Nov. 20: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, Nov. 20): The all-new Connect Savannah goes live online today at noon. Later on, it’s Hip Hop Night at the Jinx, and “Musicians League Showcase” night at Live Wire Music Hall.
Looking Ahead
@ AASU Masquers: Dramarama. Nov. 23-Dec. 2. @ Chrstine Pedi’s There’s No Bizness Like Snow Bizness. Nov. 29. Charles Morris Center. @ Disney on Ice: Worlds of Fantasy. Nov. 29-Dec. 2. MLK Arena. @ The Collective Face: Salome. Nov. 30-Dec. 9. @ AWOL: A Christmas Carol. Nov. 30-Dec. 9. S.P.A.C.E. Black Box. @ Film screening:…
Nov. 19: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, Nov. 19): Jeremy Davis and the Equinox Jazz Orchestra do it Copa-style tonight at the monthly Mad Monday show, at the Westin Savannah Resort. And there’s improv comedy from the Odd Lot at Muse Arts Warehouse.
Nov. 18: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, Nov. 18): There are 3 p.m. matinees of Johnny Mercer and Me and God’s Favorite (at Muse and Asbury, respectively). Violet Hills plays Lulu’s Chocolate Bar.
Reviewed: ‘Lincoln’
LINCOLN **1/2 Moviegoers purchasing tickets to Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln will be forgiven for feeling as if they’re stepping into a wax museum rather than a theater auditorium. Spielberg, who has been planning this project for numerous years, has meticulously, painstakingly recreated an entire era. He has also assembled an impressive cast to fill the roles…
Nov. 17: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, Nov. 17): It’s Carmina Burana day at the Johnny Mercer Theatre. The Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus performance begins at 5 p.m. Johnny Mercer and Me and God’s Favorite have evening shows (at Muse and Asbury, respectively). The great Ike Stubblefield returns to Live Wire tonight, Mississippi John Doude…
Nov. 16: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, Nov. 16): Both Lincoln and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 are in Savannah theaters today. Knife and Miggs celebrate the release of the hip hop CD Blackmale with a performance at Screamin’ Mimi’s tonight. Modern Skirts are at Congress Street Social Club (with KidSyc@Brandywine opening). Live…
‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2’
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2 ** The votes have been tallied, and the ass-whipping that Mitt Romney suffered on Election Day has allowed Stephenie Meyer to reclaim the title of America’s most popular Mormon. It’s a transition that occurred at just the right time, as the fifth and final title in the…
Nov. 15: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, Nov. 15): Johnny Mercer and Me, Miriam Center’s original musical drama, is onstage at 8 p.m. at Muse Arts Warehouse. At 7 p.m., Bay Street Theatre holds auditions for The Eight: Reindeer Monologues and She’s Shorts. The Creative Coast hosts a preview party for Mountainfilm on Tour, which returns…
Nov. 14: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, Nov. 14): There’s an all-new CONNECT on the streets. Check out the New Orleans funk of Dirty Bourbon River Show at Live Wire, the Americana Cranford and Sons at Wild Wing, and DJ Redlab’s “Irie Rhythm” at Hang Fire.
The Screaming Eagle of Soul
Savannah Music Festival headliner Charles Bradley is a flagship artist on Daptone Records, the label that gave us Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and other artists who re-kindle the funk, soul, sweat and excitement of classic rhythm ‘n’ blues music from the 1960s and ‘70s. He has been nicknamed “The Screaming Eagle of Soul.” Born…
Savannah Music Festival ’13: All-star Americana and so much more
What’s sure to be the Americana tour of 2013 is coming to Savannah next April, as one of the Savannah Music Festival’s hallmark concerts. Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, who have been close friends and musical co-conspirators since the mid 1970s, are releasing their first-ever album as a duo, Old Yellow Moon. “For me,” says…
Consider the envelope pushed
Three years ago this week, in these very pages, we reported on what seemed to be the death knell for community theater in Savannah. The story, headlined The Final Curtain?, chronicled the last gasps of City Lights, Cardinal Rep and the Little Theatre of Savannah, all of which crashed and burned from financial troubles, internal…
Couture noir
As the holidays descend upon us, black thoughts arise. No, not a negative reaction to rabid Black Friday shoppers or an aversion to fruitcake, but rather a delighted rejoinder to the question that piques every fashion–minded woman regardless of age or budget: What to wear to the party—or if she’s very lucky—parties? The answer, always…
Mack the Knife
Mackey’s back in town. After a year living and working in Jacksonville, Kedrick Mack —co–founder of Savannah’s frontier–busting hip hop ensemble Dope Sandwich — has returned with a vengeance. You might know him by his stage name, Knife. This week, he drops a new solo album, Blackmale, and sends it up the flagpole with a…
The marvelous marsh
It’s a sight that has arrested many a soul around these parts: The sun setting on the marsh, the sky impossibly large, the light otherworldly. Wrens flit between their hidden nests in clusters of Spartina grass that form walls along the waterways. Stepping further into the waist–high grass, one can almost hear nature’s slow clock…
Stephane Wrembel: Everybody say ‘oui’
LET’S STATE the obvious and go from there: Stephane Wrembel is a monster guitarist, one of France’s proudest musical exports, and a one–man distillery of exotic global styles and shadings. “My music doesn’t fall into a genre,” Wrembel, now Brooklyn–based, tells me in heavily–accented English. “It’s a state of mind, so it embraces everything and…
Collaborating on a masterpiece
German composer Carl Orff considered the cantata Carmina Burana his magnum opus. According to legend, soon after it premiered in 1937 he told his publisher to destroy everything he had written before. “It’s one of the most incredible pieces of classical music,” enthuses violinist Sinisa Ciric, concertmaster for the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra. “And it’s equally…
The Foodie Column
Soup’s on at Kayak and Maxwell’s It is maligned and revered. It is complex and absurdly simple. It is as old as cooking itself, yet rediscovered in a myriad of ways. It’s soup. From iconic condensed Campbell’s soups to dehydrated versions awaiting a sip of hot water, soup is filling, satisfying, comforting — and the…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime
Most mornings before dawn, I walk around Daffin Park with a few friends. It’s dark as the inside of a sock out there and hella creepy. I half expect zombies to come lumbering out of the vast green fields on those misty mornings. Not that some skanky undead corpse could be a match for our…
Doubting Thomas
Henry Wiencek has written several books about race in America, most recently a study of George Washington’s relationship with slavery. Wiencek now turns his intense — some would say almost incendiary — attention to another founding father, Thomas Jefferson. Wiencek’s Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves goes well beyond the usual tropes…
K-9 kudos
Five officers of the Savannah–Chatham Metropolitan Police Canine Unit have been recognized for the best performance of the second quarter of 2012 in the nation. The United States Police Canine Association (USPCA) cited the Savannah–Chatham unit for the best performance nationally for its action in securing both suspects in a kidnapping scheme that locked down…
Nov. 13: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, Nov. 13): Bay Street Theatre is throwing a party at 7 p.m. (in Club One) to announce its 2013 season of shows. It’s Tongue night at the Sentient Bean – open mic poetry and spoken word. Jimkata and Big Something are at Live Wire; the Daymoths play the Wormhole.…
