Interplay
The group Interplay at Blowin Smoke located in Savannah, GA 514 West MLK. We play every Friday from 6:30 to 9:30. We also feature different artist every month. The trio consist of Sean Bolden-drums, George Sheck-bass, Eric Jones-piano.
Nickel Bag Of Funk
Various performance shots around Savannah of local band Nickel Bag Of Funk, Winners of LiveWire Music Hall’s 2009 Battle of the Bands.
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Cybelle – ECLYPSE World Fusion Bellydance
pics of performances in and around the Savannah area.
Never again in 2010
As anyone knows who’s seen me maniacally cleaning out my office any given December, I’m a strong believer in using the new year for new beginnings. So in that spirit — and in the spirit of this week’s special Savannah Year in Review issue (which includes a roundup story on New Year’s Eve concerts) – here’s my list of…
Thinking inside the box
If your New Year’s resolution is to eat healthier or reduce your carbon footprint, then a couple of local businesses might be able to help you achieve your goal. The solution is organic farm boxes, and the new programs are shaping up to be the next phase in the local food movement that has been…
What’s Next: The classics
Let us welcome the New Year by looking forward to some highbrow entertainment. The Savannah Concert Association’s 2009–2010 series continues with the Jan. 9 recital by violinist Elena Urioste at the Lucas Theatre. Urioste made her stage debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at 13, and was recently hailed as “an emerging artist to watch” by…
New Year’s Eve!
Anitra Warren wants to rock your world on New Year’s Eve. And she knows just how to do it, too. With her show “Puccini Deconstructed,” Thursday night at the Guitar Bar, the veteran of the thriving performance art scenes in New York and Miami will dramatically stage a couple of classical arias – dressed in…
Year in Review: City Life
Recycle this! After years of neglect on the issue, the City started 2009 auspiciously with the unveiling and rapid ramp–up of a Citywide curbside, single–stream recycling program. While consumer usage initially didn’t match the City’s sense of urgency, the user side has picked up steam and is now running at about 50 percent usage — actually…
Year in Review: Performing Arts
MUSIC There’s no way to under–celebrate the year Baroness had in 2009. Blue Record, the Savannah–based metal quartet’s second album for Relapse Records, was reviewed far and wide as the genre’s most innovative – and listenable – collection in eons. Decibel magazine, metal’s periodical bible, named it Album of the Year. Said Pitchfork: “Blue Record…
Year in Review: The ballad of ‘Ruby’
In addition to the usual, um, diet of Paula Deen on your TV (with and without that extra serving of flying ham), Savannah enjoyed a few other small screen turns in 2009. Local designer Mitchell Hall was a contestant on Project Runway, and made it through three episodes before getting the big snip and heading…
It’s a wrap
The movie year began with bumbling mall cops and ended with singing chipmunks, but rest assured that signs of intelligent life could be found in between. Still, the decade certainly could have ended on a better note. After an extremely strong celluloid crop in 2007 (led by No Country for Old Men) and a…
New Year’s wine bargains
Kick off the New Year with some real wine bargains. Tough times have resulted in some really good wines coming to market –– including this selection –– that will only set you back $10 or so. Rex Goliath. This is absolutely passable juice for sipping at a party of pairing with casual goods. Three varietals…
Random bites: Green Tea, Ruth’s Chris
Green Tea Drive Thru This Chinese take–out has a firm hold on this bustling corner of Eisenhower Drive and Waters Avenue. With virtually every order made from scratch and the typically large menu, it’s hard to imagine not satisfying your yearning for Chinese take–out here. And, on Christmas night, it was the only bright corner…
Best scam letter of 2009
Editor, Please excuse this humble email if it offends your sensibilities, but I have no other means to contact you. I cannot talk on the telephone, so I did a search for your email address, which I found on the International Business Directorate Email Data Search. My name is Mrs. M Vandouf, I’m a 52…
Those doggone resolutions
“Get outside more. Get some exercise. Give back to the community. Expand your social network.” Remember these old New Year’s Resolutions? If a new approach is needed this year to address worn out goals, Mark Conway and his pals Sandman and Grace have the solution. Since early November, Conway has volunteered as a dog…
New Year’s Bluegrass Festival
There’s probably not too many indoor bluegrass festivals in the United States. Part of the charm of the old-style fests is sitting in your lawn chair, seeing and hearing the various acts come and go on the stage, and sampling whatever wafts by the on the breeze – your neighbor’s barbeque, the odd conversation, pickin’…
A conspiracy of extras
Working as an extra in a movie, particularly a big time production like The Conspirator, directed in Savannah by Robert Redford, sounds like a lot of fun. Truth be told, it is. It’s particularly interesting to watch the set designers transform historic sections of the city into Washington, D.C., which is where the tale is…
Was it something I said?
A woman was sitting outside a coffee shop on Victory Drive enjoying a fresh cup of java when a clean shaven man with short hair approached her and began making small talk.After a few minutes of conversation, the man grabbed her purse and ran off without warning. The suspect is described as being 5’8” and…
Year in Review: Savannah and the movies
Hollywood returned to Savannah in 2009, after a decade–long sabbatical. Other states offered substantial tax incentives for film production companies, making it far more lucrative to shoot there than in Georgia. But when Governor Sonny Perdue changed Peach State policy in 2009, he effectively rolled out the red carpet for moviemakers. Make that the green…
I, Stalker
My nominee for Savannah’s Man of the Year has to be Mark Owen McLeod. The 53-year-old native of Appling, Ga., was arrested in June and charged with stalking Miley Cyrus while she was on Tybee Island, filming The Last Song. Tybee police said McLeod was hanging around the fringes of the set, “making inappropriate comments”…
Is biodegradability overrated?
The restaurant around the corner has started using corn-based “compostable” plastic takeout containers. They have a “7” recycling logo on the bottom, but also say they can’t be recycled with other clear plastics. What happens if I just throw them out? – Pattee Smithee The short answer is: probably nothing. Compostable merely means the stuff…
Capitalism, Somali-style
In Somalia, which is without a central government to speak of and where very little functions beyond an Islamic resistance and individual warlords’ fiefdoms, a robust “stock market” has emerged in the city of Haradheere for “investors” in the seagoing pirate “industry,” to raise money and supplies for kidnappers in exchange for a share of…
