Review: Iron Man 3
With The Avengers still fresh in everyone’s minds, this tin-man outing might seem even more tinny to many prospective viewers.
Murder outside Sharon’s
Homicide detectives are investigating the shooting death of a 47-year-old Savannah man outside a Montgomery Street bar this morning. Darin Manigo was transported from Sharon’s Lounge in the 600 block of Montgomery Street to Memorial University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. Detectives said he was in front of the bar when a man…
Shootout on Broughton Street
Detectives are seeking witnesses to a confrontation on West Broughton Street early this morning that left two victims with gunshot wounds. Vaughn Cornelia, 20, was transported to Memorial University Medical Center and taken to surgery. Mamie Smith, 20, was transported to the same hospital by private automobile with a non-life threatening wound. As many as…
Fugitive up a creek without a paddle, literally
A Savannah man who escaped from a transitional center and tried to elude capture in a canoe without a paddle was arrested by Metro, state and federal officers this afternoon. Frederick Neil Rushing, 36, was apprehended by Marine Patrol Officers and officers from Metro’s helicopter Eagle One, aided by Islands Precinct Crime Suppression and Patrol…
Greyboy Allstars headline SCAD new alumni show
California’s groove-heavy Greyboy Allstars will headline SCAD’s “New Alumni Concert” Friday, May 31 in Forsyth Park. The jazz/funk band, formed 10 years ago by DJ Andreas Stevens and tenor sax player Karl Denson, have a new album out (minus Stevens, the original “DJ Greyboy”): Inland Emperor, says allmusic.com, is “a menagerie of sounds that are…
Why you heard that police chopper yesterday afternoon
A police stakeout helped recover two automobiles but police still seek as many as four men involved in burglaries reported in Chatham and Bryan Counties. A Nissan Altima identified as a vehicle used in the burglaries was located at an apartment complex on Laroche Avenue. Undercover officers in unmarked cars awaited occupants to return to…
SCAD sets record for most ginormous shoe
Students from SCAD Hong Kong set a record recently by designing and helping to create the world’s largest shoe. Verified by Guinness World Records as the world record holder — according to SCAD — the shoe “was created to mark the launch of Italian shoemaker Superga’s first flagship store in Hong Kong.” SCAD SCAD students…
SCAD grad show; Summer Solstice
Greyboy Allstars to play ‘New Alumni’ show May 31
National Bike Challenge: Savannah’s up for it
The Challenge is a free online program, with a companion smartphone application, designed to encourage biking for transportation, fitness and recreation.
Disease & time travel
For most of human history it would be difficult for our traveler to avoid smallpox, cowpox, and variations of influenza unknown to modern times; lepers and plague victims would warrant a wide berth.
Cirque du Soleil: Timing is everything
Exactly 20 years ago, Canadian native Allister Booth was a physics student at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. He’d been a competitive gymnast since he was a little boy, and had actually set the Canadian “degree of difficulty” record for power tumbling at the National Championships. Still, college — and responsibility — beckoned. Ah,…
Review: The Company You Keep
** 1/2 There’s a musty smell surrounding The Company You Keep, director-star Robert Redford’s drama about a smalltime lawyer who’s forced to go on the lam after he’s outed as a murderous 1970s radical. Redford, an admirable progressive in real life, used to routinely channel his politics into his pictures – All the President’s Men…
Playing D&D for keeps
For 20 years, Martin Noyes has been active in the role-playing gamers’ world of Dungeons & Dragons. When the staff of SCAD’s Performing Arts Department discovered the comedy She Kills Monsters, which takes place in that world, choosing its director was a no-brainer. “It was actually one of the easiest play selections for us this…
Review: Pain & Gain
Nowhere near as awful as Wahlberg’s Max Payne, but a blown opportunity to make a movie that’s worth its weight in box office admissions. And for that, the blame falls primarily on Michael Bay.
Human trafficking
The case is one in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation exposed a human trafficking ring operating in Georgia and other states.
Review: Mud
*** Writer-director Jeff Nichols made his debut with the well-received Shotgun Stories and then followed that with the intriguing Take Shelter, starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. With Mud, he demonstrates once again that he’s that rare breed of filmmaker who prefers to bury himself in the dirt of rural America rather than carve his…
When things blow up
Thanks to its gleeful fracking of America’s last unspoiled resources, the natural gas industry has plenty of extra product on its hands.
Fields of Dreams
‘There’s not much you can do with a piece of property once FEMA declares it a disaster site. You can’t build on it. But you can grow on it.’
Keep calm and eat pie
Word about Edward Wagstaff’s fresh goodies has gotten ’round, and the 25 year-old rises before dawn to stock his shop with pies (both savory and sweet) as well as quiches, lasagnas, shortbread and other delights.
Editor’s Note: The race for Saxby’s seat
The resulting melee in 2014 is forecast by some to end up being the most expensive statewide race in Georgia history.
Letter: Of tweets & twits
Editor, As I do each week, just now finished your editorial (‘Making sense of the senseless’). You never let me down. As usual, I appreciate your voice. Very well said, all of it. Impossible nearly to believe that some fool such as Nate Bell can be elected to office. More correct, I suppose, that a…
Gallery Hop: Le Snoot, Ashmore, Sicky Nar Nar
Serious exhibitions capped competitive jurying processes, and other shows celebrated the serious number of people in this city who make interesting combinations of matter, color and form.
Celtic Woman: Irish again
‘I’ve done American accents in nearly every show I’ve been in. In Legally Blonde, you had to do the Valley Girl L.A. accent, which was kind of fun.’
