Raymond Gaddy: Storytelling through art
RAYMOND GADDY is the first to acknowledge the precarious nature of truth. “I don’t think there is any such thing as a purely truthful story,” Gaddy says. “I think there is always a bias. We tend to exaggerate stories, particularly when we are telling them to our friends. They become tall tales.” It’s such stories…
Boytoy plants a flag at first SAV gig
WHEN the rock gods close a door, they open a window. …or, you know. Something like that. While Hang Fire, downtown’s HQ for indie-pop, garage, punk, and countless other magical musical manifestations will close its Whitaker Street doors at the end of the month, our friends over at Dollhouse Productions have announced that they’ll once…
Brave Baby @Hang Fire
Something wistfully nostalgic about their sound that evokes the heat off the sidewalk and that little bit of cool in the breeze after a summer of oppressive heat.
CHEW, HOTPLATE, Carpet Coats @Hang Fire
“I don’t ever want to perform with a laptop,” Brett Reagan says resolutely.
Is medical error the third leading cause of death in America?
The report that really wound everyone up on this issue was released in 1999 by the Institute of Medicine, titled To Err Is Human. It relied in part on a study of 30,000 records from New York hospitals in 1984,
Cotton & Rye: Easy sophistication
The menu is simple and each dish exudes a farm-to-table freshness that makes you want to order just one more dish.
Coastal Jazz Sunday Concert: Jody Espina @Johnny Harris Restaurant
The man has mad sax skills
The Leaping Gnome Experiment, Fides, Carpet Coats @Barrelhouse South
The Leaping Gnome Experiment features contributions from members of Savannah prog deity Culture Vulture, hip-hop from Miggs, Knife, and spoken word/hip-hop from Valore, an artist who just recently signed onto the Dope Sandwich roster.
Head West for revenge with Danish flick The Salvation
While the Western certainly is a staple of American culture, the genre has been picked up internationally; there are Australian, Japanese, and Korean versions, “Curry Westerns” (Spaghetti Western through an Indian lens), and even “Meat pie Westerns,” which typically take place in the Australian Outback.
Editor’s Note: The List, aka, What’s Really Going Wrong In Savannah?
With election season upon us, here’s a laundry list of issues that pop into my mind when I think of what’s gone sideways in Savannah.
Fatal shooting at 32nd and MLK
Violent Crimes detectives of Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department are seeking information on a fatal shooting occurring early Thursday morning. “At 4:26 a.m., Metro’s Central Precinct patrol officers were dispatched to 32nd Street and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, where they found a deceased male, the victim of an apparent shooting,” a police spokesperson says. “The…
Arrest made in shooting of teen on bike
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police “aided by the US Marshal Service made an arrest today in a shooting that left a 13-year-old boy critically wounded at East 38th and Ott streets on Aug. 2,” a police spokesperson says. Jaquan Roberts, 20, of Savannah was arrested without incident at about 7 a.m. during a warrant service at a…
Man shot on East 32nd Street
Violent Crimes detectives of Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department are investigating the shooting of a 23-year-old Savannah man on Tuesday night. At about 10:10 p.m. Metro responded to a residence on the 1000 block of East 32nd Street, “where Raheem Jackson collapsed after being shot moments earlier. No precise shooting location has been determined,” police say.…
Savannah rated Number Two ‘Friendliest US City’
Savannah has been rated second-friendliest city in the U.S. in a poll of Condé Nast Traveler readers, beating out long-time rival Charleston (which finished third) and rating below only Park City, Utah. The magazine asked its readers to rate a city’s “friendliness” in the Readers’ Choice Awards survey, “especially with respect to where you felt…
Entire ATM stolen in Southside robbery
Southside Precinct detectives of Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department “are investigating the theft of an automatic teller machine containing a significant sum of cash from a South State Bank branch early Sunday morning,” police say. Just before 5 a.m. Metro responded to a security alarm activation at the branch on Mall Boulevard. “Officers observed that the…
Your Friendly Neighborhood Rock Star
IT’S NOT NEWS that beloved local musician and artist Keith Kozel has been suffering from a rare kidney malady. His family, friends, and fans have been dealing with that fact for years now, and have helped out whenever they could. But that’s exactly why the people who care most about him are putting on a…
Review: Carmen by Savannah VOICE Festival
“The rules of Fight Club,” Carmen explains before the start. And with that it is meant for us to understand that this version of Carmen is a modern take on this 19th century story, costumes and set executed in commensurate minimalism.
Review: The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
This new film may not quite match the intensity or excitement of Tom Cruise’s newest Mission Impossible edition, but it’s nevertheless a worthwhile endeavor, with director Guy Ritchie toning down the spastic shooting style that all but destroyed his Sherlock Holmes films with Robert Downey Jr.
Review: Shaun the Sheep Movie
Despite being a silent film in that no one speaks dialogue, its references span the decades, from the silent masterpiece Modern Times (when Shaun’s characters do speak, it’s in unintelligible gibberish clearly inspired by the Chaplin film) to The Silence of the Lambs.
