Review: Hot Club of San Francisco’s ‘Cinema Vivant’
While many folks were enjoying the Jazz Festival in the park Friday night, a smaller but just as enthused audience was enjoying the unique music/movie combo of the Hot Club of San Francisco’s “Cinema Vivant” performance at the Lucas. It’s name a self-conscious reference to the legendary Hot Club of France, this West Coast ensemble…
‘Oh Say Can You Sea Savannah’: Children’s ocean art on Tybee
As part of the ongoing Savannah Ocean Exchange, the Tybee Post Theater will be transformed into a giant aquarium this weekend. “Oh Say Can You Sea Savannah,” an exhibition of art by local children, opens at 5 p.m. Friday and runs through Sunday evening, where the Savannah Children’s Choir will perform during the closing reception.…
Film Fest books Stone, Tomlin and ‘A Dangerous Method’
The SCAD-sponsored 2011 Savannah Film Festival, Oct. 29 through Nov. 5, is bringing Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone to town for its Lifetime Achievement Award. Also scheduled to show up for awards, according to a tentative schedule released by SCAD, are actresses Lily Tomlin, Ellen Barkin and Famke Janssen, actors Alec Baldwin and James Marsden, and…
Dig it!
I’m taking a physics course, and we discussed how objects with hollow cores revolve slower. So I was wondering: exactly how much dirt would I have to dig out of the ground and move to the surface before I’d notice the days getting longer? -Mark D. Baragary, Ames, Iowa Your question inspired my assistant Una…
Troy and Tariq
TWO WEEKS AGO, 33–year–old Tariq Brown was arrested on the southside for burglary and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. It marked the 25th time Brown has been arrested in Savannah. That’s not a typo. Twenty–five arrests. One guy. Brown, a parolee, has previously been imprisoned five times. Most recently, he began a…
Tangled up in whales
Like the majority of the films in the 2011 Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival, In the Wake of Giants deals with one of the most clear and present dangers to our planet: The accumulation of man–made garbage in the seas. This is also a central message in the ongoing Savannah Ocean Exchange, with which this…
Mark Your Calendar: A Night in Italy
The Savannah Children’s Chorus’ senior choir will attend the 2012 Days of Verona international choir competition in Verona, Italy next spring. According to artistic director Roger Moss, the local group will be one of just three American choirs traveling to Italy – and the only American children’s choir. A Nov. 14 concert at the Charles…
The Beauvilles, Bob Wayne & the Outlaw Carnies
THE BEAUVILLES At 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. There are lots of reasons to recommend this incendiary, ‘70s-inspired rock ‘n’ roll band from Florida, from the blinding, Heartbreakers-esque blending of chiming electric 12-string and bat-out-of-hell lead guitar, to singer/songwriter Shawn Kyle’s passionate lead vocalizing, to the songs…
The (Civil) Society
IF THIS WERE GOING to be a traditional society column, it might start out with who wore what to a fancy party to which you probably weren’t invited. Maybe it would include some photos from an event you couldn’t afford to attend and/or fawning descriptions of homes you’ll never visit unless you’re delivering a pizza.…
Zentz ho!
Bob Zentz must be doing something right, because he’s been booked for two shows, over two nights, this weekend. A folk music veteran whose specialty is maritime songs and sea shanties of old, Zentz is also an historian, an environmentalist, and a guy who’s prolific on several dozen instruments – some of which he’s made…
Sourcing the Big ‘O’ in Savannah
Those who appreciate the aesthetic beauty of a pyramid of perfectly–piled red tomatoes might go weak in the knees at the palette of edible color on display at 2 p.m. every other Thursday in an unassuming warehouse space off Waters Avenue. Golden Vidalia onions nestled together in mesh bags, deep green bunches of curly–leafed kale,…
The write stuff
Calling all writers, journalists, scribes and anyone who puts pen to paper and fancies themselves the literary type. Seersucker Live wants to know you. A non–profit formed a year or so ago by Savannah writers Zach Powers and Christopher Berinato, Seersucker Live exists to fill a void. “We started meeting a bunch of writers in…
Hot jazz and movies
In the Paris of the 1930s, the Quintette du Hot Club de France was all the rage. The band played gypsy jazz music, swinging and free-spirited, and its leaders, Belgian-born guitarist Django Reinhardt and French violinist Stephane Grappelli, became legends in their time. All these years later, both men are long gone, but the legend…
Could SRS be the new Yucca Mountain?
With its federally–funded clean–up projects coming to a close this month, the Savannah River Site (SRS) will send the last of 3000 stimulus–backed jobs packing. In an effort to consolidate waste and operations at the Dept. of Energy’s (DOE) oldest weapons–grade plutonium plant, temporary workers contracted by the site’s managing entity, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions…
Big George’s big beach hit
A nearly full moon illuminated the parking lot of North Beach Grill, and an unmistakable driving bluegrass beat flowed effortlessly from the Spec Hosti Band. The music scene at this little Tybee Island outpost is as eclectic as the menu — a mouthwatering range that stretches from comfort–casual food to gourmet dishes. I knew co–owner…
Keepin’ it real
Two men were arrested after the accidental shotgun shooting of a third in a Southside apartment complex. Darin Banister of White Bluff Road was charged with reckless conduct. Robert McLaughlin, who lives in the Plantation Oaks Apartment, was charged with concealing evidence and altering the serial number of a firearm. They and others were apparently…
New music from Passafire and Sincerely, Iris
SINCERELY, IRIS The Great Unknown One of the most interesting of Savannah’s newest crop of acoustic artists, Sincerely, Iris makes music that gleefully gallops across easy categorization. These songs veer from spacey, modal musing to hyperdrive rock to highly melodic and structured pop, each with a lyrical knife’s edge that puts them into that fabulously…
