Eight arrested on drug charges at Widespread Panic show
“Nearly a dozen people are facing felony drug charges following an undercover drug operation at a Savannah concert,” says a spokesperson for the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team (CNT). CNT agents, “along with agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration, attended the Widespread Panic concert held at the Savannah Civic Center Friday…
Video obtained of River Street robbery Feb. 22
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department’s Robbery Unit “has obtained surveillance footage from the Feb. 22 robbery in the 100 block of River Street and seeks to identify the suspect,” police say. Surveillance footage shows the victims “outside a maître d station on River Street when the suspect walks past them and turns back around,” police say.…
Deep Center names Savannah’s best young author
Deep Center has named 11-year-old Jade Davis, a 6th grader from Isle of Hope, Deep Laureate for winter 2016. The honor recognizes Jade as one of Savannah’s “deepest” young authors, whose creative writing is among the most skilled, original and fearless in the county. “I feel happy and proud to be named Deep Laureate. Nothing…
Metro investigates downtown robberies
Savannah- Chatham Metropolitan Police Department’s Robbery Unit is investigating three downtown robberies that occurred between Feb 19. and Feb. 24. At approximately 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 19, a couple was walking in Washington Square when a suspect approached them and produced a firearm and subsequently robbed them. The suspect is described as a black male…
Coffee shops targeted in overnight burglaries
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating three overnight burglaries at Starbucks locations throughout Savannah. Just before 5 a.m. Starbucks employees reported burglaries at locations on the 7800 block of Abercorn Street, Skidaway Road and Victory Drive and Bull and Broughton streets. The exact times of the burglaries are unknown. “Investigators found no immediate signs of forced…
Editor’s Note: Just cuttin’ some grass
Maybe, just maybe, some of the outrage is gone because there is a sense that matters are at least beginning to get somewhat under control here?
Collective Face reinvents modern tragedy Death of a Salesman
The Collective Face’s adaptation will depict Loman existing and fighting not only against the world around him, but also within his own consciousness
Tim Youd is just Flannery’s type
THE APPROXIMATE standard measure of thickness for a single sheet of copier paper is .1 of a millimeter. According to the Georgia State University Department of Physics, this stacks up to roughly 445,455 atoms deep. Fold that piece of paper once, and the Law of Exponential Growth kicks in; you’ve just doubled in size. Ten…
Widespread Panic celebrates 30 years
WIDESPREAD PANIC hardly need an introduction in their home state of Georgia. The Athens road warriors are celebrating 30 years of success in 2016: they’re heading back down south, they have a new album, perhaps one of their best yet, Street Dogs, released in September 2015, they’ve still got sun on their shoulders from the…
Yair Muñoz and ‘the idea of the possible’
THE WORDS “deferred action” kept running through my head after I spoke with recent Armstrong graduate Yair Muñoz. President Obama gave us “Deferred Action for Child Arrivals” in 2012. This policy has brought hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants out of the shadows. Muñoz was brought to this country when he was nine years old. He thought the bus from Mexico…
A-Town Get Down: The Complete Guide
Robert Randolph headlines the sixth annual fest held in loving memory of SCAD student Andrew “A-Town” Townsend
Tourism in Savannah: Balancing journey and destination
It’s a tricky business, this balancing act of maintaining a good quality of life and showing our guests a good time. And we’re certainly not alone.
A world without paper? Not a chance, says Mark Kurlansky
“If you don’t like the way society is going, you have to change society, you can’t blame it on the computers”
Bike-friendliness: One of the ‘highest returning investments’
“Bike and walking improvements are the highest returning investment a city can make”
FeelFree @Rocks on the Roof
FeeFree blends jazz, blues, reggae, and a killer horn section to create a cultural melting pot of sound
Geoff Smith of Gunner & Smith @The Sentient Bean
Their latest solidifies the group’s alt-country direction with moody dips, jangly percussion, and warm harmonies
Ike Stubblefield, Voodoo Soup @Barrelhouse South
His Ike Stubblefield Trio showcases the keyboard wizard’s jazz, funk, and jam influences
A conversation with The Dead Milkmen’s Joe Jack Talcum
A 13-year hiatus followed, but it was certainly not downtime for Joe Genaro aka Joe Jack
Review: Triple 9
Director John Hillcoat (the Down Under Western The Proposition) prefers to shoot extensively in the dark, which adds ambience but also occasionally results in images so dim, you wish an a.d. would hand him a flashlight already.
