EXCLUSIVE: Stream Black Water Choir’s “Stray Dogs,” available 3/24 via Furious Hooves
SAV/VA label release limited cassette redux
Woman shot on Westside
An investigation is underway by Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police in the shooting of a 20-year-old woman this morning. “A Central Precinct patrol officer investigating a ShotSpotter alert found Samira Kenney of a Lavinia Street address on Burroughs Street between 42nd and 41st streets about 3 a.m.,” police say. “Kenney was transported for treatment of a gunshot…
Total arrests for St. Patrick’s celebration: 48
Eleven disorderly conduct charges, “some ranging from fighting police officers to insistently trying to hug them, led the 21 arrests Tuesday to close out the 2015 St. Patrick’s Day Festival,” a police spokesperson says. A total of 48 arrests were recorded in the two Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department command centers on River Street and City…
Slowing down on Wheaton Street
NO ONE complains about out-of-control bus traffic or too many tourists on Wheaton Street. No parades roll past its overgrown lots and abandoned buildings. And though it’s literally one minute from the hustle and bustle of downtown, there’s never a problem finding a parking spot. A rare diagonal in a city full of right angles,…
2015 Sav/Chatham County Homicide Total through Sun. March 8: 6
Breakthrough in Aug. 2014 Carver Heights murder Wednesday, “the collaborative work of a multiagency taskforce led to the arrest of murder suspect, Jo’Andre Robbins,18, for the shooting death of Wayne Edwards, 17” in an August 2014 murder, police say. Robbins was found at a residence on the 5600 block of Betty Dr. “The shooting happened…
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Check out ‘These Neighbors’ on the third floor of the Bull St. Library.
Bay Uno, Dare Dukes @The Sentient Bean
Fans of indie-folk heroes like M. Ward, Sufjan Stevens and Devendra Banhart, come forward.
2015 Sav/Chatham County Homicide Total through Sun. March 15: 6
Savannah River skinny dippers arrested on St. Paddy’s weekend Two men who “shed their clothing and dived into the Savannah River Friday night were the only arrests recorded in the first night of the 2015 St. Patrick’s Day Festival,” said a police spokesman. Sixteen arrests the following day resulted in a total of 18 arrests…
Spring in Savannah, new and improved
The salacious second quarter of 2015 has also been greatly improved by other developments. Let’s begin with the renovation of the Forsyth Park Bandshell, currently underway.
Reader: Little hope on marsh protection bill
Under such dictatorial top-down rule, there is little hope for 11th-hour redemption of SB101 by a cadre of belatedly conscientious legislators.
Editor’s Note: Greening out the truth
It doesn’t take a genius to see why the establishment didn’t want to talk about the incidents. Not only was the big Green Day approaching, on March 12 Mayor Jackson announced she was running for reelection.
Women’s Empowerment: Why girls and math add up
‘People think it’s not an issue anymore, that it’s girls’ choices, but there’s inherent bias everywhere.’
Alex Culbreth @The Jinx
His 2012 album Heart in a Mason Jar is just straight-up, good country music.
Sweet Girls take care of your Sweet Tooth
This entrepreneurial startup holds the first ‘Cottage Industry’ license in Chatham County.
SMF: Just Jarekus
AT 30 years old, Jarekus Singleton is bringing blues to a new generation, earning many noteworthy awards and feathers in his cap along the way. But to the humble and genial Mississippian, he’s still “just Jarekus”: a boy who learned to play music in his granddaddy’s church, a former basketball star who, when struck with…
Natalie Prass @Hang Fire
Jenny Lewis fans may have seen her rocking in Lewis’ touring band on keyboards. You are, guaranteed, never going to see Prass in a venue this small again.
Safer streets aren’t just about fighting crime
The details of crashes that kill and injure people on bikes or on foot differ, however, there is a common denominator. Most occur on streets configured to maximize motor vehicle speed and throughput.
Opera @SMF: Sex, Lies, & Multimedia
“THERE ARE only two kinds of music. We do the good kind,” smiles Rob Gibson, Executive and Artistic Director of the Savannah Music Festival. The next chapter in the Music Festival’s efforts to bring the “good kind” to Savannah involves what may be its most ambitious project yet: Not one but two operas at the…
Opera @SMF: Darn those kids and their loud arias!
‘The first year I went to Savannah Children’s Choir camp made me love it even more—it just grew from there.’
SMF: Shovels & Rope
MICHAEL TRENT AND CARY ANN HEARST joined forces as the duo Shovels & Rope after having pursued separate careers that earned each of them some good reviews, but not much in the way of commercial success. So the couple (they married in 2009 before teaming up musically) didn’t carry any grand dreams of platinum albums,…
Sins of Godless Men, Room Full of Strangers, Kennedy Curse, The Landmines, Spray Tan @The Guild Hall
Instead of a flat cover, attendees have the option to shell out a mere $3 donation and get pizza and soda in return.
SMF Picks: Week One
Balsam Range It’s the first show of the fest! Getting the party started is Balsam Range, bluegrass champions in their own right. At the prestigious 2014 International Bluegrass Music Association awards ceremony, Western North Carolina’s Balsam Range earned more nominations than any other group in the genre, leading the way with Vocal Group of the…
