Mark your calendar: A community theater summer
Summertime isn’t exactly known as the most sizzling season in community theater, but here in Savannah thespians never sleep. So check it out. Timothy Reynolds’ Midsummer Night’s Play Festival returns to Muse Arts Warehouse June 15 and 16. If you can write, produce, direct, cast and perform an original play in a 24-hour period, here’s…
June 4: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, June 4): Mondays are great for Open Mic and Jam nights – check out Abe’s on Lincoln, Live Wire and Bay Street Blues. And Carroll Brown does the entertainin’ at Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub.
June 3: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, June 3): In the “Movies Savannah Missed” series, the Psychotronic Film Society gives us the Norwegian thriller Headhunters, at 2, 5 and 8 p.m. Classical guitarist Brian Luckett is in recital at 3 p.m. at the Ships of the Sea Museum. And Russian Tsarlag, Jeff Zagers, Secret Boyfriend share…
June 2: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, June 2): Savannah’s Tubby Love celebrates his new EP, The Real Thing, with a show at Live Wire Music Hall; Connor Christian & Southern Gothic are at Desperados; Les Racquet’s onstage at Rocks on the Roof; comedian L.A. Hardy has two shows (8:30 and 11 p.m.) at the Wormhole.…
A review: ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN **1/2 Let’s get the obvious out of the way: Snow White and the Huntsman, the year’s second big-screen outing centered around a forlorn princess, a wicked queen and a magnificent seven, is infinitely superior to Mirror Mirror, which proved to be about as appetizing as a worm-infested apple. If it…
June 1: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, June 1): Another month says hello as SCAD’s new graduates say goodbye – the “New Alumni” concert, at 7 p.m. in Forsyth Park, features Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, and JJ Grey & Mofro. In the clubs, catch Athens’ amazing popsters Modern Skirts at Congress Street Social Club, comedian…
KidSyc, Meddin’s Gant take Parker’s video prize
Congratulations to local rapper Lloyd “KidSyc” Harold, grand prize winner in the recent “Why I Love Parker’s” video contest, sponsored by the convenience store chain. Nick Gant, creative director of Savannah’s Meddin Studios, directed the 65-second clip, KidSyc Loves Parker’s. Harold is walking around the brightly-lit store, “wine and cheesing it” as he raps about…
May 31: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, May 31): Odist and Tower3s play with Savannah’s Cusses tonight at the Jinx – show starts at 10 p.m. The Atom Blonde returns to the Tybee Rock House, and Les Racquet opens for Frontier Ruckus at Live Wire Music Hall. SCAD honors its student filmmakers with the 2012 SCADemy…
May 30: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, May 30): New Age musical guru Yanni is in concert at the Johnny Mercer Theatre. The Circus of Sin sideshow of freaks, geeks and weirdness stops at the Wormhole tonight. Or you can catch Elephant Talk at Taco Abajo. Then there’s Trivia Night at the Jinx, Hang Fire and…
Attention musical gormandizers!
Emblazoned in red letters on the off-white awning outside of 315 Bowery in Manhattan was the name of the club inside: CBGB. Hilly Kristal named the place for the type of music he intended to present there: Country, Bluegrass, Blues. As CBGB became famous as the low-rent birthing place of numerous cutting-edge rock ‘n’ roll…
Ewwwwwww
Four cats and a dog were found crated, abandoned and dead inside a storage unit. Stephanie Bennett formerly of Waters Avenue rented the unit at the Stars and Stripes Storage Facility at 5503 Montgomery Street in January. Police say she filled up the 10 x 20 unit with household items and the five animals she…
Yoga as therapy
Kate Jacobson knows what it means to overcome obstacles. She’s the parent of a child with special needs, and when she couldn’t find the educational resources he needed in South Carolina, she moved with her husband to Savannah so their son could attend the Matthew Reardon Center for Autism. However, due to a bureaucratic issue,…
Massive love
Tubby Love is the real deal. And his new record, wouldn’t you just know it, is called The Real Thing. With a broad–brush talent for creating memorable melodies, a crystalline tenor singing voice and the sort of passionately positive life–view you find amongst hippies, born–again Rastafarians and people who like to surf, Mr. Love has…
Modern Skirts, Cusses
MODERN SKIRTS At 9 p.m. Friday, June 1 Congress Street Social Club, 411 W. Congress St. Jay Gully, JoJo Glidewell, Phillip Brantley and John Swint have been Skirting since 2004. One of the cleverest, most interesting quirko-pop bands to emerge from Athens in many an era, Modern Skirts’ earlier stuff was piano-driven, sublimely crafted music…
Us & them
AS HE CONTINUED complaining, all I could think was this: “Wow. He has no idea I’m one of the people he’s talking about.” The subject, of course, was bicyclists and the topic occurred to him as we stood on the sidewalk. He’d observed cyclists rolling through the intersection at the end of the block without…
Mark your calendar: Georgia Music Awards
Created just this year by the “full service entertainment company” O Ent., Inc., the Georgia Music Awards will honor “emerging talent” through public voting and a big awards show in Atlanta – June 16 at the Buckhead Theatre. O Ent., Inc. and its owner Omar McCallop are responsible for the Carolina Music Awards. Four Savannah…
How ’bout them dogs
Aaah, the nearness of summer! Backyard barbecues, marshmallows on sticks over the fire pit — what could be better?Letting someone else do the cooking! For a hot dog unlike any you’ll find at the local supermarket, swing into SubDogs HotDoggery on Broughton Street. This is the downtown destination for gourmet hot dogs. “Gourmet hot dog.”…
All Hail The Geeks
FIRST OFF, many thanks to those Connect readers who voted me Best Local Blogger in our last issue. Eightish years ago, when my youngest child still had all the heft of a kitten and I was spending most of my time changing diapers and wiping yogurt out of my hair, a small start-up company asked…
Happy new year?
In some ways we’re approaching the start of my calendar year – work-wise, anyway. The recent, huge, nearly 100-page Best of Savannah issue and accompanying awards party which happened last week mark the busiest time, the high-water mark as it were, of Connect Savannah’s year. The annual free SCAD graduation concert in Forsyth Park -…
Amazing Grace
If there’s any mojo left in the music business, this will become the year of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. This year’s headlining band for the SCAD “New Alumni” concert is an exemplary rock ‘n’ roll outfit, tough as the Foo Fighters and tender as the Avetts, big on soaring guitars, chunky riffs and insanely…
T-SPLOST won’t fly
Editor, In regards to the proposed T–SPLOST tax: The statement, “Economic development suffers if we don’t pass this tax” is not a valid statement, because Georgia has always been behind the 8 Ball in regards to transportation, but yet look at the growth we have experienced. Georgia now ranks 11th in the country as of…
May 29: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, May 29): The progressive reggae band John Brown’s Body performs at Live Wire Music Hall, with Savannah’s Domino Effect opening. Washboard Confessional has a set at Foxy Loxy, and Matt Eckstine (of the Accomplices) hosts Open Jam Night at Abe’s on Lincoln.
