Tim Samaras received 18 grants over the years from National Geographic to further his research on tornados, but also played a role in selling the storms as entertainment on the Discovery channel. His final tweet and a tense video of an EF4 from 2003 are embedded here.
No surprise that CBGB, which filmed primarily in Savannah in summer 2012, will premiered during the second annual CBGB Festival in New York in October. From The Hollywood Reporter’s ‘CBGB’ U.S. Film Rights Nabbed by XLrator Media: XLrator Media has…
After a disappointing first show on Saturday afternoon, my friend Adrienne and I walked a few blocks through town to the Memminger Auditorium for Compagnie XY’s Le Grand C. It was an auspicious Spoleto debut for the French troupe Compagnie…
A friend and I attended the Spoleto USA performance by Compagnie Käfig on Saturday afternoon. The good-natured show was peppered with moments bordering on brilliance, as the 11 male dancers muscled and spun their way through the two long dances…
Brad Gooch‘s outstanding biography Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor shined an appropriate spotlight on arguably the most influential Savannah-born writer of the 20th century — and one of the most important writers in the South. Many of us affiliated…
There’s a really interesting report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project: Teens, Social Media, and Privacy. It’s fascinating stuff. Teens are continuing to use Facebook in extremely large numbers. About 81 percent of all teens use at least…
A sincere thank you to the readers of Connect Savannah for voting me best local columnist and best local blogger in the alt weekly’s annual Best of Savannah poll. I’ve been fortunate to win best local columnist for a number…
Ben Affleck was apparently wandering around downtown Savannah on Monday (yesterday) scouting locations for an upcoming film.
A word of caution: the film business is pretty fickle. Sometimes, projects evaporate overnight and production plans shift in a heartbeat. I have no idea if Affleck is considering other cities or how much of the film might be shot in Savannah if things move ahead.
I don’t have any inside knowledge about much of anything, but it’s worth noting that there has been considerable press recently about Affleck’s newest project Live by Night, which he is apparently producing, directing, writing, and starring in.
A few years ago, a young photographer casually asked me, “Do you have a Tumblr?” I wasn’t even sure what he was talking about. But since I started blogging just over two years ago and since I’m a teacher of…
From The Hollywood Reporter’s Cannes: Gregg Allman’s Autobiography to Become a Movie: Open Road Films and Unclaimed Freight Productions’ Randall Miller and Jody Savin are partnering to bring My Cross To Bear, Gregg Allman’s autobiography to the screen. Miller and…
From a City Talk column in 2009, French food to go on Broughton Street: On my first anonymous trip, I tried a tartine ($7.99), which is defined as a “French open-faced sandwich.” The relatively thinly sliced bread was covered with…
Well, I wasn’t invited — no reason I should have been — but there was a private screening of the upcoming movie CBGB last night in the 250-seat theater at the SCAD Museum of Art. I gather that the invited…
From Variety’s Ketchup Lands U.S. Rights to ‘Savannah’ (EXCLUSIVE): Ketchup Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Annette Haywood-Carter’s historical drama “Savannah,†starring Jim Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and set an Aug. 23 theatrical release followed by a VOD/DVD launch on…
I wrote last year on this blog about the dramatic decision by Advance Publications to reduce print production of the New Orleans Times-Picayune to three days a week (Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday). I titled that post New Orleans Times-Picayune to…
