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CELEBRATING OUR 75TH YEAR!!

PERFORMANCES February 29, 6pm

“Perfect Nowhere” Performance by Andre Ruschkowski

March 2, 6pm

Performance by the Loud Objects

March 2, 7pm

performance by the Medeology Collective

March 3, 3pm

Dreamtime Synastry by Matthew Cooper and Chelsea DeMercado

March 3, 3:30pm

Game Music by Geuka -Amiri Farris

March 3, 6pm

Performance The KarmetiK Machine Orchestra

SPECIAL EVENTS February 27-March 4

PULSE Free Week at the Jepson Center

March 3, 1-4 pm

F E B R U A R Y 2 7- M A R C H 3

DIY Family Day and Expo

March 4, 3 pm

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Green Machine Art Bike Ride

March 2, 4-6 pm

SCAD Sound Art Showcase

February 24 – March 11 opening February 24, 6-9 pm

Exhibition at Indigo Sky Gallery: “Crash and Collapse”

March 4, 8 pm

Film screening at Muse Arts Warehouse

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WEEK AT A GLANCE FReebie oF the week

pulse: Art bike workshop

participants decorate bikes with recycled materials. bring your bike & thin materials like candy wrappers & tin foil. no reservations needed. sun. march 4, 1-3 p.m. at moses Jackson Community Center, 1410 richards st. Free and open to public. Info: telfair.org/ 10 coMMunity: a last

loving look back at universe trading Co.

by GeoFF L. Johnson

07 eDItor’s note 08 CIVIL soCIety 09 enVIronment 12 bLotter 13 straIGht Dope 14 neWs oF the WeIrD

Music

18 stopoveR: spotlight

on some fresh bands. by bILL DeyounG

16 noteWorthy & sounDboarD 17 stopoVer: oberhoFer InterVIeW

cultuRe

22 pulse: boyz will be

noize.... by bILL DeyounG

24 marK your CaLenDar 26 theatre 28 FooD & DrInK 29 art 30 FILm: J.e.t. LIFe 31 moVIes

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Wednesday historic savannah Foundation lecture: history of First bryan baptist church

whAt: note new Date: Dr. Charles J. elmore, author and former savannah state university professor, will offer insight into one of the most historic africanamerican houses of worship in the southeast. part of hsF’s 2012 preservation Lecture series. rescheduled from February 21. when: Wed. Feb. 29 wheRe: First bryan baptist Church, 575 W. bryan street, cost: Free and open to the public. inFo: www.myhsF.org/

pulse Art & technology Festival Artist panel

whAt: high school and college students are invited to attend a panel with pamela Z, James Gladman and other puLse Festival artists. when: Wed. Feb. 29, 11 a.m. wheRe: Jepson Center for the arts, 207 W. york st., cost: Free inFo: telfair.org/

Film: the woman in black (1989, uk)

whAt: psychotronic Film society presents the original version of this horror film. when: Wed. Feb. 29, 8 p.m. wheRe: sentient bean, 13 e. park ave., cost: $6 inFo: sentientbean.com/

theater: Spring Awakening opens

whAt: Winner of eight tony awards, including best musical. explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood of a dozen young people with an electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality, and rock and roll. $5 with valid sCaD ID. Free with valid sCaD ID for February 29 performance only. when: Wed. Feb. 29, 8 p.m., thu. march 1, 8 p.m., Fri. march 2, 8 p.m., sat. march 3, 8 p.m., sun. march 4, 3 p.m. wheRe: Lucas theatre, 32 abercorn st., cost: $20/Gen. $15/senior, student or military inFo: www.lucastheatre.com/

thursday game change discussion panel

whAt: Featuring Ian bogost, mary Flanagan, Kunal Gupta, Greg borenstein. part of the puLse art & technology Festival. when: thu. march 1, 6 p.m. wheRe: Jepson Cente, 207 W. york st. cost: Free and open to the public inFo: telfair.org/

Jazz at lincoln center orchestra with wynton Marsalis

whAt: savannah music Festival presents an evening of swing. Celebrate Wynton’s 50th birthday with a retrospective and arrangements of big band classics. when: thu. march 1, 6 p.m. wheRe: trustees theater, 216 e. broughton st. cost: $28-$80 inFo: www.savannahmusicfestival.org/

AAsu Masquers: Food For Fish opens

whAt: Loosely based on Chekhov’s three

sisters wheRe: Jenkins hall black box, 11935 abercorn st. when: 7:30 pm. march 1–4 cost: $10 general admission inFo: tickets.armstrong.edu

perfect nowhere interactive performance by Andre Ruschkowski

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whAt: part of the puLse art & technology Festival. when: Wed. Feb. 29, 6 p.m. wheRe: Jepson Center for the arts, 207 W. york st., cost: Free and open to the public. inFo: telfair.org/

Friday savannah boat and outdoor show

Music: organist Jon gillock

whAt: World renowned parisian organist performs works

by J. s. bach, Franck, Dupre, tournemire and Vierne. when: Wed. Feb. 29, 7 p.m. wheRe: st. peter’s episcopal Church, 3 West ridge road, skidaway Island cost: Donations accepted. inFo: 912 598 7242 ext 5.

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scAd’s Spring Awakening hits the lucas

whAt: marine equipment, accessories, services, fishing clinics, children’s activities, the swampmaster alligator show, twiggy the Water skiing squirrel, live music, and... a whole lot of boats.

Children free under age 3.

Kids tickets $3 age 4-12.

Friday 3/2: noon - 6pm saturday 3/3: 10am - 6pm sunday 3/4: 11am - 5pm wheRe: savannah International trade & Convention Center, 1 International Dr., hutchinson Island cost: adults: $5 Friday, $8 sat & sun.

Asbury: Into the Woods opens

scAd’s shakespeare Film series continues

1008 e. henry st. when: 8 p.m. march 2–3, 9–10; at 3 p.m. march 4 and 11 cost: $10 general admission inFo: asburymemorial.org/theatre

whAt: mini-festival of films inspired by the bard.

Fri. march 2, 4pm. richard Loncraine’s “richard III” (1995) shakespeare’s history in 1930s britain. starring Ian mcKellen, annette benning, Jim broadbent, and robert Downey, Jr. sun. march 4, 2pm. Fred m. Wilcox’s “Forbidden planet” (1956) the iconic sci-fi film based on “the tempest.” when: Fri. march 02, sun. march 04 wheRe: sCaD museum of art, 601 turner blvd., cost: Free with museum admission inFo: scadmoa.org/

concert: the live objects.

whAt: Is it music? Is it noise? Is it electric? yes. the new york Citybased trio performs as part of puLse art & technology Festival. when: Fri. march 2, 6 p.m. wheRe: Jepson Center, 207 W. york st. cost: Free and open to the public inFo: telfair.org/

whAt: sondheim classic. wheRe: asbury memorial Church,

performance: the Medeology collective

whAt: a genre-bending ensemble whose performances are part video art, installation art, sculpture and more, presenting the audio-visual performance “reflexion pool,” using videogame guitars to trigger images and sounds. when: Fri. march 2, 7 p.m. wheRe: Jepson Center, 207 W. york st. cost: Free and open to the public inFo: telfair.org/

black Maria Film + video Festival

whAt: sCaD sponsors this acclaimed

traveling showcase of narrative, experimental, documentary and animated short films, featuring contemporary works by emerging as well as veteran independent film and video makers. when: Fri. march 2, 8 p.m.

wheRe: trustees theater, 216 e.

broughton st., cost: $5. Free with sCaD ID inFo: blackmariafilmfestival.org/

comedy: steve Macone

whAt: savannah Comedy revue

presents the boston comedian who’s appeared on Comedy Central and written for the onion. Jake head from atlanta opens. when: Fri. march 2, 8 p.m. wheRe: bay street theatre, 1 Jefferson street (at bay street), cost: $9 inFo: 314-503-9005. savannahcomedyrevue.com/

‘honoring an educator’ gala and silent Auction whAt: sCaD president and Co-

Founder paula Wallace will be celebrated for her contributions to education at this events sponsored by horizons savannah. when: march 2, 6:30pm Where: savannah marriott riverfront cost: $75 inFo: horizonssavannah.org, 912/961-8854

First Friday For Folk Music

whAt: savannah Cieli band, naming

the twins

when: 7:30 p.m. Friday, march 2 wheRe: First presbyterian Church,

520 Washington ave. cost: $2 donation inFo: www.savannahfolk.org

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saturday Forsyth Farmers’ Market

whAt: Fresh produce, eggs, pasta, bread and baked goods. Double snap dollars for all market purchases. when: sat. march 3, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. wheRe: Forsyth park cost: Free to hang out and visit. inFo: forsythfarmersmarket.org/

15th Annual collard greens Festival

whAt: promised Land Farm celebrates final harvest and reseeding of greens in the historic africanamerican community of monteith. bar-b-Q and other dinners available.

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parade at 10am, festival all day. when: sat. march 3, 10 a.m. wheRe: promised Land Farm, 240 monteith road, port Wentworth cost: Free. pick Collards:$5. Free for srs/Vets/Disabled inFo: 912-631-2949.

when: sun. march 4, 3 p.m. wheRe: Jepson Center, 207 W.

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group leads this workshop for ages 13 - 18. part of puLse Festival. when: sat. march 3, 10 a.m. wheRe: Jepson Center, 207 W. york st. cost: Free and open to the public inFo: telfair.org/

whAt: brass Quintet of the savannah philharmonic orchestra presents popular works from handel to the beatles. when: sun. march 4, 5 p.m. wheRe: telfair rotunda, 121 barnard street cost: $15 inFo: 912-525-0550. www.savannahphilharmonic.org/

whAt: the Loud objects performance

pulse Art & technology Festival diy tech Family day and expo

st.

york

cost: Free and open to the public. inFo: telfair.org/

concert: 400 years of canadian brass, A tribute

evening of Movement and Music

whAt: performances include Dreamtime synastry by matthew Cooper and Chelsea Demercado at 3pm.

Game music by Geuka at 3:30pm and the KarmetiK machine orchestra at 6pm. when: sat. march 3, 1 p.m. wheRe: Jepson Center, 207 W. york st. cost: Free and open to the public inFo: telfair.org/

whAt: a showcase by performers and students with Gretchen Greene Dance Company. when: sun. march 4, 6 p.m. wheRe: trustees theatre, 216 east broughton street cost: $9 inFo: 912-525-5050 . scadboxoffice. com/

Jazz at the beach

Film: shame (uk, 2011)

whAt: enjoy oyster roast and Low-

whAt: Cinemasavannah presents provocative film starring michael Fassbender and Carey mulligan. “...a real walk on the wild side, a scorching look at a case of sexual addiction that’s as all-encompassing as a craving for drugs.” —the hollywood reporter. when: sun. march 4, 7 p.m. wheRe: Victory square theaters cost: $10 cash only

Film: taxi driver (1976)

documentary: beyond the game (2008, netherlands)

country boil while listening to gypsy vibe of miss Wilde and the bohemian Dream band. auction and proceeds benefit savannah philharmonic. when: sat. march 3, 2 p.m.-6 p.m. wheRe: tybee Island social Club, 1311 butler avenue cost: $30 inFo: 912-232-6002 . www.savannahphilharmonic.org/ whAt: martin scorcese’s classic film

about life on the streets of new york. when: sat. march 3, 7 p.m. wheRe: trustees theater, 216 e. broughton st. cost: $8

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sunday low cost pet vaccine and Microchip clinic whAt: protect your furry friends (and

find them if they stray). sponsored by humane society. when: sun. march 4, 12 p.m.-3 p.m. wheRe: tybee Island ymCa, 204 5th st cost: $10 vaccines, $20 microchip inFo: 912-354-9515 x 112.

green Machine Art bike Ride

whAt: part of telfair museums’ puLse Festival. Co-sponsored by savannah bicycle Campaign. a 5-mile ride beginning at the Jepson Center. bring your art bike, modified or decorated pedal powered vehicle to this event celebrating green transportation and creativity.

whAt: psychotronic Film society presents this doc on World of Warcraft in conjunction with the puLse Festival of art and technology. when: sun. march 4, 8 p.m. wheRe: muse arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville rd. cost: Free and open to the public inFo: www.musesavannah.org/

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Wednesday Film: dance with the devil (1997, spain)

whAt: Javier bardem birthday tribute,

aka Perdita Duranga. this twisted, violent and darkly comic crime thriller is one of bardem’s least-known but most bizarre and thrilling films. when: Wed. march 7, 8 p.m.

Where: sentient bean, 13 e. park ave. cost: $7 cash only inFo: sentientbean.com Cs

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Cherish the ladies

by JiM MoRekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

Lots of progressive, forward-thinking stuff going on in our little area these days: Chatham County just passed a smoking ban like the one in the City of Savannah.

The Telfair Museums’ PULSE Festival hits its stride this weekend, celebrating the meeting of art and technology with nationally-renowned thinkers and performers (see more on page 22).

The awesome Savannah Stopover hits town soon (see the nifty festival guide we inserted into this issue).

Sen. Buddy Carter (R-Pooler) has introduced a bill in the Georgia legislature to allow solar energy to offset Georgia Power’s ridiculous monopoly (read more in Jack Star’s piece on page 9).

Yup, 2012 is in full swing in Savannah. But turn on your TV and it seems like the rest of America is still in 1912, or maybe even 1812.

Here we are in a world racked by war, rebellion, terrorism, economic distress, climate upheaval, and any number of other dire circumstances.

But all some presidential candidates want to talk about is... lady parts.

Lady parts, and what ladies should or should not be doing with them.

I’d call it an obsession, but that’s giving them too much credit for thinking. When you hear a politician insist that women should never use contraception, then in the next sentence complain about too many babies being born out of wedlock, that’s a person who isn’t using their brain at all.

Not to mention someone without much understanding of lady parts!

The state of Virginia last week nearly passed a bill mandating that, regardless of what their doctor advises or their insurance company will pay for, pregnant women receive an invasive procedure called a “transvaginal ultrasound” before getting an

abortion. (Several other states currently have the same law.)

In a chilling detail seemingly lifted straight out of The Scarlet Letter, if the patient refuses to look at the results of said ultrasound, her refusal will be noted in her medical record.

Granted, this is an extreme example, so extreme in fact that Virginia’s extreme right–wing Gov. Bob McDonnell soon backed off. But it vividly shows how clueless our society can be with regards to women’s issues, even in 2012. The fact that a woman initially proposed the bill doesn’t make it any less harmful or insulting.

While I will not and cannot claim a detailed grasp of women’s health issues, my own experience as a father and husband shows me time and time again that misogyny is a very serious but strangely underreported issue in our usually hyper-sensitive society.

For example, most displays of racism in America these days are promptly (and rightly) punished with near–universal disgust, contempt, and forfeiture of one’s job.

In the corporate world, even an accusation of racial or cultural “insensitivity” can sink an entire career.

We don’t seem nearly as protective of women, however. Sexism and misogyny are rarely punished in our society — and in many cases are actually rewarded.

What’s a potential reward for misogyny? In the case of this year’s Republican presidential candidates, only the most powerful job in the entire world.

With so much nuttiness on display over the past few weeks — the Susan G. Komen debacle, the uproar over religious freedom vs. contraception, the all–male Congressional hearing on birth control, the idiot Indiana congressman who said Savannah’s beloved Girl Scouts have a communist, “pro-lesbian” agenda — I’ve nearly lost the capacity to be shocked at the stupid things people say about women’s issues.

Not to mention the maddening ways in which men will try to force all responsibility for reproductive decisions onto women instead of sharing responsibility.

But during the most recent GOP debate, there was an extended segment which made my jaw drop, a prolonged discussion between Ron Paul and Rick Santorum about the use of the so–called “morning–after” pill by rape victims.

In my silly little post–Enlightenment, 21st Century world, I figured that any normal, decent, marginally compassionate person would say, but of course the morning–after pill should automatically be available for rape victims.

I felt safe in assuming that, of all people on the face of the planet, a rape victim might be the one person for whom we can all agree the easy availability of a morning–after contraception pill should be a no–brainer.

But no. Paul and Santorum instead debated what level and type of abortion the morning–after pill represents.

Not a word about what a rape victim might need or want in the depths of her shock and despair.

In their minds, she’s not even an afterthought. She’s no thought at all.

The fact that the notoriously regressive Rick Santorum took a position which might have been extreme in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s time was no surprise. But keep in mind that not only is Ron Paul supposedly a big supporter of personal liberty, he’s also an obstetrician.

Yet so constricting and condescending is the right wing’s view of women’s issues that not even their OB/GYN candidate would speak up for a rape victim’s rights to privacy, dignity, independence, and basic health care!

Less profound but still annoying is the rank hypocrisy of the usual suspects, like Paul himself, who constantly lecture us about the need for small government and the danger of “big government overreach” while supporting literally the most invasive type of government overreach conceivable, i.e., things like state–mandated transvaginal ultrasounds.

Of course, as most women are well aware and despite what any politician tells you, the real issue here is neither small government nor traditional family values nor religious freedom.

The issue is the same one it’s always been with regards to male authority figures and women: Power. Intimidation. Bullying.

I’m not the world’s biggest expert on women. But I do know one thing women really hate is being bullied by men — especially men who’ve made no effort whatsoever to understand or care about their needs.

So to my more socially conservative right–wing friends I say, your motto might be “Don’t Tread on Me.” But if you keep treading on American women they’re going to make your big tough Tea Party look like, well... a tiny little actual tea party.

You’ve awakened a sleeping giant, guys. And as the old saying goes: Hell hath no fury.... Cs

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by JessicA leigh lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

The Crape Myrtle Murders I’m a treehugger. Literally.

This endearing sobriquet is usually bestowed upon those who love nature in general and is often used derisively by those attempting to belittle environmentalists. In my case, however, I do in fact make a regular practice of throwing my arms around trees.

See, working on a computer all day can give a person a rather disconnected feeling, and nothing grounds me like touching something that has actual roots. After a long day at the office with my head in the box, I find pressing my cheek against the tulip magnolia in my front yard quite relaxing. And far less ruinous than tequila.

I often venture onto my neighbors’ lawn to run my hand along the scratchy bark of their stunning dogwood tree when I’m walking the dog. (This often creates anxiety for the dog, who seems aghast with pug–eyed confusion as to why I’m embracing a toilet.)

I tend to goose any sexy arboreal specimen I see (there’s a certain live oak on 61st Street with one helluva trunk), but since moving to the South I find crape myrtles particularly compelling. (Garden geeks know that there’s a controversy over whether it’s “crape” or “crepe,” referring the crinkly edges of the flowers.

I’m going with the American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia’s spelling.)

With their papery, mottled limbs and kaleidoscopic blooms, the members of Lagerstroemia indica invite a leaf–lovin’ gal to cuddle up and stay awhile.

My affection for them forces me to raise the alarm of the heinous crime currently being committed against crape myrtles across Savannah. Every year around pruning time, well–meaning landscapers and homeowners hack these branched beauties back to the knuckles, leaving gnarled knobs that are totally unsuitable for hugging.

This hideous mutilation is also known as “crape

left: A sad victim of overzealous saws. Right: An example of responsible pollarding.

murder” and it must be stopped.

I bet you think I made that up for dramatic flair.

Which is understandable, because I tend towards the dramatic.

But crape murder is a real term, employed by professional arborists and Master Gardeners.

“It’s awful,” bemoans former Savannah Tree Foundation President, Master Gardener and crape murder expert Diane Houston. “Everywhere you go there are these ugly stubs all over the place. People think they’re doing the right thing, but there’s nothing right about it.”

I called Patrick Grant of Certified Arborist Services to find out why people are so cruel to their crape myrtles, and he sighed with resignation.

“People do it because it makes them flower like crazy, but they’re doing so because the tree is reacting to a catastrophic wound,” he explained. “It’s a pruning technique called ‘pollarding’ but it’s very difficult to do right.”

Most people don’t do it right, cutting below the previous year’s gash and significantly shortening the tree’s life. Grant points out that there are crape myrtles in Savannah over 150 years old, but one won’t even live half that long if it’s maintained with the skills of a drunk Edward Scissorhands.

Bill Haws, Forestry Administrator for the City of

Savannah, sees mutilated crape myrtles all over town that look like they’ve been pollarded by a toddler with a chainsaw.

“It some cases it’s been done for decades, and those trees inevitably end up with pockets of decay,” reports Haws. “It also makes the tree more prone to limb breakage with the storms we get.”

To stimulate blooms without ruining tree structure, Haws recommends “deadheading”—simply clipping out seed pods at the ends of branches.

If you see a crape myrtle or any other variety of tree that needs attention on any of the 350 miles of public sidewalk lawns around the city, do not, I repeat, DO NOT take a machete into your own hands—call 311 so Haws and his team give it some TLC. Houston thinks it’s a combination of ignorance and peer pressure that’s made this seasonal slaughter so widespread. Landscape professionals and property owners lop off limbs all over town and neighbors follow suit, not understanding that while respectful pruning of crossing or dead limbs is warranted, full–on amputation is wholly unnecessary.

“Crape myrtles bloom on new wood, so they’re going to bloom whether you cut them or not,” pleads Houston. “We have a lot of educating to do.”

She adds that some people murder their crape myrtles because they’ve grown too big for the space. Grant, Houston and Haws agree that in many cases, it’s preferable just to cut the whole darn tree down and start over with a more appropriately–sized variety of crape myrtle—there are dozens, from dwarves that only grow to two feet to mammoths soaring 30 feet into the sky.

So please, people, put down the saws. Call your landscape company. Demand an end to the senseless butchery of innocent trees.

That way, when you go out to your neighborhood crape myrtle for a quick squeeze, its arms might just be long enough to hug you back. Cs

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With Georgia struggling with a rate of unemployment higher than the national average, you’d think a bipartisan bill that would create not just jobs, but whole new industries that would provide more jobs for decades, would sail through the legislature to great applause. eligible for tax credits, plus accelerated depreciation, have yet to go solar or integrate fuel cells. Churches and non–profits that own their own buildings are not eligible for tax credits, so they are priced out of the market.

Except for Savannah Tech and a few panels on a SCAD building, local colleges and universities, as well as the entire school system, are devoid of solar.

But all that could change. Waiting for their cue to come onboard, major investors are ready to take advantage of power purchase agreements — if they can ever be covered under SB401/SB459.

Power purchase agreements work like this: Company A comes to a property owner and offers, in effect, to rent part of a building rooftop for many years (typically 20).

In exchange, Company A provides everything, including on–going maintenance, and sells the electricity to the property owner at a lower rate than that charged by the utility. Investors in Company A get the tax credits and the depreciation as well as an ongoing revenue stream.

It’s a win–win for everyone, except Georgia Power. At least that is what the utility claims. Citing a 40–year old law that gives Georgia Power monopoly territorial generation rights, they say Company A is acting like a utility.

Georgia Power doesn’t want the competition.

Georgia Power also frets about the problems of intermittent generation of electricity by solar and wind.

It’s true. The wind dies down; clouds dancing across the skies cause a temporary shadow on solar modules and an abrupt drop in electricity.

Georgia Power claims that the company may have to invest in equipment to handle the interruption, and that means higher rates for

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Instead SB401 languishes in committee and may never even get to a vote in the Senate, much less become law. (As I write this, the bill has also been attached to SB459 in another committee, so it may yet come to a vote.)

Sponsored by Sen. Buddy Carter (R–Pooler) and five other senators, the bill seeks to change provisions of “The Georgia Cogeneration and Distributed Generation Act of 2001.”

It would allow utility customers who generate power on their own property to finance the purchase of what is called a “distributed generation facility” by purchase, lease, loan, or other form of financing, including a power purchase agreement.

Further, the bill defines such a facility as one that uses a solar photovoltaic system, fuel cell, generators fueled by biomass, municipal solid waste, landfill gas, hydropower, or wind turbine.

The bill specifies that the facility be intended primarily to offset part or all of the customer requirements for electricity.

So why is this such a big deal, and why are Georgia Power and its allies doing a full court press to see that it never sees the light of day?

The relatively high upfront costs of a solar installation, or any other of the other facilities (including fuel cells), present a major barrier. Even with the 30 percent federal tax credit and the 35 percent state tax credit, the buyer has to come up with the whole system cost at one time.

Regional banks have yet to discover renewable energy loans. Local homebuilders aren’t providing solar systems as part of the mortgage (in which case the energy savings offset the slight increase in mortgage payments).

For reasons that escape me, owners of commercial buildings, also

everyone—at least that’s the claim.

But load balancing is something utilities do all the time. By chance, I had just renewed my subscription to “Transmission and Distribution World” when I heard about SB401.

It’s one of many trade magazines that present case histories and best practices. I’m sure utility engineers read it.

Georgia Power is already moving to a Smart Grid — that’s why the new smart meters — that will be even more adaptable to distributed energy generation.

Georgia Power, as Buddy Carter notes, is going to have to deal with intermittent generation anyway from systems financed by the owners, banks, etc. Whether they are financed privately or though a power purchase agreement is immaterial.

Fuel cells produce power though a chemical process in a cell where hydrogen and oxygen interact resulting in the highly efficient production of electricity and heat. Typically natural gas or biogas is the feedstock for the hydrogen.

Unlike solar and wind, electricity production is constant and predictable. Fuel cell prices are also coming down and could represent a major growth industry for the state.

Property owners, not Georgia Power, however, are making the major capital investment. And the availability of renewable sources of electricity will help the utility during times of peak demand when it has to pay more for backup power. That’s a win.

As Georgia becomes friendlier to renewable energy production — as the local market begins to grow — companies in all of the industries covered in SB401/SB459 will be attracted to the state.

New business means new customers for the electric utilities — another win. Cs

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The end of the Universe photos & text by geoFF l. Johnson

For 32 years, Universe Trading Company has been a fixture on Franklin Square, as much a unique Savannah attraction as a one-of-a-kind antique store.

Owner Greg Portman recently closed the store, with the remaining goods to be auctioned off March 9-10. We were there in the final days to talk with Greg about Universe Trading and what his place has meant to the city.

The Savannah native opened the store in 1980. He says he got his business savvy from his dad, Nathan, and his “knack for things of beauty� from his mom, Shirley, an accomplished artist.

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Portman began by selling damaged or surplus items from incoming shipping containers. Soon after, he traveled to Europe and returned with a 40-foot container of antiques. He made about ten trips like that over the years, including one to China.

For awhile there he even handled all the “slightly damaged” inventory from Pier 1 stores throughout the nation.

Portman admits he has a tendency to “buy almost anything,” so in-the-know locals have always brought stuff to the store for him to consider.

He remembers one hot summer day when a guy arrived with a shopping cart full of bagged ice, wanting Portman to buy it.

“He was sent on his way,” Greg laughs.

Many celebrities have been “caught” in Universe over the years, from local residents like Gregg Allman, Sandra Bullock, and Paula Deen to stars just passing through, such as Darryl Hannah, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, and Naomi Judd, who Portman remembers wanted to buy the six-foot-tall Blues Brothers…

Greg also recalls “running Joan Baez out of Universe at closing time one day” because he didn’t recognize her.

There’ve been other famous visitors as well, “whose secret will be kept.”

Portman says he’s “humbled and in awe” of the loyal following the store has built over the past three decades, and would like to especially thank Jimmy Anderson, an invaluable employee for 22 years.

Greg Portman himself seen in the photo on the lower right of the page, in his familiar position behind the front counter. With him is Jessie Maxwell, who is helping prepare for the upcoming auction.

In addition to the larger auction items, there will be over 200 sealed boxes sold, containing “all kinds of surprises” that were uncovered during the closing process, Portman says. Cs

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blotteR aLL Cases From reCent saVannah/ Chatham poLICe Dept. InCIDent reports

Then he threw the gun?!

Police are investigating the death of a businessman whose body was found on a vacant lot he co–owned.

The body of Christopher Mayville, 50, of Grace Drive, was found at East 61st and Abercorn streets about 3:30 a.m. Police say it appears he died of a self–inflicted gunshot wound.

However, detectives later recovered a pistol hidden in a bamboo thicket on a lot.

An autopsy is being conducted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab and a final determination will not be made until it is completed.

An officer spotted Mayville’s Toyota SUV on the lot about 1 a.m. and police began investigating. Family members called police after 2 a.m. to report they had not seen him since 9 a.m. Monday when he usually went to work as a CPA in Garden City.

• Multiple charges have been filed against a Savannah man who rammed two cars with his own, tried to run down a woman and security guards in a mall parking lot and led police on a short pursuit before crashing his car.

Charlton Bynum, 19, of the 1900 block of Price Street was charged with five counts of aggravated assault, felony fleeing to elude, two counts of hit and run, reckless driving, two counts of failure to stop at a stop sign, failure to obey traffic control devices, no valid insurance, failure to maintain lane, switching tags to misrepresent, and expired registration.

He was arrested after officers witnessed him crash into the door of a car as a 23–year–old woman was trying to get out of it and then chase the woman and Savannah Mall security guards around the mall parking lot trying to strike them with his car about 12:24 a.m.

After officers began to pursue him, he ran several stop signs and traffic signals before losing control at Abercorn Street and Rio Road. The Ford Taurus he was driving crashed over

the median, knocked down a traffic sign and spun around disabled in the opposite side of the roadway.

Police determined he had been at a party the woman and several friends had attended where she spurned his advances. The woman is a co–worker who says she has never dated the suspect. She and her friends left and he followed, striking one car with his at DeRenne Avenue and Montgomery Street, running several cars off the road on Middleground Road as he pursued the women to the mall parking lot.

• Police are searching for a man who arranged over the internet to paint cars but instead took the money and sold the cars. Police are looking for David Wayne Harrison, 31, who was identified as the man who offered to paint the cars at discounts.

Officers responded to a call on Sylvania Road where a man reported

he had answered a Craigslist adver advertisement offering to paint cars for $650, paid a man identified as Harrison a deposit and left the car at the residence. When he tried to contact Harrison again, he was unable to get an answer and drove back to ask about the work.

When police arrived, they found the residence vacant and a second man with a similar story. Both victims’ cars were missing. Detectives were able to find three cars Harrison had taken to paint and are seeking two others and Harrison himself.

Missing are a 1993 metallic blue Acura Integra and a 1993 yellow Ford Crown Victoria. One or both of the cars may have been repainted. Harrison is a white male, about 5–foot–7 with brown hair and eyes. Cs GIVe anonymous CrIme tIps to CrImestoppers at 234-2020

Is consuming expired prescription medicines really dangerous? Some friends insist taking pills beyond the printed expiration date is flirting with death, while another claims expiration dates on labels are BS, there solely to prompt us to order refills and spend more money. I once treated a nasty headache with the only thing I had on hand, some Vicodin that was about a year out of date. My headache went away, and I was no worse for wear. —Neil, Indiana A few drugs don’t age well—for example, nitroglycerin and insulin. But they’re the exception. Most drugs retain potency for years after they supposedly expire. But you don’t see anyone pushing for expiration date reform.

Why not? No doubt because of the same combination of greed and excessive caution that drives up all healthcare costs: (1) The drug companies potentially could forego billions of dollars in lost sales; (2) the amount individual consumers could save is relatively trifling; and (3) there’s a remote but nonzero chance somebody relying on defunct drugs could die.

This last belief is based partly on a 1963 study claiming expired tetracycline had caused kidney damage. But that contention has been questioned, and in any case the problematic formulation of tetracycline is no longer made.

The FDA started requiring drug companies to place expiration dates on drugs in 1978 on the reasonable grounds that people shouldn’t be using medicine so old it was no longer safe or effective. What the FDA didn’t do was set expiration dates, leaving that up to manufacturers.

In 1985 the U.S. Pharmacopeia, a nonprofit standards body, urged that medicines not sold in the manufacturer’s original container (that is, dispensed by pharmacists) have a one-year expiration. The theory was that pharmacy pill bottles left in your medicine cabinet (or a hot glove compartment) were less likely to prevent their contents from

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But the truth is your meds will probably keep just fine. In the mid-80s the FDA started testing drugs as part of the U.S. military’s Shelf Life Extension Program—the Pentagon then had a $1 billion stockpile of drugs it didn’t feel like throwing out. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, around 90 percent of the drugs were safe and effective well after they’d nominally expired.

To be sure, some drugs deteriorate faster than others. Epinephrine, used to treat cardiac arrest, steadily loses potency over time. Liquid drugs and suspensions are less stable than solids.

But even then it’s not like drugs go bad at the stroke of midnight. An update on the Shelf Life program published in 2009 established that 88 percent of tested medications worked fine more than five years past their expiration date, which admittedly just confirmed previous research. The more pertinent finding from a practical standpoint was this: one year post-expiration, every drug tested was still OK. Word has been filtering out. In the January 2012 Consumer Reports, chief medical adviser Marvin Lipman writes, “Except for tetracycline”—and as we’ve seen, even that’s dubious—“expired drugs generally don’t appear to cause harm. But they do become less potent.

In particular, throw out any drug more than a year past its expiration date.”

But let’s face it, not everybody reads Consumer Reports. And some drugs are good for much longer. What’s needed is a revamping of drug expiration labeling so the dates reflect the actual length of time medicines retain their potency.

The savings could be huge. From 1993 to 1998 the military spent $4 million testing expired medicines and saved $263 million. In 2010 Americans spent $307 billion on four billion prescriptions, nearly double what they’d laid out ten years earlier. In one survey, only 2 percent of respondents said they used all their medication before it expired. Even a small extension of expiration dates could save billions.

As we’ve seen, however, neither the drug industry nor consumers have much incentive to demand change.

Suppose you announce you’re campaigning for office on a platform of prodding the pharmaceutical industry to push back expiration dates. Next day, guaranteed, there’ll be billboards all over town saying “MY OPPONENT WANTS TO SELL YOU STALE DRUGS.” Cs

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news oF the weiRd Traditional Marriage Newspapers in Sweden reported in January that two of the country’s most heinous murderers apparently fell in love with each other behind the locked doors of their psychiatric institution and, following a 26-day Internet-chat “courtship,” have decided to marry. Mr. Isakin Jonsson (“the Skara Cannibal”) was convicted of killing, decapitating and eating his girlfriend, and Michelle Gustafsson (“the Vampire Woman”) was convicted of killing a father of four and drinking his blood. Said the lovestruck Jonsson (certainly truthfully), to the newspaper Expressen, “I have never met anyone like (Michelle).” The pair will almost certainly remain locked up forever, but Gustafsson, on the Internet, wrote that she hopes they will be released, to live together and “have dogs and pursue our hobbies, piercing and tattoos.”

Compelling Explanations • In December, music teacher Kevin Gausepohl, 37, was charged in Tacoma, Wash., Municipal Court with communicating with a minor for immoral purposes, allegedly convincing a 17-year-old female student that she could sing better if she tried it naked.

Gausepohl later told an investigator of his excitement about experimenting at the “human participant level” to determine how sexual arousal affects vocal range. The girl complied with “some of ” Gausepohl’s requests, but finally balked and turned him in.

• Thinking Outside the Box: (1) Rock Ironies Dagenais, 26, pleaded guilty recently to • The 547-acre FBI Academy on the weapons charges after creating a siege grounds of Quantico (Va.) Marine Base by bringing a knife, a sawed-off rifle houses a firing range on which about and 100 rounds of ammunition to a a million bullets a month are shot by Quebec elementary school. He eventuagents in training, but it also happens ally surrendered peacefully and said to be a de facto wildlife refuge for the he was only trying to send the kids a simple fact that the academy is offmessage not to disrespect each other by limits to Virginia huntbullying. (2) Daniel Whitaers. Thus, according to ker has been hospitalized a December ABC News in Indianapolis ever since, dispatch, deer learn in November, he drove up that, despite the gunfire the steps of the Indiana (sometimes at astonishWar Memorial with a gun, ingly close range as they SING NAKED! gasoline and an Ameriwander by the targets), IT HELPS. can flag, and set the steps none of them ever gets on fire. In an interview in hit. The academy is also December, he told WRTV a “sanctuary” for foxes, that he was only trying to wild turkeys and other get everyone’s attention critters. so they would think of • Equity Lifestyle Jesus Christ and “love each Properties of Chicago other.” fired receptionist Sha• Ghosts in the News: ron Smiley after 10 (1) Michael West, 41, years’ service because of Fond du Lac, Wis., at she violated company first said his wife hurt policy by declining to herself by falling, but stop working during finally acknowledged that she was her lunch hour. (The company’s strict attacked—but by ghosts, not by him. policy is apparently based on avoiding (He was charged, anyway, in January.) liability for overtime pay, but Smiley (2) Anthony Spicer, 29, was sentenced had in fact clocked out for lunch while in January in Cincinnati after being remaining at her desk.) Smiley subdiscovered at an abandoned school sequently applied for unemployment among copper pipes that had been cut. benefits, but the administrator denied He denied prosecutors’ assertions that them because the firing was for insubhe was collecting scrap metal—because ordination. However, in January, a state he said he was looking for ghosts, since appeals court granted the benefits. the school “is supposed to be haunted.”

• A South Carolina circuit court ruled in December that the sales contract on a former theater in downtown Laurens, S.C., was binding and that the rightful owner is the African-American-headed New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church—even though the property’s only current tenant is the Redneck Shop, which features Confederacy and Ku Klux Klan merchandise.

(New Beginnings purchased the church in 1997 from a Klan member who was unloading it because of a personal riff with the head klansman and who wanted it back after they reconciled.)

Latest Human Rights • Librarians typically can shush patrons whose conversation disturbs others, but, at least in Washington state, librarians are powerless to prevent another “disturbance” — when a pornography user’s computer screen disgusts other library patrons who inadvertently glimpse it. A visitor to the Seattle Public Library complained in February that the librarian said she was bound by a 2010 state supreme court decision upholding the right of consumers of otherwise-legal pornography not to be censored.

• Non-Humans’ Human Rights: (1) Elena Zakharova of New York City became the most recent litigant to challenge a state law that regards pets as “property” (and that, thus, the owner of an injured or disfigured pet is entitled to no more consideration than for a defective appliance). She sued a pet

Least Competent Spies In Plain Sight: The embarrassing disclosure in November by the Lebanon-based terrorist organization Hezbollah, of the CIA’s major clandestine operations in Beirut, likely resulted in the deaths of more than a dozen anti-Hezbollah CIA “assets,” according to ABC News reports. Among the details made public by Hezbollah was that it learned of the agents’ meetings with the potential “assets” (which took place at a Beirut Pizza Hut restaurant) by intercepting agents’ email

messages that used the sly, stealthy “code” word “PIZZA.”

Bright Ideas • (1) South Korea’s Customs Service arrested eight men in January for a 2010 scheme to smuggle gold into Japan without paying import fees. The smugglers allegedly broke down gold bars into small beads and brought them in in their rectums.

• The U.K. household services broker LocalTraders.com announced in December that it is planning, for central England in 2012, a “world watching-paint-dry championship,” with a short list selected on “mental strength, concentration and endurance.” Finalists will be asked their favorite color, which will be painted on a wall, and whoever stares the longest without turning away will win.

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store that had sold her a dog with allegedly bum knees and hips, claiming that dogs are living creatures that feel love and pain, that have souls, and that should be compensated for their pain and suffering. The case is pending. (2) In February, a federal judge in San Diego, Calif., heard arguments by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that SeaWorld was confining its show whales in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Civil Warera prohibition of slavery. Two days later, he ruled that the amendment applies only to human slavery.

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THE WINTER SOUNDS With Sleepy Eyed Giant, Triathalon, Whaleboat At 9 p.m. Saturday, March 3 Wormhole Bar, 2307 Bull St.

The Nashville–based Winter Sounds travel in the same clubbing circles as such regional faves as Today the Moon Tomorrow the Sun, Octopus Jones and the Shaniqua Brown – that is to say that the delightfully poppy dance band has played here before, and will play here again before too long. Savannah loves the Winter Sounds.

It’s fun and frenetic new wave that brings everyone from the

CHECK IT OUT Back to the Jinx on Thursday, March 1 is Viva Le Vox, the guitar/

Cure to Dexy’s Midnight Runners to mind (and hey, check out the band’s fiddle–and–banjo rendition of a–ha’s “Take on Me”).

Singer and key/synth player Patrick Keenan is the founder of and pointman for the Winter Sounds, birthed in Athens about six years ago. With a new LP, Runner, due to drop any moment now, they’re currently repped by a three–song EP called L’ t des Trois Michel(l)es.

As part of the Kickstarter campaign for Runner, Keenan and his bandmates had offered to compose a personalized jingle for whoever ponied up a certain amount of dough. All three of the EP songs are re–worked versions of the jingles–in–waiting, which all happened to be for different people named Michelle. Hence the title. Cs See thewintersounds.com

drum psychoblues duo (Tony Bones and Antoine Dukes, pictured) from South Florida – they were a quintet for a while, but the accordion, banjo and ukulele players have departed for pastures more green ... Savannah’s The Looters celebrate the release of a new, recorded–live CD with a Live Wire Music Hall show March 2. The Rush tribute band Peaceable Kingdom opens ... the Christian rock outfit Sent By Ravens returns to the Rock House Tybee March 2, with Fur Elise, Color Codes and Within Leviathan ... Woodsman plays a new, intimate venue Tuesday, March 6: The Safe/Sound Lodge on Bull Street ... Onstage March 6 at the Sentient Bean is Iranian singer/songwriter Sami Akbari, known professionally as sami.the.great. She’s got a silky, longue-lizard voice and a great pop sensibility, and Savannah’s terrific Britt Scott and Lovely Locks will open ...

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Out of the bedroom and into the indie bloodstream...

Tacoma, Wash., native Brad Oberhofer started writing songs and making lo–fi demos with ProTools and a computer when he was barely out of middle school. He picked up a broken guitar and taught himself to play it, in that sweet, naive way the musically innocent have.

He’s 21 now, and the indie press has embraced his quirky, melodic and utterly charming pastiche of the Ramones, the Beach Boys and a dozen other bands you could name.

None of them, of course, related in any sort of cognizant manner.

Oberhofer played and sang every note on Time Capsules II, his first

record, creating a sort of hazy, beautiful chaos.

He’s since moved to New York, started a band and added energy and raucousness to the stage show.

On the eve of their first album for Glassnote Records (Mumford and Sons, the Temper Trap), Oberhofer (the band) headlines the opening– night party for the Savannah Stopover Festival, in Telfair Square, before heading out to Austin and a return appearance at SXSW March 14.

The album drops two weeks later. “I recorded most of it by myself,” Oberhofer tells us. “But the guys in the band play on a couple songs.”

A music–crazy kid

“When I was a teenager, I hit that point and it just became my life pretty much. My mom’s an opera singer, but

“It’s just warm, and everyone is in a good mood. Everyone’s just running around trying to get to places, but also just hanging out. It’s kind of like a huge wait–and–hurry–up type place. Some of the best times I ever had were at SXSW last year.”

Recording with the b and

“I play them the recordings I have.

Sometimes there are certain notes that just have to be played, but a lot of the time Pete, who plays drums, and Matt, who plays guitar, and Ben, who plays bass right now, they come up with really cool ideas. And we use them. We actually collaborate, and it makes the live show actually a real thing.” Cs savannah stopover: oberhofer with: pond where: Jepson Center, 207 W. york st. when: at 9 p.m. Wednesday, march 7 tickets: $15 online: savannahstopover.com

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I spent most of my childhood sort of rebelling against that. I was really into rapping from kind of a young age. It sounds kinda weird, but I was hit by a car and had a concussion. I was walking around my house afterwards and came up with the idea for a melody.

And that was when I first started writing melodic music. That’s really right when something changed for some reason. I was 13.”

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Here’s our second collection of mini–profiles of the Savannah Stopover acts we’re most excited about.

Find the first installment at connectsavannah.com.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’re well aware that Savannah Stopover, March 7–10, is the biggest thing in live indie music all year. More than 70 bands and artists, from all over the country, are descending on a handful of venues for a highly concentrated dose of music, mirth and magic.

Nearly all of them are playing here just prior to big showcase gigs at South By Southwest (SXSW), on of the nation’s most prestigious music and art conferences, in Austin, Texas.

Many of Savannah’s finest are performing in support roles, too. Check out the entire schedule, as well as ticket details and information about Stopover special events, at www.savannahstopover.com. Or, just peek at the special section tucked inside this issue of Connect.

We’ll see you next time with more.

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10 p.m. Thursday, March 8/Loco’s Grill & Pub It might as well be 1968 — and I mean that in a good way — as this hippiefied Boston band lives and breathes a vibrant, if light–feathered, sort of psychedelic folk/pop.

Sometimes it’s Jefferson Airplane, sometimes it’s the Youngbloods, and sometimes — with the band’s layered, glee–club vocal harmonies — it’s just Spanky & Our Gang. The music is simplistic, and it’s most definitely retro, but that can be a good thing, especially with all the druggy echo laid into the track of Quilt’s self-titled LP on Mexican Summer.

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Midnight Friday, March 9/Live Wire Music Hall Neon Gold Dance Party w/St. Lucia, Savoir Adore Ben “B–Roc” Ruttner and James “Jpatt” Patterson are New York DJs, producers, re–mixers and unstoppable jamheads, and their remixes (and original material) for the likes of Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Rhianna, Marina & the Diamonds and others led to Britain’s New Musical Express to designate the Knocks (collectively) one of the “20 hottest producers in music right now.” The dance duo, with a Neon Gold Records deal, is now creating original material.

As for the live show, Jpatt explains: “I am singing and dancing amidst a forest of cables, pedals and plugs while simultaneously playing synths through a midi controller. Meanwhile, Ben navigates through and is surrounded by multiple samplers which he uses to play different parts of the tracks that we’ve omitted. He also dances. There’s also a backing track that plays the drums and some instruments that we are unable to play live. I occasionally rip on the talk box.”

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1 p.m. Saturday, March 10/Ships of the Sea Museum Garden 11 p.m. Saturday, March 10/Dosha Athens–based pop singer/songwriter Matt Whitaker, 21, recorded his EP The Fall at Popheart Studios, which released it through its label, Mazarine (this, of course, is the same musical journey taken by Savannah’s own Dare Dukes, and in fact Dukes and several other Mazarine acts are playing Stopover). In early 2011, Whitaker began working as a music therapist at a local rehabilitation hospital (ironically Cheyenne Marie Mize, yet another Stopover artist, also worked in music therapy). His interactions with patients in the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease, many of whom had little or no recollection of the life they had experienced, inspired Whitaker to explore writing about the nature of memory, illness, and death.

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10 p.m. Saturday, March 10/Live Wire Music Hall Trippy psychedelia in a raw, garage–rock form, San Francisco’s Jeremy Cox and Jigmae Baer clearly worship at the twin musical altars of the Velvet Underground and Syd Barrett–era Pink Floyd. The music can be dark and murky, and it can be kind of bright and melodic; either way, it suggests a druggy, sluggy walk through some sort of self–induced dreamstate from the 1960s. “We have mottos of the month and we come up with a new one every so often,” Baer says. “The latest one was, ‘The Baths are here, the party’s over.’ We’re not making something to our ears is ugly, we’re making what to our ears is beautiful. It’s how you perceive beauty, and maybe our perception of beauty is different. We just try and be honest.” The Royal Baths have recently relocated to Brooklyn, where ugliness and beauty often share a third-floor walk-up.

11 p.m. Saturday, March 10/Loco’s Grill & Pub Welcome to the melting pot. I’ll tell you this ... from the opening notes of the urgent bassline that opens “Ah Mena Ah,” the leadoff track from Janka’s new EP An Letah, I was hooked. He’s a legend in his native Sierra Leone, for his frenetic take on the Ghanian dance music “bubu” — in Janka’s hands, the traditionally Muslim sound owes as much to cityscapes, hip hop and electric fusion as it does to its spiritual and fresh–air African root system. Bubu is utterly addictive, and the New York musicians backing him here — members of the bands Skeletons, Gang Gang Dance and others — fell in love with it and reverently asked to back Janka in the studio and onstage. Their forward–thinking amalgam recently got Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang signed to David Byrne’s world music label Luaka Bop. Cs

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Combining SCAD’s semi–annual record fair with a show and sale of poster art, Bandwagon – a free event — has been strategically scheduled for March 3 and 4, the weekend just before all the Stopover madness happens.

It takes place at the SCAD Student Center, 120 Montgomery St., 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

Saturday and 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Sunday (The River Club, where Bandwagon made its debut in 2011, is no longer a SCAD venue).

The previously–announced block party and outdoor concert has been canceled, due to zoning issues, although there’ll be some sort of live music inside, alongside more than 30 nationally–known poster designers (for lots of the world’s top bands) and the usual mob of used vinyl vendors.

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Not since Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music has noise–as– art danced this close to the mainstream.

Kunal Gupta, Tristan Perich and Katie Shima, collectively known as The Loud Objects, have become darlings of the electronic underground since they brainstormed the concept during their tenure at Columbia University in the mid 2000’s.

Its intention is to expand the listener’s idea of what music is.

The Loud Objects’ creative mash– up of circuitry, sound, lights and soldering irons (!) is a sort of extreme performance art, and it brings down the house (sometimes literally) at

noise festivals the world over.

In a nutshell, it goes like this: On the light surface of an antiquated overhead projector (the kind they don’t use in schools any more), the three solder together a series of one– bit chips onto a string of wires connected to an audio output jack.

The Loud Objects perform Friday at the Jepson Center, part of the PULSE: Art & Technology Festival.

Tristan Perich: We create electronic music, and our performances are about exploring the noise side of music, through building our own electronics. Which we perform by actively hooking up and re–wiring and modulating, so that there’s a connection between what we’re doing, physically, and the sounds that we’re creating. Even though they’re based on code and software that we’re working with on the physical side, we try to bring the audience into that process.

Kunal Gupta: It makes the sound very limited; it makes the sound more extremely noisy, and the palette is very crude. At the same time, it allows us to be completely physical and allows people to participate in the performance. That might not happen when there’s a whole layer of buttons and technology added on top of it.

So it’s music in its purest form?

Tristan Perich: In a certain way.

There’s no such thing as a totally pure form. There’s always just certain directions you can take it. The microchips that we’re using are extremely limited in what they can output. They essentially can only turn on and off electricity on each of those output pins. It’s either a one or a zero, pulses of electricity. That’s the whole one– bit idea. In the case of Loud Objects, we’re trying to create sound that’s as rich and as expressive as possible with that extremely simple palette.

How does that work as a performance?

Tristan Perich: We’ve got all these microchips, and each one is a single sound source. We improvisationally bring them in and out of our music, like different kinds of sounds, or different patterns and stuff. So music is built out of these sound sources, each trying to be expressive in this limited electronic sound palette.

Kunal Gupta: Our performances vary to the utmost extreme of directions. We’ll have some performances that are pure improvisation, where we choose every chip spur–of–the– moment, based on how things sound, and building off of that. There’s a

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whole degree of unpredictability around that. Sometimes we’ll design the entire performance out beforehand, and maybe even restrict ourselves to just one sound.

But you know in advance what each chip will do, right? Do you just reach into a bag, pull a chip out and say “Let’s use this one”?

Tristan Perich: It’s hard to explain the mathematical side of it, but it basically means that if we create some music and we want to add a chip, we only partially know what’ll happen.

And that, coupled with this mess of wires that we have on the overhead projector ... there’s always this level of chaos in Loud Objects, It’s this really interesting navigation between what we understand and then how things get very complicated very quickly, to the point that we can’t always know what happens next. Things that we think will sound great sound awful, and other things happen and they’re totally unexpected.

Kunal Gupta: The other analogy is that it’s building an instrument and playing it live. That’s the way I usually like to describe it to people that don’t have any experience in electronics at all. Because we are wiring the instrument together with the different parts we’re adding to affect the sound.

Katie, you’re an architect by day – how does that inform what you do with the Loud Objects, in a visual sense?

Katie Shima: I think it happens in two ways. One, the music is very structured in a certain way, and it’s math — zeros and code. So in that way the structure of it is very interesting because each microchip has its own logic, and when they mix together it’s a different logic. So that’s one aspect.

The other one is that our performances have a very strong visual component, and it’s always been important us to make it clear to the audience what’s going on. As opposed to a lot of noise music, where it’s just a guy behind a computer with a bunch of mixers. It’s always been important to us to have that visual clarity, and to have the connection between what you see and what you hear. Cs pulse: Art & technology Festival the Loud objects performance where: Jepson Center, 207 W. york st. when: at 6 p.m. Friday, march 2 Admission: Free

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For the 13th consecutive year, SCAD is bringing in the Black Maria Film Festival, a collection of short films that continually tours the country.

It’s been announced for this Friday —that’d be March 2 — at the Trustees Theater.

“If you want to see what’s happening NOW with the cutting edge of cinema, this is the perfect event,” said SCAD film professor Michael Chaney, the local organizer for the Black Maria Film Festival.

“It gives us a glimpse into the newest, most exciting applications of film and animation that are emerging. It shows us aesthetics and content that might be incredibly commercially popular five or 10 years from now.”

Black Maria takes its name from the tiny New Jersey studio where Thomas Edison created the first moving pictures. In 1981, the Edison Foundation provided the $3,000 needed to start the festival, which was initially held in West Orange, where Tom E lived and worked.

“My position is, short films are every bit as legitimate as feature–length films,” festival founder John Columbus told us in a 2010 interview.

“The difference is, a short film is the equivalent of a poem – and a feature– length film is the equivalent of a novel.”

Admission to the 8 p.m. event is $5 for the general public and free for students with a valid SCAD ID.

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• Motives. AWOL’s annual Shakespeare production. Johnny Mercer Theatre, March 9 and 10.

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• The Pink Floyd Experience. Tribute band with a big, big show, Johnny Mercer Theatre. March 12.

• St. Patrick’s Day: March 17.

• Savannah Music Festival. March 22–April 2.

• David Mamet’s November. March 22–April 1. Muse Arts Warehouse.

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• Daniel Tosh. Johnny Mercer Theatre. April 10.

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A chat with Duncan Sheik, the Tony-winning composer of Spring Awakening by bill deyoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

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When Spring Awakening opened on Broadway in 2006, New York Times critic Charles Isherwood was, typically, tight–fisted with his praise. But he did manage to close with this corker of a line: “Imprinted on the memory is the happy sensation of having witnessed something unusual and aspiring, something vital and new.”

The musical went on to win eight Tony Awards, including best musical, direction, book, score and featured actor.

This was especially gratifying for Duncan Sheik, whose original music gave Spring Awakening what the Times called a “rock ‘n’ roll heartbeat.”

It was the young singer/songwriter’s first foray into musical theater, and the task before him was daunting: Along with lyricist Steven Sater, turn 19th century German playwright Frank Wedekind’s controversial drama about adolescence The Awakening of Spring into something, well, cool.

“Our original hope against hope was that you could take this story from another century and pair it with music that’s stylistically contemporary, more or less, and maybe there would be some alchemy and some

magic,” Sheik says. ”And you never know – sometimes there is and sometimes there isn’t.

“In this case, people seemed to feel like there was. That was a nice surprise.”

Indeed, the central theme of Spring Awakening — schoolchildren having their first sexual urges without any real understanding of what they are — is so universal, the show has been translated and performed successfully in more than 30 countries. In Japan, the children are Japanese. In Scandinavia, they’re Scandinavian.

It doesn’t hurt that Sheik’s music is throbbing and urgent when it needs to be, tender and moving when it’s called for. Sometimes funny, too.

The SCAD theater department opens its production of Spring Awakening at the Lucas Theatre March 29.

It runs for five performances, through March 4.

“I think it’s going to be a cool production,” Sheik says. “Because of the nature of SCAD, and the nature of

the student body, I think you’ll have, hopefully, a really personal and kind of eccentric take on the show. I like it when things change. I’ve seen it too many times now; I like it when it gets different.”

Fans of Rent, or Tommy, will find something kindred in the score for Spring Awakening.

“Initially, I was intentionally trying to make sure that I wasn’t changing my own musical aesthetic just because it was going to be staged as a piece of musical theater,” Sheik explains.

“I wanted to write the music that I write for my own records. Stylistically speaking. I didn’t want to jump into a whole new modality of writing, just because it was a different medium.”

Probably best known for the Top 20 hit “Barely Breathing,” Sheik was in Savannah last fall, working with SCAD theater students on a woodshed production of a new play.

The school’s production of Spring Awakening had just been cast, so he met some of the actors but didn’t have the opportunity to see and hear them in action.

Sheik says he got the musical theater “bug” after Spring Awakening was so well accepted; he’s since collaborated on Whisper House, a show about

ghosts and apparitions, and is working on a musical based on American Psycho.

“The combination of my intention and my naïveté was probably good in a way,” he laughs. “Since then, I can write things with a little bit more of an understanding of what this medium is and what it’s supposed to do, so even things like Whisper House, there is a little bit more of a story/ song aesthetic going on there.

“But I think like anybody else it just has to do with developing your craft in some way.”

Not that he’s abandoned his first love. In April he kicks off a cross– country tour with Suzanne Vega, and he’s just released a new album, Covers 80s, on which he re–interprets, in his own style, classics by the Thompson Twins, Talk Talk and Depeche Mode.

“It was a labor of love,” he says.

“There were these bands that were big influences when I was a teenager, and were in some ways the things that inspired me to write music and make recordings.

“And some of these bands and artists are maybe given short shrift now, or seen as a little bit time–bound.

And I think that’s kind of unfair.

These are great songs no matter how you dress them up.”

Still on the table is the proposed movie version of Spring Awakening, which is being produced by Playtone, Tom Hanks’ company. Director McG (This Means War, We Are Marshall) is attached to the project.

Although Lea Michele (of TV’s Glee) originated the lead role of Wendla onstage, she hasn’t yet been offered the role for the film.

“Everyone knows that when Lea first worked on the show, she was 14,” says Sheik. “And I guess she’s probably 24. And the reality was that this girl was 14 years old, so there’s something that may not be quite right.

“Obviously, Lea is still real young and looks great, but she’s not 14 any more. I think that’s something we really need to think about.” Cs scAd: spring Awakening where: Lucas theatre, 32 abercorn st. when: at 8 p.m. Feb. 29–march 3; at 3 p.m. march 4 tickets: $20 General admission, $15 with senior, student or military ID, $5 with valid sCaD ID Free with valid sCaD ID for Feb. 29th performance only online: scadboxoffice.com

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So why is his latest project the light–hearted musical Into the Woods at Asbury Memorial Church?

“In my earlier career, I did a lot of folklore,” Poole explains. “So I really love anything that has a metaphysical or folkloric kind of theme to it. And this musical has got a dark side as well as a light, candy–coated side. So it was a good fit for me.”

Stephen Sondheim’s macrame mash–up of a handful of classic fairy tales — Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Jack & the Beanstalk et cetera —won three Tonys for its original run in the 1980s, and each subsequent revival has added more to the trophy collection.

Every go–round, Into the Woods changes a bit more. The adaptation Poole and company are using incorporates masks and puppets along with the live singer/actors. As a longtime member of the Puppeteers of America, Poole is flexing a muscle he doesn’t often get to use in his dramatic productions.

While directing, he often refers to those flashes of “magic” that elevate a play to some sort of higher level.

“Woo–woo moments,” Poole calls

Into the Woods and Food For Fish take different approaches to fantasy by bill deyoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

stephen sondheim’s Into the Woods comes to life at Asbury Memorial theatre.

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“There’s a lot of that going on in here,” Poole says, “with trees growing, beanstalks growing, magic slippers appearing, dresses falling from trees, a witch turning beautiful ... it’s just one magical moment after another.”

The cast includes Asbury stalwarts Ray Ellis and Cheri Hester as the Baker and his Wife, the Collective Face’s Maggie Lee Hart as the Witch, Nick Van Der Looy as Jack (of Beanstalk fame), Zachary Blaylock as the Wolf and Celia Sullivan as Cinderella.

“I’ve been having a blast,” Poole reports. “The cast is huge, of course, but they’re all wonderful.”

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Not so far outside the woods is Food For Fish, the dark comedy staged this weekend by the Masquers troupe of Armstrong Atlantic State University.

Loosely (very loosely) based on Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Adam Szymkowicz’s play was originally produced off–Broadway in 2006.

AASU theater student Hai Dang is directing Food For Fish, which was called “fabulously weird and weirdly fabulous” by the New York Times.

“I’m a fan of absurdist–slash–existential plays,” Dang explains. “But unfortunately the ones I want to do are a little bit wordy. Sometimes it’s

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hard for the audience to keep up with the pacing. So if you don’t commit to the play itself, you can get a little lost.

“But this one is actually a pretty good one, because it keeps you entertained. It keeps you in the moment.

There are parts where it gets a little existential, but it’s still relate–able to an audience.”

The narrator is Bobbie (David Willis), a New York writer who has three sisters named Alice, Sylvia and Barbara (Haley Hudson, Shea Lee and Eric Mims).

That’s right, Barbara is played by a man. Barbara’s husband, Dexter, is played by a woman (Angela Ferreira).

It’s that kind of play.

“There are moments in the play where it’s funny,” says Dang. “There’s equal amounts of drama and humor.

It’s not one of those things that, when you leave, you go ‘Oh my God, that was weird and quirky.’ It actually has a very solid story. And that’s what drew me to the play.”

Another major character is the siblings’ father, who happens to be dead.

They keep his corpse in the living room. “He actually plays a pivotal role in the play itself,” the director says.

Yep, that kind of play. Cs

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The last two shows David I.L. Poole directed were pretty serious dramas.

Poole helmed Angels in America with his independent group the Collective Face, and Frankenstein as part of his day job, as a professor of theater at Savannah State University.

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Despite having eaten there several times, I have never written about the Pancake House. I’ve used this bright, sun–washed dining room to meet clients, conduct interviews, and just visit with friend over a pile of steaming pancakes lots of times.

This morning, I branched out from the usual pancakes, and tried sourdough pancakes. The small order, about five pancakes, arrives dusted with powdered sugar. Each pancake is about saucer size.

I may have a new pancake. The batter gave up just the slightest hint of the distinctive sourdough flavor and were nicely cooked through without being too doughy or tough. Thanks for keeping ’em hot! Too many times, I get a pancake or a waffle that won’t melt butter — my butter almost melted and slid away before I could get a photo.

The bacon I chose for my side is thick cut, maple cured. It’s sweet, and sliced thick enough to provide some chew — not just a crumbly and dissatisfying bacon experience.

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Maxwell’s is open in the former Sugar Daddy’s location on Jefferson Street, right behind Loco’s. The restaurant’s new owners and chef are continuing with the small plats menu and are open with just over a dozen options on the menu. For me, the allure is a small plate paired with a wine from their tightly constructed and interesting little wine list.

Chef James Parker is leading the charge from Maxwell’s small kitchen, a just right size for the beautiful little plates he is producing. I have not been in for a savory dish yet, but did sample dessert — panna cotta topped with cherries — which looked too good to eat.

The eatery has undergone a remodel, which gives it a more elegant, old South feel, and made the space brighter and more spacious feeling.

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Popular Blue Turtle Bistro, 5002 Paulsen St., is now open for breakfast.

This takes service to all day — with the already bustling lunch and dinner business. You can sneak a peek at the menu on the restaurant’s website, www.blueturtlesavannah.com.

It’s about to get bizarre

The premiere of the Savannah episode of Bizarre Foods America with Andrew Zimmern is set for Monday, March 12 on the Travel Channel.

The episode includes segments on local Chef Matt Cohen, breakfast with Lady Chablis at Clary’s Cafe and a food crawl with me that includes stops at Angel’s BBQ, Teeple’s Seafood, Polk’s Produce and Marandy’s Restaurant. Cs

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the two winners of the u.s. congressional high school Art Award in georgia: Above, “where do i begin,” by darcy Melton of savannah’s district 12; left, “icu” by elizabeth buchner of district 1 on the islands 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. City hall 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.

A native son: paintings by west Fraser — Fraser was born in savannah in 1955 and spent most of the past three decades working in the south Carolina Lowcountry and coastal Georgia. he is well known for his landscapes (many, though not all, of which are painted en plein air) and city scenes. telfair museums present this show through may 6. telfair academy, telfair square brian Antoine woods — brian antoine Woods artworks are on display at the midtown municipal building from January 24- June 29. Woods’ work illustrates the oral history of his family, the rakestraws, a generation of settlers, slaves, farmers, and pioneers who experienced the evolution of cotton first-hand.

Woods has performed volunteer work and teaching with the 21st Century afterschool program and at the City of savannah’s Depart-

ment of Cultural affairs spring break art camp. midtown municipal building, 601 e. 66th st. crash & collapse — exhibition at Indigo sky Community Gallery is part of the telfair’s pulse Festival and features the work of Chris olszewski, an active member of the Chippewa of mnjikaning First nation and professor at sCaD. opening reception February 24, 6-9 p.m. Gallery talk with the artist march 4, 3-5 p.m. ten percent of all sales go to the american Indian College Fund/native american scholarship program.

Indigo sky Community Gallery, 915 Waters ave. 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

JeA March show — the art show at the Jea beginning march 1 will feature the works of richard hochman. there will be a reception march 4 from 1-3 pm. hochman has been taking pictures since he got his first brownie at the age of ten. his enthusiasm for photography has taken him through all the stages of black-and-white images including the bulk-loading of film in the home darkroom, to his own space properly equipped and dedicated to the processing of his photographs. Jewish educational alliance, 5111 abercorn st. leo villareal — Leo Villareal is a pioneer in the use of LeDs and computer-driven imagery and known both for his light sculptures and architectural, sitespecific works. this exhibition, his first major traveling museum survey, seeks to place Villareal’s body of work within the continuum of contemporary art. February 3- June 3. Jepson Center for the arts, 207 W. york st.

Ray ellis spring show — spring exhibition by ray ellis opens Friday, march 23. meet the artist and view his new paintings and prints from 3-6 pm. ray ellis Gallery, 205 W. Congress st.

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. spring Arts camp at s.p.A.c.e.

— the City of savannah’s Department of Cultural affairs is now accepting registrations for its spring break art Camp, which takes place april 9 – april 13, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. at s.p.a.C.e. studios, located at 9 West henry st. the full-day camp will offer children ages 5-12 an introduction to painting, ceramics, mixed media and performing arts in ageappropriate group settings. the fee of $135 includes all materials and is limited to the person listed on the registration form. Full payment is due upon enrollment.

Credit cards, checks, money orders and cash are accepted. registration forms are available online at www.savannahga.gov/ arts. registrations can be faxed, hand-delivered or mailed to: City of savannah, Department of Cultural affairs, 9 West henry st., savannah, Ga 31401. 912-6516783. s.p.a.C.e., 9 W. henry st. the glass half... — Group exhibition at moon river, march 2-7. reception: Friday, march 2, 7-10 pm. artist talk: monday, march 5, 2:30-3:30 pm. Features work by four artists: Lisa Wachira, steven teller, emily Kell, and Josh thomas. moon river brewing Co., 15 W. bay st. Cs

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We in modern times often have difficulty defining an exact moment when we cross into adulthood.

Even if our driver’s license says we’re old enough to vote, fight for our country or buy a pack of smokes, that’s no guarantee we’re all grown up.

Lacking formal rites of passage, such as tromping off into the forest alone for a week or being scarred with a hot brand by our elders, most of us are left to make up coming–of–age rituals for ourselves.

Evan Walker and Jason Forster have spent most of their senior year of high school planning theirs.

Best friends since second grade and already schooled in some of life’s hardest knocks, the pair has created a film project to bring closure to their troubled childhoods—and launch their careers as independent artists. Armed with Flipcams and unbounded enthusiasm, the 17 year– olds will set out just a few days after graduation to traverse the country by train to film their experiences and collect stories. They’ll return a few days before their first college classes begin and collate the footage into a documentary called “J.E.T. Life.”

But this is more than your ordinary road trip bromance.

“The title stands for ‘just enjoy this life,’” explains Jason, a Johnson High International Baccalaureate (IB) student with a smile bright as sunshine.

“This is about riding into a new chapter of life for both of us.”

As much as the two–and–a–half month trip will be an initiation to their future, it’s also drawing a curtain on the past. Evan, a film major

at Savannah Arts Academy whose script “Say What?” won the Best Writing award in the 2011 Savannah 48 Hour film Project, hopes that the journey will be end of the grief over his stepfather’s drug overdose in 2009.

He’ll carry his stepdad’s ashes from Savannah through New York City to Chicago and all the way to San Diego to disperse them in the Pacific Ocean and say a final good–bye.

Softspoken with a sloping curtain of bangs framing thoughtful blue eyes, Evan doesn’t shy away from the realities of death and grief. After working on a video project for Hospice Savannah, he decided he wanted to incorporate others’ experiences into “J.E.T. Life.”

“The main point is to hear these other stories, because these things, death and addiction and grief, affect all of us,” he says. “Everyone needs closure for something.”

Lest this project seem to tend towards the morose, one only need consult his exuberant other half.

“There are so many good people out there, and I fully expect our outlooks on life to change,” says Jason.

“It’s like Socrates said,” he adds, brandishing his IB education. “The more perspectives you hear, the higher your understanding.”

Jason’s parents also split up when he was small, and he was raised without much in the way of money or stability. He found direction in the after school programs at All Walks of Life, Inc., pursuing photography and

performing arts. He credits AWOL’s founding father Tony Jordan with helping him stay focused and gather the courage to pursue an audition at Juilliard earlier this year. Though he didn’t get into the prestigious arts college, the experience buoyed him.

“Tony is the person who has taught me the most about life,” said Jason.

“He gave me lessons on how to be a man.”

In spite of the demons, Evan and Jason have always shared a friendship based on encouragement and making a positive contribution. When they were 10, they set up a lemonade stand and raised $2000 for the Red Cross after Hurricane Katrina.

The two remain each other’s biggest cheerleaders.

“We’ve always been ‘those guys.’

We both have that ‘why not’ mentality,” shrugs Evan with a smile. “For instance, I know for a fact Jason will be a superstar one day.”

“Thanks, bro,” replies Jason, then immediately returns the compliment.

Evan, a regular contributor to the sports blog BleacherReport.com, finds inspiration in the road stories of Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, another sportswriter with a thirst for adventure. He also admires the work of his biological dad, Betheseda Home for Boys Director of Communications Jeff Walker.

Jason holds up actor/musician/producer Will Smith as his biggest artistic influence.

Beat writers or beatboxing movie stars, those they venerate all share, as Jason puts it, “a dedication to their craft.”

“You have to think differently to

succeed. And both Evan and I do.”

“Intense focus and dedication are what makes someone great,” Evan agrees. “What it all comes down to is, do you have the guts to do it?”

In that vein, they pored over a map in Evan’s bedroom for weeks, deciding on the 11 cities of their J.E.T. Life journey. They streamlined their story and distilled their mission. They procured equipment. They bought 45– day rail passes from Amtrak and set up places to crash. They sent out press releases (as professional as Connect has ever seen), printed up t–shirts and launched a Kickstarter campaign.

This Saturday, they’ve organized a full–on rockin’ fundraiser at Huc–A– Poos on Tybee Island featuring live music, film credit sponsorships and a slew of merchandise for sale.

Pretty impressive for a couple of guys who aren’t even old enough to buy a lottery ticket.

The first train leaves the station on July 2. In the meantime, Jason’s on the prom committee, and Evan says he’s suffering from a case of senioritis that’s “practically fatal.” Come fall, Jason will head off on scholarships to Alabama State and Evan to Georgia Southern.

Somewhere in between, out there on the tracks, they’ll both turn 18, that magical number of legal independence. But they know already that it will be the journey that will make them men. Cs J.e.t. life Fundraiser when: saturday, mar. 3, 6:30 p.m. where: huc–a–poos, 1213 hwy 80, tybee Island info: jetlifefilm.com

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Shame, the first collaboration between Fassbender and director Steve McQueen since 2008’s Hunger, focuses on the travails of a sex addict, a story that could only be adequately told in a film carrying the dreaded NC–17 rating. Certainly, this isn’t one for the kiddies, and, I’d venture to say, it’s not for most adults, either.

Fassbender stars as Brandon, a New Yorker who’s obsessed with sex. “You masturbate more than anybody on the planet,” Chris Rock’s Rufus tells Jason Mewes’ Jay (of Jay and Silent Bob fame) in Kevin Smith’s Dogma, but this film lays waste to that statement: Brandon jerks off in front of his computer, in his bathroom at home, in the bathroom stall at work, and seemingly anywhere short of a church pew.

Yet his horndog activity isn’t always a solo one: He’s charming enough to pick up women at bars and, failing that, he can always rely on his stable of hookers. It’s not surprising, then, that he finds it a nuisance when his emotionally fragile sister Sissy

(Carey Mulligan) unexpectedly appears on his doorstep, looking for a place to crash.

And when a co–worker (the bright Nicole Beharie) shows interest in a real relationship, he’s forced to reevaluate his lifestyle.

McQueen’s direction is occasionally languid to a fault, and his script (co–written by Abi Morgan) manages to be both admirable and irritating in its pronounced vagueness.

Yet while the movie might sport problems on the conceptual level, the haunting, tortured performance by Fassbender is an absolute knockout — to miss it would be a real, uh, shame.

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to only make movies with Rachel McAdams for the rest of his life. A fine performer with a vulnerable and disarming beauty, McAdams has previously been romantically linked on screen to Ryan Gosling, James Marsden and Owen Wilson (among others), but it’s no major feat to generate chemistry with talented guys like these.

But to strike cinematic sparks with a limited stud like Tatum not only requires skill on McAdams’ part, it also demands that her co–star somewhat rise to her level. And when The Vow works, it’s almost always because of the give–and–take dynamics between the pair.

Based on a true story, this centers on Paige and Leo, a madly–in–love married couple whose lives change drastically after Paige loses much of her memory in a car accident. She can remember her life before Leo — her wealthy, right–wing parents (Jessica Lange and Sam Neill), her circle of sorority–sister friends, her slick fiance (Scott Speedman), her interest in attending law school — but she can’t remember anything afterward.

That would encompass her career in sculpture, her liberal world view (“You voted for Obama,” Leo informs her), her switch from carnivore to vegetarian, and, oh yeah, the fact that she has a husband. Thus, it’s up to Leo to insure that they get reacquainted, but Claire’s having a hard time falling in love with him this time around, as the comfort and security of her life at home are more reassuring to her than sharing an apartment with this perfect stranger.

Although McAdams gives the more fully rounded performance, it’s Tatum’s character who earns the majority of our sympathies, and the actor does just enough right to guarantee our allegiance to his cause. The scenes in which he tries to connect with his equally frustrated wife are the best in the film, and once the story moves past this and settles on Paige’s betrayals by those from her past, it gets bogged down in mopey melodrama and never recovers.

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An adaptation of Mary Norton’s classic novel The Borrowers, The Secret World of Arrietty hails from Japan’s Studio Ghibli, the only toon factory comparable to Pixar. It’s

understandable that the original Japanese voices have been overlaid with English ones for many international markets, but considering this dubbing already took place for the picture’s UK release — and with noteworthy actors like Atonement’s Saoirse Ronan and Sherlock Holmes’ Mark Strong, to boot — did stateside distributor Disney really need to replace those British voices with American ones? Were they afraid Yank audiences might be too dumb to decipher the King’s English?

Whatever the daft reason, it’s a good bet this film would still work even in Pig Latin, given the usual warmth and attention to detail invested in all Ghibli efforts. The story revolves around the title character (Bridgit Mendler) and her parents (Amy Poehler and Will Arnett), inches–tall people who live in their own makeshift home underneath a real house. Warned to avoid human contact at all costs, Arrietty nevertheless strikes up a tentative friendship with a sickly boy (David Henrie), a bond that inadvertently draws the attention of a cruel housekeeper (Carol Burnett).

Leisurely related and lovingly crafted (I love how the miniature family uses canceled stamps as wall paintings), The Secret World of Arrietty is an oasis of calm in the normally hyperactive world of toon entertainment.

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When it comes to the twin businesses of sexual politics and romantic revelations, the number of modern–day comedies that have managed to smartly upend all the tired stereotypes and withering clichés is a dismally small one, sporting a losing ratio comparable to that of the 2011 Indianapolis Colts. Four Weddings and a Funeral is one example of a shining success; Bridesmaids is another. This Means War, on the other hand, loses the battle almost from the start.

That’s a shame, because this calendar year likely won’t see a more appealing trio of players sharing one marquee than this film’s dream — and dreamy — team of Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine and Tom Hardy.

The two dudes respectively play FDR and Tuck, crack CIA agents who are BFFs until they both fall for the

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Actors often like to brag about how they performed their own dangerous stunts on a particular picture, but how many A–listers can actually claim to have been waterboarded as part of the

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deal? Yet here’s Denzel Washington and his co–workers on Safe House, all revealing on the interview circuit how the two–time Oscar winner refused a stunt double for the scene in which his character, former CIA agent Tobin Frost, gets tortured via a technique that’s all the millennial rage among U.S. government leaders. It’s an intense sequence, one of the few in a movie that otherwise hits all the familiar marks as it hurtles toward the end credits.

Still, a little professionalism can go, if not a long way, at least enough distance to make the ride a painless one, and Safe House is nothing if not slick and steady. Washington’s apparently

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The exclusive property of the horror genre, the “found footage” style of filmmaking that’s been employed in such movies as The Blair Witch Project, The Last Exorcism and Apollo

18 (to name but three of many) has now been co–opted by Chronicle, a picture that’s half science fiction, half teen melodrama. With this first push of the envelope’s edge, should we now expect, say, a “found footage” musical or a “found footage” Western?

Let’s hope not, for one of the weaknesses of Chronicle is that its “ff ” format plays exactly like the gimmick it most assuredly is. That proves to be an occasional distraction in this surprisingly adept yarn about three high school boys — Andrew (Dane DeHaan), Matt (Alex Russell) and Steve (Michael B. Jordan) — who gain telekinetic powers after stumbling into a hole housing what seems to be the kingdom of the crystal skull. But this isn’t a family–friendly superhero flick like The Incredibles or Sky High, nor is it a costume–clad wish–fulfillment fantasy like Kick–Ass or Super 8.

Instead, it grounds its science fiction in high school fact while taking uncomfortable detours into Columbine territory. Because even as Matt and Steve, two all–around popular kids, are enjoying their newfound abilities to fly through the clouds or pull harmless pranks on unsuspecting folks, the socially inept Andrew, suffering from a brutal home life (Mom’s dying, Dad’s a bullying drunk), can’t quite contain his extraordinary power and begins to view it as a way to get back at a cruel and insensitive world.

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same woman. That would be Lauren, a lonely workaholic who goes from having no boyfriends to having two guys fighting over her. With her best friend Trish (Chelsea Handler) offering her dubious advice, Lauren simultaneously dates both studs in order to determine her best match. For their part, FDR and Tuck are utilizing all the espionage tools at their disposal (satellites, wiretaps, etc.) to thwart the other fellow in his amorous advances.

In popcorn–picture terms, it has promise, and indeed, there are a couple of sequences in the midsection that fulfill the film’s potential.

But for the most part, the movie is a clumsy mess, replete with an action–packed subplot (involving a cardboard Euro–baddie seeking revenge) that comes across as so unnecessary, it could only have been added in the hopes of luring teen boys away from the more manly multiplex competition.

As for the resolution of the romantic dilemma ... well, let’s just say that the filmmakers would have been hard–pressed to come up with a worse ending. But then they tack on a ghastly epilogue, and what seemed near–impossible becomes a harsh reality.

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dominate the final portion of the picture. Unfortunately, writer–director Josh Trank and co–scripter Max Landis allow the film to get away from them, moving from sober–minded intrigue to surface bombast.

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All two– and four–legged creatures are fair game when it comes to presenting them as movie villains, and the wolves on display here are indeed intimidating. Granted, they often look like animatronic animals on steroids, but they certainly put the fear of God in the human protagonists.

The prey in The Grey is a group of oil–rig workers whose plane crashes in the Alaskan wilds. The no–nonsense Ottway (Liam Neeson), whom we first meet as he’s sticking his gun in his own mouth (a wolf ’s howl distracts him from pulling the trigger), appoints himself leader and attempts to lead the other six survivors out of the wilderness – no small task given not only the punishing elements but also the savage wolf pack that’s picking them off one by one.

To its credit, The Grey tries to add a little substance to its terror–tale premise, but Ottway’s soft–gaze flashbacks to his long–gone wife and the religious chats among the men only skim the surface of any true existential analysis.

And while there are a couple of good sequences focused on the brutal landscape, the man–on–wolf action is both fleeting and feeble – anemic

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enough that even Twilight haters might join Team Jacob rather than watch this shaggy undertaking.

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Based on a novel (by Susan Hill) that had already been turned into a successful play, this finds Daniel Radcliffe cast as Arthur Kipps, a widowed lawyer assigned to visit a remote village in order to settle the estate of a recently deceased elderly woman. In the film’s best nod to vintage horror, the country rubes all view the newcomer with suspicion and do little to aid him in his task. The reason, it turns out, is that they believe the stomping grounds of the departed is haunted by the title apparition, an evil entity with a sweet tooth for tragedy and children. Both fascinated by the legend and fearful that it might has some basis in reality, Arthur opts to spend the night at the creepy mansion – and it’s here where the film primarily jumps the tracks.

The best ghost stories are the ones that rely on careful exposition and a pervasive sense of mounting dread to unsettle audiences (The Others and The Orphanage being modern examples), but director James Watkins and scripter Jane Goldman abandon that approach shockingly fast. Instead, this is the sort of spook show that tries to manufacture scares by having something rapidly leap into the frame, startling both the protagonist and many viewers. Usually, it’s a cat; here, it’s everything but. Yet this sort

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of cheap thrill becomes predictable before long. It will have little shelf life (after all, to quote a great president, scholar and humanitarian, “Fool me once, shame on – shame on you. Fool me – you can’t get fooled again.”).

It’s certainly nice to have Hammer Films back in business, but let’s hope they nail down more promising projects than this one.

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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 Giovanni 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, as part of a plan to save his brother–in–law.

There’s nothing in Contraband that rises above the flagrantly mediocre, from its doorknob–dull characters to its rote storytelling.

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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 the Best Picture Oscar winner sometimes runs short on invention, it makes up for it in style, execution and a cheery disposition that’s positively

infectious.

Jean Dujardin 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.

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.

While it may not match up with the best of the silents, The Artist matches up nicely with the best of 2011.

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Taking Oscar winner 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.

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.

Even her few strengths 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. Cs

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

Come join us! DrinkingLiberally.org Occupy Savannah 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 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.

State of the City Address--Garden City City Manager Brian Johnson presents to Garden City’s Mayor and City Council on upcoming changes and longterm plans for this West Chatham County municipality. to Deliver Garden City’s 2012 “State of the City Address” to Mayor and Council. Mon. March 5 at 7pm. Garden City Hall, 100 Central Ave. Information: 912-966-7777.

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 Casino Night Benefiting America’s Second Harvest Sat. March 3, 7 pm - midnight at Grand Lake Lodge & Spa, 815 Southbridge Boulevard, Savannah. Black-tie optional event is open the public. $50 per person. Enjoy appetizers while playing a full casino including black jack, Texas hold ‘em, wheel of fortune, a dice table and a roulette wheel. 912-233-2466 or emailing judy@grandlakelodgeandspa.com.

Fundraiser for J.E.T. Life Film by Evan Walker.

Help budding filmmaker Evan Walker fund his upcoming documentary, J.E.T. Life. Attend a fundraiser on Sat. March 3, 6:30pm, at Huc-a-poos, U.S. Highway 80, Tybee Island. Live music, J.E.T. Life merchandise and movie credits will be for sale.

Get Your Rear In Gear 5K! Afun, family event to benefit the Colon

Cancer Coalition. March 3 at the Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Candler Drive. Registration opens at 7 am.fKids Fun Run, 8am. 5K Timed Run and Walk at 8:15am. Registration $25 through Feb.29, $30 after Feb. 29. All funds raised will benefit the Colon Cancer Coalition, an organization dedicated to the advancement of colon cancer awareness and screening, and 75 percent of those funds will go directly to Savannah programs. Registration and payment can be dropped off at Fleet Feet, 3405 Waters Avenue or the Transformation Station, inside the Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, or online at www.getyourrearingear.com.

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.

Humane Society Quarterly Book Sale A book-a-holic’s dream. Tables of discounted books, plus other deals in the Thrift Shop. Saturday, March 3, 12 noon3pm at the Humane Society for Greater Savannah parking lot, 7215 Sallie Mood Drive.

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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] Sarah Noll Power Hours: A Benefit at the Sentient Bean Thurs. March 1. All profits at the Sentient Bean will go directly to help Sarah, a much beloved “Beanie” now living with cervical cancer and beginning her next chemotherapy round. 13 E. Park Ave. www.sentientbean.com.

St. Patrick’s Day Fire Ball benefiting America’s Second Harvest and MDA Friday, March 16, 2012, 6-11 pm, at the Charles H. Morris Center, in Trustees Garden (East Broad Street) in historic downtown Savannah. Hors d’ouevres, open bar, and dancing to live entertainment by The Design. Formal attire. Tickets $40. Purchase at America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia; please call 912-721-1796 or email kfranklin@ helpendhunger.org.

Walk for Life A sponsored fundraiser for the Savannah Care Center. Saturday, March 24th in Daffin Park. Registration begins at 8:30am. The Walk begins at 9:00am.

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Bldg. Register online at www.savannahcarecenter.org and click on Walk for Life. Sav. Care Center is a pregnancy resource center. All services are free and open to the public.

Call for Entries Apply for Summer Music Scholarships Savannah Friends of Music (SFOM), a non-profit supporting, sponsoring and promoting classical music in Savannah and the surrounding region, is accepting applications for 2012 Summer Music Scholarships. Applicants must be rising ninth through twelfth graders attending school in the Savannah area; scholarships are awarded for tuition at a summer music camp or program of the recipient’s choice, subject to the approval of SFOM. The application can be accessed at www.savannahfriendsofmusic.com under the “Music Opportunities” tab. Deadline for submissions is April 1.

Tel: (912) 398-7800 Email: rflaherty@georgiasouthern.edu Artists/instructors sought to teach Summer Art Camp he Department of Cultural Affairs seeks applications from artist/instructors to teach summer art camp from June to August. Interested individuals should submit an application and a proposal to include: a resume, description of proposed class, and up to five portfolio images (in digital format). Previous experience in art instruction is required.

Applications: www.savannahga.gov/ arts. Deadline: March 23 by 4 p.m.

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Call for Recycle Artists & Crafters The Chatham County Resource Conservation & Education Center is seeking Recycle Artists/Craftspeopkke to apply for the first annual ReVision Art and Eco Festival, Saturday, April 28, from 10 am-3pm. at 1321 Eisenhower Dr. Emphasis on recycled art/crafts, which will be for sale by local artists/crafters. Environmentally friendly products (hybrid cars/solar power/etc), a Trashion Show,(fashion made from recycled materials) live entertainment, food, a plant sale, and activities for children. Contact 912-652-7923 for information Jr. League of Savannah “Kids Who Care” Scholarship Applications Kids Who Care scholarships salute high school seniors who have made a positive difference in the lives of others by volunteering. Five $1,000 college scholarships will be awarded to high school seniors from the Low Country area in recognition of their outstanding volunteer service and outstanding community involvement. These scholarships are not based on academic or athletic ability. Nominate high school seniors that have been active volunteers.

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Middle School Debate Contest Sponsored by Savannah State University’s Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. March 28, 7:30pm. at Savannah State University.

Debate question: Which of the following (economy, foreign policy, environment/ climate change, homeland security, immigration) is the most important issue for the President in 2012?

Prize: 1st place=$100 and 2nd place=$50 APPLICATION: Type an essay, no more than 300 words, answering the same question above. The student who types the best essay will also receive a $25 award. Debate contestants will be chosen by how well they support their argument (research/opinion), grammar, and spelling. Please provide name, phone number, grade (6-8), address, city, school, & dream job. Mail applications to: Brandon Coleman, 12409 Largo Dr., Apt. 57, Savannah, GA 31419 Information: 912-695-6214.

Classes, Camps & Workshops “The Art of Becoming an Artist” Twopart Workshop Instructor Ruth Sykes leads an introduction on becoming an artist and staying an artist. For new artists or anyone aspiring to kick start their creative abilities and possibilities. $50. Tues. days Feb. 28 and March 6 from 6 p.m-8 p.m. at S.P.A.C.E. Studios located at 9 West Henry Street. Offered by the City of Savannah’s Cultural Affairs Department.

For ages 15+. 912-651-6783.

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 Buddhist Meditation Classes Learn to solve your daily problems through Buddha’s teachings. March 1 and March 15 at 7-8:15 pm. $10 or $5 students/seniors. meditationinsouthcarolina.org. Quality Inn Midtown, 7100 Abercorn Street 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] Clay Art Classes continues on p. 36

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New clay classes begin March 5 at Savannah’s Clay Spot, and run for eight weeks. Classes include wheel throwing pottery for adults, teens, and children as well as a variety of specialty clay classes like printing on clay, using porcelain, and art made for the home and garden. 1305 Barnard Street Contact: Lisa Alvarez Bradley, lisa@savannhasclayspot.com 912-509-4647 www.savannahsclayspot. com.

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 Photography Course Begins Feb. 28 at the Coastal Georgia Center in the Historic District of Savannah. Go in-depth into photography principles, aperture and shutter combinations, bracketing and composition, and spend time in the field and the classroom. You’ll need a DSLR camera, changeable lenses, and a tripod. You must be able to write files to a USB drive for critiques. Tuesdays, 2/28 to 3/13 and Saturdays, 3/3 and 3/10 (in the field). For fee information and registration, contact ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/cesavannahmenu.html, or 912-644-5967 or jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu.

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.

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] English for Second Language Classes Students of all ages are invited to learn conversational English, comprehension, vocabulary and life communication skills. Free. Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Island Christian Church, 4601 US Highway 80 E Savannah. 912-897-3604. Contact: James Lavin or Minister John LaMaison www.islandschristian.org. [020512] 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

| Submit your event | email: happenings@connectsavannah.com | fax: (912) 231-9932 | 1800 E. Victory Dr., Suite 7, Savannah, GA 31404 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] Found Object Jewelry Workshops City of Savannah sponsors a two-part workshop, focusing on the use of found materials, design, and construction.

Learn to solder with steel and expand their cold connection techniques. Saturdays, March 3 & 10, 9am-2pm at SPACE, 9 West Henry Street. $50 per session.

Information: 912-651-6783 or visit www. savannahga.gov/arts.

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 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 & 1pm-4pm.

Financial education: 4th Fri of month, 9-11am. Basic Computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1-3pm. Community Computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3-4:30pm. For more info: 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 Spot For potters with experience who want time in the studio, Choose from 4 hour time slots. Registrations are based on a monthly, bi monthly, and quarterly time commitment. Savannah’s Clay Spot, 1305 Barnard St. Information: 912-509-4647 or www.savannahsclayspot.com [122811] Painting and Drawing Lessons Small group and private instruction offered by local painter Melinda Borysevicz. SCAD graduate with 15 years professional experience. Phone: 912.484.6415, email: melindaborysevicz@gmail.com, or visit melindaborysevicz.blogspot.com. [02052012] Photoshop Photo Editing Course Begins March 5. Learn the different tools, layers and filters of your photo editing software to improve your images.

You’ll need a basic understanding of computers, digital imaging, and photo editing. Mondays and Wednesdays, 3/5 to 3/15, 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Registration and fee info: ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/cesavannahmenu.html, 912-644-5967 or jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu.

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] Reiki--Level 1 and 2.

Taught by Cindy Beach, Reiki Master.

Location: 111 E. 34th St. Registration: revfugon@gmail.com Level 1, Saturday, March 10, 9am-1pm.

Fee: $75. Upon completion, participants will have an understanding of the history and practice of REIKI, receipt of handouts of hand placements, and experience both in receiving and giving of Reiki.

Level 2: Saturday, March 31. 9am12noon. Fee: $50. Upon completion, participants will have deepened their intuitive Reiki skill allowing for both direct hands-on or hands-off treatment as well as long-distance Reiki and treatment for pets and plants.

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 Bradley, savannahsclayspot@gamil.com. 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 Fogarty at the Coastal Georgia Center (912-644-5967) or jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. [121211]

cluBs & orgAnizAtions savannah Authors Autonomous writing group meets the second and fourth tuesdays of each month, 6-8 p.m. beginning 2/21/2012. the aim of savannah authors autonomous is to encourage first-class prose writing, fiction or nonfiction, through discussion, constructive criticism, instruction, exercises and examples. Location: savannah association for the blind (sab), 214 Drayton street. Founded by british writer Christopher scott (more than a dozen published books) and local writer alice Vantrease (one published novel, optioned for a potential hollywood movie). all are welcome. no charge to attend. Contact: alice Vantrease (alicevantrease@live. com) or 912-308-3208.

Avegost lARp Live action role playing group that exists in a medieval fantasy realm. Gener-

ally 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] 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] continues on p. 38

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Now gathering on Sunday mornings at Bryson Hall (5 East Perry St.) on Chippewa Square at 10:30 am.

www.edenvillagechurch.org Like us on Facebook: Savannah Church Plant

March , 2012 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11

Asbury Memorial Theatre presents

Fridays 8pm Saturdays 8pm Sundays 3pm

TICKETS $10

Asbury Memorial Theatre

1008 East Henry Street

Corner of Henry and Waters

www.asburymemorial.org/theatre

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knitters, needlepoint and crochet meets every Wednesday. Different locations downtown. Contact (912) 3086768 for info. no fees. Wanna learn?

Come join us! [121211] low country turners a club for wood-turning enthusiasts.

Contact steve Cook, 912-313-2230.

[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)8984344 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 5965965. [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 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 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 go green meets most saturdays. Green events and places. share ways to Go Green each day! Call (912) 308-6768 to learn more. [021212] savannah Jaycees meeting and information session held the 1st tuesday of every month at 6pm to discuss upcoming events and provide an opportunity for those interested in joining the Jaycees to learn more. must be 21-40 years old to join the chapter.

101 atlas st. 912-353-7700 or www. savannahjaycees.com [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 912238-3170 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 continues on p. 38

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]

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 6:30-7:30. 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.

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“Kakuro” Fill in each square in this grid with a digit from 1 to 9. the sum of the digits in each row or column will be the little number given just to the left of or just above that row or column. as with a sudoku, you can’t repeat any digits in a row or column. see the row of three squares in the upper-right with a 15 to the left of it? that means the sum of the digits in those three squares will be 15, and they won’t repeat any digits. a row or column ends at a black square, so the three-square row in the upper-middle with a 13 to the left of it may or may not have digits in common with the 15-row to its right. Down columns work the same way. now solve!! psychosudoku@hotmail.com

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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 5:30-7:30pm. Free and open to all writers, aspiring writers, and anyone interested in writing. 21+ with valid I.D. For location and details, visit seersuckerLive.com. [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]

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Ferguson ave. , beginners belly dance classes Instructed by nicole edge. all ages/ skill levels welcome. every sunday, noon-1pm, Fitness body and balance studio 2127 1/2 e. Victory Dr. $15/class or $48/four. 912-596-0889 or www. cairoonthecoast.com [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 912-414-1091 private classes are also available. Walk-ins are welcome. synergistic bodies, 7724 Waters ave.

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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 Dean Forest road. no beginner classes are being held at this time, however help will be available for those interested in learning. Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731. [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 912-3984776. 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,

912-704-8726. [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 georgia nature photographers Association 3rd Annual expo march 22-25: a three day celebration of nature and nature photography on the Georgia coastal islands. Venue: hampton Inn & suites, brunswick, Ga. Keynote speaker is Darrell Gulin, www. gulinphoto.com. Great education & field trips with photographic opportunities to Jekyll Island, sapelo Island, harris neck Wildlife, Cumberland Island, okefenokee swamp and other natural settings. Info & registration: www.Gnpa.org. Look under the tab “annual expo.”

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 912596-0889. [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@

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] 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.

912-306-5598. [122911] 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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1 Stations in some labs 4 “Mama’s Gun” singer Erykah 8 U.S. Surgeon General under Reagan 12 “Play something better!”

13 Prized cards, to collectors 14 Polite refusal 15 Tip collector 16 Spoiler in a familiar saying 18 “Oh 7, why’d you have to go and eat 9? And 6, did you help 7 out of fear? I’m shocked!”

20 Swamp beast 21 National chain of “bakery-cafes” 22 Caprice 23 Big cheese in Holland 27 Bodily sac 28 “I can see you on a cold day and you’re like a cloud...I’m impressed...”

32 Twisted, like a smile 33 Falls on many honeymoon trips 34 Rum ___ Tugger (47-down character) 37 “Hmmm...I’m stumped as to how you landed a role on ‘The Addams Family’...”

39 Without leaves 42 Those ladies, in Tijuana 43 Radio choices 44 GM service 47 Chaz’s mother 48 “Oh yeah, like I’d ever see a guy with a ruffled shirt and heaving chest in real life...”

53 Ad line spoken while grabbing a box of cereal back 54 ___ Lingus (Irish airline) 56 Year, to Yvette 57 1970s model Cheryl 58 Wu-Tang Clan member 59 Suffix after Brooklyn 60 Lat. and Lith., once 61 Drops in a field

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1 Simple sammich 2 One of a pair of newscasters 3 Group of sisters 4 ___ mi (Vietnamese sandwich) 5 Vicinity 6 Red ink 7 Mil. branch at Lackland 8 It’ll floor ya 9 Hawk relative 10 Canadian NHL team 11 Test in H.S. 13 Campus recruiting org.

14 Serpent deity group, in Hinduism (in RUN AGAINST) 17 Quick swim 19 Grave marker 22 Dir. opposite ESE 23 Do some video production 24 Early info-sorting program 25 Mythical giant with 100 eyes 26 Ben Stiller’s mom Anne ___ 29 “Would You Like to Buy ___?” (“Sesame Street” song) 30 Greek war god 31 Body art, for short 34 It’s swiped to check in 35 Command in some games of tag 36 “North by Northwest” film studio 37 Stinging herbs 38 Mayor of Los Angeles, 2001-2005 39 Meticulously-trimmed tree 40 Name 41 They’re given in the “Wheel of Fortune” bonus round 45 “Ellen” actor ___ Gross 46 Czech play where the word “robot” came from 47 It left Broadway on Sept. 10, 2000 49 Has dinner 50 Diamondback stats 51 Host Ken of MTV’s “Remote Control” 52 Russian fighter jets 55 Like some sugar

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cybelle3.com or call 912-414-1091. Walkins 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 678-799-4772 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 912-429-9241. 11202 White bluff road. Drop Ins welcome.

[122911] Mommy and baby yoga classes mondays, 10-11am (crawlers and toddlers) and 11:30-12:45 (infants and precrawlers) at the savannah yoga Center, 1321 bull st. $14 per class. multi-class 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 9:30am-10:30am. all levels welcome! private and semiprivate 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 challenges of pregnancy, labor & delivery.

Cost is $100 for each course. Call ann Carroll at 912-704-7650 e-mail ann@ aikyayoga.com. [122911]

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[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 912-288-7863 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]

heAlth Alcoholics Anonymous If you want or need to stop drinking, aa can help. meetings daily throughout the savannah area. Check www.savannahaa.com for meeting locations and times, or call 24 hrs 912-356-3688 for information. [122911] Free colon cancer Awareness talk sponsored by st. Joseph’s/Candler. march 1, presented by Gregory D. borak, mD, at 6 pm in the lobby of the Gastroenterology suite, professional building, at Candler hospital. For more information, call 819-8610.

| submit your event | email: happenings@connectsavannah.com | fax: (912) 231-9932 | 1800 e. victory dr., suite 7, savannah, GA 31404 Free hearing & speech screening hearing: every thurs. 9-11 a.m. speech: 1st thurs. of each month. savannah speech & hearing Center, 1206 e. 66th street. Call 355-4601. www.savannahspeechandhearing.org [122911] health care for uninsured people st. mary’s health Center is open for primary health for the uninsured of Chatham County. the center, located at 1302 Drayton, is open monday through Friday from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. For information or to make an appointment, call 912-443-9409. [021912] healthcare for the uninsured st. mary’s health Center,1302 Drayton st.. is open for health needs of uninsured residents of Chatham County. Free of charge. open monday through Friday from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. For information or to make an appointment, call 912-443-9409. [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 living smart Fitness club an exercise program to encourage healthy lifestyle changes offered by st.

Joseph’s/Candler african-american health Information and resource Center. mondays, tuesdays, and Wednesdays. on mondays and Wednesdays the classes are held at the John. s. Delaware Center from 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm. on tuesdays from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm, the classes are held at the center on 1910 abercorn street. Classes include Zumba (tuesdays) and hip-hop low impact aerobics with cardio and strengthening exercises (mondays/Wednesdays). For more information, call 912-447-6605.

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Feel better® is a free community program that teaches beauty techniques to women who are actively being treated for cancer. administered by the american Cancer society, the program helps cancer patients manage the physical side effects of treatment such as skin changes and hair loss. trained cosmetologists, estheticians and nail technicians address make-up techniques, skin care and nail care as well as tips for using head scarves and other accessories.participants receive a free make-up kit worth more than $250 in the shade that matches their skin tone. presented monthly. the next session is march 12 from 1:30-3:30 p.m at the Lewis Cancer & research pavilion. Women interested in attending should contact the local american Cancer society at 912-3555196. 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. age-appropriate programs and related handouts. www. thedolphinproject.org [122911] dolphin project program and training workshop LoVe DoLphIns? attend the program and training workshop in savannah, march 3, 10am-12noon. memorial hospital’s Conference rm D. (Directions: http://www.thedolphinproject.org/ training.html.) If you are interested in volunteering for dolphin research, we need skippers with boats, photographers with 300(+) lenses, team Leaders and assistant team Leaders to record the data. the Dolphin project is an all-volunteer, non-profit research and education organization, dedicated to the protection of our wild, estuarine bottlenose dolphins and our shared environment since 1989. Join the team for serious fun! www.thedolphinproject.org, gadolphin@

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comcast.net, 912-657-3927 no rsVp tybee island Marine science center offering a variety of fun educational programs including beach Discovery Walks, marsh treks, turtle talks and the Coastal Georgia Gallery, which features an up close look at dozens of local species. open daily, 10am-5pm. For more info, call 912-786-5917 or visit www. tybeemarinescience.org. [122911] walk on the wild side the oatland Island Wildlife Center , 711 sandtown rd., offers a 2-mile native animal nature trail that winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland and salt marsh habitats, and features live native animal exhibits. open daily from 10-4 except thanksgiving, Christmas and new years. 898-3980, www.oatlandisland.org. [122911] wilderness southeast offers a variety of programs every month including guided trips with naturalists, canoe rides and more. their mission is to develop appreciation, understanding, stewardship, and enjoyment of the natural world. For more information: 912-236-8115 or www.wilderness-southeast.org. [122911]

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] savannah storytellers the savannah storytellers are reforming on Feb 16. Weekly meetings to follow. bess Chappas will offer workshop on first meeting. Call. Wallace moye 354-0048. Call for reservation (limited seating). Janice at 912-224-2904.

[021212] 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. 232-5488 or 6523660. [122911]

religious & sPirituAl

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service of compline the service of Compline at Christ Church is moving: same music, same service, same choir, same preacher-different location. beginning sunday, December 11 the Christ Church service

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. Celebrating diversity.

Working for justice. [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.

sPorts & gAmes Adult coed Flag Football the inaugural season begins march 26.

Contact savadultrec@aol.com for more details or check out www.savadultrec. com.

Adult coed kickball season is

starting! savannah adult recreation Club will have its seventh adult Coed Kickball season starting march 4. It’s not too late to sign up. Contact savadultrec@ aol.com for more details or check out www.savadultrec.com. savannah bike polo Like regular polo, but with bikes instead of horses. meets weekly. Check out www.facebook.com/savannahbikepolo for more information. [122911]

suPPort grouPs 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 912-4959758, 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. [122911] Alzheimer’s caregivers and Families support group senior Citizens, Inc. hosts caregivers and families support groups for individuals caring for alzheimer’s and dementia family members. Locations and days: every 2nd monday at Wilmington Island united methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island road. every 2nd thursday, 5:30pm, at ruth byck adult Day Care facility, 64 Jasper st. For more info, call 236-0363, ext. 143.

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 912-8197053. [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 continues on p. 44

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of chanted Compline by candlelight will be held at historic Independent presbyterian Church (corner of bull street and oglethorpe) every sunday night at 9:00p.m. “Come, say good night to God.” [121211] 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 refocus. 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.

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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.

Candler’s Heart/Lung Building. 5354 Reynolds Ave. [122911] Couples Struggling with Fertility Challenges Meets every Saturday at 6:45 p.m. at Savannah Christian Church, 55 Al Henderson Blvd. Room 250. A group for couples struggling with primary or secondary infertility, whether on this journey for one year or many years. Call Kelly at 5960852 or email emptycradle_savannah@ hotmail.com. [122911] Families Anonymous A world wide twelve-step self-help support program for relatives and friends concerned about and affected by substance abuse or behavioral problems of a loved one, has a new group in Savannah.

Thursdays at 7:30PM at Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church, 50 Diamond Causeway. Information: 912-660-6845 or email sandyjtyler@comcast.net. [011412] Fibromyalgia support group meets the second Thursday from 5:306:30 p.m. in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St.. 819-6743. http://www.sjchs.org/ [122911] Gambling problem?

12-step program offers freedom from gambling. Meets weekly in Savannah.

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. Topic for Feb. 21st. - Live to be 100 and Beyond. 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.

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ARIES

(March 21–April 19) At one point in his book *The Divine Comedy,* the Italian poet Dante is traveling through purgatory on his way to paradise.

American poet T.S. Eliot describes the scene: “The people there were inside the flames expurgating their errors and sins. And there was one incident when Dante was talking to an unknown woman in her flame. As she answered Dante’s questions, she had to step out of her flame to talk to him, until at last she was compelled to say to Dante, ’Would you please hurry up with your questions so I can get on with my burning?’” I bring this to your attention, Aries, because I love the way you’ve been expurgating your own errors and sins lately.

Don’t let anything interfere with your brilliant work. Keep burning till you’re done. (Source: “A New Type of Intellectual: Contemplative Withdrawal and *Four Quartets,*”

by Kenneth P. Kramer.)

TAURUS

(April 20–May 20) If you’ve been holding yourself back in any way, Taurus, now’s the time to unlock and unleash yourself. If you have been compromising your high standards or selling yourself short, I hope you will give yourself permission to grow bigger and stronger and brighter. If you’ve been hiding your beauty or hedging your bets or rationing your access to the mother lode, you have officially arrived at the perfect moment to stop that nonsense.

GEMINI

(May 21–June 20) In the cult blaxploitation film *The Human Tornado,* the main character Dolemite brags about his prowess. “I chained down thunder and handcuffed lightning!” he raves. “I used an earthquake to mix my milkshake!

I eat an avalanche when I want ice cream! I punched a hurricane and made it a breeze! I swallowed an iceberg and didn’t freeze!” This is the way I want to hear you talk in the coming week, Gemini. Given the current astrological configurations, you have every right to. Furthermore, I think it’ll be healthy for you.

CANCER

(June 21–July 22) Astrologer Antero Alli theorizes that the placement of the sign Cancer in a person’s chart may

indicate what he or she tends to whine about. In his own chart, he says, Cancer rules his ninth house, so he whines about obsolete beliefs and bad education and stale dogmas that cause people to shun firsthand experience as a source of authority. I hereby declare these issues to be supremely honorable reasons for you to whine in the coming week. You also have cosmic permission to complain vociferously about the following: injustices perpetrated by small– minded people; short–sighted thinking that ignores the big picture; and greedy self–interest that disdains the future. On the other hand, you don’t have clearance to whine about crying babies, rude clerks, or traffic jams.

LEO

(July 23–Aug. 22) *L.A. Weekly* praised the music of drone–noise band Barn Owl. Its review said that the listening experience is “akin to placing your ear against the Dalai Lama’s stomach and catching the sound of his reincarnation juices flowing.” That sounds a bit like what’s ahead for you in the coming week, Leo: getting the lowdown on the inner workings of a benevolent source . . . tuning in to the rest of the story that lies behind a seemingly simple, happy tale . . . gathering up revelations about the subterranean currents that are always going on beneath the surface of the good life. It’s ultimately all positive, although a bit complicated.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22) In the coming days, you could do a lot to develop a better relationship with darkness. And no, I don’t mean that you should do bad things and seek out negativity and be fascinated with evil. When I use that word “darkness,” I’m referring to confusing mysteries and your own unconscious patterns and the secrets you hide from yourself. I mean the difficult memories and the parts of the world that seem inhospitable to you and the sweet dreams that have lost their way. See what you can do to understand this stuff better, Virgo.

Open yourself to the redemptive teachings it has for you.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22) Sister Jessica, a character in Frank Herbert’s *Dune* books, says, “The greatest and most

important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.” I encourage you to use that theory as your operative hypothesis for the foreseeable future. Here are some specific clues about how to proceed: Don’t obsess on your crazy–making dilemma. Instead, concentrate on skillfully doing the pleasurable activities that you do best. Be resolutely faithful to your higher mission and feed your lust for life.

Slowly but surely, I think you’ll find that the frustrating impediment will be drained of at least some of its power to lock up your energy.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21) A few years ago, the Hong Kong company Life Enhance sold briefs and boxer shorts that were supposedly designed by a master practitioner of feng shui. On the front of every garment was an image of a dragon, which the Chinese have traditionally regarded as a lucky symbol. To have this powerful charm in contact with your intimate places increased your vital force –– or so the sales rap said. By my estimates, Scorpio, you’re not going to need a boost like that in the coming weeks. Without any outside aids whatsoever, your lower furnace will be generating intense beams of magical heat. What are you going to do with all that potent mojo? Please don’t use it on trivial matters.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

There are times in your life when you do a lot of exploring in the outer world, and other times when your pioneering probes are directed primarily inward. In my astrological opinion, you’re currently more suited for the latter kind of research. If you agree with me, here’s one tack you might want to take: Take an inventory of all your inner voices, noticing both the content of what they say and the tone with which they say it. Some of them may be chatty and others shy; some blaring and others seductive; some nagging and needy and others calm and insightful. Welcome all the voices in your head into the spotlight of your alert attention. Ask them to step forward and reveal their agendas.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22–Jan. 19) The Oxford English Dictionary,

an authority on the state of the English language, adds an average of two new words every day. In the coming weeks, Capricorn, I’d like to see you expand your capacity for self–expression with equal vigor. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re due for an upgrade in your vocabulary, your clarity, and your communication skills. Here’s one of the OED’s fresh terms, which would be a good addition to your repertoire: “bouncebackability,” the ability to recover from a setback or to rebound from a loss of momentum.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18) We turn to Dr. Seuss for help in formulating your horoscope this week. He told a story of dining in a restaurant with his uncle, who was served a popover, which is a puffy muffin that’s hollow on the inside.

“To eat these things,” said his uncle, “you must exercise great care.

You may swallow down what’s solid, but you must spit out the air!” Drawing a lesson from these wise words, Dr. Seuss concluded, “As you partake of the world’s bill of fare, that’s darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.” I expect your coming week will be successful, Aquarius, if you apply these principles.

PISCES

(Feb. 19–March 20) You should be like a rooster, Pisces: dispensing wake–up calls on a regular basis. You should be nudging people to shed their torpor and shake themselves out of their stupor. What’s your personal version of “Cockadoodle–doo!”?

It shouldn’t be something generic like “Open your eyes!” or “Stop making excuses!” Come up with attention–grabbing exclamations or signature phrases that no intelligent person can possibly ignore or feel defensive about. For example: “Let’s leap into the vortex and scramble our trances!”?

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Fee $135.. advance registration is required. Children 5 years of age must currently be enrolled in kindergarten. registration forms are available online at www.savannahga.gov/arts. registrations can be faxed, hand-delivered or mailed to: City of savannah, Department of Cultural affairs, 9 West henry st., savannah, Ga 31401. Information: 912651-6783. toddler tuesdays at oatland island wildlife center For toddlers 6 months to 4 years, and their adults. themed programs include reading story books, singing songs and finger plays, crafts, games, guided walks and up close encounters with oatland’s animal ambassadors. $5 for children, General admission ($5 or $3 for military & seniors) for adults. Friends of oatland (Foo) members pay only for children with up to 2 adults Free! Fee includes program and entrance to oatland Island Wildlife Center and trails. preregistration is required and closes at 4pm the monday before each program. 912-3951500, or ww.oatlandisland.org [011412]

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SATURN SC, 2001- Automatic, cold AC, CD, loaded, moonroof, 2-1/2dr coupe, extra clean, low low miles, very nice $3,850. 441-2150

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BUICK LESABRE LIMITED, 2000- 1 owner, V6, power everything, leather, am/fm/cd, bronze mist, good condition, 83,800 miles $2,900.00 (912)713-7985

HYUNDAI Elantra, 19974-door, automatic, cold AC, Runs super, very low miles $1,950.

Call EASTAND WEST SAVANNAH Furnished, includes utilities, cen- 912-441-2150

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