My Unplugged column today in the Savannah Morning News talks about the flood of student artwork on display in Savannah every spring, especially as the SCAD spring quarter winds down in May. Those of us outside the SCAD community have…
On Saturday afternoon, having seen Varuca perform at The Wormhole the previous night, I reread Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay “Notes on Camp”. I read a lot of Sontag’s work back in the day — her essay “Under the Sign of…
What a dreary weekend we’ve been having here in Savannah . . . So I finally got around to editing a few photos from last weekend’s Sidewalk Arts Festival, a longstanding SCAD tradition. I didn’t do much cropping or anything…
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect on Friday night for the runway show for the Savannah Independent Designers fashion show on Friday evening at Dollhouse Productions, but I came away really impressed with the talent on display. From the…
Not long after the event on Thursday, I posted some preview shots of my photos from the Savannah Fashion Week finale fashion show at the Lucas. Here’s a bigger set of edited photos — some cropping and other relatively minor…
UPDATE: Click here for a larger set of photos. ORIGINAL POST: I took a fair number of photos tonight at the Lucas Theatre during the fashion show that wrapped up Savannah Fashion Week. It was my first time attending the…
Back in spring 1990, after a whirlwind weekend attending a friend’s wedding in Chicago and a cousin’s wedding outside New Orleans, I landed in Boston with just enough time to make it to the finish line of the Boston Marathon…
Here’s the video released by the FBI today of the Boston bombing suspects. Note the two relatively young looking men, one wearing a black ball cap and one wearing white: And here are the photos released; click for much larger…
I have a hard time seeing how this will work, but Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is being turned into a musical planned for Broadway. From Michael Riedel at the New York Post: And now “Midnight in…
Hollywood Reporter broke the news a couple of days ago with Gregg Allman Music Biopic in the Works From ‘CBGB’ Filmmakers (Exclusive). From that piece: The filmmakers behind the upcoming music-themed feature CBGB are aiming to keep the rock flame…
What a great time on Monday evening — and for a great, great cause. The “Show Me the Love” fundraiser for Muse Arts Warehouse brought out a good crowd of generous Savannahians eager to support Muse Arts Warehouse, which in…
A really provocative piece in today’s Washington Post (in the Style section of all places): For newspapers, a 2 percent decline is good news – The Washington Post. From that piece: Newspaper revenue fell just 2 percent last year compared…
From The Hollywood Reporter’s Joey Ramone Rocks out on ‘CBGB’ Poster (Exclusive): Joey Ramone is getting the big screen treatment, and he has the poster to prove it. The new poster for CBGB, which is exclusive to The Hollywood Reporter,…
Two unlikely titans of the film industry died in the last couple of days. Last night, after hearing that Roger Ebert’s cancer was leading him to cut back on reviews, I read his upbeat, newsy blog post from April 2nd…
