Greenfest 2009
2009 Greenfest Saturday, May 9 at Trustee’s Garden Savannah, Georgia.
Filling a $28 million hole
There may be bright spots in the nation’s economic outlook, but the Savannah-Chatham school board doesn’t see any. At its May 6 meeting, the board considered some drastic measures to fill a projected $28 million shortfall in revenues. The district is anticipating a reduction of 303 staff members, and the board was asked to consider…
Council approves design of WWII memorial
The Savannah City Council voted unanimously on May 7 to approve the design of the proposed World War II monument that will grace the riverfront. For a while, it looked as though the monument might not be built. Discussion and some dissension has been going back and forth between the Veterans Council of Chatham County…
Psycho Beach Party
This play is most definitely not your typical Beach Blanket Bingo. Instead, try to imagine Gidget crossed with The Three Faces of Eve and Mommie Dearest. The Little Theatre of Savannah will present Psycho Beach Party beginning May 14. In a campy spoof of ‘60s beach movies, playwright Charles Busch gives us Chicklet, a…
Dial D for dinner theater
Playwright Frederick Knott had a real knack for putting audiences on the edges of their seats and keeping them there. Best known for Wait Until Dark, he also penned a gem called Dial M for Murder. The Epworth Community Players will be presenting a dinner theater production of Dial M for Murder that is directed…
Hiromi on Hilton Head
It should come as no surprise that one of pianist Hiromi Uehara’s musical obsessions, growing up in Japan, was the British progressive rock outfit King Crimson. “I learned so much about the instruments that I don’t play – such as bass and guitar and drums – from them, and about how they harmonize the guitar…
Best bites: Caraway Cafe, Cha Bella, Kasey’s
Tim’s restaurant hopping turns up intriguing and satisfying bites – covering everything from street food to fine dining. He picks three “Best Bites” every week to share with Connect readers: Caraway Cafe Sometimes, I just gotta have a salad. When that happens, I go for the Spinach Salad from this near Southside breakfast and…
New releases: Star Trek, Next Day Air
STAR TREK ***1/2 If it’s true that each generation grows more reluctant to embrace the pop culture of those that came before (and, yes, that seems to be the case), then Star Trek provides a real hoot during the scene in which a teenage James T. Kirk rocks out to a Beastie Boys tune a…
All in the family
A 55th Street resident began arguing with his wife, only to have his mother-in-law and his wife’s best friend attack him. Police were called on a report of a disorderly person and found the man arguing with two women. The man wasn’t wearing a shirt, and the officer saw scratches and welts on his chest,…
Behind bug eyes
The furry, primary-colored, people-sized stars of Sesame Street Live aren’t stiff and phony-looking like the hydraulic animals at Chuck E. Cheese’s; nor are they the disfigured, quasi-hallucinogenic nightmares of a Sid and Marty Krofft TV show. They’re Muppets done large, with bug-eyed faces, groovy clothes, silly voices and charming personalities familiar (and comforting) to preschoolers…
Last of the full-grown men
In a modern music scene where even the “underground” acts are often carefully prefabricated and market-tested, Webb Wilder is, by all accounts, the real thing. It’s all the more amazing an accomplishment considering that Wilder’s stage persona has its roots in an eponymous, totally fictional neo-noir detective character. The Mississippi native, now living in Nashville,…
Everyman at St. Paul’s
EVERYMAN Well-regarded local medieval music ensemble The Goliards has spawned an offshoot of sorts: Everyman, a duo comprising Goliards’ fiddler John Hillenbrand and harpist Anne Durant (you may also know the pair from their work with Christopher Kohut in the Irish ensemble A Murder of Crows) . They play a program of secular medieval and Renaissance music, Irish, Scots, Breton,…
Slavery by another name
One of the most painful – and underreported – chapters in U.S. history is coming vividly to life this weekend, as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doug Blackmon comes to town to talk about his new book Slavery by Another Name. The free lecture May 15 at the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum also features locally-themed…
The Bourbon Manifesto
I do love my Kentucky bourbons. It’s not unexpected, I grew up in the shadows of the Commonwealth’s most prominent distilleries. I acquired a taste for this uniquely American spirit early on – and cultivate it to this day. Before you foray into the dark spirits aisle, you do need some training, young one. *…
Kentucky Derby 2009
Connect editor Jim Morekis met up with some family members to take in the 135th Run for the Roses.
Parents with no spines
Lead Story “Consensual Living” parenting, which was developed in 2006 and now has many hundreds of followers, supposes that every family member’s needs are equally valid and respectworthy. Even pre-adolescents are assumed able to understand their own needs and respect those of others. When little Kiernen, 3, of Langley, British Columbia, hits another child, his…
Don’t Tase me, bro!
How lethal are Tasers? I know there’s talk about police being Taser-happy and torturing people with these devices, but has anyone been Tasered to death? -Dugie C., Calgary News a little slow getting up to Calgary, Dugie? Lots of people have died after being Tasered-which is not to say they were necessarily Tasered to death.…
