WRUU Spotlight: Ian McCarthy

THIS WEEK, we continue our series on WRUU show hosts, with Ian McCarthy, host of “Ventriloquism for Dummies.” For those who haven’t heard your work and show at WRUU, describe it and your goal with it each week. After a few years now at WRUU, I’ve just started a new program called “Ventriloquism for Dummies,”…

Gear Geek: Michael Gaster

Michael has been in the industry for decades, and in that time has become the leading provider of sound and lighting for shows across the Lowcountry and beyond

Jack Sherman: A remembrance

I’LL never forget the first time I met Jack Sherman. It was early 2005, and he had shown up at the Sentient Bean Coffeehouse to attend a public screening of Sam Peckinpah’s graphic 1971 thriller “Straw Dogs,” which I was presenting as part of my Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah’s weekly series of underappreciated cinema.…

Finding the perfect City Manager – for Savannah

IT’S A tired cliche that the choice of a City Manager is a consequential choice. In cities like Savannah, with its Council-Manager form of government, the City Manager is THE most important and powerful person in local government. The City Manager, not the Council, not the Mayor, has the direct and daily ability to implement programs and policies. …


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