RIP Live Wire
The first performer I ever saw at Live Wire Music Hall, shortly after I moved to Savannah four years ago, was the incredible Bobby Lee Rodgers (where are ya, Bob?) Between the Hold Steady, Trigger Hippy (with Joan Osborne), Moonalice (with the also incredible G.E. Smith), Jimmy Herring, Col. Bruce Hampton and innumerable Royal Noise…
Jan. 28: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, Jan. 28): Bring out your dead! Catch the touring roadshow production of Monty Python’s Spamalot, at 7:30 p.m. at the Johnny Mercer Theatre. And the Odd Lot is back with a night of Western-themed improv comedy, 8 p.m. at Muse Arts Warehouse.
Jan. 27: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, Jan. 27): The extra-innovative cellist Christopher Bell headlines the Sentient Bean tonight, with the Savannah string band City Hotel in support. Classical guitarist Brian Luckett is in recital at 3 p.m. at New Covenant Church. Willy Wonka is onstage at 3 p.m. at the Savannah Children’s Theatre; Shel’s Shorts…
Jan. 26: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, Jan. 26): Live Wire Music Hall will close its doors forever after tonight’s electronica show featuring Archnemisis. Willy Wonka is onstage at 3 and 8 p.m. at the Savannah Children’s Theatre tonight; there’s a 7:30 of Shel’s Shorts at Bay Street Theatre. The Ringling Bros./Barnum & Bailey Circus does…
Hansel & Gretel, Witch Hunters
HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS *1/2 The natural inclination is to compare Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter — similar titles, similar punctuation, similar lunge for fan-boy dollars — but that wouldn’t exactly be correct. Don’t quote me on this, but I’m fairly certain the real-life Honest Abe never had to…
A new recipe for art
It can be tricky when fine art and home-cooked grub collide, especially if there aren’t enough napkins. But the Slideluck Potshow has been a recipe for success since 2000, when photographer Casey Kelbaugh hosted a potluck dinner followed by slides depicting different artists’ work. The concept of a casual, unpretentious evening of art spread like…
Jan. 23: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, Jan. 23): The Ringling Bros./Barnum & Bailey Circus rolls into the Martin Luther King Arena this week; the first show is at 7:30 p.m. The Psychotronic Film Society screens a “mystery” David Lynch movie at 8 p.m. at the Sentient Bean. The Hooten Hollers provide the music for Rock…
Luxury, reasonable rates
With equal measures of bluegrass, talking blues, country and folk, City Hotel’s music straddles and blurs the lines of Americana, acoustica and old-time wit and whimsy. Not even two years old, this eclectic four-piece band has an imminent self-titled EP, cut here in town at Elevated Basement, containing five songs that would make any long-term…
More sweetness than sadness
The thing that you need to know about Jewish film festivals is that they’re not all about the Holocaust. True, the mass murder of six million Jewish people under Hitler’s evil hand has given rise to a seemingly endless slew of acclaimed yet heartrending films: Au Revoir Les Enfants, Schindler’s List and last year’s Sarah’s…
Cold dead hands
The past week marked several significant milestones and events, all sharing a common theme: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which honors a man who led non-violent resistance to segregation and was murdered with a gun; The second-term inauguration of Barack Obama, who’s now seeking increased gun regulation in the wake of the Newtown school shooting;…
Spam and chocolate
As a kid growing up in Virginia, actor Author Rowan wore out his VHS copy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He was, he admits, “one of those people” constantly quoting lines from the classic British comedy, all through high school and beyond. “Any time in my life,” Rowan recalls, “every time I introduced…
Whaleboat gets all social
Every day on Facebook, someone posts a quote or a meme about the dangers of addiction to social media and other contemporary forms of communication. This week, it was none other than Albert Einstein, quoted as saying “I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”…
Live through this: A conversation with Legs McNeil
As a co–founder of New York’s Punk Magazine (with John Holmstrom), Legs McNeil was an integral part of the burgeoning punk music scene in the 1970s. He practically lived at CBGB, the low–rent Bowery bar where the Ramones, Television, Blondie and so many others cut their fierce yellow teeth. Those decadent, drug–addled days — courtesy…
You can’t get there from here. Yet.
Sometimes there’s a chicken and egg thing going on with people’s perceptions of proposed bicycle and pedestrian facilities. Some folks regard sidewalks and bike lanes as unnecessary on a particular street or road because they claim to have seen very few people walking or riding bikes there. I’ve heard comments like this in relation to…
The Foodie Column: FORMing cheese
As I explore restaurants, I’m a sucker for a good charcuterie plate. Generally found in the appetizer section of menu or on its own, charcuterie is technically a collection of cold, cooked or cured meats. These are usually sliced thin and range across prosciutto, pancetta, soppressata or virtually any other meat that cured through cooking,…
My marvelous Meddin fantasy
For some, it’s Ryan Gosling. For others, it’s hot shoes. Me, I fantasize about real estate. And though I find walking through a breezy Jones Street flat or a Back River Tybee mansion titillating, it’s Savannah’s giant industrial spaces that really get me going. Forget fifty shades of gray; I’ll take the uniform opacity of…
Ossabaw, cops & guns
Ossabaw a ‘heck of a gift’ Editor, For the intrigue of its history and architecture, I came to Savannah some 14 years ago. It’s here that I came to know the beauty of yet another environment, that being the barrier islands and salt marsh. Through an incredible stroke of luck and good fortune, a friend…
Cannabis Interruptus
One man is in custody following a seizure of marijuana plants by the Chatham–Savannah Counter Narcotics Team (CNT). Earlier this month CNT Agents, working in a undercover capacity, received info that marijuana was being grown on the 2200 block of Bonaventure Road. Agents began investigating the residence and identified 56–year–old Gregory Paul Sucher as their…
