Looking Ahead
@ The Eight: Reindeer Monologues. Bay Street Theatre, Dec. 20-23. @ Night After Christmas Comedy Jam. Dec. 28. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ The Boxcars. Jan. 4. Randy Wood Guitars. @ Cinderella. State Ballet Theatre of Russia. Jan. 13. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Film: All About Eve. Jan. 13. Trustees Theater. @ American Traditions Competition. Jan.…
Dec. 17: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, Dec. 17): A couple of great events on this Monday: Jeremy Davis & the Equinox Jazz Orchestra are back in the Westin Ballroom at 6:30 with a “Big Band Holiday Spectacular.” Info at equinoxjazz.com. And the Odd Lot has a Christmas-themed improv show at Muse Arts Warehouse, starting at…
Dec. 16: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, Dec. 16): Jeff Rousset, an organizer with The Prometheus Radio Project, will speak at Trinity United Methodist Church from 6 to 8 p.m. about how best to start up a community radio station. The Performing Arts Collective of Savannah’s annual musical production of Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity is onstage…
Dec. 15: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, Dec. 15): The Performing Arts Collective of Savannah’s annual musical production of Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity is onstage at 7 p.m. at Fresh Fire from Heaven Christian Church, on Bull Street. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation screens at the Trustees Theater at 7. In the clubs: Bear Fight! Returns to…
‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY *** When 20th Century Fox debuted the revolutionary widescreen process CinemaScope with 1953’s The Robe – thereby allowing the medium to successfully distinguish itself from new-kid-on-the-block television and its boxy images – the critic for the New York Daily News responded by giving the movie eight stars: four stars for…
Dec. 14: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, Dec. 14): The Homegrown Holiday Hoedown – with the Accomplices, the Train Wrecks, Bottles & Cans and City Hotel – decks the American Legion Hall on Bull Street, starting at 7:30 p.m. And Little Roy and Lizzy make bluegrass magic at Randy Wood Guitars, also at 7:30. It’s a…
Dec. 13: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, Dec. 13): It’s Open Mic Comedy night at the Sentient Bean – is this your night to finally try? KidSyc@Brandywine do it at Wild Wing CafÉ, the Get Right Band is at Live Wire, and there’s a Vinyl Appreciation event at Foxy Loxy.
Exhibits & openings this week
Bold Strokes – Recent works by David Miley, Dec. 3- Jan. 3. The Tybee native moved away to attend the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Art in Dover, NJ. Back in Georgia, he presents his newest body of graphic works and illustrations. Reception Dec. 14, 6-8 pm and the show is a stop…
Playing with babies
I’ve read that in some cultures it’s normal for parents and caregivers to perform sexual acts on babies and toddlers in order to calm them down and help them sleep. Cultures to which this disturbing practice has been attributed include those of Japan, Albania, the Philippines, Mongolia, Thailand, Bali, native Hawaiians, some native American tribes,…
Dec. 12: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, Dec. 12): The Psychotronic Film Society screens a 1978 Redd Foxx concert film at the Sentient Bean at 8 p.m.; it’s another tribute band night at the Jinx, with Out Come the Wolfs (Rancid) and Time For Sayonara (the Pogues). Kevn Kinney and Drivin N Cryin are at Wild…
Dec. 11: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, Dec. 11): Connect Savannah has an all-new issue online, one day before it’ll be on the street. Tongue: Open Mic Poetry Night happens at the Sentient Bean. Gordon Perry plays Jazz’d Tapas, and it’s Hip Hop Night at the Jinx.
The Little Roy & Lizzy Show
Randy Wood has known Little Roy Lewis for close to 30 years, since he was the young, banjo–playing cutup in the Lewis Family gospel group. Since 2009, Randy’s pickin’ parlor has played host to the Little Roy & Lizzy Show, the bluegrass quartet Roy began after the elder members of the family passed on or…
Deer Santa: You suck
Santa’s reindeer are revolting. Well, they’re in revolt — some of them, anyway. Things are definitely polarized at the North Pole. There’s your premise for Jeff Goode’s dark comedy The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, opening a one–weekend run Dec. 20 at Bay Street Theatre. The doors are blowing off the cozy confines of the toy workshop…
Fairy tales are for suckers
Once upon a time, in the late 1980s, there lived a mopey teenage girl. Saddled as she was with bad skin, a mouth full of braces and a dark sense of humor that was often misinterpreted as an acute case of misanthropy, she did not have many dates. Which is why, on a Friday evening…
That’s a lot of cocaine
A 20–month investigation by the Chatham–Savannah Counter Narcotics Team involving three drug rings resulted in 39 indictments and the seizure of 23 kilos of cocaine, 11 pounds of pot, ten guns, and over $300,000 in apparently ill–gotten cash. In March 2011, CNT in a working partnership with the Beaufort/Jasper Multi–Agency Drug Task Force and the…
Change agents
It’s half-true to say that change only comes when a majority of people want it to happen. The entire truth is that just about any positive change was a minority opinion at some point, and only became the desire of the majority after enough effort (and time) had been expended in spreading the word. Most…
Sets appeal
In these cash-strapped times, the point of these so-called holiday gift guides is often to showcase quality items offered at low prices, thus allowing consumers to blanket friends and family members with affordable presents while retaining a few bills in the wallet. That’s not the case here. Sorry. The four box sets highlighted here won’t…
On track with the Train Wrecks
Jack Bible. How’s that for a cool rock star name? Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Right now, Jack is a happy, chubby five–month–old, babbling contentedly on his father’s lap. Daddy is Jason Bible, of the Train Wrecks, and where one goes, the other is sure to be. During daylight hours, anyway, while Momma’s at…
Lather up for a good cause
Sam I Am is one lucky guy. Blue–eyed and shaggy, he’s the sole male in a herd of 33 Nigerian Dwarf Goats that graze in the back fields of Bethesda Academy off Ferguson Ave. Sam’s job is to sire baby dwarf goats, and the ruminating sultan has performed admirably with his harem: Every female kidded…
Blast, baby, blast
For several minutes last Tuesday, Johnson Square was the loudest spot in town. About 20 activists wielded air horns, whistles and other noisemakers in the normally halcyon public space to demonstrate what ocean mammals hear when seismic airgun testing is used to search for underwater oil reserves. Katie Parrish, a campaign organizer with Oceana, an…
The Foodie Column
THE RESTAURANT circle of life continues. Recently we’ve said good–bye to Saigon, CafÉ on 37 and Lime Grill. This week, we greet a newcomer and welcome others who push past comfort zones to remain relevant. New in the Village Brian and Jennifer Husky opened the fifth concept in their Gaslight Group with, fittingly, The 5…
Looking Ahead
@ Holiday Pops: Savannah Philharmonic. Dec. 14 & 15. Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. Sold Out. @ Film: It’s a Wonderful Life. Dec. 15. Lucas Theatre. @ The Eight: Reindeer Monologues. Bay Street Theatre, Dec. 20-23. @ Night After Christmas Comedy Jam. Dec. 28. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ The Boxcars. Jan. 4. Randy Wood…
Ga. Power monopoly bad for citizens
Editor, One of many things I learned from attending the Solar Forum hosted by Center for a Sustainable Coast last weekend was that maybe Georgia Power “is not living up to their end of the deal” when they were given an energy producing monopoly in our state back in 1973. Apparently, their end of the…
