The return of Night Flight
IF YOU were there, you know. And if you weren’t there, you’ve certainly heard. From 1975 to 1988 in a Savannah very different than the one we live in today, a Navyman and his cousin dared to dream up a homey hangout to showcase original, live music. That vision grew into Night Flight Café, a…
Council adopts amended new parking hours and rates
City Council today voted to approve an amended version of the expansive new changes to parking rates and times downtown. The newly adopted version features an expansion of enforced parking fees to $2 an hour from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Mon.-Sat., beginning with a two-year phase-in for areas north of Liberty Street only. Sundays had originally…
City changes Horse and Carriage Ordinance
Savannah City Council members voted 7-1 to approve revisions to the City’s Horse and Carriage Ordinance. “The revisions are intended to regulate the horse-drawn carriage industry, protect the health, safety, and welfare of the animals used in the tourism industry, as well as citizens, motorists and pedestrians using the public rights of way,” a City…
Juliette Gordon Low honored for ‘Reimagined Library’ exhibit
At the American Alliance of Museums’ (AAM’s) 2017 Meeting & MuseumExpo this Monday in St. Louis, Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 29th Annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition for the installation Girls Writing the World: A Library, Reimagined. The installation lives in the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace in…
Van Johnson receives award
ACCG, Georgia’s county association, recently awarded Savannah Alderman Van R. Johnson II (District 1) with the 2017 Civic and Community Engagement Advocate of the Year Award. Each year, ACCG uses its Awards and Recognition Program to honor individuals, businesses and organizations that work to further the mission of county government, ACCG, or both. Johnson accepted…
Seeing us in CNU
What could Savannah possibly want with a “new urbanism,” when we spend most of our time reveling in the old? Well, that’s point.
Wayne Hancock, Whiskey Dick, A.M. Rodriguez @The Jinx
An entertainer at heart, Hancock channels heroes like Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, and Willie Nelson with his fusion of country, honky-tonk, and pop.
Amythyst Kiah & Her Chest of Glass, Parker Gispert @The Jinx
Amythyst Kiah pens Southern Gothic ballads that pierce the soul, driven by her deeply raw and moving vocals.
Rubi McGrory’s good humans
The stories are short, anonymous, and describe a range of kind acts
A peach of a good book
Of particular interest is the story of J.H. Hale, a Connecticut businessman who came to Georgia in 1890 specifically to launch a regional peach industry and bring Northern techniques of efficiency to the “New South.”
A night at the Algonquin Round Table
Surely the servers at the Algonquin never laid a tablescape this enchanting for a bunch of cranky egg-eating writers.
Savannah’s Carnegie Library recognized as one of Georgia’s 10 Most Beautiful
HELEN WASHINGTON likes to say she has a “living room with a view.” The sprightly senior has lived on Henry Street for over 60 years, most of them in the lovely Victorian across from the red-and-black brick Carnegie Library, an architectural gem that has served this neighborhood for more than a century. “I admire it…
Dad Joke’s last laugh
Some, like headliner Muuy Biien, are returning favorites, while there are many more on the lineup that have never played Savannah before
Donna Hopkins Band, Parker Urban Band @Barrelhouse South
A raw and soulful singer in the vein of Susan Tedeschi and a shredder of a blues guitarist.
Why do English singers seem to lose their accent when they sing?
What the authors found was the Beatles always tended to mix and match UK and U.S. consonants
Editor’s Note: A ‘typical’ Saturday night
Leaving the sold-out show, we see several blocks of Broughton Street and State Street cordoned off because of a possible explosive device in the State Street garage.
Natural Selections Café offers vegan twists on Southern classics
SAVANNAH’S first ever all-vegan restaurant opened March 8. While many restaurants and cafés supply vegan offerings, Natural Selections Café is 100 percent plant-based. Owned and operated by St. Thomas native Davida Harris, this vegan café is already altering stereotypes. Not only has Harris pioneered the vegan food scene, she decided to shake it up a…
Tony Furtado @Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah
Throughout his career, he’s performed solo, as a duo, trio, and as a five-member strong lineup.
Starlandia Concert Series: Friendship, Rich Animals, The Gumps @The Space Station at Starlandia
Portsmouth, New Hampshire’s Friendship evokes a gentle kind of vulnerable and experimental Americana.
It’s not the humidity, it’s the heat: Collective Face closes season with Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Set on the 28,000-acre plantation of a cotton tycoon, Big Daddy, in the 1950s, it’s the story of a family in crisis, tangled in a web of lies and high drama
Review: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
As Arthur, Hunnam displays little of the authority or magnetism integral to the character, although, to be honest, nobody really stands out in this blasé grouping.
Review: Snatched
Here’s another grasping summertime slog that promisingly pairs two popular actresses and then puts them through nonsensical material.
