Feb. 2: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Saturday, Feb. 2): Appropriately, Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day is tonight’s special screening at the Lucas Theatre. PULSE continues at the Jepson Center with Family Day (just what it sounds like) from 2-5 p.m. Some clown named Robin Williams shares the stage with David Steinberg at the Johnny Mercer Theatre. Willy…
Feb. 1: Today’s events
Here’s what’s going on today (Friday, Feb. 1): This week’s Connect cover subject, electronic musician Onyx Ashanti, performs at the Jepson Center at 6 p.m. The free exhibition is part of the ongoing PULSE Art + Technology Festival. This first day of February also brings a Seersucker Shots poetry event (at the Book Lady), a…
Reviews: Movie 43, Warm Bodies
MOVIE 43 * One of the producers behind Movie 43 publicly stated that he hoped the film would become this generation’s Kentucky Fried Movie, a declaration that felt like a swift kick to the raunchy area of my soul. Along with Mel Brooks’ 1981 History of the World: Part I, John Landis’ 1977 sketch-comedy film…
Hyde Park on Hudson
HYDE PARK ON HUDSON * The next time anyone blathers about “liberal Hollywood,” remind them that in 2012 alone, the film factory released one movie that paid tribute to the greatest Republican president and another that made a mockery of the greatest Democratic president. In Lincoln, the climax appears several sequences before the actual ending,…
Here’s the Savannah Stopover schedule
If Savannah had subways, the steam would already be starting to rise, as news trickles out about the upcoming third edition of the Savannah Stopover Festival. Connect is thrilled to once again play a major role in our city’s three-day celebration of new and exciting indie music at various venues, March 7-9. We’re sponsoring or…
Cul-de-sac = dead end
“In five years, if they don’t do anything, it could become a ghetto.” — Former Mayor Floyd Adams Jr. in 2003, on the Windsor Forest/Wilshire neighborhood WITHIN DAYS of allegations that Savannah police may have deliberately underreported crime to improve their stats, a spate of shootings happened on the Southside. Three in 36 hours, to…
Ladies’ night at the gun range
It all looks so easy in the movies. Trouble arises, and the heroine whips out her weapon from her thigh high stiletto boots, blasts the bad guys and blows the smoke off the barrel without mussing her lipgloss. But I’m about a hundred degrees of badassery and several pairs of short–shorts shy of Lara Croft,…
PULSE: Onyx Ashanti, robo-musician
The concept of a one–man band is not new. Think of Bert the Chimney Sweep from Mary Poppins, plug him in for the 21st Century, and you get an idea of what Onyx Ashanti does. Instead of twin trumpets, a ukulele, knee cymbals and a kickdrum, Ashanti wears a headset attached to a wireless Midi…
BLACK HERITAGE: The sheer joy of dance
Following the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble’s August performance at Lincoln Center, the New York Times had high praise for the Denver-based troupe: “Struggle and resilience, spiritual uplift and lowdown fun: the old verities of African-American modern dance have not been abandoned in Colorado,” gushed critic Brian Seibert. Indeed, the Robinson ensemble, in its four…
PULSE: Arcade fired up
With her fetching pink bow and sassy lipstick, Ms. PacMan enchanted the arcade set when she debuted in 1982. Now in her 30s, the lady with the insatiable hunger for dots has become a cultural icon so big she fills an entire room—literally. Ms. PacMan and those irrepressible ghosts are the focal point of Games…
SIT DOWN and don’t SHUT UP
David Steinberg laughs often, and he laughs loudly. A veteran standup comedian known for ironic observations and smart, intellectual wit, he’s also the producer, writer and on–camera host of Showtime’s Inside Comedy. And this is where his easy laugh and his decades in the trenches of standup come in especially handy: On Inside Comedy, he…
PULSE: The schedule
Pulse Art + Technology Festival Where: Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. When: Jan. 30-Feb. 2 Admission: All events are free Info: Telfair.org Continuing Games as Social Space: Curated by Babycastles. Through Feb. 2. A special installation of 3D PacMan, a playable room-sized projection based on the original game. Created for the 2012 Babycastles Summit…
PULSE: 5 Questions with Jerome Meadows
Savannah knows Jerome Meadows best as proprietor of Indigo Sky Community Art Gallery on Waters Avenue, and as a prodigous artist in his own right. This year Meadows collaborates with the Telfair Museums’ PULSE Festival on “Blank Page Poetry,” closing out the festival at the Jepson Center and including a bevy of local artists/showpeople/raconteurs, including…
Take a shot of poetry
There’s no long–winded lingering over your cocktail at a Seersucker Shots reading event. This month’s tagline is “a quick hit of poetry.” The logo features an empty shot glass. And the event’s appeal, says the host, is that it only lasts 45 minutes. “We’re all just having fun,” explains Erika Jo Brown. “We try to…
Sisters of the New South
Sisters of the New South After working in the yard all morning — a mixed bag of temperatures in the low 40s and enough action to break a sweat — I was hungry. I had scrimped on breakfast and was that steel–toed boots-and-tool belt kinda hungry. A real plate of chow was in order. Fortunately,…
BOOK FEST: Dave Barry
After a decade–long break from the columns and humor novels about South Florida craziness that first made him famous, Dave Barry is back with Insane City, a galloping and hilarious tale about a slacker named Seth, his knucklehead buddies, his liberal activist fiancÉe Tina, her unbelievably rich CEO dad, a hapless Haitian refugee, and what…
