Theater: Trying to answer the age-old question
It’s a question that elicits many different answers every time it’s asked: What is art? Art, a comedy that will be presented by the Armstrong Atlantic State University Masquers, tackles this often controversial subject head-on. The play’s author, Yasmina Reza, is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Art premiered in Paris in 1995. Reza…
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Please, redesign the redesign Editor, I’ve not read Connect Savannah in a while as I’m not near a box of issues as often as I used to be. In other words, it’s been a few months. I haven’t even been to the website. Last night, out of the blue, I had a dream that Morris…
Teaching vs. testing
BY DESIGN, reforms to the Savannah/Chatham County public schools have created an entrenched system of accountability relying on standardized test scores and rewarding standardization over innovation. Interviews with teachers and parents make it clear that those frustrated with the changes in the district are not averse to turning the system around. Yet many see the…
Closer look at Jekyll Island ‘compromise’
THERE ARE vastly differing views on the changes made by the Jekyll Island Authority and Linger Longer Communities in a major development project reported and commented upon recently in the media. The so-called concession to keep the ‘town center’ project out of the Shore Protection Act jurisdiction is certainly welcome, but hardly magnanimous – nor…
Green briefs
County adopts key ordinance In its stated quest to become the greenest county in Georgia, the Chatham County Commission unanimously adopted a landmark resource protection ordinance at its last meeting. “This provides a formal process for greenspace funds which have been dedicated in the past through SPLOST and other funding mechanisms,” says Bethany Jewell, water…
Not the way to play through
On Saturday, April 12, police responded to a golf-club swinging incident involving two groups of men who were playing golf at the Henderson Golf Club. Two men were injured — the Rev. Leonard Small and William Boyd Harner. At the time, each group indicated the other had instigated the fight. The responding officer chose not…
What’s up with that?
The Aristocrats! Mayor Art Madrid of La Mesa, Calif., apologized in February for an incident the week before when police found him, along with a female city employee, passed out about 10:30 p.m. Madrid was lying on the sidewalk near an SUV; the woman was in the driver’s seat with her legs sticking out the…
New release: 88 Minutes
88 Minutes actually runs 108 minutes, a cruel trick to play on moviegoers who check their watches at the 80-minute mark and erroneously believe they’re on the verge of being set free. A film so moldy that it was released on DVD in some foreign territories as far back as February 2007, this tarnished star…
Everything else that’s out there
Forgetting Sarah Marshall Those afraid that the dismal Drillbit Taylor marked the beginning of the end for Hollywood wunderkind Judd Apatow can relax: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (on which he serves as producer) nearly matches the laugh output of Knocked Up and actually surpasses that of Superbad. (None can touch The 40-Year-Old Virgin, though.)Jason Segel (who…
Interview: Mark McDonald
PRESERVATIONISTS IN SAVANNAH are losing an ally. Mark C. McDonald, executive director of the Historic Savannah Foundation, will become president and CEO of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation on June 1. “After conducting a nationwide search, it is clear that Mark McDonald is the perfect choice to lead the Georgia Trust,” says Mike Starr,…
The DFL Project: bringing punk into focus
FOR AS LONG AS THERE HAVE BEEN live music scenes, there have been photographers who have attempted to document them for posterity. However, up till now, most of the published shots one was likely to find of Savannah concerts would be decades old, focused on the jazz world, and reproduced in historic tomes. However, that…
Spotlighted Gigs & Recommended Shows
Appetite for Destruction This professional tribute act works hard to replicate the look, feel and sound of vintage Guns ‘N’ Roses, playing everywhere from small bars to large venues like the Georgia Theatre in Athens. Regardless of your particular take on the relative merits of the iconic metal band they’re celebrating/impersonating, the sheer nerve of…
Interview: PES
THE WORLD OF BOWLING has nothing on stop-motion animation when it comes to counting frames.One of the oldest types of film work, stop-motion —which entails shooting one frame of film at a time, and shifting inanimate objects (usually miniatures) a slight bit in between exposures to create the illusion of movement once projected— has been…
Spotlighted Gigs & Recommended Shows
Bloodkin How good are these minor legends of the Athens, Ga. music scene? If you enjoy no-bullshit roots-rock and roll with a Stonesy swagger that comes from within and not from endless hours in front of a full-length mirror, they’re extraordinarily good. Frontman and principal songwriter Daniel Hutchens has been called “the Mark Twain of…
Smells like a Nirvana tribute band
THE VELDMAN BROTHERS (J., Alex and Sam) first started making music in 1991 — just when the infamous “Seattle sound” was turning the small Northwestern grunge scene into an international movement. They never dreamed that years later they’d enjoy a rep as one of the most accurate and entertaining tribute bands specializing in that movement’s…
How do you say Earth Day in French?
THIS YEAR’S LOCAL EARTH DAY celebration in Forsyth Park would seem to have a little something for just about anybody. Whether it’s informative displays and classes on how to make your home more energy and water efficient, local food vendors offering snacks and meals made with local produce, live animal and nature exhibits, or an…
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Full interview with Savannah Choral Society Condutor Peter Shannon
How long has this show (La Traviata) been in the works? Peter Shannon: Well, it’s been on the Choral Society’s program since before Christmas. So, in essence it’s been going for about six months. It really comes down to the last week, because the soloists are coming in on Friday and Sunday and they only…
‘Slam dunk’ opera
THIS PAST OCTOBER IN ST. JOHN’S CATHEDRAL, the Savannah Choral Society —under the direction of conductor Peter Shannon— staged a production of Mendelssohn’s famed oratorio Elijah that was notable in two key respects: First, it was the largest classical production in this city in half a decade (incorporating the Savannah Sinfonietta, Savannah Children’s Choir, Savannah…
