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Pineapple Express It’s been a roller coaster year for Judd Apatow, who as producer seems to have had a hand in practically every 2008 comedy not starring Mike Myers or Eddie Murphy. The lamentable Drillbit Taylor was quickly followed by the bright Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and now the mediocre Step Brothers has moved aside for…
Soulful storm
RANDALL BRAMBLETT is a musician, vocalist and “songwriter’s songwriter” who’s been around several blocks. Twice. From his earliest days as a budding keyboardist and horn player, to his first brush with notoriety as a member of the highly respected Southern rock and jazz hybrid Sea Level, to stints in the studio and/or on the road…
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Crack research Editor, In response to Nadra Enzi’s recent letter (Crack: Still Wack, July 23-29 issue), I thought it would interest him and your readers to know that considerable evidence suggests crack cocaine was introduced into Los Angeles by the CIA in 1982 as a way of funding the Nicaraguan contras. Though this has often…
Theatre: Righteous rap
The first thing you notice about the children dancing and singing their way across the room is that they’re good. Not just that they’re talented, which, they are. These children are also obedient, polite, respectful, disciplined and eager to minister to others. Outside, it’s the hottest day of the year, with a record 102-degree temperature…
Theatre: Blues in the night
The Savannah Community Theatre’s Ladies Sing The Blues – 50 Years of Torch is the kind of production that lets you just lean back and absorb the sound. The show’s playlist includes songs spanning 50 years of blues and whose original artists include Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Louis Armstrong, Bette Midler, and Diana Ross. Based…
Dolphin down
IT WAS April 2007 that the dolphin was first spotted. It was immediately obvious that something was wrong. The dolphin appeared to have a black rubber cord around its neck. A year later, the dolphin was seen again and it was obviously in serious trouble. It had grown, and the object around its neck had…
Squirty’s run
AS HUNDREDS of beachgoers cheered, a two-year-old sea turtle named Squirty lumbered to the water’s edge and then, strong flippers pushing against the waves, swam toward the ocean—and freedom. Watching Squirty go, Amy Capelo, a program assistant at Tybee Island’s Burton 4H Center and Squirty’s principal caretaker, hugged friends but also cried. “It’s sad” because…
Vaulting back in time
MY MIDDLE finger was dislocated on my last back-handspring attempt. Now it’s 29 years and 45 pounds later. There’s a huge difference between weightlifting and exploding a front tuck off a trampoline. Or launching a vault. Or landing, for the first time, that alluring back-handspring. Instead of just watching Olympic television, I’m taking a private…
Flower power
DAVID CROW, master herbalist, acupuncturist, author and aromatherapist, will present a free community lecture Friday, Aug. 15 at the Savannah Riverfront Marriott. He’ll follow up the next day with a workshop. Crow is coming to Savannah through Brighter Day Natural Foods Market. “He’s rather like a Farmer D or an Herbal Ed Smith, except in…
Knoxville survivor speaks
KARL KREIS, with his understated conversational style and his penchant for dry, slightly offbeat jokes, collected a wide circle of friends during the 13 months (2001 to 2002) he worked in Savannah as a neighborhood planner. Now living in Knoxville, Tenn., Kreis stays busy as a planner with the City of Pigeon Forge, but his…
Digital divide
A WOMAN called police after she noticed that someone had drilled holes into her laptop computer. She suspected her ex-boyfriend. She told police she and the man had dated for six years before recently ending their relationship. She said she was awakened that morning at 4 a.m. by someone rubbing her face and discovered the…
Blood in the water
We’ve all seen it in a movie: A small group of people are swimming. Someone gets hurt, blood touches water, and instantly sharks appear who then devour the party. But how fast does the odor or taste of blood go in water? Am I right to believe that it takes a while for a shark…
Un. Believable.
Lead Story Martha Padgett gave birth to quadruplets in Riverside, Calif., in July, but she only did half the work. The other two babies were born to her partner, Karen Wesolowski, using Padgett’s eggs and the same sperm donor, and whose two came along 22 hours after Padgett’s two. The women carried two fertilized eggs…
New releases: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, Tropic Thunder
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 The 2005 screen version of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was based on the first novel in Ann Brashares’ best-selling series, but the word is that The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 combines the events from the remaining three books in the franchise. One reason is probably…
Spotlighted gigs and recommended shows
Xela Zaid For some time now this Miami-based singer/songwriter has operated on the fringe of the DIY rock movement — touring and recording with the duo Ho Chi Minh. His recorded, full-band work suggests local “Death Pop” artist Pink Kodiak with a strong Beatles fixation, or The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne as a home-recording hermit.…
2008 Jazz Festival moves forward
IN THE 21 YEARS SINCE LOCAL ATTORNEY Skip Jennings has been involved with the Coastal Jazz Association, he’s attended scores of phenomenal concerts by some of the world’s most respected jazz artists — most of them from the side of the stage. As the Savannah Jazz Festival’s Master of Ceremonies since 1987, Jennings —an omnivorous…
An interview with Coastal Jazz Association Vice President Skip Jennings
I spoke at length with longtime local music enthusiast and promoter Skip Jennings about the upcoming 2008 Savannah Jazz Festival. This is the complete transcript of our conversation. How long have you been involved with the CJA in any significant capacity? Skip Jennings: Since 1987. Right now I am the 1st Vice President for Coastal…
