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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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Wednesday

Girl Scout Week at the Juliette Low Birthplace What: To celebrate 101 years of Girl

Scouting (founded March 12, 1912) tour the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace to learn about this famous American woman and the movement she started in Savannah. Girl Scout cookies served.

When: March 9-15 Where: Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, 10 East Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $8 adults, $7 children Info: 912-233-4501. juliettegordonlowbirthplace.org

Lectures: Judaism on One Foot

What: A three-part discussion series

on Judaism and its impacts on contemporary life for all people. Topics: Jewish views of the afterlife, Kosher sex, Intermarriage, How to read the Bible, The State of Israel: Jewish Democracy, and Is Kabalah Jewish?

Presented by Rabbi Ruven Barkan.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: Congregation Agudath Achim, 9 Lee Blvd.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 912-352-4737. agudath-achim. com

Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance

What: The Irish dance show seen by

millions around the world, just in time for the St. Patrick's Day revelry.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $25 - $52 Info: savannahcivic.com

Play Reading: Trixie True: Teen Detective.

What: SCAD Performance Ensemble

reads musical comedy set in the 1940s based on the Nancy Drew Mystery series, with book, music and lyrics by Kelly Hamilton. Part of PE SCORES, a reading series led by Kevin Wallace.

When: 7 p.m Where: Mondanaro Theatre at Crites Hall, 217 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

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

Savannah Storytellers

What: Tall tales and fun times with

the classic art of storytelling. Every Wednesday at 6pm. Reservations encouraged by calling 912-349-4059.

When: 6 p.m Where: Tubby's Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr.

Workshop: Self-Esteem/Empowerment, Self- Assertiveness/ Advocacy.

What: The second of three Wednesday workshops in the Personal Well Being Workshop Series offered by Living Independence for Everyone, Inc. When: 1-3 p.m Where: L.I.F.E., Inc. (Living Independently for Everyone), 5105 Paulsen Street, Suite 143-B. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 912-920-2414. sbulloch@lifecil. com. lifecil.com/

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Derby Devil's Annual Erin Go Brawl Roller Derby Scrimmage

What: Derby Devils has invited teams from around the region to scrimmage and then celebrate, just in time for St. Patrick's Day. When: 8:30 p.m Where: Supergoose Sports, 3700 Wallin St. Cost: Tickets are $5.00 for adults. Kids under 12, Free for season ticket holders.

Info: savannahderby.com

Downtown Design District Spring Fling

What: Join the 25+ merchants of Savannah's Downtown Design District in a night of fun filled Spring late night shopping.

When: 5-9 p.m Where: One Fish, Two Fish, 401 Whitaker St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 2050-903-0352

Harlem Globe Trotters

What: Basketball and comedy all rolled into one.

When: 7 p.m Where: The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $17 - $81 Info: savannahcivic.com

Lecture: The Demands of Contemporary Democracy

What: Savannah Council on World Affairs presents Susan R. Johnson, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, discussion the position of U.S. diplomacy in the 21st century, and what can be done to support its global role.

Member social at 7:30pm.

When: 8 p.m Where: Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Cost: $10 General Admission. Free/ World Affairs Council members, students, educators, active military & dependents.

Info: 912-272-4466. klinsav@aol.com. savannahcwa.org

Open Mic Comedy Night

What: A chance for the future Chris Rock's, Louie CKs, and Paula Poundstone's to share their hilarious take on life with an audience.

When: 8 p.m Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: sentientbean.com

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2013 Local 574 Savannah Firefighter's Ball

What: Benefiting MDA and Second Harvest Food Bank of the Coastal Empire.

Hosted by the Local 574 Savannah Firefighter's Association. Open bar.

All you can eat Low Country Boil.Music performed by Savannah's Best, Liquid Ginger.

When: 6-11 p.m Where: 17 Hundred 90 Restaurant, 307 East President St. Cost: $50 Info: 912-660-9001. tees4firefighters. com

Sergeant William Jasper Green Ceremony

What: A St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee event: a memorial ceremony dedicated to the military,with special recognition for those of Irish descent.

When: 5 p.m Where: Madison Square, West Harris Street.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 912-233-4804. SavannahSaintPat-

St. Patrick's Day Celebration at City Market

What: Two days of live music and more in City Market. City Market is now part of the Festival Zone, requiring a wristband for age 21+ to drink alcohol outdoors.

When: -16 Where: City Market, Jefferson at West Saint Julian St. Cost: Free to attend. $5 wristband to drink outdoors in the Festival Zone, River Street to Broughton Street.

Info: savannahcitymarket.com

St. Patrick's Day Celebration on the River

What: Six stages featuring dozens of mostly local bands beginning 2:30pm Friday and 11am Saturday. Bands on each stage about every two hours.

Where: Rousakis Plaza, River St. Cost: Free to attend. $5 for wristband to drink outside in the Festival Zone (River Street to Broughton Street) Info: 912-234-0295. info@riverstreetsavannah.com. riverstreetsavannah. com

Theater: Shadowlands

What: Collective Face Theatre Ensemble

presents the love story of American divorcee Joy Davidman Gresham and British theologian and confirmed bachelor C.S. Lewis in the Tony Awardwinning play.

When: 8 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $15/Gen. Adm. $12/students & seniors Info: 912-232-0018

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189th Savannah St. Patrick's Day Parade

What: The wearin' of the green has arrived again. Mass at Cathedral of St. John the Baptist at 8am. Parade route begins at Abercorn and Gwinnett Streets at 10:15am. Three-hour parade features over 350 marching units including bands, Irish families, and community businesses. (Yes, it's on the 16th this year.)

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: savannahsaintpatricksday.com

Dinner Theater: Murder Ahoy!

What: A pirate-themed whodunit set in Olde Savannah. Performed throughout the entire room where you are dining.

Solve the mystery and win a prize, or just watch. As interactive as you want it to be! Presented by Savannah Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre.

When: 7 p.m.

Where: Double Tree Hotel, 411 West Bay St.

Cost: $44.95 adults, $32.95 children Info: 912-247-4644. /savannahcommu-

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Forsyth Farmers Market

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

When: 9 a.m.-1 p.m Where: Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Cost: Free to attend. Items for sale.

Info: 912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com

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Great Savannah Races 105th Birthday Celebration!

What: Celebrate the 105th Birthday of the 1st Great Savannah Race, which was held March 19, 1908. Celebrating three days early, during the parade. complimentary mimosas, beer and hors d'oeuvres in the museum and courtyard. Reservations are required.

When: 10 a.m.-2 p.m Where: Great Savannah Races Museum, 411 Abercorn St. Cost: $50. Must be 21+ to purchase tickets.

Info: 912-398-4785. tanya@greatsavannahraces.com. greatsavannahraces. com

Historic Cannon Firings

What: History comes alive every Saturday and Sunday through March 17 at 11am and 2pm.

When: 11 a.m. & 2 p.m.

Where: Old Fort Jackson, 1 Fort Jackson Rd. Cost: $6 adults/fort admission. Free kids under 6.

Info: chsgeorgia.org

On sale today: Phillip Phillips Tickets

What: Buy tickets for the April 7 concert

by American Idol season 11 winner and recording artist Phillip Phillips. Available at the Armstrong Atlantic State University Box Office or online.

Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St.

St. Patrick's Day Celebration at City Market

What: Two days of live music and more in City Market. City Market is now part of the Festival Zone, requiring a wristband for age 21+ to drink alcohol outdoors.

When: March 15-16 Where: City Market, Jefferson at West Saint Julian St. Cost: Free to attend. $5 wristband to drink outdoors in the Festival Zone, River Street to Broughton Street.

Info: savannahcitymarket.com

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What: Six stages featuring dozens of mostly local bands beginning 2:30pm Friday and 11am Saturday. Bands on each stage about every two hours.

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Week at a glance | continued from page 5 When: March 15-16, 8-3 a.m Where: Rousakis Plaza, River St. Cost: Free to attend. $5 for

preserve the voices of Hispanic/ Latino community.

Call Armstrong's HOLA office or see StoryCorps website. Recording days and times are flexible.

When: -29 Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Info: 912-344-2652. hola@armstrong.edu. armstrong.edu

wristband to drink outside in the Festival Zone (River Street to Broughton Street) Info: 912-234-0295. info@ riverstreetsavannah.com. riverstreetsavannah.com

Theater: Shadowlands

What: Collective Face Theatre Ensemble presents the love story of American divorcee Joy Davidman Gresham and British theologian and confirmed bachelor C.S. Lewis in the Tony Award-winning play.

When: 8 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $15/Gen. Adm. $12/students & seniors Info: 912-232-0018

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Sunday

25th Annual FCN Oyster Roast

What: Oysters! Plus beer, soft drinks, hotdogs, vegetarian options, and fellowship. 5th Annual Golden Oyster Award.

50/50 Pot ‘O’ Gold & Silent Auction When: 11 a.m.-3 p.m Where: Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

Cost: $15 FCN members. $20/nonmembers. $10 under 12. Free under age 5.

Info: 912-236-CITY. firstcitynetwork.net

Theater: Shadowlands

What: Collective Face Theatre Ensemble presents the love story of American divorcee Joy Davidman Gresham and British theologian and confirmed bachelor C.S. Lewis in the Tony Awardwinning play.

When: 3 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $15/Gen. Adm. $12/students & seniors Info: 912-232-0018

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Tuesday

Graduate Studies Open House at Armstrong

What: A showcase of Armstrong Atlantic State University's advanced degree programs. Faculty members will be available to discuss degrees in adult education and community leadership, professional communication and leadership, public health, computer science, criminal justice, nursing, physical therapy and sports medicine,

Toddler Tuesdays at Oatland Island Wildlife Center

The Collective Face’s Shadowlands continues this weekend at Muse.

What: Toddlers 6 months to 4 years, and their adults. Themed programs--story books, singing songs, finger puppet plays, crafts, guided walks, up close encounters with Oatland animals. Preregister by 4pm Monday.

and others. Refreshments.

When: 4:30-6:30 p.m Where: The Armstrong Center, 13040 Abercorn St. Info: 912-344-2798. graduate@armstrong.edu. armstrong.edu

When: Where: Oatland Island Wildlife Center,

PTSD Information Meeting

The X-Factor Open-Call Auditions

What: Presented by the Veterans Affairs

Savannah Clinic, Open to anyone who wants more information about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and how to get help or how to help someone else.

Info via email.

When: 6-7 p.m Where: American Legion, Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Info: Christi.Oates@va.gov

Refresh Savannah

What: Monthly web and new media focused networking and info group, with a speaker each meeting. This month: Building Native Mobile apps isn't only for those that know Objective-C and Java. Learn how you can create a native mobile application using Javascript via Appcelerator's open sourced Titanium Mobile SDK. When: 6-8 p.m Where: Thinc Savannah, 35 Barnard St. 3rd Floor.

Cost: email for info Info: kevin@lawver.net.

Solar Champions Monthly Meeting

What: A group of people involved or interested in solar energy. This month's topics: Unveil new design for educational model. Raise awareness for special commercial tax breaks in 2013. Plan Earth Day display.

When: 5:45-7 p.m Where: Satisfied, 301 West Broughton St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: 912-233-4288

StoryCorps in Spanish: Historias

What: Armstrong's HOLA is partnering with StoryCorps, the national project that records people's life stories. Historias seeks to record the stories and

711 Sandtown Rd.

Cost: $5 children. Gen. Admission for

adults ($5 or $3 for military & seniors)

Info: 912-395-1500. oatlandisland.org

What: This Fox Network talent show is in Charleston, SC for auditions. North Charleston Coliseum THE X FACTOR open-call auditions are coming to North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, SC. Wristbands will be distributed to auditioners from approx. 8:00 AM Sunday, March 17-approx. 11:00 AM on Tuesday, March 19. Auditioners may not camp out. Once auditioners receive wristbands, they will be asked to return to the North Charleston Coliseum by 7:00 AM Tuesday, March 19 for their audition.

Info: thexfactorusa.com

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Wednesday

Birthday Tribute to Actor Richard Grieco

What: The laughably bad thriller Final Payback (2001, USA) finds Grieco playing an ex-cop, framed for a murder he didn’t commit, who sets out to find the real killer in the seedy underworld of Southern California. Features an impressive cast of character actors such as John Saxon and Laura Harring.

When: Wed. March 20, 8 p.m.

Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. cost: $6 Info: sentientbean.com

Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris perform together April 3, part of the Savannah Music Festival. @ 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, 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. @ Phillip Phillips. April 7. AASU. @ Spring Awakening. AASU Masquers. April 11–21. CS @ Reefer Madness. Bay Street Theatre. April 19–28. @ Savannah Record Fair. April 20 & 21. May Poetter Gallery. @ Chris Tucker. April 20. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Celtic Woman. May 3. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Savannah Spoken Word Festival. April 22-28. @ Cirque du Soleil: Quidam. May 7-9. MLK Arena. @ The Collective Face: Pride & Prejudice. May 10–25. Muse Arts Warehouse. @ Blue Man Group. May 13 and 14. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Darius Rucker. May 17. MLK Arena. @ SCAD theater: Urinetown The Musical. May 23–26. Lucas Theatre. CS

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by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

Welcome to our annual St. Patrick’s Day special issue. Inside you’ll find pretty much all the info you need to enjoy the big weekend, from your basic parade/parking type stuff to a bit of Irish history to an exhaustive entertainment roundup.

In addition to the goofy new wristband/ to-go cup idea — requiring you to pay five bucks to do what you could do for free the rest of the year, but only in a gerrymandered area euphemistically called the “Festival Zone” — the other big development this year is the robust ramping-up of the local band presence during the festivities, chronicled by Bill DeYoung inside.

Bill also takes a gander at the traditional Irish music taking place over the weekend, centering on the activity at Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub on River Street.

Jessica Leigh Lebos takes a closer look at the wristband issue, as well as contributing

her personal take on what it means to be Irish — when you’re not actually Irish.

We like to have fun with the St. Patrick’s cover, and this year is no exception.

We got in touch with Joshua Branstetter of Jabberpics.com, who delivered both in concept and in execution, with much thanks to the folks at Meddin Studios.

The naughty duo on the cover this week is Jessica Schwartz and Stephen King. Additional models are Savannah Christine and our own contributing writer/Stopover Twitter goddess Jenny Dunn. Makeup for the shoot was by Katherine Taylor.

The other big development in our lives here at Connect involves our brand-new website. You’ll be hearing more about the new connectsavannah.com in the coming weeks, but suffice to say we’re exhilarated by the look, feel, and response.

At the new connectsavannah.com we continue to expand our events and listings database to be by far the most comprehensive and searchable in the area.

As a member you can make lists and save your favorite locations, events and stories.

Want to add an event to your personal calendar? Click the ‘add to ical’ button next to any event. Want to be reminded of a particular event? Click the ‘remind me’ link next to any event and you can have a reminder emailed or texted to you.

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Welcome to the week of green, when Savannah rivals Oz for the title of Emerald City.

With St. Patrick’s Day preparations and pre-partying in full effect, the enthusiasm is as contagious as the bubonic plague, without the fleas. The line around here goes that everyone’s a wee bit Irish on St. Patrick’s Day in Savannah, leprechaun DNA or not.

But how does a person go about feeling authentically Irish in order to join the fun? The soused gentleman observed dancing a jig in front of Congress Street Social Club Saturday night may disagree, but I’m positive it takes more than a vat of Jameson and a shamrock-shaped loincloth.

History is always an excelContrary to this author’s belief, swimming in green lent place to begin. The city’s water will not, in fact, turn you Irish. storied Irish heritage hearkens chin high and elbows pointed, skipback to the city’s Revolutionary War ping around the room like a bonnie days, when Sergeant William Jasper lass. She doesn’t get it from me. I laid down his life during the Siege of proved to be an impossible student, Savannah. In the decades before the as I am incapable of dancing withCivil War, Irish immigrants were out waving my arms like the cast of imported for the work deemed too Hair performing “Age of Aquarius.” body-wrecking for slaves, includSo I moved on to last Friday’s ing laying tracks for the Central of greening of the Forsyth Park FounGeorgia Railroad and digging out tain, hoping to absorb a dose of the Ogeechee Canal by hand.

Celtic pedigree by osmosis. Turns The descendants of those out swimming in the fountain is maligned laborers found their way not allowed. Little girls in smocked into all strata of civic life, preserving dresses and boys in seersucker suits their traditions while assimilating held their grandparents’ hands as as true-blooded Americans. One of members of the St. Patrick’s Day those recognizable traditions is Irish Parade Committee filed by in their dancing, performed throughout the natty green jackets and embroidered year at various events but especially sashes, lending a sense of solemnity at February’s Irish Festival and last to the proceedings at first. Soon, weekend’s Tara Feis. however, cheers and squeals erupted In my quest to deepen my genetias the children poured bucket after cally-nonexistent Irish roots, I asked bucket of dye into the shallow pool. for tutorial from my daughter, who As we oohed over the spectacle spent a year with the Irish Dancers of the fountain’s regal swans and of Savannah. muscled mermen suddenly gushing My little lady of the dance green, I began to feel a little more patiently demonstrated the fast footpart of the family. work and stock-still upper body, her (Park and Tree employee and

20-year greening veteran Baby Boy Pinckney assured me that the product he was surreptitiously adding at the fountain’s pump to speed things along was not Soylent Green but a food-grade dye manufactured

by Pylam Products. He added that it takes about a day to flush the fountain clear again with chlorine bleach. All perfectly non-toxic, but swimming is still not recommended as it comes with a $1,000 fine.)

To find out if one can convert to Irishness, I headed over to Ground Zero for Savannah’s Irish community, the Parade Committee Headquarters on Liberty Street. There I found General Chairman Brendan Sheehan dodging a PR bullet for the parade’s rejection of a group of New York firefighters.

He and local firefighter Mike Dodd were explaining to a TV crew that while this particular group’s past bad behavior earned them personae non gratae status this year, there will be plenty of Savannah’s, New York’s and other cities’ finest marching in the parade.

Sheehan seemed relieved that all I wanted to know is how to become more involved in the Irish community, though he gently explained that no matter how good my organizational skills I would not be wearing one of the Parade Committee’s snazzy green jackets anytime soon.

Or ever.

First of all, you have to be nominated basically at birth by another committee member, and then you someone has to pass on to the verdant fields of eternity. Sheehan himself says he waited almost 26 years for his name to come up before he could join the ranks of this most respected organization, a group that works all year long to engineer the country’s second largest St. Patrick’s Day parade.

Also, you have to be a man.

Now, it is true that it is a tremendous amount of work to host a half million people and make sure the

its spires still breathtaking under its scaffolding cloak. Everyone — even a Jewish girl who can’t cook a decent corned beef to save her life — is welcome at this glorious mass that ends with a procession to Emmett Park.

Many say this is the true St. Patrick’s Day Parade. A far cry from our famous drunken ruckus, it’s a sobering testament to how far the Irish community has come and what a triumphant heritage it has to bequeath to future generations.

That’s when I realized the true meaning of being Irish in Savannah is to honor faith and family, no matter where you worship or from where your ancestors hail. Hold both close and you’re as green as it gets.

Of course, there’s still an epic party to get started. But remember that this is not Mardi Gras and Savannah is not New Orleans.

Keep your shirt on (and your pants, for Pete’s sake) and be grateful you were born with the luck of the Irish. cs

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streets run smoothly, but 800 dudes to plan a parade? If the women were in charge, there would only need to be 50 of them and a big ol’ pot of coffee. Just sayin’.

If I couldn’t join the parade committee, maybe one of the other Irish organizations would have me. I called my good buddy Chuck Loncon, a member of the Hibernian Society, the country’s oldest Irish cultural society. Established in 1812 on St. Patrick’s Day, the Hibernian Society has always been devoid of religious strife, and Chuck told me one of the society’s founding members, Isaac Minis, was actually Jewish. So there ya go, I’m a legacy.

Chuck cleared his throat and clarified that while the Hibernian Society is indeed inclusive, apolitical and without religious preference, it is also composed only of men.

OK, fine, I get it. To get official around here, you’ve got to swing a shillelagh.

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Wristbands bandstands City refines to-go cup policy and expands “entertainment zone”

by Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

The rejection of a group of firefighters by the parade committee might be this year’s juiciest St. Patrick’s Day controversy, but a new to-go cup policy has caused no lack of flap among Savannah residents.

For the first time, Savannah’s normally-free privilege of walking around with a drink has a price tag: During St. Patrick’s Day weekend, people drinking alcoholic beverages outdoors anywhere within the newlyexpanded festival zone are required to purchase wristbands for $5.

It’s a small tab compared to the alternative: If you’re caught with a cocktail in hand without one, the fine is $67. If you’re under 21, the fine can be up to $1,000.

“If you have alcohol on the street, you need to be wearing a wristband,” said Marty Johnston, Director of Special Events for the City of Savannah, at a meeting covering St. Patrick’s Day logistics last Wednesday.

Wristbands can be purchased by those 21 and over who show a valid I.D. at one of 20 booths or to several roaming vendors, all of whom have the same “bar cards” that bartenders must have to serve alcohol. Enforcement of the wristband policy will

begin Friday night and go through Sunday morning at 4 a.m., excluding Saturday’s parade.

Separate wristbands — in different colors — have to be purchased for Friday and Saturday.

The purpose of the wristbands is not to inconvenience but to prevent underage drinking, reiterated Johnston. She encouraged bartenders and proprietors to check I.D.s, even if someone is already wearing a wristband.

“College students can be ingenious in the ways they’re going to get a drink,” she reminded.

More than 40 local business owners and managers were in attendance at Wednesday’s meeting, including representatives from Bay St. Blues, Molly MacPherson’s and Circa.

Over concern whether patrons needed a wristband to drink inside one of the bars within the zone, Johnston clarified that the policy only applies on the street.

“Businesses will not be held responsible when your customers walk out the door with a to-go cup,” she said. “It’s up to the individual consumer.”

“But what if they want to go outside to have a cigarette and they don’t have a wristband?” asked one of the attendees.

Johnston replied after confirming with Fire Marshal Craig Landolt that smokers did not need to purchase wristbands as long as they were within the 10-foot smoking buffer outside an establishment.

A dollar from each $5 wristband will go back to the city to help defray the cost of a weekend that attracts almost a half million people to Savannah, including added security. The rest of the wristband proceeds will be divided among the Savannah Waterfront Association, City Market and the Downtown Business Association and help pay the musicians performing throughout the weekend.

On Friday and Saturday, over 40 bands will play on six stages throughout what the city is calling the “entertainment zone”: River Street between MLK Blvd. and E. Broad as well as south to Broughton Lane (encompassing all of Broughton

Street) between MLK Blvd. and Drayton Street. Barricades designate the boundaries of this larger-than-everbefore festival site, designed to keep partygoers in a manageable space.

In addition to the new wristband policy, other changes to the St. Patrick’s Day Festival ordinance are the prohibition of coolers, dogs (with the exception of residents who live within the boundaries) and all manner of reptiles (whether they’re part of your outfit or not).

Also banned in the zone are bicycles, which SCMPD Lieutenant David Gay explained “can quickly turn from a mode of transportation into a weapon or a projectile.”

Though the changes may irk some residents and visitors who aren’t used to them, many who attended the meeting seemed to appreciate the extra effort to keep the peace during the busiest — and potentially most rambunctious — weekend of the year.

Overheard from one longtime downtown resident: “If you’ve seen what I’ve seen, all of this sounds pretty reasonable.” cs For complete schedules and updates, follow “SavStPat” on Facebook and Twitter.

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St. Patrick’s Day Don’t call it a comeback

After years of official neglect, live music returns to the 2013 festivities with a vengeance

Welcome to St. Patrick’s Day, Savannah Style!

by bill deyoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

If you want to drink an adult beverage outside and enjoy our beautiful downtown area, you need to purchase a wristband each day (Friday & Saturday) for $5. *Wristbands are not required during Saturday’s parade*

Get your wristband at any one of the 22 booth locations downtown. Signs will help direct you to one of the white sales tents to purchase your wristband. Someone will check your ID… so don’t leave that behind! Make sure to hold onto your ID since bars and restaurants are still required to check them, even if you have a wristband on!

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Those of us who’ve been complaining about the dearth of live music on River Street over St. Patrick’s Day weekend can just shut up, because this year, it’s baaaack.

If you’re in town for the festive festivities, some of our city’s best musicians are out and about all weekend, day and night, for your partying pleasure.

Outdoor music is indeed a big part of the St. Paddy’s atmosphere, and the new and improved Savannah

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If you plan to drink in a bar, you do not need a wristband – only if you plan to join the rest of the revelers in the streets. If you don’t have a wristband, you could be asked to pour your drink out or you could be in violation of the city’s Festival Ordinance of 2013. Check out any one of the wristband tents for details or visit riverstreetsavannah.com.

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Riverfront organization has gone to great lengths to ensure nobody hits the pause button: There’ll be three separate stages on River Street, and one between Congress and Bryan, on which bands will crank, both Friday and Saturday.

City Market’s two stages, too, will be on permanent play for the weekend, as will just about all of the downtown music clubs (some of them, in fact, will have live music starting Saturday afternoon — early for them — and going into the evening, after the parade has wound down).

Here’s the complete schedule of who’s playing where, who they are and what they do.

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3 p.m. Friday: The Rosies Savannah sisters Kyrsten and Kourtney Roseman have crystalline singing voices, deftly applied to harmony-rich acoustic music that brings to mind early Indigo Girls. Along with a handful of awfully catchy originals, the Rosies play a grabbag of cool covers, from the Avetts and Mumford & Sons to a tear-inducing medley of songs from Les Miserables. New to our city, the siblings have a weekly Tuesday night gig at the River House restaurant.

5 p.m. Friday: Jon Lee’s Apparitions 7 p.m. Friday: Keith & Ross 9 p.m. Friday: Domino Effect A veteran reggae, dub, funk and fusion foursome, Domino Effect includes the estimable singer and guitarist Josh Wade (who plays frequent solo gigs around town), drummer Ben Lewis, second guitarist John Patton and Hunter Sausse on bass.

Equal measures Wailers, Police and Passafire, Domino Effect, danceable dub. They’re playing here Saturday night, too.

3 p.m. Saturday: The Positions 5 p.m. Saturday: Aaron Matthew 7 p.m. Saturday: The Train Wrecks And the train just keeps on a-rollin.’ Smack in the middle of recording their third album, in a secluded Effingham County farmhouse, the city’s best-loved rural rude boys roar into town for another hard-driving set of electric Americana.

Jason Bible on guitar, harmonica and vocals, Eric Dunn on bass, Paxton Willis on drums and Stuart Harmening tearing it up on electric and acoustic guitar and Dobro.

9 p.m. Saturday: Domino Effect

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At 4 p.m. Friday: Thomas Claxton At 6 p.m. Friday: Voodoo Soup At 8 p.m. Friday: Eric Culberson Band Culberson has been a fixture on the Savannah music scene for a quarter century, and for good reason: He is a stunning electric guitarist whose blues chops were defined and refined in every bar, jook joint and roadhouse that ever threw open its doors in Chatman County. Culberson’s trio is a blues-rock dynamo, and his songwriting — which has taken on more of rock edge in recent years — is top-of-thepage solid. He’s also a great singer. If you like ‘em Southern and smokin,’ check out the ECB and you won’t be disappointed.

At 10 p.m. Friday: Jared Wade At 3 p.m. Saturday: The Hitman At 6 p.m. Saturday: Turtle Folk Turtle Folk is a Savannah jam band that has existed for a long time but doesn’t perform live all that often any more — it’s deep and expanded electric psychedelia from a bunch of lifelong buds.

With Michael McCormick on lead vocals and guitar, Jamie Shanks on guitar and vocals, Joe Pelliccione on lead guitar and vocals, Zack Vogtner on bass and vocals, with drummer Sean Pelliccione and percussionist Ross Sparks.

At 8 p.m. Saturday: A Nickel Bag of Funk Consistently voted the city’s best soul/rhythm ‘n’ blues band by the readers of Connect Savannah, Nickel Bag is fronted by powerhouse vocalist Leslie Adele, who is everything a bandleader and frontperson should be — you can’t take your eyes (and ears) off of her. The band is finishing its debut album at Savannah’s Elevated Basement Recording Studio.

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At 4 p.m. Friday: Bottles & Cans A lot of bands toss around the word “gutbucket” when they explain the sort of blues they play — meaning it’s down, and dirty, and there just ain’t nothing sweet about it. Bottles & Cans can lay truly claim to the adjective.

Between vocalist Ray Lundy’s rattlesnake growl and Marty Ellis’ blues-harp moan, these guys bring it to the table and wash it down with whiskey and gravel. It’s the real deal: “I think over all these years we’ve only had three rehearsals,” Lundy says, “so everything is just on the spot — on the fly — at the shows.”

At 6 p.m. Friday: The Magic Rocks At 9 p.m. Friday: Andrew Gill At 5 p.m. Saturday: The Accomplices A cool blend of bluegrass, country/rock and singer/songwriterly odes to the muse, this is one of Savannah’s most interesting bands — mostly because you never know what Matt, Zach, Colleen, Stan and Eric are going to pull out of their collective, dapper hat next. The band’s Canned Beans CD is worth checking out; word is, there’s a new one on the way.

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4 p.m. Friday: The Hitman 6 p.m. Friday: Kurtis Schumm 7:30 p.m. Friday: The Accomplices 10 p.m. Friday: The Train Wrecks 4 p.m. Saturday: Georgia Kyle 6 p.m. Saturday: Daniel Johnson Band 8 p.m. Saturday: City Hotel Mandolin, guitar, standup bass, banjo and four harmonious voices, gathered ‘round a single microphone. Not even two years old, this eclectic four-piece band has an imminent self-titled EP, cut here in town at Elevated Basement, containing five songs that would make any long-term string band proud. Fun and frolicsome.

10 p.m.: Damon & the Shotkickers

WILD WING STAGE (CITY MARKET) At 2:30 p.m. Friday: Daryl Van Horne At 5:30 p.m. Friday: Tokyo Joe At 8:30 p.m. Friday: Bullfrog At 11 a.m. Saturday: Dave Landeo At 1:30 p.m. Saturday: Cranford & Sons At 4 p.m. Saturday: Ellen Drive At 9 p.m. Saturday: U-Phonik

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Saturday: Brock Butler, Turtle Folk Recently split from Perpetual Groove, the jam band he co-founded more than a decade ago, Savannah native Brock Butler is a guitar wizard who makes — through delays and stomp boxes — his instrument sound like a rock ‘n’ roll orchestra. Butler will sit in with the Turtle Folk guys.

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At 11 p.m. Saturday: Bob Wayne & the Outlaw Carnies Kind of a cross between Hank III and Larry the Cable Guy, foul-mouthed and funny Bob Wayne and his country/ punk gaggle of guys always seem to land at the Jinx around St. Patricks’ Day. About as far removed from “St. Patrick’s Day fun” as you can get. “I’ve always known I wanted to be on the road, no matter what,” he says. “I’m not against getting in front of a bigger audience, but whether I’m on CMT or MTV or not, I’m going to keep doing this, that’s for sure.”

Mojo’s Juke Joint

10 p.m.-2 a.m. Friday: Eric Culberson Band 3-6 p.m. Saturday: Train Wrecks 6-10 p.m. Saturday: Eric Culberson Band 10 p.m.-2 a.m.: The Hitman

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Friday, Saturday and Sunday: Harry O’Donoghue, Frank Emerson and Carroll Brown, with Seldom Sober

Rocks on the Roof (Bohemian Hotel)

Saturday: Bottles & Cans (1-5 p.m.); The Hitman (5-9 p.m.); The Magic Rocks (9p.m.-1 a.m.)

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So you can just walk around and drink in Savannah? Crazy.

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Yeah, funny thing. This Friday and Saturday — except during the actual parade Saturday from 10 a.m. to about 2 p.m. — the rules change. In order to use to-go cups between East Broad Street and MLK Boulevard, and north of Broughton Street west of Drayton Street and north of East Bay Lane east of Drayton Street (whew), you have to purchase a wristband for $5 per day. Yup, that’s right, Savannah changed the rules for this one weekend to increase regulation on to-go cups and make a bunch more money off of them. See the map this issue for the confusing boundaries of the Festival Area, and Jessica’s story.

Does the inside of my car count as part of the Festival Area?

No. Definitely not.

Twitter?

Connect Savannah’s handle is @connectsavannah, and the City of Savannah tweets breaking St. Patrick’s Day and public safety news from a new dedicated account, @savstpat Just scored a parking spot right on the parade route. I’ll just take this yellow bag thingie off the parking meter. That cool?

Sure, if you want your car towed. Owners of towed cars must get a vehicle release form from SCMPD headquarters at Habersham and Oglethorpe Streets.

My rescue pit bull with the green bandanna is gonna love the parade. Don’t worry, pit bulls are actually totally safe. Especially around very small children.

That’s not actually a question. But sorry, doesn’t matter — dogs aren’t allowed anywhere in the official Festival Area. The only exceptions are service dogs and residents walking their dogs (you might be asked to show your drivers license to prove residence).

How ’bout the six-foot python I carry around my neck whenever I party? Real conversation starter with the ladies, if you know what I mean.

Actually the City prohibits reptiles from the Festival Area. So leave Lucifer at home. And no, it’s not a “seeing eye snake.”

Oops! Lost my kid again. Now what?

Lost or discarded children will be brought to Police HQ at Habersham and Oglethorpe Streets and sold to the highest bidder. Just kidding about that last part.

Yeah, love me some St. Patty’s Day in Savannah, don’t you?

Patty is really a girl’s name. We prefer St. Paddy’s Day if you must abbreviate.

Cool story bro. Gotta pee. Any porta–potties in this town?

Yes, hundreds. They are clustered along the parade route, either along the route itself or nearby the adjacent squares. River Street will have many as well.

No worries, I’ll just whip it out right here.

No! Please refrain from relieving yourself au naturel — public urination is one of the most “popular” reasons to get arrested on St. Patrick’s Day here. cs

So you’re thinking, wouldn’t it be awesome not to have to drive into downtown to see the parade?

Yes. Yes it would be so awesome.

That’s why Chatham Area Transit (CAT) will provide a $5 round–trip park ‘n’ ride St. Patrick’s Day shuttle March 16, 7 a.m.-noon from these locations: • Westside at the Westside Shopping Center on Hwy 80 in Garden City; • Eastside at the Island Towne Centre on Whitemarsh Island; • Southside at the Savannah Mall near Dillard’s.

Shuttles begin return trips from the parade downtown from 11 a.m.–4 p.m. After 3 p.m., shuttle patrons can return to their cars via CAT fixed routes 3A and 3B, 10 East Savannah, and 114X Abercorn Express.

How ‘bout Hutchinson Island?

Parking for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be available at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center on Hutchinson Island beginning at 6:30 a.m. and ending at 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 16 for a fee of $10 per vehicle including a round trip on the water ferry for all vehicle passengers.

The Savannah Belles Ferry will begin operating at 7 a.m. Saturday, traveling between City Hall Landing and the Trade Center Landing for faster service. After 6:30 p.m., normal scheduling will resume. Service will be available until midnight Saturday night.

Keepin’ it green. See what we did there?

The City of Savannah has nearly doubled the number of recycling and littler containers in the Festival area, and have beefed up “litter control teams.”

Look for the black carts with the yellow tops, which will be located along most corners of the parade route and in high-traffic squares. In them, throw: • Plastic beer cups • Bottles and cans • Paper and cardboard • Plastic plates and utensils Save all other trash for the garbage carts, which should be located nearby. This includes food, Styrofoam, and aluminum foil.

Mixing trash in the recycling cart contaminates the whole load, forcing the City to landfill the contents.

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It’s hard to visualize this during St. Patrick’s Day week in Savannah, but the Irish in America didn’t always have a strong sense of ethnic pride.

“Irish identity in the U.S. really formed during the Civil War period,” says Bill Gillespie, Armstrong professor, retired Army colonel, and local Hibernian Society historian. “In Ireland itself there was no real sense of national identity at the time — just individual counties and provinces.”

Gillespie details how the War Between The States forged modern Irish American sensibilities in his book The Irish in the American Civil War. “There was such dramatic loss of life. So many Irish immigrants were maimed and killed. At just two battles — Antietam and Fredericksburg — almost 100,000 Irish on both sides died,” Gillespie says.

“But in the end the fighting proved almost ephemeral,” he says. “The infrastructure created by the Civil War really carved out a niche for Irish immigrants, who then became dominant in cities like Boston, New York, and Philadelphia.”

That strong neighborhood infrastructure was funded by “death gratuities,” monetary awards to families of slain soldiers. However grimly acquired, that seed money literally built the foundation of the concept of Irish identity in America.

As Irish enclaves became wellestablished — and at last well-funded — Gillespie says Irish immigrants soon took over “urban labor organizations, Democratic Party politics, and city government. Furthermore, this organization allowed the Irish to dominate later immigrant groups.”

While Irish immigrants were often notoriously ambivalent about the Civil War’s causes — during the infamous 1863 draft riots in New York City, mobs of enraged Irish lynched African Americans and burned black orphanages — they fought with distinction on both sides.

The experience between North and South, however, was quite different, Gillespie explains.

“The Irish were better assimilated in the South, mostly because their numbers were so small compared to the North,” he says.

While there were notable Irish fighting units, such as the Louisiana Tigers and the “Fighting 10th,” in the South they tended to be modest in size.

“The two Irish units from Savannah only amounted to about 80 and 110 men each,” says Gillespie. “So one was actually less than a company in size.”

Northern Irish units were usually assembled by religion, neighborhood, and county origin, but in the South they tended to be grouped together strictly and only because they were Irish — “You’re all foreigners,” laughs

Gillespie.

Consequently there was “much more diversity within Southern Irish units, many of which were actually led by Protestant officers,” Gillespie says. “In the South the Irish were really fighting to be American. In the North it was strictly about being Irish Catholic and an immigrant.”

Schools and education seem to be the ties that bind successful immigrant groups, Gillespie concludes.

“The entire process of Irish assimilation came to fruition by about 1930, when the typical Catholic in America was as educated as the typical WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant). That was the real break point,” he says.

“As I study this, I’m thinking this model really applies to the entire immigrant experience as a whole — you lend money, you start fraternal organizations, you build churches, you build real neighborhoods, you build schools. And then you get into politics.” cs The Irish in the American Civil War by Bill Gillespie is available at Saints and Shamrocks (309 Bull St.) and E. Shaver Bookseller (326 Bull St.)

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Blotter All cases from recent Savannah/ Chatham Police Dept. incident reports

Cop down: one crazy story A Savannah murder suspect and a Metro police officer he shot escaped serious injury after a pursuit of a stolen police car ended in a crash and shootout on I-16 last week.

Anthony B. Parrish Jr., 21, and Officer Rebecca Gregory were transported to Memorial University Medical Center. Both were treated for non-life threatening wounds and released. The officer’s cellphone deflected the bullet that struck her leg.

The crash was preceded by a pursuit in which Parrish deliberately drove the stolen police car at an officer in an attempt to strike him, three times crossed a center line into oncoming traffic and finally crashed into the wood line of I-16 between the I-516 and Chatham Parkway exits.

There he opened fire on a pursuing police car before other officers fired back at him. Westbound lanes of the interstate were closed from 6:45 p.m. until 1:20 a.m. for the investigation.

Parrish already was being sought

by Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police who earlier in the day had charged him with the murder of Marray Martin, 20, at a party on Florida Avenue Feb. 24.

In addition to the murder, Parrish has been charged with hijacking a motor vehicle, armed robbery, two counts of aggravated assault, aggravated assault on a police officer, theft by taking, criminal attempt and criminal attempt at murder, possession of a firearm in committing a crime and fleeing to elude police officers.

SCMPD Central Precinct Crime Suppression and TRAP Units already were scouring the Cuyler-Brownsville neighborhood for Parrish when he and another man stole a 2010 Chevrolet at gunpoint across town in the 800 block of West 33rd Street about 6:35 p.m.

Police quickly located the stolen

car and followed it to West 40th Street and Burroughs where Parrish and his accomplice exited and ran in different directions. One officer left his patrol car to confront the other suspect as Parrish circled around a house and jumped into his police car and drove away. He drove the stolen car toward another officer who avoided injury by diving into his own patrol car.

Police pursued the stolen police car east on 37th Street until Parrish turned into oncoming traffic, speeding west onto the I-16 connector and the interstate. There he again crossed the center line three times before crashing into the wood line to avoid tire spikes that police had placed across the highway.

An extensive search for the other suspect was conducted in the area where the Chevrolet had been abandoned. Today, Metro patrol, Canine and TRAP officers along with U.S. Marshals from the Southeast Regional

Fugitive Task Force arrested Nathaniel Johnson. He has been charged with being party to the crime of murder, party to the crime of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm in the commission of a crime. From Wednesday’s incident, he is charged with possession of a firearm in commission of a crime, armed robbery, aggravated assault and hijacking a motor vehicle.

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The Sandusky horror is just the latest in a seemingly endless stream of pedophile scandals. Is there any reliable info on the incidence of these crimes? —Stan Kaplan Let’s start with the bright side: there’s no indication sex crimes involving children are more frequent than they used to be. What’s changed is we’re hearing more now about scandals that were previously hushed up. The grim fact remains that the situation was, and is, pretty bad. The Penn State child sex scandal got a lot of press, as did the revelation of serial child molesters in the Catholic church and the Boy Scouts.

You get the impression pedophilia is spreading like wildfire. Is it? Moral panic aside, probably no.

Pedophilia is defined as persistent sexual attraction to children where the perpetrator is at least age 16 and the victim is at least five years younger. As such, it’s a subset of child sex crimes in general, which also include acts between kids of similar age (I can remember an eighth-grade horror story or two) and opportunistic, one-time offenses. Such distinctions may be academic, or, as some critics have argued, irrelevant—it’s been estimated nearly nine in ten child molesters either meet the criteria for pedophilia at the time of the offense or eventually will.

But let’s not sweat those details. In theory, there should be two ways to get a fix on pedophilia: count the molesters, or count the molestees. Unfortunately, collecting reliable numbers is tricky.

Statistics on pedophiles are dubious for the obvious reason that cases typically come to light only as part of a criminal investigation or during psychological treatment. Studies of any type of sexual behavior based on self-report are notoriously unreliable, and surveys of pedophilic tendencies surely are doubly so—this doesn’t seem like the kind of thing most people would admit to, even anonymously.

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• A 1989 study of 200 male college undergrads found 5 percent admitted to masturbating to pictures of children, and 7 percent said they’d have sex with a child if they could get away with it.

• A 1991 study found 3 percent of some 600 college men reported having had a sexual experience with a child when they were 16 years or older.

• Let you think this is strictly a male kink, a 1997 survey of more than 500 college women found 4 percent had sexual experiences with a child at least five years younger. They were on average only 12 at the time, meaning we’ve strayed from pedophilia as understood.

We turn to the more important question: how many children do pedophiles victimize? The numbers reported in different studies simply don’t match up.

For example, a 2007 report on pedophilia from the Mayo Clinic cites a survey of 1,500 Canadian young adults that found nearly a third of the women and a sixth of the men had experienced unwanted sexual contact before they were 17. Those are alarming numbers. But the report goes on to say, “Most of the one-time offenses reported by females were committed by another adolescent of similar age.” Is that bad? Absolutely it’s bad. But it’s not pedophilia.

Likewise, a 2010 study says, “There have been marked declines in . . . childhood exposure to violence and abuse from the early 1990s to the recent past,” and as proof gives a long list of indicators, one of which is a 53 percent drop in proven sexual abuse cases.

However, when you dig into the study you find two things. First, kids’ reports of sexual abuse by adults, as opposed to by other kids, have declined only modestly. Second and perhaps more significant, the incidence of such reports is small, around 0.3 percent.

Reports of other types of abuse, such as flashing and statutory rape, are more common, in the 1 to 3 percent range; arguably some of this qualifies as pedophilia. One percent or even a third of one percent is a lot when spread across the whole population. But there’s little sign of a huge unrecognized problem.

It seems reasonable to say pedophilia is one of those ineradicable but not especially common impulses that, unlike other forms of sexual and child abuse, has never been widely tolerated. Given greater awareness and more precautions, one may suppose it’ll happen less in the future. But notwithstanding news reports, there’s no sign it’s happening more. cs

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news of the weird Doping on Ice Leaders of the ice-fishing community, aiming for official Olympics recognition as a sport, have begun the process by asking the World AntiDoping Agency to randomly test its “athletes” for performance-enhancing drugs, according to a February New York Times report. However, said the chairman of the U.S. Freshwater Fishing Association, “We do not test for beer,” because, he added, “Everyone would fail.” Ice-fishing is a lonely, frigid endeavor rarely employing strength but mostly requiring guile and strategy, as competitors who discover advantageous spots in the lake must surreptitiously upload the hauls lest competitors rush over to drill their own holes. Urine tests have also been run in recent years on competitors in darts, miniature golf, chess and tugof-war, and in 2011, one chess player, two minigolfers and one tugger tested positive.

Cultural Diversity • A frequent sight on Soweto, South Africa, streets recently is crowds of 12-to-15-year-old boys known as “izikhotane” (“boasters”) who hang out in their designer jeans, “shimmering silk shirts, bright pink and blue shoes, and white-straw, narrow-brimmed fedoras,” according to a February BBC News dispatch. Flashing wads of cash begged from beleaguered parents, hundreds may amass, playing loud music and sometimes even trashing their fancy

clothes as if to feign an indifference residents, receiving little advance warnto wealth. Since many izikhotanes’ ing, expressed shock at the unveiling of families are working-class survivors “David” and demanded that he at least of apartheid, they are mostly ashamed be given underpants. (2) Fax machines, of their kids’ behavior. “This isn’t what almost obsolete in the U.S., are still cenwe struggled for,” lamented one parent. tral to many tech-savvy Japanese famiBut, protested a peer-pressured boaster, lies and companies (who bought 1.7 “(Y)ou must dress like this, even if you million units last year alone), reported live in a shack.”

The New York Times in February.

• India’s annual “Rural Families prefer faxes’ Olympics” might be the superiority to e-mail cultural equivalent of sevfor warmly expressing eral Southern U.S. “RedJapan’s complex written neck Olympics” but taken language. somewhat more seriously, DOES LANCE Latest Religious in that this year, corpoARMSTRONG PLAY CHESS? rate sponsorships (Nokia Messages and Suzuki) helped fund • The 14 guests at a the equivalent of about jewelry party in Lake $66,000 in prize money for City, Fla., were initially such events as competitive incredulous that homepulling using only one’s invader Derek Lee, 24, ears or teeth. “We do this meant to rob them, but for money, trophies, fame when they saw that he and respect,” one ear-puller was serious (by putting told The Wall Street Journal his gun to the head of in February. This year, in one woman), the hostthe four-day event in Puness went into action. jab state, the 50,000 spec“In the name of Jesus,” tators could watch a teeth-lifter pull a she shouted, “get out of my house 110-pound sack upward for about eight now!” Then the guests chanted in uniseconds and an ear-puller ease a car son, “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!” over and over. about 15 feet.

Lee, frightened or bewildered, sprinted • Weird Japan: (1) A generous local out the door empty-handed and was businessman recently graced the city later arrested. of Okuizumo with funding for repli• The president of the National Black cas of two Renaissance statues (“Venus Church Initiative told the Associated de Milo” and Michelangelo’s “David”) Press in January that its pastors are genfor a public park. Agence Franceerally free to ordain new pastors as they Presse reported in February that many

wish, and that consequently Bishop Wayne Jackson of Detroit did nothing wrong in his ordination ceremony (which was surreptitiously videorecorded and uploaded to YouTube), even though it consisted of Jackson in robes, praying while lying on top of the new bishops, who were also praying.

(The AP noted that Bishop Jackson had been the target of that’s-so-gay YouTube comments.)

• Yet Another Fatwa: Saudi cleric Sheikh Abdullah Daoud, in an interview in February on al-Majd TV, decreed that female babies should wear full-face veils (burkas) to help shield them from sexual advances. (According to a former judge at the Saudi Board of Grievances, Saudi authorities have issued standards for fatwas, thus urging people to ignore “unregulated” ones such as Skeikh Daoud’s.)

• In January, Lhokseumawe City, Indonesia, drafted new ordinances, including one that prohibits women from riding motorcycles with their legs straddling male drivers, since that would tend to “provoke” them. A proponent said the ban “honor(ed)” women “because they are delicate creatures.” Immediately, some authorities denounced the legislation, pointing out that riding “side saddle” is much more dangerous in cases of sudden swerves and collisions. CS

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When Widespread Panic guitarist Michael Houser succumbed to cancer in 2002, he left behind a devastated wife and two small children, a band that loved him as a brother, and millions of worldwide fans.

In the latter two groups was Sam Holt, who’d been the innovative musician’s guitar tech since the late 1990s.

Holt, who visits Savannah March 15 for a gig at Satisfied, had been a longtime Panic fan who religiously taped their shows from the audience (like many jam bands, Panic approved the practice and always had a ropedoff area ready for “tapers”).

A Tennessee native, Holt was in college, studying to be an audio engineer.

He was also a guitar player, and when he was offered — through a friend of a friend — the job as Houser’s on-tour technical guy, he jumped at the chance.

Not that he knew what he was doing at first. In fact, he joined Panic on the road three days after getting the offer.

“It was trial by fire,” Holt says. “I had to figure it out for myself. It was definitely shaky at the beginning, but it worked out.”

The guitar tech’s job is to keep the musician’s instruments and equipment in top shape, and ready to go before the performance.

Houser was one-of-a-kind.

“He had a pretty straightforward rig,” Holt explains. “His main effect was the volume pedal that went into the effects loop. He worked that thing like nobody, really. It was so

Sam Holt, second from right, and his self-titled band play Savannah March 15.

trippy-sounding. And he was always moving it; it never really stayed in one place.

“Most people just plug their guitar into the volume pedal, and plug the pedal into the front of the amp. There was a delay pedal after the effects loop, so the more he pushed it down, the more delay he would get. He didn’t have a big rack of effects — he did a lot of it with the volume pedal and his fingers. That was where his tone came from.”

He clicked with the guys in the band — particularly with Houser — and before long was part of the family.

“It was pretty rewarding,” he says.

“I remember, at the end of that tour, he said to me ‘Man, my rig hasn’t sounded that good in a long time.’

And that made feel so good. Because, you know, I put a lot of work into it. A lot of time and attention to detail.”

Widespread Panic regrouped after Houser’s death, and over time Holt began to get invited onstage. In 2006, he played lead for most of the band’s summer tour, before Jimmy Herring — who was finishing other commitments — could come aboard as the new lead player.

Holt had his own band by then, Outformation, with an album produced by Panic keyboardist JoJo

Hermann.

The Sam Holt Band formed after its namesake moved to Boulder, Colo. in 2010. “I just wanted to keep playing and doing what I do,” says Holt, “so the Sam Holt Band is totally different from Outformation. That band was more collaborative; this is more …

I’m not saying I call every shot, but I write most of the songs, and sing most of the songs. Everybody definitely has input — it’s not ‘my way or the highway’ or anything.

“These guys are so good, man, I’m just lucky to have ‘em around.”

Not surprisingly, the new group has been embraced by Widespread Panic’s legions of fans.

Holt is quick to point out, however, that it’s a different animal. “I think it has more of a country feel, country rock,” he says. “We have a pedal steel guitar player in the band, and he plays steel probably 60 or 70 percent of the time, and then he plays electric guitar the other amount.

“I think maybe some of the jamming, some of the way I play, can be reminiscent of Mike Houser. It just sort of oozed into me through osmosis, I suppose. And every now and then we’ll play one of Mike’s tunes that Panic doesn’t play any more.” CS

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Since 1980, Ground Zero for Irish music in Savannah has been Kevin Barry’s on River Street. New Yorker Vic Power opened the public house, with its multiple stages and Gaelic theme rooms, as an emulation of the favored hangouts of his youth.

threesome to maintain a residence in Savannah (Brown’s from Charleston, while Emerson makes his home in Virginia).

He came to the United States in 1987.

“I made my living for years working the Irish pubs around the country, from Houston to New Orleans to Los Angeles,“ O’Donoghue says.

“And they’re just not there any more. People don’t want to pay the money and expenses to get people like me. And back then, there were a lot more people like me, it seemed.”

Emerson, who’s been appearing periodically at Barry’s since just after its debut, agrees that things have, indeed, changed.

“I think people’s politeness and courtesy has gone down with the advent of cell phones,” he says. “I’ve had people sitting in the audience, and I see the lights of the cell phones — people are texting and talking all the time when I’m playing. And it’s enough to drive you a little bit nuts.”

Emerson, Brown and O’Donoghue are longtime pals and boyos. They made a collaborative

CD 13 years ago, A Christmas Postcard.

In 2007, Emerson and O’Donoghue were among the pubmusic collaborators on a book called Clean Cabbage in the Bucket and other Tales From the Irish Music Trenches, a collaborative anthology of reminiscences and stories.

On Saturday and Sunday, the three will perform before, after and along with the Savannah-based Irish music group Seldom Sober.

Expect a lot of good humor — sometimes, but not nearly always, on the bawdy side — and fine musicianship on story-songs, love songs, singalongs and paeans to the Great Shamrock Isles.

Hoist yer glass; tt’s the American version of St. Patrick’s Day. And these are three guys who know what they’re doing.

“There are people who come here to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, but geographically they couldn’t find the island with a map,” laughs O’Donoghue. “But hey, at least they’re embracing it — it’s a party.

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In an Irish pub, the musicians aren’t background sound; they put on a show. And when they’re good — which they always are at Kevin Barry’s — they draw the audience in.

Never a dull moment, as me sainted grandmother used to say.

“It’s Vic’s theory that if live entertainment and good conversation, and a good choice of adult beverages is not enough for you, then you can go somewhere else,” says Carroll Brown, who’s been doin’ the entertainin’ there since 1994.

St. Patrick’s Day, as you might expect, is a big deal at the Pub. This year, it’s a triple pookah-whammy, with Brown and two of his fellow River Street regulars, Harry O’Donoghue and Frank Emerson, performing together Friday night, and all afternoon and evening Saturday and Sunday.

“With three voices, we can really get a lot of power behind a song,” O’Donoghue says. “That’s one of the things I look forward to the most.”

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They’ve been all the rage in Paris for a couple of centuries, but America is just catching on to the magic of the macaron.

The meringue-based sandwich cookies have been popping up on food blogs and highbrow events as of late, and with the 2011 opening of famed Parisian patisserie Ladurée in Manhattan, it appears that macarons may be readying to topple cupcakes as the confection of the moment.

Fortunately for Savannah, Laura Hale and Amy Shippy are out in front of the trend.

The best friends founded Maison de Macarons barely a year ago and found an instantaneous and everincreasing demand for their multicolored goodies. Not to be confused with the coconut-based macaroons found in many American bakeries and ubiquitous this time of year during Passover, macarons are made from almond flour and are definitively French.

The two share a common ancestor in the Italian “maccarone,” a term for most anything made from egg whites and nuts. With an endless repertoire of flavors that include chocolate, raspberry and salted caramel, the

French version has found enthusiastic acceptance with the American palate.

Though some, especially Southerners, still trip up on the pronunciation.

“Try it like ‘macaroni’ without the ‘i’,” suggests Shippy.

Made of almond flour, sugar and egg whites and filled with buttercream, macarons may appear simple but require high maintenance: It takes an intimate relationship with each oven’s idiosyncrasies to perfect the distinctive ruffled “feet” on the bottoms. The cookies have the persnickety tendency to crack when baked even a few second too long or squish up if not settled properly. Even how many times the batter is stirred can upset the delicate marriage of crunch and chewiness. Measurements must be exact.

“It’s deceptive because there are just a few ingredients. But any time you’re dealing with meringue, it gets complicated,” sighs Hale, who adds that every time the weather changes, they have to adjust their recipes.

“We have been humbled by the

gods of macarons,” laughs Shippy.

The two avowed soccer moms weren’t planning to open a business, let alone forge a new food fad. But after their contributions to a neighborhood Christmas cookie swap were a runaway hit, they began filling orders out of Hale’s kitchen. They quickly had to move to a commercial space off Skidaway to keep up and relocated eight months later to a storefront next to the movie theater at Waters and Eisenhower.

“We needed a little more showroom and a lot more kitchen,” says Hale.

Charmingly decorated with Parisian flourishes and a mural of the Champs-Elysees painted by Shippy’s mother-in-law, Maison de Macarons is large enough to accommodate the 800 cookies a day coming through and cozy enough to stay for a cup of tea. A Dylan Wilson photograph of the Bird Girl brandishing trays of its wares overlooks a large glass case.

Inside, a kaleidoscope of rounds are arranged as carefully as a precious jewels, dusky pinks nestled next to robin’s egg blues and pistachio greens.

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Vandeville, a Frenchman and avowed candy,” affirms Shippy. macaron expert.

But what goes into their macarons “We’re not French, and we get a is the foremost concern. Everything little nervous when a French person — and these ladies mean everything tries our macarons,” admits Hale.

— is made from scratch, from “But so far, we’ve had a lot of the whole almonds milled validation.” every morning to the caraThe Maison’s macarons mel to the Irish cream have been making visubeing whipped up for ally stunning appearSt. Patrick’s Day. (Also ances at local bridal on the Maison shelves shows and other for Savannah’s favorite events. They’re availholiday is a blackable to ship nationand-tan macaron flawide for $1.89 each or vored with Guinness.) $20 a dozen.

“Maybe it’s obsesNaturally gluten-free sive, but we feel that and a delight to the eye using the best ingredias well as the palate, it’s ents makes all the difeasy to assess why macaference, and we’re very rons are the dessert world’s committed to that,” says Next Big Thing.

Shippy. “If it has fruit in it, it However, not everyone has came in here as a fruit.”

Owners Amy Shippy (l.) and Laura Hale at heard the news.

Though the partners “There’s an educational are both quick to say they Maison de Macarons curve,” smiles Hale. are not trained chefs, their “We still have people come in who macaron efforts have been praised ask ‘where’s the coconut?’” cs by professionals, including Savannah Tech’s culinary guru, Chef Jean

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An Gorta Mór, “the great hunger,” ravaged Ireland of her people, laid a foundation for her modern politics and provided the catalyst for the mass emigration of her people.

In that seven year struggle (18451852), more than a million Irish died, food production plummeted and politicians struggled for solutions. It was a watershed event that fills volumes of history.

Today, 170 years in the future, I’m happy to report there is no shortage of Irish staples and Guinness runs like water from America’s beer taps.

If it’s Irish food you’re after, then have a pint pulled and grab a seat at Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub, arguably Savannah’s most authentic Irish watering hole. It’s as rough around the edges as any centuries-old Irish counterpart but that’s part of the charm.

The bar is dark, cool and inviting. The Irish music, whether digital or live, sets a rhythmic pace with thumping bodhrán and toe-tapping fiddle.

I slipped in for lunch a week before Kevin Barry’s expects to be wall-towall with St. Pat’s revelers. Settling in with a pint of Guinness to review the menu, I was confronted with plenty of commonplace “musts” for any bar — the jalapeño poppers, sandwiches and dishes that less adventurous diners consider required fare.

But I found my Irish culinary Neamh (Heaven) in a little portion of the menu dubbed “traditional favorites.” I couldn’t decide between ribsticking Shepherd’s Pie or comforting

Kevin Barry’s Irish Sampler presents a huge portion of classic favorites.

Beef Stew. Of course, corned beef and cabbage…wait! The Irish sampler — a bit of all three!

The steaming hot platter would have fed a famine-era family of six for a week. It’s a real bargain at $17.95 but plan on sharing this one, or at least taking the steps back to Bay Street a whole lot slower.

The Beef Stew had veggies cut into nice, large, rustic chunks and the beef was tender and well-braised. The fork-tender corned beef insulated a hot layer of slow-cooked cabbage.

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The pub takes some heat for slow service. I can understand this, especially when the place is packed.

It’s a small kitchen. But know that Kevin Barry’s is first and foremost an authentic Irish pub, meaning that it’s a place to relax, to regale companions and strangers with exotic tales and to quaff your favorite ale.

Go prepared to relax, to take your time and to savor.

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There’s been a mad rush on to get some new projects open for St. Patrick’s Day weekend guests. These places all made it under the wire: Wet Willie’s opened its third Chatham County location. The new spot at the corner of West St. Julian and Jefferson streets in City Market features two levels of dining, indoor and outdoor seating, hand-painted murals

by Bill Wrigley and restored original interior décor including period stained glass windows and doors. The restaurant and bar will serve lunch and dinner daily.

Rose Public House, most recently the location of Lime Grill, did a very nice makeover of this tired space and is open with an American-themed gastropub menu. The new owners are experienced restaurant operators who have assembled an enthusiastic staff.

125 E. Broughton St. Brick House began its full menu of burgers, BBQ and beer earlier this week at both lunch and dinner. Live music is under the large tent on weekends. This place got a complete makeover after longtime tenant Blowin’ Smoke vacated for a new spot on Habersham Street (not yet open). 514 MLK Jr. Blvd.

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The Art of Seating: Two Hundred Years of American Design — Using 40 chairs

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Contemporary Prints from Hungary — An exhibition

of fine prints by eleven of Hungary’s leading graphic artists. Savannah Center for Fine Art, 41 Drayton St.

Erasures — Paintings and

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Fusion — Florida-based photographer Ann Kemp in collaboration with fused glass artisan Denise Murphy. 37aad. com/. 37th @ Abercorn Antiques & Design, 201 East 37th St. Group Show: In the Pines — Recent work by three

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Heaven’s Gate: Exhibition by Odili Donald Odita — Odita’s installation

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Influence and Aftermath —

The mixed media works of Roger Halligan and Jan Chenoweth, sculptors from Chattanooga, TN. Through March 23 Indigo Sky Community Gallery, 915 Waters Ave.

JEA Art Gallery March Exhibit — Small works and

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Sheala Bacon, paintings and wearable art by Margaret Clay and watercolor and photography by Xi Guo. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Joel Cothran — Small and large airbrush paintings on paper and panel by the South Carolina based artist. The Sparetime, 36 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Kathy Miller & Linda Whitt Smith — Long time

Savannah artist Kathy Miller’s oil paintings and Linda Whitt Smith’s crystalline glazed ceramics.

Through March 31 Gallery 209, 209 E River St. Light Paradox — Mexi-

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Marcus Kenney: Falling Animals — Kenney, re-

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Mary Telfair and the Grand Tour — Rarely exhibited

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The Butcher Tattoo Studio, 19 East Bay St. Material Discovery: Angel Otero — New paintings

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Notations (Art Inspired by Music) — Compositions

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Artist’s reception, March 21, 5:30-7:30pm.

Offering of the Angels: Masterworks from the Uffizi Gallery — Italian Renaissance

Masterpieces from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Through March 30 Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

Rose Line Exhibit — Paintings by Tybee resident Margie Rose, aka Malkah.

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Othoniel — A presenta-

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Rosemarie Fiore: Firework Drawings — A selection

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Sitting in Savannah: Telfair Chairs and Sofas — High-

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significant collection of chairs and sofas as functional objects and sculptural forms. Also at the Owens-Thomas House, 124 Abercorn St. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St. Sojourn in an Irish County: Images from County Mayo —

Photographer Tim Coy’s images from his 2010 visit to the towns, villages, countryside and rugged coastline of County Mayo, Ireland. A portion of all sales benefits Hospice Savannah, Inc. Through April 30 Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr.

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Through April 28 Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Wait Weight Don’t Tell Me —

Mary Hartman’s drawings on panel and paper in charcoal, graphite, pastel and acrylic wash. Through May. Through May 31.

Through May 31 The Sparetime, 36 MLK Jr. Blvd.

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Fiber Guild of Savannah —

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converted once the 3-D craze took hold), but in most other regards, this new picture can’t even match the modest triumphs of that overstuffed soufflé.

In a nice nod to the 1939 original, this Oz opens in black-and-white, with a boxy 1.37:1 image (what was used before the widescreen era began in 1953). The setting is Kansas, and the traveling magician Oscar (James Franco), known as Oz to his friends, is busy wowing the locals with his sleight-of-hand show and

who played the Wizard in 1939, in his performance. When Ewan McGregor portrayed Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequels, he took care to adopt Alec Guinness’ careful enunciation and floating cadences to provide viewers with a recognizable throughline so they could link the two characterizations; it’s a disengaged performance that’s only slightly more grounded than his hosting stint on the Oscars.

As the three witches, only Kunis is given a character that has any sort of arc, even if it isn’t a very believable one. Weisz provides some zest to a cardboard role, while Williams can’t be anything but dull in her drowsy part.

As the chattering monkey Finley, Braff is made to sound more like a character from a Shrek movie, given the contemporary edge afforded his character’s dialogue. The same degree of modernity can be found in Tony Cox as the dour Munchkin, Knuck.

Cox, hilarious as Billy Bob Thornton’s profane partner in Bad Santa, perpetually seems on the verge of slipping back into that movie’s character, and I half-expected to hear Muck bellow, “Oz, you stupid motherf***er!”

Such an outburst wouldn’t have provided the movie with any more of a brain or a heart, but at least it would have shown some measure of nerve in a production that’s about as challenging as skipping down a brick road.

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When a circus strongman reacts with rage in the aftermath of one of his conquests, Oz elects to hightail it off the ground in his trusty air balloon, leaving behind his put-upon assistant Frank (Zach Braff). The magician gets caught in the middle of a fearsome tornado and ends up in the color-saturated, widescreen world of Oz; there, he meets a kindly witch (Mila Kunis) who’s convinced that he’s the great wizard who’s come to save the land from the machinations of a wicked witch. Aware of his own limitations but also learning about the kingdom’s vast treasures, he pretends to be a real wizard, a claim met with suspicion from the sorceress’ equally powerful sister (Rachel Weisz). Oz sets off to kill the wicked witch, and his adventures place him in contact with a flying monkey named Finley (voiced

by Braff), an animated porcelain doll called China Girl (voiced by Joey King) and yet another witch (Michelle Williams).

From the 1939 chestnut to the modern stage smash Wicked, works based on the properties of author L. Frank Baum have tended to present their female characters as smart, headstrong women ultimately responsible for their own fates. Therefore, it’s a bit disconcerting to see how in this film, they’re all small moons orbiting around Franco’s Oz - in fact, the lothario’s base treatment of one of the witches is what fuels not only the majority of this movie but also Dorothy’s subsequent saga as well.

Scripters Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire do add some clever shout-outs to the original film, but they’re all inconsequential and can’t overcome the banality of the central thrust, which involves usual tropes like mistaken identities and the need for a nuclear family.

I’ve been a Sam Raimi fan ever since The Evil Dead back in the mid1980s, and he’s made me proud with such triumphs as the acclaimed thriller A Simple Plan (a movie in dire need of discovery) and the crackerjack Spider-Man trilogy. So it’s crushing to see how much the director has sold out here.

Franco is not terrible in the part, but he’s not exactly inspired, either.

His Oz is more off-putting than should be the case - he’s so lecherous, I expected him to start hitting on the childlike China Girl at any moment and there’s no hint of Frank Morgan,

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Hoult, also starring in Warm Bodies), but he’s surrounded by various characters brought to life by fine actors: Ewan McGregor as the brave soldier Elmont, Stanley Tucci as the duplicitous Roderick, Ian McShane as the noble king, and more. The 3-D is excellent although not essential, and while much of the CGI looks like the same-old same-old (especially the large-scale battle sequences), the giants are an imaginatively designed bunch and the beanstalk itself is a monumental marvel.

Jack the Giant Slayer isn’t close to being among the elite films in theaters now, but if your significant other or your friends narrow down the viewing options to this or Oz the Great and Powerful, best to gently push them in this direction.

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Let’s face it: 2013 has so far been a brutal year for multiplex action stars.

Jason Statham’s Parker has grossed $17 million, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s The Last Stand has earned $11

million and Sylvester Stallone’s Bullet to the Head has scraped together an especially anemic $9 million. (I’d like to think the only reason Bruce Willis’ awful A Good Day to Die Hard has

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Now Dwayne Johnson enters the fray with Snitch, and what’s interesting to note is that, while his fellow macho men are content to coast, the artist formerly known as The Rock actually attempts to do something different, appearing in a movie that, contrary to both expectations and popular belief, isn’t an action flick as much as a thoughtful drama peppered with a couple of requisite car chases and shootouts.

Snitch is one of those movies that opens with a statement declaring it’s based on a true story – given the increased frequency of this claim combined with the laxity with which it’s now employed, I expect to see such a header at the start of Jack the Giant Slayer and Iron Man 3, among other upcoming titles. At any rate, it’s the closing comment that resonates more deeply, the widely acknowledged one that nonviolent, first–time drug offenders generally face more prison time than murderers and rapists. Snitch analyzes that dire problem in the context of a drama about a father who makes Herculean sacrifices for the sake of his son.

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The first Die Hard entry set outside the U.S., this finds McClane heading to Russia to check on his estranged son Jack (Jai Courtney), who isn’t the druggie burnout he expected but rather a covert agent for the CIA. Jack’s mission is to extract a political prisoner (the fine German actor Sebastian Koch, almost unrecognizable under a scruffy beard), which becomes a mission impossible once Pappy McClane arrives on the scene and screws everything up. But no worries: Big Daddy has plenty of time to make amends, as he proceeds to blow away Russkies, save his son’s skin and rack up an obscene amount of collateral damage.

They bump into scores of villains, one of whom suffers (spoiler, but who cares?) death–by–whirling–helicopter–blade. Unique cinematic demise?

Not really: A character suffered the exact same fate in 1991’s execrable The Last Boy Scout, a film which — oh, yeah — also starred Bruce Willis.

John McClane’s signature catchphrase “Yippee ki–yay” is uttered, though he’s more prone this time around to channeling City Slickers’ Billy Crystal by shouting, “I’m on vacation!” — a line that isn’t especially witty (or accurate) the first time he says it and certainly has worn out its welcome by the time he amends it to “I’m on fucking vacation!”

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It’s been exactly a quarter–century since Bruce Willis became a movie star with the action classic Die Hard, but while 2013 finds the actor headlining the fifth film in the never–say– die series, it’s clear that A Good Day to Die Hard does his image — and his iconic character — no favors.

John McClane, once an exciting screen presence, is now simply an old grouch who’s as dull and predictable

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Jason (Rafi Gavron) is a college– bound kid who initially refuses but then reluctantly agrees to hold a shipment of ecstasy for his drug–dealing friend. But when the shipment arrives at his door, the Feds swoop in and arrest him; matters become even worse when, for the sake of a reduced sentence, his pal fingers him as the real drug dealer, a lie that leads to a mandatory 10–year sentence alongside hardened criminals. His dad John (Johnson), a respected business owner, finds that the prosecuting attorney (Susan Sarandon) won’t budge in the matter, so he offers her a deal: In exchange for reducing Jason’s sentence, John will go undercover and nab a real drug lord or two.

Johnson isn’t exactly our most versatile movie star (although he was awfully funny in the otherwise dismal Get Shorty sequel, Be Cool), but he does possess charisma to burn, and it’s this natural screen presence that allows us to accept him in this role.

His character’s sense of frustration and outrage over what’s happening to his son is palpable, and this sets up some interesting encounters opposite the ambitious d.a., a conscientious field agent (Barry Pepper, hiding underneath a biker–ready beard) and an ex–con (Jon Bernthal) who tries to help John while keeping his own record clean.

I certainly don’t want to oversell the film: The direction by Ric Roman Waugh is more workmanlike than inspired, and the third act promises more thrills than it actually delivers (John states that he has this great plan to make everything right, but it proves to be about as complex as boiling water). Still, moviegoers finding themselves between The Rock and a bad choice – say, the aforementioned Die Hard debacle – might agree that the auditorium showing Snitch isn’t a hard place to be.

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It’s hard to imagine anybody who’s 21 and over truly getting much out of 21 and Over, but as far as these sorts of films go, this one isn’t as aggressively stupid as some. It’s written and directed by the same guys who penned The Hangover (Jon Lucas and Scott Moore), and I actually prefer it to that often insufferable comedy.

Of course, Lucas and Moore don’t stray too far from their cinematic bread ‘n’ butter. As in The Hangover, the movie opens with a story–already–in–progress scene that quickly jumps to flashback mode to show how the current mess ensnaring the protagonists initially evolved. The plot also involves copious amounts of drinking, resultant blackouts, characters in extremely compromising positions, an important engagement that might get missed and, the biggest telltale of all, a naked Asian man who’s as uninhibited as Ron Jeremy when it comes to jiggling his buttocks and wiggling his willy.

There’s no Mike Tyson on hand, though, so at least the film has that going for it.

Miles Teller, whose subtle and sensitive emoting opposite Nicole Kidman in Rabbit Hole is not at all required here, and Skylar Astin, Anna Kendrick’s romantic interest in last fall’s Pitch Perfect, respectively play the immature Miller and the responsible Casey, two college kids who spring a surprise visit on their friend Jeff Chang (Justin Chon) on the day of his 21st birthday.

Their intent is to take him out for a night of boozing and carousing, a bad idea considering he has an important job interview at 8 the following morning.

Nevertheless, Jeff Chang (his friends never call him by just his first name) finally agrees, and it’s amusing to watch as he flashes his I.D. to bouncers who, as noted, previously always mistook him for an underage Asian girl.

It’s no surprise that the bombed Jeff Chang eventually passes out, but his two buddies have no idea where he lives. His address becomes a Holy Grail of higher education, with the guys engaging in a series of campus adventures as they try to get him home before his intimidating dad (Francois Chau) arrives to take him to his interview.

Despite the similarities to The Hangover, 21 and Over actually jostles even more in the direction of the sturdy Harold & Kumar franchise, a comparison that’s more pronounced given the comparable ages of the characters. Yet where the writers of the H&K films managed to employ ethnic stereotypes to puncture hypocrisy and prejudice, Lucas and Moore aren’t nearly as sharp when attempting to do likewise: The gags involving Jeff Chang aren’t particularly funny or challenging, the inclusion of a sorority full of angry Latinas is a major miscalculation, and the writers don’t even attempt to address African–Americans (not only are there no significant or supporting black characters, I’d be hard–pressed to recall if any black actors were even employed as background extras for any scenes).

Yet the movie does get some things right. The casting of Teller and Astin, both appealing performers, is crucial. Their ability to carve out specific characters ultimately provides some resonance to the more sentimental and introspective moments that appear toward the end; this in turn prevents the picture from exploding like a grenade in its own face (as often happens when this type of film develops an insincere conscience right before the fadeout).

The budding romance between Casey and a sorority girl named Nicole (Sarah Wright) is unexpectedly sweet, and the thorny relationship between Jeff Chang and his father is ably handled.

As for the scene involving some serious smooching between two of the male characters, while some might see it as an extension of this genre’s penchant for “gay panic” humor, I’m willing to give the filmmakers the benefit of the doubt and view it as an affront to homophobic louts who hypocritically see nothing wrong with lesbianism but want to smash skulls when the mere suggestion of even the most innocent guy– on–guy action is brought up.

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Activism & Politics 13th Colony Patriots

A group of conservative political activists that meets the 13th of each month.

Dedicated to the preservation of the U.S. Constitution and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans. See Facebook page or call for information. Free 13th of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 912-604-4048. liveoakstore.com/tubbysthunderbolt. 13th of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. Savannah Area Young Republicans

For information, visit www.savannahyoungrepublican.com or call Allison Quinn at 912-308-3020. savannahyoungrepublican.com. Call or see website for information. Free . 912-308-3020. savannahyoungrepublicans.com.

Young Democrats

Call or visit the Young Democrats Facebook page for more information.

Free Sundays, 3:30 p.m. 423-619-7712. sentientbean.com. Sundays, 3:30 p.m The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave.

Benefits 2013 Local 574 Savannah Firefighter’s Ball

Benefiting MDA and Second Harvest Food Bank of the Coastal Empire.

Hosted by the Local 574 Savannah Firefighter’s Association. Open bar. All you can eat Low Country Boil.Music performed by Savannah’s Best, Liquid Ginger. $50 Fri., March 15, 6-11 p.m.

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17hundred90.com. Fri., March 15, 6-11 p.m 17 Hundred 90 Restaurant, 307 East President St. Forsyth Farmers Market Seeks Sponsors

Market sponsors invest in a healthy community and show consideration for the local economy. Sponsorship opportunities begin at $350. Help keep food fresh and local. . kristen@forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket. com. forsythfarmersmarket.com/. Forsyth Famers’ Market, 501 Whitaker St. Karma Yoga Class for Local Charities

Bikram Yoga Savannah has added a new weekly Karma class to raise money for local charities. Mondays during the 6:30pm class. Pay $5 to participate; proceeds are donated to a different local charity each month. . 912-344-1278. bikramyogasavannah.com.

Two Faced

An art show by Raabstract. Through April 28. Through April 28. tacasushi. com/. Through April 28 Ta Ca Sushi & Japanese Fusion, 513 E Oglethorpe Ave.

Call for Entries 3-D Artist Sought for Gallery

Seeking a 3-D artist to join this cooperative gallery. Artist must be a full-time resident of Savannah or nearby area. Work to be considered includes sculpture, glass, ceramics and wood. If interested please submit 5-10 images of your work, plus resume/CV and biography to info@kobogallery.com. . info@kobogallery.com. Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard Street ,.

Call for Recycle Artists

Seeking artists/crafters who create functional to funky artwork from 75% reclaimed material and rated “G”. Recycled art--recycled jewelry, soap, leather, metal, wood, furniture, driftwood, denim, and more, for booths at the ReVision Art & Eco Festival on Saturday, April 20h from 9 am till 3 pm at Forsyth Park. Artists may display and sell their creations. Artists may also give mini-demos throughout the day to show everyone how and why they make their art/crafts. Submit via email

or call for information. Sponsored by Chatham County Department of Public Works and Park Services, Resource Conservation Education Center. Forsyth Park Through April 12. 912-790-1647. slarnott@chathamcounty.org. Through April 12 Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. City seeks applications for Weave A Dream Initiative

Weave-A-Dream grant applications will be accepted through the calendar year, while funds are available. Programs must be completed before December 1, 2013. Application must be submitted at least eight weeks before the start date of the project. Project funding is available up to $3,500 for specific and innovative arts, cultural, or heritage programming or presentations that have a measurable, quantifiable benefit to Savannah’s diverse populations.

Particularly interested in proposals with a strong youth focus (under 21). All program disciplines including multidisciplinary projects are encouraged.

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Homeschool Music Classes

Music classes for homeschool students ages 8 - 18, and their parents. Offered in Guyton and Savannah. See website for details. . CoastalEmpireMusic.com.

Kids Who Care College Scholarships

Junior League of Savannah offers the Kids Who Care scholarship award to salute high school seniors who have made a positive difference by volunteering. Five $1,000 college scholarships will be awarded to local seniors from the Low Country area in recognition of their outstanding volunteer service and outstanding community involvement. Not based on academic or athletic ability. Deadline to nominate a student or for the student to apply is Friday March 15. Through March 16. melissajholland@gmail.com. jrleaguesav.org. Through March 16 Savannah Record Fair

Record collectors paradise, for buying or selling LPs. Call for info. Through April 21. 912-525-5502. Through April 21 May Poetter Gallery (SCAD), 342 Bull St. Vic’s on the River Wine Label Contest

Seeking Savannah’s creative designers to design a signature wine label for Vic’s on the River’s new wine collection debuting later this spring. The theme for the label should represent Vic’s on the River, riverfront dining and the historic downtown. See website for details, specifications, and entry forms.

Submit entries to 26 East Bay Street, or via email, with completed entry form.

Deadline: Wednesday, April 17. Winner announcement Wednesday, April 24.

Winning entry receives $500.00, dinner for two at Vic’s on the River and one case of featured wine with winning label design. Through April 18. info@vicsontheriver.com. vicsontheriver.com.. vicsontheriver.com/. Through April 18 Vic’s on The River, 16 East River St. The X-Factor Open-Call Auditions

This Fox Network talent show is in Charleston, SC for auditions. North Charleston Coliseum THE X FACTOR open-call auditions are coming to North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, SC. Wristbands will be distributed to auditioners from approx. 8:00 AM Sunday, March 17-approx. 11:00 AM on Tuesday, March 19. Auditioners may not camp out. Once auditioners receive wristbands, they will be asked to return to the North Charleston Coliseum by 7:00 AM Tuesday, March 19 for their audition. Tue., March 19. thexfactorusa. com. Tue., March 19 continues on p. 50

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Coaching for all ages, beginners through advanced. Classic, modern, jazz improvization and theory. Serious inquiries only. 912-961-7021 or 912667-1056.

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Artist Sacred Circle

Group forming on Fridays beginning in March. 1:30pm-3pm. Based on The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. Contact Lydia Stone, 912-656-6383 or rosesonthemove@gmail.com. . 912-656-6383. rosesonthemove@gmail.com.

Beading Classes

Offered every weekend at Perlina Beadshop, 6 West State Street. Check website calendar or call for info. 912441-2656. perlinabeadshop.com.

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Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced. Call for class times. 912-920-6659. Bead Dreamer Studio, 407 East Montgomery Xrds.

Beginning Belly Dance Classes

Taught by Happenstance Bellydance.

All skill levels and styles. Private instruction available. $15 912-704-2940. happenstancebellydance@gmail.com. happenstancebellydance.wordpress. com. Anahata Healing Args Center, 2424 Drayton St. Champions Training Center

Offering a variety of classes and training in mixed martial arts, jui-jitsu, judo and other disciplines for children and adults. All skill levels. 525 Windsor Rd. 912-349-4582. ctcsavannah.com.

City of Savannah Contractor’s College

City of Savannah is now accepting applications for the 2013 Contractor’s College, which runs Wednesday, April 3 – Wednesday, May 22, 6pm-8pm.

Open to construction related, minority- and women-owned businesses in operation for at least one year.

Deadline to register is Friday, March 15. Through March 16. 912-652-3582. gdelaney@savannahga.gov. Through March 16 Savannah Entrepreneurial Center, 801 E. Gwinnett Street.

Classical and Acoustic Guitar Instruction

Savannah Classical Guitar Studio offers lessons for all levels. Dr. Brian Luckett, Ph.D. in music. Starland District. Guitar technique, music theory, and musicianship. Folk/rock based lessons available. No electric instruments. $25/half hour. $45/hour. brian@brianluckett.com.

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Coast Guard Auxiliary Boating Classes

Classes on boat handling, boating safety and navigation offered by U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. See website or call for dates. 912-897-7656. savan-

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Continuing Ed. Courses through June 2013

Georgia Southern’s Continuing Education Program in Savannah offers new courses 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; Short Story Writing; Beginning Sign Language; five Photography courses (Point & Shoot, Beginning and Advanced Creative Photography, Portrait Photography, Advanced Photoshop); and Essay Writing for SAT. See website for dates/times/fees. Through June 30. 912-644-5967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. ceps.georgiasouthern. edu/conted/cesavannahmenu.html. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/. Through June 30 Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Creative Writing 2

For students with some experience in fiction and nonfiction storytelling. Includes assigned readings, writing homework, and workshop style critiques by the instructor and classmates. Covers narrative structure and scenic writing, dialogue, character, place, word choice, rhythm and pacing, and revision. Mondays, 3/25-5/13. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Offered by Georgia Southern’s Continuing Education Program. $200 Through March 25. 912-644-5967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. https://ms-eagle48. georgiasouthern.edu/wconnect/ CourseStatus.awp?~~13CACCE4698A. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/. Through March 25 Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

DUI Prevention Group

Offers victim impact panels for intoxicated drivers, DUI, offenders, and anyone seeking knowledge about the dangers of driving while impaired.

A must see for teen drivers. Meets monthly. $40/session 912-443-0410.

English as Second Language Classes

Learn conversational English, comprehension, vocabulary and life communication skills. All ages. Thursdays, 7:30pm, Island Christian Church, 4601 US Highway 80 East. Free. 912-8973604. islandchristian.org.

Experimenting With Creative Art Techniques

Drawing, painting and printmaking; the elements of design including line, shape, size, direction, texture, tone and color; and the principles of design, including sequence, unity, proportion, emphasis, and balance. Thursdays, 3/28-5/16. 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Offered by Georgia Southern’s Continuing Education Program. $200 Through March 28. 912-644-5967. jfogarty@ georgiasouthern.edu. https://ms-eagle48.georgiasouthern.edu/wconnect/ CourseStatus.awp?~~13CACCE5083A. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/. Through continues on p. 50

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The Mediation Center has three workshops per month for people who do not have legal representation in a family matter: divorce, legitimation, modifications of child support, visitation, contempt. Schedule: 1st Tues, 2nd Mon, 4th Thursday. Call for times. $30 912-354-6686. mediationsavannah.com.

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children held at 15 E. Montgomery Crossroad. Register by phone. . 912921-4646.

Feldenkrais Classes

Tuesdays, 10am at Park South, 7505 Waters Ave, Bldg. B, Suite 8, near Eisenhower. Mats provided. Dress for moving comfortably on the floor.

Elaine Alexander, GCFP. $15 . 912223-7049. elaine.alexander@ymail. com. feldenkrais.com.

Free Fitness Boot Camp

Mondays and Wednesdays, 6pm at Tribble Park, Largo & Windsor Rd. Children welcome. Free 912-921-0667.

Group Guitar Lessons

Adults and teens only. Group lessons.

Hands-on instruction, music theory, ear training, sight reading, ensemble playing, technique and rhythm drills.

Teacher Tim Daniel (BS in Music.) $20/week , noon. 912-897-9559. , noon YMCA Whitemarsh Island, 135 Whitemarsh Island Rd. Guitar, Electric Bass & Double Bass Lessons

Instruction for all ages of beginner/ intermediate students. Technique, chords, not reading, theory. Learn songs and improvisation. Taught two blocks from Daffin Park. Housecalls available. First lesson half price. . 401255-6921. a.teixeira472@gmail.com.

Guitar, Mandolin, or Bass Guitar Lessons

Emphasis on theory, reading music, and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. . 912-232-5987.

Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource Center

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Knitting & Crochet Classes

Offered at The Frayed Knot, 6 W. State St. See the calendar of events on website. . 912-233-1240. thefrayedknotsav. com.

Learn to Speak Spanish

Individuals or groups. SpanishEnglish translation and interpretation.

Held at The Sentient Bean. An eclectic range of tools used in each session: hand-outs, music, visual recognition, conversation, interactive web media. .

912-541-1337. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Microsoft Excel 2

Master formulas and functions; SUMIF function; sorting data; filtering data and text; summarizing data by creating subtotals/grand totals; data validation; creating macros; pivot table or pivot chart reports; and more.

(Register for two Microsoft courses at the same time and receive the second at a discounted price.) Monday, 3/18 and Wednesday, 3/20. 6:30-9:30 p.m. $85 Through March 18. 912-6445967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. https://ms-eagle48.georgiasouthern.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus. awp?~~13CACCE4557A. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/. Through March 18 Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Music Lessons--All Instruments.

Rody’s Music offers lessons for all ages on all instruments, beginners through advanced. Call or email for information. . 912-352-4666. kristi@ awsav.com. rodysmusic.com/. Rody’s Music, 7700 Abercorn St. Music Lessons--Multiple Instruments

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private instruction for all ages in guitar, ddrums, piano, bass, voice, banjo, mandolin, ukelele, flute, woodwinds. 7041 Hodgson Memorial Dr. . 912-692-8055. smisavannah@gmail.com.

New Horizons Adult Band Program

Music program for adults who played a band instrument in high school/ college and would like to play again.

Mondays at 6:30pm at Portman’s. $30 per month. All ages and ability levels welcome. Call for info. . 912-354-1500. portmansmusic.com. Portman’s Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. Novel Writing

Write a novel, finish the one you’ve started, revise it or pursue publication.

Award-winning Savannah author offers one-on-one or small group classes, mentoring, manuscript critique, ebook formatting. Email for pricing and scheduling info. . pmasoninsavannah@ gmail.com.

Photography Classes

Beginner photography to post production. Instruction for all levels. $20 for two-hour class. See website for complete class list. 410-251-4421. chris@ chrismorrisphotography.com. chrismorrisphotography.com.

Poetry Writing

A hybrid of a studio and a literature class. Students discover new voices in contemporary verse, as they polish their own work. Lyrical, conceptual, and formal styles. Guest poets will visit for Q&A’s. Wednesdays, 4/10 to 5/29, 6:30 pm-8:30pm. Offered by Georgia Southern’s Continuing Education Program. $200 912-651-6206. christinataylor@ georgiasouthern.edu.. ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/creativewriting. html. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Reading/Writing Tutoring

Ms. Dawn’s Tutoring in reading, writing, and composition. Remedial reading skills, help with borderline dyslexia, to grammar, term paper writing, and English as a Second Language. Fun methods for children to help them learn quickly. Contact: cordraywriter@ gmail.com or text or call 912-12-6607399. Call for fee information.

Russian Language Classes

Learn to speak Russian. All experience levels welcome, beginner to expert.

Call for info. . 912-713-2718.

Sewing Classes

Beginner in sewing? Starting your clothing business or clothing line?

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

Savannah Sewing Academy. 1917 Bull St. . 912-290-0072. savsew.com.

Singing Lessons with Anitra Opera Diva

Teaching the Vaccai Bel Canto technique for improving vocal range and breathing capacity. A good foundation technique for different styles--opera, pop, rock, cabaret. Fridays 5:308:30pm. Institute of Cinematic Arts, 12 1/2 W. State St., 3rd floor. . 786-2479923. anitraoperadiva.com.

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Learn Spanish for life and grow your business. Courses for professionals offered by Conquistador Spanish Language Institute, LLC. Classes offered in a series. Beginner Spanish for Professionals--Intro price $155 + textbook ($12.95). Instructor: Bertha E. Hernandez, M.Ed. and native speaker.

Meets in the Keller Williams Realty meeting room, 329 Commercial Drive. . conquistador-spanish.com.

Tertulia en español at Foxy Loxy

Spanish conversation table. Meets second and fourth Thursday of each month. 7:30pm to 9pm at Foxy Loxy, 1919 Bull street. Come practice your Spanish, have a cafe con leche or Spanish wine, and meet nice people....All levels welcome. Free. Purchase beverages and snacks. . foxyloxycafe.com/.

Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Yoga for Couples

A two hour class for prospective moms and their delivery partners. Learn labor and delivery stages and a “toolbox” of hands-on comfort measures from a labor doula, including breathing, massage, positioning, and pressure points.

Bring and exercise ball. Quarterly, Saturdays 1pm-3pm at Savannah Yoga Center. Call or email to register. $100 per couple. . 912-704-7650. douladeliveries.com.

Clubs & Organizations Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes

Classses for multiple ages in performance dance and adult fitness dance.

African, modern, ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, gospel. Held at Abeni Cultural Arts studio, 8400-B Abercorn St. Call Muriel, 912-631-3452, or Darowe, 912-272-2797. . abeniculturalarts@ gmail.com.

Adult Intermediate Ballet

Beginner and Intermediate Ballet, Modern Dance, Barre Fusion, Barre Core Body Sculpt, and Gentle Stretch and Tone. no experience needed for beginner Ballet, barre, or stretch/tone.

The Ballet School, Piccadilly Square, 10010 Abercorn. Registration/fees/info online or by phone. . 912-925-0903. theballetschoolsav.com.

Avegost LARP

Live action role playing group that exists in a medieval fantasy realm. generallly meets the second weekend of the month. Free for your first event or if you’re a non-player character. $35 fee for returning characters. . godzillaunknown@gmail.com. avegost.com.

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

Workshops on the 3rd Thursday of each month on vision losss, services, and technology available to participate in the community. And, how the community can support individuals with vision loss. Orientation and Mobility Techniques; Low Vision vs. Legal Blindness; Supporting People with Low Vision to

Achieve Maximum Independence; Low Vision Simulator Experiences; Resources. Free and open to the public. . savannahcblv.org. Savannah Center for the Blind and Low Vision, 214 Drayton St. Buccaneer Region SCCA

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. See website. . buccaneerregion.org.

Business Networking on the Islands

Small Business Professionals Islands Networking Group meets first Thursday each month, 9:30am-10:30am.

Tradewinds Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Call for info. . 912-3086768.

Chatham Sailing Club

Meets first Friday of each month, 6:30pm at Young’s Marina. If first Friday falls on a holiday weekend, meeting is second Friday. No boat? No sailing experience? No problem. . chathamsailing.org. Young’s Marina, 218 Wilmington Island Rd. Drop N Circle Craft Night

Sponsored by The Frayed Knot and Perlina. Tuesdays, 5pm-8pm. 6 W. State Street. Enjoy sharing creativity with other knitters, crocheters, beaders, spinners, felters, needle pointers, etc.

All levels of experience welcome. Call for info. . 912-233-1240.

Energy Healers

Meets every Monday at 6pm. Mediation and healing with energy. Discuss aromatherapy, chakra systems and more.

Call for info. . 912-695-2305. meetup. com/SavannahEnergyHealers.

Freedom Network

An international, leaderless network of individuals seeking more freedom in an unfree world, via non-political methods.

Savannah meetings/discussions twice monthly, Thursdays, 8:30pm. Topics and meeting locations vary. No politics, no religious affiliation, no dues, no fees.

Email for next meeting day and location. . onebornfree@yahoo.com.

Historic Flight Savannah

A non-profit organization dedicated to sending area Korean War and WWII veterans to Washington, DC to visit the WWII Memorial. All expenses paid by Honor Flight Savannah. Honor Flight seeks contributions, and any veterans interested in a trip to Washington. Call for info. . 912-596-1962. honorflightsavannah.org.

Historic Savannah Chapter: ABWA

Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6pm-7:30pm. Tubby’s Tank House, 2909 River Drive, Thunderbolt.

Attendees pay for their own meals.

RSVP by phone. . 912-660-8257.

Ink Slingers Writing Group

A creative writing group for writers of poetry, prose, or undefinable creative ventures. Based in Savannah and a little nomadic. Meets two Thursdays a month, 5:45pm. Discussion of exercises, ideas, or already in progress pieces.

Free to attend. See Facebook page savinkslingers. . Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Island MOMSnext

For mothers of school-aged children, kindergarten through high school.

Authentic community, mothering support, personal growth, practical help, and spiritual hope. First and third Mondays, excluding holidays. Childcare on request. A ministry of MOPS International. Info by phone or email. .

912-898-4344. kymmccarty@hotmail. com. mops.org.

Islands MOPS

A Mothers of Preschoolers group that meets at First Baptist Church of the Islands, two Wednesdays a month, 9:15am-11:30am. . sites.google.com/ site/islandsmops. fbcislands.com/.

First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet

Meets every Wednesday. Different locations downtown. Call for info. No fees.

Want to learn? Join us. . 912-308-6768.

Knittin’ Night

Knit and crochet gathering held each Tuesday evening, 5pm-8pm All skill levels welcome. Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m.

912-238-0514. wildfibresavannah.com/.

Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m Wild Fibre, 409 East Liberty St. Low Country Turners

A club for wood-turning enthusiasts.

Call Steve Cook for info at number below. . 912-313-2230.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary

Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1:00pm. Call for info. . 912-786-4508.

American Legion Post 184, 1 Legion Dr. Peacock Guild--For Writers and Book Lovers

A literary society for bibliophiles and writers. Writer’s Salon meetings are first Tues. and third Wed. at 7:30pm at the Flannery O’Connor Home. Book club meetings are third Tues., 7:30pm.

Location changes each month. Call or see Facebook group “Peacock Guild” for info. . 912-233-6014. Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Street.

Philo Cafe

Weekly Monday discussion group that meets 7:30pm - 9:00pm at various locations. Anyone craving good conversation is invited. Free to attend. Email for info, or see ThePhiloCafe on Facebook. . athenapluto@yahoo.com.

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

Members of Starfleet International and The Klingon Assault Group meet the 1st Sunday at 4pm at 5429 LaRoche Ave., and the 3rd Tuesday at 7:30pm at Super King Buffet, 10201 Abercorn St., Call or email for info. . 912-308-2094. kasak@ comcast.net. roguephoenix.org.

Safe Kids Savannah

A coalition dedicated to preventing childhood injuries. Meets 2nd Tuesday each month, 11:30am-1:00pm. See website or call for info. . 912-353-3148. safekidssavannah.org.

Savannah Authors Autonomous Writing Group

Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays each month. Prose writing, fiction and non fiction. Discussion, constructive criticism, instruction, exercises and examples. Location: Charles Brown Antiques/Fine Silver, 14 W. Jones St. All are welcome. No charge. Contact Alice Vantrease via email or phone. . 912308-3208. alicevantrease@live.com.

Savannah Charlesfunders Investment Discussion Group

Meets Saturdays, 8:30am to discuss stocks, bonds and better investing.

Contact by email for info. . charlesfund@gmail.com. panerabread.com/.

Panera Bread (Broughton St.), 1 West Broughton St. Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

A dinner meeting the 4th Tuesday of the month at 6:00pm (except December.) Location: Hunter Club. Call John Findeis for info. . 912-748-7020.

Savannah Fencing Club

Beginner classes Tuesdays and

Thursdays for six weeks. $60. Some equipment provided. After completing the class, you may join the Savannah Fencing Club for $5/month. Experienced fencers welcome. Call or email for info. . 912-429-6918. savannahfencing@aol.com.

nah and make new friends. . savannahnewcomersclub.com.

Meets most Saturdays. Green events and places. Share ways to Go Green each day. Call for info. . 912-308-6768.

Savannah Sacred Harp Singers

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Savannah Jaycees

Meeting/info session held the 1st Tuesday each month at 6pm to discuss upcoming events and provide an opportunity for those interested in joining Jaycees to learn more. Must be age 21-40. Jaycees Building, 101 Atlas St. .

912-353-7700. savannahjaycees.com.

Savannah Kennel Club

Monthly meetings open to the public.

Held at Logan’s Roadhouse, the 4th Monday each month, Sept. through May. Dinner: 6:pm. Speaker: 7:30pm.

Guest speakers each meeting. . 912238-3170. savannahkennelclub.org.

Logan’s Roadhouse, 11301 Abercorn St. Savannah Newcomers Club

Open to women who have lived in the Savannah area for less than two years. Membership includes monthly luncheon and program. Activities, tours and events to help learn about Savan-

Savannah Parrot Head Club

Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check website for events calendar or send an email for Parrot Head gatherings. . savannahphc@yahoo.com. savannahphc.com.

Everyone who loves to sing is invited to join Savannah Sacred Harp Singers. All are welcome to participate or listen too one of America’s most revered musical traditions. Call or email. . 912-6550994. savannahsacredharp.com. Faith Primitive Baptist Church, 3212 Bee Road.

Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club

Meets Thursdays from 7:30am-8:30am at the Mulberry Inn. . savannahsunriserotary.org.

Savannah Toastmasters

Helps improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment. Mondays, 6:15pm, Memorial Health University Medical Center, Conference Room C. . 912-484-6710.

Savannah Writers Group

A gathering of writers of all levels for networking, hearing published guest authors, and writing critique in a friendly, supportive environment. 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7:00pm, Atlanta

Bread Company, Twelve Oaks Shopping Center, 5500 Abercorn. Free and open to the public. See website or call for info. . 912-572-6251. savannahwritersgroup.blogspot.com/group.

Seersucker Live’s Happy Hour for Writers

A no-agenda gathering of Savannah’s writing community. First Thursdays, 5:30pm-7:30pm. Free. Open to all writers, aspiring writers, or those interested in writing. 21+ with valid ID. Usually at Abe’s on Lincoln, 17 Lincoln St. See website for info. . seersuckerlive.com.

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla

Join the volunteer organization that assists the U.S. Coast Guard. Meets 4th Wednesday at 6pm at Barnes, 5320 Waters Ave. All ages welcome. Prior experience/boat ownership not required.

Call or see website for info. . 912-5987387. savannahaux.com.

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671

Meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell for info. . 912-927-3356.

Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation

Meets second Tuesday each month (except October) 6:00pm, WoodvilleTompkins, 151 Coach Joe Turner St. Call or email for info. . 912-232-3549. chesteraellis@comcast.net. t

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Savannah Brewers’ League

Meets 1st Wednesday of the month, 7:30pm at Moon River Brewing Co. Call or see website for info. . 912-4470943. hdb.org. moonriverbrewing.com/.

Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St.

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Conferences Beginners Belly Dance Classes

Instructed by Nicole Edge. All ages/ Skill levels welcome. Sundays, 12pm1pm. Fitness body and balance studio.

2127 1//2 E. Victory Dr. $15/class or $48/hour. Call or see website. . 912596-0889. cairoonthecoast.com.

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Dance Adult Ballet Class

Beginner and intermediate classes.

Fridays 10am-11:15am. Doris Martin Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. Call Elizabeth for info. . 912-354-5586.

Mondays and Wednesdays, 7pm-8pm. $12/class or $90/8 classes. Call for info. Academy of Dance, 74 W. Montgomery Crossroad. . 912-921-2190.

Beginners class, Wednesdays, 8pm.

Level II, Mondays, 8pm. $22/one class. $70/four classes. Preregistration required. Learn pole dance moves and spins while getting a full body workout. Pole Fitness Classes Monday/ Wednesday, 11am. Nothing comes off but your shoes. Call or see website for info. . 912-398-4776. fitnessbodybalance.com. Fitness Body & Balance Personal Training Studio, 2209 Rowland Ave, Suite 2.

Argentine Tango

Lessons Sundays 1:30-3;30pm. Open to the public. $3 per person. Wear closed toe leather shoes if possible.

Doris Martin Dance Studio, 8511-h ferguson Ave. Call or email for info. . 912-925-7416. savh_tango@yahoo. com.

Beginners Belly Dancing with Cybelle

For those with little-to-no dance background. Instructor is formally trained, has performed for over ten years. $15/person. Tues. 7pm-8pm.

Private classes and walk ins available.

Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave. . 912-414-1091. info@cybelle3.com. cybelle3.com.

C.C. Express Dance Team

Wednesdays, 6pm-8pm. Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary.

Call Claudia Collier for info. . 912748-0731. Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Windsor Forest.

Home Cookin’ Cloggers

Wednesdays, 6pm-8pm, Nassau Woods Recreation Building, Dean Forest Road. No beginner classes at this time. Call Claudia Collier for info. .

912-748-0731.

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The Irish dance show seen by millions around the world, just in time for the St. Patrick’s Day revelry. $25 - $52 Wed., March 13, 7:30 p.m. savannahcivic.com. savannahga.gov/cityweb/ civiccenter.nsf/a481b26274a85edf85 256b430049dbaa/056d57a67c9e954 685256b4300650733?OpenDocume nt. Wed., March 13, 7:30 p.m Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave.

Glor na Dare offers beginner to champion Irish Dance classes for ages 5 and up. Adult Step & Ceili, Strength and Flexibility, non-competitive and competitive programs, workshops, camps. Certified. Info via email or phone. . 912-704-2052. prideofirelandga@gmail.com.

Line Dancing

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Dance classes--hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step.

Modeling and acting classes. All ages/ all levels welcome. Call Mahogany for info. . 912-272-8329.

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Salsa Lessons by Salsa Savannah

Tues. 8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm.

Thur. 8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Sun. 5pm-6pm and 6pm-7pm. Salon de Maile, 704B Hodgson Memorial Dr., Savannah, 31406. See website for info. . salsasavannah.com.

Savannah Dance Club

Shag, swing, cha-cha and line dancing. Everyone invited. Call for location, days and times. . 912-398-8784.

Savannah Shag Club

Wednesdays, 7pm,at Doubles Lounge.

Fridays, 7pm, at American Legion Post 36, 2309 E. Victory Dr. . doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Savannah Swing Cats--Swing Dancing

. doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Zumba & Zumba Toning with Anne

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 7pm8pm. $5 per class, discounts available with punch card purchase. All levels welcome. Call for info. . 912-596-1952.

Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

Events 189th Savannah St. Patrick’s Day Parade

The wearin’ of the green has arrived again. Mass at Cathedral of St. John the Baptist at 8am. Parade route begins at Abercorn and Gwinnett Streets at 10:15am. Three-hour parade features over 350 marching units including bands, Irish families, and community businesses. (Yes, it’s on the 16th this year.) Free and open to the public. Sat., March 16. savannahsaintpatricksday.com. Sat., March 16 Downtown Design District Spring Fling

Join the 25+ merchants of Savannah’s Downtown Design District in a night of fun filled Spring late night shop-

Farm a la Carte: A Mobile Farmer’s Market

At various spots around town, including Green Truck on Wednesdays, 2:30pm6:30pm. Bethesda Farmers’ Market on Thursdays, 3:00-5:30pm. Forsyth Park Farmers’ Market on Saturdays, 9am-1pm. Sustainable meats, organic produce, local dairy. . revivalfoods.com. greentruckpub.com. Green Truck Pub, 2430 Habersham St. Farmers’ Market and Fleatique

Local vendors of regionally grown produce, antiques, flea market finds on Wilmington Island. Outdoor market or indoor booths. Free to attend. Booths for rent. Cents and Sensibility, 6703 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Saturdays, 9am1pm. Call for info. . 912-659-2900.

Free Income Tax Preparation

City of Savannah and the Chatham Savannah Asset Development Coalition host VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) sites for free income tax preparation, for residents/families with incomes less than $57,000. Sites: Savannah Entrepreneurial Center, 801 East Gwinnett Street. Moses Jackson Center, 1210 Richard Street. Windsor Forest Community Center, 414 Briarcliff Circle. Chatham County, 124 Bull Street. Economic Opportunity Authority (EOA), 618 West Anderson Street.

Neighborhood Improvement Association, 1816 Abercorn Street. St. Joseph’s Candler Hospital, 11700 Middleground Road. St. Mary’s Community Center, 812 West 36th Street Employment & Training center of Union Mission, 711 East Broad Street. Chatham Savannah Authority for the Homeless, 2301 Bull Street (By appointment ONLY 912-7903400) Through April 15. 912-447-5577. csadc.net. Through April 15 PICKGirl Scout Week at the Juliette Low

Birthplace

To celebrate 101 years of Girl Scouting (founded March 12, 1912) tour the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace to learn about this famous American woman and the movement she started in Savannah. Girl Scout cookies served. $8 adults, $7 children Through March 15.

912-233-4501. juliettegordonlowbirthplace.org. juliettegordonlowbirthplace. org/. Through March 15 Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, 10 East Oglethorpe Ave.

Graduate Studies Open House at Armstrong

A showcase of Armstrong Atlantic State University’s advanced degree programs. Faculty members will be available to discuss degrees in adult education and community leadership, professional communication and leadership, public health, computer science, criminal justice, nursing, physical therapy and sports medicine, and others. Refreshments. Tue., March 19, 4:30-6:30 p.m. 912-344-2798. graduate@armstrong.edu. armstrong.

edu. Tue., March 19, 4:30-6:30 p.m The Armstrong Center, 13040 Abercorn St.

Great Savannah Races 105th Birthday Celebration!

Celebrate the 105th Birthday of the 1st Great Savannah Race, which was held March 19, 1908. Celebrating three days early, during the parade. complimentary mimosas, beer and hors d’oeuvres in the museum and courtyard. Reservations are required. $50. Must be 21+ to purchase tickets. Sat., March 16, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 912-398-4785. tanya@ greatsavannahraces.com. greatsavannahraces.com. Sat., March 16, 10 a.m.2 p.m Great Savannah Races Museum, 411 Abercorn St. Guided Tours of the Lucas Theatre for the Arts

Learn the history of the historic Lucas Theatre on a 20-30 minute tour. Restoration, architecture, history of the theatre and of early cinema. $4. Group rates for ten or more. School trips available. No reservations needed for 10:30am, 1:30pm and 2pm. Other times by appointment. Call for info. . 912-5255023. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Harlem Globe Trotters

Basketball and comedy all rolled into one. $17 - $81 Thu., March 14, 7 p.m. savannahcivic.com. Thu., March 14, 7 p.m The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Historic Cannon Firings

History comes alive every Saturday and Sunday through March 17 at 11am and 2pm. $6 adults/fort admission. Free kids under 6. Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m. & 2 p.m.. chsgeorgia.org. chsgeorgia.org/Old-Fort-Jackson.html.

Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m. & 2 p.m.

Old Fort Jackson, 1 Fort Jackson Rd. Lecture: The Demands of Contemporary Democracy

Savannah Council on World Affairs presents Susan R. Johnson, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, discussion the position of U.S. diplomacy in the 21st century, and what can be done to support its global role.

Member social at 7:30pm. $10 General Admission. Free/World Affairs Council members, students, educators, active military & dependents. Thu., March 14, 8 p.m. 912-272-4466. klinsav@aol.com. savannahcwa.org. cgc.georgiasouthern. edu/. Thu., March 14, 8 p.m Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Lectures: Judaism on One Foot

A three-part discussion series on Judaism and its impacts on contemporary life for all people. Topics: Jewish views of the afterlife, Kosher sex, Intermarriage, How to read the Bible, The State of Israel: Jewish Democracy, and Is Kabalah Jewish? Presented by Rabbi Ruven Barkan. Free and open to the public. Wed., March 13, 7:30 p.m.

912-352-4737. agudath-achim.com.

Wed., March 13, 7:30 p.m Congregation Agudath Achim, 9 Lee Blvd.

On sale today: Phillip Phillips Tickets

Buy tickets for the April 7 concert by

American Idol season 11 winner and recording artist Phillip Phillips. Available at the Armstrong Atlantic State University Box Office or online. Sat., March 16. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/ index.html. Sat., March 16 Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Refresh Savannah

Monthly web and new media focused networking and info group, with a speaker each meeting. This month: Building Native Mobile apps isn’t only for those that know Objective-C and Java. Learn how you can create a native mobile application using Javascript via Appcelerator’s open sourced Titanium Mobile SDK. email for info Tue., March 19, 6-8 p.m. kevin@lawver.net. Tue., March 19, 6-8 p.m Thinc Savannah, 35 Barnard St. 3rd Floor.

Savannah Storytellers

Tall tales and fun times with the classic art of storytelling. Every Wednesday at 6pm. Reservations encouraged by calling 912-349-4059. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. liveoakstore.com/tubbysthunderbolt.

Wednesdays, 6 p.m Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. Sergeant William Jasper Green Ceremony

A St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee event: a memorial ceremony dedicated to the military,with special recognition for those of Irish descent. Free and open to the public. Fri., March 15, 5 p.m. 912-233-4804. SavannahSaintPatricksDay.com. savannahga.gov/ cityweb/p&tweb.nsf/02e67f6f5dc1d3e5 85256c2f0071940a/b3c6db5e9ee4c77f8 52571f7002c8d61?OpenDocument. Fri., March 15, 5 p.m Madison Square, West Harris Street.

Shire of Forth Castle Fighter Practice

Local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism meets Saturdays at Forsyth Park (south end) for fighter practice and general hanging out. For those interested in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. . savannahsca.org.

St. Patrick’s Day Celebration on the River

Six stages featuring dozens of mostly local bands beginning 2:30pm Friday and 11am Saturday. Bands on each stage about every two hours. Free to attend. $5 for wristband to drink outside in the Festival Zone (River Street to Broughton Street) March 15-16, 8-3 a.m. 912-234-0295. info@ riverstreetsavannah.com. riverstreetsavannah.com. savannahga.gov/ cityweb/mobilityweb.nsf/f43552dd7c50cae2852573b000734940/b93989c43 34a4a68852576f00070d9a8?OpenDocu ment. March 15-16, 8-3 a.m Rousakis Plaza, River St. StoryCorps in Spanish: Historias

Armstrong’s HOLA is partnering with StoryCorps, the national project that records people’s life stories. Historias seeks to record the stories and preserve the voices of Hispanic/Latino community. Call Armstrong’s HOLA office or see StoryCorps website. Recording days and times are flexible. March 19-29. 912-344-2652. hola@armstrong.

edu. armstrong.edu. about.armstrong. edu/Maps/index.html. March 19-29 Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Workshop: Self-Esteem/Empowerment, Self- Assertiveness/Advocacy.

The second of three Wednesday workshops in the Personal Well Being Workshop Series offered by Living Independence for Everyone, Inc. Free and open to the public. Wed., March 13, 1-3 p.m. 912-920-2414. sbulloch@lifecil. com. lifecil.com/. Wed., March 13, 1-3 p.m L.I.F.E., Inc. (Living Independently for Everyone), 5105 Paulsen Street, Suite 143-B.

Festivals St. Patrick’s Day Celebration at City Market

Two days of live music and more in City Market. City Market is now part of the Festival Zone, requiring a wristband for age 21+ to drink alcohol outdoors. Fri Free to attend. $5 wristband to drink outdoors in the Festival Zone, River Street to Broughton Street. March 1516. savannahcitymarket.com. March 15-16 City Market, Jefferson at West Saint Julian St.

Fitness AHA in the AM

Mondays and Fridays, 7:30am-9:00am.

Open to free form yoga/movement with guided meditation. A great way to start and end the work week. Email or see website for info. Fee: donations. . trickydame@gmail.com. trickydame. com. Anahata Healing Args Center, 2424 Drayton St. Al-Anon Family Groups

An anonymous fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics. the message of Al-Anon is one of strength and hope for friends/family of problem drinkers. Al-Anon is for adults. Alateen is for people age 13-19. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. check website or call for info. . 912-598-9860. savannahalanon.com.

Bariatric Surgery Support Group

First Wednesday each month, 7pm, and third Saturday, 10am, in Mercer Auditorium of Hoskins Center at Memorial. For those who have had or are considering bariatric surgery.

Free to attend. Call or see website for info. . 912-350-3438. memorialhealth. com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Beastmode Fitness Group Training

Train with this elite team. A total body program that trims, tones and gets results. Personal training options available. See website for info. Meets at West Broad YMCA. 5am-6am and 8pm-9pm. . beastmodefitnessga.com.

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ping. Free and open to the public. Thu., March 14, 5-9 p.m. 2050-903-0352. onefishstore.com. Thu., March 14, 5-9 p.m One Fish, Two Fish, 401 Whitaker St.

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classes in downtown Savannah, and on request. $10 per person. Email for info. . bohemianbeats.com.

Blue Water Yoga

Community donation-based classes, Tues. and Thurs., 5:45pm - 7:00pm.

Fri., 9:30am-10:30am. Email for info or find Blue Water Yoga on Facebook. . egs5719@aol.com. Talahi Island Community Club, 532 Quarterman Dr.

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Fitness Classes at the JEA

Sin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba. Prices vary. Call for schedule. . 912-355-8811. savj.org. savannahjea. org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Free Caregiver Support Group

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27 Richard or Maurice of 1940s fast food 32 Trips around the earth 36 Village Voice award 37 Golfer Palmer 38 Yoko of “Dear Yoko” 39 SeaWorld star attraction 40 Geometric shape: abbr.

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10 After-dinner wine 11 Krabappel of “The Simpsons” 12 ___ to rest 13 Soapmaking caustic 21 California/Nevada lake 22 Makes new friends?

26 Hill of the Clarence Thomas scandal 27 Secondary study 28 Not in any way 29 Having ___ hair day 30 Super-long ride 31 Two, in Toulouse 32 Pop singer Anthony 33 “Moral ___” (Cartoon Network show) 34 Way back when 35 Exhausted 39 Market divisions?

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42 Club on the fairway 44 Option given by Howie Mandel 47 Wesley Snipes title role 48 Pumbaa’s cartoon buddy 49 Rickman, in the “Harry Potter” films 50 Terms and conditions option 51 Snipe or thrush 52 Line on a graph 53 Pleasant 54 It may be spliced 55 Monkees member Peter 56 Wallace of “E.T.”

For anyone caring for senior citizens with any affliction or illness. Second Saturday of the month, 10am-11am. Savannah Commons, 1 Peachtree Dr. Refreshments. Free to attend. Open to anyone i need of support for the caregiving they provide. . savannahcommons.com.

Hiking & Biking at Skidaway Island State Park

Year round fitness opportunities. Walk or run the 1-mile Sandpiper Nature Trail (accessible) the additional 1-mile Avian Loop Trail, or 3-mile Big Ferry Trail. Bicycle and street strider rentals. Guided hikes scheduled. $5 parking. Open daily 7am-10pm. Call or see website. . 912598-2300. gastateparks.org/SkidawayIsland. gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/.

Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Israeli Krav Maga Self-Defense Classes

A system of self-defense techniques based on several martial arts. The official fighting system of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Custom Fit offers individual and small group training and intensive workshops. . 912-441-4891. customfitcenter.com.

Kung Fu School: Ving Tsun

Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) is the world’s fastest growing martial arts style. Uses angles and leverage to tunr an attacker’s strength against him. Call for info on free trial classes. Drop ins welcome.

11202 White Bluff Rd. . 912-429-9241.

Mommy and Baby Yoga

Mondays. Call for times and fees or see website. . 912-232-2994. savannahyoga. com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Pilates Classes

Daily classes for all skill levels including beginners. Private and semiprivate classes by appointment. Carol Daly-Wilder, certified instructor. Call or see website for info. . 912-238-0018. savannahpilates.com. pilatessavannah. com/. Momentum Pilates Studio, 8413 Rerguson Ave. Pregnancy Yoga

series of 6-week classes. Thursdays. A mindful approach to pregnancy, labor and delivery. Instructor Ann Carroll. $100. Call or email for info. . 912-7047650. ann@aikyayoga.com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St.

Qigong Classes

Qigong exercises contribute to a healthier and longer life. Classes offer a time to learn the exercises and perform them in a group setting. Class length averages 60 min. Any level of practice is welcome. $15 . qigongtim.com/. Anahata Healing Args Center, 2424 Drayton St. 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, 912-7565865, or Billy Tomlinson, 912-596-5965. .

Savannah Climbing CoOp Ladies Night

Every Wednesday women climb for half price, 6pm-10pm. $5. 302 W. Victory Dr., Suite D. See website for info. . savannahclimbingcoop.com.

Savannah Disc Golf

Weekly events (entry $5) Friday Night Flights: Fridays, 5pm. Luck of the Draw Doubles: Saturdays, 10am. Handicapped League: Saturdays, 1pm. Singles at the Sarge: Sundays, 10am. All skill levels welcome. Instruction available. See website or email for info. . savannahdiscgolf@gmail.com. savannahdiscgolf. com.

Savannah Striders Running and Walking Club

With a one-year, $10 membership,free training programs for beginners (walkers and runners) and experienced athletes. Fun runs. Advice from mentors.

Monthly meetings with quality speakers.

Frequent social events. Sign up online or look for the Savannah Striders Facebook page. . savystrider.com.

Tai Chi Lessons in Forsyth Park

Tuesdays, 9am-10am. $10. North End of Forsyth Park. Email for info. . relaxsavannah@gmail.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Turbo Kick Cardio Workout

Lose calories while dancing and kickboxing. No experience or equipment needed. Tues. and Thurs. 6pm, Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton Wed. 6pm Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. $5 . 586-8221021. facebook.com/turbokicksavannah.

Welcome to Yoga: What’s in it For Me?

For the yoga-curious, a chance to explore some of yoga’s many potential benefits. Ease tension, discomfort and pain; improve concentration and focus; calm emotional reactions. Good for those in less-than-great physical condition or nervous about yoga. $10 Wednesdays 9:30am-10:45am Call or see website. . 912-655-4192. ganeshasplace.com. ganeshasplace.com/.

Ganesha’s Place, 2323 Barnard St. Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors

Free for people with cancer and cancer survivors. 6:30pm Tuesdays. 12:45pm Thursdays. Fitness One, 3rd floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine at Memorial. Call for info. . 912-350-9031. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Yoga on the Beach

Wednesdays and Fridays at Tybees’s

Zumba and Zumba/Toning with Mai

Mondays, Lake Mayer 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. Zumba Toning/Lake Mayer Community Center 7:05pm. $5. Basic Zumba Tues & Thurs 10-10:45am, Curves in Sav’h Mall, $3/members, $5/ Gen. Adm. Tues. 5:30-6:30pm, St. Paul CME Social Hall, 123 Brady St. $3 Per class. Zumba Toning Tues. 7:00pm, Lake Mayer Community Center, $5.

Weds 9:30-10:15am, Frank Murray Community Center, Wilmington Island, $3. Zumba Toning/Thurs. 10am, Curves at Savannah Mall, $5. Fri. Zumba, 10am, Lake Mayer Community Center, $5. Bring water, proper shoes and attire. Contact Mai @ 912-604-9890. .

912-604-9890.

Zumba Fitness (R) with April

Mondays at 5:30pm, Thursdays at 6:30pm. Nonstop Fitness in Sandfly, 8511 Ferguson Ave. $5 for nonmenbers. call for info. . 912-349-4902.

Food Events Balsamic Vinegar and Ice Cream Pairings and Tastings

4 p.m.. shop.lowcountrygourmetfoods. com/. 4 p.m. Low Country Gourmet Foods, 10 West Broughton St. Forsyth Farmers Market

Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights. Rain or shine. Free to attend. Items for sale. 912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St.

Gay & Lesbian 25th Annual FCN Oyster Roast

Oysters! Plus beer, soft drinks, hotdogs, vegetarian options, and fellowship. 5th Annual Golden Oyster Award.

50/50 Pot ‘O’ Gold & Silent Auction $15 FCN members. $20/non-members. $10 under 12. Free under age 5. 912-236CITY. firstcitynetwork.net. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

First City Network Board Meeting

First Monday, 6:30pm, at FCN office, 307 E. Harris St. 2nd floor. Call or see website for info. . 912-236-CITY. firstcitynetwork.org.

Gay AA Meeting

True Colors Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, a gay and lesbian AA meeting that welcomes all alcoholics, meets Thursdays and Sundays, 7:30pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 311 E. Harris, 2nd floor. New location effective 11/2012. .

Georgia Equality Savannah

Local chapter of Georgia’s largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 912-5476263. .

Savannah Pride, Inc.

Organizes the annual Savannah Pride Festival and helps promote the wellbeing of the LGBT community in the South. Mission: unity through diversity and social awareness. Second Tuesday/month, 7pm, at FCN office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. . 912-288-7863. heather@savpride.com.

Stand Out Youth

A gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth organization.

Meets Fridays, 7pm, FCN office, 307 E. Harris St. Call, email or see website for info. . 912-657-1966. info@standoutyouth.org. standoutyouth.org.

What Makes a Family

A children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Ages 10 to 18. Meets twice a month. Call for info. . 912-3522611.

Health Alcoholics Anonymous

For people who want or need to stop drinking, AA can help. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. Free to attend or join. Check website for meeting days/times, or call 24 hours a day. .

912-356-3688. savannahaa.com.

Armstrong Prescription Drug Drop-Off

Armstrong Atlantic State Univ. hosts a permanent drop box for disposing of unused prescription drugs and over the counter medication. In the lobby of the University Police building on campus.

Open to the public 24 hours/day, year round. Confidential. All items collected are destroyed by the Drug Enforcement Administration. . 912-344-3333. armstrong.edu. about.armstrong.edu/ Maps/index.html. Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Bariatric Surgery Information Session

Information on bariatric surgery and the program at Memorial Health Bariatrics. Learn surgical procedures offered, support and education programs involved, and how bariatric surgery can affect patients’ lives. Call or see website for info. Free to attend.

Hoskins Center at Memorial. . 912350-3438. bariatrics.memorialhealth. com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Free Hearing and Speech Screening

Hearing: Thursdays, 9am-11am.

Speech: First Thursdays,. Call or see website for times. . 912-355-4601. savannahspeechandhearing.org. savannahspeechandhearing.org/. Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St.

Free HIV Testing at Chatham County Health Dept.

Free walk-in HIV testing. 8am-4pm Mon.-Fri. No appointment needed.

Test results in 20 minutes. Follow-up visit and counseling will be set up for anyone testing positive. Call for info. .

912-644-5217. Chatham County Health Dept., 1395 Eisenhower Dr. Health Care for Uninsured People

Open for primary care for uninsured residents of Chatham County. Mon.Fri., 8:30am-3:30pm. Call for info or appointment. . 912-443-9409. St. Joseph’s/Candler--St. Mary’s Health Center, 1302 Drayton St. Hypnobirthing

Teaches mother and birth partner to use her natural instincts, trust her body, release emotions and facilitate relaxation during labor and delivery.

Five class series on Monday evenings, 6pm. Location: 100 Riverview Dr. $300/ group sessions. $600/private sessions.

Call or email for info and reservations. . 912-704-7650. carroll362@bellsouth. net.

Hypnosis, Guided Imagery and Relaxation Therapy

Helps everyday ordinary people with everyday ordinary problems: smoking,

weight loss, phobias, fears, ptsd, life coaching. Caring, qualified professional help. See website or call for info. . 912927-3432. savannahypnosis.com.

La Leche League of Savannah

A breast feeding support group for new/ expectant monthers. Meeting/gathering first Thursdays, 10am. Call or see website for location and other info. .

912-897-9544. lllusa.org/web/savannahga.html.

Living Smart Fitness Club

An exercise program encouraging healthy lifestyle changes. Mon. & Wed. 6pm-7:15pm Hip Hop low impact aerobics at Delaware Center. Tues. 5:307:00 Zumba at St. Joseph’s Candler African American Resource Center.

(Program sponsors.) . 912-447-6605.

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North End. 7am-8am, weather permitting. Come to North Beach Parking Area, Gulick Street walkover. Multi-level class. Hatha 1 and 2. Instructor Ann Carroll. Bring yoga mat or beach towel.

Call or email for info. Fee: donations. . 912-704-7650. ann@aikyayoga.com.

North Beach, Tybee Island.

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Savannah CPR Initiative

An initiative by the City of Savannah to train 6,000 Savannahians in CPR by year’s end. The City will train 1,000 Savannahians in CPR this year. Each of these trainees will in turn pledge to train at least five other individuals, bringing to 6,000 the total number of Savannahians trained in CPR. The hope is that “Savannah’s 6,000” will vastly improve our community’s ability to respond to sudden cardiac emergencies, doubling our survival rate for witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Call for info. . 912-651-6410.

Kid’s Happenings Irish Dancers of Savannah

Savannah’s first organized Irish dance school welcomes dancers, ages 4 and up. Learn Irish Step and Ceili (Irish square) Dancing at a relaxed pace.

Convenient mid-town location. Whether just for fun, or for competition, IDS is for everyone. Adult classes available.

Call or email for info. . 912-897-5984. irishdancsav@aol.com.

Pre-K Lottery Application Period

Online and in-person enrollment for Savannah Chatham County Public School’s lottery system for Pre-Kindergarten. Parents can now apply for enrollment online! Parents of children who will be four years of age before or on September 1, 2013, may apply at pk.sccpss.com or at any of the school sites offering the Pre-K program.

Through March 22. 912-395-5530. pk.sccpss.com. Through March 22 Online only, none.

Spring Break Art Camp--Enrolling Now

City of Savannah’s camp is now enrolling for spring break, April 1-5, 9am5pm. For children ages 5-12. Intro to painting, ceramics, mixed media and performing arts, in age appropriate group settings. Fee includes all materials. Five-year-olds must currently be enrolled in kindergarten. See website for forms and enrollment. $135 . 912651-6783. savannahga.gov/arts. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St.

Toddler Tuesdays at Oatland Island Wildlife Center

Toddlers 6 months to 4 years, and their adults. Themed programs--story books, singing songs, finger puppet plays, crafts, guided walks, up close encounters with Oatland animals. Preregister by 4pm Monday. $5 children.

Gen. Admission for adults ($5 or $3 for military & seniors) Tuesdays. 912-3951500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland. org/. Tuesdays Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd.

Music 13th Colony Sound (Barbershop Singing)

“If you can carry a tune, come sing with us!” Mondays, 7pm. . 912-344-9768. savannahbarbershoppers.org. Thunderbolt Lodge #693, 3111 Rowland Ave.

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Give the gift of music. Piano lessons with a classically trained instructor, with theater and church experience.

Adults & children welcome. All levels.

Call Renee Miles, 912-312-3977. GA Music Warehouse. . georgiamusicwarehouse.com/. Georgia Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St.

Nature and Environment Dolphin Project

Dolphin Project’s Education Outreach Program is available to speak at schools, clubs, organizations. A powerpoint presentation with sound and video about estuarine dolphins and their environment. Age/grade appropriate programs and handouts. See website for info. . thedolphinproject.org.

Recycling Fundraiser for Economic Opportunity Authority

Support EOA through the FundingFactory Recycling Program. Recycle empty cartridges, cell phones, small electronics, laptops, to EOA for recycling. They will receive technology products and cash. Businesses may also recycle items on behalf of EOA for credit. Drop off at EOA, 681 W. Anderson St. See website, email or call for info. . 912238-2960 x126. dwproperty@aol.com. fundingfactory.com.

Solar Champions Monthly Meeting

A group of people involved or interested in solar energy. This month’s topics: Unveil new design for educational model. Raise awareness for special commercial tax breaks in 2013. Plan Earth Day display. Free and open to the public Tue., March 19, 5:45-7 p.m.

912-233-4288. satisfiedsav.com/. Tue., March 19, 5:45-7 p.m Satisfied, 301 West Broughton St. Walk on the Wild Side

A two-mile Native Animal Nature Trail winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland, salt marsh habitats, featuring live native animal exhibits.

Open daily, 10am-4pm except Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years. Call or see website for info. . 912-898-3980. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland.org/.

Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Wilderness Southeast

A variety of programs each month including guided trips with naturalists.

Canoe trips, hikes. Mission: develop appreciation, understanding, stewardship, and enjoyment of the natural world.

Call or see website for info. . 912-2368115. wilderness-southeast.org.

Pets & Animals Low Cost Pet Clinic

TailsSpin and Dr. Stanley Lester, DVM, host low-cost pet vaccine clinics for students, military and seniors the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. 5pm-6pm. Vaccinations: $12, ($2 is donated to Savannah pet rescue agencies). See website for info. .

tailsspin.com. tailsspin.com. TailsSpin Pet Supplies Store, 4501 Habersham St. St. Almo’s

Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks on Sundays, 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at Canine Palace. Call for info. . 912-2343336. caninepalacesavannah.com.

Canine Palace Inc, 618 Abercorn St.

Readings & Signings Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

Meets last Sunday of the month, 4pm.

Call for info. . 912-447-6605. sjchs.org/ body.cfm?id=399. African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Tea Time at Ola’s (Book Club)

A book discussion group that meets the 4th Tuesday, 1pm. Bring a book you’ve read this month and tell all about it.

Treats to share are always welcomed.

Tea is provided. Call for info. . 912-2325488. liveoakpl.org/. Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 East Bay St.

Religious & Spiritual Band of Sisters Prayer Group

All women are invited. Second Tuesdays, 7:30am-8:30am. Fellowship Assembly, 5224 Augusta Rd. Email or call Jeanne Seaver or see website for info.

“The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hands of the Lord.” (Prov.

21:1) . 912-663-8728. jeanneseaver@ aol.com. capitolcom.org/georgia.

Catholic Singles

A group of Catholic singles age 30-50 meet frequently for fun, fellowship and service. Send email or check website to receive announcements of activities and to suggest activities for the group. . familylife@diosav.org. diosav.org/ familylife-singles.

Guided Silent Prayer

Acoustical songs, 30 minutes of guided silent prayer, and minutes to receive prayer or remain in silence. Wednesdays, 6:45-8:00pm at Vineyard Church, 615 Montgomery St. See website for info. . vineyardsavannah.org.

A New Church in the City, For the City

Gather on Sundays at 10:30am. Like the Facebook page “Savannah Church Plant.” . Bryson Hall, 5 E. Perry St. Read the Bible in One Year

A Bible book club for those wanting to read the Bible in one year. Open to all. Book club format, not a traditional Bible study. All welcome, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, religion.

Thurs. 6:00pm-7:00pm. Call for info. . 912-233-5354. Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, 622 E. 37th Street.

Savannah Friends Meeting (Quakers)

Un-programmed worship. 11am Sundays, third floor of Trinity United Methodist Church. Call or email for info. All are welcome. . 912-308-8286. savbranart@gmail.com. trinitychurch1848.org/.

Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. Savannah Zen Center

Buddhist study classes, yoga workshops, retreats, Reiki sessions, attunements, meditation, classes, events. See website for location and schedule, or see Facebook page. . savannahzencenter.com.

Service of Compline

A chanted service by candlelight held every Sunday night at 9pm. “Say goodnight to God.” Presented by Christ Church Anglican. . Independent Presbyterian Church, Bull Street and Oglethorpe Ave. South Valley Baptist Church

Weekly Sunday services. Sunday school, 10:00am. Worship, 11:30am.

Tuesday Bible Study/Prayer Service, 6:30pm. Pastor Rev. Dr. Barry B. Jackson, 480 Pine Barren Road, Pooler, GA “Saving a nation one soul at a time.” .

Theology on Tap

Meets on the third Monday, 8:30pm10:30pm. Like the Facebook page: Theology on Tap Downtown Savannah. . distillerysavannah.com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah

Liberal religious community where people with different beliefs gather as one faith. Sundays, 11am. Email, call or see website for info. . 912-234-0980. admin@uusavannah.org. uusavannah.org. uusavannah.org. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. Unity Church of Savannah

Sunday Celebration services 9:15am and 11am. Children’s Church and childcare 11am. Thursday noon prayer service. See website or call for info on classes, workshops, and more. .

912-355-4704. unityofsavannah.org. unityofsavannah.org/. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd.

Sports & Games Adult Coed Flag Football League

8x8 Coed Flag League. Play adult sports, meet new people. Sponsored

by Savannah Adult Recreation Club.

Wed. nights/Sun. mornings, at locations around Savannah. $450. Minimum 8 games. Ages 18+. Coed teams. See website or call for info. . 912-220-3474. savadultrec.com.

Adult Coed Ultimate Frisbee League

Sponsored by Savannah Adult Recreation Club. Thurs. nights/Sun. morning matches. in Daffin and Forsyth Parks. $350/team. Ages 18+. Call or see website for info. . 912-220-3474. savadultrec.com.

Adult Kickball League

Sponsored by Savannah Adult Recreation Club. Spring 2013 games now under way. Ages 18+. Call or see website for info. Through May 4. 912-220-3474. savadultrec.com. Through May 4 Derby Devil’s Annual Erin Go Brawl Roller Derby Scrimmage

Derby Devils has invited teams from around the region to scrimmage and then celebrate, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. Tickets are $5.00 for adults.

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Roller derby league offers 12-week courses for beginners, recreational scrimmaging for experienced players and two annual bootcamp programs.

See website for info. . savannahderby. com.

Grief 101 Support Group

Seven-week morning or eventing adult support grooup offers tools to learn to live with loss. Tuesdays, 10am-11am; or Thursdays, 6:00pm-7:00pm. Free of charge. Offered by Hospice Savannah, Inc. Call for info. . 912-303-9442. Full Circle Center for Education and Grief Support, 7212 Seawright Dr.

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USMNT (Soccer) American Outlaws Chapter

USMNT is a national soccer team that represents the U.S. in international soccer competitions. American Outlaws Savannah chapter of USMNT meets regularly. Call for details. .

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Savannah Bike Polo

Like regular polo, but with bikes instead of horses. Meets weekly. See facebook for info. . facebook.com/savannahbikepolo.

Sports sponsored by Savannah Adult Recreation League

Fun sports for grown ups. Upcoming sports for Spring 2013 are kickball, flag football, and volleyball, and ultimate Frisbee, and golf. See website for info. varies Through June 30.

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The “From Survival to Recovery” Adult Children of Alcoholics/Al-Anon Group is a fellowship and support group for those who grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes. Meets Thursdays, 5:45pm at the 24-Hour Club, 1501 Eisenhower Dr. Call for info. . 912-598-9860.

ARIES

(March 21-April 19) “If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid.” That could turn out to be a useful mantra for you in the coming week. Being pragmatic should be near the top of your priority list, whereas being judgmental should be at the bottom. Here’s another mantra that may serve you well: “Those who take history personally are condemned to repeat it.”

I hope you invoke that wisdom to help you escape an oppressive part of your past. Do you have room for one more inspirational motto, Aries? Here it is: “I am only as strong as my weakest delusion.”

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20) Don’t you just love to watch the spinning of those wheels within wheels within wheels? Aren’t you grateful for the way the everchurning plot twists keep you alert and ready to shift your attitude at a moment’s notice? And aren’t you thrilled by those moments when fate reveals that its power is not absolute -- that your intelligence and willpower can in fact override the seemingly inexorable imperatives of karma? If you are unfamiliar with the pleasures I’ve just described, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to get deeply acquainted.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20) It won’t be a good week to issue unreasonable, illogical, and selfcentered demands. And please don’t make peanut butter and jelly a part of your sex life, take a vacation in Siberia, or photocopy your butt and deliver it anonymously to your boss. On the other hand, it will be an excellent time to scrawl motivational poetry on your bedroom wall, stage a slowmotion pillow fight, and cultivate your ability to be a deep-feeling free-thinker. Other recommended actions: Give yourself a new nickname like Highball or Root Doctor or Climax Master; write an essay on “The Five Things That the Pursuit of Pleasure Has Taught Me;” and laugh uproariously as you completely bypass the void of sadness and the abyss of fear.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22) In the mid-19th century, prospectors mined for gold in the mountains of western Nevada.

The veins weren’t as rich as those in California, but some men were able to earn a modest living. Their work to extract gold from the terrain was hampered by a gluey blue mud that gummed up their machinery. It was regarded as a major nuisance. But on a hunch, one miner took a load of the blue gunk to be analyzed by an expert.

He discovered that it contained rich deposits of silver. So began an explosion of silver mining that made many prospectors very wealthy. I suggest you be on the alert for a metaphorical version of blue mud in your sphere, Cancerian: an “inconvenience” that seems to interfere with the treasure you seek, but that is actually quite valuable.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22) When pioneer filmmaker Hal Roach worked on scripts with his team of writers, he sometimes employed an unusual strategy to overcome writer’s block. He’d bring in a “Wildie” to join them at the conference table. A Wildie was either a random drunk they found wandering around the streets or a person who lived in an insane asylum. They’d engage him in conversation about the story they were working on, and he would provide unexpected ideas that opened their minds to new possibilities. I don’t necessarily recommend that you seek the help of a Wildie, Leo, but I hope you will come up with other ways to spur fresh perspectives. Solicit creative disruptions!

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Is the term “unconscious mind” a good name for the foundation of the human psyche? Should we really be implying that the vast, oceanic source of everything we think and feel is merely the opposite of the conscious mind? Dreamworker Jeremy Taylor doesn’t think so. He proposes an alternate phrase to replace “unconscious”: “not-yet-speech-ripe.” It captures the sense of all the raw material burbling and churning in our deep awareness that is not graspable through language. I bring this up, Virgo, because you’re entering a phase when a lot of not-yetspeech-ripe stuff will become speech-ripe. Be alert for it!

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

In 1928, biologist Alexander Fleming launched a medical revolution.

He developed the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin, making it possible to cure a host of maladies caused by hostile bacteria. His discovery was a lucky fluke that happened only because he left his laboratory a mess when he went on vacation. While he was gone, a bacteria culture he’d been working with got contaminated by a mold that turned out to be penicillin. I’m thinking that you could achieve a more modest but quite happy accident sometime soon, Libra. It may depend on you allowing things to be more untidy than usual, though.

Are you game?

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “I am iron resisting the most enormous Magnet there is,” wrote the Sufi mystic poet Rumi.

He was wistfully bemoaning his own stubborn ignorance, which tricked him into refusing a more intimate companionship with the Blessed Source of all life. I think there’s something similar going on in most of us, even atheists. We feel the tremendous pull of our destiny -- the glorious, daunting destination that would take all our strength to achieve and fulfill our deepest longings -- and yet we are also terrified to surrender to it.

What’s your current relationship to your Magnet, Scorpio? I say it’s time you allowed it to pull you closer.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21) NASA used whale oil to lubricate the Hubble Space Telescope and Voyager spacecrafts. There was a good reason: Whale oil doesn’t freeze at the low temperatures found in outer space. While I certainly don’t approve of killing whales to obtain their oil, I want to use this story to make a point.

It’s an excellent time for you, too, to use old-school approaches for solving ultra-new-school problems. Sometimes a triedand-true method works better, or is cheaper, simpler, or more aesthetically pleasing.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19) The theory of the “butterfly effect” proposes that a butterfly flapping its wings in China may ultimately impact the weather in New York.

Here’s how the writer Richard Bernstein explains it: “Very slight,

nearly infinitesimal variations and the enormous multiplicity of interacting variables produce big differences in the end.” That’s why, he says, “the world is just too complicated to be predictable.” I find this a tremendously liberating idea. It suggests that every little thing you do sends out ripples of influence that help shape the kind of world you live in. The coming week will be an excellent time to experiment with how this works in your daily life. Put loving care and intelligent attention into every little thing.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Former football quarterback Joe Ayoob holds the world’s record for throwing a paper airplane the longest distance. After it left his hand, the delicate craft traveled over 226 feet. I propose we make Ayoob your patron saint and role model for the coming week. From what I can tell, you will have a similar challenge, at least metaphorically: blending power and strength with precision and finesse and control.

It’s time to move a fragile thing or process as far as possible.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20) A source of fulfillment you will enjoy in the future may seem almost painful when it initially announces its presence. In other words, your next mission may first appear to you as a problem. Your situation has a certain resemblance to that of prolific Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, who produced a wide variety of enduring works, including symphonies, ballets, operas, and concertos. When he was a precocious child, he was assailed by the melodies and rhythms that frequently surged through his mind. “This music! This music!” he complained to his mother.

“Take it away! It’s here in my head and won’t let me sleep!”

Alcoholics Anonymous

For people who want or need to stop drinking, AA can help. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. Free to attend or join. Check website for meeting days/times, or call 24 hours a day. .

912-356-3688. savannahaa.com.

Alzheimer’s Caregiver and Family Support Group

For individuals caring for Alzheimer’s and dementia family members. Second Monday, Wilm. Isl. United Methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island Rd. Second Thursday, Ruth Byck Adult Care Center, 64 Jasper St. Sponsored by Senior Citizens, Inc. Call for info. . 912236-0363 x143.

Amputee Support Group

Open to all who have had limbs amputated and their families or caregivers.

Call for info. . 912-355-7778.

Back Pain Support Group

Second Monday of every month,7:00pm.

Denny’s Restaurant at Hwy. 204. Everyone is welcome. For more info, contact Debbie at 912-727-2959 .

Brain Injury Support Group

For traumatic brain injury survivors and their caregivers. Third Thursdays, 5pm.

In the gym of the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial. . memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Breast Cancer Survivors Group

Tuesdays, 5:20pm at First Presbyterian Church. For survivors and caregivers.

Call for info. . 912-844-4524. fpc.presbychurch.net. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. Cancer Support Group

For anyone living with, through or beyond a cancer diagnosis. First Wednesdays, at Lewis Cancer Pavilion. Call for info. . 912-819-5704. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. Children’s Grief Support Group

Seven week structured educational support group for children 6-17. Support, coping tools, utilizing play and activity to learn to live with loss. Free of charge. A service of Hospice Savannah, Inc. Call for dates. . 912-303-9442. Full Circle Center for Education and Grief Support, 7212 Seawright Dr. Citizens With Retarded Citizens

For families with children or adults with autism, mental retardation, and other developmental disabilities. Meets monthly. Call for info. . 912-355-7633.

Citizens With Retarded Citizens, 1211 Eisenhower Drive.

Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Assoc.

Meets regularly to discuss issues affecting the lives of polio survivors. Call or see website for info. Free to attend. Next meeting March 23, 10:30am at Exchange

Couples with Fertility Challenges

Saturdays, 6:45pm at Savannah Christian Church. For couples dealing with primary or secondary infertility, whether for one or many years.

Call or email for info. . 912-596-0852. emptycradle_savannah@hotmail.com.

Savannah Christian Church, 55 Al Henderson Blvd.

Debtors Anonymous

For people with debting problems.

Meets Sundays, 5pm-6pm at Unity of Savannah. See website or call for info. .

912-572-6108. debtorsanonymous.org. unityofsavannah.org/. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd.

Eating Disorders Anonymous

Free, volunteer-led support group for recovery from anorexia/restrictive eating and/or bulimia/binge/purging.

Not a diet group, nor for those who struggle solely with overeating. Mondays, 7:30pm-8:30pm. Email for info. . edasavannah@yahoo.com. Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church, 1008 Henry St. Essential Tremor Support Group

For those with the disease, care partners, family and caregivers. Managing the disease, treatments and therapies, quality of life. First Thursdays, 3:00pm4:30pm. Call for info. . 912-819-2224.

Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. Fibromyalgia Support Group

Second Thursdays, 5:30pm-6:30pm.

Call or see website for info. . 912-8196743. sjchs.org. sjchs.org. Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5353 Reynolds Ave. Gambling Problem 12 Step Program

Twelve step program offers freedom from gambling. Meets weekly. Leave message with contact info. . 912-7484730.

Heartbeats for Life

Free support and education group for those who have suffered from or want to prevent or reverse heart disease and/or diabetes. One Tuesday/ month, 6pm. Call or email for date.

All meetings at Southwest Chatham Library. Next meeting Mar ch 19, How to Prevent / Reverse Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Featuring guest speaker: Arminda Perch from the Coastal Area Agency on Aging.. . 912-598-8457. jeff@ heartbeatsforlife-ga.org. Next meeting Mar ch 19, How to Prevent / Reverse Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Featuring guest speaker: Arminda Perch from the Coastal Area Agency on Aging.

Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Klinefelter Syndrome/47-XXY Support Group

For parents of children with this diagnosis, and for men with this diagnosis.

Started by the mother of a boy with 47XXY. Email to meet for mutual support. . amkw21@gmail.com.

Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group

For patients with blood-related cancers and their loved ones. Call or see website for info. . 912-350-7845. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/.

Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Narcotics Anonymous

Call for the Savannah Lowcountry Area NA meeting schedule. . 912-238-5925.

National Alliance of Mentally Ill

Weekly 90-minute support group for anyone with a mental health diagnosis. Also offer weekly family support group. Both meet Tuesdays, 6pm-8pm.

Free and open to the public. . Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd.

Parents of Children with IEP’s (Individualized Education Plans)

For parents of children attending Chatham-Savannah Public School System who have IEP plans, to offer mutual support through the challenges of the IEP process. Email for info. . amkw210@gmail.com.

Parents of Ill Children

guilt, anger, hurt and unanswered questions. Hospice Savannah/United Way of Coastal Empire/Coastal Suicide Prevention Alliance offer an support group. Third Thursdays, 6:30-7:30pm.

Safe and confidential. Free to attend.

Barbara Moss at Full Circle of Hospice Savannah, 912-629-1089. . Full Circle Center for Education and Grief Support, 7212 Seawright Dr.

Theatre Dinner Theater: Murder Ahoy!

A pirate-themed whodunit set in Olde Savannah. Performed throughout the entire room where you are dining. Solve the mystery and win a prize, or just watch. As interactive as you want it to be! Presented by Savannah Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre. $44.95 adults, $32.95 children 912-247-4644. /savannahcommunitytheater.com. doubletree3.hilton.com/en/hotels/georgia/ doubletree-by-hilton-hotel-savannahhistoric-district-SAVHTDT/index.html.

Double Tree Hotel, 411 West Bay St.

Backus Children’s Hospital sponsors this group for parents with a seriously ill child receiving inpatient or outpatient treatment. Case manager facilitates the meetings. Meets weekly. Call for info . 912-350-5616. memorialhealth. com/backus. memorialhealth.com/ backus. Backus Children’s Hospital, 4700 Waters Ave.

Play Reading: Trixie True: Teen Detective.

First Thursdays, 5pm-6:30pm, Marsh Auditorium at Candler. Call for info. . 912-355-6347. sjchs.org/. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St.

Theater: Shadowlands

Parkinson’s Support Group

PTSD Information Meeting

Presented by the Veterans Affairs Savannah Clinic, Open to anyone who wants more information about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and how to get help or how to help someone else.

Info via email. Tue., March 19, 6-7 p.m.

Christi.Oates@va.gov. alpost135.com/.

Tue., March 19, 6-7 p.m American Legion, Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Rape Crisis Center

Assists survivors of rape and sexual assault. Free, confidential counseling for victims and families. 24-hour Rape Crisis Line operates seven days a week.

912-233-7273. .

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Support Group

Second Tuesdays at 7pm in Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. For anyone with this disorder, plus family members/caregivers interested in learning more. Call for info. . 912-8582335. sjchs.org/. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. Spinal Injury Support Group

Third Thursdays, 5:30pm, at the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial. Call or see website for info. . 912-350-8900. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth. com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Survivors of Suicide Support Group

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SCAD Performance Ensemble reads musical comedy set in the 1940s based on the Nancy Drew Mystery series, with book, music and lyrics by Kelly Hamilton. Part of PE SCORES, a reading series led by Kevin Wallace. Free and open to the public, scad.edu. Mondanaro Theatre at Crites Hall, 217 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Collective Face Theatre Ensemble presents the love story of American divorcee Joy Davidman Gresham and British theologian and confirmed bachelor C.S. Lewis in Tony Award-winning play. $15/ Gen. Adm. $12/students & seniors 912232-0018. musesavannah.org/. Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd.

Volunteers Bethesda Seeks Volunteer Docents for New History Museum/Visitors Center

Bethesda seeks volunteer docents for their new visitors center/museum. Volunteer docents needed during regular museum hours, Thurs.-Sat. 10am4pm. Docents will share Bethesda’s rich history and inspiring legacy with visitors from across the country and around the world. . 912-351-2061.

Elizabeth.brown@bethesdaacademy. org. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. Dolphin Project Seeks Volunteers

Dolphin Project needs boat owners, photographers, and other volunteers to help with scientific research on the Atlantic Bottlenose dolphin along coastal Georgia. Must be age 18 or older. Call or see website for info. . 912-232-6572. thedolphinproject.org.

Good Samaritan Health Clinic

St. Joseph’s/Candler’s Good Samaritan Clinic in Garden City needs volunteer nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, Spanish interpreters and clerical staff. The clinic serves people

without insurance and those whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Call to volunteer. .

912-964-4326.

Hospice Volunteers Needed in Chatham and other Coastal Counties

Island Hospice, THA Group’s nonprofit hospice service, seeks volunteers for patient socialization and caregiver respite. Also seeking nonpatient contact volunteers who can contribute by providing services including, but not limited to, office work, crafting, sewing, light yard work, housekeeping, playing guitar for patients, and licensed hairdressers. Serving patients in Chatham, Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham, Liberty, Camden, Glynn, McIntosh, and Screven Counties in Georgia, and Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, Charleston, Colleton Counties in South Carolina. See website or email or call for info. . 888-842-4463. kbuttimer@thagroup.org. thagroup.org.

Live Oak Public Libraries

Volunteers needed to assist in a variety of ways at its branches in Chatham, Effingham, and Liberty Counties. Call or see website for info. . 912-652-3661. liveoakpl.org.

Medical Professional Volunteers Needed

St. Joseph’s/Candler’s St. Mary’s Health Center, a free clinic serving the uninsured, seeks physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, lab techs, and patient care techs. Non-clinical volunteers needed to to schedule appointments.

Contact Stephanie Alston. . 912-4439409. St. Joseph’s/Candler--St. Mary’s Health Center, 1302 Drayton St. Oatland Island Wildlife Center

Oatland Island Wildlife Center often needs volunteers. Call or see website for info. . 912-395-1500. oatlandisland. org. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Pre-School Volunteers Needed

Seeking early childhood education majors, retired elementary teachers and/or community residents to help 3 & 4 year olds with language development skills. Mon.-Fri., 9am-12noon. Call for info. . 912-447-0578. sjchs.org/1969. cfm. St. Mary’s Community Center and Health Center, 812 W 36th St. cs

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1535 East 54th Street: off Waters $795/month.

Westside 104 Mills Drive: 4BR/2BA, 2car garage, house for rent, OFF CHATHAM PKWY. $1225/mo.

801 W.39th Street: 3BR/1BA, $685/month.

2BR/1BA Apts. & House Newly Renovated, hardwood floors,carpet, paint, appliances, central heat/air, washer/dryer hookups. $495-$650/month, utilities may be added to rent if requested.

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

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FOR RENT 1413 New Castle St 2 BR/1 BA, Fenced Yard, CH/A , Kitchen appliance included, washer / dryer hook-up. $ 765mo / $ 700dep.

912-925-0121/704-6983

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•109 West 41st: Lower 1BR Apt., 1.5BA, CH&A$450 + security •1021 West 41st: 3BR house, LR, DR, CH&A $700 + security •728 West 39th: Large 4BR house, CH&A $700 + security deposit.

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3BR/2BA $1,000 + security •1200 e. 37th: 2BR house, gas heat $500 + security •838 W. 39th: 3BR house, CH&A $600 + security •1010 W. 51st: 3BR house $600 + security.

Call Lester, 313-8261 or 234-5650

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

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

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 $475.00 A Month Two bedroom , one bath single wide mobile home. Electric Heat and AC. $475.00 rent , $350.00 security deposit. Patricia Fields Realty 912-414-7667 FURNISHED EFFICIENCY: 1510 Lincoln Street. $165/week plus deposit. Includes microwave, refrigerator, central heat & air & utilities! Call 912.231.0240

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2BR/1BA, carport, quiet area. $600/month includes water & trash pickup. Call 912-667-3968 or 912-667-1860

HOME FOR RENT: 3BR/2 full baths, LR/DR combo, den, kitchen, laundry room, garage. Windsor Forest area. $995 + deposit.

912-927-2905 HOUSES 4 Bedrooms 623 Windsor Rd $1200 3 Bedrooms 215 Laurelwood $895 235 Bordeaux Ln. $875 5637 Betty Dr. $875 714 Beauregard $825 2214 E.43rd St. $825 2 Soling Ave $875 1906 E.58th St. $750 POOLER: 1254 Robert’s Way $895 CONDOS 2 Bedroom Condo GEORGETOWN 40 Sand Dollar $795 SOUTHSIDE Windsor Crossing $650 APARTMENTS One Bedroom 110 E. Gaston $895 FOR DETAILS & PICTURES VISIT OUR WEB PAGE WWW.PAMTPROPERTY.COM Pam T Property 692-0038

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

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214 Baker St, Neat 2BR/1BA, CH/A, Appliances included. $600mo/$600dep

912-238-9300

MIDTOWN AREA, Very nice furnished efficiency apartment, suitable for one person, utilities included, $200 week plus dep. No smoking. No pets. 912-236-1952

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912-844-5996 OR 912-272-6820 SMALL 2ND FLOOR Studio Apt. with private entrance on Louisiana Avenue. Furnished kitchen, offstreet parking $295/month, $150/security deposit.

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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. $925/month, $500/deposit.

7304 Mayer Ave. Nice 2BR/2BA, W/D connection, kitchen equipped $875/month, $500/dep.

DAVIS RENTALS 310 E. MONTGOMERY XROADS 912-354-4011 OR 656-5372 VERY NICE 1 Bedroom Furnished, Upstairs Apt. Washer/dryer included. Suitable for single adult. $800/month, $500/deposit. No pets, no smoking. 912-236-1952

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3BR/2BA, carpet, fenced yard.

Quiet street. $725/month + deposit. No Section 8. 912-234-0548

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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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CLEAN, comfortable rooms. Washer/dryer, air, cable, ceiling fans. $115-$145 weekly. No deposit.

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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.

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LARGE VICTORIAN with windows on two sides, across from library, nicely furnished, all utilities.

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

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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.

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NICE ROOM FOR RENT. NO DRUGS! 2 BR HOUSE FOR RENT $ 450 912-844-8716 ROOM FOR RENT: $110 per week plus $65/security deposit. Corner of 38th & Drayton. 234-9779 ROOM FOR RENT: Safe Environment. Central heat/air, cable, telephone service. $450-$550 monthly, $125/security deposit, No lease.

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1992 CHEVROLET TIARA Van, good condition, good tires, interior/exterior good condition. 74K $6,000. 912-354-3609

2002- Chrysler Town & Country Van, Wheel chair accessible from the back entrance, low miles $6500-7900 912 412-1146 /912 352-0406 CHEVROLET Monte Carlo, 1999Low miles, automatic, 2-door, clean. $2,950. 441-2150

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2013 Accord Sedan Offer valid from 1/3/2013 through 3/4/2013 CVT LX $249.00 per Special month for 36 months.

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Excludes taxes, titles and dealer fees. $2,299.00 total due at signing.

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Closed end lease for 2013 Accord Sedan CVT LX (CR2F3DEW) available from January 3, 2013 through March 4, 2013, to well-qualified lessees approved by Honda Financial Services. Not all lessees will qualify. Higher taxes, titles fees. lease rates apply for lessees with lower credit ratings. MSRP $23,270.00 (includes destination, excludes tax, license, title, registration, documentation fees,Excludes options, insuance and theand like).dealer Actual net capitalized cost due at monthly signingpayments $21,392.75 Net capitalized cost includes $595 acquisition fee. Dealer contribution may vary and could affect actual lease payment . Total Option lessees. to purchase at lease end $14,427.40. Must For$8,964.00.

Well qualified take new retail delivery on vehicle from dealer stock by March 4, 2013. Lessee responsible for maintenance, excessive wear/tear and 15¢/mile over 12,000 miles/year for vehicles with MSRP less than $30,000, and 20¢/ mile over miles/year for vehicles of $30,000available or more.from See January your Honda dealerthrough for complete Closed end12,000 lease for 2013 Accord Sedanwith CVTMSRP LX (CR2F3DEW) 3, 2013 March details.

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2013 CR-V 5 Speed Automatic 2WD LX Featured Special Lease Offer valid from 1/3/2013 through 3/4/2013

2013 CR-V 5 Speed Automatic $259.00 per month for 36 months. $2,299.00 total due atSpecial signing.Lease 2WD LX Featured Includes down payments with no security deposit.

Excludes taxes, titles and dealer fees. $259.00 per month For Well qualified lessees. for 36 months.

Offer valid from 1/3/2013 through 3/4/2013

$2,299.00 total due at signing.

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Closed end lease for 2013 CR-V 5 Speed Automatic 2WD LX (RM3H3DEW) available from January 3, 2013 through March 4, 2013, to well-qualified lessees approved by Honda Financial Services. Not all lessees will Excludes taxes, titlesinsuance and dealer fees. qualify. Higher lease rates apply for lessees with lower credit ratings. MSRP $23,625.00 (includes destination, excludes tax, license, title, registration, documentation fees, options, and the like). Actual net Wellpayments qualified$9,324.00. lessees.Option to purchase at lease end capitalized cost $22,078.70 Net capitalized cost includes $595 acquisition fee. Dealer contribution may vary and could affect actual payment . TotalFor monthly duelease at signing $14,883.75. Must take new retail delivery on vehicle from dealer stock by March 4, 2013. Lessee responsible for maintenance, excessive wear/tear and 15¢/mile over 12,000 miles/year for vehicles with MSRP less than $30,000, and 20¢/mile over 12,000 miles/year for vehicles with MSRP of $30,000 or more. See your Honda dealer for complete details.

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Closed end lease for 2013 CR-V 5 Speed Automatic 2WD LX (RM3H3DEW) available from January 3, 2013 through March 4, 2013, to well-qualified lessees approved by Honda Financial Services. Not all lessees will 2012 Civic Sedan 5 Speed qualify. Higher lease rates apply for lessees with lower credit ratings. MSRP $23,625.00 (includes destination, excludes tax, license, title, registration, documentation fees, options, insuance and the like).Automatic Actual net capitalized cost $22,078.70 Net capitalized cost includes $595 acquisition fee. Dealer contribution may vary and could affect actual lease payment . Total monthly payments $9,324.00. Option to purchase at lease end per month LX Featured Special Lease $14,883.75. Must take new retail delivery on vehicle from dealer stock by March 4, 2013. Lessee responsible for maintenance, excessive wear/tear and 15¢/mile over 12,000 miles/year for vehicles with MSRP less than Offer valid from 1/3/2013 through 3/4/2013 $30,000, and 20¢/mile over 12,000 miles/year for vehicles with MSRP of $30,000 or more. See your Honda dealer for complete details.

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Closed end lease for 2012 Civic Sedan 5 Speed Automatic LX (FB2F5CEW) available from January 3, 2013 through March 4, 2013, tomonth well-qualified term lessees approved by Honda Financial Services. Not all lessees will qualify. Higher lease rates apply for lessees with lower credit ratings. MSRP $19,595.00 (includes destination, excludes tax, license, title, registration, documentation fees, options, insuance and the like). Actual net capitalized cost $16,588.33 Net capitalized cost includes $595 acquisition fee. Dealer contribution may vary and could affect actual lease payment . TotalIncludes monthly payments $5,364.00. with Optionno to purchase lease end down payments security atdeposit. $11,365.10. Must take new retail delivery on vehicle from dealer stock by March 4, 2013. Lessee responsible for maintenance, excessive wear/tear and 15¢/mile over 12,000 miles/year for vehicles with MSRP less than Excludes taxes, titles and dealer fees. $30,000, and 20¢/mile over 12,000 miles/year for vehicles with MSRP of $30,000 or more. See your Honda dealer for complete details.

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