Spirits of the coast
About an hour south of Savannah off Highway 17 in McIntosh County are two of the most interesting (and free!) sights on the Georgia coast. The tidy and adorable Memory Park Chapel might not actually be the “Smallest Church in North America,” as it calls itself – a pair of mini-churches in Iowa and New…
Feedback from our readers
Scheinbart also running for 163rd District Editor, I read your recent article ‘Primary Colors,’ July 14-20, and, as usual, was appreciative of your publication’s great writing and reporting… that is, until I reached the end of the article. It’s probably a minor point, but I found the section titled “State Representative – District 163” to…
News briefs
Courthouse scare The Savannah Fire and Emergency Services Hazmat team was called to the Chatham County Courthouse last week in response to a suspicious powdery substance. An employee with the State Court Clerk’s office opened envelope that contained an unidentified off-white substance around noon last Wednesday. The employee reacted quickly, isolating the substance and then…
Salt, The Kids Are All Right
SALT ** A neo-Cold War thriller would seem like just the ticket for cineastes who fondly recall Iron Curtain-courting capers on the order of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Fail-Safe and select James Bond tales. And the title of this feature even suggests a nod to that significant chunk of 20th century…
Shirley Sherrod in 2012!
Many who voted for Barack Obama did so in part because they felt the country was ready for a courageous, inspiring African American president who could help heal the racial divide. The country was indeed ready. But in retrospect a better person for the job would have been Shirley Sherrod. As most of you surely…
Exhibits & openings this week
Awakening – New work by glass sculptor Jason Antol, including several large works and hot sculpted wings. Runs through August. Liquid Sands Gallery , 319 W. Broughton St. , http://www.savannahartglass.com/ Abstract Landscapes – Christina Edwards is the featured artists this month at 11Ten, exhibiting a new abstract landscape paintings. Local 11ten, 1110 Bull St. B-Sides…
The true force of a boxer’s punch
In the movie Rocky IV, Ivan Drago registers a 2,150-psi punch. That seems unrealistic to me, and yet I’m hearing Internet rumors about MMA fighters and boxers coming close to that number. Is it possible to throw a punch that hard? What would that sort of power do to someone’s face? — Dave The Rocky…
Fat Fetish
Lead Story While the morbidly obese struggle with their health, those who eroticize massive weight gain are capturing increased attention, according to a July ABC News report. Commercial and personal websites give full-bellied “gainers,” such as New Jerseyan Donna Simpson, and their admiring “feeders” the opportunity to express themselves. Simpson became a 602-pound media sensation…
‘I’ll plead guilty to drunk in public’
Police were called by an anonymous party reporting that they had been harassed by a man in the area of W. Gwinnett St. and Stiles Ave. Police had been dispatched to the area earlier in reference to a disorderly subject.Upon arrival the first time, they found a man yelling loudly and drinking beer near a…
We are what we eat
It’s been a year since the issue of food access became part of the larger local dialogue about improving community health, following a visit to town by food accessibility consultant Mari Gallagher. While there have been improvements since then, there’s still progress to be made. At the heart of the discussion is a question about…
Runaway Train Wrecks
Channeling his restless energy has always been a tightrope walk for Jason Bible. As a kid back in Colleyville, Texas, the headstrong future frontman for the Train Wrecks was hell–bound to turn himself into a professional soccer player, and nothing was going to interfere. Ah, but fate dealt him another card. When he heard Bob…
William Fitzsimmons
William Fitzsimmons’ songs live in that shadowy place between waking and dreaming, when thoughts and memories briefly tango before going their separate ways in the night. His lyrics are poetic and intimate, and they’re married to music that’s both ethereally elusive and structured like brittle bones. Fitzimmons, who’ll appear Saturday, July 24 at the Wormhole,…
Mark your calendar: Trey Songz
Coming to the Johnny Mercer Theatre Aug. 12 is crooner Trey Songz, who’s known for hits on both the Top 100 and R&B/hip hop charts. “Can’t Help But Wait” earned the young Virginia native a Grammy nomination in 2009 for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. His biggest numbers are “I Need a Girl,” “Say Aah”…
Support the 21st Amendment
From a humble little brewpub in San Francisco, some big beers were born. And today, the canned craft beers of 21st Amendment Brewery have begun landing on shelves In Savannah. The brewery’s name celebrates the constitutional amendment that repealed prohibition. Sadly, the enactment of prohibition was a tragic turning point for small U.S. brewers. Until…
Random bites: La Comarca
The giant banner in front of this unassuming little Ogeechee Road restaurant sums it up: No Tex–Mex. It seems that Savannah’s growing Latino population has tired of the ubiquitous dried out rice and lava–hot pools of runny refried beans – and at least one place is fighting back. When my intrepid field researcher told me…
Girl on the bottom
Born in Singapore in the spring of 1981, Emma Anzai spent her earliest years in Tokyo before her family relocated to Sydney, Australia. It was there that she met singer and guitarist Shimon Moore. Students at the same high school, they collided – literally – after discovering they’d both booked the same rehearsal room, for…
Taser overload
There are far too many people volunteering to get tased these days. You can’t pick up the Savannah Morning News anymore without seeing a picture of some officer or official happily on the receiving end of some recently purchased taser. Last week, the esteemed daily’s readers were treated to a picture of a couple of…
Review: ‘The Last Five Years’ at Muse
For Cathy, it’s the story of the last five years. For Jamie, it’s the next five years. The Jason Robert Brown musical onstage through this weekend at Muse Arts Warehouse is actually called The Last Five Years; it follows a busted romance from one perspective (Cathy’s) and the other (Jamie’s). The chronology is such that…
A neighborhood porch party
With Historic Grayson Stadium literally in my backyard (I can see their fireworks from my back steps) a Savannah Sand Gnats baseball game last Saturday night promised a few hours of kicked-back visiting, some snacks, a little party music, and an iced diet soda or two. Kind of like dropping by a neighbor’s front porch…
