Old Crow, Dr. John, Tedeschi Trucks among music festival additions
Old Crow Medicine Show, Dr. John and the Tedeschi Trucks Band are among the new concerts added to the 2013 Savannah Music Festival lineup. The Wailers (the remnants of the great Bob Marley’s original band, and still one of Jamaica’s coolest reggae exports) and indie rockers Sea Wolf round out the last-minute additions, announced Thursday…
HISTORY FEST: An exploring spirit
One of Savannah’s longest–running celebrations — literally — the Georgia History Festival marks the 280th anniversary of the colony’s founding. As every local schoolchild and even most casual visitors surely must know by now, on Feb. 12, 1733, Gen. James Oglethorpe and the ship Ann pulled up to the Savannah River bluffs and began his…
5 Spot
5 Spot hits lucky 7 Every so often in the rough and tumble restaurant business there is that magical moment when an eatery is the right thing, at the right time and in the right place. That lightning has struck for The 5 Spot in Habersham Village. The all–day kitchen is the fifth location for…
The Voice
Sometimes it seems like Huxsie Scott has been an integral part of Savannah’s music community since General Oglethorpe threw his first dress parade. Truth is, she’s been the city’s premier jazz vocalist for about 40 years; it’s just hard to imagine our rich culture without her. A charter member of the Coastal Jazz Association (from…
BOOK FEST: T.C. Boyle
By combining an old–school dedication to craft with a certain hipster/counter-culture feel — both in content and in personal appearance — T. Coraghessan or “T.C.” Boyle has built a passionately devoted following for his novels and short stories. His most popular works, such as Tortilla Curtain and Road to Wellville, generally combine themes of immigrant…
BOOK FEST: The Paris writer
Like many successful ideas, it came all at once, as an epiphany. Paula McLain decided she would tell the story of Ernest Hemingway through the eyes of one of his wives. His wife during his time in Paris, actually: Hadley Richardson, a Missouri native and Bryn Mawr grad married to the great (and chronically unfaithful)…
On with the show
Go–Go Amy is disinclined to reveal her last name. Of course, with a bit of light–fingered Googling and/or journalistic sleuthing, the elusive surname could be easily discovered. But let’s let it go, because mystery is a big part of Go–Go Amy’s allure. She’s a burlesque dancer with the Pretty Things peepshow; in fact, she’s the…
Brock Butler and P-Groove part company
Ten years ago, Perpetual Groove came together right here in Savannah, and went on to be an Athens–based juggernaut, one of the most dependably great live jam bands in the South. Always, a lot of the attention was focused on guitarist Brock Butler, whose fleet fingers and arsenal of trippy electronic effects kept the groove…
Mission accomplished
Archaeology’s not all Indiana Jones — until it is. Case in point is the groundbreaking work done on St. Catherine’s Island south of Savannah. David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History in New York spearheaded a project in the late 1970s which uncovered an enormous slice of previously unknown history. He and…
