Grown Ups, Knight and Day, Jonah Hex, Mother and Child
GROWN UPS * Adam Sandler’s worst film since the one-two punch of Little Nicky and the inexplicably popular Big Daddy a decade ago, Grown Ups marks the umpteenth collaboration between the comedian and director Dennis Dugan. Dugan is to screen comedy what the atomic bomb was to Nagasaki, and with this film, he and the…
Shaming the uniform
The recent attack downtown by two Beaufort-based Marines on a local gay man, Kieran Daly, was not the first such incident. Nor, it must be said, the first involving members of the military. While there are two sides to every story and questions remain about the exact circumstances of the attack, it seems clear from…
In her own words
In July, Rochelle Small–Toney will celebrate her third anniversary of working with the City of Savannah. But it’s only in the last few months that she’s found herself in the spotlight. Following the departures of both City Manager Michael Brown and Assistant City Manager Chris Morrill, City Council chose her as the interim City Manager,…
Exhibits & openings this week
Alexander Ink – SCAD’s annual juried printmaking exhibition composed of students from the Atlanta and Savannah locations. Runs through July 2. Alexander Hall Gallery, 668 Indian St. , http://www.scad.edu/exhibitions Color Collection – Vibrant landscape paintings and natural scenes by artist Sue Gouse. Runs through June 30. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. , http://www.galleryespresso.com/ Diane Von…
Snipers & the Coriolis Effect
I recently read an article about a Navy SEAL sniper. The author lists possible variables that go into determining a shot, one of which is the rotation of the earth. How exactly does this affect a bullet in flight? -Jason, Sacramento The article I’m guessing you saw, entitled “The Way of the Sniper,” appeared in…
‘Holistic rubrics’
Lead Story New York state school officials had promised to crack down on soft test-grading to end the near-automatic grade-advancement by students unprepared for promotion. However, a June New York Post report found that the problem lingers under the current grading guideline called “holistic rubrics.” Among examples cited by the Post (from a 4th-grade math…
Royally screwed
Sex. Seduction. Passion. Sex. Decadence. Lust. Sex. Now that we’ve got your attention, let’s try to focus on Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the drama onstage this weekend at the Indigo Arts Center. Although most of the actual intercourse in Christopher Hampton’s play is verbal, there’s no getting around the fact that the central characters are obsessed…
Mark Your Calendar: Charitable comedy
“Laughs for Lemonade,” Saturday, July 17 at 8 p.m. at the Lucas Theatre, is a standup comedy show featuring Karen Morgan, a finalist on Nick at Nite’s Search for the Funniest Mom In America, with Manhattan–based comic Nancy Witter opening. It’s a benefit for the local Mom’s Lemonade Fund, which provides support for patients within…
The most elaborate lie ever just to get out of going to church
Police received a call that a 10-year-old boy had been kidnapped by two men wearing ski masks in front of a church. They threw him in the back of a four door vehicle and drove off. The young man was eventually able to escape from his abductors by kicking and biting them. He then ran…
Fiesta Latina 2010
Who needs Cinco de Mayo when the City of Savannah and the Latin American Services Organization are throwing this sizzling hot – and completely free – bash on River Street? Hot, as in this late-June weather, and hot as in a half-dozen fiery performers and food vendors selling all manner of spicy victuals from the…
Nixon tells all
First, the name. Framing Hanley was originally called Embers Fade. They changed the moniker in 2006 to honor Ashley Hanley, the drummer’s girlfriend, who’d passed away. Ashley had been the band’s official photographer – she framed them. An anthemic hard rock quintet from the unlikely environs of Nashville, Tennessee (not so unlikely, perhaps – Kings…
Come on feel the GAM
Not many people think of setting themselves on fire, jumping into garbage cans and sleeping in a van as “the good old days,” but the members of GAM are different. “We’ve been lucky that we’ve been able to live out a lot of the positive, fun, awesome things about being rockstars for this long without…
Random bites: The Distillery, remembering Ron Higgins
If I had a hammer… It had better be a “hog hammer” from The Distillery’s new menu. As if being the city’s pioneering craft beer bar wasn’t enough, this new menu highlights quirky little bites the bar has become famous for – and added another that should propel pork lovin’ diners into the stratosphere. Hog…
New summer beers
When the thermometer starts flirting with 100 degrees this early in the season, it’s time to load the beer fridge with plenty of refreshing, crisp brews to help ease our sticky journey through summer. Magic Hat Brewing Co. rides into town on a white horse with a new seasonal 12–pack aptly dubbed Summer Scene.Fans will…
A TEDxCreativeCoast hangover
Three days after the first TEDxCreativeCoast gathering of “ideas worth sharing” I still have the remnants of a creativity hangover. Last Friday, from 9:15 a.m. until nearly 6:00 p.m., over 100 of us, mostly Savannahians, gathered at Meddin Studios for 18 live presentations and two video talks, ostensibly focused on the theme of “Designing Creativity.”…
