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Sea Change
A Talk with Several Filmmakers Featured at the Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival
The Master & The Maestro
Southern Georgia Symphony’s Official 2006 Debut
Fighting The Good Fight
Medieval Festival Raises Funds Saturday for Badly Needed Equipment at Oatland Island Educational Center
Connect Recommends
Our picks for the most noteworthy gigs of the week
Music Menu
A quick look at live gigs around town this week
The Blotter
Two officers were working undercover when they observed two “extremely intoxicated” men walk south on Abercorn Street and approach 31st Lane. One of the men entered the lane, so the officers parked their unmarked vehicle and waited for him to return. About five minutes passed and there was no sign, so they drove past the…
News of the Weird
Carry-on Blues (1) Just after the Aug. 10 restrictions were imposed, British Airways refused to allow disabled New Zealand runner Kate Horan (on her way to the paralympic world championships in the Netherlands) to carry on her prosthetic leg, as she had long been allowed to do. Her checked-baggage leg was then lost in the…
Theatre preview: Rent
Since its Broadway premiere in 1996, the musical Rent has become a somewhat unlikely cult and box office phenomenon. Considered groundbreaking when it first hit the scene, this gritty yet ultimately uplifting modern take on Puccini’s classic opera La Boheme rocked the staid world of musical theatre. Its unflinching look at the underside of post-AIDS…
Art Patrol
‘In the Mix Act III’ – A collaborative graffiti performance celebrating the art of street culture. Five graffiti artists paint live on five individual panels. After 20 minutes they switch and use the previous artists design for inspiration. The public is encouraged to participate in the collaborative painting of a cinder block wall set up…
Benefit for Mark Best
Mark Best, 38, went to the doctor in January with simple lower back pain. The news was anything but simple. Best, a process engineer at International Paper, learned that malignant tumors had formed all over his body. The young father and husband discovered he suffered from a non-Hodgkins cancer called follicular lymphoma. Chemotherapy treatments were…
Review: Last Kiss
THE LAST KISS A major award winner both at Sundance and in its Italian homeland, 2001’s The Last Kiss (L’Ultimo Bacio) tackles the topic of relationships in such a straightforward and emotionally honest manner that by the end, it’s impossible to ascertain whether the film is, at its core, deeply pessimistic or quietly hopeful. An…
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THE WICKER MAN The 1973 cult offering The Wicker Man is one of those compelling “mood pieces” that could only have emerged from the early 70s. Like other fine works of its period (including two by Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now and Walkabout), it employs allegory and atmosphere to amplify its thin veneer of the…
