Suspicious package in State Street garage might have been film prop, police say
Around 8 p.m. on Saturday May 6, 2017, SCMPD responded to a report of a suspicious package on the top floor of the State Street parking garage. “Officers located a suspicious package with a cell phone and wires on top of it on the top floor of the parking garage. As a precaution the garage…
Woman shot outside lounge
SCMPD responded to a residence in the 600 block of 31st Street on a report of woman who had been shot. “The woman had been out with friends at Nettie’s Lounge, 800 Paulsen Street. After hearing a loud pop the woman noticed blood on her dress and shoes. She realized she had been shot and…
Double homicide at Georgia and Mississippi Avenues
The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department responded to a shooting at the intersection of Georgia Ave. and Mississippi Ave. “At 10:55 p.m. on Friday May 5, 2017, SCMPD responded to a report of two men who had been shot at the intersection of Georgia Ave. and Mississippi Ave. One male was deceased at the scene, the…
Police respond to barricaded gunman situation
The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department responded to a barricaded gunman situation in the Henderson Golf Course Community on May 2. At 8:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of a person with a gun in the 100 block of Brown Thrush Road. The armed suspect was identified as William Pipkorn, 53. Pipkorn had threatened neighbors…
Humane Society’s annual carnival brings out the party animal in all of us
Those with opposable thumbs can aim for the target to dunk their favorite Savannah Derby Devils, and everyone wants a lickalicious smooch from Miss Zoe Dog’s Kissing Booth.
Editor’s Note: Another day, another bad zoning decision
A QUESTIONABLE zoning decision by Savannah City Council is barely newsworthy these days. Like death and taxes, they seem inevitable and unavoidable. More and more good-hearted, engaged citizens I know are just throwing their hands up in resigned defeat at the absurdity and brazenness of it all. One is tempted to localize the old line…
Keller Williams @Southbound Brewing
LOOPSMITH Keller Williams is back at Southbound, this time to celebrate the local brewery’s fourth anniversary (cheers to that!). Inspired by rock ‘n’ roll, free jazz, bluegrass, and soul music, Williams has been making one-of-a-kind sounds since the early 1990s, delighting jam music fans, festival frequenters, and guitar nerds alike. When it’s not just him,…
The Obsessed, Karma To Burn, Lo-Pan @The Jinx
The Obsessed, Karma To Burn @The Jinx Seminal stoner/doom band The Obsessed have reformed and are taking a new record on the road. The band, which formed in 1980 after vocalist Scott “Wino” Weinrich parted ways with the ‘80s doom kings Saint Vitus, and released deeply-influential albums throughout the 1990s, including the masterful The Church…
Great Scots!
Early Saturday morning, kilts will rustle as athletes head to Bethesda to prepare for the festival’s centerpiece activity: heavy athletics
Soccer + entertainment = South Georgia Tormenta
If you don’t live near an MLS (first tier) team, USL is the next best thing. The guys in South Georgia Tormenta are hungry for that kind of life.
St. Paul and the Broken Bones in a Sea Of Noise
But their second album, Sea of Noise, is another type of animal: Funkier and more multilayered both sonically and lyrically, dealing with current issues such as racial and economic injustice
Feeling fine with Susto
There are shades Fleet Foxes and My Morning Jacket throughout as the band leans into its folk tendencies, but there’s still something wonderfully undefineable about Susto.
Phil Vassar @The Stage on Bay
Vassar started out writing some of the greatest hits of 1990s country.
Stacie Jean Albano’s askew view
FOURTEEN years ago this month, Long Island native Stacie Jean Albano showed her first exhibition at Gallery Espresso, “An Askew View.” Her landscape paintings were a big hit—she quickly became a favorite artist in Savannah and took her art all along the East Coast, all without forgetting her home gallery, where she went on to…
Savannah Bananas Beer is now a reality
IN NO TIME at all the Savannah Bananas have proven themselves to be active participants in craft beer. Their debut season they had a well stocked craft beer bar in the stadium, and just a few weeks ago hosted a double-header craft beer festival. This season the Savannah Bananas are at it again, teaming up…
Three Dashes Bitters: Hot nights in New Orleans
JACK SIMMONS is a popular professor of philosophy at Armstrong State University. Now he’s added another line to his resume: Novelist. Three Dashes Bitters is a light-hearted comedy that takes place over the span of a few crazy days and nights during a debutante ball in New Orleans. In the vein of the classic picaresque…
The Casket Girls, Jeff Zagers @Graveface Records & Curiosities
Slated to be the band’s only Savannah performance for 2017.
Finding serenity with the Saints & Sages
The Saints & Sages of West Victory Drive have been meeting for six years and boast an average age of about 80—bolstered by Elder Leona Williams, who’s 93 and still has her own parking space out front.
The Desdemona Piano Quartet @Sulfur Studios and First Presbyterian Church
The ensemble, known for creating unique performances for a variety of concertgoers, will play selections from the Classical to Contemporary periods, including works by Haydn, Kodaly, Clara Schumann, Brustad, and Brahms.
Is a border adjustment tax really just a plain old tariff?
Is a border adjustment tax really just a plain old tariff? What’s the difference between a border adjustment tax and a tariff? The New York Times says a BAT of 20 percent on imports would “satisfy Trump’s protectionist impulses without imposing punitive, and potentially even more disruptive, tariffs.” A tax is a tax, right? How…
Henny Penny: the Foxy Family’s new Art Space & Café
THE FOXY Family Dynasty is at it again. First with Foxy Loxy Café in September 2011, then with The Coffee Fox in December 2012 and now with Henny Penny Art Space & Café on April 7, the Foxy Family continues to find niches and solve problems involved with maintaining a successful business. As a local…
Raise the (little) roof for homeless vets
CHATHAM-SAVANNAH Authority for the Homeless Executive Director Cindy Kelley approaches the overgrown forest behind the Blackshear Basketball Complex off Wheaton Street as if she’s walking up to someone’s front yard. In a way, she is, as this patch of land is inhabited by forty-five or so homeless folks—men, women and children—camping under the trees, their…
Forsyth Farmers’ Market seeks new Executive Director
Teri Schell, executive director of the Forsyth Farmers’ Market for the past ten years, has resigned from her position. “We have grown so much over the past 9 market seasons and I’ve been proud to have a hand in creating a place that not only connects farmers, food producers and eaters but also serves as…
Police investigate shooting on Truman Parkway
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating the shooting of Alesha Boles-Johnson, 20, on Sunday, Apr. 30. At about 1:00 a.m., Boles-Johnson arrived at the hospital in a private vehicle with non-life-threatening injuries. Purportedly, the incident occurred on Truman Parkway, between Victory Drive and Eisenhower Drive. “The actual circumstances leading up to the shooting are still under…
