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Review: Pacific Rim
The film’s special effects are superb, yet their frequent and coolly detached employment means that this is basically a CGI circle jerk.
SpongeBob 2 to shoot here
The City of Savannah Film Services Office announced today the “SpongeBob Movie 2” will be shooting live action scenes in the area this September, October and November. “SpongeBob is a very successful international franchise and we are very excited to be working with Paramount on this project. This is a good fit for us and…
Trailer for ‘Savannah’ movie released
ET Online has released the trailer for ‘Savannah,’ the upcoming film written by Annette Haywood-Carter and Kenneth Carter, and directed by Haywood-Carter. Shot locally in 2011, the movie will open here Aug. 23.
Man shot at dominoes game
Detectives are investigating the actions that led to the shooting of West Savannah man during a dominoes game in the Hudson Hill area Wednesday night. Kareem Marquise Harris, 29, of a Newcastle Street address, was transported to Memorial University Medical Center where he underwent surgery after the 8:47 p.m. shooting. He and others had convened…
Motorcyclist dies on I-16
A 31-year-old motorcyclist died this morning after he lost control and crashed at Interstates 516 and 16. James Ernest Banks of Guyton died at Memorial University Medical Center where he was transported after the 7:32 a.m. crash. He had been on a a blue and silver 2003 Suzuki motorcycle northbound on I-516 and turned right…
Editor’s Note: GOP takes us back to 1979
When you have a decade of quickly diminishing per capita income directly tracking a decade-long takeover of state government by one party, it pays to at least take a peek at the trendline.
Obama speaks with forked tongue on surveillance
It’s bad enough the federal government spies on us. Must it insult our intelligence too? The government’s response to Edward Snowden’s leaks about the National Security Agency’s secret monitoring of the Internet and collection of our telephone logs is a mass of contradictions. Officials have said the disclosures are (1) old news, (2) grossly inaccurate,…
Kristine Stevens is livin’ the dream
By counting her pennies, she was able to stretch the sojourn into seven months, and she always adhered to a fellow traveler’s admonition to trust her gut.
Deadheads unite: Meet the Charlie Fog Band
“You’re really looking for a moment in time, chasing it,” says guitarist Dan Berman. “You’re really hoping it finds you as a group.”
City gov’t showcases ‘engaging’ TV
‘The idea is to present the modern mosaic of what Savannah really is now,” explains Jenkins, surrounded by monitors and dials in the humming production room on the fourth floor of City Hall.
AASU goes commedia!
‘In traditional commedia, some of the more buffoonish characters — such as the Pantalone and the Harlequin — were all masked. And the others were heavily made up. So it was almost like a mask, but not quite.’
Ponderosa: Homeless survival mode
“It’s ‘Oh my God, I have to eat Taco Bell one more time,’ or ‘I hope this person doesn’t have 17 cats when we show up to their house at 4 a.m.’
Sweet Spice is Jamaican us hungry
Unafraid to introduce Savannah to new flavors, Smith filled the menu with the other Jamaican staples he learned to prepare at his mother’s stove.
Art March builds on momentum
‘Nar Bar will be a total slow-brewed coffee experience. We’re working out the details with local roaster Perc Coffee to make this a gourmet brewed-coffee house, but the art is always going to come first for us. Nar Bar won’t overshadow the Sicky Nar Nar artists at all.’
Jurassic Park: All-access pass
The film was re-released earlier this year, in 3D, to capitalize on its 20th anniversary. It’s this version that the SCAD Cinema Circle screens July 13 in the Trustees Theater.
Shooting at Fourth festivities
Detectives continue to sort out the details of a shooting downtown early on July 5 in which a bystander received non-life threatening injuries. A 22-year-old man was transported to Memorial University Medical Center with a shoulder wound after the 12:15 a.m. incident near Bay and Whitaker streets. The area of the shooting was immediately saturated…
Moon meteors: Visible or no?
NASA has asked the scientists operating the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, now mapping the moon’s surface, to take a picture of the March 17 crater, and they expect to get around to it later this year.
Review: Corey Hines @Sparetime
‘I‘ve always considered myself a folk artist—even from my beginning days. But, I’ve always sort of masked that under playing in bands because it’s always been fun to play house parties and bars and get rowdy.’
Shooting death on 38th Street
Homicide detectives are investigating the shooting death of a 19-year-old Savannah man early this morning. Antwan Rivers of the 200 block of Hampstead Avenue was found dead on the sidewalk on the 1100 block of East 38th Street by residents alerted by gunshots at 1:22 a.m. Anyone with information on the case is asked to…
First human West Nile case in GA
The Georgia Department of Public Health today confirmed the state’s first human case of West Nile Virus (WNV). The adult patient from Brantley County was infected in May and recovered without hospitalization or complications. “Standing water is a breeding ground for mosquitoes that may be infected with West Nile Virus,” said Rosmarie Kelly, Ph.D., MPH,…
