My pix in Savannah
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A need to succeed
Semaj Harvey will be awarded his high school diploma soon. It’s an event the Groves High School senior is wholeheartedly looking forward to. Harvey plans to study business administration in college, and his goal is to be a real estate broker. “It’s kind of exciting,” he says modestly. Today, it’s hard to imagine that this…
Liquor licenses under scrutiny
They all brought their problems to the Savannah City Council: The owner of a non-compliant boarding house who just wants to do the right thing. Entrepreneurs who want to serve alcohol in one of the most notorious locations in Savannah. A bar owner who wants to serve liquor but can’t because of a church…
Smokin’
Metro police called in the Savannah Fire and Emergency Services Hazmat team May 21 after a Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team found an unknown liquid during an investigation. Police were conducting a search warrant at a boarding house at 819 E. 37th St. when the liquid was spilled and started smoking. Worried that the liquid was…
Best bites: Angel’s, Distillery, Krispy Kreme,
Krispy Kreme I know history will not bear this out, but I really like to believe that the doughnut was invented before the wheel. There’s something magical about the contemplative time spent with a pair of hot, yeasty doughnuts and a piping hot cup o’ Joe. On particularly stressful days, I allow the mesmerizing pace…
Secrets of the trade (shows)
“Dude, you’ve got the coolest job! You DRINK for money!” True. But here’s the shocker: The downside is the alcohol. In my chronic pursuit of what’s new, what’s hot and what’s happening, I sample a mere dozen or up to 36 wines, beers or spirits a week. A taste here, a sip there…each lip-passing moment…
Review: Terminator Salvation
TERMINATOR SALVATION *** The primary question begged by Terminator Salvation must be, “Is this film necessary?” Not really. But here comes the follow-up query: “Is it worth the admission price anyway?” To which the answer is a resounding yes. Make no mistake: Terminator Salvation is nowhere in the same league as the classic 1984 original…
The wacky world of Les Claypool
If he’d never done anything else – the frenetic and funky music with Primus, or Oysterhead, or the electric bass wizardry that thrills and chills the jam-band crowd to this day – Les Claypool assured his place in history when he wrote and recorded the theme to South Park in 1997. (Claypool is the long-legged,…
Angry at pedestrian safety measures
Angry at crosswalk safety measures Editor, Regarding the recent article “Crosswalk safety addressed:” I am so angry about this program that I cannot even begin to discuss what is wrong with it. First of all, this is an obvious political move on the part of the city. If the two people had been hit by…
The new waterboarding
Lead Story The New Waterboarding: In April, the district attorney in Vilas County, Wis., announced that he was seeking volunteers for a forensic test to help his case against Douglas Plude, 42, who is scheduled to stand trial soon for the second time in the death of his wife. The volunteers must be female, about…
Of bras and breasts
Do bras really keep breasts from sagging as you get older? -Curious Oh, bras probably do something. It’s just that nobody can agree on what it is. I won’t pretend to have the definitive answer, but here’s what we’ve established so far: (1) The medical term for breast sagging is breast ptosis. One often hears…
Thai Yoga Center 2008-09
Photos of Classes in Certified Thai Yoga Practitioners 07-08
Man on a mission
Using an agreeable combination of reggae, rap, rock and R&B, Michael Franti has crafted a body of work that’s as infectious as it is idiosyncratic. The charismatic Franti, who headlines a free concert Friday in Forsyth Park with his longtime band, Spearhead, has spent his career concerning himself with so much more than mere entertainment.…
What’s Next
Looking ahead to Juneteenth Celebrating Savannah’s African American history – the Gullah culture in particular – as well as the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Telfair Museum of Art’s annual Juneteenth Festival will take place June 15-20.Naomi Tutu, the daughter of South African archbishop Desmond Tutu, will speak at 7 p.m. Friday, June 19…
Sky high
Jennifer and Jonathan Adams – the husband-and-wife duo known as Montana Skies – don’t have a gimmick, exactly. What the musical marrieds have is an instrumental arrangement that’s unusual, to say the least. He plays acoustic guitar, in the classical, flamenco and gypsy jazz styles, and she’s a cellist – both standard-issue acoustic cello and…
John Berry at Grayson Stadium
JOHN BERRY It’s been 15 years since country crooner John Berry hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart with “Your Love Amazes Me,” the one and only chart-topper of his long career. But “Your Love Amazes Me” – a big, soaring ballad about the heart-pounding power of the Real Deal – is one of those…
The art of impermanence
Since 1959, when Communist China invaded and occupied Tibet and the Dalai Lama went into exile, the beauty of that country’s Buddhist traditions – both spiritual and cultural – has been without a center. Not that traditional Tibetan Buddhist arts have disappeared from the planet. Through the work of organizations such as Drepung Loseling Monastery,…
Best of Savannah Party 2009
Party time with winners and friends for the 2009 Connect Savannah Best of Savannah issue. Thanks to Livewire Music Hall for sponsoring and hosting the event. Photos by Connect Savannah art and design goddess, Alice Johnston.
Best of Savannah Introduction
OK, our latest edition of our annual ‘Best of Savannah’ readers poll, the first and still the best in the market, is ready for you to click through. Just find the “Best of Savannah” section on the website. I’ve always regarded this little exercise in true democracy to be an interesting piece of market research.…
