Think before you vote on T-SPLOST
Editor, Here’s why you should think twice before voting on the T–SPLOST one percent sales tax on July 31. It will raise your taxes an extra $300 yearly for the average family. This is on top of an already $2,100 in sales taxes you are paying. It will hit the fixed income and the poor…
Good Samaritan shot for intervening
Police were dispatched to Memorial University Medical Center just after 6:30 p.m. July 17, after Larry Briggs showed up at the emergency room suffering from a gunshot wound. According to Savannah Chatham Metro PD, a group of juveniles in the area of 38th and Ash Streets were fighting, when Briggs attempted to intervene. Police said…
July 23: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, July 23): Catch Classy Nude (from Austin), Sins of Godless Men (from Savannah) and Dude Magnets (Athens) at the Sparetime. And the Odd Lot improv troupe salutes its own, birthday boy Christopher Soucy, at Muse Arts Warehouse.
July 22: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, July 22): The French crime drama Polisee is screened at 2, 5 and 8 p.m. at Muse Arts Warehouse. In the clubs (recommended): Catch Columbia’s indie-poppers Coma Cinema and Those Lavender Whales, plus Savannah’s Magic Places, at Screamin’ Mimi’s. Flattens the Forest and The Wooden Wings share a Sentient…
July 21: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, July 21): Cusses’ only local show of the summer takes place tonight at the Jinx, with Niche. Stereomonster is at Live Wire, and the Sentient Bean is featuring Flattens the Forest. The Tom Hanks comedy Big screens at 8 p.m. at the Trustees Theater. Onstage: Parallel Lives at Muse…
July 20: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, July 20): Onstage tonight in the world of theater: Parallel Lives at Muse Arts Warehouse, and Love’s Labor’s Lost (with a strange new twist) in AASU Jenkins Hall. The great Ike Stubblefield (on Hammond B3 organ) and band play Congress Street Social Club, Whaleboat and Bambara share the Jinx…
Reviewed: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES ***1/2 To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of Batman’s death are greatly exaggerated. I’m not referring to the fate of the character in The Dark Knight Rises, as that would be a spoiler of such gargantuan proportions, even I would agree that a public hanging should be my proper punishment. But…
July 19: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, July 19): The two-person comedy Parallel Lives continues at Muse Arts Warehouse (showtime: 8 p.m.). The 2011 documentary Heist is screened at the Sentient Bean at 8 p.m., presented by Occupy Savannah.
July 18: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, July 18): Savannah’s Lovely Locks shares the bill with Southern Femisphere at the Sparetime; singer/songwriter Nikki Talley has a date at the Wormhole. Jam with guitarist Eric Culberson at Live Wire.
Is the fix in for T-SPLOST?
OVER THE YEARS Chatham County voters have developed a reputation for apathy in keeping with our general laid-back attitude. But there’s one thing we’re not apathetic about at all: For some reason voters here will happily crawl over broken glass to vote new taxes on themselves. I’ve never seen anything like it. Must be something…
E-SPLOST in translation
DURING THE school year, I make my kids keep their shoes outside. Not just because anything that’s touched their feet smells like it mopped up Godzilla’s bathroom, though anyone who has ever stood near a sweaty 12 year–old boy knows this to be true. The main reason is that they bring home enough dirt in…
Blonde ambition
Give me three weeks, Benjamin Wolfe tells his students, and I’ll make a better actor out of you. Wolfe is the founder and director of the Savannah Summer Theatre Institute, an intensive training camp which began in 2008 as an extension of Savannah Country Day School. “That’s how it started,” Wolfe explains. “This year, we…
Mark your calendar: Needtobreathe
The South Carolina Christian rock band Needtobreathe has been added to 2012’s already-impressive marquee at the Johnny Mercer Theatre. Tickets are on sale now for the Nov. 8 concert. The Dove Award-winning quartet reached the (secular) Top 20 with the 2009 album The Outsiders, and last year’s The Reckoning did even better, peaking at No.…
Satisfy your stevia tooth?
Here in the South, we like our tea served up so sweet it’ll rot the teeth right out of your head. That’s probably not going to change. It’s no secret that sugary beverages are the sneaky culprits behind America’s obesity issues. Mostly it’s soda that gets the bad rap. But sweet tea can have as…
Jack Williams, Cusses/Niche benefit
JACK WILLIAMS At 8 p.m. Friday, July 20 Randy Wood Guitars, 1304 US 80, Bloomingdale. $20 The Pickin’ Parlor at Randy’s place welcomes back a frequent visitor. Williams, whom the late Mickey Newbury once called “a national treasure,” is a more-than-accomplished acoustic picker with a distinctive style, a vocalist with deep-woods gravitas, and – best…
Savannah’s Beloved Community
“This is the love that may well be the salvation of our civilization.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For all save the most hard–hearted among us, it’s an inarguable ideal: An inclusive society where discriminations surrounding race, class, gender, ability and sexuality dissolve in the bright, clear light of common human decency. A global culture…
5 questions: Those Lavender Whales
Some of today’s most alluring pop music is made by independent artists, working at home and layering sound upon sound until they’ve created something bigger than themselves. Until it sounds cool. Such is the case with Aaron Graves, a Columbia, S.C. singer/songwriter who writes, plays and records as Those Lavender Whales. The music is sweetly…
July 17: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, July 17): The all-new Connect Savannah goes online at noon. Ellis Square comes alive at 7 p.m. with a free concert from the Cincinnati, Statesboro and Savannah Children’s Choirs. Antar Ellis has a solo show at Lulu’s Chocolate Bar tonight, and Oregon metal guitarist Mike Scheidt (from YOB) is…
Big shoes to fill
ALEXIS ALEXANDER and her mother Ann Robinson — obviously battered from the heat and long days knocking on doors — start holding up “5forAlexis” campaign signs just after rush hour at the corner of Liberty Parkway and Mills B. Lane, 52nd Street. Each time a motorist honked with approval, Alexander, a 38–year–old administrative assistant screamed,…
A City Market classic
I knew that Café Gelatohh at the eastern gateway to City Market was the city’s best destination for handcrafted, small batch gelato. What I didn’t know was that I could score an amazing sandwich to accompany my creamy, frozen treat. The sandwich menu is large and caters to vegetarians with nearly as many options as…
Rapist at large
A drawing depicting a man who raped a Savannah woman in early June has been released by police who are asking the public to help identify him. The woman was attacked near her house in the downtown area about 6 a.m. The suspect is described as a clean–shaven, slender black male, approximately six feet tall…
