Dec. 9: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, Dec. 9): The curtain comes down on the Collective Face’s take on Oscar Wilde’s Salome with today’s 3 p.m. matinee at Muse Arts Warehouse, while AWOL’s interpretation of A Christmas Carol starts its final performance at the same hour at the Henry Street S.P.A.C.E. The Savannah Children’s Choir presents…
Dec. 8: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, Dec. 8): Thunderbolt comes alive with the all-day, all-night Yuletide Jam, outdoors at Tubby’s. Starting at noon, the lineup includes von Grey, the Eric Culberson Band, Junkyard Angel, Wormsleow and a veritable host of others. The Tybee Island Christmas Parade kicks off at 1 p.m. England’s romantic Christmas comedy…
‘The Sessions’
THE SESSIONS **1/2 The 1996 Oscar-winning documentary Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien is a compelling look at the acclaimed writer who, having contracted polio as a child, spent his life in a state of paralysis, largely confined to an iron lung until his death in 1999 at the age of 49.…
‘Killing Them Softly,’ ‘Rise of the Guardians’
KILLING THEM SOFTLY *1/2 Writer-director Andrew Dominick, whose epic Western The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford made my 10 Best list for 2007, stumbles badly with this yarn (based on George V. Higgins’ novel Cogan’s Trade) in which a professional killer (Brad Pitt) is tasked with locating and eliminating the low-level…
Dec. 7: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, Dec. 7): The Collective Face’s exotic, erotic take on Oscar Wilde’s Salome returns to Muse Arts Warehouse at 8 p.m., while AWOL’s interpretation of A Christmas Carol starts at the same hour at the Henry Street S.P.A.C.E. At Screamin’ Mimi’s, Savannah’s Habitat Noise shares a bill with Conquer America…
Dec. 6: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, Dec. 6): Highly recommended: Consider the Source, a jam band that incorporates trance-like Middle Eastern and Indian motifs and psychedelia into the music, plays the Wormhole tonight with Savannah reggae-rockers Kota Mundi, plus Emoticon and Expressive Machines (robots, y’all!).
Dec. 5: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, Dec. 5): The Psychotronic Film Society’s Jim Reed sure knows where to find the obscure ones. Tonight at 8 at the Sentient Bean, he’s screening the 1981 TV movie Fallen Angels, a weird pedophilia drama starring the late child star Dana Hill, and veteran character actors Richard Masur and…
Of haggis & heritage
I RECENTLY HAD the great pleasure of attending the St. Andrew’s Society of Savannah annual banquet, the first time I’d ever gotten an invite to that event sponsored by the fine organization devoted to perpetuating local Scottish heritage. That’s a lot of heritage by the way — the banquet just marked its 275th year. Yup,…
Joyful Noise
Whatever you choose to call it, jazz, rock or funk, the Royal Noise makes instrumental music that moves like heavy machinery light on its feet — aggressive art that doesn’t stay in one place for too long. It’s musical perpetual motion. “Fusion,” says guitarist Johan Harvey, “is always a loaded word, because it covers so…
It’s a wonderful film
If George Bailey and his heavenly sidekick Clarence don’t get you in the holiday spirit any more (perhaps, like me, you’ve seen It’s a Wonderful Life just one too many times?), allow me to propose another movie that should become a Christmas perennial: Richard Curtis’ Love Actually. Curtis, a British writer and director who also…
Cocoa motion
If life is really like a box of chocolates, then please Lord, let them be made by Adam Turoni. The Pennsylvania native opened Chocolat by Adam Turoni in October, showcasing his exquisite line of original confections: Bacon–flecked toffee. Gold–dusted truffles. Sea salt–flaked caramels filled with local honey. Could one do better than to compare our…
Meet the von Grey sisters Saturday in Thunderbolt
A remarkably strong lineup has been announced for the fifth annual Yuletide Jam, a 14–hour festival of music Dec. 8 at Tubby’s in Thunderbolt. Along with Wormsloew, the Eric Culberson Band, Junkyard Angel, Turtle Folk and others, there’s this: Alpharetta’s von Grey, an acoustic, harmony–heavy quartet that blends intoxicating Americana with classical instrumentation. Kathryn, Annika,…
It’s biker to give than to receive
AROUND THIS TIME last year, I used this column to publish a guide for shoppers looking for gifts for the cyclists in their lives. I stand by those suggestions, which were necessities for people wanting to make bicycles a part of their daily lives: lights, locks, helmets and reflective clothing. As I believe it is…
The Foodie Column
“Subversive food.” Granted, it’s not a phrase you expect to see. That is, until the search is on for the ultimate urban sandwich — The McGangbang. I heard of the sandwich from a young food service worker, catalogued it to the back of my brain and moved on. Surely not. With all of the controls…
Fast tracking disaster
I must have been temporarily brainwashed by the Kool–Aid flowing downstream from Atlanta, where state legislators have passed a new law that makes it easier for corporations to pollute just about everything.
Angels among us
Telfair Museums Executive Director Lisa Grove has been to a lot of museums in her time. But when she recently came face-to-face with the iconic works in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, “it gave me goosebumps,” she says. “We were invited to the Uffizi on a day it was closed to the public. The…
Facebook fail
A thief ended up in jail after he took a photo of himself on a stolen cellphone which automatically uploaded it to Facebook. At about 5 p.m. Nov. 22 police responded to the 500 Block of Charlton Lane and spoke to Lori Uhr of Florida. She told police that the previous day her vehicle had…
Dec. 4: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, Dec. 4): Big Daddy Love is at Live Wire Music Hall, Kevin Church provides the tuneage at Lulu’s Chocolate Bar, and it’s Hip Hop Night at the Jinx once again. And this week’s all-new issue of CONNECT is online, starting at noon, at connectsavannah.com.
