Review: Captain Phillips
Hanks has played ordinary guys forced to be heroes in past pictures (Saving Private Ryan, for one), but here his age and demeanor provide him with a gruffness we haven’t quite seen from him before
That’s how we Rolex
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police and the Southeast Regional Felony Task Force (SERFTF) of the U.S. Marshals arrested two suspects tied to crimes in downtown, southside and islands precinct areas. Metro’s K-9 Unit partnered with SERFTF to arrest 20-year-old Rashamel Gardner at a residence on the 900 block of Waters Avenue, in recent jewelry store robberies. Gardner…
Editor’s Note: Policing the police
This story has to do with departmental integrity, oversight, the lack thereof, and the compound effect on the majority of hard-working rank-and-file officers at the street level who are eager to protect and serve us.
I count bike people
You know those electronic traffic counters with the pneumatic tubes that stretch across a roadway? Well, that’s what I was, except I was counting pedestrians and bicyclists.
Worldly style, Savannah flavors
You’ve never seen a menu like this in your life, guaranteed.
Swash your buckle here
For the ninth consecutive year, Tybee Island is transforming the Ocean Front/Tybrisa parking lot into the closest thing Chatham County has to a good ol’ county fair. The Tybee Pirate Fest may be a little long on cheap eyepatches and plastic swords, and beery locals yelling “Arrrr” a few times too many, but the cheese…
An effective defect
Artist Liz Gibson mixes up media like a skilled chef tosses up ingredients: Digital photography, video clips, paint, clay, costumes, song and spoken word find their way into her pieces. It all adds up to a crackling stir-fry that stimulates the visual and visceral senses. But there’s more to Gibson than color and play. Born…
Toasting the past, tossing toward the future
“The founder of Your Pie went on vacation with his wife of Italian ancestry, and what he saw there was the old way of doing it. Everybody had a brick oven in their backyard and made small pizzas. It’s a family gathering.”
The art also rises
Another First Friday Art March last week found the expanding underground art galleries south of Gaston brimming with bright young things and usual suspects. Much of the talk in the galleries centered around Desotorow Gallery’s announcement that they received their first grant from the city to expand their non-profit efforts to support artist exhibitions. The…
Get on the good (Greek) foot
For over 60 years, Savannah has enjoyed the delicious food offered at the annual Greek Festival. And rightly so. But this year we thought we’d pay some attention to another key part of Greek culture very much in evidence at each year’s gathering at the Hellenic Center: The dancing. Three different dance groups, derived mostly…
Writing from the ‘White Hot Center’
“Before I started writing really well, I wrote five god-awful novels, 44 dreadful short stories, and 12 terrible full-length plays,” Butler admits in bursts of ambient crackle.
Savannah Folk Festival: Sing out!
“Yes, it will be nostalgic for many. But on another level, it will bring them a sense of what is still possible.”
The Jinx: 10 years and counting
It’s also Cigar Box Guitar Weekend, at Dub’s Pub.
Friends by Fire
“He jumped on me like a spider monkey,” recalls Statts. “He grabbed me and pulled me down … and pressed the gun in my neck. I just instinctively put my hand up, and touched the barrel. And he thought I was going to fight him.”
Futurebirds to play Stopover announcement bash
Savannah Stopover Music Festival says the lineup for next year’s festival (March 6-8) will be unveiled Thursday, November 21 during a special performance by Athens band Futurebirds at The Jinx. Tickets for the announcement party are $10 and will be available online and at The Jinx beginning October 24. Futurebirds are one of the top…
Murder on Victory Drive
Police are investigating the shooting death of a Savannah man on West Victory Drive Saturday night. Timothy Bernard Roberts, 37, of the 1100 block of West Victory and was found with a gunshot wound near his bicycle at Victory and Hopkins Street about 11 p.m. He was transported to Memorial University Medical Center where he…
Police recruits to honor fallen officer in run
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department Recruit Class 269 and Class 270 will hold a “Run to Remember” for fallen Savannah Police Officer Frank Mobley on Tuesday, October 15 at 9 a.m. Officer Mobley was shot and killed by the suspect he was arresting on July 20, 1968 at 421 Jefferson Street. The “Run to Remember” will…
Os Mutantes to rock the Dollhouse
MusicFile Productions, LLC announces that legendary, totally awesome Brazilian band Os Mutantes will play their forst Savannah show November 20 at Dollhouse Studios on Industry Drive. Rising stars Capsula, from Buenos Aires, Argentina will open. The Brazilian psychedelic rock band was formed in Sao Paulo during the Brazilian Tropicália movement in 1966 by Sérgio Dias…
Update on Windsor pedestrian injury
A 15-year-old student has been hospitalized with serious but non-life threatening injuries after he was struck by a vehicle while walking on a sidewalk near Windsor Forest High School this morning. Charges are pending against Jeanenne Marx, 54, who was driving a 2007 Ford Fusion that left the roadway and struck the student who was…
Child hit by car
Southbound lanes of Largo Drive were closed to traffic this morning in front of Windsor Forest High School as Metro Police investigate an accident in which a child was struck by a car. The child has been transported to Memorial University Medical Center for treatment.
Michael Brown to chair Catholic gala
Former City Manager Michael Brown will be Honorary Chairman of the 13th Annual Cathedral Heritage Gala, held on Saturday evening November 23. The Gala raises funds for the preservation and restoration of the 135-year-old Cathedral of St. John the Baptist on Lafayette Square. The Telfair’s Jepson Center for the Arts is the venue for the…
Jeremy Irons to attend Film Festival
Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award on Monday, Oct. 28, at the 16th annual Savannah Film Festival,running Oct. 26–Nov. 2. Irons joins previously announced honorees and special guests Alexander Payne, Bruce Dern, Natalie Dormer, Alec Baldwin, James Toback and Miles Teller. PLEASE NOTE: Because of a film shooting schedule conflict, Terence…
Scooter thieves among us!
Police have issued a warning to operators of a growing number of motor scooters to lock them when not in use. Thirty-six of the two-wheelers have been reported stolen in the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department jurisdiction, 30 of them since June 1. Only seven had been secured with a locking device. “These scooters are growing…
Burglar aims weapon at officer
A transitional center inmate faces new charges, including assault on an officer, after he was arrested by Metro officers who surrounded a house he was burglarizing on a recent afternoon. Dennis Akins, an inmate at the Coastal Transitional Center in Savannah, was arrested on Barnard Street at West Hall Street after he kicked out and…
America, the beautiful mess
If I had a bunch of old suits screaming all day long about what they think is best for me while ignoring what I actually have to say about it, I’d break some serious bad, too. But listen. You’re pushing 238 and it’s time to grow the fuck up.
Review: Gravity
Writer/director Alfonso Cuaron places us in outer space in a manner designed to take breaths away.
