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Mobile Food meeting

What: The second public meeting held

to discuss issues surrounding mobile food vending in Savannah.

When: Wed. June 22, 5:30 p.m.

Where: Creative Coast HQ, 15 W. York St. Cost: Free Info: http://www.thecreativecoast.org/

Film: Wake in Fright (Australia, 1971) What: An Oz-ploitation cult classic about a

young teacher who becomes deranged by a desolate outback mining town.

When: Wed. June 22, 8 p.m.

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Friday Dinner Theater: Three on a Bench

What: A whimsical one-act comedy by Doris

Estrada. Proceeds benefit the church. Reservations req’d.

When: Fri. June 24, 7 p.m., Sat. June 25, 7 p.m., Sun. June 26, 5 p.m.

Where: Aldersgate UMC, 2020 Tennessee Ave. Cost: $15 Info: 912-897-3866.

Savannah Uncorked

What: Annual wine and beer tasting raising

funds for trauma care and rehabilitation at Memorial.

When: Fri. June 24, 7 p.m.

Where: Savannah Golf Club, 1661 E. President St. Cost: $75/person Info: 912-350-1524.

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What: Target Distribution Center staff

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When: Sat. June 25, 7 a.m.-12 p.m.

Where: Salvation Army Gym, 3000 Bee Rd. Cost: Free Info: http://www.uwce.org/

Healthy Heart Home Run 5k

What: Co-sponsored by the Coastal Health

District. Participants receive a t-shirt and a general admission ticket to that night’s Gnats game. Registration starts at 7am.

When: Sat. June 25, 8 a.m.

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Green Bridge for work, play and a nice lunch. Register via the website for directions, carpool info, etc.

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Control Unit. Cats must be in carriers and dogs must be kenneled or on a leash.

When: Sat. June 25, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where: Animal Control , 7211 Sallie Mood Dr. Cost: $6/vaccine Info: 912-652-6575. http://www.savannahpd.org/

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When: Sat. June 25, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

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Bodybuilding Championship

What: The 11th annual Southern Isles

Bodybuilding, Figure and Wheelchair Championship. Pre-Judge starts at 10am. Finals at 6:30pm.

When: Sat. June 25, 10:30 a.m. 6:30 PM, Where: Savannah Civic Center, 301 W. Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $15/pre-judge, $20/finals Info: http://www.southernislesbb.com/

Rollerderby

What: A doubleheader. The Hostess City

Hellions take on a ragtag team from Catawba Valley in the bout, followed by the Savannah Derby Devil All-Stars vs.

Birmingham’s Tragic City Rollers.

When: Sat. June 25, 5 p.m. 7:00 PM, Where: Savannah Civic Center, 301 W. Oglethorpe Ave. , Cost: $10/adv, $12/door Info: http://www.savannahderby.com/

Rocky Horror Picture Show

What: Pure Anti-Matter found a new

home for their midnight Rocky Horror production. Prop bags available for an extra $2.

When: Sat. June 25, 11:30 p.m.

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Sunday Gospel Brunch

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musical performance. Performance at 1:30pm.

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Film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) What: CineSavannah and PFS host the

local premier of Werner Herzog’s stunning documentary.

When: Sun. June 26, 7 p.m.

Where: Victory Square Cinemas. 1901 E. Victory Dr. Cost: $8 (cash only)

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Wednesday An American Salute

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Film: Child Bride (US, 1938)

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Sacrificing the Ogeechee

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We could really use Theodore Roosevelt today.

His crusade against the dangers of monopoly is more than relevant, as was his particular distaste for “special interests,” a phrase he more or less coined and which he intended to refer to unregulated, rampant corporate greed – a scourge in his era as well as ours.

Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican, but of course he couldn’t make it out of a Republican primary in this day and age (and not only because he also considered himself a “Progressive,” a perfectly fine word which has been demonized into something just this side of Hitler by people who don’t know their history or their civics).

While he would not be seen as a conservative by today’s standards – Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater would barely be seen as conservative by today’s standards – Roosevelt did understand the “conserve” part of conservatism.

Specifically, he was the first president to really champion the cause of conservation of natural resources. He wasn’t the first to promote the concept of National Parks and National Forests, but no doubt he was the first really passionate advocate, and his legacy is very much with us today.

A hundred years after TR’s presidency, a contender for the nomination of his old party, Michele Bachmann, said in a CNN debate last week that the Environmental Protection Agency was ground zero in her fight to roll back the power of government.

“And I would begin with the EPA, because there is no other agency like the EPA,” she said to an adoring crowd. “It should really be renamed the job–killing organization of America.”

Stop and think about that. Of all bureaucratic and regulatory malfeasance performed by government agencies in this country – the IRS, the TSA, the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, etc. – Bachmann’s first target, the one above all others, would be the agency charged with protecting the natural resources and environment of the United States, however imperfectly it may do so.

Not wanting to conserve the environment isn’t particularly conservative. “Radical” would be a more suitable word. “Suicidal” also comes to mind.

While for most people the tired false dichotomy between environment and economy is an abstract “argument” – played out on

cable news and AM talk radio with the same predictable results as the Harlem Globetrotters vs. the Washington Generals – it struck home over the past month, as a 70–mile stretch of our own Ogeechee River was contaminated by a bacterial increase, possibly due to changes in water composition after a chemical/industrial discharge of some type.

The result was a massive fish, alligator and bird kill as well as physical symptoms on some people coming in contact with its water.

As is the case with almost all rivers in the South, the Ogeechee can in no way be called “pristine.” That said, this blackwater river is particularly scenic and serene for most of its length, and contains a rich variety of wildlife and plant life. It is a favorite of kayakers and anglers alike.

Unlike intensively dammed and controlled rivers like the Savannah itself, the Ogeechee retains a large element of its preindustrial character. However, it doesn’t take much industry to change things for the worse, and that might be the case with the Ogeechee wildlife kill last month.

A textile plant upriver from the kill is being sued for its alleged role in possibly discharging ammonia, hydrogen peroxide and formaldehyde into the Ogeechee, which along with superheated water might alter the river enough to promote a lethal bacteria bloom.

The state Environmental Protection Division, chronically underfunded and historically subservient to polluting interests with political clout, didn’t exactly cover itself with glory in this episode. While the first fish kill reports came in May 19, it wasn’t until May 22 that the EPD issued a health advisory for the river. On May 23 they posted warnings against swimming in the Ogeechee or eating fish from it near the Bulloch/Effingham county line.

More troubling is the fact that they and the federal EPA have yet to pinpoint the source of the offending spill, nor the culprit.

“The wanton poisoning of the Ogeechee River is a vile and despicable act,” said Pierre Howard, president of the Georgia Conservancy. “Those responsible have inflicted damage

Would Teddy Roosevelt be happy about recent developments on the Ogeechee River?

No, he would not.

on the river that will take years to repair.

There are lots of boys and girls who live along that river who won’t be able to catch a red– breast in there for years.”

But this is apparently the way Georgians want it. Like Michele Bachmann, most Georgia voters seem to think environmental regulation is more dangerous in the abstract than the effects of environmental deregulation are in reality.

The ineffective response can be directly linked to the electorate’s desire for a less–intrusive, less–accountable environmental regulatory infrastructure.

To blame “big government” for Georgia EPD’s tepid response is to totally miss the point. Georgia EPD is actually “small government” in action – a largely toothless regulatory agency without the resources to do its job properly, another victim of the relentless crusade to cut public sector budgets to the bone with no thought to the long–term cost.

The fish and swim advisories have since been lifted, but I don’t know anyone who feels comfortable about that. Until Georgia voters demand not only accountability from their government but proper funding and resources for it, expect more of this in the future. CS

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Awareness is key

30 years after their discovery, HIV and AIDS are too prevalent in the South

by Patrick Rodgers | patrick@connectsavannah.com

This year marks the 30th anniversary since AIDS first appeared as a mysterious unnamed killer that turned lives and communities upside down. It was in the summer of 1981 that news of curious diagnoses of Pneumocystis pneumonia among young gay men began to spread, leading the Center for Disease Control to form a task force to investigate the medical anomaly.

It wasn’t until the following year that the name Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome was officially established, and it would take many more years before the disease was well understood.

While scientific research and public education have drastically altered the fight, the battle is far from over.

“People are working very hard to spread the news about HIV, but some people are hard heads,” says Lakeya Pressley, who works with the Health Department’s CARE Center, which offers testing, case management and other services for those living with HIV or AIDS in the community. “It appears that no matter how much folks know there are still those that take risks.”

This Monday, June 27, is National HIV Testing Day, and facilities across the city will offer free confidential tests throughout the day.

“It is an equal opportunity disease,” says Mark Douglas, the Executive Director of My Brothaz Home, a local non–profit organization. “It doesn’t care if you’re black or white or straight or rich or poor. It has everything to do with behavior.”

There are more than 1.1 million people across the country living with the disease, according to data from the CDC, and 30–40 million people living with the disease worldwide.

While the number of newly diagnosed cases of HIV and AIDS in Georgia each year has been in decline (it’s currently about half of what it was during a high point in the early 1990s), according to data from the state’s Department of Community Health, the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in the South remains a daunting issue.

“Southern states continue to report

the highest number of new AIDS cases, the highest newly reported HIV cases, and the smallest decrease in deaths due to AIDS,” according to a report by the Southern AIDS Coalition.

In 2007, Southern states accounted for more than half of the countries HIV cases, according to CDC data.

“The South has the highest number of new HIV cases in the country, and yet we receive thelowest amount of money for HIV prevention,” explains Douglas, seated in the testing room across the hall from his office.

My Brothaz Home (MBH) conducts free testing year-round, usually averaging 60 tests per month. For the last several years, the National HIV Testing Awareness Day increases traffic to 60–70 in a single day.

“We have one of the highest sero– positivity rates in this area of the city,” he says. “More people test positive here than in any other location in Savannah.

It’s not a good thing, but that’s just the way it is.”

HIV and AIDS disproportionately affect the nation’s poor and homeless, meaning that those who most need help are often the ones who can afford it least. Difficulty maintaining housing, poor diet and other struggles all negatively affect health outcomes of individuals who are already struggling to cope. Beyond just providing free testing, MBH tries to help.

The organization hosts weekly support groups, providing empathy, experience and community to the newly diagnosed. Additionally, they try to assist with access to food, clothing, and transportation to medical appointments, but funding is tight.

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Executive Director Mark Douglas in the testing room at the MBH facility

Regardless of income level, every person who tests positive at MBH is given assistance with referrals to ongoing medical care, treatment providers and a case manager – the first steps down the path toward living with the disease.

Douglas has been active in the fight against HIV/AIDS for more than 10 years now, but it wasn’t something to which he planned on dedicating so much of his life.

In 2000, an HIV/AIDS awareness brochure lead him to Pandora Singleton’s Project Azuka, which provided services for women with HIV and AIDS during the 1990s and into the early years of the new millennium. Douglas began as a volunteer before becoming so involved that he quit his job in order to form MBH. Shortly after forming the new organization, his fight against the disease became highly personal, following the death his sister.

“I lost my sister to AIDS. Deborah died nine years ago this month from AIDS related complications. That further pushed me to do my work,” he explains. “Ten years later, we’re one of the few local non–profits in this area that is primarily focused on HIV prevention.”

Since the summer of 1981, AIDS has taken the lives of more than half a million people in the U.S., but nearly twice as many are still living with the disease.

That may be the biggest change during the last three decades – while diagnosis was once practically a death sentence (in 1994, AIDS was the num-

ber one cause of death for Americans age 25–44), advancements in treatment and pharmacology have drastically increased the life expectancy of those with the disease.

“When I began working with people who were infected, I wanted to give hope,” says Lakeya Pressley. “I didn’t want them to feel like I was taking away life, I wanted to feel like I was giving them an opportunity to live life on a better scale.”

The first step, however, remains getting tested.

“It’s better to know your status than to not know,” says Pressley.

Both the CARE Center and MBH will host special testing events on Monday in honor of National Testing Awareness Day (and MBH also offers screenings for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea). Sites across the city also offer testing, including the Phoenix Center (520 E. 34th St.), the J.C. Lewis Healthcare Center (120 Fahm St.) and the Curtis V. Cooper Care Center (106 E. Broad St.), among others. CS National HIV Testing Awareness Day Where: My Brothaz Home, 2111 Price St. When: June 27, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.

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So many reasons to Dump the Pump Waking up to the sound of rain, I was cheered that the drought had broken.

Then I thought, “Note to self: get fenders for bike.” It is not typically an issue but for the second time in three years, it was raining close to the start of the Dump the Pump (DTP) Challenge, an annual event that dramatizes the efficacy of modes of transportation other than automobiles.

So, I scrubbed the notion of business togs for my riding habit and defaulted to cargo shorts, t–shirt and bike shoes; I knew I would get a bit splattered and, with 100 percent humidity, warm. The Challenge is a race between a bicyclist (me), a Chatham Area Transit (CAT) bus rider and a car. My route, designed to avoid stoplights, from 12 Oaks Shopping Center to City Hall, is 4.6 miles.

As participants must strictly obey all traffic rules, I wanted to spend as little time as possible listening to the crosswalk repeat, “Wait, wait, wait.”

Fortunately, other than a short wait at Habersham and Derenne, I did pretty well. It took effort to make the green at Victory Drive (while negotiating with left-turning cars) and I managed to avoid a long wait at Bay Street.

The minute and a half saved turned out to be the margin of victory over the bus rider. (The car, by the time it parked and its passengers got to City Hall, finished a semi–distant third.)

The bus has come in a respectable second place each year of the challenge – a tribute to the efficiency of our CAT transit system. A bicyclist has the great

advantage of knowing exactly where it will be at any given moment–it is the only competitor with a schedule to meet, and CAT runs on time.

If I had not been racing the 14 Abercorn bus this morning, I might have taken it due to the early inclement weather. I love that bus; its pretty route is convenient to my house, and there is a community of regular sociable riders.

With lots of passengers on each bus and the new more fuel–efficient fleet, it is also a clean way to travel. (We had a very clean race this year: the car in the race was one of two electric Chevy Volts in Georgia.)

Buses and bikes offer tremendous economic efficiencies over travel by car.

MSN Money reports eliminating a car from the family fleet can save $7,000 – $12,000 a year depending on the vehicle and driving habits.

Alternate modes of transit also take stress off capital investments that accommodate travelers moving in, around and out of our cities daily; roads are freed up (until they fill up again – sadly, most capacity increases are absorbed by added mileage by local users), and less parking is needed.

One joy of biking is always having “executive parking.” With the City of Savannah’s ongoing bike rack improvements at high activity sites around town and all the “street furniture,” there is usually something to lock up to.

Alternative modes also produce significantly less pollution. Short trips by automobile – which buses, bikes and walking most easily substitute for – are incredibly dirty undertakings. Cars’ pollution controls don’t really get going for a couple of miles and with 40 per-

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cent of car trips in America being two or less miles, the impact of substituting any mode of transportation for driving is huge.

The Savannah Bicycle Campaign works to Build a Better Savannah through Bicycling. We use Advocacy, Education and Encouragement attacking this goal. Advocacy addresses legal issues like effective enforcement and improved laws to make cycling safer (like the new state law requiring a three–foot safe passing distance) and better facilities for cycling like the new bike lane planned for Price Street.

Education helps build the skills necessary to operate a bike safely, whether on a bike facility or operating legally as a vehicle on our roads. It helps build the better bikers who will help us all build a better city.

Finally, Encouragement helps make people confident enough to take to the roads and reminds them how much fun cycling is.

The Dump the Pump challenge, other rides and socials get people involved and out on the road. To see a bit of what those are about, join us for the Midnight Garden Ride on Saturday, Sept. 3 (Labor Day Weekend).

You can register online for this “Festive Nightime Bicycle Ride” at www. midnightgardenride.com.

We hope you will visit our website, too, and find out how you can help us continue to make Savannah a premier bicycle community. Check out www. bicyclecampaign.org. CS

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Loud music got a man into trouble with the law. Just after midnight last Monday, an officer stopped a vehicle for a noise ordinance violation.

When the officer approached the vehicle, he detected a strong odor of marijuana. The driver was found to be in possession of prescription pills and was arrested.

After being searched and handcuffed, the driver was placed in a patrol car, while officers waited for his vehicle to be towed. When the suspect was removed from the car, he had gotten his hands in front of him (despite them originally being cuffed behind him) and he smelled of marijuana. He had also pulled down his pants. The suspect had marijuana on his underwear, in

his goatee and on his hands. The officer discovered a bag of marijuana the suspect had attempted to consume. He had some extra charges added and was transported to CCDC. • A man had his boat stolen from in front of a residence. The complainant arrived at the precinct to report the boat missing. He told the officer that he had moved out of the house and left the boat there, planning on returning to retrieve it at a later date. When he returned to pick up the boat, it was not there. He contacted the property owner, who said he noticed the boat was missing, but assumed that the owner had come to pick it up. He had not. It’s aluminum, about 14 feet long, and has blue and yellow bass fishing stickers on the sides.

• A man received non–life threatening injuries during a shootout on East 40th Street last week. He isn’t cooperating with the police investigation of the incident, though. The 22-year-old was found lying on the ground with a handgun nearby. Glass from the smashed window of a vehicle and several shell

casings were found in the street, indicating that shots had been fired at him as well. Witnesses reported that a gray pickup truck with a South Carolina license plate sped from the area after the firefight. A house nearby was hit with bullets and shotgun pellets.

The victim was taken to the hospital for surgery.

• Two men went to the police station to report a possible incident involving child molestation. They said the incident involved the young daughter of one man’s girlfriend. A few days earlier, the young girl had been home alone at their apartment when a neighbor came by and asked where her mom was. The men asked the girl about the incident, but she was hesitant to talk to them about what exactly happened, so they became suspicious. They had spoken with two other men at the apartment complex who said they had seen the suspect masturbating publicly. Several hours later, police received a call about

a suspicious vehicle and went to investigate. They discovered the two men who had been at the precinct earlier, and that the person who called to complain was the person they had accused earlier of potentially indecent behavior. One officer went and talked to the suspect–turned– complainant, and another officer went to talk to the girl. She told the officer that the man had come by and asked if her mom was home. He then gave her his phone number, which she found strange. She said that when she closed the door, he winked at her, and she often notices him staring at her, which makes her feel uncomfortable. The officers warned to man that he was not to have any more contact with the girl, and then told the girl and her mother to call the police if anything else happened. CS Give anonymous crime tips to Crimestoppers at 234-2020

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Years ago I made the mistake of reading a book called The Journeyer by Gary Jennings, about the life and adventures of Marco Polo. If you’re not familiar with Jennings’s work, the synopsis is simple: SEX, VIOLENCE, history, SEX, VIOLENCE. Jennings writes of a torture practiced in the Orient of Polo’s time called “death by a thousand cuts.” Supposedly the grand poobah torturer would fill a container with a thousand pieces of paper on which were written the names of body parts. He would then pick out one slip after another and cut, maim, or burn the assigned body part, keeping the victim alive until all one thousand were used up. I’d forgotten about this until I heard the phrase in conversation recently.

Was this really a torture practiced anywhere at any time? —Beer-is-Yummy, via the Straight Dope Message Board Before this question can be answered, we need to scrape back certain dubious encrustations: 1. “Death by a thousand cuts” is strictly a Western expression—the Chinese term is lingchi, the origin and literal meaning of which is obscure. Three dozen cuts is more like it, although I’ve seen one account claiming especially iniquitous individuals wound up in 120 pieces, which I guess might require up to 119 cuts.

2. Other than in Jennings, I’ve never heard anything about a body-part job jar.

Those caveats having been offered, yes, death by numerous cuts was an accepted method of execution in China until 1905. The idea was to hack the condemned to pieces in public. But here’s the bit that slays me, so to speak: Western sniffs thought this was inhumane.

The story is told in a fascinating 2008 book, Death by a Thousand Cuts,

by Timothy Brook et al. Lingchi was a punishment reserved for infamous crimes such as treason or parricide.

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Instead, the point was to make an example of the poor bastard. It’s said the Chinese had a special horror of death by dismemberment, since it meant you’d show up mutilated in the afterlife.

The condemned was trotted out into the marketplace and methodically butchered. The breasts were sliced off, and hunks of flesh were gouged out of the arms and thighs. After that the limbs were severed, and finally the head.

The whole thing was over in maybe five minutes. Lesson for the assembled masses: don’t be bad.

Though reports of painful Chinese punishments had long circulated in the West, lingchi didn’t become notorious outside China until the publication of drawings and eventually photographs of lingchi in progress in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The grisly images confirmed outsiders’ belief in China’s exceptional cruelty, justifying Western exploitation.

Which is pretty nervy when you think about it. Lingchi isn’t far removed from drawing and quartering (nonfatal hanging, then castrating and disemboweling the condemned while still alive, then beheading followed by hacking or tearing the body into four pieces), which was the statutory punishment for men convicted of treason in England until 1867. The garrote (strangulation by tightening a metal band around the neck, sometimes also involving a sharpened screw that pierced the spine) was the prescribed method of execution in Spain until 1973; U.S. authorities used it in the Philippines until 1902. The Chinese were appalled by the British practice of brutally flogging soldiers and sailors for minor offenses.

Criminals were publicly hanged in the UK until 1868, in the U.S. until 1936. In “short drop” hanging, the standard method until the mid-19th century, the condemned typically took 10 to 20 minutes to die of strangulation.

Most of this is ancient history, though. China has now achieved global parity in the corrective methods department. True, it still puts people to death, a practice abolished in most countries.

But it has plenty of company among the great, or anyway most populous, nations of the earth, including India, Indonesia, and of course the non-criminal-coddling U.S. CS

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Giddyup! When a strain of equine herpes led to a temporary quarantine at horse farms in central Utah, the sponsors of the Davis County Mounted Posse Junior Queen contest in May had a dilemma, but instead of canceling the competition in which the cowgirls show their skills on horseback, they decided to conduct the show except with the girls “riding” stick “ponies” to get style points.

Former queen Savanna Steed told KSLTV the change would be good because it would better test riders’ knowledge of the routines instead of their relying on their horses to make the moves.

Latest Religious Messages

• Unclear on the Concept: India’s Ganges River has become famously polluted, in part by reverent Hindu pilgrims who toss “offerings” (such as clothing, statues and the cremated ashes of loved ones) into it in hope of prosperous lives and holy afterlives. Hindu immigrants in New York City, without access to the Ganges, have called upon Jamaica Bay as a standin. The formerly quiet waters adjacent to JFK International Airport now ebb and flow with similar offerings that ultimately litter the bay’s federal recreation area shoreline. Hindu community leaders in New York, with only mixed success, constantly urge greater environmental sensitivity.

• From time to time, clever rabbis suggest ways of bypassing ancient Talmudic laws that restrict observant Jews’ behavior on the Sabbath (a day of “rest”). In April, Rabbi Dror Fixler, an electro-optics

expert from Bar-Ilan University in Israel, said he could foresee a day when even driving a car might be permitted on the Sabbath. The driver would wear an encephalography helmet that could catch brain signals and transmit them to a car’s operating and steering system, removing the need for “action” on the driver’s part (thus theoretically leaving him “at rest”).

The Continuing Crisis

• Mattel revealed that its best-selling fashion doll in the last year, for the age-6-and-up market, has been the teen werewolf “Monster High” model, Clawdeen Wolf, who comes with heavy makeup, a short skirt and high boots, and who supposedly spends her time “waxing, plucking and shaving.” (Says Clawdeen, in promotional materials, “My hair is worthy of a shampoo commercial, and that’s just what grows on my legs.”) Though Mattel claims the doll celebrates girls’ imperfections, a counselor told Fox News she was appalled that the company tells young girls they “need to sculpt, tweeze, wax and ... change their bodies” to attract men.

• Cyber Making-Out: Tokyo’s Kajimoto Laboratory has created a tongue-kissing machine to enable lovers to suck face over the Internet, according to a May CNN report. At separate locations, the pair place special straws in their mouths and mimic a deep kiss, which is recorded and transmitted to each other’s straws. Researcher Nobuhiro Takahashi sees profit in “celebrity” tongue-kissing applications,

but said more work is needed to establish individual taste, breathing and tongue moistness. (Another team of Japanese researchers, using a harness-type device, reported making similar advances - in Internet “hugging,” with sensors that mimic lovers’ heartbeats and even their spine’s “tingling” and stomach’s “butterflies.”)

• Tacky: (1) The Columbus, Ohio, school board accepted principal Kimberly Jones’ resignation in May following revelations by The Columbus Dispatch that she, though earning $90,000 a year, swore on federal forms that she made Dump just $25,000 - so that her own that two children would qualify for pump! reduced-price school lunches. (2) Prime Healthcare Services, with a reputation for rescuing financially failing hospitals, reported that two new acquisitions, in Victorville, Calif., and Redding, Calif., somehow curiously experienced rates about 40 and 70 times the state average in patients with a rare Third World Ghanian sickness that, conveniently, qualified the hospitals for enhanced Medicare reimbursements.

Fine Points of the Law

In a pre-trial motion in a Chicago court case in May, the defense lawyer for Exotic Motors Inc., which is being sued over car repairs, complained about plaintiffs’ lawyers’ unusual decision to permit a female paralegal to sit at their courtroom table, especially since she is a “large-breasted woman.” Her “sole

purpose” at the table, lamented defense lawyer Thomas Gooch, was “to draw the attention of the jury,” presumably in favor of the plaintiffs. Gooch later told the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin that he was concerned only with her “qualifications” to sit at the table.

Questionable Judgments

• The recent Memorial Day weekend was a time of reflection for the residents of Long Island (N.Y.)’s Shelter Island, who were honoring a soldier from the neighborhood who had recently been killed in Afghanistan. The local American Legion placed new, heavy-duty American flags on telephone poles along a parade route, but only afterward was informed that Long Island Power Authority, which owns the poles, is required by state law to charge an unwaivable rental fee for the poles.

• Principal Terry Eisenbarth apologized to parents and children at Washington Elementary School in Mount Vernon, Iowa, in May and promised to stop his ritual “whammies,” in which he summons kids on their birthdays to his office, sings “Happy Birthday” to them, and ceremonially spanks the child’s backside with a cushioned hockey stick (with the number of whacks equaling the child’s age).

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for violating the terms of the “scholarship” he supposedly offered them. The women claim that Fitzsimmons is a devotee of the “Spencer Plan” of orderly discipline, in which contracting parties adhere to agreed-on roles but at a cost of being physically disciplined if they fail. Fitzsimmons acknowledged his fascination with the Spencer Plan, but denied the assaults, pointing out that he had fired one of the women and that the other four were helping her retaliate.

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(1) Former Camden, N.J., police Sgt. Jeffrey Frett pleaded guilty in May in a scheme to qualify for early retirement by arranging to be shot in the leg (to be attributed to random street violence).

The plan deteriorated, police said, when Frett’s wife (the designated shooter) missed his leg, merely ripping a hole in his uniform pants. (2) Ryan Martin, 29, and Erica Clayburn, 20, were charged with reckless endangerment in Derry Township, Pa., in April after Martin was shot in the jaw. The couple were playing a game resembling “Marco Polo” with a loaded handgun, with an eyes-closed Clayburn firing when Martin shouted “Gun!” (Martin was supposed to duck out of the way before Clayburn pulled the trigger.)

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Arrested recently and awaiting trial for murder: Anthony Wayne Smith (former Oakland Raiders football player), Los Angeles (March); Theron Wayne Johnson, Weston, Texas (May); Michael Wayne McGray, Vancouver, British Columbia (May); Darrell Wayne Morris, Price, Utah (May). Convicted of murder: Thilbert Wayne Hager, Statesville, N.C. (October). Execution for murder stayed by U.S. Supreme Court: Daniel Wayne Cook, Phoenix (on death row since 1987) (April). Sentenced for murder: Billy Wayne Haynes, Odessa, Texas (life) (May); Jeffrey Wayne Riebe, Conway, S.C. (40 years in prison) (June).

A News of the Weird Classic (February 2007) In September (2006), according to sheriff ’s officials in Buffalo, N.Y., Thomas Montgomery, 47, murdered a 22-year-old colleague in an online love triangle involving a West Virginia woman, except that two of the three people involved did not exist. Ostensibly, a young Marine flirted with an 18-year-old woman, but unknown to each other, the “Marine” was actually Montgomery, and the woman was actually her mother, 45, pretending to be her daughter. The workplace colleague (not pretending to be anyone else) had struck up an online conversation with the “daughter,” also, making Montgomery jealous enough to kill him. Thus, in the make-believe “triangle,” the only real person is now dead. cs

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At 10 p.m. Saturday, June 25 Tantra Lounge, 8 Broughton St. Free The mischievous popsters in General O have been laying tracks for a new album; meanwhile, the band’s singing, songwriting frontperson Devin Smith has directed a video for “Red Hot,” one of the standout tracks on last year’s debut Whistle the Dirges, and tonight’s show is also an excuse to screen said video for the very first time. The always–enchanting, bop–rocking Free Candy opens with their sinewy sweets. In the photo (by Cami Podell/ Azalea Inn): Panhandlers Anna Chandler, Duncan Iaria and Devin Smith).

“FRIENDS OF CHIEF” BENEFIT

Noon–10 p.m. Sunday, June 26 Coach’s Corner, 3016 E. Victory Drive So much attention is paid to the young bands in town, the ones that pepper the downtown clubs constantly and appeal, for the most part, to the college–age crowd. This is a good thing, as that’s where most of the innovation is, and the youthful energy. And anything that starts someone on a lifelong passion for live music is worth celebrating – and worth writing stories and Noteworthy columns about.

The other side of things, as in every college town, is the local, non–collegiate, hometown musicians. Many of the guys who regularly rock in Savannah are natives (like Greg Williams or Eric Culberson, for example) or have been doing it here for a long, long time – they’ve seen the trends come and the trends go, but never packed up and chased their dreams out of town. Or if they did, they came back to stay. And kept on rockin.’

Singer, songwriter and guitarist “Chief ” Dennis Hinely grew up on the east side and has been in many bands over the years, The Looters have the next-to-last slot, at 8:40 p.m. Sunday including the Homewreckers, and a later incarnation of the JoJa Band – Savannah’s biggest ‘70s southern–rock aggregate.

Anyway, Chief ’s been ill recently, and like so many musicians he doesn’t have health insurance. His longtime buddy Gordon Perry, and the owners of Coach’s Corner (where many of the city’s longtime musicians can always find a gig) have organized this Sunday benefit, with a lot of his homegrown musician pals and/or longtime supporters.

Here’s the schedule (subject to last–minute change): Noon: Georgia Kyle; 1 p..m.: Jason Courtenay; 1:50 p.m.: High Velocity; 2:45 p.m.: Jimmy Wolling Band; 3:35 p.m.: The Magic Rocks; 4:25 p.m.: Bluesonics; 5:10 p.m.: Greg Williams Band; 6 p.m.: Bucky & Barry; 6:50 p.m.: Thomas Claxton & the Myth; 7:40 p.m.: Chuck Courtenay Band; 8:40 p.m.: The Looters; 9:30 p.m.: G.E. Perry & Strange Brew. And special guests, too!

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The Savannah punk/pop trio Fur Elise (pictured) opens for Columbia’s post-hardcore Sent By Ravens (along with Wild Zero) Thursday, June 23 at the Rock House in Tybee ... The fabulous Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun is at the Wormhole Friday (24th), along with Atlanta’s killer trio Jungol and Savannah’s electronica wizard Paul Goerner (aka Magic Places)… Saturday at the Wormhole, it’s a Savannah Pagan Pride Day celebration, with a Midsummer Night’s Dream theme. They’re crowning a King and Queen of the Fairies, there’s elaborate fairy face painting planned, a DJ, a go–go dancer and … well, let’s debauch, shall we?...Jonathan Murphy is a busy guy – along with the Canebrakes and Burning Mansions, he has another band called Jon Lee’s Apparitions, playing Isaac’s on Drayton Saturday the 25th …. CS

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Guitarist Pat Martino will headline the 2011 Savannah Jazz Festival, Sept. 24 in Forsyth Park. That’s the penultimate day of the always–free musical celebration, which will open on Sept. 18 and continue through the 25th, at various venues still to be announced.

Based in Philadelphia, Martino has been recording – as a headlining artist and all–star sideman – since the mid 1960s. In 2004, he was named Guitar Player of the Year by the readers of Downbeat magazine.

Martino and his group – which includes Pat Bianchi on Hammond B3 organ and Shawn Hill on drums – will be preceded by a Savannah Jazz Orchestra performance, with guest trombonists Wycliffe Gordon and Ron Wilkins.

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Other performers during festival week include the Howard Paul Quartet, Bob Masteller & the Jazz Corner Quintet, the Savannah Arts Academy Starlite Jazz Orchestra and Coastal Jazz Association All–Stars.

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TALKING WITH rockabilly RULEBREAKER DEX ROMWEBER

by Bill DeYoung

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The dynamic Duo: Sara and Dex Romweber

During the Flat Duo Jets’ most fertile period, the early to mid 1990s, their stripped–downraw rockabilly, driven by Dex Romweber’s tremolo surf guitar, attracted a slavishly devoted audience.

Still, the band never crossed into any kind of mainstream acceptance. Perhaps the hyper–kinetic, low–fi garage music was just a bit too close to the actual garage – after all, the only other member of FDJ was drummer Crow Smith, who pounded out intense tribal rhythms behind Romweber as he flailed at his instrument, screaming and bellowing baritone like a ‘50s wildman into the microphone.

Maybe people simply weren’t ready for it.

Years later, along came the White Stripes, who put a new and utterly compelling spin on blues, rock and even country music using the very same instrumentation. And we all know how that turned out.

Romweber has been going it alone for the better part of a decade; in the Chapel Hill area of North Carolina, where he lives, he performs solo and as part of a 10–piece band (the New Romans). He even made an album of nothing but classical piano (Piano).

Then there’s the Dex Romweber Duo. With sister Sara Romweber (formerly of Let’s Active and Snatches of Pink) on drums, Dex swings wide on a number of musical fronts – rockabilly, surf, big ‘50s–styled ballads and the essential minor–chord somnambulistic psychobilly nightmares.

The two play a Savannah Stopover–sponsored show Thursday, June 23 in the courtyard of Cha

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1. The guitar ‘n’ drums arrangement

“I like other instruments! It’s just a matter of finance, really. The Flat Duo Jets started completely by accident. Me and Crow were the only two people around to play. We even had a bass player for a little while. At the moment, it’s a matter of finance. It’s not anything particular – it’s ‘travel light, and hopefully try to make a living.’”

2. Favorite music

“Crow and I were big fans of the Coasters, and Buddy Holly, Bo Diddley and stuff. We grew up in Carrboro, North Carolina – I had my horror mausoleum where we just smoked tons of weed and drank beer, and other things and substances. But I was always spinning records in my place. That’s the stuff we grew up on.

“Sara turned me on to classical music, and me and her are big fans of Chopin and stuff like that. But I love torch songs – Brenda Lee, Patsy Cline, Ray Charles, and Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent. And very obscure artists that people don’t know about too much, like Benny Joy, Roy House, the Rio Rockers.

I’ve really been a musicologist in terms of finding rare and interesting material.

“It keeps going way back – ‘50s, ‘40s, ‘30s. ‘20s. Through the punk era.

I thought Blondie was a great band! It doesn’t really matter to me what genre it is, as long as I like it.”

3. The new album

“This one has a lot of different types of material on it. Stuff a little bit like Stan Kenton, a little bit of surf music, a

4. Playing the old stuff

“For me, I’d really like to get some more modern songwriting under my belt. I just haven’t been able to do it lately. I’m a big fan of Pete Townshend, and I really like his songwriting. I’m not saying I want to be just like him, but – I don’t know, man, maybe a little bit more songs on self–reflection. But they have to be good, though.”

5. Jack White

“I run into Jack periodically. I don’t see him too much. We made this 45 at his record plant, and he had us come up to New York to play with Wanda Jackson, and him backing her up. It was 900 people in a big hall, a really wild show. Later, me and Sara were saying to each other That was really fucking intense. He’s a man on the move, he’s a hard worker, and he’s a generous patron of rockabilly artists. He’s giving back stuff to people.”

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“I would really like to have more money! I am so down on the wire these days, struggling just to make each month. Man, I can’t explain it. It’s karmic. It’s something that’s hard. Early on in my career, I was very self–destructive and I did not know myself at all. I made some pretty horrendous personal decisions. And I don’t know if that affected it, but people seemed to like that more!

The more screwed–up you are, the more they’re cheering for you, which I don’t really want to live by now.

“This one guy, a local fan, he came up to me after a show and said ‘Aw, man, I wanted to see the old Dex.’ And I told him, ‘I wouldn’t be alive if I was the old Dex.’” CS

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little bit of melancholy, obscure rockabilly. Stuff like that, man. It’s Called Is That You in the Blue, which is a song on the record. We do a song called ‘Nowhere,’ by Benny Joy, that’s really neat, a really interesting sort of blues ballad.

‘Redemption’ by Johnny Cash. A song I wrote called ‘Girdjieff Girl,’ which is a little bit big band, a little bit surf/spy – but our own take on all that. And the song ‘Homicide’ by Myron Lee & the Caddys, which is just me on acoustic.

But it’s a very authentic cut of southern rockabilly.

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Bella Restaurant, after an opening set by the Jon Lindsay Band.

In the past couple of years, they’ve come out with a Jack White–produced EP, and a live set, recorded (with White on guitar and vocals) at the Stripeman’s Third Man Records in Nashville.

Ruins of Berlin, their 2009 full– length, is a tremendously powerful showcase of everything Dex Romweber does better than so many, including blistering instrumentals, glorious, retro–stirred singalongs and southern gothic, heartbreak–in–the–mainline torch tunes.

Cat Power, Neko Case and Exene Cervenka – all label–mates of Dex’s on the Chicago–based Bloodshot Records – turn in haunting duets.

The siblings have a new album out on Bloodshot next month.

Here are a few choice cuts from our recent conversation with Dex:

One day Stricken by a stroke in 2010, Lori Stuart is working towards recovery

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by Bill DeYoung

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Thirteen months have gone by since Lori Stuart, lead singer for the Savannah classic rock band Rhythm Riot, suffered a massive stroke on the stage of Bay Street Blues.

In the tense, touch–and–go days that followed, she could only move her eyes, and doctors diagnosed Locked–in Syndrome – what the French call “walled–in alive disease.” The prognosis was, at best, grim.

“Everybody had written her off for dead,” says Rob Stuart, Lori’s husband.

Today, at Heritage Health Care’s rehabilitation center, Lori receives physical, occupational and speech therapy daily.

wheelchair by moving her head from side to side. Twice a week, she stands on her own in a special frame. And with the help of a “zero gravity” device, Lori is able to raise her left arm and feed herself.

“If anything,” says Rob, “I’ve learned don’t try to go long–term, just take it one day at a time.”

Lori, 46, is clear–eyed and talkative (well, she still has a small tube in her throat, so she moves her mouth without making actual sounds; that is expected to change) and she delights in surprising her husband, who’s there every

Clearly, there’s a long road ahead, but her neurologist has quit making predictions about her recovery.

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“I had been thinking ‘Is she ever going to walk again?’” Rob says. “And then one day she says ‘Let me show you my new trick,’ and she starts moving her leg. I was like, ‘She’s going to walk again.

She will.’”

For the Stuarts, every healthy day, every sign of improvement, is a little miracle. But so much of the work is Lori’s to do.

“Here’s a way I use to explain to folks how it works,” Rob explains. “You’re in a dense rainforest and you want to pave the road. First thing you have to do is

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Lori and Rob: “You want to pave the road, first you have to clear the trees.”

clear the trees. So that’s what’s basically happening with her: Clearing the trees is, the brain interprets a signal and learns how to deal with it in a new area of the brain.

“OK, the trees are clear, but now you gotta clear the stumps. Then you pave the road in your forest: Once the muscles remember, then it’s just a matter of training them to get stronger.”

Lori loves to have visitors drop by to say hello.

“Right now, I think our only long– range goal is to get her home, hopefully

by Christmas,” he says. “We understand that if we make it, that’s fantastic – if we don’t, we’re not going to be too terribly disappointed.

“Other than that, it’s still one day at a time. She does little baby steps.

She’ll fall back a little bit, but she’ll pick herself up, dust herself off and get right back at it.”

Last July, the city–wide benefit “Livin’ it Up For Lori” raised thousands of dollars for her health care. That money, plus Medicaid support and other donations, pays (most of) the bills.

UHS–Pruitt Health Care, which owns the Heritage facility, is providing her rehab sessions free of charge.

According to Rob, they’re using Lori as a case study.

“They see potential, and that seems to be what they’re all about,” he says. “I’ve seen some stroke patients in there who have not been able to move at all, and I’ve seen them walk out already.

“Granted, they weren’t as severe or as devastating as Lori. But to me, any time

you have a stroke and you can’t move at all, that’s pretty devastating.

“But they’re fantastic. They threw away their book. When they find something new that works, they go with it.”

Meanwhile, life goes on. In March, Lori became a grandmother for the second time. Rhythm Riot, such as it is, still performs (Lori’s good buddy, singer/guitarist Bill Hodgson, visits her at Heritage often). And Rob still runs his computer security business.

“I have my ups and downs,” he confesses. “It’s tough on me in a whole different way. Trying to run my business, trying to pay the bills, trying to help take care of her ...

“I take my vows very seriously. This is the first time I’ve ever been married, and I’m not going anywhere. I love her.

“And I told her, the vows were for better or for worse – and you can’t get much worse. Richer or poorer – we can’t get much poorer. In sickness and in health – I think we’ve hit rock bottom on the health issue.

“But I consider it, for the most part, smooth sailing from here.”

• A message from Lori re: last summer’s city-wide Livin’ it Up benefit: We would like to thank the venues and their staff who hosted the benefit, and the bands who played and gave to the cause.

Super Dave, Wendi and Amy for organizing the whole event. Most of all I want to thank the fans who bought Lori Bucks, t-shirts and participated in the auctions.

I also have to thank the print, radio and news media for covering this special event.

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With more than seven years invested in their project, the members of Soap finally decided things were right – the stars were aligned – and that they should get their music on tape.

The key word for this band is evolution.

Soap plays a unique combination of silky–smooth R&B, funk and rock ‘n’ roll. The band’s long–gestating first album, Pour Le Corps, is released this week and available at thisissoap.com and through their Facebook page.

It was, they all agree, the arrival of singer and songwriter Antar Ellis in 2005 that really started things moving.

At that time, Ellis says, “They were definitely more of a rock band. They were covering a lot of Ween, and David Bowie – which kind of attracted me to it. And the originals that they were playing attracted me to the band, too.”

Ellis’ soulful voice has the pleasant poignancy of a Luther Vandross, and – on the less rhythm ‘n’ blues, more rock ‘n’ roll tunes (ballads, too) he sounds like the young Steve Winwood.

Soap started in 2003 with Eric Curl on guitar, and Rigel Crockett playing mandolin and bass. Singer Joachim Kelly joined up, followed by a revolving door of drummers, second guitarists and background vocalists.

Always, the sound evolved.

“We were really a garage band in the beginning that did rock ‘n’ roll music, mostly originals,” explains Crockett, a schoolteacher and the author of the

non–fiction book Fair Wind and Plenty of It: A Modern Day Tall Ship Adventure.

“About five years later we added a great guitarist named Jake Brown, and he kind of steered us in more of an R&B and reggae direction. We started adding new covers. And when he left, he left us a different group.”

During that era, Kelly had invited his friend Ellis to sing background. “There were a few practices where if somebody was out, or if somebody couldn’t remember the lyrics, I’d jump in,” Ellis recalls. “With what I could remember!

“And the first time that happened, they were like ‘You sing lead on that song now.’ And after that it just kind of evolved into me taking over most of the lead duties.”

Curl, who’s a reporter for the Savannah Morning News, says that Ellis “has really jumped to the forefront over the last couple of years. He brought a lot to the band besides his voice. He writes a lot of the songs, too. He’s got great musical taste and he brings a lot of his influence into the band.”

Kelly, Curl and Ellis wrote the bulk of Pour Le Corps. The band’s onstage repertoire covers everything from Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson to U2 and Talking Heads. There’s an invitation– only CD release party and show this weekend; their next public performance will be at North Beach Grill July 2.

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something of a secret weapon: Lead guitarist Bill Smith, who moved to Savannah five years ago from Valdosta.

Smith is a veteran player – in fact, his main gig is still with a Waycross–based rock outfit called Rhythm Oil. He’s also one of the busiest musicians in the Hostess City. He has a jazz/pop duo with singer Ellen Gross, does the classical balladeer thing at weddings, and plays Friday nights at Rancho Alegre restaurant, in a trio that includes Ricardo Ochoa on violin.

He also teaches guitar, and other stringed instruments. At the moment, he’s got 15 students.

The upshot is that he can’t always play Soap shows. But he’s all over Pour Le Corps, which was recorded at Savannah’s Elevated Basement Studios.

For Soap, Smith’s sinewy electric guitar added the intangible perfect ingredient. “We’re really lucky to have him playing with us,” says Curl. “He’s a full–on pro, and we’re all kind of in the developing stages.”

Smith, at 57, is far and away the oldest – and most experienced - member of the band. “Being from the classic rock world, this was totally new for me,” he explains. “I guess that’s what attracted me to it, doing something that I’m not used to. Having to work my skills into that kind of a band – if it was my band, we’d be playing Clapton and Hendrix.

“But luckily we’ve got this younger blood that’s kicking out new, good stuff.”

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culture “I started writing it when I was a Fulbright fellow in Budapest. It really took getting out of the United States and separating myself from that experience to be able to start writing about it ... Maybe the interest by some of my Hungarian friends was the impetus of it because they thought it was fascinating Americana. You have hippies and wild women and a gypsy lifestyle. I wrote the first couple chapters, and I thought it was really freeing.”

On poetic license vs. reality:

Chad Faries’ memoir explores the 24 houses he lived in during 10 years of his childhood

by Patrick Rodgers | patrick@connectsavannah.com

Poet and Savannah State professor Chad Faries can now add memoirist to his list of occupational descriptors. His new book, an unflinching exploration of his upbringing in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula titled Drive Me Out of My Mind, hits shelves this week.

It is a personal reflection; memories framed by the 24 houses he lived in over the course of his first 10 years on this earth. Raised by a young, single mother and her three sisters, Faries sifts through the impressions that remain from a childhood surrounded by an extended family consisting of blood relations, party guests, neighbors and male suitors – some noble, others far from it.

The book is as far from the traditional style of memoir as Faries’ youth was from the average American childhood.

His literary tendencies remain rooted in poetry, and his heavily layered imagery sways back and forth between actual

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events and fantastical interpretations.

The effect is both gritty and surreal.

Rather than bind the narrative to a well–researched chronology of events, Faries set out to capture how he sees that crucial first decade, and how he experienced it – the impressions of a tipsy 5-year-old grabbing attention at a party that included strippers, his step– grandfather and a soundtrack of Black Sabbath.

Recounting the tale from infancy through elementary school, the child narrator is too young to have found true north on a moral compass, and so doesn’t pass judgment. He observes and relates, capturing both reality and the

“The moments when I’m taking poetic license ... I try to make it fairly obvious. I’m not pulling one over on the reader. When I’m being magical, I think it’s clearly magical ... There’s another part where I say I need to re–write the story because it gets to be too much, so this is what I’m going to say happened, and I go off on a couple of paragraphs of something fantastic, but I’ve just told the reader I’m making it up because I don’t want to deal with the reality of the situation.”

On working from memory: “That was done deliberately because I wanted it to be this fantastic story of how I perceived everything that was going on during the ‘70s. If I started asking questions then it wouldn’t have been my reality, it would have been their reality. The one thing I worked out with my mom was the houses, so all the houses in that sequence are exactly right. There are a couple of times when we forgot houses – that’s why I created some of the ‘lost chapters.’ The writer is reflecting on the process of creating this memoir.”

On his family (part one):

“They were here for the Savannah Book Festival reading ... It was a good crowd, maybe 150 people, and characteristic of my family, they were late. I’m telling this audience a story, and I said, ‘Interestingly enough, these people are gonna be here, but they’re not because they are somewhere arguing about a parking spot. I hope that they make it.’

Everyone kind of laughed, and I continued ... I’m looking toward the back, and I see these people coming down the stairs. It’s my mom, and she says, ‘I’m here,’ and everyone turns around and gives her an ovation. That was a really great moment.”

On his family (part two): “I think my family knows they’ve made a lot of mistakes and that they’re a little wild, but I tried to treat them with dignity. I never pass judgment. I think they’re ok with it ...The reality of it is when my mom fills in the blanks, it’s much more risque then what I write about.”

On the role of song lyrics as literary device: “For the most part it was to contextualize each experience. Music was a really big part of my childhood. When I listen to classic rock, it really does feel like it captures that decade ... Some of the lyrics have significance in the different chapters themselves. The title of the book itself comes from ‘Satellite of Love’ [by Lou Reed], which was almost the title, Satellites of Love was what we were going to call it.” CS Faries’ memoir, Drive Me Out of My Mind, is available starting June 21. You can find it locally at E. Shaver Booksellers, and The Book Lady, or at your favorite online store.

It’s published by Emergency Press. For more info, visit www.chadfaries.com

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fantasy world he creates to escape from moments that get become emotionally overwhelming.

Faries sat down on his porch with Connect Savannah last week to discuss the writing process, his family and his new penchant for non–fiction.

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Athens, to be sure, has been the portal from which so much great much has sprung (see the Dex Romweber story in this very issue for one notable example).

The Whigs, the Athens–based power trio that’s been making international waves since blowing out of UGA–town in 2002, has a July 30 date at the Jinx.

The guys continue to tour behind their third full–length album, In the Dark (they recently wrapped a European leg as the opening act for Kings of Leon). In the Dark was produced by longtime Whigs advocate Ben H. Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley).

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Hip hop innovator Kool Keith (co– founder of Ultramagnetic MCs, aka Black Elvis, aka Dr. Octagon) swings by the Wormhole Bar Friday, July 1. Keith is the self–proclaimed “inventor” of the rap sub–genres pornocore and horrorcore.

Advance tickets are $20. The night before, the club brings in New York underground mc Louis Logic, and Cecshi (last name Ramos, of Dead By Wednesday, Toca and other poly–creative collaborative efforts).

Indy jones Independence day stuff to get excited about: Armstrong Atlantic State University’s annual Savannah Winds patriotic concert takes place at 3 p.m. July 3 in the Fine Arts Auditorium. On the 4th, Jeremy Davis and the Equinox Orchestra (including singers Huxsie Scott, Clay Johnson and Adam Jones) bring the annual “Patriotic Big Band Salute” concert to the Savannah Theatre.

The big holiday weekend on River Street starts with arts and crafts, live music, all that jazz et cetera on July 2 and 3.

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But don’t let all the big screen TVs, lethal drinks in fishbowls and massive martini menu keel haul you – there’s still some good chow coming from ship’s mess.

In fact, bargain lunches delivered hot and fast seem to be attracting a nice gathering of downtown business people – particularly at lunch.

I dropped anchor at the bar and waffled between a fish sandwich and the chicken Philly.

Chicken Philly won – and I couldn’t have been more pleased.

A big, soft roll wrapped around piping hot filling of red and green bell pepper, sweet onion and nicely grilled chicken strips. A heaping, melted mound of what appeared and tasted to be Provolone bound the ingredients together into a pleasing, filling lunch time treat.

Seasoned fries were my choice of side, but other options are available, including a small salad.

The menu is small but thorough. Plenty of appetizer options fulfill the bar crowd’s needs – but there are also a couple of steaks and some pasta

dishes for heartier appetites. The burger selection looks good – lots of flavors without pretense.

The bartender told me there’s either live entertainment or a DJ most Thursday through Saturday nights – and the set–up indicates that Shipwreck gets sailing much later in the day than lunch. A big center bar is supplemented by a smaller side bar – and comfy sofas overlooking busy Broughton Street make it a great destination for peoplewatching while ever so slowly sipping your fishbowl–sized cocktail.

Efficient, prompt service, extreme list of martinis and cocktail concoctions and a small, mostly domestic beer list round out what should become a prime downtown hotspot.

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So long, hello

The long running Oyster Bar on Wilmington Island closed last week. According to a company spokesperson, the restaurant and popular bar will not re–open.

The restaurant was owned and operated by Turner Food and Spirits Co., which also owns downtown landmark the Pirate’s House. In the same week, the company opened a pirate–themed gift shop at the Pirate’s House, in the former location of Hannah’s. CS

Our wine–making friends from down under really propelled the U.S. demand for Sauvignon Blanc with their crisp, citrus–driven styles and low cost bottles.

As welcome as these wines were to the market –– and as refreshing as they can be on a hot, summer day –– my palate has grown weary of the fresh cut grass and grapefruit experience. I want the characteristic of the grape – but seek a Sauv Blanc that’s rounder, more complex and not so mouth–puckering.

Enter Sauv Blanc aged on oak.

It is not a new practice. The late Robert Mondavi tried to tame Sauv Blanc’s aggressiveness in 1968 by oak aging. He dubbed his creation Fume Blanc, an allusion to the French Pouilly Fume. The term is a marketing moniker only – and wine makers are free to use the term – or just refer to their Sauv Blanc as oak aged.

Fast forward to the 21 Century and winery owner Cliff Lede has scored a winner with his oak–age Sauvignon Blanc.

Cliff Lede Sauvignon Blanc 2010 is sourced from a variety of vineyard plots in Napa Valley. Each plot yields grapes that possess individual characteristics – like minerality, acid or complexity – that when blended create this interesting Sauv Blanc.

Lede built his reputation on big, award– winning Stag’s Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon, but shows his talent for wine making with this Sauv Blanc.

The wine’s rich character comes from meticulous handling, temperature control and a fascinatingly diverse combination of aging methods. The juice was fermented in 66 percent stainless steel tanks, 26 percent French oak barrels (9 percent new oak, 17 percent neutral oak), 1 percent stainless steel drums, and 7 percent concrete eggs. All fermentations were conducted at cold temperatures to preserve the freshness of the fruit and to build complexity.

Sounds like an OCD wine maker’s dream, huh?

All kidding aside, this kind of handling creates wines that are interesting from first swirl and sniff to the last swallow. This is a rare white wine that will continue to develop in the glass as it oxidizes – and that kind of development is what makes drinking these living beverages such a joy. It’s a big mouthful of beautifully balanced fruit. CS

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Reception: June 17, 7-9pm Starland Cafe, 11 E. 41st St. , Judith Godwin: Early Abstractions — Work by Godwin from the early 1950s.

Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. , http://www.telfair.org/ Kia Ora, NZ — A collection of more than 20 collages by artist Laura Adams inspired by a recent trip to New Zealand. Runs through July 30. Opening reception: June 17, 6-9 pm. American Craftsman Gallery, 223 W. Broughton St., Savannah Layers — A collaborative exhibition by Derek Larson and

Kyle Stavela of Addiktspace Studio. Opening reception: June 21, 5-8pm. Seed Eco Lounge, 39 Montgomery St. , Magic Passion Love — Work

by Joanne Morton, including part of her traveling public art piece “Mass Manifesting Mobile.” Opening Reception: June 22, 6-8pm Dragonfly Studio , 1204 US 80 , Tybee Island http://www.facebook. com/dragoflystudioarts McCarson & Kist — A shared exhibit featuring two artists from the DC area. McCarson is a mixed media artist and Kist is an experimental painter. Opening reception: June 9, 5:308:30pm. ThincSavannah, 35 Barnard St. 3rd Floor, http://www.thincsavannah. com/ Perceptions of Whiteness — A collection of new works by the National Alliance of Artists from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. , http://www. kingtisdell.org/ Portraits to Pixels — The exhibit celebrates the Telfair’s 125th anniversary; includes selections from the museum’s permanent collection. Gallery talk with Holly McCullough followed by reception: June 23, 6pm Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. , http://www.telfair.org/ Salt Marsh Creatures Big and Small — Rebecca Sipper creates line drawings of local migratory birds, arthropods and vegetation, then transfers them on to ceramic vessels and fibers.

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5-7pm. S.P.A.C.E. Gallery , 9 W. Henry St. , http://www. savannahga.gov/arts The Bird that Sings — Paul James Hampson is a Brit making his US debut with a collection of dramatic watercolor paintings. Artist reception: June 5, 3-5pm.

St. Paul’s Art Gallery, 1802 Abercorn St. at 34th St. , http://www.stpaulsavannah. org/ Tradition/Innovation — A survey of tradition and originality is at the heart of this exhibit featuring a variety of crafts by Southern artists.

Runs through September 6. Telfair Academy, 121 Barnard St. , http://www. telfair.org/ Two — Paintings by Stephen Kennedy and ceramics

by Irene McCollum. Runs through June 28. Opening reception: June 6, 6-9pm Lulu’s Chocolate Bar, 42 MLK Jr. Blvd., Unicorn Art — An epic group show celebrating the power of the mythical one-horned beasts. Opening reception: June 17, 6:30pm The Butcher Gallery, 19 E. Bay St. , Walking with Softer Steps — Ceramic artist Eric Serritella displays selected work, including hand-carved trompe l’oeil vessels transformed into birch and weathered logs. Opening reception: May 20, 5:308:30pm Grand Bohemian Gallery, 700 Drayton St. , http://www.mansiononforsythpark.com/ CS

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Considering all the advance negative buzz that had been building with the steadiness and scariness of a Category 5 hurricane, Green Lantern, just one of the approximately 428 superhero flicks that will be released this year alone, isn’t the catastrophe that had been all but foretold as far back as the Book of Revelations. To compare this big–budget effort to such truly abysmal efforts as Catwoman and Batman & Robin would merely be an exercise in misguided grandstanding; at the same time, the middling results suggest that, the excellence of X–Men: First Class notwithstanding, Hollywood might consider cooling it on the super–sagas for a while (fat chance) and seek inspiration from other types of comic characters. Little Lulu or Andy Capp, anyone?

Actually, Steven Spielberg does have that Tintin adaptation arriving in time for Christmas, but as long as the outdoor weather calls for cold colas rather than hot cocoa, it’s the masked heroes from Marvel and DC who control the multiplexes (up next: Captain America). And when all is said and done, Green Lantern is really no different than the film which kicked off this summer season: As

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human to become a member of the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic watchdog group tasked with protecting the universe. The preeminent threat at the moment is a fearsome entity known as Parallax, who preys on fear to absorb the souls of anyone around him. Other scribes have described this creature as “an alien enemy with a skull head and the body of a dryer–lint octopus” and “a composite of fecal matter with a head” while my own fiancee tagged him “the dirty dreadlocks of doom”; at any rate, Parallax is certainly an imposing villain.

(Let me put it this way: I wouldn’t want to wake up in the morning and see him hovering outside my bedroom window, sucking up neighbors’ souls left and right.) His agent of evil on earth is Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard), a nerdy scientist who’s infected by Parallax and promptly becomes a telekinetic mutant with a bulbous, oozing head.

Hal’s battles with Parallax and Hector are ably handled by director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale), and they allow the FX crew to show off their hard work (a few extra million bucks were poured into improving the visual effects after the initial wrap, and it shows).

But whenever the movie isn’t moving at a fast and furious speed, the banality of the script (credited to four writers) takes center stage. Whether it’s Hal’s tepid romance with fellow pilot Carol Ferris (Blake not–so–Lively) or the soggy father–son dynamics between Hal and his deceased pop (Jon Tenney in flashbacks) and between Hector and his dad (an oily politician played by Tim Robbins in full shit–eating–grin mode), Green Lantern’s luster dims, and we’re left with another costume caper that doesn’t quite know what to do with itself whenever its characters aren’t playing dress–up.

MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS Aside from Tom Popper (Jim Carrey) mistakenly believing that “BFF” stands for Big Fat Friend, the only original element to be found anywhere in Mr. Popper’s Penguins is the character of Pippi, Popper’s personal assistant and a Brit prone to parleying with prose that begins with the letter “p.” The London–born actress with the terrific name of Ophelia Lovibond essays this role, and she provides a lift to every scene in which she appears.

Unfortunately, she doesn’t appear nearly enough to save this ghastly family film. A bastardization of the award–winning children’s book, this

finds Carrey cast as a ruthless businessman with daddy issues, spousal issues, and neglected kids issues. Mr. Popper has always placed his job above all else, but that changes after he receives a parting gift from his deceased father: Six penguins that take over his apartment and his life. Initially desperate to get rid of these creatures, he soon finds that the birds are useful in bringing him back together with his family.

But what’s this? A nasty zoologist (Clark Gregg) is harassing Popper and his new friends (given names like Loudy, Bitey and Stinky), insisting that the birds would fare better in a zoo than an apartment.

The penguins seen in the picture are a mix of actual animals and CGI creations, and here’s a quick primer for those unable to tell the difference: The ones acting normal are the real birds while the ones pooping in Popper’s face or leaning over to break wind are the fake ones. Watching the real penguins, your have to feel sorry for them – in this picture, they get less respect than Rodney Dangerfield. Still, they fare better than Carrey, who’s only allowed to try something new a couple of times; for the most part, he’s simply required to react to the wacky penguin shenanigans.

Small children might get restless during the sequences in which Popper tries to patch up his relationship with his ex–wife (Carla Gugino is wasted as the missus), but they’ll otherwise be kept entertained by the animal antics.

Adults, on the other hand, might want to stay away – as Pippi would doubtless note, this movie is putrid, puerile and painful.

SUPER 8 Writer-director J.J. Abrams’ adventure yarn Super 8 is set in 1979, a year that’s nestled between the release dates of Steven Spielberg’s first two blockbusters, 1975’s Jaws and 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and his subsequent two blockbusters, 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark and 1982’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. (Spielberg’s underrated 1941, which was released in 1979, was a flop.)

The selection of this year makes sense, since the picture itself is surrounded on all sides by the influence - nay, the very spirit-- of Mr. Spielberg (who, incidentally, is involved as a co-producer). But while imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, it’s not always the best way to make a movie.

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MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Stating that Midnight in Paris is Woody Allen’s best film in over a decade really doesn’t mean anything at all, considering that most of his output since the previous century has consisted of such clunkers as Hollywood Ending and Cassandra’s Dream. His last picture, 2010’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, even managed to sneak onto my year-end “10 Worst” list, so color me stunned that Midnight in Paris exudes both charm and cleverness in equal measure.

Owen Wilson, who proves to be a natural fit for Allen, plays a burned-out screenwriter named Gil, who appears to be more in love with Paris than with his fiancee Inez (Rachel McAdams). And why not? Inez is pushy, self-centered and spoiled, while the French capital (which they’re visiting) is warm, inviting and deeply romantic. While Inez spends time with a pompous acquaintance (a funny Michael Sheen), Gil walks the city streets and soaks up the culture.

Employing a bit of leftover fairy dust from his wonderful 1985 film The Purple Rose of Cairo, Allen soon has his leading man magically transported back to the 1920s, where he hobnobs with the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tom Hiddleston, Thor’s Loki), Ernest Hemingway (Corey Stoll) and Salvador Dali (Adrien Brody) and falls for Pablo Picasso’s beautiful mistress, Adriana (an enchanting Marion Cotillard).

Despite making some salient points about the manner in which people belittle their own era while longing for a simpler, more innocent time (something which of course has never existed), Midnight in Paris is a lightweight bauble from Allen, and it provides few of the hearty laughs that propelled many of his past classics.

But it’s nevertheless an irresistible bauble, and a goofy, appreciative smile remained plastered on my face throughout the course of its tragically brief 95 minutes. CS

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Super 8 is a thoroughly entertaining popcorn flick, but one does get the sense of Abrams sweating up a storm in an effort to produce the sort of guileless matinee magic that Spielberg conveyed effortlessly.

Certainly, it’s easy to imagine this plotline being employed in an era that witnessed the likes of Gremlins and The Goonies (both executive-produced

by Spielberg), and it’s equally easy to picture the leading roles filled by such then-youthful actors as Chris Makepeace, Wil Wheaton and either or both of the Coreys. With the exception of Elle Fanning, the other kids here are largely unknowns, but all are perfectly cast in their respective parts.

Newcomer Joel Courtney handles the starring role of Joe Lamb, who agrees to help his best friend Charles (fellow newbie Riley Griffiths) shoot a zombie movie for an amateur filmmaking competition in their home state of Ohio.

Along with their gangly pals (Ryan Lee, Gabriel Basso and Zach Mills), as well as their reluctant classmate Alice (Fanning, a revelation here), the crew proceeds to begin filming at a rural railroad stop in the middle of the night, only to have said shoot interrupted when a train carrying a mysterious cargo derails (an explosive scene that rates comparison to the spectacular train crash in The Fugitive). The military soon comes a-callin’, followed shortly by a series of mysterious disappearances around town.

E.T.’s suburban setting, Close Encounters’ sense of government secrecy, Jaws’ initially unseen menace, Raiders’ climactic cliffhanger-style thrills - all of these elements are dutifully channeled by Abrams, who takes the classic Spielberg model and outfits it with a new engine.

The effects are more polished, the Dolby sound is ratcheted up, and what was once spanking new (Walkmans, The Knack’s “My Sharona”) is now employed in the film as misty nostalgia. As such, the picture might expertly manage the tightrope act of appearing equally appealing to kids (who will appreciate the monster mayhem) and their parents (who will appreciate the nods to the pop culture of their own youth).

Yet while the former demographic won’t be cognizant of the limitations of the movie’s slavish devotion to the past, the latter audience might indeed sense the lack of those note-perfect tiny moments that made Spielberg unlike any other director of his generation. Think back to, for example, the scenes around Elliott’s household in E.T., or Sheriff

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Activism & Politics Chatham County Democratic Party

For info, contact Tony Center, Chair, at 912233-9696 or tonycenter@comcast.net For daily updates, join our Facebook page (Chatham Democrats Georgia) and visit our web site: http://chathamdems-ga.com/ccdc/ Chatham County Democratic Headquarters, 313 W. York St. , Savannah http://www.chathamdems.net/

Savannah Area Young Republicans

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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 912-598-7358 for additional info.

Benefits Dinner theater benefit

The Aldersgate UMC presents a dinner theater fundraiser June 24,25 & 26. The production is “Three on a Bench,” a whimsical one-act comedy. Fri & Sat - House opens at 6:30 pm, dinner served at 7:00pm. Sun - House opens at 4:30pm, dinner served at 5:00pm. Tickets: $15.

Reservations req’d. Call Mary at 912-897-3866.

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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. Please visit www. parkplaceyes.org for directions.

Rape Crisis Center Incest Survivor’s Group

As part of its ongoing work with incest survivors, the Rape Crisis Center has built a cinderblock 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.

SWAHT Fundraiser

Savannah Working against Human Trafficking (SWAHT) will hold a fundraiser fiesta on Sunday, June 26, from noon until 8 pm at Rancho Alegre Restaurant, 402 MLK Blvd. Advance purchase tickets for $20 include an entrée choice (baby sirloin, roast pork, or roast chicken), non-alcoholic beverage, and gratuity.

For tickets, email joanne.garciamelendez@ zontasavannah.com.

Call for Entries Junior League Accepting New Members

The Junior League of Savannah is an organization committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving communities. Must be over 21. Deadline for applications is June 25. For more info, email headquarters@jrleaguesav.org.

Looking for Pop Art

Space Gallery Tybee is looking for pop art. No submission fee. No wall space fee. No fees at all. Deadline for submissions: July 5th. For more info, contact Minnabeezy@gmail.com or visit the facebook page: Space Gallery Tybee

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Munchkin Tournament

Sunday, June 26th, 12:00pm-5:00pm at Morningstar Games, 30 W. Montgomery Crossroads.

Cost: Free. 3 Prelim Rounds followed by a final table of the top 6 players. Prizes! Sign up at the store or call 912-748-0072 and ask to be put on the list for the Tournament.

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Over 5,000 Sq. Ft. available for artist studios, music shows, photo shoots, filmmaking, office space, private events and more. Make an appointment to view: 233-1095 or email booking@ studio2ten-sav.com

Volunteer Docents Needed

Davenport House volunteer docent/tour guide training is offered in July. This is a four week training program. Docents lead tours and assist with programming for people from around the world who visit the historic house. Call Dottie Kraft at 236-8097 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. or email at info@davenporthousemuseum.org

Volunteers for Rape Crisis Center

Support victims through our 24-hour crisis line and hospital response. Contact the Volunteer Coordinator at 912-233-3000 or volunteers@ rccsav.org for an application. Training dates are September 7th & 8th (6pm-9pm), 10th (8:30am-4pm) & 12th through 14th (6pm-9pm each night). We ask that you attend all sessions. All applicants must be at least 21 years old and submit to a criminal background check.

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Two sessions, July 1-15 and July 18-29 for two age groups, ages 7-11 and 12-18. Campers will learn about the history of hip hop culture and how to utilize the four elements (MCing, DJing, Graffiti art, and Breakdancing) as a means of self-expression. Mon-Fri, 8:30am-5:30pm. $95/week, plus one-time $35 registration fee. For more info: www.awolinc. org

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Baby Sign Language

You and your baby will learn to communicate, before your child is able to verbalize.

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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

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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/

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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.

Champions Training Center

Offers a variety of classes and training opportunities in mixed martial arts, jui-jitsu, judo and other disciplines for youth and adults at all levels of expertise. 525 Windsor Rd. Call 912-349-4582 or visit http://www.ctcsavannah.com/

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Across

1 Enjoy the roller rink 6 Parade honoree 10 Blue drop?

14 1980s game with four big buttons 15 Neon sign word 16 Choir member 17 Paired up 19 “___: First Class” (2011 movie) 20 Underlying theme of “Se7en” 21 Gp. with shelters 22 Shakespearean shout of disapproval 23 Food with filling 25 Vince McMahon’s short-lived sports org.

27 They arrive before U 30 “___ Certified” (sticker at the mechanic’s) 33 On-campus recruits 35 “Fritz the Cat” director Ralph 37 Mantra for self-motivated high achievers 40 “That’s ___, and you know it!”

41 ___ chi 42 ___ bargain 43 Spoke when it wasn’t appropriate 48 Encourages 49 Game that spawned “The Urbz,” with “The” 50 Suffix for count or baron 51 “What’d I tell ya?”

52 Danielle Steel’s “Message from ___” 54 France, once 56 Greek consonants 58 Reynolds who plays the Green Lantern 60 They backed the now-defunct food guide pyramid 64 Word yelled at a moving bus 66 Defiant question sometimes followed by “Would you still...”

68 Gulf of Mexico contents 69 Boxing win 70 Tequila source 71 “Well, shucks” 72 Big tabloid 73 Qaddafi’s home

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28 Blacksmiths for horses, e.g.

29 They used to be the Oilers 30 Brightly-colored rocks 31 Food for livestock 32 Villainous scientist character, say 34 Polar name 36 Detained 38 Frightened outbursts 39 Trial lawyer 44 Forever, it seems 45 Twisted sample 46 Muscat resident 47 Sch. whose mascot is Chief Osceola 53 Hand puppet in “South Park” 55 Mario Kart character 57 Provo’s state 59 “Divine Secrets of the ___ Sisterhood” (2002 movie) 61 Ear cleaner 62 Monkees member Jones 63 Out on the ocean 64 Move like a hound’s tail 65 “All Those Years ___” (George Harrison song) 66 Day planner divs.

67 T-___ (cookware brand)

A cheese-making workshop will be held at Red Earth Farm near Reidsville on Saturday, July 23rd. Learn to make two simple and delicious cheeses -- fresh mozzarella and ricotta. Class will consist of a demonstration, then hands-on practice. email redearthfarm@yahoo.com or call Raven Waters at (912) 557-1053. $15-30.

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

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DUI Prevention Group

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.

Family Law Workshop

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.

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!

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“Sum Sudoku” Put one digit from 1-9 in each square of this Sudoku so that the following three conditions are met: 1) each row, column, and 3x3 box (as marked off by heavy lines in the grid) contains the digits 1–9 exactly one time; 2) no digit is repeated within any of the areas marked off by dotted lines; and 3) the sums of the numbers in each area marked off by dotted lines total the little number given in each of those areas. For example, the digits in the upper-leftmost square in the grid and the two squares directly beneath it will add up to 17. Now do what I tell you -- solve!! psychosudoku@hotmail.com

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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: Mon-Thurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri of month, 9-11am. Basic Computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1-3pm. Community Computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3-4:30pm. For more info: 912232-4232 x115 or www.savannahpha.com

Learn Russian

Learn to speak Russian. All experience levels welcome, beginner to expert. Call 912-6593071 for more information.

Learn to Draw

Private and group drawing lessons by Artist and former SCAD Professor Karen Bradley.

Call for details. 912-507-7138.

Medicinal Mushrooms and Herbal Tonics

Free lecture sponsored by Brighter Day Natural Foods Market on Tues. July 26, with Roy Upton, RH, DAyu. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street (behind the Visitor’s Center), 7pm. For more info, call Brighter Day Natural Foods, 236-4703; pick up a flyer at the store at 1102 Bull Street, or visit www.brighterdayfoods.com

Mindfulness Meditation Class

Instruction in mindfulness stress reduction meditation. Group practice with time for questions and comments. Wednesdays, 7:008:15pm. Yoga Co-op Savannah. 2424 Drayton

St. $13/class (less with membership). www. yogacoopsavannah.com or 912-429-7264.

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Ms. Amy’s School of Music

A small privately owned studio offering: Private and Group Lessons, Piano, Clarinet, Trumpet, Trombone, Guitar, and more! Parent & Me classes for infants - toddlers. Group preschool music classes WWW.MSAMYSCHOOLOFMUSIC.COM

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New Horizons Adult Band Program

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.

Plein Painting Workshop

Mountain Color - A Plein Air workshop with Sandy Branam. Broad brush studies on small clay board as well as detail sketches in a journal, on location in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. $450.00 Room and Board included. Oct. 10th – 14th, 2011. For more info, call Judy Mooney @ 912 443-9313 or email at judymooney@bellsouth.net.

Reiki and Energy Share Session

On Thursday, June 23rd experience the power and healing potential as you learn to positively affect yourself and others using different techniques for channeling healing energy. Guided by four Reiki Masters – professional & affiliate members of the International Center for Reiki Training. Holiday Inn Express & Suites 11325 Abercorn St. 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. www.meetup.com/balance

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Reiki Weekend

June 25th: 10am-5pm & June 26th: noon-5pm.

Participants will receive Level I & II attunements and will both give and receive a Reiki treatment.

Graduates will be prepared to give Reiki to self and others. Handbook provided. Class size is limited so reserve your space today. Contact: Rev. Cindy Beach, MS, CLC, Reiki Master for more info. 912-429-7265; cindy@alwaysoptions. com

Savannah Entrepreneurial Center

Offering a variety of business classes. Call 6523582. 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

SCAD Community Education

SCAD’s Community Education program hosts a variety of workshops during the summer months. Digital photography, painting, illustration and more. Dates and costs vary. Call 912525-5945 or visit www.scad.edu/ce for more info.

Singing Lessons with Anitra Opera Diva

A class teaching the Vaccai Bel Canto technique for those interested in improving their vocal range and breathing capacity. Bel Canto carries over well as a foundation technique for different styles including opera, pop, rock and cabaret.

Henry St @ E Broad, Mon/Tues 6-9pm, 1 1/2 hour lesson $25. Call 786-247-9923, anitraoperadiva@ yahoo.com, www.anitraoperadiva.com

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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 Jazz Camp

The Junior Jazz Foundation and the HHI Christian Academy will offer several jazz camp programs for area youth. For students entering grades 5-12. For more info, or to register for classes please email Mr. James Berry at jberry@ hhca.org, students may also register online at www.hhca.org/music

Women’s Self-Defense Class

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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.

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Avegost LARP

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. Email: Kaza Ayersman, godzillaunknown@gmail.com or visit www. avegost.com is the local chapter of the Sports Car Club of America. It hosts monthly solo/autocross driving events in the Savannah area. Anyone with a safe car, insurance and a valid driver’s license is eligible to participate. Visit http://buccaneerregion. org/solo.html.

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

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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/

AASU Police Dept offers free Rape Aggression Defense class for women 18 years and older. The 12-hour program will be split into three sessions held on July 16, 23, and 30 from 1–5pm. Training will take place at the AASU Police headquarters, on campus, 11935 Abercorn St. Free. To register, please contact Theresa Davis at 912.344.3085 or Theresa.Davis@armstrong.edu.

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Coastal Readers & Writers Circle

A Creative Writing and Reading discussion group that meets the 3rd Sunday of every month, 3:30-5 p.m. 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

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 40th reunion on Saturday, July 23, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Savannah in the Harborside Room 6:30pm til midnight. Cocktails, dinner and dancing. For more info, email hvjenkins71@ gmail.com

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.

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ARIES

(March 21–April 19) Golden orb spiders of Madagascar spin robust webs. Their silk is stronger than steel yet able to bend and expand when struck by insects. Here’s an equally amazing facet of their work: Each morning they eat what remains of yesterday’s web and spend an hour or so weaving a fresh one. I’m thinking that your task in the coming weeks has some similarities to the orb spider’s, Aries: creating rugged but flexible structures to gather what you need, and being ready to continually shed what has outlived its usefulness so as to build what your changing circumstances require. (Thanks to the California Academy of Sciences for the info on orb spiders.)

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CANCER

LIBRA

A company that manufactures processed food made a promotional offer: If you purchased ten of its products, it would give you 500 frequent flyer miles. An American man named David Philips took maximum advantage. He bought 12,150 pudding cups for $3,000, earning himself more than a million frequent flyer miles –– enough to fly to Europe and back 31 times.

This is the kind of legal trick you’re now in a good position to pull off, Cancerian. So brainstorm freely, please: How could you play the system, outwit the matrix, rage against the machine, or subvert the Man? No need to break any laws; the best gambit will be an ethical one.

“Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on,” wrote author Samuel Butler. Ain’t that the truth!

You may be practicing as diligently as you can, gradually trying to master your complex instrument, but in the meantime your lack of expertise is plainly visible to anyone who’s paying close attention. Luckily, not too many people pay really close attention, which gives you a significant amount of slack. Now and then, too, you have growth spurts –– phases when your skills suddenly leap to a higher octave. The coming weeks should be one of these times for you, Libra.

(June 21–July 22)

(April 20–May 20) The year is almost half over, Taurus. Shall we sum up the first part of 2011 and speculate about the adventures that may lie ahead of you in the next six months? The way I see it, you’ve been going through a boisterous process of purification since last January. Some of it has rattled your soul’s bones, while some of it has freed you from your mind–forged manacles. In a few short months, you have overseen more climaxes and shed more emotional baggage than you had in the past three years combined. Now you’re all clean and clear and fresh, and ready for a less exhausting, more cheerful kind of fun.

GEMINI

LEO

(July 23–Aug. 22) While watching fast–talking politicians talk on TV, my Polish grand–uncle would sometimes mutter, Zlotem pisal, a gownem zapieczetowal. I only learned what those words meant when I turned 18 and he decided I was old enough to know the translation: “written in gold and sealed with crap.” One of your interesting assignments in the coming weeks, Leo, will be to identify anything that fits that description in your own life. Once you’ve done that, you can get started on the next task, which should be rather fun: Expose the discrepancy, and clean up the mess.

(May 21–June 20) Advertisements are often designed to make you feel inadequate about the life you’re living so you’ll be motivated to “improve” your lot by buying what they’re selling. In this short horoscope, I don’t have room to express how much soul sickness this wreaks upon us all. Recently HBO unleashed an especially nefarious attack. Promoting its new streaming service, it informed us that “The story you could be watching is better than the one you’re in.” Fortunately, Gemini, you won’t be tempted to swallow that propaganda anytime in the coming weeks. Your personal story will be profoundly more interesting and meaningful than the narratives that HBO or any other entertainment source

VIRGO

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22) Years ago I did a book tour that brought me to Eugene, Oregon, where my sister and her husband and their daughter live. They came to my reading at a bookstore. My Virgo niece Jasper was seven years old at the time. I was surprised and delighted when she heckled me several times during my talk, always with funny and good–natured comments that added to the conviviality of the moment and entertained everyone in attendance. Who said Virgos are well–behaved to a fault? Your assignment this week is to be inspired by my niece: With wit and compassion, disrupt the orderly flow of any events that could use

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22)

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21) In August and September, millions of seabirds known as Sooty Shearwaters leave their homes in New Zealand and travel thousands of miles to the Gulf of the Farallones, just off the coast of San Francisco. Why do they do it? The feeding is first–class; the tasty fish and squid they like are available in abundance. I suggest you consider a Sooty Shearwater–type quest in the coming weeks, Scorpio. The very best samples of the goodies you crave are located at a distance, either in a literal or metaphorical sense.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

I really thought I’d understand sex better by now. After all these years of doing it and studying it and thinking about it and talking about it, I still can’t regard myself as a master of the subject. The kundalini’s uncanny behavior continues to surprise me, perplex me, and thrill me with ever–new revelations. Just when I imagine I’ve figured out how it all works, I’m delivered to some fresh mystery. How about you, Sagittarius?

Judging by the current astrological omens, I’m guessing you’re due for a round of novel revelations about the nature of eros. As long as you keep an open mind, open heart, and open libido, it should all be pretty interesting.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19)

A few years ago, Eve Ensler took her famous play “The Vagina

Monologues” to Pakistan. She and a group of local Muslim actresses wowed a crowd in Islamabad with discourses on vibrators, menstruation, and “triple orgasms.”

I invite and encourage you to try something equally brave in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Give your spiel to a new audience; take your shtick to a wild frontier; show who you really are to important people who don’t know the truth yet.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18) When my “macho feminist” memoir The Televisionary Oracle was published in 2000, I suffered from comical delusions about its chances for mainstream acceptance. For example, I tried to get a review in The New York Times. As I know now, that had as much likelihood of happening as me traveling to the moon in a rainbow canoe carried by magical flying mermaids. But in lieu of that kind of recognition, others arrived.

One of my favorites: My book went along for the ride with a group of goddess–worshipers on a spiritual tour to the ancient matriarchal city of Catal Huyuk in Turkey. They read my writing aloud to each other, amused and entertained. I suspect you will soon have a similar experience, Aquarius: having to “settle for” a soulful acknowledgment that’s different from what your ego thought it wanted. Take it from me: That’s actually better.

PISCES

(Feb. 19–March 20) My favorite plant food for my African violets is a natural fertilizer called Big Bloom. One of its key ingredients –– the stuff that makes it so effective –– is bat guano. I’d like to suggest that you’re about due to embark on the Big Blooming phase of your own cycle, Pisces. And it’s more likely to reach its deserved pinnacle of fertility if you’re willing to summon just a hint of bat–sh** craziness from the depths of your subconscious mind. But remember: just a dollop, not a giant heap.

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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 3082094, email kasak@comcast.net or visit www. roguephoenix.org.

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 912748-5847.

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 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 655-0994.

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.

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Savannah Fencing Club

Beginner classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings for six weeks. Fees are $60. 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.

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. www.SavannahGuardianAngels.com

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

Savannah Kennel Club

Monthly meetings are open to the public and visitors. Meetings are held at Logan’s Roadhouse Restaurant, 11301 Abercorn St. on the fourth Monday of each month, September through May. Dinner starts at 6 pm and meeting starts at 7:30pm. Guest Speakers at every meeting. For more info, call 912-328-3170 or visit www.savannahkennelclub.org

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. www.savannahnewcomers.com

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 Writers Group

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 meet-and-greet precedes the meeting at 6:30pm. Contact Carol North, 912-920-8891. 8108 Abercorn St

Seersucker Live’s Happy Hour for Writers

A no-agenda gathering of the Savannah area writing community, held on the first Thursday of every month from 5:30-7:30pm. Free and open to all writers, aspiring writers, and anyone interested in writing. 21+ with valid I.D. For details, visit SeersuckerLive.com

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Meets at the Savannah Mall at the Soft Play Mondays from 11-12 and Thursdays from 10-11. 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, 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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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

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). Call 233-6014 cs 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.

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912-507-7934 or 912-927-2853

WASHINGTON AVENUE CARRIAGE HOUSE

Safe and secluded carriage house for rent. Centrally located in Savannah’s historic Ardsley Park on beautifully treelined Washington Avenue.

2-stories. One bedroom. Kitchen/LR combined. Washer & dryer. Gated, well lit private entrance. Excellent, clean condition. No smoking, no pets. $825 includes all utilities except GA Power. One year lease.

1st and last month’s rent required. Available immediately.

Call 912-443-1407 Wilmington Island Duplex 3 Bedroom 2 Bath Living Room, Kitchen, Dining Area.975.00 a Month

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2 Bedroom 1 Bath Apt. completely remolded 800.00 a month 912-897-6789 CommerCial ProPerty For rent 890 SHOP SPACE FOR RENT off Skidaway Rd. near Home Depot. <25x60> & <50x60> w/fenced yard<50X60>. Call 772-341-8838 day or night. 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

130 ALPINE DRIVE: Roommate Wanted. $500/mo., NO deposit or $150/week. Near Hunter AAF. Available Now. 912-272-8020 transportation 900

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2006 Toyota Tundra, DBL Cab, Limited XSP-V8 4.7- 271 HP. 5 Speed Automatic, loaded, leather, 20” Mags, 40K miles. $15,500 Call 912-964-2100

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Paint & Body Work. Reasonably Priced. Insurance Claims. We buy wrecks. Call 912-355-5932.

FORD TAURUS SE, 2004- 4-door wagon. 6-passenger mid-size.

Auto overdrive trans. Runs great. $3,500 OBO. Call 658-8480 or 692-0336 HONDA Pilot EXL, 2007- 4DR, SUV, 3.5L, 6CYL, One-Owner(no kids), Garaged, Immaculate condition, Maroon/Silver, 40K miles, nonsmoker. $18,000. 912-222-1355

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.

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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.

WE PAY CASH for junk cars & trucks! Call 964-0515 SUVS 930 CHEVROLET Tahoe, 2004In good condition, fully loaded, 157,000 miles. Asking $8,400. Call 912-658-1212 Boats & accessories 950

14’ MCKEE CRAFT, Fiberglass, 70HP Yamaha motor. Good for water skiing, fishing, crabbing or family cruising $3500.

912-897-5044 DON’T Buy new motor. New factory (not re-built) V-4 power head for Johnson or Evinrude. Fits most 85HP up to 115HP motors. New cost over $4,000, Buy for only $1,200. Evenings, 897-7340

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Room for Rent Safe, Quiet environment in nearly new home. Utilities & cable included. On busline. $120/weekly, $75/deposit. Call 912-484-1347 ROOMMATE WANTED: Professional,responsible,mature,clean smoke-free ADULT to share house on Southside.On busline,near shopping, 10min. from Downtown. Completely furnished.All utilities included. $150/weekly.912-656-1310

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