April 11th, 2012 Connect Svannah Issue

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Saturday, April 21, 2012 Lucas Theatre for the Arts 7:30 pm Tickets $16 - $65 Soprano Belinda Evans and Baritone Teit Kanstrup return to Savannah to sing with the Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, performing some of the most popular arias and choruses from operas including La Traviata, Aida, The Barber of Seville, Carmen, The Merry Widow and Tannhäuser.

Pre-concert talk presented by John Canarina of Savannah Friends of Music commences at 6:30pm.

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WEEK AT A GLANCE Freebie of the Week

Lecture: What’s Under Your Feet?

What: Historic Savannah Foundation presents lecture by Rita Elliott, education coordinator and archeologist, discussing specific archeological sites in the area. Reception at 6:30 p.m. lecture at 7:00 p.m. Where: Kennedy Pharmacy, 323 E. Broughton Street Cost: Free and open to the public.

09 The (civil) Society

Column: Holocaust remembrance.

by Jessica Leigh Lebos

08 Ed note 11 The News Cycle 12 community 15 Blotter 16 News of the Weird 18 Straight Dope

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19 Noteworthy & Soundboard 23 SMF Reviews

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32 Theatre: Dali 34 Food & Drink 35 Cuisine 36 Mark Your Calendar 37 Art patrol 38 Animation festival 40 movies

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When: Thu. April 12, 5:30 p.m.

Where: SCAD MoA, 601 Turner Blvd.

Cost: Museum Admission Info: scad.edu/

Installation: “Before I Die...” opens

Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing

Lecture: Susan L. Buck

art project by New Orleans artist and urban planner Candy Chang. 1701 Waters Avenue, and 109 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Open daily April 7 - May 7. Part of the Savannah Urban Arts Festival.

Cost: Free and open to the public Info: savannahurbanartsfestival.com/

Shakespeare’s timeless comedy. Performances April 12-14 and April 19-21, 7:30 p.m. Matinees April 15 and 22, 3pm.

Where: AASU’s Jenkins Hall Theater Cost: $10. Discounts available.

Info: armstrong.edu/

Wednesday What: An international, interactive public

Fort Pulaski, 150 Years Ago: Evening Casemate Lectures

Thursday What: Armstrong Masquers present

What: Architectural conservation projects in China. Part of SCAD’s School of Building Arts Lecture Series.

When: Thu. April 12, 7 p.m.

Where: SCAD MoA, 601 Turner Blvd.

Cost: Museum Admission Info: scad.edu/

Lecture: Pulitzer Prize Winner Louis Menand

Savannah Council on World Affairs

What: New Yorker staff writer, Harvard

What: “Life in Civil War Savannah.” A lecture in the fort’s casemate, presented

by Talley Kirkland, Park Ranger, Fort McAllister Historic State Park. Reservations requested.

When: Wed. April 11, 7 p.m.

Where: Fort Pulaski National Monument Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 912-786-5787. www.nps.gov/fopu

professor and author discusses “The Education of Andy Warhol.”

When: Thu. April 12, 5 p.m.

Where: Arnold Hall Auditorium, 1810 Bull Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: SCAD.edu/

Lecture: Is Lack of Sleep Making You Fat?

Arts Lecture Series.

Lecture: Furniture Design by Lea Bogdan and Rachel Dacks What: Part of SCAD School of Building

What: Tom Dadant (Herbal Storyteller) and Nancy Angellini (Biochemist & Educator), discuss. Sponsored by Brighter Day Natural Foods.

When: Wed. April 11, 7 p.m.

Where: Coastal GA Ctr, 305 Fahm Street Cost: Free and open to the public Info: brighterdayfoods.com/

Film: Savannah in the Civil War

What: Premiere of this historical documentary by Cosmos Mariner Productions. Part of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the siege of Fort Pulaski. Advance reservation required.

When: Thu. April 12, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Fort Pulaski Cost: $5 park admission good for 7 days Info: 912-786-5787 . www.nps.gov/fopu.

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Theater: References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot opens

Friday

What: Jose Rivera’s passionate tale of magical realism. Produced by SCAD graduate students Bevin Prince and Courtland Jones.

When: April 11-13, 7 p.m.

Where: Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. Cost: $10 Info: savannahtheatreproject.com/

Savannah International Animation Festival begins What: See story this issue.

When: Fri. April 13, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat. 9

a.m.-9 p.m.

Where: Coastal GA Center, 305 Fahm St Cost: $15-$20/day Info: savannahinternationalanimationfestival.com/

Film: Samuel Fuller’s Shock Corridor (1963, USA)

What: A journalist decides the quickest way to a Pulitzer Prize is to uncover the facts behind a murder at a mental hospital. So, he pretends to go insane.

When: Wed. April 11, 8 p.m.

Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E Park Ave. Cost: $6 cash only

What: Author and Amherst College professor of Political Science on President Hugo Chavez’s illness and its impact on Venezuela and South America. Membership Social at 7:30 p.m; program 8 p.m.

Where: Coastal GA Center, 305 Fahm St. Cost: $10. Free/members/students/educators/military.

Info: www.savannahcwa.org/

Fort Pulaski, 150 Years Ago: Hunter’s General Order No. 7

Multi-platinum country music recording artist Josh Turner appears at Johnny Mercer Theatre on Friday

What: Representatives of the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington DC will screen a film and give a presentation.

When: Fri. April 13, 1:30 p.m.

Where: Fort Pulaski

Tybee Wine Festival: An Evening of Oysters and Wine

What: Oysters served every which way paired with accompanying wines.

Benefits Tybee Post Theater.

When: Fri. April 13, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.

Where: Marlin Monroe’s Surfside Grill, 404 Butler Avenue, Tybee Cost: $40 Info: tybeewinefestival.com/

Music: Josh Turner

What: Multi-platinum country music

recording artist.

When: Fri. April 13, 8 p.m.

Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre @ Savannah Civic Center Cost: $27.75 - $49.75 Info: savannahcivic.com/

Music: Neon Trees

What: Pop-rock group from Utah.

When: Fri. April 13, 8 p.m.

Where: Trustees Theater, 216 E.

Broughton St.

Cost: $27 -$32 Info: tickets.savannahboxoffice.com/

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Saturday Fort Pulaski, 150 Years Ago: Living History Programs

What: Program by the 54th Massachusetts, Civil War Re-enactment Regiment is among two days of programs commemorating 150th Anniversary of the Siege of Fort Pulaski.

When: Sat. April 14 Where: Fort Pulaski Cost: call for information Info: 912-786-5787. nps.gov/fopu

Big Nasty Mud Run

What: Twenty obstacles and four miles of fun, muddy running. Information: steve.whitefcae@gmail.com When: Wed. April 11, Thu. April 12, Fri. April 13, Sat. April 14, 8 a.m.

Where: 108 Godley Rd., Bloomingdale Cost: Fees vary Info: Active.com/

Forsyth Farmers’ Market

What: Fresh produce, eggs, pasta, bread and baked goods.

When: Sat. April 14, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Where: South End of Forsyth Park Info: www.forsythfarmersmarket.org/

Native Medicinal Plant Walk

What: Wilderness Southeast guided walk with naturopathic healing specialist Peter Broadhead.

When: Sat. April 14, 9 a.m.

Where: Meet at Savannah/Ogeechee Canal Museum & Nature Center, 681 Fort Argyle Road Cost: $20 Info: 912-236-8115.

Tybee Wine Fest: Grand Tasting

What: Tasting and samplings of international wine, craft beers and morsels from favorite eateries.

When: Sat. April 14, 2 p.m.-5 p.m.

Where: Tybee Island Lighthouse Grounds, 30 Meddin Drive, Tybee Cost: $50 Info: tybeewinefestival.com/

Fort Pulaski, 150 Years Ago: 97th Regimental String Band Concert

What: Civil War era vocal and instrumental music of the 1800s. Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Siege & Reduction of Fort Pulaski. Bring blankets and picnics for this outdoor concert, but no alcohol.

When: Sat. April 14, 5 p.m.

Where: Fort Pulaski Cost: $5. Free for age 15 and under.

Info: (912) 786-5787. nps.gov/fopu

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What: 1931 classic directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre, about a search for a killer in a German city.

Presented by SCAD Cinema Circle.

When: Sat. April 14, 7 p.m.

Where: Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St. Cost: $8. $6/Seniors/students/mil.

Free with SCAD ID Info: scadboxoffice.com/

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What: Champagne tasting begins at 12:30pm and brunch will be served at 1 pm. Music by Alberto Puentes.

When: Sun. April 15, 12:30 p.m.

Where: Tybee Lite Shrine Club, 1 Meddin Avenue, Tybee Island Cost: $35 Info: tybeewinefestival.com/

Flannery O’Connor Lecture Series: Sharon Ott

What: Leading figure in American theater speaks. Includes live performance.

When: Sun. April 15, 4 p.m.

Where: Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Street , Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: flanneryoconnorhome.org/

Film: In Darkness (Poland, 2011)

What: CinemaSavannah presents the Oscar-nominated film from director Agnieszka Holland.

When: Sun. April 15, 7 p.m.

Where: Victory Square Theaters, Home Depot/Target Shopping Center Cost: $8, cash only

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What: Monthly open mic night hosted

by AWOL features music and poetry.

When: Sun. April 15, 7 p.m.

Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: Donation Info: savannahurbanartsfestival.com/

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Monday Film: Eames

What: Narrated by James Franco,

this documentary tells the story of husband-and-wife team Charles and Ray Eames. Part of SCAD Style 2012.

When: Mon. April 16, 11:30 a.m., Mon. April 16, 11:30 a.m.

Where: SCAD MoA, 601 Turner Blvd.

SUAF Panel: ‘Changing the Perception of What’s Possible’

What: Local artists discuss ways to improve outcomes for local artists and develop additional local infrastructure that will facilitate creative projects locally.

When: Mon. April 16, 4 p.m.-5 p.m.

Where: Creative Coast, 15 W. York St. Cost: Free Info: savannahurbanartsfestival.com/

Lecture: Florian Idenburg

What: Co-founder of Solid Objectives–

Idenburg Liu (SO – IL). Part of SCAD Style 2012.

When: Mon. April 16, 7 p.m.

Where: SCAD MoA, 601 Turner Blvd.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: scad.edu/

Savannah Philharmonic’s

Chamber Music Concert No.4

String Quartet Arrangements Sunday April 22, 2012 5:00pm Telfair Museums, Telfair Academy Tickets: $15

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Tuesday Lecture: Gregory Wein, Style Director at Surface Magazine

What: Part of SCAD Style 2012.

When: Tue. April 17, 11:30 a.m.

Where: SCAD MoA, 601 Turner Blvd.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: scad.edu/

of our dependence on plastic bags.

Hosted by Caretta Research Project & Ogeechee Riverkeeper.

When: Tue. April 17, 7 p.m.

Where: Coastal GA Ctr, 305 Fahm St Cost: $10

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Wednesday Lecture: John Bricker, Creative director, Gensler What: Part of SCAD Style 2012.

When: Wed. April 18, 11:30 a.m.

Where: SCAD MoA, 601 Turner Blvd.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Panel Discussion: Ethics and Biotechnology

What: In conjunction with Armstrong’s 2011 Common Read, Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, about the woman behind the first “immortal” human cells grown in culture.

When: Wed. April 18, 12-1:30 p.m.

Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University, University Hall Room 156 Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: armstrong.edu/

Lecture and Book Signing: Amy Flurry, Recipe for Press

What: A “guide to being your own publicist.” Part of SCAD Style 2012.

When: Wed. April 18, 3 p.m.

Where: SCAD MoA, 601 Turner Blvd., Cost: Free and open to the public

Savannah Urban Arts Festival: Story Quilts of Our Savannah

What: A collection of neighborhood story quilts made by the children of the West Broad Street YMCA, the Kayton Homes Boys and Girls Club and the seniors of the Hudson Hill Golden Age Center.

When: Wed. April 18, 5-8 p.m.

Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 D Louisville Rd. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: savannahurbanartsfestival.com/

Lecture and Book Signing: Hal Rubenstein, InStyle

Lecture: Linda Heasley, President/CEO of The Limited

Music selections from Carmen, West Side Story, Beethoven, Strauss and more

What: Part of SCAD Style 2012.

When: Tue. April 17, 3 p.m.

Where: SCAD MoA, 601 Turner Blvd., Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: scad.edu/

What: InStyle’s fashion director lectures on his book “100 Unforgettable Dresses.” Part of SCAD Style 2012.

When: Wed. April 18, 6 p.m.

Where: SCAD MoA 601 Turner Blvd.

Cost: Free and open to the public Info: scad.edu/

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What: Part of SCAD Style 2012.

When: Tue. April 17, 6 p.m.

Where: SCAD MoA, 601 Turner Blvd.

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Film: Bag It!

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What: Award winning film follows Jeb Berrier as he tries to make sense

What: Drive-in “Jiggle Movie” about escapees from an asylum who stumble upon a private school for wayward girls and terrorize these scantily clad teens. However, the girls know karate!

When: Wed. April 18, 8 p.m.

Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E Park Ave. Cost: $5 cash only

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Michael Jordan — the local journalist, not the basketball superstar — is a busy man these days.

First coming to local prominence as an anchor with WSAV, he has since gone on to a successful career as an independent videojournalist.

As he said when I interviewed him for my piece on him this issue, “I want to make films that tourists will buy, locals will enjoy, and everyone can learn from.”

This week Jordan marks two personal milestones: First, he premieres his new documentary Savannah in the Civil War under the stars at Ft. Pulaski this Thursday night, part of the ongoing sesquicentennial of the fort’s fall in 1862.

Yours truly plays a small role as Sanford Branch, one of several Savannah brothers who served. (The fascinating story of the Branch family is told in the book Charlotte’s Boys: Civil War Letters of the Branch Family of Savannah, by Mauriel Phllips Joslyn.)

I’ve known Michael for years and have written about his work before, but it was particularly insightful to be on the other

side of his camera and see his professionalism in action.

Other local folks in Jordan’s Savannah in the Civil War include Joe Marinelli, Frank McIntosh, Kim Polote, John Duncan, and many interpreters from both the Owens– Thomas House and the Davenport House.

The other big news from Jordan over the past week involves his victory in Visit Savannah’s contest for a new promotional video. In the wake of a certain amount of controversy over Visit Savannah’s initial effort, i.e., the infamous General Oglethorpe–leads–a–conga–line video, the organization sponsored another contest, inviting local filmmakers to take their best shot.

Jordan’s winning entry “You’ve Gotta Come to Savannah” is a three and a half minute quick–hit extravaganza featuring cameos by literally dozens of local figures, including Jamie Deen, Stratton Leopold, Mayor Edna Jackson, Rob Gibson, Ruel Joyner, and Esther Shaver.

Yours truly in front of the green screen on set as wounded soldier Sanford Branch

All the local celebs in the video are great, but I really enjoy the way Jordan includes some of the unsung contributors to Savannah’s hospitality, such as hotel housekeepers, Girl Scouts, and cops. I also appreciate how the video references Savannah’s to–go cup tradition, which is really one of the major, specific things that puts us in a truly select company of American cities.

Find Jordan’s video by going to YouTube and searching for “You Gotta Come to Savannah.”

See Jordan’s new documentary Savannah in the Civil War this Thursday night at Ft. Pulaski (bring lawn chairs and bug spray if you want, and remember the $5 admission gets you back into Ft. Pulaski anytime over the following seven days.) cs

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‘Right to Work’ a misnomer

Regarding Mr. Lattavo’s response to Bill Gillespie’s letter: So, SB 469 is a “Right to Work” law. That is just typical right–wing Orwellian doublespeak, which really means “Right not to be able to unionize” and “Right of the owner to pay you whatever meager stipend he thinks you deserve.”

It’s not a right to work, it’s a right to be abused and ripped off. It’s just another piece of legislation to make it easier for fat cats to get fatter, and continue to gut the middle class.

Jim Casey

Give politics a break

Editor, OK out with it, where did you find this guy Matt Brunson for a movie critic, under a rock at the Occupy Savannah outpost on Bay Street? I think this is only the first (and hopefully the last) time I have to read a movie review that includes gratuitous political diatribe (see the piece on The Hunger Games, April 4–10 issue.)

For those of you fortunate enough to have missed it, Matt takes a political shot by describing a character as one, “.....who hates the working class with the passion of a Republican presidential nominee.....”

That is a really stupid comment and maligns half of the voting public as much as describing the character as, “..... a Democrat president who hates his country so much he is intent on ruining the economy in his first term.....”, would hurt the other half.

I respect the right of Connect to espouse a political opinion that is somewhere to the left of California but I certainly don’t expect it or appreciate it in the movie reviews. Those in favor of non–political reviews say ‘aye’.

Philip Lattavo

Correction

In last week’s “Here Comes the Neighborhood” article about the development for One West Victory Drive, it was mistakenly reported that a previous plan had been tabled because of bankruptcy.

This was not the case; Jameson Properties bought out its local partners in 2007. The Metropolitan Planning Commission has recommended the current plan to City Council for approval.

by Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

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The women who keep on telling

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There was plenty of all when I met with Melinda Stein and Degi Ruben last week to talk about the upcoming Holocaust Remembrance program at the Jewish Educational Alliance, though it’s pretty difficult to find anything funny about the Holocaust.

Still, we managed to sneak in a few cackles here and there. Keeping a sense of humor in the face of macabre circumstances is an essential component of sanity. And, as these ladies can tell you, of survival.

Melinda is Degi’s mom and the child of Holocaust survivors who immigrated to New York in 1949.

As co–chairs this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day (also called Yom Ha’Shoah in Hebrew, “yom” meaning “day” and “Shoah” a horrific catastrophe), they’ve chosen a hopeful theme for what will always be a depressing topic: “Mothers of Valor: The Courage

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Get three Jewish mothers in one room and there’s bound to be kvetching (complaining), kvelling (bragging about the kids) and some good, hard laughter.

The Korek family of Lodz, Poland.

Ruth Korek (second from right) and her sister were the only ones in the family to survive the Holocaust.

and Compassion of Women in the Holocaust.”

“After all these years, we know a lot about the courage of men, the Warsaw ghetto uprisings, those who blew up the crematorium at Auschwitz,” said Melinda. “Women’s stories have

taken a backseat.”

Along with the heroic tales of Chana Senesh (who escaped from Hungary in the 1930s only to parachute back in to help rescue others) and the “righteous gentiles” who risked their lives to hide their Jewish

neighbors, Melinda will share her own mother’s story: Ruth Korek of Lodz, Poland worked as a newspaper reporter before the Nazis invaded; her parents and young brothers were murdered,

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April 15-22, 2012 SUAF LINE-UP APRIL 15-22, 2012 + SUNDAY, 4/15: Therapy Session Open Mic SUAF Kick-off Event + MONDAY, 4/16: Community Arts Panel + TUESDAY, 4/17: All Ages Hip-Hop Night at Muse Arts + WEDNESDAY, 4/18: Loop It Up Savannah + THURSDAY, 4/19: SUAF Benefit Concert + FRIDAY, 4/20: “Doing It the Wong Way” Kristina Wong is a nationally presented solo performer, writer, actor, educator, culture jammer, and filmmaker. Kristina has been working with AWOL youth all week teaching them the art of the solo performance. Come out and and support young people and most importantly “art for social change!” THIS EVENT IS PROUDLY SPONSORED BY THE CITY OF SAVANNAH DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS

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she and her sister were sent to work at a munitions factory in the Skarzisko labor camp. There they sabotaged bullets and endured starvation until Ruth was transferred to the picric acid plant, where her skin and eyes absorbed so much toxicity they turned yellow. The Allies liberated the prisoners in 1945, and Ruth found herself in a displaced persons camp where she married a young man who had narrowly escaped death himself.

Against all odds, they started a family.

“The greatest example of courage was not only to survive, but after the war to say ‘I will have children,’” explained Melinda. “Having children was like dancing on Hitler’s grave.”

(This feisty, ginger–haired lady actually did a small jig as she said this, eliciting some of that aforementioned laughter. See what I mean about that dark humor?)

While it seems such an experience would imply a life of mental disturbance and nightmares, Melinda says her parents were happy, and her mother joked and toasted “L’chaim” (“to life!”) until her death in 1963.

However, Melinda always understood the admonition of those who survived what happened in Europe less than a lifetime ago: Never again.

Every Jewish American has a Holocaust story. My maternal great–grandparents saw the writing on the wall in 1930s Poland and brought my grandmother to New York in the mid1930s, leaving a large extended family behind to perish. On visits to my other grandparents in Miami Beach, I’d play around the pool with their friends, the tattooed numbers on their forearms visible as we splashed.

For some, especially those who grew up shrouded by the pallor of their dead ancestors, it’s tempting to forget the horror, to put away the old folks’ pain, to get on with blessed lives in which being Jewish is just another part of a complex American identity.

“I still struggle how to tell my daughters my grandmother’s story.

I’m going to have to get over that hurdle, and maybe this program will help other mothers,” said Degi. “Our survival depends on the involvement, in the teaching.”

The minute we turn away, we leave ourselves vulnerable as a people and to the apathy towards genocide itself.

Yom Ha’Shoah is as much about honoring the dead as it is fostering a tolerant, peaceful future for all people.

Six million Jews were killed in the

Holocaust, a third of the global Jewish population. But the Holocaust isn’t a Jewish tragedy—it’s a human one. Ten million people—a million and half of them children—died hideously under Hitler’s reign, including Catholics, Muslims, Romas, gays, those who thought differently, anybody who didn’t fit in, anyone who spoke up.

“This is an event for the entire community, not just the Jewish community,” reminds Degi, who also helped oversee the city–wide Yom Ha’Shoah writing and art contest for middle and high school students with longtime Holocaust educator Sherry Dolgoff. The essays and art will be on display along with hundreds of yellow flowers colored by schoolkids as part of the “The Daffodil Project” headed by visiting Israeli ambassador Tal Bratman.

The universal importance of “never again” has been heralded by Sister Pat Coward, the vice principal of St. Vincent’s Academy. For 15 years, Sister Pat has taught a Holocaust–themed literature course, and her Catholic school students participate in the JEA’s Yom Ha’Shoah program every year by displaying their artwork and witnessing the stories of the survivors.

“My students are interested in this because it puts us touch with that part of our humanity that’s deepest: Compassion, our ability to love, and also of the power of hate,” said Sister Pat. “This was a watershed event in history caused by hate and only tempered by compassion. How could you not look at it?”

Survivor Vera Hoffman has spoken to Sister Pat’s class each semester and returns to the JEA every year. She, her husband, Joe, and Frieda Smulevitz are the last of Savannah’s survivors. The world has few left, those steely–eyed 80 and 90 year–olds who stare down the deniers and say, “I was there. I saw. I survived.”

I asked native Savannahian Lisa Kaminsky, whose grandfather, Chaim Melamed, spoke about his time in the camps until he passed away last year, what we’ll do when the last survivor is gone.

“When there’s no one left, we’re the ones who have to tell the story,” she said.

May we have the courage to keep on telling. And keep on laughing. cs The Yom Ha’Shoah program is free and open to all on Thursday, April 19, 7–9 p.m. at the JEA, 5111 Abercorn St.

New bike lane, new complaints Immediately following the redesign of Price Street to include a bike lane and on–street parking, some folks offered grim forecasts.

Automobile traffic would snarl, they predicted. Bicyclists would be hurt daily, they warned. Parked cars would be damaged, they fretted.

Now people are starting to complain, not about what might happen, but about what hasn’t happened yet.

“Cyclists aren’t using the new bike lane.” Your mileage may vary, but I’ve travelled on Price Street numerous times by bike and by car and have seen cyclists on every trip. And, I know from personal experience, plenty of people don’t see bicyclists even when they are there.

Studies confirm that bicycle facilities, like the new Price Street lane, encourage more people to ride bikes.

But it doesn’t happen overnight.

Some cyclists may still be unaware they have this option. Others, having learned to avoid the high speed traffic on Price Street, may be apprehensive.

It’s worth noting that because our bike route network is far from complete, the Price Street bike lane does not intersect with any other pavement marked bike lanes. Connectivity is crucial to maximizing use of bicycle facilities, and despite very important progress in recent years Savannah has a long way to go.

“Cyclists are still using other streets.” While the new lane will attract cyclists who previously took other routes, not everyone will use it.

Some people complain they still see cyclists mixing with high volume and high speed car traffic on other streets Here’s a fact that often eludes people who don’t ride bicycles for transportation: Motorists and cyclists are

similar in that they often choose the fastest and most direct route.

While many cyclists will go out of their way to use Price Street like I do, others don’t have that luxury.

Sometimes cyclists are required to use bike–unfriendly streets.

And really, asking why cyclists use dangerous streets distracts us from more important questions. Shouldn’t we be asking how to make these streets less dangerous for all users?

“Cyclists are still misbehaving.”

Predictably, the topic of scofflaw cycling has crept into discussions of the new Price Street lane. Will cyclists ride the wrong way in the Price Street lane? Without a doubt, just as distracted, aggressive and impaired drivers will use any new roads built in Chatham County.

The interesting thing about Price Street, however, is how blame is assigned. Motorists who ignore the presence of pavement markings, bike lane signs and, ahem, bicyclists and attempt to drive in a bike lane that is clearly too narrow to accommodate their cars are cast as victims of poor street design.

Cyclists who ride against traffic on Price Street, on the other hand, are called idiots or worse.

Riding against traffic is one of the most dangerous things you can do on a bicycle, that is for sure. However, some cyclists are not aware of this.

Surprisingly, many of us were actually taught to ride against traffic as children and continue the practice today. Others mistakenly believe they are safer when they can see oncoming traffic.

Being passed too closely by a car is terrifying and potentially deadly, so it’s understandable that some cyclists like to keep the cars where they can see them.

Shortly after Price street was redesigned, police traffic units were dispatched to stop motorists who were driving in the bike lane and advise them about the dangers of that practice. In some jurisdictions, police stop wrong–way cyclists and dispense education instead of a citation, at least for the first offense.

Similar initiatives, if adopted locally, would surely help point cyclists in the right direction. cs

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The 90–minute film uses local actors and historians to bring to life the activity in Savannah, where, in Jordan’s words, “A hell of a lot more happened than just not getting burned by Sherman.”

Jordan has already made DVDs about Savannah homes and local graveyards, and his most recent release is the popular guide video Savannah Square by Square. After several years of wanting to do a Civil War doc, he decided the anniversary of Pulaski’s fall was the perfect time for a whole overview of the local role in the war.

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But rather than use the typical Ken Burns–style of slowly panning over single images, Jordan decided to really take the plunge and script the film for actors portraying historical figures.

“I decided there were too many people with too many fascinating stories that would be underserved if we just had a bunch of historians talking,” Jordan says. “In all I used about 30 actors and at least a dozen historians.”

Some of the local figures playing roles include Visit Savannah Director Joe Marinelli (Col. Edward C.

Anderson), Savannah Bicycle Campaign Director Frank McIntosh (Gen. Hardee), singer Kim Polote (Susie King Taylor), local filmmaker David Harland Rousseau (Col. Charles Jones), and this reporter as Sanford Branch, part of a fighting family of Confederate soldiers from Savannah.

Also involved in the film are numerous interpreters from the Owens–Thomas House and the Davenport House, as well as local historians providing perspective.

The video begins with “the heady days of secession when everyone was fired up at the idea of being part of this new country,” Jordan says.

But with the first battle of the war, at Bull Run in Virginia, things immediately became somber here.

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productive naval facilities. Many of the Confederate ironclads were constructed here.”

Kim Polote’s turn as Susie King Taylor has particular historic resonance, Jordan says, because “Taylor is the only African American female memoirist to come out of the war.”

Taylor defied the law to teach herself how to read and write in Savannah. “When the war begins, she flees to St. Simons Island and becomes a laundress to the first unit of black troops,” Jordan says.

Perhaps the most unusual, and underreported, thing that happened took place right before war’s end.

“About five months before the war ended, Savannah actually voted to rejoin the union. They were like, we’re tired of this crap, it’s time to start making money again!” Jordan says.

“City leaders at the time, like Mayor Richard Arnold, were very pragmatic.

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After the war, Jordan says, veterans of both sides began the process of bonding and healing together as countrymen with a shared heritage and shared sacrifice.

“The veterans all begin to meet together and sort of celebrate the past in a nostalgic way. They more or less are able to move on,” he says.

“But the Confederate women never let it go. They lost husbands and sons.

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In need of Newports Police are seeking men who robbed three businesses in two months, taking cash and Newport cigarettes.

In the first incident, a black male wearing a multi–colored hooded jacket entered the Circle K in the 7200 block of Abercorn at 9:42 p.m. on Feb. 13, and produced a handgun.

He forced the clerk to turn over cash from the store and then demanded a carton of Newport cigarettes.

He fled with a second black male, wearing a grey hooded shirt, who had been standing outside the door.

Just before 1 a.m. on March 26, a man holding what appeared to be a gun under his clothing walked into Walgreens in the 11000 block of Abercorn Street and told the clerk to open the register.

He followed her behind the counter and pulled money from the drawer

then left the business and immediately returned to steal packs of Newports.

The man and a second man dressed in all black who had been watching the door fled on foot. The first was described as a black male, 5–1 to 5–2 and 120 pounds, wearing a red hooded jacket, black pants and a black bandana over his face. The second was described as a taller black male in all black clothing.

Two men also robbed the Sandfly Convenience Store at 11 p.m. that night. The first, in his early 20s, was described as 6–0 with a slim build, white and red sweat shirt and his face covered with a white bandana.

His hair was in short twisties and he was holding a chrome handgun.

The second man wore a dark sweat shirt with his face covered with a black object. He was described as 6–0, bald, with a slim build and was holding a black handgun.

The first man entered the store, produced the gun and demanded money. He then climbed over the counter, forced the clerk to open the

register, and grabbed money and several packs of Newport Cigarettes.

The second man stayed at the door and pointed a gun at clerks. He then told the first man to get the clerks’ purses.

• Police are investigating two shootings last week.

Jason Roberson, 33, of Garfield Street, escaped life–threatening injuries after he was shot on the front porch of a house on East Gwinnet Street just before midnight.

Roberson was standing with others on the porch when a small car stopped in the street and a man stepped out with an assault rifle, fired several shots at the house and hit Roberson. The gunman reentered the car and fled.

In the second shooting James McKenith, 41 of Pooler, was found with a life–threatening gunshot wound in Yamacraw Village just before 2 a.m.

He told police he was visiting an apartment and was knocking on the

back door when a man in a white T– shirt walked up and shot him.

He ran to another area of the complex before collapsing and was transported to Memorial where he was listed in critical condition after emergency surgery.

• Someone stole 10 traffic control signal boxes stolen from a City of Savannah storage facility.

The boxes, valued at about $8,000 each, were taken from the Traffic Engineering storage facility on Louisville Road after someone removed a gate and drove into the yard. cs

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news of the weird French Full-Body Health Care As the U.S. government’s role in health care is debated, the French government’s role was highlighted in February with a report on Slate.com about France’s guarantee to new mothers of “10 to 20” free sessions of “la reeducation perineale” (vaginal re-toning to restore the pre-pregnancy condition, a “cornerstone of French post-natal care,” according to Slate). The sessions involve yoga-like calisthenics to rebuild muscles and improve genital flexibility.

Similar procedures in the U.S. not only are not government entitlements, but are almost never covered by private insurance, and besides, say surgeons, the patients who request them do so almost entirely for aesthetic reasons.

The French program, by contrast, is said to be designed not only for general health but to strengthen women for bearing more children, to raise the birth rate.

Compelling Explanations • Drill, Baby, Drill: U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas may have been joking, but according to a February Washington Post story, he seemed serious at a Natural Resources Committee hearing when searching for yet more reasons why the U.S. should support oil drilling in Alaska. Caribou, he said, are fond of the warmth of the Alaskan pipeline. “So when they want to go on a date, they invite each other to head over to the pipeline.” That mating ritual, Rep. Gohmert concluded, is surely

responsible for a recent tenfold increase heavily and snarling.”) in the local caribou population.

Ironies • In assigning a bail of only $20,000, the judge in Ellisville, Miss., seemed • Earl Persell, 56, was arrested in torn about whether to believe that HarPalm Bay, Fla., in February when police old Hadley is a terrorist- that is, did were summoned to his home on a Hadley plant a bomb at Jones County domestic violence call. Persell’s girlJunior College? In February, investigafriend said he had assaulted her and tors told WDAM-TV that the evidence held her down by the neck, and then against Hadley included a note on toilet moments later, with his truck, rammed paper on which he had written in effect, the car she was driving away in.

“I passed a bomb in the library.”

The subject of the couple’s arguHowever, no bomb was found, ment was legendary singer and a relative of Hadley’s told the Tina Turner and her late, judge that Hadley often speaks wife-beating husband, Ike. WHAT’S LOVE of breaking wind as “passing a • U.S. military forces GOT TO DO WITH bomb.” The case is continuing. called to battle in Iraq and IT? • John Hughes, 55, was fined Afghanistan, including $1,000 in February in Butte, reservists and National Mont., after pleading guilty Guardsmen on active to reckless driving for leading duty, have their civilian police on a 100-mph-plus chase jobs protected by federal law, starting at 3:25 a.m. After police but every year the Pentagon deflated his tires and arrested him, reports having to assist personan officer asked why he had taken nel who have been illegally fired off. Said Hughes, “I just always or demoted during their tours wanted to do that.” of duty. Of all the employers • Melvyn Webb, 54, was acquitin the United States who are seemted in March of alleged indecent ingly ignorant of the law, one stands behavior on a train. An eight-woman, out: civilian agencies of the federal govfour-man jury in Reading (England) ernment. The Washington Post, using a Crown Court found Webb’s explanaFreedom of Information Act request, tion entirely plausible - that he was a revealed in February that during fiscal banjo player and was “playing” some year 2011, 18 percent of all complaints riffs underneath the newspaper in his under the law were filed against federal lap. “(S)ometimes I do, with my hands, agencies. pick out a pattern on my knees,” he • Mark “Chopper” Read only wanted said. (On the other hand, the female to help out his son’s youth athletics prowitness against him had testified gram in the Melbourne, Australia, subthat Webb “was facing me, breathing urb of Collingwood in February, but

was rebuffed. He had offered his assistance at track meets by, for instance, firing the starter’s pistol for races, but officials declined after learning that Read had recently been released from prison after 23 years and had boasted of killing 19 people and once attempting to kidnap a judge at gunpoint.

• Damien Bittar of Eugene, Ore., turned 21 at midnight on March 15 and apparently wanted to get a quick start on his legal-drinking career. By 1:30 a.m., his car had been impounded, and he had been charged with DUI, reckless driving and criminal mischief after he accidentally crashed into an alcohol rehabilitation center.

Fine Points of the Law Internal Revenue Service is battling the estate of art dealer Ileana Sonnabend over the value of a Robert Rauschenberg stuffed bald eagle that is part of his work “Canyon.” IRS has levied taxes as if the work were worth $65 million, but the Sonnabend estate, citing multiple auction-house appraisals, says the correct value is “zero,” since it is impossible to sell the piece because two federal laws prohibit the trafficking of bald eagles, whether dead or alive.

(Despite the law, IRS says, there is a black market for the work, for example, by a “recluse billionaire in China (who) might want to buy it and hide it.”)

Least competent criminals (1) Maureen Reed, 41, was charged with DWI in March in Lockport, N.Y., after arriving at a police station

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Dr. Peter Trigger, 62, apparently suffered a relapse in Thorplands, England, in February. Dr. Trigger violated his Anti-Social Behavior Order (the one reported in News of the Weird in 2009) by standing passively alongside the grounds of the Woodvale Primary School as parents dropped kids off for classes. As before, he was wearing a thigh-length gray skirt and a blue Northampton Academy Blazer even though forbidden to be near a school while dressed in either a skirt or a school uniform. His lawyer said that Dr. Trigger desperately wants to be a woman.

• Asian News International, citing a March China Today report, disclosed that a 68-year-old woman from the countryside, visiting her son in the city of Dalian, China, for the first time, used an unheard-of (for China) 98 tons of water over a two-month period because she was apparently mesmerized by the wonder of seeing her first flush toilet (which she continually engaged approximately every five minutes). (Her use breaks down to 391 gallons a day, somewhat higher than the average U.S. household.)

• In Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in March, police finally straightened out the street confrontation between

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several men and a wheelchair-using man who, they thought, was making their penises disappear. According to National Network Newspapers, the police brought all parties to the station and ordered pants to be pulled down. All organs were said to be intact, but one man still complained that his had been made “lifeless.”

Thanks This Week to Perry Levin and Bob Smakula, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors. CS

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inebriated. She had gotten into an altercation with two others at the Niagara Hotel and left to go press charges. The police station is about 200 feet from the hotel, but Reed unwisely decided to drive her car there instead of walking. (2) Two men were robbed in a motel room in Bradenton, Fla., in February by Cedrick Mitchell, 39, who pulled a handgun on them, but lost it in a struggle when the men started to fight back. One of the men pepper-sprayed Mitchell, sending him fleeing. He returned a few minutes later and begged to buy the gun back for $40, but all he got was another pepper-spraying. Police arrested Mitchell nearby.

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On my drive into work today, the first workday back since the Daylight Saving Time spring forward, I noticed a stark increase in road kill, specifically raccoons.

Has anyone else noticed this? My theory is it has to do with more drivers on the street before sunrise because of the hour shift forward. —Matthew Bates, Chicago There are indications—but so far no proof—that the Daylight Saving Time (DST) change imperils the gentle creatures of the woodland. But some say Bambi, Thumper, and Rocky aren’t the real concern. The mammal more clearly in danger of getting turned into road kill is you.

DST began as a joke. In a satirical piece published anonymously in 1784, Benjamin Franklin, then living in Paris, claimed to have recently discovered that the sun begins shining early each morning—roughly six hours, in fact, before he typically got out of bed. He then calculated the vast savings on candles that would accrue to his fellow Parisians if they all got up at sunrise, and proposed to encourage this practice by, among other things, firing off cannons at dawn.

In 1895 the pioneering New Zealand naturalist and astronomer George Vernon Hudson came up with a more practical solution: changing the clocks.

In the U.S., DST was first tried as a nationwide wartime conservation measure in 1918, then again in 1942, and finally became the norm in 1966. Subsequent congressional tinkering ultimately produced our current system of starting on the second Sunday in March and ending on the first Sunday in November.

Many animals are either nocturnal or crepuscular (i.e., active at twilight—and trust me, your date will be impressed when you work that word into a sentence). So it’s conceivable that an abrupt shift in traffic volume at dusk and dawn could affect the frequency of autoanimal encounters. A study of more than 21,000 crashes between car and deer (mostly moose and white-tails) in

Finland found a very high peak in such accidents from 30 to 120 minutes after sunset, with a much smaller peak about half an hour before sunrise.

We also know that the times of year we time-shift for DST—spring and fall—align to an extent with road-kill peaks for some animals. For example, deer typically have two peak roadkill periods. One is in May and June, which I grant you is quite a bit after the DST shift. But the other is in October and early November, right around the change, and is much larger than the spring peak.

Coincidence? Hard to say. Despite several large-scale multistate investigations, there’s no smoking gun tying DST to more (or fewer) animals killed on the roads.

DST’s effect on humans has been more carefully scrutinized, and a few researchers claim to have found evidence the time change can be dangerous. The loss of an hour of sleep time in the spring is thought, not unreasonably, to be especially rough, leading to more accidents on the road and in the workplace. Conversely, some hypothesize that an extra hour of sleep in the fall should translate into a reduction in accidents.

You can find research supporting this premise. For example, a Canadian study of nearly 22,000 auto accidents around DST change days claimed that accidents increased by 8 percent immediately after the spring forward, and decreased by 7 percent immediately after the fall backward. But that study looked at just two years. A skeptic examining ten years’ worth of data from the same source found no important difference.

From what I can see, that’s the general rule with time-change research. For every study claiming to show DST kills, you can come up with another saying it’s harmless—in my book a pretty good indication the apparent patterns in the data are just a fluke.

STILL THINKING ABOUT THIS ONE In a morgue, where would the toe-tag be placed on a footless or legless body?

Where would it be placed on a torso with no arms or legs or if even the head was missing? —D. Smith, California One assumes one would assess the appendages available, and do the best one could. cs By cecil adams Send questions to Cecil via straightdope. com

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At 8 p.m. Thursday, April 12 Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. A wry Americana quartet with roots in blues, folk and even gospel–tent revival music, Philadelphia’s Hoots & Hellmouth should be on your radar if Little Feat and the Band do it for you; singer/songwriter Sean Hoots and his crew are galvanizing with the groove and literary with the lyric, and they’re not afraid to sacrifice one for the other if it serves the song.

H&H have an ambitious new full–length, Salt, that would fit nicely on your shelf alongside such folkie futurists as Deer Tick and Modest Mouse.

The album was funded by an uber–successful Kickstarter campaign, and is the band’s first without co–founder Andrew “Hellmouth” Gray. “Overall,the album plays a little quieter than our previous efforts,” Hoots says. “but I feel like the subtleties and dynamics have been expanded and became more nuanced with our new approach.”

MISTER JOE BLACK With This Way to the Egress

At 9 p.m. Friday, April 13 Wormhole Bar, 2307 Bull St. A show of gypsypunk cabaret, balls–out burlesque and twisted theatricality (think Hellblinki), on Friday the 13th no less.

The comedic Philadelphia trio This Way to the Egress has plied its tarty trade on the Wormhole stage before, but the other artist on the bill is a newcomer to Savannah.

They’re all on the road together, calling their dog, pony and cadaver tour A Series of Unfortunate Recitals.

Mister Joe Black is a British cabaret artist who performs dark, weird songs, some nightmarish and some cartoony, with ukulele, accordion and musical saw. He’s toured with the American vaudevillian Voltaire, whose presentation is similarly musical.

Sometimes Joe growls like Tom Waits and wears Marilyn Manson makeup – pancake white and black lipstick – and sometimes he’s got fey Boy George hair and Adam Ant cosmetics, and sings twisted little ditties as if he were Noel Coward, or Joel Grey in Cabaret.

Joe’s recorded releases include Showtunes For the Recently Deceased and Vile Volumes for Villainous Children.

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Jason Statts knows where the wild things are. Shot in the neck four years ago by a 22–year– old hoodlum, he is a quadriplegic, a man without a body, with no working nerves or muscles below the nipples on his pale chest.

And that’ll screw with a guy’s mind. Late at night, deep in Jason Statts’ psyche, the wild things come out to play.

“There was a time when I wouldn’t have cared if I was here or not,” he says. “I got to that point. I was like ‘Well, they shoot horses that break their legs. Why can’t someone do that to me, just get me out of here?’”

Statts, his friends say, has this uncanny ability to wrestle down the demons and focus, Zen–like, on the positive side of things.

Well, not that there’s a positive side to this. But Statts and the wild things have reached a truce, for now. “Life is short, that’s my new motto,” says the contemplative 38–year–old. “I guess I’m just happy to be around, and still have my brain.”

It took a while, but he has “accepted” his circumstances. “I’m just at peace with it, totally and completely.”

This week, Statts is pumped because a bunch of his friends have organized a benefit event to help him with his staggering medical expenses. The April 14 “Statts Block Party” features more than 30 bands and performers in five downtown clubs.

There are raffles and a silent auction.

“I have great friends,” says Statts. “It’s crazy. I have tons of friends. I never knew I had that many friends, and I had no clue they would take it this far.”

“I’m glad I wasn’t an asshole, I guess is what I’m trying to say.”

Dave Williams, one of the organizers of the Statts Block Party, is one of Statts’ closest friends. “He’s always been a really good, solid dude,” Williams says. “He’s always been super–nice — but he’s not a pushover. He’ll do anything for anybody, within reason.

You’ve got to earn it, but once you’ve earned that trust, he’s there for you until the end.

“And I think all of that put together is the reason why everybody loves and respects him so much.”

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AT 3 A.M. ON JUNE 28, 2008, Williams and Statts were standing in the front yard of a buddy’s house, drinking beers and celebrating a show they’d just played at Live Wire Music Hall with their three–piece bass metal band Surt (the Destroyer).

Up walked Desmond Hunter, 22, and 19–year–old Ashimir Johnson.

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some weed (offer declined), they wandered off, only to re–emerge from the shadows a few minutes later.

Hunter produced a gun, and shot them each through the neck. As Williams and Statts fell to the sidewalk, the assailants grabbed a cell phone, a CD case and a pack of cigarettes, then ran.

Williams’ injuries were not life– threatening; after ripping through his vocal cords, the bullet lodged between muscles in his neck. Half a year after the shooting, he was back at his job as a graphic artist.

Today, he says, “I’m pretty much back to normal, with the exception of having one vocal cord that’s permanently paralyzed. For a while there, I was in bands where I was just playing bass.”

Williams has a new band, called Conquer/Devour. “For this one,” he explains, “I basically had to re–learn how to sing.”

The bullet is still in his shoulder.

Doctors say it’ll work its way out when it’s ready.

Johnson cut a deal with prosecutors and testified against Hunter, who was sentenced to life plus 30 years in prison.

None of which means anything to Jason Statts, who was supposed to sing (from his wheelchair) in Conquer/Devour, until a pressure sore on the small of his back turned into a lesion, which turned into an ulcerated skin condition.

His doctor prescribed uninterrupted bed rest until it healed.

That was seven months ago. Statts is still in bed.

“A couple of weeks before we got shot,” Williams says, “I remember us having a hypothetical conversation

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“And we decided that if that ever happened to us we’d just want to die, because we both use them for so many things — we’re both artists, we’re both musicians. So to see him do a complete 180 on that is fairly amazing.”

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Collenberger was the third member of Surt (the Destroyer) but he wasn’t there when Statts and Williams were shot.

Lyra, Statts’ wife of 16 years, moved out in early 2011. They’d been high school sweethearts in Lafayette, Ga., and remained joined at the hip after Statts was accepted into the art program at SCAD. He got his BFA in illustration in 1996, the same month Lyra graduated from Lafayette High School.

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Lyra was at his side through every painful step of the initial recovery period. After two and a half years of subjugating her needs for her husband’s, however, she had nothing left.

“I think we both just kind of broke down there at the end,” Statts explains. “It was just too much of a change for both of us. We had too much of a history of me being the provider, that guy with the job, taking care of her.

“And then that changed, and it was like we were in a burning plane, headed for a train ... it just kind of smashed together, and we couldn’t handle it.”

It was a decision they made together. If you need to go, he told Lyra, you should go.

“We didn’t hate each other. We weren’t angry with each other. We just couldn’t do it any more, together. It was too much.”

Their divorce was finalized a year ago February. Lyra now teaches school — something she’d always aspired to — in Albany.

She and Jason talk several times a week. “She was my best friend for 17 years,” he says. “That doesn’t just go away.”

FOR A PERIOD AFTER the shooting, Statts received state money through a victim’s assistance program.

That ran out, as did the insurance coverage he had through a design job in Bluffton.

Part of Sheila’s salary is paid through the Community Care program; Statts, with the aid of his parents and friends, manages to cover the other portion.

“My cost share is around $1,000 a month,” he says. “I get a Social Security check every month, which is not much, and by the time I pay my mortgage that’s gone.”

His health insurance plan is pretty good — but with the astronomical expense incurred by unanticipated hospital stays, medical supplies and the other things required by a quadriplegic, the bills are getting bad.

“The situation is set up kind of backwards,” Statts says, in a (rare) complaining mode. “It should be easier in my situation for someone to get some kind of help. Or aid. Or at least a break on something. Instead, I have a cap on my income. And then I have to pay out a certain amount each month for my caregiver.

“I don’t know; it’s set up to kind of screw me, as far as that goes.”

He figures he’ll never get any restitution from the man who stole his body.

“It’s never gonna happen. The guy’s probably never going to get out of prison. But the thing is if he ever does, then I can garnish his wages.

“Woop–de–do. His wages will probably be nothing.”

Because the sore on his back has almost completely healed, Statts is looking forward to getting out of bed and back into his wheelchair soon.

With luck, he might be the guest of honor at his Block Party.

Although his fingers don’t move, and his hands are essentially useless, Statts is able to raise and lower his arms.

By using the back of his pinkie, he can sketch on his computer, e–mail and talk via social media.

“As goofy as Facebook is,” he smiles, “it’s been a big help through all of this. Seven months in bed, especially. I still feel like I get to see what’s up with people.”

Every once in a while, he feels electrical pulses up and down his legs.

If someone lays a hand on him, his muscles begin to warm, “almost like a heating pad.”

Sometimes, Statts says, “I think things could come back. But from a scientific point of view, I’m missing an inch and a half of my spinal cord. It’s not there. It’s melted.

“I mean, the shot didn’t sever my spinal cord, but the heat and the pressure was just too much. It melted my spinal cord. So from that perspective, I don’t think I’ll ever get much back.”

He thinks of himself as a “glass half full” kind of guy. “I accepted things a lot faster than anyone around me,” he says.

“I think that was part of the issue for a long time. With Lyra. With everyone.

“I accepted this whole thing, and was kinda OK with it, and other people really weren’t. Some people still aren’t. Some people are still more pissed off than I am.” CS See the full schedule of bands on page 21.

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(Not only was this show L’Arte’s U.S. debut, it was also the first time I’ve seen a Music Fest performer Google something on his iPhone onstage, as Hope did in reading aloud the sonnets Vivaldi wrote to accompany “The Four Seasons.”)

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For those in attendance who were more used to hearing Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” played in the style of elevator music, the April 4 Music Festival performance of the “Summer” and “Winter” movements at the Telfair Academy was a revelation.

Violinist/associate artistic director Daniel Hope introduced the works — actually the finale of a great Baroque program which was also the North American debut of the European ensemble L’Arte del Mondo — by describing Vivaldi as a “red priest” with flowing scarlet locks, a “rock star” who “terrified” audiences with his passionate virtuosity on the violin, backed by a group of attractive young girls from the orphanage he ran.

And Hope immediately set about doing his best Vivaldi impression/interpretation, his own reddish hair flopping around as he kinetically and masterfully channeled the Italian maestro in a finger–flying performance which, while not exactly terrifying, was certainly rapturous in its total focus, intensity, and sensitivity.

Unlike Vivaldi, Hope wasn’t backed by a group of beautiful young women (though L’Arte does feature several attractive and quite skilled female musicians). But L’Arte del Mondo

I’ve been enjoying Hope’s Savannah Music Festival performances for years, and it’s been a real treat to experience his own evolution as a performer. While he’s always been a rare talent, this year’s edition of the Festival sees Hope clearly in greater control of his powers and his technique than ever before.

Hope pointed out to the audience the difference between his own “modern” style violin — itself nearly three centuries old — and the even more ancient period instruments of L’Arte del Mondo. This difference is not only one of technical specs, but of playing technique as well; Hope’s more expressive and frequent vibrato was a helpful contrast to L’Arte’s more period–specific and much more minimal vibrato.

Indeed, as expert as L’Arte del Mondo is in the area of Baroque interpretation, Hope’s presence during the Vivaldi and the Bach double violin concerto in the first half of the program noticeably caused them to raise their own game.

Hope introduced that instantly recognizable BWV 1043 composition as “the greatest piece ever written” (a description that, despite its essential accuracy, he diplomatically walked back later in the evening). As soon as the opening notes of that familiar, uplifting Vivace rang out, the audience knew this was no garden–variety performance of a Bach chestnut.

With L’Arte’s crisp but eloquent bowing carrying that inexorable rhythm, Hope explored the full compass of this brilliant marriage of mathematical perfection and spiritual yearning.

While no portion of this concert could be called unsatisfying — even the little pair of Mozart Divertimentos were delightful, if inconsequential compared to the rest of the program — there was the ongoing issue of Lowcountry humidity and its effect on these period wooden instruments and the gut strings used in this evening’s performance.

During the first half of the concert — with L’Arte’s instruments having literally just gotten off a plane from Europe not much longer before — there was a noticeable pitch problem.

It was to be expected given the climatic conditions and the extraordinary number of musicians (up to 13)

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onstage at any given time, but slightly distracting nonetheless.

However, these experienced players clearly addressed the issue during intermission, and the Mozart piece which opened the second half was crystal–clear and in perfect tune, as was the ensuing Vivaldi firestorm that wrapped up the evening and garnered Hope and L’Arte Del Mondo an extended and well–deserved standing ovation.

On a non–musical note, I was somewhat horrified at the casual attitude of some of the patrons toward the priceless artwork on the walls of the Telfair Academy.

I saw one father carry his young son, who was waving around a toy, within inches of the iconic “Black Prince of Crecy” painting on the north wall. I saw other patrons come within moments of actually leaning on some works as they chatted during intermission.

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I’ve been waiting literally decades to finally see the great maestro Paco de Lucia — widely regarded as the best guitarist alive — perform in concert. So it was fitting that of course I had to wait until the last night of the Savannah Music Festival to finally get my wish.

But the wait — all of it — was well worth it. In the case of lesser mortals than de Lucia, such a big buildup tends to lead to disappointment, but if anything his show surpassed even my own fevered expectations.

Few other forms of music have such a wide disparity between live performance and the recorded version than Flamenco. It’s almost impossible to grasp the music’s sheer physical bravado, its swaggering menace, its complex, interlocking rhythms, and its highly theatrical showmanship unless you see it performed in real time.

The flip side of this is not everyone is ready for Flamenco when they see it and feel it up close. The earthiness and passion can be too much for those raised on more sedate musical

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traditions. (Indeed, the last Flamenco show the Music Festival brought to town saw people rudely walk out before intermission.)

I’m happy to report that de Lucia’s concert was not only very well– attended — not always a given for world music at the Music Festival — but had an audience which for the most part knew what they were getting into and seemed to appreciate real genius when they saw it.

The concert opened with de Lucia taking the stage calmly, alone, sitting in his customary cross–legged position and playing an extended solo piece that showed off not only the full breadth of his stunning technique — both on the fretboard and with his right hand — but the depth of his sensitivity and passion for this most passionate of musical forms.

The aggressive but fluid nature of de Lucia’s playing, as ahead of its time now as during his groundbreaking collaborations with jazz musicians back in the ‘70s, is defined by sinuous single–note picado runs snaking their way out of robustly rhythmic chords which are flicked out like so many switchblades in that iconic Flamenco right–hand style called rasgueado.

Now well into his 60s, De Lucia

has lost nothing since his younger days. His technique is so precise, his practiced fingers so strong, that literally every note he played — and he played many, many thousands during the course of the evening — was crystal clear and fretted to perfection, not always the case with acoustic guitar solos even in expert hands.

An evening of just Paco would be more than enough, but he was soon joined by his band, which included a second guitarist, Antonio Sanchez (amazing in his own right), bassist Alain Perez, who often played his five–string instrument Flamenco style, keyboardist/harmonica player Antonio Serrano on de Lucia’s immediate right, and percussionist Piranha, who expertly navigated the unorthodox time signatures typical of the genre (like South American soccer players, many Gypsy musicians go by one name).

Seated with them were two singers, Duquende and David de Jacoba, who traded vocals in the signature husky, mournful microtones of Flamenco. Forget American Idol — you haven’t seen a singer sell a song until you see a Flamenco singer do it. They are extremely passionate, almost as if they’re having a heart attack onstage, and the effect is almost uncomfortably riveting.

However, for many in the audience who were less star–struck by Paco de Lucia than this reviewer, the surprise star of the show was dancer Farruco.

For the vast bulk of the show the diminutive Farruco sat shyly in a chair with the other musicians, providing hand clap percussion and occasionally some backing vocals. But twice during the evening, as the band was in an extended jam, he casually stood up, slowly walked to the small dance platform downstage, and began dancing, his small frame seeming to become twice as large.

The word machismo was essentially coined to describe what came next: A fierce display of hyper–masculine showmanship which garnered its own standing ovation.

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It’s amazing what acoustic musicians are creating these days. During her April 5 performance at the Charles H. Morris Center, Abigail Washburn made a passing reference to “progressive string music,” meaning the sort of hybrids being built and explored by players such as her husband, the tireless seeker Bela Fleck, and the likes of Chris Thile, or Edgar Meyer, or Mike Marshall, or Washburn herself.

Yep, the “usual suspects” at every year’s Savannah Music Festival. And we are glad to have them, thrilled to watch and listen to the places these exemplary musicians are taking the banjo, mandolin, fiddle and other instruments heretofore associated with old–time mountain music and bluegrass. It can be an exhilarating experience.

And yet ... the segment of this particular Savannah Music Festival show that moved most profoundly was the set by veterans Tony Trischka on banjo and Bruce Molsky on fiddle. It was organic and profoundly beautiful – just two extremely gifted musicians standing up and playing old–time tunes and bluegrass. Nothin’ fancy.

It was, in a sense, the way the music was meant to be played — simple and unadorned, as if the guys were jamming away on a log cabin porch

somewhere in Appalachia.

Trischka paid tribute to the late Earl Scruggs with a three–finger medley of “John Henry,” “Bonaparte’s Retreat” and something he called “Savannah Breakdown” (this was, the banjo player sheepishly admitted, “shameless pandering”).

Halfway through, Trischka added percussive harmonics — a cool little banjo trick — and turned his instrument’s tuning pegs to change the notes as he played them.

That was as advanced as it got, really. While the two were playing, especially on the old–time fiddle tunes, the music’s Celtic roots were blissfully obvious. The uptempo numbers danced a sunny morning jig, in a grassy green field in springtime.

Molsky played fiddle and simultaneously sang a haunting ballad about a 19th century shipwreck off the eastern coast of Australia.

They played square dance tunes (“Texas Gals”), and straight–ahead bluegrass (Shakin’ the Acorn”) so pure and stirring that I don’t care if I ever hear a full bluegrass contingent (guitar, bass, mandolin and whatever else) again.

Washburn’s opening set was a lovely amalgam of indie folk–slash– bluegrass and flourishes of the Chinese folk music motifs she has long championed.

She is a lovely singer, and an engaging stage presence (at one point, Washburn actually spoke these words: “Those seven guys were the entire Chinese population of Montpelier, Vermont”). Washburn was accompanied by the versatile Kai Welch on acoustic guitar, keyboards, trumpet (!) and harmony vocals.

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Using the nailed heels of his leather boots like machine gun bullets, Farruco personified Flamenco’s relentless, violent rhythms, combing amazing dexterity of the feet with an acrobat’s verve, exactly mirroring the drama and intensity of the accompanying music.

It’s a testament to de Lucia’s own unsurpassed confident machismo that he was willing to share the stage so generously with these youthful performers, for whom playing with the Maestro is certainly the highlight of their young lives. — Jim Morekis

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Many, including property owners and police officers, consider any addition to a bland slab of painted brick offensively sloppy, uncomfortably seditious or just downright rude.

But for the next month, there are two walls around town where penning your thoughts is totally cool.

Encouraged, even.

“Before I Die,” an interactive public art installation with two locations on opposite sides of the city, invites passersby to pick up a piece of chalk and fill in the blank: “Before I die I want to —” As the walls collect the range of possibilities, the voices of the surrounding neighborhood emerge, reflecting the hopes and dreams of all its contributors.

New Orleans artist Candy Chang first created the project last year on the side of an abandoned house, inspiring a wave of spin–off installations around the country and beyond, from Canada to Portugal to Kazakhstan. For all its simplicity, the project has been an effective tool in creating community, and Chang wrote that “the wall becomes an enlightening way to get to know your neighbors and discover what matters most to the people around you.”

Savannah’s connection to a project of such international prominence

speaks to the city’s burgeoning relevance “as a destination and incubator of contemporary culture,” according to See Savannah Art Walls (SeeSAW), who recently championed public art into reality with the approval of Katherine Sandoz’s abstract mural at Habersham and 34th streets.

One of the many expressions of the Savannah Urban Arts Festival (SUAF), the project magnetized SeeSAW artist/activists Matt Hebermehl and James “Dr. Z” Zdaniewski with collaborators Megan Luther and Francis Allen. Savannah is the first city ever to host two “Before I Die” walls at once, a happy accident that resulted because of the city’s new Site and Monument Commission public art approval process.

The first wall the group applied for was the boarded–up façade at 109 MLK Blvd., what longtimers remember as the former Caf Metropol. The other faces out of 1704 Waters Ave. on the corner of 31st St. at the center of a long–awaited revitalization effort about to fire up in the coming months.

“The MLK spot had been on our radar for a long time, but just in case it didn’t get approved, we added the Waters location,” says Hebermehl.

“Then the dynamics of two locations made just made sense, giving a true cross section of what it means to be in Savannah.”

Jerome Meadows, who directs Indigo Sky Gallery further north on Waters, agrees that two walls

represent Savannah better than one.

“It’s a good way to bracket the demographics of our city,” says Meadows. “One is at the heart of the historic district where there are a lot of visitors, the other is in more of a settled community. The subject matter gives more breadth and scope to identify the people who are here.”

The two–pronged project is certainly a perfect fit for SUAF, which states in its mission that it hopes to “help citizens and civic leaders alike realize the concrete bonds between the arts, community revitalization and economic development.”

In addition to SUAF’s stupendous line–up of music, spoken word and other performance–based art, the visual component of “Before I Die” captures that ideal in a quieter, more introspective way.

“This is social activism at its most basic,” muses Allen. “It’s a first person, anonymous expression to yourself and to your community of what you want out of life.”

He adds, “You don’t have to write on the wall to be moved by it.”

The SeeSAW crew will discuss “Before I Die” when they join Sandoz and local hiphop icon KidSyc on the SUAF panel “Changing the Perception of What’s Possible in Savannah” on Monday, April 16.

The walls are open to all through May 7. However, the Savannah “Before I Die” team would like everyone to remember this missive as they scrawl their hopes and dreams: “Be Profound, Not Profane.” cs

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AWOL’s Therapy Session Open Mic Live performances all night from poets, singers and MCs. All Ages Event Where: Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. When: 7–9 p.m.

Admission: Donation

Monday, April 16

Panel Discussion: “Changing the Perception of What’s Possible in Savannah” Local artists discuss ways to improve outcomes for local artists and develop infrastructure that will help develop creative projects locally.

Where: The Creative Coast, 15 West York St. When: 4–5 p.m.

Cost: Free

Tuesday, April 17

AWOL’s Youth Hip–Hop Night Live performances from young people of all ages, a juice bar for teens and youth. Hosted by: Unrated Krew, C. Jizzy and Basik Lee Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 D Louisville Rd. When: 7–10 p.m.

Cost: Donation Dope Sandwich’s Hip–Hop Night The city’s longest–running weekly hip hop night features MCs, battles, B– boys and more. 21+ only.

Where: The Jinx, 127 W. Congress St. When: 11 p.m.–2 a.m.

Cost: Donation

Wednesday, April 18

Loop It Up Savannah A collection of neighborhood story quilts made by the children of the West Broad Street YMCA, the Kayton Homes Boys and Girls Club and the seniors of the Hudson Hill Golden Age Center.

Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 D Louisville Rd. When: 5–8 p.m.

Cost: Donation

Thursday, April 19

SUAF Benefit Concert “SUAFLocal” with Cusses, KidSyc@ Brandywine, Word of Mouth, Dope Sandwich and A Nickel Bag of Funk.

Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703D Louisville Rd. When: 8 p.m. (doors open at 7)

Tickets: $20 Cash bar

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Where: 34th & Habersham Streets When: 6-8 p.m.

Cost: Free “Doing It the Wong Way”: Kristina Wong and AWOL Youth Kristina Wong’s extensive history of performance work includes short and full–length solo performances, outrageous street theater stunts and pranks, subversive internet installations, plays and sketch comedy. She has been working with AWOL youth all week teaching them the art of the solo performance. See www.kristinawong.com.

Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703D Louisville Rd. When: 8 p.m.

Cost: Free SUAFterparty/Artist Showcase Performances by local and visiting MCs, singers, DJs and more. 21+ only.

Where: The Sparetime, 36 MLK Jr. Blvd.

When: 10 p.m.

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Saturday, April 21

SUAFest Day A face–off between Jacksonville and Savannah artists, live DJs, giveaways, the Gaming Truck from Games2U, laser tag and the SUAF ice cream truck on–site all day, MC battles, dance performances and live music.

Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703D Loiuisville Rd. When: 4 p.m.–midnight Cost: Suggested $5 donation to enter festival grounds

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Vinyl Appreciation’s 2–Year Anniversary “The Roots of Hip Hop” Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703D Louisville Rd. When: 5–10 p.m.

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“One incredible advance the world has made in the last couple of years,” points out AASU drama professor Peter Mellen, “is No Fear Shakespeare.”

Indeed, the SparkNotes book series is now the Bard Bible for contemporary young theater students who find it initially tricky to navigate the waters of Shakespeare’s thickly poetic Elizabethan dialogue.

“On the left hand side, they give you the play as Shakespeare wrote it,” Mellen explains. “On the right hand side, someone has translated it into standard American English. And they just go page by page.

“So in terms of the students, they can look over on the right hand side of the page and go ‘OK, so that’s what I’m talking about.’”

Mellen has used No Fear Shakespeare for the Armstrong Masquers production of Much Ado About Nothing, which opens April 12 in the Jenkins Hall theater.

The students are using the books as reference only — the final stage production remains pure Shakespeare.

“Once they grasp the language, then they pretty much figure out what the heck’s going on,” Mellen says.

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy set in a town in Sicily. It concerns two feisty pairs of young lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero, and the “malcontent” Don John, who plots and schemes to split the couples up.

Amie Schulz (Beatrice) and Gabe Mustin (Benedick) in Armstrong’s production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Much Ado About Nothing Where: Jenkins Hall, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. When: April 12–22. Thursdays–Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. Sundays at 3 p.m.

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The thespian, he says, needs to use everything in his or her power to make Shakespeare work. “And when he does, it’s incredibly brilliant. For the actor who’s performing it, and is suddenly doing what needs to be done to make these words live, it’s a wonderful experience.

“And for an audience to watch someone take this thing that they suffered through in the 5th, 6th and 7th grade, and suddenly see it done by someone who knows what they’re doing, it’s ‘Oh my God! This is actually fun. It’s so moving, or so sad, or so sweet, and I understand what the hell’s going on.’” CS

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This is accomplished by planting rumors of infidelity, via various forms of trickery and lies. Much Ado is rife with instances of mistaken identity – both accidental and purposeful – and ribald punning.

“The Elizabethans were an incredibly bawdy people,” Mellen laughs. “I remember when we were doing As You Like It, there was a particular line, and one of the actresses said something along the lines of ‘He doesn’t mean what I think he means, does he?’ And I said ‘Yes.’ And she turned beet red. I said ‘Shakespeare talked about those things. Constantly.’”

According to Mellen, theater students tackling Shakespeare have a complicated mission before them.

“I’ll says ‘Now that you know what it means, somehow you have to figure out how to say it so that your audience — who do not have No Fear Shakespeare in their laps — will understand what you mean. And what you’re trying to get at.’

“Which means you need to use your voice — inflection, and innuendo through your voice. You need to use gesture. You need to use your

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It is a heartbreaking tale of the wayward marriage of Benito and Gabriela, a young Hispanic couple living in the Barstow, California desert. Presented by SCAD Performing Arts MFA Candidate Bevin Prince as her masters thesis work, References will open on Wednesday, April 11th at the Jepson Center for the Arts and run for three shows.

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The play is Prince’s directorial and Sleep, which have been translated production debut. The North Carointo seven languages. He’s also recoglina native is a second year graduate nized for his screenplay adaptation of performing arts major whose credits Che Guevara’s memoirs for the silver include SCAD’s Almost Maine, Hair, screen in Motorcycle Diaries. and La Traversee, in addition to guest “The play is sad but is also fantastistarring roles on TV’s House cal, comedic, and tender,” and Desperate Housewives. says Prince. “It is a mediative She is best known for statement on the loneliness her longstanding guest role that can exist between two (as Bevin Mirskey) on the people. But it as much about series One Tree Hill. understanding yourself as it “My career in television is understanding the one you provided beneficial acting love.” experience and exposure,” Benito (played by Matt says Prince.

O’Boyle) has just returned “But I have newfound a from a tour of duty. He is home in theater, thanks to struggling to balance a solmy education at SCAD. dier’s sense of self–isolation actress Bevin Through coursework and TV and loneliness in post–war Prince makes her time spent with colleagues stage-directing debut assimilation against the and professors, I have been responsibilities of a husband awakened to a different — lover and companion — style of acting.” returned home to a disenThis professional reawakening was franchised and emotional wife. sparked in large part by a reading of His pain is masked by a veneer of Rivera’s References last fall. Wholeinsensitivity, impatience, and sexual heartedly inspired, Prince launched a aggression that leads whimsical and Kickstarter campaign in February to romantic Gabriela (as performed by help fund the production. The camElizabeth Byland) to further ponder paign was successful, with more than the navigability of her marriage and $6,000 raised by 81 donors in support her future. of the play.

Meanwhile, the bewitching young “References to Salvador Dali absobride is hotly pursued by an anthrolutely captivated me,” she explains. pomorphic, sweet–talking moon and “The story is powerful and resoan amorous young neighbor boy. nates with anyone who has ever been A similarly hot–tempered affair in love. That feeling of understandensues between the couple’s cat and ing, that universality, is why I wanted a native coyote as the play unfolds to bring this play to the stage and I’m between scenes in the kitchen and completely humbled that I have the garden. chance to do so.”

“At the end of the day, it would To be sure, References is not to be seem that men are from Mars and taken lightly. In characteristic Rivera women are from Venus,” says Prince. fashion, the story is spun through “It is a never–ending tale of desalternating sequences of dreams and peration and redemption, in this case reality, poetry and prose. complicated by the effects of time, Though it’s never clear which state war, and distance.” more accurately foreshadows the “I cannot wait to see it come alive couple’s future, the magical–realism on stage.” CS of References lends itself to an heightened emotional experience — their References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot mutual pain is afflicting; memories of When: 7 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, April their love–drunk youth are infectious; 11-13 and the disconnect between the two Where: Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 W. York St. extremes is ubiquitously internalized.

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The allure of a.lure For restaurateur Daniel Berman, the opening of his new a.lure on Congress Street is somewhat a homecoming.

The former Bacchus location was once Bistro Savannah. That was Berman’s first restaurant GM gig, which paved the way for his Kasey’s Gourmet Grille on Waters Avenue. Kasey’s was a comfortable, neighborhood driven eatery, with an above average menu and exemplary service.

And, as it turns out, it was a proving ground for the concept behind a.lure — farm–to–fork produce, natural meats and seafood that comes fresh from regional waters.

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Our friends from South Dakota joined Ms. T.J. and I for dinner. We covered a substantial portion of the menu with our choices. Some not–to– be–missed highlights include: Lamb carpaccio: Four items comprise the raw bites portion of the

menu. We sampled all four but I could go on forever about the lamb.

The nicely chilled, thinly sliced layers are drizzled with scallion oil, scattered with capers and fresh cracked pepper. The lamb is tender, mildly flavored and is augmented by a single, decadent condiment: A dollop of blue cheese ice cream that adds a beautiful tangy twist to this savory carpaccio.

Caesar salad “undone”: Sure, the near-legendary tomato bisque from Kasey’s is on the menu, but I chose this deconstructed Caesar. A crispy, fresh bundle of baby red Romaine lettuce is drizzled with lemon–anchovy vinaigrette dressing — and I loved the salty little rolls of anchovy filets.

Panna cotta flavored with Parmesan adds a creamy component — and is perfect for dressing the couple of pieces of toasted ciabatta.

3 Little Piggies: We sampled barbecued black Grouper, bouillabaisse over pasta and steak and fries — but I was drawn to the trio of pork dishes on 3 Little Piggies. Apple–pepper jam

lent sweet tanginess to a generous piece of cider–braised, crispy pork belly — meaty, fatty and delicious.

Traditional Hoppin’ John was the foundation for a trio of grilled pork loin slices and the mouth–watering tenderness of pork osso bucco made this a triumphant triumvirate.

Plenty of sweets fill the dessert menu, but we did a four–way split of the frozen goat cheese souffle filled with passionfruit curd, a chilly and fresh set of flavors to end the night.

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As the weather heats up and the bikini’s come out, the Tybee Post Theater has crafted a three–day event sure to turn even the most novice–wine drinker into a veritable sommelier. And this year there’s a little something for everyone, even those who couldn’t tell the difference between a full–bodied merlot and a well–aged Shiraz.

Thanks to some local culinary celebrities and Marlin Monroe’s extremely popular Surfside Grill, this year’s Tybee Wine Festival promises

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to focus as much on the coastal dishes of the South as it does on the exquisite wines that pair so naturally with them.

Unfortunately, creating the perfect seafood recipe, for some, is about as easy as catching the fish yourself –– which is why the kick–off event of the week is the Tybee Wine Festival Seafood School hosted by the Tybee Lite Shrine Club on April 12 at 11:30 a.m.

Guest stars include Martha Nesbit, seasoned food writer and author of three Savannah cookbooks, Damon Fowler, culinary director of Kitchenware Outfitters, and Bonnie Gaster, affectionately known as “Tybee’s Seafood Diva” and self–proclaimed author of Savannah’s best Gumbo recipe, all of whom are ready and willing to share their favorite dishes and trade secrets with you.

Once the lucky guests have mastered fowler’s coveted Sherried Shrimp or Nesbit’s mouth–watering pan–fried flounder, they’ll get a rare opportunity to sample all of the demonstrated recipes during an exclusive tasting–luncheon.

From the heart of Daufuskie Island to the beaches of Tybee, the best part of drinking good wine is eating great food. But if drinking good wine sounds more appealing than say, shucking an oyster, you still don’t have to steer clear of April 13’s Wine and Oyster tasting at Marlin

Monroe’s on Butler Avenue, 6–8 p.m.

Some of Savannah’s most popular seafood dishes heavily rely on the shrimp, a la Shrimp and Grits, but the oyster is what many seafood connoisseurs consider to be the most versatile shellfish of them all. Raw, Rockefeller, fried, or grilled, you’ll taste all of the ways this little Savannah delicacy is prepared and paired with the best wines of the season, the perfect way to transition into the main event of the Festival.

The Grand Wine Tasting, easily the main attraction, begins at 2 p.m. on April 14 and highlights the Tybee Island Restaurants that make this surfside town such a rich culinary destination. The Tybee Island Social Club, Fannie’s on the Beach, Sundae Caf , Sting Ray’s Seafood, and many more, will offer tastings of international wines, craft beers, and small snacks from their menus.

Set on the Tybee Island Lighthouse grounds, guests will spend three hours mingling and tasting while enjoying live music courtesy of Julie Wilde and the Bohemian Dream Band and Island favorites, Marshall, Tanner and Gill.

Save room for the following day’s wrap–up Champagne Brunch. Sunday is all about decadence, with a an extraordinary champagne tasting and dainty brunch–time dishes such as Baked Eggs with Cheese and

Chives and fresh baked sour cream pound cake.

The Tybee Wine Festival may be a celebration of good food and good wine, but the location, and the cool– island breezes, really pulls the event together. “The lighthouse grounds are the perfect backdrop for this spring event,” says event organizer Cindy Meyer.

With summer right around the corner, there’s no better way to welcome the sun and the height of spring–time, but tickets may be hard to come by as more Savannahians catch wind of this fantastic event.

Seafood School is already sold out, but you can reserve your spot for the remaining three events by reserving online calling 912–663–1099. Tickets prices range from $35–$50 depending on the event, but don’t be afraid to ask about combination tickets and member discounts when you make your reservations.

It’s only four years old, but the Tybee Wine Festival is quickly becoming a Savannah tradition.

Bring a seafood bib if you must, but certainly find out why Tybee Island is the South’s newest destination for fine wines and the best gumbo you can get your hands on. cs Tybee Wine Festival When: April 12–15 Info: tybeewinefestival.com

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Joan Osborne

The great blues/rock singer Joan Osborne has joined the band Trigger Hippy, which has been added to the Live Wire Music Hall schedule next Friday, April 20.

Trigger Hippy has been around for two years – it’s the side project of Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman, who got it rolling with ex–Crowes guitarist Audley Freed (now also an ex–member of Trigger Hippy, replaced by Nashville writer and producer extraordinaire Will Kimbrough).

The band also includes singer/songwriter Jackie Green (a jam festival favorite), Nick Govrik on bass.

Tickets are $12.50 advance, $15 day of show.

You’ve already heard about the Live Wire date for Amy Ray (May 5), and

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Since MTV doesn’t actually play music videos any more, it was cool to see that the Bob Jones–directed video for “Worst Enemy,” from the debut full– length by Savannah’s Cusses, was added to the “rotation” on mtv.com.

This happens to be my favorite song on the Cusses album, too.

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The band Trigger Hippy comes to Live Wire April 20, with Joan Osborne on lead vocals.

here’s a new one: Guitar maestro and super–delightful quirky songwriter Keller Williams will play the club (again) May 3.

• Guitarist Laurence Juber has an 8 p.m. show April 20 at Randy Wood Guitars in Bloomingdale.

Among the impressive stats on the English musician’s bio: He was lead guitarist in the last–ever incarnation of Paul McCartney’s Wings – that’s LJ on “Goodnight Tonight,” “Coming Up (Live at Glasgow)” and the entire Back to the Egg album.

• Director David I.L. Poole and his theater group, the Collective Face, return to the stage at Muse Arts Warehouse May 4 with a two–week production of Jean–Paul Sartre’s existentialist classic No Exit.

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• Charlie Daniels Band/Little Big Town. Forsyth Park. April 20.

• AASU Feminists United: The Vagina Monologues. April 20-22.

• Savannah Philharmonic: A Night of Great Opera. Lucas Theatre. April 21.

• Brian Regan. Johnny Mercer Theatre. May 3. CANCELED. • Keller Williams. Live Wire. May 3.

• Trace Adkins. Johnny Mercer Theatre. May 4.

• Tall Ships Challenge (riverfront).

May 3–7.

• Straight No Chaser. Johnny Mercer Theatre. May 5.

• Amy Ray. Live Wire. May 5.

• Kevin Hart. Johnny Mercer Theatre. May 12.

• Rent. Bay Street Theatre. May 12-28.

• SCAD Fashion Week Runway Show. Lucas Theatre. May 17.

• Savannah Philharmonic Season Finale. Lucas Theatre. May 19.

• Shirley Caesar Father’s Day Gospel Explosion. MLK Arena. June 17.

• Laughs For Lemonade. June 23.

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Exhibition open April 5-27. Artist Gallery Talk scheduled on April 17 at 1 p.m. Gallery S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry 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,

SketchCrawl 2012 — May 12, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., sketching starts upstairs in the Jepson Center.

Free. Sponsored in party by Savannah Art Association and Telfair Museums. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 W. York St., http://www. savannahsketchcrawl.blogspot. com/

April Art Show at JEA — Featured artists at the JEA Art Gallery this month are Sharon McIntosh & Barbara Duch, whose paintings and sculptures both have a strong link with water and the ocean.

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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 Department of Cultural Affairs Spring Break art camp. Midtown Municipal Building, 601 E. 66th St. Doing Their Part: Girl Scouts in WWII — The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum hosts this exhibit in honor of their outstanding wartime contributions on the homefront. This temporary exhibit will be in place throughout 2012 in celebration of the Girl Scout’s 100th Anniversary.

Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, 175 Bourne Ave. , Pooler Excavation — Paintings and drawings by Jeffrey Markowsky, April 25-May 1. Opening reception April 27, 6-9 p.m. Oglethorpe Gallery, 406 E. Oglethorpe 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

Glitter+Gold — Solo project

by Clinton Edminster that emphasizes the importance as well as the conservation of imagination in a culture that values ever shallower opinions. Opens Friday April 13 at 6 p.m., and opening ceremonies continue until 9 p.m. Show up through April 16. Little Beasts Gallery, 32nd and Bull St.

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founding of the Girl Scouts. The exhibit features historic images from the collections of the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace and the Girl Scouts First Headquarters, depicting the Savannah Girl Scouts’ interaction with the City of Savannah during the early to mid-20th 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, Girl Scout Centennial Exhibit: Doing Their Part! Girl Scouts in World War II — Exhibit in honor of the Girl Scouts’ outstanding wartime contributions on the Homefront. Open throughout 2012 in celebration of the Girl Scouts’ 100th anniversary. Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, 175

Greatest Story Ever Told — Beach Institute in conjunction with the Hurn Museum presents paintings from ages past to present, portrayed aspects of the Easter celebration. March 20-April 30. Hours: Tue-Sat 12-5 pm Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. In God’s Country — The Gallery at St. Paul’s presents an exhibition of works by artist Bobi Perry.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1802 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, site-specific 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., Ruth Sykes & Urban Jupena — Mixed media drawings by Ruth Sykes & tapestry

The Greatest Story Never Told — The Butcher welcomes the art of Nik Dudukovic in a solo show merging the nostalgia of turn-ofthe-century cartoons and illustrations with the draftsmanship.

Reception Fri. April 20, 7 p.m, The Butcher, 19 E. Bay St. The Oh My Darlin’ Show — Featuring work by Hannah Bailey, Brian Sparrow & Jessica Ream by reCREATE (Savannahʼs Creative Collective). April 20–May 4, reception 6-9 pm, April 20.

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Bugs Bunny, Snow White and James and his giant peach may seem like kid stuff to some.

But cartoon characters mean serious business for grownups at the Savannah International Animation Festival. Born in 2010, the ambitious festival has grown legs in its third year, attracting more filmmakers, directors and fans from around the world than ever before.

This season, SIAF had 120 film entries from over 20 countries and will showcase and jury 54 of those films throughout the festival, taking place April 13–14 at the Coastal Georgia Center.

Also lined up are workshops, lectures, galleries and a good old–fashioned “veg–out–in–front–of–the–TV” session for the kids.

“This field has grown so immensely in the last ten years,” says SIAF co–founder Hal Miles, who created the festival with his wife, Nancy. “We have one of the largest animation schools in the world here at SCAD, and though the SCAD film festival has an animation category, we wanted to focus an entire festival to it here in Savannah.”

An industry professional who has worked in hand–drawn, stop–motion and digital techniques in Los Angeles, Hal currently teaches animation in the Visual Effects Department at SCAD. Nancy is a historian and the former curator of the now–defunct National Gallery for Caricature and

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Left: A scene from Murgi Keno Mutant (Attack of the Killer Mutant Chickens) submitted from Bangladesh.

Below: Savannah International Animation Festival co-founders Hal and Nancy Miles holding a mock-up of the future Animation Hall of Fame.

On The Congress Strip Cartoon Art in Washington, D.C. To say they share a passion for animation is an understatement: Together they’ve amassed over 29,000 original drawings, stills and other animation memorabilia, including early Mickey Mouse sketches and artifacts from Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas.

“When it comes to auctions, we’re a disastrous pair,” laughs Hal. Part of their formidable collection will be on display for the festival, which is the main fundraiser and event for another project the Miles have in progress, the Animation Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame is currently displayed in a traveling format, but Hal intends to found a permanent museum and archives in Savannah.

“We’d like to have our house back,” he says with another chuckle.

Their mad love for cartoons is bringing big shots to town this year.

Joan Vogelesang, the CEO of software powerhouse Toon Boom Animation, will lead a workshop on the global applications of animation. Vogelesang will also serve on the panel “Women in Animation” with artist/director and past SIAF judge Cheryl Cabrera and intellectual property rights attorney Deborah Gonzalez. Television series developers Les Carpenter and Lavalle McGuirk will be in town to discuss the process of taking characters from sketchbook to screen using their latest project, Crackerland, as inspiration.

One of those heralded speakers already lives locally: Director and SCAD professor Michael Jantze will host a lecture called “Animating Diane Keaton’s Nightmare,” a recount of his adventures working on Lawrence Kasdan’s new film, Darling Companion.

The Miles’ aim for SIAF is to offer information on techniques and trends for industry professionals and novices

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“We’ve created a well–rounded set of events this year,” confirms Hal. “You definitely don’t need to be a filmmaker to enjoy this.”

In addition to the workshops and lectures in the main auditorium, the adjacent theater will screen blocks of the SIAF juried entrants on constant rotation. There’s abstract shadow work, 4D eye candy and at least one LEGO stop–motion short. Some comes from highly–trained Academy Award winners; others are the efforts of self–taught talents, like last year’s “Best of Show” winner Martin Sen from South Africa.

As promised, many films come from lands far away, including Boabab from Sudan, and one of Nancy’s favorites, a 15–minute shot from Bangladesh translated as Murgi Keno Mutant (Attack of the Killer Mutant Chickens,) starring a team of ninja chefs who hunt down a herd of monster hens for dinner.

“It’s like a cross between Scooby– Doo and Japanese anime,” Nancy raves. “Who knew Saturday

morning cartoons were popular in Bangladesh?”

Speaking of those lazy weekend mornings of yore, SIAF is sponsoring a free “Cookies and Cartoons” hour for kiddies of all ages on Saturday. The line–up is appropriately old school, featuring Gumby and Pokey, vintage Superman and other classic characters that might make even the grown– ups want to cozy up in their footie pajamas with their Cheerios.

For those as passionate about cartoons as the Miles, the SIAF can be construed as one long, wonderful Saturday morning.

“It’s story and craftsmanship and art all rolled into one,” says Nancy.

“Animation is just fascinating,” adds Hal. “It’s always magical to watch it flash before your eyes.” cs Savannah Int. Animation Festival Where: Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. When: Friday and Saturday, April 13–14, 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.

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In retrospect, it’s easy to be cynical and stuffy about James Cameron’s 1997 Titanic. It surpassed previous champs Star Wars and E.T. The Extra–Terrestrial as the top moneymaking film of all time (itself eventually surpassed by Cameron’s Avatar), a personal affront to countless moviegoers over a certain age. With its record–tying 14 nominations and record–tying 11 wins, it turned members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences into a bunch of teenage fangirls (it wasn’t until six years later, with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, that AMPAS members turned into a bunch of teenage fanboys). It allowed Cameron, a genius as a filmmaker but an SOB as a human being (his ego’s at least twice the size of the big boat itself), to become the self–proclaimed “king of the world.”

But now it’s time to go back to Titanic, which has been re–released to theaters not only in celebration of its 15th anniversary but, more soberly, only a few days removed from the precise 100th anniversary (April 15, 1912) of the disaster that snuffed out 1,500 lives. Cameron spared no expense for this re–launch, spending millions to convert the film into 3D. Admittedly, most pictures that weren’t originally filmed in that process but were only converted later as an excuse

to boost ticket prices have failed to provide much extra oomph to the 2D imagery (e.g.

Clash of the Titans, Alice in Wonderland), but if there’s one thing to be said about Cameron, the man knows how to derive the most technological bang for his buck. Titanic in 3D looks fantastic, employing the format in a way that makes viewers feel as if they’re the ones rounding a corridor corner or fighting to stay afloat in that icy Atlantic water.

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Although the “raunchy teen sex comedy” got off to a rousing start with 1978’s classic National Lampoon’s Animal House, the lamentable rip– offs that followed – almost all of them centering on high school or college boys desperate to lose their virginity – insured that the genre was dead and buried by the end of the 1980s.

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Pie a few notches above such ’80s atrocities as Loose Screws, Private School and Porky’s Revenge were its treatment of female characters who without exception were smarter and more mature than their male counterparts, its sizable amount of heart to go along with its expected crudity, and some noteworthy gags perfectly executed by a young and appealing cast. Where all the sequels go wrong is that none manage the balancing act between sweetness and seediness as well as the original film.

In American Reunion, everyone – and I mean everyone – returns from the first installment (yes, even “the Shermanator”). They’re all older but not necessarily wiser, dealing with the rigors and rigidity of 30–something life. Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) now have a kid and no longer have time for each other. Oz (Chris Klein) is a successful sportscaster dating a party animal but pining for Heather (Mena Suvari), who’s involved with a doctor. Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) is now happily married but still recalls his first love, Vicky (Tara Reid). Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas, still drawling like Nicolas Cage) has become an international man of mystery, off on exciting adventures in exotic locales. And Stifler (Seann William Scott) is still the Stifmeister, adamantly refusing to mentally or emotionally advance past the age of 17.

The gang elects to have an unofficial 13th anniversary reunion, which brings everyone back to their hometown of East Great Falls, Michigan.

While the other characters spend their time reminiscing and rebuilding relationships, Jim, as always, has it the hardest – and not just because he again gets his penis caught in a compromising position while masturbating. In addition to trying to rekindle the romance in his marriage, he must fend off the advances of an 18–year– old beauty (Ali Cobrin) he baby–sat back in the day as well as lend support to his dad (Eugene Levy), who’s been lonely since the passing of his wife.

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still remain; luckily, what’s good about the movie continues to easily outweigh its flaws. The fictional storyline is hoary in the extreme, relying on a “wrong side of the tracks” romance: Shortly after boarding the ship as it prepares to embark on its maiden voyage, poverty–stricken artist Jack Dawson spots socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater and instantly falls for her. In these career–propelling roles, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are excellent, delivering warm, winsome performances that provide their romance with an epic grandeur it certainly wouldn’t have attained in less capable hands.

The trouble, for both the young lovers and the audience members, is the presence of Rose’s fianc Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), a supercilious millionaire who would just as soon push the lower classes off the face of the earth as give them the time of day. As I watched Cal constantly berate the poor, expose his ignorance in wince– worthy dialogue and try to kill Jack by taking shots at him, I kept wondering why Cameron had elected to leave off a mustache that Zane could twirl at regular intervals.

Yet despite the pesky presence of Cal, it’s a credit to Cameron’s hot– and–cold screenplay that even as the ship goes down, taking Zane’s career with it, we’re utterly committed to the plight of Jack and Rose. Their characterizations personalize the second half of the film, which is basically one sustained “money shot.” Overlooking a couple of shaky CGI snatches, the effects are superb, and the final submergence of the “unsinkable” craft is absolutely dazzling.

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Harold & Kumar series), as everyone else pretty much does what’s expected of them – and some of them don’t even get that much (Reid appears so fleetingly that one wonders if they had to drag her off a Malibu beach and force her to take part).

Still, the actors settle comfortably back into their old roles, and Scott seems to take particular relish in reprising his part of the vile, vapid Stifler. His character provides many of the overcooked gross–out bits, but his live–wire energy as a man–child who doesn’t want to grow up provides a needed jolt to a saga that, after all, did begin back in high school.

Mirror Mirror

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It’s long been established that the emperor has no clothes, which explains why Tarsem Singh Dhandwar can usually be spotted sporting nothing but a strategically placed fig leaf.

Dhandwar, who in the past has billed himself as Tarsem Singh or, when he’s apparently channeling Prince or Madonna, simply Tarsem, clearly has an eye for unusual visuals, as evidenced by his previous cinematic works The Cell, The Fall and Immortals. But even his ardent supporters won’t be able to overlook the fact that Mirror Mirror finally, irrevocably reveals him as a practitioner of the all–style–no–substance brand of filmmaking. Working from a script by screen newbies Melissa Wallack

and Jason Keller, Dhandwar tries to breathe new life into the classic Snow White fairy tale, but instead strips it of all magic and menace.

With the addition of a fearsome dragon and the sight of Nathan Lane turning into a cockroach, this clearly isn’t your ancestor’s Snow White.

This is evident from the start, as the wicked Queen (Julia Roberts) explains in a snappish voice how she married a benevolent king and, after he disappeared, took control of his kingdom as well as his young daughter Snow White (Lily Collins).

A cruel despot who has bankrupted the once–happy villagers, the Queen hopes to marry the wealthy — and considerably younger — Prince Alcott (Armie Hammer). But he’s smitten with Snow, who has suddenly found herself hiding from the Queen in the nearby woods. There, she meets seven dwarfs, but don’t expect miners with names like Sleepy, Bashful and Grumpy; these seven are bandits by trade, answering to monikers like Butcher, Wolf and Grub.

Mirror Mirror follows the Shrek template of tweaking familiar children’s chestnuts with contemporary cracks and characterizations, but while it’s classier than that animated blockbuster (no potty humor here), it’s also far more tepid, with precious few of the radical revisions displaying any real wit. The romance isn’t any better: While Collins and Hammer look good together, they fail to strike any sparks, although many viewers will be thankful that cinematographer

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Roberts, meanwhile, is game but operating inside an undefined character. Is the Queen supposed to be a harmless nitwit? A frightening monarch? A caricature of regal insouciance? With Dhandwar and his writers providing no direction, Roberts is cast adrift, only finding any grounding in her amusing scenes opposite Lane as her mincing manservant.

As for the dwarfs, they prove to be an interesting lot, albeit not nearly as entertaining as their cartoon counterparts from Disney’s 1938 classic.

But it was probably best that they provided this septet with new names, considering that this dull trifle forced me to co–opt the names Sleepy and Grumpy for the duration of its running time.

The Hunger Games

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So, read any good books lately?

As anyone with even the faintest trace of a pulse has heard, The Hunger Games, the eagerly awaited adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ smash bestseller, has finally hit theaters, and even though I’m not Catholic, let me pull up a confessional booth and admit that I’m one of the few sentient beings in this country not to have read the novel.

Unlike copious critics who wolf down a book in order to offer a blow– by–blow comparison between text and screen (almost always a losing proposition for the cinematic side), I believe in letting movies stand on their own. And when viewed through this prism at least, The Hunger

Games largely delivers on both its provocative premise and its exciting execution.

Set in a future world where the ruling one percent long ago squashed a rebellion by the 99 percent, the law dictates that, as perpetual punishment, those once–radical districts — 12 total — must annually send both a boy and a girl, randomly chosen from a pool of 12–to–18–year–olds, to participate in the Hunger Games, a televised ritual in which all 24 contestants are set loose in the outdoors and must kill each other until only one remains.

The representatives for District 12, the most impoverished of the outer regions, turn out to be the headstrong Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), who volunteered once her little sister’s name was drawn, and the meek Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), who’s convinced that he’ll be killed long before the end.

The lengthy first act is compelling, anchored by the strong central performance of Lawrence (whose similar role in Winter’s Bone must have served as her audition tape for this endeavor) and reveling in the introduction of such memorable characters as Caesar Flickman (Stanley Tucci), the unctuous TV host and broadcaster, President Snow (Donald Sutherland), the calculating ruler who hates the working class with the passion of a Republican presidential nominee, and, providing some grizzled heart and off–the–cuff humor, Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson), whose status as the only District 12 representative to ever win a tournament allows him to serve as the boozy mentor to Katniss and Peeta.

Director Gary Ross, who co–wrote the script with Billy Ray and Collins herself, has a minimalist style that

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21 JUMP STREET

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Who, aside from maybe Jonah Hill’s agent, saw this coming? In an era in which it frequently seems as if Hollywood can do little else but feed on the festering parts of this nation’s kitschy past (The Smurfs, Transformers, etc.), there wasn’t exactly a clamoring for a big–screen update of an ‘80s cop show primarily known for putting Johnny Depp on the map any more than there was a demand for a film based on a board game about battleships.

And yet here we arrive at 21 Jump Street, and it actually turns out to be an inviting place to visit. Hill (who co–wrote the script with Michael Bacall) and Channing Tatum respectively play Schmidt and Jenko, two rookie cops assigned to a special unit in which all the officers go undercover as high school students in order to bust various crimes. The outfit’s

commanding officer (Ice Cube, always a welcome presence) orders the pair to find out who’s pushing a deadly drug at a local high school.

Jenko, a popular slacker during his own high school days, looks forward to heading back to class, while Schmidt, who was a miserable nerd during that period, dreads it.

But they unexpectedly find their social standings reversed, with Schmidt becoming known for throwing killer parties and Jenko hanging out with the chemistry set. 21 Jump Street offers an acceptable number of hearty laughs (albeit most packed during the first half), yet what’s most refreshing about the film is how it acknowledges its own narrative absurdities and retreaded tropes in a manner that’s neither forced nor self– congratulatory (love the running gag about exploding vehicles). 21 Jump Street wears its cool comfortably, and its nerdiness just as effectively.

THE LORAX

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The animated feature film The

Lorax is officially called Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, but given the extent to which it perverts Theodor Geisel’s classic children’s book, Universal Pictures might as well have named it J.K. Rowling’s The Lorax or F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Lorax or even Jane Austen’s The Lorax.

The central thrust remains the same: A young boy (voiced in the film

by Zac Efron) learns that a strange character named the Once–ler (Ed Helms) was responsible for the extinction of trees, despite the protestations of the Lorax (Danny DeVito), a small, walrus–mustached creature who speaks on behalf of nature. Even pushing aside the niggling fact that the studio partnered with numerous corporations to plug the film — some offering products that especially go against the book’s environmentally friendly message (a Mazda SUV?) — what appears on screen is a garish, unappealing mess, with Dr. Seuss’ gentle push for nature over industry turned into an obnoxious screed populated with dull new characters and strapped with a satchel of forgettable songs. CS

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enhanced dialogue–dependent and character–driven efforts like Seabiscuit and Pleasantville, and it’s precisely why the first half works so well —and why the second half needed a stronger presence behind the camera.

As the kids scatter into the woods and the picture ratchets up the action, Ross can’t quite keep up.

That’s not to say the outdoor scenes ever lack for drama, but a filmmaker with a better feel for kinetic energy — say, Steven Spielberg or even Gore Verbinski — could have turned the winner–takes–all competition into a breathless roller coaster ride. As it stands, the film peters out toward the end, due in large part to a rather anemic duel–to–the–death and in small part to some shoddy visual effects. (In fact, surprisingly lackluster FX work plagues the entire production; for example, the flames emanating from Katniss and Peeta’s much–lauded fire suits are laughably unconvincing).

Still, the relatively few drawbacks are no match for the many strengths — the latter column includes the contributions of Clint Eastwood’s regular cinematographer Tom Stern,

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Activism & Politics Beach Sweep in Honor of Earth Day The Tybee Beautification Association is sponsoring a BeachSweep in honor Earth Day on April 14th, at 9 am. Volunteers should meet at the Tybee Pavilion for directions and supplies. First 150 volunteers receive a free T-shirt. Students please bring community service forms. Drinks and snacks provided. Free parking for all volunteers.

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 Drug Take Back Program Throughout April, the Armstrong Atlantic State University Police Department will participate in the National Take Back Initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Drop off unwanted prescription medication 24 hours a day from April 1-30 at the Police Department on the Armstrong campus, 11935 Abercorn Street (corner of Arts and Library drives).

Garden City Town Hall Meetings Garden City Mayor, Council Members and City Manager will present plans for the disposal of dry trash (yard waste, tree limbs, etc.) in the City and give an update on the upcoming Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) negotiations. Citizens can offer questions, comments and concerns about these and other topics. All Garden City residents are encouraged to participate.

Meeting dates: April 12, 2012, 7:00pm Garden City Gymnasium, 160 B Priscilla D. Thomas Way. April 16, 2012, 6:00pm Garden City Hall, 100 Central Avenue.

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] Participate in The Clothesline Project to Protest Violence Against Women Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Feminists United is raising awareness about violence against women with the Clothesline Project. a chance to voice their experiences with sexual and domestic violence, thereby airing

society’s dirty laundry. Write down a statistic, fact or personal story about sexual assault and domestic violence on an old T-shirt and anonymously submit the shirt, which will then displayed on campus. Collection boxes will be placed at Lane Library and Gamble Hall from March 19-30, 2012 and at University Hall and the Student Union from April 2-13, 2012. The shirts will be displayed on a clothesline outside the Student Union from April 17-19, 2012.

Information: www.armstrongfeminists. wordpress.com or contact Alison Hatch at 912.344.3527 or alison.hatch@armstrong.edu.

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

Savannah Tea Party meets the first Monday (excluding Holidays) of each month from 4:30 to 6:00 PM at the SRP offices located at 11 East 73rd Street. All persons interested in America’s Future are invited. Contact Marolyn Overton at 912-598-7358 for additional info.

Taxed Enough Already? Tea Party Rally April 15 Speakers: Congressman Jack Kingston, Dr. Paul Broun, Representative Ben Watson, Rich Thompson (100 Dads Org.), Bill Edwards (Talk Show Host, WTKS 1290.) Location: Rousakis Plaza, River Street, near the Hyatt Hotel. Sunday, April 15, 20m. Free and open to the public. Donations always appreciated.

Please bring signs to give voice to your frustrations with Federal Government interference with personal and states rights. Contact Marolyn Overton, 5987358 or Jeanne Seaver, 663-8728.

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 Bringin’ It Back Home BBQ Benefit for Royce Learning Center Saturday, April 28, 4-7pm. Music by The Southern League Band, the best of Southern BBQ and a Corn Hole Tournament and Silent Auction. Cash bar. Bring your lawn chair and appetite.

Adults only, please.

Venue: The Pavilion at Royce, 4 Oglethorpe Professional Blvd., $20 at the door.

RSVP preferred by phone 912-354-4047.

Rain date is Sunday, April 29th from 4-7pm.

Friends of Statts Block Party An all-day City Market Block Party Saturday, April 14. Over 25 bands at 5 venues to benefit Jason Statts, a Savannah musician paralyzed in a violent crime in 2008. $25/person. Silent auction and raffles. Host sites are The Jinx, The Rail Pub, Congress Street Social Club, Hangfire and City Market. Information, please visit www.friendsofstatts.com or email friendsofstatts@gmail.com.

Georgia Historical Society Annual Book Sale The Georgia Historical Society will hold its Annual Book Sale on April 27-28 at GHS, 501 Whitaker St. from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., with a GHS members-only preview on Fri., April 27 from 9-10 a.m. Proof of membership is required. The main event is open to the public! GHS is now accepting book donations for the sale.

Donations are tax deductible. For more information contact GHS at 912-6512128 or email us at library@georgiahistory.com. http://georgiahistory.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.

Jewels and Jeans Gala Benefiting America’s Second Harvest Jewels and Jeans, Thursday, April 26, 2012, 7–10 pm will be held at America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia, 2501 East President Street, Savannah.

A fabulous evening of food, dancing, and an exclusive auction. Dress for this affair is rock star chic! Silent Auction, Art Auction, live entertainment, heavy hors d’oeuvres, and complimentary bar. Tickets for $75 a person at www. helpendhunger.org. 912-721-1790 Lecture by Floral Designer Ron Morgan “In the Company of Flowers” presented by renowned floral designer, Ron Morgan. Includes floral demonstrations and a book signing.Monday, April 23rd, 10:30 a.m. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. Benefiting Bethesda Academy. $35.

Purchase tickest at BethesdaAcademy.org, or by mailing a check to The Women’s Board of Bethesda, P.O. Box 14204, Savannah, Ga. 31416 with your return address.

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] Red Shoes Run & Pop Tab Pandemonium Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Coastal Empire hosts this 5K Run/ Walk/Stroll and Pop Tab collection , Sat. April 14, at the Savannah Ronald

McDonald House®, 4710 Waters Avenue. Includes a fun run with Ronald McDonald, a ¼ mile kiddie run, live music, games, prizes and refreshments. www.rmhccoastalempire.org. Fee: $30 through April 13. $35 on race day.

Susan G. Komen Savannah Race for the Cure The 2012 Susan G. Komen Savannah Race for the Cure will take place on Saturday, April 21. On-line registration for the Race is open. Teams and individuals who want to participate, along with anyone interested in volunteering for the event, can go to www.komencoastalgeorgia.org or www.savannahraceforthecure.org to register.

Tybee Island Turtle Trot %K Eighth annual beach walk/run event benefits the Tybee Island Marine Science Center. Saturday, April 28. 7am Sign-in and day-of-event registration 8am race. Loggerhead Sea Turtle Release at 10 a.m Where: Tybee Island Marine Science Center, 1510 Strand Avenue (next to Tybee Pier and Pavilion). $20 Marine Science Center members, $25 non-members. Registration now open. Info: Visit tybeemarinescience. org/turtle-trot or call 912.786.5917 Union Mission Hosts 6th Annual Starfish Gala Saturday, April 14. Cocktails at 6 p.m.; Dinner at 7 p.m. The Mansion on Forsyth Park, 700 Drayton Street. $150 per person. Information: 912-236-7423 Benefiting Union Mission’s Starfish Café, which offers hands-on culinary training for local homeless and at-risk individuals. The Starfish Gala will feature cocktails, signature appetizers created

by Starfish Café students, a gourmet dinner, a silent auction and live music by the popular dance band, The Design.

Zumbathon Fundraiser Raising money for local students to participate in the People-to-People Student Ambassador program to China.

Saturdays, April 7 & April 21. At the Delaware Center, 1815 Lincoln St. @ 35th St. Cost: $10/Adults (18yrs+), $5/ Child (10-17) For more info: Call Mai, 912-604-9890; Felicia 912-441-8103; Christy 912-657-3173.

Call for Entries Genealogy Classes at the Bull Street Library Learn how to use Ancestry Library Edition, our GALILEO subscription version of Ancestry.com. Participants must know how to use a computer mouse and the Internet. All classes are held at the Bull Street Library. Wednesdays, Apr. 11, 18 and 25. All classes at 10 a.m. Call 912-652-3697 to register.

Savannah Children’s Book Festival Poster Contest Deadline to enter is Wednesday, April 25. Open to artists in elementary school, middle school, high school and

Classes, Camps & Workshops Art,-Music, Piano and Voice-coaching For all age groups, beginners through advanced, classic, modern, jazz improvisation and theory. Serious inquiries only. 961-7021 or 667-1056. [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 Caregiver 101 Sarah Copeland, Hospice Savannah Community Outreach Coordinator, will discuss the roles caregivers play and how they are impacted by caring fulltime for another individual. Learn what options and community resources are available. Wednesday, April 18, 3 p.m.

Southwest Chatham Library, 912-9258305.

Champions Training Center Offers a variety of classes and training opportunities in mixed martial arts, jui-jitsu, judo and other disciplines for youth and adults at all levels of expertise. 525 Windsor Rd. Call 912-3494582 or visit http://www.ctcsavannah. com/ [122811] Coast Guard Auxiliary Boating Classes.

Regular classes on boat handling, boating safety & navigation offered by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. Learn from the experts. For dates & more information, visit our web site: www. savannahaux.com or telephone Kent Shockey at 912-897-7656. [010912] Coastal Georgia Master Naturalist Program An introduction to Coastal Georgia’s natural environment. The ten-week course meets at a different site each week and explores the natural resources of the site and its implications to how Georgia developed and will develop into the future. Wednesdays from March 28-June 6. 9am-3pm. Participants are responsible for their own transportation to each class venue.

Fee: $150.00. CIncludes all materials necessary for the course Contact Don Gardner, Glynn County Extension dgardner@uga.edu ; (912) 554-7578 or Pat Payne, Glynn County Extension uge3127@uga.edu ; (912) 554-7577. Sponsored by UGA Cooperative Extension- Bryan, Chatham, Glynn and Liberty Counties and other organizations.

Creativity for Problem Solving

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Explore imagination, idea generation and creative thinking, while learning an array of problem solving tools and techniques. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5/8- 5/17/2012, 6:30-8:30 pm. http:// ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/ problemsolving.html Offered through Georgia Southern’s Continuing Education Program at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St., Savannah. Call for fee information. Register online or by phone at 855-478-5551 (toll-free).

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 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 Tuesdays 9:30 am and Wednesdays 6:00 pm at the Park South complex, 7505 Waters Ave, Bldg B Suite 8, near Waters and Eisenhower. $15 drop-in, $12 - 6 classes. For more info contact Elaine Alexander, GCFP at 912-2237049 or elaine.alexander@ymail.com.

[040112] Group Guitar Lessons Join us for a fun time, for group guitar lessons, at the YMCA on Whitemarsh and Tybee Islands (adults and teens only). Hands-on instruction, music theory, ear training, sight reading, ensemble playing, technique, and rhythm drills, by teacher Tim Daniel (BS in Music). 912-897-9559. $20/week. [122811] continues on p. 46

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college. The 2012 theme is “Dream Big: READ.” Any medium may be used: paint, colored pencils, crayons, markers, etc. Students may use paper that is letter-sized, legal-sized or tabloid (11x17), in the vertical or horizontal orientation. The Savannah Children’s Book Festival is Saturday, Nov. 10, in Forsyth Park. Information and contest guidelines: www.liveoakpl.org or contact leesu@liveoakpl.org, (912) 652-3665.

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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 & 1pm4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri of month, 9-11am. Basic Computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1-3pm. Community Computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3-4:30pm. For more info: 912-232-4232 x115 or www. savannahpha.com Introduction to Computers.

New to using Computers? Learn the basics, including using the mouse, logon and logoff processes, navigating Windows, launching and navigating the basics of programs such as Word, Excel, and Internet Explorer. Tuesday, April 17, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Offered by Georgia Southern University at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street, Savannah. http://ceps.georgiasouthern. edu/conted/microsoft.html. Information: (912) 651-0942 or christinataylor@ georgiasouthern.edu.

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] Money Smart: A Financial Education Tuesday, April 17, 2 p.m. Southwest Chatham Library, 912-925-8305, Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Savannah and Bank On Savannah offer a free course on money management skills and positive financial relationships. This month’s topic: Spring Clean Your Credit. Information: 912-691-2227 or email cccs@cccssav.com.

Ms. Amy’s School of Music A small privately owned studio offering Private and Group Lessons, Piano, Clarinet, Trumpet, Trombone, Guitar, and more! Parent & Me classes for infants - toddlers. Group preschool music classes. www.msamyschoolofmusic. com Music Lessons--Multiple Instruments Savannah Musicians Institute offers private instruction for all ages in guitar, drums, piano, bass, voice, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, flute, and woodwinds. 7041 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Info: 912-692-8055 or smisavannah@gmail.

| Submit your event | email: happenings@connectsavannah.com | fax: (912) 231-9932 | 1800 E. Victory Dr., Suite 7, Savannah, GA 31404 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: 912-5094647 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] 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 855-4785551. 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] Powerpoint Computer Presentations Create dynamic, persuasive PowerPoint presentations. Learn to create slides and change layouts; add slide transitions; use themes; add clip art, animation, and sound; insert charts and tables; create SmartArt diagrams, use hyperlinks; and understand multimedia.

Thursday, 4/26. $45/person. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Register through Wed. April 25. Offered by Georgia Southern University in Savannah at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/cesavannahmenu.html 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. 912-5094647. 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] Spring Clean Your Credit Learn how to maintain, build and rebuild your credit. Strategies for shopping for the best credit cards and loans.

Free. Registration requested. April 17, 2:00pm to 3:30pm. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn Street. Contact 912691-2227 or cccs@cccssav.com to register or for more information. Offered

by Consumer Credit Counseling. www. liveoakpl.org/event Women’s Self-Defense Course Women’s Self-Defense seminar at the W. W. Law Community Center on Tuesday and Thursdays, March 27 - April 27, from 6:30-8:00pm. Free and open to the public. For more information contact Coastal SimDo on Facebook, 912-2382566 or CoastalSimDoKarate@gmail. com.

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 non-fiction, 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.

Generally meets on the second weekend of the month. Free for your first event or if you’re a non-player character. $35 fee for returning characters. Email: Kaza Ayersman, godzillaunknown@gmail.com or visit www.avegost.com [122811] Buccaneer Region SCCA The local chapter of the Sports Car Club of America, hosting monthly solo/autocross driving events in the Savannah area. Anyone with a safe car, insurance and a valid driver’s license is eligible to participate. Visit http://buccaneerregion.org. [122811] Business Networking on the Islands Small Business Professionals Islands Networking Group Meets 1st Thursday each month from 9:30-10:30 AM. Tradewinds Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Savannah (912) 308-6768 for more info. [121211] 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] Hinesville Writers’ Group Saturday, April 21, 2 p.m. Develop your craft while receiving thoughtful, positive, and useful critique in a supportive environment. All skill levels, genres, and styles are welcome. Hinesville Library, 912-368-4003

Richmond Hill Roadies Running Club A chartered running club of the Road Runners Association of America. For a nominal annual fee, members will receive monthly training sessions and seminars and have weekly runs of various distances. Kathy Ackerman,756-5865 or Billy Tomlinson 596-5965. [122811] Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club Members of Starfleet International and The Klingon Assault Group meet twice a month, on the first Sunday at 4 pm. at 5429 LaRoche Ave and the third Tuesday at Super King Buffet, 10201 Abercorn Street at 7:30 p.m. Call 308-2094, email kasak@comcast.net or visit www.roguephoenix.org. [86/010112] Savannah Safe Kids Savannah Safe Kids Savannah, a coalition dedicated to preventing childhood injuries, holds a meeting on the second Tuesday of every month from 11:30am-1pm. Visit www. safekidssavannah.org or call 912-3533148 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.

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1 “The Alienist” author Carr 6 Stitch’s friend, in a Disney movie 10 Vegetable in Cajun cuisine 14 By itself 15 With 60-down, “The Price is Right” prize worth freaking out over 16 Lousy 17 End up winning and coming second at the same time?

20 One of a biblical 150 21 “___ the loneliest number...”

22 Start 26 “Yo, ___!”

28 AKC winner plus a mini Shetland?

31 Actress Skye of “Say Anything” 32 ___ bran muffins 33 It may be obtained in a bed 34 Blind followers 36 Honey ___ (KFC sauce) 38 Belgian city of WWI battles 42 Mai ___ (drink) 44 Lawyers’ gp.

46 Dinghy need 47 Soldier’s comment akin to “It’s time to join the line, dear”?

51 How some meds are taken 52 Wedding dress fabrics 53 Participate in a bee 54 Qatari leaders 57 Narrator’s goal to maximally project his voice?

63 Effortlessness 64 Insurance variety 65 Ex who gave “The Donald” his nickname 66 “South Park” co-creator Parker 67 Word in many Scottish place names 68 Spine-tingling

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1 Tube top?

2 Every last bit

3 Mauna ___ (macadamia nut brand) 4 End-of-letter abbr.

5 Went off like a microwave 6 Singer ___ Del Rey 7 Part of IHOP 8 “Brothers” in the 2008 market collapse 9 Come up short 10 It may include an “undecided” option 11 From Pyeongchang 12 Like violin bowstrings 13 Sciences’ counterpart 18 Defensive schoolyard retort 19 Unlike volunteer work 22 Suffix for an illness 23 “That’s not good...”

24 Fine-tune muscles 25 High school in a 1980s-90s fiction series 27 “Silent Spring” pesticide 29 Shoot the breeze 30 Facing the pitcher 35 Seafood-and-rice dish 37 Most Super Bowl MVPs 39 Political cartoonist Ted 40 The shallowest Great Lake 41 Tax return nos.

43 Beastie Boys album “Licensed to ___” 45 Union for voice-over artists (FAR AT anagram) 47 Adorable bunny feature 48 Open-ended ultimatum 49 Sight to take in 50 Down Under native 53 “Leave it in,” to a proofreader 55 Chess goal 56 Token in an old Monopoly set 58 Become droopy 59 “___ Been Everywhere” (Johnny Cash song) 60 See 15-across 61 Punk/folk singer DiFranco 62 No, in Robert Burns poems

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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 Korean War and 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. Honor Flight is seeking veterans interested in making a trip to Washington. For more info: (912) 596-1962 or www.honorflightsavannah. org [031812] Islands MOPS A Mothers of Preschoolers group that meets at the First Baptist Church of the Islands on two Wednesdays a month from 9:15-11:30am. Website/information: https://sites.google.com/site/islandsmops/ [122811] Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet Meets every Wednesday. Different locations downtown. Contact (912) 308-6768 for info. No fees. Wanna learn? Come join us! [121211] Low Country Turners A club for wood-turning enthusiasts.

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)898-4344 or email kymmccarty@hotmail.com. http://www. mops.org/ [122811] Old Time Radio Researchers Group International fan and research group devoted to preserving and distributing old-time radio broadcasts from 1926 to 1962. Send e-mail to Jim Beshires at beshiresjim@yahoo.com or visit www. otrr.org. [122811] Peacock Guild-For Writers and Book Lovers A literary society for bibliophiles and writers. Monthly meetings for the Writer’s Salon are held on first Tuesday and third Wednesday. Book Club meets on the third Tuesday. All meetings start at 7:30 p.m. and meet at Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home (207 E. Charlton St.).

Call 233-6014 or visit Facebook group “Peacock Guild” for more info. [012212]

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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 912-238-3170 or visit www.savannahkennelclub.org Savannah Newcomers Club Open to all women who have been in the Savannah area for less than two years. Membership includes a monthly luncheon and program and, in addition, the club hosts a variety of activities, tours and events that will assist you in learning about Savannah and making new friends. www.savannahnewcomers. com [122911] Savannah Parrot Head Club Love a laid-back lifestyle? Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check out savannahphc.com for the events calendar or e-mail Wendy Wilson at Wendyq1053@ yahoo.com. [122911] Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club Meets Thursdays from 7:30-8:30 a.m. at the Mulberry Inn. http://www.savannah-

| Submit your event | email: happenings@connectsavannah.com | fax: (912) 231-9932 | 1800 E. Victory Dr., Suite 7, Savannah, GA 31404 sunriserotary.org/ Savannah Toastmasters Helps you improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly and supportive environment on Mondays at 6:15 p.m. at Memorial Health University Medical Center, Conference Room C. 484-6710.

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

Contact Carol North, 912-920-8891 for location. [122911] Savannah Seersucker Live’s Happy Hour for Writers A no-agenda gathering of the Savannah area writing community, held on the first Thursday of every month from 5:307:30pm. Free and open to all writers, aspiring writers, and anyone interested in writing. 21+ with valid I.D. For location and details, visit SeersuckerLive.com.

[122911] Son-shine Hour Meets at the Savannah Mall at the Soft Play Mondays from 11-12 and Thursdays from 10-11. Activities include songs, stories, crafts, and games for young children and their caregivers. Free, no registration, drop-ins welcome. Call Trinity Lutheran Church for details 912-925-3940 or email KellyBringman@

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

gmail.com [122911] Southern Wings Local chapter of Women in Aviation International. It is open to men and women in the region who are interested in supporting women in aviation. Regular meetings are held once a month and new members are welcome. Visit http:// www.orgsites.com/ga/southernwings/ [86/010112] Stitch-N’s Knit and crochet gathering held each Tuesday evening, 5pm-8pm All skill levels welcome. Free Spinning fiber into yarn group meets the first Monday of each month at 1pm. Wild Fibre, 6 East Liberty Street (near Bull St.) Call for info: 912-238-0514 [122911] Tarde en Espanol Meets the last Wednesday of every month at 6:30pm in different locations to practice spoken Spanish in a casual environment. 236-8566. [122911] The Philo Cafe A weekly discussion group that meets from 7:30pm-9pm at various locations each Monday. Anyone craving some good conversation is invited to drop by.

No cost. For more info, email athenapluto@yahoo.com or look up The Philo Cafe on Facebook. [122911] The Philo Cafe A weekly discussion group that meets from 7:30pm-9pm at various locations each Monday. Anyone craving some good conversation is invited to drop by.

No cost. For more info, email athenapluto@yahoo.com or look up The Philo Cafe on Facebook. [122911] Theremin/Electronic Music Enthusiasts A club for enthusiasts of electronic music and instruments, including the theremin, synths, Mooger Foogers, jam sessions, playing techniques, compositions, gigs, etc. Philip Neidlinger, theremin@neidlinger.us. [122911] U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla Become part of the volunteer organization who assists the U.S. Coast Guard in the performance of their important duties. Meets the 4th Wednesday every month at 6pm at Barnes Restaurant, 5320 Waters Avenue. Coed. All ages welcomed. Prior experience and/or boat ownership not required. Information: www.savannahaux.com or telephone Al Townsend at 912-598-7387.

[122911] Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671 Meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell at 927-3356. [122911] Savannah Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation Meets the second Tuesday of every month (except October), 6:00 pm at WoodvilleTompkins, 151 Coach Joe Turner Street.

Call 912-232-3549 or email chesteraellis@comcast.net for more information.

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Conferences Consumer College--Information for Seniors A daylong seminar provided to Chatham County residents age fifty-five and older. Sessions include: fraud and scams against seniors; personal safety and crime prevention; and local current law enforcement issues relevant to the Chatham County Senior population.

Continental breakfast and lunch provided. Thursday, May 3, 9am-2pm. Free for all Chatham Co. Seniors.

Hosted by Chatham County S.A.L.T. Council (Seniors and Law Enforcement Together) Location: The Hellenic Community Center, 14 W. Anderson Street, Savannah, GA 31401. Registration required on or before April 20, 2012.

Please call 912-644-5968 to register.

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. Wear closed toe leather soled shoes if available. For more information call 912-9257416 or email savh_tango@yahoo.com.

[122911] Doris Martin Dance Studio, 8511-h Ferguson Ave. , Beginners Belly Dance Classes Instructed by Nicole Edge. All ages/skill levels welcome. Every Sunday, Noon1PM, Fitness Body and Balance Studio 2127 1/2 E. Victory Dr. $15/class or $48/ four. 912-596-0889 or www.cairoonthecoast.com [122911] Beginners Belly Dancing with Cybelle The perfect class for those with little to no dance background. Cybelle has been formally trained and has been performing for over a decade. $15/class. Tues:

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 Pot Luck Dinner for and with HeartBeats for Life-GA Saturday April 14th. 6:00pm All are invited. Please bring a dish that can serve eight people. Dish should be void of any animal products (meat, dairy, eggs).

Hosts: Jim & Eileen Scheidel, Savannah Quarters, 5 Wanborough Station, Pooler.

Please RSVP so that there will be a guest pass for you at the security gate.

RSVP: Jeff Adams jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga.org Big Nasty Mud Run The Savannah area’s first mud run includes 20 obstacles and 4 miles of a fun, muddy time for everyone.

April 14, 8am. 108 Godley Rd, Bloomingdale. Registration is Online at Active. com - Big Nasty Mud Run. For more information or questions, Facebook - “Big Nasty Mud Run” or contact Steve White at steve.whitefcae@ gmail.com.

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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@ cybelle3.com or call 912-414-1091.

Walk-ins welcome. Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave. [122911] Bellydance Fusion Classes Fusion bellydance mixes ballet, jazz and hip hop into a unique, high energy style of dance. Classes include drills and choreographies for all levels. Small classes held several days a week in downtown Savannah, and upon request. $10 per person. Contact Christa at 678799-4772 or see www.bohemianbeats. com. [121811] Bellydancing for fun and fitness The most fun class you’ve ever taken to get you in the best shape in the least amount of time. We provide bright colorful veils, jangling coin hip scarves, and exotic music. Every Wednesday, 6:30pm. $15 drop-in or $40 for four classes. Call 912-660-7399 or email ConsistentIntegrity@yahoo.com [122911] continues on p. 50

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] Savannah International Animation Festival Friday, April 13th & Saturday, April 14th, 9am to 6pm at The Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. Saturday morning 9am to 10am - free.

Children’s Hour Cookies and Cartoons, An hour of Classic cartoons and cookies for kids of all ages. Discounted festival tickets and complete information at: http://www.savannahinternationalanimationfestival.com/

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7-8pm. Visit www.cybelle3.com. For info: cybelle@cybelle3.com or call 912414-1091 Private classes are also available. Walk-ins are welcome. Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave. [122911] C.C. Express Dance Team Meets every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. at the Windsor Forest Recreation Building. Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary for this group. Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731. [122911] Dance Workshops--Jazz, Funk, & Hip Hop Soul Youth Dance workshops (ages 7-12) Mondays, 4-5pm, and Wednesdays, 5-6pm. March 19 - April 27. Fee is $1 per class. Location: West Broad YMCA, 1110 May Street. Instructor: Ebonee’.

Information: email i_heart_ebo@yahoo. com or phone 678-472-5297. Information also available from the West Broad YMCA at 912-233-1951 or online: www. westbroadstreetymca.org.

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 7480731. [122911] Irish Dance Classes Glor na h’Eireann cultural arts studio is offering beginner to champion Irish Dance classes for ages 5 and up, Adult Step & Ceili, Strength & Flexibility, noncompetitive and competition programs, workshops and camps. TCRG certified. For more info contact PrideofIrelandGA@gmail.com or 912-704-2052.

[122911] Mahogany Shades of Beauty Inc. offers dance classes, including hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step, as well as modeling and acting classes. All ages and all levels are welcome. Call Mahogany at 2728329. [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

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Blue Water Yoga Community donation based classes held at the Talahi Island Community Center. Tue. & Thur. 5:45 -7:00p Fri. 9:30-10:30a For info email egs5719@ aol.com or find Blue Water Yoga on Facebook. [030812] Fertility Yoga Ongoing series of six week sessions of Fertility Yoga are held on Tuesday evenings from 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM at offices located at 100 Riverview Drive, off of Islands Expressway. Helps participants relax, start healthy habits to prepare their body and gain more confidence on the fertility journey. Instructor Ann Carroll, RYT 500. $100 for 6 week session.

(912) 704-7650 or e-mail carroll3620@ bellsouth.net. [122911] Fitness Classes at the JEA Spin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba. Prices vary. Call for days and times. 355-8111. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St., http://www. savj.org. [122911] Kung Fu School: Ving Tsun VING TSUN (Wing Chun) is the world’s fastest growing martial arts style. Using angles and leverage to turn an attacker’s strength against them makes VING TSUN Kung Fu effective for everyone.

Call Sifu Michael Sampson to find out about our free trial classes 912-4299241. 11202 White Bluff Road. Drop Ins welcome. [122911] 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 9:30am10:30am. All levels welcome! Private and Semi-Private classes are by appointment only. Carol Daly-Wilder, Certified Pilates Instructor. Call 912.2380018. 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] Savannah Disc Golf Club Weekly events (Entry $5): Friday 5 pm - Friday Night Flights. 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.

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| Submit your event | email: happenings@connectsavannah.com | fax: (912) 231-9932 | 1800 E. Victory Dr., Suite 7, Savannah, GA 31404 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 781267-1810 [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. 5:306:30pm. $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.

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Gay & Lesbian First City Network Board Meeting Meets the first Monday at 6:30 p.m. at FCN’s office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor.

236-CITY or www.firstcitynetwork.org.

[122911] Gay AA Meeting True Colors AA Group, a gay and lesbian AA meeting that welcomes all alcoholics, meets Sundays at 7:30pm, Wednes-

days at 7:30pm and Thursdays at 7:00 pm at 307 E Harris St, top floor. [030412] 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] Cancer Transitions--Moving Beyond Treatment St. Joseph’s/Candler is offering “Cancer Transitions – Moving Beyond Treatment”, a six-week program designed to ease the transition from active treatment to post-treatment survivorship for cancer patients. The next program will start on April 26 and meets each Thursday through May 31. Classes are from 10:00 a.m - 12:30 p.m. on the 2nd floor of the Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, Reynolds Street, across from Candler Hospital. Call 819-5704 to register or go online at www.cancerpavilion.org/cancersurvivorship.

Family Day & Health Symposium St. Joseph’s/CandlerAfrican-American HealthInformation & ResourceCenter will present their 2nd Annual Family Day & Health Symposium on Saturday, April 28, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the Savannah BaptistCenter, located at 704 Wheaton Street. Open to the whole family. Join us for health information, door prizes, screenings and demonstrations.

Free Blood Pressure Checks The Community Cardiovascular Council reminds you to get a free blood pressure check at the Savannah Fire Department’s area Fire Stations. Look for the “Free Blood Pressure Check” sign in front of each station. Uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to a stroke or heart attack. For more information about high blood pressure, contact the Council at 232-6624 or visit savannahccc.org. [031812]

Free Course for Caregivers.

The Community Care Services Program will offer free six-week courses designed to help those who provide care for friends or family members with a chronic illness. Classes begin April 4 and June 6. Contact 912-644-5217 for more information.

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 Lecture: Anti-Reflux Surgery St. Joseph’s/Candler will offer a free Anti-Reflux Surgery talk on April 11, presented by Jeffrey S. Mandel, MD, at 6 pm in Candler Hospital’s Heart & Lung Building, Room 2. For more information, call 819-8610.

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. [022612] 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] Seminar: Allergies vs. Sinuses St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information & Resource Center will present “Allergies vs. Sinuses” on Thursday, April 19, 2012 from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM at the Center, located at 1910 Abercorn Street. Refreshments are provided. For more information or to pre-register, please call 447-6605.

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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 savannah’s dolphins and their environment.

Ageappropriate programs and related handouts. www.thedolphinproject.org [122911] Kayaking Marsh and Waterway Clean-up of Fort Pulaski Fort Pulaski National Monument and Clean Coast are hosting a kayak cleanup of the fort’s marshes and waterways on Saturday, April 21, in honor of Earth Day. Open to all interested parties, with or without a kayak.

Individuals with a kayak report to the entrance of Fort Pulaski at 8:30am on April 21. Those without a kayak must register in advance. Kayaks are available on a first come-first served basis. Register at www.cleancoast. org by clicking on the ‘Trip Registration’ link, specifying the “Fort Pulaski” event. Registrants will receive an email from Clean Coast confirming if a kayak has been reserved for them. All participants should be at the entrance of Fort Pulaski, U.S. Highway 80 East (on the way to Tybee Island) at 8:30am.

Information: 912-786-5787.

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]

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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 912-2242904. [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.

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

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Guided Silent Prayer A couple of songs done acoustically, about 30 minutes of guided silent prayer, and a few minutes to receive prayer if you want (or remain in silence). A mid-week rest and re-focus. 6:45-8pm on Wednesdays at the Vineyard Church. 615 Montgomery St. (behind Blowin’ Smoke BBQ). www.vineyardsavannah.org [122911] Savannah Zen Center Meditation, Classes & Events are held at 111 E. 34th St., Savannah, Ga 31401.

For schedule: savannahzencenter.com or visit us on Facebook. [122911] 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] The Savannah Bible Project Meets each Friday 6:00-6:45pm to provide a non-faith-biased opportunity to interpret Hebrew and Christian scripture.

Participants are encouraged to interpret the texts in community embracing each person’s unique interpretive authority.

Meetings begin April 20 at the Ogeechee River Coffee Company. https://www. facebook.com/SavannahBibleProject [040112] 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.

ARIES

(March 21–April 19) Some people misunderstand the do–it–now fervor of the Aries tribe, thinking it must inevitably lead to carelessness. Please prove them wrong in the coming weeks.

Launch into the interesting new possibilities with all your exuberance unfurled. Refuse to allow the natural energy to get hemmed in by theories and concepts. But also be sure not to mistake rash impatience for intuitive guidance.

Consider the likelihood that your original vision of the future might need to be tinkered with a bit as you translate it into the concrete details.

TAURUS

(April 20–May 20) There is a possibility that a pot of gold sits at the end of the rainbow.

The likelihood is small, true, but it’s not zero. On the other hand, the rainbow is definitely here and available for you to enjoy. Of course, you would have to do some more work on yourself in order to gather in the fullness of that enjoyment. Here’s the potential problem: You may be under the impression that the rainbow is less valuable than the pot of gold.

So let me ask you: What if the rainbow’s the real prize?

GEMINI

(May 21–June 20) “It’s eternity in a person that turns the crank handle,” said Franz Kafka. At least that should be the case, I would add. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that a lot of people let other, lesser things turn the crank handle –– like the compulsive yearning for money, power, and love, for example. I challenge you to check in with yourself sometime soon and determine what exactly has been turning your crank handle. If it ain’t eternity, or whatever serves as eternity in your world view, get yourself adjusted.

In the coming months, it’s crucial that you’re running on the cleanest, purest fuel.

CANCER

(June 21–July 22) For a white guy from 19th–century England, David Livingstone was unusually egalitarian. As he traveled in Africa, he referred to what were then called “witch doctors” as “my professional colleagues.”

In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I encourage you to be inspired by Livingstone as you expand your

notion of who your allies are. For example, consider people to be your colleagues if they simply try to influence the world in the same ways you do, even if they work in different jobs or spheres. What might be your version of Livingstone’s witch doctors? Go outside of your usual network as you scout around for confederates who might connect you to exotic new perspectives and resources you never imagined you could use.

LEO

(July 23–Aug. 22) The flag of California features the image of a grizzly bear, and the huge carnivore is the state’s official animal. And yet grizzly bears have been extinct in California since 1922, when the last one was shot and killed. Is there any discrepancy like that in your own life, Leo? Do you continue to act as if a particular symbol or icon is important to you even though it has no practical presence in your life? If so, this would be a good time to update your attitude.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22) The cartoon character Felix the Cat made his debut in 1919. He was a movie star in the era of silent films, and eventually appeared in his own comic strip and TV show. But it wasn’t until 1953, when he was 34 years old, that he first got his Magic Bag of Tricks, which allowed him to do many things he wasn’t able to do before.

I bring this up, Virgo, because I believe you’re close to acquiring a magic bag of tricks that wasn’t on your radar until you had matured to the point where you are now.

To ensure that you get that bag, though, you will have to ripen even a bit more.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22) I have one child, a daughter, and raising her conscientiously has been one of the great privileges and joys of my life. Bonus: She has turned out to be a stellar human being. Every now and then, though, I get a bit envious of parents who’ve created bigger families. If bringing up one kid is so rewarding, maybe more would be even better. I asked an acquaintance of mine, a man with six kids, how he had managed to pull off that difficult feat. He told me quite candidly, “My secret is that I’m not a good father; I’m very neglectful.”

I offer up this story as a way to

encourage you, at this juncture in your development, to favor quality over quantity.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21) I expect there’ll be some curious goings–on this week. A seemingly uninspired idea could save you from a dumb decision, for example. An obvious secret may be the key to defeating a covert enemy. And a messy inconvenience might show up just in time to help you do the slightly uncool but eminently right thing. Can you deal with this much irony, Scorpio?

Can you handle such big doses of the old flippety–flop and oopsie– loopsie? For extra credit, here are two additional odd blessings you could capitalize on: a humble teaching from an unlikely expert and a surge of motivation from an embarrassing excitement.

SAGITTARIUS

youthful fantasy so as to empower the future of love.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18) We all know that spiders are talented little creatures. Spiders’ silk is as strong as steel, and their precisely geometric webs are engineering marvels. But even though they have admirable qualities I admire, I don’t expect to have an intimate connection with a spider any time soon. A similar situation is at work in the human realm. I know certain people who are amazing creators and leaders but don’t have the personal integrity or relationship skills that would make them trustworthy enough to seek out as close allies.

Their beauty is best appreciated from afar. Consider the possibility that the ideas I’m articulating here would be good for you to meditate on right now, Aquarius.

(Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

PISCES

Some of our pagan forbears imagined they had a duty to assist with nature’s revival every spring by performing fertility rituals. And wouldn’t it be fun if it were even slightly true that you could help the crops germinate and bloom by making sweet love in the fields?

At the very least, carrying out such a ceremony might stimulate your own personal creativity. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to slip away to a secluded outdoor spot, either by yourself or with a romantic companion. On a piece of paper, write down a project you’d like to make thrive in the coming months.

Bury the note in the good earth, then enjoy an act of love right on top of it.

Have you ever had the wind knocked out of you? It feels weird for a short time, but leaves no lasting damage. I’m expecting that you will experience a form of that phenomenon sometime soon.

Metaphorically speaking, the wind will get knocked out of you. But wait –– before you jump to conclusions and curse me out for predicting this, listen to the rest of my message. The wind that will get knocked out of you will be a wind that needed to be knocked out –– a wind that was causing confusion in your gut–level intuition. In other words, you’ll be lucky to get that wind knocked out of you. You’ll feel much better afterwards, and you will see things more clearly.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22–Jan. 19) Once upon a time, I fell in love with a brilliant businesswoman named Loreen. I pursued her with all my wiles, hoping to win her amorous affection. After playing hard to get for two months, she shocked me with a brazen invitation: Would I like to accompany her on a whirlwind vacation to Paris? “I think I can swing it,” I told her. But there was a problem: I was flat broke.

What to do? I decided to raise the funds by selling off a precious heirloom from childhood, my collection of 6,000 vintage baseball cards. Maybe this story will inspire you to do something comparable, Capricorn: Sacrifice an outmoded attachment or juvenile treasure or

(Feb. 19–March 20)

Sports & Games Savannah Bike Polo Like regular polo, but with bikes instead of horses. Meets weekly. Check out www. facebook.com/savannahbikepolo for more information. [122911] Team In Training Info Meeting and Fall Season Kick-Off Party Learn more about how you can complete a triathlon, full or half marathon with the Team In Training program. All levels of athletes - walkers, runners, cyclists, beginners or advanced - are welcome.

Support Groups Al-Anon Family Groups An anonymous fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics of all ages. The message of the Al-Anon Family Groups is one of strength and hope for friends and families of problem drinkers. AlAnon, for adults, and Alateen, for young people ages 13-19, is a unique fellowship that unites members of different backgrounds, races and walks of life in an inspiring endeavor: helping themselves and others to lead purposeful, useful lives by overcoming the frustration and helplessness caused by close association with an alcoholic. Meetings are held daily throughout Savannah and the surrounding area. Check www.savannahalanon.com for meeting information and times, or call 912-598-9860 for information. [030412] 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.

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5-6:30pm in the Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. For more info, call 355-6347 or 238-4666. [122911] Rape Crisis Center assists survivors of rape and sexual assault. The Rape Crisis Line is active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 912-2337273. The center offers free, confidential counseling for victims and their families. [122911] Spinal Injury Support Group Meets every third Thursday of the month at 5:30 p.m. at the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial Health. For info, call Jami Murray at 350-8900. http:// www.memorialhealth.com/ [122911] Support Group for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Sponsored by Savannah Educational Consultants and Royce Learning Center.

Professionally led support groups will be held on the 4th Monday of each month, 6-7:30pm. Meetings will be held at Royce Learning Center, at 4 Oglethorpe Professional Blvd. Contact Laurel Brady, 912-659-4687 or email LBrady@ savannaheducationalconsultants.com Support Group for Parents of Ill Children Backus Children’s Hospital sponsors this group for parents with a seriously ill child receiving treatment on an inpatient or outpatient basis. A case manager facilitates the meetings, and a child life specialist provides an arts and crafts activity. Meets weekly. Call Donna at 912-350-5616. http://www.memorialhealth.com/backus cs

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