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Review: Lee Daniels’ The Butler
It’s a cheap, disposable parlor trick – a prez dispenser, as it were.
71-year-old beaten, robbed
Police are seeking information on the beating and robbery of a 71-year-old woman by two males who attacked her in her garage Friday night. The two black males approached the woman as she parked her car in the garage of her residence in the 100 block of East Jones Street about 10:30 p.m., physically assaulted…
Rolex robber sought
Detectives from the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department have issued warrants against a 19-year-old Savannah man for the Aug. 1 theft of a $38,000 watch from a downtown jewelry store. Warrants charging Rashamel Okise Gardner with robbery by sudden snatching have been filed and police are asking the public for help locating him. Gardner is a…
Man sought for questioning in porch shooting
Detectives are seeking a 37-year-old Savannah man for questioning in the shooting death of Savannah woman March 24. Mark Joseph Harris is being sought in the investigation into the shooting of Amistica Ganene Grell, 35. She was declared dead on the front porch of her house in the 600 block of West 40th Street in…
Free admission at Pulaski for anniversary
On Sunday, August 25, the National Park Service turns 97 years old. In celebration, all national parks, including Fort Pulaski National Monument, will offer free admission. “Birthdays are a time to celebrate and we want everyone, especially the children of America, to join the party,” said Fort Pulaski National Monument Superintendent Melissa Memory. “National parks…
Windsor Forest suspect sought
Southside Precinct detectives are requesting the public’s help in locating 24-year-old residential burglary suspect, Mishawn Ehaw Green. Green, a resident of the 400 block of Windsor Road, has been charged by precinct investigators with three residential burglaries in the Windsor Forest neighborhood, occurring between July 25 and Aug. 8. Electronics were reported stolen following each…
13-year-old charged with setting fatal fire
Savannah Fire & Emergency Services investigators charged a 13-year-old girl with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with a July 14th house fire on E. DeRenne Drive that resulted in the deaths of two children. “The blaze, which erupted just after 2:00 p.m. at 239 E. DeRenne Dr., engulfed the entire rear of the…
EMS dispatcher dies in crash
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Chief Willie Lovett announced the death of the 2013 EMS Dispatcher of the Year in a traffic accident Tuesday afternoon on Veterans Parkway. Keri Clark, 23, had worked in the communications department for two years. “As a 911 dispatcher, Keri Clark was constantly involved in saving lives,” Lovett said. “Almost every member…
Shooter Jennings plays Pirate Fest
Country rocker Shooter Jennings and his band The Triple Crown will headline the 2013 Tybee Island Pirate Fest on Saturday, October 12. The singer, songwriter and guitarist recently released “The Other Life” and is best known for hits like “Fourth of July” and “Busted in Baylor County.” Additional Tybee Island Pirate Fest musical acts will…
Bitcoin: Currency of the future?
Recently you mentioned bitcoin as a popular medium of exchange in the deep, dark Web. A couple friends have tried to get me to invest in bitcoin because it’s supposedly the “currency of the future.” What’s the deal? —Josh Virtual currencies are familiar to those who play massively multiplayer online role-playing games, or who maintain…
Review: Paranoia
I’ve seen worse films in 2013 (albeit not many), but I doubt I’ll see anything this year as soul-crushingly boring as this techno-turkey.
Family shootout
Police were told two cars had driven up and occupants had exchanged fire with a man who was walking in the area.
Editor’s Note: The tax cut that wasn’t
And had Council not voted for the reduction? The City would then have been required by state law to send out a press release with the legally-mandated and quite different headline “Notice of Property Tax Increase.”
Of shopping carts & parking lots
Some 20 percent of Savannahians live in what the Census Bureau calls “Zero-Vehicle Households.” Overlay a map with census data and you’ll see Savannah neighborhoods in which up to 50 percent of households don’t have cars. This fact escapes lots of folks.
Why Nunn is your business
Whether Michelle Nunn will be able to continue her momentum in a relentlessly red state remains to be seen.
21st Century tasting notes
Untappd is an app for iOS and Android that allows you to “check in” to the beers you’ve tried. You can assign each beer a “cap” rating between one and five, with one being a drain pour and five being nirvana. You can also add your tasting notes, a photo and the location where you…
Living under the bridge
The Chatham-Savannah Homeless Authority reports that at least 12 such encampments exist throughout the Chatham area at both respective ends of the Truman Parkway, off Louisville road and throughout Garden City.
Thomas Oliver’s new lease on life
“We both took the buyout,” Oliver laughs, “and said ‘Let’s see if we can make chicken salad out of chicken shit, and make this work for us.'”
Hip hop and help
A large part of the proceeds will go to programs for military families. “It’s cheaper than any other T.I. concert,” says Christopher Dorm. “The reason we were able to keep the ticket cost so low is that he’s practically coming here for nothing.”
‘Les Miserables’ at Savannah Theatre
Originally, the Savannah Theatre production was to be the “concert version”, with the actors — in character, in costume — at center stage microphones. This, quite serendipitously, has changed.
Santander’s send-off at Indigo Sky
Deepening the viewer’s experience through a few of the works, Santander provided laser light pointers so that viewers can follow the white spaces around the forms as mazes.
‘Medea’ at Muse: Not Tyler Perry
There is a “Greek chorus”, as always, to comment and pass judgment on the dramatic proceedings, but this Medea is augmented with multi-media installations, live music from Electric Grandma, and choreography.
