July 2: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, July 2): Tonight’s improv performance from the Odd Lot (8 p.m. at Muse Arts Warehouse) is concerned with phobias of all sorts. Singer/songwriter Carter Sampson plays the Sentient Bean.
July 1: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, July 1): “Movies Savannah Missed” screens the acclaimed French animated film A Cat in Paris at Muse Arts Warehouse, at 2, 5 and 8 p.m. The Savannah Winds’ patriotic-music concert is at 3 p.m. at AASU’s Fine Arts Building. Bay Street Theare’s thriller Bug is onstage at Club One…
June 30: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, June 28): Western weekend at the Lucas continues with 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at 3 p.m., and the Josh Brolin/ Russell Crowe remake of 3:10 to Yuma at 7. At Club One, Bay Street Theatre’s production of the thriller Bug is live onstage at 8 p.m.…
June 29: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, June 29): Lotta stuff tonight. Bay Street Theatre’s thriller Bug continues at Club One; the original True Grit screens at the Lucas Theatre. In the clubs: Baby Baby, Gun Party and Each & Every Opus funk things up at the Wormhole, the Cicada Brothers play World of Beer, Kota…
Movie reviews: The Amazing Spider-Man, Ted, People Like Us
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN **1/2 (In theaters Tuesday, July 3) Perhaps it’s best to think of Sam Raimi’s 2002 Spider-Man and Marc Webb’s 2012 The Amazing Spider-Man as the cinematic equivalents of Coke Classic and New Coke. Despite some alterations to the source material (hey, where’s Gwen Stacy?), the Raimi take earned the trust of most…
June 28: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, June 28): Catch the 7 p.m. screening of the music documentary Athens, GA. Inside/Out at the Jepson Center, part of the new exhibition of works from folk artist Rev. Howard Finster. The Atlanta funk/rock band Baby Baby is at Taco Abajo, and there’s metal and thrash from Flying Snakes…
North Mississippi Allstars to headline Brewfest concert
The incredible North Mississippi Allstars have been announced as headliners for Savannah’s 2012 Craft Brew Fest, which runs Aug. 26-Sept. 2. The Allstars – brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson and Chris Chew – are currently on a summer tour of Europe with Robert Plant and Band of Joy. The blues/rockers will headline a day-long concert…
June 27: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, June 27): From the Psychotronic Film Society, 1958’s The Terror From Beyond Outer Space screens at the Sentient Bean at 8 p.m. And it’s Trivia Night at Hang Fire, the Jinx, Rachael’s, Rail Pub and Two Pirates Tavern.
Stranger in paradise
“One day I was workin’ on a patch job on a bicycle, and I was rubbin’ some white paint on that patch with this finger here, and I looked at the round tip o’ my finger, and there was a human face on it… then a warm feelin’ come over my body, and a voice…
Why drivers should love bike lanes
The annual Dump the Pump commuting challenge is designed to demonstrate that riding a bicycle or taking the bus can often be just as fast as driving. And in the case of bicycling, even faster, as was proved for the fourth year in row on June 21. First time competitor Kristin Mulzer arrived on her…
Killer at large
Police are investigating the shooting death of a Savannah firefighter who interrupted an attempted robbery in a bar parking lot in Sandfly area. Wesley Franklin, 21, was in Deb’s Pub and Grub off Skidaway Drive on Norwood Avenue just after 2 a.m., when he heard a shot and stepped outside. He saw a black male…
Savannah Inside/Out
One day when my kids ask what I did in college, I’ll just pull out my copy of Athens, GA: Inside/Out and let ‘em watch it. It’s not that I was in the movie or anything like that; I did, however, play drums in a few fairly forgettable bands that were part of the same…
GA Power rate cut due to costs, not politicians
Editor, The Public Service Commission recently announced Georgia Power’s request to lower electricity rates beginning in June – a full month earlier than ratepayers previously anticipated, saving home owners about $8 a month. Some might call these “savings” paltry in comparison with the $5 billion in rate increases Georgians have paid over the last five…
Mark your calendar: ‘CBGB’ supporting cast
It’s T–minus zero for the CBGB movie, which began shooting June 25 at Meddin Studios. The nightclub facade, famous awning and all, has been erected on Congress Street. For the next few weeks, Savannah will be crawling with the famous, the almost famous and a thespian or two from the “Where have I seen that…
The ‘muralcle’ continues
Once more, the vacant lot on the corner of Habersham and 34th streets is buzzing with activity. Baseball cap sideways, artist Troy Wandzel spraypaints flowers along the bottom of the cinderblock wall, calling out to passersby to have their portraits painted inside the blooms. He’s painted around 20 faces since setting up shop, and anticipates…
Tower feist
There it is, a great green monolith rising like a tectonic plate pushing out of the earth’s crust. In this flat city of few views, its 12 stories might as well be a mountain. My urge to climb it is primal, as if I am a giant gorilla instinctively seeking out the highest point to…
‘It’ll be Primary on steroids’
We’ve heard it many times before: Big national chain store comes into town, puts small, locally–owned store out of business. It’s a sad story. Except when it isn’t. Robyn Reeder, co–owner of the beloved Primary Art Supply, says she and her partner were able to negotiate the sale of her nearly 20–year–old Broughton Street institution…
Athens, through the looking glass
One of the (many) supremely odd moments in the documentary film Athens, GA. Inside/Out depicts Dex Romweber, the bushy–haired, hyper–kinetic guitarist from Flat Duo Jets, playing a duet with the elderly Howard Finster, who’s leaning back on a couch with a banjo. They’re doing “When the Saints Go Marching In,” apparently having a grand old…
Baby Baby
BABY BABY At 8 p.m. Thursday, June 28 Taco Abajo, 217 W. Broughton St. Special appearance by KidSyc Also: At 9 p.m. Friday, June 29 Wormhole Bar, 2307 Bull Street With Gun Party, Each and Every Opus From Carrollton, slightly southwest of Atlanta, Baby Baby is a Georgian juggernaut. It’s a multi–racial, multi–genre dance band…
Runnin’ down a dream
“When all my dreams come true,” goes one of Grace Adele’s best tunes, “there’ll be nothing to do … but just to love you.” It starts off as a dreamy ballad, but soon kicks into a galloping amalgam of Western Swing, bluegrass and rooty–toot vaudeville–style music. The mandolin takes the first solo, then the fiddle…
Exhibits & openings this week
Art at War: Changing Attitudes – The Beach Institute in conjunction with the Hurn Museum highlights the historical shift in the way artists depict war. Previously glorifying it, they now stress its horror and depravity. May 5 – Aug 30. Hours: Tue-Sat 12-5 pm. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St., www.hurnmuseum.org/ Brian Antoine Woods -…
College sex: What you want to know
In a recent debate about monogamy, I observed that college students, and young people in general, tended to be more promiscuous early in life and settled down later. My comrade said that was a myth popularized by the media and cited a source to the effect that college people were quite monogamous. So which is…
June 26: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, June 26): The new issue of Connect Savannah goes online at noon. Other than that, we recommend Savannah’s great blues trio The Hitman, at the Warehouse on River Street.
