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• Two officers on routine patrol observed a truck parked in East Henry Lane and ran the tag information, learning the tag was registered to a stolen car. They called for backup, and three more officers arrived. A man came out of the back door of a nearby house, so the officers asked if he…

News of the Weird

Bad Idea Not only has professional fishing grown so spectacularly that last year’s leading money winner earned $547,000, but popular “fantasy fishing” leagues, resembling fantasy baseball and football, employ elaborate statistical breakdowns of fishing tournaments to help players pick winners, according to a July Wall Street Journal report. “Average weight per fish (caught) over careers,”…

Art Patrol

‘Do We See in RGB?’ — A collection of new works from emerging time-based media artists. Video, film, sound and performance. Receptions are Fri. August 18 and Sat. Aug. 19, 7-10 p.m. Desot O Row Gallery, Starland District, 2427 DeSoto Row.   ‘Contrived and Classified’  — Exhibition of wall installations by SCAD MFA painting candidate…

Spoken Word: Werdsmiph

It’s been an amazing summer for poet Reginald Smith. In June, he was named the 2006 Poet of the Year at the Second Annual Savannah Spoken Word Festival. Not long after, he learned that Essence magazine had chosen one of his poems, Your Voice, for publication in its August issue. His personal life is happy,…

Theatre Preview: Negativa

Ryan McCurdy has been working on the script for his absurdist comedy, Negativa, for three years. Filled with slapstick and crazy characters, the play will be presented in a world premiere Aug. 18 and 19. “It’s a play written to be appropriate for the entire family, but it’s not a piece of children’s theater,” McCurdy…


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