Deerhunter set to headline Savannah Stopover 2019
Savannah Stopover 2019Tickets and info available at savannahstopover.com/tickets SAVANNAH STOPOVER revealed that Deerhunter, the beloved Atlanta-based psych-pop and garage rock band, will be headlining the 2019 Savannah Stopover Music Festival on Fri., March 8 in a show at the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum. The band, best known for their acclaimed 2007 album Cryptograms,…
SCAD Savannah Film Fest Highlights
A Quiet Place @Trustees Theater John Krasinski’s groundbreaking horror film A Quiet Place finds the actor and his real-life wife Emily Blunt navigating a post-apocalyptic world with their young children – trying desperately to remain completely silent so as not alert extraterrestrial creatures that are blind and hunt people by sound. It’s a powerful film…
Homicide on 37th Street
Savannah Police Violent Crimes detectives are investigating the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old male on Saturday October 27. “At around 10:30 a.m., a call was received in reference to an injured person, later identified as Shyree Smalls, on the 1100 block of E. 37th Street. He was transported to an area hospital in serious condition.…
Local businesses to offer perks for voting in the midterm election Nov. 6
The League of Women Voters of Coastal Georgia and 9to5 Georgia have arranged for local businesses to give incentives for voting in the midterm elections on November 6. Some businesses are also offering incentives during the early voting period as well. To participate in the discount, display your “I Voted” Georgia peach sticker. Amanda Hollowell,…
Zoning issues settled for new SCAD dorm
City Council today approved an expansion of the Mid-City zoning area and designation in order to clear the way for a four-story SCAD dorm set to go up on Victory Drive. The new dorms would be adjacent to the current One West Victory development and will extend down to Montgomery Street. SCAD’s attorney negotiated with…
George and Paula Saunders, Daniel Krauthammer, Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic are Savannah Book Festival keynote speakers
Embarking on its 12th season, the Savannah Book Festival announces the authors scheduled to present the Opening, Keynote and Closing Addresses for the 2019 Savannah Book Festival, February 14 – 17, 2019. George Saunders, winner of the 2017 Man Booker prize for his first novel, a New York Times #1 Bestseller, Lincoln in the Bardo,…
Richmond Hill doctor arrested for operating without valid license
A doctor has been arrested following a joint investigation spearheaded by the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team (CNT) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). “Earlier this month, CNT, DEA, and other state and federal agencies conducted an investigation at Consultants in Pain Medicine located at 2453 Highway 17, Richmond Hill, Georgia,” CNT reports. “During the investigation, agents…
Georgia Historical Society expansion gets boost from Delta Air Lines Foundation
The Delta Air Lines Foundation has awarded the Georgia Historical Society’s Next Century Initiative $500,000 “to propel the Society forward in anticipation of the next 100 years,” GHS announced today. The Delta gift is a response to a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to help complete a $3.5 million capital…
Meth ring on Southside broken up
Multiple people are under arrest following an investigation conducted by the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team (CNT) on Oct. 23. “Yesterday, CNT conducted an undercover drug operation following information crystal methamphetamine (meth) was being sold from various rooms at hotel located in the 11000 block of Abercorn Street on Savannah’s Southside,” a CNT spokesperson says. “After…
Phil Burgers’ imagination-provoking The Passage is a surreal, silent adventure
The unique film, shot in 1:33 ratio in the tradition of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, finds Burgers remaining completely silent while other characters around him speak in foreign languages without subtitles
Journalism under fire – literally – in A Private War
Marie Colvin was a New Yorker who worked for the British newspaper The Sunday Times from the mid-‘80s until her death during the siege of Homs in Syria in 2012
Still RBG, still Notorious
An entire pop culture cottage industry has sprung up around branding the soft-spoken but diamond-tough 85-year-old legal mind
The Front Runner: Before Bill and Monica, there was Gary and Donna
he Front Runner not only tells us the real story of what happened in 1987, back before Facebook or even the Drudge Report, it tells us why it all still matters today
‘Wonder Women’ work for gender equity in film/TV industry
The 13-minute short examines the crosscurrents of what it means to be an immigrant — and what community means — in North Dakota
A rascally Black Rabbit
The surrounding district has gained another unique and approachable joint whose aim is to cater to locals
5 Questions with Kenzie Adair
The resulting work ponders our ties to the environment and, ultimately, whether we can help it
Futurebirds @El Rocko Lounge
It’s best described as a fusion of psych-rock, indie pop, and alt-country, which makes it accessible to people of all musical tastes
It’s all in the cards: Peter Roberts, Lisa Ocampo join forces for Location show
About a year ago, Roberts and Ocampo discovered that they both had tarot-inspired art in the pipeline.
Ghouls @El Rocko Lounge
The songs are fierce and energetic, and naturally have shades of the 70s punk rock revolution embedded in them if you listen carefully
Back City Woods @Congress St. Social Club
The production is ethereal and reverb-soaked, but the songs are distinctly southern
The Orange Constant brings a piece of Athens rock and roll to Savannah
ATHENS band The Orange Constant has been creating an intriguing combination of southern rock and prog with jam band sensibilities since its inception in 2012. The band began in Statesboro before relocating to Athens, and soon started making a name around the southeast. Their most recent release was produced by of Montreal collaborator Drew Vandenberg,…
Blood On The Harp, Dead Oak, Andrew Sovine @The Jinx
Atlanta’s Blood On The Harp is a fascinating blend of folk and country that’s presented with an almost goth-like sheen
Georgia Conservancy: Vote YES on Amendment One
When you buy a kayak or a soccer ball, you know that you pay a sales tax on that purchase. Amendment One will designate those taxes you have already paid to be used towards creating and protecting the lands and waterways where you use that kayak and soccer ball.
The Dirty Doors @Tybee Post Theater
The Atlanta band is known for their faithful recreations of the songs
Savannah is full of Pride
Manzana Bryant’s passion for breaking that stigma is precisely what won her Savannah Pride’s inaugural Leonard Matlovich Award
Editor’s Note: Polls, schmolls, wave, schmave. Real talk on the state of the race
In my mind the most serious indicators of political change have more to do with what we know for a fact to be true, that we can already see in front of us.
Telling stories and building community
‘There’s no documentary studies department here, but there’s plenty of interest in podcasting and storytelling’
Anna and the Apocalypse breaks the genre mold
ANNA AND the Apocalypse is unlike any other zombie movie you’ve seen, and that’s because it’s not just a zombie movie. It’s a bizarre and intriguing combination of a zombie movie, a Christmas movie, a horror movie, and a musical, and it’s coming to the SCAD Savannah Film Festival on Wed., October 31. The film…
Tigers and Monkeys bring New York garage rock vibes to Savannah
Tigers & Monkeys, which is the second band that Bhowmik has founded throughout her musical career, was even named with the help of comedian Dmitri Martin
Can You Ever Forgive Me? tells the tale of a lovable liar
Ever resourceful until the end, Lee Israel’s memoir of her crimes, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, ironically also made a good bit of money for the author, who passed away in 2014
In Search of Greatness
Documentary filmmaker Gabe Polsky spoke to a few of the most dominant athletes of all time, in a variety of sports, about what it takes to achieve sports greatness
Pre-wedding Jitters
OTOJA ABIT isn’t a household name yet, but that could change soon. The debut short from this talented actor/writer/director, with an enormous assist from co-star and mentor Jason Patric, is getting buzz on the festival circuit and screens this week at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival. The first generation son of Nigerian immigrants had a…
