May 7: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, May 7): The classical vocal group I Cantori has a 7:30 p.m. concert at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church on Skidaway Island. At 8 p.m., the weekly Odd Lot improv show is all about giving props (it’s at Muse Arts Warehouse).
May 6: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, May 6): Pack up your pooch and head out to Forsyth Park for the Savannah Humane Society’s annual Doggie Carnival, from noon to 4 p.m. It’s the final day for the Tall Ships Challenge at the Savannah riverfront. Sartre’s No Exit is onstage for a 3 p.m. Collective Face…
May 5: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, May 5): On this Cinco de Mayo, the Tall Ships Challenge weekend continues at the Savannah riverfront. Amy Ray (of the Indigo Girls) plays Live Wire Music Hall tonight with her band. No Exit is onstage tonight at 8 at Muse Arts Warehouse. Catch the Indiana male a capella…
Potter, Raitt added to music schedule
Vermont jam band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals will play the SCAD New Alumni concert June 1 in Forsyth Park, with Florida’s JJ Grey & Mofro opening. It is, as always, a free concert and open to one and all. And tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, May 11 for an Oct. 13…
May 4: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, May 4): Full plate: Tall Ships Challenge weekend starts at the Savannah riverfront. The SCAD Sand Arts Festival is building big until 4 p.m. on Tybee’s North Beach. No Exit opens at Muse Arts Warehouse. There’s a pipe band parade on Congress Street, starting at 6 p.m., in celebration…
The gang’s all here: ‘The Avengers’ reviewed
THE AVENGERS ***1/2 A devotee of the Marvel Comics Universe, writer-director Joss Whedon obviously approached his assignment on The Avengers with the proper degree of reverence. And it goes without saying that the nation’s fanboys and fangirls are equally reverential as they line up to gaze in wonder at the first film of the 2012…
May 3: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, May 3): Wild and wacky guitar virtuoso Keller Williams visits Live Wire Music Hall tonight, Brandywine’s second consecutive open-mic-jam-fest happens at Taco Abajo, Georgia Kyle plays 69 East in Richmond Hill (it’s his birthday, too!), Burning Mansions is at Molly Maguires on Wilmington Island, and the Eric Culberson Band…
May 2: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, May 2): Hey batter! The Savannah Sand Gnats begin a week-long home stand tonight (first pitch at 7:05) in Grayson Stadium. The Psychotronic Film Society screens the really, really bad Turkish movie Kara Simsek (8 p.m., Sentient Bean). It’s Trivia Night at Hang Fire and the Jinx, and Eric…
Leaders wanted, apply within
I HAD THE PLEASURE of checking out the remodeled Massie Heritage Center last week the same day it reopened to the public. The million–dollar renovation is money well–spent, and with this unveiling the formerly humble building on Calhoun Square immediately jumps into the discussion of first–tier attractions in Savannah. For those unfamiliar with the “Massie…
Food Glorious Food
Recently at lunch, a friend lobbed a terrible insult my way: “You know what? You’re a food snob.” I almost choked on my organic arugula. Sure, I can spend an entire afternoon raving over the loamy smell of the blue oyster mushrooms I got in my Savannah Food Co–op produce box. I have a soft…
Keller Williams’ day job
By the time you read this, singer, songwriter, guitarist, electronics wizard and chronic collaborator Keller Williams will have just completed a series of Southern dates opening for his buds in Leftover Salmon. He will have, no doubt, jammed with the band, and maybe even joined them (becoming a temporary Salmonite) for the entire set. That’s…
Behind the Moss curtain
It’s been a bang–up couple of weeks for Roger Moss. The ebullient artistic director of the Savannah Children’s Choir recently returned from a week in Verona, Italy, where he helped his cantillating charges win a gold medal at the city’s annual choral competition. While preparing for the trip, the silky–voiced chanteur was also putting the…
Come sail away
Technically speaking, a tall ship is a large sailing vessel of antiquated design, with its sheets rigged in a ropey and terribly complicated manner. In the age when such vessels were commonplace, before steam and gasoline engines replaced the wind as the main force driving merchant and military watercraft, they didn’t call them “tall ships.”…
Victory in Verona
They came, they sang, they conquered. After months of practice and fundraising, the Savannah Children’s Choir brought home a gold medal from the Concors Internazionale Di Canto Corale, held in Italy last month. Also known as “The Days of International Song,” the competition takes place every April in the ancient city of Verona, on the…
Amy Ray
AMY RAY At 9 p.m. Saturday, May 5 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. Tickets $12 advance, $15 day of show Hard to believe that the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, have been singing together for over 30 years. The literary, political and marvelously melodic duo is still very much a…
Mark your calendar: Country singers
For you contemporary country music fans, don’t forget this week’s Trace Adkins concert – Friday (May 4) in the Johnny Mercer Theatre. Meanwhile, here’s some more news you can use: Singer Josh Gracin (who rose to fame as a finalist on American Idol) will appear May 24 at Saddle Bags, a new country club in…
Deepening is a ‘cancer’
Editor, Thanks for your piece regarding the proposed deepening of the Savannah River channel (“Sold down the river,” April 18). I’m not a scientist but so many of your points are my own thoughts born from common sense. I share your frustration in the seemingly hopeless effort to get people to understand the ramifications of…
Maxwell’s silver (fork)
With a convenient location between City Market and the Civic Center, Maxwell’s is poised to appeal to the pre– and post–event audiences that tread this popular path along Jefferson Street. The menu is a collection of small plates: salads, vegetarian choices and a collection of more hearty beef and chicken dishes. Many prices fall under…
Stage works: No Exit and Anon(ymous)
The French existentialist Jean–Paul Sartre’s play Huis–Clos arrived on Broadway in 1946, adapted into English, by Paul Bowles, as No Exit. The one–act play can be summarized in one of the most famous lines from Sartre’s original script: “Hell is other people.” A Collective Face production opens this weekend at Muse Arts Warehouse, directed by…
Revenge of the iPad
Detectives cracked a seven–month–old burglary ring through the use of GPS on an iPad. Police, with the help of a victim, traced the item with GPS tracking to a house on the 900 block of Wilcox Street. There they found Vincent Joseph Clarke, 27, the stolen device and a wristwatch that had been stolen at…
May 1: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, May 1): The French Quarter’s premiere rock ‘n’ gypsy circus vaudeville band returns to Live Wire Music Hall. That’s right, the Dirty Bourbon River Show is back in town! We love these guys because they endorse “whiskey-soaked New Orleans eclecticism,” and because their recently-unveiled fifth album is titled Volume…
Do allergies serve a purpose?
Why do we have allergic reactions? What use do allergies serve? I can’t imagine any Darwinian advantage. I can’t see being a successful mastodon hunter with sneezing giving away your position. – Sneezy Allergies are an overzealous version of the chain of events that enables your body to defend itself against foreign invaders such as…
Exhibits & openings this week
American Villages – New work by Christine Sajecki, May 4-June 1. Reception Fri. May 4 6-8 p.m. 1704Lincoln, 1704 Lincoln St. A Native Son: Paintings by West Fraser – Fraser was born in Savannah in 1955 and spent most of the past three decades working in the South Carolina Lowcountry and coastal Georgia. He is…
