Dec. 24: Today’s event
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, Dec. 24): It’s Christmas Eve. Knock yourselves out.
Looking Ahead
@ Night After Christmas Comedy Jam. Dec. 28. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ The Boxcars. Jan. 4. Randy Wood Guitars. @ Cinderella. State Ballet Theatre of Russia. Jan. 13. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Film: All About Eve. Jan. 13. Trustees Theater. @ American Traditions Competition. Jan. 15-19. @ Film: Lawrence of Arabia. Jan. 18. /Lucas Theatre.…
Dec. 23: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, Dec. 23): Bay Street Theatre’s dark comedy The Eight: Reindeer Monologues is at 7:30 – for the final show – on the Club One stage. Plus, there’s ancient music at the Goliards Christmas Concert, at 3 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
Reviewed: ‘Jack Reacher’
JACK REACHER *** With Tom Cruise whipping off his shirt and flexing his muscles with all the eager-to-please zestiness of Taylor Lautner doing likewise in the Twilight franchise, it’s clear that Jack Reacher is a vanity project of the highest order. But it’s also a movie full of pleasant surprises, not the least being a…
Reviewed: ‘The Guilt Trip’
THE GUILT TRIP *1/2 Even acknowledging the hardship of finding suitable roles for women over 40 in Hollywood, it’s difficult to believe that The Guilt Trip was the best that Barbra Streisand could nab for her first leading role since 1996’s The Mirror Has Two Faces (with only supporting turns in two Fockers flicks in…
Reviewed: ‘This is 40’
THIS IS 40 *1/2 In writer-director Judd Apatow’s 2007 hit Knocked Up, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann (aka Mrs. Judd Apatow) owned their roles as Pete and Debbie, the gently squabbling but lovable couple who provided support to the leads played by Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl. In This Is 40, billed as “the sort-of…
Dec. 22: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, Dec. 22): Bay Street Theatre’s dark comedy The Eight: Reindeer Monologues is at 7:30 on the Club One stage. Sweet Knievel and The Deluge play Live Wire, the Timewalkers are at the Warehouse, and Chuck Courtenay is shooting a music video at Saddle Bag’s.
Dec. 21: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, Dec. 21): It looks as if the Mayan Apocalypse was just one of those things, so tonight feel free to check out The Eight: Reindeer Monologues from Bay Street Theatre, at 7:30 on the Club One stage. The Odd Lot’s got a wacky Christmas special at 8 at Muse…
Dec. 20: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, Dec. 20): Bay Street Theatre opens the dark comedy The Eight: Reindeer Monologues at 7:30 on the Club One stage. Catch the Eric Culberson Band at Wild Wing CafÉ, Jesse Burnett at World of Beer, and Acoustica at the Warehouse.
Dec. 19: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, Dec. 19): Don’t forget to pick up the latest Connect, which is free (as always) and available everywhere today. The British horror film Don’t Open Til Christmas is today’s Psychotronic Film Festival offering, 8 p.m. at the Sentient Bean. Eric Culberson’s Jam Night is rocking at Live Wire Music…
The Grinch who stole Christmas
Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying and locating a man wanted in connection with the theft of packages from downtown residences. The middle–aged black male has been photographed taking packages from downtown houses, sometimes riding a bicycle while carrying packages. He sometimes wears a green jacket that appears to belong to a city…
A bakery with a purpose
Unforgettable Bakery and Deli, now almost four years old, was a long time in the making. For owner Belinda Baptiste, this bakery is a “dream come true.” While she wasn’t always sure that she’d one day own a bakery, there’s one thing she’s always been sure of — she can cook. The “last piece test”…
Shadow boxing the apocalypse
Everyone seems agog with the notion that something cataclysmic is going to transpire this Friday. Some people are just straight up tripping, squirreling away granola bars and batteries (a good idea to do anyway in the name of hurricane preparedness.) Others are meditating on world peace (another excellent practice that couldn’t hurt.) Most of us…
Off the wall
They were just going to go and look at art. Do a couple of live painting projects. Make some gallery connections. Maybe attend a party or two. Get inspired. But when opportunity knocked for local artists Matt Hebermehl, Adolfo Hernandez (aka “Inope”) and Jose Ray to paint two walls in Miami’s famed Wynwood District, the…
Jazz to the world
When Teddy Adams was a young pup, jazz was in full swing in Savannah. In the ‘50s there were several full–time bands in town, and a jumpin’ spot called the Flamingo Club, on the corner of West Gwinnett Street and Stiles Avenue, where they had steady gigs. Every Christmas, musicians black, white and everything in…
Elephants and whirled peas: What’s in your bag?
An expanded Music Column this week, just for a bit of holiday cheer. I messaged two dozen Savannah musicians thusly: “Well, Christmas is right around the corner. We all want unity and we all want world peace. But hey, as George Harrison said, we’re living in the material world, so for the sake of a…
The Foodie Column
Yo, Yohane Wedged among the visual clutter of the shopping center on the northeast corner of Hodgson Memorial and Eisenhower drives sits tiny Yohane restaurant. The narrow storefront and its barely two dozen seats are unpretentious. I’ve walked or driven past this 7–year–old restaurant with barely a sideways glance. It’s fair enough to call it…
Two wheels to paradise
The short bout of cool, wet weather in Savannah last week served as an excellent advertisement for traveling by car. Only crazy people ride bikes when it’s misting outside, right? Confronted with such nonsense, veteran cyclists will explain that bad weather is easily managed with the correct clothing and bicycle accessories such as fenders. It’s…
Freedom’s fable: Newtown & us
AND THEIR FOUNDING FATHERS SAID, you will have the right to keep and bear arms. You will have a well–regulated militia. Farmer/soldiers with muskets, Kentucky rifles and black powder to defend against oppressive inbred British monarchs and assorted homegrown tyrants, then return to their fields. The people took these words to heart. They enthusiastically protected…
Antidepressants & Placeboes
People who take antidepressants often say they feel better, but some researchers claim that’s the placebo effect. If so, aren’t drug companies abusing depressed people by getting them to buy pricey, useless drugs? On the other hand, if antidepressants make you feel better, is the feeling lasting, and are they addictive? -ssdfssasdva asdfascaasa So your…
Dec. 18: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, Dec. 18): Acoustic music from Sincerely, Iris at Jazz’d Tapas Bar, Matt Eckstine (open jam) at Abe’s on Lincoln, Ricardo & Sasha at Foxy Loxy, and Lauren Lapointe at Lulu’s Chocolate Bar. And the new issue of Connect goes online, starting at noon!
