May 21: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, May 21): The Odd Lot improv troupe does its thing at 8 onstage at Muse Arts Warehouse.
May 20: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, May 20): The Flannery O’Connor double-bill (Everything That Rises Must Converge and Greenleaf) from SCAD theater students has a matinee (3 p.m., Arnold Hall). The weekly all-ages performance of Rent is at Club One (7:30). 18 and older are welcome.
May 19: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, May 19): Another performance of Rent at Club One (7:30), the Flannery O’Connor double-bill from SCAD theater students (8 p.m., Arnold Hall), and the Savannah Philharmonic’s season finale concert at the Lucas Theatre (also at 7:30). Plus Dangermuffin at Live Wire, These United States at the Wormhole, and the…
May 18: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, May 18): Hello, weekend, and welcome back! Rent returns to the Bay Street Theatre/Club One stage at 7:30 tonight, and the SCAD two-fer production of Flannery O’Connor stories is at Arnold Hall at 8. Three Project Runway alums, including Savannah’s April Johnson, have a fashion show (Exposed) at 24e…
Reviews: Battleship, The Dictator, What to Expect When You’re Expecting
BATTLESHIP * The massively budgeted, heavily hyped and supremely awful Battleship isn’t the first time the Hasbro game has been seen in some form on the big screen. In 1991’s Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, one sequence spoofs the classic chess match from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal by having The Grim Reaper play the…
May 17: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, May 17): It’s Third Thursday on Tybee Island – Brenda Morie performs at the Tybee/Strand roundabout, starting at 5:30 p.m. The Savannah Fashion Week Runway Show starts walking at 7:30 p.m., at the Lucas Theatre. The SCAD production of two award-winning Flannery O’Connor short stories, Greenleaf and Everything That…
May 16: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, May 16): The 1983 White Star is tonight’s Psychotronic Film Society feature at the Sentient Bean. Featuring a maniacal, drug-fueled lead performance by Dennis Hopper, the comedy/drama – made for a reported $100,000 – was re-edited and released here in the States as Let it Rock. Hopper plays a…
Chic Commentator
It’s not Bryant Park just yet, but Savannah Fashion Week is gaining traction in the hearts and minds of haute couture, according to award–winning fashion editor Robin Givhan. The lady ought to know. Givhan has examined the fashion world down to the seams for over a decade, first as the fashion editor at the Washington…
Crowning achievement
Betsy Kingston is several things. Among them: A Savannah native, a graduate of Armstrong Atlantic State University, a bartender at the recently-rebuilt Georgia Theatre in Athens, and one hell of a rock/rhythm and blues vocalist. Concentrating for a moment on that last one, Kingston is back in her hometown this week for a May 18…
Getting better all the time
When producer Al Brodax, director George Dunning and a team of 200 animators made Yellow Submarine in 1968, there was no such thing as home video. Your movie was crafted for the big screen, and the big screen only, and only after it had run its course would it go —maybe — to network television…
Mark your calendar: Eddie Griffin
“It ain’t no thang.” Ten years ago, comedian Eddie Griffin starred in the film Undercover Brother, one of the funniest dumb movies ever made. Find the trailer on YouTube if you can. He appeared on the Dr. Dre albums The Chronic and Chronic 2001, and in the movies Norbit, Date Movie, Scary Movie 3 and…
‘Cueing it up on Tybee
The youngest Rutherford and I found a very low tide and time for overdue man–chat as we walked the surf on Tybee Island’s north beach. We stumbled on plenty of sea creatures and got in about a month’s worth of people watching during our trek. Leaving the island, we took our man–sized appetites to the…
Parallels, These United States
PARALLELS With Aurora, Magic Places At 7 p.m. Thursday, May 17 No Control, 108 E. 40th St. It’s been a year, almost to the day, that Toronto’s Parallels played an impressive synth-pop showcase at Hang Fire. The band was the brainchild of Crystal Castles drummer Cameron Finlay, who intended it to be a side project…
Thou Cannot Protest Too Much
I must admit I enjoy a good riot. Not the violence, of course. Or the property damage. But there’s something tremendously exciting about people passionate enough to take to the streets to express disapproval of the way corporations are screwing us while the government stands around picking its proverbial nose. So it’s a teeny bit…
TEDx time
“We want your brain to hurt afterward,” says Creative Coast Executive Director Jake Hodesh simply. Indeed, as those who’ve experienced the event know, spending the day at TEDx can be a mind–blowing experience.Savannah’s third annual TEDx Creative Coast happens this Friday at the Jepson Center for the Arts. Connect Savannah is proud to be the…
TEDx Creative Coast lineup
Catherine Compton: She will talk about green living and her co-founding of and work with Slow Food Savannah. Andrew Davies & Jamie McGrath: One of two multi-person presentations, Gould Elementary’s McGrath and Paragon Design’s Davies will talk about re-instilling problem-solving skills in a school environment currently obsessed with standardized testing. Zhenjie Dong: This photographer and…
Chew on this
It’s tough to eat in a hurry around Cat Compton. As the co–chair of Slow Food Savannah, the easygoing nutritionist/food activist has made it her mission to help folks appreciate the value of a well–prepared meal. But the Slow Food movement is about much more than what goes into your mouth. “People tend to gather…
The person in the fabric
With her bright smile and swirling flowered skirts, Dr. Beth Mount is a dervish of energy and color. In fact, the internationally–heralded consultant and artist so resembles one of her own vividly–patterned quilts that she could have stepped right out of one of the warm orange and yellow blocks. And like her quilts, which will…
Finding the spark
Most TEDx presentations are one person onstage, perhaps with a few visual enhancements. But this Friday’s TEDx Creative Coast, for which we serve as media sponsor, features a couple of two–person presentations. The presentation by web designer Andrew Davies and Gould Elementary School teacher Jaime McGrath is notable not only for its dual nature, but…
Burglary ring no more
A five–week investigation into a string of burglaries led to the arrest of a 16–year–old boy, his mother and two men who had purchased stolen items from him. Police charged Meshawn Shuman Richardson with four counts of felony burglary, felony entering an automobile and misdemeanor battery. His name was released by the Chatham County Juvenile…
Flannery onstage
Some of the best works of literature just don’t translate to the stage. That’s why, despite attempts by the most well–intentioned dramatists over the years, the fiery fiction of Georgia’s most famous short story writer, Savannah–born Flannery O’Connor, hasn’t been adapted for theater. The late author’s family, in Milledgeville, has never permitted it. The O’Connor…
May 15: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, May 15): First and foremost, the brand-new Connect Savannah goes live on our website at noon. And check this out: A 6 p.m. lecture at the Jepson Center by Oliver Everett, former personal secretary to Princess Diana, currently supervisor of the Royal Collection’s 485,000 objects and art masterpieces, accumulated…
Lazy Congress
Editor, I am a huge fan of Kevin Burkhalter’s comic strip, Still Life. I’ve been reading Connect Savannah for 5 years now and I am thrilled to see a comic that explores what its like to be an artist. In a creative town, like Savannah, it’s nice to finally see our niche highlighted. Still a…
