The Sketchbook Show!!! continues through this week and concludes with a closing reception on Friday, January 25th from 8 to 11 p.m.
The Sketchbook Show!!! at Ashmore Gallery — a few pics from opening night
Category: Arts & Culture
The dangers, for some, of “living in the cloud”
Punk historian Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain appearing in Savannah later this month
Legs McNeil is best known for 1997’s Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, co-founded Punk Magazine and was an editor at both Spin and Nerve.
Don’t forget: Sketchbook Show and Seersucker Live on Friday night
‘CBGB’ filmmakers begin work on story of Caribou Records
There were hopes that Unclaimed Freight’s next project would be The Drummer, a story about The Beach Boys’ drummer Dennis Wilson that seemed likely to film in Savannah.
Studio 54 memorabilia auction on Saturday — and a Savannah connection you may not know about
There’s a great photograph in the NY Post today — accompanying The last days of disco: Studio 54 auction preview photo gallery — of Diana Ross and Richard Gere from back in the day.
SCAD aTVfest — a television festival — debuts next month at Atlanta campus
Why we should be suspicious of any contrition Lance Armstrong shows to Oprah
I’ll admit: I love Oprah Winfrey. She’s a hugely fascinating media figure with a great American story. But she’s not exactly known for her penetrating interview style. It remains to be seen if she had the skills to get real…
Scientology and “sponsor content” at The Atlantic, which must be hard up for ad revenue
Interestingly, in the last few half hour or so, The Atlantic has published a post by Jeffrey Goldberg about Lawrence Goldberg’s new book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, presumably a critical investigation of Scientology.
Tickets now on sale for 5th annual Junk 2 Funk Fashion Show at Savannah Arts Academy
Regrettably, I missed the Junk 2 Funk Fashion show in 2012 at the Savannah Arts Academy, but I’m planning to go to this year’s event, which is scheduled for three performances on Feb. 1 and 2.
RIP Aaron Swartz
“Born in 1986, Swartz has co-authored the first specification of RSS when he was 14. He also started Infogami, a service founded by Y Combinator that was later merged with social networking site Reddit.”
Richard Blanco chosen as poet for Obama’s second inauguration
From the NYT: “Like Mr. Obama, who chronicled his multicultural upbringing in a best-selling autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,†Mr. Blanco has been on a quest for personal identity through the written word. He said his affinity for Mr. Obama springs from his own feeling of straddling different worlds; he is Latino and gay (and worked as a civil engineer while pursuing poetry). His poems are laden with longing for the sights and smells of the land his parents left behind.”
SMN: Al Gore added to 2013 Savannah Book Festival
From Former vice president Al Gore joins 2013 Savannah Book Festival in the Savannah Morning News today: To a list that already includes celebrity authors James Patterson, David Baldacci, T.C. Boyle, Dave Barry, Jeff Kinney, Bobby Deen and Gregg Allman,…
NYT: SCAD Hong Kong leading the way for international design schools in Asia
“SCAD Hong Kong is one of few cross-border design schools that are actually up and running in Asia.”