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Living history
IT WAS AN entirely different world in 1932. Jim Crow was the law in the South, and the Great Depression had brought the world to its knees. Opportunities were few, especially for African-Americans. But in that year two 15-year-olds, Charles L. Bailey and Mallory E. Baker, left their hometown of Claxton, Ga., to attend high…
Exhibits and openings
SCAD Gallery Hop — The Savannah College of Art and Design will host a gallery hop Friday, Nov. 9, 5-7 p.m. Refreshments are provided and shuttles run between all stops. Free and open to the public. Stops include: Pinnacle Gallery, Alexander Hall Annex, ,Alexander Hall Gallery, Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Old Arch Hall, Red Gallery,…
‘40/40’
This exchange exhibition of prints was organized by SCAD Foundations Professor, Marcia Neblett, now teaching on a Fulbright Scholarship at the Government College of Fine Arts and Crafts, Chennai (Madras) India. This month, forty works by SCAD printmaking students are showing in India. At the moment, only half the forty works by Indian student artists…
Words of love
Can two people fall in love, even if they never meet face to face? Author Helene Hanff suggests that they can in her book, 84 Charing Cross Road. She should know — the book tells the story of her 20-year correspondence with Frank Doel of Marks & Co., an antiquarian bookseller in London. Hanff was…
Robin’s world
Hey, Dude: ten years of A.T. Hun For guests planning to attend A. T. Hun Art Gallery’s Tenth Anniversary Party this Saturday, it’s not necessary to watch The Big Lebowski, the film by the Coen brothers. But it wouldn’t hurt. Self-taught painter Chuck Hamilton and some partners opened A. T. Hun in 1997 after a…
The fat lady hasn’t sung yet
WELL, ANOTHER Film Festival is in the can, another Art Fair is in the books, and another Halloween has disappeared into the lengthening shadows of autumn. But if you’re still suffering from an October entertainment hangover, as I am, a little hair of the dog that bit you is coming up this weekend. The resurgent…
Film Festival: Charlie Rose interview
FOR ALMOST 20 years, broadcast journalist Charlie Rose has hosted the unique PBS show that bears his name. Interviewing a wide range of newsmakers from every discipline under the sun, the Henderson, N.C., native relies on a conversational, compelling format that some have accused of rambline, but admirers say is far more genuine thatn the…
Film Festival: Michael Douglas interview
ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S most successful and dynamic figures both in front of and behind the camera, Michael Douglas lets family life slow him down only a little bit. He and wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and their two children arrive at The Mansion on Forsyth after a busy day sightseeing at Fort Pulaski. Daughter Carys, four-and-a-half, has…
Johnny Winter: On the record
IT’S BEEN A long, strange road for Johnny Winter, but the good news is that it’s still winding. The iconic superstar blues guitarist and singer signed with Columbia Records for a whopping $600,000 in 1969 (back when money was really worth something), played Woodstock, and subsequently became —as did his brother Edgar— one of the…
Dimensions Gallery does it New York style
Gleaming white walls and the faint smell of fresh paint greet visitors as they step into Dimensions Gallery, the storefront gallery on MLK Jr. Blvd. that opened in June. “We repaint for every show, so the walls are always white,” says Warren Smith, 23, gallery art director and general manager. With new shows opening two…
Film Festival: The jury speaks
SOMEONE’S GOT TO decide who wins at the Savannah Film Festival, and that responsibility resides with its jury. Last week I got a rare chance to sit down with all four of them, and here is virtually the entire conversation. The jurors are: Lois Chiles — Actress perhaps best known as “Holly Goodhead” in Moonraker,…
“Un-Scary Movie”
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Put down the crack pipe
While in the area of a known drug-selling area on West 61st Street, officers decided to check on an abandoned house. The owner of the house had been arrested a week earlier due to a warrant. At that time, the owner was advised that the house was not livable because there was no electricity or…
You won’t believe this
Unclear on the Concept Israeli police announced in September that they had arrested a gang of eight young Israeli neo-Nazis from the city of Petah Tikva (near Tel Aviv), who had been attacking and harassing religious Jews (and also gays and foreigners), beating them and videotaping the attacks. A police search turned up weapons and…
Catching the wind
These days, it seems one can hardly turn around without seeing the words “Kite Runner” staring back at them. Whether emblazoned on oversized paperback copies of the celebrated 2003 best-seller of the same name by Afghani-American author Khaled Hosseini, or in online news reports about the delayed release of the hotly-anticipated and controversial film adaptation…
Noteworthy live gigs
American Gun, American Aquarium This double-whammy of up-and-coming southern roots-rockers is a can’t miss for folks weaned on the hearts-on-their-sleeves, guitars and whiskey world of The Replacements, Steve Earle’s Dukes, Gram Parsons and even relative newbies like Lucero. Columbia, S.C.’s American Gun just finished a new CD produced by alt.rock legend Chris Stamey, and that…
A taste of this week’s live gigs
Absylom Rising Miss. rockers drawing on bluegrass, funk, jazz and blues genres. Wed. – Fri., 9:30 pm, Fiddler’s (River St.). t.ameloot Acoustic duo from Royal Oak, Mich. that cites Radiohead, Beck and Rufus Wainwright as influences. Thurs., 9 pm, Metro Coffee House – ALL-AGES. Ammon Baddass local modern metal act that bows at the feet…
