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Review: Elysium
It’s potent material, or at least it would be if the movie surrounding it didn’t take so many shortcuts in terms of its characterizations.
Police warn of Whole Foods traffic
Metro Police say they “will be paying particular attention to traffic patterns developing in the East Victory Drive and Truman Parkway area Tuesday morning during the opening” of the new shopping area including Whole Foods Market, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Officers say they also plan to have the department’s Mobile Command Center on hand for…
Michelle Nunn in Savannah today
U.S. Senate Candidate Michelle Nunn (D) visits Senior Citizens, Inc. at 10 a.m. as part of her “What Washington Can Learn From Georgia” tour to highlight the “extraordinary examples of Georgians lifting up themselves and reaching out to help others,” a spokesman says. Nunn is among a crowded field vying for the seat of retiring…
City rolls back property tax rate
Savannah City Council voted last week to lower the property tax rate for Savannah property owners. By a unanimous vote during its regular meeting, Council voted to roll back the rate from 12.5 mills to 12.48 mills, “marking the lowest millage rate in Savannah since 1987,” says a spokesman. “It speaks to our staff and…
That’s a lot of weed
Two people are in custody following a large seizure of marijuana by the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team (CNT). “Earlier this week, CNT, along with officers from the Garden City Police Department, began a joint investigation into the possession of a large amount of marijuana in a residence located within the city limits of Garden City,”…
Man dies on I-16
A 30-year-old Stockbridge, GA., man died instantly Saturday when the cargo truck in which he was a passenger collided with a tree on Interstate 16. Ronald V. Lawrence Jr., was killed when the 2003 GMC truck ran into the wood line of the eastbound lanes between Dean Forest Road and Chatham Parkway about 3 p.m.…
Long gone dog days of summer
August readied young minds for life’s inevitable grind with its sheer boring blankness. August built freaking character.
Holy mole!
This isn’t Ortiz’s first time around a restaurant: He opened perennial Cuban favorite Rancho Allegre several years ago as well as Hidalgo’s in Pooler, but wanted to return to the homecooked cuisine of his youth.
Fixing Highway 80
Although heavily used roads experience occasional crashes, according to GDOT, “the crash rates on US 80 between the two bridges are consistently higher than the statewide average for similar types of roads.” Around 50 percent higher.
… and growlers for all
Before you could buy bottles or cans of your favorite beer to enjoy at home, your only option was to fill a vessel fresh from the tap at the local pub and take it with you. Those refillable bottles are called growlers, and they’re making a comeback in a big way.
Running with your crew
Although Mark and I can claim conquering 14 years of marriage, 4 children, 5 household moves, and 1 military deployment, we have never done this before. While I could not imagine having anyone else there with me, the obvious challenges to the arrangement were not lost on me.
Savannah Classical Academy: A matter of principal
‘The founding fathers of this country emphasized that in order to have a successful democracy we have to have an educated citizenry. And the key point is that they were talking about education being available to everybody.’
Art March grows
Collaborative installations can go a couple of directions, and I was reminded of a few disasters I saw in the 1990s in Greenwich Village and SoHo galleries. The intentions of such efforts can read great on paper, but often fail as a cohesive installation. Somehow ‘The Capstone’ works on both levels.
Open Mic … Mike … Myq
‘I am very fortunate that I was born at this time in America, where a small person can thrive and doesn’t have to go to battle, like in the Middle Ages… what’s the worst part about being on the road? Aw, sometimes I gotta show up early to the airport!
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The Deadfields: Voices carry
The Deadfields will remind you of the Train Wrecks, American Aquarium, and — on the fully professional side — the old ’97s, the Avett Brothers and Drive-By Truckers.
From Disney to opera
‘Oopera has the most ridiculous plots. You wonder why it’s so popular. But what I realized is, in opera people live on the outside what your emotional life is on the inside.
Ready for their close-ups: Black Tusk
The band will screen the ‘Truth Untold’ video for friends and fans during Friday’s show at the Jinx.
‘Sweeney Todd’ on the cutting edge
“I think everything about this is a super-mega love story,” DeVincent says. “I see it as a series of out-of-control operatic love stories.”
Can bad GPS directions kill you?
Are there any figures for people seriously injured or even killed by bad GPS directions? I’m not talking about distracted drivers, but rather schlubs that followed GPS off a cliff or something. —Jason You can look at that in one of two ways. The glass-half-empty version is that GPS navigation has turned us into a…
Review: The Way, Way Back
On the heels of The Kings of Summer and Mud comes The Way, Way Back, a disarming seriocomedy that will doubtless remain one of this season’s undiscovered gems.
Gettin’ churched
Police are attempting to identify two males who entered the Isle of Hope United Methodist Church and took items. The two men, wearing shorts and attempting to cover their faces, were caught on surveillance cameras. Footage from those cameras is being distributed to the media in an attempt to identify the suspects. Islands Precinct detectives…
Editor’s Note: Shopping cart syndrome
America has a weird relationship with its citizens who are in poverty. And make no mistake, grocery stores, shopping carts and crime are all linked directly by socio-economics.
Arrest made, another shooter sought
Detectives have made an arrest in one of three shootings last Tuesday night and continue to seek a suspect in a second that left two dead and one injured. Metro officers took 19-year-old Daquan Demetrius Williams, of Rainbow Drive, into custody after Williams and another male were observed behind Pal’s Mini Mart on ACL Boulevard…
