House guest from hell
EVERYONE HAS KNOWN ONE— that aggravating house guest who just doesn’t know when to go home. The sidesplitting play The Nerd takes this concept to new heights. The Little Theatre of Savannah will present The Nerd Nov. 16-24, and director Grace Diaz Tootle is certain audiences are going to love it. “It’s written by a…
Robin’s karaoke!
You say you want a resolution With less than six weeks left in 2007, there’s still time to tackle this year’s list of New Year’s Resolutions before beginning the process for 2008. My list this year, as usual, was a mix of fun things I never get around to and lifestyle changes that perhaps will…
Karen Reed, Nurse Practitioner
Editor’s Note: Are you tired of seeing the same people profiled over and over in the local media? Yeah, us too. This is the first installment of a new column about important people behind the scenes in Savannah. KAREN REED IS A nurse practitioner at the Center for Digestive and Liver Health on the Memorial…
Atlanta vs. everybody else
ALMOST THREE YEARS AGO, when I had an editorial published in the Atlanta Journal/Constitution (“Economy & environment form a team,” Dec. 20, 2004), little did I know how topical those remarks would become by 2007. Thanks to extreme drought in combination with state officials’ continued neglect of water management, north Georgia faces a long-predicted water…
A need for speed
from recent Savannah/Chatham Police incident reports A convicted felon who led police on a car chase and manhunt was arrested Nov. 15. Brian Wesley Dean, 28, also known as Brian Dean-Rober, was captured by Savannah-Chatham Metro Police, Garden City Police and sheriff’s deputies shortly after 4:30 p.m. after a chase that started on U.S. 80…
You don’t say
Ironies In interviews with reporters from McClatchy Newspapers in October, cemetery workers in Najaf, Iraq, lamented the recent downturn in violence in that city, as they admitted having grown accustomed to the income from the estimated 6,500 caskets a month that they serviced. (The number had fallen to less than 4,000 a month, and others…
No more drive-bys
FOR FIVE YEARS, Alabama native Jason Isbell held down a spot at the front of the stage in Athens, Ga.’s Drive By Truckers. An accomplished guitarist, singer and lyricist in his own right, Isbell found his contributions to the band’s 2003 LP Decoration Day lauded at least as much as those of the band’s founding…
Noteworthy shows this week
Battle of The Nutcrackers For decades now, The Nutcracker has been almost universally regarded as the most popular ballet in the Western world. Based on E.T. A. Hoffman’s 1816 tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, the music for this fairy tale in two acts was composed in the late 1800s by the esteemed Peter…
New releases: No Country, Beowulf, Enchanted
No Country for Old Men **** The Coen Brothers have always been known for the ease with which they’ve jumped from genre to genre — screwball comedy with Raising Arizona, gangster saga with Miller’s Crossing, neo-film noir with Blood Simple, etc. — but with their superb new picture, No Country for Old Men, they seem…
Everything else that’s out there
Lions for Lambs ** Say this for Hollywood: At least it’s trying to inject some semblance of sane debate into the Iraq War debacle. But do they have to be so ineffectual? On the heels of Rendition comes Lions For Lambs, another drama whose noble aspirations are bungled by hamfisted storytelling. Working from a script…
Don’t Be a Pig
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Diary of the planet
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