Fab five-o
Rock ‘n’ roll anniversaries are like weeds in a garden – every time you look around, another has sprung up. Still, as anniversaries go, this one is important On New Year’s Day it will have been 50 years since the Beatles’ first significant recording session. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and drummer Pete Best…
Heavy duty
Constantly on the move, both physically and creatively, Kylesa is home for the holidays for what’s become the band’s one consistent annual break in a grueling – but fun – schedule of playing to metal fans all over the world. The band will stomp the stage at the Jinx Friday, Dec. 30, with three other…
Mark your calendar: KidSyc and others ready new music
The first month of 2012 will see the release of new material by several of Savannah’s most compelling musical artists. Last March, the hip hop experimenters known as KidSyc@Brandywine went to Los Angeles to claim their prize after winning the Georgia Lottery’s All Access Music Search. They cut five tracks in the legendary recording studios…
Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 2012
Before you ask, yes, there will be fireworks over the Savannah River on New Year’s Eve. Anyone planning to be on River Street Saturday evening should try looking into the sky at 11:59 p.m. The ‘works are going to be hard to miss. Would it surprise you to learn that Tybee Island’s New Year’s Eve…
Top 11 of 2011
1. City Manager debacle gets even worse In hindsight, it didn’t have to happen this way. The results probably would have been the same with or without the controversy. That’s what makes our number one story of 2011 — such a big story that it also made our 2010 list — so maddening and strangely…
Prepare to plunge
MUCH LIKE A cranky old cat, my most unfavorite thing in the entire world is be cold and wet at the same time. Which is why every New Year’s Day for the past five years, I forcibly override this aversion and jump in the ocean. My out–of–town relatives tsk–tsk this tradition as meshuggeh (loosely translated…
The Shaniqua Brown/Megan Jean & the KFB
THE SHANIQUA BROWN MEGAN JEAN & THE KFB At 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. “Iron your party pants and break out the bourbon.” That’s the published manifesto of the atomically charged Charleston outfit The Shaniqua Brown, which has become a Savannah favorite over the past year. Not…
Best of the Blotter 2011
Police were called about a drunk person at a fast food establishment. The woman was parked at the drive–thru window. She smelled strongly of alcohol, was slurring her speech and had difficulty keeping her balance even while seated. When officers asked for ID, she began to search her purse, but her wallet was on the…
Resolving to be reasonable
As I watched her approach the stop sign, I had a feeling she wasn’t going to stop. She was talking on her phone and looking for cars approaching from her left. Despite the sun reflecting off my obnoxious high visibility yellow jacket, she didn’t see that I had already entered the intersection from the right.…
Best little spots in town
I don’t really trash a joint in this column. This really ticks off my critics, who believe criticism should be based on personal taste and limited to some sort of foie gras and unicorn dream that a perfect meal waits around every corner. Sadly, not so. What does exist is a lot of good food…
Apocalypse not?
If you’re tired of hearing about the supposed Mayan prediction of world’s end in 2012 – I certainly am! -the suspense is close to being over, one way or another. On the off chance that they were completely wrong and/or their “prediction” has been totally misunderstood – gee, ya think? – we at Connect Savannah…
Don’t eat the coelacanth
I’ve been reading about the coelacanth, the fish thought to have gone extinct 65 million years ago that turned up in an Indonesian fish market. Do you know any good coelacanth recipes? Seems like this would be a nice change from a Filet-o-Fish. — Jim, Pawhuska, Oklahoma I hear you. Every so often you think:…
War Horse, We Bought a Zoo
WAR HORSE ***1/2 Steven Spielberg is no novice when it comes to presenting moviegoers with the horrors of war, whether it’s the muted screams of Schindler’s List, the frontline carnage of Saving Private Ryan or even the knotty retaliations of Munich. While all those films deservedly earned R ratings, don’t be fooled into thinking the…
