February 13: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, Feb. 13): Acclaimed Norwegian classical pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is in recital at 6:30 p.m. at Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church (presented by the Savannah Music Festival); there’s a Black Heritage Festival jazz concert, with Stan Wilkerson, Teddy Adams and a five-piece band, at 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish…
February 12: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, Feb. 12): It’s the final performance of Bay Street Theatre’s The Vagina Monologues at 8 p.m. Lewis Black laughs it up in the Johnny Mercer Theatre, also at 8. Vincent Brosseau’s multi-media The Dream combines history and choreography at 3 p.m. in SCAD’s Arnold Hall. The Bohemian Dream Band,…
February 11: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, Feb. 11): The Savannah Civic Center opens at 11 a.m. for the Savannah Black Heritage Festival’s Grand Festival Day, with readings, presentations, children’s programs and entertainment including a concert by R&B singer Dwele at 7 p.m. (preceded, at 5:30, by Savannah’s own A Nickel Bag of Funk). Admission is…
T-SPLOST is legalized piracy
Editor, Aye matey! It’s Vote Like a Pirate day on July 31, 2012. This is the day Georgians will go to the polls to impose a 1% sales tax on themselves called T-SPLOST. The problem is your vote will not count for much if you live in a small county. The Georgia Constitution is remarkable…
Safe House, Chronicle
SAFE HOUSE ** Actors often like to brag about how they performed their own dangerous stunts on a particular picture, but how many A-listers can actually claim to have been waterboarded as part of the deal? Yet here’s Denzel Washington and his co-workers on Safe House, all revealing on the interview circuit how the two-time…
February 10: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, Feb. 10): The 2012 Bay Street Theatre production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues begins at 8 tonight; Vincent Brosseau’s multimedia dance piece The Dream continues at 8 in SCAD’s Arnold Hall; The sold-out Unchained Tour (a literary experience) is at the Savannah History Museum. Or catch Hurt’s all-acoustic…
February 9: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, Feb. 9): Catch Savannah’s premiere hip hop collective, KidSyc@Brandywine, at Wild Wing Café. General Oglethorpe & the Panhandlers play Congress St. Social Club tonight with Bachaco. It’s Open Mic Comedy night at the Sentient Bean. Betsy Kingston & the Crowns play Live Wire. And SCAD professor of dance Vincent…
February 8: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, Feb. 8): Savannah Tech celebrates Black History Month with Ebony Embers/Vignettes of the Harlem Renaissance, with the words of poets Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay as seen through the eyes of renowned painter and muralist Aaron Douglas (the “Father of Black Art”). It’s free at 6:30 p.m.…
String awakening
Perhaps “fun” isn’t a word people tend to associate with classical music, but Peter Shannon, the music director and conductor of the Savannah Philharmonic, uses the word a lot when describing the performing and listening experience. “It’s not liked a picnic,” Shannon says, “it’s not like grilling at the beach But at the same time…
Black comedy
There’s a simple trick to his comedy, Lewis Black believes. “My job seems to be to pick up the newspaper and read it to you,” he says. “That’s all I’m doing. A lot of this stuff you could do in the morning, on your own.” Equal parts political commentator, silver-tongued comic and grouchy old man,…
Small biz basics
If you haven’t heard of Ashleigh Spurlock or Emily McLaughlin, it’s time you got to know them. These co-owners of Fabrika Fine Fabrics in Historic Downtown are shaking up Savannah’s downtown business scene in a big way. Both SCAD graduates, the friends returned to their alma mater as keynote speakers for the 2012 LEAD Conference…
A gay ol’ time
Like any community, the individual facets of Savannah’s network of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender organizations have their differences. Some focus on political issues, others are business-minded; some shout loud and proud to raise awareness while others work quietly to provide support to youth and seniors. But the leaders of the city’s three largest LGBT…
Hurt, Betsy Kingston and the Crowns
HURT At 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. $12 advance, $14 day of show Hurt is a pretty heavy rock ‘n’ roll band from L.A. They’ve shared stages with the likes of Alice in Chains, Staind, Seether and Three Days Grace. You’ve heard their melodic, anthemic songs like…
5 questions: James McMurtry
Topping the Americana charts this week is the 30-track This One’s For Him, a multi-artist tribute to Texas songwriting giant Guy Clark. This album includes acoustic salutes from the best of the best of the Lone Star State’s musical wordsmiths, with zero fat and zero cholesteral. James McMurtry’s right there, with a stunning rendition of…
Just wing it
I’d already decided to fire up the Weber for Super Bowl Sunday, but still did some research for friends who wanted wings without the hassle of doing them at home. That called for a drive-by of Wing Zone, a carry-out wings hut in the parking lot of Eisenhower Square Shopping Center. The line moved pretty…
Book Fest: Scarlet Letter 2.0
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, of course, deals with the consequences of adultery for a woman named Hester Prynne, who has an affair with a preacher. Hillary Jordan’s best-selling novel When She Woke deals with much the same storyline, updated for a new – or not so new? – age. In the Texas of the…
Back on the bus
It’s the day before the Unchained Tour is supposed to launch from Savannah, but the bus is nowhere to be seen. “It’s still at the mechanic’s’,” explains producer Samita Wolfe, remarkably cool and collected considering that, along with managing venues and logistics, she’s responsible for getting the performers and their stuff on the road in…
Book Fest: Praying for… more kids?
Most of us know Melissa Fay Greene from Praying for Sheetrock, her best-selling chronicle of race relations and corruption in McIntosh County, Ga. But Greene has also devoted much of her adult life to raising a family, a family now comprising four biological children and five, count ‘em, five adopted children, four from Ethiopia and…
February 7: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, Feb. 7): The all-new edition of Connect Savannah goes online today at noon. After you check it out, why not pay a visit to one of our city’s many fine art galleries?
February 6: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, Feb. 6): Writers, readers and the literary-minded are invited to tonight’s Seersucker Live event (7:30 p.m. at Bay Street Theatre), with readings, music and all-around bookish gab. Mike Doughty, Catherine Killingsworth, Harrison Scott Key and Michael Lachowski for your pleasure. At the Lucas Theatre, the film NY Export: Opus…
