Red, Waiting for Superman
RED *** The action extravaganza Red is fun for a multitude of reasons, covering its bases quite nicely. Fans of movie stars doing the unexpected can revel in the sight of Dame Helen Mirren handling a machine gun the size of a Buckingham Palace guard house. Devotees of inventive visual gags can delight in the…
baroness at Civvies
Baroness live at Civvies. downtown savannah. october 7, 2010.
Managing expectations
Unless you’ve spent the last couple of weeks under a rock, you know that former Savannah City Manager Michael Brown is once again a former manager. He recently resigned from his new job in Arlington County, Va., under odd circumstances. In his Sept. 30 resignation letter to the Arlington County Board, Brown – who spent…
Exhibits & openings this week
2nd Annual FAAA Fine Arts Exhibition – The exhibition highlights artwork created members of the Friends of African American Arts, featuring work in a variety of media from artists including Peggy Blood, Phil Starks, and Luther Vann. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. , http://www.kingtisdell.org/ Arrivals and Departures – An exhibit featuring work by Savannah…
How do storm glasses work? Do they work at all?
What’s the deal with a storm glass? Hammacher Schlemmer sells one and says, “Although how it functions remains a mystery, the ability of the stormglass to predict atmospheric change is well documented.” Does it work? If so, how? Or is it just a crappy lava lamp? —Dan Hey, don’t knock lava lamps. For $179.95, a…
Time for edible dirt!
Lead Story Edible “dirt” has recently appeared on the menus of several of the world’s most renowned restaurants (e.g., the top-rated Noma in Copenhagen, Shakuf in Tel Aviv, Gilt in New York City). “People are really wowed to see dirt on their plates,” said Gilt’s head chef. Actually, the “dirt” only looks and feels like…
Bites & pieces
Fall into fall menus With fall weather comes a change of season — and a change of menus for many area restaurants. Chefs are sourcing fall veggies, look for lots of root veg dishes, savory braised meat dishes and the inclusion of wild game on higher end dining menus. Soups will get heartier, breads more…
Spooky juice
What you drink should not be the least bit scary – but that doesn’t mean the label can’t be the hit of your Halloween party! Leave the vampire fangs at home and head to the package store to score beers and wines that are guaranteed to put a macabre chill over your celebration. First up,…
By the Numbers: Michael Brown jackpot edition
Four and a half — Number of months former Savannah City Manager Michael Brown worked at his new job as County Manager in Arlington, Va., before resigning under pressure from the county board on Sept. 30 $124,000 — Amount of salary + benefits Brown earned during those four and a half months $125,000 — Salary…
Yeasayer drives him to drink
Editor, Regarding your review of the recent Yeasayer show: Are you kidding me? So I went to the Yeasayer/Washed Out show… (shakes head). Washed Out was my ENTIRE reason for going to this show. Sadly I arrived at 8:08. The show was set to start at 8. I saw three minutes of Washed Out and…
Get your Greek on
Imagine cooking — on your own, from scratch — 30,000 servings of a particular recipe. Now imagine cooking a whole menu of recipes, 30,000 servings of each. Now imagine cooking 20 percent more on top of that. That’s this year’s new, improved, bigger and better edition of the Savannah Greek Festival, running Thursday–Saturday at the…
Something to Ta Ca about
So, in the past, if you wanted some delicious sushi in Savannah and you weren’t a Rockefeller, your choices were A) Sakura and B) …Sakura. Not that I dislike Sakura. I almost lived in there once. But it does get a little tiring ordering pretty much the same things at that one restaurant that is…
Sugarland, Frontier Ruckus
SUGARLAND At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, with Little Big Town and Randy Montana Martin Luther King Jr. Arena (Savannah Civic Center), 301 W. Ogelthorpe Ave. $39.50, $51.50. Crucial to the success of this country music duo is inexhaustible vocalist Jennifer Nettles, a Georgia native whose earthy charm, and sweet, no-nonsense tones put her somewhere…
Back home again
One of the great pioneers of modern acoustic music, Peter Rowan is not only a melodist and a lyrical tale–spinner, he’s a versatile acoustic guitar player with a fine tenor singing voice. If that says “bluegrass” to you, well, you’re about half right. Because while Rowan was a member of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys…
Fall is here
Police were called in reference to an injured person on River Street shortly after 10 p.m. on a Friday night. Upon arrival, the officer noted a female sitting on the curb surrounded by several people.Her knee was bleeding and visibly swollen. One of the people standing around her, who identified himself as her husband, said…
Hearts of glass
Amanda Wingfield, the family matriarch in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, is one of the holy grail roles for women in theater. “So much so,” says actress Dandy Barrett, “that if you look at the history of women who have played her, you will find quite an array of ladies, everybody from Katharine Hepburn to…
‘A subtle and entertaining thing’
To select the films for this year’s Savannah Gay and Lesbian Film Society Festival, director Deb Riney traveled to San Francisco in June, for the annual two–week Frameline Festival. Frameline is the biggest LGBT media fest in the world. Over 10 days, Riney watched more than 100 films. And she brought back what she calls…
Mark your calendar: David Jacobs-Strain
A clean–cut white guy from Oregon, in his 20s, David Jacobs–Strain is one of today’s more direct links to the old Mississippi delta bluesmen. Hailed as a blues prodigy before his 12th birthday, Jacobs–Strain is a slide guitarist whose prowess on the acoustic guitar have made him a sort of modern–day folk hero in the…
Action and Redaction
Political rhetoric at the national level might lead you to believe that the Constitution is a sacred document. But Georgia’s state Constitution is still very much a work in progress judging by the amount of proposed changes to it on the November ballot. When voters head to the polls next month there will be five…
