Mark your calendar: Nicki Bluhm

A couple of news bytes 'n' bits for your pondering pleasure: Yet another great band is fixing to make its Savannah debut. Due at Live Wire Music Hall Oct. 1, Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers is a San Francisco outfit featuring a wonderfully expressive lead singer (the titular Ms. Bluhm), and a bunch of guys (including Tim Bluhm, Nicki's husband on guitar and harmony vocals) that play solid, smiling, hippie-esque blues and country-rock. It's a ...

Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love

At 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25 American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. $15 In the words of Kool & the Gang, there's a party goin' on right here. For two decades, in Savannah, that's always meant the Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love are on the bandstand. The Bullets - 13 pieces including the five-member "Bonaventure Horns" - play soulful, kickass rhythm 'n' blues chestnuts, with one goal in mind. "We provide music for people ...

Wild Adventures announces all-new nighttime Halloween event

Valdosta, GA – This Halloween, guests can experience an all-new nighttime event at Wild Adventures Theme Park (WA). Terror in the Wild is a completely new Halloween event that promises all-new scares and more nightmares Friday and Saturday nights, Sept. 28 – Oct. 27 with a total of nine haunted elements throughout the park.

Mark your calendar: Ingrid Michaelson

Singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson, who does the "sensitive nerdy girl" look to perfection (in her photos, she's usually wearing black-rimmed glasses) is coming to the Trustees Theater Oct. 18.

Old North State

OLD NORTH STATE At 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21 The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Think of all the great brother acts through time, from Charlie and Ira Louvin, Phil and Don Everly, Neil and Tim Finn through Seth and Scott Avett and a dozen more. There's something there, something genetic perhaps, that makes two voices blend perfectly in a sort of goose-bumpy organic harmony. Add Dillon and Jantzen Wray to the list. Born ...

Eddie Griffin talks about upcoming show

For a man whose rapid–fire monologues are the stuff of comedy legend, Eddie Griffin sure keeps a tight lid on things in an interview setting.

Nevermore?

"Killer band, dude! That guitar player really shreds." "Hey, wait a second. They're singing about God." "Dude! Where's the bar?" This sort of thing has followed the South Carolina band Sent By Ravens since its earliest days, six years ago. A longtime favorite at the Rock House on Tybee Island, Sent By Ravens - the moniker comes from a Biblical reference to "unclean birds" - is a tight and focused contemporary rock quintet making passionate, ...

And the winner is ...

The winner of Connect Stewart Hunter's Eddie Griffin VIP Ticket giveaway is Petra Bennett. Dean Roberts of Phatt Katz, who sponsored the giveaway, presented Bennett with tickets late last week. Petra also won round-trip limo service from Hinesville to the Johnny Mercer Theatre, compliments of C&C Limousine. Eddie Griffin will perform Saturday, Aug. 18 at Johnny Mercer Theater and is sponsored by Auto Supercenter.

At the movies Aug. 10-16

HINESVILLE: Liberty Stadium Cinemas 565 W. Oglethorpe Hwy. 912-408-1000 The Bourne Legacy (PG-13) Fri. 4:15, 7, 10 Sat.-Sun. 12:45, 4:15, 7, 10 Mon.-Thurs. 4:15, 7, 10 The Campaign (R) Fri. 4:45, 7:20, 9:30 Sat.-Sun. 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:20, 9:30 Mon.-Thurs. 4:45, 7:20, 9:30 Total Recall (PG-13) Fri. 4, 7:05, 9:50 Sat.-Sun. 1:10, 4, 7:05, 9:50 Mon.-Thurs. 4, 7:05, 9:50 The Watch (R) Fri. 5:20, 7:40, 10 Sat.-Sun. 12:30, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10 Mon.-Thurs. 5:20, 7:40, ...

Smokin' 2012

Sometimes, Dr. Freud, a cigar is just a guitar. And sometimes a cigar box is just a box to put cigars in.

The Royal Noise

THE ROYAL NOISE Wednesday Aug. 8 at Molly MacPherson's Scottish Pub, 311 W. Congress St. Thursday, Aug. 9 at Live Wire Music Hall (with Those Cats), 307 W. River St. Friday, Aug, 10 at Congress St. Social Club, 411 W. Congress St. Mike LaBombard, the Royal Noise's sax player, is releasing his first solo CD this week. It's an electronic, pseudo-experimental funk record he calls Sohma, and the band - which, despite the fact that ...

Rare beers on tap for Savannah Craft Brew Festival

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A selection of rare beers will flow at Savannah's upcoming Craft Brew Festival - but only for those thirsty enough to pay $75 to $100 for a VIP ticket.

Mötley Crüe frontman to headline Pirate Festival

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. – Swashbucklers of all ages will converge on Tybee Island for the eighth Annual Tybee Island Pirate Festival on Oct. 4-7, 2012.

Eddie Griffin Ticket Giveaway

Larry Mitchell, Cope play Savannah

LARRY MITCHELL BAND At 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. $7 The winner of 25 New Mexico Music Awards, guitarist Larry Mitchell took home a Grammy in 2007 for production work on Native American artist Johnny Whitehorse's album Totemic Flute Chants. He was nominated again in 2009. As an artist Mitchell has released six solo albums encompassing everything from world music and Native American Contemporary and/or Traditional to ...

SCAD grad show; Summer Solstice

California's groove-heavy Greyboy Allstars will headline SCAD's "New Alumni Concert" Friday, May 31 in Forsyth Park. The jazz/funk band, formed 10 years ago by DJ Andreas Stevens and tenor sax player Karl ...

'Swamp ghosts' in theme park exhibit

This summer, two "swamp ghosts" will vacation at Wild Adventures Theme Park.