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Smart People Even when he’s grinning, Dennis Quaid generally bears the sour disposition of someone badly in need of an Alka-Seltzer; that pained grimace serves him well in Smart People, a dark comedy that turns out to be only moderately intelligent.Quaid stars as Lawrence Wetherhold, a miserable English professor whose disdain for his students is…
Cuisine: Jailhouse gourmet
For the over 1800 inmates in the Chatham County Detention Center, breakfast has been served. ABL Management, based in Baton Rouge, La., serves inmate meals on a precise schedule: Breakfast between 5-7 a.m. Lunch starts at 10 and is complete no later than 11:45. Dinner tray-up starts at 4 p.m. and the population is fed…
Art review: John Spurlock and Sandra Reed
Sandra Reed works en plein air in oil on canvas. You might have seen her somewhere in town, putting up her easel and concentrating her attention on the simple, static scene before her: a house, a tree, some telephone wires in the background, a fence, clouds, grass. There are no people, no dogs, no birds…
Theater: Breaking news
First, the breaking news: Savannah Actor’s Theatre is now called Cardinal Rep. “Rep is short for repertory, of course,” says Executive Artistic Director Ryan McCurdy. “But for all legalities and branding purposes, we’re calling it Rep. “We figure people will call it that, anyway,” he says. “Our next show will be the first under the…
Theater: HIV/AIDS drama at SSU
It’s a hard truth some people don’t want to hear: HIV infection is on the rise in the African-American community, and Dr. Johnnie Myers is doing everything she can to keep people healthy. She is the director of the Get In The Know HIV/AIDS/Substance Abuse and Hepatitis Prevention Project at Savannah State University. “It’s a…
Finally, the fort
VOTERS WERE promised a new outdoor venue when they approved the 1993 SPLOST referendum. After 15 years, of waiting, they just might get it. On April 10, the Savannah City Council approved a contract to do major restoration, renovation and reconstruction work to the Forsyth Fort, a century-old landmark located in Forsyth Park. The structure…
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Fahrenheit fired up Editor, Regarding Robin Wright Gunn’s column “Reading Large,” about the Big Read and Fahrenheit 451: “When the war’s over, maybe we can be of some use in the world.” After reading your article I was skimming the novel looking for something to argue against your “promoting the reading of only one book”…
Cycling into the future
In a time of rising gas prices, it’s no surprise that this week’s Earth Day events are mainly focused on the need for more efficient transportation. This Friday everyone is urged to “Dump the Pump” by using alternate or public transport, with Chatham Area Transit (CAT) doing its part by reducing fares that day to…
Greening the gallery space
Today, green is more than just a color on a palette. It’s a philosophy and a practice that just might save the world. Dimensions Gallery, a downtown art gallery, and Structured Green, a retail company that carries high quality, eco-friendly furniture and accessories, are preparing to celebrate Earth Day on April 19 at Forsyth Park.…
Catching rain in a barrel
KELLY LOCKAMY is a landscape artist and the owner of Organically Yours, a gardening and landscaping service located in Savannah. This year for Earth Day, Kelly is hosting a special workshop to teach people how to turn a standard trash can into a rain barrel. Though rain barrels are a conservation source which can usually…
Green Briefs
New MPC website boosts ridesharing As part of its Connecting Savannah Master Plan, the Metropolitan Planning Commission is partnering with two of the city’s largest employers, Memorial Health and St. Joseph’s/Candler, to start a web-based ridesharing program to ease traffic, pollution, and fuel costs. The “Coastal Commuters” program at www.coastalcommuters.org — still under construction as…
Green party
Green Party “What are you doing for Earth Day?” That’s the question posed to me by a friend this past Saturday night, before inviting me to an open house this weekend at Structured Green furniture store. It’s a question that I haven’t heard before. Granted, when the topic came up, I was at the Sentient…
‘Gas for sex’
A woman claimed she was solicited for sex at a White Bluff Road convenience store. The woman told a police officer that she went to the station and told the man behind the counter she needed $1 worth of gas. She said he asked her, “Only one dollar?,” to which she replied, “That’s all I’ve…
It’s that time again
Too Much Time on Their Hands It struck Leo Hill, 81, of Lakewood, Colo., that he was being shorted sheets of toilet paper (in the 12-pack, whose rolls allegedly yielded fewer sheets than similar rolls in the 4-pack), and he earnestly counted 60 rolls, sheet by sheet, concluding that the shortage amounted to enough paper…
Theater: Snow White
Kelie Miley, director of the Savannah Children’s Theatre, has always wanted to do a production of Snow White. In true fairy-tale fashion, her wish is coming true with the opening of Snow White on April 18. “It’s an original script adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale,” Miley says. “I was having a hard time finding…
New releases: Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Flawless
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…
Two of a Kind
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Diary of the planet
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