Gloria Steinem biopic casting for Savannah shoot
Cynthia Stillwell Casting announces that it will be casting background actors for the new Gloria Steinem biopic filming in Savannah from January-March 2019, with costume fittings starting very soon. “The Glorias” Is based on Feminist author and major trail blazer Gloria Steinem’s book “My Life on the Road,” And is being directed by Julie Taymor…
City joins residents for Hanukkah Menorah lighting
City of Savannah Mayor Eddie DeLoach and members of City Council will join residents for the second annual Chanukah Celebration in Ellis Square at 6:30 p.m., Monday, December 3. The City of Savannah will join hundreds of other cities around the world in spreading the light and message of Hanukkah by lighting a 10-foot Menorah…
Fort Pulaski to close for National Day of Mourning
Per the President’s Executive Order on December 1, Fort Pulaski National Monument will be closed on Wednesday, December 5 to observe the national day of mourning for President George Herbert Walker Bush. The park will return to normal operating hours on Thursday, December 6, 2018. For more information, please visit the park website at www.nps.gov/FortPulaski…
Editor’s Note: Looking ahead to a hot political year locally
One of the frustrating things about local politics now is the bizarre insistence by many people that there are only two choices: Stick with what we have, or go back in time four years to the previous administration.
Historic Savannah Foundation announces new Trustees
Historic Savannah Foundation (HSF) recently announced four new members of its Board of Trustees at the organization’s 63rd annual meeting at The DeSoto. The new members are: Andy Dyer: Andy is the President of K Machine Industrial Services, LLC. Dyer is also a Member of St. Andrew Society (Scottish Heritage Society) and The Savannah Golf…
City spreading the word about new property maintenance regulations
This week the City of Savannah held a news conference “to emphasize education and compliance” in regards to several new amendments to the property maintenance ordinance. The changes reorganizing the Code Compliance Department were passed by City Council last Tuesday. The news conference took place off of Pennsylvania Avenue, in a location the City says…
Telfair opens ‘I Have Marks to Make’ on Dec. 9
Returning to Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center on December 9 is the annual exhibition I Have Marks to Make: Celebrating the Power of Art to Change Lives, on view through January 11, 2019. “For 24 years, the exhibition has brought together individuals of all ages from the Savannah community to celebrate the power of art to…
Bert John lights it up
John works from a photograph of the landscape, blocks off each part, and paints each section
Voodoo Visionary, Bird Dog Jubilee @Barrelhouse South
Atlanta’s Voodoo Visionary offers an engaging blend of funk and R&B
Rebecca Slivinsky’s ‘Eradication’
WHEN Rebecca Slivinsky shaved her head almost two years ago, she didn’t realize how it would impact her work. She shaved it in solidarity with her mother, who underwent chemo for breast cancer and lost her hair. “It got me questioning these ideal standards of beauty that women question every day,” Slivinsky shares. “I had…
Caroline Watkins finds a home in country music
CAROLINE WATKINS is forging a path in music her own way — taking her passion for ountry music and making a name for herself in Nashville as a singing and songwriting force in her own right. What began as an infatuation with the written word evolved into a love of lyricism that led her to…
Canal District to feature upscale housing
Alderman Van Johnson, in whose First District the apartments will be located, questioned the need for more apartments marketed to the relatively affluent.
Depressor, Shadows, Bottomfeeders @El Rocko Lounge
The metal band’s members all come from impressive backgrounds as former members of bands like Awaken the Dawn and Pridemeat
Living large at La Petite Abeilles
Mia Guerin is doing the Southern thing and offering her guests the opportunity to sit on her wraparound porch and drink some tea
Perpetual Groove serves the song
SINCE forming in Savannah and relocating to Athens, Perpetual Groove has become something of a household name, at least to live music fans throughout the Southeast. The band has staked its place alongside jam bands like Phish, the Grateful Dead, and moe. as a stellar live act – aided by their incredible improvisational skills. It’s…
Midnight Endeavor @El Rocko Lounge
The U2-heavy guitar work and Morrissey-esque poetic vocal delivery is especially powerful on the brilliant ‘Beds’
Ordinary Boys pay tribute to the legacy of The Smiths
Ordinary Boys, led by singer AJ Navarrete, have been making a name for themselves as a leading Smiths and Morrissey tribute since forming in 2011
T. Hardy Morris @El Rocko Lounge
The production on the new album is staggering and it’s something of a sonic masterpiece.
Collective Face Ensemble puts a winter twist on Shakespeare’s ‘Midsummer’
Midwinter revolves around the wedding of Thesus, the Duke of Athens, and Hyppolyta, the Queen of the Amazons
