Man charged with rape
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police have charged a 62-year-old convicted sex offender with rape and probation violation after he attacked a senior woman in Savannah last Wednesday. James Thomas Bateman of the 5500 block of Montgomery Street was arrested after Metro Police stopped him driving near the Thomas Square/Midtown location where the assault occurred. “He was visiting…
Police: No foul play involved with dead body
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police have identified the body of a woman found in a Southside creek Monday. An autopsy performed at the Georgia State Crime Lab in Augusta indicated no signs of foul play. Release of the woman’s name is being withheld as detectives continue to investigate.
CNT makes large crack seizure, arrest
One person is in custody following a large seizure of crack cocaine. Earlier this year, members of the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team (CNT) received information 33-yer-old Kendall Owens of Savannah was selling powder and crack cocaine. CNT opened an investigation into Owens and successfully purchased cocaine from him during the investigation, a spokesperson says. Following…
Two more shootings Thursday night
Detectives are investigating the shooting of two men Thursday night. Islands Precinct officers patrolling on Waters Avenue investigated shots fired in the area of E. 36th and Live Oak streets about 10:28 p.m. “They were advised that a male had been seen with a wound on a porch on the 1200 block of N.E. 36th,…
Police, politicians implore public’s help on crime
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are “calling on the public and the faith-based community to help quell a series of incidents in which shots have been fired, apparently in retaliation to other incidents,” a department spokesman says. The victim of shooting Wednesday at Utah Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Marion D. McClendon, 29, of Savannah died of his…
Kishi Bashi among musical performances at Geekend
The Creative Coast, working with MusicFile Productions, announces its entertainment lineup for Geekend 2014, the interactive conference bringing together geeks, designers, coders, artists, technologists, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs November 13 – 15. The highlight of the weekend will be a performance by Kishi Bashi and the folk rock performer, Tall Tall Trees, on Saturday, November 15,…
The return of Blank Page Poetry
PERHAPS Savannah’s most unique grassroots cultural offering, the Blank Page Poetry series ambitiously blends spoken word poetry, dance, music, and digital projection. Organized by Jerome Meadows of Indigo Sky Community Gallery, each quick but hard-hitting show—they always run well under an hour—is one-of-a-kind, depending on a diverse group of local contributors from all kinds of…
Blues Traveler @Great Ogeechee Seafood Festival (Richmond Hill)
A staple of the early 1990s jam band scene, Blues Traveler’s psych-rock, blues, and folk influences will appeal to a wide audience at the family-focused fest.
The Get Right Band @Congress Street Social Club
Fans of Social Club mainstays Voodoo Soup and Kota Mundi will feel right at home in front of The Get Right Band’s stage.
Sins of Godless Men @The Jinx
Rettig and Stuard deliver a furious and delightfully raucous performance
Lunchtime Concert Series Kickoff @Trinity UMC
Music at Trinity hopes to support and foster the development of arts in downtown Savannah.
Daryl Sherman @Unitarian Universalist Church
In 2009, she released Johnny Mercer: A Centennial Tribute, paying refreshing homage to the Savannah native’s timeless songbook.
Harbor Deepening: Like it or not, change is gonna come
If dealing with SHEP contractors is anything like remodeling a bathroom, don’t hold your breath for a finished harbor. Unless you have access to a personal-sized Speece cone.
The world according to Maya
For the entire school year, she followed Betty’s advice, “no matter how embarrassing or complicated.” The results were an uptick in her social standing as well as an intelligent, charming memoir about the true meaning of popularity.
A perfect day of brain health
While your genes play a role in your overall health, many approaches allow you to keep your brain healthy as you age.
Downtown Delilahs deliver sins & secrets
New Halloween-inspired show debuts
Why aren’t girls named ‘Junior?’
The first order of business is to identify what family or tribe you belong to— in ancient times, and to a considerable extent now, these were the people who’d have your back.
Talking with… Wiley McCrary
WHEN SAVANNAH barbecue champion Wiley McCrary spilled his secrets in a cookbook earlier this year, many people rightly focused on the cooking techniques shared in its pages. And yes, Wiley’s Championship Barbecue: Secrets That Old Men Take To The Grave, co-written with his wife, Janet, and Amy Paige Condon, will do you wonders in the kitchen. But how many times a…
Windsor Cafeteria keeps it real on the Southside—real good
Life paths tend to change dramatically when you hit your late 20s and early 30s, and so it was for Marcus Snipes.
Festival culture in the ‘Boro
THE MAJOR outdoor shows of the summer may have passed, but the moon is about to turn on a new festival in the Savannah area. Brainiacs, a multimedia production studio perched on 15 acres of sprawling green land and a lake right outside of Statesboro, will play host to Electric Moonlight Festival, (((EMF))) for short.…
Rocky Horror at 40
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, dear Rocky. Hitting its 40th anniversary in 2014, The Rocky Horror Show, arguably the most well-loved cult classic of all time, is still hot to trot. A lot of camp entertainment, if we’re being honest, doesn’t age well—datedness often plays a key role in camp appeal—but Richard O’Brien’s masterpiece still feels just as…
Review: St. Vincent
Murray’s Vincent is often odious, and when we finally think he’s softening up, he turns around and becomes even more insufferable. It’s a bravura turn, one which gives this picture an extra kick.
Review: Fury
About as unsentimental a war movie as has ever barreled across the movie screen.
Reader response to column
I keep my ears open waiting to here of a march or rally to hold the feet of those we elected to the fire, to see if the churches will come out of the four walls and be the change many of our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents fought and died for.
Reader: Actually, I was at the Weeping Time conference
Not only was the ASU’s department of history expressly interested in the work the project promotes, but for some time even earlier actively developing historical knowledge and understanding about the sacred dwelling places and spaces with which the project is concerned.
Editor’s Note: Who are the real ‘haters?’
The irony is that probably no single entity in Savannah has done more than Historic Savannah Foundation to preserve and promote the engine that drives much of our current economic development.
