Gregg Allman tix on sale Nov. 7
The Allman Brothers Band may have said farewell at last week’s NYC Beacon Theatre performance, but Gregg Allman has more in store for his fans. Allman will play a solo concert in Savannah at Johnny Mercer Theatre on Saturday, January 17. The concert is open to all ages. Tickets go on sale Friday, November 7,…
Wessels Homes suspects arrested for series of shootings and robberies
Three men were arrested and a woman detained Thursday in an investigation by Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police in a series of shootings, armed robberies, auto thefts and gun discharges, Geovanni Fredrick Williams, 24, and Bernard William Green, 28, were arrested when Central Precinct Tactical Investigation Unit and SWAT officers stopped their vehicle on Cubbage Street in…
SCAD adds buzzworthy Glen Campbell doc to Savannah Film Festival
Savannah College of Art and Design has added the acclaimed new documentary “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me” to the 2014 Savannah Film Festival’s Docs to Watch series. The documentary follows country music star Glen Campbell during his final music tour after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The film is set to screen on Saturday, Nov.…
Reynolds Street homicide investigated
Detectives for Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department are investigating the Monday morning shooting death of a Savannah man. Oct. 27, just after midnight, Tyrone Ellis, 24, was shot inside of a residence on the 2000 block of Reynolds Street in Midtown. He was transported by ambulance to Memorial University Medical Center where he died Monday afternoon. Anyone…
Coffee Bluff playground opens
District 6 Alderman Tony Thomas joined City staff and neighborhood residents and children on Monday afternoon to open a new playground at the Crusader Park Neighborhood Center on Savannah’s Southside. “It’s these types of improvements that are crucial to our neighborhood vitality, and give our youth other forms of positive activities,” Thomas said. The Crusader…
Suspect cuts own throat after arrest
At 3:30 p.m., Oct. 28, Chatham County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the 12000 block of Sunny Brook Road, looking for 49-year-old, Ralph Terrill. Bryan County had issued a warrant for his arrest after he failed to appear in court on a previous DUI charge. Terrill was located, placed under arrest and searched. “Deputies cuffed him…
Halloween weekend: Cover bands, Black Tusk, Savannah Sweet Tease @The Jinx
I don’t care how many bad karaoke singers ruined ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’ for you—Niche as AC/DU.S.A. is going to be one for the books.
Blood Liquor Hex Magik
Blood Wrestling at the JinxSaturday, November 1 10 p.m., $10 TWO GHOULS ENTER. One ghoul leaves. The Jinx’s annual bloodbath is back again, and this time, the ladies of Blood Wrestling are out for revenge! This year’s roster boasts both old rivals and fresh meat. With a year to train (some girls opt for a…
Where’s your joy?
Somewhere on the journey from childhood to adulthood, we become serious about life. The burdens are heavy, and our emotions follow right along. Yet, here come the scientists with a solution for that heaviness.
Snakes & Knots: The perpetual conundrum
Many snakes and other legless critters have an extraordinary facility for self-knotting, and can tie and untie themselves with a dexterity that would leave a sailor or Boy Scout in awe.
Editor’s Note: Follow the money on Council pay hike
The move to hire Lumpkin came concurrently with City Council voting itself a sizable annual pay raise.
Trick’s is a treat on Bull Street
‘I started out fixing BBQ for my family and a few friends on the weekends, then the parties just got bigger and bigger.’
#SAVFF Review: The Book of Life
A mainstream Latino kids’ movie from Hollywood is long overdue, and the Tijuana-born Gutierrez uses the opportunity to present the joy and aesthetic beauty of his heritage
Charlie and the Foxtrots @The Sentient Bean
Fans of Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens, and melodies circling in Smoky Mountain mist shouldn’t miss this one.
#SAVFF Interview: Norman Reedus
‘Yeah, it’s pretty freaky, the coincidences of those things… Hopefully this Ebola thing will slowly go and our show will stay.’
Goatwhore @The Jinx
Select guitar work is straight out of the Motörhead book. Breathless drums erupt. Sammy Duet’s vocals growl and rip.
#SAVFF Review: Paradise Garden: Howard Finster’s Legacy
Creating album art for R.E.M. and Talking Heads made his pieces highly collectible, but despite his fame, Paradise Garden fell into disrepair after Finster’s death in 2001. The doc guides the audience through the recent restoration, where Finsterisms still abound and new ones are constantly discovered.
Hot Plate, Doom Salad, Star Period Star @Hang Fire
The beauty of lacking a vocalist is being able to really take in each player’s individual talents.
Haunted Halloween Happenings
Escape From the Haunted Room We’re going to venture a guess and say that this interactive experience probably isn’t for the claustrophobic. First, you muster up the courage to enter Charlotte’s Parlor Room. Click! You swivel back to check the doorknob, just to find you’ve been locked in! That’s when strange things begin to happen…
Review: John Wick
So simplistic that not only does it pale next to the recent hit The Equalizer – another movie about a former killer forced to again tangle with Russian thugs – it makes that Denzel Washington film seem as elaborately plotted as Chinatown by comparison.
Lessons from Columbus, GA
Columbus’ growing catalog of assets makes our inability to construct the Truman Linear Park Trail, nearly a decade after $1,008,000 of federal funding was allocated to the project, even more embarrassing.
#SAVFF Review: The Imitation Game
The enigmatic layering of secret on secret on secret – wartime as well as personal — is the key to The Imitation Game’s success, and a reason to see it despite its screenwriting glitches.
Analysis: A pivotal Election Day in Georgia
UNLESS YOU haven’t turned on your TV in the last month, then you’re well aware that we are in the midst of a very heated election here in Georgia. All of our constitutional officers like Governor, School Superintendent and such are up for election, in addition to members of the General Assembly. Additionally, we have…
Airbnbusted?
Martinez has been advised that since the City has no actual ordinance to cover Airbnb rentals, the judicial interpretation of her citations may not be valid under the traditional bed-and-breakfast header.
Talking with… Stefania Cancemi
TWO SMALL human figures walk into a desert landscape. The sun beats down. A solitary man walks across a wind-swept bridge. The camera lens is wet from rain. An old man rings the doorbell of a sketchy apartment. But is anyone even home? In Stefania Cancemi’s photographs, the Turkish landscape is forlorn and disconnected. People are infinitesimal. And there’s a sense…
Bag the plastic, Tybee
U.S. bag bans have already passed in Chicago, the Outer Banks and the entire state of California. Tybee Island’s would set the precedent in Georgia.
Food Day: Sustenance and justice
COME ONE, come all, come hungry. The fourth annual Food Day Festival will once again occupy Daffin Park this Sunday, Nov. 2, and there will be plenty of healthy, sustainably-sourced snackage to be had: From coconut-oil popcorn to Hunter Cattle Company’s grass-fed burgers to a pop-up Forsyth Farmers Market selling organic veggies picked fresh from…
March Against Monsanto is Saturday
‘All we’ve been asking for at this point is labeling,’ reminds Brighter Day Natural Foods owner Peter Brodhead. ‘If GMOs are so safe, just put the label on.’
Hot Halloween at Barrelhouse South
AFTER OPENING two successful bars, Chris Clarke was ready to branch out. Seed Eco Lounge, the posh, stark-white club on Montgomery Street right off of Congress, had people winding around the velvet rope barricades to get inside and dance all night. Rogue Water had taken off as a destination for craft beer fanatics, offering a…
