Juvenile suspect in gang-related City Market shooting/crash has criminal history
Savannah-Chatham Police Chief Joseph Lumpkin announced today that the suspect in custody for last night’s tragic shooting/collision in the City Market is 17-year-old Jerry Chambers, who is no stranger to local law enforcement. Chief Lumpkin says the incident last night was gang-related. In June 2016, Chambers, who was then 16, turned himself in to police…
UPDATED: One in custody after three dead, multiple injured in downtown shooting, auto crash
At a little after midnight following a day of Fourth of July festivities, shots fired from a vehicle in the still-crowded City Market area injured at least three people. A subsequent shooting injured another person. Two people in the vehicle later died in a crash of the vehicle on Bay Street at Barnard, after police…
The Dwarves headline Gabba Gabba Blood and Guts Tour
EVERYTHING legendary that the punk band The Dwarves embodies can be summarized in the name of their definitive record: Blood, Guts, & Pussy. Founded in the early ‘80s, the Chicago-born and California-bred band has been shocking, scandalizing, and stimulating their audiences for over 30 years. In the early days, the infamous live show (clocking in…
Danette Sperry’s gentle soul
EVERYTHING about Danette Sperry, from her artwork to her personality, is refreshingly simple. A self-taught artist, she paints things that she likes. “I get inspiration from stuff that keeps coming up in my head,” she explains. “Sometimes you get an idea in your head and you want to go with it.” Sperry and her husband…
Atelier Galerie celebrates 20 years
Savannah continues to serve as an inspiration for Phyllis Lang’s work, and she is best known for her layered silver and bronze pieces inspired by the city’s exquisite wrought iron gates and balconies.
The return of summer Cabaret
WHEN THE entire Lucas Theatre staff was fired in April, questions began to arise. Who would snatch up those hardworking and passionate employees? What would happen to the family-friendly movie nights that became synonymous with the historic building’s programming? And, among Savannah’s live music fans: what would become of Onstage Cabaret? Established in 2013, the…
Auspicious Baking Company: Baked goods handcrafted from scratch
IT’S SUNDAY at 8 a.m. Most people are preparing for church or in bed, hung over. Me? I was racing to Skidaway Road. “Catch us at the bake house early as last week we SOLD OUT,” Kaytlin Bryant warned. I pulled into a parking lot crammed with cars at 8:15 a.m. Parents with babies, socialites,…
Art March Parade on Waters Avenue
The revitalization of the Waters Ave. corridor has been the topic of plenty of discussion but little action over the last decade, and the neighborhood seemed an obvious next step for the vision.
Bring on the f’n Robot Cars!
I AM a new, though somewhat reluctant convert to the Church of the Autonomous Electric Vehicle (AEV). I must give credit where credit is due. Clinton “put a mural on it” Edminster has witnessed his AEV faith to me on many occasions. Among his many hats, Clinton wears one labeled President of the Self-Driving Vehicle…
Self-driving cars and the shifting definition of freedom
There is freedom in firing up a fast car, or even a not-so-fast car, and just taking to the road and being your own boss — a feeling you might not have in many other parts of your life. Then again, there’s also very real freedom in tapping on Uber or Lyft — or soon…
Breadfoot, Jason Bible @The Wormhole
Breadfoot picks his guitar dirty and finds fluid melodies to steer his narratives.
DATENIGHT, Rude Dude & The Creek Freaks, Leather Torpedoez, 1MITATOR @Sulfur Studios
NASHVILLE slacker punks hit Sulfur this weekend on a stacked bill. The young band’s been gaining attention from their latest EP, “Sonic Youth: 18 Years on Earth.” Released on Nashville’s Designer Medium label, home to Dad Joke Weekendmania alums Spodee Boy, it’s a scrappy, high-energy gut punch. Lofi psych/garage rock band Leather Torpedoez head down…
In For A Penny, Swamp Rats, Jeff Two-Names & The Born Agains @The Jinx
Savannah-based Celtic punk band In For A Penny recorded One More Last Hurrah live in the back room at The Sand Bar on Tybee in seven hours flat.
Rollfast Ramblers @Foxy Loxy Print Gallery & Cafe
The Western Swing band hearkens back to the early days of the genre.
‘No bombing, no rockets, no death’
SYRIAN REFUGEE and new Savannah neighbor Naji Abousaleh remembers safer times in Aleppo, where he lived most of his 67 years and taught English. But safe wasn’t happy. “Because you’re afraid,” he says. “Because of the spies that work for the government. You dare not speak one word against Ba’ath or the president of Syria.” Fear became deadly in 2011. The…
The buzz about decriminalizing weed in Savannah
I WAS going to make a bunch of stoner jokes about a new movement to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana in Savannah, but the folks stoking the blaze beat me to it. At an exploratory meeting at Bull Street Labs last Monday about how to implement a fine-only, no arrest policy for…
Self-Driving Cars: Closer than you think
So will driverless vehicles really be on the road in two or three years? Heck, they’re there now: as of March, 27 developers were operating a total of 180 autonomous cars on California highways.
Man arrested for stabbing his father to death
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police’s Violent Crimes detectives arrested Charles Berger, Jr., 39, for what police call the “domestic cutting death” of his father, Charles Berger, Sr., 73, in the 400 block of Southbridge Boulevard on July 2. “At about 8:40 a.m., officers responded to the area and found Berger, Sr. suffering from life-threatening injuries. He was…
Ron White coming to Savannah Dec. 2
Grammy-nominated comedian Ron White returns to Savannah’s Johnny Mercer Theatre with a new stand-up show on Saturday, December 2. White, who rose to prominence through “Blue Collar Comedy,” has received a Gold Record, two top-rated one-hour specials on Comedy Central, and a spot on the New York Times Best Seller List. His CDs and DVDs…
Review: Baby Driver
Writer-director Edgar Wright deserves the lion’s share of the kudos, not only for assembling a note-perfect cast but also for providing them with dialogue that’s often a pleasure to encounter.
