Redford picks Savannah for next film
The City of Savannah Tourism and Film Services Department announced Friday afternoon that the feature film The Conspirator will be shot in the Savannah area this fall. The Civil War era drama will be directed by Robert Redford and produced by The American Film Company. Redford directed The Legend of Bagger Vance here in 1999.…
College Issue: Girl power at AASU
In mid-August, thousands of new students at Armstrong Atlantic State University began their first classes ever at the southside Savannah state university, as did at least one professor. One night a week, Dr. Linda Bleicken is teaching a graduate level course in the Masters of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Program. For the rest of…
College Issue: From battlefield to classroom
As college students return to campuses across the country this month, more of those students are armed forces veterans thanks to a change in the GI Bill last month that improves benefits and makes secondary education more attainable for those who have chosen to serve their country. “The biggest change is that veterans can now…
College Issue: SCAD’s new cutting edge classes
To keep pace with rapid changes in technology and in the American economy, the Savannah College of Art & Design has added two buzzworthy new degree programs that it says are the first of their kind in the nation. Part of the school’s burgeoning Industrial Design department, the new offerings are a Masters in Fine…
College Issue: All hands on Tech
“We’re just a different type of educational facility,” says Savannah Technical College president Kathy S. Love. “Not everyone is interested in getting a liberal arts degree, or sitting in a classroom listening to a lecture.” Enrollment at Savannah Tech was up nearly 14 percent over the summerterm, Love explains, and it’s steadily climbing.There’s a good…
College Issue: Meet the wheel Savannah
College is a first taste of independence for many of us. Mobility is undoubtedly part of that independence, though many who come to Savannah will be experiencing it without a car. Whether that choice is a commitment to reduce individual environmental impact, or one of economic necessity, it can be a challenge in a system…
No lessons learned
— Police were called to a Southside Bank of America after a report of a robbery in progress. Witnesses on the scene provided an excellent description of the suspect and the getaway vehicle, and police located the vehicle soon after, and made a traffic stop without incident. In the truck, police discovered a BB gun,…
College Issue: Paper airplanes are cool
Paper airplanes might not be the first thing that comes to mind in conversations about inspiring education, but a local group hopes the next Amelia Earhart will discover a passion for flight while creasing of a sheet of paper. Southern Wings, the Savannah chapter of the non-profit Women in Aviation is teaming up with renowned…
Three bites: Aqua Star, Logans
Aqua Star in the Westin Savannah Harbor I had heard plenty of praise for Chef Jean Michel’s Sunday brunch at this elegant riverside hotel restaurant and I used the Savannah Craft Brew Fest weekend to give it a try. Multiple stations offer made-to-order dishes. I sampled a Western omelet, which was piping hot, of course,…
The Argentinian advantage
Friends of mine will swear that there is no wine to which I turn up my nose. I suspect they’ve been drinking. I’m no snob by any stretch of the definition — and I take some pride in having the wits to determine superb wine from average wine. I appreciate an everyman’s juice as well…
Reviews: 9, My One and Only
9 **1/2 Not to be confused with Rob Marshall’s upcoming musical Nine (or, for that matter, with the summer hit District 9), this single-digit offering is actually director Shane Acker’s expansion of his own Oscar-nominated short film from 2005. That animated work ran approximately 12 minutes; this new version clocks in at 80 minutes, shorter…
All the presidents’ wives
Stacy Cordery is one of the country’s foremost experts on first ladies. Although this Monmouth College professor started her academic career pursuing theater, she got hooked on history after some correspondence belonging to Eleanor Roosevelt piqued her interest. Now she’s written several acclaimed biographies and is the official Bibliographer for the National First Ladies’ Library.…
‘Hedwig’ is here to rock this town
Musical theater knows few characters quite as fascinating as Hedwig, who began life as “a slip of a girlyboy living in communist East Berlin,” suffered a botched sex-change operation and a horrific divorce, and now tours the broken-down dives of Middle America singing glam-infused hard rock songs. Hedwig – once known as Hansel – is…
Nigeria and novelty stores
Sees scams in a new light Editor, This week’s Editor’s Note on Nigerian scams (“One man’s scam is another man’s treasure”) was brilliant. Your deconstruction of the solicitations really spoke to me during a really rough week. I had never really considered viewing those emails as a genre before, but you managed to very tightly…
College Issue: SSU Marine Sciences celebrates 30 years
It’s a typical college classroom: casually but fashionably dressed students, joking with classmates, showing their professor what they’ve learned. With knives in their hands. Cutting open dead sharks. “Atlantic sharp-nosed sharks,” says Dr. Matthew R. Gilligan, coordinator of Savannah State University’s Marine Sciences program. “They’re thick as flies around here – you just drop your…
All you need is live
Like many of you, Savannah was more or less a mystery when I first moved to the city. That was a little over a year ago, when I arrived from South Florida. I had to find out – by hook, crook and a lot of asking around – where the live music clubs were. Well,…
Breakthroughs in eye care
Lead Story The pharmaceutical company Allergan has introduced eyelash-thickener Latisse, a $120 per month prescription “medication” to help a woman overcome feelings of inadequacy if she suffers from scrawny lashes. Alternatively, eyelash transplants are now available in the U.S. and Britain, originally developed to restore lashes for burn victims, but, according to the American Academy…
Clarence Darrow’s cigar ash
I’m sure you’re familiar with the tale of Clarence Darrow hiding a wire in his cigar to keep the ash from falling and thus distracting the jury during the DA’s closing statement. Do you have any thoughts on what type of wire (gauge, material, etc) was or would be used? -John Kregel, Santa Cruz Clarence…
What’s Next: The Swayback Sisters
The Swayback Sisters Three of Asheville, N.C.’s most interesting acoustic musicians have joined together for a short tour of the southeast, and they have a show at the Distillery here in Savannah Sept. 18. Lyndsay Wojcik, Nikki Talley and Laura Blackley are the Swayback Sisters. Wojcik and Talley are singer/songwriters with strong, expressive voices, while…
Free jazz! Get your free jazz right here!
“Jazz doesn’t need to be something we listen to one week a year here in town,” says Skip Jennings. “So I think anything that increases the love of jazz, and the knowledge of it, among the people of this area is a good thing.” Jennings, a member of the Coastal Jazz Association board of directors,…
Noteworthy: Dare Dukes
DARE DUKES & THE BLACKSTOCK COLLECTION Kicking off a national tour with a (sort-of) hometown show, this singer/songwriter is one of the shining lights on the Savannah music scene. He is a champion among acoustic indie-rockers, intelligent but not clumsily so, surreal and melodic but not cloying, with arrangements that go beyond guitar, bass and…
