Year in Review: Best Local Albums
[image-1] MIGGS – Son of a Gun The production value, songwriting and promotions for the release was absolutely top notch. Close second for me was Sunglow, Nothing Doing. – Jeremiah Stuard (Sins of Godless Men, COEDS) [image-2] AMERICAN HOLOGRAM – Same Blue Sky The Americana side of the Savannah scene saw so many great releases…
Year in Review: Best Local Albums
[image-1] MIGGS – Son of a Gun The production value, songwriting and promotions for the release was absolutely top notch. Close second for me was Sunglow, Nothing Doing. – Jeremiah Stuard (Sins of Godless Men, COEDS) [image-2] AMERICAN HOLOGRAM – Same Blue Sky The Americana side of the Savannah scene saw so many great releases…
Second Kevin Hart show added for Jan. 1
Due to huge popular demand, just a few hours after his first popup show at the Johnny Mercer Theatre was announced this morning, a second Kevin Hart show has been added for later the same evening on New Year’s Day. The second show is 10 p.m. Jan. 1. Get tix and info at www.savannahcivic.com.
Kevin Hart at Civic Center Jan. 1; tix on sale now
Comedian and entertainer Kevin Hart brings his ‘What Now’ Tour to the Savannah Civic Center this Jan. 1 at 7 p.m. Tickets are on sale now at www.savannahcivic.com.
Savannah Philharmonic’s Pratt taking job in California
The Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus announces that Executive Director David Pratt has accepted a position as executive director with the Santa Barbara Symphony, effective March 1, 2015. “David has done a wonderful job here in Savannah. We will miss his leadership but wish him every success on his new journey with the Santa Barbara…
Skidaway Institute scientist shares Gulf oil spill research grant
University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography scientist Catherine Edwards is “part of a research team that has received an $18.8 million grant to continue studies of natural oil seeps and track the impacts of the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem,” a UGA SkIO spokesman says. Known as ECOGIG-2 or…
Art Rise Savannah receives $5K Cultural Affairs grant
Art Rise Savannah has been awarded a $5,000 Cultural Project Investment Program from the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs to develop their program, the First Friday Art March. The awarded grant will be used to increase the capacity, awareness, and depth of the First Friday Art March in 2015. “We couldn’t be more…
Ashley Raines & The New West Revue @The Sentient Bean
Raines has a Jack Johnson gentleness to his voice, but its weathered edge of experience evokes hard truths learned early.
Cool Yule, A Christmas Cabaret @Lucas Theatre
Grab a date and take a stroll down decked-out and twinkling Broughton Street.
What if earth never had a moon?
By most accounts we wouldn’t even have developed vertebrae without the moon, let alone eyeballs. Dark nights would be the least of our problems.
Superbad Christmas Sweater Jam, feat. City Hotel & American Hologram @Feather & Freight
Hit your nearest thrift shop or dig into the deep, shameful recesses of your closet for the gnarliest Christmas sweater you can find.
Wet Brain, The Wave Slaves @The Jinx
If your 2014 show highlights include Priests, Perfect Pussy, and The Coathangers, it’ll be the perfect way to wrap up your year.
2014 Gift Guide, part V
Holiday shopping made easy with great gift ideas from local retailers.
Year in Review: Best Local Albums
MIGGS – Son of a Gun The production value, songwriting and promotions for the release was absolutely top notch. Close second for me was Sunglow, Nothing Doing. – Jeremiah Stuard (Sins of Godless Men, COEDS) AMERICAN HOLOGRAM – Same Blue Sky The Americana side of the Savannah scene saw so many great releases and performances…
A river runs through us
Depending on where you’re standing, we either live in a bucolic aquatic paradise or a post-apocalyptic industrial wasteland.
Year in Review: Best Concerts
NO MATTER where your tastes fall on the broad spectrum of genre, one thing is certain: 2014 was a milestone year for music in Savannah. Though we tend to be skipped on the drive down I-95, our town is quickly becoming a no-brainer tour stop for both famous folks in monstrous tour buses and indie…
Let’s hear it for the lawyers
More than 65 local attorneys were recognized at the Morris Center last Friday for volunteering their time and skills to fellow citizens who would otherwise not have had access to legal counsel.
Year in Review: Best Performances
SAVANNAH’S STAGES were aglow with talent in 2014. From Muse Arts Warehouse to your neighborhood library to Hang Fire, these hardworking local companies and collectives stellar shows for everyone, from tykes to grownups. We’re thrilled to see what they’re up to next year. The Collective Face’s 2014/2015 season may focus on the theme of Retrospective…
Talking with… Luciana Spracher
YOU PROBABLY know the names of most of our 44 presidents, even if you can’t tell me exactly what Franklin Pierce or Millard Fillmore did in office. The same is undoubtedly less true of Georgia’s 82 governors. But at least you could tell me several had counties named after them. But for Savannah mayors, our recognition doesn’t seem to stretch…
Return of the Ho-Ho-Hoedown
EVERY DECEMBER, hundreds of Savannah residents shine up their cowboy boots, don their cushiest Santa hats, and mosey over to the American Legion ballroom for fellowship and the Lowcountry’s best Americana acts. While The Accomplices and Train Wrecks’ annual Homegrown Holiday Hoedown almost didn’t happen this year, it’s back, better than ever, and continues to…
Run, Walk, or Crawl
IT WAS one of those misty Savannah mornings when it would have been easy to listen to the little voice in the reluctant-runner part of my brain saying… “Aww come on, pull the covers over your head and settle in for another hour of sleep.” But I got going…because this was the Saturday of the…
New Standard Cycles helps make cycling accessible
IN ITS annual “Your Driving Costs” study released in May, AAA reported the average cost of operating a car is $8,876 per year. That’s a serious financial burden for many working people here in Savannah, according to Jen Colestock, who manages a new Savannah Bicycle Campaign program that accepts donated bicycles, reconditions them, and works…
Treylor Park tickles your Southern fancy
TREY WILDER and Hunter Satterwhite, owner and chef respectively of the new and quite wonderful Treylor Park on Bay, have a simpatico feel for good food that goes way back. They first met just out of college and formed a foodie partnership in L.A. while working together at the Playboy Mansion for several years. Afterwards…
Craft brew news roundup!
NEW WORLD OF BEER OPENS IN POOLER World of Beer, the well-established chain of craft beer bars, opened one of its first owner-operated facilities in the country on Pooler Parkway this week. Typically run by a local franchisee, the Pooler “company store” concept as General Manager Jim Nystrum called it, will be 100% owned and…
First Right Whales of calving season spotted
The season’s first sighting of North Atlantic right whales on the Georgia coast “underscores the fact that Georgia and north Florida are the only known calving grounds for these endangered whales,” says the Ga. Dept. of Natural Resources. A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission survey plane spotted a right whale mother and her new…
Boy bites would-be Whitemarsh kidnapper, escapes
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are trying to identify and locate a “man in an unusual van who was reported to have attempted to pull a child into his truck this morning,” a spokesman says. The 12-year-old Coastal Middle School student reported the man “grabbed his shirt and tried to capture him after offering him ice cream…
Review: Foxcatcher
Steve Carell is scary-good, subjugating all traces of the familiar comic spark very much in evidence in his previous films.
Review: Annie
Jamie Foxx is a delight, and the script by director Will Gluck and Aline Brosh McKenna works overtime in presenting clever topical twists on the stage show’s clichés.
Editor’s Note: Too little, too late on ‘taboo issue’?
After years of sticking their heads in the sand, City Council last week hosted a Call to Action Summit.
State violence & the ‘new Jim Crow’
Citizen violence is treated differently from state violence.
Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
By a dwarf hair, the best of the trio, wrapping up the story in satisfactory fashion while investing the proceedings with some genuine pathos along the way.
Review: Exodus: Gods and Kings
To serve as a distraction, a gazillion dollars worth of CGI is tossed onto the screen, but the results surprisingly run hot-and-cold.
Review: Top Five
Chris Rock now lays it all on the line with Top Five, drawing upon personal experience to fashion the tale of Andre Allen, a popular comedian who’s tired of headlining fluff.
Year in Review: The music scene
“SAVANNAH has no music scene.” In the near-decade I’ve lived here, attending shows and playing music of my own, I’ve heard it a million times—I’m sure many of you have. It comes from newcomers and old-timers, from folks who haven’t found what they’re looking for yet or haven’t quite known where to look. It’s frustrating…
Review: Wild
Witherspoon is superb as Cheryl, who undergoes a strenuous 1,100-mile hike in an attempt to find herself after suffering through a series of personal crises.
