At the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home’s 5th annual Ursrey Memorial Lecture last week, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler spoke with considerable passion about the creative act of writing. “Art comes from the place where you dream.” He was talking…
My Tuesday City Talk column will be about the transformation of Broughton Street for the movie SpongeBob SquarePants 2, so this post is nothing but pictures.
At Talking Heads’ 2002 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the band called CBGB owner and founder Hilly Kristal onto the stage. “We want to start where we began,” Tina Weymouth said. “He kept us alive,†Weymouth…
Savannahians who pay attention to the Savannah Film Festival have gotten spoiled over the years by the sheer number and caliber of the stars that the SCAD-sponsored event has brought to town. So there was a little bit of a…
. . . here is the information regarding the shooting schedule, road closures, parking restrictions and options, and other details. Everything below is from the City of Savannah: Sections of Broughton Street between Montgomery Street & Habersham Street will be…
From The Martha’s Vineyard Times’ Edgartown artist Ray Ellis dies: Ray Ellis, whose oil and watercolor paintings hang in world famous museums, the White House, local galleries, and many Martha’s Vineyard homes, died Friday evening at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.…
The New York Times’ Marc Spitz (heh) previews CBGB this weekend: Recalling Blitzkrieg Bop on the Bowery; ‘CBGB’ Dramatizes the Heyday of New York’s Premier Punk Club It’s definitely worth checking out. (Click here for a less interesting but similar…
Click here and here for other new and re-edited photos from the filming of CBGB in Savannah in July 2012. I spent part of several days hanging around the public outdoor shoots along Congress Street. On this particular day, the…
Click here for a previous post featuring shots of Rupert Grint, Justin Bartha, and others. These shots begin with a couple of evening shots on set, including one of Alan Rickman talking to famed Savannah producer and ice cream man…
The movie CBGB will premiere next week at the CBGB Festival in New York. It’s set for theatrical release on October 11. I’ll have a review of the film here soon, and the impending release has prompted me to go…
If you’re interested in the music scene and music industry in Savannah, I’d recommend checking out my Sunday City Talk column in the Savannah Morning News: House committee hears about Savannah’s music industry The 5-person state legislative committee is holding…
My Unplugged column in Do in the Savannah Morning News today is a review of the current production by The Collective Face Theatre Ensemble at Muse Arts Warehouse: “Equus” combines raw passion, excellent staging. The Collective Face has taken on…
Both the Savannah Morning News and WTOC are confirming today that filmmakers have identified Antonio Banderas as one of the live action stars of SpongeBob SquarePants 2, which will begin filming soon in Savannah and Tybee. I have not yet…
Newspapers have been struggling — mightily — for years about how to handle the problems presented by online comment sections. The Savannah Morning News, for which I have been a regular freelance columnist for almost 13 years, is no exception.…
