A double dose of incredible
FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS my family and I have had the honor of living next door to the amazing Cockrill twins — Eloise Cockrill Rogers and Lois Cockrill Fisher — who celebrated their hundredth birthday this past weekend. Each lives in her own house, cat-a-corner to the other, with our house the third point…
Changing commuting
Just call him a “cheap skate.” Dressed in suit and tie and armed with a briefcase, Michael Frey draws stares and smiles as he zooms his way to work on a skateboard. A sustainability associate at Melaver, Inc., a local sustainable real estate company, Frey moved to Savannah last March and has been skateboarding to…
Man about town
CHARLES LANDRY IS ONE of the coolest people you probably have never heard of. The English social scientist and author was an expert on fostering a creative economy long before the much more well-known Richard Florida wrote his first best-selling book about it. Unlike Florida, Landry does not speak of a “Creative Class” per se,…
Yo, Eastside: Starbucks is in the house
WITH THE RECENT opening of a Starbucks at the corner of Skidaway Road and Victory Drive, Eastsiders looking for a gathering place with a local flavor have yet another option to add to a growing list of choices. Yes, you read that right. A corporate coffee joint described as having a local flavor. Although the…
Breaking up is hard to do
POLICE WERE DISPATCHED to 38th and Harden streets because a man called and said someone threatened him and became disorderly. The man said his ex-girlfriend’s son had called his cell phone and said he was going to “slap him and f–k him up.” He said the reason the suspect made the threats is because the…
Do presidents have food tasters?
Does the president have an official food taster to make sure he won’t get poisoned? What about when the president visits foreign countries? — Stuart Katz The golden age of political poisoning (pace the estate of Alexander Litvinenko) has largely come and gone. As various authors on the topic have pointed out, it made for…
This cannot be happening
LEAD STORY China continues to prepare for the Olympics: Officials have issued a standard chanting routine that all Chinese spectators should employ during competitions (translated as “Olympics! Add fuel!” with two claps and then both thumbs up, then “China! Add fuel!” with two more claps and raised fists, according to a June Reuters dispatch). (“Add…
WALL-E, Hancock
WALL-E The dialogue of the title robot mostly consists of beeps and chirps and the occasional electronically altered word — just get Jim Carrey or Bruce Willis for one day’s work, right? Well, except that even here, Pixar suits followed their own instincts instead of the bottom line. It thrilled me to no end to…
Everything else that’s out there
Get Smart Get Smart, the now-cult TV sitcom that aired from 1965 to 1970, was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, and these legendary funnymen are listed in the credits of the new motion picture spinoff Get Smart as “creative consultants.” The word is that neither of them actually had any input in what…
Finger-pickin’ good
Since summer 2003, I’ve called Savannah home: It was February of 2008 before I found out that Savannah’s Bamboo Farm & Coastal Gardens existed. And even then it was just a fortunate byproduct of a visit I took to nearby Keller’s Flea Market. It shouldn’t have taken five years for this 46-acre garden to come…
Finger-pickin’ good
Since summer 2003, I’ve called Savannah home: It was February of 2008 before I found out that Savannah’s Bamboo Farm & Coastal Gardens existed. And even then it was just a fortunate byproduct of a visit I took to nearby Keller’s Flea Market. It shouldn’t have taken five years for this 46-acre garden to come…
Music Opinion: When bad things happen to good people
In last week’s Connect, I pointed readers toward a Friday night triple-bill of unconventional rock bands at Live Wire Music Hall. First on that bill was the brand-new local trio Surt {The Destroyer}. I was unable to attend the gig, but heard from reliable sources the group (which had woodshedded for months) turned in a…
Spotlighted gigs and recommended shows
Sinister Moustache, Port City Music, Surt {The Destroyer} *** Back in the infancy of Savannah’s original underground music scene, it was not at all uncommon to find completely incongruous acts sharing bills. Jam-bands played with metal groups, art-pop bands played with blues singers, and hardcore bands played with singer/songwriters. True, often the crowds for each…
“What’s the Problem?”
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Diary of the planet
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A musical homecoming for a good cause
IT’S BEEN ALMOST 20 YEARS SINCE STEWART MARSHALL first collaborated with Winfield Smith, and in that time, the two singing guitarists’ six albums’ worth of original material have won them no small number of fans throughout the United States. Routinely described as a duo whose feel-good (yet at times, bittersweet) roots-based “y’allternative” pop is a…
