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Life on the tipping point
Creating a Sustainable Future is the theme of the upcoming Creative Minds event Feb. 6-10, featuring a seminar with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a screening of An Inconvenient Truth.
Music Menu
A quick look at live shows around town this week
Connect Recommends
Our picks for the most noteworthy live gigs this week
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Film Reviews
Break dancing to Beastie Boys, griot to emcee
AWOL brings second Hip Hop History spoken word/dance performance to the Lucas
We folk it, we rock it
Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart bring their eclectic harmonies to Randy Woods
Editor’s Note: Word to your (earth) mother
Savannah’s bullish on arts of all genres, but to me the single most vibrant and up-to-the-minute scene here is without a doubt that of spoken word performance. Centering primarily on two major groups (Spitfire Poetry Group and AWOL), local spoken word artists, plying their craft in coffeehouses and schools, display an absolutely sick (and woefully…
Your letters
Right whale story not right Editor, I have a few comments regarding the article “When ‘save the whales’ isn’t a joke” by Sabrina Manganella Simmons. I worked with right whales for two calving seasons (1997-98 and 1998-99) as an employee of the New England Aquarium (NEA). We surveyed the coastal areas from Little St. Simons…
Fishman: Two words — lake effect
These days, taking a short break from the South, I am in and out of snow country where time and light and even color take on different meanings.
Pop! by Scott Howard
A new season of 24 is underway and I’m already addicted. I’ve watched this show from day one and am awed every year by its uncanny ability to reinvent itself as more exciting and relevant. I’m also amazed that it has so many haters. This is, after all, one of the most innovative shows in…
Interview: Mark Heflin
As Alice asked before beginning her adventures in Wonderland; “What is the use of a book without pictures?” She wasn’t alone in her sentiment. To celebrate a quarter-century of American Illustration’s publication, the magazine’s director Mark Heflin asked 25 of America’s top illustrators to bring their talents to a commemorative timeline project. On display at…
Art Patrol
‘Graffic Jam’ — Live performances from graffiti Writers, MC/DJ’s, and break dancers from noon-8 p.m. Sat. Feb. 3 in the Starland District on 41st Street between Whitaker and Bull. Visiting Artist Series — Chroma Gallery hosts mixed-media artist Cedric Smith, who blends photography and painting in his forward-retro take on the African-American South. Opening…
Blotter
Man or Repo Man? A man called police for help after he saw a Cadillac he believed was being stolen in the area of Ogeechee Road. The officer who responded saw the man in his car, following the Cadillac. However, dispatch informed the officer that the Cadillac actually was being repossessed. The officer stopped…
News of the Weird
Sharing the Wealth In findings that could surely be matched in the United States, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives reported in January that the country’s 100 highest-paid business executives had, by 9:46 a.m. on Jan. 2, earned an amount equal to what the average Canadian would earn in all of 2007. And The New…
