Cover Stories
Cover story: Speaking Frankly
An interview with Pixies frontman and mercurial rock legend Frank Black, who brings his new band to Savannah Smiles Oct. 15
Cover story: Speaking Frankly
An interview with Pixies frontman and mercurial rock legend Frank Black, who brings his new band to Savannah Smiles Oct. 15
Interview with a Dachshund
As part of our ongoing commitment to pushing the journalistic envelope, Connect Savannah recently caught up with a top contender in this year’s Wiener Dog Races, to be held Saturday morning as part of the annual Oktoberfest celebration on the river. Born in the Ukraine, “Poochinski” was raised in Hamburg, Germany, and came to Savannah…
Review: 2 shows@SCAD Museum of Art
In our era of mass production, the unique, handcrafted object loses its use value as a utensil or a piece of furniture and is raised to priceless fine art status, to be exchanged at auction for vast sums. But ours is also the age of reproduction and repetition, and a unique object becomes merely a…
Art Patrol
‘Peace of Mind’ — Union Mission’s Growing Hope Artisans Cooperative shows new works on Peace by Tony Coombs thru October. Opening reception Friday, Oct. 6, 6-8 p.m. at Starfish Café on 719 East Broad St. ‘Pen Pal’ — A collaborative art project between eight Savannah artists and eight Atlanta artists. The 16 finished artworks…
Dance: ‘Take Five’@Lucas
Building on last year’s success of a Nutcracker accompanied by a live symphony orchestra, Savannah Danse Theatre takes things one step further at the Lucas this Friday evening. “Take Five” will see SDT performing a dozen dance numbers, all to the accompaniment of the popular local ensemble Equinox Jazz Orchestra. “This is one of the…
Theatre Review: Picnic
It’s always special to see one or two clearly superior onstage talents at the top of their form. But it’s an even more rare and delicious treat to see an ensemble cast vastly exceed the sum of its parts. Such is the case with the Armstrong Masquers’ masterful treatment of Picnic, William Inge’s 1953 look…
Music Menu
A quick look at live shows around town this week
Connect Recommends
Our picks for the most noteworthy gigs of the week
An American Institution
The legendary Count Basie Orchestra serenades Savannah
American voices
A closer look at the Connect Americana series at the Savannah Music Festival
Theatre: Deceptively yours
Cultural Arts Theatre brings Six Degrees of Separation to the Black Box
Letters to the Editor
You don’t have to go to war to know that it’s wrong Editor, Regarding last week’s cover story, “Objector:” Whilst I applaud Kevin Benderman’s decision to go with his conscience, not his orders, in Iraq and I feel for him and his family in their plight, I’m angered by his comments about peace activists and…
Fishman: Good clean dig in the dirt
Everything is fair game. Ive seen people try to dig up some of my own plants in this garden. Well, maybe its their first time.
The Blotter
A computer lab teacher at Charles Ellis Elementary was one of a dozen people arrested on drug charges in a Counter Narcotics Team (CNT) sting over the weekend. Alycia Jackson Paledino, a school system employee since August 2004, was arrested Sept. 29 for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. A school system spokesman tells Connect…
News of the Weird
Monkey (non)Business In September, following complaints of diners, the health department in Springfield, Mo., notified restaurants that Debby Rose’s “assistance monkey” could not be permitted to dine with her (in a high chair), even though Rose said she suffers from a disabling social phobia that she can accommodate only if “Richard” (a bonnet macaque monkey)…
Oktoberfest & Pirate Fest: Your beer mug runneth over
What could be better than having two popular festivals at once — and what could be worse? We were delighted to hear it’s almost time for the 23rd Annual Oktoberfest on the River, and thrilled to learn that the Tybee Island Pirate Fest was returning after a successful debut last year. Then we realized — …
