Cover Stories
Waterworld
JUST A FEW STEPS past the lobby of the University of Georgia’s Marine Education Center and Aquarium (MECA) on Skidaway Island, visitors will soon be able to enter an underwater world, transformed this summer thanks to a gift from a friendly neighbor. A dark purple ceiling, “deep blue sea” colored walls, modified lighting and new…
Rock lobster
FOR HUNDREDS of visitors to the aquarium on Skidaway Island over the years, meeting Clifford the Spiny Lobster was a highlight of the trip. For over 15 years, until this past spring, Clifford lived in one of the tanks in the aquarium gallery and seemed to thrive as much on human attention as on the…
New releases: We Own the Night, Gone Baby Gone, Into the Wild
GONE BABY GONE The days of laughing at Ben Affleck appear to be over. To be honest, the chiseled leading man never really deserved the derision tossed his way as an actor, since the fault rested less in his thespian abilities and more in his frequent choice of rancid material (Gigli, Pearl Harbor, Saving Christmas)…
Diary of the planet
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A nod in Nashville
This past Thursday, October 4, the International Bluegrass Music Association kicked off its annual World of Bluegrass convention and trade show in Nashville. A massive, week long event that finds instrument makers, booking agents, artist managers, concert promoters, record labels and musicians themselves meeting, greeting and doing business with each other, it began —as it…
Noteworthy live shows
Eric Culberson Blues Band at GreenFest When are the blues green? When they’re played in support of environmentally-sound principals, baby! This stellar local electric blues trio seems thrilled to be providing live entertainment for this high-profile event (billed as an opportunity for eco-friendly businesses and organizations to showcase their services and principles to like-minded citizens,…
A taste of this week’s live gigs
Annual Senior Jazz Concert Free show for area senior citizens by the 16-piece Savannah Jazz Orchestra. Info: www.coastaljazz.org, or call 675-5419. Thurs., 6 pm, Civic Center Ballroom. Argyle Hard-hitting local blend of ska/punk/reggae and alt.rock. Fri., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge + Sat., 9 pm, Fiddler’s (River St.). Bluegroove Duo of Jeff Beasley and Bluesonics’ Ken…
John Gorka headlines Folk Music Festival
For the past two decades, guitarist John Gorka has been heralded as one of the finest singer/songwriters in this country. A gifted lyricist with a disarming knack for penning insightful, thought provoking stanzas, Gorka’s best lines stand easily as poetry, even without the crisp, wintry acoustic and electric modern folk/rock which usually accompanies them on…
Holy tabloid, Bat Boy
IT WAS A sad day for America when the Weekly World News ceased its print publication. Although an online version exists, it just doesn’t provide the tactile pleasure gained from actually holding the cheap, pulpy, smeary print version and turning its pages. What a thrill it was to stand in line at the grocery store…
“Mildly Unhealthy”
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Kingdom of Berg
Peter Berg is an odd creature. I first knew him as the hip, mush-mouthed Dr. Billy Kronk on Chicago Hope and the washed-up, similarly-named Terry Conklin in the underrated boxing satire The Great White Hype. But he’s much more notable these days as a director, turning in some of the most consistently interesting genre work…
(Dis)placed Identity
THIS PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION presents an interesting dialogue between a European culture’s dissatisfaction with contemporary civilization and a Native American’s ironic response to it. Andrea Robbins and Max Becher collaborated on a series of portraits titled, “German Indians,” in which German “Wannabees” are shown wearing detailed and elaborate Native American traditional clothing. These photos were taken…
Exhibits and openings
‘The Space Between’ — Photography by J. T. Blatty through Oct. 26. Reception Sat., Oct. 13, 7-9:30 p.m. at Venus de Milo, 38 MLK Jr. Blvd. ‘The Model Home’ — A photography thesis exhibition featuring Nichole Paschal, at The B. Matthews Gallery on Bay Street through Oct. 19. Reception Oct. 12, 8-11 p.m. ‘Metamorphosis: Painting…
Flattering Flannery
WHEN MARY FLANNERY O’CONNOR entertained guests at her childhood home in Savannah, things were done her way. The guests, who were carefully screened by Mary Flannery’s mother, Regina, were instructed to bring fresh-cut flowers with them. When they arrived, the budding author would take her friends to the second-floor bathroom. There, Mary Flannery would carefully…
Picnic in the Park photos
PICNIC IN THE PARK is in many ways the quintessential Savannah event: It’s outside, it involves lots of good food and drink, it celebrates the arts, and it’s free. Did I mention it’s free? Because the event didn’t happen at all last year, a lot was riding on Sunday’s reincarnation of the longtime favorite event.…
‘Do you want to talk now?’
from recent Savannah/Chatham Police incident reports A disorderly person was reported on Bacon Park Drive, and an officer arrived on the scene to learn the suspect was actually the victim’s landlord. A man and woman told the officer the suspect had just left the scene. At one point, the man told the officer that he…
You cannot be serious
Awesome! Ferruccio Pilenga recently turned out another class of graduates at his Italian Dog Rescue School, which he says is the only one in the world that trains canines (mostly Newfoundlands, with some Labradors) to jump out of helicopters into rough waters for rescues at sea. Pilenga told London’s Independent in August that it takes…
Everything else that’s out there
The Game Plan ** After his film career began floundering, action star Vin Diesel turned to the family audience with The Pacifier and ended up with a $113 million hit. Along the same lines, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson now throws himself on the mercy of the small fry and their easy-to-please parental units with The…
