March 12: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, March 12): The California-based touring band The Pink Floyd Experience reproduces a state-of-the-art Floyd concert, as it never happened, starting at 7:30 p.m. in the Johnny Mercer Theatre. This is the full monty, imaginary Floyd-style, with walls, animals, flaming guys and atom hearts, mother. See you on the dark…
Oberhofer @ Telfair Square
Savannah Stopover kickoff gig outdoors under a full moon…
Grimes @ Jepson Center
Uber-drama meets electronica as Grimes played Savannah Stopover. Photos Geoff L. Johnson
Guards @ Jinx
Guards were a huge hit Friday night at Savannah Stopover. The stage lights were actually off. (Photos Geoff L. Johnson)
March 11: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, March 11): Take a breath, because while Stopover’s over, St. Patrick’s Day is right around the proverbial corner. All breathed up? OK, Into the Woods concludes with today’s 3 p.m. matinee at Asbury Church, and the AWOL Shakespeare production Motives has a 7 p.m. finale at the Johnny Mercer…
March 10: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, March 10): Before we get to the Stopover stuff, remember that the family-friendly Irish celebration, Tara Feis, begins at 11 a.m. at Emmet Park and continues through 5 this afternoon. There’s music and dancing, and admission is free. And there’s live theater in town, including AWOL’s Motives in the…
John Carter, Rampart
JOHN CARTER **1/2 Released in 2-D, 3-D, IMAX and possibly even a sepia tone version, John Carter arrives on the 100th anniversary of the title character’s first literary appearance, when Edgar Rice Burroughs initially gave him life in the pages of a pulp periodical. It wasn’t until after Burroughs’ gargantuan success with the first few…
March 9: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, March 9): Day Three of the Savannah Stopover, and here come the big guns. You can look at the whole, delightfully involved schedule at savannahstopover.com, but here are a few choice Connect recommenations: Grimes at the Jepson Center (that’s a 10 p.m. show), Milagres (Ships of the Sea), Girl…
March 8: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, March 8): How do you like your Savannah Stopover – well done, over easy or chicken-fried? XRay Eyeballs, Gemma Ray and Tennessee’s Turbo Fruits are at the Jinx tonight, while Live Wire’s got Bare Wires, Caged Animals and TOPS. Did we mention Young Empires at Congress St. Social Club,…
March 7: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, March 7): Yes indeed, the Savannah Stopover Festival has arrived, with the 7 p.m. kickoff show and block party, in Telfair Square featuring Oberhofer, Dinosaur Feathers and Pond. Each Other and Dive are on the late-night Stopover schedule at the Jinx. And how about this: Yellow Dubmarine, a band…
A scrum of a good time
No pads, no helmets and no apologies: Rugby is not a game for the fainthearted. And yet it remains one of the most popular international pastimes of our modern history, spanning more than 200 years of trash-talking, mud-throwing and broken bones. Proudly continuing this tradition, The Savannah Shamrocks Rugby Club gathers more than 50 members…
Grimes: In a dangerous spot
A melting–pot concoction of beat–heavy dance pop, cucumber–cool Britwave synthesizer, ethereal vocal harmonies from the Enya songbook and a lead falsetto borrowed from Bee Gee Barry Gibb, Claire Boucher’s music is as intuitively familiar as it is fresh and innovative. Using the moniker Grimes, the Montreal–based Boucher is the buzz of today’s indie dance world.…
Stopover: Girl in a Coma
Nina Diaz is the lead singer for the San Antonio rock ‘n’ roll trio Girl in a Coma. She also plays wicked guitar, and she writes the band’s songs (although one of their albums is an all–covers affair that stands very, very tall on its own). Nina’s older sister Phanie plays drums, and Jenn Alva…
Your Stopover starts here
Savannah Stopover is about to take over downtown, for the second consecutive March, and forewarned is forearmed. Or something like that. See the entire schedule at www.savannahstopover.com. With more than 70 independent bands and artists appearing in a dozen venues over four days, things could get a little crazy. So let’s break it down into…
Grasstowne, General Oglethorpe
GRASSTOWNE At 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 9 Randy Wood Guitars, 13904 US 80, Bloomingdale $28 About as far as you can get from the Savannah Stopover, which has all but taken over the live music scene for the weekend … Alan Bibey, a three-time International Bluegrass Music Award winner (as Mandolin Player of the Year),…
Motivated by the Bard
Lakesha Green loves her Shakespeare. The All Walks of Life, Inc. theater arts director studied the Elizabethan acting tradition in college, and four years ago when she came on the staff of the youth non–profit, she had no doubt her teenage charges would love him, too.“When I was their age I saw Romeo and Juliet…
Mark your calendar: Kevin Hart, Jim Gaffigan
Standup comedian Kevin Hart, whose recent concert film Laugh at My Pain was a runaway hit, returns to the Johnny Mercer Theatre May 12. Tickets for the 7 p.m. performance are $57.50 through etix.com. Hart was also in the independent comedy Let Go, which premiered last fall at the Savannah Film Festival. Also on sale…
Stopover: Brown Bird
David Lamb and MorganEve Swain’s voices blend, move, wax and wane together like the grain in a fine cut of wood; they turn and travel in tandem like a school of wild horses traversing a wide and windy prairie. It’s the sort of musical telepathy that only the great acoustic Americana duos possess. And while…
Stopover: XRay Eyeballs
Dark, dank and decadent, the music of XRay Eyeballs is unmistakably from New York’s soft white underbelly, a sort of 3 a.m. barbiturate crawl on the wild side. Ah, but look a little closer, at the core it’s just adrenalized garage rock, with hooks and melodies and everything; in that way, the ‘Balls have much…
Strawberry fields forever
After a mild winter and just the right amount of rain, the rows of squat, dark green plants are finally ready to bear their gifts. Lift back a scalloped leaf and there they are: Heart–shaped and red as your grandmother’s lipstick, the first fruits hang heavy, awaiting the pluck of a gentle hand. If you’ve…
Irish Girl Power
“How do I get to Tara Feis?” “Practice, kid. Practice!” For Maeve Flanagan, who sings and plays fiddle and tin whistle, a career in Irish music was inevitable. Her mother is Rose Flanagan, one of the founders of the all–female Irish music and dance group Cherish the Ladies. Young Maeve and her sister Bernadette (piano…
Stopover: Christ, Lord
Christian Ballew is the founder, songwriter and overall visionary behind the engaging six–piece Atlanta band called Christ, Lord. He plays accordion, banjo, piano and organ and sings. There’s violin, trumpet, clarinet and even a guitar and standup bass in the lineup. The sound has its deepest roots in klezmer, the melodic dance–band music of Eastern…
Stopover: Chelsea Crowell
Once upon a time Rodney Crowell, one of the great Texas singer/songwriters, was hired to produce a country/pop album for Johnny Cash’s daughter Rosanne, also a writer of considerable strengths. It was 1977. From the late 1970s, and through all of the ‘80s, they made one smash hit after another, with her singing, him arranging…
Extra points at the Super Bowl
The noodle bowl phenomenon that has swept big cities has barely rippled the surface of Savannah’s food scene. Still, the handful of players bring their A–game to the dinner table. One of the latest entries into the genre is Super Bowl, a bright and clean cut noddle and Asian food joint that converted the formerly…
Keeping cyclists in (positive) mind
“They symbolize America’s independent spirit. They deserve our respect,” Leonard said. Chuck agreed. “If populations are threatened, bad news for us all.” Amanda said, “I get frustrated because they move slowly, but then I remind myself that they are just trying to get where they need to go.” William was conflicted. “They have the right…
Not enough green on St. Patrick’s Day
I’m sure I’m not the first to notice the ironic analogy between the legend of St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland and this year’s banning of live snakes (!) from the St. Patrick’s Day celebration downtown. I’m also not the first to point out that the snakes on River Street have often been…
The right wing and women
Editor, Regarding your recent column “Cherish the Ladies:” Being a dyed–in–the–wool liberal, it is so refreshing to read an article in this state that actually has compassion & a sense of reason re their fellow human beings. Aside from the appalling stupidity exhibited by the right wing in this country, it is astounding to me…
Carjacked while texting
A man crashed a stolen car into a tree on Wilmington Island. Police say Javell Demetrius Wright, 20, of a Pinetree Road address had sped away from a traffic stop on East Victory Drive. He reached speeds in excess of 120 MPH before he missed a curve and struck a tree on the 7100 block…
100 years of inclusion
Who knew the Girl Scouts of America were so crazy controversial? In January, it was the commitment to uphold their policy of accepting transgender children. A couple of weeks ago, an Indiana legislator went viral when he published a letter to fellow lawmakers calling GSA a “radicalized organization,” claiming its role models were all “feminists,…
March 6: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, March 6): It’s the last quiet day before the 2012 Savannah Stopover makes a live music mountain out of an otherwise-molehill week – how many of the 70+ performers are you planning to check out? Onstage tonight: Sincerely, Iris (aka Todd Murray) at Lulu’s Chocolate Bar, Straight Line Stitch,…
