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this week | compiled by robin wright gunn | happenings@connectsavannah.com

Week At A Glance is Connect Savannah’s listing of various events over the coming week. If you would like an event listed, please email WAG@connectsavannah.com.

Include specific dates, time, locations with addresses, cost and a contact number. Deadline for inclusion is 5pm Friday, to appear in next Wednesday’s edition.

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Theater: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues

Chatham County Annual Fashion Show

Wednesday

What: Andrew Lloyd Webber musical

with lyrics by Tim Rice, based on the ’coat of many colors’, story of Joseph from the Bible’s Book of Genesis.

When: Wed. Feb. 13, Thu. Feb. 14, Fri. Feb. 15, Sat. Feb. 16 Where: Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St., Cost: $35 adult, $16 child Info: 912-233-7764. www.savannahtheatre.com/

Black History Month: Panel: Religions of Africa

What: Armstrong’s Office of International Studies hosts religious leaders from different diasporas in Africa to share the uniqueness of the continent’s various religions.

When: Wed. Feb. 13, 12 p.m.-2 p.m.

Where: AASU University Hall 157, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: Free Info: 912-344-2618. armstrong.edu/

Mayfair Public Safety Meeting

What: Sponsored by the Mayfair Neighborhood Association in conjunction with the City of Savannah.

City and Police officials will answer questions and address concerns.

When: Wed. Feb. 13, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Knights of Columbus, 7619 Waters Ave. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 912-651-6410

Film and Tribute to Vanna White: Goddess of Love (1988, USA)

What: Psychotronic Film Society honors Valentine’s Day and the 56th birthday of America’s most well known letter-turner and star of Wheel of Fortune. A campy supernatural made-for TV comedy starring White and Little Richard.

When: Wed. Feb. 13, 8 p.m.

Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave., Cost: $6 Info: sentientbean.com/

Thursday

What: Annual fashion show, lunch, and musical entertainment. Fashions provided by Macy’s.

When: Thu. Feb. 14, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Where: Frank G. Murray Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Rd., Cost: $2 Info: parks.chathamcounty.org/

Valentine’s Day Social at LIFE

What: Holiday gathering hosted by

Living Independence For Everyone, Inc., nonprofit providing advocacy and independent living support by and for people with disabilities.

When: Thu. Feb. 14, 1 p.m.-3 p.m.

Where: LIFE, Inc. Office, 5105 Paulsen Street , Suite 143-B Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 912-920-2414. www.lifecil.com/

Valentine’s Day Weddings in the Davenport House Garden What: An official wedding that lasts

only ten minutes, officiated by a local judge. Call to reserve a time.

When: Thu. Feb. 14, 5-7 p.m.

Where: Davenport House, 324 E. State Cost: $100 donation per couple.

Info: 912-236-8097. www.davenporthousemuseum.org/

Dinner Theatre : Sheila Arnold as Oney Judge:Maidservant to Martha Washington

What: Sheila Arnold of Colonial Wil-

liamsburg in a one-woman show as Oney Judge, enslaved maidservant to Martha Washington. Reservations required.

When: Thu. Feb. 14, 6 p.m.

Where: Massie Heritage Center, 207 E. Gordon St. Cost: $40 Info: 912-395-5070. massieschool. com/

Savannah Book Festival: Dave Barry

What: Kickoff speaker for the festival is a best-selling novelist, humorist, columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner.

When: Thu. Feb. 14, 6 p.m.

Where: Trustees Theater, 213 E. Broughton St., Cost: SOLD OUT Info: savannahbookfestival.org/

Savannah Black Heritage Festival: Personal Reflections of W.W. Law: A Renaissance Man What: Lecture by Dr. Charles J. El-

more on the life of the late Savannah Civil Rights activist and his contributions to the arts, African American culture, and historic preservation.

When: Thu. Feb. 14, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Valentine’s Day with Dogfish Head & Brew/Drink/Run

What: Night of beer tasting and visiting with beer afficianados, runners and homebrewers. Representative will offer beers to taste, giveaways and raffle items.

When: Thu. Feb. 14, 6:30-10 p.m.

Where: Your Pie in Sandfly, 7360 Skidaway Road Unit A-1 , Cost: Free to attend

Annual City Market Marriage Vow Renewal Ceremony

What: For couples wanting to say “I do” one more time. Prizes from City Market shops. Ceremony will be held outside in the courtyard. Rain location: indoor City Market location. Call for info.

When: Thu. Feb. 14, 7 p.m.

Where: City Market, West St. Julian St., btwn Barnard and Montgomery, Cost: Call for pricing info.

Info: 912-232-4903

Leah Darrow: From Top Model to Role Model

What: Former contestant on America’s Next Top Model is now a faithbased motivational speaker.

When: Thu. Feb. 14, 7 p.m.

Where: St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church, 7020 Concord Rd Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: saintpetertheapostle.com/

Theater: Cactus Flower

What: AASU’s Masquers present a romantic comedy by Abe Burrows.

When: Thu. Feb. 14, 7:30 p.m., Fri. Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m., Sat. Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m., Sun. Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Armstrong’s Jenkins Hall Black Box, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: $10. discounts available; Armstrong free w/PirateC Info: armstrong.edu/

Open Mic Comedy Night

What: Monthly stand-up open mic for first-timers, seasoned veterans, or listeners only.

When: Thu. Feb. 14, 8 p.m.

Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave., Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: sentientbean.com/

Theater: Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen

What: Is it possible to be both smart and popular in high school? The 2007 off-Broadway comedy about finding out who we are. Presented by the

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Friday On Sale: Cirque du Soleil Tickets What: Cirque du Soleil presents

Quidam in Savannah for three performances, May 7-9. Tickets on sale to the general public today online or at the Civic Center Box Office.

When: Fri. Feb. 15 Where: Civic Center, 301 W. Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $35-$75.

Info: savannahcivic.com/

Project WET Teachers Workshop

What: Project WET is Water Education for K-12 Teachers. Open to both formal and non-formal educators and includes the Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide, a curriculum of activities to facilitate and promote awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources.

When: Fri. Feb. 15, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Where: Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd., Cost: Free. Please preregister.

Info: 912-395-1509. www.oatlandisland.org/

Savannah Book Festival: Bobby Deen

What: Paula’s baby boy and co-manager (with brother Jamie) of the family restaurant, The Lady and Sons, also hosts “Not My Mother’s Meals” on the Cooking Channel. Deen gives cooking demo and signs his cookbook From Mama’s Table to Mine.

When: Fri. Feb. 15, 10 a.m.

Where: Trustees Theatre, 216 E. Broughton St. Cost: $10 Info: savannahbookfestival.org/

Southern Women’s Show

What: The 10th anniversary of this expo of retailers, services, information, demonstrations, food and more, all geared toward women. Iron Chef challenge, plus Sean Lowe from The Bachelor and Danielle Knox from The Balancing Act. When: Fri. Feb. 15, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Sat. Feb. 16, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Sun. Feb. 17, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where: Savannah International Trade and Convention Center, 1 International Drive, Cost: $5-$9 Info: southernshows.com/

Potable Gold: Savannah’s Madeira Tradition

What: Tour/performance describes Madeira’s long tradition in Savannah’s history. Tour includes a Madeira party. Guests must be able to walk up and down stairs and maneuver in candlelit rooms. Program dates: Feb. 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 5:30 p.m.

Where: Isaiah Davenport House Museum, 324 E. State St Cost: $20. Reservations recommended.

Info: 912-236-8097. www.davenporthousemuseum.org/

Savannah Book Festival: James Patterson

What: Keynote address by perennial bestselling author of the Alex Cross and Women’s Murder Club detective series and dozens more. Lecture and booksigning.

When: Fri. Feb. 15, 6 p.m.

Where: Trustees Theatre, 216 E. Broughton St., Cost: SOLD OUT Info: savannahbookfestival.org/

SCADDY Awards Ceremony

What: Savannah College of Art and Design presents the seventh annual awards honoring student achievement in the advertising arts.

When: Fri. Feb. 15, 6 p.m.

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

Info: scad.edu/

Savannah Irish Festival: Friday Night Ceili

What: Traditional Irish dance party that’s part square dance, part Riverdance. Music by Savannah Ceili Band. Instruction by local Irish dance school instructors.

When: Fri. Feb. 15, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Knights of Columbus Council 631, 3 West Liberty St., Cost: $5 donation. Free for under 18.

Info: savannahirish.org/

Black History Month: Cafe’ 1965: Night of Artistic Expression

What: A multimedia artistic fusion in honor of the Civil Rights Movement.

Poetry, visual art and music. Part of Armstrong’s Crossroads of Freedom and Equality, a month-long series of Black History Month lectures, panel discussions and performances.

When: Fri. Feb. 15, 7-10 p.m.

Where: AASU’s Ogeechee Theatre, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: armstrong.edu/

SCAD Film/TV Senior Showcase

What: A screening of all those student films you saw being made around town during the past few months.

When: Fri. Feb. 15, 7 p.m.

Where: Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St.

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SCAD Performing Arts Department.

When: Thu. Feb. 14, 8 p.m., Fri. Feb. 15, 8 p.m., Sat. Feb. 16, 8 p.m., Sun. Feb. 17, 3 p.m.

Where: SCAD’s Mondanaro Theater, 217 M.L. King, Jr. Blvd.

Cost: $10. Free on 2/14 with SCAD ID. Discounts.

Info: 912-525-5050. tickets.savannahboxoffice.com/

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Info: scad.edu/ What: All Walks of Life (AWOL) presents an original performance based on the poetry of Langston Hughes.

When: Fri. Feb. 15, 7 p.m.

Where: Civic Center’s Johnny Mercer Theater, 301 W. Oglethorpe Ave., Cost: $20. $5 children 5 and under.

Info: www.awolinc.org/

What: Author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid children’s book series (No. 1 on the NYT bestseller list in December) kicks off the book festival’s Saturday festival day. Lecture and signing.

When: Sat. Feb. 16, 10 a.m.

Where: Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St. Cost: SOLD OUT Info: savannahbookfestival.org/

Theater: A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, & A Prayer

Savannah Irish Festival Main Event

Theater: Conversations

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What: A collection of theater pieces edited by author and playwright Eve Ensler. Not recommended for young audiences.

When: Fri. Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m., Sat. Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m., Sun. Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Bay Street Theatre (at Club One), 1 Jefferson Street (at Bay Street), Cost: $15 Info: www.vdaysavannah.org/

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Forsyth Farmers Market

What: Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights.

When: Sat. Feb. 16, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Where: Forsyth Park Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: forsythfarmersmarket.com/

Savannah Book Festival: Festival Day

What: Main event with 40 authors giving solo talks at six different venues. Presenters include former Vice President Al Gore, NBC talk show host Hoda Kotb, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts, and Connect Savannah Editor in Chief Jim Morekis. Books available for purchase and signing.

When: Sat. Feb. 16, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where: Telfair Square Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: savannahbookfestival.org/

What: 21st annual celebration of Savannah’s Irish culture. Four stages of music, dance, culture, and kids activities plus the Irish Marketplace.

Cathie Ryan, The Dardanelles, Harry O’Donoghue, storyteller Batt Burns, and Rathkeltair.

When: Sat. Feb. 16, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Sun. Feb. 17, 12 p.m.-7 p.m.

Where: Civic Center Arena and Meeting Rooms, 301 W. Oglethorpe Ave., Cost: $8/day. $12/two-day ticket. Free for under 14.

Info: savannahirish.org/

Savannah Black Heritage Festival: Commemorating the First Black Heritage Festival

What: Blues artist Drink Small and Sheila Ray Charles (daughter of Ray Charles.) Clinton Powell Open Mic. When: Sat. Feb. 16, 2 p.m.-4 p.m.

Where: King-Tisdell Cottage Museum, 514 E. Huntingdon St., Cost: Free and open to the public.

Book Launch - The Gordonston Ladies Walking Club

What: Meet author Duncan Whitehead at this comedic whodunit booksigning and party.

When: Sat. Feb. 16, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Dresser Palmer House, 211 E. Gaston St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: www.thegordonstonladiesdogwalkingclub.com/

Georgia Historical Society Trustees Gala

What: Annual black tie dinner and dance wrapping up the Georgia History Festival. Induction of the 2013 Georgia Trustees, Chick-Fil-A founder Truett Cathy and Atlanta real estate developer Herman Russell.

Reservations required.

When: Sat. Feb. 16, 7 p.m.

Where: Hyatt Regency, 2 West Bay St Cost: $285 Info: georgiahistory.com/

Sunday Concert: American Songbook

What: Featuring pianist David Duckworth, guitarist Bill Smith, vocalist Ellen Gross, bassist Ray Williams, UU Church talent Kelly Blackmarr Carlile and others. Reception follows.

When: Sun. Feb. 17, 4 p.m.

Where: Unitarian Universalist Church, 311 E. Harris St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Donations encouraged.

Info: www.uusavannah.org/

Jazz: Celebrating the Music and History of Ella, Billie and Lena

What: Coastal Jazz Association presents Bob Masteller’s Jazz Corner Quintet, with vocalist Gina Rene’.

When: Sun. Feb. 17, 5 p.m.

Where: Westin Savannah Harbor, 1 Resort Dr., Hutchinson Island Cost: $10. Free for Coastal Jazz Assoc. members.

Info: savannahjazzfestival.org/

Savannah Black Heritage Festival: How I Got Over - Stories of Faith, Resistance, and Freedom

What: Stories by Savannah storyteller Lillian Grant-Baptiste and the Second African Baptist Church Inspirational Voices Choir.

When: Sun. Feb. 17, 5 p.m.

Where: Second African Baptist Church, 123 Houston St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: savannahblackheritagefestival. com/

AWOL Open Mic Therapy Session

What: Once a month youth and adult open mic session. All art forms are welcome.

When: Sun. Feb. 17, 8 p.m.

Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave., Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: sentientbean.com/

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Tuesday Lecture: The Slave Dwelling Project

What: Joseph McGill of the National Trust for Historic Preservation discusses his research on slave dwellings in the U.S., including his overnight stays in 38 former slave dwellings in 12 states. Part of Historic Savannah Foundation’s Preservation Lecture Series. 6:30pm reception. 7 pm lecture.

When: Tue. Feb. 19 Where: Beth Eden Baptist Church, 302 E. Gordon Street, Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 912-233-7787. myhsf.org/

@ SCAD theater: Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen. Feb. 14–17. Mondanaro Theatre. @ Book Festival Kickoff: Dave Barry. Feb. 14.

Trustees Theater. @ Savannah Book Festival. Feb. 14–17. @ Savannah Irish Festival. Feb. 15–17. @ Jonathan Richman. Feb. 14. Wormhole. @ A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer.

Bay Street Theatre. Feb. 15–17. @ Abeni Cultural Arts: Visions An Odyssey in Black Dance. Feb. 21-24. Muse Arts Warehouse. @ SCAD theater: The Three Musketeers. Feb. 28–March 3. Lucas Theatre. @ Film: His Girl Friday. Feb. 23. Trustees Theater. @ Elvis: Down at the End of Lonely Street. Feb. 26. Trustees Theater. @ A–Town Get Down w/Loudon Wainwright III. March 2. Trustees Garden. @ Savannah Blues Festival. March 3. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Jerry Seinfeld. March 7. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Bob James. March 7. Morris Center. @ Savannah Stopover. March 7–9. @ Tybee Mardi Gras. March 9. @ Tara Feis. March 9. Emmett Park. @ Three Days Grace/Shinedown. March 12.

MLK Arena. @ Matchbox Twenty. March 12. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ The Collective Face: Shadowlands. March 8–23. Muse Arts Warehouse. @ of Montreal. March 8. Forsyth Park. @ Lord of the Dance. March 13. Mercer Theatre. @ Harlem Globetrotters. March 14. MLK Arena. @ Savannah Music Festival (SMF). March 21–April 6. @ Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires.

March 21. Trustees Theater (SMF). @ Old Crow Medicine Show. March 22. Johnny Mercer Theatre (SMF). @ Ahmad Jamal. March 23. Trustees Theater (SMF). @ Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance. March 23.

Lucas Theatre (SMF). @ Dr. John. March 27. Lucas Theatre (SMF). @ The Wailers. March 29. Trustees Theater (SMF). @ Emmylou Harris/Rodney Crowell, with Richard Thompson. April 3. Johnny Mercer Theatre (SMF). @ Tedeschi Trucks Band. April 4. Johnny Mercer Theatre (SMF). @ Tybee Wine Festival. April 10-14. @ Bill Maher. April 7. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Spring Awakening. AASU Masquers. April 11–21. CS @ Reefer Madness. Bay Street. April 19–28. @ Celtic Woman. May 3. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ The Collective Face: Pride & Prejudice. May 10–25. Muse Arts Warehouse. @ Blue Man Group. May 13 and 14. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ SCAD theater: Urinetown The Musical. May 23–26. Lucas Theatre. CS

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Connect Savannah is very happy to again be a media sponsor of the Savannah Book Festival, happening this weekend. It’s been a blast interviewing and writing about some of the featured authors this year, such as Dave Barry and Paula McLain.

This week’s issue is a real keeper. We feature interviews with two of the most notable authors, both presentations free and open to the public: Former Vice President Al Gore, interviewed by Jessica Leigh Lebos, and Gregg Allman, interviewed by Bill DeYoung.

For me, there’s a personal connection with this year’s Festival as well, as I received the rare and humbling honor of being chosen as a presenting author.

I’ll make a presentation on my Southern travel books in the best–selling Moon guidebook series this Saturday in the Jepson Center at 1:30 p.m.

It’s always awkward for someone in the media to promote something they’re involved in. How do you do that, exactly?

Do you get a co–worker to interview you?

Do you just not mention it, hoping for the best, while everyone else busily promotes their endeavors?

Thankfully, the folks at the Book Festival bailed me out — sort of — by coming up with the idea to interview me. Book Festival Board Secretary Lesley Francis kindly submitted some fun questions.

Lesley Francis: Born in the same hospital as the great author Flannery O’Connor and having lived all your life in Savannah, how can you possibly be balanced in your book Moon Charleston & Savannah? You must have a favorite of the two cities?

Me: Well, that’s the thing: There’s no need to have a favorite. They’re only two hours away from each other — why not enjoy both? Charleston is one of America’s great food cities. In Savannah you can walk the streets with a cocktail. That pretty much says it all.

Drilling down, I’d say Savannah now has many more free and fun festivals, like the Book Festival, than Charleston does.

Charleston’s a good bit bigger, but there often just seems to be less to do there.

I will say Charleston gets a bad rap as being really conservative. The truth is Charleston tends to learn from its mistakes better than we do. Savannah’s still pretty stubborn about sticking with things because we’ve always done it that way.

Lesley Francis: You’ve travelled a lot.

If you couldn’t live here, where would you choose, in Georgia and/or the whole world?

Me: The first thing I discovered is how freakin’ big it is. It’s one thing to read that Georgia is the eighth most populous state and the largest east of the Mississippi River, but quite another thing to explore Georgia’s immensity by driving all over it.

Quite a challenge.

There are so many sites in Georgia with huge national importance, like Andersonville and the extensive FDR and Jimmy Carter sites at Warm Springs and Plains, and the MLK National Historic Site in Atlanta. There’s also our incredible musical heritage, with things like the new Allman Brothers Museum on Vineville Avenue in Macon and all the James Brown stuff in Augusta. And most people have no idea of the Native American history in Georgia — there are three moundbuilder sites which were some of the largest cities in North America.

Me: As a UGA grad I’ll always have a soft spot for Athens. My family and I all love the West, so I’d say probably New Mexico or Montana, two magical places.

Being of Greek heritage, of course I’m going to tell you I’d love to live in Greece, which I’ve visited many times. But things are really challenging over there now. It’s heartbreaking for those of us who remember better times in the old country.

Lesley Francis: What was your reaction to being asked to present at the 2013 Savannah Book Festival. It IS quite an honor.

Lesley Francis: Do you prefer editing or writing?

Lesley Francis: Are you excited about your very own Leopold’s ice cream created as one of the Savannah Book Festival special flavors: Coffee Chocolate Chip?

Me: Our operation at Connect Savannah is pretty streamlined, so I already do a fair amount of writing in addition to the management stuff. It helps keeps the chops sharp. What I enjoy most about editing the paper is packaging a really full and diverse mix of things for readers to enjoy. And of course sneaking in really subtle ways to promote myself.

Lesley Francis: Your next book is Moon Georgia. What surprised you the most during your travels in your home state?

Me: It is indeed, and I’m totally stoked about it. As much as I enjoy interviewing authors, artists, musicians, and politicians, it’s refreshing for me to be the one answering the questions for a change instead of asking them.

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The Future’s Al Gore speaks a truth as inconvenient and imminent as ever

by Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

Forty–something years later, the future is here. While our “collision with tomorrow” hasn’t sent us skidding off into the ether just yet, the rapid increase in technology, communication and environmental chaos presents a confusing and frightening view of what could befall humanity sooner rather than later.

But former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore believes knowledge is power. His new book, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, picks up where Toffler left off by identifying the forces shaping our tomorrow — and showing us our destiny isn’t written just yet.

While things may look dire for our inert and often petty species, he writes, we “can and do change readily in response to the incentives we establish as a basis for civilization.” In other words, the future is still up to us.

Connect had the honor of speaking with the Vice President Gore about The Future in advance of his appearance at the Savannah Book Festival on Saturday, Feb. 16.

Let’s get right to it: Are we doomed?

Al Gore: [laughs] No, no, I’m an optimist. I believe that even though there is some danger involved with some of these large trends, there are great

No argument here. Do you see that as something that would have to be legislated or can people’s minds and hearts be trusted to do to the right thing?

opportunities, and if we rise to the challenge we can make the future very bright indeed.

One of the ideas discussed in your book is the notion of the “global mind” that comes from being able to share information so readily. What are the downsides to our constant connectivity?

Al Gore: Well, there are threats to privacy and data security, and there are increasing threats to business information and even national security. Many large businesses have been hacked. In China for example, cybercriminals have used the internet to steal information and money.

We have a kind of stalker economy with businesses tracking people on the internet and selling the information. If you go to Dictionary.com to look up a word, they’ll put 315 small computer programs on your device or computer that are capable of tracking your activities on the internet and then they’ll sell that information. I think that’s wrong and I think people need more protection.

What is the single most important policy that needs to be implemented?

Al Gore: We need protection for privacy. We need better programs to protect data security for business and government. And we need to empower people to protect themselves. But I hasten to add that all the benefits of the internet have to be taken into account alongside these new hazards.

You caught a lot of guff recently over the sale of Current TV to Al Jazeera.

How will media change in the future?

Al Gore: I hope we’ll see a continuation and acceleration of internet forms of journalism and investigative

Al Gore: I think both are important, but ultimately, there needs to be some legislative safeguards. But one of the other trends I describe in this book is the emergence of a truly global economy, and one implication of that new development is that national legislation in one country is not sufficient to safeguard the future if the activities that are causing problems simply move across national borders.

Could we really get, say, China to comply with a global set of environmental standards? reporting. I’m very optimistic of the benefits to the U.S. of having Al Jazeera on the TV dial. They do an excellent job, they’re widely respected, there are no commercial interruptions, and it’s a very talented group of professional journalists winning awards in country after country. It’s going to be a good addition.

What are the biggest ethical dilemmas of the future going to be?

Al Gore: Well, some of the choices we have to make in the field of genetic engineering have very large implications. We have a habit of focusing on short–term gains at the expense of the long term. And yet, new revolutionary discoveries in genetics have made us the principle agent of evolution.

If we were to focus on short–term gains by modifying the genetic makeup of people without the adequate consideration of the long–term risks and harms, that would not be a wise course to take.

Al Gore: There are actually some positive signs that China is developing a strong environmental ethic. There are troubling signs as well, but China is now facing political unrest that is in part caused by the horrible pollution that people have to put up with there.

Last week, on a scale of air pollution going from zero to 500, in Beijing the air quality was 755. And admissions to hospitals for respiratory problems quintupled.

People there are demanding more environmental protections. The government had instituted a cap–and– trade system for CO2 emissions in two cities and five provinces and has declared that it’s a pilot for a nationwide system two years from now.

They are investing heavily in solar and wind energy and smart grids and fast trains. And yet, they are still opening a new dirty coal plant every 10 days or so. They have a choice to make and so do other nations. continues on p. 12

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You write about the role of work changing for Americans in the future.

How do you see that playing out?

How about more farmers? How do you see food supply changing in the future?

Al Gore: Advanced automation is confronting us with serious challenges to the nature of work. In the past, we always found that new technology and automation ended up creating more jobs than were displaced.

What’s different now is the presence of artificial intelligence and increasingly smart, interconnected machines and devices and computer programs that don’t just extend our physical capacities but also our cognitive functions. So investments of capital in new technologies like these end up displacing a lot more jobs than in the past.

Some of the new jobs that will appear will involve public goods: We need more teachers, we need more mental health care workers, we need more environmental clean–up and other activities that are not as easy to fit within the product–making sector.

So some of these activities are really going to require us to rethink the prevailing hostility to government.

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Al Gore: The mechanization of agriculture eliminated the vast majority of farm jobs long ago. We’ve gone from 90 percent employment in agriculture to only two percent today, with more food being produced more cheaply in the process.

But the reliance on chemicals, synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and monocultures has brought new risks.

Many are responding by moving back towards crop rotation, natural fertilizers, natural pest management and the kind of organic approaches that consumers are expressing a demand for.

So yes, we are seeing that movement.

Do you see a return to sustainability as a prevailing philosophy rather than the short–term corporate mindset of bigger profits every year at the expense of resources?

Al Gore: [sighs] Well, we’re on the cusp of change. At present we’re still influenced heavily by the corporate agendas that come from the legacy industries of the past. And that’s not

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Al Gore: I met with Alfred Toffler back in the ‘70s along with [bestselling Megatrends author] John Naisbitt and many other futurists, and I think that they were prescient in seeing some of these trends. They have evolved, and the momentum of change is much more powerful today.

But much of what they saw is indeed unfolding before our eyes.

Speaking of prescience, many of the predictions about climate change you wrote about in An Inconvenient Truth have come to pass. Do you feel vindicated or just frustrated that not enough has been done to stem the tide?

Al Gore: I do wish more had been done. And I hope more will soon be done. I remember vividly being criticized for predicting that ocean water might flow into the World Trade Center Memorial site — many ridiculed that idea. But at the end of last October, that happened.

The storms have gotten stronger, the droughts have gotten deeper, the floods have gotten bigger, the Arctic

Wait, you told me we weren’t doomed!

Al Gore: Look, these things are happening and they will continue to happen. But the worst of it can still be avoided and must be avoided. We have to stop putting 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere like it’s an open sewer.

What can average citizens do to be change agents of the future?

Al Gore: First of all, learn about it and you’ll find the best ways that fit in with your own lifestyle. Then connect with others who share your point of view. The positive trends are gaining momentum and there are many legitimate reasons for hope. The place to start is fixing our democracy and correcting the distortions in markets so that we can use the powerful tools of democracy and capitalism to shape our future.

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Too slow, too furious A Savannah man’s attempt to avoid a fine for driving without a license brought more charges when his car crashed again in front of a police precinct during a shift change.

Charles Cory Morris, 25, of Helen Street was apprehended as he fled a head–on collision at Richards Street and Lathrop Avenue about 3 p.m.

He had first been involved in a minor crash at Louisville Road and West Boundary Street where the car he was driving struck the rear end of a Toyota pickup. Morris was trying to convince the other driver not to call police when an officer walked up.

Morris walked to the turquoise 1991 Camaro he had been driving and sped away, eventually coming upon a second accident where a second officer was standing, unaware the Camaro was fleeing from a crash.

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My query concerns the conception of primitive cultures sacrificing virgins by throwing them into the maw of an active volcano. Many people seem to think this actually happened, but I can’t find even one reliable report of human sacrifice this way. Is it a Hollywood invention? Tell me the truth. Have any virgins anywhere ever been tossed into a live volcano to appease an irate god? —Ken As with so many popular beliefs, the answer boils down to: (1) this story is mostly Hollywood BS, but (2) not 100 percent. To get a better handle on things, let’s look at different permutations of the concept, starting with the least plausible and working up.

Virgins have been thrown into volcanoes to appease god(s). This is the story in purest form—so pure, in fact, that I haven’t been able to find any actual examples of it. The closest I got was the 1932 film Bird of Paradise, starring Dolores del Rio as native girl Luana.

Plotwise it breaks down as: boy meets girl, boy hooks up with girl, girl is betrothed to someone else, boy steals girl, boy is cursed by volcano goddess Pele, girl sacrifices self to appease Pele and save boy. Long in the public domain, the film is available for free download and worth every penny.

I need to point out a couple things, though. First, while Luana’s primitive culture is perfectly willing to sacrifice her to placate the volcano god, it doesn’t actually do so. She sacrifices herself.

Second, volcanoes suitable for throwing women into for the most part don’t exist. The popular idea is that a volcanic cone has a lake of molten lava inside, perhaps with a rocky promontory jutting out from the rim to provide a convenient spot for victim-flinging.

In reality, an erupting volcano typically spews lava up or outward from a cone, vent, or fissure, after which the lava flows laterally along the flattish surfaces nearby. One could, I suppose, shove a sacrificial individual into one of these flows and thereby incinerate her (or

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him), but that doesn’t constitute tossing a virgin into a volcano as the trope is usually understood.

Virgins have been sacrificed on, if not in, volcanoes. I’ll go out on a limb and say this is 100 percent true. The mummified remains of numerous murdered Incan children, many of them female, have been found on the upper slopes of volcanoes in the Andes. For example, a girl was discovered on Mount Ampato in Peru in 1995 and two girls and a boy on Llullaillaco in Argentina in 1999.

The victims, aged six to adulthood, were well dressed and nourished, suggesting they’d been fattened for the slaughter. I don’t know if on examination any of the children were found to be virgins but will politely assume they were.

Archaeologist Johan Reinhard, who led the expeditions that found the Ampato and Llullaillaco mummies, has conjectured that sacrifices at Ampato were intended to stop a volcanic eruption nearby. The site is only reachable when volcanic heat has melted the snow, and in fact Reinhard was only able to get there because of an eruption at the time.

Humans, but especially children, have been sacrificed to the gods, or to accompany deceased rulers who presumably were going to join the gods. This is so abundantly and widely true that it may not seem worth mentioning, but we ought not to let our interest in a particularly baroque sacrificial mode blind us to the larger truth, namely that our species has slaughtered innocents by the uncountable thousands since antiquity, without even the excuse of war. Examples: • In the Bible, the cornerstone of the Western moral code, Abraham famously comes close to sacrificing his son Isaac, and Jephthah actually does kill his daughter in return for winning a war.

• As part of the funeral rites of the Incan ruler Huayna Capac a thousand people were sacrificed, including many children.

• The sacrificial cenote, a big sinkhole at the Mayan city of Chichen Itza, was found to contain the skeletons of children mostly from 7 to 15 years old. It’s guessed that the victims were selected for their beauty and freedom from blemish, signifying innocence, youth, and (temporarily) health. cs

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news of the weird Crazy Kids An estimated 3.2 million kids aged 5 to 12 take mixed-martial arts classes, training to administer beatdowns modeled after the adults’ Ultimate Fighting Championships, according to a January report in ESPN magazine, which profiled the swaggering, Mohawked Derek “Crazy” Rayfield, 11, and the meek, doll-clutching fighting machine, Regina “The Black Widow” Awana, 7. Kids under age 12 fight each other without regard to gender, and blows above the collarbone are always prohibited (along with attacks on the groin, kidneys and back). “Crazy” was described delivering merciless forearm chest smashes to a foe before the referee intervened, and the Black Widow won her match in less than a minute via arm-bar submission.

Parental involvement appears to be of two types: either fear of their child’s getting hurt or encouragement to be meaner.

The Continuing Crisis • Tyrone Harris, 26, reported for his first shift at Dunkin’ Donuts in Morristown, N.J., in January and received his name tag. Seven minutes later, according to police, he was on his way out the door with $2,100 from his supervisor’s desk. (Apparently, the supervisor had opened his drawer a little too far when reaching for the name tag, giving Harris a glimpse of the cash.)

• In a January submission to India’s Supreme Court, an association of the country’s caste councils begged for

greater sympathy for men who commit a machine gun mounted on a turret “honor killings” of wayward females. with a driver looking at one flat-screen The councils denied encouraging such TV and a gunner another, aiming the killings, but emphasized that fathers or machine gun via a Sony PlayStation brothers who murder a daughter or siscontroller. (2) Video transmissions ter are usually “law-abiding, educated from drone aircraft rose stiflingly to and respectable people” who must promore than 300,000 hours last year tect their reputations after a female has (compared to 4,800 in 2001). With had a “forbidden” relationship -- espeinput expected to grow even more, Air cially a female who intends Force officials acknowlto marry within her subedged in December caste, which the councils seeking advice from a believe leads to deformed private-sector company babies. experienced in handling • Aubrey Ireland, 21, massive amounts of Not that a dean’s-list senior at the video: ESPN. strange.

University of Cincin• Dog trainer Mark nati’s prestigious college Vette showed off his of music, went to court best work in Auckin December to protect land, New Zealand, in herself from two stalkers December: dogs driv-- her mother and father, ing a Cooper Mini on who, she said, had been a closed course. Using paranoiacally meddling knobs fitted to the dogs’ in her life. David and reach, Vette taught Julie Ireland put tracking mixed-breed rescue devices on Aubrey’s comdogs “Monty” and “Porputer and telephone and ter” 10 discrete actions, showed up unannounced including handling the on campus (600 miles from their starter, steering wheel, gearshift, and home), telling officials that Aubrey was brake and gas pedals, and then put promiscuous and mentally imbalanced. them behind the wheel on live televiA Common Pleas Court judge ordered sion. Monty handled the straightaway the parents to keep their distance. flawlessly, but Porter, assigned to steer • Medium-Tech Warfare: (1) The around a bend, ran off the road. mostly rag-tag army of Syrian rebels Bright Ideas fighting the Assad regime unveiled its first jerry-built armored vehicle in (1) In November, students at DalDecember. The “Sham II” is an old housie University in Halifax, Nova diesel car with cameras for navigation, Scotia, ordered three therapy dogs

and set up a room for “super stressed” final-exam studiers. The dogs typically are loaned to hospital patients and senior citizens. (2) In December, Cornell University staff installed a patch of grass inside the Olin Library (trucked in from the Adirondack mountains) because, said an employee, the sight of it has a “cognitive relaxing effect.”

• Jorge Sanchez, 35, was arrested in Burbank, Calif., in February after walking into a Costco store, brazenly stuffing 24 quart cans of motor oil under his clothing (some affixed with bungee cords), and heading for the exit. A security guard noticed him, but Sanchez fled and actually outran the guard (though some of his cargo came loose).

Still carrying 15 cans, he made it eight blocks before police overtook him. Sanchez said he services cars part-time and that motor oil prices were just too high.

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Gregory Bruni, 21, was arrested in North Fort Myers, Fla., in January after allegedly breaking into a residence at about 7 p.m. (first scurrying across the roof and jumping on one resident who came to investigate). According to police, Bruni was naked, ran maniacally around screaming in gibberish, failed to be intimidated when the female resident fired three “warning shots” with a handgun, fell to the floor after the third shot and began masturbating, and defecated near the front door and in a hallway. Police soon arrived and Tasered him.

The issue of “background checks” for gun purchases occupies center stage in the current gun-regulation debate, even though, ironically, current federal law on such checks is apparently half-heartedly enforced. In the latest data available (from 2010), nearly 80,000 Americans were denied the right to purchase guns because their applications contained false information (even though applicants swear, under penalty of law, that all information is true). However, The New York Times reported in January that of the nearly 80,000 applicants, only 44 were prosecuted for lying, and federal officials said the practice, well-known among applicants with shaky backgrounds, is known as “lie and try.”

People With Issues Lawrence Adamczyk, 49, was arrested in Riverside, Ill., in January after reports that he was loitering at Riverside Brookfield High School during a swim meet.

Police said he was quite talkative in custody, admitting that he was at the school to leer at boys (after being tipped off via “brainwave” messages from the singer Justin Bieber) and that moments before police arrived, he had been engaged in a solo sex act while ogling the swimmers.

Amazingly, police found that Adamczyk was not on any sex offenders’ registry even though he had been arrested (with at least one conviction) for similar incidents in 2005, 2009 and 2011, and was on parole at the time of the Riverside arrest.

woman’s breasts. Neighbors said they had heard the man screaming for the woman to get off of him. (2) In January, New York City police, arriving to check out an altercation and a death on the tracks at the East 125th Street subway station, found that the two incidents were unrelated. The man who was killed had actually fallen off of a train near the station while he was squatting between cars, defecating.

Readers’ Choice (1) Sophie Laboissonniere pleaded guilty in January to participating in the 2011 street riot in Vancouver, British Columbia, as part of a crowd that broke into a drugstore following the hometown Canucks’ loss in the Stanley Cup finals. Months before the riot, in the Miss Coastal Vancouver beauty pageant, she had been voted Miss Congeniality. (2) On Nov. 4, “Holly” -- Jacob and Bonnie Richter’s 4-year-old cat -- fled the couple’s motor home (apparently frightened by fireworks) parked at the Daytona International Speedway and did not return. Searches were futile, and the Richters drove home to Palm Beach Gardens, about 190 miles away. Two weeks later, Holly appeared, disheveled with paws rubbed raw, about a mile from the Richters’ home, and the finder returned her to the Richters based on Holly’s microchip ID. cs

Undignified Deaths (1) After a 51-year-old man was found dead in Everett, Wash., in January with his heavier girlfriend (192 pounds) lying face down on top of him, sheriff ’s deputies attributed cause of death as his having been smothered by the 50-year-old

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Savannah Music Festival’s new additions Old Crow Medicine Show, Dr. John and the Tedeschi Trucks Band are among the new concerts added to the 2013 Savannah Music Festival lineup.

The Wailers (the remnants of the great Bob Marley’s original band, and still one of Jamaica’s coolest reggae exports) and indie rockers Sea Wolf round out the last–minute additions, announced Thursday by SMF chairman Rob Gibson.

The details: Guitar hero Derek Trucks and his wife, singer/songwriter Susan Tedeschi, bring their lightning–hot blues/ rock outfit to the Johnny Mercer Theatre April 4. The Tedeschi Trucks Band played its first–ever live show at the Savannah Music Festival in 2010.

Old Crow Medicine Show, appearing March 22 at the Johnny Mercer Theatre, is perhaps the premiere old– timey string band in the America.

Combining elements of bluegrass, country, folk, jazz and other strains of acoustic Americana, Old Crow frequently performs on NPR, A Prairie Home Companion, and the Grand Ole Opry stage.

Dr. John, aka Mac Rebennack, has been at the forefront of New Orleans piano boogie and jazz since the early 1970s. He is known not only for his distinctive growl of a voice and the classic songs “Right Place, Wrong Time” and Such a Night,” but for collaborations with everyone from Allen Toussaint to Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys. He’ll play March 27 at the Lucas Theatre.

Bassist Anton “Family Man” Barrett is the sole living member of the Wailers when Bob Marley and Junior

Above: Savannah Music Festival guests Old Crow Medicine Show. Right: the ever-eccentric Jonathan Richman.

Marvin (not to mention Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston) were leading the charge. Still, it’s the Wailers, I– Threes and all. Yah mon! March 29, Trustees Theater.

Singer/songwriter Alex Brown Church is at the forefront of the Dangerbird Records Band Sea Wolf, which provide the song “The Violet Hour” for one of the Twilight movies.

Ships of the Sea North Garden March 29.

Tickets for the new shows — as well as the rest of the impressive schedule — are available now at savannahmusicfestival.org.

If I were a Richman

What’s our pal Jonathan Richman been up to lately? Good question, as the whimsical singer/songwriter does not have a website, a record label or a publicist. We can tell you that his most recent album is still 2010’s O Moon, Queen of Night on Earth.

For his annual pilgrimage to the Wormhole — Valentine’s Day, Feb.

14 — Richman will, as always, be accompanied by his snare–drumming sidekick Tommy Larkins. (Reaching back, the twosome made up the deadpan Greek chorus in the 1998 Farrelly Brothers film There’s Something About Mary.)

Last June, the ex–Modern Lover granted an “interview” to San Francisco Weekly (he answered the reporter’s questions via snail mail).

In response to the question Why do you think your music is so perennially appealing to young people?, Richman wrote: “With the younger people at the shows, we’ve asked some of ’em how they know about us and they say they see clips of us on YouTube, then they come. Oh, incidentally, my music has not always appealed to young (20– year–old) people. Especially when I was a 20–year–old people! Also in the late ’70s through the ’80s it was hit or miss... and I think that was partly because of a rigidity in my music at that time. It’s now that it’s the best time: we have the best, overall, times

with audiences of all ages, in the U.S. and everywhere, right now.

Oh, Christ!

Happy to welcome Christ, Lord back to town for two shows in one night (Feb. 16), first at the Sentient Bean, then later at the Sparetime.

Here is a six–piece Atlanta band that includes violin, accordion, trumpet and other suchlike instruments to create a strange, intoxicating brew — it’s like Tom Waits doing klezmer music. In Latin.

“I would say that dates back to my childhood,” bandleader Christian Ballew told me prior to the band’s appearance at the 2012 Savannah Stopover. “I’m from the United States, from Utah, but my father’s from Colombia and my grandmother was fascinated by spirituality in general.

She had a friend who was a klezmer arranger for six or seven bands, and she would take us to a lot of shows. I think it was kind of ingrained in me that way.” CS

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Allman wrote that song, “Wasted Words,” in 1972, and it proved prophetic: His autobiography is not only a chronicle of a life filled with dirty dealings, drugs and disappointments, it wastes no words. My Cross to Bear, named for one of the standout tracks on the Allman Brothers Band’s eponymous debut, is a brutally honest rock–star memoir.

It’s all here — the copious amounts of substances, the wretched excesses, the booze, the groupies. The overdoses, the arrests, the near–death experiences and the inevitable liver transplant. Madness in Macon, fear and loathing in New York.

Always, however, there’s the music.

In a voice that betrays both astonishment at his successes, and an innate understanding of how lucky he is to still be alive to tell the tale, Allman describes how he and his (slightly) older brother Duane fell hard for

blues music, and rock ‘n’ roll, while growing up hardscrabble in Daytona Beach, Fla. in the 1950s and ‘60s.

Duane quickly mastered the guitar, Gregg the Hammond B3 organ.

Gregg could sing like a banshee, while his brother couldn’t carry a tune. They were perfectly matched.

There’s no need to re–hash the glories of the Allman Brothers Band; with second guitarist Dickey Betts, Duane Allman created a sound that imbues and underscores great rock ‘n’ roll even today.

Duane’s 1971 death in a motorcycle accident is just one of the many tragedies Allman recounts in painfully personal detail.

In My Cross to Bear, we also learn, among other things, that Gregg Allman thought the Grateful Dead were crap; that he still talks to his ex–wife, Cher; that he and the remaining members of the ABB didn’t fire Betts

in 2000 — according to Allman, they were offering him time to get himself clean, and then come back to the group. Betts thought otherwise.

They haven’t spoken in 13 years.

Much like Life, Keith Richards’ autobiography, My Cross to Bear is fascinating, funny and freewheeling.

A longtime resident of Richmond Hill, Allman will sign copies of his book for two hours Saturday, Feb. 16 at Telfair Square.

You strike me as the type of person who doesn’t do a lot of looking back. Is it kind of weird to open your heart like that and go back? And so why did you write the book?

Gregg Allman: It’s not something I do frequently, no. It wasn’t meant to be a book, really. It was a journal I started keeping in about 1982.

I figured, I had such a great life, and had such fun every day, so many adventures and stuff. And why not write it down?

I’ll end up an old codger on the porch some day.

I can, you know, pick up a few sheets and kind of re–live it.

What turned the tide?

Gregg Allman: My manager! Michael said “What you got there?” I said, it’s a duffel bag full of cassette tapes. “Really? What’s on ‘em?” Well, it’s my life. [big laugh]. He says “What? Let me have a closer look at that.” So he talked me into writin’ this book, see if they wanted to publish it. And they did.

It went on up there; it got up high on the best–sellers list.

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Did you talk the whole book into a tape recorder?

Gregg Allman: I wrote out about four chapters, and I thought “Man, this is not gettin’ it. With all the electronics around here, we don’t have to do this.” So there was this one guy that works with the Brothers — I caught him stealin’ and I had to fire him later, but that’s another story — he had this strange knack of knowing, like if you asked him “Where did the Allman Brothers play in February of 1991?” pow, he’d come out with the answer.

And I thought hmmm ... seeing as how the chronological order seems to be the most critical part of writing an autobiography, gettin’ it all in the right order, I had him help me. Each day, he came over. I said look, I want you to come over every Thursday, set up your recorder, and you start askin’ me about this time and that time.

You keep track of it and just go up the years, you know? So we did, and that’s what we got.

There obviously would have been things you didn’t remember. How much prodding from your guys did it take?

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How much work did Alan Light, who’s billed as your collaborator, do? What was his role?

Gregg Allman: After it was all written, he made sure that it sounded like me talkin.’ So what he did was, he took the four chapters that I’d written out totally, and from that he got how I worded things and what have you.

And then he just went and got the rest of it to sound like it was me talkin.’

You didn’t hold much back. Was there ever a thought in you that “there are some things I don’t want to put in here”?

Gregg Allman: Oh, yeah, man! [laughing] There’s ten tons of shit I didn’t put in there!

Lennon used to talk about the stuff that went on during tours, the things nobody ever mentioned in polite company.

Gregg Allman: It’s a kick! It’s wonderful. I love it. I just got off tour, probably the best one I’ve ever done.

You do a lot of interviews. Do you ever think “I can’t talk about Duane any more. There’s nothing I haven’t said a million times.”

Gregg Allman: Yeah, I do feel like that now and then. I guess everybody does.

What about the broken business relationships you write about, with (Capricorn Records founder) Phil Walden and Dickey Betts? Were those hard to talk about?

Gregg Allman: Yeah, 95 years old and she’s fit as a fiddle.

Gregg Allman: Not Walden. Walden screwed me royally, for lots of money.

I got most of my publishing back, but from the get–go he took it, you know? He took all my publishing, that old trick. One day I told him my mother, Geraldine — that’s G. Allman — started writin’ the songs. And I forgot how.

Did she help you with stories from the early days?

But in the end, you wrote a nice eulogy for Walden when he died.

Gregg Allman: I had to verify stuff with not only her, but with a lot of other people. Because I wanted to be sure of it. You don’t want to put anything in there that’s bullshit, or something where you get the time totally wrong — like “No, it wasn’t that way at all.” So no, there’s none of that in there.

Gregg Allman: Well, that’s common courtesy. I mean, the man’s dead for God’s sakes. CS

With several similar books, I skipped over the early, boyhood years to get to the cool stuff. But I read yours cover– to–cover. Is your mom still around?

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Top: Rathkeltair onstage (that’s Trevor Tanner at far left). Above: The Bolshoi in the 1980s (Tanner is second from left).

History, however, ran the Bolshoi over, and the guys went their separate ways before the ‘90s dawned. For a while, the talented Tanner explored other musical avenues, and then ... nothing.

If you’ve been wondering whatever happened to Trevor Tanner, wonder no more. He’s quite happy, thanks, living in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, and playing in a seriously good Celtic band called Rathkeltair.

Rathkeltair (named for an historical landmark in County Down, Northern Ireland) headlines the 2013 Savannah Irish Festival.

Along with Tanner on guitar and vocals, the band’s core members include drummer Nick Watson and singer and multi–instrumentalist Neil Anderson, who’s known as “The Jimi Hendrix of the Bagpipes.”

In short, this is not your sainted grandmother’s tin whistle combo.

Rathkeltair is a muscular rock ‘n’ roll band with great songs, killer musicians, an electrifying live show — and decidedly Celtic–inspired music–making.

The Bolshoi

“We were just a band playing around London who got a little singles deal with Beggars Banquet. It was a very gradual thing. Then Miles Copeland From IRS got involved and took us to the States, and that’s when

it really took off. We were always bigger in America, and in South America and Spain, than we ever were in England.”

The breakup

“Old story, really. We had a difference with our record company. We wanted to get a different producer for our second album. We wanted David Allen, who did the Cure and stuff, but he was busy. So I suggested David Bowie — he was doing Tin Machine.

He was producing a lot of weird stuff.

And the record company laughed at me and said ‘Don’t be ridiculous.’ And that kinda pissed me off.

“And we toured so much that we just started getting fed up with each other. After a while, we just didn’t want to do it any more.”

Away from music

“I stayed in England doing music for soundtracks and stuff, but the music scene was so boring over there.

It was all that kind of rave stuff. I didn’t like all that at all. I had an American girlfriend, and we decided to move. I gave up music for three years and I became a construction worker. I worked as a roofer in Alabama, of all places. I became a redneck for about four years. It was fun, actually. None of the boys on the crew knew anything about me – they

actually thought I was Mexican at first, because I tan so easily.”

Rathkeltair

“My wife’s got family in Jacksonville. She works in TV, she travels a lot, so it doesn’t really matter where she lives. I like New York, but I don’t like living in a shoebox. I like having a back yard where I can take a grill and get drunk.

“I answered an ad in the paper ‘cause I was bored. It said Celtic band looking for guitarist and I thought, that might be fun. Because I’m half Scottish. I was tortured with that music from an early age. My mum likes trucker music and country — that and Celtic music.

“When they brought me into the picture, all I really wanted to do was play guitar. But they looked into my catalogue and liked a lot of my songs.

And I ended up writing most of the stuff, and singing most of it. So it just sort of evolved into what it is now.”

Celtic festivals

“There are always several stages, and I think what they try to do is having something for everybody. Some of them are more traditional than others, and obviously we don’t do those.

We just do the ones that are fairly music–based.

“There’s a bit of a counter–culture now, because you’ve got these young guys in utility kilts all tatted up, like a metal scene almost. It’s sort of evolving a little bit. They’ve even got little gangs now. They call themselves the New World Celts.

“They’re younger guys. They kind of look like they should be listening to Slayer. But they’re not.” CS

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Girls in the Machine Silver Machine debuts in old Primary Arts space

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Did you say you’re in the mood for some mytho–futurist–intergalactic– ohm rock?

You must have heard about this Friday’s art/glam/ punk/rock extravaganza featuring the hot girl group of the moment, Silver Machine.

And we do mean ‘the moment,’ since they just formed a few weeks ago.

“It’s a magical, quick event,” says Tracy Cox–Stanton, who recently had the epiphany to form the five–woman group, its name derived from an old Hawkwind song.

Featuring members of Hot Pink Interior, When Hipsters Attack, and Pilot Scott Tracy, Silver Machine performs this Friday about 9 p.m. in the old Primary Arts Supply space at 14 E. Broughton St., with visual arts accompaniment by Tracy’s husband Scott “Panhandle Slim” Stanton and her brother Zteven Zangbang.

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“I woke up with a vision for an all–female band named for a Hawkwind song,” explains Tracy. “We’re a gyno–futurist band with the balls-out insanity of Hawkwind.”

In fact, she laughs, “we’re five women with their balls out. We are primed for the crazy.”

Jokes aside, Tracy, who plays Moog Source synthesizer in the band, says all the members of Silver Machine — Danielle Hughes Rose on theremin, Sheila Edwards on organ, Laura Easterling on guitar — gain their mutual inspiration from the group’s drummer, Robyn Reeder.

The former Primary Arts owner and cancer survivor is a role model and a heroine to many, Tracy says.

“She’s so totally inspiring in the way she can get you to be excited about doing something even if it’s totally ridiculous, and to do it with gusto. We all get that sense of fearlessness from her,” says Tracy.

“Thanks to Robyn’s influence, I felt that morning that if I just texted the right people, we could be rehearsing that afternoon.”

And so they were. And so intergalactic-gyno–ohmrock type stuff was born. The girls in Silver Machine say their show will be a mix of originals and covers, but “it will be less a set than a ceremony.”

If you can’t make it this Friday to have your mind blown by the combo rock/art experience, Silver Machine — Vishnu/Buddha/Odin willing — will also perform March 2 at the Jinx. cs

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That’s the setup in the SCAD theater department’s new comedy. Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen is onstage Feb. 14–17 at the Mondanaro Theatre.

The play was written by Kathryn Walat and premiered as part of the Women’s Project Playwrights Lab in 2005. Reviewing its off Broadway production, Time Out New York called Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen “surprisingly touching.”

Walat, who’s been teaching performing arts and dramatic writing at SCAD since 2010, says her play isn’t, in the manner of Clueless or Legally Blonde, simply an examination of one shallow woman’s life–changing experiences.

“It’s also about the other characters, the boys on the math team,” she explains. “So it’s more about being young and being in high school. I was always a fan of the John Hughes high school movies, and I wanted to capture that kind of fun — an angsty high school sort of story — for the theater.

“I think high school in general is such a time about figuring out who you are and the kind of person you want to be. And for Victoria, that’s realizing that she’s a little bit different than she thought she wanted to be.”

There is, Walat admits, a bit of autobiography in her script.

“My sister was on the math team,” the playwright reports. “She’d been recruited, and my parents made

Kathryn Walat says her play “is more about being young and being in high school.”

with him on it. I admire so much what he’s able to do with the students’ performances.”

She’s been involved with the developing production from Day One. “I think I’m helpful in that. I know the play really well, and have seen the play up before, so I can kind of point out the possibilities of a particular

moment. And he can then translate that into his direction of the students, and really bring it to life.”

Not that she’s hovering — student actors don’t need that kind of pressure — but she’s made herself available. “As is typical, I was there at the beginning of the rehearsal process, where we were talking about the play, and about

the characters, and I was able to give some input,” Walat explains.

“And then the playwright sort of goes away for a bit while they work on the performances, block the show and learn their lines. And then coming back and watching runs of the show.

And giving some — hopefully — helpful hints here and there.”

Although she’s published several other plays, Victoria Martin was Kathryn Walat’s baby, her first big one. It’s particularly poignant for her.

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her give it a shot. She unexpectedly started to love it. She had this funny group of nerdy guys that worshipped her.”

Walat herself was a member of the high school science team, in her Massachusetts hometown. She went on to receive her BA from Brown, and MFA from Yale Drama School.

When the SCAD job opened up, she was an adjunct professor in New York who commuted to a teaching gig at Yale. She’d never been to Savannah, but, big surprise, fell in love with the city.

“I felt like this was a place where I could live and be an artist, but also be teaching,” she says. “The amazing thing about SCAD is, it’s allowed me to integrate my professional career as a playwright and a professional theater artist together with my teaching.

And today, those feel like one and the same for me.”

SCAD professor Mark Tymchyshyn is directing the all–student cast.

“Mark is one of my favorite people at SCAD, and in Savannah,” says Walat, “so it’s so fun to be working

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outgrown that condescending attitude toward the people of Puerto Rico.

Talk about how that particular time in U.S. history influenced the effort to stop the Navy. There was so much going on then: Vietnam, Nixon, etc.

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

Kevin McCarey’s day gig is as a professor of film at SCAD. But he’s also the author of an intriguing book about his experiences in the 1970s on the front lines of the long and eventually successful effort to stop the U.S. Navy from using Puerto Rican islands for target practice.

Islands Under Fire focuses on the fight to save Culebra, at the time was one of two Puerto Rican islands – actually part of the Spanish Virgins — which were the only inhabited areas on earth used for live–fire training.

(The Navy pulled out of Culebra in 1975, but used neighboring Vieques until 2001.) In addition to being a gripping, entertaining slice of life from a tumultuous period of U.S. history, the book also details Puerto Rico’s long, sad experience with being abused first by one colonial power, the Spanish, and then another in the form of the United States.

McCarey makes a presentation this Sat. Feb. 16 at 11:30 p.m. as part of the Savannah Book Festival.

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But honestly the main way I dealt with the environmental travesty on a personal level was by trying to maintain a sense of humor.

Of the things contributing to what happened in Puerto Rico – environmental neglect, imperialism, racism, bureaucracy – which was the most egregious?

Kevin McCarey: I’d say it was colonial attitude. At the turn of the 20th century, right after we took control of Cuba and Puerto Rico and the Philippines and Hawaii, the U.S. funded a book called Our Islands, ironically written by a former Confederate general. It was like these people were not Anglo-Saxons, didn’t have our traditions, and so were suited to be our loyal colonial subjects. I’d say that was the most outrageous thing, that as late as the 1960s and 1970s we hadn’t

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Kevin McCarey: Another thing taking place during that time was the very first Earth Day. And not only were we trying to deal with the Vietnam War, we were also dealing with desegregation. There was also a movement across the country to address those challenges. We had women’s rights coming to the fore finally.

And on top of this collective energy to correct environmental woes and foreign policy woes there was much more freedom of expression. There was a lot of negativity but also a great amount of confidence that something could be done to make things better.

That’s the great thing about this country — we’re resilient. We can look inside ourselves and say, dammit it might be broken, but we can fix it.

And we’ve fixed an awful lot of things, particularly during that period.

Can the Caribbean coral reefs come back from such mistreatment?

Kevin McCarey: Yes, and it’s interesting. After these reefs began to recover from the trauma of the bombing, they then had to endure Hurricane Hugo.

What we discovered was that hurricane damage, which will tear apart 1000 year old coral reefs, has one positive aspect: It will carry chunks of reef to new areas of the ocean. Reefs will then begin to grow in areas where they wouldn’t be before.

That said, the big problem today is ocean acidification. Reefs are very sensitive to ocean temperatures, there’s a very limited range in which they can survive. If you have overall global warming and oceanic warming, it’s possible the reefs can migrate and move to cooler latitudes.

However when you introduce ocean acidification, with carbon dioxide, into Mother Ocean — the source of all life — the reefs cannot survive that. Some people predict that by the middle of this century there might be almost no coral reefs yet.

We fought like hell to save the reefs from the Navy but it turns out what we’re doing to the environment is going to have far more tragic and lethal effect on ocean life than whatever the Navy was doing back then. cs

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

With the news this week that Pope Benedict XVI will be only the second pope in 600 years to resign, Garry Wills’s appearance at the Savannah Book Festival this Saturday couldn’t be more timely.

The prolific Pulitzer Prize–winning Atlanta native has written dozens of well–received books on theology and politics, including Nixon Agonistes and What Jesus Meant.

His newest, Why Priests?, contains fascinating examinations of the history and paradox of the Eucharist and the reasons why the priesthood is not necessary for Catholics to practice their faith.

I’m struck by the difference between what the Catholic hierarchy says followers should believe and what the Catholic rank and file actually believes.

Garry Wills: Many Catholics don’t pay much attention to the pope. That trend has become more pronounced recently. So much of what church authority has weighed in on has been rejected by Catholics — contraception, for instance. The best survey done on that was in 1997. This huge survey asked Catholics under 30, including Hispanics, whether they agreed with the church on contraception. The number agreeing was so small it was within the margin of error. Statistically nonexistent!

The soon–to–be former pope hinted at that divide in his resignation letter.

Garry Wills: And it was brought up to Cardinal Ratzinger before he became pope. He was asked, “Aren’t you upset that so many Catholics don’t agree with church doctrine on contraception and abortion?” His answer was that “Doctrine is not established by popular vote.”

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in practice we don’t.

Seems like even if it’s just symbolic it’s still very powerful symbolism.

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Your new book is called Why Priests?

And now churches all over are being torn apart by the simple idea of women as priests. Where do you stand?

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centuries the great councils were meetings of bishops who were chosen by their communities, and who then voted on matters of religion.

In fact, at the time all bishops were chosen by the people, and then couldn’t leave the diocese. So bishops really couldn’t even be pope. That’s why popes were usually nephews of aristocratic people, situations like that.

You have to understand that politics in our sense didn’t exist in the middle ages or in antiquity. You couldn’t challenge the concept of monarchy in the middle ages — that’s why the pope became a monarch.

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It was a long, slow process to wrest away those powers. Now in this democratic age, the anomaly of monarchical pretense on the part of the pope is becoming emptier and flimsier, and being largely ignored by Catholics.

You spend a lot of time in the book on the concept and understanding of the Eucharist — literal or not literal, and if that really matters.

Garry Wills: It used to be the most shocking thing you could say was that you don’t believe literally in the Eucharist. But a lot of Catholics don’t.

In that survey I mentioned, 40 percent didn’t believe in that literally, and

Garry Wills: You don’t have to make women priests to make them important ministers. When women serve as catechists who prepare for baptism, they’re actually more symbols of solidarity than the priest. In the early church anyone could be an apostle or an emissary, but it didn’t mean they had to be a priest.

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You push back against the trendy idea that the apostle Paul was an uptight interloper responsible for instituting misogyny and narrow–mindedness in the church.

Garry Wills: That’s an old idea.

The letters which supposedly prove that have been discredited. When it originally arose, people thought the Gospels were written as eyewitness accounts, and that they came first and Paul came later. We now know neither is true at all.

Paul couldn’t have “departed from the Gospels” because they didn’t exist at the time. Our earliest accounts of the Last Supper are from Paul. Of course he wasn’t there either, but he got the account from churches he was inducted into.

So with all your issues with the Catholic Church, why not just quit?

Garry Wills: I haven’t stopped believing in the Creed. And the Creed says nothing about popes or bishops or priests. cs Gary Wills speaks 4 p.m. Sat. Feb. 16 at Trinity UMC on Telfair Square as part of the Savannah Book Festival.

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Valentine’s edition This week, the sweetest of the holidays rolls up on the day planner — Valentine’s Day. With a long history of waxy chocolates, sugary hearts admonishing “Be Mine!” and enough rose bouquets to give a florist nightmares, the holiday is laden with expectations: Candy, flowers, dinner, jewelry.

Shake off the paradigm, boys and girls, and allow me to suggest — cupcakes!

The Hostess City has nearly as many cupcake shops as it does frozen yogurt joints. Regardless of your neighborhood, there’s one nearby – or at least on the path to and from work. Everyone has their favorite and styles vary. Some are frosting heavy, some emphasize decoration and some manage to get the whole little paper– wrapped package just right.

Such are the baked goodies coming out of tiny Just Desserts near the intersection of Skidaway Road and

Derenne Avenue. Owner and chief baker Dolores Montoya is no nonsense when she talks cupcakes. She believes the cupcake should taste good, the frosting should taste good and there should be a carefully managed balance between the two.

She has succeeded. Her cupcakes have slowly garnered a dependable audience and she recently celebrated her three–year anniversary. The Red Velvet cupcake is classically Southern but not overbearing. The strawberry cupcake is like biting into that first berry of the season. Triple Chocolate?

Well, chocolate, you know — it’s like a little paper–wrapped hug.

Dolores also makes awesome cookies and cookies on sticks. Seasonal selections come along to brighten party tables – but the daily selection always seems to offer more than a half

dozen cupcake flavors.

5224 Skidaway Road, 655–3844, justdessertsofsavannah.com

Staying home?

Delay your special night out to avoid the craziness and try out my simple V–Day dinner recipes – including a deconstructed Cobb salad formed in pieces of PVC. Find pix, recipes and a couple of sparkling wine suggestions at Savannahfoodie.com.

River Street Crab Shack

The hoopla over the design of Joe’s Crab Shack, a chain seafood restaurant, died off quickly. A pass by the site last week found a banner saying “In Training: Opening Soon!”

I’ve been involved in several preservation projects and find the structure not all that sympathetic to its surroundings. I’ll stay out of the fray and focus on the food, which I’ll report on when the doors swing open.

Vegetarians Rejoice

Asheville–based VegHeads vegetarian restaurant announced last week it would open a location at 37 Whitaker St. between Sweet Melissa’s and Hang Fire. That makes many local vegetarians as happy as a bunny in a carrot patch. Now let’s hope locals will make the trip downtown to support ‘em.

She’s still open

“Bizarre Foods America’s” episode on Savannah re–broadcast this week, and my text messages exploded. The reason is the belief that Marandy’s, the tasty Soul food joint at Skidaway Road and Eisenhower Drive that was featured in the show, is closed.

Not true. Chef Cynthia let the corner “bay” of the center go — she only used it for parties and special events.

Her main location, one back from the corner, is still thriving. Tuesday–Saturday, 7 a.m.–8 p.m. cs

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Material Discovery: Angel Otero — New paintings and sculpture plus recent works.

Part of 2013 deFINE ART. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Through May 5.

Offering of the Angels: Masterworks from the Uffizi Gallery — Italian Renaissance Masterpieces from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.

Through March 30. Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center, 207 W. York Street.

Othoniel — A presentation of large-scale steel and glass sculptures, and Precious Stonewall, by contemporary French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel. Through May 4, SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.Part of 2013 deFINE ART.

Marcus Kenney’s new show ‘Fallen Animals’ is at Pinnacle Gallery; reception Feb. 19, 6: 30 p.m.

Openings & Receptions

Show runs through Feb. 24. Indigo Sky Gallery, 915 Waters Ave. 912-233-7659

Marcus Kenney: Fallen Animals — Kenney, renowned as a mixed media artist, returns to his photographic origins with an exhibition of black-and-white images, his first photography show since 1998. Pinnacle Gallery, 320 Liberty St. Through March 31.

Part of deFINE Art. Reception Feb. 19, 6:30pm.

Free — Jennifer Rubel’s commissioned, site specific installation utilizes a visual language derived from religion and art. Feb. 19-24.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Part of the 2013 deFINE ART program.

Pop-Up Shop Two Week Boutique — A curated, temporary independent boutique of work from independent designers--short run publications, clothing, design objects, organic and homemade sodas, etc. Opening Party Fri., Feb. 15, 6-10pm features an airbrushed photo drop for portraits by Emily Earl and Mat Neary. Feb. 15 - 28, NonFiction Gallery, 1522 Bull St.

Light Paradox — Mexican artist Gabriel Dawe constructs intricate, site-specific sculptural installations of thread that produce visual effects and rays of spectral color. Gutstein Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St. part of SCAD’s deFINE ART. Motus — SCAD alumnus Jason Hackenwerth creates caves of lightweight plastic that resonate and glow as they cycle through states of expansion and collapse. Part of SCAD’s deFINE ART program. Feb. 19-23. Pei Ling Chan Gallery, 322 MLK Blvd.

For the Love of Art — A Valentine’s Day reception at the upstairs art studios/galleries of City Market’s Franklin Ward North and South, on W. St. Julian St. between Montgomery and Barnard Streets. Works include handpainted silk scarves, jewelry, paintings, and more. Thurs., Feb.14, 5-8 pm.

Neighborhood Watch — SCAD painting MFA student Honor Bowman explores the American suburb. Feb. 18-March 4, Fahm Hall Gallery, 9 N. Fahm St. Part of SCAD’s deFINE ART program.

Artist’s Talk: Hurricane Echoes — Sequential Illustrations by Justine Ives, aka Og. Ten percent of sales will go to support victims of Super Storm Sandy. Artist lecture; Sun. Feb. 17, 3 pm.

Fool of Feelings — Recent mixed media works and paintings by Sunyoung Kali Moon. Artist’s reception, Feb. 15, 6-8pm. Show runs through Feb. 28. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull Street.

Two Faced — An art show

by Raabstract. Taca Sushi Lounge, 513 E. Oglethorpe.

Reception: Feb. 15, 5-8pm.

Erasures — Paintings and works on paper by Jack Whitten, many on view for the first time. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Continuing

Everyday Sightings — Photographer Michael W. Ellison and painter Mary Ellen McLaughlin exhibit their interpretation of commonplace experiences. Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, 1352 Eisenhower Dr.

An Artistic Discovery 2013 — The annual High School Juried Art Exhibition for Georgia’s 1st United States Congressional District. A juried exhibition that produces one winner whose work will be on display in Washington D.C. for one year. Fine Arts Gallery, Armstrong Atlantic State Univ., 11935 Abercorn St. Reception Feb. 24, 2pm.

Antonio Lopez and the World of Fashion Art — An overview of the work of fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez (1943-87). SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Continuing: Belo Horizonte Project — Multimedia artist Damian Ortega’s exhibition on this Brazilian city. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Blick Employee Art Show — This exhibition represents a piece of artwork from each of the Blick Savannah staff in the Blick Gallery at 318 E. Broughton St. Deborah Auleatha Mueller — Stoneware and raku clay works inspired by the artist’s surroundings, and by Asian design. Gallery 209, 209 East River Street.

Savannah Black Heritage Festival: New Beginnings — 12th annual show of work by local middle and high school students. Gallery S.P.A.C.E., 9 West Henry Street. Show runs through March 1.

SweetArt — Just in time for Valentine’s Day, new work

by Savannah artists. Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard St. Show runs through February.

Unfamiliar Behavior: Works

by Hye Yeon Nam — Nam is a digital media artist working in performance video, experimental interaction design and games, and robotic installations. Jepson Center, 207 W. York St

Classes Setting Up Your Clay Studio — What, when, why and how session. $10 Feb. 23,10 a.m. to noon. Dept. of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. savannahga.gov/arts Raku Firing — Ancient Japanese ceramic firing technique. $10 per firing.

Friday, Feb. 15, 1:00pm to 4:00pm. www.savannahga. gov/arts. Dept of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry Street.

A Classical Approach to Drawing and Painting the Figure — James Langley leads 3 day figure workshop on simple methods of drawing and painting the nude model. $295. Feb 14, 6:30 - 9:30pm (painting demo), Feb 15 & 16, 10am-5 pm.

Demo separately for $30 or part of full workshop. Studio School,1319 Bull St thestudioschoolsavannah.com Arts Classes and Workshops Now Registering — Day and evening classes and workshops for children, teens, and adults in all skill levels.

Sessions begin Feb 18 and run through March 29 and are at the Cultural Affairs, 9 W. Henry Street. Ceramics, metals, glass, fibers, jewelry, painting and drawing. www. savannahga.gov/arts or 912651-6783.

Figure Drawing — Open model sessions Wednesdays, 9:30am-12:30pm and 6-9pm at The Studio School. thestudioschoolsavannah.com.

Melinda at 912-484-6415 cs

Georgia Kyle Shiver: One Nation Under God — Starland Cafe & Gallery,11 East 41st Street, presents an exhibit by Savannah folk artist and musician.

Heaven’s Gate: Exhibition by Odili Donald Odita — Odita’s installation celebrates color and light within the museum through site-specific wall paintings. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Ingrid Calame: Pit 4, Pit 7, Pit 9, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 2006 — An installation that translates tracings from the speedway pits into one-to-one scale onto the wall. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Joel Cothran — Small and large airbrush paintings on paper and panel by South Carolina based artist. The Sparetime, 36 MLK Blvd.

Mary Telfair and the Grand Tour — Rarely exhibited works from Mary Telfair’s collection, acquired primarily in Italy during her travels

Art by Rachel Raab/Raabstract will be at Taca Sushi; reception this Friday 5-8 p.m.

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Side Effects is supposedly director Steven Soderbergh’s last film, before he turns his attention to television. As a swan song of sorts, the movie reflects a clear love of film — and perhaps a too-hasty retreat from the medium.

The story, by Contagion writer Scott Burns, begins with Emily and Martin Taylor (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum) struggling with the their marriage after Martin is released from prision for insider trading. Reduced from an extravagant lifestyle to lower middle class, dependent on Emily’s salary, the couple find themselves backsliding due to Emily’s depression. As she sinks deeper into mailaise, a pyschologist, Dr. Banks (Jude Law) begins working with Emily, trying her on different medications to approve her mood. There are fits and starts, a bit of success and then strange (wait for it) side effects, causing the plot to take a dark turn.

Soderbergh - the auteur behing Traffic, Sex Lies & Videotape and the Ocean’s movies - guides the film expertly, with slow, stylish precision that adds a subtle and mounting tension. But with the dark turn of the plot, the movie begins to fall apart, as increasingly absurd revelations are made. What starts as a look at depression and its effects, slowly elvoves into a quiet rant against the pharmaceutical industry’s profit motive and then movies into a smaller catand mouse-game.

Interesting takes, for sure, especially when Catherine Zeta-Jones appears as Emily’s charming and analytical former therapist, but ultimaely the plot careens all the place in the interest of becoming a thriller. Soderbergh plays fast and loose with whether what the audience is seeing is what actually happened, which isn’t always to the film’s benefit. The ending comes much too quickly, particularly after the slow and steady buildup of Emily and Martin’s relationship. It’s as if Soderbergh set out to make a great film, then realized he had to wrap things up to move on to his next project and truncated the slow buildup just to get things done and over with.

Side Effects isn’t a bad film, but it’s far from great. As the (supposedly) final film of a gifted director, it’s ambitious in concept but sadly lackluster in execution. (Brandon Blatcher).

The next time anyone blathers about “liberal Hollywood,” remind them that in 2012 alone, the film factory released one movie that paid tribute to the greatest Republican president and another that made a mockery of the greatest Democratic president. In Lincoln, the climax appears several sequences before the actual ending, with Abraham Lincoln’s successful navigation of the 13th Amendment through the House of Representatives.

In Hyde Park on Hudson, a different sort of climax occurs early in the film, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt receives a hand job from his cousin Daisy.

The latter is the sort of baffling and awkwardly staged scene that’s found throughout this frivolous yarn about the weekend in 1939 when FDR (played

by Bill Murray) welcomes Britain’s royal couple, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Samuel West and Olivia Colman), to his majestic New York property.

While Roosevelt has his hands full entertaining the Brits, Daisy (Laura Linney) has her hands full with the president’s manhood; meanwhile, Franklin’s mom (Elizabeth Wilson) frets over her son’s drinking while various underlings whisper about how his wife Eleanor (Olivia Williams) likes the ladies.

As with the equally ludicrous Hitchcock, Hyde Park on Hudson is a character assassination posing as a movie, with its central figure only displaying any real leadership or assertiveness during a lovely scene in which he has a friendly late–night chat with George. Indeed, the picture works best when the British

royals are involved, and West and Colman acquit themselves well in historical roles previously owned by Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter in The King’s Speech.

But because this is loosely based on Daisy’s secret diaries (discovered after her death in 1991), the main thrust is the relationship between the president and his cousin, and how she loves him even after she learns that he’s fooling around with other women. Murray’s surprisingly engaging performance is far better than Linney’s atypically dreary one, but neither is able to survive a misguided screenplay that most recalls a tattered dime–store novel – lurid, superficial and hardly worth the ink or paper.

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One of the producers behind Movie 43 publicly stated that he hoped the film would become this generation’s Kentucky Fried Movie, a declaration that felt like a swift kick to the raunchy area of my soul. Along with Mel Brooks’ 1981 History of the World: Part I, John Landis’ 1977 sketch–comedy film (penned by the guys who would later make Airplane!) earns my vote as the best of the vulgar comedies Hollywood has consistently produced ever since the restrictive Motion Picture Production Code came crashing down in 1968. A riotous spoof of commercials, television shows and Hollywood films with names like That’s Armageddon! and Catholic High School Girls in Trouble, KFM was unapologetic as it laid waste to all sorts of societal norms. continues on p. 36

embarrassment for all involved. Make that 90 minutes: The interlude titled “Super Hero Speed Dating,” featuring Jason Sudeikis as Batman and Justin Long as Robin, has its moments.

There’s no point in rattling off synopses for all the segments, but here are a few to set the proper mood for curious moviegoers. One sequence finds a woman (Winslet) excited about her blind date with New York’s most eligible bachelor (Jackman) until she sees that he has two testicles permanently hanging from his neck; she wonders why no else seems to notice his deformity and gags every time the ball sac dips into the food he’s eating.

Yet another set–piece involves a woman (Elizabeth Banks) competing for the attention of her boyfriend (Josh Duhamel) with Beezel, an animated cat that masturbates over photos of his owner. And another sketch focuses on a sweet couple (real–life spouses Anna Faris and Chris Pratt) and the discomfort he feels after she begs him to “poop” on her.

That last bit is the most relevant one here, since Movie 43 is an

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WARM BODIES

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Another zombie movie? As the kids would type on Twitter, “FFS.” Yet even after we thought the genre was exhausted with 28 Days Later ... and then Shaun of the Dead ... and then Zombieland ... and then some ... here we find fresh blood pumped into the format with Warm Bodies, an adaptation of Isaac Marion’s novel that began life as a short story floating around the Internet. Nicholas Hoult narrates the movie from his vantage point of playing one of the undead: He’s “R,” a zombie who becomes smitten with the human Julie (Teresa Palmer), more so after he eats the brains of her boyfriend (Dave Franco) and acquires all his memories. Initially afraid of R (understandably so!), Julie comes to realize that he’s not a threat, and together they wonder if his progression back to normalcy means that it’s no longer necessary for her militaristic dad (John Malkovich)

and his troops to annihilate all zombies. The laughs are modest and the scares are nonexistent, but the romance is awfully charming — and Hoult and Palmer make an irresistible couple.

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

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The natural inclination is to compare Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter — similar titles, similar punctuation, similar lunge for fan–boy dollars — but that wouldn’t exactly be correct.

Don’t quote me on this, but I’m fairly certain the real–life Honest Abe never had to fight bloodsucking fiends — if he did, then Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner did an especially sloppy job researching Lincoln.

On the other hand, the little tykes Hansel and Gretel did indeed slay a witch in the classic fairy tale, so a movie that suggests they elected to continue down this career path makes sense. And while the title may sound continues on p. 38

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Movie 43, on the other hand, should be nothing but apologetic, as it strands an incredible cast in unwatchable shorts and then expects people to actually pay to witness this train wreck.

The jaw–dropping line–up includes three current Oscar nominees (Hugh Jackman, Naomi Watts, Seth MacFarlane), two previous winners (Kate Winslet, Halle Berry), several seasoned vets (among them Richard Gere and Uma Thurman), a few red–hot actresses (such as Emma Stone and Chloe Grace Moretz) and approximately two dozen more celebrities with varying degrees of name recognition (including Greg Kinnear, Dennis Quaid, Terrence Howard and ... Snooki). Add a dozen directors and nine writers to the mix, and the result is a malodorous stew of filmmakers trying to one–up each other in terms of who can produce the most shocking segment. Alas, “shocking” went out years ago — these days, scatological gags are more likely to bore than offend — and without that edge of comic danger, there’s nothing here except 95 minutes of utter

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This is meant to be as much a comedy as a fantasy flick, and there are some humorous bits up front.

But the laughs dry up quickly, and all that’s left is a hyperactive action film featuring yet another humorless performance by Jeremy Renner (as Hansel), a village that looks about as authentic as the one created for the equally ill–advised Red Riding Hood, both human and CGI witches who prove to be about as menacing as a sleeping hamster, and anachronistic touches more idiotic than inspired (at one point, our heroes pack a modified machine gun).

As Gretel, Gemma Arterton tries to make up for Renner’s somnambulism with a peppy turn (she only half– succeeds). Writer–director Tommy Wirkola’s previous credits include the Norwegian Nazi–zombie flick Dead Snow.

The bloodletting at least breaks up the monotony of the fight sequences, which are not only repetitive but frequently shot in a jolting manner.

MAMA

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Although she’s presently Oscar nominated for Best Actress for Zero Dark Thirty – and, in this wide–open category, has as good a chance of winning as anybody – Jessica Chastain’s Mama isn’t the sort of cinematic debacle that can cripple careers.

If anything, her performance in this unexceptional horror fare will probably only endear her further to voters, since it presents this chameleonic actress in yet another light: Rather than a flighty Southern belle (The Help), a soft–spoken Texas housewife (The Tree of Life) or a driven CIA agent (Zero Dark Thirty), she’s now playing a goth chick, complete with jet–black cropped hair hugging her noggin and a position in a local punk band.

Mama begins with a crazed father failing in his attempt to murder his two children before turning the gun on himself (an homage to the opening of Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout?).

Instead, the two girls (Megan Charpentier and Isabelle Nelisse) spend the next five years living in a cabin in the woods, with only a spectral

mother figure to protect them. Once the kids are located, they’re placed in the care of the deceased dad’s brother (Nikolaj Coster–Waldau) and his girlfriend (Chastain).

But as the children begin warming up to their surrogate parents, the malevolent Mama responds in a jealous rage, physically assaulting various adults, violently inhabiting their bodies and – better clutch your seat for this one – unleashing an army of fluttering, sputtering moths.

And while the child actresses are quite good, only Chastain makes an impression among the grownups, and that’s more for our willingness to chart her career trajectory than for anything connected to her underdeveloped role.

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Bold, provocative and challenging in ways not even attempted by other current award contenders like Lincoln and my 2012 fave Argo, Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty recalls what President Woodrow Wilson reportedly said after screening D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation: “It’s like history written with lightning.”

Like that silent classic, this galvanizing picture is a work that’s steeped in controversy, yet unlike that hearty shout–out to the glories of the Ku Klux Klan, the uproar here isn’t nearly as clear–cut as it was when confronted with Griffith’s racist ideologies.

Bigelow reteams with scripter Mark Boal – both won Oscars for 2008’s The Hurt Locker – for a movie that relates in painstaking detail the CIA’s decade–long search for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Delivering a sublime performance of ferocious intensity, Jessica Chastain headlines as Maya, an agency operative who makes it her personal mission to ferret out the murderous al Qaeda head.

Stumbling across helpful clues is, as someone notes, like trying to locate that proverbial needle in a haystack, but while other figures come and go over the years for various reasons (Jason Clarke and Jennifer Ehle play the most prominent of these co–workers), Maya is determined to see this through to the end, no matter how much resistance she meets from her superiors in this patriarchal organization.

Zero Dark Thirty is such a potent work that it’s unfortunate it’s become

embroiled in a scandal which, frankly, it doesn’t deserve. Erroneously denounced as taking a pro–torture stance by politicians trying to cover their own asses as well as by well– meaning but misunderstanding activists, the film actually does nothing of the sort. It instead acknowledges the very real presence of torture on the post–9/11 landscape.

But in a break from traditional Tinseltown thinking, Bigelow and Boal insist on treating viewers like intelligent, discerning adults, able to absorb complexities and weigh knotty material. It’s a risky gamble on their part, but without it, we wouldn’t have a movie as important – and gratifying – as this one.

THE IMPOSSIBLE

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One of the deadliest natural disasters in history, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami obliterated several countries’ coastlines and resulted in over 230,000 deaths. It touched people all over the globe, those who were moved enough to contribute financially (global donations reportedly totaled $14 billion) and those who were affected on a more personal level (Tom Schwerk, one of my best friends from high school, perished while vacationing in Thailand, although his wife and two small sons thankfully survived).

There are countless tales to relate from this tragedy, and rather than focus on several in the schlocky manner of a ’70s disaster flick, director Juan Antonio Bayona elected to center on the ostensibly true–life story of Maria and Henry Belon, a Spanish couple on holiday with their three boys in Thailand when the tsunami hits. Many have already criticized the film for largely ignoring the plight of the locals while focusing on a privileged European family, while others have lambasted it for further Anglicizing the project by casting Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor instead of Spanish actors as the parents.

Watts is superb as Maria (she recently received the film’s sole Oscar nomination), and it’s a shame her ailing character is largely confined to the sidelines during the less impressive second half, a stretch that culminates with a series of coincidences so laughable, they belong in a vintage screwball comedy instead. CS

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Activism & Politics Victorian Neighborhood Association Meetings

Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month from 6-7 pm on the first floor of the American Legion Hall, 1108 Bull Street.

Open to all residents, property owners, renters, and businesses of the Victorian Neighborhood: Anderson to Gwinnett, ML King Jr. Blvd to East Broad. All who reside or work in the area are welcome and encouraged to attend meetings, meet your neighbors, and become a member of this growing organization. Information: 912233-0352. [011313]

13th Colony Patriots

A group of conservative political activists that meets the 13th of each month at Tubby’s restaurant, 2909 River Drive in Thunderbolt, 6:30pm to 8:30pm. We are dedicated to the preservation of the U. S. Constitution and life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans. See our Facebook page or call Michael or Elizabeth at 912.604.4048. All are welcome. [062712]

City of Savannah offers Citizens’ Academy

Registration is now open for the next semester of the City of Savannah Citizens’ Academy –an eight-session program intended to immerse residents into the workings of their City Government. The Academy includes on-site visits, presentations by key City officials, and other hands-on activities. Interested citizens must be willing to commit to attend all of the once-a-week classes, which generally run 6-8 p.m. beginning on February 12 through April 2. A maximum of 25 students will be accepted for the 2013 Academy, which will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. A $5 nonrefundable entrance fee is required. For more information contact the City of Savannah Public Information Office at 651-6410.

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 Satisfied, 301 W. Broughton St., upstairs. Come join us! DrinkingLiberally.org [113012]

Public School System Seeks Input in Math Instructional Materials

The Savannah Chatham County School System is reviewing mathematics instructional materials to make recommendations for the upcoming adoption cycle. They are soliciting input from community members, who may review the materials in the first floor hallway of the SCCPSS Administration Building, 208 Bull Street, Savannah, through February 4. Review forms are available. Information: 912-395-1043.

Savannah Area Young Republicans

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Savannah Tea Party Monthly Meetings

First Monday of each month at B&D Burgers, 11108 Abercorn St. Social at 5:30pm. Business Meeting 6:00pm. January meeting is February 4, 2013. All are welcome, please join us to discuss our agenda for the year 2013. Free to attend. Food and beverages available for purchase. Contact Marolyn Overton at 912-5987358 or Jeanne Seaver at 912-663-8728 for

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Veterans for Peace Monthly Meeting

The Savannah chapter of Veterans for Peace meets upstairs at Satisfied, (formerly Loco’s Deli and Grill), 301 Broughton St. at 7p.m. on the last Monday of each month. VFP is a national organization of men and women of all eras, branches of service, and duty stations that works to expose the true costs of war and to support veterans and civilian victims. 303550-1158 for more info. [121612]

Young Democrats

Young Democrats meets every Sunday, 3:304:00pm at The Sentient Bean, 13. East Park Avenue.

For more info: visit the Facebook page: Chatham Co. Young Democrats. or call 423-6197712. [010613]

Benefits A Taste of Hope, Chefs and Chocolates

Urban Hope 2013 fundraiser, March 1, 7:00pm.

Tickets: $30.00. Supports inner city youth with our after school and eight week summer program. urbanhopesavannah.org, or call 912349-54750 E. Broad Street.

Art & Oysters, A Benefit for Pin Point Heritage Museum

Saturday, February 2,4:30-6:30 pm. An Oyster Roast, Beer & Wine, Live Music. In attendance will be artist Mary Whyte and Algie Varn, former owner of the Varn & Son oyster and crab factory, now the Pin Point Heritage Museum.

Tickets are $100 per person. At the Pin Point Heritage Museum, 9924 Pin Point Ave. Reservations: 912-312-4155. www.chsgeorgia.com.

Forsyth Farmers’ Market Seeks Sponsors

Forsyth Farmers’ Market sponsors invest in a healthy community and show consideration for the local economy. Sponsorship opportunities start at $350. Help keep food fresh and local. www.forsythfarmersmarket.com or email Kristin@forsythfarmersmarket.com for information. [091512]

Guatemala Connection Latin Evening

February 1, 6:30 - 9:00pm. Reception, dinner and Latin entertainment to raise funds for Faith in Practice Medical Mission Team and The Christ Child’s Nest Orphanage in Guatemela.

For further information and tickets: 912-3558527 $15 adults, $7 children. Isle of Hope United Methodist Church Social Hall, 412 Parkersburg Road.

Jazz Showdown Benefit for Park Place Outreach

Jazz Pianists Bob Seeley (a boogie woogie pianist) and John Cocuzzi (pianist, vibraphone player and drummer, specializes in blues, jazz, swing and boogie woogie) perform February 8 at the Plantation Club at The Landings on Skidaway Island, 1 Cottonwood Lane. 6:00pm: Cash/member bar. 7:00pm dinner. 8:30pm: Piano showdown. Silent auction from 6:00-8:15 p.m. Tickets $125. Information/tickets/donations: Marolyn Overton, 912-598-7358 or Dick Miller, 912-598-5049. www.parkplaceyes.org

Karma Yoga Class for Local Charities

Bikram Yoga Savannah has added a new weekly Karma Class to raise money for local charities. The Karma Class is held each Monday night during the regular 6:30 p.m. class.

Students pay $5 to participate in the class, and all proceeds are donated to a local charity.

A different charity is selected each month.

Information: bikramyogasavannah.com or 912344-1278/912-356-8280. [072212]

Register Now for February’s Seacrest Race for Preservation

The 5K and 10K is a race through many Savannah neighborhoods, finishing with a fun-filled celebration for participants, family, and friends.

Registration savings for early birds, military, first responders, students and children under 12. Race registration is open at Fleet Feet Savannah and Active.com as well the Historic Savannah Foundation website. www.myhsf. org/special-events/seacrest-race/ Or see the Facebook page. Registration fees: $35-45

Savannah Children’s Choir Spaghetti Supper

Monday, February 11, 4 - 7pm, a preValentine’s Day Spaghetti Supper benefiting Savannah Children’s Choir. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn Street (at 34th Street). $7. Dinner includes pasta, choice of sauce, bread and salad. Drinks and home-made desserts additional charge. Information: 912-2284758 or www.savannahchoir.org.

Savannah Philharmonic Afternoon Adagio

An afternoon of high tea, hat fashions, silent auction and light classical music performed by harpist Kristin King and violinist Jadde Nolty, benefiting the Savannah Philharmonic.

Saturday, February 9, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the ballroom at The Olde Pink House, 23 Abercorn St. Tickets: $50 for Savannah Philharmonic members; $60 for non-members. Patron tickets available at $150. www.savannahphilharmonic.org or call 912-232-6002. ,

SCAD 14th Annual Scholarship Gala

Saturday, Feb. 2, at Poetter Hall, 342 Bull St. 6:30pm for Preview Party. 7:30pm Gala. The black-tie optional event features a silent auction of more than 100 pieces of original artwork donated by SCAD students, faculty and friends, on display in Poetter Hall. Artwork not sold during the gala will be available for sale online at scad.edu/gala. Tickets: $150 or $250 for the gala and access to the Preview Party, which includes an exclusive buy-it-now option on auction artwork and a catered cocktail reception. To purchase tickets, make a donation or preview auction items, visit scad.edu/gala or call the Gala Hotline at 912-525-5821.

Call for Entries Call for Artists to Contribute Artwork

Submit your artwork and benefit Lutheran Services of Georgia (LSG), a local nonprofit, at the “Expressions for Hope,” art show and auction February 28 at LSG’s office, 6555 Abercorn St. Ste. 200, to help support children in foster care and families in need. Join us for the auction and also contribute your artwork for the show. We welcome unframed submissions of any medium, judging reserved for 5 x 7 submissions. Please send your artwork to LSG’s office by February 14. Call or e-mail Katherine McKenzie at 912-704-4829 or kmckenzie@lsga. org with any questions.

Fast Pitch 2013 Submissions Sought

The Creative Coast Alliance seeks budding entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas to potential investors. See fastpitchcompetition.com for details. Deadline February 18, 5:00pm. Information: 912-447-8457.

Historic Savannah Foundation Preservation Awards Nominations

Historic Savannah Foundation is accepting nominations for the 2013 HSF Preservation Awards, recognizing individuals and organizations demonstrating excellence in

historic preservation. Deadline: Friday, February 15. Winners announced Thursday, May 9.

Nomination form and full details on eligibility, submission criteria and key dates available at www.myhsf.org. Information: 912-233-7787 or dmeunier@myHSF.org.

Participants Sought for National Cancer Research Effort

The American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study 3 (CPS-3) seeks participants in Savannah to be part of a nationwide cancer research effort surveying up to 500,000 people across the U.S. The survey will occur in the final week of February 2013. Men and women, ages 30-65 who have never been diagnosed with cancer are needed. The two-part study consists of a 30-minute in-person waist measurement and blood test, and an at-home questionnaire. Follow-up surveys will be sent to participants every few years to track changes in health, lifestyle, and other situations. CPS-3 is the third major initiative of this study that began in the 1950s (CPS-I) and began a new phase in 1982 (CPS-II). For more information, visit cps3savannah.com, email kitty.karr@ cancer.org, or call 912-355-5196.

Savannah Residents Invited to apply for Boards, Commissions, Authorities

Citizens interested in playing an active role in their local government are encouraged to apply for current openings on several Savannah City Council boards, commissions and authorities.

The Clerk of Council accepts applications from Thursday, Jan. 3 until noon on Thursday, Jan. 31. These groups work on behalf of Council on various topics of interest to the community, providing guidance or assisting in making decisions that impact daily life in Savannah.

Citizens with a wide range of backgrounds and experience are needed to fill these important roles. Applications can be found on the City’s website, www.savannahga.gov/boards. For more information, contact the Clerk of Council at (912) 651-6442 or email clerkofcouncil@ savannahga.gov.

Third Thursdays on Tybee Submissions Now Being Accepted

The Tybee Island Better Hometown Program hosts outdoor musical entertainment in the Main Corridor each year from March through May and from September through November.

Submissions are now being accepted from musicians interested in performing. Concerts are held the third Thursdays of the month at from 5:30 - 7:00pm and feature single musicians, duos or trios with minimal technical requirements. Musicians of all ages are invited to submit a sample of their music and a brief bio. Submission deadline: February 6, 5:00pm.

All music genres are allowed. Material must be family-friendly. Review the “Information for Performers” info at www.cityoftybee.org/ BetterHometownProgram. A panel of expert judges will review submissions and begin scheduling the second week of February. Information: 912-472-5071

Classes, Camps & Workshops Clay Classes: Savannah Clay Studio at Beaulieu

Handbuilding, sculpture, and handmade tiles.

Basic glazing and firing techniques. Contact Anita at 912-351-4578 email: sav.claystudio@ gmail.com. [120212]

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From beginner photography to advanced post-production classes for all levels, amateur to professional. $20 per person for a two hour session with at least 5 students per class. Contact 410-251-4421 or chris@chrismorrisphotography.com. A complete list of classes and class descriptions are available at http://www. chrismorrisphotography.com/photographyclasses. [082612]

“Orchid Growing Made So Easy” Offered Feb. 16 at the Bamboo Farm

Instructor Jim Keplinger offers basic orchid information followed by a question-and-answer session and a tour of a greenhouse on the campus of the Bamboo Farm and Coastal Gardens.

Learn which light conditions, potting media and fertilizing programs are best for orchids.

Saturday, February 16, 10:00am to 12:00 noon.

Offered by the Deep South Orchid Society and the Bamboo Farm and Coastal Gardens. Location: the Conference Center at the Bamboo Farm, 2 Canebrake Road. Fee: $12. Prepayment required.

Pre-register: 912-921-5460. Call for payment instructions.

Acting Workshops for Youth & Adults, and Headshot Days

First City Films hosts the following acting workshops. Locations will be emailed to class members after registration. Young Actors (Ages 7-14) Saturday, Feb. 2, 1-4pm. Repeats Sunday, March 10, 3-6pm. $75. Early registration $65.

Background Actors (Ages 15 & up). Extras: How to be a Repeat, not a Delete. Tuesday, Feb. 26, 6-9pm. Repeats Saturday, March 2, 10am1pm. $65. Early registration $50. Beginner Actors: Extras Level 2 (Ages 15 & up). The Acting Business. (Must have taken Background Actors Workshop.) Saturday, March 2, 2-6pm, $75.

Early registration $65. Headshot Day. One-look headshot session for beginners, or if you have a new look. Saturday, Jan. 26, 11am-4pm or Sunday, Feb. 17, 11am-4pm. $125. Register at www.firstcityfilms.com.

Art Classes and Lessons

Drawing and painting classes and private lessons offered by artist Karen Bradley. Call or email for details. 912-507-7138 or kbillustration@mac.com. [112512]

Art Classes at the Studio School.

Ongoing weekly drawing and painting classes for youth and adults. Learn more at thestudioschoolsavannah.com or contact Melinda: melindaborysevicz@gmail.com. 912-484-6415.

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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. [062812]

Basic Storm Spotter Workshop

A two-hour interactive workshop, preparing individuals to report severe weather including funnel clouds, tornadoes, hail, damaging wind and flooding rainfall. Weather spotters have served as the “eyes” of The National Weather Service for more than 60 years. Wed. Feb. 13 at 2:30pm or 6:00pm, at Bloomingdale Police Department, 6 Adams Street, Bloomingdale.

Call Chatham Emergency Management Agency to register: 912-201-4500. Free to attend.

Be a Master Gardener

Applications are now being accepted for the 2013 Master Gardener Class, to be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00AM-12:30PM from January 22nd thru April 4th, 2013 at the Bamboo Farm & Coastal Gardens, and at the Lake Mayer Community Room. The cost is $145.00.

For more information call 912-652-7981.

UGA’s College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences/Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens. website: bamboo.caes.uga.edu

Beading Classes

Offered every weekend at Perlina Beadshop, 6 West State Street. Check the website calendar at perlinabeadshop.com or call 912-441-2656.

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Beekeeping Workshop

The Coastal Empire Beekeepers Association hosts a day-long institute, The FUNdamentals of Beekeeping, on honey bees and the art of hobbyist beekeeping. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Saturday, February 23, 9:00am - 4:00pm. On-site registration begins at 8 a.m. Information call 912-395-1509 or visit www.oatlandisland.org.

Beginning Belly Dance Classes

Taught by Happenstance Bellydance at Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. All skill levels and styles welcome. Sundays 3:30-4:30p.m. $15/class. Private instruction available. Carrie Newton 912-704-2940 or happenstancebellydance@gmail.com happenstancebellydance.wordpress.com anahatahealingarts.com

Champions Training Center

Offers a variety of classes and training opportunities in mixed martial arts, jui-jitsu, judo and other disciplines for youth and adults at all levels of expertise. 525 Windsor Rd. Call 912-349-4582 or visit http://www.ctcsavannah. com/ [062812]

Classical and Acoustic Guitar Instruction With a PhD in Music

Savannah Classical Guitar Studio offers lessons for all levels of guitar student. Instructor is Dr.Brian Luckett, DMA classical guitar performance (www.brianluckett.com). Individual lessons in a private, quiet studio in the Starland area. All levels of lessons cover guitar technique, music theory (reading, rhythm etc.) and musicianship. General (folk/rock based) acoustic lessons also available but please, no electric instruments. Rates: $25.00 per half hour lesson; $45.00 per hour. Contact: brian@ brianluckett.com [102812]

Classical Drawing and Painting Workshop

A Classical Approach to Drawing and Painting the Figurem with James Langley. Feb 14-16 at The Studio School, 1319-B Bull Street. For more information visit: thestudioschoolsavannah.com, email: melindaborysevicz@gmail. com, or call: 912-484-6415.

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. [062812]

Continuing Education Courses at Coastal Georgia Center

January courses offered by Georgia Southern’s Division of Continuing Education are: Digital Imaging Basics, Introduction to Computers, Creative Writing 1, Drawing 1, and Photoshop Basics, Math Prep for the SAT, Critical Reading Prep for the SAT, Navigating Windows 8, and iPhone Essentials, Tips and Tricks.

All courses are open for registration. Held at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street, Savannah. Fees, information and registration: ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/cesavannahmenu.html, call the Coastal Georgia Center 644-5967; or email jfogarty@georgiasouthern. edu.

Creative Writing I

An 8-week introductory course to the fundamental techniques of writing fiction and nonfiction forms. Instruction includes research and interviewing techniques, narrative structure and scenic writing, dialogue, rhythm, pacing and the business of writing. The techniques learned in this class apply to both fiction and nonfiction, and are designed to lead into a more advanced Creative Writing 2 course. Mondays, 6:30-8:30pm, January 14 through March 4.

Fee: $200.

Davenport House: House Museum Docent Training Class

A four-week volunteer docent/tour guide training is offered in February by the Isaiah Davenport House Museum,324 E. State Street. Dates and times will be determined by participants.

Docents lead tours in the museum and assist with programming for house visitors from around the world. Call Dottie Kraft at 912-2368097 weekdays, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. or email info@ davenporthousemuseum.org

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 [062812]

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. $40/ session. Information: 912-443-0410. [062812]

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. [062812]

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, 4:30-7:30pm. 2nd Monday, 2-5pm.

4th Thursday 10am-1pm. Fee:$30 to cover all documents needed to file. Register at mediationsavannah.com or 912-354-6686. [082612]

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. [062812]

February through June Continuing Ed. Courses in Savannah

Georgia Southern’s Continuing Education Program in Savannah offers new courses from February through June:Social Media for Small Business; Facebook for Beginners; five Microsoft Office Courses (Word 1 & 2, Excel 1 & 2, and PowerPoint); Beginning and Advanced Project Management; Drawing 2, Drawing Studio, Creative Writing 2, Short Story Writing, Beginning Sign Language, and five other Photography Courses (Point and Shoot, Creative Photography, Advanced Creative Photography, Portrait Photography, and Advanced Photoshop), and Essay Writing for the SAT. For more information, including dates, times, and prices, visit ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/ conted/cesavannahmenu.html, call the Coastal Georgia Center 912-644-5967; or email jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu.

Feldenkrais Classes

Tuesdays 10:00am at the Park South complex, 7505 Waters Ave, Bldg B Suite 8, near Waters and Eisenhower. $15 per class, mats provided.

Dress for moving comfortably on the floor.

Elaine Alexander, GCFP. 912-223-7049 or elaine.alexander@ymail.com, www.feldenkrais. com. [010613]

Feldenkrais Classes

Tuesdays 10:00am at the Park South complex, 7505 Waters Ave, Bldg B Suite 8, near Waters and Eisenhower. $15 per class, mats provided.

Dress for moving comfortably on the floor.

Elaine Alexander, GCFP. 912-223-7049 or elaine.alexander@ymail.com, www.feldenkrais. com. [010613]

Free Fitness Boot Camp

Mondays & Wednesdays starting Jan. 21st, 6pm at Tribble Park (Largo & Windsor Road).

Children welcome. For more info call Robin, 912-921-0667.

Genealogy Course

Live Oak Public Libraries offers a free 8-week course: “Getting Started on Genealogy” with Charles Bourland, beginning Thursday, January 17, 10:00 a.m. at the Southwest Chatham Branch Library next to the Savannah Mall.

Information: 912-925-8305, www.liveoakpl.org.

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). 912-8979559. $20/week. [062812]

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! [062812]

Guitar, Mandolin or bass guitar Lessons

Guitar, mandolin or bass guitar lessons. emphasis on theory, reading music and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. 912-232-5987 [062812]

Homeschool Music Classes

Music classes for homeschool students ages 8 through 18 and their parents. Classes start in August with registration in July. Classes offered in Guyton and Savannah. Go to www.CoastalEmpireMusic.com for more details. [062812]

Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource Center

The Housing Authority of Savannah hosts a series of regular classes at the Neighborhood Resource Center. 1407 Wheaton Street. Adult literacy/GED prep: Mon-Thurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri of month, 9-11am. Basic Computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1-3pm. Community Computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3-4:30pm. For more info: 912-2324232 x115 or www.savannahpha.com [062812]

Knitting and Crochet Classes

Offered at The Frayed Knot, 6 West State Street. Find the calendar of events and classes offered by the yarn shop at thefrayedknotsav. com or call 912-233-1240.

Knitting and Crochet Classes

Offered at The Frayed Knot, 6 West State Street. Find the calendar of events and classes offered by the yarn shop at thefrayedknotsav. com or call 912-233-1240.

Knitting Class--Socks

Taste of Knitting: Socks. Learn the basics.

Bring one skein of sock-weight yarn, #2 double pointed needles. Offered by Fiber Guild of the Savannahs. Location: Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Sat. Feb. 16, 1-4pm. $25 non-member, $20 member. Info/registration: 518-265-0514.

Knitting Workshop

A Taste of Knitting is an introduction to cast-on, bind-off, and basic knit and purl stitches. Saturday, Feb. 16, 10am - noon. Offered by the Fiber Guild of the Savannahs. $20/nonmembers, $15/members. Held at Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Register/information: 518-265-0514

Learn to Speak Spanish

Spanish Instruction for Individuals or Groups and Spanish-English Translation and Interpretation.

Classes held at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. An eclectic range of tools used in each session, including: hand-outs, music, visual recognition, conversation, and interactive web media. Instruction tailored to student needs.

Flexible scheduling. Information and pricing: 912-541-1337. [062412]

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Music Lessons--Multiple Instruments

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

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New Horizons Adult Band Program

A music program for adults who played a band instrument in high school or college and would like to have the opportunity to begin playing again. Dust off your instrument every Monday night at Portman’s Music Store (Abercorn) at 6:30p.m. The cost is $30.00 per month. All ages and ability levels are welcome. Contact Pamela Kidd at 912-354-1500 for more info. [062812]

Novel Writing

Write a novel, finish the one you’ve started, revise it or pursue publishing your work. Awardwinning 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.

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Open Pottery Studio at Savannah’s Clay Spot

For potters with experience who want time in the studio, Choose from 4 hour time slots. Registrations are based on a monthly, bi monthly, and quarterly time commitment. Savannah’s Clay Spot, 1305 Barnard St. Information: 912-509-4647 or www.savannahsclayspot.com [062812]

Prayer of Jabez Bible Study

Course studies a workbook by Dr. Bruce Wilkenson, describing how each component of Jabez’ cry to God in 1 Chronicles 4:10 is supported throughout scripture. Registration : $45 by February 18. Location: 334 Stephenson Ave., Savannah. Dates: February 21-March 14. Thursdays 6:30pm-8:00pm. Contact: Lydia Stone, rosesonthemove@gmail.com or 912-656-6383.

Professional Development Courses in February

“Beginning Project Management,” “Social Media for Small Business,” and “Microsoft Word 1” These February courses are offered in Savannah by Georgia Southern University’s Division of Continuing Education. Fees and Information: Judy Fogarty, 912-644-5967, or jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu.

Russian Language Classes

Learn to speak Russian. All experience levels welcome, beginner to expert. Call 912-713-2718 for more information. [062812]

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.

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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.

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Sewing Classes

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Sewing Classes

Beginner in Sewing? Starting your Clothing Business? Starting your Clothing Line? Learn to

sew. Industry standard sewing courses designed to meet your needs in the garment industry.

Open schedule is available. Skirts,pants, jackets, dresses, blouses, vest, alteration classes. www. savsew.com Savannah Sewing Academy, 1917 Bull Street , Savannah http://www.savsew.com/

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Sewing Classes at Savannah Sewing Academy

Beginner in Sewing? Starting your Clothing Business? Starting your Clothing Line? Industry Standard Sewing Courses designed to meet your needs in the garment industry. Open schedule is available. Skirts,Pants Jackets, Dresses, Blouses, Vest, Alteration Classes. Held at Savannah Sewing Academy, 1917 Bull Street. Information: www.savsew.com or 912-290-0072. [121312]

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Personalized sewing lessons for your individual goals/needs. Any age or ability. Lessons given in my home. 912-358-8989 or lr_bryant@yahoo. com. E-mail preferred. [110312]

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. Fridays 5.30-8-30pm, Institute of Cinematic Arts, 12 1/2 W State St Savannah, 3rd floor. 786-247-9923 www.anitraoperadiva.com [062512]

Spanish Classes

Learn Spanish for life and grow your business. Spanish courses to professionals in the Savannah area offered by Conquistador Spanish Language Institute, LLC. Classes offered in series. “Beginner Spanish for Professionals” course. Introductory price $155 + Textbook ($12.95) Instructor: Bertha E. Hernandez, M.Ed & Native Speaker. Registration: www. conquistador-spanish.com Fee: $155.00 Meets in the Keller Williams Realty Meeting Room, 329 Commercial Drive.

Winter Term Classes for Professional and Personal Development

Beginning Sign Language, Photoshop, Facebook for Beginners, Advanced Project Management, Short Story Writing, Creative Writing, Drawing, and Photography. All courses offered Winter Term in Savannah by Georgia Southern University’s Division of Continuing Education. Fees and Information: Judy Fogarty, 912-644-5967, or jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu.

Yoga for Couples: Toolbox for Labor & Delivery

A two hour class for prospective moms and the person who will be with her during labor and delivery. Learn the stages of labor and delivery and a “toolbox” of hands-on comfort measures from a labor doula, including breathing, massage, positioning, and pressure points. Bring an exercise ball. 1 - 3PM quarterly, on Saturdays at Savannah Yoga Center. First class, Jan 19.

Course fee: $100 per couple. Contact: www. douladeliveries.com or call Ann Carroll at (912) 704-7650 or ann@douladeliveries.com. [121312]

You Can Heal Your Life

The life changing program authored by Louise L Hay. This is an intense look into our thoughts and patterns of behavior which create in us stress and dis-ease. Mondays, February 18 through March 25. 6:30pm to 8:00pm. 334 Stephenson Avenue, Savannah. Lydia Stone, Dream Builder Coach at 912-656-6383 or rosesonthemove@gmail.con Registration: $45 per person.

Book Available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, HayHouse.com.

Clubs & Organizations Avegost LARP

Live action role playing group that exists in a medieval fantasy realm. Generally meets on the second weekend of the month. Free for your

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1 Dirk Benedict co-star 4 “Well, aren’t you the fancy one?”

10 Maidenform competitor 14 “Positively,” to Pierre 15 “Let me handle the situation” 16 Stratford-___-Avon 17 Mail-order publications for those who make kids’ sandwiches?

20 Migraine sensation 21 “The Iceman Cometh” playwright 22 “There will come ___...”

23 Easter or Christmas 25 Hockey legend Bobby 28 Stint on Broadway 29 “The way I see it,” online 30 “Consarn it, ye varmint!”

32 “I Spent My Summer Vacation Rolling a 300” and such?

35 Deli loaves 36 “Do this or ___” 37 “Laters” 40 New York Shakespeare Festival founder Joseph 43 About 2 stars for canned hipster beer?

48 Musical sequence 51 Wheels 52 Signal 53 India Pale ___ 54 Passes into law 56 Early late show host Jack 57 Hyundai model 59 Helsinkian, e.g.

60 Reason to watch “Sesame Street” and “Nova” on mute?

65 Just around the corner 66 Kind of off-road motorcycle racing 67 “The Star-Spangled Banner” contraction 68 Pull on a tooth 69 N.Y congressman Anthony taken down by a sexting scandal in 2011 70 The Ravens got four in Super Bowl XLVII: abbr.

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1 Floor cleaner

2 Bathtime sounds 3 San Diego neighbor 4 Cremona currency, once 5 Wilberforce University’s affiliated denom.

6 Part of DJIA 7 How more and more old movies can be viewed 8 Jazz pianist Krall 9 Show up to 10 He-cow 11 Words of regret 12 Captain’s journal 13 Plug-___ 18 Yell out 19 Opera set in Egypt 22 1970s synthesizer brand 23 Rapscallions 24 Flockmates 26 Parisian street 27 Apt. ad stat 29 Different ending?

31 “Blast!”

33 Cartoon skunk ___ LePew 34 Walk like you’re cool 38 Sciences’ counterpart 39 “___ Te Ching” 40 Handheld device, for short 41 Big ISP, once 42 Keep slogging 44 Rum from Puerto Rico 45 “Sorry, you’re on your own” 46 Full of subtlety 47 Bayer Leverkusen’s country: abbr.

49 Department store section 50 When someone will be back, often 55 Be penitent 56 Epitome of easiness 58 Pen sound 59 Flower: Sp. 60 He had the first billion-view YouTube video 61 Squeezing serpent 62 Closest star to you 63 Wrath 64 Hosp. areas

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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 [062912]

Blindness and Low Vision: A Guide to Working, Living and Supporting Individuals with Vision Loss

On the 3rd Thursday of every month, Savannah Center for Blind and Low Vision will offer workshops to learn more about vision loss, services and technology available to participate more fully in the community and how as a community we can support individuals with vision loss. Orientation and Mobility Techniques utilized by individuals with vision loss to access the community, Low Vision vs. Legal Blindness, Common Types of Vision Loss, How to support individuals who have vision loss to achieve their maximum independence, Low Vision Simulator Experiences, Blindfold Experiences, Resources.

Free and Open to the Public. Information: www.

SavannahCBLV.org. Savannah Center for Blind and Low Vision, 214 Drayton Street. [101412]

Book Lady Bookstore’s Book Club

The Book Lady Book Club’s next meeting is on Wednesday, January 30,7:00pm. This month’s selections: The Devil’s Highway, and Into the Beautiful North. Both written by Louis Alberto Urrea.

Call The Book Lady for location information.

912-233-3628.

Buccaneer Region SCCA

| Submit your event | email: happenings@connectsavannah.com | fax: (912) 231-9932 | 1800 E. Victory Dr., Suite 7, Savannah, GA 31404 Ink Slingers Writing Group

A creative writing group for writers of poetry, prose or undefinable creative ventures. Based in Savannah and a little nomadic. Meet twice a month on Thursdays at 5:45pm at the Southwest Public Library, 14097 Abercorn Street.

Discussion of exercises, ideas, or already in progress pieces. Free to attend. www.facebook.com/groups/savinkslingers [012013]

Islands MOMSnext

For mothers of school-aged children, kindergarten through high school. Authentic community, mothering support, personal growth, practical help, and spiritual hope. Meets first & third Monday of the month, excluding holidays.

Childcare is available upon request. A ministry of MOPS International. Information or registration: call 912-898-4344 or kymmccarty@ hotmail.com. http://www.mops.org/ [062912]

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/ [062912]

Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet

Meets every Wednesday. Different locations downtown. Contact (912) 308-6768 for info. No fees. Wanna learn? Come join us! [062912]

Low Country Turners

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. [062912]

A club for wood-turning enthusiasts. Contact Steve Cook, 912-313-2230. [062912]

Small Business Professionals Islands Networking Group Meets 1st Thursday each month from 9:30-10:30 AM. Tradewinds Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Savannah (912) 3086768 for more info. [062912]

Peacock Guild-For Writers and Book Lovers

Business Networking on the Islands

Chatham Sailing Club

Meets the first Friday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at Young’s Marina, 218 Wilmington Island Rd., Savannah (across fom N. Cromwell Rd.) If first Friday falls on a holiday weekend, meeting is second Friday. No boat? No sailing experience? No problem! Information: http://www. chathamsailing.org. [051912]

Drop N Circle Craft Night (formerly Stitch-N Group)

Sponsored by The Frayed Knot and Perlina.

Join us every Tuesday evening 5pm-8pm for crafting. Located at 6 West State Street (behind the CVS off of Wright Square in the historic district.) Enjoy the sharing of creativity with other knitters, crocheters, beaders, spinners, felters, needle pointers. All levels of experience welcome. Come and be inspired! For more info please call 912-233-1240 or 912-441-2656.

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Energy Healers

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/ [062912]

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. [062912]

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 [062912]

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. [062912] A literary society for bibliophiles and writers.

Writer’s Salon meetings 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. [062912]

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. [063012]

Queen of Spades Card Playing Club

A new club formed to bring lovers of card games together to play games such as Spades, Hearts, Rummy, etc. We will meet every other Thursday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13. E. Park Ave. Next meeting is July 19.

Children are welcome. No fee. Information: 912-660-8585. [071512]

Richmond Hill Roadies Running Club

A chartered running club of the Road Runners Association of America. Monthly training sessions and seminars. Weekly runs. Kathy Ackerman,756-5865 or Billy Tomlinson 5965965. [062912]

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

Members of Starfleet International and The Klingon Assault Group meet 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.

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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. [062912]

Savannah Art Association

The non-profit art association, the Southeast’s

oldest, is taking applications for membership.

Workshops, community programs, exhibition opportunities, and an artistic community of diverse and creative people from all ages, mediums, and skill levels. Information: 912232-7731 [062912]

Savannah Authors Autonomous Writing Group

Meets the first and third Tuesdays of each month, 6-8 p.m. Encourage first-class prose writing, fiction or non-fiction, through discussion, constructive criticism, instruction, exercises and examples. Location: Charles Brown Antiques & Fine Silver,14 W. Jones Street.

All are welcome, including beginners and nonpublished writers, fiction and non-fiction.

No charge. Contact: Alice Vantrease (alicevantrease@live.com) or 912-308-3208. [010613]

Savannah Authors Autonomous Writing Group

Meets the first and third Tuesdays of each month, 6-8 p.m. Encourage first-class prose writing, fiction or non-fiction, through discussion, constructive criticism, instruction, exercises and examples. Location: Charles Brown Antiques & Fine Silver,14 W. Jones Street.

All are welcome, including beginners and nonpublished writers, fiction and non-fiction.

No charge. Contact: Alice Vantrease (alicevantrease@live.com) or 912-308-3208. [010613]

Savannah Brewers’ League

Meets the first Wednesday of the 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. [062912]

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

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

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Savannah Fencing Club

Beginner classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings for six weeks. $60. Some equipment provided. After completing the class, you may join the Savannah Fencing Club for $5 per month.

Experienced fencers welcome. Call 429-6918 or email savannahfencing@aol.com. [062912]

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Savannah Toastmasters

Helps 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. [062912]

Savannah Writers Group

A gathering of writers of all levels for networking, hearing published guest speaker authors, and writing critique in a friendly, supportive environment. Meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 7:00 PM at the Atlanta Bread Company in Twelve Oaks Shopping Center, 5500 Abercorn Street. Free and open to the public. Information: www.savannahwritersgroup.blogspot.com/group or 912-572-6251.

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Seersucker Live’s Happy Hour for Writers

A no-agenda gathering of the Savannah area writing community, held on the first Thursday of every month from 5:30-7:30pm. Free and open to all writers, aspiring writers, and anyone interested in writing. 21+ with valid I.D. Usually held at Abe’s on Lincoln, 17 Lincoln Street. For specifics, visit SeersuckerLive.com. [063012]

The Freedom Network

An international, leaderless network of individuals seeking practical methods for achieving more freedom in an unfree world, via non-political methods. For individualists, non-conformists, anarcho-libertarians, social misfits, voluntarists, conspiracy theorists, “permanent tourists” etc. Savannah meetings/ discussions twice monthly on Thursdays at 8.30 pm. Discussion subjects and meeting locations will vary. No politics, no religious affiliation, no dues, no fees. For next meeting details email: onebornfree@yahoo.com. [072212]

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla

Join the volunteer organization that assists the U.S. Coast Guard. Meets the 4th Wednesday every month at 6pm at Barnes Restaurant, 5320 Waters Avenue. All ages welcomed. Prior experience and/or boat ownership not required.

Information: www.savannahaux.com or telephone 912-598-7387. [063012]

Savannah Go Green

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671

Savannah Jaycees

Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation

Meets most Saturdays. Green events and places. Share ways to Go Green each day! Call (912) 308-6768 to learn more. [062912] Meeting/info session held the 1st Tuesday of every month at 6pm to discuss upcoming events and provide an opportunity for those interested in joining the Jaycees to learn more.

Must be 21-40 years old to join. 101 Atlas St. 912-353-7700 or www.savannahjaycees.com [062912]

Savannah Kennel Club

Monthly meetings are open to the public and visitors. Meetings are held at Logan’s Roadhouse Restaurant, 11301 Abercorn St. 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 [062912]

Savannah Newcomers Club

Open to women who have lived in the Savannah area for less than two years. Membership includes a monthly luncheon and program.

The club hosts activities, tours and events to assist in learning about Savannah and making new friends. www.savannahnewcomers.com [062912]

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: savannahphc@ yahoo.com [112512]

Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club

Meets Thursdays from 7:30-8:30 a.m. at the Mulberry Inn. http://www.savannahsunrisero-

Meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell at 9273356. [063012] Meets the second Tuesday of every month (except October), 6:00 pm at Woodville-Tompkins, 151 Coach Joe Turner Street. Call 912-2323549 or email chesteraellis@comcast.net for more information. [063012]

Dance

Salsa Lessons by Salsa Savannah

Tue: 8-9/9-10pm, Thur: 8-9/9-10pm, Sun 5-6/6-7pm. Lessons at Salon de Baile, 7048 Hodgson Memorial Drive, Savannah, GA 31406.

Visit us at www.salsasavannah.com for more information. [111112]

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 [062812]

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. [062812]

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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 [062812]

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. [062812]

Argentine Tango

Effective December 2012, the time for Argentine Tango lessons is Sundays, 1:30 - 3:30pm. Doris Martin Dance Studio, 8511-h Ferguson Ave. Open to the public. Cost $3.00 per person. Wear closed toe leather soled shoes if available. For more information call 912-925-7416 or email savh_tango@yahoo.com. [120912]

Beginners Belly Dance Classes

Instructed by Nicole Edge. All ages/skill levels welcome. Every Sunday, Noon-1PM, Fitness Body and Balance Studio 2127 1/2 E. Victory Dr. $15/class or $48/four. 912-596-0889 or www. cairoonthecoast.com [062812]

Beginners Belly Dancing with Cybelle

The perfect class for those with little to no dance background. Cybelle has been formally trained and has been performing for over a decade. $15/class. Tues: 7-8pm. Visit www. cybelle3.com. For info: cybelle@cybelle3.com or call 912-414-1091 Private classes are also available. Walk-ins are welcome. Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave. [062812]

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. [062812]

Home Cookin’ Cloggers

Meet every Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at Nassau Woods Recreation Building on Dean Forest Road. No beginner classes are being held at this time, however help will be available for those interested in learning. Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731. [122911]

Irish Dance Classes

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

For more info contact PrideofIrelandGA@gmail. com or 912-704-2052. [06 2812]

Mahogany Shades of Beauty Inc.

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

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Savannah Shag Club

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Savannah Swing Cats--Swing Dancing

Train with the elite Beastmode Fitness team. We have a total body program that ​trims, tones and gets results. Personal Training options also available. beastmodefitnessga.com/chooseyour-package.

Hours: 5:00 AM - 6:00 AM, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM. West Broad St. YMCA, 1110 May St. [010613]

music every Wednesday, 7pm, at Doubles Lounge, 7100 Abercorn St. and every Friday, 7 pm, at American Legion Post 36, 2309 E. Victory Dr. [062812] Learn how to swing dance - for free! Half hour lesson and then open dancing. No partner or experience necessary. Savannah Swing Cats, Thursdays, 7:30 - 10:30p.m. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. http://facebook.com/SavannahSwingCats

Zumba & Zumba Toning with Anne

Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 7-8pm.

Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 Montgomery Cross Roads. $5 per class, discounts available with punch card purchase. All levels welcome. Call: 912-596-1952

Fitness AHA in the AM

“Aha in the AM” from 7:30-9am, Mondays and Fridays. The Anahata Healing Arts (AHA) Sanctuary is open to free form yoga/movement with guided mediation. Great way to start and end your work week. AHA offers a sacred, creative environment for the community to co-create and channel positive energy which supports emotions, strengthens bodies, and sustains spirits.

Location: Anahata Healing Arts, 2424 Drayton St., Unit B. Email for weekly theme, trickydame@gmail.com. Fee: donations. Information: trickydame.com/anahata-healing-arts. [120212]

Hiking & Biking at Skidaway Island State Park

Year-round fitness opportunities. Walkers and runners can choose from the 1-mile Sandpiper Nature Trail (accessible), additional 1 mile Avian Loop Trail or 3-mile Big Ferry Trail. Bicycle and Street Strider rental available. Guided hikes scheduled regularly. $5 parking. Open daily 7 a.m. – 10 p.m.

(912) 598-2300 www.GaStateParks.org/SkidawayIsland [100712]

Beastmode Fitness Group Training

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 bohemianbeats. com [012713]

Blue Water Yoga

Community donation based classes held at the Talahi Island Community Center. Tue. & Thur. 5:45 -7:00 Fri. 9:30-10:30a For info email egs5719@aol.com or find Blue Water Yoga on Facebook. [063012]

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. [063012]

Kung Fu School: Ving Tsun

Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) is the world’s fastest growing martial arts style. Uses angles and leverage to turn an attacker’s strength against them. Call Sifu Michael Sampson to learn about free trial classes 912-429-9241. 11202 White Bluff Road. Drop ins welcome. [063012]

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Savannah Dance Club

Savannah Dance Club. Shag, Swing, Cha-Cha and Line dancing. Everyone invited. Call for details on location, days and times. 912-3988784. [082912]

Wed Military Veterans appreciation day: no coVer 2-for-1 draft doM. bEEr buCkEts 5 for $15 Mon - no CovEr for Civilians, Military and ladiEs tuEs - 2-4-1 wElls (4-12)

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Tai Chi Lessons in Forsyth Park

Tuesdays from 9-10am. $10 per session. North End of Forsyth Park. Contact relaxsavannah@ gmail.com with questions.

Basic Zumba & Zumba Toning Classes with Mai

Mondays, Lake Mayer in the Community Center from 8:30am - 9:30am. Zumba Toning at the JEA (Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St) Mondays @ 6 pm. Free for members, $5.00 for nonmembers. Basic Zumba Tues & Thurs 1010:45am, Curves in Sav’h Mall, $3/members, $5/ Gen. Adm. Tuesdays 5:30-6:30pm, St. Paul CME Social Hall, 123 Brady St. $3 Per class. Weds 9:30-10:15am, Frank Murray Community Center, Wilmington Island, $3. Bring water, proper shoes and attire. Contact Mai @ 912-604-9890.

Daily Specials MoN Night 2 for 1 appetizers; 5 for 15 Bud/Bud Light buckets tues Night: 2 for 1 vips; 5 for $15 Miller Light buckets weD Night $8 top shelf margaritas thurs Night 5 for $15 Bud/Bud Light buckets

Classes for beginner and intermediate levels.

Fridays 10-11:15am. Doris Martin Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. For more info, call Elizabeth 912354-5586. [062812] 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. [062812]

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ARIES

(March 21–April 19) Afrikaner author Laurens van der Post told a story about a conversation between psychologist Carl Jung and Ochwiay Biano, a Pueblo Indian chief. Jung asked Biano to offer his views about white people. “White people must be crazy because they think with their heads,” said the chief, “and it is well–known that only crazy people do that.” Jung asked him what the alternative was. Biano said that his people think with their hearts.

That’s your assignment for the week ahead, Aries: to think with your heart –– especially when it comes to love. For extra credit, you should feel with your head –– especially when it comes to love.

Happy Valentine Daze, Aries!

TAURUS

(April 20–May 20) Have you ever sent a torrent of smart and elegant love messages to a person you wanted to get closer to? Now would be an excellent time to try a stunt like that.

Have you ever scoured the depths of your own psyche in search of any unconscious attitudes or bad habits that might be obstructing your ability to enjoy the kind of intimacy you long for? I highly recommend such a project right now. Have you ever embarked on a crusade to make yourself even more interesting and exciting than you already are? Do it now. Raise your irresistibility! Happy Valentine Daze, Taurus!

GEMINI

(May 21–June 20) Happy Valentine Daze, Gemini!

After careful meditation about what messages might purify and supercharge your love life, I decided to offer suggestions about what *not* to do. To that end, I’ll quote some lines from Kim Addonizio’s poem “Forms of Love.” Please don’t speak any of them out loud, or even get yourself into a position where it makes sense to say them. 1. “I love how emotionally unavailable you are.”

2. “I love you and feel a powerful spiritual connection to you, even though we’ve never met.” 3. “I love your pain, it’s so competitive.” 4.

“I love you as long as you love me back.” 5. “I love you when you’re not getting drunk and stupid.” 6. “I love you but I’m married.” 7. “I love it when you tie me up with ropes using the knots you learned in Boy Scouts, and when you do the stoned Dennis Hopper rap from

*Apocalypse Now!*”

CANCER

(June 21–July 22) This Valentine season, I suggest you consider trying an experiment like this: Go to the soulful ally you want to be closer to and take off at least some of your masks. Drop your pretenses, too. Shed your emotional armor and do without your psychological crutches. Take a chance on getting as psychologically and spiritually naked as you have ever dared. Are you brave enough to reveal the core truths about yourself that lie beneath the convenient truths and the expired truths and the pretend truths?

LEO

(July 23–Aug. 22) “Sex is a substitute for God,” says writer Cathryn Michon. “When we desire another human being sexually, we are really only trying to fill our longing for ecstasy and union with the infinite.” I agree with her, and I think you might, too, after this week. Erotic encounters will have an even better chance than usual of connecting you to the Sublime Cosmic YumYum. If you can’t find a worthy collaborator to help you accomplish this miraculous feat, just fantasize about one. You need and deserve spiritual rapture. Happy Valentine Daze, Leo!

VIRGO

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22) Lately you’ve been doing exemplary work on your relationship with yourself, Virgo. You have half– convinced your inner critic to shut the frack up unless it has a truly important piece of wisdom to impart. Meanwhile, you’ve managed to provide a small but inspired dose of healing for the wounded part of your psyche, and you have gently exposed a self–deception that had been wreaking quiet havoc. Congratulations! I’ve got a hunch that all these fine efforts will render you extra sexy and charismatic in the coming week.

But it will probably be a subtle kind of sexiness and charisma that only the most emotionally intelligent people will recognize.

So don’t expect to attract the attention of superficial jerks who happen to have beautiful exteriors.

Happy Valentine Daze!

LIBRA

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22)

The coming days could be an animalistic time for you, and I mean that in the best sense. I suspect you will generate lots of favorable responses from the universe if you honor the part of you that can best be described as a beautiful beast.

Learn fun new truths about your instinctual nature. Explore the mysteries of your primal urges.

See what you can decipher about your body’s secret language. May I also suggest that you be alert for and receptive to the beautiful beast in other people? Happy Valentine Daze, Libra!

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21) For the French Scorpio poet Paul Val ry, swimming had an erotic quality. He described it as *fornication avec l’onde,* which can be translated as “fornicating with the waves.” Your assignment this Valentine season, Scorpio, is to identify at least three activities that are like sex but not exactly sex –– and then do them with glee and abandon. The purpose of this exercise is to educate and cultivate your libido; to encourage your kundalini to branch out as it intensifies and expands your lust for life.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

This Valentine season, meditate on the relentlessness of your yearning for love. Recognize the fact that your eternal longing will never leave you in peace. Accept that it will forever delight you, torment you, inspire you, and bewilder you –– whether you are alone or in the throes of a complicated relationship. Understand that your desire for love will just keep coming and coming and coming, keeping you slightly off–balance and pushing you to constantly revise your ideas about who you are. Now read this declaration from the poet Rilke and claim it as your own: “My blood is alive with many voices that tell me I am made of longing.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19)

According to physicists Yong Mao and Thomas Fink, you can tie a necktie in 85 different kinds of knots, but only 13 of those actually look good. I encourage you to apply that way of thinking to pretty much everything you do in the coming week. Total success will elude you if you settle on functional solutions that aren’t aesthetically pleasing.

You should make sure that beauty

and usefulness are thoroughly interwoven. This is especially true in matters regarding your love life and close relationships. Togetherness needs a strong dose of lyrical pragmatism. Happy Valentine Daze, Capricorn!

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18) “All these years I’ve been searching for an impossible love,” said French writer Marguerite Duras late in her life. The novels and films she created reflect that feeling. Her fictional characters are often engaged in obsessive quests for an ideal romance that would allow them to express their passion perfectly and fulfill their longing completely. In the meantime, their actual relationships in the real world suffer, even as their starry–eyed aspirations remain forever frustrated. I invite you, Aquarius, to celebrate this Valentine season by taking a vow of renunciation. Summon the courage to forswear Duras’s doomed approach to love.

PISCES

(Feb. 19–March 20) To avoid getting hacked, computer tech experts advise you to choose strong, hard–to–guess passwords for your online accounts. Among the worst choices to protect your security are “123456,” “iloveyou,” “qwerty,” and, of course, “password.” Judging by the current astrological omens, Pisces, I’m guessing that you should have a similar approach to your whole life in the coming days. It’s important that you be picky about who you allow into your heart, mind, and soul. Make sure that only the most trustworthy and sensitive people can gain access. Your metaphorical password might be something like this: m*y#s@t&e?r%y.

Mondays at the Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Call for times and fees. 912-232-2994 or visit www.savannahyoga.com. [063012]

Pilates Classes

Daily classes for all skill levels including beginners. Private and Semi-Private classes by appointment. Momentum Pilates Studio, 8413 Suite-A Ferguson Ave. Carol Daly-Wilder, Certified Pilates Instructor. 912.238-0018. http:// savannahpilates.com. [063012]

Pregnancy Yoga

Ongoing series of 6-week sessions. Thursdays 6- 7:15pm at Savannah Yoga Center, 1319 Bull Street. Pre-natal yoga helps mothers-to-be prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor & delivery. The instructor is Ann Carroll. Course fee: $100.

Contact Ann Carroll at (912) 704-7650 or ann@ aikyayoga.com. [121312]

Savannah Climbing CoOp Ladies Night

Every Wednesday women climb for half price from 6pm - 10pm. $5. 302 W Victory Drive, Suite D. savannahclimbingcoop.com [091012]

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 amSingles at the Sarge in Hardeeville, SC. Info: savannahdiscgolf.com or savannahdiscgolf@ gmail.com All skill levels welcome. Instruction available. [063012]

Savannah Striders Running and Walking Club

Get in shape for 2013. Join the Savannah Striders Running Club for only $10. This is a oneyear fully activated membership open to new members only. We will inspire you and help you reach your fitness goals for 2013. Free training programs for beginners (walkers and runners) and experienced athletes. Fun runs with diverse and health-minded people. Advice from mentors. Access to a quality website with beneficial information. Monthly meetings with relevant and exciting speakers. Frequent social events (let’s just say this group knows how to have a good time.) Sign up at www.savystrider.com. Click on “member signup” or find us on www.facebook. com/savystrider12

She “OMS” It: Teen Girls’ Yoga

An opportunity for teen girls to try yoga, to develop strength, balance and capacity for compassionate relationships, positive body image, self-confidence, tools for stress management mood balancing. Six classes for $90. Mondays, 3:305:00pm or Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:30pm. Please pre-register: date of first class will only be scheduled after at least five people register. Erica Odom RYT, CPT & Kate Jacobson RYT, MSW. Ganesha’s Place, 2323 Barnard St. Information and pre-registration: 912-665-4199 or www.ganeshasplace.com. [010613]

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 912484-3200. [093012]

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. [063012]

Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors

Free for people with cancer and cancer survivors. 6.30 p.m., Tuesdays and 12:45 p.m., Thursdays, FitnessOne, 3rd floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine, Memorial University Medical Center. Call 912-350-9031. [072912]

Zumba Classes with Mai and Anne

Ditch the Workout, Join the Party, Monday nights 7-8pm. Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 East Montgomery Crossroads. All levels.

Zumba Fitness (R) Classes with April

Mondays @ 5:30 and Thursdays @ 6:30. Nonstop Fitness in Sandfly, 8511 Ferguson Ave. Just $5 for nonmembers. Call 912-349-4902 for more info. [063012]

Zumba Fitness and Toning Classes with Anne

Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 E Montgomery Crossroads. Toning class is Tuesdays, 7-8 pm. Bring 1 or 2 lb. weights. Standard Zumba is Wednesdays, 7pm-8pm. Both classes are $5 per session, Free if you bring a friend.

(912) 596-1952. [8-3-12]

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. [0622812]

Gay AA Meeting

True Colors AA Group, a gay and lesbian AA meeting that welcomes all alcoholics, meets Thursdays and Sundays at 7:30pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 311 E Harris St, 2nd floor. Note: this is a new location effective 11/2012. [111912]

Georgia Equality Savannah

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

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Savannah Pride, Inc.

Meets second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the FCN office located at 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. 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. [062812]

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. [062812]

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. [062812]

Health Bariatric Surgery Information Session

Held the first Wednesday of each month at 6pm in Mercer Auditorium in the Hoskins Center, Memorial University Medical Center.

Provides information about bariatric surgery and the program at Memorial Health Bariatrics.

Learn about the surgical procedures offered, support and education programs involved, and how bariatric surgery can change your life. For more information, call 912-350-DIET (3438) or visit bariatrics.memorialhealth.com. There is no charge to attend. [120912]

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 [062812]

Welcome to Yoga - Or What’s In It For Me?

Curious about yoga? This class is a chance to explore some of yoga’s many potential benefits including: easing tension, discomfort & pain in the body; slowing down thinking to improve concentration and focus; calming emotional reactions in stressful times. If you are in less than great physical condition, nervous, but curious about yoga this could be YOUR class. $10 Wednesdays 9:30 -10:45am Ganesha’s Place 2323 Barnard St.912-655-4192

www.ganeshasplace.com. [011313]

Alcoholics Anonymous

If you want or need to stop drinking, AA can help. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. Check www.SavannahAA.com for meeting locations and times, or call 24 hrs 912-3563688 for information. [062812]

Armstrong Participates in Prescription Drug Drop-off Program

Armstrong Atlantic State University now hosts a permanent drop box for accepting unused prescription drugs, as Savannah’s location for the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) drug drop-off program. The drop box is located in the lobby of the university police building on campus, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah. Open 24 hours a day, year-round. Open to the public.

All drop-offs are confidential. information: Armstrong Police Department at 912-344-3333.

All items will be collected and destroyed by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Free HIV Testing at Chatham County Health Department

Free, Walk-in HIV testing is available at the Chatham County Health Department, 1395 Eisenhower Drive, from 8am-4pm Monday through Friday. No appointment needed. Test results are available in 20 minutes. A follow up visit and counseling will be set up for anyone testing positive. Information: 912-644-5217 [111112]

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. [062812]

Hypnobirthing

Teaches the mom and her birth partner to use her natural instincts, trust her body, release emotions and facilitate relaxation during labor and delivery. The series of five classes are held on Monday evenings starting at 6 PM at 100 Riverview Drive. Reservations are required.

Private classes available. $300 for group sessions, $600 for private sessions. Call Ann Carroll at (912) 704-7650 to verify dates and space availability or e-mail her at carroll3620@ bellsouth.net. [121612]

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. [062812]

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. Zumba (Tuesdays). Hip-Hop low impact aerobics with cardio and strengthening exercises. (Mondays & Wednesdays). Information: 912-447-6605.

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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.

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Yoga on the Beach at Tybee

Held on Wednesdays and Fridays, at Tybee’s North End, weather permitting, from 7am-8am.

Come to the North Beach Public Parking area, Gulick Street walkover (next to lifeguard stand #2). Drop-ins encouraged! The class is by donation and is a multi-level class, Hatha I & II, IntegralÃ’ Yoga style. Instructor: Ann Carroll, RYT, 500 hour level. Bring yoga mat or beach

towel. Call or e-mail Ann for more information at (912) 704~7650 or ann@aikyayoga.com.

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Pets & Animals Low Cost Pet Clinic

Tails Spin and Dr. Stanley Lester, DVM, host low-cost pet vaccine clinics for students, military and seniors on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 5-6pm. Vaccinations: $12.00, with $2.00 per vaccination donated to Savannah Pet Rescue Agencies.

Habersham Village Shopping Center. www. tailsspin.com [062712]

St. Almo’s

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 912-2343336. [062712]

Religious & Spiritual Band Of Sisters Prayer Group

All women are invited every second Thursday of the month, 7:30 - 8:30am. Location: Fellowship Assembly, 5224 Augusta Road, Savannah.

Contact: Ron Bigalke at 912-659-4212 or ron. bigalke@capitolcom.org or Jeanne Seaver at 912-663-8728 or jeanneseaver@aol.com. www. capitolcom.org/georgia “The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD” (Prov 21:1) [011213]

A New Church in the City, For the City.

We gather on Sunday mornings at Bryson Hall (5 East Perry St.) on Chippewa Square at 10:30 am. Like us on Facebook: Savannah Church Plant. [062712]

Guided Silent Prayer

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

615 Montgomery St. (behind Blowin’ Smoke BBQ). www.vineyardsavannah.org [062712]

Meditation Classes in January and February

Held at Unity of Savannah, on Wednesday nights from 7pm- 8:15pm. Remaining dates of the series are: January 23 - February 13. Email gandencenter@gmail.com for more information.

Open Studio/Creative Recovery for NonArtists.

Recover Your Muse through the Arts. Monday evenings : 6pm - 7:30 pm at Ganesha’s Place, 2323 Barnard Street (at 40th Street). Taught by Elizabeth Massey, MA, Expressive Arts. www. ganeshasplace.com [010613]

Read the Bible in One Year

Holy Spirit Lutheran Church is starting a Bible

Crossword Answers

Book Club for those who wish to read the Bible in one year. Open to anyone. Book club format.

This is not a traditional church bible study. All are welcome regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, or religion. Thursdays, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, 622 East 37th Street. Information: 912-233-5354.

Savannah Friends Meeting (Quakers)

Unprogrammed worship, 11:00am Sundays on the third floor of Trinity United Methodist Church, Telfair Square (use 225 W. President St. entrance and follow signs). For further information, contact the Meeting Clerk at (912)308-8286 or savbranart@gmail.com. All are welcome. [011313]

Savannah Zen Center

Buddhist study classes, yoga workshops, retreats, Reiki sessions and attunements, meditation, classes & events are held at 111 E. 34th St., Savannah, Ga 31401. For schedule: savannahzencenter.com or visit us on Facebook.

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Service of Compline

The Service of Compline at Christ Church has moved: same music, same service, same choir, same preacher--different location. 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.” [062712]

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. [062712]

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. [062712]

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. [062712]

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. [062712]

Sports & Games

Adult Coed Flag Football League

8v8 Coed Flag League. Play adult sports, meet new people. Sponsor bar provided for discount food & drinks.

Sponsored by Savannah Adult Recreation Club.

Wed nights/Sun mornings, held at locations around Savannah. $450/team. Minimum 8 games. For ages 18+. Coed teams. Information: www.SavAdultRec.com (912) 220-3474 [101512]

Adult Coed Ultimate Frisbee League

8v8 Coed Ultimate League. Play adult sports, meet new people. Sponsor bar provided for discount food & drinks. Sponsored by Savannah Adult Recreation Club. Matches are Thurs nights/Sun afternoons. Held in Daffin Park/ Forsyth Park. Registration fees: $350/team.

Minimum 8 games. For ages 18+. Information: www.SavAdultRec.com (912) 220-3474.

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Savannah Bike Polo

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

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HOW tO PlacE an ad • call our classifieds department at 912-231-0250 • ads Must Be Placed By 11am On Monday Prior to Publication • all ads Must be PrePaid (credit cards accepted) • Basic rate includes up to 25 words.

*All homes include Central heat/air, laundry rooms, LR/DR, kitchen w/appliances, fenced-in yard and storage sheds.

912-844-3974 WE ACCEPT SECTION 8

OAK FOREST APARTMENT 2BR/1BA Downstairs unit, total electric.

GEORGETOWN CONDO Hunter’s Pointe, 2BR/2BA, All appliances including washer & dryer.

CONTACT 927-4383

HOUSES 4 Bedrooms 623 Windsor Rd $1200 3 Bedrooms 15 Vineyard Dr. $1000 18 Welwood Dr. $925 412 Sharondale Rd. $925 2 Soling Ave $875 2214 E.43rd St. $825 1906 E.58th St. $750 POOLER: 1254 Robert’s Way $895 2 Bedrooms 18 Chippewa $725

FOR RENT

•109 West 41st: Lower 1BR Apt., 1.5BA, CH&A$450 + security •227 Glass St. 2BR house, gas heat $450 + security.

•1202 McCarthy Ave: 2BR apt. window AC, gas heat $450 + sec.

•1021 West 41st: 3BR house, LR, DR, CH&A $770 + security •728 West 39th: Large 4BR house, CH&A $700 + security deposit.

Call Lester, 313-8261 or 234-5650

FOR SALE

•825 Jamestown Rd: Nice 3BR/2BA home located in quiet Jamestown Subd. featuring family room w/fireplace & large backyard.

•Investor’s Special! 1815 Mills B Lane:2BR/1BA home, Liberty City area. A little TLC is all you need to make this an excellent investment property.

Call Lester @ 912-313-8261 or Deloris 912-272-3926

FOR RENT

2 remodeled mobile homes in Garden City mobile home park. Double/Singlewide. Low down affordable payments. Credit check approval. Special ending soon.

Speak directly to Community Managers, Gwen or Della, 912-964-7675 FOR RENT-OAKLANE TOWNHOUSES Off Wild Heron Road 110 Trellis Way 2-story townhouse w/rear lane entry garage, 3BR, LR, 2-1/2 BA, Kitchen w/stove, dishwasher and garbage disposal, (Senior Discount). Call Charles Bell, 234-0611, between 9-5PM, Monday thru Friday.

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FURNISHED EFFICIENCY: 1510 Lincoln Street. $165/week plus deposit. Includes microwave, refrigerator, central heat & air & utilities! Call 912.231.0240

HIGHLAND WOODS 800 QUACCO ROAD 925-9673

Mobile Home lots for rent.

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

CONDOS 2 Bedroom Condo GEORGETOWN 40 Sand Dollar $795 SOUTHSIDE Windsor Crossing $650 APARTMENTS 2 Bedrooms 1107 E.57th St. $600 One Bedroom 110 E. Gaston $895 740 E.45th St. $745 FOR DETAILS & PICTURES VISIT OUR WEB PAGE WWW.PAMTPROPERTY.COM Pam T Property 692-0038

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LARGO TIBET AREA

*2BR/2 Bath Apt. $665/month, $600/deposit. *Require 1yr. lease. No pets.

Call 912-704-3662 POOLER: Brick 3BR/2BA, CH&A, very nice neighborhood. LR/DR combo, eat in kitchen, fenced backyard, covered patio, storage bldg. No pets, No smoking. No Section 8. $950/month + $950/deposit.

912-844-1825 or 912-844-1812

RENT-TO-OWN HOMES Several to choose from NO CREDIT CHECKS Guaranteed Financing Call Stay Management 352-STAY (7829)

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SECTION 8 WELCOME

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

912-844-5996 OR 912-272-6820

SOUTHSIDE

•1BR Apts, washer/dryer included. $25 for water, trash included, $625/month.

•2BR/1.5BA Townhouse Apt, total electric, w/washer & dryer $675.

912-927-3278 or 912-356-5656 Southside 412 Valentine Dr. 3 BR 2 bath home. Large Living room, office.

Screened in patio, fenced yard, carport. $925.00 (912)657-1242 SPECIAL! 1812 N. Avalon Dr. 2BR/1.5BA $675/mo, $500/dep.

SPECIAL! 1303 E.66th: 2BR/2 Bath, W/D connection, near Memorial Hosp. $725/month, $500/dep SPECIAL! 11515 White Bluff Rd. 1BR/1BA, all electric, equipped kitchen, W/D connection $595/month WILMINGTON ISLAND: 7404 Johnny Mercer Townhouse 2BR/2.5BA, all elec. $950/month, $500/deposit.

7304 Mayer Ave. Nice 2BR/2BA, W/D connection, kitchen equipped $895/month, $500/dep.

DAVIS RENTALS 310 E. MONTGOMERY XROADS 912-354-4011 OR 656-5372

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Own your own home. Renting is just throwing money away. It’s a Buyer’s market, so take advantage of the great deals. I still work with Good, Okay and Bad Credit.

Call 912-604-6145 or email: zackomity@yahoo.com TOWNHOUSE: 100 Lewis Drive, Apt 13A 2BR/1.5BA, 2-story. Washer/dryer connections, all appliances. No pets. $625/month, $625/deposit.

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

TOWNHOUSE FOR RENT: 2 Bedrooms, 1-1/2 Baths. 1306 East 59th Street. Washer/dryer connections.

No pets. $650/monthly plus deposit. Call 912-355-1966 WILMINGTON ISLAND: Johnny Mercer duplex, 2BR/1BA, LR, dining area, kitchen, newly renovated $825/month. 912-897-6789 or 912-344-4164

WILSHIRE ESTATES

Available Now! Large 3BR/1BA, large kitchen, LR, DR/family room combo, CH/A, Window World energy efficient windows throughout. Quiet area, minutes to HAAF, schools, shopping, restaurants.

No smoking. No Section 8. Police discounts available. 1yr. lease. $939/rent, $979/security deposit.

912-920-1936

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WINDSOR FOREST: 3BR/1.5BA, family room has been used as 4th BR, new CH&A, new interior paint, new windows and sliding doors. Conveniently located. No smoking. No Section 8 accepted. $949/month, $989/security deposit. Military or Police Discount. 912-920-1936

www.ConnectSavannah.com CommerCial ProPerty For rent 890 26000 SQ feet warehouse for rent Great location close to Down town. 4 loading docks with parking WITH TRIPLE NET LEASE. $8,500. (912)604-6510

OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE Furnished, Ready to move-in.

BEAUTY SHOP FOR LEASE No utilities.

Call 912-313-4083 or 912-313-4082 rooms for rent 895

rooms for rent 895

AVAILABLE ROOMS:

CLEAN, comfortable rooms. Washer/dryer, air, cable, ceiling fans. $115-$145 weekly. No deposit.

Call Ike @ 844-7065 EAST SAVANNAH ROOMMATES WANTED VERY CLEAN. Stove, refrigerator, cable, washer/dryer included. On bus line. Starting at $125/week.

Call 912-961-2842

EAST & WEST SAVANNAH

$100 & Up Furnished, includes utilities, central heat/air, Comcast cable, washer/dryer. Ceramic tile in kitchen. Shared Kitchen & Shared bath. Call 912-210-0144.

FURNISHED APTS. $165/WK.

Private bath and kitchen, cable, utilities, washer furnished. AC & heat, bus stop on property. No deposit required. Completely safe, manager on property. Contact Cody, 695-7889 or Jack, 342-3840.

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

Call 912-844-5995.

ROOMS FOR RENT

$75 Move-In Special Today!!

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

Rooms w/bathroom $145.

Call 912-289-0410.

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2005- STAR CRAFT POP-UP CAMPER, EX CONDITION, COLD A/C, MANY EXTRAS. $3,750.00.

912-925-1200 BMW 325i, 2005- Black with tan leather interior. GPS, PW, PL, PS, seat warmers. $11,500. Call 912-965-0805 DODGE Caravan, 2001- Low miles, cold A/C, clean $2,250.

441-2150

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

FORD F-150 Pickup, 1996 Supercab, 2WD, XLT package.

265,000 miles. white, good work truck. $1800 OBO. 912-650-1850 MERCURY Cougar, 1986- Very low 70,000 miles. Dependable mechanics, new tires, attractive grey color $2250 OBO. Call 912-236-5410 after 5pm.

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

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

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transportation

MERCURY Grand Marquis LX, 1996- Loaded, one owner, extra clean, low low miles. $2,950. 441-2150 LARGE VICTORIAN with windows on two sides, across from library, nicely furnished, all utilities.

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

912-231-9464 Other apts. avail.

LOOK THIS WAY FOR A PLACE TO STAY

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

Call 912-398-7507.

NICE ROOM FOR RENT. NO DRUGS! 2 BR HOUSE FOR RENT $ 450 912-844-8716 ROOM FOR RENT: Safe Environment. Central heat/air, cable, telephone service. $450-$550 monthly, $125/security deposit, No lease.

Immediate occupancy. Call Mr. Brown:912-663-2574 or 912-234-9177.

SUVS 930

DODGE Durango, 1999White, Excellent condition, Garaged. One owner, Senior lady. $5,800 OBO. 912-658-2068 FORD Expedition, 2000- White, excellent condition. 138,700 miles, new battery and set of tires, sound system $4,000/obo 912-232-7564

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130 ALPINE DRIVE: Roommate Wanted. $600/month, NO deposit or $150/week. All utilities included.

Near Hunter AAF. 912-272-8020

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ROOMMATE WANTED to share 3BR/2BA house in Paradise Park. $475/month, split utilizes. Call Robert, 912-631-1650

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