The Help, 30 Minutes or Less
THE HELP *** Every summer witnesses the release of a handful of counter-programming efforts, titles designed to satisfy audiences who don’t particularly care for superhero sagas or alien adventures or gross-out gags. Larry Crowne, which looked like a surefire bet, crashed and burned (who knew it would be so terrible?), while the clever Midnight in…
When a puff piece goes poof
SAVANNAH’S A PLACE where people don’t like to talk badly about others. At least to their faces. In most towns, publications like ours are expected to help keep the local daily paper honest, but in my experience Savannah readers are different. They generally don’t appreciate it when we bash other local media; that’s why we…
Turtle tracking
So far in 2011, Tybee Island has been visited — always deep in the night — by nine female loggerhead sea turtles, who crawled out of the water, past the tide line, and clumsily dug a nest in the dry sand to deposit around 100 round, sticky white eggs. When they’re done, the animals turn…
Thomas Wynn & the Believers
THOMAS WYNN & THE BELIEVERS At 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. $5 Anyone who’s still got a healthy jones for the southern blues/rock of bands like Wet Willie or the Elvin Bishop Group needs to come and see this Florida combo. Not only is Wynn a killer…
Mark Your Calendar: Amy Grant and Vince Gill
Maybe you don’t want to think about Christmas just yet, but like it or not, it’s just four months away. We at Connect set our radar on the long range. There’s to be a new gift under the tree this year, in the form of the Amy Grant/Vince Gill show The 12 Days of Christmas.…
Overture, curtain, lights
After a summer that included impressive (and impressively large) productions of Cabaret and The Wizard of Oz, could our area’s theater season possibly get even better between September and the end of the year? We’ll know soon enough. Far from the raggedy, disconnected community that limped through a show or two at the tail end…
Nothing but trouble
Nothing but troubleTwo teenage girls attempted to escape police custody last week, and one succeeded in eluding police. An officer was transporting the two girls (both in handcuffs) to the youth detention center when one crawled out the open window of his cruiser and took off running. One girl didn’t escape, but the other disappeared…
Rockin’ the vaults
If you’re looking for enough evidence to convince you that vinyl – you know, records made out of flat discs of plastic – is making a comeback, check out this batch of new and soon–to–come releases. And it’s not just indie bands and labels. The big guns have noticed the upsurge in sales, too, and…
Bold new beers from Crown Valley
Among new breweries attending the 2011 Savannah Craft Brew Fest will be Crown Valley Brewing Co. of Ste. Genevieve, Mo. You might remember Ste. Genevieve from the stories about last year’s flooding in the St. Louis area. When it’s not under water, Ste. Genevieve is a beautiful, rural community with a rich history. Crown Valley…
Brews, burgers – and gators
Chef Matt Kubiak and the team from The Distillery have been carefully re–crafting their menu for several months. The project is complete, and I stopped in last week to sample some new items. Several favorites remained – like Stout Chili, the Big Mike and Little Mike burgers, the bar’s awesome and authentic Maryland crab cakes…
Does size matter in the classroom?
I live in San Francisco, and since the mid-90s California has mandated minimal class sizes, based on a 20-plus-year-old study from Tennessee. I don’t know if this is the best way to either improve children’s education or save money, since there seems to be a lot of infighting on both sides of the argument. So…
