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Blood money
“Is my urine clear?” The manual stated that my urine should be clear. My urine was yellow. Is yellow clear? I could see through it. Did clear mean: Not cloudy? Free of particulate matter? Colorless? I wanted my urine to be clear. As instructed I placed the lidless plastic drinking cup containing my sample on…
Trailer park royalty
A WOMAN was arrested and charged with public drunkenness after she shoplifted liquor from a Quacco Road convenience store. An officer was called to the business on a report of theft by shoplifting. While en route, the officer was advised that two suspects were last seen walking down Quacco Road and into a trailer park.…
You cannot be serious
The Entrepreneurial Spirit! World of Warcraft, too, is an online game as popular as Second Life, with warrior-players amassing digital gold coins from every opponent they vanquish, and the greater the lucre, the higher they advance in the WOW ranks. Some players take the easy route, though, and buy their WOW gold coins from dealers,…
Fade to black: A special report
LAST YEAR, ABC was set to film a pilot episode of a show starring Alyssa Milano as a Savannah lawyer. The production was all ready to shoot, and indeed one scene with the former Charmed star was filmed downtown. But then something happened. “The company calculated their gain from state of Georgia’s tax incentive would…
New releases
3:10 To Yuma *** 3:10 to Yuma proves to be a rarity among remakes. It doesn’t slavishly copy the original, nor does it update it for modern times. It’s respectful of its predecessor, and when it does make changes from the existing template, they aren’t preposterous or pandering — rather, they merely take another logical…
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Superbad**1/2 The kids are alright in Superbad; it’s the adults who prove to be a drag. Coming from some of the same talents involved with The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, this can’t match the impact of its predecessors, despite its best intentions to (slightly) set itself apart in the “teen sex comedy” genre. The…
A taste of this week’s live gigs
The Jeff Beasley Band Electric blues, early rock & roll, plus funky R & B originals. Wed., 7 pm (solo) + Thurs. – Fri., 8 pm, The Warehouse + Sun., 9 pm, Fiddler’s (River St.). Bluesonics Top-notch local electric blues quartet (on the slick, uptown tip) that’s known for rock-solid shows, and which just released…
Diary of the planet
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Noteworthy shows
Black Eyed Susan This buzzworthy and funky Charleston power trio has only been around for a short while, but has already established themselves for their impressive abilities on their instruments (including drums, slide guitar, bass, organ, piano and synth), and for their strong sense of groove. It probably helps that two of them are brothers.…
‘The soundtrack to a million dreams’
SOME ARTISTS — especially singer/songwriters, who are often far too deep into their own material to maintain anything remotely resembling objectivity about its merits or how it might come across to the general public — usually fall into two distinct camps: those who cannot stand the thought of categorizing their own output and those who…
From Iraq to a stage near you
The director of the latest offering at the Savannah Actor’s Theatre has unique insight into the production. Pvt. Wars is about combat veterans. Matthew Charles is a sergeant with the 2nd Battalion 2nd Marines and has completed one tour of duty in Iraq, serving in Fallujah from July 2005 to February 2006. Charles is directing…
Don’t mind the ghosts
There was a group in the restaurant; seven adults, five kids. I’ve been enjoying the lunch specials at Mardi Gras on Bay since I’ve known they had lunch specials. Construction, parking restrictions and sidewalk closings on Bay Street had have made access to the block with Moon River Brewing, Churchill’s and Mardi Gras on Bay…
Exhibits and openings
First Annual P.U.R.E. Exhibition — Photographers Using Real Elements is a local cooperative devoted to celebrating the darkroom process in photography. This show features the silver gelatin photography of Kathleen Thomas, Bill Ballard, Michelle Phillips and others. Sept. 7-30 at the Starland District’s Starlander Café, 11 East 41st St. Opening reception Friday Sept. 7, 7…
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Something went wrong at the Chappelle show Editor, Please allow me to verify much of what Jim Reed wrote in his review of the debacle that the Dave Chappelle concert at the Johnny Mercer Theatre turned into. Part of the problem may rest with the fact that the show was advertised as starting at 7…
Jersey boys at the old Oval Bar
I WAS IN the shower today and the lights started to flicker on and off. We were in the midst of a storm and I yelled to my wife, “Is it time to go home”? She didn’t know what I was talking about. The flickering lights brought back memories of my old hometown of Dumont,…
Robin’s world
What’s the frequency, Jerry? Last Wednesday I sat in my car outside the house, groceries wilting, listening to the last half of Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London” on the radio. This happens often—outside the bank, or in the Hirano’s parking lot, needing to dash inside, but instead I’m in the car catching the end of…
And so it begins…
WITH THE PASSING of Labor Day comes the busy season, in which the hazy days of summer become the crazy days of autumn in the blink of an eye. Here at Connect Savannah we live by this internal calendar, spending much of August hunkered down preparing for the onslaught of events and issues to come…
