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trees for life and gingerbread Village @westin savannah Harbor

wHat: Decorated holiday trees on display, decorated by area businesses, groups, and individuals. Tree auction benefits Greenbriar Children’s Center. Also view South’s largest Gingerbread Village. wHere: Westin Savannah Harbor, Hutchinson Island info: westinsavannah.com/holiday

8 city noteBook:

A very corny story

By JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS

06 ED NOTE 07 CIVIL SOCIETy 09 BLOTTER 10 NEWS OF THE WEIRD 14 STRAIGHT DOPE

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Wednesday early 19th century Holiday at the Davenport House continues wHat: View an authentic early 19th

century holiday season in Savannah at this historic house museum. Tours on weekdays and Saturdays: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Sundays: 1 to 4 p.m. wHere: Davenport House Museum, 324 E. State St., cost: $8/gen. adm., $5 ages 6 to 17, under info: 912-236-8097. www.davenporthousemuseum.org/

cannon firings at old fort Jackson

wHat: Twice daily cannon firings from the

15 notewortHy: Feats

of musical strength

By BILL DEyOUNG

15 SOUNDBOARD 16 TEDDy ADAMS

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Civil War era at Georgia’s oldest brick fortification. Firings at 11am and 2pm.

Closed Christmas Day. wHere: Old Fort Jackson, 1 Fort Jackson Rd., cost: Free w/ $6 adult admission & for kids under 6. info: 912-232-3945. www.chsgeorgia.org/

skatefest! ice skating

wHat: A Savannah December tradition.

Daily ice skating in the Civic Center from Dec. 9 through Jan. 8. Closed Christmas Day. Skates available for rent. Times vary. wHere: Savannah Civic Center, 301 W. Oglethorpe Ave. cost: $7/person. 6-session pass: $30 info: 912-651-6556. www.savannahcivic. com/

theater: a christmas tradition

21 culture: Kwannaza!

By JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS

23 FOOD & DRINK 24 MARK yOUR CALENDAR 25 ART 26MOVIES

wHat: A glittery holiday musical showcase. Show closes on Mon. Dec. 26.

Show times: Wed, Thurs, Fri and Mon at 8pm. Saturday (Christmas Eve) at 2pm.

No show on Christmas Day. wHen: Wed. Dec. 21, Thu. Dec. 22, Fri. Dec. 23, Sat. Dec. 24, wHere: The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St., cost: $35/adults, $16/children info: 912-233-7764. www.savannahtheatre.com/

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wHat: Nature’s Holiday: Using pine cones,

peanut butter, bird seed, dried oranges, and apples, edible holiday ornaments will be made for the enjoyment of our backyard wild friends! Reservations requested. wHen: Wed. Dec. 21, 2-4 p.m. wHere: Fort Pulaski National Monument, US Highway 80 E (on the way to Tybee), cost: Free with $5 adult admission, Under 16 free. info: 912-786-5787 . www.nps.gov/fopu

film: Memorial Birthday tribute to frank Zappa

wHat: Psychotronic Film Society presents a rarely-seen collection of live performances showcasing the late Zappa and his bands. wHen: Wed. Dec. 21, 8 p.m. wHere: The Sentient Bean Coffeehouse cost: $7 cash info: sentientbean.com/

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Thursday Book launch: crystal craven and tony timbol

wHat: Celebrate the release of ‘Cybil Raven: Miracle at St. Rita’ the second novel in the Cybil Raven Chronicles wHen: Thu. Dec. 22, 7 p.m. wHere: SEED Eco Lounge, 39 Montgomery St. cost: Free and open to the public/Cash Bar info: www.cybilraven.com/

Music: savannah celtic christmas

wHat: Savannah native Moira Nelligan and the Dixie Jigs, playing holiday Irish and American folk favorites. Featuring Michael Hickey performing Irish mask folk theater “mumming” and Jacquie Berger with the Atlanta Irish Dance Troupe. Backed by the St. Paul’s Parish choir. An Irish Cieli (dance) follows in the fellowship hall. wHen: Thu. Dec. 22, 7:30 p.m. wHere: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn St cost: $20/adults, $10/children info: 404-441-7848.

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Saturday Breakfast with santa

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Sunday Music: Jazz on christmas Day

wHat: Avoid the Christmas afternoon movie rush. Coastal Jazz Association’s annual Christmas concert features trombonist Teddy Adams and the CJA All-Stars. wHen: Sun. Dec. 25, 5 p.m. wHere: Westin Harbor Resort, 1 Resort Drive., Hutchinson Island cost: $15 advance @ Rody’s & Portman’s. $20/door

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Monday Davenport House Holiday evening tours by candlelight

wHat: Light refreshments, music and skilled interpreters, who show visitors through the historic house museum on Columbia Square decorated for a 19th century holiday. wHen: Mon. Dec. 26, 6 p.m., Tue. Dec. 27, 6 p.m., Wed. Dec. 28, 6 p.m. wHere: Isaiah Davenport House, 324 E. State St., cost: $8/adv, $10/door. Kids $5/adv, $7/ door. info: 912-236-8097.

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steam Days! train rides at the roundhouse

film: kim Jong il-produced Pulgasari (1985, north korea)

Tuesday

wHat: Weekday train rides at 11am, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm. Our real, restored steam locomotive returns for Steam Days! Climb aboard our passenger car for a guided train ride/tour of the Roundhouse complex, pulled by a restored steam locomotive. wHen: Tue. Dec. 27, Wed. Dec. 28 wHere: Georgia State Railroad Museum (The Roundhouse), 601 W. Harris St., cost: Free with $10 adult/$4 children Museum Admission info: 912-651-6823. www.chsgeorgia. org/

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wHat: Psychotronic Film Society presents a piece of Asian “giant rubber monster” cinema that’s only been shown a handful of times anywhere in the world outside of North Korea.

Back in the ‘80s, the late North Korean ruler Kim Jong Il was such a fan of South Korean director Sang-ok Shin, that he literally had him and the two lead actors in this film kidnapped, brought across the armed border between their countries and forced to make this Godzilla-esque period action piece, actually a thinly disguised piece of over-the-top political propaganda. A very good quality, English-subtitled print of this rare cult classic wHen: Wed. Dec. 28, 8 p.m. wHere: The Sentient Bean Coffeehouse cost: $6 cash info: sentientbean.com/

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It’s a real stretch, I know. It doesn’t even really make sense.

But the other day when I saw the photos of that strangely forlorn final convoy of U.S. troops pulling out of Iraq, the first thing that popped into my head was the three wise men riding through the desert on the way to Bethlehem, following that star.

I was probably suffering from a surplus of Christmas cheer. But the two images do have a certain similarity, and perhaps not just in terms of climate and geography.

It’s fitting that the nearly nine–year war in Iraq would end just before Christmas — a “gift” of sorts to a weary nation, as well as a nod to the need for redemption in the war’s miserable wake.

Fitting as well that it would end not as a chest–pounding “Mission Accomplished” display, but as an underreported whimper, a third tier story somewhere behind the

overhyped antics of Tim Tebow — a man whose simplistic, non-reflective brand of muscular Christianity would have been right at home in the run–up to the Iraq War itself (“they will greet us as liberators”).

Looking back, it seems as if the Iraq misadventure was that bridge too far. Or to keep our desert analogy intact, the straw that broke the camel’s back.

We were at a crossroads after 9/11.

Would we respond to the threats against us with precision, strategy, and realism? Or would we just reboot the open–ended, mission–creeping military commitments that characterized U.S. foreign policy in the latter half of the 20th Century?

For the most part we took the latter course, and in so doing cost thousands of Americans their lives and limbs in pursuit

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The U.S. government lost a spy drone over Iran. Is it part of an ongoing covert war?

Either Iranian forces shot it down or it fell out of the sky. We may never know which, but now the Obama administration wants it back. Iran says no.

This is not analogous to kids who accidentally throw a baseball into a neighbor’s yard and ask for it back. The U.S. has been making war sounds in Iran’s direction for years, and these belligerent noises have grown louder.

While there are grounds for believing the U.S. military does not want to attack Iran, which is far larger and more populous

than Iraq and would require a long, bloody involvement throughout the region, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insist that “all options are on the table.”

For years the U.S. has menaced Iran with a military presence in the region. Indeed, Iran is virtually surrounded by American military bases. The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq put thousands of troops just across Iran’s east and west borders. Other U.S. allies in the region include Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel.

Admittedly, the Bush administration’s overthrow of Iran’s nemesis, Saddam Hussein,

of questionable goals. We helped along the nation’s economic collapse by cutting taxes in the middle of a very costly war — possibly the first time in history that any country has done that, with predictable results.

Plenty of us predicted the results of the Iraq War even before it began, but that and two bucks will get us a cup of coffee at the nearest Starbucks. We were called un– American, unpatriotic, possibly even pro– terrorist. For the most part the same names are still used to attack the same people.

The Iraq War ends just in time for an election year to begin. A war with Iraq’s neighbor seems in the offing. It remains to be seen if we as a nation — and as individuals — will learn anything at all from the eight years, trillions of dollars, and thousands of lives spent in Iraq.

So this is Christmas. And what have you done? CS

introduced an incoherent note in an otherwise consistent anti–Iran policy. The now Shiite–ruled Iraq is closer to Iran’s regime than Saddam’s Sunni regime was. Moreover, U.S. troops are leaving Iraq, as called for by the agreement negotiated between the Iraqi regime and the Bush administration. But the troops are not going far.

As the Defense Dept. puts it, the forces are simply being “repostured,” that is, moved elsewhere in the region, including Kuwait. Iran has surely noticed.

The U.S. government wants the American people to believe that there are sound reasons for this belligerence, namely, that it is defensive and preemptive.

Nonsense.

As many have pointed out, U.S. intelligence agencies say Iran dropped its nuclear–weapons program over eight years ago, and the International

Atomic Energy Agency certifies that Iran has complied with obligations under the Nuclear Non– Proliferation Treaty. Every speck of Iran’s uranium is accounted for by the IAEA – none has been diverted to weapons.

Some argue that the covert war against Iran’s nuclear program is under way, but it began more than a year ago.

Fox News called the downed drone the latest in a series of mysterious events, including explosions and assassinations targeting Iran’s nuclear scientists and its ballistic missile program.

A war with Iran would be catastrophic – for Iranians, Americans (government contractors excepted), and Israelis. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta believes that’s the case, as do former Israeli Mossad chiefs. President Obama must do the decent thing and take all forms of warfare off the table. CS

The wonder of it all management and bike to Kroger at 10 p.m. for diapers?

So many good, hard–working people lost homes this year, had marriages fall apart, a child die. If you haven’t screwed up and been screwed over and aren’t just outright pissed off about it sometimes, maybe you just ain’t living.

As the last adult in the world to see It’s a Wonderful Life, the biggest surprise is that it’s not so much a Christmas movie as it is about dreams deferred, even destroyed, and still retaining the capacity to receive the gifts right in front of us.

Usually, those gifts come in the form of guardian angels here on earth. Lately mine are the neighbor who swept the entire block free of pine needles, the customer service rep who gave my complaint full attention, the moms who pick up my kids from school when I’m stuck on deadline.

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Sound familiar? All that banking and mortgage dialogue sounded so much like Headline News I thought my flatscreen had gone wonky.

The people’s only small hope is the populist Bailey Building & Loan company started by George Bailey’s father, full of integrity but short on cunning. Then as now, with a few exceptions, the best people tend to make the worst capitalists.

George Bailey wants nothing more than to shake off the dust of his “crummy little town” and see the world, but fate trumps him. I was already weepy halfway in, empathizing with his frustration as he continually chooses to shoulder the responsibilities of the life before him, instead of the glamour and adventure he imagined for himself.

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THE FOLLOWING ADMISSION probably makes me a socialist by somebody’s standards: I just watched It’s a Wonderful Life for the first time.

I don’t know how I managed to skate through 40 Decembers without being roped onto the sofa to watch the cinematic tribulations of poor George Bailey. I guess in its ubiquity I’d assumed I’d already seen it. Or maybe I dismissed it as an outdated tearjerker shown around the holidays by lazy t.v. producers.

(It’s definitely not because Jimmy Stewart isn’t super-sexy. Perhaps you are not surprised that I was the only nerd in junior high to have a still from Rear Window in my locker.)

Mostly it’s because if I’m going to do a Christmas movie, it’s gonna be something that makes me snort eggnog out of my nose, like Ralphie and his BB gun from A Christmas Story.

Not some dusty piece of emotional manipulation that makes us otherwise–well–adjusted Jewish kids feel awkward.

But circumstances converged recently that brought me in front our cable–less TV on a Saturday evening, and I was immediately hooked by the plucky banter and Jimmy Stewart’s adorable, gulpy voice.

I was already schooled on the storyline by cultural osmosis: An angel, eager to earn his wings, is sent down to save some shmo from jumping off a bridge by showing him how awful the world would be without him.

But you probably already know that’s only the last quarter of the story. What kind of blew my mind, apart from the ladies’ hairstyles, was how current Frank Capra’s 1946 classic seemed (der, that’s what makes it a classic, genius.)

I had made the assumption that a little ol’ black and white talkie that came out before pantyhose was invented couldn’t possibly apply to life in the 21st century. Turns out I’m still an arrogant young whippersnapper.

The film’s original Depression–era audience was reflected back on itself with the fictional town of Bedford

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By Jessica leigH leBos | jll@connectsavannah.com

Who among us can say that life has gone as planned?

Who hasn’t put aside the urges to “build great things” and go to faraway places in order to punch a clock for faceless management and bike to Kroger at 10 p.m. for diapers?

I’ve always had a travel itch like a chronic case of chiggers. I figured by 40, I would have written several bestsellers and looped the globe at least a few dozen times, taking in operas in Vienna and dancing ‘til dawn in the clubs in Ibiza.

I got different set of blessings in the form of marriage and kids, which I wouldn’t trade for all the frequent flyer points in the world.

But I admit I could totally relate when George loses it over a kid plinka–plinking the same damn song on the piano over and over.

It’s a tough pill to realize becoming the best person you can be might involve letting go of who you think you are. Who among us can say that life has gone as planned? Who hasn’t put aside the urges to “build great things” and go to faraway places in order to punch a clock for faceless

down an icy river to be reminded to count our blessings. As we “work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath” and do our best to nurture the aspirations that give our days verve and meaning, let me paraphrase the words of Clarence, the second-class angel: No one is a failure who has friends.

So you and me? Winning.

Last week, I rushed from work to sit in a church hall for the school band concert and listen to a stage full of second graders with knit brows play “Jingle Bells” on slightly screechy violins. Vienna opera, it was not.

An impossibly tiny old woman sat next to me, humming along. Just someone’s angelic grandma.

“Aren’t they just lovely?” she murmured.

Yes, ma’am. Wonderful, even. CS

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You’d think it wouldn’t be easy to make a ginormous popcorn box disappear.

Eight feet high with red stripes louder than a pair of Christmas pajamas, the box stood outside the Lucas Theatre for a little over a week last month. Tourists posed for photos in front of it, locals enjoyed the festive addition.

Then suddenly, it was gone.

The colossal wooden container was designed and built by the Lucas staff to help promote the screening

of World’s Largest, a documentary about small-town America’s giant roadside attractions. The film dug deeper into these communities to see how large–scale objects help drive tourism to local economies, and Lucas Managing Director Meaghan Gerard thought Savannah could use a “world’s largest” of its own.

“We would roll it out front during the day in the week before the

screening, and people really seemed to enjoy it,” said Walsh. “It generated publicity on Twitter and Facebook and put Savannah on the map.”

It was all good buttery fun until someone with differing aesthetical opinions complained to the Metropolitan Planning Commission about “historic appropriateness.”

The day after the screening, an MPC enforcement officer paid a visit to the Lucas to regretfully inform the staff that the popcorn box violated a sign zoning ordinance and would have to be removed immediately.

“The anonymity of the process was the most frustrating,” lamented Walsh, who tried to work with the MPC to find a permit that would enable the box to stay. “It doesn’t seem right that an unnamed person can make a phone call and that’s it.”

The unfairness of it all generated a new flurry of blog posts and tweets. Amy Elliot, the director of World’s Largest, who came to town for the screening, was especially disappointed to see what could have become an icon experience such a quick demise.

“I can honestly say the popcorn box enhanced my time in Savannah.

Its construction and presence transformed the screening of my film into a participatory event,” wrote Elliot on the blog of the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers.

“If it still existed, I’d tell people to go visit it.”

Elliot and others will be happy to know that for giant popcorn boxes at least, reincarnation is real.

Rather than hack it into firewood or leave it to gather dust backstage, Walsh thought of a way to bestow life upon the popcorn box once again– albeit somewhere other than the historic Lucas Theatre for the Arts.

She made a call to Dottie Kluttz of the Tybee Post Theater, who was delighted at the idea of adopting the prop.

“It fits right into the quirkiness of Tybee,” said Kluttz. “We’re so grateful the Lucas would think to help support our struggling little theater and help give us a community presence.”

As Tybee Island has no such ordinances against giant objects in public spaces, expect to see the resurrected popcorn box make appearances at the 2012 Polar Plunge and Tybee’s multifarious parades. CS

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It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock ‘n’ roll A Savannah woman who used the Internet to scam runners in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon out of $8,300 has been charged with felony theft by taking.

Amanda Whitford, 41, of the 400 block of Price Street, was arrested after 18 individuals reported renting a house referred to as “The Pink Cottage” on her block for Nov. 4–6 and losing their deposit. The cottage had been advertised on a website.

Police say she communicated with the visitors via cell phone, collecting $8,296 in deposits for the same dates.

Two weeks before she advised them the cottage received water damage rendering it uninhabitable and offered to return the deposits, but never did.

The money has not been recovered.

• Three suspects are in custody following a search of a residence that resulted in the seizure of an inactive methamphetamine lab.

Members of the Chatham–Savannah Counter Narcotics Team (CNT) searched a residence in the 100 block of Bellingrath Court on the Southside. CNT began its investigation after receiving information that persons residing at the residence were involved in the illegal manufacturing of meth inside the residence.

While conducting the search, agents discovered an inactive meth lab along with other evidence that indicated these meth cooks had occurred on previous occasions at this same residence.

CNT arrested 49–year old Denny Maxwell of Savannah, 23–year–old Kaycie Rowell of Hazlehurst, Ga., and 31–year–old Jason Steverson, also of Hazlehurst.

Maxwell was charged with Manufacturing of methamphetamine.

Stevenson was charged with Manufacturing of methamphetamine and Possession of a Firearm by a

Convicted Felon.

Rowell was charged with Unlawful Purchase/ Possession of Pseudoephedrine and Obstruction by Fleeing.

• An 18–year–old Savannah man has been charged with burglary after breaking into his neighbor’s house.

Roderick Parrish of the 800 block of Tavern Road was arrested at his own residence after his neighbor arrived home unexpectedly and saw two men burglarizing his house.

One ran into the house next door and the other began jumping fences to escape.

Police went next door and confronted Parrish, who was identified as one of the suspects. All of the items taken were recovered and returned to the victim.

• A 25–year–old Savannah man turned himself in after being contacted by police to face charges from the robbery of a dice game in which another man was shot Nov. 15.

Jonathan Anthony Williams has been charged with aggravated assault, armed robbery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. He turned himself in to the Chatham County Detention Center.

He is charged in the robbery on the 300 block of Lewis Drive in which a gunman walked into the dice game at an apartment, demanded all the money and then shot Jeffery Sams, then 18.

Sams was transported to Memorial University Medical Center with nonlife threatening injuries. CS GIVE ANONyMOUS CRIME TIPS TO CRIMESTOPPERS AT 234-2020

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news of tHe weirD Lead Story In some cultures, beauty and status are displayed via large holes in the earlobe from which to hang heavy ornaments or to insert jewels or tokens, and BBC News reported in November that an “increasing” number of counterculture Westerners are getting their lobes opened far beyond routine piercing, usually by gradually stretching but sometimes with a hole-punch tool for immediate results. The hard core are “gauge kings (or queens),” showing a “commitment” to the lifestyle by making holes up to 10 mm (three-eighths inch) wide. (Cosmetic surgeons told BBC News in November that they’re already preparing procedures for the inevitable wave of regretted decisions.)

Recurring Themes NOTE: So much “weird” news just involves different people caught in the middle of the same old weirdness. For this week and next, check out recent Recurring Themes (plus important Updates of previous stories): • Larry Walters made history in 1982 with perhaps the most famous balloon ride of all time — in an ordinary lawn chair, lifted by 45 helium-filled weather balloons — soaring to over 16,000 feet in Southern California before descending by shooting the balloons one by one. In 2008, gas station manager Kent Couch of Bend, Ore., made a similar lawn-chair flight and had scheduled another, for November 2011, to float over now-allegedly peaceful Baghdad,

to raise money for Iraqi orphans. as an “urban legend”). However, twice (Couch subsequently postponed his now recently, workers have played flight until March 2012 to give the a particularly dangerous prank on a charities more time to organize.) colleague. A month after the recent • Corruption in some Latin AmeriNews of the Weird story about Gareth can prisons has allowed powerful Durrant’s lawsuit in England against criminals to buy extraordinary privico-workers who had inserted a comleges behind bars. News of the Weird’s pressed-air hose into his rectum, a carreport on Venezuela’s San Antonio penter’s assistant in Nicosia, Cyprus, prison in July described the imperial was jailed for 45 days for pulling the reign of one drug lord-inmate, who same stunt on his colleague, rupturpresided over a personal armory, a ing his large intestine. local-community drug market and • Sometimes professionals private parties (and with his own who overbill for their hours DirecTV account). In a surprise go too far, claiming obviously Merry raid in November on a prison impossible schedules, such as WeIrD ChrIstMas! in Acapulco, Mexico, the usual lawyers News of the Weird drugs and weapons turned up, reported on in 1992 and but also 100 fighting roosters 1994 (one, a Raleigh, N.C., for daily gambling, along with a lawyer, submitted one cliprisoner’s two pet peacocks. ent bills averaging nearly • The lives of many choking 1,200 hours a month — even victims have been saved by the though a month only has 744 Heimlich Maneuver — even one hours). New York City officials received inadvertently, such as the said in October 2011, however, one a Leesburg, Fla., motorist gave that it’s quite possible that himself in 2001, after gagging on a city prison psychiatrist Dr. hamburger, then losing control and Quazi Rahman actually did work 141 smashing into a utility pole. As he was hours one week, including 96 straight thrust against the steering wheel, the (because of a shortage of staff and burger dislodged. In November 2011, because he could properly nap during as the mother of 8-year-old Laci Davis his shifts). They ordered him to return drove her to a Cincinnati hospital after only a tiny amount of his $500,000 in a locket stuck in her throat and caused overtime payments for the last year. her to double over in pain, Mom hit • Rumors that daring youth are a pothole, which jarred Laci and disinserting tampons soaked in vodka into lodged the locket loose into her stombody orifices to speed alcohol delivery ach (later to come out naturally). have been around for at least 10 years.

• It seemed a rare event (first Curiously, the only regular-sourced reported in 1994 but initially regarded news stories come from TV stations

in Phoenix (KNXV-TV in 2009 and KPHO-TV in 2011), and the “urban legends” source Snopes.com calls the whole idea far-fetched. Nonetheless, in November 2011, a school resource officer told KPHO’s Elizabeth Erwin that there are “documented cases” and that “guys,” too, engage by inserting the tampons into their rectums.

• Anti-government survivalists engaged in high-profile standoffs have made News of the Weird — most recently the story of Ed Brown and his wife and supporters, resisting a federal tax bill, holed up for nine months in the New Hampshire woods near Plainfield in 2007. (The Browns were arrested by a U.S. marshal who tricked his way inside.) The longest-running standoff now is probably that of John Joe Gray, 63, and his extended family in a 47-acre, well-fortified compound in Trinidad, Texas, southeast of Dallas.

They have lived ascetic settlers’ lives since Gray jumped bail in 2000 on a traffic charge. Gray has said he feels free on his land and warned authorities “better bring plenty of body bags” if they try to re-arrest him.

Updates • Unlicensed “surgeon”-castrator Edward Bodkin re-surfaced recently after more than a decade under the radar. He was sentenced to four years in prison in 1999 in Huntington, Ind., for unauthorized practice of medicine (removing the testicles, with consent, of five men). Bodkin was arrested in August 2011 in Wetumpka, Ala., and

in their dishes that are usually only experienced by cultures far removed from America. Jennifer McLagan’s recent book on how to cook animals’ “odd” parts describes various recipes for cooking hearts, heads, tongues and ears, and guesses that the next big thing in Western eating will be testicles. “(S)teaks and chops are like bulletproof to cook,” she said. “Any idiot can cook a steak, right?”

• Thomas Beatie was big news in March 2008 when he and his wife, Nancy, decided to start a family, except that Thomas, not Nancy, took on child-bearing responsibilities. (Thomas, born a female, had his breasts removed but retained reproductive organs.) Thomas got pregnant, appeared on Oprah, and had three children (who mugged for the cameras on the syndicated TV show The Doctors in October 2011). He also revealed on the show that it might be time to get his tubes tied, as each pregnancy requires him, to abandon his male hormone regimen. CS By cHuck sHepHerD uniVersal press synDicate

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by Bodkin to obtain the consent of men going under his knife.

• In January 2009, the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services removed three kids from the home of Heath and Deborah Campbell in Holland Township, apparently after becoming alarmed that the Campbells might be white supremacists.

Though a court later concluded that the kids had been “abused,” the Campbells told the New York Daily News in October 2011 that the state acted only based on the names the parents had given the kids — Adolf Hitler Campbell, who was then 3, and his then-1-year-old sisters, Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell and JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell. The Campbells have consistently denied that they are neo-Nazis.

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As I was decorating my Christmas tree this year I began to wonder if I was putting myself at risk from insects. I don’t like spiders much, and it would be even worse to have a Lyme-diseased tick bite me. Are Christmas trees fumigated, or are we bringing termites, etc, into our homes every holiday season ? —Doug

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Honestly, Doug, what a question!

Don’t we have enough to stress about this time of year? Have some eggnog, sit back in your easy chair, and admire that tree. Now that you’re comfortable, here’s something that will answer all your questions.

It’s from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It’s called Christmas Tree Pest Manual.

It’s 179 pages long.

Now, Doug, if you’re going to shriek, next time wait till you finish swallowing the eggnog. You know how the feds exaggerate. Let’s start with something more calming. Here’s an article from the 1905 Washington Post. The headline reads: LOADED WITH INSECTS Christmas Trees Abound with Invisible Bug Life. FORM PRETTY DECORATION Now there’s a positive mental attitude for you—they’re not vermin, they’re a pretty decoration! The headline continues: More Than Twenty-five Species, All Perfectly Harmless, Infest the Trees in Countless Millions and Add Material Beauty to the Ornamentation—Their Habits Discussed by an Expert.

Doug, please, put down that kerosene. Listen to what the article says about scale insects, a type of plant lice.

Though “exceedingly destructive and harmful,” these bugs have the advantage of looking like white dots. “Think of it,” the above-mentioned expert is quoted as saying, “of buying a Christmas tree already decorated, radiant with hundreds of little shining white specks resembling snowflakes. They should make an ideal Christmas tree.”

That 179-page USDA manual. True, it speaks in frank terms of the many insects, fungi, worms, and other horrors that can invade Christmas trees.

There are aphids, spiders, spider mites, weevils, bark beetles, bagworms, budworms, and webworms, not to mention those scale insects.

The gypsy moth and its cousins have plagued Christmas trees for more than a hundred years.

The USDA manual is mainly meant for Christmas tree growers, not buyers. Most pests can be controlled on the farm. The solution may entail pesticides, fungicides, or removal by hand. Trees suffering from a particularly heavy invasion of certain moths, weevils, midges, fungi, or what have you may be chipped or burned. Post-harvest fumigation is sometimes required for imported trees, which can mean toxic chemicals and higher cost.

Thankfully, drastic measures aren’t needed often. In a typical year perhaps one tree in 100,000 is bug-ridden. The critters are seldom harmful to humans.

At any rate, nobody bothered to educate Skip Magic, staff member emeritus of the Straight Dope Message Board, and his wife, Auntie Em. One year they picked out the perfect Christmas tree, carted it home, set it up and decorated it, and went to bed dreaming happy holiday thoughts. The next morning they came downstairs to find their tree covered with hundreds of silver threads, which extended from the tree in the living room to the chandelier inthe dining room, and from there to a dining room window. From the threads hung tiny silver beads.

Sounds pretty, doesn’t it? You know what’s coming next. The threads were silk, and the tiny silver beads were a brood of baby spiders that had hatched in the warmth of the house. Skip and Em suppressed the urge to put the premises to the torch and instead got out the vacuum cleaner, thereby salvaging the situation, although it’s fair to say if you were a baby spider your Christmas that year sucked.

You can of course buy artificial and sidestep such issues, but you can never entirely put out of your mind the knowledge that the classic bristle-andwire fake tree was originally devised by a manufacturer of toilet bowl brushes.

Thus the eternal dilemma. Or you can embrace biological reality with the knowledge that every so often you’re going to think: my God, this is gross. CS By cecil aDaMs

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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn St. Admission $20 adults, $10 children under 12 Indeed, this is a Christmas music show, but it doesn’t take place in a club. It’s in a church sanctuary.

Don’t let that scare you off. The second annual Savannah Celtic Christmas is a freewheeling celebration of Irish music and culture, with dancing, good–natured tomfoolery and even beer and wine (the alcohol’s part of the cieli, or Irish after–party, in the Church Hall next door).

The main attraction is Savannah native Moira Nelligan on fiddle and vocals, accompanied by her son Mickey on guitar, and “Uncle” George Norman on mandolin. Collectively, they’re called the Dixie Jigs.

Nelligan and her husband, artist Michael Hickey, are paying for everything themselves, bring kit and caboodle down here from their home in Decatur.

“It didn’t occur to us to say anything but why not,” Nelligan explains. “We love this stuff.”

It’s a southeast spinoff of the “Atlanta Celtic Christmas,” a perennial favorite. Hickey, who’s also an actor, will demonstrate “mumming,” the traditional Irish mask folk dance.

“I collect songs, I live to learn songs, arrange songs and tunes,” says Nelligan. “Oh my gosh, we live for this. And to share it, that’s very important to us.

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Wormhole Bar, 2307 Bull St. Among Seinfeld’s catchphrases and contributions to the cultural lexicon, none stands taller than the Festivus pole. For the uninitiated (and there can’t be that many of you), Festivus was a holiday dreamed up by George Costanza’s father, Frank, as an alternative to the crass commercialism of Christmas. “It’s Festivus for the rest of

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“Most of the time, when people do music, it’s about sharing, and we want to share what we love more than anything.”

And then there’s stepdancer Jacquie Berger. “Jacquie Berger rocks,” Nelligan enthuses. “She is awesome. She’s in aviation school – she’s so busy doing all this cool stuff, I can’t get her to send me a picture. She’s by far the best–looking out of all of us.”

Berger is also a dance teacher in the Atlanta area. “Two of her students just qualified for the world championships in Belfast,” adds Nelligan. “And those are the two that are coming with her to Savannah.”

us!” he proclaimed. (You’ll find it in the Season 8 episode The Strike).

For George, of course, Festivus was typical family torture.

First, Dad set up a bare aluminum pole in the center of the room. There followed the Airing of Grievances, in which you tell everyone the ways in which they’ve disappointed you this past year, and the Feats of Strength (generally some sort of wrestling match). Then came the Festivus meal.

In The Strike, penny–pinching George fakes a charity, the Human Fund, and “donates” to it in lieu of giving anybody a Christmas gift. His clueless boss, Mr. Kruger, writes out a check for $20,000 to give to the Human Fund, which leads – in a typically roundabout way – to his getting invited to the Costanza home for a holiday meal. As Kramer says, “It’s another Festivus miracle!”

There’ll also be a re–gifting ceremony at the Wormhole bash, so bring those bad gifts (“the worse the better,” advises Wormhole owner Amy Stafford. “I love Seinfeld,” she adds. “It’s my favorite show ever.” The Festivus fun also includes Elaine Benes dancing and an open musical jam. CS

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As Savannah jazz legend Teddy Adams prepares for the non–profit organization’s annual holiday concert and all–star jam, he’s making a list and checking it twice.

At the very top is an infusion of hot blood for the CJA, which trombonist Adams, bass player Ben Tucker and others put together in the ‘80s.

“A few years ago, about 10 years after we started the organization, Coastal Jazz was pretty solid,” says Adams, who also gives private trombone lessons. “We had a lot of sponsors, a lot of backings. The money is really the problem now. So we’re not doing very good.”

Adams plays part–time with the Charleston Jazz Orchestra – in fact, he just returned from four days of shows in Russia with the South Carolina group — and he’s been carefully observing the inner workings of its support organiztion, Jazz Artists of Charleston.

“I’d like to see Savannah culturally, and artistically, where Charleston is,” he explains. “People there are very, very supportive. They have venues for jazz, and all the musicians are working there. And I can’t say the same about the guys here.”

Adams is quick to explain that the

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City of Savannah keeps the CJA going year after year, despite the miserable economy. “I have no complaints with the city,” he stresses, “even though we’re getting about half the money we used to get.”

The cornerstone of the CJA is the Savannah Jazz Orchestra, spotlighted every summer at the eight–day Savannah Jazz Festival.

This year, because inclement weather kept a lot of people away from the outdoor concert, the festival lost money. Not much, but enough to feel the pinch.

“The Jazz Artists of Charleston is the equivalent of the Coastal Jazz Association,” Adams says. “They’ve taken the Charleston Jazz Orchestra and they’re behind them all the way.

“I’ve been kicking around some ideas, and I’ve been talking to the guys in the group. If we could just get a faction of support, a group from the CJA just dedicated to the Savannah Jazz Orchestra ... the CJA as a whole is so busy with the festival.”

The key, he believes, is to hire a paid director. “Everything here is voluntary, and that does make a difference,” Adams says.

“When you talk about a voluntary organization, you’re at the whim of the volunteers. And that’s not a good thing. In other places that I’ve seen, you get a director with some savvy, and some energy, to come in. And the director earns his or her salary.

The director generates his salary. And that concept works if you can find the right person.”

One of the chief problems is visibility — while the association’s monthly shows at the Westin Harbor Resort are well–attended, the same jazz fans pretty much show up every time.

“The patronage is a predominantly older, middle–class white audience,” says Adams. “The blacks come, but they’re older people. We don’t have any young people supporting the music. And with SCAD here, and two other universities, the people are here.

We just don’t know how to get their interest.”

A focused director — like the one at Jazz Artists of Charleston — could be the answer, he believes.

Adams dismisses the notion that the nine–year–old Savannah Music Festival might have taken some of the luster off his organization.

“We have never viewed the Savannah Music Festival as being a competitive problem,” he explains. “The Coastal Jazz Association was formed for preserving, applying and supporting jazz in Savannah and the lowcountry area. And from the very beginning, all of our endeavors have been free. Our festival is still eight days of free music.

“Our thing is geared mainly towards Savannah and its citizens. We get a lot of tourists in because it’s free, but that’s not our focus. Savannah has

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of them have either been invited, or know they’re welcome to play.

“They know it’s going to be a good session on Christmas Day, so they’re gonna be there,” Adams enthuses.

“Guys are lined up waiting to play.”

And there’s a strong flicker of hope from the next generation. “Normally, the jam has been a vehicle, and good experience, for kids out of the Savannah Arts Skylite Band.

“I get a lot of students from that band who are doing very well. Most of the students I’ve taught will be there for Christmas and wanting to play.

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Planned for Jan. 22 is a free concert featuring Adams, Tucker and several other musicians who started the CJA, originally known as the Telfair Jazz Society. It’s a reunion show, and it’s being billed as a “Rent Party.”

The holiday show — Jazz Yule Love — has always been held on Christmas Day (in fact, it started at the old Flamingo Club, a jazz hotspot, in the 1950s. When he returned to his hometown in 1976, after a stint in the Air Force, Adams was instrumental in getting it cranked up again).

The first half of the show will feature Adams’ hand–picked jazz combo, playing Christmas tunes and more.

On vocals will be L.C. Quarterman, of the Darien area. “He’s a unique blues singer in that he has a voice similar to that of Nat ‘King’ Cole,” Adams says. “So L.C. has a very unique way of presenting the blues, and he also sings standards. He’s my favorite singer.”

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No matter where one’s ancestors hail from, Savannahians get to be a wee bit Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. In the fall, all are welcome to grab a beer and don a dirndl for Oktoberfest.

Fiesta Latina electrifies the whole city’s lambada, the Asian Festival gives us a taste of the Far East, and everyone has a Jewish mother at the Shalom Y’all Food Festival.

Savannah’s Kwanzaa celebration is our chance to explore our African roots.

Taking place every evening Dec. 26-Jan. 1 at the Tompkins Center, the local event follows the traditions originated by scholar Maulana Karenga in 1966 to connect black Americans with their African heritage. Each

evening, festivities include the lighting of the kinara, shared meals, song and dance and discussion centered on one of the Seven Principles, designated by Dr. Karenga to be the building blocks of a successful community.

By community, Dr. Karenga meant post–Civil Rights–era African Americans, for whom the holiday provided

a point of empowerment and pride in tumultuous times. But rather than remain a closed ritual, Kwanzaa has evolved around the country and locally to become an opportunity for education and sharing for all citizens.

“Anyone can embrace aspects of this tradition,” explained Savannah Kwanzaa Committee member Jamal Touré over deviled crab and sweet tea at the Garden of Eden, a locally– owned restaurant on MLK. “Black, white, Latino, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Rastafarian–this is a positive celebration of culture and community.”

Derived from a Swahili phrase for “first fruits of the harvest,” it invokes a practical connection between African tradition and urban life. Just as we enjoy aspects from other cultural holidays without necessarily possessing the same DNA as its originators, the joy of Kwanzaa is for anyone who cares about promoting and participating in an evolved and civil society, continues on p. 22

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explained Touré.

For instance, the third and fourth principles of ujima (ooh–gee–ma) and ujamaa (ooh–ja–ma), defined as “collective work and responsibility” and “cooperative economics,” can transform an economy when applied in the form of volunteer work and supporting local businesses.

Committee chair Dorothy Cohen has watched many observances since she helped plan Savannah’s first public Kwanzaa celebration 27 years ago. A Brooklyn native who taught special education at Beach and Johnson high schools for three decades, Ms. Cohen has always encouraged all her students to attend.

“I think people are curious but they’re not sure they’re invited,” said the beatific Cohen. “We are celebrating African–American culture, yes.

But it’s a part of the larger culture, not something separate. We want to share it.”

Savannah’s African–American history figures prominently in the local Kwanzaa program. Examples of the second principle, kujicahgulia (koo– gee–ka–jalia) or “self–determination,” include the non–violent protests of the 1960s and the success of Wage Earners Bank, once one of the richest black–owned banks in the U.S. in the 1930s, now the site of the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum.

“We want people to know you don’t have to go outside this community to learn about greatness,” said Cohen.

“It’s right here to tap into.”

Touré, who also serves as artistic director for the Geechee Kunda Museum in Riceboro, reminds us that the Lowcountry is home to a unique and valuable piece of African–American history, the Gullah– Geechee communities along the

South Carolina and Georgia coasts.

Their heritage is a stellar example of sustainability, self–sufficiency and cultural pride, though many Savannahians know little about its existence.

Gullah–Geechee storytelling, song and dance are often incorporated into Savannah’s seven–day event.

Perhaps for many white folks, attending the city’s public Kwanzaa may not be as simple as popping downtown for a green beer. But those who do will be rewarded with a richer perspective of the city, one that can help manifest the first principle of unity — umoja — that our civic leaders promise but can’t be accomplished without participation.

“For the world to become a better place, we have to know about other people and cultures as well as our own,” said Cohen. “Every time we step out of our comfort zone, it plants a seed for a larger world view.”

While there are other Kwanzaa celebrations that now take place in private homes and churches, the Tompkins Center continues as a public event open to anyone seeking more knowledge of African–American culture. Attendees are encouraged to bring their singing voices and a dish to share.

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I chose yellow rice with chick peas, which was nicely seasoned and filling.

White rice and a side of beans is the other option. A small salad of crisp lettuce and tomato slices got a kick start from pickled jalapeno sauce my server dropped off.

Very few restaurants are open Christmas day. It is a time when the hard–working men and women of the foodservice industry gather with families or one another to cook their favorite dishes. It is a season of camaraderie, revelry and gratitude.

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Robert Anthony (Maurice Eloise) and Elliott Ives (Lord Treadwell) are pioneers of crunk, the Dirty South rap derivation of heavy, distorted basslines and whip–smart, hypnotic wordplay.

“The album,” Flagpole said of the duo’s 2007 debut, “comes out sounding a lot like the Beastie Boys on some very expensive drugs.”

The guys were last in Savannah over the Fourth of July weekend, and they’ve booked a return gig – Thursday, Jan. 26 at Loco’s Grill & Pub. Lord and E have a third release out.

The 23–track Rapocalypse, they say, “takes place in the future” and is “a magnum opus of their experiences with time travel, and harbors messages of what is in store for humanity.”

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If it’s January, it must be circus time.

Of course, January is just a week or so away, and the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus has indeed scheduled a stay in the Martin Luther King Arena.

From Jan. 19 to 22, there’ll be eight shows under the (concrete) Big Top. And the latest Tyler Perry stage play, The Haves & the Have Nots, comes to the Johnny Mercer Theatre Feb. 21. The cast includes Palmer E. Williams, Jr., Patrice Lovely, Tony Hightower, Alexis

Jones and Maurice Lauchner.

Tickets for both events are available now at etix.com.

To the South

We all know that Charleston lands bigger and better arena and theater shows than Savannah. Duh. But Jacksonville, a similar drive (in the other direction) occasionally gets the goods as well. For example: The Tedeschi Trucks Band has a gig at the Florida Theatre Dec. 28 (granted, Susan and Derek actually live in Jacksonville, so I guess it’s a no–brainer right after Christmas). The fabulous Lee Boys will open. Sevendust plays Freebird Live Dec. 30. And the apparently re–energized Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band will play the Veterans Memorial Arena Jan. 10.

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• Coming to Muse Arts Warehouse Jan. 13–15: Epic, a one–woman show written by and starring the fabulous Eve Butler, a former Savannah resident who you saw in such theatrical productions as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. It is, says she, “ the story of three women, a couple of werewolves, a wizard, and some supernatural baddies. It is based on Beowulf, the epic of Gilgamesh, and the Odyssey.”

• Colorado’s Mountainfilm on Tour – a collection of short films abourt the outdoors, wilderness and adventure – is coming back for a 3 p.m. screening Jan. 21 at the Trustees Theater. CS

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an art show — Art by The Savannah Association of the Blind. Come see what a sixyear-old in Russia dreams of, or what a teenager from South Africa has experienced. The Butcher, 19 E. Bay St. complex — Art, video, and sounds by Digitalfel and Jaruni. Dec. 13-Jan. 31. Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. elemental Visions — Nancy Adams, Kristine Kennedy and Denise Elliot-Vernon share an anthology of art.

Dragonfly Studio, 1204 Highway 80, Tybee Island Home and abroad — Photographs by Elyzaveta Bateham and Debra Zumstein and drawings by Jamie Kutner. “Home and Abroad” considers these three artists’ perspectives on travel imagery as it relates to a sense of home and sense of self. Thinc Art, 35 Barnard St.

iconic Black folk artists — The Beach Institute in conjunction with the Hurn Museum of Art presents this collection of paintings

by Luther Vann, Rudolph Valentino Bostic, Michael Banks, Purvis young, Jimmy Lee Suddeth, Ulysses Davis, Mose Tolliver and more.

December 13, 2011 through January 2012. Tuesday through Saturday noon-5 p.m. (Closed Sunday and Monday). Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. kent ambler woodcuts — Woodcuts by this Greenville SC-based artist who recently showed at the Telfair Art Fair. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Magic passion love — An opportunity to co-create positive energy with other artists. Nov. 9-Jan. 8 at Caraway Cafe, Abercorn & Broughton Streets

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Baker Street brainiac remains one of literature’s greatest detectives, but because actions always count more than words in today’s Hollywood, 2009’s Sherlock Holmes reinvented the character as a kick–ass macho man, more Rambo than Miss Marple. Nevertheless, the freshness of Robert Downey Jr.’s exuberant portrayal as Holmes and the measured counterpoint provided by Jude Law as Dr. Watson managed to overpower Guy Ritchie’s hyperkinetic direction.

Not this time. Ritchie’s showoff stylistics are often embarrassing to behold – this is particularly true in the action sequences, of which there are countless. As he battles his deadly nemesis Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris) and his minions, Holmes most often applies his formidable smarts not to uncovering clues but to enhancing his advantage in hand–to–hand skirmishes.

Some silly asides, such as Holmes’ camouflage coat, are best forgotten. But the steady bickering between Holmes and Watson has

yet to reach the straining point – thank the ingratiating actors for that – and it’s nice to see the clueless Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan) and femme fatale Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams) carried over from the first film.

And while Rooney Mara adopts the Lisbeth Salander role for the Yank version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the original’s Lisbeth, Noomi Rapace, turns up here as a gypsy fortune teller. Her character’s services aren’t required to predict that Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows will emerge as an international blockbuster, with audiences flocking to see a dizzying swirl of furious fisticuffs, blazing gunfights, and theater–rocking explosions. Me, I’ll be home watching my Columbo box sets.

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In Young Adult, Theron has no need for such transformations: She looks weathered but beautiful, and it’s easy to believe that her character, Mavis Gary, was one of the most popular girls at her high school back in the day. Make no mistake: Mavis is ugly, but that unattractiveness emanates solely from the inside. And Theron, ever the trouper, is only too happy to bring it to the surface in this wicked, biting seriocomedy.

The Juno team of writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman have reunited for another movie about an idiosyncratic individual, but Mavis Gary is the polar opposite of the sensible and intelligent character played by Ellen Page in that 2007 gem. An unkempt, hard–drinking ghostwriter for a popular “young adult” franchise now on its last legs, Mavis leaves her Minneapolis stomping ground and returns to the dinky Minnesota hometown she detests, with the sole purpose of landing the one that got away.

That would be her high school boyfriend Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson), and what Mavis ignores in her quixotic quest is that Buddy is happily married to the sweet Beth (Elizabeth Reaser) and they’ve just welcomed a baby into the world. Dismissive of the wife and kid (“I’ve got baggage, too!”), Mavis continues her pursuit, despite the advice of former classmate Matt Freehauf (Patton Oswalt) to cease and desist.

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foreign hits prove to be better than expected yet don’t quite trump their highly regarded predecessors. Let Me In, Matt Reeves’ take on the Swedish vampire yarn Let the Right One In, is one example; The Departed, Martin Scorsese’s version of the Hong Kong import Infernal Affairs, is another (Oscar wins notwithstanding). But now there’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which manages the impressive feat of emerging as superior to the internationally admired Swedish version from 2009.

In many ways, this adheres closely to what audiences witnessed in the first version (both films were based on the book by the late Stieg Larsson, the first installment in his Millennium trilogy). As before, two characters leading separate lives find their destinies intertwined: Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), a punkish, bisexual computer expert who’s suspicious of everyone around her, particularly men; and Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig), a wrongly ostracized journalist who accepts a personal assignment from wealthy industrialist Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer) to investigate the decades–removed disappearance of his niece.

Mikael searches for clues on the sizable Vanger estate out in the Swedish hinterlands, while Lisbeth, still in Stockholm, deals with a series of unfortunate developments, including an ailing friend, a broken laptop, and, most shockingly, a sleazy parole officer (Yorick van Wageningen) who binds and rapes her (her sweet revenge is brutal and brilliant). Only when Mikael realizes he needs an assistant does Lisbeth enter his life, becoming unlikely allies as they solve the mystery together.

The 2009 Swedish version is a fine film, but this one is nevertheless an improvement, right from the dazzling opening credits (perhaps the best I’ve seen this year) to an epilogue that’s unexpectedly poignant. Director David Fincher works in a crisp, efficient manner, and while the original’s Noomi Rapace made for a memorable heroine, Mara is even better, retaining this great character’s steely resolve and unfiltered intelligence but confident enough to allow us to see the hurt child residing within.

After helming the zeitgeist hit The Social Network, Fincher has been accused by some critics of slumming with this pulpy material, but I beg to differ. Just check out the climactic

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endured genuine hardships in his life.

Savagely beaten as a teenager by jocks who believed him to be gay (he isn’t), the physically damaged Matt becomes Mavis’ unlikely pal and sounding board. Like Mavis, he’s also trapped in the past and needs to grow up, but his good heart and sensible brain suggest that, of the pair, he’s the one who stands a better chance of belatedly snagging the senior superlative, Most Likely To Succeed.

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Finally, here’s one seven–year itch that can be scratched. When 2004’s The Polar Express made film history as the first animated movie to be created wholly by employing the motion–capture process, we instantly recognized that we were in the presence of something ghastly. Awkward and unsightly, the ersatz innovation rendered all characters stiff, clammy and lifeless – anything but animated.

Even as recent as two years ago, with the release of the Jim Carrey vehicle A Christmas Carol, it was clear that the format had not yet hit its stride, and it wasn’t unreasonable to speculate as to whether it ever would. But thanks to director Steven Spielberg, producer Peter Jackson and their crack team of technicians and artists, The Adventures of Tintin emerges as the first motion–capture movie to fully fulfill the promise of this hyped advent in animation.

Based on the internationally beloved comic series created by

Belgian writer–illustrator Hergé (I myself enjoyed them as a lad, even though French writer René Goscinny’s Asterix was my main Euro–fix), this finds squeaky–clean boy reporter Tintin (voiced by Jamie Bell), accompanied by his clever canine companion Snowy, acquiring a model ship that in turn is being sought by the villainous Sakharine (Daniel Craig).

Tintin’s curiosity eventually lands him on a real seafaring vessel that belongs to the drunken Captain Haddock (motion–capture superstar Andy Serkis, of Gollum and ape fame), and together, they set out to distant lands to locate hidden treasure.

While the stop–motion process still isn’t as pleasing to the eye as either old–school Disney or new–school Pixar, its employment in The Adventures of Tintin still qualifies as leaps and bounds ahead of its use in the unwieldy antecedents in this field.

What’s more, with the overseer of the Indiana Jones franchise at the controls, this cartoon cliffhanger manages to consistently serve up the breathless thrills.

Even the 3–D, hardly ever worth the effort (or higher admission price), works for the greater good of the picture, at one with Spielberg’s kinetic and imaginatively designed set–pieces.

Adults looking for a family film among the new holiday outings – specifically, adults who don’t want to be tortured by singing chipmunks (would that be all of them?) – have found their flick.

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There’s a scene in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol in which Tom Cruise’s agent extraordinaire Ethan Hunt must climb up the outside of a tall building with only the aid of a pair of electronic gloves that fasten themselves to any given surface. It isn’t enough that it’s a towering edifice – it has to be Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, merely the tallest building in the world.

And it isn’t enough that a pair of gloves seem like scarce supplies for a climbing expedition – one of the blasted things must malfunction during the ascent, meaning a single hand is all that prevents Ethan from falling to his doom a hundred–plus stories below. And did I mention that, during the descent, he’s a few stories shy of reaching safety, meaning he has to swing around wildly like a pinata that’s been whacked a few times in the hopes of propelling himself into an open window?

It’s utterly ridiculous – and also utterly exciting. The fourth M:I film based on the classic TV series – and the third to be worth a damn (only the second one was a letdown) – this wisely continues the tradition of assigning a different director to each chapter, going from Brian De Palma to John Woo to J.J. Abrams and now to Brad Bird. Bird, of course, is the animation mainstay behind Ratatouille, The Incredibles and The Iron Giant, and in making his live–action debut, he demonstrates that he’s not going to allow a real–world setting to hamper an imagination that had been instrumental in making toon tales.

The plotline concocted by Josh

Appelbaum and Andr Nemec (both vets of Abrams’ TV show Alias) is so hoary that it might as well have come from a 1960s–era Bond flick: A Russian madman (Michael Nyqvist) plans to cleanse the earth via a nuclear war, and it’s up to the only active members of the Impossible Missions Force (Cruise, Paula Patton and Simon Pegg), plus a government analyst harboring a secret (Jeremy Renner), to take him down.

At 135 minutes, the film admittedly overstays its welcome – the coda is particularly draggy, even if it does offer a pair of pleasing cameos – and Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is more inscrutable than ever. But for action buffs desperate for a hit to jump–start their hearts, here’s a Mission impossible to refuse.

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Forget counting down from 10 as the ball drops in Times Square; here instead is a countdown of the 10 key points in New Year’s Eve, which proves to be even tougher to take than director Garry Marshall’s previous all–star holiday romp, Valentine’s Day. 10. A cocky messenger boy (Zac Efron) helps a depressed woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) fulfill her New Year’s resolutions. Although it squanders any intriguing potential for a May–December romance, this is the best episode primarily thanks to Pfeiffer, the only person in this entire film investing any genuine emotion into her character.

9. The person (Hilary Swank) tasked with making sure the Times Square ball drops properly calls upon a veteran technician (Hector Elizondo) to fix the orb when it breaks

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Arthur Christmas won’t come close to matching the giddy heights of Aardman Animation’s Chicken Run or Wallace & Gromit films.

Most of the major laughs come toward the beginning of this clever contraption in which the present Santa Claus (voiced by Jim Broadbent) might finally be ready to retire, set to pass along the reindeer reins to his technically savvy son Steve (Hugh Laurie). The doddering Santa doesn’t even consider his other son Arthur (James McAvoy) for the position, since the gangly youth is obviously too clumsy and awkward for such a responsibility.

Yet when a wayward present means that a little girl won’t be receiving a gift this year, it’s Arthur, not his dad or sibling, who does everything in his power to insure that she receives the present.

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Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a product steeped in cinema lore, drunk on the fumes of a bygone era yet canny enough to channel its nostalgia through modern innovations. Hugo is available in 3–D, and except for the annoying darkness that’s always inherent in live–action films presented in this manner, it makes glorious use of the gimmick, right from the very first shot when

falling snowflakes come right at us.

Set in a Parisian train station in the 1930s, the story concerns itself with young Hugo (Asa Butterfield), a parentless child who tends to the building’s giant clock while constantly avoiding the grasp of an inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen) hellbent on sending him off to an orphanage.

Connected to his late father by an automaton that needs repairing, Hugo steals the parts needed from an elderly man who runs a toy store in the station. Eventually caught by the ill–tempered gent, Hugo becomes drawn into his life, befriending his ward Isabelle, learning about his past as a film pioneer, and discovering the key – literally – that binds past and present together.

But Scorsese hasn’t merely made an ode to cineasts; rather, his picture is a moving exploration of the manner in which individuals seek out love and companionship in an effort to form their own version of a nuclear family.

Even with a friendly PG rating, it’s hard to imagine families trudging out en masse to check this out: The 125–minute running time, leisurely pace and lack of Muppets will probably cause many tots to grow fidgety before long, and even adults who desire their entertainment fast and furious will wonder if it’s too late to sneak into the adjacent auditorium that’s playing Immortals. But for the rest of us, we’ll always have Paris – and the enchanting movie set therein.

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be desperate to escape if you were trapped in an elevator with the perpetually annoying Ashton Kutcher?

4. A caterer (the perpetually annoying Katherine Heigl) is angry at the boyfriend (Jon Bon Jovi) who ran away from her a year ago but has now reentered her life. Wouldn’t you run away from the perpetually annoying Katherine Heigl? (And why would anyone return for more punishment?)

3. Two pregnant women (Jessica Biel and Sarah Paulson) and their husbands (Seth Meyers and Til Schweiger) are eager to win the sizable cash prize given by a local hospital to the couple who produces the first baby of the new year. This is the most godawful of all the segments, and not just because someone yells out, “May the best vajayjay win!”

2. As the film closes with a final shot of Times Square, one billboard on the street ends up filling at least half the theater screen. It’s the poster for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Warner Bros.’ other year–end offering alongside New Year’s Eve. My mentioning this here is, to quote Sherlock Holmes himself, “of course a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles” – especially when one represents product placement at its most blatant.

1. The end–credit outtakes include a gag in which a doctor (Carla Gugino) reaches between the pregnant Biel’s legs and produces two DVDs for Marshall’s Valentine’s Day – a delivery that’s no more stillborn than the DOA New Year’s Eve.

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Swank and Chris “Ludacris” Bridges (as a friendly cop) are as appealing as always, and Marshall regular Elizondo contributes a couple of chuckles, but this vignette is especially devoid of drama.

8. A man (Josh Duhamel) who has a one–year–anniversary date with one of the other characters – they met last New Year’s Eve – is afraid he won’t make the reunion since he’s stuck out in the boondocks (Larry Miller makes a welcome appearance as a tow truck driver). I won’t reveal the identity of Duhamel’s mystery date, but let’s just say I was disappointed it wasn’t Elizondo’s character – that at least would get a rise out of the Middle America mentalities that this sort of pandering nonsense targets.

7. A harried mother (Sarah Jessica Parker) won’t let her 15–year–old daughter (Abigail Breslin, now old enough to play a character who packs on the makeup) hang out in Times Square for fear that something horrible might happen to her.

6. A sympathetic nurse (slumming Oscar winner Halle Berry) tends to a dying man (slumming Oscar winner Robert De Niro) whose only wish is to see the ball drop. This one’s a real snoozer – teardrops won’t fall as quickly as eyelids will shut.

5. A slacker (the perpetually annoying Ashton Kutcher) who hates the holiday is trapped in an elevator with a singer (Lea Michele) who’s desperate to escape. Wouldn’t you

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Activism & Politics

Opening Art Show Gala & Auction, Dec. 3, 6:30pm-9:30pm, Closing Celebration & Auction Dec. 17, 6:30pm-9:30pm. Both events at Brockington Hall, 213 East Hall Street, Savannah. Information: 912-236-4473 or sbussey@ sabinc.org.

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/

Drinking liberally

An informal, left-leaning group of folks who meet to talk about politics, the economy, sports, entertainment, and anything else that pops up. Every first and third Thursday, around 7:30 p.m. at Loco’s, 301 W. Broughton St., upstairs. Come join us! DrinkingLiberally.org

occupy savannah

Corner of Habersham & Bay 9am-8pm everyday. General Assemblies: Wed. 6pm, Sat. 12pm+6pm, Sun. 3pm. For more information email occupy.savannah.ga@gmail.com.

savannah area young republicans

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

savannah tea party

meets the first Monday (excluding Holidays) of each month from 4:30 to 6:00 PM at the SRP offices located at 11 East 73rd Street. All persons interested in America’s Future are invited.

Contact Marolyn Overton at 912-598-7358 for additional info.

urban Hope of savannah seeks Board Members

If you would like to make a difference in the lives of inner city children, consider being a member of the Urban Hope board. Plan and organize fundraisers and events for the children at Urban Hope. Call or email for more information: 912-398-9811 or urbanhopesav@aol.com or visit www.urbanhopesavannah.org.

Benefits adopt a Dolphin for christmas.

The Dolphin Project offers a great gift option for all ages. Receive a dorsal photo of the dolphin of your choice, plus dolphin information, activity pages, dolphin bookmark and dolphin certification of adoption. Donation benefits research and education programs led by The Dolphin Project. Download an adoption application: http://www.thedolphinproject.org/adopt. html (PS: you don’t get to keep a real dolphin.

They are wild animals that must remain wild and free) Info: Charlotte Keenoy: 912-921-1633

angel tree: Holiday gifts for savannah children who are Homeless

Adopt the holiday gift wish list of a local family or child who is homeless, through Union Mission’s Angel Tree. Or, contribute an unwrapped new gift or a financial donation. Deliver to Union Mission, 120 Fahm St., before Dec. 15.

(912) 236-7423.

art show, gala & auction benefiting savannah association for the Blind

Art Show Closing Celebration & Auction Dec. 17, 6:30pm-9:30pm. Art work from local artists, antiques, and autographed sports memorabilia will be auctioned to raise funds for the upcoming year. Brockington Hall, 213 East Hall Street, Savannah. Free Admission. Open to the public. Light snacks and beverages will be served throughout the evening.I nformation:

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Holiday Designer show House

Benefiting The Children’s Hospital at Memorial University Medical Center. Historic District home at 318 E. Jones St. Open Saturdays and Sundays from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Nov. 26 – Dec. 18. Tickets: $10 at the door, or at www.memorialhealth.kintera.org/Holiday 2011 Designer Showhouse or at any Sea Island Bank branch.

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.

party for the cause--Benefit for Marc cordray kidney fund

Get into the Christmas spirit at this benefit for well-known Savannah musician Marc Cordray’s kidney transplant fund. Live music, complimentary food. Thurs, Dec. 15, 9pm at Bay Street Blues, 17 E Bay St. Information: 912-844-9306.

polar plunge Benefits tybee post theater

2012 New year’s Day Tybee Polar Plunge and Guiness World Records (c) Official Attempt to Break the Record for “Largest Gathering of People Wearing Swim Caps.” $25 registration includes a swim cap and a longsleeve commemorative T-shirt. Register online tybeepolarplunge.com or in person at Tybee Island Roundabout and Pier, Dec. 31 1-4pm and Jan. 1, 9-11:30am.Pre-registration encouraged. By registering you do not have to take the Plunge into the Atlantic. Registration guarantees that you will be a part of the World Record Attempt.

Plunge will be held at the Tybee Island Pier.

reindeer run/walk 8k & chili cook off

Sponsored by the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center to benefit the Rape Crisis Center.Sat. Dec. 17, 9am. Registration: 7:30am. Location: Hutchinson Island.

Free kids run at 8:45am. to Costume contest.

Chili Cook Off features celebrity judges. Fees: $30 until Dec. 15. $35 after Dec. 15. Register online at www.active.com orr at Fleet Feet, 3405 Waters Avenue.

Vinnie Van go go’s pizza for Marc cordray

Eat at Vinnie Van Go-Gos in City Market--A benefit for local drummer Marc Cordray’s Kidney Transplant. Sat. Dec. 17, a portion of sales will be donated to this fund. Information: 912-844-9306.

cAll for entries casting call

Ny Production Company casting for Spring 2012 shoot. Film is period piece on a slave plantation. Need young African American lead, White male lead, Mature female African American lead & young African American female.

Please send head shots/resumes to twicebornfilm@gmail.com.

exhibit space & cD/Book signing Venue

Free exhibit space for artists, writers or musicians for artwork, photography, or venue for

book/CD signings in Midway, Georgia boutique.

Information: email: acc_ave@yahoo .com.

Accessory Avenue, 9754 East Oglethorpe Hwy, Midway, GA. http://www.a-avenue.biz/ Accessory Avenue, Midway

forsyth farmers Market recipe contest

Fall/ Winter 2012 recipe contest. Contestants must create an easy, healthy dish, using mainly ingredients available from the market during the months of November and December 2011.

Email or bring a recipe to the market before the last day of the 2011 season – Saturday, December 17. Information at the Farmers Market info booth, or via email at pr@cscpconsult.com.

the Voice workshop:continuing education for the professional singer

VOICExperience and Georgia Southern University present vocal training designed by Sherrill Milnes. For ingers who have already embarked on a professional career and feel the need to further hone their presentational skills. March 9-16, 2012 on the campus of Georgia Southern University. The week concludes with performances in both Statesboro and Savannah.

Application deadline is Feb. 1, 2012. Information on fees and application requirements: 847.707.0177 or voicexp@aol.com. [121211]

theater auditions

Richmond Hill Community Theater will hold auditions for Barbecuing Hamlet by Pat Cook.

Jan. 10 &12, 7pm-9pm at Richmond Hill Library, 9607 Ford Avenue. Performances: March 30 & 31.

Parts for 6 men and 7 women. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. For further info contact 912-313-4004.

urban Hope’s 1st annual christmas Home Decoration contest

Decorate your home for the holiday and enter the contest. Registration Dates: Nov. 25-Dec. 10. Registration fee: $25. Enter by calling 912398-9811, emailing urbanhopesav@aol.com, or online at www.urbanhopesavannah.org/event.

clAsses, cAmPs & WorkshoPs art,-Music, piano and Voice-coaching

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

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/

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 912349-4582 or visit http://www.ctcsavannah.com/

creative Digital photography

Go in-depth into photography principles, aperature and shutter combinations, bracketing and compositions. Spend time in the field and in the classroom. you’ll need a DSLR camera, changeable lenses, and a tripod. you must be able to write files to a USB drive for critiques. Mondays, Feb 6-20, 6:30-8:30pm (in the classroom) and Saturdays, Feb 11-18 (in the field). $100/person. Offered in downtown Savannah at the Coastal Georgia Center, by Georgia Southern University’s Continuing Education Division.

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Designing for the contemporary interior Release your inner decorator... this workshop offered by SCAD’s Continuing Education Department teaches participants how to select pieces, mix and match, and end up with an individual, inspired space. Learn and apply design theory to create contemporary interiors and gain confidence with color and material choices. Explore the balance of spatial relations, creating a home interior that parallels your personality. Sat. Feb. 4, 10:30am-4:30pm.

Fee. $95. Register http://www.scad.edu/ce [121211]

Drawing instruction

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

Call or email for details, (912)507-7138. kbillustration@mac.com

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.

fall Ballet and Dance classes

The Ballet School has a full fall schedule of classes for children and adults including Ballet, Modern Dance, Barre/Body Sculpting, Pre-professional, and Zumba. Artistic director: Heidi M. Carter. Information: The Ballet School, Piccadilly Square, 10010 Abercorn Ext., Ste 8.

912-925-0903 or www.theballetschoolsav.com.

family law workshop

The Mediation Center has three workshops a month to assist citizens who do not have legal representation in a family matter: divorce, legitimation, modifications of child support and/or visitation and contempt. Schedule: 1st Tuesday, 5:30-7:30pm. 2nd Monday, 2-4pm.

4th Thursday 10am-12noon. Fee:$20 to cover all documents needed to file. Register at mediationsavannah.com or 912-354-6686.

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

feldenkrais classes

Meets at various locations in the Savannah area. Contact Elaine Alexander, GCFP. Information: 912-223-7049

group guitar lessons

Join us for a fun time, for “group” guitar lessons, at the yMCA on Whitemarsh and Tybee Islands (adults and teens only). “Hands-on” instruction, music theory, ear training, sight reading, ensemble playing, technique, and rhythm drills, by teacher Tim Daniel (BS in Music). 912- 897-9559. $20 per week.

guitar, electric Bass & Double Bass lessons

Instruction for all ages of beginner/intermediate students. Technique, chords, note reading, and theory. Learn songs and improvisation.

Studio located 2 blocks from Daffin Park.

Housecalls available. Call 401-255-6921 or email a.teixeira472@gmail.com to schedule a 1/2 price first lesson!

guitar, mandolin and bass lessons

Guitar, mandolin or bass guitar lessons. emphasis on theory, reading music and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. 912-232-5987

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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

introduction to computers

Georgia Southern University’s Continuing Education in Savannah. Register now for this fundamental course on computer skills--hardware, software, and the operating system. Basic proficiency in using the mouse, navigating Windows, and the basics of Word, Excel, and Internet Explorer. Jan. 12, 6:309:30pm. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. Savannah. $40 register at: ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/ cesavannahmenu.html

learn russian

Learn to speak Russian. All experience levels welcome, beginner to expert. Call 912-7132718 for more information. This is a new instructor and contact information, effective Nov. 1.

learn to speak spanish

Spanish lessons offered by an experienced native speaker. Flexible schedule and affordable rates. Classes are held at the Sentient Bean Café. Call 912-541-1337.

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.

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

Music lessons--Multiple instruments

Savannah Musicians Institute offers private instruction for all ages in guitar, drums, piano, bass, voice, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, flute, and woodwinds. 7041 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Info: 912-692-8055 or smisavannah@gmail. com.

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.

open pottery studio at savannah’s clay spot For potters with experience who want time in the studio, Choose from 4 hour time slots.

Registrations are based on a monthly, bi monthly, and quarterly time commitment.

Savannah’s Clay Spot, 1305 Barnard St. Information: 912-509-4647 or www.savannahsclayspot.com

pet and people portraits

Painted in oils or pastel by fine artist Karen Bradley. Call to commission. 912-507-7138

photography class: Digital imaging Basics

Learn about digital photography, its language and equipment. If you’re in the market for a digital camera, you’ll receive helpful tips for making your choice. Bring your digital camera and instruction manual for class. Tues, Jan. 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Fee: $35/person. Location:

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point and shoot photography

Improve your shooting style and produce good quality images. Learn the basic principles of light and composition, camera functions and settings, and priinting/storage options. Digital Imaging Basics is recommended as a prerequisite. Bring your camera, manual, and a USB drive. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Jan 17-26, 6:30 to 8:30pm; Event takes place in the classroom and in the field.

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resource center at Habitat restore

1900 East Victory Drive. New home ownership resource center for anyone wanting to learn more about home ownership, homeowners insurance issues, home safety and security matters, and proper preparation for hurricanes and other severe weather. Includes two internet-ready computers.

s.p.a.c.e. Visual arts classes now registering

Register now for classes in fiber weaving, sculpture, stained glass box making, ceramics, metals, glass, painting and drawing, parent and teen wheel-throwing. Offerings for children, teens and adults in all skill levels for Winter/Spring 2012 art classes. Sessions begin January 7 at the Department of Cultural Affairs S.P.A.C.E. studios, 9 W. Henry St. Dates/times/fees vary. Information: www. savannahga.gov/arts or by calling (912) 6516783. [121211]

savannah charlesfunders investment Discussion group

The Savannah Charlesfunders meet every Saturday at 8:30am to discuss stocks, bonds, and better investing. Meetings take place at Panera Bread on Bull and Broughton. Contact us at charlesfund@gmail.com for more information.

savannah entrepreneurial center

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

savannah learning center spanish classes

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

singing lessons with anitra opera Diva Anitra is currently 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. SCAD students and alumni $5 discount.

Call 786-247-9923, anitraoperadiva@yahoo. com, www.anitraoperadiva.com

starfish cafe culinary arts training program

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

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“Celebrity Sudoku” Solve this as you would a regular sudoku, except using the nine given letters instead of numbers. When you’re done, each row, column, and 3x3 box will contain each of the nine given letters exactly one time. In addition, one row or column will reveal, either backwards or forward, the name of a celebrity. psychosudoku@hotmail.com

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Register now for a variety of non-credit courses to be held in Savannah, January - May 2012, sponsored by Georgia Southern University. Classes held in downtown Savannah and on Skidaway Island. Course lengths, times, and fees vary. Beginning and Advanced American Sign Language; Creativity for Problem Solving; Creative Writing (Beginning and Advanced); Developing your Imagination; yoga for All; How to Stretch your Energy Dollar; and The Artist’s Way, Organic Gardening. Information: ceps. georgiasouthern.edu/conted or contact Judy Fogarty at The Coastal Georgia Center (912644-5967) or jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu.

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yoga: intentional practice to start 2012

Tantric Vinyasa teacher Kerry Kleisner at Savannah Power yoga leads a two hour practice that is centering and enlivening. $25 advance regis/ $30 day of. Savannah Power yoga, 7360 Skidaway Rd. www.savannahpoweryoga.com Dec. 26, 1-3pm. Savannah

cluBs & orgAnizAtions 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

Buccaneer region scca

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.

Business networking on the islands

Small Business Professionals Islands Networking Group Meets 1st Thursday each month from 9:30-10:30 AM. Tradewinds Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Savannah (912) 3086768 for more info. [121211]

coastal Minis

Local MINI Cooper owners and enthusiasts who gather on the first Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. to go on motoring adventures together.

Visit coastalminis.com. Starbucks, Victory Drive and Skidaway Road , Savannah

energy Healers

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

exploring the american revolution in savannah

Interested in exploring the role Savannah played in the American Revolution? Join likeminded people including artists, writers, teachers and historians for discussion, site exploration and creative collaboration. Meets the 1st & 3rd Thursdays at 6pm at Gallery Espresso.

Email, Kathleen Thomas: exploretherevolution@gmail.com for more info.

Historic savannah chapter of aBwa

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

Honor flight savannah

A non-profit organization dedicated to sending our area World War II veterans to Washington DC to visit the new WWII Memorial. All expenses are paid by Honor Flight Savannah, which is not a government-supported program.

They depend on donations from the community to fund their efforts. For more info: www. honorflightsavannah.org

islands Mops

A Mothers of Preschoolers group that meets at the First Baptist Church of the Islands on

| submit your event | email: happenings@connectsavannah.com | fax: (912) 231-9932 | 1800 e. victory dr., suite 7, savannah, GA 31404 two Wednesdays a month from 9:15-11:30am.

Our website is https://sites.google.com/site/ islandsmops/

knitters, needlepoint and crochet

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low country turners

This is a club for wood-turning enthusiasts.

Contact Steve Cook, 912-313-2230.

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

MoMsnext

For mothers of school-aged children, kindergarten through high school. Come as you are, to experience authentic community, mothering support, personal growth, practical help, and spiritual hope. Islands MOMSnext meets every first & third Monday of the month, excluding holidays. Childcare is available upon request. A ministry of MOPS International. For more info or to register for a meeting, call (912)898-4344 or email kymmccarty@hotmail.com. http:// www.mops.org/

Mothers of preschoolers (Mops)

Join other moms for fun, inspiration, guest speakers, food and creative activities while children ages birth to 5 are cared for in a preschool-like setting. Meets the second and fourth Wednesday of the month from 9:15-11:30 am Call 898-0869 and 897-6167 or visit www. mops.org. First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd , Savannah http:// www.fbcislands.com/

old time radio researcher’s group

International fan and research group devoted to preserving and distributing old-time radio broadcasts from 1926 to 1962. Send e-mail to Jim Beshires at beshiresjim@yahoo.com or visit www.otrr.org.

richmond Hill roadies running club

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

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 Browns Backers

This is an official fan club recognized by the Cleveland Browns NFL football team. Meet with Browns fans to watch the football games and support your favorite team Sundays at game time at Tubby’s Tank House in Thunderbolt.

The group holds raffles and trips and is looking into having tailgate parties in the future.

Call Kathy Dust at 373-5571 or send e-mail to KMDUST4@hotmail.com or Dave Armstrong at Darmst0817@comcast.net or 925-4709. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr , Thunderbolt

savannah council, navy league of the united states

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

Hunter Army Airfield, 525 Leonard Neat St , Savannah http://www.stewart.army.mil/

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. For more info:www.SavannahGuardianAngels.com

rogue phoenix sci-fi fantasy club

savannah Jaycees

safe kids savannah

savannah kennel club

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

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

savannah adventure club

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

savannah area sacred Harp singers

Everyone that loves to sing is invited to join with the Savannah Sacred Harp Singers Sat. Sept. 10, 1pm. Faith Primitive Baptist Church, 3212 Bee Road in Savannah. All are welcome to participate or listen in on one of America’s most revered musical traditions. Information: 912655-0994 or visit savannahsacredharp.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 Jaycee Building, Savannah 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 912-238-3170 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 , Savannah

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 location and details, visit SeersuckerLive.com.

son-shine Hour

Meets at the Savannah Mall at the Soft Play Mondays from 11-12 and Thursdays from 1011. Activities include songs, stories, crafts, and games for young children and their caregivers.

Free, no registration, drop-ins welcome. Call Trinity Lutheran Church for details 912-9253940 or email KellyBringman@gmail.com Savannah Mall,

southern wings

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

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, facebook Peacock Guild or email peacockguild@googlegroups.com for more info.

the philo cafe

A weekly discussion group that meets from 7:30pm-9pm at various locations each Monday.

Anyone craving some good conversation is invited to drop by. No cost. For more info, email athenapluto@yahoo.com or look up The Philo Cafe on Facebook.

theremin/electronic Music enthusiasts

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

Victorian neighborhood association

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

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c.c. express Dance team

Meets the second Tuesday of every month (except October), 6:00 pm at Woodville-Tompkins, 151 Coach Joe Turner Street. Call 912-232-3549 or email chesteraellis@comcast.net for more information.

ceili club

woodville-tompkins scholarship foundation

conferences workshop: faster, smarter estimating for construction contractors

The first in a series of estimating training sessions. Small to medium sized contractors learn to conduct accurate estimating in-house, utilizing affordable software programs and improving profit margins. Wed. Nov. 16, 11am-1pm at Creative Coast, 15 W. york St. Sponsored by Chatham County MWBE Program and Broadlands Financial Group, LLC. Register by Phone: (912) 652-7860 or via email: alriley@chathamcounty. org Free and open to the public, registration required. http://purchasing.chathamcounty.org/ MWBE.aspx

DAnce abeni cultural arts Dance classes

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

Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731. Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Savannah

Home cookin’ cloggers

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

irish Dance classes

Glor na h’Eireann cultural arts studio is offering beginner to champion Irish Dance classes for ages 5 and up, Adult Step & Ceili, Strength & Flexibility, non-competitive and competition programs, workshops and camps. TCRG certified.

For more info contact PrideofIrelandGA@gmail. com or 912-704-2052.

Mahogany shades of Beauty inc.

Classes for multiple ages in the art of performance dance and Adult fitness dance. Styles include African, Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary, & Gospel. Classes held in the new Abeni Cultural Arts dance studio, 8400-B Abercorn St. For more information call 912-6313452 or 912-272-2797. Ask for Muriel or Darowe.

E-mail: abeniculturalarts@gmail.com Maxine Patterson School of Dance, 2212 Lincoln St., at 39th, is offering an Adult Ballet Class on Thursdays from 6:30-7:30. Cost is $12 per class.

Join us for learning and fun. Call 234-8745 for more info.

pole Dancing class

adult Dance and fitness classes

Revised Fall Schedule at The Ballet School, Piccadilly Square, 10010 Abercorn. Beginner & Intermediate Ballet, Modern Dance, Barre Fusion, BarreCore Body Sculpt, and Gentle Stretch & Tone. No experience necessary for beginner ballet, barre, or stretch/tone. Registration/fees/ information: 912-925-0903. Or www.theballetschoolsav.com

adult intermediate Ballet

Mondays & Wednesdays, 7 - 8pm, $12 per class or 8 classes for $90. Class meets year round.

(912) 921-2190 The Academy of Dance, 74 West Montgomery Crossroads ,

african Dance & Drum

Learn the rhythms of West Africa with instructor Aisha Rivers. Information at www.ayoluwa.org Rhythms of West Africa, 607 W. 37th St. , Savannah http://www.ayoluwa.org/

argentine tango

Lessons Sundays 1:30-3:30pm. Open to the public. Cost $3.00 per person. Wear closed toe leather soled shoes if available. For more information call 912-925-7416 or email savh_tango@ yahoo.com.

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

Beginners Belly Dance classes

Instructed by Nicole Edge. All ages/skill levels welcome. Every Sunday, Noon-1PM, Fitness Body and Balance Studio 2127 1/2 E. Victory Dr. $15/class or $48/four. 912-596-0889 or www. cairoonthecoast.com

Beginners Belly Dancing with cybelle

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

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Experience Irish Culture thru Irish social dancing. No partner or experience needed. Learn the basics of Irish Ceili dancing. 7176 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Mondays at 7:30 p.m. For more info email PrideofIrelandGA@gmail.com.

offers dance classes, including hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step, as well as modeling and acting classes. All ages and all levels are welcome. Call Mahogany at 272-8329.

adult Ballet class

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able. Walk-ins are welcome. Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave.

Meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell at 9273356. Savannah

Modern Dance class

Classes for beginner and intermediate levels.

Fridays 10-11:15am. Doris Martin Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. For more info, call Elizabeth 912354-5586.

Beginners pole dance offered Wednesdays 8pm, Level II Pole Dance offered Monday 8pm, $22/1 class, $70/4 classes, pre-registration required.

Learn pole dance moves and spins while getting a full body workout. Also offering Pole Fitness Classes Monday & Wednesday 11am. For more info: www.fitnessbodybalance.com or 912-3984776. Nothing comes off but your shoes.

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

salsa lessons

Salsa Savannah offers beginner and intermediate salsa lessons on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at several locations. For more info, contact: salsasavannah@gmail.com, or call 8567323. www.salsasavannah.com

salsa savannah

Tuesdays at Tantra (8 E. Broughton St.), lessons from 7-9pm, open dancing 9pm-1am. Thursday at Saya (109 W. Broughton St.), lessons from 7-8pm, open dancing 9-11pm. Bachata lessons at Saya Thursdays from 8-9pm. For more info: www.salsasavannah.com, 912-704-8726.

savannah Dance club

“Magnificent Mondays” at Doubles, The Quality Inn /Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. Free dance lessons (6:30-7:30p): Shag, Swing, Cha-Cha and Line dancing. Everyone invited. No cover.

Happy Hour till 9pm. Call for details 912-3988784.

savannah shag club

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

events car safety seat check - free

Armstrong Police will make sure your child safety seat is installed properly and your child is buckled in correctly. Friday, December 16, 8am-8pm. No appointment necessary. informa-

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By Matt Jones | Answers on page 37 ©2012 Jonesin’ crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com)

Across

1 Air kiss noise 5 Invoice no.

8 Flash a quick smile to 14 Hawaii’s “Valley Isle” 15 ___ Tzu 16 Bela in old horror movies 17 They may get patronized 18 Prefix before -mance 19 Head of a bowling group 20 Phrase telling off a blood-sucking bug?

23 They stop the band to sing “Leonard Bernstein” 24 Letters on aircraft carriers 25 Stimpy’s amigo 26 Lean-___ (makeshift shelters) 27 Montana neighbor 29 Donkey Kong, for one 31 “seaQuest ___” (1990s sci-fi TV series) 32 Turn a different way?

34 “Pardon,” in Parma 37 Punishment of having to wear a paper sign on your back?

41 Org. with a common interest 42 Puts up 44 Obnoxious person 46 “___ died and made you king?”

48 “It’s ___!” (“Easy!”)

49 Toward the stern 50 Wilberforce University’s affiliated denom.

52 Back-to-school mo.

54 ___ Khan 55 Time-sensitive demand on a dirty car?

59 “Here We Go Again” singer Demi 60 Dust cloth 61 Bring in 63 It’s hardly four-part harmony 64 100% 65 Length times width 66 Takes the helm 67 Sault ___ Marie, Mich.

68 Word used in telling time

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1 UFC fighting style 2 Got the audience started 3 Add machines and conveyer belts 4 Rattler’s noise 5 Professor Dumbledore’s first name 6 Actress Tomei 7 Make steam whistle noises 8 Ball in a classroom 9 Unpleasant interaction 10 “___ that a lot” 11 Stipulation of some leases 12 “The Solar System and Back” author Isaac 13 Fork pokers 21 Minimum goals to be met 22 Hoover competitor 23 Crater edge 28 Tennis star Mandlikova and namesakes 30 “You thought I’d give it to you, didn’t you?”

31 Dutch blockers 33 Golf pro Ernie 35 Midstreet maneuver 36 Cancels 38 Record store whose physical locations closed in 2006 39 Former Secretary of Defense Robert 40 Shelves for knickknacks 43 Place for cardio and detox 44 Put on ___ (be phony) 45 Wonder or Nicks 47 Actor and stand-up comic Patton 49 Great grade 50 Early tycoon John Jacob ___ 51 Atomic particles 53 Two under par, on a golf hole 56 Enclosure inside an enclosure, for short 57 Bullpen numbers 58 Pile of laundry 62 The Naked Brothers Band singer Wolff

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tion:912-344-3222.

Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street.

skate night for local families if children with Diabetes The American Diabetes Association’s Family Resource Network is hosting a Family Skate Night for families of children with type 1. Fri. Dec. 16, 6-8pm at Star Castle, 550 Mall Blvd, Savannah. Special guests the Savannah Derby Devils (roller derby team). Win a prize for the best individual holiday costume! Information: suwillis@diabetes.org or 912-353-8110, ext.

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anatomy and yoga asanas (postures). yLearn Pilates-based core work to integrate into your classes. Call Daniele Britt (706) 461-1823 for more info. Or visit www.brittyogatherapy.com

Beginner’s Belly Dance classes with “cairo on the coast”

Back to back belly dance classes and two unique styles of dance. Every Sunday, 12noon1pm, American Cabaret style, energetic and fast paced. 1-2pm, Tribal Fusion, a slower, more controlled style of dance. Both sessions $24, or a one hour session $15, or 4/$48.00. www.cairoonthecoast.com.

Fitness, Body, and Balance Studio, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Contact Nicole at 912-596-0889.

Belly Drills

cinesavannah

A film series that seeks to bring new, first-run films to Savannah including critically acclaimed foreign films and documentaries, among others. To subscribe to information about the series, including screening dates and times, email: cinesavannah@att.net

psychotronic film society

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

fitness Become a yoga teacher

| submit your event | email: happenings@connectsavannah.com | fax: (912) 231-9932 | 1800 e. victory dr., suite 7, savannah, GA 31404

This is an intense dance workout utilizing basic bellydance moves. Geared to all levels of ability.

Dance your way to a better sense of well being.

Bring water bottle. Thurs: 7-8pm. $15/class.

Visit www.cybelle3.com. For info: cybelle@ cybelle3.com or call 912-414-1091. Walk-ins welcome. Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave.

Bellydance fusion classes

Fusion bellydance mixes ballet, jazz and hip hop into a unique, high energy style of dance.

Classes include drills and choreographies for all levels. Small classes held several days a week in downtown Savannah, and upon request. $10 per person. Contact Christa at 678-799-4772 or see www.bohemianbeats.com.

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Affordable and convenient Hatha yoga Teacher Training held in Savannah Jan. - May, 2012 over 10 weekends. Early bird rates through Dec. 2nd.

Over 200 hours of experiential training with expert teachers in the fields of yoga as therapy,

The most fun class you’ve ever taken to get you in the best shape in the least amount of time. We provide bright colorful veils, jangling coin hip scarves, and exotic music. Every Wednesday, 6:30pm. $15 drop-in or $40 for four classes. Call 912-660-7399 or email Consisten-

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Ongoing series of six week sessions of Fertility yoga are held on Tuesday evenings from 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM at offices located at 100 Riverview Drive, off of Islands Expressway.

Helps participants relax, start healthy habits to prepare their body and gain more confidence on the fertility journey. Instructor Ann Carroll, RyT 500. $100 for 6 week session. (912) 704-7650 or e-mail carroll3620@bellsouth.net.

For posture, chronic pain and alignment of body/mind/spirit. Jeannie Kelley, LMT, certified advanced Rolf practitioner. www.islandsomatherapy.com, 843-422-2900. Island Somatherapy, 127 Abercorn Street , Savannah

fertility yoga

fitness classes at the Jea

Spin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba. Prices vary. Call for days and times. 355-8111. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St , Savannah http://www.savj.org/

kung fu school: Ving tsun

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

11202 White Bluff Road. Drop Ins welcome.

Mommy and Baby yoga classes

Mondays, 10-11am (crawlers and toddlers) and 11:30-12:45 (infants and pre-crawlers) at the Savannah yoga Center. The cost is $14 per class. Multi-class discounts are available.

Walk-ins welcome. Call 232-2994 or visit www. savannahyoga.com. Savannah yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. , Savannah http://www.savannahyoga.com/

pilates Mat classes

Mat classes are held Tues & Thurs 7:30am8:30am, Mon 1:30pm-2:30pm, Mon & Wed 5:30pm-6:30pm, Thurs 12:30pm-1:30pm, & Sat 9:30am-10:30am. All levels welcome! Private and Semi-Private classes are by appointment only. Carol Daly-Wilder, Certified Pilates Instructor. Call 912.238-0018 Momentum Pilates Studio, 310 E. 41st St , http://savannahpilates. com/

pregancy yoga

12 N. LATHROP AVE. | 233-6930 | NOW HIRING CLASSY ENTERTAINERS Turn right @ the Great Dane statue on Bay St.

Weekly events (Entry $5): Fri. 5:45pm-Glow Golf. Sat. 10am-Luck of the draw Doubles. Sat. 1pm-Handicapped League. All Played at Tom Triplett Park, Hwy 80 W, Pooler. Sun. 10 amSingles at the Sarge in Hardeeville, SC. Info: savannahdiscgolf.com or savannahdiscgolf@ gmail.com All skill levels welcome. Instruction available.

stand-up paddleboarding

East Coast Paddleboarding offers paddleboard lessons, rentals, tours and sales. Come see why this is the fastest growing sport in the world! It’s fun, a great way get out on the water and to stay fit. It’s easy to learn, anyone can do it. Savannah/Tybee Island Eastcoastpaddleboarding.com or 781-267-1810

the yoga room

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

yoga for all

Here’s yoga at the right time, price, and location. With expert guidance, you’ll practice this ancient discipline at your own limits and pace. Sequences of poses and breathing techniques will reward you with increased awareness, concentration, flexibility, strenght, and endurance. Mondays Jan. 9 to Feb. 13, OR Tuesdays, Mar. 20 to Apr. 24. 5:30-6:30pm. $65/ person. Register by calling 855-478-5551 (toll free). Registration ends Jan. 6 at noon for the January class; Monday, March 19 at noon for the March class. Offered by Georgia Southern University, held in downtown Savannah at the Coastal Georgia Center. Info: ceps.georgiasouthern.edu [121211]

yoga for cancer patients

Ongoing series of six week sessions of Pregnancy yoga. Thursdays 6-7:15pm at offices located at 100 Riverview Dr., off of Islands Expressway. Helps mothers-to-be prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor & delivery. Instructor: Ann Carroll, RyT 500. $100 for the 6 week session.

Ann: 912-704-7650 or e-mail carroll3620@

yoga for cancer patients and survivors

pregnancy yoga

get on to get off

Free of charge for people with cancer. Learn to increase your strength and flexibility and improve your overall well-being. Tuesdays, 6.30 p.m. Thursdays,12:10 p.m. FitnessOne, 3rd floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine, Memorial University Medical Center. Information and registration, call Katy Keyes at 912-350-9031.

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

Zumba fitness (r) classes

Mondays at 7:15-8:15. Located at The Ballet school, studio B, Piccadilly Square, 10010 Abercorn. $7 per class or $60 for 10 classes.

Contact April for more info. 912-306-5598.

gAY & lesBiAn first city network Board Meeting

Meets the first Monday at 6:30 p.m. at FCN’s office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. 236-CITy or www.firstcitynetwork.org. 307 E Harris St , Savannah

gay aa Meeting

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

georgia equality savannah

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

Savannah

50¢ WINGS & $2 DRAFTS

MON-SAT 11AM-3AM, SUN 12PM-2AM

savannah Disc golf club

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

SUNDAY HALF TIME SPECIALS: OPEN @ NOON ON SUNDAYS

rolf Method Bodywork

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savannah pride, inc.

Meets second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the FCN office located at 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

Without the GLBT community, there wouldn’t be a need for Pride. Call 912-288-7863 or email

stand out youth

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

what Makes a family

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

heAlth alcoholics anonymous

If you want or need to stop drinking, AA can help. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. Check www.SavannahAA.com for meeting locations and times, or call 24 hrs 912-356-3688 for information.

free hearing & speech screening

Hearing: Every Thurs. 9-11 a.m. Speech: 1st Thurs. of each month. Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call 3554601. 1206 E 66th St , Savannah http://www. savannahspeechandhearing.org/

Healthcare for the uninsured

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

Help for iraq war Veterans

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

Hypnobirthing classes

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

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

la leche league of savannah

Mothers wishing to find out more about breastfeeding are invited to attend a meeting on the first Thursday of every month at 10am.

La Leche League of Savannah is a breastfeeding support group for new and expectant mothers. 897-9544, www.lllusa.org/web/SavannahGA.html. Savannah

Meditation and energy flow group

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

planned parenthood Hotline

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

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

nAture AnD environment Dolphin project of georgia

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

tybee island Marine science center

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

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

wilderness southeast

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

Pets & AnimAls low cost pet clinic

Tails Spin and Dr. Lester host low cost vaccine clinic for students, military and seniors on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 5-6pm. The cost for each vaccination is $12.00, with $2.00 from each vaccination to be donated to Savannah Pet Rescue Agencies.

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

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King’s inn Sweet & Sexy

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entertainers tues, thurs & sat 9pm-3am

new year’s eve party Wine @ midnight Finger Foods, party Favors, dancers & karaoke

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Others. Informal dog walks on sundays at 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at the Canine Palace, 612 Abercorn St. For info, call 912-234-3336.

aries

March 21–April 19 In the fictional world of the wizard Harry Potter, muggles are people who have no magical powers. Because of their deficiency, certain sights may be literally invisible to them, and certain places inaccessible. I’m going to boldly predict that you Aries people will lose at least some of your muggleness in the coming year. A part of your life where you’ve been inept or clueless will begin to wake up. In ways that may feel surprisingly easy, you’ll be able to fill a gap in your skill set or knowledge base.

taurus

April 20–May 20 On January 15, 1885, Wilson Bentley photographed his first snowflake. Over the course of the next 46 years, he captured 5,000 more images of what he called “tiny miracles of beauty.” He was the first person to say that no two snowflakes are alike. In 2012, Taurus, I suggest that you draw inspiration from his example. The coming months will be prime time for you to lay the foundations for a worthy project that will captivate your imagination for a long time — and perhaps even take you decades to complete.

geMini

May 21–June 20 In her memoir Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, Gabrielle Hamilton suggests my horoscopes were helpful to her as she followed her dream to create her New york City restaurant, Prune.

“I killed roaches, poisoned their nests, trapped rats, stuffed their little holes with steel wool and glass shards,” she wrote, “while my girlfriend . . . walked through the place ‘purifying’ it with a burning sage smudge stick and read me my Rob Brezsny horoscopes in support.” I would love to be of similar service to you in the coming months, Gemini, as you cleanse whatever needs to be cleansed in preparation for your next big breakthrough. Let the fumigation, purgation, and expiation begin!

cancer

June 21–July 22 In 1992, 30,000 Americans signed a petition asking the governor of Hawaii to change the name of Maui to “Gilligan’s Island.” Fortunately, the request was turned down, and so one of the most

sublime places on the planet is not now named after a silly TV sitcom.

I’m urging you to avoid getting swept up in equally fruitless causes during the coming months, Cancerian. you will have a lot of energy to give to social causes and collective intentions in 2012, but it will be very important to choose worthy outlets that deserve your intelligent passion and that have half a chance of succeeding.

leo

July 23–Aug. 22 The Palace of Versailles once served as home for French kings and their royal courts, and was the hub of the French government.

To this day it remains a symbol of lavish wealth and high civilization.

Set on 26 acres, it has 700 rooms, 67 staircases, 6,000 paintings, and 2,100 sculptures. The grounds feature 50 fountains and 21 miles of water conduits. And yet the word “Versailles” means “terrain where the weeds have been pulled.” Prior to it being built up into a luxurious center of power, it was a marsh in the wilderness. I nominate it to be your inspirational image for the coming year, Leo: a picture of the transformation you will begin.

Virgo

Aug. 23–Sept. 22 A guy named George Reiger is a certifiable Disney freak. He has covered his skin with 2,200 tattoos of the franchise’s cartoon characters. If you plan to get anything like that much thematic body decoration in 2012, Virgo, I recommend that you draw your inspiration from cultural sources with more substantial artistry and wisdom than Disney. For example, you could cover your torso with paintings by Matisse, your arms with poems by Neruda, and your legs with musical scores by Mozart. Why? In the coming months it will be important for you to surround yourself with the highest influences and associate yourself with the most inspiring symbols and identify yourself with the most ennobling creativity.

liBra

Sept. 23–Oct. 22 In the Classical Nahuatl language of the Aztecs, the word teocuitlatl literally meant “god poop.” It was used to refer to gold, which was regarded as a divine gift that brought mixed blessings. On the one hand, gold made human beings rich. On the other hand, it

could render them greedy, stingy, and paranoid. So it was potentially the source of both tremendous bounty and conflict. I suspect that in 2012, Libra, you will have to deal with the arrival of a special favor that carries a comparable paradox. you should be fine — harvesting the good part of the gift and not having to struggle mightily with the tough part — as long as you vow to use it with maximum integrity.

scorpio

Oct. 23–Nov. 21 What spell would you like to be under in 2012? Be careful how you answer that; it might be a trick question. Not because I have any interest in fooling you, of course, but rather because I want to prepare you for the trickiness that life may be expressing in your vicinity. So let me frame the issue in a different way. Do you really want to be under a spell — of any kind? Answer yes only if you’re positive that being under a spell will help you manifest your biggest dream. And please make sure that whoever or whatever is the source of the spell is in the service of love.

sagittarius Nov. 22–Dec. 21

The Environmental Working Group wrote the Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change and Health. It concluded that if every American avoided eating cheese and meat one day a week, emissions would be lowered as much as they would be by removing 7.6 million cars from the roads. This is the kind of incremental shift I urge you to specialize in during 2012, Sagittarius — whether it’s in your contribution to alleviating the environmental crisis or your approach to dealing with more personal problems. Commit yourself to making little changes that will add up to major improvements over the long haul.

capricorn Dec. 22–Jan. 19

Suzan–Lori Parks is a celebrated American playwright who has won both a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant. During the time between November 2002 and November 2003, she wrote a new short play every day — a total of 365 plays in 365 days. I think you could be almost as prolific as that in 2012, Capricorn. Whatever your specialty is, I believe you will be filled with originality about how to ex-

press it. you’re also likely to have the stamina and persistence and, yes, even the discipline necessary to pull it off.

aQuarius Jan. 20–Feb. 18

Pigeons are blessed with an extraordinary ability to find home, even if they’re hundreds of miles away. They have an internal compass that allows them to read the Earth’s magnetic field, and they also create a “map of smells” that gives them crucial clues as they navigate. A team of scientists performed some odd experiments that revealed a quirky aspect to the birds’ talent: If their right nostril is blocked, their innate skill doesn’t work nearly as well. (It’s OK if their left nostril is blocked, though.) What does this have to do with you? Well, Aquarius, you’ve been like a homing pigeon with its right nostril blocked, and it’s high time you unblocked it. In the coming months, you can’t afford to be confused about where home is, what your community consists of, or where you belong.

pisces

Feb. 19–March 20 One of Alexander the Great’s teachers was Aristotle, who was tutored by Plato, who himself learned from Socrates. In 2012, I’d love to see you draw vital information and fresh wisdom from a lineage as impressive as that, Pisces. In my astrological opinion, you need much more than a steady diet of factoids plucked from the Internet and TV. you simply must be hungry for more substantial food for thought than you get from random encounters with unreliable sources. It will be time for you to attend vigorously to the next phase of your life–long education.

reADings & signings circle of sister/Brotherhood Book club

meets the last Sunday of the month at 4 p.m. at the African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 4476605. Savannah

tea time at ola’s

A book discussion group that meets the fourth Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 E. Bay St. Bring a treat and a book you’ve read this month and tell all about it. Tea will be provided. 232-5488 or 652-3660. Ola Wyeth Branch Library, Savannah http://www. liveoakpl.org/

religious & sPirituAl service of compline

The Service of Compline at Christ Church is moving: same music, same service, same choir, same preacher--different location. Beginning Sunday, December 11 the Christ Church Service of chanted Compline by candlelight will be held at historic Independent Presbyterian Church (corner of Bull Street and Oglethorpe) every Sunday night at 9:00p.m. “Come, say good night to God.” [121211]

BuDDHist MeDitation

Savannah ZenCenter, 111 E. 34th St. Soto Zen Sitting Meditation Practice. Tuesday Evening Meditation 6:-6:30pm with study group following 6:30-7:30pm. Sunday Meditation 9-10:30am.

For other Sitting schedule times & events: www. savannahzencenter.com Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach at cindy@alwaysoptions.com Donation Accepted.

christian Businessmen’s committee

Meets for a prayer breakfast every Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. at Piccadilly Cafeteria in the Oglethorpe Mall, 7804 Abercorn St. Call 898-3477.

Savannah

guided silent prayer

A couple of songs done acoustically, about 30 minutes of guided silent prayer, and a few minutes to receive prayer if you want (or remain in silence). A mid-week rest and re-focus. 6:458pm on Wednesdays at the Vineyard Church.

615 Montgomery St. (behind Blowin’ Smoke BBQ). www.vineyardsavannah.org

live web-streaming

Attend church from home Sundays at 9 and 11am with Pastor Ricky Temple and Overcoming

by Faith Ministries. Log onto www.overcomingbyfaith.org, click ’Watch Now’. 927-8601. Overcoming by Faith Ministries, 9700 Middleground Rd. , Savannah

Metaphysics for everyday self-Mastery

A series of metaphysical/New Thought classes at The Freedom Path Science of Life Center, 619 W 37th St., Mondays 8pm, with Adeeb Shabazz. $10 suggested donation, 1-877-494-8629, www. freedompathonline.org, freedompath@yahoo. com. Savannah

Midweek Bible study

Every Wednesday at noon at Montgomery Presbyterian Church. Bring your lunch and your Bible. 352-4400 or mpcsavannah.com. Montgomery Presbyterian Church, 10192 Ferguson Avenue , Savannah http://www.montgomerypresbyterian.com/

nicodemus by night

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

Quakers (religious society of friends)

Meets Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church. Call the clerk, 912-373-6276 Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St , Savannah http://www.trinitychurch1848.org/

SGI is an international Buddhist movement for world peace and individual happiness. The grouppractices Nichiren Buddhism by chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. Introductory meetings are held the third Sunday of the month. For further information, call 232-9121.

the savannah Zen center

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

More info: savannahzencenter.com The Savannah Zen Center, 505 Blair St. , Savannah

unitarian universalist Beloved community church

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

unitarian universalist church of savannah

Liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. Sunday, 11 am, Troup Square Sanctuary.

234-0980, admin@uusavannah.org or www. uusavannah.org. 313 E. Harris St. , Savannah

unity of savannah

Two Sunday morning Celebration Services - 9:15 and 11:00. (Children’s Church and childcare at 11:00.) Noon prayer service every Thurs. To find out about classes, workshops and more visit, www.unityofsavannah.org or call 912-355-4704. 2320 Sunset Blvd. Unity Church of Savannah, Savannah

women’s Bible study

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

Zen Meditation

Classes:Intro to Zen Meditation, first Saturday of the month, 9-10am. Zen Meditation & Study Group, Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm. New Location!

Savannah ZenCenter, 111 E. 34th St. Savannahzencenter.com or visit us on Facebook, Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach 912-429-7265.

sPorts & gAmes savannah Bike polo

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

crossworD answers

suPPort grouPs al anon family groups

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

al-anon

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

al-anon family group (troup square)

A support group for friends and family of alcoholics, with special attention to issues of adult children of alcoholics. 495-9758 or www. al-anon.alateen.org. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. , Savannah http://www.uusavannah.org/

al-anon Meetings

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

alcoholics anonymous

If you want or need to stop drinking, AA can help. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. Check www.SavannahAA.com for meeting locations and times, or call 24 hrs 912-3563688 for information.

alzheimer’s caregivers support group

Senior Citizens, Inc. hosts a Caregiver’s support group for individuals caring for Alzheimer’s and dementia family members. Meets every second Monday at the Wilmington Island United Methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island Road.

For more info, call 236-0363, ext. 143. Savannah

amputee support group

Open to all patients who have had a limb amputated and their families or caregivers. Call 355-7778 or 353-9635.

Brain injury support group

For traumatic brain injury survivors and their caregivers. Meets the third Thursday at 5 p.m. in the gym at The Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial University Medical Center. http:// www.memorialhealth.com/

Breast cancer survivors group

Meets every Tuesday at the First Presbyterian Church on Washington Avenue and Paulsen Street at 5:30 pm. Survivor’s and care providers welcome. We meet in the library, entrance on Washington Ave. Contact Melissa at 912-8444524 or Krista at 912-819-7053 if you have questions.

cancer support group

Meets the first Wednesday of the month from 11am-12pm. at the Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion on Reynolds Street across from Candler Hospital. The group is open to anyone who is living with, through or beyond a diagnosis of cancer. Call 819-5704.

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citizens with retarded citizens

Open to families of children or adults with autism, mental retardation, and other developmental disabilities. Meets monthly at 1211 Eisenhower Drive. 355-7633. Savannah

coastal empire polio survivors association

Meets the fourth Saturday of the month at 10:30 a.m. Call 355-1221; or visit www.coastalempirepoliosurvivors.org. 5354 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah

couples struggling with fertility challenges

Meets every Saturday at 6:45 p.m. at Savannah Christian Church, Room 250. This is a group for couples struggling with primary or secondary infertility, whether they have been on this journey for one year or many years. Call Kelly at 596-0852 or email emptycradle_savannah@ hotmail.com. 55 Al Henderson B;vd. , Savannah

Domestic violence support group

SAFE Shelter provides a domestic violence support group every Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Inc. Building at 3205 Bull St. Call Brenda Edwards, 629-8888.

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meets the second Thursday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St.. 819-6743.

5354 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah http://www. sjchs.org/

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12-step program offers freedom from gambling. Meets weekly in Savannah. Leave msg with contact information for Phil @ 912-7484730.

grief support group

Full Circle Grief and Loss Center, 450 Mall Blvd. Seven-week support groups for children and adults are offered by the bereavement counselors at no charge as a complementary service of Hospice Savannah. For information call 912.303.9442 or visit www.HospiceSavannahHelps.org. Savannah

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A free support and education group for those who have suffered or want to prevent or reverse Heart Disease, and/or Diabetes problems.

Tues, Dec. 13 Healthy Holiday Eating--common substitutions to make your meals healthy this Holiday Season; How to order in Restaurants; How to deal with family and friends who do not eat healthy. 6:00pm-7:45pm Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. (behind Target at Savannah Mall) Contact, Jeff: 912598-8457; email: jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga.org

lD-aD/HD support group

Parents of children with learning disorders, attention deficit or hyperactivity disorder are invited to join this professionally lead support group discussion problem solving, medication, alternative treatments and more. Pre-registration req’d. Call Laurel Brady at 912-659-4687.

leukemia, lymphoma and Myeloma support group

For patients with blood-related cancers and their loved ones. Call Jennifer Currin, 350-7845.

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

living without Violence

The SAFE Shelter offers free drop-in counseling to anyone who is in an abusive relationship.

Meets every Thursday from 7-8:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church Education Building at Whitaker & McDonough St. 234-9999. First Baptist Church of Savannah, 223 Bull St. , Savannah

Multiple sclerosis support group

discusses topics that are relevant to anyone with a debilitating disease every fourth Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at St. James Catholic Church, 8412 Whitfield Ave. at Montgomery Cross Roads. 355-1523. St James Catholic Church, 8412 Whitfield Ave , Savannah

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The National Association for the Mentally Ill/ local chapter’s Connected Peer, Family & Proponent Support gathering. Meets Wednesdays, 5pm-7pm @ the American Legion Post #135 on the restaurant side. 1108 Bull Street. Focuses on optimal, individual as well as optimal system performance. We will identify abusive practices & discuss alternatives.

narcotics anonymous

Call 238-5925 for the Savannah Lowcountry Area Narcotics Anonymous meeting schedule.

national alliance on Mental illness

A recovery support group for people living with mental illness. Tuesdays: 6:30-8pm, Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd. Thursdays: 6:30-8pm, Pine Woods Retreat, 1149 Cornell Ave. Suite 3A. Saturdays: 1:30-3:30pm, Candler Heart & Lung Building (2nd Floor). Call 912-353-7143 for more info. CS

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