Tybee Island Pirate Fest 2010
Scenes from the ship – Oct. 9, 2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Secretariat, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
SECRETARIAT **1/2 Until the Sports Illustrated subscription runs out at the Walt Disney Studios offices, I expect audiences will continue to be privy to cookie-cutter yarns centered around notable achievements in the sports world. Secretariat is the latest from the studio stable, and it relates the truly remarkable story of the magnificent racehorse that set…
Cost of living
The term affordable housing has a certain stigma attached to it. For many it immediately evokes images of housing projects and government handouts, but it’s an issue that reaches far beyond class lines. While it may not be news to anyone who’s tried to rent an apartment here in the last couple years, Savannah has…
Review: ‘Steel Magnolias’
Robert Harling’s comedy Steel Magnolias is so well–written, so beautifully paced, it would take an exceptionally opaque theater company to do it injustice. Happily that isn’t the case with the City of Savannah’s current production of this iron–clad work of dramatic arts. With a cast of six sensitively cast and utterly winning women, the city’s…
American Grindhouse @ Muse
The new documentary American Grindhouse — which is getting great buzz on the festival circuit — explores the phenomenon of so–called “exploitation films” of the 1960s-’80s. The film screens this Sunday at Muse Arts Warehouse as part of the “Movies Savannah Missed” series, sponsored by Connect Savannah. Exploitation films are “trashy, low–budget flicks that make…
Remembering John Lennon
For people of an older generation, the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas was the seminal loss-of-innocence moment. For those of us a little younger than that, it was the murder of John Lennon in New York City. While most of us who lived through it still remember the feelings of existential shock that…
That’s not all, folk!
As the years go by, the Savannah Folk Festival is moving away from the vintage performers, the goateed “Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley” types, and putting the spotlight on deserving singer/songwriters from a more contemporary era. Last year’s headlining artist was Janis Ian, who rose to prominence in the late 1960s and early ‘70s.…
Two sides to (almost) every story
Police were called to Southside bar in reference to a fight in progress. Upon arrival, the officers were told that the suspects had left the scene in a white Honda Civic and a green Nissan Frontier. An employee of the bar was the one who called the cops and told officers that the victim had…
Star F##king Hipsters, Gringo Star
STAR F##KING HIPSTERS At 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10, with Dead Yet? At the Co-Laboratory, 631 E. Broad St. All Ages. $8. Singer, songwriter and guitarist Stza (from the late, lamented ska-punking Leftover Crack) put this fully-unleashed attack band together three years ago, with members of Choking Victim, The Degenerics, the Slackers, Nanuchka and others.…
Mark your calendar: Fantasia
It’s quite possible that Fantasia (Barrino) will have a more lucrative post–American Idol career than Jennifer Hudson. She’s been nominated for eight Grammys, and will shortly star in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Color Purple. In the Oprah–produced stage show, Fantasia played the lead role of Celie, and according to reports out…
Drivin without a map
It’s strangely appropriate that Kevn Kinney’s band, Drivin N Cryin, was chosen to headline the Tybee Island Pirate Fest’s opening–night concert. Kinney, a Wisconsin native, has been at or near the center of Atlanta’s rock ‘n’ roll scene for nearly 30 years, and he’s never done things the easy way. From Drivin N Cryin’s early…
A view from the woods
Next week the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home will have arguably one of the most important weeks since it re–opened. On Wednesday, the site will be honored as host of the announcements for the National Book Award finalists. The following day, its annual Fall lecture series will kick off with a talk by Craig Amason, the…
Freeze frame: Savannah Film Festival
And the Lifetime Achievement Award goes to … Gandalf the White! Sir Ian McKellen, so memorable as the wily wizard Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, tops the list of honorees at the 2010 Savannah Film Festival, set for Oct. 30–Nov. 6. The award, as always will be handed over during a…
Box me in
Winemakers all over the globe have embraced industry changes to make operations more environmentally friendly. Organic and bio–dynamic practices are commonplace. Sustainable farming methods are the rage and many wineries are laying in rows of solar panels to generate their own power. Still, the carbon footprint of the wine industry becomes a size 13 when…
Bites & Pieces: Hunter House farewell
Hunter House A heartfelt farewell goes out to Chef Espy Geissler and his business partner John Hunter. Their Hunter House Inn has been a favorite watering hole and dining destination for more than two decades. I’ll miss sitting on the big veranda sipping gin and tonic, spending a quiet night swapping stories at the bar…
