An Education
AN EDUCATION **** In 1960, Lynn Barber was a 16-year-old schoolgirl in Twickenham, a suburb of London, with good grades and big dreams of attending Oxford University. She was swept off her provincial feet by a thirty-something cad named Simon Goldman, whose charm, sophistication and worldly ways were nothing like the young innocent had ever…
Review: Annie @ Savannah Children’s Theatre
It’s been a while since a local theatre group took on the classic musical Annie. The timing of this Savannah Children’s Theatre production, set in the 1930s, couldn’t be better given today’s sorry economic climate. It’s downright eerie hearing the dialogue discussing massive job losses, shuttered factories, and a mounting sense of public outrage. Still,…
AWOL makes its Choices
All Walks of Life (AWOL) started in 1997 as a simple gathering of poets, musicians, and MCs at Savannah State University. Incorporated as a non-profit in 2004, the organization provides arts and technical education for at- risk youth, while striving to reach their goal of developing youth in an environment that encourages respect, education, creativity, and especially,…
The truth shall set you free
Self–discovery is the key to contentment, Bertice Berry believes. And although it’s a bumpy road, it’s one we all must travel if we are to understand both ourselves and our world. Berry was 26 when she earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Kent State University; afterwards she taught sociology and statistics there. She has written…
Easy on the wallet as well as the palate
Two tips if you’re looking for a wine bargain: 1. Go the aisle marked “France.” 2. Look on the label, maybe even the back label, for the phrase “Vin de Pays.” Call this country boy biased, but man, can anything ever be simple in France? Vin de pays means “country wines.” Wines bearing this phrase…
Random bites: Tortuga’s Island Grill
Tortuga’s Island Grille This popular Thunderbolt breakfast and lunch restaurant is making changes. Breakfast is out –– except for Saturday and Sunday; lunch continues and dinner becomes a transforming experience for hungry diners who want a cozy, intimate get–away. At dinner, Ms. T.J. and I discovered last week, the lights go down, the Delta Blues…
Gettin’ churched
Every now and then, just when I get sick of this silly town, I come across something utterly unique and special about it that gives me faith again. Fittingly, last week I got just such a renewal of faith from a local house of worship — the historic First African Baptist Church, home of the…
Feedback on Supreme Court column
Clarification on ‘lying weasel’ Editor, Regarding last week’s Editor’s Note, “We the Corporations”: In the Santa Clara case in 1886, the court specifically did not address the corporate personhood question, because it was not necessary to adjudicate the case. The decision states this explicitly. What DID happen, was the court reporter who wrote the summary…
The wearing of the beetle
Lead Story In January, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers confiscated a live, jeweled beetle that a woman was wearing as an “accessory” on her sweater as she crossed into Brownsville, Texas, from Mexico. Blue jewels were glued onto the beetle’s back, which had been painted gold, and the mobile brooch was tethered by a…
Can you shatter a frozen dude?
Dude gets splashed with liquid helium, or blasted with cryogas, or breathed on by a white dragon, and he freezes solid into an immobile, frosty, astonished-looking block of man. Then he teeters over and crash! Smashes into a million pieces. We’ve seen it in the movies, but has it ever actually happened to anyone? I’ve…
Exhibits & Openings
Africanology Realities in American Worlds – An exhibition of large-scaled, multi-media paintings and installations by Amiri Geuka Farris. Artist talk and opening reception: 2/12, 6-8pm. SSU Social Sciences Building Gallery An Artistic Discovery – Annual U.S. Congressional High School Juried Art Exhibition for the Georgia 1st and 12th Districts. AASU Fine Arts Building, 11935 Abercorn…
Maybe Santa was looking for his lost wallet
A homeowner called police around 3:30 a.m. because the alarm for the roof latch sensor went off and he felt the roof shake. The man went to the roof through a latch inside the house and noticed fresh footprints up there but nothing else. The interior and exterior of the house were checked and everything…
What’s Next: Pink Ribbon Comedy Tour
“Laughter is the breast medicine.” If there’s ever been a better pun tying in standup comedy with breast cancer research, I’ve not heard it. The phrase is the calling card of the Pink Ribbon Comedy Tour, which will visit the Savannah Smiles Piano Bar Feb. 17. Comics Brendan T. Gleason, Nick Hoff, Kevin Richards, and…
Have you heard the one about the Jewish Sumo wrestlers?
What do sumo wrestlers, transgender elder care workers, émigrés in Vietnam and beauty pageant contestants all have in common? If you answered that they were all encompassed by the spectrum of Jewish cinema in the 21st Century, you’d be right. The Jewish Film Festival kicks off on Saturday, Feb. 6, with eight days of films…
‘Just her and I doing our thizzle’
Ever since their song “Lick It” was included in the fourth season of Showtime’s The L Word, God–des and She have been lauded as the high priestesses of lesbian hip hop. The dynamic duo (their real names are, respectively, Alicia and Tina) are openly gay, and a lot of their music – especially on their…
The Tannahill Weavers
TANNAHILL WEAVERS Named for Robert Tannahill — Scotland’s second best-known poet, after Robert Burns — this acoustic band is dedicated to preserving the traditional music of Scotland, quite similar in many ways to traditional Irish music, but with notable differences in matters of subject, instrumentation and fierce Tartan pride. There’s also the band’s legendary onstage…
Between the lines
The greatest honor an author can receive is when their work not only reaches, touches and moves people, it flourishes over generations and continues to inspire long after the writer herself has moved on. This is certainly true of Eudora Welty (1909–2001), the Mississippi–born novelist and short story writer whose languid, seemingly effortless prose not…
Journey by faith
The history of one of Savannah’s most important — and underrated — sites comes to life this Super Museum Sunday, with a free screening of a new documentary about the First African Baptist Church. While most locals recognize the church across Franklin Square from Vinnie Van Go-Go’s, they may not know the compelling story of…
