The timing couldn’t be worse. As Savannah suffers a relentless wave of shootings, citizen complaints are also sparking allegations that Savannah-Chatham Metro Police aren’t aggressive enough in combating serious violent […]
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Loudon Proud
On Older Than My Old Man Now, his most recent (and 22nd overall) album, Loudon Wainwright III reflects — with his idiosyncratic blend of humor, pathos and great sensitivity — […]
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Pineapple Alegre
The pineapple is without a doubt the iconic image of Hawaii. But the tasty tropical fruit was introduced to the islands and originally calls South America home. In fact, good […]
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Stopover: Start here
The third annual Savannah Stopover – with performances from more than 80 independent bands and artists from all over the country – takes place Thursday-Saturday, March 7-9 at various locations […]
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Stopover: Dent May
Dent May At midnight Saturday, March 9 at Hang Fire Move over, Todd Rundgren. Dent May is the new president of the one-man overdub club. In fact, the Mississippi-born May […]
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A Savannah bar mitzvah bonanza
I strive to be the best party guest on the planet. I’ll bring the champagne. I’ll wear a costume. I’ll dance with your Aunt Gladys. I’ll listen raptly, cocktail in […]
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Heavy Metal
These days Shelley Smith spends most of her time welding oil drums into wearable art on the Redneck Riviera, in the little Gulf shore Alabama town of Perdido Beach, where […]
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Reviews: A Good Day to Die Hard, Beautiful Creatures
A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD * It’s been exactly a quarter-century since Bruce Willis became a movie star with the action classic Die Hard, but while 2013 finds the […]
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BOOK FEST: Midnight writer
“Please don’t ask me to be Mister Clean,” Gregg Allman sang on the classic Brothers & Sisters album, “cuz baby I don’t know how.” Allman wrote that song, “Wasted Words,” […]
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Classroom chaos theory
Like Lindsay Weir on the late and lamented series Freaks and Geeks, high school sophomore Vickie Martin is a rather reluctant member of the math team. Vickie joins the nerdy […]
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More sweetness than sadness
The thing that you need to know about Jewish film festivals is that they’re not all about the Holocaust. True, the mass murder of six million Jewish people under Hitler’s […]
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Spam and chocolate
As a kid growing up in Virginia, actor Author Rowan wore out his VHS copy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He was, he admits, “one of those people” […]