Tara Feis: All in the (Irish) family
MEMBERS OF ALTAN don’t tour as much as they did in the past. They don’t need to. Altan has become one of Ireland’s biggest names in traditional music. The Boston Globe proclaimed them “the hottest group in the Celtic realm these days.” “Ten years ago, I’d have said we tour eight to nine months out…
Theater: Oliver Twist
THIS IS ONE Oliver with a twist. The Savannah College of Art and Design School of Performing Arts will present Oliver Twist March 6-9 at Trustees Theater. It’s based on the novel by Charles Dickens, which was adapted by Neil Bartlett. In Bartlett’s version, the tale of the forlorn but lovable orphan is told in…
American Muslim
JON STEWART, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, NPR — they’ve all had Reza Aslan on their shows. In high demand for his telegenic speaking skills and vaguely hipster sense of humor, this professor at the University of California at Riverside and the best-selling author of No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam…
Zero tolerance?
ON JAN. 17, campus police arrested a 16-year-old Savannah High School student who attacked a classmate. It was one of many fights at the school that day, but this one was particularly brutal. The victim had a bottle of milk knocked out of his hand. When the milk spilled on other students, the victim and…
Council confirms St. Patrick’s changes
THE TRADITION of staking out the squares on St. Patrick’s Eve is no more. On Feb. 28, the Savannah City Council approved the permit for the 184th annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, but there are some strings attached. No one can enter the squares or reserve territory before 6 a.m. on the March 14 parade…
Joyriding for a cause
IN FEBRUARY, while browsing the winter sale at Gaucho’s Bull Street shop, I found myself in a spontaneous conversation with three women: the sales assistant, a longtime downtown resident, and a second-home Savannahian, grateful to be back in our mild climate after a week in the cold at her Pennsylvania abode. Super Museum Sunday, the…
Your brain on crack
from recent Savannah/Chatham Police incident reports An officer traveling east on Anderson Street saw a pickup truck traveling eastbound. The driver was making lane changes without signalling and without a tag light. The driver turned on the left signal and made a left turn onto Paulsen Street, then a left turn into Henry Lane. The…
No way. Way.
Can’t Possibly Be True Two Park Vista High School girls who admitted that they swiped money off the table of a Girl Scout selling cookies at a supermarket in Boynton Beach, Fla., in January told WPBF-TV later that they had no remorse. Said one (on camera): “We went through all that effort to get (the…
Powerful medicine
ANY OF YOU who’ve seen a loved one suffer a stroke are all-too-familiar with the emotional rollercoaster ride that comes with it, especially in the early stages: the minute-by-minute monitoring of conditions, the uncertainty of if or how they will recover, and the gloomy, overriding sense that nothing will ever be the same again. I’ll…
Take a Bow
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Diary of the planet
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An archive full of remarkable performances
HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU attended an outstanding live concert event only to wish in vain that you could somehow obtain a high-quality document of the show to listen to time and time again? Although there have always been hi-fi enthusiasts, amateur archivists, Überfans and even enterprising black-market businesspeople who sometimes went to great lengths…
Teaching kids to ‘feel’ jazz
CONYERS, GA. NATIVE MARCUS PRINTUP was raised on gospel before catching the jazz bug in his late teens. An award-winning trumpeter in college, he was befriended by the masterful jazz pianist Marcus Roberts, and that imprimatur led him to join Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in the early ‘90s. He’s gigged and /or…
Spotlighted Gigs & Recommended Shows
The Chuck Courtenay Band Some professional musicians (such as myself) who make the club, bar and restaurant scenes must working in groups. If the instrument we play (in my case, drums) is not the sort that lends itself easily to solo recitals or background music gigs, we’ve got to align ourselves with cats who can…
