New releases: Coraline, The International
Coraline Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas was actually Henry Selick’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, given that it was the latter who actually directed the film. Here, he displays his mastery again, helming an eye-popping animated extravaganza he adapted from Neil Gaiman’s best-selling book. Dakota Fanning provides the voice of Coraline, a lonely little girl…
Dexter Romweber complete interview
The following is a complete transcript of my recent phone interview with former Flat Duo Jet Dexter Romweber, in advance of his new duo’s show at The Jinx. Dexter, you seem really busy these days. Dex Romweber: Man, I’ve been swamped with interviews. I’ve done three this morning! Well, I greatly appreciate you taking the…
The tweaking of the green
THIS YEAR’S St. Patrick’s Day festival will feature a few changes that city officials say are designed to make the event safer and more fun. On Feb. 12, the Savannah City Council voted to end gating and push back the curfew from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. Other than that, the festival will operate exactly…
The city according to Otis
IT WAS obvious that most of the audience in attendance at the Town Hall meeting Feb. 10 were there for the public hearing on St. Patrick’s Day. Mayor Otis Johnson had a surprise – he made them sit through his annual State of the City address first, then gleefully said he’d done it that way…
My guy’s going in a ‘New Direction’
HE’S ABOUT the age of my oldest son, so I was confident he’d be around a long time… I liked him a lot and I really think he liked me. We had a lot in common, trusted each other. We had long talks, laughed at lot and did little favors for each other. The difference…
63 payments
A WOMAN called police after she began to suspect she had been flim-flammed. She said she had received several letters telling her if she sent in a certain amount of money, she would receive a car. The victim began sending in the amount of money asked for in the letters, but received nothing in return.…
Are Americans really dumb?
In a Straight Dope report I read online, the writer kindly reminded readers of the symbol for the euro. As a European, it seemed to me to be unnecessary until I recalled the old stereotype that we, the Europeans, so enjoy believing about the American populace: that they’re stupid and/or blind as far as the…
Strange days indeed
Lead Story Though India is recognized as a world leader in promoting the health benefits of urine, its dominance will be assured by the end of the year when a cow-urine-based soft drink comes to market. Om Prakash, chief of the Cow Protection Department of the RSS organization (India’s largest Hindu nationalist group), trying to…
Freezepop, Pink Kodiak@Wormhole
Freezepop, Pink Kodiak **** “We make fun electro-pop,” says these rising underground stars from Mass. who are currently riding a wave of unexpected —but deserved— buzz for their boldly retro take on melodramatic, dance-oriented ‘80s synth music. Anyone who grew up on the likes of Depeche Mode, Blancmange, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Bronski Beat and…
‘I am doing what I need to do’
THOSE OF us familiar with The Firesign Theater’s motto “Forward into the past!” couldn’t help but think time was folding in on itself several years back when The White Stripes first burst upon the national scene. Hadn’t we seen this somewhere before? Sure we had. It was called The Flat Duo Jets. Now, to be…
The New Familiars make their Jazz’d debut
RECENTLY, the music critics at Charlotte’s Creative Loafing newspaper named The New Familiars the Best Local Band of 2008. “(Their) take on Americana and folk gets infused with a good bit of rock ethic and rhythms that can give you goose bumps,” opined that alt.weekly, which also noted that the group’s hometown gigs had become…
‘Probe’: Work by Blazo Kovacevic
MODERN technologies often have their origins in scientists’ philosophical or even playful experiments. They are almost immediately taken over by State institutions – for example, photography became very quickly in the 19th century used for police records and military reconnaissance. The airplane, growing out of a human obsession with flight, became almost immediately a useful…
Finally, Flannery
SHE SPENT most of her life elsewhere, but there’s no denying the impact that Savannah had on Flannery O’Connor. The great writer was born in 1925 at the old St. Joseph’s on Habersham — the Rose of Sharon apartments occupy the spot now — and grew up in a home on Charlton Street a stone’s…
Cardinal Rep does Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
EVER wished for a “Behind the Music” version of Hamlet? Ever wondered who the heck were some of those characters lurking in corners at Elsinore Castle? Wonder no more as director Valerie Lavelle and a highly recognizable Savannah cast bring to stage Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Though the title gives away the…
From fatigued to fantastic
WHEN THE old get-up-and-go has got up and gone, it may be due to something a bit more serious than aging. “Generally, both fatigue and pain often reflect an energy crisis in the body,” says Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum. “If the body is no longer able to make energy, its tired.” Teitelbaum is coming to Savannah…
Diary of the planet
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“Just Playing”
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