Savannah Music Festival review: Jane Monheit, Jennifer Sheehan
Her voice soars, swoops and scats, leaping octaves with slippery ease.
UPDATE: 3 in custody for Wells Fargo robbery
Three men have been charged in the robbery of of the Wells Fargo Bank branch on the 3500 block of West Bay Street Friday morning. Charged with armed robbery were Brandon Williams, 24, John D. Simmons, 20, and Jarrod M. Johnson, 27, after an investigation by Savannah-Chatham Police and FBI agents led to a house…
Another Wells Fargo hit?!
Two days after a Wells Fargo on Ogeechee Road was robbed, a branch on West Bay Street a few miles north, also on the city’s westside, was targeted. Metro Police are collaborating with FBI agents and Garden City Police to investigate the robbery of the Wells Fargo branch on the 3500 block of West Bay…
2012 a record year for film/TV in Savannah
Savannah set records for the number of media projects shot within the City last year, according to the recently released Savannah Film Commission 2012 Annual Report. According to the report, the City of Savannah Film Office worked with 242 separate projects in 2012, which spanned 715 shoot days. Total economic impact to Savannah was $26…
Wells Fargo on Ogeechee robbed
The FBI and Savannah-Chatham Police are investigating the robbery of the Wells Fargo Bank branch in the 3500 block of Ogeechee Road yesterday. A gunman entered the branch just before 4 p.m., “pointed a silver automatic handgun at bank employees and demanded money,” say police. “He left with cash in a white plastic bag with…
Murder on East 54th Street
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating the shooting death of 27-year-old Achmed Kiwaan Williams. Williams was sitting on the front porch of a house in the 1900 block of East 54th Street when “he was approached by at least one gunman and was shot multiple times,” according to police. He was pronounced dead at Memorial University…
Bethesda Museum grand opening is Saturday
Bethesda Academy announces that their new William H. Ford Museum and Visitor Center, on its 650-acre campus at 9520 Ferguson Ave., will open to the public on March 23. The new museum will be open Thu.-Sat. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is $7 per person. A special rate of $5 per person will be available through…
Mighty Eighth gets National Museum status
The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum today announced the advancement of the museum to national status. The facility just off I-95 will be called the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force. Artist renderings for exhibit upgrades and future exhibits are on exhibit at the Museum at 175 Bourne Ave. in Pooler. National Museum…
‘Royal Pains’ needs extras for Crab Shack shoot Thursday
The USA Network series “Royal Pains” will be filming Thursday at The Crab Shack on Tybee and needs paid extras. We’re told they also need extras for other, subsequent locations around Tybee and for some March 28 shooting in Savannah. If you’re interested, contact their casting office using the subject line “The Crab Shack” to…
Savannah Music Festival: Daniel Hope
It was Savannah Music Festival executive director Rob Gibson who gave us Hope. British violin virtuoso Daniel Hope was brought in, at Gibson’s invite, to be the festival’s associate artistic director when Gibson took the reins of the event a decade ago. Hope’s been a crucial cog in the SMF machine ever since, bringing in…
Savannah Music Festival Review: Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal
Equally skilled at melody and rhythm, Sissoko performs mini-symphonies on his handmade, beautiful instrument. In partnership with Segal, however, we are in the presence of magic.
Review: Olympus Has Fallen
Basically two hours of “America, F#$% Yeah!”
Sadly, only one arrest for swimming in the river
Through Saturday’s parade, Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police had only arrested 15 people in the St. Patrick’s Day festival area. However, a spike on Saturday night ended up bringing the holiday total up to 79 arrests. Most arrests took place between 4 p.m. Saturday and 4 a.m. Sunday. Police filed 46 charges between 4 a.m. and midnight…
Savannah Music Festival: Ahmad Jamal
He may be 82, but he hasn’t stopped — or even slowed down. In 2013, no one can make music like Ahmad Jamal. Not even close.
The sands of non-attachment (or: Spring, you filthy slut)
Unfortunately for us humans, Daylight Savings makes the turning of the season feel less like a gentle nudge by a beneficent Mother Nature than a sharp bludgeoning about the head by the Lannister hound in Game of Thrones.
Savannah Music Festival: Jane Monheit/Jennifer Sheehan, March 24-26
She’s been one of America’s best-loved jazz vocalists for the better part of a decade, but Jane Monheit — she of the sexy, smoky and utterly unique contralto — has a new focus. His name is Jack, and he’s 5 years old. “As soon as you have children, your work becomes the second most important…
Human trafficking: Hope in a soap
How can you help?Many organizations are working worldwide to stop human trafficking. The DREAM Project Foundation works to stop the exploitation of children in Southeast Asia by community building and education. You can help DREAM by attending The Taste of Art this Tuesday, March 26. Showcasing music from the Accomplices and fine food (including a…
Review: The Croods
Anyone on the lookout for a comeback by Fritz the Cat creator Ralph Bakshi will have to keep waiting.
Savannah Music Festival Review: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co.
The performance was over before we knew it, the organic, gently unfolding nature of the dances enabling us to reach a near-trance state which both slowed and accelerated the passage of time.
Savannah Music Festival: Dr. John
New Orleans’Mac Rebennack has come full circle: From his earliest days as a French Quarter guitarist and then key-tickling jellyroll wunderkind on recordings for the top L.A. artists, to his hit-making stint as Cajun voodoo priest Dr. John The Night Tripper, to his most recent revered status as one of New Orleans’ greatest living singer/pianists.…
Of parks & parking
It is truly astounding that Forsyth Park, so accommodating to so many citizens, would never be approved today because it can’t accommodate our cars.
Savannah Music Festival: The schedule
March 20/Wednesday Cameron Carpenter, organ: $25 7 p.m. Christ Church, 28 Bull St. March 21/Thursday Della Mae: A one-hour bluegrass concert – just right for lunch break. $15 12:30 p.m. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. Della Mae/ Steep Canyon Rangers: A bluegrass double bill. 5:30 and 8 p.m. shows are sold out.…
Editor’s Note: Iraq, ten years later
Let’s be clear about what Shock and Awe was: annihilating entire city blocks full of sleeping people. That’s all it ever meant, and that’s what we saw in real-time that spring evening in 2003.
Why the whole zombie deal?
What’s the deal with the so-called zombie apocalypse? It’s all over the web, in movies, and on television, and there are even books about how to survive when the shambling hordes come for you. Did I miss something? —Anonymous The zombie fixation that has become so familiar in the 2000s mystifies many. Numerous popular video…
Joe’s Crab Shack, plus big Zunzi’s news
I generally avoid giving you the skinny on big-brand, big-budget chain restaurants. But when a company like Joe’s Crab Shack stakes claim to a rare strip of waterfront property on River Street and builds a completely new building, I think you deserve a look inside. Why do I avoid a review for this category of…
7 Savannahians & a 5 Spot
One diner may arguably be just like any other, but the camaraderie of good chums, the cool-tempered climate and a little Creedence Clearwater Revival are just a few of the signs that distinguish The 5 Spot.
Seeing sounds, hearing art
“There is such an important relationship between art and music. Each is striving for rhythm, balance, harmony.”
Record reviews: Emmy, Rodney & Townes
Old Yellow Moon Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell Nonesuch Records I have loved and followed these two exceptionally talented artists for nearly 40 years; virtually the entire length of their careers, from the first recorded note. Emmylou Harris, of course, is a singular interpreter of popular song. From her earliest days as a pioneer in…
Savannah Music Festival: Old Crow Medicine Show
Virginia-born Chris “Critter” Fuqua and Ketch Secor are the co-founders and main songwriters for Old Crow Medicine Show, perhaps the most popular old-time string band in America at the moment. Old Crow makes electrifying, cleanly-picked folk, bluegrass, jug band music, the sort of stuff that’s trickled naturally out of the Shenandoah Valley for generations. They…
Savannah Music Festival: Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires
“If you look into James Brown, look into Otis Redding, look into Sam Cooke, and you look into me, we’re all in that same aura,” R&B singer Bradley told Connect in November. “That’s where I’m at. And I never know how deep my depths can go, but I know I’m seeking my depths more deeper…
Review: The Admission
The idea of teaming Tina Fey and Paul Rudd sounds feasible, but….
City Hall lights to go out for an hour; your jokes begin in 3, 2, 1
Savannah City Hall will go dark for an hour this Saturday night as part of Earth Hour, a global event to promote energy conservation. From 8:30-9:30 p.m. March 23, “all of the interior and exterior lights at City Hall will be turned off, including the lights that illuminate the iconic gold dome and clock face,”…
Analysis: Local economy solid mostly due to tourism
The Savannah area’s economy continued to grow in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to Armstrong Atlantic State University’s latest Coastal Empire Economic Monitor. “While the relatively slow nature of that growth dampened some of the third-quarter buoyancy, record tourism and strengthening housing market activity powered the economy along as the year closed,” says a…
‘News Cycle’ columnist named Bicycle Campaign director
The board of directors of the Savannah Bicycle Campaign has selected John R. Bennett — who also writes Connect’s bi-weekly “The News Cycle” column — to serve as its full-time executive director. Bennett is a cofounder of the organization and previously served as vice chairman. “From the earliest days of our organization, John has been…
