Death of 4-year-old boy investigated
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating the death of a 4-year-old boy who was pulled from an apartment pool in west Chatham County on July 4. Frazier King was noticed by his mother and others about 2:10 p.m. in the pool on Timber Crest Court. He was transported to Memorial University Medical Center, where he was…
Man dies in boating accident
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is investigating the death of a Savannah man after his boat overturned near Williamson Island in the Wassau Sound on July 6. A man in his early 50s was declared dead at the scene when U.S. Coast Guard officers reached the small, open bowed boat. His wife was transported…
Meth lab uncovered during eviction
Chatham County police found a meth lab inside an apartment complex during a “routine eviction” on July 2. The occupants, 27-year-old Raymond McKinney and 23-year-old Sabrina Rudolph, were arrested and charged with manufacturing and trafficking methamphetamine, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. “The deputy observed…
Charges filed against filmmakers in Midnight Rider death
California filmmakers Randall Miller and Jody Savin have been indicted in Wayne County in the February death of camera assistant Sarah Jones. Jay Sedrish, an executive producer for the couple’s film Midnight Rider, was also indicted. The charges against the three are involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass. Jones, 27, was part of a small crew…
Savannah ranks third in ‘Best City’ vote
Savannah is rated the No. 3 city in the U.S. and Canada, according to the Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards 2014 readers’ survey available at www.TravelandLeisure.com. “Savannah moved up from its seventh place ranking among cities in the U.S. and Canada last year,” says a magazine spokesperson. “Charleston is the top-rated city in the…
Armstrong name change takes effect today
In honor of today’s name change from Armstrong Atlantic State University to simply Armstrong State University, the institution is offering free Leopold’s Ice Cream from noon-2 p.m. to students, faculty and staff to celebrate. The name change became official July 1 after receiving University System of Georgia Board of Regents approval to drop the word…
Adbu Ali and Chiffon
The Baltimore Sun calls Abdu Ali Eaton, a native son, “the city’s most transfixing new artist.”
Drivin N Cryin N Rockin
Any cynicism Kinney has developed in nearly 30 years of DNC has been tempered by his unwavering belief in the music he and his cronies make.
A night at the Opry
“The thought of being in a really quiet place, where everybody’s going to be respectful by default, in a church, has made us nervous.”
You’re free to enjoy the Art March
“You can brighten an area quite a bit just by focusing on that one first Friday of every month.”
5 Questions: Maggie Hayes
Maggie Hayes leads one of the more interesting 24-year-old lives you’ll see. The Savannah Arts Academy graduate and former UGA student is perhaps best known to many around town as an energetic instructor at the Savannah Yoga Center. But art is her first love, and her second, and by far largest, solo show is now…
Waters Avenue doubleheader
There in the deep, dark night, riding along Waters Avenue, a glowing OPEN sign sent out an orange halo which caught my eye…it was 3:15 in the morning, not a soul on the lonely streets. The old mandarin-colored diner sitting at the corner of 35th and Waters looked like something out of Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks”…
Go with the ebb and flow
It ain’t called “Slowvannah” in the summertime for nothing, dahlin’.
Serendipity
The doctor said to me, ‘Looking at your blood work and your vitals, it’s too bad you are not going to be around to see your son grow up.’
Editor’s Note: American History X
The Declaration’s most revolutionary concept wasn’t the idea of America itself, but the idea that human rights are inherent. That governments don’t confer rights, and therefore they cannot take them away.
Review: Tammy
*1/2 It’s fitting that family dysfunction is at the center of Tammy, since a different sort of familial discord was responsible for this dud being made in the first place. Melissa McCarthy stars in the picture, her husband Ben Falcone handled directorial duties, and the couple collaborated on the screenplay. If their marriage can survive…
LGBT people and attractiveness traits
A related question is whether in a gay or lesbian relationship one of the partners habitually assumes the masculine role while the other plays the female.
Review: Earth to Echo
The wayward alien unfortunately looks like the headache-inducing Bubo the mechanical owl from the original Clash of the Titans.
Can Savannah become a ‘no kill’ community?
Regardless of past conflicts, all parties involved in the care and management of homeless dogs and cats cite a common goal: To reduce the number of healthy, adoptable animals euthanized in local shelters.
Review: Transformers: Age of Extinction
The movie lasts 167 minutes. In this case, that’s not a running time. That’s a prison sentence.
Talking about … Carol Ruckdeschel
North Carolina writer Will Harlan describes Carol Ruckdeschel as the “wildest woman in America.” She eats roadkill, shot a man in self-defense and cuts open turtle guts. But she also published groundbreaking science and shaped public policy on Cumberland for four decades. And she did it all from a rickety shack in the wilderness. Harlan’s…
Letter: Iraq in the rearview
Editor, Regarding your column, “Cheney’s Ghost:” I think many Americans know in 2014 that those Americans in 2003 that promoted and glorified invading Iraq were wrong. That false sense of patriotism that existed in 2003 and the eventual sight of George W. Bush on that aircraft carrier claiming victory rings hollow in the seem to…
Ben’s brings great brews to Southside
The latest move to expand beverage options was another logical step to merge two of owner Nick Lambros’s long-time loves, food and craft beer, together in his restaurant.
Taking a turret in the spotlight
“Mission accomplished. When can you come and get her?” These were the words in an email from Dr. Dik Daso, Curator of Modern Military Aircraft at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, to Dr. Walter Brown, the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum’s CEO at the time. That email set in stone the museum’s…
Surreal icons and public bathrooms
In past performance pieces, Hoshor turned the everyday on its head and used costumes to personify archetypes.
KidSyc gets real
“When people that you don’t even know are telling you ‘Man, you are great,’ after it happens a few times it’s like ‘Well, hey … maybe I am.”
Zach Deputy: The Looper
Deputy’s “island-infused drum ‘n’ bass gospel ninja soul” is the result of a lifetime’s worth of diverse musical influences.
