‘Painting Undone’ by Titus Kaphar
THERE IS NO AMBIGUITY or poetic metaphor in the title of this exhibition. It means exactly what it says. Titus Kaphar does his paintings and then, literally, undoes them. He creates parodies of European and American history paintings of the 17th century through the 19th century, and then proceeds to destroy them by cutting, crumpling…
Savannah Childrens Theatre: Our Town
PLAYWRIGHT THORNTON WILDER changed theater forever with his play Our Town. “The way the play is written is very natural and basic,” says Megan Truillio, who is directing a production of Our Town at Savannah Children’s Theatre “It’s never really done with a set. “There are invisible props. the outline of houses, the outline of…
New releases: Leatherheads, Stop-Loss
Leatherheads Football may be a rough-and-tumble sport, but Leatherheads is handled by director and star George Clooney with the delicacy one extends toward an antique vase. Working from a script by acclaimed sports writers Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly, Clooney offers an occasionally wistful look at the early days of professional football, when its popularity…
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Married Life Now here’s a movie with a cast worth salivating over, but what’s the point when the end result turns out to be so negligible? I love the direction of Pierce Brosnan’s non-Bond career (The Matador, The Tailor of Panama); Patricia Clarkson constantly earns her designation as an indie goddess; Rachel McAdams quickly (and…
Bluesman Tinsley Ellis returns
TINSLEY ELLIS JUST MIGHT BE the baddest-ass blues-rock guitarist you’ve never heard of. Yet the fact he’s not a household name (except of course, among the kind of folks who keep up with badass guitarists) doesn’t exactly keep him up at night. “I don’t really pay much attention to whether I’m famous or not,” says…
From Bonnaroo to Beijing: Abigail Washburn, Béla Fleck & The Sparrow Quartet break the acoustic string-band mold
IN JUST A FEW SHORT WEEKS, The Sparrow Quartet will release their second album. Led by multicultural tunesmith and banjoist Abigail Washburn, the scandalously talented group —featuring cellist Ben Sollee, Grammy-nominated fiddler Casey Driessen, and world famous banjo icon Béla Fleck— in not only considered to be on the vanguard of contemporary acoustic string music,…
Pianist Marcus Roberts once more graces the SMF
ONE OF THE MOST GIFTED and highly regarded stride and jazz pianists of his generation, Marcus Roberts made a name for himself at a relatively young age by reinterpreting the works of Monk, Morton, Gershwin and Ellington. Blind since childhood, he nonetheless has carefully studied (and some would say mastered) the techniques and repertoire of…
Japanese piano virtuoso Yu Kosuge’s Savannah debut
THE PHENOMENAL, AWARD-WINNING, TOKYO-BORN Yu Kosuge gave her first piano recitals at the tender age of nine, and by ten was studying under some of the finest instructors in Germany and Austria. Lauded for her gentle touch on the keys, her pianissimo technique was described by one effusive critic as “the moment when the tip…
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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver After being bowled over by Bill Monroe at age 11, this mandolinist from the outskirts of Kingsport, Tn. (home of the 70-ft blue flame, Dillard Clark and Mr. Buzzard) wound up touring the world as a member of bluegrass superstars The Country Gentlemen. Since ’79, he’s led this group — which…
An Evening With Stewart Copeland
There was a palpable electric tingle in the Trustees Theater this past Wednesday, March 26, as Stewart Copeland, legendary drummer for rock icons The Police, took to the stage to present a multi-faceted overview of his career to date. The 1,000+ seat room was packed to the gills with an unusually wide range of listeners,…
Best little whorehouse on Tybee
IS IT POSSIBLE to have too much fun doing community theater? A happy group of Tybee Islanders is trying to find out. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is being presented by the Tybee Arts Association, and everyone involved is having a blast. “It’s a thigh-slapping, foot-stomping, s–t-kicking, PG-rated show,” director Mel Gordon says. “It’s…
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Peace out Editor, In response to Musa Burr’s letter: Who is the “guilty man” to hang? It seems Musa is ready to incite change and more power to Musa. The ability for people to incite change is a basic tenet of our democratic system. The power going out was not a good target of Musa’s…
Solar power in Thunderbolt
THESE ARE SOME of the things that persuaded Richard and Katherine Claar to to install the most comprehensive solar-based system in Savannah: • Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth; • A poster promoting GreenFest, •A TV news clip demonstrating solar panels producing enough electricity to power an air conditioner, • And a boost in corn prices…
Kacey Stewart, concessionist
KACEY STEWART is an eighteen-year-old concessionist at the Regal Eisenhower Cinema 6. She’s worked there part-time since June 2007 and enjoys writing and photography in her spare time. Describe what your job entails. Kacey Stewart: Well, I’m usually a concessionist, which means I clean, pop the popcorn, and give customers their food and drinks. What…
No way, dude
Fine Points of the Law (1) Italy’s highest appeals court ruled in March that it is not illegal for a woman to lie in a police investigation if the reason is to cover up her adulterous affair. Court of Cassation judges said that her honor is more important than providing intimate information about her lover.…
Domestic violence, with a car
Domestic violence, with a car A woman was accused of running her boyfriend down with her car during an argument on Beech Street. Police were called to the scene in reference to an assault. An officer saw a man lying on his back in the street in obvious discomfort. People in the area who witnessed…
Are you kidding me?!
Compelling Explanations In the 2006 take-off crash of a Comair commuter airliner at the regional airport in Lexington, Ky. (which the FAA blamed on pilot error), all 47 passengers were killed, and 21 lawsuits have been filed, with attorney William Johnson defending the only cockpit survivor (the first officer). The Lexington Herald-Leader reported in January…
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Deep and Wide This impressively spot-on tribute act from Indiana comes awfully close to recreating the glory days of theatrical Danish shock-rocker (and purported Satan worshipper) King Diamond. Their punishing setlist includes material from throughout his solo career (intentionally omitting anything from his days fronting Mercyful Fate), but seems to focus mainly on his 1990…
Afro-Pop’s reigning queen comes to town
TO CALL ANGELIQUE KIDJO an impressive booking for this year’s Savannah Music Festival would be a supreme understatement. This hit-making Beninese singer/songwriter is truly a global sensation — a modern-day legend of world music and high-profile humanitarian whose appeal crosses all manner of stylistic and demographic boundaries: She is fluent (and performs) in four languages;…
‘Bluegrass on steroids’
How is it that one of the hottest bluegrass groups in America today learned bluegrass not from tradition, but from scratch? And based in California, no less? The family band The Cherryholmes has experienced a meteoric rise since first studying bluegrass a mere ten years ago. Since then they’ve won the International Bluegrass Music Association…
Slide guru
One of the most unique artists to come to town in an already uniquely diverse Savannah Music Festival is Indian slide guitar virtuoso Debashish Bhattacharya, who performs in a one-of-a-kind concert, “The World of Slide Guitar,” Thursday, April 3. Joined by Derek Trucks, “world blues” advocate Bob Brozman and dobro master Jerry Douglas, the concert…
In this corner, from Athens, Georgia…
Local success came quickly for the Modern Skirts. Though the Athens, Ga.-based indie-pop quartet had played together informally for quite a while, within six months of choosing a name and making a public debut they began racking up all sorts of acclaim from local club-goers and print media in that college town famed as the…
Theater: Best friends forever
One of the longest running comedies in Off-Broadway history, Vanities is set in the 1960s and 1970s, and music of the era will be playing in the background like a Baby Boomer sound track. The Savannah Community Theatre will present the play beginning March 28. Ashley Robinson, Jordyn Schafer and Stefanie Selai star in the…
Theater: When the rainbow is enuf
In 1975, Ntozake Shange’s ground-breaking stage play was first produced. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf is a choreopoem that consists of a series of 20 poems. These poems are performed by a cast of African-American women, each known only by a color of the rainbow. The poems deal…
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21 Loosely adapted from Ben Mezrich’s fact-based bestseller Bringing Down the House, 21 is an entertaining and fast-paced film that occasionally manages to make the act of counting cards seem as exciting as this past winter’s Super Bowl — and as perilous as climbing Mount Everest with both eyes closed. Jim Sturgess, fresh off his…
Diary of the planet
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What’s going on around here?
Human beings resist change. What little change does come, tends to come slowly. Perhaps this is an evolutionary legacy from a time when change almost always meant bad news, whether in the form of a predator, an avalanche, a storm, or a sudden illness. In any case, we fully expect a certain amount of complaints…
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Reflections on the recent celebration Editor, Being that this was my first time celebrating the Irish holiday in Savannah, I wanted to pass on some observations. The parade was way too long and most of the marching bands were out of step. The military personnel, civic organizations, and businesses were all great at having fun…
Digging Savannah
One of the most fascinating aspects of archaeology is dealing with the unexpected. Archaeologists with the Coastal Heritage Society have been digging in Emmet Park and Madison Square. They’re looking for evidence from the Revolutionary War era, but are encountering surprises from other periods of history along the way. “We’ve found an Indian site, a…
Playing hardball?
Hardball Capital, an Atlanta company that specializes in owning minor league baseball franchises, is the lead investor in a new ownership group that is buying the Savannah Sand Gnats. Some details of the agreement were announced Thursday at a press conference held at Grayson Stadium. The group is buying the team from current owner John…
Robin’s World
Signs of spring In 1935, the Historic Savannah Foundation was 20 years away from being organized to prevent the Davenport House from being demolished. In 1935, Ardsley Park was a contemporary streetcar suburb of Savannah. An affluent neighborhood on the south end of town, its oldest houses were barely 25 years old and most were…
‘All I’m doing is having a good time’
‘All I’m doing is having a good time’ Police responded to a call about a theft at a downtown hotel. An officer spoke with four men who said when they entered their room they found the hotel’s TV missing, as well as two iPods, sunglasses, a GPS system, keys, a hookah and some clothing. They…
