Twilight: Eclipse, The Last Airbender
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE **1/2 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse isn’t the best of three, but neither is it the worst. Instead, this adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s blockbuster book falls somewhere in the middle, between the nicely captured teen angst of 2008’s Twilight and the ill-fated emotional oasis of 2009’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Clearly,…
Architectural sculptures by Randall
Architectural sculptures by Randall
Darius Rucker
The roads around Nashville are littered with the bones of pop or rock stars who chose to “go country,” thinking it would revitalize their nosediving careers. Instead, they got creamed. Nobody cared. Darius Rucker, who sold 18 million CDs as the lead singer and frontman for Hootie & the Blowfish (but don’t call him Hootie…
The audacity of grope
An officer on patrol was flagged down by a woman around 10 on a Friday night. She told police that a man walked by and grabbed her buttocks while she was standing on the sidewalk. She told him never to do that again, to which he responded by mumbling incoherently. The officer went to find…
Ring my (Liberty) bell
Five years into his gig as Savannah’s go–to guy for Independence Day jazz, Jeremy Davis figures he’s got things fine–tuned. His Big Band, the Equinox Jazz Orchestra, has been inked to do one show every month – on Monday nights – at the Savannah Theatre. It’s a new partnership, but one that makes total sense.…
Sound and fury: The Troy Davis hearing
In a city with a reputation for celebrating the intersection between odd personalities and true crime drama, last week’s evidentiary hearings for Troy Davis did not disappoint. There were remorseless convicts correcting the state’s legal team about prior arrests; wild–haired old ladies reflecting out loud (to no one in particular) about the distant past; tense…
We, Robot
In the future, if we end up fighting a war against autonomous humanoid robots (sort of like the Terminator movies), then we might blame students from Georgia Tech Savannah for their role in making such things possible. “The vehicle we’ve developed has all the hardware it needs to be an autonomous underwater vehicle in the…
Pinot Oregon-style
Oregon’s vineyards are indisputably some of the most beautiful in North America. But, as the cliche goes, beauty is only skin deep – in this case, grape skin deep. Add to the beauty the perfect terroir for producing some of the nation’s best examples of the finicky Pinot Noir grape and you’ve got a recipe…
Random bites: Carlito’s Cuban, Circa 1875
Carlito’s Cuban We go a decade with one Cuban restaurant. Then within three months, we have three. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, little Carlito’s Cuban Cabana truly admired the path cleared by Rancho Alegre’s Juan Manuel Rodriguez. Still, there’s certainly room for more, and Carlito’s (from the same folks who bring us…
Goals
It’s been interesting during this World Cup season to observe the bizarrely strong negative reaction that soccer often provokes in many Americans. It’s one thing to be ambivalent to a sport, to simply not care about it either way. It’s another thing entirely to actively dislike a sport so much that you go out of…
The art of war
On May 17, I stood at the center of an art gallery. I looked around, observing the paintings and sculptures that decorated the walls and accented the room. I felt as though I was in New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was all too easy to immerse…
Mark your calendar: KidSyc’s moment, Good Muse
KidSyc’s moment Come late July or early August, KidSyc will be Indiana–bound to claim his prize in the 2010 Sweetwater Song Contest. KidSyc is the alter ego of 25–year–old Lloyd Harold, a songwriter, rapper, record producer and graphic artist. He also runs the sound design program at AWOL (All Walks of Life) and teaches art…
Laughing at life
Proof that standup comedy is alive and well in Savannah: On the first Friday of every month, Bay Street Theatre (at Club One) brings in a couple of touring acts, with support sets from local comics. The whole shebang is known as the Savannah Comedy Revue. Onstage for July – on the 2nd – are…
