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Defiance The landmark 1970s TV miniseries Holocaust and the 2002 theatrical release The Grey Zone both touched upon the topic, but Edward Zwick’s Defiance might be the first celluloid outing to focus exclusively on the efforts of Jews to violently oppose their Nazi oppressors during World War II. Certainly, it’s an overdue entry in the…
Lucky Doll’s 7th Annual Lingerie Show
Lucky Doll Lingerie Show *** For the 7th Annual installment of this theatrical, risqué fashion revue, local lingerie designer Jeanne Taber Tompkins has planned what must be her largest production to date. Along with scores of elaborately costumed and made-up models showing off her limited edition and one-of-a-kind, burlesque-style undergarments, this circus-themed event features local…
Beautiful day, Georgia Day
THE CHARMING ANNUAL procession of elementary students dressed as colonists and Native Americans that marks Georgia’s founding may never have seen a more perfect day for a parade than Thursday. “Usually it’s incredibly cold on this day, or rainy,” said Todd Groce, president of the Georgia Historical Society, which sponsors the event. “But today you’ve…
There’s something about Mary (Matalin)
MARY MATALIN is best known to politics junkies as the female half of America’s most unlikely pundit couple. The diehard Republican married high-profile Democratic consultant James Carville in 1993, soon after he helped catapult Bill Clinton to the White House. Their successful odd-couple marriage has even survived Matalin’s brief stint as a high ranking official…
The ‘beach theater’, reborn
LAYOFFS. Budget cuts. Hiring freezes. None of these are pleasant to any business, but they’re especially disheartening to a nonprofit organization. Donors have less to give, memberships slacken and already tiny budgets are even more scrutinized. Even government grants can dry up, as happened recently in Georgia. In fact, the Tybee Post Theater had received…
‘Our best work’
THE PAST 23 YEARS have seen the Cowboy Junkies evolve from a little-known Toronto bar band to a consistently impressive, internationally-known act with over a dozen albums to their name. Essentially a family affair, the group consists of vocalist Margo Timmins and her brothers Michael (guitar) and Peter (drums and percussion). Bassist Alan Anton has…
Blues for an Alabama Sky
TERESA-MICHELLE WALKER loved Blues for an Alabama Sky when she was a student at Georgia Southern University. These days, Walker is the one in charge. She teaches theater at Savannah State University, and is directing a production of the play, which is set in 1930 in Harlem. “It’s culture-heavy, but it’s fun,” Walker says. “When…
The Shape of Things
WHERE DOES art stop and crassness begin? Such is the question asked by director Lawrence Ballard and the cast of The Shape of Things, a Neil Labute play coming to Mondanaro Theatre this week. The story revolves around a group of college students including long term friends Adam and Phillip, one’s fiancé and the other’s…
New releases: Push, Taken
Push If Push comes to shove, then the only sound advice is to stay away from the theater and re-watch X-Men on DVD. Certainly, that’s an infinitely superior mutant movie, yet don’t think Push’s plagiarism ends there: It’s almost a given that the pitch meeting found the film’s creators, uh, pushing the picture by declaring,…
The real Irish celebration
WHILE ST. PATRICK’S DAY REVELRY seems to be on everyone’s mind these days (as the City is once more making a last-minute attempt to curb the more excessive elements of town’s famous, libation-heavy annual holiday festival), it’s worth noting that for almost two decades, a small group of local Irish and Irish-Americans have consistently hosted…
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Raw deal on Jekyll Editor, Attempts to defend the financial agreement between Jekyll Island Authority and Linger Longer Communities (Reynolds Company) are profoundly lacking in accountability to taxpayers. Those trying to justify an arrangement that would provide a 300% profit to LLC base their view on the ready claim that upgrades on Jekyll will boost…
Board begins discussing bleak outlook
THE COMING months will be tough for members of the Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools board. The board began the difficult process of establishing the fiscal year 2010 budget by going over the budget process with Rebecca T. McClain, Chief Financial Officer for the district, at its Feb. 4 meeting. “It’s going to be a very,…
A matter of degree
MOST OF us are familiar with the premise of six degrees of separation—the notion that, if two strangers meet anywhere in the world, they’ll be able to make a common connection through a chain of acquaintance of no more than six people. In Savannah, it feels at times that having as many as six links…
‘I got peoples’
AN ABERCORN Street resident called police after a man made threats on her and her son’s lives. The woman and her son said they had the building’s security officer tell the suspect, who lives one floor above, to turn his music down because it was very loud and late in the evening. Shortly after, the…
Why isn’t porn prosecuted as prostitution?
Why is it that if you film an act of prostitution and call it porn, suddenly it’s legal? The only difference I can see is that the male performer is also being paid, but that can’t be the case for all pornography. —Adler, Toronto, Canada Imagine the arraignment: The prosecutor says, “Your honor, the video…
Still pretty strange
Lead Story One Industry That Needs No Stimulus: (1) Drug officials in California’s Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties (north of San Francisco) estimated in January that two-thirds of the area’s economy is based on probably illegal marijuana farming (illegal under federal law, but permitted for medical use by the state). One federal agent told MSNBC,…
“Verse for Wear”
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Diary of the planet
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