. When she opened Thrive on Whitemarsh Island, no one but hardcore health foodies had ever heard of nitrate-free meat or gluten-free cooking; now those terms are common dinnertime vernacular. Years before others began sourcing organic food and cutting down on packaging and water waste, Armstrong worked to…
CBGB fever
THERE AREN’T many occasions that my mother’s green polyester wraparound halter top appears in public. This midriff–bearing shmata shows way too much skin for a somewhat respectable grown woman. I keep it in the bottom drawer because it’s a vital part of my I Dream of Jeannie Halloween ensemble. It might find its way on…
SUMMER LIVIN’: Down the crazy river
Most days, Alley 3 is a pretty mellow spot. The parking lot and boat ramp on Tybee Island’s Back River might crowd up for a minute with a crew of kayakers coming in from Little Tybee. Other than that, it’s usually just a couple of families hanging out on the tiny beach. That is, until…
June 19: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, June 19): Family fun week: Sesame Street Live begins a two-day run at the Johnny Mercer Theatre with a 7 p.m. performance of Elmo’s Super Heroes. The show continues on Wednesday.
Now that’s an emergency vehicle
A 27–year–old man attacked a Chatham County deputy, stole an ambulance and led dozens of police vehicles and a helicopter in a pursuit. Melvin Williams III resisted arrest and was tased by Georgia state troopers who had boxed the ambulance in with their cars at Montgomery Street and Staley Avenue about 9 p.m. Williams was…
