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Police seek public’s help
Savannah-Chatham Metro Police are trying to locate missing felon Malcolm Xavier Tartt, 17, of Savannah. Tartt is wanted in connection with an aggravated assault that occurred in December in the 7000 Block of Grant Street. Taratt also is a person of interest in several other felony crimes in the Savannah area. He is known to…
Thieves “Slip Away” with Greg Allman’s stash
According to online news reports, legendary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member -and Richmond Hill resident- Gregg Allman (of the Allman Brothers Band) recently suffered a break-in at his home while he was away. The supposed thieves, identified by the Bryan County Sheriff’s Department as 27-year-old Craig Matthew George and 19-year-old Brittney Ann Sahlberg,…
Everything else that’s out there
Doubt While Ron Howard transforms Frost/Nixon into a living, breathing motion picture, writer-director John Patrick Shanley never quite makes it past the curtain call with Doubt. Adapting his own Pulitzer Prize-winning theatrical triumph, Shanley doesn’t possess Howard’s instincts in front of the camera, resulting in a movie that remains stage-bound. Set in 1964, the film…
What’s in store for the local music scene?
I RAN into an old acquaintance the other night whom I hadn’t spoken to in several years. Come to think of it, the last extended conversation the two of us shared might just have been the night we took in the Bocephus and Lynyrd Skynyrd concert at the Civic Center. He lives in Florida now…
Local Artist Spotlight: Rhythm Riot’s Bill Hodgson
FOR THE PAST THREE DECADES, local musician Bill Hodgson has been playing a wide variety of rock, country, blues and soul music throughout the Coastal Empire. An energetic stage performer with a knack for learning songs on the fly and a versatile vocal style that can go from a gritty R&B growl to a twee,…
Of clubs and crime
ON JAN. 6, Savannah City Council has approved a petition from Kechia Matadin, doing business as Island Breeze, for a transfer of a liquor license. Matadin had also asked the council to renew a liquor license for her other business, Frozen Paradise. Both requests had been tabled pending further review because of incidents that have…
Board warned of coming crunch
THE NEW YEAR is just beginning, but the school year already is half over for the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System. Superintendent Thomas Lockamy says the district has made improvements this school year, but knows serious challenges lie ahead in the face of the worsening economy. Lockamy presented his mid-year State of the Schools report…
Darius by the numbers
TRY OUT this math problem: calculating Savannah’s response to last weekend’s local premiere of the film Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life. Last Thursday night, nineteen year old Darius Weems of Athens cruised into Savannah with a crew of buddies and an RV full of DVDs of the film. Add 4 (Savannah events…
A woman scorned
A WATERS Avenue resident flagged an officer down to report damage to his car. The man told the officer that he and his ex-girlfriend had an argument, and he believed she was responsible for the damage. The man said it was an ongoing problem and that he had secured peace bonds against the woman in…
The cry for cryogenics
I’ve been hearing a lot lately about miraculous improvements in auto engine parts, golf balls and clubs, razors, and even brass and stringed musical instruments, all by subjecting the object in question to a deep freeze of –300 degrees or more. Is there any solid evidence for this? —Mickey Houlahan, Chicago As a former high…
Loretta Lynn at the Shoreline
Loretta Lynn *** ANTICIPATION IS RUNNING HIGH for this extremely rare area appearance by this C&W icon. At age 74, she’s basking in the afterglow of her most recent comeback album, Van Lear Rose. That record —amazingly enough, only the second in her long and storied career on which she either wrote or co-wrote every…
Girls just wanna have fun
LUCAS THEATRE Executive Director Ken Carter knew something special had happened in his theatre at the conclusion of last spring’s La Traviata by the Savannah Choral Society. “The second the curtain hit the floor, the audience just exploded,” says Carter. “Some of them actually jumped out of their seats and started cheering like crazy. I…
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) is an Elizabethan romp
SAVANNAH’S Department of Cultural Affairs brings The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) to theatre S.P.A.C.E. to do battle against the notion that Shakespeare is a genre confined to forced eighth grade reading lists and dull theatre repertory. Between drag princesses (otherwise known as Ryan McCurdy) and the use of Godzilla dolls for interpretive purposes,…
Sondheim’s Company tackles the age-old questions —musically
HAVE YOU ever been accosted by a caring friend who insisted that your life was incomplete without the joys of married life? Imagine how much greater your apprehension would be, then, if instead of one friend you were assaulted by the good intentions of ten. Such is the luck of Robert, the object of persuasion…
New releases: Gran Torino, etc.
Gran Torino Clint Eastwood has stated that Gran Torino might mark his final appearance as an actor (he plans to keep directing), and if he sticks to his guns, it’s an appropriate way to end a magnificent career. In that respect, it brings to mind John Wayne’s swan song, the elegiac Western The Shootist (directed,…
Bonnie Raitt returns to the Mercer Theater
BACK IN the ‘70s and ‘80s, when phenomenal singer and slide guitarist Bonnie Raitt was more of a stellar club act than the superstar female icon of blues and rock-influenced pop that she is now, she played our area several times at Hilton Head’s intimate (and now defunct) Old Post Office. “We tried numerous times…
Thieves “Slip Away” with Greg Allman’s stash
According to online news reports, legendary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member -and Richmond Hill resident- Gregg Allman (of the Allman Brothers Band) recently suffered a break-in at his home while he was away. The supposed thieves, identified by the Bryan County Sheriff’s Department as 27-year-old Craig Matthew George and 19-year-old Brittney Ann Sahlberg,…
“The Worst of 2008”
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Olivia Newton-John plays Johnny Mercer Theater
IN LATE-BREAKING NEWS, tickets went on sale this morning, January 9 for the upcoming March 9 Johnny Mercer Theater concert appearance by Australian pop singer and movie star Olivia Newton-John. After winning a Grammy in the USA for “Let Me Be There,” she soon became a worldwide sensation as the female lead alongside John Travolta…
