Cover Story
Your Two Cents
A Skeptical Take on the Sept.19 SPLOST and E-SPLOST vote
Theatre review: Marie & Bruce
The new Ark Theatre on Louisville Road, and by extension the Savannah Actors Theatre which first gave life to it, is a most welcome and overdue addition to the Savannah theatre scene. With the recent demise of City Lights Theatre — an event clearly foreshadowed long before the actual fact — Savannah suddenly became a…
Concert Review: Cuarteto Latinoamericano
Saturday evening, Sept. 2, marked the second visit to the Lucas Theatre by the famed Mexican string ensemble Cuarteto Latinoamericano. And I hope Lucas Executive Director Ken Carter wasn’t just teasing when he mentioned he might like to make it a regular annual event — because this is something I could get used to. The…
Art Patrol
SCAD Gallery Hop — Friday, Sept. 15, 5-7 p.m. This month’s gallery hop includes “Etchings of Rembrandt” at Red Gallery; “Han” by Jay Song at Pinnacle Gallery; “Drawn to Dance” by Katrina Polhamus at Alexander Hall Gallery; and new work by Justin Kuhn at May Poetter Gallery. The event is free and open to the…
Featured Review: Wicker Man
THE WICKER MAN The 1973 cult offering The Wicker Man is one of those compelling “mood pieces” that could only have emerged from the early 70s. Like other fine works of its period (including two by Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now and Walkabout), it employs allegory and atmosphere to amplify its thin veneer of the…
Now Showing
Hollywood Land Before Christopher Reeve and Brandon Routh, there was George Reeves. Kirk Alyn may have originated the role of Superman on screen in a pair of 1940s serials, but it was Reeves who was most identified with the part, thanks to the hit TV series that ran throughout much of the 1950s. But in…
The Art Behind the Art
A Closer Look At SCAD’s Rembrandt Exhibit
A Proud Tradition
Pride Festival Builds on Repuation as a Premiere Southeastern Event
Music Menu
A quick look at live shows around town this week
Connect Recommends
Our piks for the moste noteworthy shows of the week
Fishman: Looking at the sun
What sun? What moon? In my first 10 days of a sabbatical in Pittsburgh, I never saw the sun, let alone the moon.
The Blotter
A woman called police after she noticed that someone had broken the lock on the telephone box at the side of her house. Inside, she found a seven-foot phone line that was hooked inside the box. The other end was on the ground near the side door. The woman advised that she had called the…
News of the Weird
Gratitude for Ya Just before the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, John M. Lyons Jr. filed a lawsuit in New Orleans against Mark Morice, who admits to commandeering Lyons’ 18-foot pleasure boat during the chaos after Katrina hit in order to rescue more than 200 people (according to his count), including a 93-year-old dialysis patient whose…
