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How high is too high?
COMING ACROSS the Talmadge Bridge from South Carolina is the best way to view Savannah’s urban forest. A mass of green covers the city, with only the tallest buildings poking through the trees. Preservationists want to keep it that way, while developers say the city’s current height restrictions on new construction create unfair hurdles for…
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American Gangster *** Ever since 1990’s one-two punch of GoodFellas and Miller’s Crossing, it’s been mostly downhill for the mob movie, and even acclaimed efforts like Donnie Brasco and The Godfather Part III couldn’t light my fire (and, despite the insistence of friends over the years, I have yet to be stirred enough to tackle…
Anatomy of a children’s book
THE SAVANNAH CHILDREN’S BOOK FESTIVAL, happening this Saturday in Forsyth Park, has become one of the area’s most successful community events, bringing kids, parents, authors and illustrators together in a celebration of learning and literacy. This year it will also bring together an author and an illustrator who’ve worked together for years, but never actually…
It’s never Boer-ing at Zunzi’s
I get lots of suggestions as to what restaurants I should write about. Zunzi’s has been suggested most often. And when I see the line snaking down the sidewalk I figure something is being done right. What I find out is that there are no seats inside! All food is either take-out or eaten in…
‘Inside Outside’
Although the Mosches have been married for 30 years, they don’t seem interested in artistic collaboration in this exhibition, where they’ve focused on their differences under the opposition of “Inside/Outside.” Steven Mosch’s works are landscape photographs and represent the Outside of the title. And Deborah Mosch’s small, abstract paintings represent the Inside, abstractions that she…
Local author’s Kiki and the Red Shoes tells a tale of Greece
SAVANNAHIANS KNOW Bess T. Chappas as a storyteller and the organizer of the popular local “Tellabration” storytelling events. But the talented resident has put her skills to paper, with a new children’s book about a vignette from her girlhood in Greece called Kiki and The Red Shoes. The book is illustrated by the masterful local…
10 questions 4 the Electric 6
MOST FOLKS IN SAVANNAH have no idea who Electric Six is. It’s probably because we’ve never had a serious, commercial alternative radio station — and that’s about the only way you’d ever stumble across their brand of snarky, absurdist cock rock. Of course, they’re all the rage on the internet, and over the past few…
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Kids gone wild Editor, My friend and I attended the Coastal Empire Fair on Saturday, Nov. 3. After this experience, I would almost have to be paid to attend another. This was my worst nightmare of how a large number of people in one place can feel unsafe, as if a large riot was about…
Offbeat craft show@Starland
Crafts bizarre Day-of-the-dead skeleton rag dolls. Hand stenciled Pee Wee Herman t-shirts. Fuchsia and orange fuzzy felted owls. Wooden coasters decorated with tattoo art. If this sounds like the start of your Christmas shopping list, skip the mall this weekend and head for the Starland parking lot off Whitaker Street. For the sixth time in…
Taking the plunge
from recent Savannah/Chatham Police incident reports Officers with the Savannah-Chatham Metro Crisis Intervention Team used “de-escalation” techniques to bring a man to safety after he threatened to jump off the Talmadge Bridge. Police were called to the bridge shortly after 6 a.m. Nov. 6 after motorists saw the 46-year-old man sitting on the outer ledge…
I’m not believing this
Government in Action! Three aldermen in Dover, N.J., seem exceptionally apprehensive that the town’s gumball machines are easy targets for terrorists to poison their community and have been studying the issue zealously since April. The aldermen have checked all 800 gumball machines in the town of 18,000, gotten rid of the 100 that were unlicensed,…
MusicAlive! spreads the joy of classical music
MOST KIDS who leave their hometowns after graduating high school and subsequently find some measure of success in their chosen field either A) stay gone for good, or B) return to their old stomping grounds as soon as they can — triumphant, and eager to make their mark in the place that groomed them for…
Noteworthy live gigs
Antarctic Crazy-tight, technical and disjointed hard prog quartet from North Florida that makes mesmerizing, percussive —yet melodic— instrumental guitar and drum rock that sounds like a mash-up between Pinback, The Police (circa 1978-1980), The Mercury Program and a batch of bathtub crank. With Dark Castle, a sludgey psych-metal guitar/drums duo. Bring earplugs to go with…
A taste of this week’s live gigs
A.W.O.L. Spoken word showcase run by a local non-profit offering youths self-awareness through poetry and hip-hop. Sun., 7 pm, The Sentient Bean – ALL-AGES. Bottles & Cans Garage-rock-infused blues and weird Americana. Thurs., 9:30 pm, Fiddler’s (River St.), + Sat., 11 pm, The Jinx. Larry Broussard Classically-trained fingerstyle guitarist playing a wide variety of rock,…
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Fred Claus **1/2 Does cynicism have a place in Yuletide flicks? Judging by the abysmal likes of Deck the Halls, Surviving Christmas and Christmas With the Kranks, the answer is a definitive no. But sometimes a little spice can enhance a seasonal dish, and Fred Claus joins Bad Santa and the underrated Bill Murray vehicle…
A taste of this week’s live gigs
AASU Choir & Chamber Singers Showcase of Fall Semester works, including Charpentier’s “Messe de Minuit pour NoËl”. Sun., 2:30 pm Sacred Heart Church (1707 Bull St.). Joey Allcorn Solo set by this retro honky-tonk outlaw. Fri., 11 pm, The Jinx. AUDiO ViDEO iNTERCOURSE Free debut gig from a local industrial keyboard and vocals duo influenced…
Film Festival: David Benioff of Kite Runner
SCREENWRITER DAVID BENIOFF adapted the bestselling novel about two boyhood friends in Afghanistan, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, into a feature film which screened last week at the Savannah Film Festival. Directed by Marc Forster, the film has garnered some controversy for a rape scene involving one of the young Afghani child actors, which has…
Cmon, Get Happy
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Diary of the planet
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Happy Halloween, bee-yatch
A couple was at a Halloween party when the wife told her husband she was tired and wanted to go home. He said he wasn’t ready to leave the party, but they left. On their way home, the man started beating his wife in the face. The woman told police that she had to jump…
I’m not believing this
More Things to Worry About As several sightings were made around Washington, D.C., of dragonfly-looking bugs hovering in the air at political events, government agencies were denying that they had released any tiny surveillance robots, according to an October Washington Post investigation. “I look up and I’m like, ‘What the hell is that?’” asked a…
‘We don’t fit neatly into a box’
LAST DECEMBER, when Austin’s famed counterculture band The Asylum Street Spankers played American Legion Post 135 on Forsyth Park, they were enjoying increased notoriety from a high-profile video for their satirical tune “Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV.” That tongue-in-cheek clip racked up 400,000 views on YouTube within two months, and put the Spankers in…
Turning up the heat on Tybee
SYNERGY. It’s a word that gets bandied about quite often these days — usually in the context of high-priced consultants looking to dazzle clients with visions of said companies’ products being linked to lifestyle choices of a desirable demographic. When I was a kid, all I knew of Synergy was the immensely creepy psychedelic 1975…
Noteworthy live gigs
The Goliards One of the most unusual and unique musical groups in the city, this period-instrument ensemble features really old-school axes like the harp, renaissance recorder, lute, ‘ud and the medieval violin. As much living history lesson as concert, their performance strives to approximate a recital several hundred years ago. This show, La Sirena de…
