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Getting to Florida
Best-selling author and thought leader Richard Florida speaks at the Lucas on the best way to grow a city
If it does not have soul, then it is just notes
Irish conductor Peter Shannon joins the Savannah Choral Society
Jesus Camp
Becky Fischer is a Missouri pastor who runs a summer camp in which children roughly between the ages of 6 and 12 are trained to be soldiers for God. That’d be fine if this were an ordinary Christian organization that practiced Jesus’ messages of peace, love and tolerance. Instead, this is yet one more…
Fishman: So many whites, so many males
The same Neanderthals worrying about Pelosi, questioning Hillary and second-guessing Barack Obama wondered how we would ever find gravitas in hearing women read the news on radio or television.
Free Speech: Dispatch from the ‘War on Christmas’
Fellow warriors, it’s time to tighten our ranks. Thump your Bibles and head to the front lines. It’s time to take back what’s ours! I’m talking about Christmas, of course. How dare those pagans, Jews, Hindus and secular humanists try to kill Christmas? The conspiracy is most evident at this time of year in that…
Blotter
SCAD security officers confiscated marijuana and drug paraphernalia from a school dormitory. Found in the room were a plastic bag containing a very small amount of marijuana, less than an ounce. Marijuana smoking pipes, a gold pipe attachment and a plastic container also were found. The SCAD officers told police that someone had told them…
Now Showing
THE HOLIDAY The best bet for spreading cheer across multiplexes this holiday season, The Holiday is a finely polished piece of romantic cinema, with a generosity of spirit so all-encompassing that it’s easy to forgive its occasional excesses. Writer-director Nancy Meyers, whose previous hit was the similarly sharp Something’s Gotta Give, clearly writes from a…
Featured Review: Apocalypto
APOCALYPTO Flush from making gazillions from The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson used his clout to create a film that under any other circumstances would have been laughed right out of the studio boardroom: a lengthy, subtitled period epic about the Mayan civilization. For a while, it does offer something fresh. Gibson, working from…
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Blues, rock and soul – with a twist
Atlanta’s Jason Williams Band makes their local debut
