Just like the film, visitors go through night guard training and then get to meet the characters that they learn about in the museum
Johnny Mercer
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Johnny Mercer at 109: a tribute
Even after his untimely passing in 1976, Mercer’s music continued to make an impact
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Miriam Center & Me!
As we f-bomb the hell out of the early afternoon graveyard hebetude, I marvel that couched in the rounded vowels of Miriam’s elegant Savannah drawl, profanity somehow comes out sounding musical.
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Trav’lin’ Light: The Music of Mercer (OnStage Summer Cabaret Series) @Lucas Theatre=
Much like Johnny Mercer, Minda Larsen relates to the struggle of balancing the glitz of fame with hometown roots, navigating the big city life as a small-town Southerner.
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Cool Yule, A Christmas Cabaret @Lucas Theatre
Grab a date and take a stroll down decked-out and twinkling Broughton Street.
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Daryl Sherman @Unitarian Universalist Church
In 2009, she released Johnny Mercer: A Centennial Tribute, paying refreshing homage to the Savannah native’s timeless songbook.
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Johnny and Kim
Anyone newly arrived in Savannah will learn soon enough about Johnny Mercer — the guy cast in bronze at the City Market end of Ellis Square. A Wilmington Island boulevard […]
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Local literature
In case you’re worrying about what you’re going to give that literary lion in your life for Christmas, worry no more. Here are our reviews of some recent local releases, […]
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Here’s Johnny!
100 years after the day he was born here, one of Savannah’s favorite native sons, Johnny Mercer, will be honored with a life-size bronze statue that will be unveiled next […]
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Concert for a Cure 2009
Concert for a Cure 2009 Hard-touring, local “Y’allternative” band WormsLoew (fresh off an opening slot for legendary Southeastern roots-pop combo Jupiter Coyote in Hilton Head) headlines —and organizes— this lengthy, […]
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Beautiful day, Georgia Day
THE CHARMING ANNUAL procession of elementary students dressed as colonists and Native Americans that marks Georgia’s founding may never have seen a more perfect day for a parade than Thursday. […]
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The Turkey Callers play The Jinx
The Turkey Callers *** What do you get when you mix two fingers of local houserockin’ garage-blues band extraordinaire Bottles & Cans (singer/guitarist Ray Lundy and bassist Mike Walker) with […]