Dec. 31: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, Dec. 31): Fireworks at midnight over the Savannah River downtown, and off the Tybee Island Pier. That’s a given. And there are live bands hither and thither to help you celebrate New Year’s Eve. Connect recommends The Royal Noise at Live Wire, with the Epic Cycle and Listen 2…
Looking Ahead
@ 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. @ Mountainfilm On Tour. Jan. 18-19. Trustees Theater. @ Ringling Bros./Barnum & Bailey Circus. Jan. 23-27. MLK Arena. @…
Dec. 30: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, Dec. 30): The Veraflames throw one of their periodic rock ‘n’ roll reunions at Satisfied, starting at 6 p.m. Voodoo Soup does it regular Sunday-night gig at Congress Street Social Club, and AcousticA plays Jazz’d Tapas Bar. All is calm, all is bright on the last Sunday of 2012.
Dec. 29: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, Dec. 29): The Royal Noise plays Congress Street Social Club tonight, the Train Wrecks and City Hotel are at the Jinx, Voodoo Soup is onstage at Live Wire, and Free Candy shares a bill with the Born-Agains at Screamin’ Mimi’s.
Dec. 28: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, Dec. 28): BET comedians Sherman Golden, Luenell and Marcus Combs headline the Night After Christmas Comedy Jam, atn 8 p.m. in the Johnny Mercer Theatre. In the clubs: A Nickel Bag of Funk at Dosha, Shane Bridges at Saddle Bags, Chasing Pedestrians with Grown Up Avenger Stuff at Screamin’…
Dec. 27: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, Dec. 27): Singer/songwriter Ashley Rauls performs tonight, with the Shane Bridges Band, at Satisfied. At Taco Abajo, it’s Thirteen22, Self Employed and Gross Evolution. Pluff Mud plays Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub. And this year has just a few days to go.
Dec. 26: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, Dec. 26): Is today the day for you to strap on the skates and hit the ice? The City of Savannah’s Skate Fest, in the icy-rinky MLK Arena, continues today. And in the true post-Christmas spirit, the Psychotronic Film Society screens that modern classic Hercules Against the Moon Men…
The Foodie Column: Hoppin’ John Edition
Hoppin’ John traditions Having survived the Mayan apocalypse, we can think ahead to the food traditions that surround New Year’s Day – a celebration of rebirth, football and plenty of awesome chow. I polled some friends from around the globe to see what food traditions may be in the works. My Haitian friends like Belinda…
Happy New Year! Your music guide
The outdoor fireworks, as ever, will pop over the Savannah riverfront and Tybee Beach on New Year’s Eve. Indoors, here are a few musically–minded revelries you might want to consider joining, many that come with the usual trappings of such festivities (noisemakers, funny hats, champagne at midnight et cetera): Live Wire Music Hall’s calling its…
Year-end Weird Crime Roundup
Here are some of the most bizarre local true–crime stories from the second half of 2012: • A man told police he shot another man because “he had not received crack cocaine he had purchased.” Patrick Russell Stafford, 49, of a Waters Avenue address, was charged with aggravated assault after the 9:23 a.m. shooting…
12 for ’12: The Year in Review
1. Goodbye Rochelle. Don’t let the door hit you in the… Yeah, we know you’re tired of reading about Rochelle Small-Toney in our annual Year in Review issue. Over the years we’ve become pretty tired of writing about her ourselves. But apparently this will be the last time. Or we certainly hope so, anyway. There…
Meet Ashley Rauls
Savannah native Ashley Rauls is all of 19 years old, but her song lyrics hint at an old soul lying deep within somewhere. Rauls’ debut EP, the five–song What You Want Me To Be, is a mostly–acoustic exercise in looking back, looking forward and looking – with astonishingly mature eyes – at the present. The…
Chilling in the New Year
It takes a certain amount of gung–ho to dash into the chilly waters of the Atlantic on New Year’s Day, especially if you’re wearing a silly costume with glitter, feathers and dangly things, or a bathrobe, or a pair of Speedos and a skintight skullcap. Every year, however, with their courage bolstered by the previous…
The sweet ‘tee’ of success
I do not love golf. To say that I even like it would be a big fat lie. Growing up, my house abutted the fourth fairway of the Shalimar public golf course and suffered so many broken windows we all had permanent slivers in our feet. I often had to chase away golfers who climbed…
Reviewed: ‘Silver Linings Playbook’
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK *** ½ Writer-director David O. Russell, who makes decent movies when he’s not being a major-league jerk behind the camera (his temper tantrums with Lily Tomlin and George Clooney are well-documented, with the former skirmish captured for immortality on YouTube), follows The Fighter with Silver Linings Playbook, a disarming seriocomedy about Pat…
Reviewed: ‘Hitchcock’
HITCHCOCK * The filmmakers behind Hitchcock claim that it’s based on Stephen Rebello’s book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, but a more accurate title for this cinematic claptrap would have been Psycho and the Unmaking of Alfred Hitchcock. While purportedly taking a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the Master of Suspense’s best…
Reviewed: ‘Les Miserables’
LES MISERABLES **1/2 Now available for purchase is the CD Les Miserables: Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack, and it’s too bad there’s not a way to provide moviegoers with the option of seeing either the full-length Les Miserables or, like the CD, a similarly edited cut called Les Miserables: Highlights of the Motion Picture.…
Reviewed: ‘Django Unchained’
DJANGO UNCHAINED *** Exciting. Funny. Gratuitous. Inflammatory. Insensitive. Stylish. Stupid. Sophisticated. Grab any adjective out of a hat and chances are it will apply to Django Unchained, writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s messy mashup of the Western and the blaxploitation flick, with other conventions tossed into the mix like so much seasoning. Set two years before the…
