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Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Yes, it’s that good. Bucking the laws of diminishing returns when it comes to sequels, it’s even better than last year’s The Hunger Games, itself no slouch in the entertainment department.
Recycle your grease!
City residents will have an opportunity to recycle Thanksgiving holiday cooking oil and grease again this year. A recycling event will be held on Monday, Dec. 2 from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the City of Savannah President Street Wastewater Plant, at 1400 East President Street. Residents are asked to collect their used cooking…
Hit & run driver in custody
One Savannah man is hospitalized and another is in custody after witnesses followed a hit and run driver from East Bay and Abercorn streets early this morning. Edwin Willie Rivera, 28, was stopped after he ran a red light at East Broad and President streets about 2:25 a.m. That’s when a witness identified him as…
Bands announced for 2014 Stopover
A couple of major names can’t be revealed until January
Rabies clinic Saturday
The Animal Control Division of the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department will be providing rabies inoculations and nail trims for cats and dogs Saturday. The Fall Rabies Clinic will be held from 9 a.m. — 2 p.m. at the Animal Control Center at 7211 Sallie Mood Drive behind the Humane Society. Rabies vaccinations and trims are…
Cemetery headstones vandalized
Police are soliciting information on the subjects who damaged 17 headstones at the Laurel Grove North Cemetery, causing thousands of dollars of damage. Cemetery workers discovered the damage when they found the headstones, many of them well over 100 years old, pushed off their foundations, many of them broken, at the cemetery at 802 West…
Police announce ‘Jingle Bell Patrol’
Metro police say they have taken steps to thwart the annual rise in crime that accompanies the approach of the holidays by “reinstating the yearly intensification of patrols in areas where shoppers would be most vulnerable.” Known as the “Jingle Bell Patrol,” the assignment puts additional officer on busy streets, in commercial parking lots and…
Review: Delivery Man
Vaughn proves to be a dull leading man, shooting blanks in a feeble attempt to arouse audience sympathy.
Editor’s Note: Big Brother at the beach
The Tybee license plate reader debate is important because of the nature of the island itself: Only one road on and off. Can’t escape the cameras. That puts the issue into stark relief.
Race, then beer. Never fear.
What is it that makes running and beer such a solid pairing? Don’t worry, scientists are hard at work on the issue.
Gallery Hop: The forecast called for art
Unable to hide her enthusiasm, co-owner Heather MacRae-Trulson describes the goose bumps she felt when this exhibition was installed. “These are the shows that we promised the community when we opened this gallery.”
Warhol on JFK
‘Anytime we can connect to current culture we become more relevant, and it’s a more interesting opportunity to be a little provocative, to give people something that’s exciting as well. We want to make people think.’
‘Cake is my canvas’
No way you can miss it: a sky blue chalet with pink trim and a multi-tier cake logo, SCAD-designed and eye-catching to anyone riding by, and yes, that sweet scent of baking wafts through the air to draw you in.
The creator: Shonali Bhowmik
“The best thing about my life — and it should be like this for everyone’s life — is that I feel very free to move from one thing to another. I’m sure I have some fears, but for the most part I’m relatively fearless.”
‘Hedwig’: The ultimate rock ‘n’ roll fantasy
A fictional transgender German rock star might sound like an unlikely obsession for a straight (but not narrow!) married lady with a mortgage, but I’m definitely not the only Hedhead.
Bearing the torch for ‘Thanksgivukkah’
From the 1970s to the 1990s, the first night of Chanukah in Savannah meant the Maccabee Torch Relay, a coordinated effort by members of all three of the city’s synagogues.
Woman on fire
The skilled risktaker spent last summer on the set of Catching Fire, the second film in the smashingly successful Hunger Games series.
Back to the Futurebirds
The Nov. 21 Jinx show is also the announcement party for the 2014 Savannah Stopover.
Band on the rise
“I can be onstage in my Chuck Taylors, and my mohawk in five colors, and sing ‘Ave Maria’ with the best of ’em. That’s how and I live and that’s how I write.”
Man dies after gun accident
After a time in the hospital over the weekend, a 20-year-old Savannah man has died after accidentally shooting himself while handling a revolver Friday night. Zachary Hindri of the 200 block of Croatan Street was transported to Memorial University Medical Center after the 10:36 p.m. shooting. He died from his injury over the weekend. “He…
