‘A lot of people have a preconceived notion of a hotel’s restaurant as being just kind of a cookie cutter, pre-made crap. Obviously, we are not like that. Everything is freshly made with the finest of ingredients.’
Savannah
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Old school hip hop @Johnny Mercer
The headliner is Kurtis Blow, the first rapper signed to a major label (in 1979).
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Savannah goes to the movies
‘The theme was universal — passing stories down through the generations, and a certain set of values that has to do with loyalty to a friend. And also a loyalty to, and a caretaking of, the environment.’
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Chasing the ‘Chelsea moments’
‘There was a sense of magic there and I felt it, created by the people. Because of the freedom: freedom to create, freedom to screw themselves up, freedom to do anything as long as they didn’t bother other tenants.’
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Truth & Salvage, Cedric Burnside top Revival Fest bill
This week’s big news, of course, is the Savannah Stopover/Music File Productions Americana-rama event, Revival Fest, Sept. 14th at the Paint Shop and nearby open space at the Georgia State […]
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Three by three: New Savannah acoustic music
It’s a bold, compelling set of original tunes, full of glorious lyrical twists and melodic turns. Sincerely, Iris remains Savannah’s most idiosyncratic (and enjoyable) acoustic artist.
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Non-Fiction Gallery is wide awake
‘We’re three painters and photographer, but we don’t want to put on painting show after painting show. We’re going to push the diversity of art forms even more.’
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Staged events: ‘Speech and Debate,’ the Mint Juleps
‘What I like about it is, as it goes through the story it doesn’t go out of its way very naturally. It avoids a lot of clichés. The characters are very real.’
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Dark side of the Blackrune
‘I’m adept at indulging my own imagination. And to make that effective, and not just totally indulgent, you surround yourself with musicians that are better than you.’
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Kylesa’s back in shades of Ultraviolet
“We just kind of write what comes out,” says Phillip Cope. “At this point, we don’t worry about exactly where it’s supposed to fit in.”
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Summer Solstice Festival: 3 days of music
Zach Deputy: “It’s hard to find people that have the same kind of feel or vision for music that you do, when your vision is not narrow.”
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A proper jazz sendoff
Ben Tucker probably would have laughed loudest at the stories his family, friends and colleagues told about him during Monday’s memorial service at Lutheran Church of the Ascension. Reuben Tucker […]