Extras sought for Ben Affleck movie
Extras are being sought for Live By Night, a drama to be filmed in January in Savannah and Brunswick. The movie will star and be directed by Ben Affleck, the Academy Award-winning director of Argo. Live By Night is based on the Prohibition-era novel by Dennis Lehane, who also wrote Gone Baby Gone, Affleck’s directorial…
Band of Horses at Wormhole Saturday
Band of Horses will play this Saturday night, Oct. 19, at the Wormhole. Tickets, $10, sold out in less than an hour. Ben Bridwell and company are apparently playing several “warmup” shows in anticipation of a major tour. Doors will open at 7 p.m.
City unveils ‘Canal District’ plan for Westside arena
Savannah City Manager Stephanie Cutter unveiled to City Council today a vision for the site of the proposed new arena and surrounding Canal District. The plan to redevelop the Canal District to the west of West Boundary Street “presents an opportunity to create a vibrant new center of activity in Savannah’s core, integrally connected with…
Savannah scores national Bicycle Friendly award
City leaders announced today that Savannah received a Bicycle Friendly Community Award for “recent accomplishments in bicycle infrastructure, education, and programming,” a spokesman says. Savannah joins 291 cities nation-wide and four cities in the Georgia that have been recognized with the award. “The City of Savannah is playing a critical part in creating a truly…
Tricks, treats and Graveface Records
“I actually feel connected to so many people here. I’ve met more good people here than I’ve met collectively in my entire life.”
Introducing the next Doctor
“The last time I was in heels was in a SCAD production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
5 Questions: Collective Soul
“When I wrote ‘Shine,’ I just put it down, I thought it was a good pop tune. I didn’t think it was something that would launch a career.”
Review: Escape Plan
Despite the shared marquee billing, Schwarzenegger is, as in the Expendables films, still playing second banana to Stallone, who has a much larger role.
Kickstarting beer innovation
When you push the button on its wireless remote control, watch out! It shoots cans out of the lid. Perfect for those who don’t want to get out of their lawn chairs to grab a beer, or those looking for a lawsuit.
Take a walk on the benevolent side
A new walking tour has brought together some of Savannah’s most illustrious historical characters in a single narrative, one with the aim of helping promote a healthy lifestyle in the present day.
Murder on Victory
Timothy Bernard Roberts, 37, of the 1100 block of West Victory was found with a gunshot wound near his bicycle at Victory and Hopkins Street about 11 p.m.
Airbnb: Share a room, save the world?
In our Citizens United-flavored dystopia, the only person looking out for what’s left of the middle class as it continues to die a miserable death might be the paying guest lodged in your spare bedroom.
History cut short
He had the uncanny talent of stitching together disparate disciplines to distill the bigger picture, an uncommon trait for a lifelong academic.
The changing climate’s champion
Tirelessly crisscrossing the country to mobilize ordinary people against the oil companies that hold our economy and environment hostage, Bill McKibben makes a stop in Bluffton, SC this Friday, Oct. 18.
Chipotle: Meat with morals
“Family farms in the U.S. and around the world are disappearing, but we are doing our best to keep that from happening,” says Chipotle area manager Anthony George.
Files in cakes, yeah!
The most creative cake-mediated breakout we heard about was that of Eamon de Valera, the Irish nationalist leader, who’d been imprisoned in England for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising.
Pierre Gonnord, portraying the South
As a French artist living and working in Spain, Gonnord photographs marginalized communities that include gypsies, the blind, the homeless and the outcasts of the world. In 2012, he turned his attention to the American South.
Editor’s Note: The Belle of the ball
The Air Force is restoring the original Memphis Belle, but the B-17 in town this week is the one in the film — an exact facsimile down to the pin-up art on the nose and the swastikas by each gun marking the enemy fighters that gunner shot down.
Can alcoholics just say ‘stop’?
I have a dear friend who’s an alcoholic. When he came out of treatment, I told him I couldn’t see why he wasn’t able to condition himself to have, say, a single glass of beer and stop at that. He said it didn’t work that way, but never got specific. Why can’t an alcoholic learn…
‘CBGB’ Savannah screening Thursday
Savannah gets its first look at CBGB, filmed here in the summer of 2012, in a special screening at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17 at the Carmike Wynnsong 11 theaters. Following the film, a Q&A session, via Skype, with writer/director Randall Miller and one of the key actors from CBGB.
