Aug. 27: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, Aug. 27): Improvisational comedy from the wacky guys ‘n’ gals of the Odd Lot, at 8 p.m. at Muse Arts Warehouse. Bring your acoustic guitars to jam at Live Wire, Bay Street Blues and Tailgate.
Aug. 26: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, August 26): If you haven’t seen Bay Street Theatre’s Avenue Q, tonight’s show (at 7:30) is your last chance. At Muse Arts Warehouse, there’s a Vinyl Appreciation DJ event from 5 to 10 p.m. Savannah’s favorite Irish singer/songwriter Harry O’Donoghue is the special guest at the Savannah Songwriters show…
Aug. 25: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, August 25): It’s free live, local music all day long in Forsyth Park: Square Fest runs from 2-10 p.m., with KidSyc@Brandywine, Word of Mouth, Kota Mundi, the Royal Noise, Elephant Talk and plenty more. Bay Street Theatre’s production of Avenue Q (the puppet musical) continues with a 7:30 p.m.…
Premium Rush, Your Sister’s Sister, The Expendables 2
PREMIUM RUSH ***1/2 Even if Premium Rush hadn’t had me at “Hello,” it certainly would have had me at “Forrest J Ackerman.” A movie built around a bicycle messenger is a risky venture – as an adrenaline-pumper, it sounds about as promising as Driving Miss Daisy – but writer-director David Koepp invests in our need…
Aug. 24: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, August 24): Bay Street Theatre’s production of Avenue Q (the puppet musical) enters its final weekend with a 7:30 p.m. performance. The Odd Lot’s in prime time with an improv show at 8 at Muse Arts Warehouse. At the Wormhole, Dope Sandwich’s Knife hosts “Fire in the Hole,” featuring…
Aug. 23: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, Aug. 23): Brokn Tyme shares a Live Wire bill with Death Immortal, while the Jinx has the band Windhand. The “Savannah Soul Singers” performance at Yadda Yadda features Electric Grandma and Mothabug of Word Of Mouth, and Connect’s Bill DeYoung. Ricky Darrell plays the Warehouse, and Train Wreck Jason…
Guitar god
The good news is that North Mississippi Allstars bassist Chris Chew is feeling good and on the road to recovery after a recent spate of health issues. The bad news is that Chew isn’t on the road with the band, and won’t be at the gig Sunday as part of the Savannah Craft Brew Fest.…
‘Extravagance and utter disregard’
A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS isn’t a lot of money. It’s not as much as, say, $160, which is the amount of unauthorized petty cash expenses that eventually ended up getting two Savannah Film Office employees fired and Film Office Director Jay Self suspended for a week by City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney. But $150 will…
A composite contribution
Remer Pendergraph stands in a room amongst piles and piles of boxes. Inside the boxes are the many books, albums, paintings, magazines, letters and other artifacts relating to Savannah African–American life collected by his friend W.W. Law, the beloved community activist and historian who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called “the most important civil rights…
Party in the park
It seems like a no–brainer when you think about it. We’ve got the Savannah Music Festival, a high–end package of national and international performers. And the Savannah Stopover skims the cream of unsigned indie bands from east of the Mississippi and delivers them over four music–filled days. Other than the occasional drib and the occasional…
Words on the street
If you’re interested in local transportation news, which might be the case if you’re reading this, you know there’s been a lot to talk about in recent weeks. Even if we exclude the results from Georgia’s Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum, there have been plenty of other stories to follow. Of particular…
A very bad, no good rotten day
A man was arrested on battery charges after the SWAT Team removed him from an attic where he was hiding. Jarred Evan Zeigler, 30, was apprehended after a 3 –hour operation which included SWAT, the Hostage Negotiations Team, violent crimes detectives and the Bomb Squad. He was charged with domestic violence battery and is being…
The first 48
Should you spot a smallish film crew on some streetcorner this weekend, be advised it’s not a new import from Hollywood, or Bombay, or even the advance team for The Last Song 2 (God forbid). It’s the 48 Hour Film Project, now in its fourth year in Savannah, in which aspiring filmmakers create an entire…
Sushi startup needs work
Aroy–Jung may have the city’s only sushi conveyor surrounding its large chef’s station — but it fails to impress when its orbital path is empty. I found some rough–around–the–edges aspects during my lunch visit last week. The former Tantra space just off the busy Bull and Broughton streets intersection has been given a minor facelift,…
Adventures in Museumland
Entertaining children is not my strong suit. Where I come from, children entertained themselves or they were sent outside with the coyotes. If you were very good, you got to play Atari for 30 minutes after dinner. The rest of the time you either read a book or fed bugs to the cat and that…
Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love
SAPPHIRE BULLETS OF PURE LOVE At 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25 American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. $15 In the words of Kool & the Gang, there’s a party goin’ on right here. For two decades, in Savannah, that’s always meant the Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love are on the bandstand. The Bullets -…
Mark your calendar: Nicki Bluhm
A couple of news bytes ‘n’ bits for your pondering pleasure: Yet another great band is fixing to make its Savannah debut. Due at Live Wire Music Hall Oct. 1, Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers is a San Francisco outfit featuring a wonderfully expressive lead singer (the titular Ms. Bluhm), and a bunch of guys…
Aug. 21: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, Aug. 21): Award-Winning Writer Luis Alberto Urrea (The Devil’s Highway, The Hummingbird’s Daughter) gives a Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home-sponsored lecture at 7 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church. Roberto & Sasha play gypsy jazz in the Foxy Loxy Café courtyard tonight, Colorado’s harmony-singing brothers Old North State visit the…
