Theater: Swan song
The musical set to open Aug. 1 at the Trustees Theater is boisterous, colorful and ultimately uplifting. Once on This Island is a singing and dancing delight, yet there is a palpable sense of melancholy backstage. This is the last city production to be directed by D.J. Queenan, and the actors are all just a…
Do lightning rods really work?
I read your column “Do lightning rods really work?” [August 24, 2001], in which you note that fire-prevention folks were about to decide whether there was any scientific basis to lightning rods. Do you have more up-to-date info? We live in a condo complex near the New Hampshire coast, and we need to know. —Ray …
Unbelievable
Lead Story Among President Sarkozy’s recent moves to trim the size of the French government was the layoff of half of the 165 physiotherapists at the taxpayer-funded National Baths of Aix-les-Bains. The pink-slipped masseurs warn that the country’s health will be at risk if people are unable to get the mud wraps, thermal baths and…
New release: X-Files
The X-Files: I Want to Believe Perhaps they should have called it X and the City. Given the phenomenal, $150 million haul of Sex and the City, the makers of The X-Files: I Want to Believe doubtless hope that their big-screen adaptation of a wildly popular and long-canceled TV series will meet with a similar…
Everything else that’s out there
The Dark Knight Given the fact that 2005’s Batman Begins, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s successful attempt to reinvent the flagging Bat-franchise (all but dead and buried after George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger got through with it), ranks as one of the best superhero flicks ever made, then where does that put The Dark Knight, a sequel…
A summer for Strummer
NEXT WEDNESDAY evening, Aug. 6, the Sentient Bean hosts a screening of the acclaimed rock doc Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten. The film was brought in through a joint effort by Larry Dane-Kellogg and the Psychotronic Film Society. Besides being one of my favorite cultural figures of all time, the late, great frontman for…
Books: Move over, Harry
More than 600 Barnes & Noble stores nationwide, including the one in Savannah, will remain open past midnight on Aug. 1 to sell copies of best-selling author Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn. If you haven’t heard of Meyer, you’re not alone. But to her fans, mostly teen and pre-teen girls, she’s already a legend in her…
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Victory found in a lost election Today I learned probably one of the most important and heartbreaking lessons that young people face today. I have never been one to care much about political thingss, especially on the local forum. Until our neighbor and friend Kevin Clark decided to run for Georgia State Senate, District 2.…
Interview with a zombie
“I LOVE the walking dead,” crowed famously obstinate Big Star front-man Alex Chilton on a desultory tune of the same name cut during a scattershot ‘75 Memphis recording session. While his infamous pharmacological intake (and rough associates) from that time period may have inspired such an outburst, there are millions of other folks the world…
Healing words
GRIEF IS A natural human response, but those who go through it often don’t realize what they’re feeling is normal. Island Hospice and Jewish Family Services of Savannah will present a four-week series of seminars, Grief: Healing the Broken Heart: Walking the Pathway of Loss, Aug. 5, 12, 19 and 26 at 7 p.m. at…
The Miller Gambit
LAST TUESDAY evening in Forsyth Park, Autumn Hennessy sat in silence on a shaded park bench south of the big fountain. With her mother nearby, Autumn sat alone among 40 or so people observing the first night of play on a giant chess board painted in muted green and beige on the park’s concrete walkway.…
The ‘dirty pistol’
Blotter All cases from recent Savannah/Chatham Police Dept. incident reports The Munchies? Police were called to Home Run Video on East Liberty Street Aug. 14 about 12:45 a.m. on a report that two young men were breaking into the store. Several witnesses saw the suspects try to break the plate glass door. After that failed,…
“Bizarro World”
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Spotlighted gigs and recommended shows
Rachael Sage *** With a growing international following for her exquisitely arranged and beautifully performed original, melodic, piano-based pop, a brand-new album (Chandelier) mixed by Grammy-winning engineer Kevin Killen (who’s been behind the boards for some of Elvis Costello’s best albums of the past 20 years), and featuring backing musicians who’ve recorded with the likes…
‘Jazz can also draw regular folks’
ONE OF THE MOST PROMISING UPRIGHT BASSISTS on today’s Southeastern jazz scene, Will Goble is seemingly in almost constant demand as a sideman — and for noteworthy players at that. Over the past few years, this college educated musician (he holds two degrees in jazz — one of them a Master’s) has gigged with Grammy-winning…
Diary of the planet
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