Iron Man 2, A Nightmare on Elm Street
IRON MAN 2 **1/2 Iron Man 2 doesn’t quite degenerate into Transformers 3, but those of us who thought the weakest part of the vastly enjoyable original was the title hero’s climactic showdown with Iron Monger will doubly wince upon seeing the battle royale chosen to end this second installment. In a variation of the…
Nature at the Wildlife Refuge’s
Photos collected over the past few weeks on the beauty found while driving through the wildlife refuge here in Ga. and SC.
Exhibits & openings this week
Art for Art’s Sake Auction – Art auction May 7, 6-9pm, benefiting the Desotorow Gallery. Desotorow Gallery , 2427 Desoto Ave. Ellen Susan: Soldier Portraits – Local photographer uses a 150-year old method to capture striking portraits of contemporary soldiers. Runs through July 25. Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. , Giving Soles – Group…
How effective are police sketches?
We recently learned a rapist was loose in our neighborhood when my roommate got an an e-mail from her school that included a link to a police sketch. This got me thinking about the accuracy of police sketches. How much should I trust the rendering we saw? Has anyone done a study comparing sketches to…
Boobquake!
Boobquake! In mid-April, senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi issued a warning that recent earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and elsewhere were caused by women’s loose sex and immodest dress. Immediately, Jennifer McCreight responded on Facebook by urging women worldwide to dress provocatively on April 26 to create “boobquake” and test the cleric’s theory, and at…
Don’t fear the grocer
The wine aisle of your favorite grocery store used to be a place that serious wine drinkers never wanted to be seen. Put away your disguises, that trend is taking a turn. Occasionally, you will see a guy with a big nose, mustache and glasses in the wine aisle at Publix in 12 Oaks Shopping…
Mirage, Circa 1875, Avia
The Mirage Mediterranean Bar & Grill This new downtown restaurant featuring Turkish–inspired cuisine has the potential to be an oasis – but not without some changes in the kitchen. I wanted to see a variety of dishes, and the menu accommodated with a combination plate, more usually referred to as meze. As you can see…
Shelf life of the party
A decade of Savannah decadence is coming to an end. For 10 years, Chris Cook has been the city’s unofficial partymeister. Every month he’s planned and put on the First Friday Fetish, a sex–themed bash that encourages outlandish costumes – or the lack thereof – and includes games, shows, a bit of light S&M play,…
Keepin’ it real
Two local colleges are celebrating National Historic Preservation Week in very different, but very fitting ways. The Savannah College of Art and Design and Savannah Technical College are each offering a wide slate of free public to mark the occasion, now in its fourth decade. “Historic Preservation Week was started in the 1970s by the…
Unprecedented
Every @##hole who ever chanted ‘Drill baby drill’ should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty. – Comedian Bill Maher via Twitter I confess I’ve been distracting myself from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The apocalyptic images onscreen are disturbing enough now, but the inevitable images to come…
Michael Brown: Futurist, wonk, nice guy
Fifteen years after Michael Brown took on the job of Savannah’s City Manager, it’s hard to imagine the version of our city that greeted him on his arrival. Long stretches of unpaved streets threaded the central city. Whole blocks routinely filled with several feet of water during rainstorms. Broughton Street and its side streets were…
Crime me a river
Police were called in reference to a disorderly person. The responding officer found a man standing on his front porch, who immediately said, “She’s in the house with a knife and a loaded shotgun.” An officer grabbed his shotgun out of the trunk and took cover near the front corner of the house. He began…
Captured! By Robots
Of all the novelty acts, wackjobs and weirdos that play the Jinx semi-regularly, none is nearly as bizarre as Captured! By Robots, which has been on the road for more than a decade. The “band” first played 127 W. Congress when it was known as the Velvet Elvis. There’s only one musician, really, and he’s…
The power of ‘Luv’
After more than four decades, Carl Rosengart discovered this unshakeable truth: All you need is Luv. Rosengart, a neurologist who spent 22 years as the senior vice president of medical affairs for Memorial Medical Center, caught the theater bug upon his arrival in Savannah in 1966. His first show with the Savannah Little Theatre, in…
Giving voice to the classics
When Robert Harris accepted a position in the Armstrong Atlantic State University music department, in 1981, he was already thinking about assembling a first-class chamber choir, from his best students, and the finest singers the community had to offer. Well, he got busy – academia tends to do that – and I Cantori didn’t make…
What’s Next: First look at ‘The Conspirator’
Robert Redford’s The Conspirator doesn’t have a distributor yet (i.e. Paramount, Warner Bros., Fox or Lionsgate) or a release date, but that hasn’t stopped the American Film Co., which bankrolled the shot-in-Savannah movie, from letting slip a couple of photographs. These two pictures show the film’s star, James McAvoy, with his co-star Robin Wright (nee…
Definitely something
Jack Metcalf is bidding farewell to Savannah after several years here as an artist and bartender. He waves goodbye, not with a tear in his eye, but with his art hanging for a solo show. Maybe Something, Maybe Nothing debuts next week at the Oglethorpe Gallery. The title describes the inspiration for the show; an…
Training for the red carpet
High school students at Savannah Arts Academy will experience a night of celebrity treatment at their fifth annual Film Festival this Friday. Every movie in the festival is the creation of Savannah Arts Academy students. Communication arts students attend a reception before festival, then they arrive by limousine at the front of the school to…
