Sept. 24: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Monday, Sept. 24): The Savannah Jazz Festival has a cinematic treat at Blowin’ Smoke: The documentary In Good Time: The Piano Jazz of Marian McPartland, with producer/director James “Huey” Coleman Jr. in attendance. It’s at 8 p.m. The Odd Lot’s improvisational comedy is on full display at Muse Arts Warehouse;…
Sept. 23: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Sunday, Sept. 23): At 2, 5 and 8 p.m., at Muse Arts Warehouse, catch Wim Wenders’ documentary/performance film Pina, about avant-garde choreographer Pina Bausch. The Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival closes out with a series of short films by local filmmakers, from noon to 5 p.m. at the SCAD Museum…
Sept. 22: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, Sept. 22): Oceanographer Jean-Michel Cousteau speaks and shows some of his films at 7 p.m. at the Trustees Theater. The free event is part of the Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival. The Unchained Tour, with author Neil Gaiman, is sold out at the Knights of Columbus Hall. Catch the…
A review: ‘Trouble With the Curve’
TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE **1/2 Following the worst performance of his career – his co-starring role opposite an empty chair at the recent Republican National Convention (the Oscar campaign is understandably being built around the chair) – Clint Eastwood returns to sturdier terrain with the baseball drama Trouble with the Curve. But why? Back in…
Savannah Film Festival competition films announced
The 2012 Savannah Film Festival takes place Oct. 27-Nov. 3. It is, of course, part red-carpet screenings, part star-ogling and part real-world competition. To that end, SCAD has just released the majority of this year’s competition films. There won’t be much in here that you’ve heard of, but it looks like a reasonable cross-section of…
Sept. 21: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, Sept. 21): Take your pick of the special film selections tonight. Gone With the Wind is screened at 6 p.m. at the Lucas Theatre. The acclaimed Russian drama Silent Souls is onscreen at Muse Arts Warehouse at 5 and 8 p.m. And the Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival continues…
Sept. 20: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Thursday, Sept. 20): American Autumn, the first film made by the Occupy movement, screens at 7 p.m. at the Sentient Bean. At 6:30, at the Jepson Center, the Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival begins with a documentary about loggerhead sea turtles. At the Live Wire, it’s General Patton & the…
Sept. 19: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Wednesday, Sept. 19): Eclectic acoustic troubadours Miss Shevaughn and Yuma Wray return to the Wormhole tonight; Blackrune appears, with Mumbledust and SoftSpot, at the Sparetime. It’s Open Jam night at Live Wire, and Open Mic night at Screamin’ Mimi’s.
Falling for you
AS I OFTEN tell people these days — stop me if you’ve heard this one before — while the growth of Savannah itself over the past decade hasn’t been all that remarkable, the growth of the local arts and cultural scene has skyrocketed exponentially. (A cynic might say it’s too bad that our staff and…
Tony Monaco’s jazz adventure
For the 31st annual Savannah Jazz Festival, the Coastal Jazz Association has assembled a particularly smokin’ array of musicians both young and veteran. Of course, with such a fine and venerable track record, there’d be no reason to expect anything less from the CJA, which has been the banner-carrier for jazz in Savannah since the…
The art of social change
Call them “the usual suspects” of Savannah’s cultural change movement. Around a table at the Sentient Bean are Molly Lieberman, the director of Loop It Up at the West Broad YMCA, Citizens Advocacy director Tom Kohler, and artist/activist Jerome Meadows. And though none of them would wear a sash denoting them as such, they are…
FALL ARTS: Festival Calendar
Oktoberfest Oct. 5–7 on River Street. Oompah bands, fun for the kids, brewskis and all the bratwurst you can stand. Ja wohl! Tybee Island Pirate Fest Oct. 5 and 6 in the South Beach parking lot. Motley Crue vocalist Vince Neil, who knows a thing or two about pillage and plunder, was the perfect choice…
Fall films worth falling for
I’ll go ahead and say it: More great movies are being released this fall than perhaps during any other period in film history. That’s a bold statement, but I’m prepared to back it up. To wit: Raiders of the Lost Ark is being released Sept. 18. Goldfinger and other James Bond titles come out Sept.…
Dead Yet? and very much alive
We all talk a lot about Savannah’s music community, which is a tightly knit as they come. Everybody helps everyone else. The genre–splitting collaborations get the most attention, of course — ever seen the Train Wrecks doing hip hop night at the Jinx with Basik Lee and Dope Sandwich? Happens all the time. Among metal,…
FALL ARTS: Concerts & Comedy
Ron White Sept. 30, Johnny Mercer Theatre. With a wit as dry as the flat prairies of his Texas home, White’s a veteran of the semi-legendary Blue Collar Comedy tours. But his humor – pithy and sarcastic – has grown exponentially, and he’s many miles ahead of Larry the Cable Guy. Expect 90 minutes of…
FALL ARTS: Performing Arts Calendar
Suddenly, Last Summer Oct. 5-20, Muse Arts Warehouse. The Collective Face returns with one of Tennessee Williams’ most unusual and controversial plays, the story of a wealthy New Orleans woman, Violet Venable, whose relationship with her late son was slightly less than healthy. Into the mix comes Catharine, who had the last encounter with young…
Please don’t (breast)feed the squirrels
There it goes again, that skreeky garbled chatter. Two squirrels are noising it up in the water oak in my front yard, bickering over who left the top of the acorn open, or whatever it is squirrels argue over. From the ground it sounds like Charlie Brown’s teacher and her friends downed too many Red…
FALL ARTS: Film Calendar
Silent Souls Sept. 21, Muse Arts Warehouse. A multiple award winner of the 2010 Venice Film Festival, this 2010 Russian drama follows two men on a mission: When Miron’s beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the rituals of the Merja culture;…
Road warriors: Miss Shevaughn and Yuma Wray
The title of Miss Shevaughn and Yuma Wray’s just-released first album is misleading. We’re From Here weaves influences from all over the place, and the album’s soulful take on traditional and non-traditional acoustic music is the result of a vagabond lifestyle, having spent a year on the road together, just the two of them and…
FALL ARTS: Visual Arts Calendar
Through Oct. 7Live from Gray’s Reef: Underwater Photographs by Greg McFall. Jepson Center Through Oct. 7The Total Look: The Creative Collaboration between Rudi Gernreich, Peggy Moffitt, and William Claxton. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Through Oct. 14Ivan Navarro: Heaven or Las Vegas, SCAD Museum of Art: Chilean artist’s series of floor pieces and…
The Foodie
Good time at Sparetime My first step into Sparetime left me somewhat taken aback by the austerity of the place. Considering its rep as the city’s premiere craft cocktail establishment, my expectations ran to walls of art and comfy chairs. Instead, I found myself pondering the vibe perched on the edge of a not-that-comfortable bar…
‘No water, no life’
Not so long ago, Jean–Michel Cousteau came to Savannah to film at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary, which is about 17 miles off the coast of Sapelo Island. “We were unpacking our truck, our diving equipment and cinematography equipment,” says the legendary underwater documentary–maker, the eldest son of pioneering ecologist Jacques–Yves Cousteau. “And one gentleman…
Twist the weekend away
This is festival season in Savannah. One of the newest and most long–awaited entrants into that already–crowded field is the Savannah Dance Festival, which makes its inaugural debut next year. An important event leading up to the Dance Festival is a combo funds–and–awareness-raising performance this weekend. “Pina with a Twist” actually comprises two nights of…
Sept. 18: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Tuesday, Sept. 18): Fiddler Crystal Kanney performs at Foxy Loxy Café. Washboard Confessional is at Lulu’s, CC Witt plays Taco Abajo, and Sincerely, Iris is onstage at Jazz’d Tapas Bar. And the new issue of Connect is online starting at noon!
