50th homicide of the year
Detectives of the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department arrested and charged Tamaron Varner, 25, in the shooting death of Joshua DeBerry, 35, on Wednesday, Dec. 21. Varner also faces pending charges in a separate shooting on Tuesday, Dec. 20 that seriously injured O’Neal Scrivens, 48. At about 11 a.m. on Dec. 21, Metro located Varner at…
Elderly woman injured when shots fired into residence
Police detectives are investigating after shots were fired into a home in the 5500 block of LaRoche Avenue and left one elderly woman injured, Dec. 22. At approximately 8:53 p.m., Metro responded to the scene locating Beautine Saukter, 76, suffering from minor injuries. “Reportedly, shots were fired into a home she was occupying and she…
Police investigate E. 39th shooting
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating a shooting on the 700 block of East 39th Street that injured O’Neal Scrivens, 48, on Tuesday, Dec. 20. At about 9:30 a.m. Metro officers responded to a store on the 2200 block of Waters Avenue, where Scrivens sought help after being shot. Scrivens was transported by ambulance to Memorial…
A-Town Get Down announces new date, location
The A-Town Get Down Festival is moving to Indian Street near the Talmadge Bridge and will take place on March 25, 2017, according to its parent foundation, the Alex Townsend Memorial Foundation. The festival will take place from noon to midnight and feature interactive creative experiences for all ages, multiple stages for live music acts…
Editor’s Note: Three-year nonprofit funding phaseout is the devil in the details
I support the idea that nonprofits should have a diversified funding stream. But this clause comes uncomfortably close to comparing arts and social services nonprofits to welfare recipients, who just need a helping hand until they can stand on their own two feet, etc.
Alexandro Santana: Breaking the codes
Employing the artist’s latest skill acquisition of videography and filmmaking, the work is explicit in its intention and more demanding in its intellect, questioning the meaning of art, identity and reality itself.
Year in Review: Music
“2016 IS THE YEAR of growing pains,” announces Matt Collett. The co-owner of The Garage Savannah and seasoned drummer should know. Shaped by the Savannah scene since he was just a kid playing in heavy rock bands, Collett has witnessed the tidal nature of his hometown music scene time and again. Some years, the chemistry…
A Very Bacon Christmas @Barrelhouse South
Dr. Bacon plays what they’ve dubbed “Appalachian Funk Rock,” blending soul, jazz, rock, blues, hip-hop and folk into a funky stew.
Happy Birthday, Louis Pasteur!
IT’S THE time of year to celebrate the birth of a man who has brought understanding and clarity to the world. Happy Birthday, Louis Pasteur. You may best know Pasteur from the process that bears his name, pasteurization. Thanks to Pasteur and this process milk, wine, canned goods and other foods we consume everyday are…
The joy of giving
The lovely folks of the charity collective Joined in Giving definitely aren’t looking for any glory, but I don’t think they’ll be docked points on the virtue scale if I tell you about them.
Clouds & Satellites Acoustic Session @Foxy Loxy
Their sound offers something for everyone with an Americana base, rock ‘n’ roll edge, indie rock eccentricity in the style of Modest Mouse and Pavement, and good ole Southern songwriting.
Coastal Jazz Christmas Concert @The Mansion on Forsyth Park
The big bash is a wonderful way for musicians, friends, and family to reconnect while everyone’s home for Christmas, and it’s all for a good cause—proceeds go toward two jazz scholarships.
The Rayners: Writing as real-world therapy
CYMBALTA, Lexapro, Effexor. Honestly, these things sound like characters from He Man. Zoloft, Celexa, Prozac. Popular anti-depressants, they work for many. But, for a time, retiree Gordon Rayner took these medications without much success. A former drug enforcement agent, the man who set up Savannah’s DEA office in 1974 and a fluent Spanish speaker who spent decades tracking down traffickers in Mexico…
Marché de Macarons: ‘We are local. We are homemade.’
CHRISTMAS is the time of year where we gather friends and family, don ugly sweaters, gift ornate presents, sing cheerful carols, sip creamy eggnog and indulge in holiday confections. Five years ago this month, best friends Amy Shippy and Laura Hale decided to partake in the holiday spirit by hosting a ladies night cookie exchange.…
Take a closer look at agencies and their staff salaries
It would help to get a proper perspective if the cuts were to be presented as a percentage of the agency’s total budget. It would also be fair to note what the city’s contribution will be after the proposed cuts.
Year in Review: Theatre
AT A national and social level, 2016 was a year of significant loss. Here in Savannah, the theatre community lost two vital stages—Ampersand, the downtown restaurant/bar/venue that acted as Savannah Stage Company’s mainstage, and Muse Arts Warehouse, a treasured haven for creative expression that has served the community for seven years. Muse’s closing, set for…
