Rise of the Planet of the Apes
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES **1/2 WETA-created and PETA-approved, Rise of the Planet of the Apes stands at the center of a campaign that boasts about how the film employed the Oscar-winning team behind Avatar and the Lord of the Rings trilogy to invent its photorealistic primates. Others have been prone to highlight…
Hot wheels
Back in early July, a multi–car accident on Interstate 516 that hospitalized one woman also lead to a destroyed police car and a damaged fire truck. It was a Sunday morning when the 26 year–old woman was heading eastbound on 516. She swerved into the left lane and sideswiped another vehicle. The vehicle in the…
Mark Your Calendar: Mellencamp in November
Last year, Connect did a lengthy interview with rock legend John Mellencamp on the subject of his No Better Than This album, sections of which he recorded (with T-Bone Burnett) in First African Baptist Church. (Mellencamp, of course, owns homes on Tybee and Daufuskie, and is a frequent visitor to our city.) The No Better…
Right out of the box
I got me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, take me a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I got me some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised it up high enough that it would sound…
Fanning the ‘Flames
Nearly 150 people turned up at the Veraflames’ reunion gig at Loco’s in early July. Not bad for a band that hadn’t seen the inside of a club – more or less – in a quarter century. “It brought back a lot of old memories,” singer/guitarist Thad Strickland recalls. “Most of the people that were…
A smokin’ sample of Garden City ‘cue
It’s easy to miss Smokey’s BBQ. Most folks come screamin’ off the end of Highway 516 and quickly realize they’ve gotta hit the brakes or face the wrath of Garden City PD. But glance to the right, just before Garden City’s first traffic light, and you will see the ’cue joint nestled right up against…
The howl of the Banshee
More and more wine is coming from producers who have shunned the traditional business model: Lots of high–priced vineyard acreage, lavish tasting rooms and huge overhead. The newer generation of winemakers are adopting leaner, meaner business plans and putting the emphasis on what goes into the bottle instead of what goes on the list of…
The News Cycle: What is the ‘new normal’?
Weird. Immature. Eccentric. Irresponsible. Reckless. Odd. Undignified. These words are used to describe people who, by choice, use bicycles for transportation. They ride their bikes to work, to the store or to class even when the weather’s bad and even though they own perfectly functional automobiles. Why do people subject themselves to the heat, the…
Did someone say ‘desert island discs?’
In this age of downloaded music, kids will never know the delightful serendipity of hanging out in a record store and being turned onto a great band they’ve never heard of, all because a store employee chose to play that particular album in that particular hour of that particular day. (And they’ll probably never have…
Ballyhoo!, Betsy Franck
BETSY FRANK & THE BAREKNUCLE BAND At 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6 Coach’s Corner, 3016 E. Victory Drive The lines are thinning between musical genres, if you haven’t noticed, and the sort of tortured R&B and blues coming out of the likes of Bonnie Raitt and Susan Tedeschi now fits very comfortably alongside hardscrabble honky…
Cleaning for a reason
A cancer diagnosis is hard enough without having to worry about who will do the dusting or the dishes. That’s why a local maid service has started trying to do what they can to help women with cancer who are undergoing chemotherapy. Cleaning for a Reason is a non-profit organization started in spring 2006 in…
