Aug. 20: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, Aug. 17): Get wacky with the Odd Lot improv comedy troupe, at 8 p.m. at Muse Arts Warehouse. And a theater announcement: The AASU Masquers are holding open auditions for a production of The Weird, starting at 6 p.m. in the Jenkins Hall auditorium.
Aug. 17: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, Aug. 17): The legendary George Jones – one of country music’s greatest-ever singers – is in the Johnny Mercer Theatre tonight. Sparkle, ParaNorman and The Expendables 2 are new in theaters today. Avenue Q is onstage at 7:30 p.m. at Bay Street Theatre, while What the Butler Saw begins…
‘ParaNorman’
PARANORMAN *** The stop-motion animated feature ParaNorman arrives courtesy of the same production company (Laika Entertainment) responsible for Coraline and Corpse Bride, so parents had best not take their small fry to the theater expecting to see talking cars or dancing penguins or anything else that would send the wee ones off to Dreamland with…
Aug. 16: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, Aug. 16): Occupy Savannah screens the 2004 drama Iron Jawed Angels, with Hilary Swank and Frances O’Connor, at the Sentient Bean at 7 p.m. The film tells the story of the woman’s suffrage movement in the early 1900s. Check out the Epic Cycle at Live Wire, Souls Harbor at…
The transgender question
In a recent Straight Dope Message Board thread about transsexuality, one commenter offered the following: “People who have gender identity disorders . . . are just dudes dressing up as chicks and/or dudes who have gotten a doctor to mutilate them to have imitation female genitalia (or [the other way around for women], I guess.)…
Exhibits & openings this week
Art at War:Changing Attitudes – The Beach Institute in conjunction with the Hurn Museum highlights the historical shift in the way artists depict war. Previously glorifying it, they now stress its horror and depravity. Tue-Sat 12-5 pm Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St., www.hurnmuseum.org Call for Artists – The City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural…
Baroness’ tour bus in serious crash in the U.K.
We’re still waiting on word from the U.K. on our friends in Baroness. The four members of the metal band, which formed in Savannah, were among those on board a rented coach which plunged 30 feet over a cliff in Bath, England early Wednesday. According to BBC News, two of the nine passengers on the…
Aug. 15: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, Aug. 15): Tonight’s Psychotronic Film Society screening (8 p.m., Sentient Bean) is the 1970 drama Darker Than Amber. It’s a John D. McDonald/Travis McGee story, with Rod “The Birds” Taylor and Jane Russell (in her last film performance). Catch the Royal Noise at Molly Maguire’s, Jon Lee’s Apparitions at…
The Lonely Hearts Club, Ogeechee chapter
THE NEWS CAME last week that Georgia’s rather optimistically named Environmental Protection Division has, after months of controversy, granted another discharge permit on the Ogeechee River to King America Finishing. For many, what few strings were attached to this slightly modified permit — they can’t discharge quite as many cancer–causing chemicals, and after five years…
Don’t make this “Ms.”take
I’ve been called a lot of insulting things in my life. When you’ve been writing about politics and religion and other people’s shoes as long as I have, nasty epithets get hurled your way. It’s just one of those occupational hazards: Instead of losing my arm in a piece of farm machinery, I receive vituperative…
Nevermore?
“Killer band, dude! That guitar player really shreds.” “Hey, wait a second. They’re singing about God.” “Dude! Where’s the bar?” This sort of thing has followed the South Carolina band Sent By Ravens since its earliest days, six years ago. A longtime favorite at the Rock House on Tybee Island, Sent By Ravens – the…
Old North State
OLD NORTH STATE At 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21 The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Think of all the great brother acts through time, from Charlie and Ira Louvin, Phil and Don Everly, Neil and Tim Finn through Seth and Scott Avett and a dozen more. There’s something there, something genetic perhaps, that makes…
Two words: Pup Crawl!
Storm clouds rolled in and puddles formed in every low–lying spot, but that didn’t slow down participants in last week’s Humane Society of Greater Savannah Pup Crawl. The fund raiser for the owner–surrendered animal shelter was a success despite the rain. If you missed it this month, mark Sept. 9 on your calendar — that’s…
Bad for business
Police made two arrests after prostitutes were robbed at gunpoint during a “transaction.” Rebecca Yates, 20, called police to the Econo Lodge on Abercorn saying she was robbed. She told officers she had an ad on a local adult website and serviced several customers in the past couple of days. She said the last customer…
The quiet riot
For a man whose rapid–fire monologues are the stuff of comedy legend, Eddie Griffin sure keeps a tight lid on things in an interview setting. All the more surprising because his standup shows usually clock in around two hours. Straight. Nonstop. Gut–busting funny. Yet here he is, on the phone from Los Angeles, and the…
Mark your calendar: Ingrid Michaelson
Singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson, who does the “sensitive nerdy girl” look to perfection (in her photos, she’s usually wearing black-rimmed glasses) is coming to the Trustees Theater Oct. 18. It’s a stripped-down, all-acoustic show with a tiny band, and support act Sugar + The Hi-Lows. Michaelson’s most recent album, Human Again, entered the Billboard Top 200…
Season of the hot witch
Inside a candy–striped Bull Street storefront festooned with silk flowers, big things are brewing. This is where artist and illustrator Dame Darcy—internationally beloved for her neo–gothic comic book series Meatcake—has headquartered a burgeoning empire that rings publishing, game design and fashion. Take cover, ‘cause it’s all about to blow: Her latest book, The Handbook for…
Aug. 14: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, Aug. 14): Paula Deen’s back again, book-signing with the boys at Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House from 10 a.m. until noon. It’s spoken word open mic night (“Tongue”) at the Sentient Bean, and Markus Kuhlman gigs with James Smith at Foxy Loxy Café. One more thing: Check out this week’s…
