Beards, bliss and beach balls: Magnetic Zeros reviewed
Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1969. The vibes were so positive Sunday night in the Trustees Theater that any criticism of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – the traveling ragtag hippie band that recently wowed the masses at Bonnaroo and Coachella – will have to focus on the music, not the event itself.…
Edaward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros at Trustees Theater
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros at Trustees Theater in Savannah, GA Sunday, July 11, 2010. Photos courtesy of Bob Jones. www.nathanjonesphoto.com
Despicable Me, Cyrus
DESPICABLE ME *** When James Stewart offers to lasso the moon for Donna Reed in Frank Capra’s classic It’s a Wonderful Life, it’s purely a romantic gesture. When Gru (Steve Carell), the star of the 3-D opus Despicable Me, plots to shrink the moon to a size small enough so that he can make off…
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…
What is DARPA and what is it up to?
How many years ahead of us is DARPA, technologically, and what secrets do you think they may be hiding from us? – A curious kid DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is the U.S. defense department’s R & D arm. It was founded in 1958 to help the country compete in the space race…
Paying people to take their meds?
Lead Story A severe but underappreciated American drug problem (sometimes deadly and often expensive) is patients’ failure to take prescribed medications — even to save their own lives (such as with anti-coagulants or cholesterol-regulating statins). In recent pilot programs, according to a June New York Times report, compliance rates have been significantly improved — by…
Hit-and-run art
Technically, what Caitlin Dutton’s doing with her Coastal Danse Collective is called interdisciplinary arts – combining movement, music and visual art, in public places, in order to create something fresh and unexpected. She has a more casual description: Hit–and–run art. “What I’m hoping to do is to basically create art as if it happens out…
Mark your calendar: The Beaufort Water Festival
Ordinarily, the goings–on in Beaufort don’t attract a lot of attention down Savannah way. But the 2010 Beaufort Water Festival — July 16–25 — has a couple of entertainment options that bear discussing. These are acts that I, personally, wouldn’t mind seeing on a Savannah stage. But Beaufort it is, and the Water Festival, with…
Curtain time
Six months after the latest round of funereal predictions for Savannah’s theater community, things are alive, well – and delightfully vigorous. Two new shows debut this week – one a reading of an extremely contemporary (and nerve–shattering) drama, the other a re–telling of a 60–year–old who–dun–it, the longest–lived and best–loved example of that evergreen stage…
News briefs
A new start for the old hospital After last week’s City Council meeting, Wecco, the Charleston–based design–build firm responsible for local projects like the Starland Lofts and the Frogtown building, came another step closer to redeveloping the old Candler Hospital near the northeast end of Forsyth Park. Having received a recommendation for approval from the…
Odds & ends
Odds and ends fill this week’s shopping cart – a mixed bag of nice wine values, a boutique gin and and hand–crafted vodka that catching fire in the national market. Waterstone wines A pair of wines from this Napa Valley producer caught my attention last week – a red and a white. Waterstone 2007 Merlot…
Umami, the ‘fifth flavor’
Umami Asian Kitchen Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner! Nah, you didn’t miss a drawing for a gift card to stand online at The Lady and Sons. But you will miss a ground floor opportunity to be first among your friends to sample Umami in 12 Oaks Shopping Center. Ever since Semolina closed –…
Sunday to Sunday
Sundays might happen once a week, but the process of documenting church services across the city was a project more than a decade in the making for local professor Ja Jahannes, whose exhibit Sunday in Savannah opened at the Beach Institute last week. For Jahannes, who taught behavioral analysis and psychology, the project was a…
Good vibrations
Everything old, apparently, is new again. Onstage, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros look like a barefoot road company of Hair, dancing and grooving, with a lot of blissed–out smiling and group hugging, shirtless frontman Alex Ebert playing the messianic Berger to the adoring members of his “tribe.” This sort of retro hippie–ness in the…
A boat ride to where Truman meets Vernon
One hot Thursday morning in June, Orlando Montoya, myself and eight other landlubbers gathered at Rodney Hall Boat Ramp at Skidaway Narrows (sometimes called Butterbean Beach) for a boat trip to Vanishing Georgia. Our mission: to see the Vernon River, from the water, before the Truman Parkway cuts across it and changes it forever. “Here’s…
Two who went their own way
There are people in this town doing great things who in my opinion don’t get enough credit for what they do, generally because they’ve preferred to work outside the local good-ole-boy networks. I want to talk about a couple of them today. Dr. Ja Jahannes is, quite simply, one of the most interesting, delightful and…
Be careful what you wish for
An officer on patrol observed a red Ford Mustang speeding northbound on White Bluff Rd. and driving erratically. The officer turned on his sirens and began pursuit. The vehicle pulled behind a shopping center and the officer was able to pull in front of the car. After exiting his vehicle, the officer noticed a strong…
Zoogma, Tony Williamson
As funk, jazz and the passionate pulse of electronica inevitably find their way into the hearts and minds (and digits) of jam-band musicians, the simple old-school lineup of guitar, bass, drums and a Hammond B3 is giving way to an expanded and limitless school of thought. That’s the stock-in-trade of Zoogma, performing at the Live…
