StoryCorps to collect local oral history
IT’S TIME to brush the cobwebs off your best stories and share them with the world. The non-profit StoryCorps, a program dedicated to documenting and archiving the oral histories of everyday people around the country, is coming to Savannah for 26 days starting January 27 to collect anecdotes and lore from the Hostess City. StoryCorps…
Must-eat TV
YOU’VE FINALLY resolved to lose some weight, but every time you turn on the television, there’s another ad for fast food. Dr. Michael Mink, assistant professor of health sciences at Armstrong Atlantic State University, has seen those ads, too. After conducting an intensive study on the subject, he is convinced food commercials are endangering Americans’…
Saving a life with a Q-Tip
HEY KIDS (18 or older), here’s something that you can try at home: Get a Q-Tip. Grasp it firmly, and swab the inside of your mouth, between your lower left cheek and gum. Now do that three more times, in the other corners of your mouth. If you can handle the level of discomfort inflicted…
Classic Blotter
Editor’s Note: According to Georgia Code (50-18-70), “All public records of an agency… shall be open for a personal inspection by any citizen of this state at a reasonable time and place; and those in charge of such records shall not refuse this privilege to any citizen.” Saying the move is necessary in order to…
How not to avoid a DUI
In The Bad Girl’s Guide to the Open Road, Cameron Tuttle suggests this technique for getting out of a DUI: Immediately step out of the car with a bottle of your favorite liquor and chug a couple shots’ worth. The officer now has no way of proving you were drinking before you got out of…
You cannot be serious
Lead Story They’re either earnestly civic-minded or people with issues, but in several dozen cities across the country, men (and a few women) dress in homemade superhero costumes and patrol marginal neighborhoods, aiming to deter crime. Phoenix’s Green Scorpion and New York City’s Terrifica and Orlando’s Master Legend and Indianapolis’ Mr. Silent are just a…
The most entertaining tax write-off of the year?
AREA MUSIC LOVERS are no doubt “jazzed” to the max about the upcoming appearance by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The single biggest fund-raising event of the 2009 season for the internationally celebrated Savannah Music Festival, this intimate show at the Lucas Theatre finds the nine-time Grammy winner (he also…
PULSE pushes the boundaries of new media
OVER THE past two decades, Hollywood has churned out two separate horror films titled Pulse, and both of their plots centered around technology run amok. In one, a computer hacker accidentally unleashes a powerful force which drains the willpower of living humans through their cell phones and wi-fi connections. In another, an “intelligent” pulse of…
‘Gihon Fractured’
CHRIS KIENKE is a Foundations professor at Savannah College of Art and Design. Aside from teaching, Kienke is a internationally accepted artist producing a wide variety of works. He has produced work shown at the Sharjah International Art Biennial, the Telfair Museum, as well as numerous other locations around the world. His upcoming show, Gihon…
Savannah’s ‘other’ film festival
MONSTER ROAD is a mesmerizing, astonishing view into the life of a brilliant but profoundly disturbed artist. You aren’t likely to see it at a local movie theater, and it probably won’t show up on TV, either. But Brett Ingram’s look at legendary stop-motion animator Bruce Bickford is coming to Savannah. It’s an offering of…
The Beatles & Widespread Panic play Broughton St.
The Beatles & Widespread Panic Well, not really. Athens, Ga.’s established Fab Four Tribute Abbey Road Live return for their first public gig in our area for quite some time. Featuring some of the Classic City’s more versatile, veteran rock players, the group does an admirable and faithful job at conjuring the Liverpudlian magic (while…
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“A New Beginning”
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Diary of the planet
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Council discusses Club Exclusive
THE SAVANNAH City Council was told the owners of the troubled Club Exclusive have closed the business and will not seek a renewal of the clubs liquor license. The latest violence at the club claimed the life of Derek Pernell Melton, 39, who was working at the club as a bouncer. City council members were…
