Aug. 6: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, Aug. 6): The Odd Lot returns to Muse Arts Warehouse, after a week off, with an 8 p.m. show of improvisational comic madness. Tonight’s theme is the Olympic Games. And it’s acoustic jam night at Live Wire Music Hall.
Aug. 4: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, Aug. 4): The Lucas Theatre screens the 1978 classic Superman, with Christopher Reeve and Marlon Brando, at 7 p.m. The Collective Face’s production of the comedy What the Butler Saw is presented twice at Muse Arts Warehouse, at 3 and 8 p.m. Club-wise, Everymen plays the Jinx, ace guitarist…
Reviewed: ‘Total Recall’
TOTAL RECALL (2012) *1/2 For those who don’t keep up with the show-biz trades, there are several notable remakes in the works, all promising to offer different takes on established classics that themselves were based on popular literary works. One studio is prepping a new version of Jaws, but without a shark in its storyline.…
Aug. 3: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, August 3): The bawdy British comedy What the Butler Saw opens at 8 p.m. at Muse Arts Warehouse. Comedian Julie Scoggins is onstage at 8 at Club One. The August edition of the Savannah Folk Music Society’s “First Friday for Folk” series, with Jim McGraw and the Downtown Sound,…
Aug. 2: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, August 2): The Savannah-made historical film Dinner With President Polk debuts at 6 p.m. at the Jepson Center for the Arts. Musically, catch Jude Michaels at Trader Louie’s, the Get Right Band at Live Wire, the Deadfields at Molly Maguire’s and a local comedy night at Taco Abajo. …
Aug. 1: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, August 1): Tonight’s Psychotronic Film Society screening (8 p.m., Sentient Bean) is the screamingly terrible American thriller The Giant Spider Invasion (1975). At Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub, catch Chupacabra, featuring members of Passafire. Jon Lee and his Apparitions play the Warehouse. Slave Grave, Sins of Godless Men, Buildings and…
Cool refuge in the North Garden
Going outside in the middle of the day right now seems like a terrible idea. Maybe you can’t actually fry an egg on the hood of your car (nor on a piece of slate in the backyard, as artist Katherine Sandoz proved on her Twitter feed last week), but surely, it’s possible to poach one’s…
No horsing around
Andre Roy Tresvant was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer, among other charges, after he struck a mounted patrol officer in an attempt to flee a traffic stop. Tresvant, 31, was stopped in Emmet Park by a Savannah Chatham Metro Police Mounted Patrol late Saturday night after he…
Beyond gun control vs. gun rights
OVER THE LAST couple of weeks, I had a most enjoyable family vacation to San Francisco and the California coast. I just might write something about that trip soon. But not today. First I wanted to write about something much less familiar to me — by intention. While I was away, the awful news broke…
Steel the one
By today’s standards, the special effects in Superman, screening Saturday at the Lucas Theatre, are strictly low–rent. The film was made in 1978, before the arrival of CGI, and while the effects aren’t as cheesy as those in the old Superman TV series from the ‘50s, it’s key to remember that Star Wars, which raised…
We’re all crazy now
Spoiler alert: The first thing you need to know about What the Butler Saw is that there is no butler among the characters. Or rather, consider the possibility that you might be the butler: The title is an Edwardian reference to voyeurism through tiny lenses and secret keyholes, and the audience is treated to one…
Mark your calendar: CinemaSavannah
The CinemaSavannah series returns this week, with an Aug. 5 screening of the Russian thriller Elena at Muse Arts Warehouse. A film noir directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev, Elena (at 2, 5 and 8 p.m.), won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, is presented in Russian with English subtitles. Ah yes, and check out what CinemaSavannah’s…
Larry Mitchell, Cope
LARRY MITCHELL BAND At 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. $7 The winner of 25 New Mexico Music Awards, guitarist Larry Mitchell took home a Grammy in 2007 for production work on Native American artist Johnny Whitehorse’s album Totemic Flute Chants. He was nominated again in 2009. As…
5 questions: Stella Parton
The sixth of Robert and Avie Lee Parton’s 12 children, Stella Parton was born and raised in tiny Sevierville, Tenn., between the Smoky Mountains and the Little Pigeon Forge River. It was always a musical family. She had a Top Ten hit in 1976 with “I Want to Hold You in My Dreams Tonight,” landed…
On the waterfront
The past few weeks have brought several developments that affect Chatham area rivers and beaches. From the ongoing debate over harbor deepening, to some long–due action on the toxic dumping in the Ogeechee River, to the illegal removal of a sand dune from Tybee Island, our waterways are making news. Is the glass half full…
Where there’s smoke, there’s BBQ
That blessed food that we call pork barbecue is in reality a mystical combination of just the right amount of hardwood smoke, low and slow heat, and time. It is food that stirs the critic in us all, summons our inner ‘cue snob and relegates disbelievers to the canned vegetable aisle. One practitioner of the…
