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St. Patrick’s Day Parade

What: It’s

that time of year again. The parade starts on Abercorn and then winds along Bay and down Bull.

March 17, 10 a.m.

Where: Downtown Cost: Free and open to the public When: Thu.

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Wednesday Tea at Mrs. Davenport’s

What: Learn about tea traditions and

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for a complete listing of this week’s music go to: soundboard.

experience an early 19th century tea in the historic atmosphere of the Davenport House Museum.

When: Wed. March 16, 5 p.m., Wed. March 16, 5 p.m., Fri. March 18, 5 p.m., Fri. March 18, 5 p.m., Wed. March 23, 5 p.m., Wed. March 23, 5 p.m.

Where: Davenport House, 324 E. State St. Cost: $18 Info: www.davenporthousemuseum.org/

Film: Robert Culp B-Day Tribute

What: A mystery screening of a rare 70s Culp

film in honor of the under-appreciated actor best known for his role in Everybody Loves Raymond.

When: Wed. March 16, 8 p.m.

Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $6 Info: www.sentientbean.com/

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Friday

Live Music: Moira Nelligan

Marquis de Lafayette stayed at Mrs. Maxwell’s boarding house, now the Owens-Thomas House.

When: Fri. March 18, 6 p.m. 6:30 PM, Where: Owens-Thomas House, 124 Abercorn St. Cost: $10/members, $15/non-members Info: 912-790-8880. www.telfair.org/

What: An evening of traditional Irish tunes

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Living History: A Visit from Lafayette

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When: Thu. March 17, 8 p.m.

Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $10/suggested donation Info: www.sentientbean.com/

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What: The city-recognized festival event (for more info see our St. Patrick’s Day FAQs this issue).

When: Thurs. March 17 through Sat. March 19 Where: Downtown Cost: Free

St. Patrick’s on the River FREE What: Everything’s wide open on River

Street this year -- no barricades, no wristbands.

When: Thurs. March 17 through Sat. March 19 Where: River Street Cost: Free

What: Take a trip back to 1825 when the

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Saturday SafeKids Giant Yard Sale

What: The Chatham County Health Dept hosts

this giant yard sale. Proceeds benefit the SafeKids program.

When: Sat. March 19, 8 a.m.-12 p.m.

Where: Lake Mayer Park, Sallie Mood Dr. & E. Montgomery Crossroad Info: www.gachd.org/

Pet Adoption Event

What: North Shore Animal League’s Tour

for Life stops in Savannah for a day with the Humane Society of Greater Savannah. Rescue groups, vendors, artisans and more.

When: Sat. March 19, 11 a.m.

Where: Grayson Stadium, 1401 E. Victory Dr. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: www.humanesocietysav.org/

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“Feed the Hungry” Dinner

What: Savannah Feed the Hungry

hosts a meal and other activities for homeless and working poor families.

When: Sat. March 19, 2 p.m.-6 p.m.

Where: West Broad St. YMCA, 1110 May St. Cost: Free Info: www.savannahfeedthehungry.com/

Shamrock Scramble

What: A scavenger hunt and pub crawl with

proceeds benefiting the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Team participation encouraged.

Prizes, t-shirt and oyster roast after-party.

When: Sat. March 19, 2 p.m.

Where: Starts at Blowin’ Smoke, 514 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Cost: $20/person Info: 912-667-9760. www.shamrockscramble. com/

Director’s Preservation Tour

What: The museum’s director leads a tour in

and around the home discussing the recent restoration and techniques for site preservation.

When: Sat. March 19, 4:30 p.m., Tue. March 22, 4:30 p.m.

Where: Davenport House, 324 E. State St. Cost: $18 Info: davenporthousemuseum.org/

Shatner Fest

An Evening with Spike Lee

ing Amateur Figure Pro-qualifier.

Competitors have been drug free for at least 7 years.

When: Sat. March 19, 5 p.m.

Where: Savannah Country Day , 824 Stillwood Dr. Cost: $20 Info: 912-695-0400.

ebrating William Shatner’s 80th b-day.

Music clips, thrillers and dramas (and no Star Trek).

When: Sun. March 20, 2 p.m.-10 p.m.

Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 D Louisville Rd. Cost: $7/film, $20/day-pass Info: 912-713-1137. www.psychotronicfilmsavannah.org/

cusses “America Through My Lens” at Savannah State.

When: Tue. March 22, 7 p.m.

Where: Tiger Arena , 3219 College St. , Cost: $5/students, $10/general admission Info: www.savannahstate.edu/

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What: Live and in your face - TNA

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When: Sat. March 19, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Civic Center, 301 W. Oglethorpe St. Cost: $20-50 Info: www.savannahcivic.com/

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Sunday The Gullah Woman

What: Gullah Griot Lillian Grant-Bap-

tiste shares stories and folklore.

When: Sun. March 20, 1 p.m.

Where: Fort Pulaski , Hwy 80 West Cost: $5/general, Free/kids under 15 Info: www.nps.gov/fopu

What: An 8-hour movie marathon cel-

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Tuesday Navy League Monthly Dinner

What: COL Jefferey Hall, commander

of the Savannah District Army Corps of Engineers will discuss the harbor deepening. RSVP by end of day 3/18.

When: Tue. March 22, 6 p.m.

Where: Hunter Club, HAAF, Hunter Army Airfield Cost: $20 Info: 912-330-0932. savannah.navyleague.us/

What: The acclaimed filmmaker dis-

SCC Artist in Residence Concert What: The Savannah Children’s Choir

debuts their first commissioned piece by composer Eric Jones, along with other performances.

When: Tue. March 22, 7 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: $15 Info: 912-525-5050. www.savannahchoir.org/

Live Music: Anthony Kearns What: Popular Irish songs and

standards performed by the tenor, Kearns. Accompanied by Patrick Healy.

Proceeds benefit Safe Shelter.

When: Tue. March 22, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church, 50 Diamond Causeway Cost: $50/preferred seating+reception; $40/general Info: www.skidawaypres.org/

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Wednesday Low Cost Pet Clinic

What: Discounted pet vaccines and micro-chipping for seniors, students and military.

When: Wed. March 23, 5 p.m.-6 p.m.

Where: Tails Spin , Habersham and 61st St. Cost: $12/vaccine with $2 benefit local pet rescue Info: www.TailsSpin.com/

Film: Southern Stories

What: Three films, including a

Sundance award winning short, by filmmakers Paul Harrill and Ashley Maynor centered around life in Tennessee. Q&A with filmmakers follows the screening.

When: Wed. March 23, 8 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: $8 Info: 912-525-5050. www.lucastheatre. com/

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among the Celticflavored acts hitting town this week. by bill deyoung

mass: A 14 morning look at what goes

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And so it comes once again, a harbinger of spring as reliable as the robin, that unofficial Savannah holiday of holidays, St. Patrick’s Day. We hope you enjoy our annual St. Patrick’s special issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together.

This year’s cover girl, photographed by Brandon Blatcher, is our own Jami Ganem, with dress and accessories by Custard Boutique and hair by Hotheadz Salon.

While St. Patrick’s Day in Savannah is legendary for its partying spirit — which, as anyone who was out this past weekend could tell you, begins many, many days before the actual event — this week we offer a couple of takes on a topic that, while not commonly associated with St. Patrick’s Day, is nonetheless the basic reason for it: Religion.

Robin Wright Gunn writes about the extraordinary preparations involved in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Morning Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, with stunning photos by Paul H. Camp.

J.R. Roseberry writes about the unlikely — but somehow typically Savannahian — pairing of the Tybee Church, aka, “Mayberry By the Sea,” within the confines of a bar.

In addition, we have our usual St. Patrick’s Day survival guide, including a parade map, and Frequently Asked Questions with updated info on parking, transportation, and various city regulations.

Bill DeYoung contributes a piece rounding up your St. Patrick’s weekend music options. In our regular music section, Bill also writes about several new, locally-produced CDs of note.

The government continues to run regardless of green beer, and Patrick Rodgers breaks down the latest goings-on in the state legislature, highlighting the most important and/or ridiculous new legislation proposed by our oh-so-enlightened representatives in the Gold Dome.

While at Connect Savannah we generally do our best to always look ahead, I thought it important to spend a little time talking about the recently-concluded Savannah Stopover Music Festival and what its obvious success means.

Before we get to the many and well-deserved kudos, it’s important to state for the record that Savannah Stopover didn’t happen in a vacuum.

While certainly nothing of the like has taken place here prior to Stopover, by the same token all the hard work that did come before — by local venue owners, musicians, promoters, technicians, and music lovers themselves — is what set the stage for Stopover.

That said, for Stopover to happen it took someone not only to have the idea, but someone

with the gumption, expertise, connections and determination to actually execute it.

Enter Kayne Lanahan.

There are a lot of cultural figures in town very deserving of all our respect, and I don’t want to shortchange them (nor make Kayne uncomfortable) by putting her on some kind of pedestal.

But one must give credit where it’s due, and one huge truckload of credit must go to Kayne for her vision and work in putting together a brand-new music festival basically from scratch.

Many of the bands will probably move into obscurity sooner or later, but the feeling that Stopover engendered, where it counts — on the streets of downtown Savannah — was an amazing blend of conviviality, good vibes, and camaraderie of the cause of really great music.

The rapt, enthusiastic and knowledgeable reception Stopover received from everyone who attended signaled that Savannah, far from being a backwater, might be primed for the kind of progressive arts/culture/music scene that some of us hardly dared dream of before — it seemed that unlikely and that far away.

The whole scene at Stopover was not only straight out of what one might expect to see at Athfest, it was pretty much better than Athfest — not only musically, but in its incredible overall buzz and adrenaline rush.

While again, Stopover was far from a solo effort, at the end of the day we really have one

Xray Eyeballs performed at Live Wire Music Hall as part of Savannah Stopover (photo Matthew McCully)

While she certainly didn’t do it alone —a virtual army of enthusiastic and talented voluneteers more than did their part — I think we all can agree that without Kayne there’s no Stopover.

And what’s more important: With Kayne, we got this Stopover in particular — a fun, irrepressible, relentlessly positive, relentlessly tasteful and thoroughly professionally-run event.

A few days in March may not sound like a lot. But for those of us who’ve wondered when Savannah would finally arrive on the big stage, Stopover may have been that moment when this often-staid town actually became as important as it often claims to be.

person to thank for realizing this vision.

So, my personal thanks and appreciation go to Kayne Lanahan, and all of us at Connect Savannah were very honored and proud to have been a media sponsor of the event.

(Unlike a certain large local publication which openly “boycotted” coverage of the Stopover. Way to serve the community — by refusing to cover the biggest cultural happening in Savannah in a decade. Brilliant move!)

Also in this week’s issue you’ll find a huge photo spread of performance shots from Savannah Stopover, from their stable of crack photographers: Geoff L. Johnson, Matthew McCully, and Josh “Jabberpics” Branstetter. cs

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St. Patrick’s FAQs

So what’s different this year?

River Street won’t have gated entrances, as has been the case in the past, and in a new development this year there will be NO requirement for wristbands for those who want to drink alcohol.

In other words, bring your ID.

A complete survival guide

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

You can walk around and drink in Savannah?

Yes, “to–go cups” are one of the most civilized and enlightened things about our fair city. Anyone 21 or over can legally walk around with an open container of the alcoholic beverage of their choice, provided the cup is Styrofoam or plastic and not over 16 ounces.

To–go cups are allowed in the “festival area” of Savannah, which is north of Jones, east of Boundary and MLK Boulevard, and west of East Broad. That includes most all of downtown.

How do I get breaking public safety news during the St. Patrick’s Day celebration?

Follow the City of Savannah on Twitter at www.twitter.com/cityofsavannah.

Please do! Chatham Area Transit (CAT) will provide a St. Patrick’s Day shuttle from 8–11 a.m. from the following locations: • Westside at the Westside Shopping Center on Hwy 80 in Garden City • Eastside at the Island Towne Centre on Whitemarsh Island • Southside at the Savannah Mall near the carousel in the rear.

Patrons may park at these locations and ride the shuttles into downtown. Shuttles will begin return trips from downtown from noon–3 p.m.

After 3 p.m., shuttle patrons can return to their cars via CAT’s fixed routes: • 3A and 3B routes will return within a block of the Westside Shopping Center.

• 10 East Savannah and 24 Savannah State/Wilmington Island routes return to Island Towne Centre.

• 14 Abercorn will return to the Savannah Mall.

A $5 advance fare pass provides a ride to the parade and a return trip. The pass will be available for $7 on St. Patrick’s Day. Have correct change!

Not at all, but they’re certainly allowed. After the parade and on into the night, the vibe on River Street is clearly geared toward adults. Trust us on this.

Sure, if you want your car towed! To retrieve a towed car, you must first get a release form from police HQ at 201 Habersham St. Proof of ownership required!

OK, but what’s the deal with parking meters in general?

Screw it, can I just take the bus instead?

Is it a good idea to bring small children to River Street after the parade?

I just scored an AWESOME parking spot right on the parade route. Can I just take that bag thingie off the meter?

Check it out, bro. My beer–drinking Frisbee dog with the green bandanna is going to LOVE River Street.

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• Thursday, March 17: No on–street enforcement during the festival period.

• Friday, March 18: Regular operations resume; parking meters and time zones will be enforced normally.

• Saturday, March 19: Enforcement of safety violations only.

• Sunday, March 20: Enforcement of safety violations only.

How about City parking garages?

All City of Savannah parking garages will be open 24 hours March 17-19.

Rates are as follows: • Thursday, March 17, 8 a.m. until Friday, March 18 at 8 a.m., parking is $15. Vehicles exiting after 8 a.m. on Friday will be charged an additional $15 • Friday, March 18, 8 a.m. until Saturday, March 19 at 8 a.m., parking will be $15.

Vehicles exiting after 8am on Saturday will be charged an additional $15.

• Saturday, March 19, 8 a.m. until Sunday, March 20 at 8 a.m., parking will be $15.

Vehicles exiting after 8 a.m. on Sunday, March 20 will be charged as follows: Bryan, Robinson and State St. Garages – $5; Liberty St – $1; Whitaker St – $10 Vehicles exiting after 8 a.m. on Monday, March 21 will be charged the daily rate of $1 per hour.

Perhaps, but no dogs, regardless of how cute, are allowed on River Street during the St. Patrick’s celebration.

I drank a lot of green beer in to–go cups and now I really have to pee. Where can I go?

Our city tax dollars have provided over 350 portable toilets along the parade route and River Street. You’re welcome!

No worries, I’ll just whip it out right here on the sidewalk.

No. Don’t. We live on these streets. Our police are extraordinarily sensitive to public urination and arrest dozens of people every year for this offense. Anyone charged will be processed on scene and transported to the Chatham County Detention Center, 1050 Carl Griffin Dr., off Chatham Parkway, (912) 652–7700.

I’m like so wasted. Where’s the best place to flag a taxi?

Taxi stands will be located in two locations and operate on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Taxi stand locations are: • Indian Street between Warner and Fahm.

• St. Julian Street between Whitaker and Bull.

Can I park on Hutchinson Island?

Can I call it “St. Patty’s Day?”

Yes. Parking for the parade will be available at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center beginning at 7 a.m. and ending at 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 17, for a fee of $10 per vehicle including a round trip on the water ferry for all vehicle passengers.

The Trade Center Parking Lot will NOT admit vehicles after 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 17. Friday, March 18, parking will be available from 8 a.m.–3 p.m. for a fee of $5 per vehicle including a round trip on the water ferry for all vehicle passengers.

The water ferry will run from Savannah International Trade & Convention Center beginning at 7:10 a.m. until midnight for the convenience of Trade Center and Westin guests.

We’d rather you not. Patty is a girl’s name. At least call it “St. Paddy’s Day” since that’s the proper Irish nickname.

How about “St. Pat’s?”

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A rundown of Irish music shows for St. Patrick’s Day

by Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

Although Savannah will be famously painted green for most of this week, anyone in search of true, honest and traditional Irish music would do well to head over to Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub, which will celebrate its 31st year on River Street come the fall.

On St. Patrick’s Day – that’d be Thursday – Barry’s two stages will be occupied by troubadour Carroll Brown and the duo Seldom Sober (music starts at 1 p.m. and continues throughout the day).

Brown, a resident of Charleston, is in demand nationwide as a pub performer. He’s also been playing Kevin Barry’s regularly since the early 1990s.

He cites Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers – fuse–lighters of the 1960s Irish–music revolution in the U.S.A. – as the gold standard for Irish performance. “They literally were playing for Irish immigrants and their children, and Irish transplants and deportees,” Brown explained in a 2010 Connect interview.

“And onstage, the songs would just be rambunctious and fun.

Some of them, of course, would bring a tear to your eye, and then they’d go back to another fun one.”

Michael Corbett, who sings and plays guitar, banjo and other instruments in Seldom Sober, agrees.

“I started, basically, by watching and listening to the Clancy Brothers,” says the Massachusetts native, who relocated to Savannah six years ago. “I was fortunate enough to become very close friends with Liam Clancy. He was actually supposed to be the best man at my wedding, but he was under the weather and couldn’t make it over at the time. But I really look at Liam, and the Clancy Brothers, as being my mentors.”

(Liam Clancy died in 2009, at 74, in his native County Cork.)

Although they’re occasionally joined onstage by other musicians, Seldom Sober is at its core a duo, consisting of Corbett and fiddler Colleen Settle.

“I didn’t start playing guitar until I was almost 18 years old,” explains Corbett. “Colleen is the complete opposite. She comes from a large family, and every child in the family was forced to

For your Irish entertainment pleasure on St. Paddy’s Day: Seldom Sober (above) does the honors at Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub; Moira Nelligan & the Dixie Jigs will be at the Sentient Bean; Damon and the Shitkickers (below) play for the River Street crowds Friday and Saturday.

learn an instrument! So they were kind of like their own little family Irish band in the suburbs of New York City.”

Corbett and Settle met during the then–weekly Irish jam sessions at Murphy’s Law Pub (the sessions have since moved to Kevin Barry’s, where they take place Sundays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.).

They’re also part of a larger group, the Savannah Cieli Band, which plays for the annual Irish Festival, the Scottish games and other old–country events.

“It’s really kind of a part–time thing,” Corbett says. “There’s just not enough demand in the area to do much more than we have done.”

Since playing traditional Irish music is kind of a specialized gig, the audience tends to ebb and flow.

“Most of the interest that we get comes from the tourists,” explains Corbett, “especially the tourists from the north – although there is a core group of people in town that really enjoy Irish music, and can be found at all of the functions. And they’re very loyal, and very devoted.”

Ah, but St. Paddy’s Day is something else again. The biggest audience of the year.

“We’ll have more of a heavier focus on the pub songs,” he says. “Because that’s what people really seem to enjoy on St. Patrick’s Day. Colleen’s a great fiddle player, and she plays a lot of the traditional tunes, so we mix those in as well.”

More of Moira ‘Tis always lovely when Celtic fiddler and vocalist Moira Nelligan returns to her hometown for a show (she was last here in December for “A Celtic Christmas”).

Nelligan, who lives with her family in Atlanta and has been central to the city’s Irish music scene for many years, is bringing her guitar and harmonica– playing son, Mickey, along for Thursday’s St. Patrick’s show at the Sentient Bean. Along with mandolin master George Norman, the group is called the Dixie Jigs (Nelligan, a Southerner to the core, first suggested the band be called

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Mickey Nelligan, 18, has won three competitive scholarships to study Irish music with internationally renowned Irish guitarists, including Daithi Sproule.

Trad veteran Norman lived and played in Ireland for years, and was part of the Cork County band Lazik. In the old country he learning tangos, musettes, Balkan, and klezmer tunes, and according to Nelligan he’s likely to lead the Dixie Jigs into musical excursions to Eastern Europe and South America.

Alongside the jigs and reels.

Champion Irish dancer Jacquie Berger is also part of the free show, which Nelligan promotes thusly: “Something a little different than the green beer at the pub!”

On the river Of course, St. Patrick’s Celebration on the River is Thursday, Friday and Saturday, starting at 10 a.m. each day, and since there’ll be no wristbands this year, it might be a touch, um, crowded ...

Here’s the live music schedule. All of this stuff will be at centrally–located Rousakis Plaza, with free admission: Thursday: 2 p.m., Hot Chelle Rae; 4 p.m., Batafada Band; 7 p.m., the Rattlers; 10 p.m., Homemade Wine.

Friday: 4 p.m., Derogatory; 7 p.m.

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Saturday: 4 p.m., High Velocity; 7 p.m., Damon & the Shitkickers; 10 p.m., Liquid.

Green daze • Wednesday at Molly McPherson’s: Several pipe and drum units will be performing on the street out front, starting at 6 p.m. It’s the third annual “Bagpipe Tattoo.”

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Well over 1000 typically attend St. Patrick’s Day Morning Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist on Lafayette Square.

Any delay during the mass affects the start of the parade and the television broadcast of the day’s events.

Putting the ‘saint’ in St. Patrick’s Day A closer look at Morning Mass at the Cathedral story by Robin Wright Gunn, photos by paul h. camp/phc photos

Before the green grits, before the parade’s pipe bands and floats, before the beer on River Street, Thursday morning’s St. Patrick’s Day Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist will be the traditional, reverent beginning to what’s often considered as a day for partying.

“The mass is the appropriate way for us to kick off our celebration,” says Michael Foran, General Chairman of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee. “Our whole point is it’s the Feast of St. Patrick,” celebrating the fifth–century Roman Catholic bishop who spent decades converting Ireland to Christianity.

Experience, planning and day–of–event timing are critical to pulling together a seamless worship service for over 1,000 people that has become a media event in recent years. Monsignor William O. O’Neill, rector of the Cathedral for the past 15 years,

handles all the details, with assistance from Brother Robert Sokolowski. O’Neill coordinates the service and is liaison with the Parade Committee and with WTOC–TV, who sets up a full production room in the Cathedral and broadcasts the mass live.

“The TV crowd comes in the day before and sets up a platform for the cameras, and a room downstairs for their studio,” says O’Neill. “There are miles of cable. There are cameras all over the place.”

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BC Cadets are altar servers at the Mass, which begins with a procession of Irish organizations and the Parade Committee Flag Unit. Above, Bishop Boland presides.

O’Neill and Bishop Kevin Boland invite a guest to give the homily, or sermon, at the March worship service.

“We start on that probably about October or November. If you ask one person and they can’t come, then we ask another. I don’t release the name until the last minute, about a month in advance.” This year, the homilist is Most Rev. Edwin Frederick O’Brien, the 15th Archbishop of Baltimore in Maryland.

A few days before St Patrick’s Day, O’Neill receives the names of honorary mass participants that are chosen by the Grand Marshal. The day before, O’Neill receives from the Parade Committee the final list of officials and dignitaries that will attend the mass and forwards that to the bishop, for inclusion in his opening remarks.The night before, chairs and reserved seating areas are set up, plus the TV equipment.

On St. Patrick’s Day morning, O’Neill arrives at the Cathedral at 4 a.m. and keeps things

moving through the day. Any delay during the mass affects the start of the parade and the television broadcast of the day’s events. “People don’t realize what goes on to get the show on the air. This place is humming by 5:30 in the morning.”

Cathedral ushers open the doors at 7 a.m. At 8 the mass begins with a procession that includes all Irish organizations in Savannah and the Parade Committee Flag Unit — about 30 children carrying the flags of the counties in Ireland. “It takes maybe ten minutes to get everyone in,” says O’Neill. “We usually play the Irish national anthem before the start.”

The Irish societies line up according to the age of the organization. “The Hibernians are the oldest, the next one is the Parade Committee, and it goes on down the line,” says Foran. Despite all the players, there are no rehearsals. “The Irish societies know where they are, they know the protocol and the correct line up.”

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Monsignor O’Neill is in the forefront of the center shot. After mass is over, dignitaries and the the parade grand marshal breakfast with Bishop Boland, in the red hat.

from across the Diocese of Savannah. ROTC cadets from Benedictine Military School are altar servers. Members of the Grand Marshal’s family bring forward the gifts. The Grand Marshal also chooses one of the scripture readers.

“After mass is over, this is where the tricky part comes in.” says O’Neill. “That’s because we lock the church. Everyone is lined up to use the restroom” or are milling around and visiting while ushers try to get everyone out of the building. St. Patrick’s Day is the only day that the Cathedral is locked, for security reasons.

“We’ve had incidents in the past where people have actually urinated in the church,” says O’Neill.

Once mass is ended, O’Neill’s day is nowhere near complete.

“The dignitaries and Grand Marshal are brought in for a quick breakfast with the

Bishop. We used to have a sit down breakfast but the schedule is too tight.”

“I usually go out and watch the parade on the cathedral steps. Then we usually have a luncheon for the visiting priests at 1:00 so I need to have an accounting of the names who will attend. After lunch I might take a nap. And then I might go to the Hibernian banquet that evening.”

Despite his role as organizer, O’Neill’s motive is to focus on the day’s spiritual basis.

“Our idea is to emphasize that St. Patrick was a missionary. It’s a moment to appreciate what has been done in the past. Life for Catholics based in Georgia was not always easy.

There was a time in Georgia when Catholicism was outlawed. And, for people who may not have been practicing the faith, it’s an opportunity to connect.” cs

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And that’s as it should be because those who produce the music — a white haired, gravel voiced harmonica player wearing sunglasses and a cowboy hat, and a long haired, angelic looking piano player — are the minister/musicians who founded this unique church.

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Neither private planes landing beside sunbathers on the beach, nor fishermen reeling in sharks a few feet from oblivious swimmers, or even intermittent, fruitless searches for a hydrogen bomb dropped just offshore by a U.S. Air Force jet cause more than a raised eyebrow.

But some of the most jaded island inhabitants now do double takes on Sunday mornings when they wander out along Tybrisa, the island’s main business street.

There, across the front of a popular bistro, is a banner proclaiming it to be, at least on Sunday mornings, not a bar but the Tybee Church!

Closer inspection of the Wind Rose Cafe, which on most evenings is more bar than restaurant — confirms its transformation into an honest to goodness Tybeesque house of worship where flip flops and smokers are welcome!

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While the regular ministers and guest speakers offer comforting, inspirational words in conversational tones, it is the soothing, meditative music — interspersed with upbeat, foot stomping, optimistic tunes — that seems to be the

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“I’ll tell you,” says Gordo, “we’ve had a lot of people put down a lot of things that were harming their lives, their dreams and their families, just from us offering a place for them to worship and pray and us being encouraging and being real.”

“We’ve all got things in our lives that trip us up and our hope is that the Lord will somehow show us things we can do in our own lives to help others to discover a little brighter journey by changing the way you think about yourself and the way you believe life ought to be.

That’s really the base line for us.”

It was through music that Gordo and Sam met in Tybee’s Rock House Bar and Grill. Gordo shuffled into that bar one night in search of tequila — a lifelong libation he consumes in somewhat more moderation nowadays that he did in his youth — and discovered Samuel performing with his band.

They chatted between musical sets

and discovered they had a lot in common. Both are musicians, born and reared in the Atlanta area; each married, had children and divorced, and both became hooked on Tybee during childhood vacations. Each moved to the island after peripatetic years spreading the gospel and performing in churches as well as bars and night clubs.

“If you want to play music and you want to make money, you can’t do it in a church because they want everybody who plays to volunteer,” says Sam. But even at the club gigs “God becomes part of the conversation” with patrons and fellow performers, he says.

“People come up to us on the street wherever we are — night time, day time, it doesn’t matter — just reaching out for God’s help, God’s love. We grab people’s hands right there, wherever we are, inside a barroom or wherever, and they’re comfortable with that.”

“Gordo’s better at that than I am,”

says Sam. “He has a gift.”

Sam began sharing his music and religious beliefs at churches and other gatherings while a student at Atlanta’s Mt. Carmel Christian High School.

That’s where he decided to become a Christian Church minister.

Gordo attended Columbia Bible College in South Carolina before joining the Navy but says he really got religion when he “fell off a plane” while stationed at the U.S. Naval Airbase in Pensacola, Fla. It happened one night during a heavy rain storm when he was scrambling aboard a plane for a foul weather operation and a strong gust of wind caused him to lose his footing and fall.

The resulting injury was so serious it ended Gordo’s Navy career but it was instrumental in helping him resume his journey in the service of God. To pass time during his recovery, Gordo embraced the harmonica, practicing long

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hours and honing his skills for months meetinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; clothesâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;&#x153;until I got to where I could play pretty Sam counted his blessings after askgood.â&#x20AC;? ing Wind Rose owner Nell Klein if he â&#x20AC;&#x153;My career was gone and my hope could rent her bar for Sunday services. was gone, but I drew a lot of hope from Nell refused to take any money, offering a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Câ&#x20AC;&#x2122; harmonica and a Jimmy Buffett the use of her place free of charge. Then album,â&#x20AC;? he recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then I gave one or he and Gordo spent months considertwo awayâ&#x20AC;? to listeners and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get feeding how to convert what was a boisterback from â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em. I enjoyed giving away ous bar at 2 a.m. into a peaceful church those damned harmonicas.â&#x20AC;? for Sunday services at 10:45 a.m.

Believing the harmonica was instruRegular bar accouterments such mental in reestablishing his sense of as beer dispensers and rows of liquor spirituality and hope, Gordo established bottles are covered with cloths during the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harmonicas for Hopeâ&#x20AC;? program the service to avoid temptation and no and started giving away harmonicas alcoholic beverages are permitted (even during his performances. the wine for their occasional communion services is actually grape juice). â&#x20AC;&#x153;I became known in Atlanta bars as The provision of food, which is the Johnny Appleseed of harmonicas,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The harmonicas seem to give prepared and donated by volunteers, people a sense of hope, something to is particularly important since down hold onto.â&#x20AC;? on their luck islanders often attend the service and â&#x20AC;&#x153;this may be the only meal Gordo and Sam continue to dispense free harmonicas during appearances they get that day,â&#x20AC;? according to Sam. around Tybee.

Both he and Handing them Gordo agree that out â&#x20AC;&#x153;allows us an the free coffee also serves to assuage open door to really care and discuss some of their worour beliefsâ&#x20AC;? with shippers lingering the recipients, says hangovers. And Sam. permitting smoking is important They spend thousands of dolso those with the lars a year buying addiction will feel the harmonicas welcome rather and are now conthan suffering the usual discomfort sidering opening a small plant in of being ostraSavannah to manucized or banished facture their own. to the street.

The two bonded But one practice seen immediately during their initial serin most tradiSam performs at guitar & keys endipitous meeting tional churches is in the Rock House. It was what could be noticeable for its absence. There is no called a match made in a heavenly bar. ritualistic passing of collection plates And it was at another bar, the Wind as the pastor looks on solemnly while waiting for church coffers to be filled.

Rose, while participating in a memorial service for Ragman, that Sam conceived A small bucket with a sign saying the idea of establishing a regular church â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donationsâ&#x20AC;? sits on a table beside the service there. food but no one is urged to make an ofThe memorial drew hundreds of fering and no one notices whether anyone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; either because of lack of funds or Dingessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friends and fans, including a number of bikers, bar workers and late inclination â&#x20AC;&#x201D; fails to contribute. night habituĂŠs of various island bistros.

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A run through the clover A city wide scavenger hunt will raise money and awareness for breast cancer

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There will be no shortage of partying this week, that much is certain. But one party on Saturday, the first annual Shamrock Scramble, will imbue the sea of green set to engulf the city with a greater purpose — raising funds and awareness in the fight against breast cancer.

“I’m a three time breast cancer survivor,” says Cayce Girardeau, of Savannah Fun Tours, who is organizing the event.

“This year is my 10 year anniversary since my first diagnosis. It’s an important cause to me.”

Girardeau and her husband are no strangers to St. Patrick’s Day in Savannah. They live on the parade route, and have continued a family tradition of throwing a parade party every year.

But to mark a decade as a breast cancer survivor, she decided this would be the year to party with a purpose.

“This year, we decided that because of the 10-year anniversary, instead of doing a regular party, we’d do a fundraiser,” she explains.

The Shamrock Scramble will be a city–wide scavenger hunt that will challenge teams to complete a series of not–quite–Herculean tasks that tie into

the city’s celebration of all things Irish.

Each team will receive a list of tasks — ranging from ‘find a guy in a kilt and take your picture with him’ to more site specific challenges – and they will have to choose a certain number to complete.

“It’ll be like The Amazing Race but without people hurrying too terribly much — like The Amazing Race meets a pub crawl,” says Girardeau.

Recognizing there will likely be to–go cups involved, and many participants will be nursing multi–day hangovers, the scavenger tasks will focus more on fun than solving complex math.

“We’re not gonna put in any square roots or mathematical equations,” she says with a chuckle.

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The event starts at Blowin’ Smoke Saturday afternoon, sends participants all over downtown in search of items on their list, and then ends at Rogue Water Tap House (formerly Venus De Milo), where a bus will carry everyone back to the beginning for an afterparty that will include free oysters and beer.

“For $20 I can get you a T–shirt, a chance to win some cool prizes and

some free oysters and beer,” Girardeau says. “That seems like a good deal.”

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Some peace–disrupting blasts from the past to get you in the mood for what’s in store this week: • An officer walking patrol during the St. Patrick’s Day festival saw several firefighters running towards the Savannah River from the Abercorn ramp.

The officer then saw a man who was climbing out of the water. The officer saw that the man had bloodshot eyes with large pupils, and noticed he smelled like alcohol. He was taken into custody and charged with Swimming Prohibited in Certain Waters, a city ordinance, and public drunkenness.

Before he was taken to jail, he was asked if he’d been drinking alcohol. “Yeah,” he replied. “I had a lot, obviously.”

• An officer on foot patrol noticed a large, disorderly group of men at the Bull Street ramp on River Street during the St. Patrick’s Day festivities. The men were harassing people who passed by them, and at one point, three of them ran into a crowd to try to catch another man.

At one point, the officer heard one of them say, “I thought we were going to get to punch someone.” The officer was informed by a colleague that the group of men was trying to pick fights with passersby. Backup was called, and the officers began to approach the group.

One ordered the group to leave the area, and most complied. However, one, a juvenile, began to walk in the opposite direction, and when the officer again told him to leave the area, began to argue.

At that point, the officer tried to arrest the suspect, but the suspect refused to allow the officer to put him into handcuffs. The suspect was told several times to “give me your hands, stop resisting,” but he continued to struggle with officers.

One of the officers gave the suspect four or five knee strikes in an attempt to bring him down, but he continued

to fight. He was then struck three times in the ribs, but continued to struggle.

After being sprayed with pepper spray, officers were able to grab the suspect’s right arm and he was arrested and cuffed. He was charged with disorderly conduct, obstruction by resisting and violation of curfew, then treated for his injuries at the scene by Medstar.

Officers tried to reach his mother, father and stepfather, but were unsuccessful, so the suspect was taken to a youth detention center.Two other men in the group were arrested a short time later after they also refused to leave the area.

• A Boston police officer was among those arrested on Friday after forcing his way into the home of two women in the 500 block of East State Street.

Thomas Joyce, 46, of Roxbury, Mass., entered the house around 10:30 p.m.

He told the women he was a police officer and assaulted them by physically restraining them and pulling them out of their house. Joyce took nothing from the house and fled the scene. The women called 911 and within minutes of the report, officers caught Joyce not far from the scene of the crime. Detectives charged him with false imprisonment, simple battery, obstruction and criminal trespass after the victims identified him.

• A Bluffton, S.C. man was arrested after restaurant employees told police he was refusing to pay his $65.88 bar tab.

He repeatedly told police he refused “to pay the crack whore’s tab,” but was charged with theft of services and taken to jail, anyway.

• A couple was arrested outside an East River Street restaurant after police observed the man kissing the woman while sliding his hand into her pants.

The cheeks of the woman’s buttocks were partially exposed. Both were charged with lewd caressing or fondling and taken to the Chatham County Detention Center.

• A man from Ireland was reported missing during the festivities. The man was with a friend from Fayetteville, and reportedly got mad at her and got out of her car and started walking on Lincoln Street.

The woman told police she was worried about him because he’s not from around here.

The man was described as a white male with an Irish accent, wearing an Ireland National Soccer jersey with the Irish flag on his right shoulder.

• Shortly after the St. Patrick’s Day parade, police were called to Broughton and Bull streets because of a lookout posted on a woman who had run a barricade.

An officer observed a strong odor of alcohol on the woman, who was cuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car after she became disorderly. Another officer approached the patrol car and released the woman, who said she understood her rights and waived her right to an attorney.

She asked to use a restroom, and was escorted to a nearby restaurant. The woman said she drove from the parking garage to where she was stopped. She said she was looking for her family, but when asked about it later said she was headed back to work. Her eyes were red and glassy, her words slurred and she was unsteady on her feet.

When asked how much she’d had to drink, she replied, “I’ve only had one drink and it was a Bloody Mary.” When asked when she’d started drinking, the woman said about 10 a.m. when she first got downtown.

She was asked to take some tests to determine if she was okay to drive The woman failed an eye test, a walk-andturn test and a one-leg stand. When asked to submit to a preliminary breath test, the woman tested positive for alcohol. She was arrested for DUI and taken to the ChathamCountyDetentionCenter. cs

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The spirit of St. Patrick’s Day and the luck of the Irish changed the mood for City Council

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by Patrick Rodgers | patrick@connectsavannah.com

The celebratory mood of the Saint Patrick’s Day season in Savannah was evident at last week’s City Council meeting, which was notably lighter than the past several weeks or turmoil.

The St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee made their annual request for a parade permit (which passed unanimously), and this year’s Grand Marshall, Walter Crawford, shared some remarks, explaining the theme for the year’s event would be “Welcome Cousins” (he also pronounced it in Gaelic). The theme is an extension of the community bonds within Savannah, as well as an extended greeting to all who come to the city for the parade.

Business then moved to the other side of the festival, which included a lengthier than usual list of alcohol license requests. Seven River Street restaurants were requesting hybrid licenses so that they could move out furniture, stay open later, and function more as a bar than a restaurant in order to accommodate festival-goers along the river in search of libations.

The luck of the Irish apparently remained with council.

During discussion on bids, contracts and agreements, council was interrupted by an appearance from film producer and ice cream maker Stratton Leopold, who presented members of council, the city manager and the city attorney with some ice cream.

Although it was expected that council would present a proposal to offer Acting City Manager Rochelle Small–Toney the permanent position, that action was delayed until later this week, after council has further discussed the contract.

Mayor Johnson said council would like a proposal from Small–Toney for what she thinks would be a reasonable offer to do take the job. Council would then use her proposal as a starting point for further negotiations.

A quorum of council was wearing green for the occasion, and members of several local Irish groups were in attendance.

The mayor presented a proclamation to Murray Silver of the Fenian Society, announcing the intention of the Greater Savannah International Alliance to develop a relationship with the town of Wexford, Ireland.

The council’s initiative to further develop strong international ties with was highlighted earlier in the meeting by a visit from a Swedish delegate who was in Savannah for the first time as part of a tour of several American cities. Members of council visited an environmental conference in Sweden last year.

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Leopold had been in the session earlier to present two local students with certificates recognizing them as the winners of the Black History Month essay contest sponsored by Leopold’s Ice Cream.

When the awards had been presented, Mayor Pro–Tem Edna Jackson submitted for the record that she had sampled some of Leopold’s seasonally appropriate Guinness flavored ice cream, and that the rest of council should give it a try the next time they were in the shop.

The meeting ended with updates on several ongoing topics. The Mayor announced that several members would be departing later in the day for a meeting of the National League of Cities.

Alderman Jeff Felser thanked council for organizing the town hall meeting about LNG transport the previous Monday, and requested that a copy of the Environmental Impact Statement submitted to federal regulators by the LNG company be provided to council members.

Alderman Tony Thomas mentioned that Georgia’s House of Representatives had passed a resolution in support of Savannah’s cruise ship development project, and also brought up a recent story that had run in Charleston’s Post & Courier discussing the various positive economic impacts reaped for the downtown by their cruise ship. cs

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A closer look at some of the potential legislation being considered at the state capitol

by Patrick Rodgers | patrick@connectsavannah.com

There are more than 1600 bills and resolutions circulating at the state capitol during this year’s legislative session. The future of HOPE funding and immigration reform have been the center of attention this year, but that doesn’t mean that’s all that’s going on under the Gold Dome.

With about a week and a half left in the 2011 session, we present a few of the good, bad and ugly pieces of potential legislation that could be headed into the pages of the Georgia Code.

HB 16: One of dozens of pre–filed pieces of legislation by 43rd District Representative Bobby Franklin, this bill would repeal the Georgia Nuclear Energy Financing Act of 2009. That law allows Georgia Power to add a steadily increasing surcharge to customers’ bills in order to finance construction of new reactors at Plant Vogtle. It was passed as a means of circumventing the normal regulatory process.

Although it was given a first read on the House floor back in mid–January, the bill to repeal the Financing Act hasn’t made it to a committee hearing.

HB54: This bill would allow a person to carry “a weapon or long gun” in a place of worship. This would seem to raise myriad theological questions – does one need more protection than God can offer? Where do handguns and messages of universal love intersect? According to code section 16–11–127 there are only seven places in the state where guns are prohibited, including mental health

facilities and bars where owners don’t permit weapons. By July there might only be six places. This bill is awaiting action by the Judiciary Non–Civil Committee.

HB 126: Were the Governor to sign this, there would be a new state holiday, known as Patriots Day, every year on April 19. The new holiday would serve “to remind citizens of our Revolution and the sacrifices endured during the years of struggle for American Independence.” On April 19, 1775, the British gathered near Concord, Massachusetts prompting the ride of Paul Revere and the “Shot heard round the world.” No word on whether we’d get a day off. The bill has been recommitted to the Rules Committee, who would set a date for a potential vote.

HB 347: It doesn’t have a catchy name like some other pieces of legislation, but HB 347 could be called the Oxendine Law, because the former Insurance Commissioner and one–time front–running gubernatorial candidate prompted its creation following the discovery that he’d circumvented professional certification exams by signing his own license papers before he resigned as Insurance Commissioner.

The legislature is now tasked with closing that loophole. Ox told the AJC that he thought it better to sign his own forms because his presence might be a distraction for other test–takers. The bill has been read and referred by the Senate after passing the House.

HB 401: This bill, known as the “Presidential Electability Assurance Act” would require candidates for President of the U.S. to deliver certain documents to Georgia’s Secretary of State in order to prove their eligibility to run for the office. It also creates additional requirements for the candidate beyond those dictated by the Constitution. The bill made national news – the latest evidence that the “Birther” movement (those who don’t believe President Obama has a legitimate US birth certificate) is still alive and well in Georgia. HB 401 is sitting in committee.

SB 9: Known as the “Georgia Energy Freedom Act of 2011,” it will give the Governor power to delay implementation of any federal program “to address greenhouse gas emissions” until after exhaustive reviews are done to ascertain the impacts on the budget, economy, consumers, families and businesses (large and small). There’s no timeline for completion of the review, or who would be responsible for conducting it. This has passed the Senate and is now awaiting reading by the House.

SB 40: Part of the State Senate’s fixation on the 10th Amendment (as opposed to job creation or fixing education), this bill would counter federal regulation seeking to phase out the manufacturing of incandescent light bulbs. The bill says that if the light bulbs are manufactured in–state, and not exported to other states, then the federal Congress has no right to regulate them, because the Constitution only gives Congress the right to regulate inter–state commerce. This has passed the Senate and is awaiting reading by the House.

SB 80: If passed, the bill will require anyone convicted of a felony, or certain sex crimes, to have some of their DNA collected for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s new DNA bank. If your DNA is collected, and then it’s discovered you’re innocent, you can contact the GBI and they will “expunge” you DNA from their bank. The Senate committee reported favorably it, but it hasn’t been scheduled for a vote.

SB 89: A bill with distinctly local flavor, SB 89 would give the Mayor of Savannah the power to set the agenda for all City Council meetings. Currently, because of the City’s Charter, that power rests with the City Manager. The law would take effect starting in January 2012. It’s been read and referred by the Senate, but hasn’t come up for a vote.

SB 91: Another bill related to local politics, this one would give the Chairman of the Chatham County Commission the ability to run for a third

SB 148: Taking the previous SB 91 a step further, this bill would remove any term limit on the Chatham County Commission Chairman. A chairman could serve “until his or her successor is elected and qualified.” This bill has also been read and referred by the Senate, but hasn’t come up for a vote.

SB 150: Despite the controversy over legislation that would enable municipalities to hold referendums on whether to allow Sunday package sales of alcohol (SB 10), the legislature isn’t ruling out every expansion of liquor sales in the state. SB 150 would allow municipal golf courses to sell wine and liquor by

the drink if they obtained the proper licenses. Currently, publicly owned courses can only sell “malt beverages.”

SB 175: This bill would create the Citizen’s Redistricting Commission.

After the 2010 Census results were tallied, the state’s population growth netted us another seat in the House of Representatives. The process of redistricting will be necessary to carve out another district. According to the bill, the commission tasked with the process will consist of seven members – six political appointees and one chosen by the six members. If the seventh member can’t be agreed upon, then the Supreme Court gets to choose. The commission will be charged with presenting a redistricting plan to the General Assembly, and would be dissolved after their plan was approved or rejected. cs

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Stay out of Libya!

It’s good to see that the Pentagon is unenthusiastic about military intervention in Libya. But that hasn’t stopped armchair generals such as Sen. John Kerry from pushing for a no–fly zone over that country.

Kerry thinks he can make his plan more appealing by couching it in internationalist terms, but we know the American people would bear the brunt of the burden. Kerry is joined by Sens.

Joe Lieberman and John McCain, the Senate’s two most obnoxious militarists.

Regarding the military’s reluctance to take on another country, McCain said, “[They] always seem to find reasons why you can’t do something rather than why you can.”

Maybe the Pentagon is acknowledging something that McCain, Kerry, and Lieberman seem to ignore: They are calling for war on a country that has not attacked the United States. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized the discussion about a no–fly zone as “loose talk.”

He added, “Let’s just call a spade a spade. A no–fly zone begins with an attack on Libya. That’s the way you do a no–fly zone. And then you can fly planes around the country and not worry about our guys being shot down.”

Gates’s cautionary language is welcome after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s and President Obama’s press secretary had referred to U.S. action as a live option. In typical Clinton fashion, the secretary said, “We are taking no option off the table so long as the Libyan government continues to turn its guns on its own people.”

Really? No option? Does that include a full–scale invasion? How about tactical nuclear weapons? Drones armed with Hellfire missiles have been particularly effective at killing innocent people in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Are they on the table too?

Gates was not alone in his warning. Gen. James Mattis, commander of U.S. Central Command, and other officials said that taking out Libya’s air and missile defenses would be no small operation; hundreds of airplanes would be needed.

Gates said he was advised that a no–fly zone “requires more airplanes than you would find on a single aircraft carrier.” It would be, he said, a “big operation in a big country.”

None of that stopped the Senate

from unanimously passing a resolution prodding the UN Security Council to take up the question of a no–fly zone.

And two U.S. amphibious warships were headed to Libya through the Suez Canal, supposedly for humanitarian purposes. But they aren’t called “warships” for nothing.

For all the bluster about a no–fly zone, it’s not quite clear what difference it would make. Libya’s Col. Muammar Qaddafi is using ground forces primarily to battle rebels trying to drive him from power.

According to the Associated Press, “Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that despite media reports of Libyan aircraft attacking rebel areas, the Pentagon had not confirmed any air attacks.”

So a no–fly zone would be little more than symbolic. But it could be a costly symbol. Mullen cautioned against underestimating Libya’s air defenses.

Moreover, establishing a no–fly zone would be an act of war, with consequences no one can foresee.

Haven’t we had enough of American politicians, sitting safely in their seats of power, sending young people off to war?

The case against U.S. intervention in Libya, however, goes beyond the prudential. There is no doubt that Qaddafi is a brutal and now desperate dictator willing to send mercenaries to mow down civilians seeking freedom from his iron grip.

But that does not justify U.S. intervention, which would require the taxpayers to finance yet another open–ended military operation in the Arab and Muslim world. Regardless of how Obama and Clinton would intend the operation, the rest of the world would see it in the context of the long U.S. imperial record in the Middle East.

American presidents have sought to police the globe for generations. What has it gotten us? Endless war abroad, and big government and economic hardship at home. Instead of being a beacon of liberty, the country is a symbol of militarism and death.

Obama, the fraudulent peace advocate, has followed the same interventionist course. He should not be allowed to extend it to Libya. cs Sheldon Richman is senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation (www.fff. org) and editor of The Freeman magazine.

I heard the original Monopoly game, before Parker Brothers took it over, was designed to teach people how broken capitalism is. True? —Matt, Yukon More or less true, although you have to ask: who needs a game to understand how screwed up capitalism is when all you have to do is read the news? Be that as it may, I convened Straight Dope staff to play several versions of protoMonopoly. Their review: nothing like socialists to make capitalists look good.

The earliest recognizable version of what we know as Monopoly was patented by Lizzie Magie in 1903. The Landlord’s Game, as she called it, featured a board with the familiar circuit of increasingly pricey neighborhoods interspersed with railroads and utilities.

At three of the corners were Go to Jail, Public Park (the ancestral version of Free Parking), and the Jail itself.

The fourth corner, however, wasn’t labeled “Go” but instead bore a drawing of the globe encircled by the lofty words “Labor Upon Mother Earth Produces Wages.” Translation: you got a hundred bucks. Nonetheless you realize: someone here has an agenda.

The story goes that Magie intended her game to be a teaching tool about the injustices of capitalism. She was a fan of the theories of political economist Henry George, who thought landlords were parasites and advocated a “single tax” on them to replace all other taxes.

You’re thinking: what an exciting premise for a board game. If the idea was that the players, beaten down by exorbitant rents, were supposed to rise up and feed their evil landlord’s intestines to him with a fork, this might indeed make for a diverting family game night.

But that’s not what happened. Instead, the player who accumulated the most money won. How does this teach us about the dark side of capitalism?

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Magie eventually tumbled to the pedagogical shortcomings of her invention.

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The Landlord’s Game explicitly said one objective was showing “how the single tax would discourage land speculation.”

The rules now showed more attitude.

When throwing the Chance cube, a five meant you’d been “caught robbing a hen-roost—go to jail,” whereas a ten meant you’d been “caught robbing the public—take $200 from the board. The players will now call you Senator.” Ha! Two new concepts were introduced in the 1924 edition. Idle Land could be bought for $100 and sold for $200, showing the easy money in land speculation. The other novelty was Monopoly, which at this point applied only to railroads: if you owned all of them, you could charge twice as much.

Magie thought this would teach the proletariat that monopolies and land speculation were wicked. However, since the goal was still to wind up with the most money, a more obvious lesson might have been: monopolies and land speculation were great.

As the capitalist frenzy of the 20s continued, in 1932 Magie unveiled a combo game called The Landlord’s Game plus Prosperity. Prosperity was played on the same board but with modified rules: taxes, jail, and monopoly pricing were eliminated; land rent was paid to the public treasury; once enough treasury cash accumulated, private utilities were condemned and placed in public ownership. Most importantly, players could vote to switch from Landlord to Prosperity rules in midgame. Now those chafing under the capitalist yoke (i.e., losing) could wise up, go socialist, and take over.

You can guess how well that went. In our clinical trials, my assistant Fierra quickly figured out how to game the system and make money off railroad nationalization. Her fellow staffer Una discovered using railroads to take you to real estate offices and treat them as “free parking” was a safe way to get around the board. Mainly, though, the players were bored. After ten minutes, Fierra exclaimed in her English accent, “Dear God, this bloody game sucks!”

People evidently felt the same in 1932—Magie’s latest brainstorm went nowhere. A few years later, in the best capitalist tradition, Charles Darrow ripped off Magie’s ideas, sold Monopoly to Parker Brothers, and became a millionaire. Meanwhile, the Stalins of the earth turned out not to be playing Prosperity, as some naifs thought, but rather Totalitarian World Domination, which endured quite a while. cs

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The essential uniform of super-ambitious Chinese businessmen nowadays includes a leather designer purse, reported the Los Angeles Times in a February dispatch from Beijing, and high-end sellers “can’t believe their luck,” now that “(b)oth sexes in the world’s most populous country adore purses.” The Coach company will have 53 stores in China by mid-year, and Hermes and Louis Vuitton are so optimistic that they built stores in less-obviously prosperous reaches of the country. (Apparently, only authentic designer items lend businessmen credibility. For the export market, China

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• Just How Bad Was Mom? In Brooklyn, N.Y., Judge Bernard Graham recently awarded custody of an estranged couple’s teenage boy to the father even though the father was at the time homeless and living from night to night in shelters and storefronts. The mother, Jeannette Traylor, who earns $90,000 a year as a courthouse employee, was even denied visitation rights. (Judge Graham insisted the arrangement was in the boy’s best interest, but Graham was later transferred to non-divorce cases.)

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(1) To conceal an arrest warrant for auto theft, Amos Ashley, 62, told traffic-stop officers in Lawrenceburg, Ind., in February that he was (as he wrote on a paper for them) “Rorth Taylor.” (“Pronounce it,” ordered a trooper.)

“Robert Taylor.” (“Spell it once more, please.”) “R-e-r-e-r-t,” wrote Ashley. (“And ‘Taylor’?”) “T-a-y-l-o-e-r.” Several more attempts followed, until Ashley finally admitted his name and was arrested. (2) Police in Princess Anne, Md., arrested George Ballard, 25, inside a PNC Bank at 11 p.m. on Jan. 25 after a motion detector sounded.

Officers said the “cash” Ballard was in the process of taking was in fact a stack of fake bills the bank uses for training.

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World’s Greatest Lawyer: Christopher Soon won an acquittal in February for his client Alan Patton, who had been charged with violating a law that had been passed primarily to stop Alan Patton. That law makes it illegal to collect urine from public restrooms.

Patton, of Dublin, Ohio, was convicted in 1993 and 2008, and charged again in October 2010, with waiting in restrooms and, when young boys finished using the urinal (after Patton had obstructed the flushing mechanism), rushing to gather the contents, which he admitted sexually excited him. After Patton’s 2008 conviction, the Ohio legislature made that specific act a felony, and Patton’s arrest in October was supposed to lead to a premiere conviction.

(The judge did find Patton guilty of “criminal mischief,” a misdemeanor.)

A News of the Weird Classic (April 2007)

Doug Guetzloe, one of central Florida’s most prominent political operatives (and a subject of investigations by the Florida Elections Commission and an expressway commission in Orlando), had long infuriated prosecutors

with his slippery denials of knowledge of unethical campaigns that they were certain he was deeply involved in. However, late (in 2006), Guetzloe missed a payment on his rental storage locker, and 50 boxes of his professional and personal records were seized and auctioned for $10 to a curious citizen, who then gave them to Orlando’s

WKMG-TV, which had several earlier investigations of Guetzloe still open.

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At 7 p.m. Saturday, March 19 Blowin’ Smoke BBQ, 514 Martin Luther King Blvd.

Fans of Ani DiFranco will want to check out South Carolina’s Danielle Howle. She is a versatile acoustic guitar player who uses strange chords, poly–rhythms and a kind of left–field jazz sensibility to punctuate her complex and bitterly straightforward lyrics. She’s about to start recording her first jazz album, is producing the Myrtle Beach Americana band Ten Toes Up, and has twice acted on the TV series Army Wives. Out now is The Triangle Album, recorded live – and solo – in clubs across the United States. “I kept recording things along the way, more as something to look at and work from as a songwriter,” she says. “Some tunes on The Triangle Album were played once, when they were recorded. It is nice to visit this material again and offer it to my music friends. I have changed so much since those days as a spirit and an artist.” See daniellehowle.com Opening the performance is singer/songwriter Angelo Gianni, the frontman for the great South Carolina rock ‘n’ roll/classic pop quartet Treadmill Trackstar. Heidi Carey’s cello adds a wonderful visceral feeling to the harmony–laden songs. Like Danielle Howle, the band – and Gianni himself – were mainstays of Columbia’s rich indie music scene (both Howle and Gianni have since moved elsewhere). See treadmilltrackstar.com

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At 9 p.m. Friday, March 18 Live Wire Music Hall. With 3 Legged Fox. $10 advance, $12 day of show Are you new to local Savannah music? If you are, here’s a tip from your friends at Connect: Go to this show. Passafire is not only one of the city’s most successful exports – the guys’ll be on the Vans Warped Tour, all over the country, this summer – it’s one of the finest reggae/dub/rock bands in the country. Want proof? Check out the 2009 Everyone on Everynight CD (LAW Records), and try – just try – clearing those hooks out of your head. It can’t be done.

Passafire formed in 2003, an aggregate of SCAD students, inspired and emboldened by the genre–jumping John’s Brown Body – a band they often share the stage with these days. They haven’t played Savannah in a while, although most of the band still lives in town, and sometimes they gig around (with other friends) as Chupacabra.

See passafiretheband.com

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For the weekend of March 17–20: Singer/songwriter Channing Wilson, of the Chattanooga–based Tennessee Rounders, plays the Jinx Friday ...

What’s better for St. Patrick’s Day than a big ol’ hip hop show? Thursday at the Wormhole, it’s “The Truth Tour” with J Bo, Yard Call, Brabo Gator, E–Klass, Grim, Dirty K and others ... The stellar bluegrass outfit Nothin’ Fancy takes a break from the busy festival circuit to perform at Randy Wood Guitars Friday ... CS

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McCarty Band, The Design, Good Times (Live Music) Wormhole Bar The Truth Tour (hip hop) (Live Music) KARAOKE Dew Drop Inn Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke DJ, TRIVIA Bacchus Lounge Live DJ Pour Larry’s DK Old Skool, Close DJ Zo (DJ) Tantra Lounge Basik Lee (DJ) Dillinger’s Steak & Seafood Kowboi Trivia

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Bernie’s Oyster House (Tybee) Samuel Adams Band (Live Music) Billy’s Place Theodosia, piano (Live Music) Blowin’ Smoke BBQ South Carolina Broadcasters (Live Music) continues on p. 38

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“We get loud but we never get bored,” Jason Bible sings in “Tennessee Mare,” the opening track on the Train Wrecks’ just–released second album. That’s a pretty good summation of the entire Train Wrecks experience – raucous and perpetually in overdrive, Savannah’s premiere Americana band is never anything but exciting. The band’s live shows are loud, and by God, you won’t get close to bored.

Bible and his bandmates have been playing most of these songs in concert for a year or more, so anyone who’s caught a Train Wrecks show (and since they’re gigging all the time, it’s a

distinct possibility) will recognize the galloping “Tennessee Mare,” the defiant Western stomps “Head For the Hills” and “Hang Me High,” the sweeping and pseudo–psychedelic “Southern Skies” and the elegiac “Not the End.” The band submits balls–out rock ‘n’ roll, and Western swing. There’s even a haunting, uptempo instrumental, “Song For Sally.”

The album has been produced with pointed accents on reverb and echo, with a cloud of poignant pedal steel guitar floating somewhere in the moody sky – giving everything a ghostly, urgent, desperate feel. And that’s perfect for these songs about recklessness, redemption and righteousness.

The Train Wrecks’ power source, of course, is the knuckle–tight rhythm section of drummer Marcus Kuhlmann and bassist Eric Dunn. And Stuart Harmening’s dobro, slide guitar and chicken–picking leads give the songs a muscular and cohesive flex.

But it’s singer/songwriter Bible that makes Saddle Up ride tall from start to finish. His gravelly Texas yowl and growl evoke a world–weary outlaw on the run, a cowboy questioning his place in the world, a young Southerner obsessed with whiskey, war and the unfettered joy of making music. “Cold,

Cold Stone” is the album’s stunner – it’s both anthemic and chilling.

Recorded at Savannah’s Elevated Basement Studio, Saddle Up joins Eric Culberson’s In the Outside – also tracked in the Basement – as the cornerstones of an already great year for homegrown music. See thetrainwrecksband.com

JEFFERSON ROSS Hymns to the Here and Now A relatively new arrival in Savannah, Jefferson Ross is a songwriter with considerable lyrical strengths. Hymns to the Here and Now is, make no mistake, a country album, with world–class instru-

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JON LEE AND THE CANEBRAKES Wading in the Wreckage The first recording from this new Savannah trio is a four–song EP that splits its time between muscular blues and sinewy rock ‘n’ roll (what else would we expect from a band that named itself

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after a rattlesnake?) You’ll hear a little Jimi Hendrix and a little Stevie Ray Vaughan, a bit of Jon Butcher, a touch of Robin Trower and others.

Happily, the ‘Brakes weave back and forth over these lines, effectively blurring them, and the songs on Wading in the Wreckage are delightfully catchy.

Much of this is due to bandleader Jonathan Murphy, whose guitarwork is ambitious but never over–played. He’s also a stylish vocalist with a strong command and range, and producer Shane Baldwin knows when to overdub and double–track him to best bluesy effect.

The drummer is Brian Haynes, and Kevin Bell plays bass (with Chadrick Morris handling the bottom end on the songs “Cheers to the Prowl” and “End Time Blues”).

Wading in the Wreckage is a unique record, and its brevity leaves you wanting to hear more. See jonleeandthecanebrakes on Facebook CS

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mentation, tight and clean production, and Ross’ low tenor and Martin acoustic guitar out front and given a shimmering showcase.

The track “Hymn to the Here and Now” is a gospel capella number – Ross is the lead singer, and has overdubbed all the other vocal parts, too. It’s spellbinding.

Elsewhere, there are clever songs aboput Ross’ mother (“Blache DuBois Meets Lucille Ball”), the joys of Savannah living (“Oysters and Beer”) and a misty, Celtic–hued ballad (“Seven Hills and Seven Valleys”).

Ross’ textured wordsmithery is given a fine and colorful backdrop of fiddle, mandolin, pedal steel and piano – the album was produced in Nashville by Ross himself, with engineering and mixing by guitarist, singer and songwriter extraordinaire Thomm Jutz.

Ross, a co–founder of the Savannah Songwriter’s Showcase, performs many of these tunes in his solo sets, and they’re something to hear. Fleshed out and radio–ready on Hymns to the Here and Now, the songs take on a extra layer of life and vitality. See jeffersonross.com

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On the next few pages, enjoy some looks at some featured acts at various venues, courtesy of photographers Geoff L. Johnson, Matthew McCully, and Josh “Jabberpics” Branstetter.

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Reptar at the Jinx was one of the more buzzworthy gigs. (photo Jabberpics)

Sonia Leigh graced the stage at the Wormhole opening night. (photo Matthew McCully)

Kedrick Mack, aka Knife from the Dope Sandwich crew performed Thursday at Tantra. (photo Jabberpics)

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Gringo Star at the Jinx was a particularly hot ticket. (photo Geoff L. Johnson)

Easily the most anticipated gig at Stopover (with the longest line to get in!) was Murder By Death closing night at the Jinx. Inset photo is electric cellist/hottie Sarah Balliett. (photo Geoff L. Johnson) Brooklynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oberhofer was ridiculously poppy and energetic at Hang Fire. (photo Geoff L. Johnson)

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Doc’s Bar Roy & the Circuitbreakers (Live Music) Fiddler’s Crab House (River Street) Jubal Kane (Live Music) Huc-a-Poos Junkyard Angel (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Hear & Now (Live Music) Jinx TBA (Live Music) Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Frank Emerson (Live Music) 8:30 p.m.

Live Wire Music Hall Passafire, 3 Legged Fox (Live Music) 9 p.m.

Loco’s Grill & Pub Moon Taxi (Live Music) Mansion on Forsyth Park Tradewinds (Live Music) 9 p.m.

Randy Wood Guitars Nothin’ Fancy (Live Music) Bluegrass 8 p.m.

Rock House Tybee Rhythm Riot (Live Music) Ruth’s Chris Steak House Kim Polote, David, and Alisha Duckworth (Live Music) 7 p.m.

Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Sugar Daddy’s Brandon Crocker (Live Music) Tantra Lounge A Nickel Bag of Funk (Live Music) Wild Wing Cafe Thomas Claxton, Fill N the Blanks, U-Phonic, Joystick, Hidden Element (Live Music) KARAOKE Dew Drop Inn Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke DJ Bacchus Lounge Live DJ Pour Larry’s DK Old Skool, Close DJ Zo (Fri)

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Bayou Cafe The Magic Rocks (Live Music) Billy’s Place Theodosia, piano (Live Music) Blowin’ Smoke BBQ Danielle Howle/ Angelo Gianni (Live Music)

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Doc’s Bar Roy & the Circuitbreakers (Live Music) Fiddler’s (Southside) Georgia Kyle (Live Music)

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Frank Emerson (Live Music) 8:30 p.m.

Lulu’s Chocolate Bar Kyndra Joi (Live Music) Tybee Island Social Club Jason Bible (Live Music) 5 p.m.

KARAOKE, OTHER STUFF McDonough’s Karaoke Murphy’s Law Trivia Sentient Bean AWOL Open Mic Therapy Session 7 p.m.

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The Eric Culberson Band has a typically busy week - and will celebrate the release of their new CD Tuesday at Live Wire Music Hall.

Fiddler’s Crab House (River Street) Jubal Kane (Live Music) Huc-a-Poos Keith & Ross (Live Music) Jazz’d Tapas Bar Bottles & Cans (Live Music) Jinx Train Wrecks (Live Music) Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Frank Emerson (Live Music) 8:30 p.m.

Live Wire Music Hall Turtle Folk, Under the Porch, Donna Hopkins (Live Music) 9 p.m.

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Colors of the Sea — A series of new abstract paintings

by Preston Orr. Local 11ten, 1110 Bull St. East West Line — Artist Ching Levy presents a mix of traditional and modern Chinese paintings on silk paper. Ta Ca Sushi, 513 E. Oglethorpe Ave. Faith Ringgold: Story Quilts and Freedom Quests — Ringgold is a celebrated African American painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist and illustrator. Features 60 pieces from across four decades, including a number of Ringgold’s most recent works. SCAD Museum, 227 MLK Jr. Blvd, http://www.scad.edu/scadmuseum I Am Your Sister — A photo essay by Ana Aguero Jahannes featuring portraits of women wearing ornate headdresses designed by Jahannes. SSU Social Sciences Building Gallery, 3219 College St. , http://www. hamaje.com/ Kinetic potentials — Works

by Jeff Doran exploring energy transfer with ink, water and urethane. Runs through March 25. ThincSavannah, 35 Barnard St. Suite 300, http://www.thincsavannah. com/ Momentary Suspension — A new site-specific cut-paper installation that features watercolors and two-dimensional studies by internationally renowned artist Andreas Kocks. Runs through April 29. Pei Ling Chan Gallery, 324 MLK Jr. Blvd. , http:// www.scad.edu/ Photographs by Diane Booker and Leslie Wilkes — An exhibit of work by two women who found second careers as photographers. Work includes dramatic, black and white shots inspired by

Work by Ching Levy hangs at TaCa Sushi on Oglethorpe Avenue at East Broad nature. Hospice Savannah Gallery , 1352 Eisenhower Dr. , http://www.hospicesavannahhelps.org/ Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art — An exhibition tracing the development of psychedelic art over the past 40+ years. Runs through May 29. Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. , http://www. telfair.org/

Savannah Clay — An invitational exhibit featuring ceramic artists from around the country. Runs through April 1. S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, 9 W. Henry St. , http://www. savannahga.gov/arts

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Back then, it was called Express Cafe.

Goose Feathers sounds warmer and fuzzier – and gives some hint to the inner child that the sometimes fussy Express Cafe harbored.

That spirited youngster, now in its 25th year, has simultaneously matured – and found an energetic voice with which to carry it into the next decades.

The menu has matured as well, and the service has improved exponentially since the late 1990s. On my recent visit, I was truly impressed by the efficiency with which the order taker whittled away at the growing line of customers – and the expeditious manner in which food flowed from the kitchen.

I had been tooling in the top–down Miata, wishfully thinking it was truly spring, and needed a warm–up. The potato and corn chowder was just the ticket. My cup was filled to the brim and chock full of precisely cooked and flavorful chunks of potato and plenty of sweet corn kernels. The cream base was rich, piping hot and nicely seasoned. I did add a shake of pepper – not due to any lack of seasoning – but because I’m a pepper head.

Sufficiently warmed, I bit into my Barnard Street Club sandwich. The sourdough bread was dutifully flavored and just the right texture for this sandwich. The usual suspects were tucked away in the sourdough – smoked turkey and ham, bacon, lettuce and tomato – but crisp cucumber slices and mild

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Swiss cheese added additionally pleasing taste teasers. I see too many sandwiches that are all about bun. That’s not the case at Goose Feathers, where the sandwich maker has struck just that right balance between bread and filling. Hooray!

I scored a sticky bun with pecans to go for an afternoon pick–me–up – and nabbed a mini Whoopie Pie with Bailey’s Irish Cream filling to share later that day with Ms. T.J. Whoopie Pies are a Goose Feathers’ adaptation of an Amish treat. Leftover cake batter is coaxed into cookies, then sandwiched around flavored cream filling. The chocolate cake and flavored snack has become a near legendary Goose Feathers’ offering – and flavors change from season to season.

Outside of hotels, Goose Feathers is also among a handful of downtown locations that offers breakfast, from a full, rib–sticking meal to pastries, rolls and lighter breakfast fare. Soups and sandwich specials change daily.

A bustling lunch trade means a line – but the cafe accepts phoned in carry–out orders and orders via its website. cs 39 Barnard St./912–233–4683 Monday–Friday 7 a.m.–3 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.–3 p.m. www.goosefeatherscafe.com

Still your dad’s beer When we last talked, I gave you the head’s up on some of my favorite Irish and Irish–style beers. But, as some of my learned colleagues pointed out, St. Pat’s Day is really just about cheap, erh, inexpensive beer guzzling.

That point was driven home last week when Schlitz, the beer that made Milwaukee famous, rolled back into Georgia with its “Classic 1960’s Formula,” based on the original recipe that once made it the best selling beer in the country.

Schlitz has brought back the American lager flavor of the 1950s and 1960s long since forgotten by many major brewers. It’s the flavor that guys my age remember from sipping our father’s beer during backyard barbecues.

Oh, the halcyon days...

Brewmaster Bob Newman, winner of two consecutive Brewmaster of the Year awards at the Great American Beer Festival, got together with former Schlitz brewmasters from the 1960s to develop the classic, full–bodied brew.

Count on a maltier foundation than most mass–market beers – and a “kiss of hops” bitterness that helped the original formula stand above the crowd.

But don’t stop there. Conveniently, Crystal Beer Parlor has assembled a “Beers of Our Fathers” list comprised of what I call “heritage brands.”

Another newcomer to that lineup is Rheingold – back in Georgia after decades of exile. Born in 1883 in New York, it captured more than 35 percent of that state’s beer drinkers in the 1930s and 1940s. In the 1970s, the brand fell by the wayside, but was brought back in 1998 – brewed now in Wilton, Conn.

This is not the original dry lager but a contemporary incarnation of a legendary brand. It’s got market appeal in its nostalgic packaging – and sits solidly alongside a cadre of old–school brands in terms of flavor.

Another pair stands out for me on Crystal Beer Parlor’s heritage list.

Strohs is back in its familiar can. Yeah, it’s an enjoyable cold beer, but still not the big–bodied brew I recall from college – when a “pizza–and– Strohs” diet fueled my youthful journalistic aspirations. Mickey’s Fine Malt Liquor, AKA The Green Grenade,” remains a malty alternative to the light lager style.

Other favs from the “Beers of Our Fathers” list are Genesee Cream Ale, Old Milwaukee and, of course, Dixie.

Fun beers, indeed, and even more fun to enjoy at the bar beside an old–timer who will gladly reminisce with you about his first Genesee or Mickey’s. These are easy drinking beers, with ABV of generally less than 5.5 percent. cs

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During a time when just about every profession is seriously compromised in some way — banking, politics, law, insurance, cops medicine, media, you name it — this is perhaps the only profession we have left that does nothing but good things.

This past Friday and Saturday an enormous host of organic farmers and those in affiliated businesses and groups gathered for the annual Georgia Organics conference, held at the Trade Center on Hutchinson Island.

After a full day of farm tours on Friday — for which more perfect weather couldn’t have been envisioned — Friday evening and early Saturday was the time for networking at the Expo, featuring dozens of vendors and informational booths.

“We met so many new people, and

made so many new contacts,” said Carmen Vasquez of the Savannah Food Co–op, which had a sweet location for their booth right at the entrance to the Trade Center expo hall.

Saturday afternoon was a time for extensive seminars, from Farmer D’s workshop on farming and gardening on the coastal plain, to Mark Bradle’s talk on beekeeping, to Kyla Zaro–Moore’s workshop on chickens and goats in the urban homestead (long story short: yes on chickens, no on goats).

During the break after lunch, many attendees took advantage of the still–gorgeous weather by hanging out on the grassy area by the river.

Local sustainable living advocate Kelly Lockamy helped lead an impromptu “workshop” outside on the lawn, dealing with small business models for sustainable food businesses.

The most–anticipated event of the conference, the Farmer’s Feast on Saturday night, didn’t disappoint. While keynote speaker Vandana Shiva couldn’t attend due to an emergency in India,

make no mistake: The chefs and their collective handiwork were the stars of the show.

Led by local chef Matthew Roher of Cha Bella, the stellar culinary gathering — which included Anne Quatrano of Atlanta’s Bacchanalia, Abigail Hutchinson of the Jekyll Island Club, and even Wiley McCrary of Wiley’s BBQ here in town — concocted a multi–course extravaganza for hundreds in the ballroom.

Openers included blackeyed pea hummus, honeycombs from Savannah Bee Company, pate from Far, 255, and my favorite, radishes with ricotta.

The main course features Hunter Farm brisket, Georgia shrimp and clam scampi, winter greens with pork belly, and of course grits.

It’s hard to overstate the impact of such an event on the morale of local growers and restaurateurs. Next year’s Georgia Organics conference is on the other end of the state, in Columbus. See you there? cs

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John Rubinstein and the Music Festival John Rubinstein is one of those actors whose face you’ll recognize immediately – he’s been on stage and television for more than 30 years – but you may not know his name.

Well, let’s set things straight.

Rubinstein began his stage career as the titular character in the original Broadway production of Pippin. In the late ‘70s, he played Meredith Baxter’s estranged husband on the popular TV melodrama Family. Then he won a Tony for his performance onstage in Children of a Lesser God. He co–starred with Jack Warden in the series Crazy Like a Fox, turned up in everything from The West Wing to The Love Boat to Friends to Desperate

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Arthur Rubinstein, he has also composed and conducted the music for more than 50 TV shows and movies, including Robert Redford’s Jeremiah Johnson and The Candidate, and the

series China Beach.

The music thing probably explains why Rubinstein is coming to Savannah April 5, to narrate the world premiere of composer Marc Neikrug’s Death Cell Memoirs of An Extraterrestrial.

Neikrug’s work for violin, piano, clarinet and actor, which is part of the Savannah Music Festival, is being touted as a “comedic chamber work.”

The SMF’s Daniel Hope will play violin, alongside Benny Kim, Tracy Silverman, Philip Dukes, Keith Robinson, Patrick Messina and Simon Crawford–Phillips.

The 8 p.m. concert – part of the SMF’s “Daniel Hope and Friends” series – will be at the Lucas Theatre, and will also feature the ensemble of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and String Quartet in C minor Op. 110 by Shostakovich.

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Click on over to shatnerstoupee. blogspot.com, and you’ll find an obsessive webmaster who chronicles the over–the–years changes in actor William Shatner’s appearance.

Under the “Fun Facts” section: “Bill Shatner started wearing an on–screen toupee in 1957 as his hair began to thin while he was still in his twenties!”

“We haven’t managed to locate a single toup–less picture of Bill Shatner after 1959.”

A crazy fan? Perhaps. A guy with way too much time on his hands? Undoubtedly.

But there can be no question that William Alan Shatner, Quebec–born in 1931, has a massive fan base, not only for his legendary and lengthy turn as James T. Kirk in the Star Trek universe, but for his often ham–handed, stop–start acting style and many, many questionable career choices.

Today’s generation may only know Shatner from his current status as a lead performer on the sitcom $#*! My Dad Says. Or the guy on the Priceline com-

mercials. Or maybe they’ve seen him in reruns of Boston Legal.

Plus, of course, the original Star Trek series episodes — not to mention the seven feature films in which he reprised his role as Kirk — are on the tube constantly.

Big Bill turns 80 on March 22; to mark the occasion, there’ll be an eight–hour marathon at Muse Arts Warehouse on Sunday, featuring many of Shatner’s lesser–known feature film exploits, TV appearances and more than a few outtakes, freakouts and other ephemera from the career of our most famous over–actor.

“I truly love William Shatner,” says Psychotronic Film Society guru Jim Reed, who’s behind the Muse event, “and think he’s a fantastic actor who is too often mocked or ignored by those who think he’s just a ham who’s becoming unjustly famous.”

It’s true that parodying Shatner has become a lampshade–at–the–party tradition in America. He is almost universally considered the poster boy for bad acting:

Take a thick slice of ham (Shatner himself), add a bit of cheese (pretty much any role he took immediately post–Trek), apply his self–consciously wry “humor” and, sir, you’ve got yourself a substantial Shat sandwich.

Not everyone, of course, agrees.

“There’s certainly an element of self–deprecating humor that has crept into his work since the early ‘80s when he re–imagined himself as more of an ironic figure,” Reed says, “but at heart, he’s a classically trained stage actor who was being groomed for serious dramatic roles before becoming a worldwide sci–fi and pop–culture icon against his wishes.”

It might have been against Shatner’s wishes, but at the end of the day Star Trek set him up, comfortably, for life.

On an episode of Saturday Night Live in 1986, he played himself in a skit, imploring the rabid attendees of a Star Trek convention to “Get a life! For crying out loud, it’s just a TV show.”

Reed emphasizes there won’t be a frame of Star Trek at his birthday bash — it’s all vintage Shatner–the–actor.

2 p.m.: Alexander the Great (1964) “Plus rare TV game show, musical and interview clips from the 1970s. At the time of its filming, Alexander The Great was the most expensive TV pilot ever made. It was envisioned as the first weekly TV series in the style of sweeping, historical battle epics, and starred Shatner in the title role, as well as Adam West (later TV’s Batman), famed indie actor/director John Cassavetes, Joseph Cotten and Simon Oakland.

After completion, this one–hour film (depicting the legendary Battle of Issus in 333 B.C.), was deemed too “exotic” and salacious for middle–American audiences and sat on a shelf for almost half a decade, until Shatner and West were both famous for Star Trek and Batman, and then it was shown just once as a TV movie to capitalize on their success. Shatner has publicly said that he based his take on the character of Captain Kirk on this earlier role. As a bonus, we’ll also show a compilation of rare 1970s TV appearances by Shatner where he sings, does dramatic poetry readings, is interviewed and appears on game shows.”

4:30 p.m: Impulse (aka Want a Ride, Little Girl?) (1974) “Considered the worst film of Shatner’s career, and one of the most laughably bad movies ever made, this ridiculously campy “thriller” was shot for next–to–nothing in Florida during a time when Shatner was so broke he was living in his car and taking whatever acting jobs he was offered. He plays a sleazy, paranoid, womanizing serial killer whose violent temper stems from a childhood trauma. Filled with hammy acting, horrible production values, tacky ‘70s leisure suit fashions and

unbelievably bad dialog, it’s prized by Shatner fans as perhaps their ultimate guilty pleasure. Also starring Harold Sakata (who played Odd Job in the early James Bond film Goldfinger).”

6:30 pm: Incubus (1965) “Written and directed by the great Leslie Stevens (the man behind much of the original Outer Limits TV series), this “lost” cult classic is the only feature length film ever shot completely in the artificial language of Esperanto. Made on a shoestring budget in the California desert, although it looks and feels like a European art film, it was beautifully shot by the Oscar–winning cinematographer Conrad Hall (American Beauty, Marathon Man, In Cold Blood, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid), and was unseen for decades when the negative and all prints of the film were mistakenly destroyed. Miraculously, a forgotten and pristine print of the film was accidentally discovered in the basement of a French theater, and has now been fully restored – with new English subtitles added for those who do not speak Esperanto.”

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“The real idea behind this marathon is to show ‘the best and the worst’ of Shatner’s film career, through some of his rarest and/or most underappreciated movies,” he explains.

“Some of these are legitimately campy and laughably bad (like Impulse, for example) – but most of that is not due to Shatner himself. He turns in solid performances. It’s just that the settings or the material is atrocious, because those were the only parts he could get after being typecast as Captain Kirk.”

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by Amy Longsdorf

Seven years into an astonishingly successful film career, Amanda Seyfried knows a thing or two about happy endings.

Once upon a time, she, like millions of other kids, was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio. She practiced lines from his movies in front of the mirror in her Allentown, Penn. home, imaging herself as one of his co–stars.

Cut to 14 years later and Seyfried is working for Leo on the sexy fairy–tale reboot Red Riding Hood, which he produced.

The film opens this week in Savannah.

“If I could have told my 11–year–old self that one day I’d be sitting around talking to Leo, I’d probably have died on the spot,” says Seyfried with a laugh.

Getting the opportunity to hang out with Leo is just the beginning of Seyfried’s charmed existence. In addition to starring in Red Riding Hood, she has a number of other high–profile projects in the pipeline.

Due in September is Now, a sci–fi thriller about a society in which no one ages. Then comes Gone, an action movie about a young woman who must hunt down the man responsible for kidnapping her sister.

Following the success of the mainstream romances Dear John and Letters to Juliet, Seyfried (pronounced Sigh–Fred) was determined to move outside her comfort zone. In Now, she’s a red–head who gets to shoot a gun alongside Justin Timberlake. In Gone, she wades into the world of serial killers.

“I always like to do the opposite of what I’ve just done,” notes the actress during a phone interview from Los Angeles. “I’ll always do that because I think [it’s the key] to longevity in this business.”

Red Riding Hood initially captured Seyfried’s imagination because the idea for the movie originated with DiCaprio. “He’s made some great choices,” she says. “He’s one of the best. So, knowing the premise came from him piqued my interest.”

Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, who oversaw the first Twilight movie, Red Riding Hood stars Seyfried as a medieval maiden named Valerie who finds herself torn between two suitors – an upstanding man (Max Irons) her parents want her to marry and the unconventional woodcut-

ter (Shiloh Fernandez) she’s loved her entire life.

If that wasn’t enough of a problem for Valerie, she, like the rest of the villagers, is being menaced by a big bad wolf.

Co–starring in the film are Gary Oldman as a werewolf hunter and Julie Christie as Valerie’s bohemian grandmother.

“I love that our movie adds a supernatural element to the tale,” notes Seyfried.

“There’s a wolf that talks, a love triangle, and a murder mystery. There’s so much going on. It’s just the kind of movie that I’d want to see even if I wasn’t a part of it.”

Budgeted at $42 million, Red Riding Hood is one of a handful of fairy– tale–driven features being produced by Hollywood. Now playing is Beastly, an update of the “Beauty and Beast” story starring Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens. Still to come are competing Snow White movies starring Julia Roberts and Kristen Stewart, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters with Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton, and Bryan Singer’s Jack and the Beanstalk featuring Nicholas Hoult.

Seyfried enjoyed giving the Red fairy tale a modern spin by turning it from a traditional girl–in–peril saga to the coming–of–age story of a brave–hearted heroine.

“I love Valerie,” says Seyfried, 25. “I wish I had the balls she has. She’s fearless, and I feel like a fragile human being She doesn’t have time to worry about petty stuff. And she follows her heart 100 percent. She’s assertive, not the damsel in distress of so many fairy tales.”

While Seyfried doesn’t see many comparisons between Red Riding Hood and Twilight, she’s hoping fans of the brooding vampire flicks will flock to Hardwicke’s latest thriller.

“I like connecting with young audiences and Catherine is so good at that,” says the actress. “She has such a youthful spirit herself.”

Hardwicke says she warmed to Seyfried immediately after catching her perform at an autism benefit. “From the first time I saw Amanda, I knew she was something special,” the director notes. “She had

everything we needed for the character Amanda is tough, she’s sexy, she’s funny, she’s vulnerable–she has it all. And the way she looks is straight out of a fairy tale.

She has an ethereal quality, with the most amazing eyes that just draw you in.”

Modeling since she was 11, Amanda got her first big break in the Tina Fey– scripted comedy Mean Girls in 2004. Next came a stint as Meryl Streep’s daughter in the hit musical Mamma Mia!, a turn as Megan Fox’s best friend in the zombie comedy Jennifer’s Body and starring roles in mainstream romances Dear John and Letters To Juliet.

Last year, Seyfried departed the HBO series Big Love, in which she appeared for four seasons as Bill Paxton and Jeanne Tripplehorn’s daughter Sarah. In December, she returned to join the cast for the series finale, which will air March 20.

“It didn’t feel like any time had passed,” she says. “It was great being back with the old gang, sitting in a circle and chatting about boyfriends and fiancees and pets and children. It was the same old thing and that’s the most beautiful thing.”

As Seyfried has raced up the A–list, she’s become a prime paparazzi target.

Almost every week, the tabloids are full of pictures of her walking her beloved Australian Shepherd pooch Finn, picking up healthy fare at the Whole Foods supermarket or enjoying a coffee with new boyfriend Ryan Phillippe.

“You find these photographers in the weirdest places,” she says. “I went on a wine–tasting tour with my friends outside Santa Barbara and there were two guys taking my picture. I don’t know what they were expecting to see me do, but I felt guilty for disturbing the peace.”

While the actress has long expressed a desire to move back East – in 2009, she purchased one of 103 condos in New York City’s Devonshire House – she recently decided to put down roots in Los Angeles by buying a home at the bottom of the Hollywood Hills near Runyon Canyon Park.

“It has a big back yard which is perfect for my dog to run around in,” she says.

“One of the first things I did was to have this contractor friend of mine build Finn a sandbox so he can dig in there all day long. He loves it.” cs

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Red Riding Hood

The idea of combining a werewolf tale with a whodunit is an interesting one, and the notion of adding layers of Freud and feminism onto the wolfman saga is positively genius. These angles have been tackled before (the Peter Cushing vehicle The Beast Must Die and Neil Jordan’s mesmerizing The Company of Wolves, respectively), but Red Riding Hood initially promises that it will ambitiously tackle the lycanthrope tale on both fronts. Unfortunately, it botches the assignment, resulting in a film that proves to be rather toothless.

Catherine Hardwicke’s status as the director of Thirteen is a plus, but she’s also the helmer of the first Twilight picture, and it’s the overriding influence of that blockbuster that damages this film. A well–cast Amanda Seyfried plays Valerie, a young medieval maiden whose village has long been plagued by the presence of a werewolf. A visiting moral crusader (Gary Oldman, in camp mode) reveals that the wolfman is actually someone from the village, and this causes everyone to view their neighbors with suspicion and – shades of The Crucible – hurl accusations of witchcraft.

Had Hardwicke and scripter David Johnson buried themselves in the lore and atmosphere of their setting while accentuating the legend’s leaps into sensuality, violence and the allure of latent desires, it could have worked beautifully. Instead, the focus is on the love triangle between Valerie and the village’s two cutest boys, the smoldering Peter (Shiloh Fernandez)

and the simpering Henry (Max Irons). The teen angst that Hardwicke brought to the original Twilight (still the best film in that series) was appropriate, but here, it creates a modernity that’s at odds with the rest of the film. After all, it’s hard to bury oneself in the picture’s moody period setting when the central thrust remains that Valerie basically has to choose between Justin Bieber and a Jonas Brother.

Drive Angry

Nicolas Cage’s hilarious, split–second cameo as Fu Manchu in Grindhouse’s Werewolf Women of the SS faux trailer must have whetted the actor’s appetite for headlining feature–length throwbacks to the disreputable fare of yore, as evidenced by many of the movies he’s accepted over the last few years. Despite its high–gloss 3–D presentation, Drive Angry is the most obvious example of his commitment, given its penchant for fast cars, hot women and bloody

BATTLE: LOS ANGELES It takes a special type of hack to make Roland Emmerich look like Orson Welles, but Jonathan Liebesman appears to be the right man for the job. The less said about most Emmerich movies (like 2012 and Matthew Broderick Meets Godzilla), the better, but he did helm Independence Day back in the mid–1990s, and for all that film’s faults – specifically, that it contained not a single idea it could rightfully call its own – it knew how to milk the hell out of its H.G. Wells–by–way–of–Hollywood premise and, silly as it sounds, make us proud to be human.

Battle: Los Angeles, which mines the same territory as ID and countless other alien–invasion opuses that came before it, is so feeble that we really don’t care who wins the global skirmish: the E.T.s or the earthlings. At least if the aliens win, we won’t have to sit through any more movies like this one.

The constantly undervalued Aaron Eckhart, last seen doing terrific work in Rabbit Hole, and the exciting Michelle Rodriguez, once again relegated to grunt duty (she basically plays the same role here as in Avatar, S.W.A.T. and Resident Evil), are the closest things to “name” actors in this endeavor (added bonus: a “name” rapper in Ne–Yo!), but their welcome presence can only drag this up a smidgen. They’re both cast as soldiers (he’s a Marine sergeant, she’s with the Air Force) who spring into action when Earth is invaded by creatures bent on wiping out all human life.

Most of the world’s major cities – London, Paris, New York, Gastonia, NC – have already been decimated, leaving LA as the last great hope for humankind’s survival. So it’s up to Eckhart’s Sgt. Nantz and his gang to rise to the occasion. “Retreat? Hell!” bark the Marines at regular intervals, as a sign that they’ll never back down.

Battle: Los Angeles is such an ADD– afflicted action film that it’s impossible to invest much emotion in it. There’s a cursory attempt at the beginning to humanize its characters – This one’s getting married! This one’s not combat– ready! This one can burp out the lyrics to “In–A–Gadda–Da–Vida”! (OK, just joshing on the last one) – but they’re all so one–dimensional that once the fighting begins, it’s difficult to keep track of who’s who. “Where’s Lenihan?” someone asks regarding a missing comrade, but they might as well have been asking, “Where’s Waldo?” for all it ultimately matters.

The design of the alien critters is the usual blend of crunchy on the outside and squishy on the inside – they resemble the monsters from Predator and Alien, to name but two of many – but that’s OK, since the camerawork and editing are executed at such dizzying paces that we never get a good look at most of the CGI work anyway.

“Retreat”? Yes, please. Where’s the nearest exit?

Rango

It’s nice to see that, when it comes to producing quality animated features, Hollywood studios have managed to change their, uh, toon. For many years, Pixar was the only outfit consistently releasing choice animated movies, but it finally appears that other studios’ specialized departments are finally getting the hang of it. Disney has recently regained some of its old mojo, while DreamWorks and Universal have mancontinues on p. 52

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But whereas the recent Machete managed to both pay homage to its celluloid ancestors while emerging as an entertaining movie in its own right, this one ultimately proves to be a drag, getting off to a gleeful start before losing its way.

As if he didn’t learn his lesson from Ghost Rider, Cage again plays a character who’s a literal hellraiser –– here, he’s Milton (presumably a nod to Paradise Lost scribe John Milton), who escapes Satan’s lair to return to Earth for the sole purpose of saving his granddaughter from a murderous cult led by Jonah King (Billy Burke, aka Bella’s dad in Twilight). Milton’s assisted in his efforts by a tough beauty named Piper (Amber Heard) and pursued by Lucifer’s most accomplished tracker, known simply as “The Accountant” (William Fichtner).

The opening half–hour, which relies heavily on the story’s unusual characterizations as well as on some finely salted dialogue, promises more than the rest of the picture can deliver. Even by mindless drive–in standards, the action becomes rote long before the end, and Jonah King turns out to be a dull, one–note villain, a detriment in this sort of over–the–top fare.

Even Cage is restrained more than usual, leaving Fichtner to provide any pop to the proceedings. He’s amusing in that quirky Christopher Walken way, and a more appropriately bug–eyed turn from Cage would have resulted in a more memorable face–off.

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aged to lay their hands on more worthy material than what was previously being offered.

Of course, let’s not go overboard with the praise: For every Rango, there’s inevitably a Gnomeo & Juliet.

Still, the pleasures of Rango are vast enough to wash away the bitter aftertaste left by any of the feeble family films of late, although I suppose I should hasten to add that Rango isn’t a kid flick by any stretch of the imagination: Instead of a G rating, it sports a PG, and I daresay even a PG–13 wouldn’t have been out of line. Then again, that’s perfectly in line with a work that in its finest moments comes across as a Coen Brothers film with anthropomorphic animals instead of flesh–and– blood humans.

Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski has teamed with Johnny Depp and The Aviator scripter John Logan to fashion a frequently warped and always humorous quasi–Western in which a chameleon (voiced by Depp) who had previously enjoyed the comfy life of a family pet winds up in the dusty town of Dust, where he gets elected sheriff after convincing the locals that he’s one tough hombre.

Rango is so imaginatively realized in terms of its camera angles and backdrops that the sense of detail brings to mind a live–action flick rather than an animated one – it’s no surprise to see ace cinematographer Roger Deakins (True Grit) listed in the closing credits as “visual consultant.” As for the narrative, it’s a film buff ’s delight, expertly incorporating elements from, among others, Clint Eastwood’s Spaghetti Westerns, Apocalypse Now and, with its plot thread of the villain trying to control a town’s water rights(!), Chinatown.

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU One person’s religious beliefs are often another person’s existentialist theories, and The Adjustment Bureau offers plenty of theological fodder to go around. Because it tinkers with notions involving God and chance and destiny and all that other stuff that’s fun to discuss whether under or over the influence, it might turn off those types of folks who badly misunderstood Martin Scorsese’s brilliant and heartfelt Christian ode, The Last Temptation of Christ. Other viewers, however, might appreciate the movie’s ability to question omniscient authority with the proper mix of reverence and reflection.

Based on a short story by Holly-

wood’s go–to sci–fi author Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner, Minority Report, etc.), this stars Matt Damon as aspiring U.S. senator David Norris, who, on the night of a humbling defeat, meets promising dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt). The pair are instantly attracted to one another, but David soon learns from the members of a shadowy cabal that they are never meant to be together.

Yet these imposing figures in long coats and hats aren’t just any muscle men – they’re actually spiritual beings who help keep our world in balance by following the orders of the so–called “Chairman.” But David refuses to accept his fate, leading the ethereal enforcers to resort to strong–arm tactics to contain the situation.

The film’s notion that true love conquers all would fall flat with the wrong leads, but Damon and Blunt possess a lovely, laid–back chemistry that allows us to believe in their union. Because their casting is so apt, The Adjustment Bureau often feels like a romantic yarn first and a fantasy flick second, with some nifty chase sequences thrown in for good measure.

Hall Pass

It’s hard to wax philosophic about a film in which a portly guy stoned out of his gourd elects to use a golf course sand trap like so much kitty litter, so let’s just state that Hall Pass, the latest yarn from those wacky Farrelly Brothers, doesn’t merely alternate between scenes that are dumb and dumber. It’s actually a smart picture at times, both in its dissection of marital matters and in its ability to extract solid laughs from dubious situations.

This latest bit of naughty cinema never matches the heights of Judd Apatow’s The 40–Year–Old Virgin or the Farrellys’ own There’s Something About Mary, although it comes close in a few scenes. But it’s certainly better than those dreadful Adam Sandler–Dennis Dugan collaborations, which allow their male characters to remain infantile with no repercussions – in contrast, the immature guys in these other movies are allowed to grow through their trials and tribulations. At the same time, it’s important not to oversell Hall Pass, which unfortunately goes on too long and runs out of steam before it comes to a close.

Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis play Rick and Fred, suburban hubbies who spend all their time ogling other women and imagining all the fun they could be having were they still single.

They love their wives (Jenna Fischer

(two scenes featuring bowel movements is at least one – and probably two – too many).

BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son isn’t like Some Like It Hot; instead, it’s like every other witless sequel meant to prolong the life cycle of a flailing franchise. Like it or not, the fact remains that there’s not much to like here, and it only escapes a bomb rating because it’s more irritating than offensive – like an ant crawling across a countertop rather than a roach roosting in the cereal box.

The second sequel to the 2000 box office hit Big Momma’s House, this finds Martin Lawrence again cast as FBI agent Malcolm Turner, donning the wig and fat suit once more to elude some Russian mobsters. The added, uh, hilarity comes with the notion that Malcolm’s stepson Trent (Brandon T. Jackson) must also disguise himself as a female – in his case, a student named Charmaine. Together, Madea – excuse me, Big Momma – and Charmaine head to an all–girls arts school to un-

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Unknown

I don’t mind that Unknown, which builds on Liam Neeson’s newly minted status as a tortured action hero, is utterly ridiculous. Why? Because within the constraints of its absurdity, it always manages to play fair with the audience.

This is a radical departure from many contemporary thrillers in which the filmmakers are so focused on the twist ending that they barrel toward that destination with little rhyme or reason. The result is invariably a storyline riddled with plotholes and saddled with, let’s face it, a twist that was pretty easy to spot in the first place.

But Unknown isn’t like that. It starts with Dr. Martin Harris (Neeson) and his wife (January Jones) arriving in Berlin to attend a conference. A subsequent

accident while riding in a taxi cab leaves him with a moderate case of amnesia, able to recall his identity but not the details surrounding the accident – and utterly unable to explain why his wife insists that another man (Aidan Quinn) is the real Martin Harris.

Alone in a foreign land, Martin tries to piece the mystery together with the help of the cab driver (Diane Kruger), whose illegal–immigrant status makes her reluctant to get involved, and an elderly private detective (German national treasure Bruno Ganz), who’s hoping to recapture a smidgen of the excitement he enjoyed during his time as a member of the Stasi.

Neeson is as compelling here as he was in his previous Euro–action yarn Taken, and the picture even makes some modest political jabs by presenting Kruger’s illegal immigrant as a heroine who’s smart, resourceful and tough, an asset to the population of any country. Mostly, though, the film keeps its focus on its central mystery, and when everything is finally explained, we can quietly smile at its outlandishness while simultaneously applauding it for not insulting our intelligence. CS

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and Christina Applegate, respectively) but crave some excitement in their staid lives.

After some debate, the ladies – who, it must be noted, are sharper than their spouses and have long figured out the rationale behind their gooberish, sex–crazed behavior – elect to give their fellows a “hall pass,” the opportunity to take a week off from marriage and do anything their suddenly single hearts (and other organs) desire. But getting back into the swingers’ swing of things is harder than the men imagined, leading them to mistake Applebee’s for a place to find hotties and employing pickup lines that surely have never worked in this planet’s entire history (“Are you from Ireland? Cuz seeing you, I feel my penis Dublin”).

Like most Farrelly flicks, Hall Pass is perfectly cast straight down the line: Wilson contributes a sensitivity that’s integral to his character’s confusion, and Richard Jenkins scores some laughs as an unlikely chick–magnet.

Perhaps in an effort to compete with the industry’s younger raconteurs of raunch, the Farrellys go all–out with the gross–outs, leading to mixed results

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Activism & Politics Chatham County Democratic Party

For info, contact Tony Center at 912-2339696 or TonyCenter@comcast.net Chatham County Democratic Headquarters, 313 W. York St. , Savannah http://www.chathamdems.net/

Non-violence program

Heads up Savannah PEACE NIKS: Just War and Non Violence curriculum. Free and open to the public at 6:30 at the UU Beloved Community 1001 E. Gwinnett. This 8-sesssion class will look at what makes war just and the history and practice of non-violence.

Meets 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month.

For info, contact uubc2@aol.com

Savannah Area Young Republicans

For information, visit www.savannahyoungrepublican.com or call Allison Quinn at 308-3020.

Savannah Tea Party

meets the first Monday (excluding Holidays) of each month from 4:30 to 6:00 PM at the SRP offices located at 11 East 73rd Street.

All persons interested in America’s Future are invited. Contact Marolyn Overton at 912598-7358 for additional info.

Benefits 7th Annual Lend A Hand Charity Gala

featuring cocktails, dinner, music, dancing, silent auction and raffle. Proceeds will benefit children in coastal Georgia and in the Village of Hope in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.

Saturday, April 16, 6:30 p.m. Cocktails (open bar), 8:00 p.m. Dinner (Indian & Western food). DeSoto Hilton, 15 E. Liberty St. Tickets: 125 ($75 tax deductible); Call 912-856-9713.

Coastal Empire Boy Scout Golf Tournament

Monday, March 28th at the Club at Savannah Harbor. All funds raised will benefit local inner city Scout-Reach youth. Registration includes lunch, dinner, team photo and gift for every participant. This is a 4-person scramble format. Entry deadline is March 23rd. 912-927-7272 or online at www.bsasavannah.org

Honor Flight Fundraiser

Honor Flight Savannah and the Savannah Artisans Guild sponsor an arts bazaar to raise funds for Honor Flight, which provides WWII vets free trips to see the WWII monument in Washington DC. April 16, 10am-2pm at the National Guard Armory on Eisenhower Drive. www.honorflightsavannah.org

Hope House of Savannah

A nonprofit housing program for homeless women and their children. Hope House is requesting donation of new or gently used furniture for its transitional housing program, Peeler House. Pick-up can be arranged and a tax deductible letter will be provided. Call 236-5310.

Household Supplies Drive

Park Place Outreach, youth emergency shelter is accepting canned food and household supplies. Household items needed include, cleaning supplies, laundry detergent, fabric softener, paper towels and toilet paper.

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Kiss-a-Pig Spa Nights

Heavenly Spa at Savannah Harbor offers free treatments (incl. massage, mani-pedi, or facial) in exchange for minimum $50 donations to the American Diabetes Foundation’s Kiss-a-Pig fundraiser. Spa nights are from 5-10pm on Feb. 10, March 10, and April 15.

Adv. reservations are req’d by calling 912201-2250.

Pierogie Sale

Baba’s Kitchen. 10am-noon, 1st Sat. of every month; March 5th, April 2, May 7 and by appointment. ph. 912-826-5176 or e-mail babas.pierogies@gmail.com St. Mary Magdalene Sisterhood 1625 Fort Howard Rd. Rincon, GA 31326

Rape Crisis Center Incest Survivor’s Group

As part of its ongoing work with incest survivors, the Rape Crisis Center has built a cinder-block wall where incest survivors can throw plates as an anger management technique. In order to continue, donations of china are needed. Call 233-3000 to make a donation.

Shamrock Scramble

A city wide scavenger hunt and pub crawl.

Prizes for best team costume, first to finish, and more. Benefits Susan G. Komen and local breast cancer groups. March 19, starts at 2pm at Blowin’ Smoke. $20/person covers participation, t-shirt and oyster roast at the finish line. www.shamrockscramble.com

Skate to stop diabetes

The Savannah Derby Devils host this Kiss-aPig campaign event for the American Diabetes Association. Strap on some skates with the Derby Devils at Starcastle for the night. $25/person. Advance tickets only via website.

No doors sales. March 23, 5:30-7:30pm. www.savannahderby.com

Yoga Marathon

Louie’s Kids and COPE are readying for the first Yoga Marathon in historic Forsyth Park on April 9, 12-3pm. Louie’s Kids and COPE are raising money to help fight childhood obesity. Visit www.louieskids.org/yoga for more info or contact sbaker@copeforchange. org

Call for Entries AWOL’s Theater Arts Program

All Walks of Life’s Theater Arts Program is looking for experienced staff to assist with its next annual production, which will begin in September. Positions include Stage Manager, Assistant Director, Choreographer, and Set Designer. All applicants should turn in headshot,resume, and sample of design or portfolio. E-mail: kgreen@awolinc.org. For more info: www.awolinc.org

Call for Craftspeople

Local fine arts and crafts gallery is looking for local and regional artisans, most specifically within the diciplines of metals, fibre/ textiles, ceramics, furniture, 3-d and some 2-d with heavy emphasis on construction and assemblage. Please email amcraftsmansav( at)gmail(dot)com for artist guidelines.

Kids Who Care Scholarships

This spring, five $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to high school seniors from Chatham, Bryan, Effingham, Bullock, Jasper,

Liberty, Glynn, and Beaufort (SC) counties who have demonstrated a strong commitment to volunteerism and outstanding community involvement. Applications are due March 18, 2011 and are available online at jrleaguesav.org or call 912-790-1002.

Summer Music Scholarships

The Savannah Friends of Music will again provide Summer Music Scholarships to outstanding “rising” 9th through 12th grade music students who wish to attend summer music camps. Application forms may be obtained on the website savannahfriendsofmusic.com, by clicking “Summer Music Scholarships.” The deadline for applying is April 1. For questions, call 231-1989.

The old Hotel Tybee

Harry Spirides is collecting stories and photos from the old Hotel Tybee, which stood on the island from the late 1880s until its destruction in 1960. He’s working on a book about the historic establishment. Anyone with memories, memorabilia or anything else related to the hotel is asked to contact: hoteltybeebook@oceanplaza.com or call 912-786-7777.

Working Woman of the Year nominations

AWWIN is now accepting nominations for the AWWIN Top Ten Working Women of The Year Awards until March 31. The Gala and Silent Auction to honor the Top Ten will take place Friday, May 13, 2011 at 7:00PM at the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum. Nominations are open to all cities and states in the USA. Visit www.awwin.org for more info.

Youth drumline and drama programs

Register for the Drumline and the Savannah Drama Club. Youth ages 6-14. Call 349-0774

Classes, Camps & Workshops $1 Gymnastics Class

Coach Wayne teaches gymnastics in the Savannah Mall every Saturday. Introductory class is $1. www.coachwayne.com, or call 912-925-0800.

Art Classes

Experimental and classical art. Draw and paint figurative or abstract. Choose the technique which interests you the most.

Lean about other artists and art history. The teacher is a former art professor with two masters in art and 20 years of experience in teaching art. contact: 912-604-3281

Art,-Music, Piano and Voice-coaching

For all age groups, beginners through advanced, classic, modern, jazz improvisation and theory. Serious inquiries only. 961-7021 or 667-1056.

Basic Breastfeeding Class

Two-hour session designed to educate and support the mother planning to breastfeed. $20 per couple. call 912-350-BORN (2676) or visit women.memorialhealth.com. 6:30pm8:30pm, Tuesday, March 22, Women’s Services Conference Room, Center for Advanced Medicine at Memorial.

Beading Classes

Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced at Bead Dreamer Studio, 407A E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Call 920-6659. Bead Dreamer Studio, Savannah http://www.beaddreamer.com/

Boater Safety Classes

SCMPD hosts a series of certified safety classes. Does not include on the water instruction. Participants may qualify for insurance discounts. Must be at least 12 years old.

April 16, May 21, June 18, July 16, August 20, September 17, October 15, November 19. For info or to register, call 912-921-5451. Free and open to the public.

Boating Skills and Seamanship

Boat handling, tides and currents, basic navigation, required equipment, and other topics important to boating safety. The classes will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays for eight nights beginning March 21st. Frank Murray Community Center, 160 Whitmarsh Island Road, 7-9 PM. $30 fee for course materials (or $35 for two family members).

Call Kent Shockey at 897-7656 or www. savannahaux.com

Building and implementing strategy

A workshop for nonprofits to learn the basics of how to design and implement a strategic plan. March 29 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the United Way Building, 428 Bull St. $90/GCN members; $130/non-members. Advance registration is required. Call 912-234-9688 for more info.

Cheese making workshop

Learn to make mozzarella & ricotta. Class will consist of a demonstration, followed by hands-on learning. There will be take-home recipes. Participants need to bring rubber gloves. To reserve a spot, email: redearthfarm@yahoo.com Or call 912.557.1053 for more info. $20-$40, sliding scale. March 26, 10am. Red Earth Farm, Reidsville, GA.

Coastal Savannah Writing Project

The CSWP will hold a series of “Super Strategy Saturdays,” designed to help area teachers improve their literacy teaching skills. 1/29: Digital storytelling strategies.

2/26: Memoir Writing & Reading Strategies.

3/26: Spring Strategies Conference for K-12 teachers. $25 per session or $60 for three sessions.

A registration form is available at www.cswp. armstrong.edu.

Coastal Savannah Writing Project

A series of “Super Strategy Saturdays,” designed to help area teachers improve their literacy teaching skills. Two upcoming sessions: “Memoir Writing & Reading Strategies,” February 26, 9am–noon in AASU University Hall 131. “Spring Strategies Conference,” March 26, 8:30am-1pm in the Armstrong Center. $25/session or $60/3sessions. Registration form is available at www.cswp.armstrong.edu

Conversational Spanish

Do you want to practice your Spanish? Come to the mesa de espanol the second Thursday and last Friday of the month at 4:30 p.m.

For information, e-mail cafecontigo@gmail. com. The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. , Savannah

Cooking Classes

The kitchen at 700 Drayton offers a variety of cooking classes in March, including lessons on Lowcountry, Northern Italian, Tapas and other cuisines. $90/person. Call 912-7215043 for info and to reserve space.

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New Horizons Adult Band Program

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Offers victim impact panels for intoxicated drivers, DUI, DWI, offenders, and anyone seeking to gain knowledge about the dangers of driving impaired. A must see for teenage drivers seeking a drivers license for the first time or teenage drivers who already received a license. The group meets once a month and the cost is $30.00. For more info: 912-443-0410.

A music program for adults who played a band instrument in high school or college and would like to have the opportunity to begin playing again. Dust off your instrument every Monday night at Portman’s Music Store (Abercorn) at 6:30p.m. The cost is $30.00 per month. All ages and ability levels are welcome. Contact Pamela Kidd at 912-354-1500 for more info.

A 2-hour course for those representing themselves in a family legal action. 1st Tuesday of each month from 5:30-7:30 pm. The fee is $20 and provides forms and assistance in the filing of divorce, child custody modifications, legitimations or contempt legal actions. Pre-registration is recommended. For info: www.mediationsavannah.com or call 912-465-6686.

How do we nurture our children’s innate spirituality without strict dogma? The Unitarian Universalist Beloved Community offers Parents as Spiritual Guides, free and open to the public. This six-session class will be held the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays from 6:30-8pm at 1001 E. Gwinnett.

Childcare can be provided with adv notice.

For more info, contact 441-0328or uubc2@ aol.com.

Family Law Workshop

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children are held at 15 E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Call 921-4646 or 220-6570 to register.

Savannah

German Classes

Ongoing classes for beginners and experienced adults. We read, learn and talk.

Everybody who likes to learn German is welcome and will have a lot of fun. Individual training and translations are available too. For more info, please call: 912-604 3281

Guitar, Bass & Double Bass Lessons

New to the area teacher with 10+ years experience has available openings for all beginner/intermediate students. Studio located 2 blocks from Daffin Park. Call 401-255-6921 to schedule a 1/2 price first lesson!

Guitar, mandolin and bass lessons

Guitar, mandolin or bass guitar lessons. emphasis on theory, reading music and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park.

912-232-5987

Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource Center

The Housing Authority of Savannah hosts a series of regular classes at the Neighborhood Resource Center. 1407 Wheaton Street. Adult literacy/GED prep: MonThurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri of month, 9-11am. Basic Computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1-3pm.

Community Computer lab: Mon-Fri, 34:30pm. For more info: 912-232-4232 x115 or www.savannahpha.com

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A life drawing class. $10 for three hours.

Work from a live model in a creative atmosphere. Contact LifeDrawingSavannah@ gmail.com for more info. The Wormhole, 2307 Bull St. http://groups.google.com/ group/LifeDrawingSavannah

Mindfulness Meditation Class

Instruction in mindfulness stress reduction meditation. Group practice with time for questions and comments. Wednesdays, 7:00-8:15pm. Yoga Co-op Savannah. 2424 Drayton St. $13/class (less with membership). www.yogacoopsavannah.com or 912-429-7264.

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Production Assistant Training Seminar

Learn important lessons about how to succeed as a production assistant for work on film crews with instructor Kenny Chaplin.

April 9, 8:45am-5:30pm. Armstrong Center, rm 126. 13040 Abercorn St. www.patrainingseminar.com

Savannah Entrepreneurial Center

Offering a variety of business classes. Call 652-3582. Savannah Entrepreneurial Center, 801 E. Gwinnett Street , Savannah

Savannah Learning Center Spanish Classes

Be bilingual. Call 272-4579. e-mail savannahlatina@yahoo.com or visit www. savannahlatina.com. Free folklore classes also are offered on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Savannah Learning Center, 7160 Hodgson Memorial Dr. , Savannah

Spring Art Classes

Spring Painting Classes - watercolor, acrylic, Chinese painting for hobby, meditation, fun, creativity. Ching Studio, 1 Blue Marlin Bay, Whitemarsh Island on route 80.

Wednesdays, 2-4 pm Saturdays, 2-4 pm.

To contact instructor Ching Levy, please call her at (912) 441-2214 or send E-mail to ma.artist@yahoo.com - www.chinglevy.com

Starfish Cafe Culinary Arts Training Program

This 14-week full-time program is designed to provide work training and employment opportunities in the food service industry, including food preparation, food safety and sanitation training, customer service training and job search and placement assistance. Call Ms. Musheerah Owens 912-234-0525 ext.1506 The Starfish Cafe, 711 East Broad Street , Savannah http://www.thestarfishcafe.org/

Summer Art Camp

Summer Art Camps for Ages 5-11 at Art on the Park Studio conveniently located on Daffin Park. June 6-10 or June 20-24 for ages 5-7. Drawing Workshop for ages 8-11, June 13-16. Early bird rates available before May 6. Call 912.354.5988 or email tskart@ yahoo.com for curriculum information and registration fees.

Telfair Art Classes

A variety of classes, including oil painting, acrylics, and youth classes from March through June. Costs per program vary.

Live action role playing group that exists in a medieval fantasy realm. Generally meets on the second weekend of the month. Free for your first event or if you’re a non-player character. $35 fee for returning characters.

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Chatham County Association for the Deaf

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Coastal MINIs

Local MINI Cooper owners and enthusiasts who gather on the first Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. to go on motoring adventures together. Visit coastalminis.com. Starbucks, Victory Drive and Skidaway Road , Savannah

Coastal Readers & Writers Circle

A Creative Writing and Reading discussion group that meets the 3rd Sunday of every month, 3:30-5pm at the new Savannah Mall Branch Library.

Bring: Passages from any of your writing that you would like to read and passages from a book, publication, or production that you would like to share with the group. www.TellingOurStoriesPress.com for more information

Dolphin Program Training

The Dolphin Project is hosting a dolphin program and training workshop at Memorial Health University Medical Center.

March 26, 10am-noon. TDP is an all-volunteer, non-profit research and education organization dedicated to the protection of wild estuarine Bottlenose dolphins and their environment for over 22 years. www. thedolphinproject.org or contact Peach: info@thedolphinproject.org

Energy Healers

Meets every Monday at 6pm. Meditation and healing with energy. Discuss aromatherapy, chakra systems and more. Call 912-695-2305 for more info. http://www. meetup.com/SavannahEnergyHealers/

Exploring The American Revolution in Savannah

Interested in exploring the role Savannah played in the American Revolution? It is the goal of this organization to attract a wide range of interested persons including, artists, writers, teachers and historians for discussion, site exploration and creative collaboration. Meets the 1st & 3rd Thursdays at 6pm. Email, Kathleen Thomas: exploretherevolution@gmail.com for more info.

Historic Savannah Chapter of ABWA

Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6-7:30 p.m. The cost is the price of the meal. RSVP to 660-8257. Tubby’s Tank House, 2909 River Dr , Thunderbolt

Honor Flight Savannah

A non-profit organization dedicated to sending our area World War II veterans to Washington DC to visit the new WWII Memorial. All expenses are paid by Honor Flight Savannah, which is not a government-supported program. They depend on donations from the community to fund their efforts. For more info: www.honorflightsavannah.org

Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet

Every Wed. 5:00PM at My House Consignments & More, 206 W. Broughton St. No fees. Wanna learn? We love to show what we know. Many different levels get together in the store. Talk, knit, share have fun!

Call 912-236-4111

Low Country Turners

This is a club for wood-turning enthusiasts.

Call Hank Weisman at 786-6953.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary

Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1 p.m. Call 786-4508. American Legion Post 184, 1 Legion Dr. , Savannah

Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS)

Join other moms for fun, inspiration, guest speakers, food and creative activities while children ages birth to 5 are cared for in a preschool-like setting. Meets the second and fourth Wednesday of the month from 9:15-11:30 am Call 898-0869 and 897-6167 or visit www.mops.org. First Baptist Church

of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd , Savannah http://www.fbcislands.com/

Old Time Radio Researcher’s Group

International fan and research group devoted to preserving and distributing oldtime radio broadcasts from 1926 to 1962.

Send e-mail to Jim Beshires at beshiresjim@yahoo.com or visit www.otrr.org.

Richmond Hill Roadies Running Club

A chartered running club of the Road Runners Association of America. For a nominal annual fee, members will receive monthly training sessions and seminars and have weekly runs of various distances. Kathy Ackerman,756-5865 or Billy Tomlinson 596-5965.

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

Members of Starfleet International and The Klingon Assault Group meet twice a month, on the first Sunday at 4 pm. at 5429 LaRoche Ave and the third Tuesday at Super King Buffet, 10201 Abercorn Street at 7:30 p.m. Call 308-2094, email kasak@ comcast.net or visit www.roguephoenix.org.

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Safe Kids Savannah

Safe Kids Savannah, a coalition dedicated to preventing childhood injuries, holds a meeting on the second Tuesday of every month from 11:30am-1pm. Visit www. safekidssavannah.org or call 912-353-3148 for more info

Samaritan House Food Pantry

Reaching out to those in need in the Pooler/Chatham area. For more info please call 912-748-5847.

Savannah Adult Recreation Club

SARC has immediate plans for starting Adult Coed Sand Volleyball leagues, and Wiffle Ball leagues. Please contact MVPSportsSav@aol.com for more details.

The also host the area’s only adult kickball league, starting March 27. Contact Andrew at SavannahKickball@aol.com

Savannah Adventure Club

Dedicated to pursuing adventures, both indoors and outdoors, throughout the Low country and beyond. Activities include sailing, camping, skydiving, kayaking, hiking, tennis, volleyball, and skiing, in addition to regular social gatherings. Free to join.

Email savannahadventureclub@gmail.com or visit www.savannahadventureclub.com

Savannah Area Sacred Harp Singers

The public is invited to come and sing early American music and folk hymns from the shape note tradition. This non-denominational community musical activity emphasizes participation, not performance.

Songs are from The Sacred Harp, an oblong songbook first published in 1844. Call 6550994.

Savannah Art Association

The non-for profit art association, the Southeast’s oldest, is currently taking applications for membership. The SAA offers workshops, community programs, exhibition opportunities, and an artistic community full of diverse and creative people from all ages, mediums, and skill levels. Please call 912-232-7731 for more info.

Savannah Brewers’ League

Meets the first Wednesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. Call 447-0943 or visit www. hdb.org and click on Clubs, then Savannah Brewers League. Moon River Brewing Co., 21 W. Bay St. , Savannah

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

A dinner meeting held the fourth Tuesday of each month (except December) at 6 p.m. at the Hunter Club. Call John Findeis at 748-7020. Hunter Army Airfield, 525 Leon-

Savannah Fencing Club

Beginner classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings for six weeks. Fees are $40. Some equipment is provided. After completing the class, you may become a member of the Savannah Fencing Club for $5 per month.

Experienced fencers are welcome to join. Call 429-6918 or send email to savannahfencing@ aol.com.

Stitch-N’s

Knit and crochet gathering held each Tuesday evening, 5pm-8pm All skill levels welcome. Free Spinning fiber into yarn group meets the first Monday of each month at 1pm. Wild Fibre, 6 East Liberty Street (near Bull St.) Call for info: 912-238-0514

Savannah Guardian Angels

Come meet the Local Chapter of the Guardian Angels on the 1st Monday of every month from 7pm-9pm at Elite Martial Arts in Pooler,GA. Free snacks and drinks and info on the Guardian Angels. For more info:www.

SavannahGuardianAngels.com

Savannah Jaycees

Meeting and information session held the 1st Tuesday of every month at 6pm to discuss upcoming events and provide an opportunity for those interested in joining the Jaycees to learn more. Must be 21-40 years old to join the chapter. 101 Atlas St. 912-353-7700 or www.savannahjaycees.com Jaycee Building, Savannah

Tarde en Espanol

Meets the last Wednesday of every month at 6:30pm in different locations to practice spoken Spanish in a casual environment.

236-8566.

The 13th Colony Patriots

A Tea Party group that meets the 13th of each month at Logan’s Road House at 6pm.

11301 Abercorn St. Open to the public.

Dedicated to the preservation of the United States Constitution and life, liberty and the

pursuit of happiness for all Americans. www.13thcolonypatriots.com or call 912-5965267.

The Peacock Guild

A literary society for bibliophiles and writers.

Monthly meetings for the Writer’s Salon are held on first Tuesday and the Book Club meets on the third Tuesday. All meetings start at 7:30 p.m. at meet at 207 E. Charlton St (Flannery O’Connor’s Childhood Home).

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Band of Horses

Monday, April 4 • 7:30 PM Johnny Mercer Theater

Savannah Newcomers Club

Open to all women who have been in the Savannah area for less than two years. Membership includes a monthly luncheon and program and, in addition, the club hosts a variety of activities, tours and events that will assist you in learning about Savannah and making new friends. Call 351-3171.

Savannah Parrot Head Club

Love a laid-back lifestyle? Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check out savannahphc. com for the events calendar or e-mail Wendy Wilson at Wendyq1053@yahoo.com.

Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club

Meets Thursdays from 7:30-8:30 a.m. at the First City Club. 32 Bull St , Savannah http:// www.savannahsunriserotary.org/

Savannah Toastmasters

Helps you improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly and supportive environment on Mondays at 6:15 p.m. at Memorial Health University Medical Center, Conference Room C. 484-6710. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah

Savannah Wine Lovers

A sometimes formal group that also sometimes just gets together to drink wine. Visit http://groups.google.com/group/savannahwine-lovers.

Son-shine Hour

Meets at the Savannah Mall at the Soft Play Mondays from 11-12 and Thursdays from 1011. Activities include songs, stories, crafts, and games for young children and their caregivers. Free, no registration, drop-ins welcome. Call Trinity Lutheran Church for details 912-925-3940 or email KellyBringman@gmail.com Savannah Mall,

Southern Wings

Local chapter of Women in Aviation International. It is open to men and women in the region who are interested in supporting women in aviation. Regular meetings are held once a month and new members are welcome. Visit www.southernwingz.com

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meets the second and fourth Tuesdays at 7pm at Books a Million to discuss, share and critique writing of fiction or non-fiction novels, essays or short stories. A meetand-greet precedes the meeting at 6:30pm.

Contact Carol North, 912-920-8891. 8108 Abercorn St , Savannah

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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver

Golden Voice of Africa: Salif Keita

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

Boundless Bluegrass: Tim O’Brien Band & The Infamous Stringdusters

Thursday, March 24 • 6 & 8 PM Charles H. Morris Center Thursday, March 24 • 8:30 PM Trustees Theater

Delta Guitar Slingers: Michael Burks, Lucky Peterson and Sherman Robertson Saturday, March 26 • 7:00 & 9:30 PM Charles H. Morris Center

Delta Guitar Slingers: Michael Burks, Lucky Peterson and Sherman Robertson

Friday, April 8 • 8:00 PM Trustees Theater

Friday, April 8 • 6:30 & 9:00 PM Charles H. Morris Center

Boundless Bluegrass: Tim O’Brien Band & The Infamous Stringdusters Saturday, April 9 11:00 AM & 1:30 PM Charles H. Morris Center

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Call 233-6014, facebook Peacock Guild or email peacockguild@googlegroups.com for more info.

The Philo Cafe

A weekly discussion group that meets from 7:30pm-9pm at Books-A-Million, 8108 Abercorn St., each Monday. Anyone craving some good conversation is invited to drop by.

No cost. For more info, email athenapluto@ yahoo.com or look up The Philo Cafe on Facebook.

Theremin/Electronic Music Enthusiasts

A club for enthusiasts of electronic music and instruments, including the theremin, synths, Mooger Foogers, jam sessions, playing techniques, compositions, gigs, etc. Philip Neidlinger, theremin@neidlinger.us.

Victorian Neighborhood Association

Meets the 2nd Tuesday of every month, at the American Legion Hall located at 1108 Bull Street. For more info visit the VNA website at: vna.club.officelive.com

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Meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell at 927-3356. Savannah

Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation

Meets the second Tuesday of every month (except October), 6:00 pm at Woodville-Tompkins, 151 Coach Joe Turner Street. Call 912232-3549 or email chesteraellis@comcast. net for more information.

Conferences CSWA-SAV Conference

Annual Professional Conference sponsor by Clinical Social Work Association of Savannah will be March 24 & 25 at the Coastal Georgia Center. The conference will address Sexual and Pornography Addictions and Other Compulsive Behaviors. 1st day - 7 core credit hours and 2nd day - 5 ethics credits will be

awarded. Registration information can be found at socialworksavannah.com.

Dance Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes

Classes for multiple ages in the art of performance dance and Adult fitness dance.

Styles include African, Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary, & Gospel. Classes are held Monday through Friday at the St. Pius X Family Resource Center. Classes start at $25.00 per month. For more information call 912-631-3452 or 912-272-2797. Ask for Muriel or Darowe. E-mail: abeniculturalarts@ gmail.com St. Pius Family Resource Center,

Adult Intermediate Ballet

Beginners Belly Dancing with Cybelle

The perfect class for those with little to no dance background. Cybelle has been formally trained and has been performing for over a decade. $15/class. Tues: 7-8pm. Visit www. cybelle3.com. For info: cybelle@cybelle3.com or call 912-414-1091 Private classes are also available. Walk-ins are welcome. Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave.

C.C. Express Dance Team

Meets every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. at the Windsor Forest Recreation Building. Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary for this group. Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731.

Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Savannah

Ceili Club

African Dance & Drum

Experience Irish Culture thru Irish social dancing. No partner or experience needed.

Learn the basics of Irish Ceili dancing. 7176 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Mondays at 7:30 p.m. For more info email PrideofIrelandGA@ gmail.com.

Argentine Tango

Classes available in Latin, ballroom and other styles. Certified instructors available.

No partner necessary. No talent? No problem! Wedding programs available. All ages welcome. Savannah Ballroom, 11 Travis St. www.savannahballroomdancing.com

Mondays & Wednesdays, 7 - 8pm, $12 per class or 8 classes for $90. Class meets year round. (912) 921-2190 The Academy of Dance, 74 West Montgomery Crossroads , Learn the rhythms of West Africa with instructor Aisha Rivers. Classes are held every Sunday - drums at 4pm, dance at 5pm Rhythms of West Africa, 607 W. 37th St. , Savannah http://www.ayoluwa.org/ Lessons Sundays 1-3:30pm. Open to the public. Cost $3.00 per person. Wear closed toe leather soled shoes if available. For more information call 912-925-7416 or email savh_tango@yahoo.com.

Doris Martin Dance Studio, 8511-h Ferguson Ave. ,

Ballroom Dance Party

Saturday, March 19, at the Frank G. Murray Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Island Rd. Intermediate Cha-Cha lesson from 78:00pm, followed by dancing until 10:30pm.

For USA Dance members: $10/single, $15/ couples; and for non-members $15/single, $20/couples. For more info, contact Jamie at 912-308-9222, or visit the website at www. usadancesavannah.org.

Beginners Belly Dance Classes

Instructed by Nicole Edge. All ages/skill levels welcome. Every Sunday, Noon-1PM, Fitness Body and Balance Studio 2127 1/2 E. Victory Dr. $15/class or $48/four. 912-5960889 or www.cairoonthecoast.com

Dance classes

Home Cookin’ Cloggers

Meet every Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at Nassau Woods Recreation Building on Dean Forest Road. No beginner classes are being held at this time, however help will be available for those interested in learning. Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731. Nassau Woods Recreation Building, Savannah

Irish Dance Classes

Glor na h’Eireann cultural arts studio is offering beginner to champion Irish Dance classes for ages 5 and up, Adult Step & Ceili, Strength & Flexibility, non-competitive and competition programs, workshops and camps. TCRG certified. For more info contact PrideofIrelandGA@gmail.com or 912-7042052.

Mahogany Shades of Beauty Inc.

offers dance classes, including hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step, as well as modeling and acting classes.

All ages and all levels are welcome. Call Mahogany B. at 272-8329.

Modern Dance Class

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Classes for beginner and intermediate levels. Fridays 10-11:15am. Doris Martin Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. For more info, call Elizabeth 912-354-5586.

Pole Dancing Class

Beginners pole dance offered Wednesdays 8pm, Level II Pole Dance offered Monday 8pm, $22/1 class, $70/4 classes, pre-registration required. Learn pole dance moves and spins while getting a full body workout.

Also offering Pole Fitness Classes Monday & Wednesday 11am. For more info: www. fitnessbodybalance.com or 912-398-4776.

Nothing comes off but your shoes.

Fitness Body & Balance Studio, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. ,

Salsa Classes

Atelier Galerie

150 Abercorn St • 233-3140 Mon-Sat 10-530 • Sun 12-4 (Corner of Oglethorpe Avenue)

Learn Salsa “Rueda de Casino” style every Wednesday, from 6-7pm Beginner, 7-8pm Intermediate, at the Delaware Recreation Center, 1815 Lincoln St. Grace, 234-6183 or Juan, 330-5421. Delaware Recreation Center, Savannah

Salsa Lessons

Offered Saturdays 11:30am-1pm. $10.00 per class. Packages prices also available.

Contact Kelly 912-398-4776 or www.fitnessbodybalance.com

Salsa Savannah offers beginner and intermediate salsa lessons on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at several locations. For more info, contact: salsasavannah@gmail.com, or call 856-7323. www. salsasavannah.com

Salsa Savannah

Tuesdays at Tantra (8 E. Broughton St.), lessons from 7-9pm, open dancing 9pm-1am.

Thursday at Saya (109 W. Broughton St.), lessons from 7-8pm, open dancing 9-11pm.

Bachata lessons at Saya Thursdays from 8-9pm. For more info: www.salsasavannah. com, 912-704-8726.

Savannah Shag Club

Shag music every Wednesday, 7pm, at Doubles Lounge, 7100 Abercorn St. and every Friday, 7 pm, at American Legion Post 36, 2309 E. Victory Dr.

The Savannah Dance Club

The Savannah Dance Club hosts Magnificent Mondays from 6:15-11 p.m. FREE basic Shag and/or West Coast Swing lessons each Monday. Lesson schedule posted at Facebook/Savannah Dance Club. Dance lessons 6:15-7:45pm. Special discount on 2011 membership thru Feb 15. For info: Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or visit Facebook/Savannah Dance Club Doubles Lounge, 7100 Abercorn St. ,

Tribal Fusion Bellydance Class

Christa teaches a beginners tribal fusion bellydance class downtown Savannah on Tuesdays at 6:30 pm for $10. Contact her for full info at christa.rosenkranz@gmail.com or www.cairoonthecoast.com

Events Gullah-Geechee Day Trip to Ossabaw

Travel by boat to Ossabaw Island. Learn the history of Ossabaw’s Gullah-Geechee people, from the early 19th thru mid-20th centuries. March 26, 9:30am–3:30pm. Tour leader is Dr. Deborah Mack, a nationally acclaimed anthropologist. $50 for Friends of Ossabaw, $70 for “Future Friends of Ossabaw.” Incl. boat trip and program. Bring bag lunch. To register: www.ossabawisland. org or 912-233-5104.

Music in the Parlour with Diana

An afternoon of music, with homemade scones and sweet tea. Saturdays and Sundays, 1-3pm. $30/person. Limited seating.

Reservations required. Call Diana Rogers: 912-236-2866 or email: DianaInSavannah@ yahoo.com

Parents’ Night Out

Friday, March 18, 6pm - A three course meal for two (excluding alcohol), $100+tax.

Enjoy a romantic evening of “adult time” while your children participate in supervised activities like games, crafts, movies. Reservations required. 700 Drayton, Mansion on Forsyth: 912-721-5002.

Park Day Clean-Up

Saturday, April 2: history buffs and preservationists from around the country will team up with the Civil War Trust to help clean and restore America’s priceless battlefields, cemeteries and shrines. 9:30 AM at the Fort Pulaski Visitor Center. Volunteers should be prepared to work outdoors. Sturdy shoes, hats, and insect repellant are recommended. www.nps.gov/fopu

Sketchcrawl

The Savannah Art Assoc. presents this as part of a worldwide sketchcrawl. Anyone can participate (old, young, pro and novice) who loves to draw. There will be 3 routes through the historic district. The event starts in Telfair Square at 10am on Saturday

April 2nd. Free and open to the public. For more info: savannahsketchcrawl.blogspot. com or call 912-232-7731.

The Armstrong Center

The Armstrong Center is available for meetings, seminars, workshops or social events. Classrooms, meeting space, auditorium and 6000-square-foot ballroom. 3442951. Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah

Film & Video Psychotronic Film Society

Hosts weekly screenings every Wednesday, 8pm, at the Sentient Bean. Offering up a selection of films so bad they are good, cult classics and other rarities. For upcoming schedule visit: www.sentientbean.com

Reel Savannah

Hosts screenings of critically acclaimed independent films from around the world at Victory Square Cinemas, 1901 E. Victory Dr. For schedule and more info, visit www. reelsavannah.org

Fitness A New Kung Fu School: Ving Tsun

VING TSUN (Wing Chun) is the world’s fastest growing martial arts style. Using angles and leverage to turn an attacker’s strength against them makes VING TSUN Kung Fu effective for everyone. Call Sifu Michael Sampson to find out about our free trial classes 912-429-9241. 11202 White Bluff Road. Drop Ins welcome.

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Adult Dance & Fitness Class

Adult program featuring Beginner & Intermediate Ballet; BarreCore Body Sculpt; Barre Fusion; Gentle Tone & Stretch.

Beginner through Advanced - something for everyone. Call for class times and info: 912-925-0903. The Ballet School, 10010 Abercorn St in Picadilly Square. www. theballetschoolsav.com

Belly Drills

This is an intense dance workout utilizing basic bellydance moves. Geared to all levels of ability. Dance your way to a better sense of well being. Bring water bottle. Thurs: 7-8pm. $15/class. Visit www.cybelle3.com.

For info: cybelle@cybelle3.com or call 912414-1091. Walk-ins welcome. Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave.

Bellydancing for fun and fitness

The most fun class you’ve ever taken to get you in the best shape in the least amount of time. We provide bright colorful veils, jangling coin hip scarves, and exotic music.

Every Wednesday, 6:30pm. $15 drop-in or $40 for four classes. Call 912-660-7399 or email ConsistentIntegrity@yahoo.com

Crunch Lunch

30 minute Core and ABs concentration class. Offered 11:30am & 12:15pm Mon, Wed & Fri @ Fitness Body & Balance 2127 1/2 East Victory Dr. www.fitnessbodybalance.com 912-398-4776.

Curvy Girl Bootcamp

Exercise class assisting women of size to reach their fitness goal. Every Tues & Thurs, 6-7pm. Lake Mayer Community Center. $70 a month or $10 per session. For more info call 912-341-7710 www.preservethecurves.com/curvycamp

Exercise at Forsyth Park

Stretch, tone and strengthen with Carol, former NYC Rockette, 10-11am & 6-7pm, Mon-Fri. Meet at the Stage in Forsyth Park.

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Fertility Yoga

Ongoing series of 6-week sessions of Fertility Yoga are held on Tuesdays, 6-7:15PM at 7116 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Participants relax and gain more confidence about themselves and their body on the journey toward parenthood. The instructor is Ann Carroll.

Cost is $100 for the 6 week session. Please call Ann, 704-7650 or e-mail carroll3620@ bellsouth.net for info.

Fitness Classes at the JEA

Spin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba. Prices vary. Call for days and times.

355-8111. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St , Savannah http://www.savj.org/

Mommy and Baby Yoga Classes

Mondays, 10-11am (crawlers and toddlers) and 11:30-12:45 (infants and pre-crawlers) at the Savannah Yoga Center. The cost is $14 per class. Multi-class discounts are available. Walk-ins welcome. Call 232-2994 or visit www.savannahyoga.com. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. , Savannah http://www.savannahyoga.com/

Pilates Mat Classes

Mat classes are held Tues & Thurs 7:30am8:30am, Mon 1:30pm-2:30pm, Mon & Wed 5:30pm-6:30pm, Thurs 12:30pm-1:30pm, & Sat 9:30am-10:30am. All levels welcome!

Private and Semi-Private classes are by appointment only. Carol Daly-Wilder, Certified Pilates Instructor. Call 912.238-0018 Momentum Pilates Studio, 310 E. 41st St , http://savannahpilates.com/

Pre-natal/Post-natal fitness program

Oh Baby! Fitness classes start in March.

Certified instructors. Classes include water aerobics and stroller workouts. Classes held at the Chatham County Aquatics Center and Lake Mayer. For more info, www. ohbabyfitness.com or call 678-528-1390.

Pregancy Yoga

Ongoing series of 8-week sessions are held on Tuesday evenings from 6-7:15 PM at 7116 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Pre-natal yoga helps mothers-to-be prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor & delivery. Cost is $100 for 8 weeks. Call Ann Carroll at 912-704-7650 e-mail ann@aikyayoga.com.

Rolf Method Bodywork

For posture, chronic pain and alignment of body/mind/spirit. Jeannie Kelley, LMT, certified advanced Rolf practitioner. www. islandsomatherapy.com, 843-422-2900.

Island Somatherapy, 127 Abercorn Street , Savannah

Squats N’ Tots

Stretch and strengthen overused body parts, as well as focus on muscle endurance, low impact aerobics, and abdominal work. Your baby (age 6 weeks to one year) can get in on the fun, or simply stay close to you on your mat. Call to pre-register 912-819-6463. St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for Well Being,

The Yoga Room

Visit www.thesavannahyogaroom.com or call 898-0361 for a schedule of classes, times and fees. Savannah Yoga Room, 115 Charlotte Dr , Savannah

Yoga Classes

Every Saturday noon-1 PM. City of Savannah Recreation Services. Windsor Forest Community Center. $10/ month. 308 Briarcliff Circle, Savannah, GA 31419. Instructor: Dr. Mahesh Gupta. More Information: 921-2105 or 351-3841

Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors Free for people with cancer and cancer survivors. 6.30 p.m., Tuesdays and 12:10 p.m., Thursdays, FitnessOne, 3rd floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine, Memorial University Medical Center. Call 912-350-9031.

Gay & Lesbian First City Network Board Meeting

Meets the first Monday at 6:30 p.m. at FCN’s office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor.

236-CITY or www.firstcitynetwork.org. 307 E Harris St , Savannah

First City Network Oyster Roast Fundraiser

March 20, 11am-4pm. Fundraiser for Georgia’s oldest Gay and Lesbian organization featuring roasted oysters, hot dogs, beer and other beverages, games for children, leprechaun contest, silent auction and 3rd Annual Golden Oyster Award. Skidaway Island State Park. Camping is available.

Carpooling encouraged. $20 non member, $15 FCN member. http://www.firstcitynetwork.net/

Gay AA Meeting

meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 311 E. Macon St. Savannah

Georgia Equality Savannah

The local chapter of Georgia’s largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 912-547-6263.

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Savannah Pride, Inc.

Meets second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the FCN office located at 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. Everyone is encouraged to attend. Without the GLBT community, there wouldn’t be a need for Pride. Call 912288-7863 or email heather@savpride.com.

First City Network, Savannah http://www. firstcitynetwork.net/

Stand Out Youth

A Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning youth organization. Meets every Friday at 7 p.m. at the FCN building located at 307 E. Harris St. Call 657-1966, email info@standoutyouth.org or visit www.standoutyouth.org. First City Network, Savannah http://www.firstcitynetwork.net/

What Makes A Family

A children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Groups range in age from 10 to 18 and are held twice a month. Call 352-2611.

Health Better Breathers of Savannah

Meets to discuss and share information on C.O.P.D. and how people live with the disease. For info, call Dicky at 665-4488 or dickyt1954@yahoo.com.

Free blood pressure checks and blood sugar screenings

Conducted at three locations. From 8:30a. m.-12:30p.m. and 5:15p.m.-7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at the SJ/C AfricanAmerican Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605 for appt. Every Monday from 10a.m.-12p.m. at the Smart Senior office, No. 8 Medical Arts Center. No appt necessary. Every MondayFriday from 10a.m.-2p.m. at St. Mary’s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578. Savannah

Free hearing & speech screening

Hearing: Every Thurs. 9-11 a.m. Speech: 1st Thurs. of each month. Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street.

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St. Mary’s Health Center is open for health needs of uninsured residents of Chatham County. Open Monday through Friday from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM. For information or to make an appointment, call 443-9409. St. Mary’s Health Center, 1302 Drayton St. ,

Help for Iraq War Veterans

A method used at Fort Campbell to treat lack of sleep, anger, flashbacks, nightmares and emotional numbness in veterans is available in Savannah. 927-3432.

Hypnobirthing Classes

Offered at the Birth Center, 1692 Chatham Parkway. Ongoing series of 5-week sessions held Tuesdays 6-8:30pm and Saturdays, 9-11:30am. Open to all women regardless of birth site. Private instructions also available.

For more info, contact: Sharon Kennedy, 904327-0499, kennedysharon47@gmail.com or Joyce Ann Leaf, 912- 844-2762, douladeliveries@comcast.net

HypnoBirthing Classes

Learn to birth in a calm and gentle environment without fear. Uses relaxation, meditation and guided imagery to achieve the birthing experience you desire. Tiffany, tiffany@savannahdoula.com.

Kidney Disease

Learn about causes, risks, symptoms and treatments at this class held every Monday.

Call Leah Mitchem for more info: 912-2322691

Kidney Problem Education

A program about kidney disease and treatment options. Refreshments will be served.

Free. March 29, 5pm. Memorial Health’s Hoskins Center, 5000 Ranger St. 912-3500600.

La Leche League of Savannah

Mothers wishing to find out more about breastfeeding are invited to attend a meeting on the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 pm. La Leche League of Savannah is a breastfeeding support group for new and expectant mothers. 897-9544, www.lllusa. org/web/SavannahGA.html. Family Health and Birth Center, Savannah

Look Good, Feel Better Makeovers

2-4pm, Monday, March 21, Conference Room of Memorials’ Anderson Cancer Institute.

Free makeover program sponsored by the American Cancer Society for women going through cancer treatment. Includes a free makeup kit and education on skin changes, hair loss and ways to apply makeup, wigs and hair covers. Call the American Cancer Society at 912-355-5196.

Meditation and Energy Flow Group

Meet with others who practice meditation or want to learn how, discuss techniques, & related areas of holistic health, healing, Reiki, Energy Medicine, CAM. Reduce stress, increase peace & health! For info: www.ellenfarrell.com or 912-247-4263

Memorial Health blood pressure check

Free every Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at GenerationOne. 350-7587.

Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

Planned Parenthood Hotline

First Line is a statewide hotline for women who want information on health services.

Open every night from 7-11p.m. 1-800-2647154.

Pregnancy Yoga

Ongoing series of 6-week sessions are held on Thursdays, 6-7:15pm at 7116 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Helps mothers-to-be prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor & delivery. The

instructor is Ann Carroll. Cost is $100 for the 6 week session. Call Ann, 704-7650 or e-mail carroll3620@bellsouth.net for info.

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The Midwife Group

Assistance with pre-natal and post-partum care, family planning and more. The Midwife Group and Birth Center. 912-629-6262. info@ themidwifegroup.com The Midwife Group & Birth Center, 1692 Chatham Pkwy , http:// www.themidwifegroup.com/

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The Quit Line

A toll-free resource that provides counseling, screening, support and referral services for all Georgia residents 18 or older and concerned parents of adolescents who are using tobacco.

Call 1-877-270-STOP or visit www.unitegeorgia.com.

Nature and Environment Dolphin Project of Georgia

The Dolphin Project’s Education Outreach Program is available to speak at your school, club or organization. We offer a fascinating powerpoint with sound and video about our estuarine dolphins and their environment. We have age-appropriate programs and related handouts. For details about TDP: www. thedolphinproject.org or contact Gayla gayla@ thedolphinproject.org

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

Offering a variety of fun educational programs including Beach Discovery Walks, Marsh Treks, Turtle Talks and the Coastal Georgia Gallery, which features an up close look at dozens of local species. Open daily, 10am5pm. For more info, call 912-786-5917 or visit www.tybeemarinescience.org. Tybee Island

Walk on the Wild Side

The Oatland Island Wildlife Center offers a 2-mile Native Animal Nature Trail that winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland and salt marsh habitats, and features live native animal exhibits. Open daily from 10-4 except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. 898-3980, www.oatlandisland.org. 711 Sandtown Rd , Savannah

Wilderness Southeast

Offers a variety of programs every month including guided trips with naturalists, canoe rides and more. Their mission is to develop appreciation, understanding, stewardship, and enjoyment of the natural world. For more information: 912-236-8115 or sign-up on our website www.wilderness-southeast.org.

Wildlife Conservation Film Festival

The Palmetto Wildlife Conservation Film Festival. Beaufort, SC. March 25-27, 2011.

MacLean Hall Auditorium @ Technical College of the Lowcountry. Screening of 40-50 films, guest speakers including filmmakers and conservationists. Contact: 610-896-4776 or email: WildlifeFilmFest@aol.com for Cost and Film Schedule

Pets & Animals A Walk in the Park

Professional pet sitting, boarding, dog walking and house sitting services offered in downtown Savannah and the nearby islands.

All jobs accepted are performed by the owner to ensure the safety of your pets. Local references available. Please call 401.2211 or email lesleycastle@gmail.com to make a reservation.

Low Cost Pet Clinic

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Habersham Village Shopping Center. For more info: www.tailsspin.com

Pooches & Peeps

A Nu-Barter social for people and their furry friends. Learn about pet services available from Nu-Barter members. Refreshments for humans. Paw-tinis for pups. Tuesday, March 22, 5:30-7:30pm. 118 E. 73rd St. RSVP to Jacquie Stein: jacquie@nubarter.com, or 912-233-0808.

Professional Pet Sitting and Dog Walking Insured, bonded, certified in pet first aid and CPR. 355-9656, www.athomepetsitters.net.

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Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks on sundays at 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at the Canine Palace, 612 Abercorn St. For info, call 912234-3336.

Readings & Signings Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

meets the last Sunday of the month at 4 p.m. at the African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605. Savannah

Tea time at Ola’s

A book discussion group that meets the fourth Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 E. Bay St. Call Beatrice Wright at 652-3660. Bring your ideas and lunches. Tea will be provided. 232-5488 or 652-3660. Ola Wyeth Branch Library, Savannah http://www.liveoakpl.org/

Religious & Spiritual Christian Businessmen’s Committee

Meets for a prayer breakfast every Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. at Piccadilly Cafeteria in the Oglethorpe Mall, 7804 Abercorn St. Call 8983477. Savannah

DrUUming Circle

First Saturday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah on Troup Square at Habersham and Macon streets. Drummers, dancers and the drumcurious are welcome. Call 234-0980 or visit uusavannah.org. 313 Harris St. , Savannah http://www.uusavannah.org/

Gregorian Chant by Candlelight

For a peaceful end to your day attend the chanted service of Compline (Singing Good Night to God) sung at 9pm every Sunday night by the Compline Choir of historic Christ Church (1733) on Johnson Square; 28 Bull Street. Open to the public. All are welcome! Call 232-4131 for more info.

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Attend church from home Sundays at 9 and 11am with Pastor Ricky Temple and Overcoming by Faith Ministries. Log onto www. overcomingbyfaith.org, click ’Watch Now’.

927-8601. Overcoming by Faith Ministries, 9700 Middleground Rd. , Savannah

Metaphysics For Everyday Self-Mastery

A series of metaphysical/New Thought classes at The Freedom Path Science of Life Center, 619 W 37th St., Mondays 8pm, with Adeeb Shabazz. $10 suggested donation, 1877-494-8629, www.freedompathonline.org, freedompath@yahoo.com. Savannah

Midweek Bible Study

Every Wednesday at noon at Montgomery Presbyterian Church. Bring your lunch and your Bible. 352-4400 or mpcsavannah.com.

Montgomery Presbyterian Church, 10192 Ferguson Avenue , Savannah http://www. montgomerypresbyterian.com/

Music Ministry for Children & Youth

The children’s choir for 3 years through second grade will be known as Joyful Noise and the youth choir grades 3-5 will be known as Youth Praise. Joyful Noise will meet Sundays from 4-5 p.m. and Youth Praise will meet Sundays from 5-6 p.m. Call Ronn Alford at 925-9524 or visit www.wbumc.org. White Bluff United Methodist Church, 11911 White Bluff Rd , Savannah

Nicodemus by Night

An open forum is held every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at 223 E. Gwinnett St. Nicodemus by Night, Savannah

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)

Meets Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church. Call the clerk, 912-3736276 Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St , Savannah http://www. trinitychurch1848.org/

Realizing The God Within

A series of Metaphysical/New Thought classes presented by The Freedom Path Science of Life Center, featuring metaphysical minister and local author Adeeb Shabazz.

Mondays at 8pm. 619 W 37th St. , Savannah

Sermon: Doing Without

Times are hard so how can you do well while doing without? Mike Freeman, M.Div., will examine this topic in a series of sermons beginning April 3. Doing Without Stuff. Doing Without Community. Doing Without Responsibility. Unitarian Universalist Beloved Community. Sundays at 11 am. Located at 1001 E. Gwinnett, corner of Gwinnett and Ott.

Soka Gakkai of America

SGI is an international Buddhist movement for world peace and individual happiness.

The group practices Nichiren Buddhism by chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. Introductory meetings are held the third Sunday of the month.

For further information, call 232-9121.

The Savannah Zen Center

Soto Zen Meditation: Tuesday evenings 6-6:30pm with study group following 6:307:30pm; Sundays 8am-9:30am which includes Dharmatalk. Donations accepted. Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach cindy@alwaysoptions. com. The Savannah Zen Center, 505 Blair St. Savannah. More info: savannahzencenter. com The Savannah Zen Center, 505 Blair St. , Savannah

Unitarian Universalist Beloved Community Church

Services begin Sunday at 11 a.m. at 1001 E. Gwinnett St. Coffee and discussion follow each service. Religious education for grades 1-8 is offered. For information, call 786-6075, e-mail UUBC2@aol.com. Celebrating diversity. Working for justice. Savannah

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah

Liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. Sunday, 11 am, Troup Square Sanctuary. 234-0980, admin@uusavannah. org or www.uusavannah.org. 313 Harris St. , Savannah

Unity of Savannah

Two Sunday morning Celebration Services - 9:15 and 11:00. (Children’s Church and childcare at 11:00.)

A.W.E. interactive worship service at 7 p.m. every first Friday of the month. Noon prayer service every Thurs. To find out about classes, workshops and more visit, www. unityofsavannah.org or call 912-355-4704.

2320 Sunset Blvd.

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Women’s Bible Study

at the Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers. Call 447-5711 1601 Drayton St , Savannah http://www.wesleyctrs-savh.org/

Sports & Games Savannah Adult Recreation Club

Savannah’s only kickball league will be returning again this Spring. Adult coed kickball in Bacon Park on Sundays starting March 27th, and a new Pooler league might be opening up. Registration cost is $335/team or $35/person. For more info, contact Andrew at SavannahKickball@aol.com.

Savannah Bike Polo

Like regular polo, but with bikes instead of horses. Meets weekly. Check out www. facebook.com/savannahbikepolo for more information.

Savannah Challenger

See the rising stars of tennis battle it out at this tournament from April 30-May 8 at the Landings on Skidaway Island. Both the Challenger Qualifying Tournament and the 2011 Savannah Challenger are open to the public.

For more info, visit www.savannahchallenger. com.

Texas Hold ’Em Poker League

Free Texas Hold Em poker league is available to the public. Teaches new players how to play and advanced players can come and work on their skills. Prize tournaments for season points leaders. www.series7pokerleague.com for more info.

Support Groups Al Anon Family Groups

A fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics meets Monday at 12:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., Thursday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m. at 1501 Eisenhower Dr. and Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Goodwill on Sallie Mood Drive. Call 598-9860 or visit http://al_anon_savannah.freeservers.com.

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Al-Anon

Alanon is for families and friends of alcoholics. New group meeting on Isle of Hope at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 2 St. Thomas Avenue off of Parkersburg Rd. Monday nights at 7:30. Selma, 354-8550.

Al-Anon Meetings

Meetings for families and friends of alcoholics are held every Monday at 5:30pm and Saturday at 11am. Melissa, 844-4524. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave , Savannah http://www.fpc.presbychurch.net/

Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group

Senior Citizens, Inc. hosts a Caregiver’s support group for individuals caring for Alzheimer’s and dementia family members.

Meets every second Monday at the Wilmington Island United Methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island Road. For more info, call 236-0363, ext. 143. Savannah

Amputee Support Group

Open to all patients who have had a limb amputated and their families or caregivers.

Call 355-7778 or 353-9635.

Bleeding Disorders Support Group

Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

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Meets every Tuesday at the First Presbyterian Church on Washington Avenue and Paulsen Street at 5:30 pm. Survivor’s and care providers welcome. We meet in the library, entrance on Washington Ave. Contact Melissa at 912-844-4524 or Krista at 912819-7053 if you have questions.

Cancer support group

Meets the first Wednesday of the month from 11am-12pm. at the Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion on Reynolds Street across from Candler Hospital. The group is open to anyone who is living with, through or beyond a diagnosis of cancer. Call 819-8784. Savannah

Citizens With Retarded Citizens

Open to families of children or adults with autism, mental retardation, and other developmental disabilities. Meets monthly at 1211

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Meets every Saturday at 6:45 p.m. at Savannah Christian Church, Room 250. This is a group for couples struggling with primary or secondary infertility, whether they have been on this journey for one year or many years. Call Kelly at 596-0852 or email emptycradle_savannah@hotmail.com. 55 Al Henderson B;vd. , Savannah

Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association

Meets the fourth Saturday of the month at 10:30 a.m. Call 355-1221; or visit www. coastalempirepoliosurvivors.org. 5354 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah

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Domestic Violence Hotline

The Georgia Human Resources Department and Georgia Coalition on Family Violence have a new number, 24 hours a day. 1-80033-HAVEN.

Domestic violence support group

SAFE Shelter provides a domestic violence support group every Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Inc. Building at 3205 Bull St. Call Brenda Edwards, 6298888. Savannah

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Hope House

Provides housing and support services such as life skills, resources and referrals, follow-up care and parent-child activities funded by DHR Promoting Safe and Stable Families. Please call 236-5310 for information. Hope House of Savannah, 214 E. 34th St. , Savannah

KidsNet Savannah Parent Support Group

meets on the first Thursday of the month at 4:30 p.m. at the Department of Juvenile Justice Multi-Purpose Center, 1149 Cornell Ave. Call Carole Kaczorowski at 598-7001, Lorr Elias at 351-6375 or Bruce Elias at 644-5916. Department of Juvenile Justice Multi-Purpose Center, 1149 Cornell Ave , Savannah

LD-AD/HD Support Group

Parents of children with learning disorders, attention deficit or hyperactivity disorder are invited to join this professionally lead support group discussion problem solving, medication, alternative treatments and more. Pre-registration req’d. Call Laurel Brady at 912-659-4687.

Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group

Are you between the ages of 11-18, or a concerned parent of a teen? We are here to help. Please call Park Place Outreach Youth Emergency Shelter 912234-4048 or www.parkplaceyes.org

For patients with blood-related cancers and their loved ones. Call Jennifer Currin, 350-7845. Memorial Health University Medical Center, Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

Conference approved literature meeting, 7pm. An Al-Anon meeting for recovering alcoholics or those who have family or a friend who is an alcoholic. Anyone who is affected by someone else’s alcoholism is welcome to attend. 1501 Eisenhower Dr.

The SAFE Shelter offers free drop-in counseling to anyone who is in an abusive relationship. Meets every Thursday from 78:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church Education Building at Whitaker & McDonough St. 234-9999. First Baptist Church of Savannah, 223 Bull St. , Savannah

Double Winner’s Friday Night Al-Anon Meeting

Every Step Counts Survivors Walk

9 a.m., Saturday, March 26. A monthly walk for all cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers. The walk is free and open to everybody. For more information or to register, call DeDe Cargill at 912-398-6554.

Fibromyalgia support group

meets the second Thursday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St..

819-6743. 5354 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

First Line

An after-hours referral and information line to talk confidentially about birth control, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy options. A free service from Planned Parenthood, available nightly from 7 to 11 p.m. at 1-800-264-7154.

Gray Matters Brain Injury Support Group

For traumatic brain injury survivors and their caregivers. Meets the third Thursday at 5 p.m. in the gym at The Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial University Medical Center. 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www.memorialhealth.com/

Grief Support Group

Full Circle Grief and Loss Center, 450 Mall Blvd. Seven-week support groups for children and adults are offered by the bereavement counselors at no charge as a complementary service of Hospice Savannah. For information call 912.303.9442 or visit www.HospiceSavannahHelps.org.

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Heartbeats for Life

A free support and education group for those who have suffered or want to prevent or reverse Heart Disease, and/or Diabetes problems. Contact, Jeff: 912-598-8457;

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Memorial Health Focus

Focus is a program to encourage Sickle Cell patients ages 11 to 18 and their parents and caregivers to learn more about Sickle Cell disease. For info, call Saundra at 3503396. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www.memorialhealth.com/

Multiple Sclerosis support group

discusses topics that are relevant to anyone with a debilitating disease every fourth Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at St. James Catholic Church, 8412 Whitfield Ave. at Montgomery Cross Roads. 355-1523. St James Catholic Church, 8412 Whitfield Ave , Savannah

Narcotics Anonymous

Call 238-5925 for the Savannah Lowcountry Area Narcotics Anonymous meeting schedule.

National Alliance on Mental Illness

A recovery support group for people living with mental illness. Tuesdays: 6:30-8pm, Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd.

Thursdays: 6:30-8pm, Pine Woods Retreat, 1149 Cornell Ave. Suite 3A. Saturdays: 1:303:30pm, Candler Heart & Lung Building (2nd Floor). Call 912-353-7143 for more info.

Overeaters Anonymous

Meets weekly at several locations. Please visit www.oa.org to locate a meeting.

Pancreatic Cancer Support Group

Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

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Parkinson’s Disease Support Group

Meets the first Thursday of the month. 56:30pm in the Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. For more info, call 355-6347 or 238-4666.

PRIDE Support Group

This is a support group for parents of children with bleeding disorders. Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www.memorialhealth.com/

Rape Crisis Center

assists survivors of rape and sexual assault. The Rape Crisis Line is active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 233-7273. The center offers free, confidential counseling for victims and their families.

S-Anon Family Group

A fellowship for families and friends of sexaholics. For info, call 663-2565.

Self-Help Support Group for People with HIV/AIDS

For more information on a support group for men and women living with HIV/AIDS, please contact Mary Jackson at My Brothaz HOME, Inc. at 912-231-8727. These two groups are confidential and only for persons with verified HIV/AIDS.

Senior Citizen’s Inc. Alzheimer’s Support Group

For families of persons suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia. Second Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Ruth Byck Adult Day Care facility, 64 Jasper St. Call ahead to reserve a seat. Call Stacey Floyd at 236-0363. 3025 Bull St , Savannah

Smoking Cessation Support Group

is open to anyone who has stopped smoking and needs additional support or to those who are considering trying to stop smoking.

Call 819-8032 or 819-3368.

Spinal Injury Support Group

Meets every third Thursday of the month at 5:30 p.m. at the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial Health. For info, call Jami Murray at 350-8900. Savannah http://www.memorialhealth.com/

Support Group for Parents of Ill Children

who have a seriously ill child receiving treatment on an inpatient or outpatient basis. A case manager facilitates the meetings, and a child life specialist provides an arts and crafts activity. Meets once a week.

Call Donna at 350-5616. Backus Children’s Hospital, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www.memorialhealth.com/backus

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Teens nurturing teens

Meets the third Sunday of the month at 3 PM on the 2nd floor of the Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion. This group is for teens who have a family member or loved one impacted by cancer. For more info, call 819-5704.

Tourettes Community of Savannah (TiCS)

Meets on the 3rd Saturday of every month.

For more information contact. Michelle McGee 912-224-9201 or sign up on the Facebook page Tourette’s Community of Savannah. Call for meeting place and times

Troup Square Al-Anon Family Group

A support group for friends and family of alcoholics, with special attention to issues of adult children of alcoholics. 495-9758 or www.al-anon.alateen.org. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. , Savannah http://www.uusavannah.org/

Wheeze busters

is an asthma support group for children that meets in the Rainbow Room at The Children’s Place at Candler Hospital. Call 921-3368. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Women who love too much

meets Fridays from noon to 1 p.m. Call Maureen Wozniak at 355-4987.

Volunteers America’s Second Harvest Food Bank needs volunteers

To help with various tasks around food bank and warehouse. Apply as soon as possible. 912-236-6750 ext 109. America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia, 2501 E. President St , Savannah http://www. helpendhunger.org/

First Steps

Become a volunteer with First Steps and provide support, education and community resources to help parents of newborns establish healthy and positive relationships with their babies. Call 819-6910.

St. Joseph’s Hospital, 11705 Mercy Blvd. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Good Samaratin Clinic

St. Joseph’s/Candler’s Good Samaritan Clinic in Garden City needs volunteer nurses, physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, Spanish interpreters and clerical staff. The Good Samaritan Clinic serves people without insurance and whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line. To volunteer call Greta Tholstrup at 429-1502.

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Savannah Hosea Feed the Hungry is in need of regular volunteers to maintain the food and clothing rooms. One or two regular volunteers are needed as a telephone clerk/receptionist.

We also need several strong arms with vans or trucks to load, deliver, and unload boxes of produce 3x a week. Daytime hours. Visit 141 Telfair Rd. or Call 912-232-3085.

Hospice volunteers

You can make a big difference in the lives of others by volunteering for THA Group Island Hospice, a non-profit Hospice care provider.

Assist with office support, computer work, patient and/or family support, special events or fund raising activities. Opportunities available in Georgia and South Carolina. Training is provided. For info, call Sally Welsh at 888.842.4663 or go to www.thagroup.org

Literacy volunteers needed

Project READ, an adult literacy program, is in need of volunteer tutors who can commit to 2 or 4 hours each week. Call Jodi at Royce Learning Center at 354-4047. Royce Learning Center, 4 Oglethorpe Professional Blvd , Savannah http://www.roycelearningcenter.com/

Live Oak Regional Public Libraries

needs volunteers to assist in a variety of ways at its branches in Chatham, Effingham and Liberty counties. Call 652-3661. Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St , Savannah http://www. liveoakpl.org/

Oatland Island Education Center

Oatland Island Wildlife Center often needs volunteers. Call 898-3980. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd , Savannah http://www.oatlandisland.org/

Rape Crisis Center

Volunteer training will be 4/27 & 4/28 (6pm9pm), 4/30 (8:30am-4pm) & 5/2 through 5/4 (6pm-9pm). You must attend all sessions to become a volunteer. Volunteers answer the center’s 24 hour crisis line and respond to local hospitals to support victims of sexual assault. For more info, call 912-233-3000. All volunteers must be at least 18 years old and submit to a criminal background check.

Rebuilding Together Savannah

Volunteer organization in partnership with the community that rehabilitates houses of lowincome homeowners, particularly the elderly, disabled and families with children. Visit www. rebuildingtogethersavannah.org.

Riverview Health and Rehabilitation Center

is looking for volunteers to assist residents in activities or just come and visit. For info, call Rhonda Sheffield, volunteer coordinator, at 354-8225, Ext. 243. Riverview Health and Rehabilitation Center, 6711 LaRoche Ave. , Savannah

Ronald McDonald House volunteers needed

Help in the “home away from home” for the families of hospitalized children. Volunteers also are needed to provide home-cooked meals for families staying at the house. Volunteer internships also available for college students. Nikole Layton, 356-5520. Ronald McDonald House, 4710 Waters Avenue , http://www.rmhccoastalempire.org/

Savannah Garden Expo

Volunteers are needed for the two-day garden event, which takes place April 15 through April 16 at the Charles H. Morris Center. There are a variety of volunteer jobs available as well as community service opportunities Contact: Jamie Credle at jcredle@davenporthousemuseum.org or 912/236-8097 for info or to sign up. http://www.myhsf.org/special-events/savannah-garden-expo/ cs

ARIES

offer and the words you utter and the actions you undertake?

Like Bob Dylan in his 1962 song “A Hard Rain’s A–Gonna Fall,” you’ve done a lot of rough and tumble living lately. You’ve “stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains.” You’ve “stepped in the middle of seven sad forests.” You’ve “been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.”

Maybe most wrenching of all, you’ve “seen a highway of diamonds with nobody on it.” The good news is that the hard rain will end soon. In these last days of the downpour, I suggest you trigger a catharsis for yourself.

Consider doing something like what Dylan did: “I’ll think it and speak it and breathe it / And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it.”

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(March 21–April 19)

TAURUS

(April 20–May 20) Mythologist Michael Meade says that the essential nature of every human soul is gifted, noble, and wounded. I agree. Cynics who exaggerate how messed–up we all are, ignoring our beauty, are just as unrealistic as naive optimists. But because the cynics have a disproportionately potent influence on the zeitgeist, they make it harder for us to evaluate our problems with a wise and balanced perspective. Many of us feel cursed by the apparent incurability of our wounds, while others, rebelling against the curse, underestimate how wounded they are. Mead says: “Those who think they are not wounded in ways that need conscious attention and careful healing are usually the most wounded of all.” Your task in the next few weeks, Taurus, is to make a realistic appraisal of your wounds.

GEMINI

(May 21–June 20) Metallica’s frontman James Hetfield brashly bragged to Revolver magazine that he was proud his music was used to torture prisoners at the U.S. military’s detention camp in Guantanamo Bay. I urge you to make a more careful and measured assessment of the influences that you personally put out into the world. It’s time to find out how closely your intentions match your actual impact –– and to correct any discrepancies. How are people affected by the vibes you exude and the products you

(June 21–July 22) “In the absence of clearly–defined goals,” said Cancerian writer Robert Heinlein, “we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.” If this description is even a partial match for the life you’re living, now is an excellent time to address the problem. You have far more power than usual to identify and define worthy goals –– both the short–term and long–term variety. If you take advantage of this opportunity, you will find a better use for the energy that’s currently locked up in your enslavement to daily trivia.

LEO

(July 23–Aug. 22) As I was mulling over your astrological omens, I came across a short poem that aptly embodies the meaning of this moment for you. It’s by Richard Wright, and goes like this: “Coming from the woods / A bull has a lilac sprig / Dangling from a horn.”

Here’s one way to interpret this symbolic scene: Primal power is emerging into a clearing from out of the deep darkness. It is bringing with it a touch of lithe and blithe beauty –– a happy accident.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22) As I see it, you have one potential enemy in the coming weeks: a manic longing for perfection.

It’s OK to feel that longing as a mild ache. But if you allow it to grow into a burning obsession, you will probably undo yourself at every turn. You may even sabotage some of the good work you’ve done. My recommendation, then, is to give yourself the luxury of welcoming partial success, limited results, and useful mistakes. Paradoxically, cultivating that approach will give you the best chance at getting lots of things done.

Here’s your motto for the week, courtesy of Theodore Roosevelt: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

LIBRA

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22) When I was nine years old, one of my favorite jokes went like

this: “What’s worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm? Give up? Biting into an apple and finding half a worm.”

According to my reading of the astrological omens, Libra, that’s a good piece of information for you to keep in mind right now. If and when a serpent offers you an apple, I hope you will sink your teeth into it with cautious nibbles. I’m not saying you shouldn’t bite, just that you should proceed warily.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21) Normally we think of a garbage dump as a spot where we go to get rid of trash and outworn stuff we no longer need. It emits a stench that wafts a great distance, and it’s a not a place where you wear your finery.

But there is a dump in northern Idaho that diverges slightly from that description. It has the usual acres of rubbish, but also features a bonus area that the locals call “The Mall.” This is where people dispose of junk that might not actually be junk.

It has no use for them any more, but they recognize that others might find value in it. It was at The Mall where my friend Peter found a perfectly good chainsaw that had a minor glitch he easily fixed. I suspect that life may be like that dump for you in the coming week: a wasteland with perks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

According to Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, time “is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” I believe he meant for that statement to be true for all of us. Luckily for you, though, you’ll soon be getting a temporary exemption. For a while, you’ll be more like the tiger than the one the tiger devours; you will have more in common with the fire than with the one consumed by the fire. In other words, Sagittarius, you will have more power than usual to outwit the tyrannies of time. Are you ready to take advantage? You’re primed to claim more slack, more wiggle room, more permission.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22–Jan. 19) San Francisco band Smash–Up Derby approaches their music–

making with a spirit that might be useful for you to emulate in the coming week, Capricorn.

Each of their songs is a blend of two famous tunes. Typically, the instrumentalists play a rock song while the singers do a pop hit with a similar chord progression. Imagine hearing the guitars, bass, and drums play Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” while the lead vocalist croons Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance.” The crucial part of their ongoing experiment is that it works. The sound coming from the stage isn’t a confusing assault. You could pull off a challenge like that: combining disparate elements with raucous grace.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18) Last August I wrote you a horoscope that spoke of opportunities you’d have to upgrade your close relationships. I said you’d be tested in ways that would push you to get more ingenious and tenacious about collaborating with people you cared about.

Hoping to inspire you, I cited two people I know who have successfully re–imagined and reinvented their marriage for many years. In response, one reader complained. “Yuck!” his email began. “I thought I was getting a horoscope but instead I got a sentimental self–help blurb in the style of Reader’s Digest.” I took his words to heart.

As you Aquarians enter a new phase when you could do a lot to build your intimacy skills, I’ll try something more poetic: Succulent discipline and luminous persistence equals incandescent kismet.

PISCES

(Feb. 19–March 20) If I had to come up with a title for the next phase of your astrological cycle, it might be “Gathering Up.” The way I see it, you should focus on collecting any resources that are missing from your reserves. You should hone skills that are still too weak to get you where you want to go, and you should attract the committed support of allies who can help you carry out your dreams and schemes. Don’t be shy about assembling the necessities, Pisces. Experiment with being slightly voracious.

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HOW tO PlacE an ad • call our classifieds department at 912-231-0250 • ads Must Be Placed By 11am On Monday Prior to Publication • all ads Must be PrePaid (credit cards accepted) • Basic rate includes up to 25 words.

12350 Mercy Blvd.

Savannah, GA 31419

Office: 912-925-4815

ST. PATRICK’S SPECIAL Two Bedroom $625 One Bedroom $560 Limited Time Offer

1, 2 & 3 BEDROOMS. Specials on deposits, Section 8, no deposit. Call 912-412-0178 or 912-323-4294

1240 E. VICTORY DR./Daffin Park Spacious 2BR, 1.5BA, upstairs, hardwood floors $825/month.

Reese & Co. 236-4233

•1401 S.E. 36th:2BR/1BA $675 •1237 Roberts Way: Pooler 3BD/2BA $950 •1317 Golden Ave 2BR/1BA $500 •5500 Montgomery St. Apt.D, 2BR/1BA $550.

•1224 E.54th 2BR/1BA $450 +DEPOSIT, NO-PETS NO-SMOKING CALL BILL:656-4111 2BR, 1.5BA mobile home in nice area. $600/month, $300/deposit.

Close to both malls, 1 year lease.

Call 661-317-4918 or 818-599-1968 3 BEDROOM/2 BATH Home, great Eastside location & 4 bedroom/2 Bath home. $650-$800/month.

Call 912-376-1674 3BR/1 BATH Upstairs Duplex at 711 West 44th Street $550/month plus deposit Call 912-897-9346 or 912-695-3110

620 W.38TH STREET 2BR Apt. LR, refrigerator, stove, small foyer, large yard, washer/dryer hookup $625/month.

4909 MEDING STREET 2BR/1BA Apt, LR, refrigerator, stove,washer/dryer hookup, large yard, handicapped accessible $625/month.

CALL 912-844-4413 •Duane Court- 2BR/1BA, living room, kitchen furnished, total electric $675/month •Bee Road: 2BR/1BA, kitchen furnished, LR $625/mo.

912-897-6789 or 344-4164 EAST 53RD STREET:2BR/1BA, central heat/air, stove and refrigerator $525/month, $400/security deposit. Call 912-308-0957 Call 912-721-4350 and Place Your Classified Ad Today!

EXCELLENT LOCATION 2BR, LR, DR, large kitchen, large bath, laundry room, front porch, fenced backyard, parking space, wall-to-wall carpet. $600/month, $600/security. 912-925-7567 or 912-695-7074 EXECUTIVE RENTAL Fully furnished, beautifully decorated 3BR/2BA house located on Southside. 2 night minimum. Call for rates. 912-927-0671 or 912-656-1310 FOR RENT: 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, large dining room, living room. $800/month plus $800 security deposit. Call 912-231-9198

FOR RENT:

OAK FOREST-2BR, 1BA Apt, furnished kitchen $500.

739-1/2 E. 39TH-2BR,1BA, furnished kitchen, duplex $625.

DUANE CT. 2BR/1BA Apt. furnished kitchen $625.

WINDSOR CROSSING CONDO-total electric, 2BR, 2BA, $650.

CROATAN ST. 2BR/1BA, furnished kitchen, like new $725.

MOHAWK TRAIL 2BR, 2BA, furnished kitchen, garage, gated, no pets $895.

RICHMOND HILL 3BR/2BA home, furnished kitchen, garage, no pets $950.

Frank Moore & Co. 920-8560 FrankMooreCo.com

FURNISHED EFFICIENCY

Very nice, includes utilities, cable, washer & dryer. $200/week. $200/deposit. 912-236-1952

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GARDEN CITY APARTMENT Recently renovated 2BR Apt., total electric, washer/dryer hookups. Convenient location. $615/month.

Call 656-5000.

LUCK O’ THE IRISH SPECIAL

One, Two & Three BR Apts. & Houses for rent. Stove, refrigerator, washer/dryer. 1/2 mo. offGood for this month only. Section 8 Welcome. Some have 1mo.

Free.

912-844-5996 OR 912-272-6820 ONE & TWO Bedroom Apartments for rent. 656 East 36th, 702 E. Henry St. & 1201 E.Park Ave. Call 912-224-1876/912-232-3355. after 3:00pm Rental: Thunderbolt Harbor EliteCondo. 1800sqft 2BR, den, diningarea, 2BA, Jacuzzi, FP, pool, 2-cargarage, balcony overlooking Intracoastal Waterway boat-slip $1800 (912)661-4814 RENT: DUPLEX 1510 E.53rd Street.

3BR/2BA House $795/month plus $795/deposit. Call Rene @ 234-2726 Days/Nights/Weekends.

SOUTHSIDE •1BR apts, washer/dryer included. Water & trash included, $625/month.

•2BR/1.5BA townhouse apt, total electric, w/washer & dryer/$650.

Call 927-3278 THREE BEDROOM 1 Snowy Egret Ct $1250 15 Wilshire Blvd 2320 Hawaii Ave. $875 1906 E.58th St. $750 TWO BEDROOM HOUSES 318 E. 58th St. $795 1236 E.38th St. $675 1012 Hearn St. $575 APARTMENTS 303 Gallery Way $1100 2 Bedrooms 1102 E. 33rd St. $725 One Bedroom 740 E.45th St. #1 $725 5608-A Jasmine Ave $595 116 E.Gordon Ln. $595 Duplexes 1234-A E.55th St. $550 FOR DETAILS & PICTURES VISIT OUR WEB PAGE WWW.PAMTPROPERTY.COM Pam T Property 692-0038

VERY NICE

2BR/2BA Condominium with CH&A, refrigerator, stove, washer/dryer hookup & lots more! $765/month. Call 912-507-7934 or 912-927-2853

WEST 58TH

3BR/2BA, all electric, carpet, fenced yard $725/month plus deposit.

QUAIL RUN

2-1/2BR, 2BA Townhouse, all electric, carpet, fenced yard $750/month plus deposit

912-234-0548 - NO Section 8

WILMINGTON ISLAND 2 and 3 Bedroom Condos: Located in Gated Community, on the Water $1,250-$1,450 POOLER HOMES 5 Chadwick Court: 4-Bedrooms, 2Baths, double garage $1,150.

SAVANNAH HOMES 201 Chapel Lake S. 3-Bedrooms, 2-1/2-Baths, Pool & Fitness Center $1,075.

Jean Walker Realty, LLC 898-4134

rooms for rent 895 EFFICIENCY ROOMS Includes stove, refrigerator, private bath. Furnished! $180/week.

Call 912-844-5995.

SPACIOUS ROOMS FOR RENT Newly renovated on busline.2 blocks from Downtown Kroger,3 blocks from Historic Forsyth Park. $150/week w/No deposit.

844-5995

Affordable,Clean in Safe Areas

DOWNTOWN near SCAD & SOUTHSIDE near Hunter. Fully furnished, cable TV, Wi-Fi, free laundry, offstreet parking. Priv. bath, fridge, microwave avail. Drug free. $125-$165/wk. Call 912-220-8691.

AVAILABLE ROOMS: CLEAN, comfortable rooms. Washer/dryer, air, cable, HBO, ceiling fans. $110-$140 weekly. No deposit. Call Ike @ 844-7065

LARGE VICTORIAN with windows on two sides, across from library, nicely furnished, all utilities.

TV/cable/internet, washer/dryer, $140/week. $504/month.

912-231-9464 Other apts. avail.

LOOK THIS WAY FOR A PLACE TO STAY

Furnished, affordable room available includes utility, cable,refrigerator, central heat/air. $115-$140/weekly, no deposit.Call 912-844-3609 NEED A ROOM? STOP LOOKING! Great rooms available ranging from $115-$140/weekly. Includes refrigerators, cable w/HBO, central heat/air. No deposit. Call 912-398-7507.

NICE ROOM for rent, Nice neighborhood. Liberty City area. For reliable, working person. No drugs!

Contact 912-224-7060

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Call 912-721-4350 and Gain New Customers!

NO DEPOSIT-LIMITED TIME! NEAR MEMORIAL East &West Savannah & Bloomingdale •REDUCED RENT!• •Rooms $100 & Up. Furnished, includes utilities, central heat and air, Comcast cable, washer/dryer. Hardwood floors, ceramic tile in kitchen and bath. Shared Kitchen & Shared bath. Call 912-210-0144.

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CHEVROLET 7-passenger Van, 2000- Extra clean, cold AC, runs great $2,450. 912-441-2150 FENDER BENDER?

Paint & Body Work. Reasonably Priced. Insurance Claims. We buy wrecks. Call 912-355-5932.

Boats & accessories 950

SUN TRACK BOAT, 1988. With trailer, white. Party barge, aluminum. $2500-$3000. Call 912-428-6208

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