Lee Daniels to speak at SCAD commencement
Three hundred seventy seven graduates will be honored Saturday during Savannah College of Art and Design’s inaugural fall commencement ceremony, at the Johnny Mercer Theatre. Academy Award winning director-producer Lee Daniels will deliver the commencement address. The first film from Daniels’ production company was 2001’s “Monster’s Ball,” which marked Daniels as the first sole African-American…
Review: All is Lost
It’s a strikingly physical performance, more so coming from a man who’s 77, and it ably demonstrates that Redford hasn’t lost a step over the course of his durable career.
AASU to hold JFK conspiracy lecture Nov. 22
On the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Dennis Murphy, professor of criminal justice, social and political science, will deliver his talk, “Rifle Reports and the Warren Report: Three Conspiracies in One?” This event is free and open to the public. Friday, Nov. 22, Noon, in the Ogeechee Theatre of the Armstrong Student…
‘Dirty Dozen’ GA waterways announced
The Georgia Water Coalition named its “Dirty Dozen” for 2013, highlighting 12 of the year’s worst offenses to Georgia’s waters. The annual Dirty Dozen report “shines a spotlight on state policies and failures that ultimately harm Georgia property owners, taxpayers, downstream communities, fish and wildlife, hunters and anglers, and boaters and swimmers,” a spokesperson says.…
Inaugural Savannah Food & Wine Festival is finally happening
“I think many other Southern cities have done a better job of paying attention to their innovative, culinary scenes and have reaped major economic benefits from doing so. The Festival is the vehicle for Savannah to ramp up its culinary scene.”
Shivam Delights
Most people don’t know about this wonderful Indian market tucked away on the southside. You’ve got to really look for it, hidden behind Sushi Time Towa on Montgomery Cross Road, right across from our only remaining K-Mart. But it’s worth the hide ‘n’ seek to take a peek. There’s a bit of everything you’d ever…
Gun + Standoff
Negotiators “had convinced Spann to exit the house and surrender but heard a shot before he walked out and discovered he had shot himself.”
‘Strangers That We Know’ @ Sicky Nar Nar
Even those born in Savannah find sometimes they’re strangers here themselves. They too seek the magic that Savannah is said to hold and they too long to connect with the people and places that surround them.
Editor’s Note: Do Nunn & Carter stand a chance?
Jason Carter does have this going for him: Younger voters at least know who his grandfather is, unlike the case with Michelle Nunn and her dad.
King Arthur returns
“Are you ready for this? Arthur is now the longest running animated TV show in history. I can’t even begin to process that.”
Bat man
Bats at the Beach. Bats at the Library. Bats at the Ballgame. Bats all up in here. Brian Lies doesn’t just write children’s books about bats, but the ones featuring the ever-fascinating flying mammals are his most popular. The New Jersey native, now living in Massachusetts, began illustrating children’s books in 1989 and hasn’t looked…
Review: Enough Said
This brilliant drama – hidden away in just one Savannah theater – features James Gandolfini’s penultimate performance.
Review: About Time
It feels, often, like Curtis is trying a little too hard to work up some of his earlier movie’s magic pixie dust.
Handmade happiness
“After the show came down, a lot of the moms around here at the Y wanted to learn how to make quilts,” she says. “So we started having these weekly get-togethers.”
On the trail campaign
An open house was cancelled due to unresolved questions over long-term maintenance and ownership of the trail. The City of Savannah has since signaled that it is willing to maintain the Truman Greenway, with some conditions.
Why is Yves Mathieu always smiling?
A bunch of Yves’ friends are throwing a multi-band fundraiser for him at Sweet Melissa’s. “It’s really cool,” he says, “to see all these people who I thought I was bothering and annoying, loving me and doing all this.”
Sowing the farmers’ stories
The fact is, true farming is a whole lot harder than us wannabes could ever imagine: The dawn-’til-dusk labor, the hand-me-downs and do-withouts, the sheer fear of being beholden to nature’s whims.
How bazaar!
The event at Southern Pine is currently monthly, but the future may hold a weekly happening and eventually even a permanent artisan retail space, à la City Market.
Bonamassa: A fresh, hot cuppa Joe
“We could just pretend it’s 2009 and just keep doing the same Albert Hall set, but I think fortune favors the bold. And I think fortune favors the one that’s willing to take a risk.”
The ballad of Os Mutantes
“Sometimes it’s boring; sometimes it’s 800 miles, nothing happens, but then suddenly you find such a great valley. You have to be patient, you have to believe and you have to trust that you’re going to somewhere special. Always.”
Capsula’s ‘beautiful chaos’
“Some songs and writings, because of the poetry, have the power of catching visions from the past but also from the future so it makes sense that those songs can connect with you any time, everywhere.”
Teach your children well
During her reign as Miss Hawaii 1996, Zapin — she was Melissa Ann Short then — participated in musical mentorship programs nearly every week of the year, on the islands and on the mainland.
‘Riot Squad’ trains for ‘civil unrest’ around town today
Law enforcement officers and military personnel from at least six agencies will converge in Savannah today for a wide-ranging training exercise to “address civil unrest,” a spokesman says. The exercise “depicts a scenario that residents are returning to the area 24 hours after an evacuation order has been rescinded to find a multitude of unexpected…
