Oct. 22: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, Oct. 22): Tombs and 16 sling the sludge at the Jinx. That’s all we got.
Oct. 21: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, Oct. 21): The Great Ogeechee Seafood Festival continues (11 a.m.-5 p.m.) in Richmond Hill. There’s a 3 p.m. matinee of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at SCAD’s Mondanaro theatre, and a 7:30 performance of The Rocky Horror Show at Bay Street Theatre. The Weird closes with tonight’s 7:30…
Oct. 20: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, Oct. 20). Highly recommended: The great Atlanta funk band Baby Baby at Congress Street Social Club, Dex Romweber and Tav Falco’s Panther Burns at Dollhouse Studios. The Gin Blossoms are onstage at 9 tonight at J.F. Gregory Park in Richmond Hill, for the Great Ogeechee Seafood Festival. The theater…
Reviewed: ‘Alex Cross’
ALEX CROSS * 1/2 Even with Tyler Perry essaying the title role in Alex Cross, don’t expect to see any Cross cross-dressing in this adaptation of one of the many countless thrillers penned by best-selling author James Patterson. While Perry has made the bulk of his considerable fortune donning a dress to play the larger-than-life…
The Foodie Column
Toucan dance Regulars to Toucan Café know it for dependable food, attentive service and convenience. Still, I meet several people every week who have never been to Toucan and then have a hard time finding this landmark among Southside eateries. Toucan Café may well be the most off-the-beaten path restaurant – that’s on one of…
Oct. 19: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, Oct. 19). Theater weekend: The Rocky Horror Show opens at Bay Street Theatre, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is at SCAD’s Mondanaro Theatre, and the horror anthology The Weird is onstage at AASU’s Jenkins Hall. It’s also the final weekend for the Collective Face’s Suddenly Last Summer at…
Oct. 18: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, Oct. 18): Singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson is in concert (8 p.m.) at the Trustees Theatre. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot opens at SCAD’s Mondanaro Theatre. The Weird opens at AASU. Live Wire’s got the Ben Miller Band, the Eric Culberson Band plays World of Beer, and The Drop returns…
Oct. 17: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, Oct. 17): It’s time (7:30 p.m.) for Louis C.K. in the Johnny Mercer Theatre! And British singer/songwriter Laura Marling makes a rare Savannah appearance tonight at Live Wire Music Hall.
How’s that ‘local control’ workin’ for ya?
PUBLIC SCHOOLS enjoy unique status in American society. Perhaps no other institution is so widely recognized as needing drastic reform, yet so fiercely resists the slightest change. Chalk it up to bureaucracy, teachers unions, effective propaganda, parents’ unwillingness to tamper with anything involving their kids, or a combination of all those. In any case, change…
The dark side of the stage
There’s an argument to be made that the Biblical tale of Judas is one of the great modern–day horror stories.Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is one of three plays opening this weekend, and if you think about it, it’s just right for the Halloween season, alongside The Weird and The Rocky…
Sowing the Food Revolution
It’s what has made the progress of humankind possible: Eat something delicious from a plant. Save the seeds. Plant them. Repeat. Our ancestors have doing this for millennia, each farmer selecting for his or her climate and preference, yielding thousands upon thousands of varieties of wheat, corn, beans and other staples of the human diet.…
Coming to take you away
Beatles movies come in various shapes and sizes – there’s the fun–loving Fab Four of the fully–scripted A Hard Day’s Night and Help!, the cartoon caricatures of Yellow Submarine, and the sullen millionaire hippies of the documentary Let it Be. The gaping hole in the middle is Magical Mystery Tour, a 53–minute “home movie” the…
5 questions: Gin Blossoms
Jesse Valenzuela is lead guitarist for the Tempe, Arizona–founded band Gin Blossoms. He was there virtually from the beginning, in the late 1980s; he’s still there, and will perform with the band Saturday, Oct. 20 at the Great Ogeechee Seafood Festival in Richmond Hill. The Gin Blossoms arrived on the national college–band scene at the…
Still sublime on 37th
A single friend recently asked my husband and me what the secret is to a happy marriage. We burst out laughing. “Hell if we know,” we cackled simultaneously. Truth is, after the day’s mad dance of work and shlepping to kids’ activities and throwing some kale in a pot for dinner before packing lunches and…
Shaken ‘n’ stirred: Tav Falco’s Panther Burns
“The Panther Burns,” Gustavo “Tav” Falco once said, “are the missing link between the earlier forms of swamp blues’ unbridled howl and the psychological onslaught of the new millennium. We are, essentially, the ditch diggers in American music.” Forged in the smoky clubs and vacant warehouses of Memphis in the late 1970s, the band was…
The Foodie Column
Leavin’ on a Steak Plane At just a few hundred yards away from the airport entrance, most diners suspect that Sam Snead’s Oak Grill & Tavern is like every other generic eatery catering to weary business travelers and passengers waiting for a plane. But once inside, the dark wood paneling, golf memorabilia and low-key lighting…
Savannah’s cycling season
“IN THE SPRING a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital.” This old adage describing our local climate is relayed in the 2011 book African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee, edited by Phillip Morgan. I’m not sure what the hospital part is…
DeLoach breakthrough?
Savannah–Chatham Metro Violent Crimes Detectives need the public’s assistance identifying a potential witness in reference to the Amber DeLoach homicide. Detectives are asking the public to take a close look at the car in the photo, a light colored four–door sedan with rims and license plates on the front and back. If anyone has seen…
Vote no on charter school amendment
Editor, The question on this November’s ballot concerning charter schools is, “Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to allow STATE or local approval of a public charter schools upon the request of local communities.” Let’s look at the facts why NO should be your vote. 1. We already have a charter school amendment! This…
A review: ‘The Master’
THE MASTER **1/2 There’s a great scene in Milos Forman’s 1984 Oscar winner Amadeus when Mozart (Tom Hulce) tries to convince Emperor Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones) to allow him to stage a particular opera. Replies the Emperor, “You are passionate … but you do not persuade.” That snatch of dialogue might as well be the…
Oct. 14: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, Oct. 14): Blues singer/guitarist Doug MacLeod headlines the Savannah Folk Festival’s free concert in Grayson Stadium, a multi-artist event from 2 to 7 p.m. There are two performances of Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer – 3 and 8 p.m. – at Muse Arts Warehouse. See the indie film Let…
Oct. 16: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, Oct. 16): A great industrial show at the Wormhole tonight, with Deviant UK, Die Sektor and For All The Emptiness. Zach As the Monster returns to Lulu’s Chocolate Bar.
