Savannah Tech: Cookin’ up careers
For 25 years, Marvis Hinson has taught prospective chefs the art of cooking at Savannah Technical College. Currently the department head of the school’s fully accredited Culinary Arts program, Chef Hinson says demand for skilled workers in the field has exploded. “When I started here in 1981 there were just over 250 food service businesses…
Yoga for peace
Yoga practitioners will gather in Forsyth Park Sept. 9 to pray for peace. “I’m really excited about it,” says Ann Carroll, a local yoga teacher and director of the Yoga for Peace event in Savannah. “There are going to be Yoga for Peace events in several cities across the country, as well as Indonesia and…
Letters to the Editor
‘Thank God I’m a Neo-Con’ Editor, I hope you can find a place for this. I sure had fun writing it: (Sung to the tune of John Denver’s “Thank God I’m a Country Boy) Well things gettin’ worse every day in Iraq, Ain’t nothin’ an old Neo-con like me can’t hack, Pack ‘em in…
Fishman: Riders on the storm
Last night during a class on “Shape Changers,” writers who introduced the autobiographical into the nonfiction form of writing, we considered closing the windows so we could hear one another speak over the screeching of the katydids. If this is Pittsburgh, I can only imagine how deafening the sound of an Amazon rain forest must…
The Blotter
A woman told police that she was attacked by a man she did not know at the intersection of Norwood and Central Avenue. The woman said she was walking home from a nearby gasoline station when a van passed her heading eastbound on Norwood. She heard the van door open and someone jumped out. The…
News of the Weird
Seriously Bi-Cultural Tariq Khan, 12, of New York City, bubbled with enthusiasm (to a New York Times reporter in August) about his love of the Grand Theft Auto video game and the hip-hop music of Fat Joe, T.I. and 50 Cent — a month after becoming a prestigious hafiz by having memorized the entire Koran…
Theatre: TAPS does Ayn Rand
While most remember Ayn Rand for her seminal novel The Fountainhead, many fewer will know that she also wrote a play that was a hit on Broadway in 1935. The Night of January 16 is an audience participation courtroom drama about the murder — or is it suicide? — of an ethically challenged market trader.…
Featured Review: Hollywoodland
Before Christopher Reeve and Brandon Routh, there was George Reeves. Kirk Alyn may have originated the role of Superman on screen in a pair of 1940s serials, but it was Reeves who was most identified with the part, thanks to the hit TV series that ran throughout much of the 1950s. But in 1959, Reeves…
Now Showing
THE ILLUSIONIST Set in Austria, The Illusionist stars Edward Norton as Eisenheim, an enigmatic stage magician so skilled at his profession that the locals suspect he might actually possess otherworldly powers. One of the few skeptics is Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell), a cruel ruler who sets out to prove that Eisenheim is a fake.…
Masquers look at 70
Armstrong theatre has blazed trails in Savannah, onstage and off
Music Menu
A quick look at some of the live shows around town this week
A major project
SCAD announces new majors at its Savannah and Atlanta campuses
Connect Recommends
Our picks for the most noteworthy shows of the week
Under 21? Got an iPod?
All-ages crackdown vexes local music community
Inconceivable!
Intense Wallace Shawn drama comes to The Ark Theatre on Louisville Road
SSU: Soul Kitchen radio
What’s cooking in The Kitchen? In a one story brick building on the north side of the Savannah State University (SSU) campus, the answer is hip hop, Latin, blues, jazz, gospel, and other musical dishes with flavors from mellow to spicy. Located behind historic Hill Hall and flanked by stately oak trees, the unassuming structure…
Savannah Tech: Beautiful dreamers
One of Savannah’s last great bargains sits off White Bluff Road, on the Savannah Technical College main campus. A complete salon, staffed by students and instructors in the college’s cosmetology department, offers a full range of services, including hair styling and coloring, pedicures, manicures and nails. Accepting walk-ins as well as appointments, the salon not…
AASU: Southern Poetry Review
“Never write ‘flower’: write ‘rose’ or ‘marigold’ or ‘chrysanthemum.’” “Make your reader comfortable.” Thus decreed Guy Owen, a North Carolina poet, Pulitzer prize-nominated novelist and university professor who founded Southern Poetry Review (SPR) in 1958 and edited the biannual publication until his death in 1981. Forty-eight years and thousands of poems later, SPR is poised…
