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Malice in the middle
JUST DAYS AFTER Barack Obama first mused about running for president, Republican strategist Ed Rogers winged the senator on MSNBC’s Hardball. “Count me down as somebody who underestimates Barack Hussein Obama,” sneered Rogers, carefully enunciating Obama’s middle name—a family moniker passed down from his Kenyan father and grandfather. Obama’s camp, which had not hidden their…
They done lost their minds
Cultural Diversity While European and American TV and film producers take care to have dialogue dubbed into foreign languages using voices that are appropriate for each actor, the dubbing in Poland continues to be done by “lektors” — males with smoking-seasoned voices who speak the dialogue of all the characters in a story in the…
When Skunk Apes Attack!
JIM REED, founder of the Psychotronic Film Festival — who’s also this publication’s music editor — says this year’s 5th Annual festival is actually a microcosm of the types of films he shows year-round. “A lot of people think this film festival is a one-time thing, but I show similar films twice, even three times…
A Dickens of a show
Everyone is busy at the Savannah Children’s Theatre these days. The musical Oliver! opens Jan. 18, and there’s been some scrambling to get everything done. Yet Kelie Miley, the theater’s unflappable director, is calm and smiling in the midst of the madness. “It’s going very well,” she insists. “Everyone just came back from a long…
Inca images
In a unique cooperative exhibit, Armstrong Atlantic State University hosts a show of Andean weaving from the highlands of Argentina at the Fine Arts Gallery through Jan. 25. On the final day the gallery hosts a closing reception at 6 p.m., with an expert talk about these one-of-a-kind pieces of textile art and about ways…
Taking taxes to school
NOBODY ENJOYS paying property taxes, especially those that seem to go up year after year. I know I don’t. While it faces a host of obstacles — not least among them the energetic opposition of every school board in the state, including ours — there’s no doubt that Georgia House Speaker Glenn Richardson’s plan to…
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Locos story wasn’t objective Editor, I was most disappointed when I had the opportunity to finally read Jim Reed’s article “The Day The Music Died.” When I agreed to talk with Mr. Reed, it was in the spirit of not only sharing information, but to put this issue in the proper perspective. I realized that…
School board: GREAT plan not so great
IN A SHOW of bipartisanship and unity, the Savannah/Chatham school board and the City of Savannah have come together to fight a new statewide tax reform plan that they say would starve schools of needed funding. The so-called GREAT (Georgians for the Repeal of Every Ad Valorem Tax) plan — proposed by House Speaker and…
Trees, please
THE SAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION wants you. “We’re looking for people’s ideas about places that need trees,” Adrienn Mendonca, the foundation’s communications director, says. Mendonca is looking for anyone who wants to improve community-owned spaces through planting trees. “Some of the tree canopy needs to be replaced,” she says. “There might be a place that needs…
Snow’s job
FOR THE PAST ten days, lecturer Judith Snow from Toronto, Ontario, has been on the Savannah living room tour, having supper and conversation at homes around the city. Snow, her personal assistant and three friends are in town to work on a project with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. They expanded their visit to…
Shouldn’t doesn’t mean doesn’t
from recent Savannah/Chatham Police incident reports A man driving on the Truman Parkway near the East Victory Drive exit was stopped for driving 74 miles per hour in a 55 mile-per-hour zone. When the officer spoke with the driver and his female passenger, the driver said he knew he was speeding and apologized. When his…
The Met Live in HD
A popcorn and an aria, please Q: “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” A: “Practice, practice, practice. Q: “Well, then, how do you get to the Metropolitan Opera?” A: “Drive south on Abercorn Street from downtown Savannah about 10 miles to the movie theater behind Savannah Mall.” That second question is no joke, as…
Whoops, there it is
from recent Savannah/Chatham Police incident reports A man was charged with public indecency after he began masturbating in front of a shop on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. A witness told police she was out in front of the shop and saw that the suspect “was playing with himself in front of the store.” The…
You cannot be serious
The Entrepreneurial Spirit! A warehouse on Chicago’s West Side is “the world capital of fake (latex) vomit, where it’s still made the old-fashioned way, ladle by ladle, formed and coagulated,” reported the Chicago Tribune in December. Though it is not as popular as 50 years ago (7,000 units sold yearly, compared to 60,000 then), Fun…
Politics 101
MY FIRST JOB out of the University of Georgia was as staffer (a very low-level staffer) on a political campaign in Chesterfield County, Va., a suburb south of Richmond. After spending a year dealing with politicians and would-be politicians and their outsized egos — and politicians’ egos don’t get more outsized than the ones in…
A good hair day
PAT HAMILTON HAS REASON to be excited. After all, he’s spent close to a decade slugging it out, playing aggressively non-commercial original music in two related bands, with little to show for that effort in terms of popular acceptance or notoriety. However, with the impending release of his current outfit’s ballsy new full-length debut, it…
Burned
YOU’VE HEARD IT FOR YEARS in one form or another: “Home taping is killing music.” Whether it was that catchy, misleading slogan offered forth by the British Phonographic Industry (England’s version of our own Recording Industry Association of America), or the ridiculously hyperbolic Congressional testimony given under oath in 1982 by the late Motion Picture…
Spotlighted Gigs & Recommended Shows
Linnzi Zaorski & Band Zaorski is a fantastic old-time, 1930s-style jazz vocalist and torch singer in the vein of greats like Mildred Bailey, Billie Holiday and even the posthumously adored Karen Dalton. Her bandmates have a wonderful feel for the subtle nuances of acoustic swing and AmericaOld-Time na, and her vampy persona and Betty Boop-ish…
For the Bards
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Diary of the planet
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Seeing the light on conservation
EACH YEAR as the calendar moves into the New Year, I find myself thinking about Dick Cheney. The vice president once called energy conservation a “matter of personal virtue,” not part of a national energy plan. It was a backhanded compliment, likening people who practiced conservation to some quaint religious sect — pious but outside…
