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Extras are being sought for Live By Night, a drama to be filmed in January in Savannah and Brunswick. The movie will star and be directed by Ben Affleck, the Academy Award-winning director of Argo.

Live By Night is based on the Prohibition-era novel by Dennis Lehane, who also wrote Gone Baby Gone, Affleck's directorial debut.

Sande Alessi Casting is looking for: "hundreds of 1920s period looking males and females of all ages and ethnicities, especially Irish, Scottish, British, German, Cuban and Spanish looking people."

It is an 18-and-older shoot, with pay.

Register at www.sandealessicasting.com.

Band of Horses will play this Saturday night, Oct. 19, at the Wormhole. Tickets, $10, sold out in less than an hour.

Ben Bridwell and company are apparently playing several “warmup” shows in anticipation of a major tour.

Doors will open at 7 p.m.

Savannah City Manager Stephanie Cutter unveiled to City Council today a vision for the site of the proposed new arena and surrounding Canal District.

The plan to redevelop the Canal District to the west of West Boundary Street "presents an opportunity to create a vibrant new center of activity in Savannah’s core, integrally connected with multi-modal transportation network serving pedestrians, cyclists, automobiles and rail transit," says a City spokesman.

• Sottile & Sottile Urban Design
• Canal greenway, artist's rendering

In November, voters will be asked to renew the existing one percent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax for a six-year period. Included in the SPLOST proposal is up to $120 million for a new arena. The site chosen for the proposed new arena is a short distance from entrances onto Interstate 16, Interstate 516 and the Talmadge Bridge, and exactly 1 mile from Forsyth Park.

“There is a difference between a site and a vision,” said District 1 Alderman Van R. Johnson II. “The site is where the arena will be located, and the vision is the connectivity you’ve presented here.”

The plan relies on publicly owned assets, such as the historic bridges of the Central of Georgia Railroad and the Ogeechee and Springfield Canal, and vacant City-owned property in the area, to create a system of parks, trails and complete streets.

• Sottile & Sottile Urban Design
• Louisville Road, artist's rendering

"Chatham Area Transit has outlined a desire to extend a streetcar network through the Canal District, linking the arena to River Street," says the spokesman. "Greenways along existing historic canals, and a redeveloped Gwinnett Street would create new pedestrian corridors to the nearby Historic District, which begins at West Boundary Street, less than half a mile away."

• Sottile & Sottile Urban Design
• The site plan overview

City leaders announced today that Savannah received a Bicycle Friendly Community Award for "recent accomplishments in bicycle infrastructure, education, and programming," a spokesman says.

Savannah joins 291 cities nation-wide and four cities in the Georgia that have been recognized with the award.

"The City of Savannah is playing a critical part in creating a truly Bicycle Friendly America," said Andy Clarke, President of the League of American Bicyclists which issued the award. "We know Savannah’s investment in bicycling will be returned many times over in the health, environmental, and quality of life benefits of a thriving community.”

The City points to the Price Street and Washington Avenue bicycle lanes, “sharrows” throughout Barnard Street, an expanded bicycle rack program, the launch of the downtown bike-share program, and the receipt of a 2013 Play Streets grant.

“The City of Savannah has made great strides in fostering a bicycling culture in the last several years”, said John Bennett, Executive Director of the Savannah Bicycle Campaign. “We’re measuring growing numbers of riders each year, and have seen increased national recognition of Savannah as a bicycling destination”.

The final two Play Streets events take place on May Street (October 19, 1 p.m. — 4 p.m.) and in Daffin Park (October 26, 11 a.m. — 5 p.m.). The events are designed as festivals for families to enjoy on foot or on bike and include arts, healthy food, and games for all ages.

Savannah Stopover Music Festival says the lineup for next year’s festival (March 6-8) will be unveiled Thursday, November 21 during a special performance by Athens band Futurebirds at The Jinx.

Tickets for the announcement party are $10 and will be available online and at The Jinx beginning October 24.

Futurebirds are one of the top bands to come out of the Athens area in the last decade. Their most recent local performance was at The Trustees Theatre at the 2012 Savannah Music Festival.

The festival also announced that Advance Pre-Sale passes for Savannah Stopover 2014 will go on sale on November 1 for three weeks. The Pre-Sale passes, good for all 3 days, will be $60 and will be available on Eventbrite.

All other festival passes will go on sale the night of the announcement party on November 21. Additional information and links to purchase tickets will be available on www.savannahstopover.com in coming weeks.

Police are investigating the shooting death of a Savannah man on West Victory Drive Saturday night.

Timothy Bernard Roberts, 37, of the 1100 block of West Victory and was found with a gunshot wound near his bicycle at Victory and Hopkins Street about 11 p.m. He was transported to Memorial University Medical Center where he died.

Detectives are continuing to investigate the shooting. Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call Crimestoppers at (912) 234-2020 or text CRIMES (274637). Tipsters remain anonymous and may qualify for a cash reward. A confidential Tip Line also is open directly to investigators at (912) 525-3124.

Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department Recruit Class 269 and Class 270 will hold a “Run to Remember” for fallen Savannah Police Officer Frank Mobley on Tuesday, October 15 at 9 a.m.

Officer Mobley was shot and killed by the suspect he was arresting on July 20, 1968 at 421 Jefferson Street.

The “Run to Remember” will begin at the north end of Forsyth Park at Bull and Gaston streets and will end at Jefferson and Taylor streets. A brief ceremony honoring Officer Mobley will take place at 421 Jefferson Street in the Car Spa parking lot.

Mobley’s family will be attending this ceremony.

MusicFile Productions, LLC announces that legendary, totally awesome Brazilian band Os Mutantes will play their forst Savannah show November 20 at Dollhouse Studios on Industry Drive. Rising stars Capsula, from Buenos Aires, Argentina will open.

The Brazilian psychedelic rock band was formed in Sao Paulo during the Brazilian Tropicália movement in 1966 by Sérgio Dias (guitar, bass, vocals), Arnaldo Baptista (bass, keyboards, vocals) and Rita Lee (vocals).

The group has influenced everyone from of Montreal to Talking Heads, Kurt Cobain and The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Tickets for the event are $18 in advance and $20 at the door. Tickets go on sale at noon on October 11th via showclix.com/event/osmutantes

Beer & Wine will be available for sale and the event is 21+. ID is required.

For more information go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/509722389123152/

A 15-year-old student has been hospitalized with serious but non-life threatening injuries after he was struck by a vehicle while walking on a sidewalk near Windsor Forest High School this morning.

Charges are pending against Jeanenne Marx, 54, who was driving a 2007 Ford Fusion that left the roadway and struck the student who was walking north along the west edge of Largo Drive about 7:33 a.m. The Fusion was traveling south on Largo Drive at Winwood Drive.

The student was transported to Memorial University Medical Center for treatment.