Spotlighted gigs and recommended shows
The Hellblinki Sextet The creepy, Tim Burton-esque brainchild of former Savannah resident Andrew Benjamin, this dark, theatrical and downright addled “Pirate Cabaret” is a mesmerizing mélange of Bertolt Brecht-ian melodrama, boozy, kitchen-sink horn jazz (think John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards trying to drink a German oompah band under the table in a dimly-lit Uzbek brothel bar)…
Sushi (Tee) Time
Golf-loving sushi chef tees off with his own restaurant It’s been over a month since Eiichi “A.J.” Katamura hit a golf ball. Typically the good-humored sushi chef plays golf every week, but since earlier this year, when he started making plans to open his own restaurant, his free time has been scarce. Last Wednesday was…
Word to his mother
A young man was arrested and transported to a hospital after attacking his mother and her boyfriend. The woman told officers that she’d called police to have her son taken to Georgia Regional Hospital for psychiatric treatment. She said he’d gotten upset for no apparent reason and started an argument with her and her boyfriend.…
Oh no he didn’t
Can’t Possibly Be True An Indonesian fisherman, Dede, age 35, is in reasonably good health except that his hands and feet resemble something out of the “Alien” movie series, with huge root-like growths that render his arms and legs useless, according to a November Discovery Channel TV program, “Half Man, Half Tree,” reported on by…
Cooking Sallie Ann’s way
WHEN AN EARTHY, talkative Southern cook living in Savannah publishes a book of family recipes woven into stories of her hardscrabble upbringing, readers might assume another project has surfaced by a now-famous lady and her sons. Enter 49-year-old Sallie Ann Robinson, born and raised on Daufuskie Island, five miles north of the mouth of the…
Fighting climate change at home
IN 1969, David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth, coined the slogan “think globally, act locally.” Tommy Linstroth, a Savannah resident, keeps this adage in mind in his recently published book, Local Action: The New Paradigm in Climate Change Policy. Linstroth’s book transcends the traditional dialogue on climate change to present approachable, community-level solutions…
Give local books for gifts!
Desire: Women Write About Wanting Edited by Lisa Solod Warren (Seal Press) When Virginia-based author and editor Lisa Solod Warren asked 22 writers for essays exploring desire, their responses covered a far-reaching spectrum of physical, spiritual, personal, and universal wants. The authors who responded ranged in age from 31 to 78. While most live in…
The Golden Compass
The Golden Compass **1/2 We know all about folks eagerly awaiting, say, the next Harry Potter installment or the upcoming Batman movie, but has there been a franchise entry that people have wanted to avoid as much as The Golden Compass, the first of three pictures based on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy? Christians…
Everything else that’s out there
The Mist *** The Mist marks writer-director Frank Darabont’s third adaptation of a Stephen King property, and because he’s not shooting for Oscar gold this time around (the previous titles were the reasonably enjoyable but grotesquely overrated pair, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile), he’s able to ease up on the pedal of self-importance…
The art of bread and pastry
SO MANY TOYS! In Sam Harris’s kitchen there’s a spiral mixer with the capacity to mix 300 lbs. of dough. It enables bread dough to be mixed in half the time it would take in a conventional mixer and with less oxygenation — and therefore way more flavor and better color and texture. After mixing,…
Sing Hallelujah, people
FOR YEARS, ONE OF THE MOST beloved aspects of the old Savannah Symphony was its annual Holiday Sing-Along production of Handel’s Messiah — which found young and old audience members alike encouraged to join in on the conclusion to the piece’s middle section. The oratorio (composed in 1741) celebrating the life of Jesus Christ has…
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A dog named Tilapia Editor, I have a story to tell. The Monday before Thanksgiving I lost my dog Tilapia. I was out walking my other dog. I had left Tilapia at home; she must have slipped out the back door and the back fence into the Savannah Streets near Paulsen and Gwinnett around 10…
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A dog named Tilapia Editor, I have a story to tell. The Monday before Thanksgiving I lost my dog Tilapia. I was out walking my other dog. I had left Tilapia at home; she must have slipped out the back door and the back fence into the Savannah Streets near Paulsen and Gwinnett around 10…
Birthday bash
WITH THE 275th anniversary of the founding of the colony of Georgia on Feb. 12 getting close, the folks at the Georgia Historical Society have been busy planning a suitable celebration. They’ve even turned for help to the man who led those first 114 English colonists here way back in 1733 — Gen. James Oglethorpe.…
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Diary of the planet
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