New releases: W., Max Payne
W. Love him or hate him, there’s no denying that George W. Bush is a remarkably controversial figure, so how is it possible that Oliver Stone has managed to make a movie that’s about as incendiary as Kung Fu Panda? Stone has been down this road before, when he tried to inject sympathy and dignity…
Complete Interview with guitarist Brian Stoltz of Porter Batiste Stoltz
THE FOLLOWING CONVERSATION took place via phone. Where are you speaking to me from? Brian Stoltz: I’m in Ft. Lauderdale. I came in yesterday and am playing the next three nights at Alligator Alley. It’s a club and restaurant I’ve been playing for years. The owner is also the bass player in my Fl. band,…
Specific Lines
The art of the 20th century avant garde was geared towards the destruction of the idea of the artist as creator. As Max Ernst put it, “I believe the myth of the artist as creator has been destroyed forever. The artist can now witness the formation of the work as a spectator and can follow…
Theater: Do the Time Warp again
What happens when you combine platform heels, transvestites, and lots of pelvic thrusts? Cardinal Rep’s reprisal of Rocky Horror Show, that’s what! A show most definitely not for the faint of heart or those with delicate sensibilities, Rocky Horror returns to the Freight Station starting this weekend to sing and dance the night away with…
Dressed to kill
As Nancy Cox works in her Garden City store, black bats and an evil-eyed witch with claws for hands hang from the ceiling. Nearby, past the battle axes, fake blood and daggers, are aisle after aisle of costumes — pirate outfits, flouncy dresses for would-be Southern belles, orange-and-black striped tiger costumes and, made from gleaming,…
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China syndrome Editor, How does a mayor and two city council people get to steal (and essentially that is what they did) almost $18,000 of our tax money for a sightseeing trip? How is there not more outrage about this? I have posted numerous times about our local leaders dropping the ball with local businesses…
Requiem for a heavyweight
BACK IN THE DAY when I did such things, I had the opportunity to see the band AC/DC in concert. Several times, actually, but I digress. They’re a juggernaut onstage — no stage patter, no video pandering, only three or four seconds elapsing between songs. They play with an almost casual aggressiveness, in the manner…
You towed away my heart
POLICE WERE CALLED to a Skidaway Road bar on a report of an intoxicated woman whose purse had been stolen. An officer found the woman in the parking lot, where she was “guarding” her car. She was extremely intoxicated, by her own admission, and her speech was slurred and she couldn’t stand without assistance. She…
When does human life begin?
At a forum last August at his megachurch, preacher Rick Warren asked John McCain and Barack Obama when human life begins. McCain replied, “At conception,” a response that went over well with the pro-life audience. Obama said, “Answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade,” which many thought was evasive or flip and…
You gotta be kidding
Lead Story Legendary banjo player Eddie Adcock, age 70 and suffering hand tremors that failed to respond to medication, volunteered for a revolutionary neurosurgery in August in which he finger-picked tunes while his brain was exposed, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center surgeons tried to locate the defective area. In “deep brain stimulation,” doctors find a…
Like Clockwork
ONE OF THE FINEST AND MOST NUANCED film actors of our time, since his screen debut in the 1969 British film If…, Malcolm McDowell has amassed an unusually prodigious body of work. Known best to casual moviegoers as either the iconic thug Alex in Stanley Kubrick’s landmark 1971 futuristic satire A Clockwork Orange, or as…
Landing Lisa Kudrow makes all the difference for Kabluey
SELF-DESCRIBED “complete unknown” Scott Prendergast wrote, directed, and stars in Kabluey, a film about a slacker dude who works as a cheesy corporate mascot and helps his sister take care of her hellion kids while her husband is in Iraq. Also starring Lisa Kudrow, Teri Garr, and Christine Taylor, Kabluey mixes slapstick with dark humor…
Death after Sundance: The Execution of Solomon Harris
AS THE TITLE indicates, The Execution of Solomon Harris deals with an inmate paying the ultimate debt to society — except that his execution is botched. The modern-day morality play, directed by Ed Yonaitis and Wyatt Garfield and produced by a SCAD student production crew known simply as “Team G,” was an entry into this…
It’s movie-Licious
THOUGH COMPLETED last year, Licious is an award-winning student film which will screen at this edition of the Savannah Film Festival. Directed by SCAD grad Amanda Bayard, Licious uses multiple narratives in its 21 minutes to tell the story of a woman’s struggle with grief. It screens Mon. Oct. 27 at 2:30 p.m. at the…
Window Pains and the blue screen of death
PAUL ALLEN Tillery’s animated short only lasts five minutes, but anyone who’s dealt with major computer problems knows even five minutes can feel like a lifetime. Window Pains uses cartoonish exaggeration to detail the absurdity involved in even the most pedestrian attempt to get help with your ailing PC. It screens Mon. Oct. 27 at…
Scaredy Cats‘ scary journey
IN 15 minutes, Bossi Baker’s Scaredy Cats takes us on a strange journey in a sort of post-apocalyptic setting with two friends, who meet — you guessed it — a drifter along the way. Scaredy Cats screens Mon. Oct. 27 at 11:30 a.m. at the Lucas Theatre and Fri. Oct. 31 at 9:30 a.m. at…
A long way from Macon
BY THE TIME he was 18, country singer Jason Aldean had played every juke joint, gymnasium and bull-riding barroom in his hometown of Macon. Played them all at least 50 times. Being a big fish in a small pond wasn’t enough. Following a time-tested trajectory, he loaded up the truck and moved to Nashville, worked…
An exclusive interview with The Wiyos
BELOW YOU’LL FIND THE COMPLETE, unexpurgated text of my recent chat with two members of this wonderful, increasingly well-known Old-Time Americana quartet. This will be the first time you have appeared in Savannah since adding a fourth member. How did this addition come to be? Had you been wanting to expand the lineup and instrumentation…
Spotlighted gigs and recommended shows
The Wiyos @ The Telfair & Jepson *** If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to travel back in time to the USA of the 1920s and 1930s, catching a show by this NYC-based acoustic combo goes a long, long way towards granting that wish. They’re one of the most entertaining and mesmerizing…
“You’re Out!”
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Diary of the planet
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