Classic Blotter
A woman walking her dog at Wahlburg and Barnard streets observed a man trying to break into her car with a crow bar. She told him, “Dude, you better run.” The man brandished the crow bar and said, “Bring it on,” but the woman’s dog growled and he dropped the crow bar and ran. The…
Tibetan Monks closing ceremony
Closing ceremony and destruction of the Sand Mandala from the 2009 visit of the Tibetan Monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery. From the Jepson Center on June 7th, 2009
What’s Next: Music, photos at the Jepson
The Telfair Museum of Art’s final Jepson Live concert of the season – taking place in the Jepson Center, naturally – happens Thursday at 5 p.m. Vocalist Roger Moss, accompanied by Eric Jones, will perform Johnny Mercer tunes. For $15, you can stroll the galleries to the strains of the estimable Mercer/Moss combo; food and…
The final frontier
In Saving Luna, an extraordinary documentary from filmmakers Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm, the central issue is whether or not humankind – in this case, the residents of a logging town in coastal British Columbia, or the Canadian government – should get involved in the well-being of a young, attention-starved killer whale that seems to…
Kiwi Kim
Seriously, I was going to take a break from summer wines this week. Then I sat through a couple of tastings. While I did enjoy some reds that will surface in subsequent weeks, one Sauvignon Blanc caught my attention. Kim Crawford 2008 Sauvignon Blanc is just hitting stores — and can be found for as…
Best bites: Gallery Espresso, Hirano’s, IHOP
Gallery Espresso Man, what a crazy week! Too many times last week I ate on the go — a fast food drive-thru, a sandwich, nothing. Still, I had some catching up to do with Chef Chris Nason of Sapphire Grill — and I managed to get in a little early at our meeting place to…
Reviews: Land of the Lost, Hangover, My Life in Ruins
LAND OF THE LOST **1/2 The surprising thing about Land of the Lost isn’t that it contains several hearty laughs; the surprising thing is that it contains any laughs at all. After all, Will Ferrell vehicles are increasingly becoming known for their inability to generate honestly earned guffaws, as the comedian generally calls it a…
My name is EARLE
“Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.” – Steve Earle, 1995 When Steve Earle stops into the new fine arts auditorium at Armstrong Atlantic State University Saturday, he’ll perform solo, just his voice and acoustic guitar,…
Red Collar @ The Jinx
RED COLLAR For kinetic, frenetic live shows, moshers in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill region tend to gravitate towards this high-energy four-piece. Red Collar is a punky, hardcore buzzsaw-guitar band that – going unpredictably against that particular grain – puts them emphasis on song, story and structure. “Fugazi Meets Bruce Springsteen” is how one local periodical pundit…
Kokumo Live
These are pictures form Abeni Cultural Arts professional dance group, Kokumo Collective Dance Company. This was Kokumo’s first full featured dance concert.
The $100,000 question
Lead Story As Denver’s newsweekly Westword asked in a May 2009 story, “Where would you take a $100,000 check that is also a suicide note, to the cops or to the bank?” In July 2008, John Francis Beech, a retired executive in Denver, sent a check for $100,000 to a local charity, postdated to Aug.…
Do the feds profit off patents?
I once heard NASA was the only government department to show a profit due to patents on things such as Teflon, Velcro, and Tang. Any truth to this? – Michelle, Anchorage Will this silly story never die? I’ve mentioned previously that NASA didn’t invent Teflon, Velcro, or Tang; we therefore deduce that it can’t be…
Jaywalking into oblivion
It takes a lot to bring Savannah together on a civic issue. The city is famously apathetic – you may recall that at least one writer became a millionaire by telling the rest of the world just how charmingly apathetic we are. However, one recent civic issue has galvanized local support like few others: The…
More jaywalking feedback
Southern hospitality my ass Editor, My son also received a jaywalking ticket while visiting Savannah.We were touring the area because he had an interest in attending SCAD. When the officer handed my son the ticket, he told him, “Oh don’t worry, it’s no big deal”. Well once he got back to the hotel room and…
