The Savannah Film Festival, says writer/director Brian Jett, is the perfect venue for unveiling his first feature film, Let Go. “The challenge with a movie like Let Go is, it’s […]
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X appeal
Oklahoma native James Marsden schlepped around Los Angeles for nearly a decade, taking one small film or TV role after another, until he got his big break. That was in […]
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Shadows of America
Apparently, we have Ted Turner to thank for the National Film Registry. In the 1980s, the media mogul purchased MGM’s library of classic films, and proceeded to “colorize” many of […]
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Band on the rise
If there’s any karmic justice in the music business, Milagres will be one of the biggest bands of 2012. Sonically, this Brooklyn–based quintet recalls what’s so great about Grizzly Bear, […]
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Tangled up in whales
Like the majority of the films in the 2011 Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival, In the Wake of Giants deals with one of the most clear and present dangers to […]
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The Beauvilles, Bob Wayne & the Outlaw Carnies
THE BEAUVILLES At 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. There are lots of reasons to recommend this incendiary, ‘70s-inspired rock ‘n’ roll band […]
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A review: ‘Rebirth’
“I’ll always grieve,” says Tanya Villanueva Tepper in the closing moments of Rebirth. “But it doesn’t stop me from living a life of joy.” Tepper lost her firefighter fiancée on […]
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Family concerns
When Lisa Michaelis and Billy Schlosser got married, they each had been in the music business for a few years. Classically trained and proficient on a number of instruments, both […]
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An Athenian gold rush
To paraphrase a classic Neil Young song, Ross Shapiro is an unknown legend in his time. Shapiro is the singing, songwriting, guitar–playing frontman for the Athens band the Glands. After […]
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Where the bluegrass grows
If there’s such a thing as a bluegrass supergroup, the Boxcars are it. Between them, the five members of this newly–formed outfit have played with all of the top names […]
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Lord T & Eloise, Kool Keith
LORD T & ELOISE At 9 p.m. Friday, July 1 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. $8 It’s kind of hard to figure out whether Robert Anthony (Maurice […]
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The Rumbler
During the Flat Duo Jets’ most fertile period, the early to mid 1990s, their stripped–down-raw rockabilly, driven by Dex Romweber’s tremolo surf guitar, attracted a slavishly devoted audience. Still, the […]