From solar powered robots to art that knows when you’re looking at it, get ready for a look into the future. Next week, the Telfair’s arts and technology festival, known […]
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Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS **1/2 The late Henry Fonda had the good fortune of ending his distinguished film career with an Oscar-winning performance in the popular On Golden Pond, […]
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What’s Next: Gordon Lightfoot
With the exception of Joni Mitchell (who’s on an entirely different plane than everybody else), no Canadian has done more for the growth of contemporary folk music than Gordon Lightfoot. […]
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What’s opera, Doc?
Early one evening in 2004, Matthew Lord was in his dressing room at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, waiting to go onstage for his Met debut in Boris Godunov. […]
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Screen Shots: The Road, Up in the Air, It’s Complicated
The Road Zombies seem to be de rigueur in today’s strain of post–apocalyptic motion pictures, yet this adaptation of the novel by Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men) offers […]
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Year in Review: Performing Arts
MUSIC There’s no way to under–celebrate the year Baroness had in 2009. Blue Record, the Savannah–based metal quartet’s second album for Relapse Records, was reviewed far and wide as the […]
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It’s a wrap
The movie year began with bumbling mall cops and ended with singing chipmunks, but rest assured that signs of intelligent life could be found in between. Still, the decade […]
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A conspiracy of extras
Working as an extra in a movie, particularly a big time production like The Conspirator, directed in Savannah by Robert Redford, sounds like a lot of fun. Truth be told, […]
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Year in Review: Savannah and the movies
Hollywood returned to Savannah in 2009, after a decade–long sabbatical. Other states offered substantial tax incentives for film production companies, making it far more lucrative to shoot there than in […]
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I, Stalker
My nominee for Savannah’s Man of the Year has to be Mark Owen McLeod. The 53-year-old native of Appling, Ga., was arrested in June and charged with stalking Miley Cyrus […]
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What’s Next: The classics
Let us welcome the New Year by looking forward to some highbrow entertainment. The Savannah Concert Association’s 2009–2010 series continues with the Jan. 9 recital by violinist Elena Urioste at […]
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What’s Next: American Ballet Theatre
One of the country’s leading dance companies visits the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina in Hilton Head on Jan. 16.It’s the American Ballet Theatre – or, more precisely, ABT II, […]