Leggett campaign says they might ‘raise hell’ over polling place improprieties
The campaign of Detric Leggett, challenging Mary Osborne for 2nd District Alderman, sent these photos. “These pictures were taken around 9am, posted on Facebook and provided to our campaign,” says Leggett’s campaign manager Scott Cleaveland. “Detric Leggett who’s running for the second district, confronted the poll manager and the individual that was paid by the…
Police investigate shooting at Waters & East 39th
Detectives are investigating a Friday night shooting on East 39th Street and Waters Avenue. At about 8:50 p.m. Metro officers found Jeffery Sentell Grant, 35, at the scene with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Grant was transported by ambulance to Memorial University Medical Center. “Investigators believe this may be a targeted shooting. Circumstances surrounding this incident…
16-year-old charged with attempted rapes near Forsyth Park
Friday night, Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police arrested and charged a 16-year-old male “who admitted to two attempted sexual assaults in the Forsyth Park area one day prior,” police say. Just after 9 p.m. Metro officers arrested the suspect near 37th and Reynolds streets, “wearing the same clothing descried during the Thursday night incidents. A pellet gun…
Homicide in Yamacraw Village
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department’s Violent Crimes detectives are seeking information on a Thursday afternoon shooting near the 600 block of Yamacraw Village, that claimed the life of Jimmy Temple, 24. “At about 1:14 p.m. responding Metro officers observed Temple suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim was transported by ambulance to Memorial University Medical Center…
Two SCMPD officers shot; alleged shooter killed
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating a Tuesday night shooting, a police spokesperson says. The incident occurred on Ogeechee Road near the 37th Street Connector to Interstate 16, during what is termed a traffic stop. “Two Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police officers were shot just before midnight; they sustained non-life-threatening injuries. A third individual was also shot,”…
Editor’s Note: Broken.
Visibly panicking, Mayor Jackson and City Council sounded as if this was the first time they’d considered even the most basic issues surrounding the heated, year-long negotiations to continue the merger.
A tale of two horror shows
Some of us at the office thought it a bit unusual that a law enforcement agency would host a chamber of horrors at the ol’ prison when two of its deputies had recently been indicted for killing an inmate and seven more fired over the incident.
Challenge 2015: Clinton Young, Alderman at Large Post 2
‘If we’re very serious we will merge forces and powers of the City of Savannah and Chatham County together and handle this 28 percent poverty. It can no longer just be about the pride of who’s in charge.’
Challenge 2015: Travis Coles, Alderman at Large Post 2
‘This city hasn’t addressed poverty in two or three decades—nothing’s really changed. We continue to be a city of have and have nots, and it causes so much friction between the two communities. There needs to be a bridge.’
The Coteries @Jazz’d Tapas
Blending mandolin, banjo, and acoustic guitar, it’s a lovely kind of Southern songwriting.
Savannah Film Festival Review: The Diary of a Teenage Girl @SCAD MOA
Diary shows that sex isn’t always pretty, but it doesn’t have always be tragic, either.
Savannah Film Festival Review: Dixieland
Less like the Old South and more like the Dirty South, where the drug trade dominates the economy of these dead-end towns full of trailers and sick people who can’t pay their medical bills, where aimless white boys like protagonist Kermit (Chris Zylka) dip snuff while listening not to country music but to hip hop.
Challenge 2015: Brian Foster, Alderman at Large Post 2
“They really need someone like me up there to talk to them about this stuff, to bring some professional advice in there. They’ve hired all these consultants because apparently the professionals on City staff aren’t up to the task.”
Guild Hall-O-Ween @The Guild Hall
Savannah’s versatile creative space has a full schedule of events and activities to get you in the spirit of the season.
The House of Gunt Presents: The Damned in Distress @Ampersand (second floor)
The troupe’s gone above and beyond themed shows to create a full-on theatrical sensation.
All Hallow’s Eve Bash @Dollhouse Productions
More than just a show, the 30th is an all-out bash
Jinx-O-Ween @The Jinx
On Halloween Proper, take advantage of the return of Savannah freak rockers, the inimitable GAM, followed by four women entering a pool full of fake blood and wrestling until one ghoul leaves triumphant.
Joe McMahon, Ducking Punches, Empty Lungs, Billy Liar @The Jinx
McMahon creates lovely acoustic folk music laden with vulnerability and his strong, scuffed-up vocals.
Masquerade in the Mansion @Telfair Academy
Look forward to fire dancers, belly dancers, magic, and a photo booth.
7 Questions: Ron White
1. Ron, you come to Savannah a good bit. What do you enjoy most about coming here? It’s always a pretty rowdy crowd. I don’t know what it is, but things are just rowdier down there. I always seem to end up in some kind of altercation in Savannah (laughs). And the fried pork chops!…
‘Living, breathing’ Alice Ryley
SEXY PEOPLE die in operas. They fall in love. They plot, avenge, curse the gods, slay the innocent and do it all with amazing costumes and soaring voices. Do we have any “opera stories” in Savannah? Too many! But how many make it into the hands of a nationally known opera composer? I’m struggling to think of any until…
Savannah Music Festival Announcement @Ships of the Sea
Paul Thorn will perform with his full band
James Lough and the art of the aphorism
IN AN age in which people just can’t seem to find or make the time to sit down and revel in literature, James Lough and Alex Stein have the perfect solution. Through Short Flights: Thirty-Two Modern Writers Share Aphorisms of Insight, Inspiration, and Wit, Lough and Stein have woven a striking ode to the aphorism:…
Savannah Film Festival Review: Suffragette
I longed for complexity, particularly in the villainous men; rather, we’re presented with bad guys and good women, detracting from a true understanding of the time and conditions, vastly oversimplifying.
Savannah Film Festival Review: Brooklyn
Saorise Ronan is a truly gifted actress, a master of subtlety and vulnerability; a simple concentrated, zone-out stare speaks volumes of Eilis’s struggle finding her place.
Good Vs. Evil – Halloween Dance Party & Costume Contest @Sulfur Studios
For those who love to get down around Halloween time but dread hitting a crowded club, Sulfur’s solution is perfect.
Ben Carter Enterprises announces Michael Kors, Tommy Bahama, and more
Ben Carter Enterprises says that it “recently secured commitments from Club Monaco, Michael Kors, Kendra Scott, Tommy Bahama, Victoria’s Secret and Blends a Coffee Boutique,” according to a company spokesperson. “The six retailers will join L’Occitane, lululemon, H&M, Savannah Tap Room, J. Crew, Lilly Pulitzer’s Palm Avenue, Goorin Bros. and The Ancient Olive in The…
Savannah Film Festival Review: Spotlight
In addition to simply being a finely and tastefully crafted film, it doesn’t trivialize the abuse through maudlin sentimentalism, preferring instead to let story and characters largely speak for themselves without emotional manipulation.
Review: Our Brand Is Crisis
Scripter Peter Straughan packs the proceedings with numerous moronic interludes, the sort more at home in a broad Will Ferrell comedy than an ostensibly hard-hitting political drama.
Savannah Film Festival Review: Legend
At no point do the film’s special effects, allowing Tom Hardy to play both roles, interfere. Very quickly, within the first minute or two, you become completely immune to Hardy being on screen as both identical twin Kray brothers at the same time.
