A different perspective on the Festival
Make your home in Savannah for long enough and it’s almost frighteningly easy to wake up one morning and realize you have inadvertently come to take the inherent beauty of much of the city for granted. Whether it’s the sometimes centuries-old buildings of the waterfront and downtown’s National Historic Landmark District, the rustic charm of…
Robin does jury duty
September 26, 2008 was a busy day for Dr. Glen Alden. On a short break from his physician’s duties at St. Joseph’s Hospital, he drove his 2008 Chrysler 300 to the Kroger grocery store on Ogeechee Road, to pick up a gift card as a refund for spoiled crab legs purchased by his wife a…
Bela Fleck and the African Ensemble
Simply unbelievable performance from Bela and his bevy of heavyweight African jazz musicians!
Wish they were here?
When I catch up with Tod Weidner, the construction worker is on a cell phone in the rural countryside near Dayton, Oh. (where he was born and raised). He’s hard at work restoring an old barn. However, within just a few short days of our lengthy conversation, the guitarist and songwriter will be onstage at…
Greg Koons & The Misbegotten
Greg Koons & The Misbegotten This Pa.-based Americana singer-songwriter has a rapturously beguiling vocal delivery that’s instantly (if only slightly) reminiscent of both Dwight Yoakam and the late, great Townes Van Zandt, and an impressive grasp of what it takes to cross hard-scrabble roots-country and neo-hillbilly with Byrds-ian power-pop —much like the criminally unsung solo…
St. Joseph’s/Candler joins city recycling
Katie Joyner knew recycling at St. Joseph’s/Candler would work, the problem was convincing everybody else. “I would always bring it up in conversation,” says Joyner, a senior graphic designer in the health system’s marketing department. “The answer was always it was too complicated, or it wasn’t sanitary. There always was an answer that was a…
Zero tolerance?
One of the most important yet contentious aspects of education is discipline. You’ve got to have it, or chaos reigns in the classrooms and nobody learns. Yet when it’s enacted, critics rise up to protest that it’s meted out unfairly, inconsistently or too harshly. In Savannah, the discussion crosses both racial and gender lines. Students…
New releases: Fast & Furious, Observe and Report, Sunshine Cleaning
FAST & FURIOUS ** The best part of Fast & Furious is its tagline — “New Model. Original Parts.” — which means that the studio wonk who created it deserves the big bucks more than anybody who actually appears in the film. It’s a catchy line because it advertises the fact that all four stars…
One last round for St. Patrick’s Day
An officer on foot patrol noticed a large, disorderly group of men at the Bull Street ramp on River Street during the St. Patrick’s Day festivities. The men were harassing people who passed by them, and at one point, three of them ran into a crowd to try to catch another man. At one…
Sand Gnats open season with SCAD exhibition game
Kicking off their 2009 season this week, the Savannah Sand Gnats are an affiliate of the New York Mets. And few people in baseball are closer to the New York Mets than current Sand Gnats President R.C. Reuteman — who’s worked in several capacities for the franchise since 1984. After running Mets farm teams in Binghamton and…
In theatres
Knowing With its plotline involving extraterrestrials, a kid in potential peril, and a man obsessed with uncovering the truth behind unexplained phenomena, this could easily have been tagged Clod Encounters of the Absurd Kind. Sober in its intentions but laughable in its execution, Knowing begins promisingly, as a letter written by a little girl in…
His eye is a camera
Lead Story Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence said recently that he would install a prosthetic eye with a camera and wireless transmitter (of the size now used for colonoscopies) into the socket from which one of his eyes had been removed as the result of a childhood accident. He hopes to control the prosthetic eye in…
Can you really extend your lifespan?
With modern medicine and hygiene and diet, we’ve extended life expectancy far beyond what it’s ever been. Yet we all still get old and die. Few make it past 80 or 90 years, and almost nobody makes it past 100. Is there any real hope of something that could allow humans to stop or slow…
