the heart of the tango
evening of live music and dance on April 30th, 2010 at at the Lucas Theatre. Featured musicians: bandoneon player David Alsina. composer and pianist Anibal Berraute, violinist Ricardo Ochoa, bassist Laura Camacho. Pablo and Alicia Repun demonstrate the art of tango dancing. to benefit Community Health Mission and MedBank.
You say you want a Revolution
Thomas Square Park, right next to the Bull Street Library, is considered by most of us today to be very near the heart of downtown Savannah. During the Revolutionary War, however, this area was not even on the outskirts of town, but far into the rural boondocks. It was near this spot, Coastal Heritage Society…
Back-up Plan, Death at a Funeral, How to Train Your Dragon
THE BACK-UP PLAN * Jennifer Lopez’s first screen outing in four years isn’t a motion picture so much as it’s a new form of Chinese watertorture: Seemingly innocuous at first, it continues to pelt the viewer with one abysmal scene after another until insanity seems like the only logical result. Lopez stars as Zoe, a…
Going against the flow
Inspired by an environmental disaster nearly two decades ago, a comprehensive new research project is underway at the Skidaway Institute that could change our understanding of how pollutants interact with marshes. Backed by two national research labs, and lead by two local scientists, the multi–faceted project will create the most accurate topographical map of the…
Exhibits & openings this week
Desoto Strut III – Several exhibits host simultaneous opening receptions, including an eclectic group show. Music, refreshments and open studio visits. April 30, 5-10pm. Desoto Row, Desoto Ave between 40th and 41st Ellen Susan: Soldier Portraits – Local photographer uses a 150-year old method to capture striking portraits of contemporary soldiers. Runs through July 25.…
Can loud rock ‘n’ roll cook eggs?
I looked up rock music’s effect on the brain and found this: “Bob Larson, a Christian minister and former rock musician, remembers that in the 70s teens would bring raw eggs to a rock concert and put them on the front of the stage. The eggs would be hard boiled by the music before the…
Shopping voyeurism
Lead Story Blair Fowler, 16, delights her frenzied fans as a “haul queen,” inspirationally “shopping for glory” by smartly tearing through stores and then displaying and expertly describing her purchases on Internet videos. A March Times of London dispatch from Los Angeles noted Fowler’s acclaim “for her ability to deliver a high-pitched 10-minute lecture on…
Coffee Party promotes civil discourse, diversity of voice
Looking to our nation’s roots is a popular and useful exercise in any season, but especially so today. The historian in me loves it, because our United States seem so dis-united now. There are signs of vitality based firmly in the neighborhood meeting tradition that started our Revolution in the 18th century. Most people, we…
Passion on the dancefloor
Those who can’t do, teach, goes the old saying. But Pablo Repun, who’s considered one of the finest tango dancers in all of South Florida, is also a teacher of considerable renown. As a native Argentinian, he’s got the dark eyes, the smoldering, mysterious good looks – and the fancy footwork – to aid and…
Randall Bramblett
One of Georgia’s most revered contemporary musicians plays a solo Happy Hour show – you heard that right – and he’ll be doing a “Meet & Greet” afterwards. There’s a method to this seeming madness, however – the full Randall Bramblett Band will be back at Loco’s May 28, full of raging rock ‘n’ roll…
Rude awakening
An officer was dispatched to East Taylor Street in reference to a burglary in progress. Upon arrival, the officer and several patrol units made a perimeter around the residence. The resident advised the officer that she had been woken up by a strange knocking coming from inside her residence. She got up, looked around the…
Poetry in motion
When Anis Mojgani arrived in Savannah in 1995, as a fresh SCAD student, he found no outlet for his newly–minted interest in spoken–word poetry, and the competitive performances called poetry slams. During his last year in high school, in New Orleans, he’d become fascinated with the art form. “I remember that an open mic would…
What’s Next: The Bill Murray Experience
“If Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald had a child together, it could not be more talented.” So says composer Christof Bergman about Jessy Carolina, the singer for a Brooklyn quartet called The Bill Murray Experience. The band has been booked into Savannah’s Jazz’d Tapas Bar May 5. As if the curious moniker wasn’t enough -…
A shore thing
Students, faculty and employees of the Savannah College of Art and Design will risk sunburns, seagull poop and sandy shoes this weekend – all in the name of art. Well, it’s really just a day at the beach. The annual Sand Arts Festival takes place Friday, April 30 on Tybee Island’s North Beach. “They spend…
Making it work
Project Runway has got nothing on SCAD Style, a two–week event consisting of seminars, panel discussions, and demonstrations held by leaders in the fashion business. This year’s SCAD Style event, free and open to the public, runs through May 6 and features numerous speakers who are quite prominent in the field, including Chris Benz, fashion…
Adventures in playwriting
More than 250 submissions were received for Armstrong Atlantic State University’s 2010 Coastal Empire New Play Festival. Just three will be performed by the Masquers company this weekend. “It’s a lot like gold–panning,” says theater instructor Eric Kildow, who read every single submitted script. “You are going to find a whole lot of truly, truly…
Raising the barre
For her spring production, Savannah Arts Academy artistic director Christina Powell decided to forgo the standard kid–ballet repertoire and look to something that hadn’t really been done before – at least not in her medium. Welcome to the wonderful Wizard Of Oz, which, to Powell’s knowledge, has only been attempted as a ballet once before. That…
Goodness, gracious, great bills of fire
This week concludes the final session of the state’s current legislative season. Although most of the talk leading up to our politicians’ summer vacation has centered on next year’s budget, don’t make the mistake of thinking Georgia’s elected officials have cleared their schedules to solve the economic crisis. During the last few weeks, the Capital…
Random bites: Randy’s Bar-B-Q, Abe’s on Lincoln
Randy’s Bar-B-Q Fellow foodie and recovering print journalist Big Apple told me about Randy’s, a roadside pit master who has staked claim to the lot across from the Department of Family and Children’s Services on Wheaton Street. As much as I love street food when I travel, I don’t usually frequent these joints in Savannah.…
Mad about Madeira
No one has done more to resurrect the passion once enjoyed by Madeira than Mannie Berk, founder of Sonoma, Calif.’s Fine Wine Co. Berk has been a tireless promoter of Madeira through tastings and talks, but especially through marketing Madeira on his website. As new wines, the silky and decadent Madeira is affordable; at it’s…
Million gallon bash
A little over two weeks ago, American Aquarium – the twangy alt-country band from Raleigh with the E Street sense of widescreen drama – played the Jinx, packed the place, rocked it seriously and sent everybody home at closing time with big, dumb, satisfied smiles on their faces. Come Monday, they’ll do it again. “The…
Last chance to vote for ‘Best of Savannah’
Just a few days from the time this print version of this issue hits stands, voting closes on this year’s Best of Savannah Readers Poll. At midnight April 30 – Friday – the digital curtain comes down and we’ll start tabulating your online responses. When that’s done, we’ll start compiling the annual Best of Savannah…
