Fright Night, One Day, Sarah’s Key, Another Earth, Hobo with a Shotgun
FRIGHT NIGHT **1/2 If you weren’t around in 1985 to enjoy it, the original Fright Night is worth a Netflix rental, thanks to its fleet-footed approach to the vampire genre and a lovely performance by Roddy McDowall as Peter Vincent, a late-night horror-show host who helps teenage hero Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) defeat the bloodsucker…
Exhibits & openings this week
“Spectrum” SCAD’s Annual Summer Exhibition & Sale – Aug. 9-27 at Gutstein Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St. Featuring works by SCAD students, faculty, staff and alumni. Betsy Cain, Paintings and Cut-Outs – Chroma Gallery features works by this Savannah artist in conjunction with her first solo show at the Jepson. Through September 15th. 31 Barnard…
Tours of duty
I’m glad Robert Edgerly sent us his letter about the proliferation of tour activity downtown. It’s been an issue on my mind for awhile. I fully support a vibrant local tourism industry – having written a few regional travel books on the side myself – but it’s become apparent that in some respects things are…
Americans vs. blue whales: Que es mas energy hog?
Does the average American use more energy than a blue whale? The New York Times says it’s true. Is it? -petew83, via the Straight Dope Message Board First, the New York Times didn’t say the average American uses more energy than a blue whale. The paper quoted someone as saying this. The Times doesn’t have…
BrewFest update
Another week, more beer. Life is good. Joining the lineup at this year’s Savannah Craft Brew Fest (Sept. 2–4, www.savannahcraftbrewfest.com) is a quartet from Uinta Brewing Co. of Salt Lake City. Uinta ha been in the marketplace for quite some time, although you really have to scour retailer shelves to find their awfully good beers.…
The News Cycle: Don’t ride? Cycling is for you!
The advantages of traveling by bike are obvious: improved health, drastically reduced vehicle operating and maintenance costs, and dramatically increased fun. The amazing thing about bicycling, however, is its magical capability to improve quality of life for everyone, even folks who don’t ride bicycles. Here are just two recent recognitions of that magic at work:…
Hot night in a hotel room
A 22 year old Atlanta man was arrested and denied bail after setting fire to the mattress in his hotel room early one morning. Firefighters were called to the hotel on West Bay Street around midnight, and when they arrived found smoke coming from the room. They forced the door open and extinguished the fire,…
Feedback on Small-Toney column, advice from tour guide
Editor, I can only say that I hope you’ve been getting an appropriate amount of positive feedback for breaking the ‘unwritten rules’ of Savannah news publications, your piece “When a puff piece goes poof” was necessary, refreshing, and a light of journalistic hope in a city that too often finds it necessary to put forth…
Mark Your Calendar: Fiesta Latina
Coming to Rousakis Plaza on River Street Saturday, Sept. 10: The sixth annual Fiesta Latina, with live music and other entertainment – muy caliente! – from 11 a.m. until 8 in the evening. Along with Savannah’s premiere salsa band Grupo Kachimbo, the lineup includes Atlanta’s phenomenal Orquesta con Clase, plus Iraida Valdivia, Fusion Latina, Diego…
Brian McKnight, Lion Versus
BRIAN McKNIGHT At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20 Johnny Mercer Theatre, Savannah Civic Center 301 W. Oglethorpe. Tickets $45-$75 McKnight has sold more than 20 million albums, including the multi-platinum Back At One (1999). Biggest hits: “Back At One,” “You Should Be Mine (Don’t Waste Your Time),” “Hold Me,” “The Way Love Goes.” Not only…
Front-page Q’s
Once upon a time, children, rock ‘n’ roll had grown so stagnant, and so predictable, that dramatic shifts were inevitable. They were in the wind; they were necessary. It was the late 1970s, and radio – the king of everything at the time – was bloated with the cookie–cutter, pseudo–symphonic bombast of Styx, Kansas, Journey…
Still Haviland
As we speak, Savannah native Haviland Stillwell is in the midst of an extended run of For the Record: The Coen Brothers, a musical celebration of movie–making siblings Joel and Ethan, at a trendy restaurant–slash–theater in downtown Los Angeles called Barre. One of the characters she plays is the eccentric, art–loving Maude Lebowski. “I don’t…
Loud and proud
Leslie Jordan is a national treasure. Unique among writers, comedians and actors, he is very, very southern, with a honeyed drawl that gives away his Chattanooga upbringing. Everything that comes out of his mouth is funny. He is pixie–short — just 4–foot–11 — and his eyes have the mischievous twinkle of a Blue Ridge leprechaun.…
The white stripes come to Price
Price Street has long been something of a nightmare for those living along it. Its twin one–way lanes of rapid traffic heading south out of downtown are a magnet for accidents, drunk drivers, and sirens. For their part, local bicyclists have long pined for a real southbound bike lane out of downtown. (Habersham Street has…
Darling Nicky’s
When I stepped thorough the door of Nicky’s Pizzeria and Restaurant, I expected pizza and the usual suspects. What I found was a massive menu of pasta, salads, sandwiches and Italian–inspired seafood dishes. With so many choices, my hungry friend and I chose an antipasto di casa plate to tame our appetites while we trolled…
