Tybee Wine Festival 2010
Scenes from the Tybee Wine Festival, Tybee Lighthouse Grounds, April 17, 2010
Earth Day 2010
Scenes from Savannah’s Earth Day Festival in Forsyth Park, April 17, 2010
A failed state of the art
There’s a serious crisis of leadership in Georgia right now, and it will affect you directly, in ways both big and small. Within a few days — perhaps in the time between my writing this and it being printed — the state legislature will possibly terminate and completely de-fund the Georgia Council for the Arts.…
Photo of the Week Pics
Featured submissions.
Exhibits & openings this week
Aldwyth: Work v./Work n. – Collage and assemblage 1991-2009 by this reclusive Hilton Head artist, now in her 70s. Jepson Center for the Arts through 5/17 Ellen Susan: Soldier Portraits – Local photographer uses a 150-year old method to capture striking portraits of contemporary soldiers. Runs through July 25. Jepson Center, 207 W. York St.…
Epic GPS Fail
Is it true our GPS satellites are deteriorating and there’s no good fix? -Imtazman1963 Pretty much. Frightening, isn’t it? We’ll have to go back to using maps. For most of us, failure of the Global Positioning System merely increases the likelihood we’ll get lost in Pennsylvania. For the military and some emergency services, matters are…
Aztec sports update
Lead Story A new sports center in Mexico City will be devoted to the revival of ancient Aztec- and Mayan-created games that are rarely played in Mexico because they are dangerous, including a field-hockey-like competition played with a fireball. In another game, “pelota mixteca,” players wearing metal-knuckled leather gloves punch a 2-pound, hard-rubber ball that…
Harmonic blend
The key song in the Wailin’ Jennys’ repertoire, “One Voice,” was written by founding member Ruth Moody. When the three ladies are onstage, singing this a capella, you’ll learn everything you need to know about why they do what they do: This is the sound of voices three Singing together in harmony Surrendering to the…
Tax crime season
A man arrived at a police precinct to report that his income taxes had been fraudulently filed. The man stated that he and another co–worker were unfamiliar with the process for filing federal and state income tax, so he asked their manager for help. The complainant provided a pay stub and W2 to the manager…
Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
Ludwig van Beethoven was totally deaf – and, by most accounts, quite mad – when he composed his 9th Symphony (Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 25 “Choral”) in the early 1820s. It is, however, considered the great composer’s crowning achievement, and that’s why the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra has chosen the 9th for its…
Making music for Mother Earth
Gardening, green cleaning and the incalculable benefits of a good compost heap are all subjects of workshops at Saturday’s Savannah Earth Day Festival in Forsyth Park. You can safely recycle all kinds of nasty stuff there, too — from old paint cans to rubber tires to that expired bottle of Fido’s ringworm medicine you’ve been…
Flight of fancy
Mother Nature takes on a whole new look in the works of photographer Carly Jurach, whose installation Where the Winged Things Are combines ethereally beautiful women with the colorful plumage of male birds. “I’m juxtaposing nature and our society, where females are the ones that are attractive and put into all the different magazines and…
Recycling lives
Created in 2004, the Hip Hop Caucus was the brainchild of minister and community activist Rev. Lennox Yearwood, who saw an opportunity to engage the hip hop generation in efforts to change social and political issues. The organization is now more than 700,000 members strong, and has worked on campaigns for voter registration, against war…
Still waters run blue
The 2010 Savannah Music Festival has one final card to play. Although everything wrapped up neat and tidy on April 3, a last–minute show has been added for April 15 at the Forsyth Park Bandshell. Admission to the Thursday performance is free; the SMF is calling it a “thank–you concert.” The band is Boston–based Crooked…
Random bites: Cafe Zeum, Isaac’s on Drayton
Cafe Zeum This elegant little cafe perched overlooking the impressive lobby of the Jepson Center for the Arts is decidedly the place to people watch. Judges, lawyers, community leaders – they all roll in for lunch and leave with smiles on their faces. The contemporary, minimalist atmosphere plays perfectly to the technicolor plates prepared by…
Good, inexpensive Pinots
What a crazy spring… There seems to have been an unending line of wine makers and winery owners doing their annual East Coast sales swing. Add to that the usual festivals and most calendars are jam-packed. And the food and wine scene just keeps growing, demanding even more care and feeding. Since last Friday, I’ve…
The color of money
Chatham County is one of 64 communities around the state that was recently awarded a grant to improve energy efficiency through the Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority. The money, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, aka, the stimulus package, will help save hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy costs every year. The County…
Thriving in a green world
The Whitemarsh Island carry-out cafe Thrive has recently become the first-ever certified green restaurant in Savannah, as certified by The Green Restaurant Association. “When we opened the restaurant we had all intentions of becoming green certified,” says Sarah Dudys, manager of the cafe, celebrating two years in operation this May. “It has been a long…
What’s Next: Savannah’s Cusses
Together for less than a year, Cusses will debut the four-song EP Thurst with an April 24 show at the Tantra, with Mass Plastic and Howler. Originally from North Carolina, drummer Brian Lackey considers Savannah home. Lackey attended SCAD in the 1990s – that’s where he and Bryan Harder, Cusses guitarist, had several local bands…
Mother knows best
Once again, we’re proud and honored to be the official print media sponsor of the City of Savannah’s annual Earth Day celebration. Within the pages of this week’s print issue you’ll find a special insert detailing what you can expect at this yearly celebration in Forsyth Park, from entertainment to vendors to yoga to recycling.…
