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Lead Story Developing Democracies: Candidates for local office in Brazil can either register under their own names or make them up, and in the October election this year, three candidates chose “Barack Obama” (none won), and others registered under “Bill Clinton,” “Jorge Bushi” and “Chico Bin Laden,” but more than 200 offered themselves under the…
Do oil wells make huge caves?
Never mind the current demand for the stuff—what becomes of the void oil drilling creates? If we pump out millions of barrels per day, we can’t very well leave giant empty caverns, can we? Is the planet on the verge of caving in or what? —Dan, Long Island Caving in? Please, let’s not panic. The…
New releases: Body of Lies, Nick and Norah, etc.
Body of Lies Body of Lies serves up the superstar teaming of Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, but it’s the pairing of DiCaprio and the relatively unknown Mark Strong which provides the fireworks in this latest attempt to make a successful motion picture set in the Middle East. Certainly, Crowe proves to be reliable in…
Everything else that’s out there
Nights in Rodanthe Diane Lane and the Tuscan countryside prove to be a more dynamic duo than Diane Lane and the Outer Banks, an assertion that immediately becomes clear when placing Under the Tuscan Sun and Nights in Rodanthe side by side. The coastal-Carolina-shot Rodanthe starts off well as Tuscan Sun’s more serious-minded cousin, but…
Living (and painting) large
HE HAS A charming English accent and spends most of his time in Paris. His portraits of celebrities have made him one of the world’s most sought-after artists. Though born to a British father and a Belgian mother, Anthony Palliser can lay claim to being a great Savannah artist as well. As with many short-term…
Sounding like one pianist rather than two
MARINA LOMAZOV BELIEVES SHE KNOWS the reasons so many classical musicians find themselves romantically linked to others in the same profession: proximity, opportunity and a sense of simpatico. “Young people meet in college and musicians usually don’t venture far outside their music world,” the critically acclaimed concert pianist explains. “They practice all the time! Also,…
Complete Lomazov/Rackers Interviews
HERE ARE THE COMPLETE TRANSCRIPTS of my recent conversation with married concert pianists Marina Lomazov and Joseph Rackers: You’ve been described by one newspaper as a “diva of the piano.” What does a title like that mean to you? Marina Lomazov: It is a very flattering description of course, and I’m grateful to the person…
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Show us our money! Editor, Squandering taxpayer’s money appears to be a specialty of this County Commission. Last week, at a candidate forum, incumbent Chairman Pete Liakakis not only defended the $75,000, three-month Health and Wellness program for county employees passed this month, he’d like to put the employee’s families in a program as well.…
Ready to recycle
THE SAVANNAH CITY Council approved the purchase of 48,000 curbside recycling carts at its Oct. 7 meeting. The carts will be used for the city-wide recycling program scheduled to begin in January. The carts were purchased from Otto Industries at a cost of $2,685,103. Five proposals were received last July, and Otto was the low…
‘Pregnant? Worried?’
A CRISIS PREGNANCY Center — CPC for short — hopes to be the first place a woman turns when facing an unplanned pregnancy. But pro-choice groups assert that Crisis Pregnancy Centers use deception, intimidation and harassment to dissuade women from having abortions. Though not actually pregnant, to investigate these charges I recently visited some local…
Not a shore thing
ANGER IN his voice, Tybee Island City Councilman Eddie Crone railed against a local law that kept property owners from building on coastal sand dunes for years. Under Tybee’s seven-year-old Shore Protection Act, the city had protected its dunes from development. And for good reason, coastal experts said. These hills of sand — some ten…
Not just for February anymore
IT APPEARS that celebrating Savannah’s African American heritage has made the leap out of the confines of February’s Black History Month, expanding into the fall season in a huge way. The Jepson Center for the Arts got the ball rolling with “Freedom’s March: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement.” Frederick C. Baldwin’s images are accompanied…
Now that’s a Green Party
SOME PARTIES are better than others. The food tastes more decadent. The champagne is bubblier. The red carpet runs just a bit longer. The guests laugh a little louder. In an attempt to outpace the ordinary awards tradition, The Creative Coast Alliance (TCCa) has pulled out all the stops. The result of their out-of-the-box event…
Born to mop
POLICE WERE called to the intersection of Abercorn Street and Stephenson Avenue about a man who was yelling and swinging a mop. When officers arrived, the man was in the middle of the intersection acting strange and disoriented. He approached police aggressively and was told to sit on the curb. When the officers questioned the…
Diary of the planet
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Oct 8th Winner
Welcome to Connect Savannah’s You Shoot group! We’re looking for your pictures of life in Savannah, Georgia and its environs for use on our homepage, and possibly in our printed paper. You can add photos to our feed by sharing your photo online. If your shot is really good, we might just run it in…
“No Theme For You!”
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