Lynx, America’s Privateer
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Just Go With It, The Eagle, The Company Men
JUST GO WITH IT *1/2 Adam Sandler’s latest catnip for knuckleheads, Just Go With It, is based on Cactus Flower, a farce that’s been the basis for a French play, a Broadway hit, and a motion picture starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn in her Oscar-winning role. But here’s the thing: Not until…
Savannah Stopover adds more bands
And the list just keeps on growing. Just announced bands and artists for the Savannah Stopover Festival (March 9-12) include Young Buffalo, Sonia Leigh, Secret Mountains, Lands and Peoples, Sanders Bohlke, Loch Lomond. Cheyenne Marie Mize, Nive Nielson and the Deer Children, Oryx and Cake, Mermaids, Abby Gogo, Grand Prize Winners From Last Year, The…
A deepening disaster
Editor, Rah, rah, deepen the Savannah harbor at taxpayer expense and bye–bye Savannah City Hall, as the river bank caves in. We didn’t need that government anyway. Good riddance. Sink or swim. If we lost Bay Street, too, the trucks will have a hard time leaving Savannah with all that cheap plastic junk made by…
The last local taboo
AS WE’VE SEEN with the ongoing controversy over who will be the next city manager, the confluence of race and politics is no longer the taboo subject in Savannah that it once was. But one taboo remains. If you want to get into a loud argument in this town — I mean bordering on a…
Dooley noted
TWO WORDS: Vince Dooley. He needs no introduction. But here’s something you may not know about the legend that sets him apart from many sports figures: He’s a bona fide scholar. Dooley’s abiding love of history and politics, in fact, is almost a parallel, shadow career alongside his iconic status as former University of Georgia…
Dancing across the water
For La Traversee: The Promising Voyage, his 90–minute dance suite about immigrants coming to America in the early 20th century, Vincent Brosseau needed only look to his own not–too–distant past for inspiration. The SCAD professor of dance moved to this country from his native France in 1980. “I didn’t speak the language when I came…
Remixing Mother Goose
Local author Phyllis Tildes had a dream of being a children’s book illustrator, and although she it took her until age 50 to make that dream come true, she’s made up for lost time. Over the last 16 years, she’s worked on 18 books, with subjects ranging from cute cats to more scientific pursuits.Her newest…
The mayor and my mom
The mayor and a majority on council have given appearance of discrimination against the most qualified candidate for city manager because he’s white. They find themselves in the company of politicians of olden days, who suppressed rights of black citizens, and the judicial system of a northern state, where my 102–year–old mother resides. It seems…
Don’t forget southside Barnes
Downtowners seem to have fully embraced the Barnes Express BBQ location on Whitaker Street. Many of them may not know that an expanded menu awaits at the original Barnes Restaurant on Waters Avenue, a few blocks north of Derenne. I stopped in recently for lunch and had to circle the parking lot twice to find…
All walks of Shakespeare
Lakesha L. Green is a firm believer in the positive effect theatre can have on young people. “It changes their lives,” she says. “It gives them the opportunity to tap into things that they didn’t know they had in them.” Since 2008, Green has been the theatre arts director for All Walks of Life (AWOL),…
The Arizona Syndrome
Last spring, the state of Arizona took center stage in the national debate on immigration reform, a drama that culminated with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signing SB 1070 into law last April. It prompted heated debate; viewed by some as a necessary step toward reducing illegal immigration and by others as a legislative endorsement of…
Digital love story
The Savannah Book Festival doesn’t happen until the weekend of Feb. 18-19, but we wanted to give you a sneak peek to get you in the mood. This week we talk with Savannah resident Cavanaugh Lee, whose novel Save as Draft is the story of a love triangle told purely in the language of digital…
Valentine’s vino
For a guy not partial to sparkling or sweet wines – I want Villa Donna Moscato di Asti to be my Valentine. Generations of wine makers have developed the grape and the process – to create low alcohol, slightly sweet to very sweet wines that are favorites of both inexperienced wine consumers – and those…
Futurebirds, Paleface
FUTUREBIRDS At 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11 Loco’s Grill & Pub, 301 W. Broughton St. $8 This isn’t exactly a CD release show, but there’s reason to celebrate: This week, the six-man Athens band’s self-titled EP is being re-released, on vinyl, through Autumn Tone Records (that means a bigger audience) and on iTunes, and they’re…
Crimes of the heart
A strip club manager called police to report a man refusing to pay for his lap dances. When officers arrived, they spoke with “Mia” who told them that the man owed her for a total of 13 dances at $30 per dance. She said that it was explained to him before entering the room that…
The return of the raucous thoroughbred
Gather ‘round, children, and listen to the story of Superhorse, a rock ‘n’ roll band that began nearly 20 years ago, amidst the beer fumes and cigarette smoke of a cold, boxy rehearsal space inside a downtown building that burned in 1998. The Lamas building is no longer as it was, and there are no…
Mark your calendar: Stopover updates
We’re still waiting for final confirmation on specific dates, times and venues for the March 9–12 Savannah Stopover, but the roster of performers for the multi–club band–fest is still growing by leaps and/or bounds. Among the impressive names on the Stopover roster is Class Actress, the New York eclectro–pop trio fronted by singer and songwriter…
A million laughs
There’ll be laughs aplenty in Savannah this weekend — and this time, we’re not talking about the City Manager debacle.Two back–to–back concerts, both of them in the Johnny Mercer Theatre, will deliver a pretty vast cross–section of comedians. Each show targets a very different audience. On Feb. 11, Tim Wilson headlines “John Boy and Billy’s…
Pork in cat food? Yes or no?
Over years of buying pet food, I have noticed the “wet” varieties purport to be made from any number of meats and fishes. I can recall cat and/or dog food made of beef, lamb, liver, tuna, salmon, chicken, turkey . . . the list seems endless. But it never includes pork. I discard as preposterous…
Exhibits & openings this week
All is well (Damn right it is) – New works by local artist Eric David Wooddell. Mandalas and collages inspired by the amazing times we live in. Ghost Town Tattoo, Montgomery & Congress Sts. Chittlin’ Circuit Review – Works by artist and muralist, Rik Freeman, in conjunction with the Black Heritage Festival. Beach Institute, 502…
