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5-year-old cold case solved
A Savannah man has been indicted in a five-year-old murder case. Torrey Jevon Graham, 26, was arrested and charged Dec. 3 with murder, felony murder, armed robbery and various gun charges, stemming from the 2003 homicide of George “Danny” Johnson at B&R Motors on Montgomery Street. The arrest marks the solving of the Savannah-Chatham Metro…
Suspect shot with own gun
A clerk managed to wrestle a gun away from a man who was trying to rob the Crossroads Convenience store on Staley Avenue Thursday and fired a shot at him. The 19-year-old suspect, who hasn’t been identified, was taken into custody when he showed up at an area hospital for treatment. He walked into the…
SCMPDs Most Wanted in custody
A MAN accused of killing his own brother has been taken into custody by detectives with the SCMPD’s violent crimes unit. Achmed Kiwaan Williams, 23, has been listed as SCMPDs most wanted criminal since last summer. Police received a tip that Williams was hiding out in a residence in the 600 block of Yamacraw. After…
Vote for hop and change
BEFORE YOU get caught up in the whirlwind of holiday traveling and partying, treat yourself to an evening of art and a chance to see what SCAD has been up to. For one evening this Friday, the school is hosting a holiday gallery hop featuring five stops with shuttles running between each destination. This event…
Seeds of Doubt
COMING TO Cardinal Rep’s Freight Station stage is the Pulitzer and Tony Award winning Doubt, A Parable. Written by John Patrick Shanley and directed by Sheila Lynne, this play features minimalistic sets, costumes, and dialogue to focus the audience’s attention on the acting. “The play embodies an ongoing struggle between Victorianism and modernism,” says Lynne.…
Messiah singalong is Friday
IF THERE’S ONE THING TIMOTHY HALL KNOWS, it’s how to conduct Handel’s Messiah. The former chorale director of the long-defunct Savannah Symphony, Hall was at the helm of that organization’s beloved tradition of performing this classic piece of Christian praise music as a community sing-along. Each year, professional and amateur vocalists alike were encouraged to…
New release: Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire I’m not entirely sure how a film in which a small boy gets permanently blinded by someone deliberately pouring hot liquid onto his eyeballs while he’s unconscious ends up being hyped (by critics and audiences alike) as the “feel-good” movie of the year, but that’s the strange case with Slumdog Millionaire, the latest…
Everything else that’s out there
Four Christmases The purpose of theatrical trailers, as I (and the rest of the universe) understand it, is to showcase many of the film’s best scenes in an effort to get folks to crowd the box office during opening week and beyond. The trailer for Four Christmases fails this test, as it focuses almost exclusively…
Singing sweet praises
IN A WORLD of declining standards — where a rap song without profanity is considered an artistic breakthrough — the Savannah Children’s Choir defies the trend. The nonprofit performing group, which includes local schoolchildren from second through eighth grades, insists on at least a B average from its young singers, all of whom also have…
Live at the Lucas
WHILE SAVANNAH DANSE THEATRE has been performing The Nutcracker in Savannah with a live orchestra for several years, this edition marks the first time the music will be under the baton of maestro Peter Shannon of the Savannah Philharmonic and Savannah Choral Society. Shannon and company have made waves in the local arts scene the…
My life with Reilly
My mom likes the Game Show Network. She can sit for hours in front of the TV with 1970s episodes of The Match Game, watching Bert Convy and Zsa Zsa Gabor trade quips with Bret Sommers and Charles Nelson Reilly. Reilly has always been her favorite. Campy and acerbic, on those ancient shows he’s the…
Ho, ho… woe
CITY COUNCIL has turned its attention to that end-of-the-year grinch — the annual city budget. City Manager Michael Brown groused at the council’s Dec. 4 meeting that this is his least favorite time of the year. “But I don’t mean the holidays,” he quickly added. Brown means the seemingly endless number-crunching that has gone into…
Captain Sandy: R.I.P.
Yo ho, yo ho, what’s the weather going to be? Here’s the man who knows, let’s take a look and see. Here is Captain Sandy with the weather he has found For Savannah, and for Chatham, and the counties all around. Two weeks ago at a neighborhood Thanksgiving supper, my friend Carmela and I sang…
Code blue at the Health Department
ERICA GREEN just wanted to help. A senior at Beach High School, she was a teen peer counselor for the Chatham County Health Department’s Adolescent Health and Youth Development Program. The peer counselors went to local churches and high schools to talk to other teens about health issues, including sexuality and protection against sexually transmitted…
Unlawful waffle
POLICE WERE called to the King George Boulevard Waffle House on a complaint of a drunken man who’d become disorderly. The cashier said the man began arguing with her over his change. She said the man had used foul language and “given her the bird.” When the man was asked what he wanted to order,…
Can animals sense earthquakes?
Can animals sense earthquakes? I’ve heard stories about cats carrying their litter of kittens out of a building just prior to a quake. Is there any truth in it? We’ve had two quakes in the last three hours, and my goldfish didn’t do a thing. —Nick E., Manchester, England Scientists haven’t given up hope of…
Silly season
Lead Story The Christmas Nativity scenes in northeast Spain’s Catalonia region have, for three centuries, featured not only Mary and the Three Wise Men but the ubiquitous “caganer” icon, always portrayed with pants down answering a call of nature (and often so obscured in the scene as to popularize Where’s-Waldo-type guessing by children). The origin…
The story in a nutshell
EVER WATCHED The Nutcracker and wondered what’s the deal with that Drosselmeyer dude? And for that matter, why everyone gets so worked up about the nutcracker itself? I mean, it’s just a nutcracker, right? The answers to those age-old questions lie in a little-known “prequel” ballet which lays out the whole storyline for the famous…
New South Cafe moving to westside
THE NEW South Café is relocating from the eastside to the westside in order to accommodate a large restaurant expansion. Chef Matt Cohen’s new place will be called New South Café at the Mighty Air Force Museum, and it’s located inside the westside facility. For now, hours are Mon.-Sun. from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. with expanded…
Jeff & Vida “blow” back through town
IN LATE-BREAKING NEWS, alt.country and Americana duo Jeff & Vida have chosen to end their current tour in one of their favorite cities: Savannah. “Savannah’s always been good to us,” explained vocalist Jeff Burke (he also doubles on guitar, mandolin and banjo) — and it’s true. The internationally-praised dynamic duo of Burke and singing guitarist…
The Blind Boys of Alabama give witness tonight at Café Loco!
BY NOW, SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE ALREADY HEARD the strange news that Grammy-winning gospel legends the Blind Boys of Alabama will perform with their full backing band tonight at the small Tybee Island bar and restaurant Café Loco. It’s an unusual venue and a very last-minute booking for this internationally heralded singing act that’s…
Diary of the planet
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Palin speaks in Savannah
FORMER VICE PRESIDENTIAL candidate Sarah Palin spoke briefly at a rally at the Civic Center Monday to turn out the vote for Sen. Saxby Chambliss, facing an unexpected runoff with Democratic challenger Jim Martin. Thousands of Savannahians waited hours for her appearance, determined to get a good spot (though one eyewitness report says the crowd…
“Come On, Get It Right!”
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