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WEEK AT A GLANCE Freebie of the Week

‘Wine & Sign’ with Jane Fishman

What: Savannah columnist Jane Fishman will read from her new book “The Dirt on Jane” and discuss her writing & gardening life. When: Fri. Jan. 27, 7 p.m. Where: The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 E. Liberty St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: 912-233-3628 10 Community: GA His-

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Wednesday American Traditions Competition

What: Quarterfinals for the nationally renowned singing competition. 5 & 8 pm.

When: Wed. Jan. 25 Where: Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension, 120 Bull St., Cost: $50 includes both shows Info: www.scadboxoffice.com/

Psychotronic Film Festival: Day 4

What: 6:30 p.m. “Deafula” (1975, USA) A Sign Language Vampire Movie. In American Sign Language. Dubbed in English.

9 p.m. “Goke, The Bodysnatcher From Hell” (1968, Japan) Obscure, Freaky SciFi/Horror Film. In Japanese with English subtitles.

When: Wed. Jan. 25 Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703D Louisville Rd. Cost: $9 per screening Info: musesavannah.org

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Thursday American Traditions Competition

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Theater: An Adult Evening Of Shel Silverstein opens

What: Playwright David Mamet’s tribute to the gleeful and at times ghoulish humor of his friend Shel Silverstein, best known for childrens books, hit songs and plays. The evening features ten mini-comedies (Definitely for adults only!) culled from his various play series.

Thursday through Saturday shows are 21+. Sunday show is 18+.

When: Jan. 26-29, 8 p.m.

Where: The Bay Street Theatre, 1 Jefferson St. Cost: $10

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Friday Psychotronic Film Festival: Day 6

What: 6:30 p.m. “Blast of Silence” (1961, USA) Obscure, Ultra-Realistic Film Noir Masterpiece. Black & white.

9 p.m. “Au Hasard Balthazar” (1966, France) Robert Breeson’s classic religious allegory, ranked the 19th greatest film ever made by the British Film Institute. French, with English subtitles.

When: Fri. Jan. 27 Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd.

What: Semifinals for the nationally renowned singing competition. 5 & 8 pm.

When: Thu. Jan. 26 Where: Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension, 120 Bull St., Cost: $50 includes both shows Info: www.scadboxoffice.com/

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Theater: Seussical, The Musical

What: The hit musical that brings to life Horton the Elephant, the Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, and other Dr. Seuss characters. Live orchestra, children and adult performers. Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.

When: Jan. 27-29 Where: Savannah Children’s Theatre, Crossroad Shopping Center, 2160 E. Victory Dr. Cost: $15-20 plus fees.

Info: 912-238-9015. www.savannahchildrenstheatre.org/

American Traditions Competition Judges Concert

What: Musical performance by ATC judges Liz Calloway and Amanda McBroom.

When: Fri. Jan. 27, 8 p.m.

Where: Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension, 120 Bull St. Cost: $35 Info: www.scadboxoffice.com/

SCADDY Awards

What: The annual SCADDY Awards honor

student achievement in the advertising arts and related creative disciplines.

SCAD students from advertising, graphic design, illustration, photography, animation, motion media, visual effects, writing, and film & television entered over 2,000 pieces in this year’s competition.

When: Fri. Jan. 27, 6 p.m.

Where: Trustees Theatre, 216 E. Broughton St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: scad.edu

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Psychotronic Film Society: Day 5

What: 6:30 p.m. Georgia Premiere of “Everyday Sunshine - The Story of Fishbone” (2010, USA) An intense Rock/ Funk/Ska Documentary.

9 p.m. Director’s Choice/Mystery Screening. A made-in-Savannah (but never released in the USA) action thriller. Uncut print of an internationally known film shot in Savannah and Tybee Island.

When: Thu. Jan. 26 Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $9 per screening Info: musesavannah.org

Cost: $9 per screening Info: musesavannah.org

Saturday 70th Anniversary of the Mighty Eighth Air Force

Expect the unexpected as An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein premieres at Bay Street Theatre Thursday

What: Celebrate the founding in Savannah of the Mighty Eighth with guided tours of the Museum, Free children’s introductory model airplane building classes, a History Channel film, and a free child’s admission to the Museum with the purchase of their model airplane. Events scheduled throughout

Psychotronic Film Fest: Final day

What: 2 p.m. “Small Town Murder Songs”: (2011, USA) A dark suspense drama, winner of the Critics Prize at Torino International Film Festival, and other prizes. Starring Peter Stormare and Jill Hennessey.

5 p.m. “Machete Maidens Unleashed” (2010, Australia) A documentary on 1970’s Filipino Expoitation Films.

8 p.m. “The Room” (2003, USA) Cult classic, considered a contender for the claim as The Worst Movie Ever Made.

When: Sat. Jan. 28 Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd., Cost: $9 per screening Info: 912-713-1137

Open Fire Cooking Workshop

What: Learn to cook on an open fire. Led by Gary Lester of Connelly Springs, N. C. Includes a full meal that the participants have created throughout the day. Preregistration requested.

When: Sat. Jan. 28, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Where: Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Cost: $45/person Info: 912-395-1509.

Fudge Scrabble Games

What: Play Scrabble and help the Zonta Club of Savannah raise funds to benefit the Rape Crisis Center. For players of all skill levels. Increase chances of winning by purchasing rule “fudges” for $1 each and “cheat sheets” for $5 each. Prizes and more. Plus, fudge (of course.)

When: Sat. Jan. 28, 1 p.m.-5 p.m.

Where: St Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Bull & 31st Streets.

Cost: $20/advance. $25/door.

Info: 912-819-7100 .

American Traditions Competition Finals What: Concert and final judging for

the vocalist sing-off.

When: Sat. Jan. 28, 8 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: $65 Reserved, $50 Gen. Info: www.scadboxoffice.com/

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Sunday Nature Outing: Shorebirds and Shorelines

What: Guided by a local Audubon shorebird specialist. Tour is timed for high tide, when resting shorebirds are more likely to rest nearby. Fee includes use of spotting scope and binocs. Call 912-236-8115 for specific directions. Reservations required.

When: Sun. Jan. 29, 10 a.m.

Where: Tybee Island Cost: $25

Vinyl Appreciation

What: Obscure, strange and wonderful music pressed onto circles of vinyl. Bring your listening ears. Bring your records to play. Don’t be scared of the turntables - how-to-dj demos from 5 - 6 pm. Visual programming provided by Psychotronic Film Society.

When: Sun. Jan. 29, 5.-10 p.m.

Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 D Louisville Rd. Cost: $3 donation Info: vinyl912.tumblr.com/

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Tuesday Lecture: James Pennebaker: The Secret Life of Pronouns

What: Author of “The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us ” addresses how the words people use serve as reflections of their personality and social worlds.

When: Tue. Jan. 31, 5 p.m.

Where: SCAD Museum of Art theater, 601 Turner Blvd., Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: scad.edu/

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Thursday Concert: Eric Church

What: Country music sensation, whose “Drink in My Hand” is currently No. 1 on the Billboard country singles chart, in performance with opening acts Brantley Gilbert and Sonia Leigh. Church’s album “Chief” is No. 8 in the country this week.

When: Thurs. Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Savannah Civic Center, Martin Luther King Arena, 301 W. Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: Tickets $35.75-$42.50, VIP tickets $199 at etix.com

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Savannah is full of people helping other people, often for little credit or personal gain.

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Three years ago, one such project, Weddings for Warriors, launched in Savannah. This all–volunteer effort matches local photographers and venues to provide free wedding and vow renewal ceremonies for active duty military personnel, including Guard and Reserve.

“The project was conceived as a way of saying a heartfelt ‘thank you’ to active duty military personnel in Savannah and the Lowcountry,” says Executive Director Becky Byous, who administers W4W along with photographer husband Jim Byous, who heads the local Savannah Wedding Tourism Council and who lined up the photographers for the festivities, some of whose work you see on this page.

Weddings for Warriors went off again without a hitch last week. After the American Legion hosted bridal preparations, the actual ceremonies took place all over town, including Temple Mickve Israel, First African Baptist Church, First Baptist Church, Wesley Monumental, Trinity Methodist, and the Telfair Museum.

Afterwards a huge reception and memorial dance was held at the Charles H. Morris Center at Trustees Garden.

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“We have an all volunteer military force, so we were hoping that we could have an all volunteer response from the community, and we succeeded,” Becky Byous says, adding that a florist in Anderson, S.C., five hours away, came to help out.

In all, more than 20 couples celebrated their happiness at Weddings for Warriors this year.

(One couple boasted a civilian groom, Patrick Carver, who married Capt. Jennifer McKay of the Air National Guard.)

CORRECTION: In our recent interview with local architect Christian Sottile, we mistakenly inferred that his firm was responsible for the present design of Ellis Square. The award–winning design of Ellis Square was actually the work of AECOM Planning + Design of Atlanta and local architectural firm Lominack Kolman Smith Architects. We apologize for the error. cs

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Sean Brandon: Moving Savannah forward WHICH CITY OFFICIAL has done the most to make Savannah safer and more accommodating to bicyclists? I used to joke that Gen. James Oglethorpe deserved this distinction, despite the fact that he died more than a century before the arrival of machines we would recognize today as bicycles.

This was both an acknowledgment of the traffic–calming function and appealing streetscapes produced by his city plan, and a lament that local governments hadn’t done a whole lot to make Savannah more welcoming and accessible to bicyclists since Oglethorpe mapped out Savannah’s original streets and squares in 1733.

I stopped kidding about this several years ago when it became clear Sean Brandon was serious about making Savannah better for bicycling. As a City of Savannah management fellow and now as director of the Department of Mobility and Parking Services, Brandon has greatly advanced the cause of bicycling.

Before Brandon took the helm of the department, the emphasis was purely on parking. Putting the word “mobility” first emphasized Brandon’s intention to focus not just on the storage of cars, but on making it easier for all citizens – whether walking, riding bicycles, taking the bus, driving, or using wheelchairs – to get around.

Early in his term as director, he addressed a group of people on transportation and parking. He began by saying, “I’m the guy who is in charge of parking and I ride my bike to work.

What does that tell you?”

His message was twofold. First, he demonstrated bicycle commuting is a practical option for professionals, even for those who have meetings all over downtown daily, as he does.

Second, by riding his bike to work and nearly everywhere else he goes, he’s freeing up parking spaces for those who can’t get there by bike.

Brandon spearheaded the installation of pavement marked bicycle lanes on Washington Avenue in 2010, providing an important east–west corridor for cyclists. Next he turned his attention to Price Street, which will get its bike lane later this spring

and serve as a much–needed southbound route out of the historic district. These projects are obviously good for cyclists, yet they also benefit non–cyclists by slowing automobile traffic and improving quality of life and safety along these thoroughfares.

Brandon not only considers how to accommodate bicyclists in motion, but also bicycles at rest. He’s overseen the creation of new bicycle parking facilities at locations all over town, including the prominent intersection of Broughton and Bull streets.

By placing racks on the street he’s provided many more places for cyclists to secure their bikes while shopping, dining or working. What’s more, these on–street bicycle racks are effective visual reminders of how many bikes can be stored in the space required to park a single car.

In my conversations with Brandon, he’ll often start to describe things that are “lying out there.” This is a signal, I’ve learned, that he’s going to reveal his ideas — not just about what will happen next — but about the opportunities that could present themselves even further down the road.

He’s obviously thinking many moves ahead so that he can deliver the best results for the citizens he serves.

On Feb. 2, the Savannah Bicycle Campaign will recognize Brandon’s contributions with its first Pedal Medal Award. A reception will be held at the Kennedy Pharmacy from 5–7:30 p.m. and will also honor Bill Bailey, the SBC’s volunteer of the year.

Tickets can be purchased through the website (bicyclecampaign.org) or by calling 912/228–3096.

Proceeds from ticket sales and a silent auction will be used to establish a bicycle restoration and education center. The facility will provide a location from which SBC will offer safe cycling classes and other educational programs, and allow for collection and rehabilitation of discarded bicycles to be put into safe operating condition and distributed to members of the community who have limited means for transportation and often resort to dangerously ill–fitted, poorly maintained bicycles. cs

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If happiness in your shopping cart equals a tub of dark chocolate–covered edamame beans, a box of truffle–infused risotto, a cluster of organic sunflowers and a case of Two Buck Chuck, then you know Joe. I recently spent some quality time with Joe on a recent getaway to the mountains, but I promise, my husband didn’t mind.

Some girlfriends and I made a detour into Greenville, S.C., specifically to shop at Trader Joe’s, the California–based gourmet wonderland that’s made inroads in the Southeast in the last several years.

Six women filled the car for the weekend with 11 different types of cheese, oodles of goodies like ready–for–the–oven garlic fries and of course, plenty of $2.99–a–bottle Charles Shaw Pinot Grigio (aka “Two Buck Chuck.”) I had to sit on someone’s lap with my face squished against the seatbelt for the rest of the ride, but the indentation across my forehead was totally worth it.

Trader Joe’s is paradise for the curious palate, and there’s never enough room in the cooler: Punjabi eggplant.

Chocolate mole chicken. Artisan chocolates. Feta–stuffed olives. Grass– fed meats and sustainably–farmed seafood in the freezer section, all priced like it’s no big deal.

The cost of our over–the–top weekend indulgence was far less than a single meal out with a couple of cocktails would have been, and we got to eat it all in our pajamas.

Some don’t grok the fawning devotion to Trader Joe’s, be it out of ignorance or the incapacity to be moved by colorful packets of little baby squash. Forget the posh vibe of other fancy food stores, with the pretentious classical music and over–priced strawberries spotlighted like they’re about to perform a lapdance. TJ’s store decor is cozy and campy, with a Caribbean straw market flair and friendly staff wielding samples every few feet.

If NPR had its own food store, this

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would be it. This is where the lower tax brackets can enjoy all the perks of food snobbery, a place for the proletariat to be proud of its fine–tuned tastebuds.

In the words of 2010 Fortune magazine article, Trader Joe’s “presence in your community is like an affirmation that you and your neighbors are worldly and smart.”

So maybe you’re salivating and nodding, “Why, yes, I would like rosemary–spiced Macona almonds for $2.99 a bag. I’d like to shop at Trader Joe’s!”

Charleston has one to call its own, as does Knoxville. Atlanta boasts the tear–jerking injustice of FIVE. So where, pray tell, is Savannah’s?

The Facebook page “Bring Trader Joe’s to Downtown Savannah” has 887 members and remains active with helpful suggestions about possible locations and some outright begging.

Surely, if Trader’s Joe’s knew how much we want and frankly, deserve a store, it could only be a matter of time, yes?

No. Alison Mochizuki, TJ’s director of public relations in Monrovia, Calif., informed me regretfully that Savannah is nowhere on TJ’s “future” list.

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other end of the line.

“It’s not personal,” he consoled.

“The bean counters come up with the data and we just don’t have it.”

So all the Facebook lobbying and brow–furrowing debates on whether the old David’s supermarket in the Starland District is a better location than the empty pink loaf of the Backus Cadillac building makes no difference at all?

“Coming as a professional in economic development, the bottom line is that they have to stay in business,” he continued apologetically. “However, as a shopper, I would say if they set up a store downtown, I think it would be busy seven days a week.”

Weathers, a TJ’s fan himself, said the only way the chain might consider coming to Savannah at this point is if the city subsidized it through free rent or massive tax breaks, which seems about as likely as City Council voting to pave River Street with particle board. But he was encouraging.

“No reason to give up hope. Their formula might change, and Savannah is continuing to grow,” he said. “Anything can happen in the next five to ten years.”

Five to ten years of shop–commuting for me and the other 886 Facebook fans. But we will persevere until we can have our frozen $3.99 organic chocolate pound cake and eat it, too, won’t we?

In the meantime, there are 17 pounds of chili lime cashews and garlic fries in my freezer. cs

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Ms. Mochizuki was sincerely apologetic. “Unfortunately, wooing does not go into our decision–making process.”

Mochizuki also was also terribly sorry, but no, she was not at liberty to discuss with the press what factors make a city Trader Joe’s–worthy. So I turned to Steve Weathers, president and CEO of SEDA, the Savannah Economic Development Authority to find out when I can expect to have my flash–fried banana chips.

Mr. Weathers, who’s familiar with Trader Joe’s from his stints in economic development all over the country, broke the news to me gently: Like all successful retail chains, Trader Joe’s has specific demographic criteria that have to be met to consider setting up shop in a particular location.

Within a 15–minute driving radius of a potential site, there must be at least 36,000 people with four–year college degrees who have a median age of 44 and earn a combined household income of $64K a year.

Let’s look at downtown Savannah: We’ve got 24,000 people with higher education diplomas, the average age is 34 and the average household pulls in $48K a year.

Weathers said those numbers go up as out towards the southside as the SCAD students are taken out of the mix, but no matter: Savannah doesn’t make the cut.

In short: We’re too young, too poor and too dumb.

I found this crushing. Weathers must’ve heard my sniffling on the

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Daisy’s century

Juliette Gordon Low is Georgia History Fest honoree at centennial of Girl Scouts founding

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Anyone who spends much time in downtown Savannah will eventually run into some of the many Girl Scout troops visiting the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low, as well as the nearby Andrew Low House where she headquartered the Girl Scouts of America later in life.

But few people really know the story of this larger–than–life yet still enigmatic woman known to friends and family simply as “Daisy.”

Ginger Wadsworth, author of First Girl Scout: The Life of Juliette Gordon Low, would like you to know Daisy’s story better. Her Feb. 2 lecture on Juliette Gordon Low is the kickoff event for this year’s Georgia History Festival, timed to mark the centennial of Low’s founding of the Girl Scouts in 1912.

Though Low was the daughter of one of Savannah’s wealthiest and most influential families — the William Gordon monument in Wright Square commemorates her grandfather, who

Above: portrait of Juliette Gordon Low, Gordon family papers, 1802-1946 (courtesy Georgia Historical Society); right, Juliette Gordon Low & Troop #1 saluting, 1917 (Library of Congress)

founded the Central of Georgia Railroad — not everything in her life was peaches and cream.

“The first thing I look for when I’m considering a biography topic is what did that individual experience as a child that made that person stronger?” explains Wadsworth.

“Daisy came from a wealthy background. But she was born during the Civil War. She suffered physically from lack of good food, and mentally from being separated from her father during that time,” she says. “Not to mention all the worries churning around the adults.”

Daisy’s challenges became more pronounced in adulthood. On her wedding day to cotton heir William Low at Christ Church, a grain of rice thrown by a well–wisher pierced her eardrum, leading to a lifelong hearing impediment.

“Most people don’t know she had this terrible hearing handicap,” says Wadsworth. “That was actually the second time lost part of her hearing.

The first time was shen she had an injection in her ear in an attempt to help her with a bad ear infection. It’s an important thing for young people to know that you can rise above any handicap and be successful.”

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It was a symbolic harbinger of things to come; the marriage rapidly became estranged and miserable. In those days before easy divorces, Daisy led essentially a separate life from her husband for years.

“We have to put it in context of the times. Then, it was her responsibility to have a stiff upper lip to deal with the fact that her marriage was crumbling,” Wadsworth says. “She wouldn’t have gone out to seek a divorce. It was a terrible marriage — her husband was not kind, he had a mistress.”

Though her book is geared for readers nine and up — “I’m actually seeing kind of a crossover in that it’s also being purchased by adults, because it’s over 200 pages long,” she adds — Wadsworth decided there was no way to avoid Low’s infidelity and its impact on Daisy’s life.

“I do go into it, and therefore it might not for the youngest readers in some families because I do use the word ‘mistress,’ which is controversial to some people,” she says.

After her husband’s somewhat premature death in 1905 and the contentious settling of his will — he originally left his estate to his mistress — Daisy struck up a friendship in 1911 with Sir Robert Baden–Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides in Great Britain.

Inspired by his vision, Daisy was determined to do the same thing in the U.S. On March 12, 1912, she gathered 18 girls to register the first troop of American Girl Guides, as they were than called (the organization she founded was renamed the Girl Scouts

the following year).

“I’ve got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we’re going to start it tonight!” was Daisy’s famous phone call to her cousin.

While Ginger Wadsworth has authored several well–received youth books, this one holds a special place in her heart.

“I’ve dedicated it to my Brownie troop from when I was in second grade in southern California where I grew up,” she says. “We get together still and have reunions. The friendship and support group as we get older have carried me forward, and I’m sure it’s the same for many other Girl Scouts over the years.”

For Wadsworth, Juliette Gordon Low in particular is one of her most cherished subjects.

“I would love for her to be able and come back to see what the Girl Scouts have developed into today. There are 3.4 milion Girl Scouts in the world now,” says Wadsworth.

“One woman accomplished this with her dream and her tenacity for young women all over the world.” cs Georgia History Festival Kickoff Event What: Ginger Wadsworth lectures on Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout founder and Festival honoree When: Feb. 2, 6 p.m.

Where: Mickve Israel, 20 E. Gordon St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: www.georgiahistory.com/

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Who didn’t let the dogs out?

Police are seaching for the owners of 69 dogs found living in filth in a small house on the 300 block of East 33rd Street.

Officers spent more than four hours removing the dogs, mostly small breeds ranging from newborn puppies to mature dogs, and transporting them to the Chatham County Animal Shelter.

Officers responded to a complaint of barking dogs about noon to find the house full of dogs, clutter and waste. In one room the waste had been shoveled in more than a foot thick. No occupants were found and neighbors did not know who supposedly lived there.

One officer received a dog bite while removing the dogs and was treated for the wound.

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will assess the health of the recovered dogs and conduct a follow-up investigation to identify the owner and any charges that may be filed. City of Savannah Property Maintenance was notified of the uninhabitable condition of the house.

Lt. Brenda Boulware of Animal Control said the addition of that many dogs in one day has overwhelmed the facility. She is hoping “foster parents” will help house some of the dogs until they can be adopted.

• Savannah’s ongoing issues with criminal recidivism were highlighted last week when three inmates from a regional transition center stole a purse from a city bus driver.

The inmates, including one serving a 20–year term for voluntary manslaughter and burglary, are each in the process of being returned to prison, but the incident has raised additional concerns for Police Chief Willie Lovett.

Police were called to Broughton and Montgomery streets about 9:30 a.m. where a Chatham Area Transit

(CAT) bus driver said her purse had been stolen while she drove. Video on the bus showed three men, including one wearing clothing from the Ga. Dept. of Corrections Coastal Transitional Center on Stiles Avenue, taking the purse and passing it among themselves with and taking items from it.

Charged with theft were Johnny Hamilton, 53, sentenced to 20 years without parole in Chatham County in 1992 for voluntary manslaughter and burglary; Dwight Larkin, 43, convicted in Wilcox County in March 2010 for selling drugs; and Larry Stokes, 44, incarcerated in March in Tattnall County 2004 for drugs.

The transitional center, built in 1940, houses 44 inmates in the process of being paroled. These men had been released for the day in a work release program but had been told no work was available. Instead of returning, they went elsewhere. At least one returned after curfew.

• A 24–year–old Bloomingdale man was transferred from a hospital to jail after stabbing another man who intervened in a confrontation he was having with a woman.

Justin Roger Johns was charged with aggravated assault after he was found bleeding on River Street.

Police called officers from other precincts to help control crowds in City Market after finding Christopher Michael Landry, 27, of Pooler bleeding in the street just after 1 a.m. Each man was transported to Memorial University Medical Center. Landry underwent emergency surgery for serious wounds that were not considered life–threatening. Johns was kept under guard until released and transferred to jail. cs Give anonymous crime tips to Crimestoppers at 234-2020

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Why, they’re the greatest boon to intellectual development since the invention of movable type. Not everybody thinks this. The common view from President Obama on down is that video games rot your mind, sap your strength, and probably give you acne and bad breath.

I don’t claim video games have been 100 percent beneficial. The Columbine massacre shooters were reportedly addicted to video games. News accounts tell of a kid killing his mother with a hammer when she took away his Sony PlayStation, and of another killing his mom and shooting his dad when they made him stop playing the violent game Halo 3. A woman murdered her baby because its crying disturbed her concentration on FarmVille, which is up there for most idiotic game on earth.

A South Korean couple reportedly let their baby starve to death while they raised a virtual baby online, and an American mother did the same while obsessing over World of Warcraft. A Korean man (Korea is the Holy Land of video game fanatics) apparently died of exhaustion after a 50-hour Starcraft binge, and a guy in Wisconsin fatally shot himself while playing Everquest.

However, let’s not forget that Jared Loughner, accused of shooting U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords and 18 others, said on his MySpace page that his favorite interest was reading and that he studied grammar. This isn’t surprising. If you’ve ever dealt with hard-core grammarians, you know these people are prepared to kill.

My point is if you’re going to make judgments about something just because it attracts kooks and losers, you’d have to ban the Republican primaries.

Video games, in contrast, have many positive aspects. For example: • They can boost brain function.

When older adults were trained to play Rise of Nations, a strategy game,

they showed significant improvement in switching between tasks, reaction time, and memory. College students who played both violent and nonviolent video games also showed increased cognitive function. Research indicates video gamers are better at counting items quickly, ignoring distractions, and taking in more information at a glance.

• Video games requiring physical interaction, such as the Nintendo Wii, Xbox Kinect, and PlayStation Move, can help you get in shape. A Mayo Clinic study found children playing Wii Sports Boxing burned an 189 additional calories per hour.

• Video games can help you train for serious tasks requiring video technology. In a study of medical students who spent up to five hours a week playing either a shooter game or a chess simulator, the shooters proved to be much more adept at learning to use a virtual-reality training simulator for endoscopic surgery.

• Video games can be an effective teaching tool. A game designed for kids with diabetes reduced ER visits, and one for kids with cancer got them to take their medicine.

Video games have other benefits too: • Video shooter games are a good way of recruiting real shooters. America’s Army, developed by America’s real army, is the most popular war game ever, with 43 million downloads as of 2009, and is credited with being the military’s most effective recruiting tool.

• Violent video games may reduce rather than increase crime, some academics contend, because causing makebelieve mayhem leaves participants with less time for the real thing.

• The demands of video gamers for ever faster and more realistic action have significantly pushed the envelope of digital technology, to the point where off-the-shelf toys now rival professional computer equipment that once cost millions.

• Finally, video games are a potent force in the economy, accounting for $16 billion in software sales and $9 billion in hardware in 2010 in the U.S., and $65 billion worldwide. Sixty-five percent of U.S. households play video games.

Am I putting a positive spin on things? Of course. You can find evidence that video games are evil and will lead to the collapse of civilization.

However, the same is or was thought to be true of TV, pop music, text messaging, gum chewing, cars, and books. cs

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• “(Our critics) are absolutely right.

We are professional liars,” said Everett Davis, founder of the Internetbased Reference Store, which supplies pumped-up, but false, resumes for job-seekers having trouble landing work. Davis and associates are, he told Houston’s KRIV-TV in November, exinvestigators schooled in deception and therefore good at fooling human resources personnel who follow up on the bogus work claims. Davis admitted he would even disguise a customer’s past criminal record — but not if the job is in public safety, health care or schools.

• Veterinary technician and food blogger Lauren Hicks recently

inaugurated service on what is surely complication, and, though the plastic one of the few food trucks in the counwas flaky, the pen still had an ink suptry catering exclusively to dogs. She ply and was “usable.” (2) Twice during parks her “Sit ‘n Stay Pet Cafe” — a 2011, babies with two heads were born retrofitted mail truck — in downtown in Brazil. Though the first, in Paraiba Winter Park, Fla., on Thursday nights state, died hours after birth, the 9.9(according to an October Orlando Senpound “Emanoel” and “Jesus,” born in tinel report), serving gourmet organic Para state in December, are apparently snacks like the Poochi Sushi (jerky), otherwise healthy. (The baby has two “Ruff-in” muffins, and “Mutt-balls” and heads and two spines but shares one “Grrr-avy,” among other specialties. heart, liver, pelvis and pair of lungs.)

• Western nations and foundations • Medical Marvels (Canine have tried for decades to build Edition): The Dogs Trust in sewage treatment plants in subKenilworth, England, was THAT JUDGE Saharan Africa, with little success soliciting potential homes JUDY GETS ME in December for “Bentley,” a (since many countries lack stable SO WORKED governments to assess operatBorder Collie whose monoUP ... ing fees), and to this day, raw phobia might make it what sewage is still merely collected the Daily Mail calls the and dumped, either in rivers or “most cowardly” dog in directly onto beaches, such as the the country. While frisky notorious (and formerly beautiful) around people, Bentley immeLavender Hill in Ghana. U.S. entrediately goes into a frightened preneurs recently established Waste sulk when left alone, cowering Enterprises in Ghana to build the from cats, holing up behind a first-ever fecal-sludge-to-biodiesel couch, and constantly biting plant (funded by the Bill and his nails, even at the sound of a Melinda Gates Foundation). Feces cat on television. (Bentley was recently undiluted by water, and then heated, is outfitted with special lace-up booties to highly concentrated and more resempreserve the nails.) bles coal than the goo that Americans • Ratnagiri, India, businessman associate with sewage.

Murad Mulla, 48, filed a complaint recently with the Maharashtra MediCutting-Edge Science cal Council after his surgeon used an outdated procedure to cure his urine• Medical Marvels: (1) The British retention disorder. Previously, skin Medical Journal reported in December from the scrotum was routinely used that a 76-year-old woman had been for urethral repair, but current sciunbothered until recently by the feltence recommends using skin from the tip pen she accidentally swallowed 25 mouth to avoid the worst-case risk, years earlier. It was removed without

which Mulla apparently experienced.

Specifically, the scrotum contains both hair-bearing tissue and non-hair-bearing tissue, and only the latter is usable.

Evidently, Mullas’ surgeon used hairbearing tissue, and as a result, Mulla’s urethra itches constantly, and he expels specks of pubic hair with his urine.

Leading Economic Indicators • Bernard Madoff ’s Ponzi scheme cost 16,500 investors a total of as much as $18 billion, according to the courtappointed trustee, but at least Madoff is not on death row. In Hangzhou, China, in November, Ji Wenhua and his brother and their father (who were managers of the Yintai Real Estate and Investment Group) were sentenced to death after their convictions for cheating 15,000 investors out of the equivalent of $1.1 billion.

• News of the Privileged: Among the high-end items catching consumers’ fancy last holiday season was premium firewood, for those who need to burn trees for reasons beyond merely warming the house. “Pretty white birch logs” were a best-selling item for Paul’s Fireplace Wood of Little Falls, Minn., and the owner of J.N. Firewood (Fort Ripley, Minn.) touted its “really cool blue flame and crackling noises,” according to a December Wall Street Journal report. (The wood itself goes for well over $1 a pound, even before adding the substantial shipping cost.)

(1) Janet Knowles, 62, was arrested in January in Jupiter, Fla., for aggravated assault after allegedly bludgeoning her housemate, 65, with a hammer as they watched TV. The victim said that Knowles was “upset with Judge Judy.” (2) Michael Monsour, former CEO of Monsour Medical Center in Jeannette, Pa., was charged with assaulting his brother, Dr. William Monsour, in their father’s home on New Year’s Eve. Michael allegedly bit William’s nose so hard that he required cosmetic surgery. (The next day, according to police, Michael sent William an email threatening to beat him “into blood pudding.”)

Least Competent Criminals • Need Time in the Gym: (1) According to police in Bellingham, Wash., William Lane, 22, yelled slurs at a lesbian couple in the morning of Dec. 11 and smashed the car window of one of the women, but she chased him down, tackled him, and held him until help arrived. (2) Anthony Miranda, 24, was charged with armed

robbery in December in Chicago after unknowingly choosing as his victim an “ultimate fighting” champion. The “victim” gave Miranda two black eyes and a lacerated face, and, as Miranda drew his gun, overpowered him in such a way that Miranda wound up shooting himself in the ankle.

• Not Ready for Prime Time: (1) Keith Savinelli, 21, was arrested in Gallatin County, Mont., in December and charged with attempted burglary involving a woman’s underwear.

When the resident caught Savinelli in the act, he attempted to talk her out of reporting him by apologizing and handing her his voter registration card, but she called police, anyway.

(2) A 25-year-old man was rescued by fire crews in Tranent, Scotland, in December and taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. According to police, four men were attempting to steal an eight-ton steamroller when the 25-year-old got his leg trapped underneath. The other three fled. CS

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THE ROYAL NOISE At 10 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26

Huc–a–Poos, 1213 U.S. 80, Tybee Island; At 10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. With Wormsleow and Sincerely, Iris; At 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28 Congress Street Social Club, 411 W. Congress St. It’s a three–day jazz/funk weekend as the until-recently–from–Savannah Royal Noise celebrates its first CD release, Keep on Moving.

This’ll take a bit of explaining: Founding guitarist Johan Harvey has relocated to Philadelphia, where he and his wife bought a bakery.

But the other guys – Mike LaBombard (saxophones and keyboards), Darius Shepherd (bass), Jonathan Proffitt (drums) and Andrew Robertson (percussion) – are still local residents.

The idea, Harvey says, is to keep playing live shows between here and Philly.

“We’ve wholeheartedly agreed to continue to book, promote and perform, meeting in the middle, ” he explains. “We have solid plans with a jazz/funk collective in Charlotte called Groove 8, so that’s the next city we’ll attack. We’ll keep creating a presence one city at a time, furthering our musical careers both as a band and individually, and the goal is to be a truly East Coast act by the end of the year.”

Keep on Moving is a testament to what we’ll be missing once these three shows are over and done with. Joined by the astonishing organist Frank Rhodes, the band turns in a hypnotic set of tight grooves and stellar musicianship, the sort of rhythm ‘n’ blues fusion laid down by Britain’s phenomenally cool New Mastersounds, or mid–period Herbie Hancock.

They’ll have nicely packaged CDs for sale at the shows, but you can stream Keep on Moving – cut over four days at Savannah’s Elevated Basement – in its entirety here: www.theroyalnoise.bandcamp.com.

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NATURAL CHILD At 10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27

Wormhole Bar, 2307 Bull St. “Cut your bullshit, son, and let’s get high.”

There’s a line for the ages, from 1971 (Infinity Cat Records), the debut full–length of this garage trio from Nashville.

The songs are stoneriffic and sandblasted raw with punk attitude and youthfully casual indifference.

And these guys, all in their early 20s, know how to rock. In Music City, they’re part of a ripping DIY scene that includes JEFF the Brotherhood, Heavy Cream and Turbo Fruits (the latter, of course, will be our guest in March for the Savannah Stopover).

They’ve toured with the Black Lips, which ought to tell you something.

Natty Child (yep, that’s what the kids back home call ‘em) formed in 2009. In an online interview, Seth (guitar and vocals) explained the origin of species this way: “We started 15 months ago. Wes and Zack had eaten a bunch of pot brownies. They kept calling me, all day, telling me I had to be in a band with them. I finally told them I’d do it if they would practice five days a week and tour a lot, they said cool, and here we are.”

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Cusses: Angel Bond, left, Brian Lackey and Bryan Harder. The band’s first album drops with the Jan. 27 show at the Jinx.

With the release this week of their self–titled debut album, Cusses — Bryan, Brian and Angel — deliver on the promise they made to one another back in the early days of 2010, when they first got together: No compromise.

Cusses (Ha! Records) includes 10 tracks, all written collectively by the band members, each one a blistering amalgam of heavy riffing, punk energy and tough–but–sweet pop– style vocals. Think Black Flag or Rush fronted by the Go–Gos’ Belinda Carlisle.

“A typical band is four dudes playing music together,” observes guitarist Bryan Harder. “The singer sounds a lot like Kurt Cobain. They all have the belts with the chains, and they’re all knocking out alternative Top 40 music.

“So anything that strays from that is, I think, a bonus to a band.”

Harder and drummer Brian Lackey had been in a couple of Savannah bands together, and had developed a musical synergy of experimental, echo–laden guitar and explosive percussion. They knew how to work together.

When Angel Bond came in on vocals, everything suddenly made sense.

“The reality is, Angel makes up a lot of notches in the key,” Harder says.

“Having someone like Angel, who sounds great, looks great, moves great and writes great music, kinda just puts you over the top. So there’s a formula to it all, not just the music but the members.

“And that kinda just happened.

We didn’t really think of it, we’re just making music. And I’m sure that’s what other people say, too.”

Lackey, for one, believes that Cusses was always laying in wait ... waiting for Angel.

“Bryan and I played together for years,” he says, “and knowing what that could sound like, this band was 15 years in the making, in my book.”

Recording an album that’s true to their particular vision “was really about trying to make a mark or something — not make a mark in the music industry, but make a mark personally, for yourself,” Lackey adds.

The Cusses album cover (photo by Andrew Broadhead; graphics by Katie Campbell)

“Like, I really want to hear myself on a record that I would actually play more than twice.”

Cusses celebrate the album’s arrival — on CD, vinyl and digital download — with a record release show Friday, Jan. 27 at the Jinx.

The basic tracks were cut in July at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville; Bond recorded most of her vocals afterwards in Atlanta.

Getting away from home, she says, was crucial to successful recording.

“It was a good process. Because we’ve all got pretty busy lives here, it would have been pretty hard to have a 12–hour session without getting interrupted by something.”

Photographer Bob Jones documented the recording sessions on video; his documentary on the making of Cusses is forthcoming.

The record is sonically dense and captures the exciting live interplay between Harder’s heavy prog guitar

and Lackey’s eight–armed power drumming.

“Not having a bass player forces me to play a certain way,” Harder says.

“It forces me to play simply, and with hard–hitting notes and octaves as opposed to chords.

“Obviously, without a bass player I have the freedom to go wherever I want to. And it doesn’t sound muddy, it sounds good, because it’s just me. I can decide to change key, or change a note, or go somewhere else and not have to worry about it. There’s a lot of freedom there.”

Harder’s an obsessive experimenter, both with composition and guitar– distorting gizmos. “I’d love to go into some odd timing and all that, but that’s not what we are,” he says. “We’re more straightforward. I’ll just save that for a rainy day.”

Recording the album, Bond was able to stretch and experiment vocally, both by using heavy reverb

and delay, and adding background choruses and occasional harmony.

That’s the only change from the way she sings onstage.

Despite her spitfire presence in front of a microphone, Bond says she’s still terrified in the hours and minutes leading up to a Cusses show.

“As soon as we’re into the first song I do this little thing where I just don’t care what anybody thinks,” she says, “and I black out into this other person. Once the first song’s up I’m good to go, and I’m in another world.”

It was Lackey and Harder, in the band’s earliest days, who coaxed her out of her stage–fright shell. “I’m so grateful because they’ve pushed out this part of me that I’d been dying to get out of me but never had the confidence to do it,” Bond says.

“Before, they intimidated the shit out of me, and I couldn’t say anything for about three months. And they’ll vouch for that.

“Just like Brian says, it’s the cheapest and best therapy ever. I feel more at peace with myself and my past than I ever have. Just because I have this outlet.”

Lately, the three Cusses have been using their practice space, a converted art studio on East 40th Street, for house shows featuring local and out– of–town bands (house shows in the literal sense — until recently, Bond and Lackey lived in the building).

They call it No Control, and the shows are always age–friendly (young kids too) and begin at a relatively early hour.

There’ll be a No Control-sponsored festival Feb. 18 at Southern Pine Company, with Cusses and a halfdozen of their buddy bands. It’ll go on all day, open to all ages.

The idea behind No Control, Lackey explains, was a no–brainer.

“Music in Savannah is happening in bars,” he says. “And there are kids that are 18 to 21 that are like ‘Huh?’” CS Cusses With Triathlon Where: The Jinx, 127 W. Congress When: At 10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27 Admission: $8 The first 100 guests receive a free digital download of the new album

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Hard to believe, but Liz Callaway, Broadway and cabaret singing star, used to suffer from crippling shyness and stage fright.

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Liz Callaway visits Savannah as an American Traditions judge — and to sing

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Back home in Chicago, Liz and her sister, Anne Hampton Callaway, would gather in the living room while their mother, a professional voice coach, played the piano.

“When my mom would say ‘Come on and sing, Liz,’ I would stand and turn in the other direction,” Callaway says. “I loved to sing, as long as no one was looking at me.”

Anne, the elder sibling, was always ready to vocalize “at the drop of a hat,” she adds.

During high school, Callaway explains, “I was in some choruses, because there’s safety in numbers, of course. In the fall of my sophomore year, my parents got divorced. And that really was a rough time.

“I was in a show, and the kids that I was working with said ‘Hey, we heard you’re going through a rough time.

Do you want to hang out with us?

Can we help you?’ And I suddenly fell in love with the theater, and musical theater in particular, because of the family aspects of it. The team camaraderie. I loved being with a group like that. And that’s really why I got into theater, the social aspect. More than just ‘I want to sing!’”

Callaway went on to perform in Follies, Baby, Miss Saigon, Cats (she spent five years singing “Memory” on Broadway), Evita and Sunday in the Park With George, among others. She is a Tony and Drama Desk nominee.

She won an Emmy in 1990 for her PBS children’s television show, Ready To Go. Callaway is in Savannah this week as a judge for the 19th American Traditions Vocal Competition, in which 31 singers from around the country compete for cash prizes and a prestigious title. The rounds are held nightly at the Lutheran Church of the Ascension on Wright Square, with the finals scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 28 at the Lucas Theatre.

Along with fellow celebrity judge Amanda McBroom, Callaway will perform in concert at the church Jan. 27.

Her early shyness aside, Callaway has a sweet, friendly voice, the kind that makes you feel as if she’s singing

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show,” she recalls. “Because the dancers were so unbelievable, and they worked so hard, and the audience was appreciative ... but at the very end, I came out and of course I’d get all the cheers and accolades.

“I’d be thinking ‘Wait a minute ... they’ve been killing themselves for two hours ...” CS American Traditions Competition Where: Lutheran Church of the Ascension, 120 Bull St. Quarterfinals: At 5 and 8 p.m. Jan. 25; tickets $35 (good for both performances) Semi–finals: At 5 and 8 p.m. Jan. 26; tickets $50 (good for both performances) Judges Concert Liz Callaway and Amanda McBroom When: At 8 p.m. Jan. 27 Tickets: $35 Where: Lutheran Church of the Ascension ATC Finals Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. When: At 8 p.m. Jan. 28 Tickets: $50, $65 All tickets at scadboxoffice.com

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I started doing Sibling Revelry with Anne,” she says, “the first place we did it was Rainbow & Stars in New York.

A beautiful room, kind of small. And I remember saying to Anne, ‘Wait — I have to look at their faces? They’re right there!’ That just was terrifying to me.

“Whereas in a Broadway theater, you have a spotlight on you, and it’s black. I used to love that, because I felt safe.”

She lives just outside New York City with her husband, Dan Foster.

Their son attends Kenmore College.

She is a member of the United States Tennis Association, and competes under the name Liz C. Foster. “So many people who I play tennis with have no idea what I do for a living,” Callaway explains. “I love my work, but at the end of the day I like having my non–work life. My normal life. I think that’s very healthy for me.”

Callaway admits that her stint as in Cats – she played the sad and tattered Grizabella, whose one song, “Memory,” was the show’s biggest hit — put her humble nature to the test.

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“When I perform,” Callaway says, “at the end of a concert I want people to feel like they also had dinner with me. I feel very connected to my audiences. And that’s just the kind of person I am; I call myself the anti–diva.”

The anti–diva often performs together with big sister Anne, who is of course a well–known cabaret singer in her own right. They tour with two separate concert performances: Sibling Revelry, a celebration of musical theater, and the 1960s/70s celebration Boom!, in which they duet on the music of their Illinois childhood.

“Our voices are completely different, and we’re very different in personality,” Callaway says. “So when we sing together, something just happens, this crazy sister blend.”

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An Adult Evening With Shel Silverstein. I read through it and started realizing this side to him.”

In a rare 1975 interview, Silverstein explained his literary origins – sort of. “When I was a kid –12, 14, around there –I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls,” he said. “But I couldn’t play ball, I couldn’t dance. Luckily, the girls didn’t want me; not much I could do about that.

“So, I started to draw and to write.

I was also lucky that I didn’t have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work til I was around 30.

“By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me.”

Indeed, Silverstein’s catalogue includes 21 books (some for young readers, some for adults, some anthologies of his cartooning and literary work for Playboy and other periodicals) and more than a dozen albums.

He received Academy Award and Grammy nominations for “I’m Checkin’ Out,” a song he contributed to the 1990 rehab comedy Postcards

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Shel Silverstein’s children’s books have sold somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 million copies. The most popular of these, the touching narrative The Giving Tree and the poetry collection Where the Sidewalk Ends, remain core components of many a childhood reading library.

Yet there was so much more to Silverstein (1930–1999) than sweet– natured kids’ stuff. As a songwriter, he gave the world “A Boy Named Sue,” “The Unicorn,” “Sylvia’s Mother,” “Cover of the Rolling Stone” and that all–time hippie classic, “I Got Stoned and I Missed It.” He made several singing/songwriting albums in the 1970s, the best–known being Freakin’ At the Freaker’s Ball, full of quirky, left–of–center humor and unashamedly ribald lyrics.

That’s right, Shel put his quick wit to good use on some pretty dirty poetry. He was, after all, a longtime writer and cartoonist for Playboy, where laughter and spry sexuality made good bedfellows.

He also wrote short stories and plays, some of which have found their way into An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein, assembled posthumously by his longtime pal David Mamet for the Atlantic Theater Company in 2001.

Christopher Stanley is directing An Adult Evening this weekend at Bay Street Theatre. “For me, it’s been a learning experience,” Stanley says.

“As a kid, I knew him as a children’s author. And then I learned that he had written for Playboy magazine, and then at some point in college somebody handed this script to me,

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Performed by a cast of 12, An Adult Evening consists of 10 vignettes from Silverstein’s twisted pen, including “Going Once” (in which a woman is auctioned like so much livestock), “The Best Daddy” (a father gives his little girl a dead pony for her birthday) and “Buy One Get One Free,” a classically rhythmic beat–poetry story–song in which two streetcorner prostitutes attempt to sell themselves to a not–so–gullible man.

The thread that runs through them all, Stanley believes, is “absurdity.”

Death of a Salesman, they’re not.

There are four shows in the Bay Street run of An Adult Evening. The first three strictly for age 21 and older, while the final production (Sunday, Jan. 29) is open to an 18+ audience.

By no means, Stanley stresses, is this a show for children.

“I think when you start reading these, or see them up onstage, you kind of immediately recognize that it’s Shel Silverstein,” he says.

“But for those that just know him from Where the Sidewalk Ends or The Missing Piece, they see the style but in a completely different way – much darker, much more sinister.” CS An Adult Evening With Shel Silverstein Where: Bay Street Theatre (Club One), 1 Jefferson St. When: At 8 p.m. Thursday–Sunday, Jan. 26–29 Sunday show is age 18+, all other shows 21+ Tickets: $10

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I have lamented the desperate lack of authentic Chinese food in the area. I don’t need to feel like I’ve walked into a Szechuan roadside diner, but gosh, some traditional cooking styles, seasonings and presentation of a few dishes would go a long way to making me smile.

Obviously, I was skeptical when I learned the former Asian Buffet at Eisenhower Drive and Water’s Avenue had remodeling, adding a bar and beginning table service and renamed itself Asian River. What I found gave me hope.

The same bubbling fountain and faux terracotta soldiers greeted me, but one step through the door reveled something very different.

A large, circular bar with a couple of nice flat panel TVs dominates the center of room, where banks of steam tables once sat hissing. Cozy, spacious booths are tucked around the huge room and bright, welcoming tables under the big front windows are cheery with vases of fresh flowers.

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The menu, as befits any Chinese restaurant, is huge, perhaps even too big. There are seemingly endless options and even a substantial sushi menu.

I passed on the sushi, but friends who have ordered the sushi (offered on an “all–you–can–eat” basis for $19.95) pronounce it very good — and I know they are finicky diners.

But I wanted to check out a chili pepper dish, one with a little red pepper indicating that it’s spicy.

This is often an exaggeration. It was entirely true with my steaming bowl of Volcano Beef. Tender slices of beef bobbed in a dark, rich broth laced with chili sauce and black bean sauce. The smell was savory and rich, the first bite warm and

satisfying — then the chili kicked in.

Yep, score one for chili. Waiter, another water please, and hurry! It’s spicy but not overbearing. The dish was wonderfully balanced in terms of flavor and portion.

My order of fried rice was an equal star. It was freshly made and dotted with tiny bits of chicken and peas. There’s no overdose of salty soy sauce to color the rice — instead it’s presented au naturel, creamy colored, moist and delicious enough to be a main dish.

Owner Andy Ruan says he wants to bring authentic Chinese cooking to the city. I’ll be going back regularly to put his kitchen to the test, and watch this grand experiment to see if picky Savannah diners will give this approach a chance.

Happy hour is 2–7 p.m. daily; hours are lunch to 9:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, until 10:30 Friday and Saturday. The restaurant also delivers. CS Asian River Restaurant and Bar 1100 Eisenhower Dr./365–6111

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The Savannah Music Festival’s late additions — a couple of pop concerts — will be announced at a wine ‘n’ dine event this Thursday (Jan. 26) at Tubby’s restaurant in Thunderbolt.

Tickets are already on sale for the bulk of the shows — the jazz, classical, bluegrass and world music stuff — for the March 22–April 2 festival.

The “hipper” shows, traditionally, are booked later than the rest of the SMF, and therefore can’t be confirmed until a later date.

We can tell you that one of the shows will be a double bill including singer/ songwriter Justin Townes Earle, the son of Texas legend Steve Earle.

For your $20 advance ticket ($25 at the door), you get food, beer and wine, a performance by the Train Wrecks, giveways to SMF and other local events, and access to pop–show tickets before they go on sale to everybody else.

For advance tickets, contact Emily@ savannahmusicfestival.org.

As soon as the shows are made public, we’ll post the information online.

Her aim is true

Twenty-six-time Grammy winner Alison Krauss and her band, Union Station, will perform in the Johnny Mercer Theatre Wednesday, April 4.

Tickets, $62 and $47, will go on sale this

Friday (Jan. 27. Krauss and the band are touring behind the acclaimed Paper Airplane album.

Check your Pulse

The Telfair Museums’ Pulse Art & Technology Festival returns Feb. 27–March 4. The featured exhibition is a 10–year survey of works by the renowned light sculptor Leo Villareal.

The artist will give a talk Feb. 27.

Pulse, of course, is Savannah’s forward–thinking creative festival, and as such is always one of the year’s most anticipated events. Among the high and low–tech performers: Pamela Z, Andre Ruschkowski, the Loud Objects, the Medeaology Collective and the Karmetik Machine Orchestra.

The coolest part: Everything is free.

See telfair.org for details.

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Christopher Soucy is directing David Mamet’s dark comedy November, a political satire, during March at Muse Arts Warehouse. Auditions are at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 1 and 2.

Meanwhile, the results of Tim Reynolds’ 2nd annual 24–Hour Play Festival, called The Winter’s Tales, will be onstage Feb. 4 at Muse. Anyone interested in writing, casting, directing and performing a 10–minute play in a 24 hour–period should contact Reynolds at theatreupstart@gmail.com. CS

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Girl Scout Centennial Exhibit — As part of an ongoing rotating art exhibition in Savannah’s City Hall Rotunda, the City has mounted a photograph exhibit in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Girl Scouts. The exhibit features historic images from the collections of the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace and the Girl Scouts First Headquarters, depicting the Savannah Girl Scouts’ interaction with the City of Savannah during the early to mid20th century, including Girl Scout events at City properties and Girl Scouts with City officials at City Hall. The exhibit will run through June 2012.

Houses of the Holy — A group show of well known Savannah artists exploring house shaped panels built with love in Primary Art Supply’s custom shop. Curated by Robyn Reeder. January 15- February 29th. Reception February 8th from 6-9. Lulu’s Chocolate Bar, 42 MLK Jr Boulevard How ’bout this — SCAD MFA Fibers candidates Kate de Para, Liliya Sotirova, Maggie Horne, and Tricia Cookson pool their talents in a sculptural show. Opening reception Friday, January 27 from 6-9 pm. Oglethorpe Gallery, 406 E. Oglethorpe Ave.

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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. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. In God’s Country — The Gallery at St. Paul’s presents an exhibition of works by artist Bobi Perry.

There will be an artist’s reception Sunday, March 4 from 3-5 p.m. which is free and open to the public. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn St. JEA February art show — The art show at the JEA beginning February 1 will feature the works of painter Samantha Claar & mosaic artist Annie Burke. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St.

Telfair Winter Youth Art Classes — Geek Bling / Techno-jewelry; Portfolio Builder: Youth Drawing II; Learn to Draw with Robots and Light. Contact Kip Bradley, bradleyk@telfair.org 912.790.8823 Telfair Museums, Telfair Square

The SCADDY Awards are at the Trustees Friday night; an associated exhibit is at Gutstein Gallery across the street. This is finalist Diego Penuela Zamudio’s illustration of Frank Zappa Katherine Sandoz — Local artist and former SCAD Professor Katherine Sandoz will be showcased this month at Local 11ten Jan 5-31. Local 11ten, 1110 Bull St. Lowcountry images — An art show of Lowcountry images benefiting the Steward Center for Palliative Care. Featured artists are Samantha Claar, Richard Law and Carol Lasell Miller. Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, 1352 Eisenhower Drive Reverie — Watercolors by Emily Quintero, SCAD Illustration, now through January 30. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. SCADDY exhibit — The Savannah College of Art and Design will host the 2012 SCADDY Awards Friday, January 27, 6 p.m. at the Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St. Over 120 of the top student submissions are currently being exhibited through February 10. Gutstein Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St. SeeSAW mural Kickstarter — See Savannah Art Walls (SeeSAW) has received permission from the city to oversee a designated mural wall at 34th and Habersham. They’ve started a Kickstarter page to raise awareness and capital: See Savannah Art Walls (SeeSAW), www.kickstarter.com/projects/

Weather or Not — Indigo Sky Community Gallery hosts this juried exhibition dealing with themes of climate and environmental change and world unrest against a backdrop of the supposed Mayan prediction of world’s end in 2012. Show features work by Matthew Cooper & Chelsea DeMercado, Sarah Arkins, Charlotte Alling, Matthew Derezinski, Alex Getz, Ruth Sykes, and Thomas Wharton. Indigo Sky Community Gallery, 915 Waters Ave

seesaw/seesaw-a-muralcle-on34th-street Slavery by Another Name — Paintings and Assemblages by Robert Claiborne Morris will be on display in the Drawing Room Gallery of the Telfair Academy from January 6 to March 4. Telfair Academy, 121 Barnard St. Southern Discomfort — Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home presents “Southern Discomfort: Art Inspired

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Preview hours for “Southern Discomfort” will be held February 2 from 4 to 7 p.m. and February 3 from 2 to 5 p.m.

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“Fishbone, eh?” I read as I examined the poster, a college freshman wandering lost between Rick James and the Butthole Surfers. “A bunch of black guys with mohawks and horns from L.A.? I’m in.”

That evening, my worldview changed forever. Was this rock? Ska? Punk? I didn’t know, I didn’t care, I just wanted to keep on dancing. As frontman Angelo Moore alternately sang, played sax and scrambled around the stage like an unholy dervish while bassist Norwood Fisher sagely kept funkadelic rock–steady time, I understood once and for all that genius always defies genre.

I went on to become a fan of all the big L.A. alternative bands that came after, the requisite Red Hot Chili Peppers, No Doubt and Primus, but I always held up Fishbone as the hardest, fastest and baddest of ‘em all.

Compared to Moore’s mind–defying acrobatics (this was long before stage–diving and playing naked became a national pastime), the Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis and No Doubt’s bleach–blonde crooner Gwen Stefani seemed like preening teenagers. It seems a great injustice that those L.A. bands clearly influenced

by Fishbone went on to fame and fortune while their mentors never quite made it across the arc of success.

That’s the bittersweet takeaway of Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, a 2010 documentary directed

by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler screening this week as part of the Psychotronic Film Festival.

At least those momentous names know to pay homage: Stefani, Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea and Primus’ Les Claypool are eager to give props to the band they once shared little club stages with; they’re joined onscreen by other superstars like Ice–T, George Clinton and Branford Marsalis to laud Fishbone’s pure good vibe.

Five of the Fishbone boys met up in South Central Los Angeles in the late 70s as the embers of the Watts riots were still warm, so this film had to be more than just another rock biopic.

Narrated in the badass baritone of actor Laurence Fishburne, the first 20 minutes employs crafty animation and a socio–economic history lesson you won’t find in any textbook, a humbling reminder of how deep the racial divide was on the West Coast in Reagan’s America. These kids skipped over it with bone–shakin’ rhythms

that, Fishburne notes, “made it OK for the black kids to slam dance and brought the funk to the punk.”

It’s within this context that Fishbone’s origins are so interesting and completely unlikely: As harsh hip–hop and gang violence ruled their neighborhoods, this group of kids found a world of liberal freedoms when they were bused into the wealthy, white San Fernando Valley as part of the city’s efforts to desegregate public schools.

At Hale Junior High, they encountered the ever–smiling Angelo Moore, the only African–American in his suburban neighborhood and itching to rebel against his religious upbringing. Together they gathered up every and any musical influence they liked, spawning a sound that knocked the socks off of everyone within earshot.

From epic afternoon rehearsals in Norwood Fisher’s bedroom, they launched right into the mosh pit of L.A.’s club scene.

“We wanted to show their journey over the last 30 years,” said Anderson over the phone from L.A. “They were so innocent, as much as punk rock could be, and they went through the wringer. But they survived.”

By the “wringer,” Anderson is referring to the music business. Fishbone released several albums with Columbia Records after catching the ear of producer David Kahne, whose bosses couldn’t wrap their minds around these African–American musicians who could not even begin to fit under the R&B label. Since their songs could not be defined as “pop” or “rock,” radio play was out of the question, and the marketing conundrum wasn’t worth company time once the easy–to–sell Britneys and Christinas hit the airwaves. After guitarist Kendall Jones’ mental meltdown and subsequent decampment, the group once heralded as the kings of alternative music became just another band scratching out a living.

Every day is sunshine for Fishbone bassist Norwood Fisher.

Their legend lives on with those who remember, and Everyday Sunshine reflects the same delicious, frenetic energy that made the band’s live shows so intense. Co–director Anderson has been a Fishbone fan ever since he saw them with his dad in Portland, Ore. in the late 90s, when he was 10 years old.

“They just seemed like such characters,” he recalls. “When I decided to do a music documentary, I couldn’t think of a better band.”

He and Metzler followed the remaining members of Fishbone through two European tours in the mid–to–late 2000s, capturing the hardcore dedication of fans and a few rock–bottom days of playing to apathetic clusters of old folks. Still pushing his level–11 antics in small clubs around the world, Moore radiates his signature big–toothed charisma, though the lines around his eyes show weariness as he veers off into the artistic weeds with his theremin. Ultimately, his optimism and satisfaction in living an artful life shine through.

“Angelo is someone who’s an artist twenty–four–seven,” said Anderson.

“He may be a little bitter about the way it’s all gone down, but I don’t think he would do it any other way.”

Since its release in 2010, Everyday Sunshine has made the rounds of film festivals around the country, racking up awards. Variety called the documentary “an inspirational, happy film about failure.” Savannah’s Psychotronic Film Festival, known for its thoughtful curation of little–known cult classics as well as wacktaculous choices that include deaf vampires and machete–wielding maidens, seems a fitting vehicle.

“The entire notion of my film society is based around championing and promoting movies which are hard to categorize and don’t easily fit within standard genres, a description that fits Fishbone to a proverbial ‘T’,” says Jim Reed, Executive and Artistic Director of the Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah.

“A well–made indie documentary about such a band is like a Psychotronic double–whammy.” cs Everyday Sunshine–The Story of Fishbone When: Thursday, Jan. 26, 6:30pm.

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Blast of Silence, an extremely well–regarded film noir from 1961, doesn’t really have any recognizable stars.

The movie was written and directed by Allen Baron, who went on to make a mark, of sorts, as a TV director of such shows as The Love Boat and Charlie’s Angels.

The reason for Blast of Silence’s classic status is its style — stark, moody and shot in high–contrast black and white — is that it’s a 21–gun salute to nihilism. The central character in the movie simply hates people. He hates his life. He hates everything.

In the dawning days of the 1960s, with John F. Kennedy and his all–pervasive Camelot smile, Hollywood had all but ceased making dark pictures like this.

There are elements of Little Caesar, Public Enemy and even Key Largo in its narrative about gangsters and low–lifes walking the dirty streets of Harlem. It has a gritty, unwholesome, documentary feel.

But Blast of Silence, ultimately, is a forerunner of The Godfather.

It screens Jan. 27 as part of the Psychotronic Film Festival.

Baron himself plays Frankie Bono, a hired killer from Cleveland who’s come to New York on a contract.

The hit: A sleazy low–level mobster named Troiano, who’s shaking down local businesses and getting in the way of the big boys who’ve hired Frankie to take him out.

The film follows Frankie as he stalks his prey, learning his habits (he must find Troiano alone, without his omnipresent bodyguards) and through the final showdown.

In an unusual but effective move, Baron chose to use an unseen narrator to tell us what’s in Frankie’s mind as he plans the hit. The voice is that of Lionel Stander, a veteran Noo Yawk character actor best known for his long stint as the irascible chauffer on TV’s Hart to Hart. As the hired killer’s conscience, Stander delivers his lines in a gruff, matter–of–fact and black-hearted manner that beautifully underscores Frankie’s soullessness.

The thing is, Frankie does have a soul, and when he unexpectedly runs into an old girlfriend, it begins to

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show itself. He grew up in a Catholic orphanage, and has never had a family or a “real” life – could sweet, trusting Lori be his ticket out of the dank hell he’s created for himself?

Don’t bet on it, pal.

The creepiest scene brings Frankie to the filthy apartment of Ralphie, an obese, bearded man in a bathrobe who keeps a menagerie of rats in cages.

He’s the Peter Lorre character – wily and odd, unsettling, you wonder is he trustworthy?

Frankie needs Ralphie to get him a gun, so, the hitman ignores the inner monologue that despises the fat man, and wants to put him down for good, and makes uncomfortable small talk with him.

The events of Blast of Silence take place at Christmastime. Stander–as– Frankie discourses on how much he hates the holiday — but this gives filmmaker Baron the opportunity to

juxtapose images of gangsters oozing down sidewalks as a children’s chorus sings carols in the background.

It’s a chilling effect, and one of the many small pleasures of Blast of Silence.

Don’t expect first–rate acting from this low–budget drama; Baron is stiff, his delivery wooden (which works just fine for the character, in a weird way), and the other actors barely register.

It’s the cumulative effect of the subject matter, the cinematography and the pervasive nihilistic mood that make Blast of Silence a noir to remember. CS Psychotronic Film Festival Blast of Silence Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703D Louisville Road When: At 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27 Tickets: $9 at Muse Arts and at psychotronicfilmsavannah.org

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Contraband

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A remake of a 2008 Icelandic thriller, Contraband is yet another in a long line of ignoble duds tossed out to help open a new movie year while the previous year’s films are still busy collecting all the accolades. As far as January releases go, it’s far from the worst – 18 years later, I still have nightmares surrounding the Chris Elliott comedy Cabin Boy – but it’s nevertheless poor enough to securely earn its opening–month berth.

Its foreign antecedent bore the moniker Reykjavik–Rotterdam, but perhaps mindful of the fact that many Americans would mistake these two major European cities for brands of beer, the action has been switched to New Orleans–Panama. But perhaps mindful of the fact that many Americans would mistake a movie called New Orleans–Panama for a travelogue, the title ended up being Contraband, which is so generic that it only reveals that the characters must be up to something naughty.

The narrative wrongdoing begins with young punk Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), who foolishly agrees to transport drugs for the hair–trigger Tim Briggs (perpetually annoying Giovani Ribisi, whose entire career seems like one long epileptic seizure) and then finds himself in hot water when he’s forced to dump the entire load. Luckily for Andy, his sister Kate (a miscast Kate Beckinsale) happens to be married to Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg), who used to be The Greatest Smuggler Of All Time. Now making an honest living, Chris reluctantly returns to the criminal fold, relying on the help of his best buds Sebastian (Ben Foster) and Danny (Lukas Haas) as he travels from New Orleans to Panama and back again as part of a plan to save his brother–in–law.

Director Baltasar Kormakur actually played the Mark Wahlberg role in the Icelandic version, but whatever special insight he must have felt he could bring to this project was apparently lost in translation. There’s nothing in Contraband that rises above the flagrantly mediocre, from its doorknob–dull characters to its rote storytelling.

Even the casting exudes laziness: Seasoned filmgoers need only glance at the cast list to figure out which of Chris’ allies will end up double–crossing him. Still, the script’s betrayals pale next to the

The 9/11 melodrama Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close has been dubbed Extremely Long & Incredibly Dull by industry wags, but in all fairness, it doesn’t especially feel overextended (even though it runs 130 minutes) and it manages to retain some measure of interest throughout. No, its problems register more deeply than that.

Based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, it seeks to be the definitive film centering on that tragic day but instead feels hopelessly contrived and shamelessly manipulative – a punch to the stomach rather than a balm to the heart.

The central character is Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn), a young boy whose behavior suggests that he has Asperger’s syndrome.

Inquisitive yet socially awkward, Oskar shares a special bond with his father Thomas (Tom Hanks), with his mother Linda (Sandra Bullock) clearly placing second in the parental sweepstakes.

Thomas is in one of the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001, and it’s only some time later, when Oskar discovers a key that apparently belonged to his dad, that the healing process can truly begin. Armed with precious few clues, the lad scours the Big Apple looking for the lock that matches the key, aided in his efforts by a silent neighbor (Max von Sydow) who communicates only through note cards.

Marked by improbable characterizations (Bullock and von Sydow are the main victims), constantly tripping over its many gimmicks (a tambourine, a telephone answering machine, those note cards), and doggedly determined to wring tears from every foot of celluloid, EL&IC is a classic case of trying too hard, less interested in examining the legacy of 9/11 than covering every pandering base in an effort to earn those desirable year–end honors (there’s a reason producer

Scott Rudin famously held this from view as long as possible, hoping that it would appear at the last moment to nab that Best Picture Oscar).

Admittedly, there are individual scenes that register strongly, and the performances by Horn, von Sydow and Viola Davis and Jeffrey Wright (as a divorcing couple) occasionally draw us into the drama. But for all the chatter about EL&IC serving as a catharsis, that’s not only wrong but also simplistic in the face of such a game–changer of an event. Besides, 9/11 has already been tackled with more candor and less sensationalism in such works as The Guys, 25th Hour and, of course, United 93.

Those fine efforts soberly noted the horrors and paid tribute to the heroics of that fateful day; by comparison, this new picture mainly pays tribute to its ability to pat itself on the back.

THE ARTIST

OOOP The definitive look at the transition from silent films to talkies arrived courtesy of the 1952 musical Singin’ in the Rain. The story about a talented nobody becoming an overnight success while an established performer simultaneously suffers a career crash’n’burn has been filmed ad nauseam, most recognizably in the various screen incarnations of A Star Is Born.

And, unless one counts Charlie Chaplin’s gibberish song in 1936’s Modern Times, the employment of sound in an otherwise silent picture found its high–water mark in Mel Brooks’ Silent Movie, in which the only word heard throughout the course of the film (“Non!”) is uttered by legendary mime Marcel Marceau.

In short, The Artist isn’t exactly the most original movie to make its way into modern–day theaters, despite its angle of being a black–and–white silent picture.

But so what? Although it sometimes runs short on invention, it makes up for it in style, execution and a cheery disposition that’s positively infectious.

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THE IRON LADY

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Taking Meryl Streep out of The Iron Lady and replacing her with just about any other actress would be akin to removing the meat out of a beef stroganoff dinner and replacing it with a Hostess Twinkie. The result would be a thoroughly indigestible mess, worthy only of being flung into

the garbage bin.

Yes, Streep delivers yet another note–perfect performance, although it must be said that 1) 2011 was such a formidable year for female leads that she hardly deserves making the Academy’s Best Actress list (though of course she will), and 2) her turn is as much surface mimicry as heartfelt emoting, which usually isn’t the case with this remarkable talent able to bury herself into just about any role.

But move beyond her eye–catching work and what remains is a poor movie that does little to illuminate the life and times of Margaret Thatcher, the controversial British Prime Minister who held the position throughout the 1980s.

Forget for a minute the movie’s soft–pedaling of its central character.

Since filmmakers usually desire to be as demographically friendly as possible in order to attract audiences of all stripes, it’s no surprise that director Phyllida Lloyd and scripter Abi Morgan fail to devote much time to Thatcher’s ample failings, including her abhorrent attitudes toward the poor, the unemployed and even her fellow women.

Yet even her few strengths (rising from modest origins, sticking it to the boys’ club of British politics, reinstilling a sense of national pride much like her BFF Ronald Reagan was doing stateside) are treated in CliffsNotes fashion, since an oversized amount of the picture focuses on her waning years as a lonely woman suffering from mild dementia, believing she’s being frequently visited by her deceased husband Denis (a wasted Jim Broadbent).

With so much history and personality to draw upon, it’s infuriating that so much of the running time is wasted on mere speculation involving an elderly person’s flights of fancy (a problem that also plagued Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar). These sequences effectively destroy any sense of pacing or continuity and ineptly attempt to soften a world figure who didn’t exactly earn her titular nickname by publicly surrounding herself with Paddington Bear dolls.

LIKE CRAZY

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on these shores (if at all) for the pair of OSS 117 spy spoofs he made with director Michael Hazanavicius in their French homeland, plays silent screen star George Valentin, whose chance encounter with a young fan named Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo) contributes to her eventual rise in the industry. The pair clearly harbor feelings for each other, but George finds himself trapped in a loveless marriage (Penelope Ann Miller sympathetically plays his estranged spouse) and relies on his dog Uggie and his faithful chauffeur Clifton (James Cromwell) for companionship.

The matrimonial strife soon takes a back seat to a dark development, revealed when studio head Al Zimmer (John Goodman) informs him about the inevitable advent of sound in motion pictures –– a revolution that George myopically dismisses as a short–lived fad. Instead, this cinematic breakthrough all but destroys his livelihood.

In crafting his homage to the silent era, Hazanavicius crucially fails to include one of its key ingredients, that go–for–broke dynamism that informed much of the cinema of the time - think, for example, of that house really falling on top of Buster Keaton, or Harold Lloyd’s eye–popping stunts in Safety Last! and other gems, or just about anything served up by Chaplin. thing in The Artist can quite showcase that sort of edgy genius, although a sequence that has wicked fun with sound effects is worth singling out. Yet while it may not match up with the best of the silents, The Artist matches up nicely with the best of 2011. Dujardin and Bejo are both enchanting and irresistible, and Hazanavicius’ screenplay has no trouble shifting between mirth and melodrama.

As for its visual appeal, the black– and–white images are as crisp and dynamic as anything on view in the year’s color explosions.

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shindig, beating out a slate of 15 other titles that included Take Shelter and Martha Marcy May Marlene. If nothing else, this stands as proof positive that even the film festivals can be as misguided in their selections as the notorious Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

The film won a second Sundance honor for the lead performance by Felicity Jones, an acceptable selection given that she’s the best thing about this film in which LA college kid Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and British exchange student Anna (Jones) hook up, only to be separated by the ocean after she willfully extends her visa stay illegally and is booted back to the UK (that these adults would be so stupid in this post–9/11 age of stringent airport laws is a daft narrative concept, but we’ll let it slide).

The whole thrust of the film is that these two people should be together no matter what – think Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Titanic’s Jack and Rose, Brokeback Mountain’s Ennis and Jack – but director Drake Doremus (scripting with Ben York Jones) doesn’t make a very compelling case

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for his lovebirds. While it’s easy to see Anna’s adoration, Jacob won’t even consider moving to England to be with his presumed soulmate, preferring instead to remain stateside and periodically take up with a co–worker (a wasted Jennifer Lawrence) who deserves better than the treatment he doles out to her.

Ultimately, Like Crazy is a love story about two often annoying people who don’t have much discernible chemistry.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL

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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.

It’s utterly ridiculous – and also utterly exciting. The fourth M:I film based on the classic TV series 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.

The plotline concocted by Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec (both vets of Abrams’ TV show Alias) is so hoary that it might as well have come from a 1960s–era Bond flick.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

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Think of it as the “close but no cigar” brand of cinema, where American adaptations of 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

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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 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.

WAR HORSE

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Don’t be fooled into thinking the PG–13 War Horse takes a softer approach to the subject at hand – with one specific scene, Steven Spielberg establishes that his World War I epic won’t take any prisoners.

Before that sequence arrives, we’re introduced to the majestic title animal, a horse (named Joey) who bonds with youthful farmhand Albert (Jeremy Irvine) before being sold to the British army. A sensitive captain (Tom Hiddleston) promises Albert that he’ll take good care of Joey, but the horse doesn’t remain in the officer’s hands; instead, Joey finds himself passing between soldiers and civilians, between Brits and Germans, between kindly souls and abusive monsters.

A young girl offers him a home; a German officer plans to work him until he drops dead; soldiers from each side team up to save him. And so it goes.

Based on the smash stage hit, War Horse has been opened up in breathtaking fashion for the screen, vibrantly bringing each vignette to life and allowing them to collectively address how war diminishes not just humankind but irrevocably destroys surrounding environs. War Horse is a movie of rage, but it’s also one of empathy and understanding – it’s to Spielberg’s credit that he knows the storyline is emotionally wrenching enough that he doesn’t need to manipulate tears out of anyone.

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Activism & Politics Citizens Police Academy Spring Session Offered by Savannah-Chatham County Metro Police. Begins Feb. 9. Registration deadline, Feb. 3. A thirteen-week program that allows the residents of Savannah-Chatham to interact with members of the department and the criminal justice system. Thursday nights from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the SavannahChatham Metropolitan Police Department Squad Room, 201 Habersham Street. Participants will meet officers from each unit of SCCMPD. Registration is $10. Citizens can visit the nearest precinct to pick up an application, or call Gianna Nelson at 651-2246. Applications can also be found at www.scmpd.org The class meets on There are 18 seats available as of today.

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 Fort Pulaski National Monument-Public Comment Period Submit comments through February 13. The National Park Service (NPS) has nominated Fort Pulaski National Monument for inclusion in the National System of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

This program is managed by the Department of Commerce’s NationalOceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department of the Interior (DOI).

NOAA is accepting public comments.

More nformation about MPAs and the nomination process can be found at http://www.mpa.gov. Public comments about nominations may be sent by mail, e-mail, or fax to NOAA’s MPA Center.

Info:mpainfo@noaa.gov.

Occupy Savannah Habersham & Bay Streets, 10am-6pm daily. General Assembly every Saturday at 3PM. For more information or to get involved visit our facebook page www. facebook.com keyword Occupy Savannah or send an email at occupy.savannah. ga@gmail.com. [010912] 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.

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 912-596-5267. [122911]

Benefits “Afternoon Adagio” Benefit for Savannah Philharmonic Saturday, February 4, 2:00-4:30pm at The Olde Pink House, 23 Abercorn St. Afternoon tea and champagne. Savannah Philharmonic violinist Robbi Kenney & Friends perform musical standards.

Silent auction and high fashion hat competition. Tickets: $50 for Savannah Philharmonic members; $60 for non-members. Patron tickets: $150.

Purchase tickets at www.savannahphilharmonic.org or through the box office at (912) 525-5050.

Battle of the Bakers Benefit for Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Coastal Empire. Accepting registration entries for baking fundraiser, Feb. 4, at the Hoskins Center, on the campus of Memorial University Medical Center. Bakers check in and set up at 11:30 a.m. Doors open to the public 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.

Information on competing and on tickets for the public, contact Alex Wysocki, 912350- 7641, or alex@rmhccoastalempire. org.

Fundraiser & Party: Bring Home the Bacon for Bennett February 3, 7pm-midnight. Fundraiser for Tybee resident Bennett Bacon, who was injured in a snowboarding accident in Colorado in November. He is recovering in the hospital in CO. Bands, Oyster Roast, Beverages, and more. $20/adults, $10/under 21. Information: 912-572-1594 Location: Southern Pine (Corner of E Broad and 35th St) 616 E. 35th St. 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.

Parties A La Carte Savannah Friends of Music sponsors this series of themed parties throughout the year as a fundraiser for local music events and groups. information contact Lynne Davis – 355-4252. [011312] Sporting Clays Tournament--Benefiting Bethesda Academy Fri., Jan. 27, 10:30am through the afternoon. Event includes a sporting clays tournament, shooting clinic, shells, wild game lunch, hors d’oeuvres and beverages. Proceeds benefit Bethesda Academy. Location: Forest City Gun Club, 9203 Ferguson Ave. Register by calling Elizabeth Brown at 912-351-2061. Fee: $800 for a team of four. www.bethesdaacademy.org St. Thomas Thrift Store Fall and Winter Clearance Get 50% Off All Fall and Winter Clothing at The St. Thomas Thrift Store 1126 E. Montgomery Crossroads from February 3 - 28. Designer and name brand apparel for men, women and children. 10:00 am until 2:00 pm, Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. 912-352-9252 All proceeds benefit area charities, youth organizations and ministries.

The UnMaskarade. Benefiting Rape Crisis Center Live and Silent Auction to benefit the Rape Crisis Center on Saturday, February 18 at 6:30pm at The Hoskins Center at Memorial Health on Waters Ave. Featuring comedian Rosalyn McCoy and Savannah Arts Academy Skylark Singers. Open bar and heavy hors d’ oeuvres, Masquerade cocktail attire $100/ticket or $700/table (8 seats). http://www. rccsav.org/ Tour d’Epicure Benefit for America’s Second Harvest Board a trolley with your friends for a food, wine and art tour. Sun. Feb. 26, 2012, 4-7pm. Tickets and information at www.helpendhunger.org.

Call for Entries Macy’s Million Dollar Makeover Macy’s is seeking skilled businesses/ individuals in the trade of fashion, food, or home decor/design to apply for the Macy’s Million Dollar Makeover. If you have a product or business in these areas that you’d like to get off the ground or take to the next level, send an email explaining your idea, goals, and aspirations. Deadline is Jan. 31. To ensure quality application, contact recruiter, Max Arnzen at mmaxzen@hotmail.com or 507-269-6337, or email your information to MMDM@VPEtalent.com.

Musicians Wanted for Third Thursdays on Tybee City of Tybee is seeking musicians (grassroots to classic rock) to perform at Third Thursdays on Tybee in 2012. To be considered as a performer, please submit according to the guidelines provided at www.cityoftybee.org/BetterHometownProgram. Apply by January 30.

Information: Chantel Morton, 912-7864573, or cmorton@cityoftybee.org.

National Park Service Career Showcase Find out about career opportunities with the National Park Service on Wednesday, February 1. Coastal Georgia Center at 305 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. in Savannah, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Preregistration is preferred (but not necessary). www.nps.gov/fopu. Bring resumes and any other pertinent documents with them to the career fair, and be prepared for the possibility of on-site interviews.

Professional attire should be worn to the event. For more information, please visit Fort Pulaski’s website at www.nps. gov/fopu, or call (912) 786-5787. www. nps.gov.

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] TV Show Filming in Savannah Seeks Participants Door to Door is a new TV series for the Travel and Escape Channel/Travel Channel. Produced by Keep it In the Family, Inc. and is the only television game show that features local contestants answering trivia questions about the town they live in...and right from the comforts of their own homes.

Producers are seeking Savannah people to participate. send an e-mail explaining in 500 words or less why you believe you would be perfect for the show, plus a photo of your home. Apply to: doortodoortv@gmail.com OR www. facebook.com/doortodoorTV

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Classes, Camps & Workshops Acting Workshop--Spolin Technique Spolin Technique workshops teach acting through the use of theatre games, with emphasis on spontaneity and ensemble work. Taught by actress, playwright, director and comedian Jeanmarie Collins. Workshop info: Saturday, Jan 28, 10am-1pm at Bay Street Theatre, 1 Jefferson Street. Fee: $35. Contact 314503-9005 for reservations or Information or emailsavannahcomedyrevue@gmail. com.

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. [122811] Beading Classes Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced at Bead Dreamer Studio, 407A E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Call 920-6659. [122811] Bead Dreamer Studio, Savannah Champions Training Center Offers a variety of classes and training opportunities in mixed martial arts, juijitsu, judo and other disciplines for youth and adults at all levels of expertise. 525 Windsor Rd. Call 912-349-4582 or visit http://www.ctcsavannah.com/ [122811] Coast Guard Auxiliary Boating Classes.

Regular classes on boat handling, boating safety & navigation offered by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. Learn from the experts. For dates & more information, visit our web site: www.savannahaux.com or telephone Kent Shockey at 912-897-7656. [010912] Creative Digital Photography Go in-depth into photography principles, aperature and shutter combinations, bracketing and compositions. Spend

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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. http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/ cesavannahmenu.html [121211] Creative Writing Courses Offered in Savannah by Georgia Southern Univ. Continuing Education. Creative Writing 1 Mondays, Feb. 6 - Mar. 26.

Introduces participants to the fundamental techniques of writing fiction and non-fiction. Creative Writing 2 Mondays, Apr. 9 - May 29. Experienced students will refine their skills, workshop their compositions, and prepare to get published. Each course is $200/person.

All classes from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. http:// ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/creativewriting.html Location: Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Desiging for the Contemporary Interior SCAD Continuing Education course. Feb. 4, 10:30-5:30. Learn to select pieces, mix and match, and end up with an individual, inspired space. Use design theory to create contemporary interiors and gain confidence with their color and material choices while exploring the balance of spatial relations, creating a home interior that parallels their personality.

Experiment with color, styles, placement and fibers. Participants leave the workshop with the know-how and inspiration to be creative, and with a solid understanding of a range of key interior design elements, for kitchens, bathrooms, living/dining rooms and bedrooms. Fee:

$95 http://www.scad.edu/ce 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 or who have already received a license. Group meets monthly. $30/ session. Information: 912-443-0410.

[122811] Educator Seminar: Construct: Paper Model Building Feb. 11, 9am-4pm. Participants create a sculpture from numbered laser cut parts that are formed using mountain and valley folds that are glued to generate the form. Participants do not need to be art majors or sculptors. Fee: $180. http:// www.scad.edu/ce Entrepreneurship Classes Savannah State University will host a series of free entrepreneurship classes for City of Savannah residents at the Moses Jackson Advancement Center, 1410B Richards St. Each class in the series

will be held twice a week on Tuesdays from 6:30pm-8:30pm and on Thursdays from 10:00am-12:00pm, from January 31st through May 29th. To register call: (912)525-2166 or email: durhamj@savannahstate.edu 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. [122811] 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. [122811] Feldenkrais Classes Meets at various locations in the Savannah area. Contact Elaine Alexander, GCFP. Information: 912-223-7049 [122811] 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). 912897-9559. $20/week. [122811] 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

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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: 912-5094647 or www.savannahsclayspot.com [122811] Portrait Photography Course Learn how to use the off-camera flash, studio lighting, available light, and photo editing to create flattering portraits of people, pets, close ups, and more. Any camera. Prints or digital files will be accepted. Suggested prerequisite: Creative Photography. Dates: Wednesdays, 1/18 to 2/1 or Mondays, 5/7 to 5/21. Time is 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Cost is $70/person. Call to to register at 855-478-5551. Registration closes Monday, Jan. 16 at Noon for the Jan. class; Thursday, May 3 at 5 p.m. for the May class. Offered by Georgia Southern University Continuing Education and takes place in Savannah,at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street. $70/ person http://ceps.georgiasouthern. edu/conted/cesavannahmenu.html [122911] 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. [122811] 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. [122811] Savannah Entrepreneurial Center Offering a variety of business classes.

801 E. Gwinnett Street. Call 652-3582.

[122811] Savannah Sacred Harp Singers Everyone that loves to sing is invited to join the Savannah Sacred Harp Singers at 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. For more information call 912-655-0994 or visit savannahsacredharp.com. [122211] Savannah’s Clay Spot Winter Pottery Classes Classes begin Jan. 9, 2012. Be Creative in 2012, Make it with Clay at Savannah’s Clay Spot. Check out www. savannahsclayspot.com for a new winter pottery class schedule for adults, teens, and children. Contact: Lisa continues on p. 38

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a.teixeira472@gmail.com to schedule a 1/2 price first lesson! [122811] 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 [122811] Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource Center The Housing Authority of Savannah hosts a series of regular classes at the Neighborhood Resource Center. 1407 Wheaton Street. Adult literacy/GED prep: Mon-Thurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm4pm. 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: 912-232-4232 x115 or www. savannahpha.com Learn Russian Learn to speak Russian. All experience levels welcome, beginner to expert. Call 912-713-2718 for more information.

[122811] Learn to Speak Spanish Spanish lessons offered by an experienced native speaker. Flexible schedule and affordable rates. Classes are held at the Sentient Bean Coffeehouse. Call 912-541-1337. [122811] 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: 912692-8055 or smisavannah@gmail.com.

[122811] 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. [122811] Novel Writing Write a novel, finish the one you’ve started, revise it or pursue publishing your work. Award-winning Savannah author offers one-on-one or small group classes and mentoring, as well as manuscript critique, ebook formatting and more. Send an email to pmasoninsavannah@gmail.com for pricing and scheduling information. [010812] Open Pottery Studio at Savannah’s Clay

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912-509-4647. www.savannahsclayspot. com [122911] 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 [122811] Winter 2012 Classes at Coastal Georgia Center 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

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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 [122811] Buccaneer Region SCCA The local chapter of the Sports Car Club of America, hosting 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. [122811] 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) 308-6768 for more info. [121211]

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“Greater-Than Sudoku For this “Greater-Than Sudoku,” I’m not giving you ANY numbers to start off with! Adjoining squares in the grid’s 3x3 boxes have a greater-than sign (>) telling you which of the two numbers in those squares is larger. Fill in every square with a number from 1–9 using the greater-than signs as a guide. When you’re done, as in a normal Sudoku, every row, column, and 3x3 box will contain the numbers 1–9 exactly one time. (Solving hint: try to look for the 1’s and 9’s in each box first, then move on to the 2’s and 8’s, and so on). psychosudoku@hotmail.com

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. Meet at Starbucks, corner of Victory Dr. & Skidaway Rd. in Savannah. Information: coastalminis. com. [122811] Starbucks, 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/ [122811] Exploring The American Revolution in Savannah Interested in exploring the role Savannah played in the American Revolution?

Join like-minded 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. [122811] 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. [122811] 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 [122811] Islands MOPS A Mothers of Preschoolers group that meets at the First Baptist Church of the Islands on two Wednesdays a month from 9:15-11:30am. Website/information: https://sites.google.com/site/ islandsmops/ [122811] Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet Meets every Wednesday. Different locations downtown. Contact (912) 308-6768 for info. No fees. Wanna learn? Come join us! [121211] Low Country Turners A club for wood-turning enthusiasts.

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[122811] Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1 p.m. American Legion Post 184, 1 Legion Dr. Call 786-4508. [122811] 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/ [122811] Old Time Radio Researchers 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. [122811] Peacock Guild-For Writers and Book Lovers A literary society for bibliophiles and writers. Monthly meetings for the Writer’s Salon are held on first Tuesday and third Wednesday. Book Club meets on the third Tuesday. All meetings start at 7:30 p.m. and meet at Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home (207 E. Charlton St.).

Call 233-6014 or visit Facebook group “Peacock Guild” for more info. [012212] 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. [122811] Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club Members of Starfleet International and The Klingon Assault Group meet twice a month, on the first Sunday at 4 pm. at 5429 LaRoche Ave and the third Tuesday at Super King Buffet, 10201 Abercorn Street at 7:30 p.m. Call 308-2094, email kasak@ comcast.net or visit www.roguephoenix. org. [86/010112] Savannah Safe Kids Savannah Safe Kids Savannah, a coalition dedicated to preventing childhood injuries, holds a meeting on the second Tuesday of every month from 11:30am-1pm. Visit www.safekidssavannah.org or call 912353-3148 for more info. [122811] 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 “like” the Savannah Adventure Club on Facebook. [122811] 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. [122811]

Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club Meets Thursdays from 7:30-8:30 a.m. at the Mulberry Inn. 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.

[122911] Savannah Writers Group Meets the second and fourth Tuesdays at 7pm to discuss, share and critique writing of fiction or non-fiction novels, essays or short stories. A meet-andgreet precedes the meeting at 6:30pm.

Contact Carol North, 912-920-8891 for location. [122911] 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 5:307:30pm. 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.

[122911] Son-shine Hour Meets at the Savannah Mall at the Soft Play Mondays from 11-12 and Thursdays from 10-11. Activities include songs, stories, crafts, and games for young children and their caregivers. Free, no registration, drop-ins welcome. Call Trinity Lutheran Church for details 912-925-3940 or email KellyBringman@ gmail.com [122911] 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 http:// www.orgsites.com/ga/southernwings/ [86/010112] 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 [122911] 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. [122911] 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. [122911] 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. [122911] 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. [122911] U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla Become part of the volunteer organization who assists the U.S. Coast Guard in the performance of their important duties. Meets the 4th Wednesday every month at 6pm at Barnes Restaurant, 5320 Waters Avenue. Coed. All ages

welcomed. Prior experience and/or boat ownership not required. Information: www.savannahaux.com or telephone Al Townsend at 912-598-7387. [122911] Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671 Meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell at 927-3356. [122911] Savannah Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation Meets the second Tuesday of every month (except October), 6:00 pm at Woodville-Tompkins, 151 Coach Joe Turner Street. Call 912-232-3549 or email chesteraellis@comcast.net for more information. [122911] continues on p. 40

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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. Meet at Moon River Brewing Company, 21 W. Bay St. [122811] 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. Call Kathy Dust at 373-5571 or send e-mail to KMDUST4@hotmail.com or Dave Armstrong at Darmst0817@comcast. net or 925-4709. [122811] 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. [122811] 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 provided. After completing the class, you may become a member of the Savannah Fencing Club for $5 per month. Experienced fencers welcome. Call 429-6918 or email savannahfencing@aol.com.

Savannah Jaycees Meeting and information session held the 1st Tuesday of every month at 6pm to discuss upcoming events and provide an opportunity for those interested in joining the Jaycees to learn more. Must be 2140 years old to join the chapter. 101 Atlas St. 912-353-7700 or www.savannahjaycees.com [122811] Savannah Kennel Club Monthly meetings are open to the public and visitors. Meetings are held at Logan’s Roadhouse Restaurant, 11301 Abercorn St. on the fourth Monday of each month, September through May. Dinner starts at 6 pm and meeting starts at 7:30pm. Guest Speakers at every meeting. For more info, call 912-238-3170 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 [122911] 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. [122911]

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Dance Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes Classes for multiple ages in the art of performance dance and Adult fitness dance. Styles include African, Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary, & Gospel. Classes held in the new Abeni Cultural Arts dance studio, 8400-B Abercorn St. For more information call 912-631-3452 or 912-272-2797. Ask for Muriel or Darowe. E-mail: abeniculturalarts@gmail.com Adult Ballet Class Maxine Patterson School of Dance, 2212 Lincoln St., at 39th, is offering an Adult Ballet Class on Thursdays from 6:307:30. Cost is $12 per class. Join us for learning and fun. Call 234-8745 for more info. [101711] Adult Dance and Fitness Classes Beginner & Intermediate Ballet, Modern Dance, Barre Fusion, BarreCore Body Sculpt, and Gentle Stretch & Tone.

No experience necessary for beginner ballet, barre, or stretch/tone. The Ballet School, Piccadilly Square, 10010 Abercorn. Registration/fees/information: 912-925-0903. Or www.theballetschoolsav.com [122911] 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. [122911] 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 912-9257416 or email savh_tango@yahoo.com.

[122911] Doris Martin Dance Studio, 8511-h Ferguson Ave. , Beginners Belly Dance Classes Instructed by Nicole Edge. All ages/skill levels welcome. Every Sunday, Noon1PM, Fitness Body and Balance Studio 2127 1/2 E. Victory Dr. $15/class or $48/ four. 912-596-0889 or www.cairoonthecoast.com [122911] 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 912-4141091 Private classes are also available.

Walk-ins are welcome. Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave. [122911] C.C. Express Dance Team Meets every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. at the Windsor Forest Recreation Building.

Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary for this group. Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731. [122911] Home Cookin’ Cloggers Meet every Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at Nassau Woods Recreation Building on

| Submit your event | email: happenings@connectsavannah.com | fax: (912) 231-9932 | 1800 E. Victory Dr., Suite 7, Savannah, GA 31404 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 7480731. [122911] 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, noncompetitive and competition programs, workshops and camps. TCRG certified.

For more info contact PrideofIrelandGA@ gmail.com or 912-704-2052. [122911] Mahogany Shades of Beauty Inc. offers dance classes, including hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step, as well as modeling and acting classes. All ages and all levels are welcome. Call Mahogany at 272-8329.

[122911] Modern Dance Class Classes for beginner and intermediate levels. Fridays 10-11:15am. Doris Martin Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. For more info, call Elizabeth 912-354-5586. [122911] Pole Dancing Class Beginners pole dance offered Wednesdays 8pm, Level II Pole Dance offered Monday 8pm, $22/1 class, $70/4 classes, pre-registration required. Learn pole dance moves and spins while getting a full body workout. Also offering Pole Fitness Classes Monday & Wednesday 11am. For more info: www.fitnessbodybalance.com or 912-398-4776. Nothing comes off but your shoes. Fitness Body & Balance Studio, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. [122911] 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, 912-7048726. [122911] 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 912-398-8784.

[122911] 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 912-398-8784.

[122911] 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. [122911]

Events Blessed Sacrament School Open House Prospective students and parents will tour the school, meet the teachers and have the opportunity to fill out registration applications. Sunday, Jan. 29, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 1003 East Victory Drive in Savannah Pre-register or drop-in. (912) 356-6987 or visit www.bss-savannah.org Open House for Prospective Parents/ Students Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic School Open House will be Thursday, January 26.

The Pre-kindergarten (three and four year old classes) and Kindergarten portion will take place from 9:30-11:30AM and grades first through eighth will take place from 5:30-7:30PM Contact the Admissions office at (912) 897-5224 to register for the Open House.

Visit www.saintpetertheapostle.com for more information.

Film & Video 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 [122911] 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.

Upcoming schedule: www.sentientbean. com [122911]

Fitness Beginner’s Belly Dance classes with “Cairo on the Coast” Back to back belly dance classes and two unique styles of dance. Every Sunday, 12noon-1pm, 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 912-5960889. [122911] Belly Drills 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. [122911] 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 678799-4772 or see www.bohemianbeats. com. [121811] Bellydancing for fun and fitness The most fun class you’ve ever taken to get you in the best shape in the least amount of time. We provide bright colorful veils, jangling coin hip scarves, and exotic music. Every Wednesday, 6:30pm. $15 drop-in or $40 for four classes. Call 912-660-7399 or email ConsistentIntegrity@yahoo.com [122911] Fertility Yoga 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. [122911] 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., http://www. savj.org. [122911] 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 912-4299241. 11202 White Bluff Road. Drop Ins welcome. [122911] Savannah 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, 1321 Bull St. $14 per class. Multiclass discounts are available. Walk-ins welcome. Call 232-2994 or visit www. savannahyoga.com. [122911] Pilates Mat Classes Mat classes are held Tues & Thurs 7:30am-8:30am, Mon 1:30pm-2:30pm, Mon & Wed 5:30pm-6:30pm, Thurs 12:30pm-1:30pm, & Sat 9:30am10:30am. 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, 8413 Suite-A Ferguson Ave. http://savannahpilates. com. [122911] Pregnancy Yoga Ongoing series of 8-week sessions are held on Tuesdays from 6-7:15pm at 7116 Hodgson Memorial Dr., and Thursdays from 6-7:15pm at 100 Riverview Dr. Prenatal yoga helps mothers-to-be prepare for a more mindful approach to the

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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.

[122911] Gay AA Meeting True Colors AA Group, a gay AA meeting that welcomes all alcoholics, meets Sunday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at 311 E. Macon St. [122911] Savannah Georgia Equality Savannah The local chapter of Georgia’s largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 912547-6263. [122911] Savannah 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. SPs mission of unity through diversity, and social awareness has helped promote the well-being of the LGBT community in the South, and organizes the annual Savannah Pride Festival. Call 912-2887863 or email heather@savpride.com.

[122911] 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.

[122911] 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. [122911]

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Zumba Fitness Classes with Anne Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 E Montgomery Crossroads, Wednesdays, 7pm-8pm. $5, Free if you bring a friend.

(912) 596-1952. [010912] Zumba Fitness Classes with Mai Monday 8:30am-9:30 am, Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 G. Montgomery Crossroads. $5 per class Saturdays 8:30 am-9:30am, St. Paul CME Social Hall, 123 Brady St. $3 Per class. Contact Mai @ 912-604-9890.

[011412] ZUMBA! fitness with Laura Thursdays 7:30pm., beginning Jan. 5th. A Class Act Dance Center- 118 Pipemaker’s Circle Suite 110 Pooler, GA 31322. 912.748.4199. $10/class, cash only please. Wear comfy clothes and tennis shoes, bring water & a towel! email zumbalaura@hotmail.com for more info. [122911]

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“Happy 100th, Universal!”

— the studio’s restoring 13 of its classics; these 5 didn’t make the cut.

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1 “___ wish” (line from “The Princess Bride”) 6 Makers of the 90, 900 and 9000 10 “Gnarly!”

13 Sorer than sore 14 Gp. that’ll teach you how to serve 15 “It was 20 years ___ today...”

16 Universal’s 1985 Chevy Chase comedy 17 Burger chain with a bird mascot 19 Invasive crawling plant 20 Universal’s 1976 Richard Pryor comedy 21 Pronoun separated by a slash 25 Have the desire 26 “Later!”

29 Late writer/philosopher/”psychonaut” McKenna 31 With 44-across, Universal’s 1977 Burt Reynolds comedy 33 “Did I do that?” character 37 Chew toy filler 38 MCD divided by X 39 Movie role played by George Burns and Morgan Freeman 41 “Gangsta Lovin’” rapper 42 Twin Falls’ state 44 See 31-across 47 Not at sea 49 Capital home to the Viking Ship Museum 50 Result 53 “Had you fooled for a second there” 55 Universal’s 1984 Emilio Estevez flick 57 Knuckle-cracking, e.g.

61 World capital within the Distrito Federal 63 Universal’s 1980 Olivia Newton-John musical 64 “Breaking Bad” network 65 Abbr. for a president 66 Adjective for fairy tales and Nick Jr. shows 67 Vote shown on C-SPAN 68 Spoiled kid 69 Come after

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1 Gp. concerned with rights 2 Place to store tools 3 Former Israeli Prime Minister Rabin 4 With perfect timing 5 “That’s disgusting” 6 Big ___ (California region) 7 “Hey, wait ___!”

8 When duels take place, often 9 Scary-looking fish 10 Morocco’s capital 11 Like some hiring practices 12 “Tiny Bubbles” crooner 13 “I’m not typing right now” acronym 18 “For sale by ___” 22 “Kilroy Was Here” group 23 One wish for the new year, on many a greeting card 24 West end?

26 Fusion chef Ming ___ 27 In the thick of 28 ___ Bora (mountain area in old bin Laden news) 30 Lawn tools 32 Friedrich Hayek’s field 34 Adidas alternative 35 Resident ___ (PlayStation game) 36 Actor Jared who sings in 30 Seconds to Mars 40 Follow instructions 43 Hostess snacks 45 Move like a wallaby 46 Words after “Look, ma!”

48 Soviet monster 50 Country singer Keith 51 Prefix before tan or frost 52 Not focused 54 Pen-desk connector, at some banks 56 “The Godfather” film scorer ___ Rota 58 Singer Erykah 59 “This’ll be the day that ___...” (“American Pie” refrain) 60 One day: abbr.

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Cost is $100 for each course. Call Ann Carroll at 912-704-7650 e-mail ann@ aikyayoga.com. [122911] Savannah Disc Golf Club Weekly events (Entry $5): Fri. 5:45pmGlow Golf. Sat. 10am-Luck of the draw Doubles. Sat. 1pm-Handicapped League.

Tom Triplett Park, Hwy 80 W, Pooler. Sun. 10 am-Singles at the Sarge in Hardeeville, SC. Info: savannahdiscgolf.com or savannahdiscgolf@gmail.com All skill levels welcome. Instruction available. [122911] Stand-Up Paddleboarding Stand-up paddleboarding lessons and tours. A great way get out on the water and to stay fit. East Coast Paddleboarding, Savannah/Tybee Island. Eastcoastpaddleboarding.com or 781-267-1810 [122911] Team In Training Info Meeting & Kick-Off Jan. 26 from 6pm-9pm. Learn more about completing a triathlon, half or full marathon while benefiting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. All levels of athletes (including walkers) are welcome to attend. Events this season include the Dodge Rock ‘n’ Roll San Diego Marathon & 1/2 Marathon, the Mayor’s Marathon in Anchorage, AK, the Athleta Iron Girl Atlanta Women’s Triathlon and the ELEVEN Lake Oconee Triathlon. http://www.teamintraining.org/ga. Meet at Fleet Feet, 3405 Waters Ave. 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. 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 and Survivors Free for people with cancer and cancer survivors. 6.30 p.m., Tuesdays and 12:10 p.m., Thursdays, FitnessOne, 3rd floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine, Memorial University Medical Center. Call 912-350-9031. [122911] 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.

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Speech: 1st Thurs. of each month.

Savannah Speech & Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call 355-4601. www.savannahspeechandhearing.org [122911] Healthcare for the Uninsured St. Mary’s Health Center,1302 Drayton St.. 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 912-4439409. [122911] 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. [122911] Savannah Planned Parenthood Hotline First Line is a statewide hotline for women who want information on health services. Open every night from 7-11p.m. 1-800-264-7154. [122911]

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. Ageappropriate programs and related handouts. www.thedolphinproject.org [122911] 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

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Pets & Animals Low Cost Pet Clinic Tails Spin and Dr. Stanley Lester, DVM, host low-cost pet vaccine clinics for students, military and seniors on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 5-6pm. Vaccinations: $12.00, with $2.00 per vaccination donated to Savannah Pet Rescue Agencies. Habersham Village Shopping Center. www.tailsspin.com [122911] St. Almo Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks on Sundays at 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at the Canine Palace, 612 Abercorn St. For info, call 912-234-3336. [122911]

Readings & Signings Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club meets the last Sunday of the month at 4 p.m. at the African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605. [122911] 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 book you’ve read this month and tell all about it. Treats to share are always welcomed. Tea will be provided.

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to God.” [121211] A New Church in the City, For the City.

We will gather on Sunday mornings beginning February 5th at Bryson Hall (5 East Perry St.) on Chippewa Square at 10:30 am. www.edenvillagechurch.org Like us on Facebook: Savannah Church Plant. [011412] 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. 6:45-8pm on Wednesdays at the Vineyard Church. 615 Montgomery St. (behind Blowin’ Smoke BBQ). www.vineyardsavannah.org [122911] Savannah Zen Center Meditation, Classes & Events are held at 111 E. 34th St., Savannah, Ga 31401. For schedule: savannahzencenter.com or visit us on Facebook. [122911] Seeking the Peace of the City Encounter Revival Jan 26-28 7:30 pm, & Jan 29 @ 6:30pm. Miller’s Temple, 2306 Hopkins Street. Speakers: Evangelist Patrick Purcell & Pastor Jar’Nario Campbell.

Soka Gakkai of America SGI is an international Buddhist movement for world peace and individual happiness. The group practices Nichiren Buddhism by chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. Introductory meetings are held the third Sunday of the month. For further information, call 232-9121. [122911] Theology on Tap Meets at The Distillery every month on the third Monday night from 8:30 10:30pm. Like us on Facebook: Theology on Tap Downtown Savannah. [011412] 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.

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[122911] 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. [122911] 313 E. Harris St. , Unity Church 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.

ARIES

(March 21–April 19) The coming week is likely to be abnormally free of worries and frustrations. I’m afraid that means you’re not going to have as much right to complain as you usually do. Can you handle that? Or will you feel bereft when faced with the prospect of having so little to grumble about? Just in case, I’ve compiled a list of fake annoyances for you to draw on.

1. “My iPhone wont light my cigarette.” 2. “The next tissue in my tissue box doesn’t magically poke out when I take one.” 3.

“I want some ice cream, but I overstuffed myself at dinner.” 4.

“I ran out of bottled water and now I have to drink from the tap.” 5. “My cat’s Facebook profile gets more friend requests than me.” 6. “When people tell me I should feel grateful for all I have instead of complaining all the time, I feel guilty.”

TAURUS

(April 20–May 20) The state of California was named after a storybook land described in a 16th–century Spanish novel. The mythical paradise was ruled by Queen Calafia. Gold was so plentiful that the people who lived there made weapons out of it and even adorned their animals with it. Did the real California turn out to be anything like that fictional realm? Well, 300 years after it got its name, the California Gold Rush attracted 300,000 visitors who mined a fortune in the precious metal.

Your assignment, Taurus: Think of the myths you believed in when you were young and the fantasies that have played at the edges of your imagination for years. Have any of them come true, even a little?

I suspect that one may do just that in the coming weeks and months.

GEMINI

(May 21–June 20) In Bill Moyers’ DVD The Language of Life, poet Naomi Shihab Nye is shown giving advice to aspiring young poets.

She urges them to keep an open mind about where their creative urges might take them.

Sometimes when you start a poem, she says, you think you want to go to church, but where you end up is at the dog races.

I’ll make that same point to you, Gemini. As you tune in to the looming call to adventure,

don’t be too sure you know what destination it has in mind for you. You might be inclined to assume it’ll lead you toward a local bar for drinks when in fact it’s nudging you in the direction of a wild frontier for a divine brouhaha.

CANCER

(June 21–July 22) Renowned comic book writer Grant Morrison claims he performed a magic ritual in which he conjured the spirit of John Lennon, who appeared and bestowed on him the gift of a new song. I’ve heard Morrison sing the tune, and it does sound rather Lennon–esque. The coming week would be a good time for you to go in quest of a comparable boon, Cancerian: a useful and beautiful blessing bequeathed to you by the departed spirit of someone you love or admire.

LEO

(July 23–Aug. 22) “There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time,” said Oscar Wilde. “The reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.” I predict that sometime soon, Leo, you will prove that wisdom true. You will finally learn the brilliant question whose crucial answer you got years ago. When it arrives, you will comprehend a mystery that has been churning in the semi– darkness all this time.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22) Shedding is healthy –– not just for cats and dogs and other animals but also for us humans. Did you know that you shed thousands of particles of dead skin every hour? And just as our bodies need to shed, so do our psyches. I bring this up, Virgo, because you are in an unusually favorable phase to do a whole lot of psychic shedding. What should you shed exactly? How about some of these: old ideas that don’t serve you any more, habits that undermine your ability to pursue your dreams, compulsions that are at odds with your noble intentions, resentment against people who did you wrong a long, long time ago, and anything else you carry with you that keeps you from being fully alive and radiant. To

paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, the price of freedom and aliveness is eternal shedding.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22) According to research published in the journal Psychological Science, many people are virtually allergic to creative ideas. When asked to consider a novel proposal, they’re quite likely to reject it in favor of an approach that’s well–known to them. (More info here: tinyurl. com/3oor4nq.) This could be a problem for you in the coming weeks, Libra, since one of your strengths will be your ability to come up with innovations. So it won’t be enough for you to offer your brilliant notions and original departures from the way things have always been done; you will also have to be persuasive and diplomatic.

Think you can handle that dual assignment?

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21) “A single sunbeam is enough to drive away shadows,” said St. Francis of Assisi. I’m afraid that’s an overly optimistic assessment. In many circumstances, just one ray of light may not be sufficient to dispel encroaching haze and murk.

Luckily for you, though, there will be quite an assortment of sunbeams appearing in your sphere during the coming weeks. Here’s the complication: They won’t all be showing up at once, and they’ll be arriving in disparate locations. So your task will be to gather them all up and unite them so they can add to each other’s strength.

If you do that successfully, you’ll have more than enough illumination to chase away any darkness that might be creeping around.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

Poet Elizabeth Alexander says that in order to create a novel, a writer needs a lot of uninterrupted time alone. Poems, on the other hand, can be snared in the midst of the jumbled rhythms of everyday chaos –– between hurried appointments or while riding the subway or at the kitchen table waiting for the coffee to brew. Alexander says that inspiration can sprout like grass poking up out of the sidewalk cracks. Whether or not you’re a writer, Sagittarius, I see your coming weeks as

being more akin to snagging poems than cooking up a novel.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22–Jan. 19) “A true poet does not bother to be poetical,” said the poet Jean Cocteau. “Nor does a nursery gardener perfume his roses.”

I think that’s wise counsel for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn. It’s important that you do what you do best without any embellishment, pretentiousness, or self–consciousness.

Don’t you dare try too hard or think too much or twist yourself like a contortionist to meet impossible–to–satisfy expectations. Trust the thrust of your simple urges.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18) Collectors prefer wild orchids, says William Langley, writing in the UK’s Telegraph. Orchids grown in nurseries, which comprise 99.5 percent of the total, are tarnished with “the stigma of perfection.” Their colors are generic and their petal patterns are boringly regular. Far more appealing are the exotic varieties untouched by human intervention, with their “downy, smooth petals and moistened lips pouting in the direction of tautly curved shafts and heavily veined pouches.” Whatever your sphere or specialty is, Aquarius, I suggest you model yourself after the wild orchid collectors in the coming days.

Shun the stigma of perfection.

PISCES

(Feb. 19–March 20) While doing a film a few years ago, actress Sandra Bullock stumbled upon a stunning secret: Rubbing hemorrhoid cream on her face helped shrink her wrinkles and improve her complexion. I predict that at least one and possibly more comparable discoveries will soon grace your life. You will find unexpected uses for things that were supposedly not meant to be used in those ways.

Here’s a corollary, courtesy of scientist Albert Szent–Gyorgyi, that describes a related talent you’ll have at your disposal: “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”

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Support Groups Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association The Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association meets Sat., Jan. 28, 10:30am at the Candler Heart & Lung Building, 2nd floor, room 2, 5356 Reynolds St. in Savannah. Speaker: Mr. John McKinnon, RPh., co-owner of the Lo Cost Pharmacies in the Savannah area. “Medication Usage in Polio Survivors.” Polio survivors and guests are invited. For information call 912-352-8383 or go to www.coastalempirepoliosurvivors.org.

There is no charge for this meeting.

Al Anon Family Groups A fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics. Meeting locations and days: 1501 Eisenhower Dr., Monday at 12:30 p.m. Monday at 8 p.m., Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., Thursday at 8 p.m.m Sunday at 8 p.m. Goodwill on Sallie Mood Drive: Tuesday at 8 p.m. St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 2 st. Thomas Ave., Isle of Hope, Monday at 7:30 pm. Unitarian Universalist Church, 313 E. Harris St., call 912-495-9758 for day of meeting. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave., Monday at 5:30pm and Saturday at 11am. Contact numbers: 912-598-9860, or 912-495-9758, or Selma at 354-8550, or Melissa at 912-844-4524. [122911] 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.

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Amputee Support Group Open to all patients who have had a limb amputated and their families or caregivers. Call 355-7778 or 353-9635. [122911] 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 [122911] Breast Cancer Survivors Group Meets Tuesdays at 5:20om, at First Presbyterian Church on Washington Avenue and Paulsen Street. Survivor’s and care providers welcome. Enter via Washington Ave. Contact Melissa at 912-844-4524 or Krista at 912-819-7053.

[122911] 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. For anyone living with, through or beyond a diagnosis of cancer. Call 819-5704. [122911] 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. 3557633. [122911] 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.

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Leave msg with contact information for Phil @ 912-748-4730. [122911] 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. [122911] Heartbeats for Life A free support and education group for those who have suffered from, or want to prevent or reverse Heart Disease, and/ or Diabetes problems. One Tuesday per month. January 24, 2012 meeting at Taste of India, (Authentic Indian Cuisine), 401 Mall Boulevard. 912-356-1020 $25 (minimum) per person includes full dinner, gratuity and a donation for Heartbeats. Reservations and payment

required by 12:00 noon, Friday, January 20th. 6:30pm, dinner at 7pm. All other meetings at Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. (behind Target at Savannah Mall) Contact, Jeff: 912-5988457; email: jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga. org [011212] Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group For patients with blood-related cancers and their loved ones. Memorial Health University Medical Center, http://www. memorialhealth.com. Call Jennifer Currin, 350-7845. [122911] 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.

[86/010712] Narcotics Anonymous Call 238-5925 for the Savannah Lowcountry Area Narcotics Anonymous meeting schedule. [122911] National Alliance On Mental Illness Connection Support Group A weekly 90 minute support group for any with a mental health diagnosis.

Free & open to the public. We also have a weekly family support group. Both groups meet on Tuesdays, 6pm to 8pm.

Both are held at Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd. Free and open to the public. [122211] Overeaters Anonymous Meets weekly at several locations.

Please visit www.oa.org to locate a meeting. [122911] Parkinson’s Disease Support Group Meets the first Thursday of the month.

5-6:30pm in the Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. For more info, call 3556347 or 238-4666. [122911] Rape Crisis Center assists survivors of rape and sexual assault. The Rape Crisis Line is active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 912-2337273. The center offers free, confidential counseling for victims and their families.

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743 “B” EAST HENRY ST. Upstairs unit, Living room, dining room, 2BR, 2BA, kitchen w/range,refrigerator, dishwasher, lots of cabinets/counter space, washer/dryer connections, front & back balcony, CH&A, gas heat. Offstreet parking. $875/Rent & $825/Deposit. No Section 8.

REF. & CREDIT CHECK REQUIRED

898-4135

23 MASTICK STREET: 3BR/1BA upstairs Apt. Everything completely remodeled. $600/month, $600/deposit.

Call anytime 912-224-0985

3BR/1BA FOR RENT: 915 W.Victory Dr. by Beach High School, central heat/air, W/D hookup, total electric, no pets, no appliances $650/month. 507-8127 3 OR 4BR, 1.5BA, great Eastside location. central heat/air, fenced backyard $750/month. RENT-TOOWN IS OPTIONAL. 2BR/1BA, Park Avenue $550/month.

912-376-1674

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9B OAK FOREST LANE 2BR/1BA, Washer/Dryer Connection, Alarm System . $650/$650 Deposit.

912-398-4424 BACHELOR STYLED Apartment for rent at 1724 Arcadian Street.

1BR/1BA. Completely furnished.

Call: Mr. Shavers at 232-7965

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MOVE-IN SPECIALS AVAILABLE 718 West 38th St. 3BR/2BA, LR, DR, central heat/air, laundry room, fenced yard $685/month, NO DEPOSIT..

2BR/1BA Apts. Newly Renovated, hardwood floors,carpet, paint, appliances, central heat/air, washer/dryer hookups. $600-$650/month, utilities may be added to rent if requested.

912-844-3974 SECTION 8 WELCOME DUANE COURT & Caroline Drive: 2BR/1BA, living room, kitchen furnished, total electric $675/month BEE RD 2BR/1BA LR, KITCHEN FURNISHED, $625MO 912-897-6789 or 912-344-4164 EAST 55TH 2BR Duplex, kitchen furnished, fenced backyard $525/month plus deposit.

HIBISCUS 1BR Duplex, recently remodeled $475/month plus deposit.

912-234-0548; No Section 8

FURNISHED EFFICIENCY

Very nice, includes utilities, cable, washer & dryer. $200/week. $200/deposit. 912-236-1952 GARDEN CITY: 4537 Old Louisville 1BR/1BA $350. 2BR/1BA $475. Water & Garbage included for both apartments. Call 912-748-5937 or 912-398-5064 Good Land Lord Seeking Good Tenant Retired/ Couple CLEAN’freshley painted 2BR/ 1 BA • Proof of income • Reference required • Background check 1319 E. 54th Street $495/$495 dep 912-897-3801

HIGHLAND WOODS 800 QUACCO ROAD 925-9673

Mobile Home lots for rent.

First month rent free! Wooden deck, curbside garbage collection twice weekly, swimming pool and playground included. Cable TV available.

Home in East Savannah. 3br/1ba Refrigerator, Stove. On bus route.

Nice yard, CH&A, Fire place, Fenced yard. $700/month $700/deposit.

912-659-1692 LARGE 3BR/2BA Doublewide w/2 dens, great condition. South Effingham middle and high schools.

No pets. $775/month, $775/dep.

912-748-6831

LOWCOUNTRY RENTALS 912-665-0592 NEAR ISLE OF HOPE

7315 Garfield: 3BR/2BA, freshly painted, fenced backyard, single car garage. Move-in Ready! $1150/month + dep.

CLOVERDALE

Chevy Chase Rd.: 3BR/1BA, central heat/air $800/mo + dep.

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OGEECHEE RIVER HOME FOR RENT Hwy 80 Ogeechee River 2bedroom/2bath beautifully updated, private deck, appliances and water included. Minutes from Pooler $1100/month/$950 Dep 912-272-7242

FOR RENT

•1202 E.37th: 3BR/1BA Apt, lower $600+ sec. dep.

•1610 Ott St: 1BR Apt. $400/mo. + sec. deposit.

•838 West 39th St. 2BR house $600/mo. + sec. deposit.

•229 Lathrop Ave: 3BR, gas heat, one A/C $450/month + sec. dep.

Call Lester @ 912-313-8261 or 912-234-5650 Furnished Apartments on 38th St. $160/wk, $20 key dep. Furnished Utilities included .

912-234-9779

ONE, TWO & Three Bedroom Apts. for Rent. $350/month & Up. Call 912-232-3355

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1403 E. 38th: 2BR/1BA $650 1104 E. 31st: 3BR/1BA $625 801 Wexler: 4BR/1.5BA $900 8723 Hurst: 4BR/2BA $1000 417 Montclair: 3BR/2BA $1025 Several Rent-to-Own Properties Guaranteed Financing.

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REMODELED BATHROOM! 2 bedroom unit Freshly painted New Carpet Washer/Dryer Stove/ Refrigerator Central Heat and Air $550.00 (912)507-9967 smjohn27@bellsouth.net RENTALS FOR EVERY BUDGET

One, Two & Three Bedrooms.

Call for viewing, 912-349-4899 RENT-TO-OWN

Large 3BD/2BA & 2BD/2BA remodeled mobile homes in nice Garden City mobile home park. Pool, basketball court, playground, clubhouse. Low down affordable payments. Credit check required. Call Gwen or Della, 912-964-7675.

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CommerCial ProPerty For rent 890 Commercial Space Available 20 X 30 ‘ idea for office, storage,work shop, business, or studio, loc in Thunderbolt nr SSU Pvt bath & snack area. $500 mo 355-1359

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SMALL STUDIO Apt on Tennessee Ave. Private entrance, 2nd floor, off-street parking $295/month.

Call Jim, 912-398-6211 SOUTHSIDE •1BR apts, washer/dryer included.

Water & trash included, $625/month.

•2BR/1.5BA townhouse apt, total electric, w/washer & dryer/$650.

Call 927-3278 or 356-5656 Spacious 2BR/2BA Town House in Pooler area. With over 1200 ft, lots of storage / open kitchen great room, dr plan/ fire place. Community access to swimming pool.

Conv to Gulf Stream 10 min ride. $1,050 MO 912-272-9015

TATUMVILLE: 5150 CORDELL ST.

2bedroom, 1bath, Apartment,furnished kitchen, separate dining area, W/D hookup, Central A/C, off-street parking. $460/month, $460/dep. 912-658-0246.

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TOWNHOUSE: 100 Lewis Drive, Apt 13D 2BR/1.5BA, 2-story. Washer/dryer connections, all appliances. No pets. $600/month, $600/deposit.

Call 912-663-0177 or 912-663-5368.

VERY NICE HOMES

*2220 E.43rd 3BR/1BA $775 *127 Linden Dr 3BR/1BA $ 795 *2114 E.60th: 4BR/2BA $850 *13 Hibiscus Ave: 4BR/1BA $825 912-507-7934/912-927-2853

WEEKLY:

821 Amaranth Avenue 1&2 Bedrooms $200-$210 per week. furnished/utilities included. Quiet atmosphere. Call 912-441-5468.

WEST SAVANNAH 513 W. 63 rd St. 4 BR/1 BA, W/D hook-up, CH/A $850/$850 Dep 912-844-2344

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WINDSOR FOREST AREA

Available Now. 3BR/1BA, LR, family room, dining area, large kitchen, laundry room, central heat & A/C, shed w/electricity & concrete floor, newly painted interior & exterior. 2 new high efficiency sliding glass doors. No pets or smoking.$899/Rent + security deposit $929. (1yr. lease required) **Special Discount available for Police officers on rent & sec.dep.

No Section 8 Accepted! Call Scott Berry, Property manager at Berry Enterprises, 920-1936.

ONE, TWO & THREE BR Apts. & Houses for rent. Stove, refrigerator, washer/dryer. 1/2 month OffGood for this month only.

912-844-5996 OR 912-272-6820

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ROOMS FOR RENT Completely furnished. Central heat and air. Conveniently located on busline. $130 per week. Call 912-844-5995.

CHEVROLET Camaro Z-28 Convertible, 1998. Corvette engine.

65K miles. Excellent condition $8,995 Call Stephen 316-734-1935 LARGE VICTORIAN with windows on two sides, across from library, nicely furnished, all utilities.

TV/cable/internet, washer/dryer, $140/week. $504/month.

912-231-9464 Other apts. avail.

LOOK THIS WAY FOR A PLACE TO STAY

Furnished, affordable room available includes utility, cable,refrigerator, central heat/air. $115-$140/weekly, no deposit.Call 912-844-3609 NEED A ROOM? STOP LOOKING! Great rooms available ranging from $115-$140/weekly. Includes refrigerators, cable w/HBO, central heat/air.

No deposit.

Call 912-398-7507.

ROOMMATES WANTED West Savannah: Very Clean, newly remodeled w/central heat/air, stove,refrigerator,cable, washer/dryer, WiFi. On busline. Starting at $125/week.

Call 912-272-6919

ROOMS FOR RENT

Fully furnished, central heat/air, washer & dryer, cable, internet. No deposit.

Safe environment. $125-$150/weekly & $450-$550/monthly. 912-228-1242

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EFFICIENCY ROOMS Includes stove, refrigerator, private bath. Furnished! $180/week.

Call 912-844-5995.

APARTMENTS FOR RENT

2 Bedroom Apartments, kitchen with appliances, LV room, utilities included. $205-$225/weekly; Monthly $800-$850. 912-319-4182

ROOMS FOR RENT

SAVE $$$$ MOVE-IN SPECIALS Clean, furnished, large. Busline, central heat/air, utilities. $100-$130 weekly.

Rooms w/bathroom $145.

Call 912-289-0410.

AVAILABLE ROOMS: CLEAN, comfortable rooms. Washer/dryer, air, cable, HBO, ceiling fans. $110-$140 weekly. No deposit. Call Ike @ 844-7065 CLEAN, FURNISHED ROOM on busline, $110-145 per week plus deposit. Utilities Included. Call 912-660-2875.

CLEAN, QUIET, Room & Efficiencies for Rent.On Busline, Stove, Refrigerator, Washer/Dryer. Rates from $85-$165/week. Call 912-272-4378 or 912-631-2909

CHEVROLET Express Van, 2000- Automatic, AC, 6cyl.

4.3L, clean, runs great $2,450. 441-2150

FENDER BENDER?

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

FORD Ranger, 1990- Supercab, automatic, V6, AC, clean.

Runs great $1,950.00 441-2150 WE PAY CASH for junk cars & trucks! Call 964-0515 SUVS 930

Happenings: All the info about clubs, groups and events. Only at www.connectsavannah.com

SPACIOUS ROOMS FOR RENT Newly renovated on busline.2 blocks from Downtown Kroger,3 blocks from Historic Forsyth Park. $150/week w/No deposit.

844-5995 www.connectsavannah.com

CHEVROLET Cavalier, 2003, Coupe. 2 Dr, Automatic. Cold A/C, Extra clean, Runs great. $3,950. 912-441-2150

$50 Deposit EFFICIENCIES $170/per week & up.

Utilities included, Furnished, private bath. No Pets. Call 912-695-7889 or 912-342-3840 Studio for Rent on the Beach Furnished, very nice studio;South end of Island(close to shopping);Parking, 1 queen bed, sitting area, kitchenette,bath, walk-in closet;utilities included;6-12 month lease;credit check and ref required $800. (803)622-3245

ROOMMATE NEEDED: Share 3 bedroom, 2 bath apartment (Southside Location). $450/month, utilities included! Available Now. No drugs. Call 912-660-9849.

SHARE 4BR/3BA House in Bloomingdale. All amenities included plus pool. $125/weekly, $125/deposit. Call 912-224-0985 transportation 900

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2002 F-250 SD Crew Cab 5.4L long bed. at/ps/pb/ac. Sony sound Sys. Hd towing pkg. New tires, White, Grey upholstry. no wear, extra clean, reg service. $ 8000 912-222-1355

FORD Expedition, 2003- In excellent condition $10,000 OBO.

LINCOLN Towncar, 1993 - In good condition $2,300 OBO. Call 912-484-7543 Boats & accessories 950 FIBERGLASS 16’10” BOAT with homemade trailer, 55Hp engine $1,500 Firm. 912-604-4353 or 912-352-2281 Campers/rVs 960

FLEETWOOD Southwind motor home, 1998. 34ft. long, under 30,000 miles, gas engine, excellent condition. Asking $15,000. Call 912-381-4755.

RV, 2000 Forest River Sand Piper Travel Trailer, 8x33-1/2 ft length, 3ft Super Slide Full Kitchen, Sleeps 6-8,Sliding Glass Doors. Must see to appreciate.

May be seen at 22 Oglethrope Professional Blvd.

Savannah, Ga 31406 $10,000 912- 484-8690

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*2 BEDROOM 1 BATH Apt. Completely remodeled $795/month.

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