St. Patrick’s Day issue
Our St. Patrick’s Day issue is here and inside you’ll find everything you always wanted to know about Savannah’s green weekend, 2013 style, with stories by Jim Morekis, Bill DeYoung […]
One dead on Indian Street
Homicide investigators from the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department are seeking a 28-year-old man in a shooting death Saturday morning. John Antonio Smith is wanted for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and fleeing to elude after Sidney Grant was shot to death outside Club Frozen on Indian Street. John Antonio Smith Grant was…
Gulfstream hearts Telfair
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. recently presented Telfair Museums with a gift of $25,000 to support the museum’s Education and School Tours Program. That’s an initiative that provides access to the arts for the underserved segment of the Savannah community. “Gulfstream is pleased to be able to sponsor such a worthwhile endeavor,” said Mark Bennett, manager of…
Son kills his father
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police have arrested and charged a 23-year-old Savannah man in the shooting death of his father Sunday evening. Murder warrants were served on Torres Antwan Burroughs after his father Frank Torres Burroughs, 46, was shot about 6 p.m. The younger man was arrested about 9 p.m. The elder Burroughs was transported to Memorial…
Sadly, only one arrest for swimming in the river
Through Saturday’s parade, Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police had only arrested 15 people in the St. Patrick’s Day festival area. However, a spike on Saturday night ended up bringing the holiday total up to 79 arrests. Most arrests took place between 4 p.m. Saturday and 4 a.m. Sunday. Police filed 46 charges between 4 a.m. and midnight…
Saint Patrick’s Parade Day Savannah 2013
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Savannah’s own little Eye of Sauron
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are using this temporary “asset,” a 30-foot observation tower, in Ellis Square throughout the St. Patrick’s Day festivities. Here it is earlier before, uh, full erection. The portable Skywatch Tower is being loaned to the department by Integrated Systems of Alpharetta for test and evaluation. The tower has been used by used…
Remember the CAT shuttles
Chatham Area Transit provides an easy $5 round-trip park ‘n’ ride option for tomorrow’s festivities. Locations: Westside – Pickup at Westside Shopping Center (located on Hwy 80 in Garden City), Drop off at the Visitors Center Eastside – Pickup at Island Towne Centre (Hwy 80 on Whitemarsh Island), Drop off at Oglethorpe & Houston Southside…
Small-Toney’s new salary is… wait for it…
Former Savannah City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney, whose resignation was accepted by City Council this past fall after a series of financial and personnel scandals which dominated local headlines, has been hired by the city of Fayetteville, North Carolina. She will serve as deputy city manager “to oversee community investment departments, including special projects, human relations,…
Murder victim ID’ed
The victim of yesterday’s shooting on West Bay Street has been identified. 33-year-old William Bass of Savannah was found after Downtown Precinct patrol officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 1300 block about 1:03 a.m. and found the victim had expired. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Crimestoppers…
Mass for Francis I set for Thursday at Cathedral
Most Rev. Gregory J. Hartmayer, Catholic Bishop of Savannah, will celebrate Mass for the election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, now Pope Francis I, at noon tomorrow, March 14 at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. Bishop Hartmayer’s video statement welcoming the new pope is here.
‘One Small Voice’ winners announced
Online voters chose “philanthropic angel” Nancy Larsen and innovative artist Molly Lieberman as winners of this year’s “One Small Voice” award from the Savannah Children’s Choir. Nancy Larsen supports numerous local arts organizations and is most known for her work with Kids Cafe, a program at the Second Harvest Food Bank which provides meals and…
Murder on West Bay Street
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating the shooting death of a 33-year-old man on West Bay Street this morning. Downtown Precinct patrol officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 1300 block about 1:03 a.m. and found the victim had expired. Identification has been withheld until family members can be notified. Anyone with information…
Review: The Call
The Call ** There’s something cheerfully stupid about thrillers like The Call, wherein a protagonist who’s seemingly as brilliant as Sherlock Holmes eventually becomes as dimwitted as Forrest Gump. In this case, that would be Jordan Turner (Halle Berry), a 911 operator who blunders in an attempt to save a young girl (Evie Thompson) from…
24 arrested in sweep
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police arrested 24 suspects in their third Total Focus operation of the year this weekend in a continuing effort to lower crime. More than 60 officers from SCMPD Patrol, Crime Suppression Units, K9, Aviation and SWAT, joined by Officers from the Savannah Impact Program, Probation and Parole, Federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and…
To the Wienermobile, Batman
Indeed, what better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and all things Irish than by driving around in an enormous facsimile of a German food item? You might well ask. “Hot dogger” Lisa Rosenblum is driving one of the six Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles to Krogers across the country. You can see the suggestive vehicle in…
Don’t call it a comeback
Those of us who’ve been complaining about the dearth of live music on River Street over St. Patrick’s Day weekend can just shut up, because this year, it’s baaaack. If you’re in town for the festive festivities, some of our city’s best musicians are out and about all weekend, day and night, for your partying…
Panic, please: Meet the Sam Holt Band
When Widespread Panic guitarist Michael Houser succumbed to cancer in 2002, he left behind a devastated wife and two small children, a band that loved him as a brother, and millions of worldwide fans. In the latter two groups was Sam Holt, who’d been the innovative musician’s guitar tech since the late 1990s. Holt, who…
The three Irish tenors
Since 1980, Ground Zero for Irish music in Savannah has been Kevin Barry’s on River Street
How prevalent is pedophilia really?
The Sandusky horror is just the latest in a seemingly endless stream of pedophile scandals. Is there any reliable info on the incidence of these crimes? —Stan Kaplan Let’s start with the bright side: there’s no indication sex crimes involving children are more frequent than they used to be. What’s changed is we’re hearing more…
St. Patrick’s Day FAQs
So you can just walk around and drink in Savannah? Crazy. Yes, to-go cups are one of the most enlightened and wonderful things about our fair city. Anyone over 21 can enjoy an alcoholic beverage in public areas throughout most of downtown. To-go cups must be paper, plastic or styrofoam, and 16 ounces or less.…
Cookie maestros
They’ve been all the rage in Paris for a couple of centuries, but Savannah is just catching on to the magic of the macaron
Cover shoot: Behind the scenes
Welcome to our annual St. Patrick’s Day special issue. This week you’ll find pretty much all the info you need to enjoy the big party, from your basic parade/parking type stuff to a bit of Irish history to an exhaustive entertainment roundup. In addition to the goofy new wristband/to-go cup idea — requiring you to…
Cop down: one crazy story
A Savannah murder suspect and a Metro police officer he shot escaped serious injury after a pursuit of a stolen police car ended in a crash and shootout on I-16 last week. Anthony B. Parrish Jr., 21, and Officer Rebecca Gregory were transported to Memorial University Medical Center. Both were treated for non-life threatening wounds…
Fighting Irish
It’s hard to visualize this during St. Patrick’s Day week in Savannah, but the Irish in America didn’t always have a strong sense of ethnic pride. “Irish identity in the U.S. really formed during the Civil War period,” says Bill Gillespie, Armstrong professor, retired Army colonel, and local Hibernian Society historian. “In Ireland itself there…
Wristbands & bandstands
For the first time, Savannah’s normally-free privilege of walking around with a drink has a price tag
How to go bragh
Welcome to the week of green, when Savannah rivals Oz for the title of Emerald City. With St. Patrick’s Day preparations and pre-partying in full effect, the enthusiasm is as contagious as the bubonic plague, without the fleas. The line around here goes that everyone’s a wee bit Irish on St. Patrick’s Day in Savannah,…
Here’s to Kevin Barry’s
An Gorta Mór, “the great hunger,” ravaged Ireland of her people, laid a foundation for her modern politics and provided the catalyst for the mass emigration of her people. In that seven year struggle (1845-1852), more than a million Irish died, food production plummeted and politicians struggled for solutions. It was a watershed event that…
The law of attraction
‘There’s a gravity that comes with being on the planet longer. But that doesn’t mean you don’t have to do the actor’s work.’
Review: Oz the Great and Powerful
* 1/2 In the immortal 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz, the Scarecrow sings “If I Only Had a Brain” (“My head I’d be scratching, While my thoughts were busy hatching”), the Tin Man croons “If I Only Had a Heart” (“I’d be tender, I’d be gentle, And awful sentimental”) and the Cowardly Lion belts…
