J. Edgar, Jack and Jill, Martha Marcy May Marlene
J. EDGAR **1/2 No one could possibly have fathomed that someone as handsome as Leonardo DiCaprio and someone as homely as Ernest Borgnine would ever play the same character, but the actors indeed share the same screen DNA by both having portrayed J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial Federal Bureau of Investigation director and one of…
Savannah Music Festival schedule covers a lot of ground
Although it’s rife with familiar names and faces of musicians who’ve played here year in past editions, the lineup for the 2012 Savannah Music Festival puts the focus on musical diversity and collaboration. The real gems are between the lines. So while Chris Thile, Mike Marshall, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain, Han & Finckel,…
A run for their money
NOW THAT THE whole thing’s over, I can go ahead and tell you: The Rock ‘n’ Roll part I totally get. The Marathon part? Not so much. Look, my people invented marathons. As we’ve seen, the Greeks are apparently not very good at applied macroeconomics, but we’re well aware that the dude who ran the…
Exhibits & openings this week
Alter-Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea – This midcareer survey consists of approximately 30 works, including photographs, drawings, videos, and mixed-media installations by this Cuban-American, Georgia born artist. Through January 8. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St., www.telfair.org Betsy Cain: In Situ – Savannah painter Cain’s first solo show at…
This one’s for the fans
For a year now, John Mellencamp and his band have been touring America with a show ostensibly to promote No Better Than This, the acclaimed lo-fi album Mellencamp recorded in various historic locations – including First African Baptist Church in Savannah. The concert, however, is about much more than plugging a record. For Mellencamp, who’s…
Peter Case, Forward to the Apocalypse, Pato Banton
PETER CASE At 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10 Muse Arts Warehouse, 703D Louisville Rd. With Greg Williams Tickets $20/musesavannah.org With its ringing, Byrdsian electric 12-string guitars and tight harmony vocals, the Plimsouls’ “A Million Miles Away” was one of the bright spots of 1983, when rock ‘n’ roll was laboring under the delusion that bigger…
The illustrated Sergio Aragones
When Sergio Aragones first walked into the New York offices of Mad magazine in 1962, carrying his portfolio of cartoons, he was nervous. He hadn’t been away from Mexico for very long. “I had just arrived, and my English was nil,” Aragones says. “I went to a lot of magazines showing my cartoons, but the…
Northern underexposure
Gentle, magically quirky and subversively funny, John Cariani’s Almost, Maine is currently the most-produced play among school and community theater groups in the country. Yet this low-key romantic comedy, about couples falling in and out of love while they wait for the Northern Lights in the New England sky, was an abject failure when it…
Viva Italia!
From the other end of the line, Keith Miller’s voice rumbles like a thunderstorm rolling in from the horizon. The 37 year-old baritone has called from New York to talk about “A Night in Italy,” the upcoming concert benefit that he’s organized for the Savannah Children’s Choir, and every sentence sounds like a dispatch from…
Cool art in the cool air
For years, the Telfair Museums has held its annual Art Fair under a huge tent in Telfair Square. This year, the event promises the same wide range of local and regional artists displaying their work for admiration, sale, and friendly competition, but there are a few new wrinkles. First off, no tent: The whole Art…
Where else would they have been?
There were some tense moments during the Savannah Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon when a 4-year-old boy and his grandfather were reported missing in the Forsyth Park area. The 68-year-old man and his two-foot tall grandson were last seen at Liberty and Whitaker by family members, who reported that they were supposed to meet the pair…
Let’s hit Wet Willie’s — for lunch?!
The voice on the other end of the phone piqued my curiosity: “Hi, this is Paul England. I’m corporate chef for Wet Willie’s.” “Chef” and “Wet Willie’s” are words I never expected to hear in the same sentence – let alone “corporate chef.” Corporate chefs are the final arbiters of consistency, menu and style for…
Funny, you don’t look fluish
Man, this used to be such a nice neighborhood drugstore. You could walk the aisles without being accosted by the pushers. If you took a half an hour to compare the eleven thousand types of toothbrushes, you’d be left in peace. No one bothered you when you did 200 jumping jacks and then tried to…
Don’t mess with halibut
I grew up in Alaska and I’ve heard this story forever, including when I worked on a salmon fishing boat for two summers. It’s the claim of a sometimes lethal danger to fishermen posed by a large halibut landed on deck but not yet dead. According to the story, a flopping halibut broke a commercial…
