The Debt, Our Idiot Brother, The Guard
THE DEBT *** Don’t be turned off by the worrisome facts that its release date has kept changing, it’s already made the global rounds since last September, and it’s being buried with an end-of-summer release date. An English-language remake of a 2007 Israeli film of the same name, The Debt is actually a compelling thriller…
A wheel good time
The annual Midnight Garden Ride happens this weekend. Saturday night, to be exact. While it’s somewhat unfortunate that this awesome event happens to start at the same time as the kickoff of Georgia’s opening game of the season, I guess that’s what DVRs are made for… Be that as it may. As someone who has…
Ghosts on the highway
In some ways, the Drive-By Truckers are like a mash-up of the Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Crunching electric guitars, a powerful rhythm section, and songs about the South and southern living that read alternately like swamp-gothic poetry and screams of frustrated rebellion. Since the beginning – Athens in the mid 1990s – Patterson Hood…
Mark Your Calendar: .38 Special
I’ve been known to rail against bands from the old, old days that have no (or few) original members, yet continue to go out and play all the vintage hits under the original name. “You get what you pay for,” I’ve sniped on more than one occasion, when various creaky–kneed Motown, Britpop or southern rock…
The stinging truth
This summer on Tybee Island was filled with record–breaking high temperatures and record–breaking amounts of reported jellyfish stings. Of course, with the increasing numbers of jellyfish in the water and the increasing number of people on the beach because of the high temperatures, this all makes sense. But with 10,247 reported jellyfish stings to date,…
Archnemesis, Darryl Wise & Kathy Kelley
ARCHNEMESIS At 10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2. With Zoogma Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River Street. $10 Charleston’s Justin Aubuchon and Curt Heiny are the twin keysmen in this hard-playing electronica/sampling outfit, creating music that walks on the wild side of hip hop, crunk and dance R&B, what the labelmakers like to call ghetto-tech.…
Belaboring the day
Labor Day weekend falls right in the middle crack between the hot, dead summer and the culturally vibrant fall. It’s the holiday equivalent of passing Go and collecting $200. School is open again, and everyone’s settling in for the long haul until the jolly holidays at the end of the year. As we begin the…
String arrangements
Ben Sollee was 9 years old when he started taking lessons on the cello, in his Kentucky hometown. Then, as now, the standard student discipline for the instrument was classical music. He studied hard, learned to read and learned about technique. “My dad was an R&B guitarist and my mom sang, and my grandfather was…
A window to fashion
While “Fashion’s Night Out” on Sept. 8 is an international event involving dozens of cities from New York to Seoul, some Savannah artists are doing the best they can to put a local imprint on it. Local artist Matt Hebermehl is one of several collaborating with the Creative Coast Initiative to festoon the shop windows…
Foodie news hot off the press
Classy dogs SubDog Hot Doggery, a gourmet hot dog shop, is open at 5 W. Broughton St. Matt and Carol Jording, who own The Sage Room restaurant on Hilton Head Island, are the head dogs of this fast casual restaurant. There’s carry–out, and lots of bar stools along one wall upon which to perch while…
Shiraz/Viognier is a dynamic duo
Shiraz, Syrah. You say tomato, I’ll say to-mah-to. Yeah, it’s the same grape. They more delicate spelling, Syrah, has formed the foundation of elegant French wines for generations. History tells us that the grape came to France with the Romans. All I know is that it appreciates the poor soils of of the Rhone, where…
The night the bicycles will rule Savannah
Even the most experienced cyclists, who are comfortable riding among the cars and truck on Savannah’s busiest streets, have entertained the fantasy: What would it be like if bicycles completely took over local roads? What would it be like to ride on, say, Drayton or Whitaker streets if all the automobiles were replaced with bikes?…
No Glee at this dance
Two teens were practicing dance steps with a group beside a theater on Shawnee Avenue just before 6 p.m. when three males walked up, pointed a gun at the teens and demanded their valuables. The teens dropped their cell phones and an Ipod, which the suspects picked up before running down Mohawk Street. Police saturated…
