July 16: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, July 16): The title hasn’t been announced, but the Tybee Island Social Club is screening a free movie on the front porch at 8 tonight (here’s hoping it’s Cape Fear). And, of course, the Odd Lot improv troupe makes merry at 8 p.m. at Muse Arts Warehouse.
July 15: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, July 15): The rock ‘n’ roll documentary Last Days Here is screened at 2, 5 and 8 p.m. at Muse Arts Warehouse. It’s about the troubled lead singer of metal’s Pentagram. In the clubs (recommended): The psycho-surf, pseudo-Japanese instrumental band Daikaiju at Taco Abajo, Voodoo Soup at Congress St.…
July 14: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, July 14): The 1962 chiller Cape Fear is on the Trustees Theater’s big screen at 7 p.m. Parallel Lives is onstage at Music Arts Warehouse, while Love’s Labor’s Lost continues in AASU’s Jenkins Hall theater. In the clubs: Check out the great Thomas Wynn and the Believers at Live…
July 14: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, July 14): The 1962 chiller Cape Fear is on the Trustees Theater’s big screen at 7 p.m. Parallel Lives is onstage at Music Arts Warehouse, while Love’s Labor’s Lost continues in AASU’s Jenkins Hall theater. In the clubs: Check out the great Thomas Wynn and the Believers at Live…
Hip Hop Nite @ The Jinx
It wasn’t so long ago that a Tuesday night in Savannah was guaranteed to be laid back, maybe more laid back than you’d like even —considering the whole venturing out for a good time thing. Okay maybe this was nearly a decade ago, but Tuesday is Tuesday and summer is summer. You might have a…
July 13: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, July 13): Parallel Lives is onstage at Music Arts Warehouse, while Love’s Labor’s Lost continues in AASU’s Jenkins Hall theater. In the clubs: The Shack Band at Congress Street Social, Concrete Jumpsuit at Live Wire, Lance Stinson at Desperados, the Cicada Brothers at World of Beer.
July 12: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, July 12): A horror-movie reinterpretation of the Shakespeare comedy Love’s Labor’s Lost opens at Jenkins Hall, on the ASSU campus. The two-person comedy Parallel Lives opens at Muse Arts Warehouse. Full of Hell and Nailbiter play the Wormhole, the Epic Cycle’s at Live Wire, and Electric Grandma headlines an…
July 11: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, July 11): Ingmar Bergman’s 1960 Love is a Stye in the Devil’s Eye is tonight’s Psychotronic film feature – 8 p.m. at the Sentient Bean. The comedy is in Swedish with English subtitles. There’s an all-new Poetry Slam at Yadda Yadda on MLK, starting at 9. We recommend Jon…
Fear personified
In the movie world, there are actors who play badasses. Then there are actors who are badasses. Take Robert De Niro, for example: A very talented Method actor who made a career of transforming himself onscreen into a very convincing badass, when in reality he’s bookish and shy by most accounts. Well, back in the…
Rising to new lows
AS IN CHINA, our leaders in Savannah these days also like to use Marxist arguments to promote brazenly capitalist projects. So I wasn’t surprised at all when City Council voted last week to allow an unprecedented amendment to height guidelines so that a new high–rise hotel could be built on the east end of River…
Thomas Wynn and the Believers, Daikaiju
THOMAS WYNN & THE BELIEVERS At 9 p.m. Saturday, July 14 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. The Florida-based Believers are always welcome in Savannah, where blues-based, gritty and soulful Southern Rock – the sort that’s based in music and euphoria as opposed to nostalgia and ridiculous “rebel” posturing – is cherished. Wynn…
The Beach Bum Behind the Pseudonym?
At first, I felt a little lost amongst the fancy flipflops and Lily Pulitzer sundresses. My usual Tybee Island uniform is a frayed pair of board shorts left over from my husband’s teenage years and a striped bikini top I snuck out of someone else’s Goodwill bag, allowing maximum sun soakage and ease of waveplay.…
Crime at the All Star break
At the mid–year point, here’s a look back at the most kinetic Blotter entries of 2012: JANUARY: A gunman met his match when he broke into a 50-year-old woman’s truck and assaulted her. When the masked man rose up from a back seat, pointed a gun at her and threatened to kill her, she stomped…
The Ballad of Jen and Markus
Last October, Markus Kuhlmann was drumming in one of Savannah’s most popular bands, the Train Wrecks, loving life and living high on the musical hog. In February, he was voted Employee of the Month at a McDonald’s in Statesboro. His transition from layin’ the beat to flippin’ the meat was brought about by a rollercoaster…
Hot fashion on the square
The high–heeled glow of Savannah Fashion Week may have faded into a summer slump of cutoffs and flipflops, but local fashionistas have new reason to rejoice. Come Friday evening, Monterey Square will be transformed by a long gold runway, flashing lights across the sky and lots of long–legged models wearing designs so au courant New…
Mark your calendar: New Edition
Calling all Candy Girls: Celebrating 20 years in the biz, the R&B vocal group New Edition – reunited and back at fighting weight – will perform Sept. 30 in the Johnny Mercer Theatre. That’s right, all the original members are back: Johnny Gill, Bobby Brown, Michael Bivins, Ronnie DeVoe, Ricky Bell and Ralph Tresvant. Tickets…
Parallel people
Parallel Lives opens with two angels working out the advance details of humankind, starting with skin tones, an assignment from “The Big Guy” upstairs. His name is Cliff. Women, the angels decide, will bear the children. To compensate, men are given large egos. There are only two performers in this screwball comedy, which was written…
Not just cookies anymore
Savannah’s 88–year–old Byrd Cookie Co. is an institution, a brand as widely recognized in the national gourmet food arena as it is respected by generations of Savannah gift-givers. Now, the familiar retail store has a facelift, and has emerged as a significant new player in upscale casual lunchtime dining. The Cookie Bar & Grill at…
Driving away from freedom
Ask people to describe their childhood experiences with bicycles and they’ll almost always use the word, “fun.” Indeed my first bicycle was foremost a device for having fun, for racing around neighborhood streets or along BMX tracks fashioned from firebreaks. “Freedom” is also mentioned frequently when people remember youthful bicycling. That’s true for me, too.…
July 10: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, July 10): Sure we’re biased, but today’s big event is the new issue of CONNECT – it goes online at noon. And the great Raleigh-area funk band Big Something is at the Wormhole Bar! Now that’s something.
