Set in various parts of the refined American Federal-style domicile on Columbia Square, the hour-long show chronicles the horrific illness that killed one out of five Savannah citizens and provides a fascinating and germane context of social norms, race relations, media propaganda and medical inefficacy.
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Savannah’s sustainability headquarters
Some of the cut timber could end up as a fence or paneling for a kitchen remodel across town; other chunks may find their way across the room to Southern Pine Co.’s furniture building studio. One thing is for sure, however: Every piece of wood stacked inside this building originally started out as something else.
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The joy of jookin’: JJ Grey
“If I wanted to be like anybody, I always wanted to be Jerry Reed. Of course, I haven’t come close … I wanted to land somewhere between him and Jerry Clower.”
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Baldwin, Dormer among Film Fest honorees
Multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winner Alec Baldwin and Oscar-nominated writer and director James Toback will premiere and discuss their HBO doc Seduced and Abandoned.
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Battleship (almost) down
Battle Voices is a collection of personal accounts and recently-acquired treasures that uncovers new depth of the events of Sept. 11, 1943 aboard the USS Savannah (CL-42), the light cruiser named for the Hostess City.
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Victims finding closure
Several hundred people traveled from near and far for Victims Visitors’ Day, a day-long program that gives victims of violent crime and their families an opportunity to discuss the parole status of the offenders that have irrevocably affected their lives.
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All that and bean pie
Their friends and family already knew: Yusuf had a way in the kitchen, always did. The man knew his way around a frying pan and how to bring a fine piece of fish to just the right stage of perfect crispiness surrounding a tender, flaky inside.
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Between Heaven and Hell: Purgatorio
Two characters, called Man and Woman, are in that color-less, form-less place called Purgatory. With one or the other dressed in the clinical white coat of a therapist, they spend eternity interrogating each other.
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Doug and Jean Carn: The First Couple of Black Jazz
“There was this engineer who had his own mixing studio in his house in Santa Monica,” Doug Carn recalls. “He mixed for motion picture soundtracks, and he charged $200 an hour. And I had $200. I said ‘The album is 52 minutes long.'”
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Equus: Nudity, horses… and cyborgs?
“The revival with Daniel Radcliffe went back to that metal frame thing. Futuristic. Cold, medicinal,” says director Poole. “We looked at other productions where they’d gone more tribal, and asked, what is futuristic yet godlike at the same time?”
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Philharmonic’s Irish Spring in Autumn
The guest soloist is Hungarian-born violinist Gwendolyn Masin, a virtuoso who’s spent most of her life in Ireland.
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#Hashtags for hunger
Now through October 31, photographing and tagging your food can have philanthropic reach for diners at The Sparetime, where Executive Chef James Levens has created a signature meal for the James Beard Foundation’s Taste of America Local Dish Challenge.