He didn’t like the way the boat was looking at him
A 26-year-old Brunswick man was arrested this morning after he climbed aboard the Savannah River Queen and damaged equipment. He told officers “the boat had angered him because of the way it was looking at him.” William Cole was apprehended after a witness alerted them about 5 a.m. that a shirtless man had climbed atop…
Super-duper high-tech CEMA vehicles unveiled Wednesday
The Chatham Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) will host an open house to display its new Mobile Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and Emergency Communications Trailer, two Big Brother type vehicles designed to enhance public safety in times of crisis or just special events like St. Patrick’s Day. They will both be on display this Wednesday from…
Rincon shooting suspect sought
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are searching for a Rincon man who shot his former girlfriend early this morning in Savannah and later escaped from a barricaded situation in Rincon. Cori Rayshan Hines, 27, is being sought for the shooting of Serina Speights at her apartment in the Oaks at Brandlewood Apartments on Garrard Avenue about 2:30…
Fountain is officially green, people
The St. Patrick’s Day celebrations more or less kind of officially started today with the annual Greening of the Fountain in Forsyth Park. Yup, it’s pretty much just dyeing the water green but it’s pretty cool anyway. Here’s a photo our Jessica Leigh Lebos sent us from the scene a little while ago. Jessica Leigh…
Waters Ave. wreck leaves man in critical condition
A 22-year-old Savannah man is in serious condition after the car he was driving crashed into a tree on Waters Avenue this morning. Tyrone Griffin was driving north on Waters near Althea Parkway at 3:11 a.m. when the 1999 Honda Accord crossed the center line into the southbound lane. Police say he overcorrected and lost…
Suspect shoots officer
A Savannah murder suspect and a Metro police officer he shot escaped serious injury after a pursuit of a stolen police car ended in a crash and shootout on Interstate 16 Wednesday night. Anthony B. Parrish Jr., 21, and Officer Rebecca Gregory were transported to Memorial University Medical Center. Both were treated for non-life threatening…
Buy a St. Patrick’s parking spot
For the 2013 St. Patrick’s Day Parade, the City of Savannah is offering advance sales of parking spaces at three City parking lots, at a cost of $15 per space. Purchasers can park in their purchased spot from 6 a.m. Saturday, March 16 until 8 a.m. Sunday, March 17. To purchase a space in advance,…
Chatham, cities reach LOST agreement
Chatham County and its municipalities reached a tentative agreement Wednesday to distribute an estimated $630 million to fund critical services over the next decade.
CNT seeks suspect
The Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team (CNT) is seeking the public’s assistance in locating 51-year-old Calvin Herman Lovett of Savannah. Lovett is wanted on Two Counts Sale of a Controlled Substance — Heroin — following an investigation conducted earlier this year. Lovett is described as a black male, 5ft 9in, 200lbs, black hair and brown eyes.…
West 40th shooting probed
Detectives from the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department are still sorting out the details of an incident that left one man with a gunshot wound Tuesday afternoon. Luther Ruth, 23, was transported to Memorial University Medical Center after Central Precinct patrol officers found him with a non-life threatening wound to his leg about 3:30 p.m. in…
3 injured in Westside crash
Police are investigating a one-car crash Wednesday morning that left three people injured, one seriously. Baheem Frazier, 20, was in serious condition at Memorial University Medical Center after the 4:49 a.m. crash on Florence Street between West 40th and West 41st streets. Two passengers were in stable condition. They are Aliccia Cherry, 17, and Derrick…
Body in river investigated
Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators have taken the lead in the investigation of the death of a 20-year-old man whose body was recovered from the Savannah River Wednesday morning. Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police initiated the investigation after Brian Charles Parker of Pooler was found floating between a boat and the pier at Crescent Towing on…
One dead in Ferguson Ave. crash
A Savannah woman died Thursday morning when the car she was driving crashed into a fence, sign and tree on Ferguson Avenue. Police say Jessica J. Strieber, 28, died instantly when the 2006 Suzuki Forenza she was driving left the right side of Ferguson between Lehigh Avenue and Diamond Causeway at 2:25 a.m. The collision…
Are hurricanes actually getting worse?
Whenever there’s a really bad storm, environmentalists on the left and apocalypse enthusiasts on the right act as though it’s self-evident that hurricanes and other storms are more frequent and intense. Environmentalists cite global warming, while apocalypse enthusiasts blame sinners for incurring God’s wrath. But I never see any statistics showing the hurricane situation is…
Review: Jack the Giant Slayer
**1/2 On the surface, Jack the Giant Slayer would appear to be made from the same cloth as Oz the Great and Powerful — that is to say, it’s an expensive CGI spectacle directed by a highly regarded helmer of superhero flicks (in this case, X-Men’s Bryan Singer). It’s based, of course, on the classic…
$18? Seems reasonable
Police are warning area residents about con artists offering to help motorists with non–existing mechanical problems. Officers were contacted by neighborhood watch members in the Windsor Forest area about a man who approaches drivers, mostly women, in parking lots as they are walking back to their vehicles. He points to a collection of fluid near…
Spare the sneakers, foil the crime?
A few weeks back, at the behest of the Savannah–Chatham Metro Police Department, workers from Georgia Power removed almost 200 pairs of shoes from power lines in midtown. Something about this act of cleanliness smelled a little weird, in more ways than the collective funk of that many used sneakers. Since when does fighting crime…
The sound of (Irish) music
Shannon Lambert–Ryan studied music, theater and history at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, and they all serve her well as the founder and lead vocalist of the Contemporary Celtic ensemble Runa. Runa headlines Savannah’s 22nd annual Tara Feis — a family–oriented Irish celebration, with a second stage for children’s entertainment — March 9 in Emmett Park.…
Back-to-back Bach
This weekend, organist Christopher Jacobson will sit behind the historic organ in Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church and play all 257 organ compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. In under 24 hours. Since only a few musicians have ever attempted the feat — Felix Mendelsohn being one of them — Wesley Monumental will enter the ranks…
In search of the perfect tourist
The prospect of cruise ships calling on the port of Savannah has revived a discussion that has been going on, as far as I can tell, for decades. In the mid–1990s, I wrote a regular column for a now-defunct weekly newspaper. In it, I often suggested we were nearing a point at which the National…
Dub’s, Bombers, & beer
Dub’s delivers The Live Oak Restaurant Group is making another run at the west end of River Street with its high–end bar food project Dub’s Pub. The group tried Cobblestone Conch House in the same location several years ago. On all counts — food, service and versatility— that project was a winner in every area…
Review: 21 and Over
** It’s hard to imagine anybody who’s 21 and over truly getting much out of 21 and Over, but as far as these sorts of films go, this one isn’t as aggressively stupid as some. It’s written and directed by the same guys who penned The Hangover (Jon Lucas and Scott Moore), and I actually…
John Neff & Shonna Tucker keep on truckin’
Since his surprise departure from the Drive–By Truckers three months ago, guitarist extraordinaire John Neff has been busy with a project he’s been working on for a year. The band, featuring singer and bassist Shonna Tucker (who herself left the Truckers in 2011), is called Eye Candy. The southern rock outfit makes its Savannah debut…
The Whigs @10:30 p.m. March 9, Knights of Columbus
When last we heard from Whigs singer/guitarist Parker Gispert, he and bandmates Julian Dorio (drums) and Timothy Deaux (bass) were gearing up to record Enjoy the Company, the fourth Whigs album. The platter arrived in 2012, and it’s the band’s best yet — thunderous and loud, yet heavy on the hooks and imbued with Gispert’s…
Of Montreal @8 p.m. March 8, Forsyth Park
Call of Montreal the anti–Allman Brothers. Singer, songwriter and chief visionary Kevin Barnes says the theatrical, performance–art party atmosphere of the Athens ensemble’s stage shows are meant to be the polar opposite of concerts featuring guys just standing there playing music. “There’s something to be said for that as well,” Barnes is quick to add.…
Snowmine @Midnight March 8, Knights of Columbus
This quintet may be the hidden gem of Stopover 2013. Fronted by singer, keyboardist and composer Grayson Sanders, the Brooklyn–based Snowmine produces clear, focused, atmospheric yet highly melodic music. The son of an opera singer and oil painter, Sanders has been a serious and studious disciple of classical music for most of his 25 years…
Lovely Locks @10 p.m. March 7; 4 p.m. March 9, Hangfire
A chick–rock clique of semi–locals with kickass vocals, Lovely Locks champion the Savannah music scene, feminism and whiskey. At the Sparetime, late on a rainy Monday, Lovely Locks manage to draw a decent crowd. Their setlist features a blend of homespun pop imbued with folk–rock bursts of bluegrass grit — and a show-stopping Rage Against…
5 questions: Bob James
One of the most commercially successful jazz musicians of the 1970s and ’80s, pianist Bob James is in the history books as one of the prime movers in the “smooth jazz” movement. What does that mean, exactly? For James, who’d arranged and/or produced seminal works by the likes of Grover Washington Jr., Stanley Turrentine and…
