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April 10

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April 11 Seafood School Seafood Treasures from The Golden Isles

April 12

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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.

Lecture: National Tax Policy

What: Skidaway Island Democrats

presents Richard McGrath,Armstrong Atlantic professor of economics, and Michael Walters, professional actuary. Q and A session follows.

When: 7 p.m Where: Landings Association, 600 Landings Way South.

Info: oxhouse@aol.com

Dr.John performs Wednesday evening; for full SMF Schedule see page 33

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Thursday What: Lunch and remarks by Rob Gib-

Urban Planning in Historic Preservation and Economic Development in Savannah, Georgia

What: Savannah State’s Urban Studies

and Planning Program hosts this one day conference featuring lectures and panels on Savannah’s city planning history and legacy, from Oglethorpe to Historic Savannah Foundation to Don Mendonsa and beyond. In the Student Union building on campus.

When: 8:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m Where: Savannah State University, 3219 College St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: savannahstate.edu

Lecture: Georgia’s Archaeology Underwater: A Coastal Perspective

What: Chris McCabe, Georgia’s Dep-

uty State Archaeologist-Underwater, on the underwater archaeology program’s mission and responsibilities, plus a few shipwrecks and other maritime-related sites on the Georgia coast. In the Student Union/Ogeechee Auditorium.

Part of Armstrong’s Digging Savannah Archeology Lecture Series.

When: 6 p.m Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: armstrong.edu

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Friday

Critical Mass Savannah

What: Join Savannah’s bicycle community for a free ride to raise awareness for bike rights.

When: Last Friday of every month, 6 p.m Where: Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St.

Gallery Le Snoot Presents: A Tee Party

Buy Local Savannah and Savannah Music Festival

Wednesday

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son, Executive and Creative Director of Savannah Music Festival, then adjourn at 12:20 to the Charles H. Morris Center for a concert by vibraphonist Warren Wolf and his trio. RSVP’s by 5pm on 3/25.

When: 11 a.m.-12:20 p.m Where: The Pirate’s House, 20 East Broad St. Cost: Lunch only: Members $20, $30 nonmembers. Lunch+concert: $35 members, $45 nonmembers.

Info: 912-272-6767. buylocalsavannah. com

Can Sound Heal?

What: A lecture by Mandara Cromwell on sound and its potential for healing.

When: 6-7 p.m Where: Quality Inn (Midtown), 7100 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: 912-844-2762. j.leaf2500@gmail. com

Tea at Mrs. Davenport’s

What: Early 19th century tea traditions

come to life with this tour of the historic house museum, followed by afternoon tea with costumed interpreters.

When: 4:30 p.m Where: Davenport House, 324 East State St. Cost: $18. Reservations recommended Info: 912-236-8097. davenporthousemuseum.org

screen shots

What: An event and exhibition of artwork featured on hand-screened t-shirts from dozens of local and international artists. Contact the gallery to submit work.

When: 7:30 p.m.-2 a.m Where: Gallery Le Snoot, 6 East State Street.

Info: lesnoot.com

Performance: The Light of Life: His Story

What: Sanctuary of Savannah presents the Easter story, enacted by a cast of 200 performers. A benefit for Old Savannah City Mission’s new shelter for women and children who are homeless.

When: 7 p.m.

Where: Sanctuary, 8912 Whitefield Ave. Cost: $17. Under 10--$10. Group reservations available.

Info: 912-691-1148. thesanctuarysav. org

Seersucker Shots: Hanging Chads and Insley

What: A 45-minute hit of poetry. Featuring Chad Davidson, Insley Smullen & Chad Faries. Hosted by Erika Jo Brown & B.J Love.

When: 7 p.m Where: The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: seersuckerlive.com

Tea at Mrs. Davenport’s

What: Early 19th century tea traditions come to life with this tour of the historic house museum, followed by afternoon tea with costumed interpreters.

When: 4:30 p.m Where: Davenport House, 324 E State St.

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Cost: $18. Reservations recommended Info: 912-236-8097. davenporthouse-

museum.org

Theater: Rip Van Winkle: A New Musical

What: Savannah Stage Company presents a children’s theater production of the “timeless” tale of the man who fell asleep for 100 years. (Timeless...get it?!?)

When: 10 a.m. & noon Where: Indigo Sky Community Gallery, 915 Waters Ave. Cost: $5 Info: savannahstagecompany.com

Theater: ‘Til Beth Do Us Part

What: A Tybee Arts Association Performance Society comedy about businesswoman Suzannah Hayden, who gets much more than she bargained for when she hires an assistant, Beth Bailey. Directed by Kimmi Sampieri.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: Firehouse Arts Center, 7 Cedarwood Ave. Cost: $18 & $15 Info: 912-786-5920

Veggie Tales LIVE

What: A free show featuring all the favorite Veggie Tales characters.

When: 7 p.m Where: Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: Free. Tickets required.

Info: overcomingbyfaith.org

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Saturday 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. Presented by Savannah Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre.

When: 7 p.m.

Where: Double Tree Hotel, 411 W Bay St. Cost: $44.95 adults, $32.95 children Info: 912-247-4644. /savannahcommunitytheater.com

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week at a glance

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

Inspire your child to paint like a pro

What: SCAD Museum celebrates Youth

Art Month. Children, grades K-12, are invited to participate in an action painting activity based on the artistic technique of Jack Whitten, whose exhibition “Erasures” is on display in the Walter O. Evans Center for African American Art. When: 1-4 p.m Where: SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: scad.edu

Native Americans and the American Revolution What: Historian Jim Sawgrass, of the

Muskogee Creek Indian Tribe, gives two presentations on Native American life, their tools, their weapons and their role in the American Revolution.

Fort Morris State Historic Site 2559 Fort Morris Road Midway, Ga. 31320 Located 7 miles east of I-95, exit #76.

Follow the brown Liberty Trail signs.

Admission $3 - $4.50. The war-cry rang out as the British guns of General Augustine Prevost opened up on Fort Morris, January 9, 1779. On the next day, the fort was surrendered. The Native American was very much a part of our War for Independence, often fighting with the British. Sawgrass has enthralled groups of all ages across the southeast for over 25 years with his knowledge and skills of Native American life.

When: 1 & 3 p.m Where: Fort Morris Historic Site, 2559 Fort Morris Road.

Cost: $3 - $4.50 Info: 912-884-5999. fortmorris@coastalnow.net. gastateparks.org/FortMorris

Performance: The Light of Life: His Story

What: Sanctuary of Savannah presents the Easter story, enacted by a cast of 200 performers. A benefit for Old Savannah City Mission’s new shelter for women and children who are homeless.

When: 2 & 7 p.m.

Where: Sanctuary, 8912 Whitefield Ave. Cost: $17. Under 10--$10. Group reser-

vations available.

Info: thesanctuarysav.org

Sip: Sweets: Shop

What: Sip dessert wine from Lawrel Hill Beverage. Sweets from Gigi’s Cupcakes. Shop for a cause with 6 local boutiques in one venue. Benefiting the Telfair Mammography Fund at St. Josephs/Candler.

When: 5:30-8:30 p.m Where: Pure Barre Savannah, 5521 Abercorn St., Suite 500.

Cost: $15 advance. $20 door.

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SpitFire Saturday Open Mic & Showcase

What: A late-night edition of this monthly open-mic showcase that incorporates music, poetry, visual art, and many other artistic forms of expression.

Sign up begins at 10:30 pm.

When: 11 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $3 Spitters. $5 Sitters.

Info: musesavannah.org

Theater: ‘Til Beth Do Us Part

What: A Tybee Arts Association Performance Society comedy about busi-

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nesswoman Suzannah Hayden, who gets much more than she bargained for when she hires an assistant, Beth Bailey. Directed by Kimmi Sampieri.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: Firehouse Arts Center, 7 Cedarwood Ave. Cost: $18 & $15 Info: 912-786-5920

Tybee Beach Run

What: A 5k beach run/walk. Kiddie run at 7:50am at North Beach Parking Lot. Benefiting a medical mission trip to Honduras by Mercer School of Medicine Students.

When: 8 a.m Info: fleetfeetsavannah.com/tybeebeach-run

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Sunday Performance: The Light of Life: His Story

What: Sanctuary of Savannah presents the Easter story, enacted by a cast of 200 performers. A benefit for Old Savannah City Mission’s new shelter for women and children who are homeless.

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Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510) (and 19th-century restorer); Madonna and Child [detail], c. 1466–67; Oil on panel; Collection of Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

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Cost: $17. Under 10--$10. Group

there’s no need to hunt...

reservations available.

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Vinyl Appreciation

What: It’s all about the records. Bring them, spin them, or just listen. Any and all vinyl welcome.

How-to-DJ demos from 5pm-6pm.

Graveface Records & Curiosities sells new and used records on site and Foxy Loxy provides treats.

When: Last Sunday of every month, 5-10 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $3 donation Info: vinyl912.tumblr.com

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Monday First Tuesday Tour of City Hall

What: Discover City Hall’s history, architecture and art, while learning about their City government and viewing special rotating exhibits.

Please pre-register.

When: first Tuesday of month, noon Where: City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

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Wednesday Lecture: Architecture of Density: Urban Living as Organized Chaos

What: Puay-peng Ho is an internationally renowned researcher of Chinese architectural history.

When: 5:30 p.m Where: SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: scad.edu

Film: The Human Duplicators (1965, USA)

What: How cheap is this film? The

alien spacecraft looks like a Christmas tree ornament hanging on a wire. Famously lampooned on an old episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Psychotronic Fim Series now screens the full, uncut version of this infamous clunker. When: 8 p.m. Wed. April 3 Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $5 Info: SentientBean.com

STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9) performs April 24 at the Trustees Theater

@ 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 @ Savannah Philharmonic: A Classical Symphony. April 20. Lucas Theatre. @ Reefer Madness. Bay Street Theatre. April 19–28. @ Savannah Record Fair. April 20 & 21. May Poetter Gallery. @ Suze Orman & Lisa Oz. April 20. Trade & Convention Center. @ Chris Tucker. April 20. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Film: Singin’ in the Rain. April 20. Lucas Theatre. @ Banff Mountain Film Festival. April 21.

Trustees Theater. @ Savannah Urban Arts Festival. April 20-28. @ STS9. April 24. Trustees Theater. @ Celtic Woman. May 3. Johnny Mercer Theatre. @ Savannah Spoken Word Festival. April 22-28. @ James McMurtry. April 26. Wormhole. @ Film: 8 1/2. April 27. Trustees Theater. @ SCAD theater: She Kills Monsters. May 2 & 3. Mondanaro Theatre. @ Savannah Philharmonic: Season Finale.

May 4. Lucas Theatre. @ 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

It’s rare that a positive political development might be called “shocking,” but City Council’s robust, 7-2 smackdown last week of a proposal to allow double-decker tourist buses was exactly that.

It was shocking both in the unambiguous nature of the vote as well as in the fact that we had become wearily accustomed to our politicians overcomplicating tourism issues (St. Patrick’s wristbands, cough) or needlessly micromanaging tourist-oriented small businesses (Savannah Slow Ride, cough).

Yet in last week’s vote to deny the petition of the out-of-town bus company — which operates similar businesses in other cities — we saw a carefully considered vote which properly weighed the concerns of the community, the desires of the small business in question, and future precedent. Yay! Mayor Edna Jackson, in particular, admirably expressed her views on the issue before the vote, in a short speech which covered ground both legalistic and heartfelt. For her, the issue was one of properly enforcing existing regulation before complicating the issue further: “Before adding any other vehicles to what we have now,” she said, “we have to do something about this ordinance where we have so many minutes in between each of the vehicles going around the squares.”

In a particularly telling passage — and not just because of the graphic reference we’re unaccustomed to hearing from the genteel Madame Mayor — Jackson recalled watching “horses and trolleys, four in a row, going around one square… and one horse

urinated! And I wanted to see what they were going to do. Well, the guy had a gallon of water, the horse was moving, and he just poured it… until we get existing policies and rules and regulations straight I can’t see us adding any other vehicles. (Someone) suggested we have a moratorium on all this until we can come to an agreement. At this point that’s what I think we need to do.”

While I doubt she literally changed votes with her words, they did frame and summarize the issue ably and fairly. The meeting also featured a variety of citizen comments, ones with a certain heightened sense of urgency given that apparently the doubledecker vote was added to the Council agenda at the last minute, leading to charges of a “surprise attack.”

(On learning of the agenda item, the Downtown Neighborhood Association (DNA) issued an “urgent” call to action of its members, saying “we have just confirmed that an attorney for the Boston owners is floating a surprise ‘compromise.’ She is proposing the buses be confined to routes currently accessible to motor coaches…”)

Compromise or no compromise, the strong consensus emerging from citizen comments — and subsequently echoed by most of the politicians on City Council — was encapsulated by the words of one speaker at the meeting:

In all my travels, when I say I’m from Savannah and people say, ‘Oh, isn’t that wonderful,’ I haven’t run into a single person who told me, ‘You know, I didn’t go to Savannah because I couldn’t ride on a double-decker bus.’ We like tourists, and tourists like Savannah. And tourists like Savannah because Savannah’s special, it’s unique... And part of what makes us special is the fact that we have a livable unique downtown where things are in scale… the problem with double-decker buses is they’re too big, they’re out of scale.

They just don’t fit, they’re not Savannah style, they’re not our brand.

They’re not our brand. Forgive the double entrendre, but that phrase should itself be branded on the forehead, or at minimum the forearm, of anyone with decision making power in Savannah.

Branding is everything. Branding — with an assist from rising fuel prices encouraging domestic travel — is what has made Savannah the tourist mecca it is today.

While the numbers of annual tourist visitors – 11 million? 12 million? – are almost certainly inflated, perhaps bizarrely so, we still must conclude not only that tourism in Savannah is critical to our present and future prosperity, but that too much, too soon is just as bad as too little, too late.

As any corporate veteran — or even altweekly newspaper editor — can tell you, a brand takes a long time to build and mere moments to destroy.

Kudos to Savannah City Council for taking the long view. cs

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Editor, I ran into Jessica Leigh Lebos at the Sentient Bean this afternoon and sat down briefly and thanked her for some great writing. Later I realized that I hadn’t verbalized all I had meant to say.

Y’all have very strong independent voices in a medium that is both central and defining in Savannah. Local reporting has been much overlooked as media and connectedness have thrown our gaze from the immediate to the spectacular, and it’s a relief to

finally hear about what’s going on in this city.

The independence with which the writers speak is both evident and inspiring and is in marked contrast to much of the superficial baloney that we’re told is important on more traditional

corporate mediums.

We’re very lucky to have Connect be a voice for this community and I think the passion sets a tone for the music that this city makes. Thanks for helping us be aware.

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The (Civil) Society Column

by Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

All aboard the bus to Nerdville I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way and all that.

But that doesn’t mean they ought to be trusted in a strange city by themselves.

“Ermehgerd, NO, you’re NOT coming,” shrieked my seventh grade son when I told him I’d volunteered to chaperone the Georgia Science & Engineering Fair in Athens last weekend. Sponsored by the University of Georgia, the highly regarded GSEF hosts the top middle and high school science fair projects from around the state, something like the Westminster dog show for young brainiacs.

My son and his constant comrade in academic crime, Luke, had advanced to the state level with their experiment on time perception, linking Einstein’s theory of relativity with their obsession with Dr. Who. Apparently they impressed the regional judges with their genius; I suspect they were looking for any excuse to turn a cardboard triptych into a TARDIS. The Savannah Chatham County School System generously provides transportation and hotel rooms for its unaccompanied GSEF finalists every year, a fine option for mature high schoolers but an opportunity for disaster for 13-year olds who can take up to 10 minutes to put on one shoe.

“Ugh, you’ll EMBARRASS me,” groused Abraham. I told him that the bumpy four-and-a-half hour bus ride was a fabulous opportunity to test their theory that time either flies or crawls, depending on whether you’ve having fun.

It wasn’t until we hit I-16 that I remembered that schoolbus seats are designed by a sadist clearly trying to drum up business for his chiropractor. And where the hell are the seatbelts? We make children ride around in our own cars strapped into fivepoint harnesses until they practically have armpit hair, but then we send them off to school to bounce around untethered in giant yellow tin cans.

Shouldn’t there be emergency instructions and a paper bag in the seat pocket?

Veteran SCCPSS driver Florence Praylow did her best to keep ‘er steady in the winds as we lurched across Middle Georgia. I had my head between my knees, trying to keep down the bag of Fritos bought at a gas station somewhere between Statesboro and Metter that also had an impressive selection of hunting knives and pig knuckles for purchase.

My young charges entertained themselves by seeing how many pieces of Bubble Yum they could stuff into their mouths at one time.

The high school kids sat in the back, ostensibly curing cancer and creating electricity from pears, or whatever real world wizards do for fun.

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Two nerds and their time travel tryptych

“DO NOT ask them what their projects are about,” hissed my son, his mouth full of gum.

As if. I may forever confuse mitosis and meiosis, but asking questions is what I do. Plus, it distracted me from the reality that I was riding a careening school bus of death.

There was Nikhil Patel, a sophomore in the Jenkins High School Engineering program who built a robot to follow a six-meter duct tape maze in less than a minute. He told me that autonomous robotic technology will be in greater demand by the military in the future; this is truly the stuff that drones are made of.

Sitting across from him was Clay Cabrera, another Jenkins engineering

whiz who tested different barrier shapes to see what most efficiently prevented beach erosion. Tybee Island would be wise to contact this young gent before the shore washes out to sea once again.

I was delighted to note that young women composed half the Nerd Bus (a term wholly embraced by all aboard.) Jenkins sophomore Paige Toraya built a turbine to determine what kind of blades will generate the most wind energy off the Georgia coast, contributing valuable data to one of the state’s most promising economic paths.

Windsor Forest junior Elizabeth Kerr had made it to state with her agricultural study about the effects of the moon’s phases on crop growth with the modest goal of figuring out how to feed the world.

These kids are finding solutions to the challenges happening right now, the result of a “major paradigm shift” in the way science is being taught, says Tavaris Brown, a SCCPSS professional learning coach involved with the new STEM (Science, Math, Engineering and Technology) Academy opening next fall, or as I shall admirably refer to it, the Nerd Factory.

“We’ve switched to a more inquirybased approach to help students figure things out for themselves rather than rote memorization,” said Brown.

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downtown Athens and taking in how stem cell research can treat stroke victims, why horse manure makes better biofuel and the role of pH in fern sex.

Rambam Day School seventhgrader Shani Locker won special honors for her study on the effects of high salinity on the hatching habits of brown shrimp native to Savannah’s marshes — her findings ought to be considered in the context of the Savannah River deepening.

I’m proud to report that Luke and Abraham won third honors, a nod to the great strides happening in the behavioral sciences. Must’ve been some Whovians amongst the judges.

Here’s the takeaway: The world runs on nerd power. The children are indeed the future, and investment in their scientific education is paying off.

Now if we could just get one of them to design a better schoolbus seat. cs

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Brown added that while American students have fallen behind other countries’ STEM scores in previous decades, new curricula are designed to help our kids compete in the global job market: “It’s all about application.”

Considering a 15 year-old from Maryland won the 2012 National Intel Science and Engineering Fair by inventing a strip that tests for pancreatic cancer more cheaply and accurately than the technology currently used by doctors, it seems that science fairs might be the “it” place to recruit the world’s next problem solvers.

When we finally arrived at the Classic Center filled with the state’s top 800 projects, there wasn’t a baking soda-vinegar volcano in sight.

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Guns, butter and the Ogeechee?

Riverkeeper loses battle over EPD ‘discretion’ as KAF keeps discharging without a permit

by Jessica Leigh Lebos jll@connectsavannah.com

The latest attempt to keep King America Finishing from polluting the Ogeechee River has been thwarted in Spalding County Superior Court.

On Feb. 26, attorneys for the nonprofit environmental advocacy group Ogeechee Riverkeeper (ORK) filed a judicial request for a “writ of mandamus,” a court order that commands a government official to fulfill his/ her official duties. The writ was filed against Georgia Environmental Protection Division Director Judson Turner to force him to shut down the Sylvania textile finishing company that has been discharging waste into the Ogeechee River without a permit since 2005.

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King America Finishing continues to discharge into the Ogeechee River without a permit from the EPD.

On March 13, Judge Christopher C. Edwards ruled against the mandamus action, saying that Director Turner “acted reasonably” and fulfilled his obligation under Georgia law to “conference, conciliate and persuade” KAF to clean up its wastewater. He also determined that as director, Turner retains the discretion whether to make KAF shut its doors or not.

“The legislature and the Director are both authorized by law to make

these ‘guns or butter’ decisions,” wrote Judge Edwards in his final judgment, referring to the polluting effects of industry measured against its economic benefits. KAF employs 450 people at the finishing plant that produces fire retardant clothing for firefighters and the military.

Don Stack, part of ORK’s legal team, finds the logic of the judgment difficult to comprehend.

“With all due respect to Judge

Edwards, we think he’s wrong,” says Stack. “If a police officer stops a person for speeding, it’s at the discretion of the officer to issue a ticket. But if the driver doesn’t even have a license, that cop has no choice but to take that person off the street.”

After 40,000 fish were found floating belly-up in the Ogeechee River just down from King America Finishing’s discharge pipe in May 2011, the EPD found that KAF had been

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She also points out that by the time toxic chemicals are detected in the discharge, the damage has already been done.

“Once it’s reached the pipe, it’s too late,” she says. “We want to see failsafe technology in place that would stop a dangerous discharge before it reaches the river.”

While such technology does not appear to be in the works from KAF, there is new legislation in the Georgia Assembly pertaining to water pollution emergencies. Known as the Emergency Water Response Act, House Bill 549 clarifies emergency response procedures and places the responsibility of informing the public and initiating corrective action squarely on the EPD. Stack criticized the bill, saying that while it clarifies procedure, it does not provide any means for enforcement.

Though it may not punish polluters, Markesteyn calls it “a step in the right direction.”

HB 549 was in the hopper before the GA adjourned this week and is expected to be voted on next session.

They may have lost this battle, but ORK and its attorneys still have plenty of fight left. Stack says he and his colleagues plan to appeal the mandamus ruling as well as keep pursuing other paths of legal recourse, including a pending lawsuit against KAF filed under the federal Clean Water Act. While handing down his verdict earlier this month, Judge Edwards told the plaintiffs that their federal lawsuit is the “proper remedy” for recourse against KAF rather than the mandamus action.

“Here you have the regulators who are supposed to be enforcing the state law, but the judge seems to be suggesting that it can only be dealt with at the federal level. It’s ridiculous,” sighs Stack.

While Stack, Markesteyn and others realize that shutting KAF down for good is unrealistic and not in the best economic interests of the community, they are committed to holding the company — and EPD Director Turner — to their promises of transparency and safety regarding the Ogeechee River.

“I want to be able to look the people who live on the river in the eye and say yes, there may be a discharge, but it’s being regulated,” says Stack. “That it’s safe and it’s not going to cause harm to the environment or people’s health.” cs

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discharging ammonia and formaldehyde-laced effluent from two lines of fire retardant materials without a permit for over five years. The EPD ordered KAF to cease operations for a few days then allowed it to resume manufacturing while a proper permit was prepared. A 2012 draft of the permit was challenged, and an official version has still not been issued.

In spite of the lack of an official permit, Assistant EPD Director Jim Ussery insists that KAF has complied with regular testing of its discharge.

“This is the most highly-monitored discharge in the state,” says Ussery.

“It’s tested weekly, sometimes daily, at the pipe and in the mixing zone.”

At the beginning of the case, EPD Watershed Planning and Monitoring program manager Dr. Elizabeth Booth testified to “the extensive measures” that KAF has implemented since the discovery of the fire retardant lines. Booth verified that the discharge is “neither toxic nor violating water quality standards.” Ussery explained that the revised permit, expected to be introduced in May for public comment, will also make allowances for changes in river flow, requiring KAF to cut back on production when the water is low.

As for the mandamus judgment, Ussery agrees with the judge’s decision that Turner acted responsibly by enjoining KAF to comply with water quality standards rather than force it to stop operations altogether.

“He made sure the discharge was safe rather than take an action that would have shut down the plant and put people out of work,” he says.

Ussery added that while the EPD appreciates the economic interests of the situation, its abiding objective is the same as that of the Riverkeeper: “Our number one consideration is making sure that water is safe.”

If that’s the case, wonders ORK Executive Director Emily Markesteyn, why doesn’t the EPD publish the test results on its website?

“Every time we’ve tried to get information from the EPD about the results of all this testing, they tell us to file an Open Records request,” says Markesteyn. “You’ve got to wonder whose side they’re on.”

(According to Markesteyn, who attended the mandamus hearing in Spalding County, several executives from KAF were in the courtroom sitting directly behind Director Turner during the proceedings.)

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Just a year ago his company was in the business of developing golf resorts in the Nevada desert. But now it’s a film production company.

He wants you to spend a million bucks or so to develop a 1500-acre piece of land for his new movie studio. He also wants to be exempt from paying property taxes for 20 years.

He says it will be the largest film/ TV/video game production studio in North America, complete with solar panels and beautiful waterfalls.

No kidding: Waterfalls.

He says he’ll bring 1200 jobs to your area, with an average salary of $39,000. There will be childcare on site for those employees, he says.

He’s still trying to get $90 million in financing to begin to do all that.

Many of us might have shown the guy the door, with varying degrees of politeness, about halfway through that spiel.

But not the Effingham County Industrial Authority. They not only agreed in principle to the deal proposed by filmmaker Manu Kumaran — who has had some success with low-budget Bollywood-style films and a couple of English-language arthouse flicks — they enthusiastically trumpeted it as a major economic development.

Did we mention that Kumaran’s company bears the name Medient — oddly similar to Meddin Studios, a production house in Savannah?

“It’s all too easy to let your emotions and optimism get involved

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when people start throwing around big numbers. It’s such a complex industry,” says Steve Smith, a partner in Meddin Studios, which recently inked a deal to move from Louisville Road into a larger space in the former Citi Trends building downtown.

“I’m looking forward to seeing the story unfold,” Smith says. “Let’s hope the vetting process is thorough.”

Tommy Holland has been a longtime member of the Savannah Film Commission; his term expires soon.

He has decades of involvement in the local film scene, going back to preForrest Gump days.

“Everyone wishes the best for this project, but frankly we’ve seen these kinds of ideas come and go before,” Holland says. “God bless ‘em, it would be wonderful if it could work out. But ninety million dollars is an awful lot of money to raise in this environment — this country is now cutting funding for air traffic control.”

Holland also mentions the impracticality of a proposal built around the enticement of so many full-time jobs.

“Their proposal mentions that they want to return to the old-fashioned studio system. But there’s a reason the film industry moved away from that a long time ago,” he says, pointing out that the vast majority of films today are made by crews hired on a project basis, rather than by studios with full-time employees.

Local production designer and technical director Michael Gaster, a former member of the City of Savannah Cultural Affairs Commission, also weighs in.

“Think how many politicians have said things like, ‘this will create 1,200 jobs,’ and ‘this will be environmentally friendly,’ and ‘we’ll have health care and daycare for workers and their families,’” says Gaster.

“I can’t help but be skeptical of a Nevada real estate marketer-turnedfilm producer who talks like your everyday politician, eyeing Effingham County with a name similar to an established area film/video production house,” he concludes. cs

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Pastor Samuel Rodriguez is used to people knocking on the back door.

The leader of Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana off Ogeechee Road always welcomes those in need of spiritual guidance. But he also knows that the most important thing he can do for some of the souls seeking help is to get them fed.

A hub for Savannah’s diverse Hispanic community (it counts members from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and almost every other Central and South American country), La Iglesia is a humble set of brick buildings surrounded by welltended flower beds, a shaded playground and pen housing a friendly donkey and a pot-bellied pig.

It is often the first stop for native Spanish speakers when they come to Savannah seeking jobs, sometimes with nothing more than a shopping bag of their belongings. In addition to English classes, a free medical clinic and childcare, the church has a small food closet full of cereal and

potatoes that it doles out to families in need.

“These people come here for a better life, they are hard workers,” says Pastor Rodriguez. “We do as much as we can to support them.”

Many of Primera Iglesia constituents work on construction sites or as domestics, earning low wages that keep them under the poverty line.

While some have immigrated to the U.S. illegally, others — who instinctively stay under the radar out of fear or doubt in their ability to communicate in English — may qualify for government assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The challenge is letting them know they’re eligible for the programs.

This week Pastor Rodriguez received the good news that help is on the way. A new grant from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service has awarded

Step Up Savannah $90,000 to help widen its SNAP outreach efforts to seniors, children and those with limited English proficiency. Part of the grant will pay for a part-time employee to educate Step Up’s many direct service partners about the SNAP enrollment process, including Primera Iglesia.

“To have someone come and explain person to person, in Spanish, what the requirements are, that will help a lot,” says the pastor, who emigrated to Savannah from Guadalajara, Mexico 17 years ago.

Formerly known as the federal food stamp program, SNAP provides supplemental income that can only be spent on certain approved consumable goods. Bread, cereal, dairy products, fruits and vegetables and even seeds to grow more food are on the list; alcohol, tobacco and non-food items are not. An estimated 46 million people are enrolled in SNAP though only 67% of all those eligible actually participate in the program.

“People don’t understand that this isn’t only for the destitute or the homeless,” says Suzanne Donovan of Step Up Savannah.

“This benefit is intended to help families who at the end of the month aren’t able to provide meals for their tables.”

According to FeedingAmerica. org, almost two million Georgians

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Pastor Samuel Rodriguez hopes to help more Spanish speakers be aware of federal food benefits.

are “food insecure” — meaning they lack access to enough nutrition for an active, healthy life. In Chatham County, 22.6 percent of children live in food insecure households. The website points out that these homes don’t necessarily experience nutritional scarcity all the time, but the numbers reflect the hard choices that many must make between buying nourishing food and paying for medical expenses, gas and/or housing.

In addition to AARP members, schoolchildren and the Hispanic community, Step Up Savannah also wants to target another population: The low-wage employees working at entry level or service jobs throughout Chatham County. Many of these full- and part-time employees have no idea that they could “stretch their paychecks” with supplemental aid, even though an adult with one dependent working 40 hours a week for the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is far below the poverty line. The new grant will allow a representative to educate more minimum-wage workers that staff certain corporate chain stores about SNAP. Pastor Rodriguez believes the Step Up grant will help some of his congregants create more stable lives in Savannah, though he says many who knock on the back door of La Iglesia can’t believe that state agencies would give them money for food.

“In the countries where we come from, no one receives this kind of help from the government,” he laughs a bit ruefully.

Federal aid programs continue to be a politically-charged topic in Washington D.C. and state capitols and a touchy subject when it comes to budget cuts. For now, the SNAP program continues to be funded, its direct service partners working to reach the country’s food insecure and close the hunger gap.

“Some people try to frame it in moral terms, as if these people aren’t working hard enough or don’t deserve the help,” says Donovan.

“But the fact is that it’s a benefit that as a society we’ve decided to keep paying for.

“The people who are eligible should know about it and make their own decisions.” cs

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

Not Wells Fargo’s best week Three men were charged in the robbery of of the Wells Fargo Bank branch on the 3500 block of West Bay Street last Friday morning, only two days after another Wells Fargo on the Westside was also robbed.

Charged with armed robbery were Brandon Williams, 24, John D. Simmons, 20, and Jarrod M. Johnson, 27, after an investigation by SavannahChatham Metropolitan Police and FBI agents led to a house on 5th Street in Garden City where they were hiding after the robbery.

At 9:40 a.m., two of the men armed with hand guns went into the bank and robbed it of cash. They fled in different directions.

A contingent of patrol, crime suppression units, detectives and precinct commanders from West Chatham,

Islands and Downtown precincts, along with canine, aviation and violent crimes detectives as well as FBI agents and Garden City officers saturated the area. On the premises of the house identified by the investigation, police found items from the robbery, including guns, masks and cash.

Two days prior, the FBI and Savannah-Chatham Police began investigating the robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank branch in the 3500 block of Ogeechee Road yesterday.

A gunman entered the branch just before 4 p.m., “pointed a silver automatic handgun at bank employees and demanded money,” say police.

“He left with cash in a white plastic bag with a red drawstring that he had brought with him and drove away in a gold Toyota Camry.”

The Camry was found abandoned behind a house in the Liberty City area of west Savannah where the gunman entered a white sedan with another black male and drove away.

The gunman is described as a very slender black male, 6-2 to 6-3 in his mid to late-20s. He had long twisties

in his hair and had a medium complexion.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crimestoppers at (912) 234-2020 or text CRIMES (274637).

• Police are investigating the shooting death of 27-year-old Achmed Kiwaan Williams.

Williams was sitting on the front A robber of the Wells Fargo • Police have issued porch of a house on Ogeechee Road a warning to residents in the 1900 block approached by salespeople of East 54th Street going door-to-door selling when “he was approached by at least security systems. one gunman and was shot multiple Several residents in Ardsley Park times,” according to police. have reported people knocking on He was pronounced dead at doors offering security systems valued Memorial University Medical Center. as high as $1,500 free in return for the Williams had a long record with recipients allowing themselves to be SCMPD extending to 2004 including used as advertising. violent crimes. In 2008 he was conPolice have found no area security sidered “Savannah’s Most Wanted” system companies that market their criminal for a murder case in which items in such a manner. he was indicted for killing his little They also warn residents that “any brother. cs sales person coming to their door must be able to show a permit from the city to do so. A logo on a shirt should not be accepted as evidence of Give anonymous crime tips to authenticity.”

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If Hollywood has taught me anything, it’s that working for a multinational corporation (or investigating one as a journalist) carries the risk you’ll uncover damning information revealing a vast criminal conspiracy, which will lead to your attempted murder (if you’re the main character) or your successful murder (if you’re the main character’s source/best friend/avuncular mentor).

This got me wondering: Has this ever happened? Has a modern corporation ever conspired to kill someone who got too curious to keep the money rolling in?

—Clayton, Boston As with many of the knotty questions of our times, we need to slice this into more digestible bits. Let’s take it a step at a time.

Q: Have corporations ever killed people?

A: Sure, happens all the time. That’s why we have wrongful-death lawsuits.

Q: I mean intentionally killed people.

A: Define intentionally. There are lots of cases, most of them admittedly pretty ancient, in which big companies trying to bust a union hired armed . . . well, “thugs” is a prejudicial term. Armed individuals, which it then sent into labor strongholds to beat the crap out of . . . sorry, we need to be objective. Let’s just say there have been multiple armed confrontations between workers and company agents that involved shots getting fired and people getting killed. For example, in the Homestead Steel Works strike of 1892, at least six workers and some lesser number of Pinkerton detectives in the pay of Andrew Carnegie were slain during gun battles that broke out over an attempt to bring in strikebreakers.

Q: This isn’t really what I had in mind anyway. What about premeditated murder of a specifically targeted individual, rather than some wage slave who strayed into the line of fire?

A: Well, there’s the well-known case of nuclear plant worker Karen Silk-

2. Drummond, an Alabama-based mining company, was accused in 2002 of having hired Colombian paramilitaries to torture and kill three union leaders. In 2007 an American jury found Drummond not liable for the killings, but earlier this year in Bogota a Drummond contractor was convicted of two of the murders, and another suit is currently proceeding through U.S. courts.

3. Canadian firm Talisman Energy was sued in 2001 by the Presbyterian Church of the Sudan for its role in promoting civil war. This started with the use of paid government troops to guard Talisman’s oil fields, then morphed into the military’s using company roads and airstrips to launch attacks against rebels and civilians. The case was dismissed for lack of evidence showing Talisman intended to harm southern Sudanese.

4. The closest to an admission of lethal wrongdoing in recent years is the case of Wiwa et al v. Royal Dutch Petroleum et al concerning the oil company’s culpability in (among other numerous human-rights abuses) the death of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed by his country’s military in 1995 after protesting Shell’s environmental practices. In 2009, just days before the trial was scheduled to start in New York, Shell settled for $15.5 million. The plaintiffs called it a victory; Shell preferred to characterize it as a humanitarian gesture. All I know is that in the previous year Shell had racked up net gains of $26 billion, meaning $15.5 million represented the loss of five hours’ profit. CS

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wood. A union activist at a Kerr-McGee facility that made plutonium pellets for reactor fuel rods, she testified before the Atomic Energy Commission in 1974 about alleged safety problems at her plant. Several months later she was found to be dangerously contaminated with plutonium. In November Silkwood was driving to a meeting with a New York Times reporter to show him evidence of unsafe practices when her car crashed into a culvert and she was killed. Authorities said she’d fallen asleep at the wheel. Her family said there was evidence she’d been run off the road, but such allegations have never been proven.

Q: So we have no undisputed cases of a corporation conspiring to assassinate someone?

A: Undisputed, no. However, we have many instances of foreign subsidiaries of North American companies being mixed up in killings by local goons, and in each the chief question is how far up the chain of command responsibility goes. Examples: 1. As I reported in 2005, union leader Isidro Gil was shot to death in 1996 outside the main gate of a Coca-Cola plant in Colombia, allegedly by paramilitaries at the behest of the plant manager. Coke spokespeople denied that either the company’s Atlanta HQ or its Columbia subsidiary had advance warning of the killing, and a federal judge threw out charges against Coke and its subsidiary on the grounds that neither had control of the local plant. The judge didn’t address the claim that an agent of an independent Coke licensee had had a man killed.

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news of the weird Fines to Fit the Crimes In March, Microsoft was fined 561 million euros (about $725 million) by the European Commission after, apparently, a programmer carelessly left out just one line of code in Microsoft’s Service Pack 1 of European versions of Windows 7. That one line would have triggered the system to offer web browsers other than Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer, which Microsoft had agreed to include to settle charges that it was monopolizing the web-browser business. (Also in March, the government of Denmark said that Microsoft owed it about a billion dollars in unpaid taxes when it took over a Danish company and tried to route its taxes through notorious tax havens such as Bermuda. According to a March Reuters report, Denmark is among the first European countries to challenge such U.S.-standard tax shenanigans and is expecting payment in full.)

Recurring Themes • Being identified with the number 666 (the “mark of the beast” in the Bible’s Book of Revelation) continues to trouble the righteous. Walter Slonopas, 52, felt required to resign as a maintenance worker for Contech Casting in Clarksville, Tenn., in February after receiving his W-2 form, which he noted was the 666th mailed out by Contech this year. (However, perhaps Slonopas is not so innocent. He had been working for Contech for less than two years, yet had already been “assigned” the

number 666 twice - on the company’s visits - often they are gay men who payroll books and the company’s timehave not “come out” to their parents. clock system.)

• Backward Incentives: Society con• The Iconic Phantom Black/Histinues to suffer from questionable companic Perpetrator: In February, victims pany policies that encourage precisely of crimes in San Antonio, Texas, and the wrong behaviors. Bartender Twyla Terrebonne Parish, La., complained DeVito said she knew that one of her to police that they had been assaulted regulars at the American Legion Post by, respectively, a “Hispanic male” and in Shelby, Ohio, was too inebriated to an “unknown black man” drive home and thus - whom the victims admittelephoned police, alertted later did not exist. San ing them to a potential Antonio police learned drunk driver. An officer that their victim had been responded, observed A KISS ON THE accidentally, embarrassthe driver, and arrested CHEEK WILL SET ingly, shot by a friend him when his bloodYOU BACK EIGHT mishandling his gun. Louialcohol read twice the BUCKS siana authorities found limit for presumed that their victim had not impairment. Two days been abducted and raped later DeVito was fired (and had her baby stolen). because, as her boss Rather, she had wanted to allegedly said to her, “(I) hide her miscarriage from t’s bad for business to family and friends and have a bartender that invented a phantom attack will call the cops.” as more acceptable.

• The Fabulous Brit• Chinese New Year, ish Government “Safety especially, turns out not so Net”: Heather Frost, festive if busy young pro36, and mother of 11, is fessional women are unable to show off getting a brand-new, specially designed a boyfriend to their parents. Thus, men house through the Tewkesbury (Engoffer themselves as fake boyfriends for land) Borough Council, which deemed the equivalent of about $50 a day, plus inadequate the duplex that the family extras including about $5 an hour to had been using at taxpayer expense for accompany the woman to dinner, $8 five years. Frost had complained that for a kiss on the cheek, and $95 to spent she needed larger quarters because one the night - on the couch, of course, daughter now owns a horse and needs since “sex” is not part of the concept. to stable it (and, said a stable worker, Recently, a reality TV series appeared had almost acquired two more horses, for men needing women for home but that deal fell through).

• Fathers caught up unfairly in state laws on child support have appeared in News of the Weird, but Lional Campbell’s story seems unusually harsh. Authorities in Detroit continue to bill Campbell for past-due support (which Campbell admits he owes even if unsure how much), but only recently did he discover that they were counting $43,000 past-due to support “Michael,” who had died 25 years ago at age 3. Campbell said he had thought the support was for another child, born seven years after Michael, but it turns out neither the authorities nor Campbell knows precisely which fatherhood Campbell is paying for. The latest audit reduced Michael’s $43,000 balance to about $6,500.

• More Poor Planning: (1) In San Diego, Calif., in February, two people broke into a Hooters after closing and stole a jukebox, apparently, said police, mistaking it for an ATM inside the darkened restaurant. (2) Jose Perales Jr., 24, was charged with breaking into Dr. John’s Lingerie Boutique in Davenport, Iowa, in February. Surveillance video revealed he was wearing men’s clothing when he entered, but left in a dress and blond wig. In fact, while changing clothes, his bare back was visible, revealing “Perales” tattooed on his shoulder. CS

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by bill deyoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

Love and Theft @Saddle Bags; Disco @Dollhouse Saddle Bags celebrates its one-year anniversary March 30 with an appearance by the country music duo Love and Theft. Stephen Barker Liles and Eric Gunderson landed a No. 1 single in 2011, “Angel Eyes,” and they’re up for an Academy of Country Music Award (as Top Vocal Duo) at the April 8 ceremony in Nashville.

The duo’s second album, which is called Love and Theft, rose to No. 4 on the Billboard chart.

The guys have been here before, opening for Taylor Swift in 2008, and for Tim McGraw last year. Their EP, Live in Savannah, was recorded at the Taylor Swift show in the Johnny Mercer Theatre (there were three people in the band then).

In May, they’ll join McGraw and Brantley Gilbert for two months of dates called the “Two Lanes of Freedom Tour.”

Says Liles on the duo’s website: “We can’t even wait to start the Tim tour!

He’s the man. I don’t know if I’ll be doing any four-mile runs or lifting monster truck tires before the show like he does …maybe Eric will… But we are gonna have a blast with him,

Brantley and both their teams of super-talented musicians and crew.

And Tim always has stellar catering so that doesn’t suck.”

Tickets for the 8 p.m. Saddle Bags show are $10 (general admission) and higher for VIP stuff at etix.com.

Canaan Smith and Chuck Courtenay will open.

Boogie night

Miami-based Cosmic Chronic Records brings its dance-heavy “touring showcase” (aka package tour) to Dollhouse Productions (980 Industry Drive) March 30; “The Disco Show” features the Savannah debut of Psychic Mirrors, a 10 to 14-piece boogie powerhouse combining ‘80s synth beats, a full horn section and psych-soul vocals. Then there’s the

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deep funk DJ collective known as the Miami Players Club — Arun Brown, Benton, Stevezzy, Edg4r, Erick Rojas and Mickey de Grand IV. Dreamboat (Mickey de Grand IV + EDG4R) rounds out the bill with eclectic, lo-fi ‘90s synth dance music, cradled by otherwordly falsetto vocals. Check out Dreamboat’s “Special Kiss” on soniccloud — the 12” remix is available now on vinyl, via Cosmic Chronic.

Doors open at 8 p.m.; the show starts at 9.Tickets are $6 advance, $8 at the door. See safeandsoundsav. blogspot.com

Live Wire

Great to welcome back Boston’s psychedelic jam band Ultraviolet Hippopotamus, a staple at the old Live Wire Music Hall. Live Wire Sounds, Inc. is still alive and kicking, and the guys (Brendan and Daniel Robertson) are bring UltraHip to Dub’s Pub for fun and explosive shows April 1 and 2.

Live Wire shows at Dub’s this week also include Mama’s Love and the Epic Cycle (March 29) and Spiritual

Rez (with DJ Tap) March 30.

“The closing of the venue was a serious blow to our ego,” Daniel says.

“And yeah, we made some mistakes ... but now we have learned from our mistakes, and we can focus on the one thing true to our soul, our essence, and our passion — the experience of live music.” See l0vemusic.com

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A few more shows to recommend this week: The Alabama old-school rock band Shallow Side (March 29 at the Tybee Rock House); the highenergy punk outfit Vampirates (great name) April 1 at the Jinx (with Self Employed and Yamacraw); Run For Cover and Back and Forth (April 1 at Taco Abajo). Then there’s the eightmember punk/bluegrass aggregate called On the Water, from Philadelphia, April 2 at the Sentient Bean.

And how’s about this? Sapphire Rebellion and Ars Phoenix will play the Wormhole March 30, for a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-themed party, complete with Zaphod Beeblebrox trivia. Thanks for all the fish. CS

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Marcus Roberts has never been one to back down from a challenge. Blind since the age of 5, the Florida native began playing piano with Wynton Marsalis’ group in the mid 1980s, a gig he held for six years, and has since earned a reputation as one of the young giants of jazz.

A longtime advocate for music education, he’s an Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at Florida State University. He’s also director of the Savannah Music Festival’s “Swing Central” program for high school musicians.

This week, Roberts boldly goes into new territory (for him) with The Spirit of the Blues: Piano Concerto in C Minor, a three-movement piece commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the SMF. He created the work with Sibelius notation software, and a relatively new demo system called SONAR. And trial, error and talent.

It’s the 49-year-old’s first symphonic work, and the ASO will perform it, with Roberts and his jazz trio, April 6 in the Johnny Mercer Theatre.

A few days earlier — on March 30 — Roberts will play a rare solo piano recital at the Morris Center.

Why is your first full orchestral piece debuting in 2013?

Marcus Roberts: I’d been thinking about doing it for years, honestly, but the technology didn’t exist for a long time that would allow a blind musician to do it. Because you’ve got to be able to print the music out so folks can read it. Not to mention the fact that I really didn’t know much about orchestration. And so a lot of things had to happen over the years, as I chipped away at the idea.

At the point when it was realistically possible, then it was a question of, well, who to do it with — who’s really interested in such a project? Robert Spano, the conductor for the Atlanta Symphony, we met in Chicago in 2005 — we were working with the Chicago Symphony, doing “Rhapsody in Blue” we met and continues on p. 24

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had a great time, had a good rapport, and over the next three or four years we did a lot of work with his orchestra in Atlanta. And maybe around 2008 we started talking about them commissioning me to write a piece for the orchestra.

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Did you know from the start exactly what it would be?

Marcus Roberts: The goal was that that I would improvise and make up stuff like the Gershwin stuff I do, but that there would also be written music for the orchestra.

That’s where we started. We just kicked it around for a couple of years, and finally in 2010 we really decided we were gonna do it. Even then, there was so much work that I had to do.

What was that?

Marcus Roberts: I had to listen to a lot of piano concertos, because we have many great European composers who perfected the form. And so the bar’s set very high.

It’s not like you’d write a piano concerto and there wouldn’t be anything to compare it to. So I spent a lot of time listening to piano music, just to figure out where my inspiration would come from.

And when I finally figured out what themes I wanted for each movement — that took a long time in and of itself — I studied orchestration books by Rimsky-Korsakov and Samuel Adler. When I figured out what I wanted to do, I officially started working on it in January of 2012.

Is there any improvisation in it, or is everything notated?

Marcus Roberts: All the movements are; there’s a lot of action for the orchestra.

There’s even specific written-out parts for my drummer and bass player. But there are improvised cadenzas in each movement, and also there are sections that I might choose to improvise over. So it’s gonna be a piece that has a lot of both in it.

All I can tell you is that I took it very seriously. It became an obsession, OK? [laughing] It started to evolve on its own — I had my original idea of what it was gonna be, but as I worked on it, it started to have its own structural necessities that

had to be changed constantly. I’ve got hundreds of files that it took to get it where it is now.

You’re also doing a solo piano recital here. Bob James told me that it’s very daunting for a pianist to leave the safety of his group and perform that way.

Marcus Roberts: I did a lot of it in the early ‘90s. That was before I’d established my trio, and some of the bigger bands that I worked with. I love it, but it is very difficult. It is daunting. If you’re not doing it a lot, there’s a lot involved in the psychology you’ve got to have when you’re playing by yourself. Because everything falls to you. The biggest thing you’re trying to manage in a solo piano recital is the balance of contrasts that’s necessary to keep people interested in the performance. You just have to be sure that the moods and tempos and everything have a lot of variety. And, honestly, the substance has to be very creative. Because it’s the same timbre all night long. It’s not broken up by another instrument. So you’ve gotta figure out a way that the sound of the piano doesn’t start to get on people’s nerves!

Talking about orchestrations and printed scores got me thinking: You have to keep it all in your head while you’re playing with an orchestra. You must have a heightened sense of hearing.

Marcus Roberts: Yeah, obviously I’m listening to everything that’s going on around me, and trying to react and improvise based on that. If you think about it, that’s what everybody in life does. You live your life day to day — some of the things you can control, and you know what’s happening, but a lot of times things just happen that you’ve got to give a spontaneous response to. And you have to hope that’s gonna be the appropriate response, the best for you and best for the people you’re interacting with. When I’m up there, I’m living in the past, present and future at all times. I have to keep all things available to me at all times in order for me to play the way I like to play.

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This is bluegrass, Keller-style, which means the songs (“Sexual Harassment,” “I Am Elvis,” “Messed up Just Right”) are a far cry from the McCourys’ foundation blocks, set in traditional bluegrass stone. It also means that Williams himself is reigning in the electronic loops and guitar effects that are the hallmarks of his live shows.

“To me, the McCourys are complete royalty,” says Williams, who’s no stranger to bluegrass.

“In my opinion, it’s not too far of a step outside of their comfort zone when we play together. But it’s slightly ‘out there,’ and it’s possibly as exciting for them as it is for me to be a part of this vocal chord that we can create together.”

The unlikely marriage began in the fall of 2011, with a joint performance at the Wannee Music Festival in Florida. Since then, Williams and the McCourys have played about a dozen shows together, making a fine album (Pick) along the way.

Meanwhile, the McCourys are the McCourys, and Williams still plays about 110 shows a year, as a solo singer/guitarist or with his other side project, Kdubalicious (he’s the electric bassist in the reggae/dub/funk band).

“I personally don’t want to get stuck in some rut, you know?” Williams explains. “Not only with me and my brain, but with the kind folks that come and see me in these towns that I play every year. I want to bring something different to the table each time. And if I don’t, I want to make sure that I play completely different songs.

“My career is a feeble attempt to entertain myself. And if I can’t entertain myself, I can’t really expect to entertain an audience. There’s definitely a small touch of self-indulgence.”

Just out, as a download, is an all-new Keller Williams album. Keys is a collection of Grateful Dead covers, played on piano. “Jerry ballads,” Williams calls them.

“Piano,” says Williams, “was my first instrument. When I was a little kid, running around the house crazy, the piano was kind of like a stop in the rounds that I would make. My mother would pull out the pots and pans and the wooden spoons, and that’d be another stop. Then I’d have a guitar, and I’d put down the guitar and pick up a hockey stick ‘cause it was easier to hold. And it looked more like Ace Frehley’s guitar.

“Since folks started buying tickets in the early 2000s, I’ve been able to bring more stuff. Starting six years ago or so, I brought a little keyboard along, and I would play one or two songs towards the end of the first set.

“I’ve been playing a lot of these songs live over the years; sometimes I’ll play a nice theater that has a baby grand over in the corner, with stuff piled on top of it. I can talk the folks into letting me use that.”

Keys is a fascinating excursion — Williams sings the tunes with a bluesy vibrato, and his jazz-inflected piano work gives a nod to Vince Guaraldi, and to George Winston (a Guaraldi devotee, Winston was a favorite of Keller’s mother, who played his albums all day long in the family’s Virginia home).

Even though Williams, in his extensive travels, has played with several former members of the Dead, some diehards haven’t thrilled to the “very loose interpretations” (as he calls the songs on Keys).

“A lot of the Grateful Dead traditionalists aren’t that psyched with it,” he explains. “In the sense of the Grateful Dead improvising, and going that way, that’s one thing. But there’s a whole ‘appreciation of how the song was done’ that’s definitely not there.” See kellerwilliams.net continues on p. 26

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melancholy ballads of Edith Piaf bring to mind pre-war Paris, fado singers evoke a time and a place clutched deep to the Portuguese national heart.

It’s a sense of pride, Moura explains, that now extends to the young people in her homeland. There is hip hop and rock in Portugal, to be sure, but “younger people than me, more and more, are interested in fado.

It’s an incredible thing that’s happening in Portugal.

“This is not only happening with our traditional music, it’s happening with our culture in general,” she says.

“Younger people more and more are interested in our roots, our traditions.

“And the only reason I find for that is because we had for many years the dictator Salazar and all the traditional things, the beautiful art and fado, were very related with the regime. We needed some years to clean that up, because fado is from the people.

“Some years ago, the young people tried to discover their roots. And what’s happened in the musical environment at this moment in Portugal is that the new bands are inspiring themselves with fado and Portuguese

traditional music.”

One reason Moura has risen to the top is that her particular take on fado also includes uptempo songs, celebratory songs, songs with abject hope in the lyrics. The response has been quick: She was invited to share the stage with the Rolling Stones when Mick and the boys played Lisbon in 2010. Prince is a dedicated Moura fan, too: He invited her onstage with him, and even knew many of her songs (in their original Portuguese).

Desfado, her fifth album, was produced by the American jazz musician Larry Klein, who happens to be Joni Mitchell’s ex-husband and ex-producer.

Klein convinced Moura to record Mitchell’s blue classic “A Case of You,” and to sing — for the first time — in English. Moura says she learned English from watching movies, in school, and from spending time with British and American friends in Lisbon.

And she was familiar with “A Case of You.” “It was a surprise for me, but then, this album was so different from my previous ones that I just wanted to

fly,” she says of Klein’s request. “I love that song. And also, the lyrics translate to Portuguese. It could be a perfect traditional fado.”

Moura’s three Savannah Music Festival performances come at the tail end of a two-month American tour. She’ll be back on the road in Europe — and elsewhere — later in the spring.

“Obviously, I share music with people,” she says. “And the more I share, the more I feel happy with. Otherwise I wouldn’t record, I would just stay at home singing!

“But I love touring around the world. And I miss my home, but I really love it. I like what I do, and I like to travel. And it’s amazing to feel the other cultures, so different from mine, that they feel close to my music. It’s beautiful to discover, and that’s my main goal.”

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This is fado, the national music of Portugal, and through the talents of singers like Ana Moura, a gift to the world.

(The song is “Quando O Sol Espreitar De Novo,” from Moura’s album Desfado.)

“I think to be a fado singer, you have to be a very emotional person,” Moura tells Connect. “Fado music expresses the Portuguese people as a personality, because we are very emotional people. We can be very happy one minute, and then something happens and we are not. And I think one of the tricks to being a fado singer is to be very emotional.”

At 34, Moura is one of the youngest — and arguably most popular — fadista, or fado singer, in Portugal.

Her records sell there in the millions, and she has been hailed worldwide for breathing exciting new life into what is, essentially, a very old form of European folk music.

Fado (“fate”) is best described as music with melancholy and yearning as its root. Its deep, dark sentimentality is strongly identified with Portuguese seaports; much as the

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It makes sense that Alex Brown Church attended NYU film school; there’s a broad cinematic sweep to the songs he creates as Sea Wolf — haunting and moody, and committed to the sort of deep melancholy we all know and love from tragic movie romances.

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Still, he’s got a God-given gift for melody and arrangement, and the lyrics on the three Sea Wolf albums — Old World Romance is the most recent — show a young man unafraid to explore a deft or unusual turn of phrase, wherever it takes him. And willing to marry his poetry to exquisitely-crafted chamber pop.

The band (such as it is; read on) has been signed to the indie label Dangerbird since 2007; the best-known Sea Wolf song is “The Violet Hour,” which California-bred Church crafted for the soundtrack of The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

I read that you spent a lot of time in your early years outdoors. Did this directly influence the way you write — quiet moments of reflection, sweeping natural vistas, an appreciation of silence and space? And are you still a nature sort of person?

Alex Brown Church: I would say yes, I’m sure it had some effect on me overall, which naturally would affect my songwriting. Those sort of sweeping, grandiose landscapes of the West definitely linger in my memories, and are still a part of my daily life because they are inescapable. Even here in LA. I woke up the other day to find fresh snow on the mountains I can see from my kitchen window.

This being said, I consider myself more of an urbanite, albeit one that feels comfortable roughing it in the wilderness. I just really thrive on the social aspect of city life, and being surrounded by new ideas.

I appreciate the outdoors, but definitely consider myself a city guy. I love camping, but I do tend to get bored after a couple of days.

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Alex Brown Church: Well, it’s a vehicle for my ideas, but I do need help in realizing them sometimes, so that’s where the band comes in.

I sometimes think of Sea Wolf as a “so-and-so and the such-and-such band” kind of situation, except it’s just called Sea Wolf. I can go out and do solo acoustic shows or do full band shows and both are still Sea Wolf, though to me the full band experience is how the songs are meant to be heard and presented (plus it’s a lot more fun for me to have the band with me).

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I’ve had different musicians come and go over the years, some of whom have contributed to some of the recordings and some of whom haven’t. In terms of their influence, I have pretty tight control over the vision for the songs and have always directed them here or there. But people do bring their own perspective and often interpret those directions in different ways, which is where the songs can sometimes expand past my ideas in pleasantly unexpected ways, and I like to stay open to that.

OK, I always ask something like this when I find out someone is a huge Beatles fan.

Rubber Soul, Revolver, the White Album or Abbey Road? And why?

Alex Brown Church: Well, Rubber Soul or Revolver, for sure. Songs like “Nowhere Man” and “Norwegian Wood” and “I’m Only Sleeping” are just my favorite. I love the mood of those songs, the concise arrangements and structures, the beginnings of experimentation happening on those records. To me those albums feel like the beginning of the crazy experimental stuff to come, and beginnings are always the most exciting to me.

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Alex Brown Church: It’s really hard to say. I feel like it did open us up to a lot of new fans, for sure, but it took a few years for me to notice it. It seems like there are more people at the shows now than ever, and I assume the Twilight thing had at least a small part in that. It’s really tough to measure or say definitively what effect it did have, though. How do I feel about it? Honestly, I never think about it until someone mentions it. And then I’m not sure how I feel about it.

At 9 p.m. Friday, March 29, Trustees Theater Bob Marley departed this earth 32 years ago, but the things he did for Jamaican reggae — giving the music a high energy, great songs, brilliant songwriting and a joyful hold on the global imagination — live on in the sprit of the Wailers, which began as his recording and touring band, but has now been carrying the torch longer than Marley ever did.

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Shall we rattle off some impressive credits? Del McCoury is one of the most revered vocalists and bandleaders in contemporary bluegrass. Banjo master J.D. Crowe has fronted the New South since the 1960s, giving springboard starts to such now-legends as Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs and Jerry Douglas.

Fiddler Bobby Hicks earned his stripes with Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, and was at Ricky Skaggs’ side for two decades. He’s won 10 Grammys.

Along with his brother Sonny, Bobby Osborne was a member of the fabulous Osborne Brothers — theirs was the original, and best known, recording of “Rocky Top.” Bobby Osborne plays mandolin and hits them high lonesome tenor notes like nobody else.

“I’ve been knowing all of these guys for a long, long time,” McCoury says, “and it just feels good to stand on stage with them. We all know all the old songs, so those just fall into place, and we’re working on each other’s songs— and some new things, too. It’s exciting to see the way it’s all coming together.”

Del’s brother Jerry, a member of the Del McCoury Band, is this supergroup’s standup bassist.

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“I was a singing mandolin player and singing guitar player,” Douglas said in a 2012 Connect interview. “And as soon as I started playing Dobro I quit singing. That was it, man. It was like having a voice. I didn’t need to sing any more.”

A frequent Savannah Music Festival guest, Douglas is planning a rare solo performance — but he hints there’ll be some special guests dropping by (just look at the SMF schedule for the week — he’s played with just about all of those folks at one time or another).

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Jane Monheit/Jennifer Sheehan @Morris Center

The payoff of a really good jazz trio (piano, bass and drums) with a vocalist out front is easy to understand: The very best singers use the voice as a fourth instrument, not only for the delivery of lyrics but as a complement to the overall sound.

New York’s Jane Monheit has been on the top rung a dozen years. In Sunday evening’s show — Jane Monheit the second of six Morris Center shows — Monheit demonstrated not only a tacit understanding of the voice’s role in a jazz combo, but an absolute mastery of her stunning instrument.

Her voice soars, swoops and scats, leaping octaves with slippery ease, peeling emotional layers from big, teary ballads like an onion. Many, many singers have interpreted “Over the Rainbow” since Dorothy dodged that tornado, but Monheit, who’s been doing the song for years, owned it.

“What are you gonna do after that?” Monheit shrugged, acknowledging the performance’s emotional wallop. “So... it’s swing time!”

A quick countdown from the drummer, and it was “Taking a Chance on Love,” the old Benny Goodman/Helen Forrest bop number.

She also swung through the fingersnapper “I Won’t Dance,” the lyrics flying out of her triple-time, as if she were a skittering alto saxophone wailing an effortless solo.

Another highlight was the torchy “Born to Be Blue,” one of the strongest tunes on her forthcoming Heart of the Matter album.

She told the audience she enjoyed playing “smaller rooms” like the Morris Center, because the give-and-take with the audience is intense and much more immediate.

Jennifer Sheehan, who opened Monheit’s show (and shares the bill with her all week), is a disciple of Andrea Marcovicci, the queen of American cabaret. Accompanied by a pianist and bassist, Missourian Sheehan — who has a beautiful soprano voice — tackled (in 45 minutes) 100 years of the Great American Songbook. From “All the Things You Are,” “I’ll Be Seeing You” and “In the Still

of the Night” to a couple of Sondheim numbers and two from contemporary songwriter Susan Werner, Sheehan delivered each song in an engaging, easygoing manner. The audience loved her.

Although she recently made her debut at New York’s prestigious Feinstein’s club, Sheehan is an expressive singer who just needs to meet the right Broadway musical, and a star is born. She’s that good. – Bill DeYoung

Ballake Sissok/Vincent Segal @Morris Center

In covering the Music Festival, I’ve written many times about my passion for African music, specifically the music of Mali.

It’s a passion owed directly to the Festival, which has brought in so many amazing Malian musicians over the years.

This year it’s the turn of master Ballake Sissoko, in a scintillating partSegal and nership with the versatile French cellist Vincent Segal Sissoko at the Charles H. Morris Center.

Sissoko plays a West African instrument called a kora, which is often mistakenly compared to a banjo based purely on its silhouette. The kora is musically much closer to a harp or lyre, in that its 21 strings are never fretted, but always represent a single note per string. Unlike a harp, however, the kora is played by the thumbs, which enables a percussive, robust quality, as opposed to the harp’s signature glissando.

Sissoko, simply put, is a genius.

Equally skilled at melody and rhythm, he performs mini-symphonies on his handmade, beautiful instrument. In partnership with Segal, however, we are in the presence of magic.

Segal tells the audience it’s commonplace to refer to African instruments as “traditional,” while cellos

and violins and the like are usually called “classical.” But he reminds us that Sissoko’s kora is every bit as classical as a cello, with a similar pedigree going back centuries, every bit as daunting to craft, and every bit as challenging to master.

Segal’s open mind isn’t limited to musicology; in concert with Sissoko he becomes a veritable Hendrix of the cello, from extended, muscular pizzicato stylings to an intriguing, otherworldly technique of bowing near the bridge while simultaneously using harmonics. – Jim Morekis

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company @Lucas

There are two types of applause.

There’s the trained-seal style one feels obliged to give at the end of a particular song or dance -- generally a three or fourminute increment in line with the short attention span encouraged by pop radio.

But there’s a special, more genuine kind of catharsis reserved for the heartfelt applause that builds up over the course of an extended performance, one during which the audience has no opportunity to express appreciation other than silent wonder followed by pure delight.

That’s the catharsis we felt applauding the end of each half of Saturday night’s performance of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.

This endlessly inventive ensemble basically performed two very long

dances – albeit each one being multilayered in tempo and kineticism – one on each side of intermission, the only break in the action.

That may sound excruciating, but it was anything but. The performance was over before we knew it, the organic, gently unfolding nature of the dances enabling us to reach a near-trance state which both slowed and accelerated the passage of time.

The dancers, clad in casual yet sexy attire more at home in an American Apparel ad, represented a range of body types and appearances, with the common denominator of being every bit as sensual as they were athletic.

In Mr. Jones’s signature style, the choreography avoided the precious New-Agey tendencies of so much modern/contemporary dance.

Indeed, much of the choreography seemed obliquely inspired by Tai Chi or even Kung Fu, with the dancers in frequent close contact, using each other’s bodies as fulcrums.

The introspection of these focused dancers was spotlighted by the live accompaniment, consisting of a string quartet playing Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden,’ and a full octet on the other side of the intermission playing Mendelssohn. These comforting, classically familiar strains – as opposed to the more typical self-conscious music selections at many dance performances -- were an effective counterbalance to the whimsically experimental nature of the dances.

On another positive note it was exciting to see such a good turnout for a dance event. The Festival has never completely turned its back on dance, but dance events are notorious box office underachievers in Savannah, or have been; here’s hoping we’ve turned that particular corner and will see more and better dance performances locally. – Jim Morekis

The 2013 Savannah Music Festival

March 27/Wednesday Simon Crawford-Phillips: Solo Piano.

$20 11 a.m. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St.

Noon30: Jeb Patton — Classical pia-

nist’s Savannah debut. $20 12:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. Charles McPherson Quartet/ Walter Blanding Septet: Two original ensem-

bles led by two of the most distinct saxophone voices of our era. $35 6 & 8:30 p.m. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St.

Daniel Hope & Friends with David Finckel, Wu Han & Patrick Messina:

Mozart Sonata for Piano for 4 hands in C Major, K. 521. Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50. Beethoven Trio for Clarinet, Cello & Piano in Bflat Major, Op. 11. $62 6 p.m. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St.

Charles McPherson Quartet/ Walter Blanding Septet: Two original ensem-

bles led by two of the most distinct saxophone voices of our era. $35 6 & 8:30 p.m. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St.

Dr. John and the Nite Trippers: $25-$65 8 p.m. New Orleans’ piano-playing voodoo high priest. Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St.

March 28/Thursday Noon30: Warren Wolf Trio: The vibra-

phone’s history in jazz includes such giants as Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson and Bobby Hutcherson; however,

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the instrument’s torch in the 21st century is being carried by Warren Wolf. $20 12:30 p.m. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. Swing Central Jazz: Big Band Showcase:

ter, 10 East Broad St.

March 31/Sunday

Saxophone Summit/Swing Central Jazz Finale: $62 7 p.m. Lucas Theatre, 32

Fado & the Soul of Southern Europe:

Abercorn St.

Open-air showcase featuring the high school big bands participating in Swing Central Jazz. Free and open to the public. 11 a.m. Rousakis Plaza, River St.

Swing Central Jazz: Combo Showcase:

Sea Wolf: L.A. based pop rock en-

semble led by writer/guitarist/singer Alex Brown Church. $25 8 p.m. Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 MLK Jr Blvd.

Twelve high school bands compete for cash awards. Free and open to the public. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St.

Jeremy Denk, Piano : $52 6 p.m. Lucas

The Wailers: Reggae legends, the

Theatre, 32 Abercorn St.

Masters of Bluegrass w/J.D. Crowe, Bobby Hicks, Bobby Osborne, Del McCoury and Jerry McCoury: Five leading elders

Free and open to the public. 3:30 p.m.

Reynolds Square, Abercorn and St. Julian Streets.

Swing Central Jazz: The Competition:

band originally formed in 1969 by Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh, plus current bassist Aston “Family Man” Barrett. $25-$45 9 p.m. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St.

of the genre combining their talents for an evening of mountain soul. $25$55 7:30 p.m. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St.

March 30/Saturday

René Marie Quartet/ Houston Person Quartet: Award-winning singer whose

erts’s first complete solo recital at SMF. $35 12:30 p.m. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St.

style incorporates jazz, soul, blues and gospel. $35 7 & 9:30 p.m. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 E Broad St.

March 29/Friday Noon30: Aaron Diehl Quartet: Aaron Diehl, piano; Warren Wolf, vibraphone; David Wong, bass; Rodney Green, drums. Music by the late John Lewis, founder of the Modern JazzQuartet. $20 12:30 p.m. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. Cajun Dance Party: Red Stick Ramblers:

$30 7:15 & 9:30 p.m. Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 MLK Jr Blvd.

Late night Jam: A celebration of

fine jazz Aaron Diehl trio featuring Wycliffe Gordon and Terell Stafford $20 9:30 p.m. Charles H. Morris Cen-

Noon30: Marcus Roberts, piano: Rob-

Daniel Hope and Friends: Piano Quintet Masterpieces. $57 6 p.m. Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St.

The Portuguese fado singer Ana Moura and her acclaimed band . 5 p.m. SOLD OUT. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St.

April 1/Monday Noon30: Casey Driessen, fiddle:

Grammy-nominated fiddler mixes his signature percussive fiddle style with digital loops and effects. $15 12:30 p.m. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio & Miami String Quartet with Daniel Hope:

This “all in the family” production features one of the most acclaimed piano trios in our time. $57 6 p.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St.

The Art of Solo Guitar: Martin Taylor/ Julian Lage: Taylor: “the acoustic gui-

tarist of his generation” says Acoustic Guitar magazine. Lage, age 24, makes his solo SMF debut. Sold Out. 8 p.m Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St.

April 2/Tuesday

Keller Williams & The Travelin’ McCourys/ Charlie Hunter & Scott Amendola Duo: Guitarist/songwriter Williams

Music at 11: Miami String Quartet: Fea-

Fado & the Soul of Southern Europe:

Noon30: Old-Time Kozmik Trio: Fiddlers Bruce Molsky and Darol Anger, and cellist Rushad Eggleston, present an energetic reinvention of traditional music on acoustic instruments. $15 12:30 p.m. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St.

joins forces with The McCoury boys: Ronnie (mandolin) and Rob (banjo), along with fiddler Jason Carter and bassist Alan Bartram. $25-$55 8 p.m.

Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St.

The Portuguese fado singer Ana Moura and her acclaimed band. 6 and 9 p.m. SOLD OUT. $35 9 p.m. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St.

turing SMF veterans violinist Benny Kim and cellist Keith Robinson. $20 11 a.m. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St.

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Old-Time Kozmik Trio/ Jerry Douglas Band: Grammy-winning Jerry Doug-

Latin Dance Party: Spanish Harlem Orchestra: New York-based orchestra

Daniel Hope & Friends: Triumphant Strings: Masterworks by Mozart,

April 5/Friday

las and band with string players Darol Anger, Bruce Molsky and Rushad Eggleston. $35 5:30 & 8 p.m. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 E Broad St.

Strauss and Dvorak plus a commissioned work by Charlotte Bray. $57 6 p.m. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St.

April 3/Wednesday Noon30: Jerry Douglas, Dobro: A rare

founded by Oscar Hernandez and Aaron Levinson. $35 8 p.m. Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.

Noon30: The Deadly Gentlemen: Banjo

virtuoso Greg Liszt, guitarist Stash Wyslouch, mandolinist Dominick Leslie, fiddler Mike Barnett and bassist Sam Grisman. $15 12:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St.

solo performance by Dobro master Jerry Douglas, a member of Alison Krauss’ Union Station. $15 12:30 p.m.

Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St.

Blues in the Afternoon: Tab Benoit/ Otis Taylor: Cajun bluesman Benoit and

The Duo: Mike Marshall & Darol Anger

Daniel Hope & Friends: Schubert Octet and Beethoven Septet: Hope joins nine

Mandolinist Mike Marshall and fiddler Darol Anger, icons of stringband musical prowess. $35 5 p.m. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St.

Early and Late: Richard Goode, piano: A

Denver-bred blues artist Otis Taylor. $35 5 p.m. Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.

musicians in this capstone performance for SMF’s “Hope and Friends” 2013 series. $52 6 p.m. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St.

night of classical piano built around early and late works by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. $62 6 p.m. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St.

Blues in the Evening: Tab Benoit/ Otis Taylor: Cajun bluesman Benoit and

Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell with Richard Thompson Electric Trio — 12-

David Grisman Folk Jazz Trio & Sarah Jarosz Trio: Mandolinist Grisman and

time Grammy winning country and Americana vocalist Emmylou Harris with Texas singer/songwriter Rodney Crowell and their band, plus British guitar great Richard Thompson and his electric trio. $35-$65 7:30 p.m.

Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave.

April 4/Thursday Noon30: Joy Kills Sorrow: The Bostonbased virtuoso string band. 12:30 p.m. $15. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. Joy Kills Sorrow/The Deadly Gentlemen:

Double bill of critically acclaimed indie string bands. $35 at 9 p.m. The 6 p.m. show is sold out. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St.

Tedeschi Trucks Band: The first couple of blues rock return to the SMF with their outstanding 11-member band. k. $25-$85 8:30 p.m. Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Lorenza Borrani, violin: Italian violinist’s fifth year at SMF, this time as a soloist. $47 6 p.m. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St.

Denver-bred blues artist Otis Taylor. $35 8 p.m. Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.

Jarosz, a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist. $25-$55 8 p.m. Trustees Theater, 216 E Broughton St.

April 6/Saturday Noon30: Lake Street Dive: Classic soul and R&B, jazz, and British invasion from a lively Brooklyn-based quartet. $15 12:30 p.m. Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with Marcus Roberts Trio: A program of modern

American music, including the world premiere of a new piano concerto for jazz trio by Marcus Roberts. $28-$65 3 p.m. Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Lee Fields & The Expressions/ Lake Street Dive: Soulful rhythm and blues

and dance tunes of the Expressions, with Brooklyn’s Lake Street Dive, playing classic soul and R&B, jazz, and British invasion. $35 8:30 p.m.

Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.

Acoustic Music Seminar Finale: Stringband Spectacular: $15-$50 6 p.m.

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Our style shooter reports from Fashion Week

Cedric Smith, Connect contributing photographer and well-known local fashion blogger of “You’re Welcome Savannah” fame, went up the coast this past weekend to shoot some events at Charleston Fashion Week, a five-night extravaganza in Marion Square. Our image choices this week reflect models from the Savannah area.

At right, model Duston Rogers models People’s Choice Winner and Emerging Designer Afriyie Poku’s clothing. He was the first designer ever to win for menswear. Afriyie Poku will return next year to Charleston as a Featured Designer.

Above, Cassidy Elizabeth Mae Brown, a SCAD grad, wowed the crowd with her “Tribal Royale” collection. Ms. Brown won People’s Choice award on Wednesday evening.

Makenna Reeder, a local model, beat out over 800 models that had auditioned to walk in Charleston Fashion Week. In this photo above the SCAD grad is modeling for Featured Designer, Hannah Goff.

The fashion panel brought back Hyemin Cho to walk again on Saturday evening. This SCAD graduate was inspired by Korean architectural designs.

SCAD graduate Hope Wallace won the People’s Choice award on Friday evening. Her collection was bold, with a combination of fabrics such as leather and washed silk.

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Elsewhere, arrangements of plastic pieces in every color forge interesting connections between life, art and the natural world. For example, his “River Specimens Female/Male” is a 12 1/2-inch by 25-inch panel on which DeLorme organized thrownaway toys. Rows of plastic barrettes with bows, butterflies and dragonflies comprise the top half of the arrangement; toy soldiers and cowboys the bottom half. The effect is like an old butterfly collection display, making for a fascinating comparison between the things we collect and display.

Green’s work is equally rich with such comparisons. With roots in fibers and object construction, she utilizes traditional craft techniques

to transform materials ranging from irons to X-Box controllers into busts, quilts and shapes reminiscent of children’s playthings. A pair of tricycles made of technological detritus bring to mind nostalgia, motherhood and personal relations to objects. She thus explores gender, personal relationships and the artificial and natural.

Working with what they call the “horrible candy of our consumptive lifestyle,” DeLorme and Green are chief examples of how the visual arts can bring attention to the destructive consequences of our ways of living.

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Young artists @Desotorow A few blocks south in the Starland District, the nonprofit Desotorow Gallery hosted its Young Artists Showcase. The exhibit featured 46 works the staff selected from a pool of nearly 100 submissions. While the show featured student art from St. Vincent, Savannah Christian and Calvary high schools, Groves High School contributed the largest number of submissions and selected work.

Fine examples of painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic design and mixed media filled the space’s walls. Impressive as the quality of technique was, many of the artworks were expressive, felt important and developed concepts far beyond the students’ years.

Highlights included the drawings of Aaron Morse, a senior at Groves, whose intricate works clearly evince expert draftsmanship. Gallery Co-director Julia Melissa Walton with ‘...Exorcism Thompson, a SCAD painting B.F.A. Hemerocallis’ student, mused that his skills could intimidate any of SCAD’s best students.

Morse’s “Clockwork Owl” had the honor of winning second prize that evening.

Best in show went to “...Exorcism Hemerocallis” by Melissa Walton, a senior from Jenkins High School. Her three mixed media works masterfully layered lace

and found paper upon finely executed color pencil drawings.

She demonstrated a remarkable penchant for texture and layer on the one hand. On the other, deft use of negative space also evidenced her ability to select, abstract and express through absence.

Getting to know the students who attended the opening was even more rewarding than seeing their impressive work. It became clear that the opportunities to pursue creativity in and out of the classroom have functioned to create friendships between students from diverse backgrounds and, indeed, from different schools. Exceeding the beautiful artwork that results, our young people form lasting relationships with like-minded peers through art education.

The evening was thus the result of many people, from many different sectors of the local community, working hard to realize a sustainable vision of the future – a future indeed in our hands, the two exhibits showing that a sustainable future starts with the local community.

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With St. Patrick’s Day recovery efforts still underway and the Savannah Music Festival in full swing, you might have expected an uneventful weekend for visual arts. Proving those expectations wrong, Friday, March 22, featured a pair of events that illustrated Savannah’s commitment to investing in the community’s future.

Artists Harry DeLorme and Rachel Green offered a tour of their exhibition, “Post-Consumed: Plastic Constructions” at the Cultural Arts Gallery on Henry Street. The couple, married for over 25 years, collect discarded materials and repurpose them in a range of constructed forms.

DeLorme was trained as a painter, and uses the plastic fragments he gathers to produce functional objects, sculptures, and two dimensional works that combine the formal qualities of both paintings and mosaics.

His clocks made of found plastics from the Savannah River and a lamp composed of 120 empty cigarette lighters from McQueen’s Island invite consideration of what practical uses we can devise for the materials that damage our ecosystems and wildlife.

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Architectures of Improvisation — The works of the

first solo art show is a multi-media experience.

Visitors enter through a portal beginning at the doorstep to reach the exhibition of Melissa’s paintings and prints. Free and open to the public first Friday Art March show Fri, 4/5, 6-9pm. Anahata Healing Args Center, 2424 Drayton St.

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SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Heaven’s Gate: Exhibition by Odili Donald Odita — Celebrates color

Notations (Art inspired by Music) — Compositions

and light within the museum through sitespecific wall paintings.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

4 artists presented are evidence that intuition can be a valuable tool which allows the unexpected to shape an idea. Receptions Saturday March 30 8pm12am and Tuesday April 2 6-8pm. Non-Fiction Gallery, 1522 Bull St. Opening: ConeArtists: a multi-media art show — Melissa Hagerty’s

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work on hand screened T-shirts. Fri., March 29, 7:30-10:30 p.m. lesnoot. com/. Gallery Le Snoot, 6 East State Street.

Michelle Soha & Bryan Attaway — Realism paintings

and multimedia pieces by Michelle Soha. Ceramics glazed with clay and wood ash by Bryan Attaway.

April 1-30 Gallery 209, 209 E River St.

Fly — A collection of

artworks by The Butcher staff. Free and open to the public. Fri., March 29, 7-10 p.m The Butcher Tattoo Studio, 19 East Bay St.

Paintings by Joshua Hill — Hill’s latest paintings

are inspired by Gerhard Richter’s “dragged” abstracted images and the Impressionist’s striving

to capture color in the moment. Reception Sun. May 5, 1-3pm. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Photography by Debra Zumstein & Asa Chibas — Large

landscapes by Zumstein and abstracts by Chibas.

Reception April 7, 2:304:30pm. April 1-30. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St.

can artist Gabriel Dawe constructs intricate, site-specific sculptural installations of thread that produce visual effects and rays of spectral color.

Gutstein Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St.

Mary Telfair and the Grand Tour — Rarely exhibited

works from Mary Telfair’s collection, acquired primarily in Italy during her travels abroad. Through Sep. 1 Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Material Discovery: Angel Otero — New paintings

and sculpture plus recent works. Through May 5

by Carmela Aliffi will open at LuLu’s Chocolate Bar, March 21-April 16.

The exhibition coincides with the Savannah Music Festival. Lulu’s Chocolate Bar, 42 MLK, Jr. Blvd.

Picture The Future: A Senior Graduation Art Exhibition —

Degree candidates display their artwork produced for this capstone project.

Reception April 5, 5:307:30 p.m. Fine Arts Gallery (Armstrong Atlantic State University), 11935 Abercorn St.

Silver From the Rizza Collection — An exhibition

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nowned as a mixed media artist, returns to his photographic origins with an exhibition of blackand-white images, his first photography show since 1998. Through March 31 Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E Liberty St.

Rose Line Exhibit — Paintings by Tybee resident Margie Rose, aka Malkah. Eight small oil paintings depicting real Tybee scenes. Through March 31 Dragonfly Studios, 1204 Hwy 80.

Post-Consumed: Plastic Constructions — Exhibit by

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Silver From the Rizza Collection — An exhibition

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Sitting in Savannah: Telfair Chairs and Sofas — High-

lights Telfair Museums’ significant collection of chairs and sofas as functional objects and sculptural forms. Also at the Owens-Thomas House, 124 Abercorn St. Museum admission Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St.

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Group Show: In the Pines — Recent work by three

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By Sinjin Hilaski | @SinjinHilaski

Foxy Loxy: Home away from home As the steady pitter-patter of rain rhythmically beat against the car, my Filipino friend and I ventured onward searching for coffee, food, and belonging. Our destination: an amiable atmosphere filled with a platoon of platonic conversationalists seeking warm refuge from another overcast and rainy Savannah Saturday.

Scurrying from the car, dodging raindrops and puddles, we had finally made it home: to Foxy Loxy Print Gallery and Cafe. With a turn of a knob and a jingle of bells, we found refuge in warm personalities and the building that houses one of Savannah’s most unique coffeehouses.

A single story complete with living, dining and sun room, it felt as though we’d returned to our respective concepts of home rather than a business. Shuffling across the wooden floor to the counter, we decided on a meal from their delectable Tex-Mex offerings.

Initially the lack of available seating placed us in the awkward social situation of standing around like the last kids to be picked for dodgeball.

This might not be the situation for long, as a recent Kickstarter campaign envisions an upstairs expansion to allow for more seating and space for art exhibitions and music performances in the charming Victorian house.

Taking charge and embracing the current homey atmosphere, the two of us took seats in the dining room, joining two others at the large dark wooden table intended for six.

Drinking the signature Foxy Loxy blend from Perc Coffee (also available at its Broughton Street sister café, The Coffee Fox) from our wide-mouthed cups, we began

Cozy Foxy Loxy on Bull Street is the perfect refuge from any storm. Plans are in the works to take over the upstairs space.

reflecting, reveling and gossiping.

As Ernest Van R. Stiles gazed down upon me from the nearest wall I slowly started on my sea green poblano and potato soup, served in a seemingly bottomless Cerulean blue metal camping cup.

Conversation quelled by Foxy’s indescribably amazing food, I began to truly notice the walls and doors adorned with art and prints showcasing owner Jennifer Jenkins’ talents as a printmaker alongside local posters for music lessons and upcoming shows.

Allowing the soundscape of RJD2 and Wax Tailor coupled with the steady strum of keyboard clicks to

infiltrate my mind and mood, I witnessed a slew of people enter Foxy Loxy seeking the same things I had sought: Coffee, food, atmosphere, and and inevitably, seating.

Despite the perpetual challenge of finding a place to sit the influx of customers continued with many settling and sitting next to strangers. It was then I knew why I had a fondness for this Savannah staple. While the lack of seats can be problematic, it paves the way for a sense of community in patrons having to share tables, couches and counters.

It’s this sense of community alongside the culinary concoctions and soothing soundscape

that makes Foxy Loxy stand out. I certainly hope it will retain it as it grows to accomodate more people looking for coffee, good food and a cozy place to enjoy them.

It’s not just any place to grab coffee, it’s a home for the Savannah community.

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Spring has sprung, as they say, but the fun has just begun. From now through May, the skies of Savannah will bustle with over 200 species of birds winging their way through this very active migratory corridor.

“The very beginning of spring is when the migratory activity is really getting started,” says local author and birdwatcher Diana Churchill. “This is the high-peak, frenzied activity time.”

There’s no more informative and entertaining way to enjoy the frenzy than in the pages of Churchill’s book Birder’s Eye View: Savannah & the Low Country. Known by many as the affable owner of Wild Bird Unlimited at Abercorn Common, Churchill also has a following for her frequent birding columns, over 50 of which are assembled in Birder’s Eye View.

Churchill has organized this full-color book by season and month. Each seasonal chapter begins with a comprehensive look at exactly what kind of birds to look for, and when.

The months unfold with individual columns; this month, for example, there’s “The Return of the Mafia,” about the invasion of the aggressive grackles; and “Tuning Your Ear to Birdsong,” a guide to the soundtrack of spring.

“This is about the time of year when you’ll start seeing the first ruby-throated hummingbirds at your feeder,” Churchill explains. “You’ll be seeing migratory swallowtail and Mississippi kites, and the little warblers that walk around in Forsyth Park.”

Spring’s interesting not only for migratory action, but for the activity of the local birds as well.

“The resident birds are now getting down to the business of nesting. The long-legged waterbirds are beginning to breed,” Churchill says. “Also there

are still some winter birds that haven’t quite left the area yet — the swallows, the ducks.”

In the column “What a Bird Guy Will Do to Get a Gal,” Churchill explains: “Male hummingbirds often become so focused on mating that they forget to eat properly. They can lose as much as twenty percent of their body weight and become ragged and weakened by summer’s end. Female ruby-throated hummingbirds regularly live twenty-five percent longer than the hardcourting males.”

It was always thus, in the bird world as well as with us humans.

Churchill explains how to bird-watch in your backyard, but an extended appendix also gives a guide to various bird-watching locales along the Georgia and South Carolina coast, from Cumberland Island in the south to just north of Charleston.

An accomplished photographer, Churchill has peppered the book with high-quality, full-color photos of most of the birds discussed in the text. cs Diana Churchill will sign copies of Birder’s Eye View at Barnes & Noble in Oglethorpe Mall on April 20, from noon-2 p.m.

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New pizza on the Southside

For some people, it’s about filling an empty void in their gut. For others, it’s about the comfort of a familiar friend. For still others, pizza is the common denominator that brings people together over a raucous table of melted cheese and cold beer.

The crowded restaurant category known as “pizzeria” is filled with mom-and-pop joints, aged icons like Pizza Hut and, ever so occasionally, a marketplace newcomer that deserves attention.

One such is the new Jet’s Pizza on Abercorn Street. This Michigan-based franchise boasts more than 200 locations in the U.S., with most of those being a dominating tour de force in Jet’s home state.

These are not bargain-hunter pies.

I would call these premium pizzas.

Dough is mixed from scratch inhouse every day, just like its tomato sauce. Its signature rectangular pies are thick (Jet’s calls them “Detroitstyle”), with a nice balance of toppings, not the sketchy hit-or-miss surfaces of lesser-priced pizza. The square shapes also allows Jet’s to build a unique “8 Corner Pizza” where every square has its own, thick, delicious edge crust.

Adding to the local franchise’s focus on quality is its owners, Mark and Adrienne Wallace. Mark Wallace has 35 years of experience in the restaurant industry and the couple is hands on in the restaurant to ensure attention to detail.

Mark says they are going to add a handful of tables, but this is primarily carryout or delivery. There is online ordering.

7929 Abercorn St. (Near Best Buy), 9615387, jetspizza.com

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Oliva, a restaurant featuring authentic dishes from Italy, the Basque country of France and Spain, is opening in the former Screamin’ Mimi’s location on Whitaker Street.

Juan Manuel Rodriguez, his wife Ana and their partners expect to be open within six weeks or so. Many of the restaurant’s recipes come from secrets handed down through Ana’s family, who lived in an all-Italian neighborhood in Venezuela. Juan also owns Rancho Alegre, the Cuban-inspired eatery on MLK Jr. Blvd.

The new shape in pizza is square: Jet’s is now open on the southside.

The topping will look familiar, and customers can “flavorize” their crust for free with a choice of eight flavors: Butter, poppy seed, parmesan, garlic, cajun, romano, sesame seed or Jet’s Turbo Crust, a combination of butter, garlic and romano cheese.

I chose a small veggie pizza topped with mozzarella cheese, mushrooms, onions, green peppers, black olives and tomatoes. The six slices were plenty for me and Ms. TJ and we had a couple of square pieces left over for lunch the next day. The consistent application of the nicely diced

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I also tried an order of Jet’s Bread, a round platter of dough topped with cheese and, in this case, bacon. Need I say more about pizza dough, cheese and bacon together? The breads can also be topped with cheese only or with pepperoni pieces.

The menu also offers wings or chicken strips, salads, sweet and crispy cinnamon sticks and a smallbut-tasty-looking range of hot subs.

Speaking of Rancho Alegre

The food is great and the place has become a hotspot for jazz on the weekends, often hosting the Jody Espina Trio. On March 28, the restaurant will offer two dinner shows by the group Flamenco, featuring internationally recognized flamenco dancer Jose de Guadalupe and guitarist Marija Temo.

Reservations are required for both shows. Cover is $15 for the 7 p.m. show; $10 for the 9 p.m. show. The dinner menu will feature authentic paella. CS

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A better Die Hard movie than the godawful A Good Day to Die Hard, Olympus Has Fallen still registers as a stale action flick whose primary worth is probably as a heartland alternative for red-meat moviegoers wary of the sexy sinfulness of Spring Breakers or the highfalutin’ idiosyncrasies of Stoker. It’s basically two hours of “America, F#@k Yeah!” — the Team America: World Police anthem that has unofficially been the motto of everything from the 2012 Summer Olympics to the Iraq War. Perhaps in a calculated move not to alienate Tea Party ticket holders, the president in this movie is white: Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart), a decent politician whose best friend, Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), also happens to be his best Secret Service shadow. But a personal tragedy forces the men to split up, and when the White House is attacked by North Korean terrorists and the Prez is nabbed along with some key staffers, Banning has to work his way back onto the Pennsylvania Avenue property before he can go all “yippee ki yay” on the assailants.

Director Antoine Fuqua, known for gritty

films like Training Day and Brooklyn’s Finest, takes a page from the Roland Emmerich/ Michael Bay handbook by opting for all the bombast money can buy, thereby uneasily squishing together ample money shots (The White House gets blown up! The Washington Monument crumbles! Gerard Butler flexes his muscles!) with casual brutality (civilians are mowed down like so much grass). It’s all very busy but not especially exciting, and it does little to transcend what was doubtless its pitched tag as Die Hard Meets Air Force One. Debuting screenwriters Creighton continues on p. 44

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Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt keep the story moving at a rapid clip, though they occasionally do stumble into plotholes (one character is a traitor committed to his new cause until he suddenly isn’t; a code is required from a certain person until it suddenly isn’t).

Eckhart is always good, and Butler generally fares better in action flicks than romantic comedies. Reliable Robert Forster brings his gruff demeanor to the role of the irascible head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, while reliable Morgan Freeman brings gravitas to his scenes as Speaker of the House Trumbull. Placed in charge once the president and vice president (Phil Austin) are captured, Trumbull does everything in his power to make sure these White House occupants from the other party are safely released. Clearly, John Boehner will hate this character’s MO.

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Tina Fey is a smart, funny and vivacious actress, but she’s admittedly

at her best when paired with a more manic co-star who brings her relative passivity into sharper focus (think Amy Poehler in Baby Mama or Steve Carell in Date Night). Paul Rudd is a charming, likable and slyly amusing actor, but he’s admittedly at his best when paired with a more manic costar who likewise brings his relative passivity into sharper focus (think Leslie Mann in Knocked Up or Jason Segel in I Love You, Man). So while the idea of teaming Fey and Rudd in a major motion picture sounds like a feasible one, the reality is that all this low-simmer niceness results in a movie that has absolutely no wit, bite or — most shockingly — moments of hilarity.

It’s not really the faults of the two leads, who do what they can with the feeblest of characters. Fey stars as Portia Nathan, a Princeton admissions officer fiercely devoted to her job. But the revelation that the prestigious university has fallen to — shudder — number 2 on US News & World Report’s annual list of the nation’s best colleges has left the institution in shock, and this coupled with the

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announcement by her retiring boss (Wallace Shawn) that he’s seeking a worthy replacement forces Portia to think outside the box. Having been approached by John Pressman (Rudd) to come check out the alternative, go-green high school that he runs in the middle of nowhere, she accepts the invitation and is soon introduced to Jeremiah (Nat Wolff), an atypical student who John insists would be a perfect candidate for Princeton.

Portia isn’t wholly convinced until John drops the bombshell: Jeremiah is most likely the son Portia gave up for adoption nearly two decades earlier. Now charged with maternal pride as well as faith in her own awesome genes, she does whatever she can to ensure that Jeremiah makes it into Princeton.

Using Jean Hanff Korelitz’s book as a blueprint, Karen Croner cobbles together a script that bungles many important ingredients, starting with the crucial fact that we are never convinced that Jeremiah and Princeton would be a mutually beneficial match.

The characters of Portia and John are problematic as well. Some of Portia’s

questionable actions are never challenged by the filmmakers and make her less attractive than doubtless intended; Rudd’s part, meanwhile, is more of a supporting one than a co-starring one, and he isn’t given enough time to come off as much more than a smug, self-satisfied liberal who, depending on your inclination, should either be slapped or prepped for canonization.

As Portia’s longtime companion who abandons her for another woman, Michael Sheen provides a fine case study of dishonor among the intelligentsia, and it’s nice to see Shawn again gracing the halls of academia (he’s played educators on numerous occasions, most memorably in Clueless). Top acting honors, however, go to Lily Tomlin as Portia’s mother Susannah, a feminist who once wrote a book titled The Masculine Myth, sports a Bella Abzug tattoo and — a nice, subtle touch — has two dogs named Betty and Gloria. Like Portia — let’s face it, like practically all women in cinema — Susannah can’t be completely happy in her independence or her career, ultimately

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Any movie that calls itself The Croods — even an animated one — would seem to be threatening to wear its snot on its sleeve. Yet that’s not the case here, as this feature has enough “scary action” (as per the faint-ofheart MPAA) to warrant a PG rating yet not enough Hangover-style scatology to merit anything stronger. This is strictly a toon tale for the whole family, meaning that anyone on the lookout for a comeback by Fritz the Cat creator Ralph Bakshi (MIA since 1997) will have to keep waiting and hoping.

No, The Croods is exactly the sort of animated fare we receive on a monthly basis from Hollywood. It’s bright and bleeds color; it’s anachronistic in spots, meaning that it will probably date rather quickly; it tries to locate new visuals to justify that additional 3-D expense; and it espouses all the usual messages of living life to the fullest and becoming your own person and blah blah blah. On the scale of such efforts, it’s pretty good, with an engaging second half making up for a tedious opening stretch.

The Croods are a family consisting of six prehistoric cave dwellers, with the overly cautious dad Grug (voiced

by Nicolas Cage) constantly butting heads with his exuberant teenage daughter Eep (Emma Stone). A natural disaster forces the clan members out of the cave and into the outside world, where they find an ally in the practical Guy (Ryan Reynolds) and enemies in all sorts of menacing critters (most strikingly, a flock of birdpiranhas). Despite the selection of suitable voice actors for these roles, the characters are only borderline interesting; what makes the movie work is the attention to the details that surround them, particularly some oddball animal friends as well as a beautifully rendered landscape full of both wonder and danger. It’s when it’s bringing this world to life that The Croods is at its most refined.

The Call There’s something cheerfully stupid about thrillers like The Call, wherein a protagonist who’s seemingly as brilliant as Sherlock Holmes eventually becomes as dimwitted as Forrest Gump.

In this case, that would be Jordan Turner (Halle Berry), a 911 operator who blunders in an attempt to save a young girl (Evie Thompson) from a psychopath (Michael Eklund), thereby resulting in the child’s abduction and murder. This incident still weighs heavily on Jordan six months later, when she takes another call from a teenage girl. Young Casey Welson (Abigail Breslin) has been kidnapped by the same lunatic, and Jordan stays in constant contact with her via cell phone as she tries to figure out how Casey can be saved.

Missteps are kept to a minimum during the first hour of The Call, with the picture convincingly illustrating how a 911 call center might really function and honing in on Jordan’s resourcefulness in thinking of ways that Casey might be able to alert others that she’s trapped in a car trunk (the trick involving paint cans is a nice one). Eventually, though, the trio of scripters run out of ways to keep the narrative fresh and revert to tired genre conventions. The psychopath is provided some back story that comes off as forced, unconvincing and just a bit silly. The uniqueness of what’s basically a two-piece set (the 911 center and the car) gets jettisoned for the sort of underground lair that’s in the budget of all cinematic serial killers.

And because she’s the top-billed star, Berry can’t just be a hero from a chair, so the movie finds a contrived way for her character to get in on the action — and then calls on her to make some dumb decisions. It’s all part of a last act that’s only slightly less frustrating than a constant busy signal.

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sentimental”) and the Cowardly Lion belts out “If I Only Had the Nerve” (“Yeah, it’s sad, believe me, missy, When you’re born to be a sissy”).

Those three interlocking tunes might have easily served as the theme song to Oz the Great and Powerful, a portrait of plasticity that could have benefited from more intelligence in its narrative structure, more feeling in its characterizations and more courage to break away from the generic, onesize-fits-all strain of blockbuster that’s been draining studio coffers as of late.

Unlike such financial bombs as John Carter, Battleship and the recent Jack the Giant Slayer, this Oz prequel will likely be a box office champion parent company Disney is obviously hoping for grosses to match those of its 2010 offering Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton’s occasionally magical but more often misguided reworking of a beloved fantasy franchise. The 3-D effects in Oz easily trump those in Alice (remember, that film was shot in 2-D and then 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 wooing the ladies who catch his eye. 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, 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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On the surface, Jack the Giant Slayer would appear to be made from the same cloth as Oz the Great and Powerful - that is to say, it’s an expensive CGI spectacle directed by a highly regarded helmer of superhero flicks (in this case, X-Men’s Bryan Singer). It’s based, of course, on the classic fairy tale in which a peasant boy gets hold of some magic beans that eventually bear an enormous beanstalk that travels upward into the clouds; after climbing to the top, he encounters a fearsome giant and must use his wits to survive.

Jack the Giant Slayer takes that template and expands on it in a way that works. This isn’t a disastrous rewriting (like Mirror Mirror) but rather an interpretation that strives to always remain consistent. Its central role still belongs to young Jack (Nicholas 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’ A Good Day to Die Hard has earned a respectable $40 million to date is because it’s a franchise sequel; without John McClane as the hero, I expect it would have fared much worse.)

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 – 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.

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, 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. CS

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Activism & Politics 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 ongoing. 912-3083020. savannahyoungrepublicans.com. ongoing Savannah Tea Party

Free to attend. Food and beverages available for purchase. First Monday of each month. Call for additional information. Free The April meeting will finalize plans for the Taxed Enough Already Rally at Lake Mayer on Sunday, April 14, 2:00 - 4:00 PM. and discuss pending legislation in Congress and in the GA Legislature regarding Agenda 21 and Healthcare.. first Monday of every month, 5:30 p.m. 912-598-7358. bdburgers.net. The April meeting will finalize plans for the Taxed Enough Already Rally at Lake Mayer on Sunday, April 14, 2:00 - 4:00 PM. and discuss pending legislation in Congress and in the GA Legislature regarding Agenda 21 and Healthcare. first Monday of every month, 5:30 p.m B & D Burgers (Southside), 11108 Abercorn St. 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 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. ongoing. kristen@ forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket.com/. ongoing Forsyth Famers’ Market, 501 Whitaker St. Fundraiser for Sega Girls School in Tanzania

April 13, 2-4pm. Hosted by Savannah Friends Meeting (Quakers). Audiovisual presentation on the school and a silent auction of artwork, papier mâché objects, gift certificates, and various services. Light food and refreshments will be served. $10 Through April 13.

912-308-8286. traceydolan@aol.com.. trinitychurch1848.org/. Through April 13 Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President 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. ongoing. 912-344-1278. bikramyogasavannah.com. ongoing Sip: Sweets: Shop

Sip dessert wine from Lawrel Hill Beverage. Sweets from Gigi’s Cupcakes.

Shop for a cause with 6 local boutiques in one venue. Benefiting the Telfair Mammography Fund at St. Josephs/ Candler. $15 advance. $20 door. Sat., March 30, 5:30-8:30 p.m. charity@ greenlabeldesigns.com. Sat., March 30, 5:30-8:30 p.m Pure Barre Savannah, 5521 Abercorn St., Suite 500.

Small Bites for a Big Cause

A portion of transactions will support CASA/Savannah in recognition of April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. Tue., April 2, 5-10 p.m. info@savannahcasa. org. moes.com. Tue., April 2, 5-10 p.m Moe’s Southwest Grill, 2 Ellis Square.

Smiles for Life: Benefits Children’s Charities

Through June 30, Godley Station Dental in Pooler will provide tooth-whitening procedures benefiting the Coastal Children’s Advocacy Center and the Smiles for Life Foundation. The $209 cost is tax-deductible, as materials and services by Drs. Matthew Allen and Tait Carpenter are donated. The children’s advocacy center provides free services to children who have been abused or witnessed violence. Godley Station Dental is located at 1000 Towne Center Boulevard, Bldg. 100, Suite 101, in Pooler. Call for appointment. $209 Through June 30. 912-748-8585.

Through June 30 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 fulltime 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. ongoing. info@kobogallery.com. ongoing 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. Casting for Royal Pains TV Show--Sav/ Tybee Filming

USA Network’s TV show “Royal Pains” needs extras and stand-ins for their Savannah and Tybee Island shoot, through March 28. General extras ages 18 to 50 years old, baseball players age 18 to the mid 20s, hippie-types, two pregnant women and a while male with dreadlocks, ages 18 years and older.

E-mail a recent photo, age, height, weight, contact number and where you are located to royalpainsGA@gmail.com March 27-29. March 27-29 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 multi-disciplinary projects are encouraged. Applicants must be a non-profit 501-c-3 headquartered in the Savannah city limits. For more information see website. ongoing. 912-651-6417. cnorthcutt@savannahga.gov. savannahga.gov\arts). ongoing Gallery Le Snoot Presents: A Tee Party

An event and exhibition of artwork featured on hand-screened t-shirts from dozens of local and international artists. Contact the gallery to submit work. Fri., March 29, 7:30 p.m.-2 a.m. lesnoot.com. Fri., March 29, 7:30 p.m.2 a.m Gallery Le Snoot, 6 East State Street.

Homeschool Music Classes

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

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. Theatre Auditions: A Tropical Affair

Armstrong Department of Art, Music & Theatre (Armstrong AMT) seeks three men and two women actors for A Tropical Affair, a romantic comedy

by Jack Simmons. Two American tourists wrestle with crocodiles, fate, philosophy and beautiful women in the jungle of Ecuador. Performances May 24, 25, 26. Rehearsals April 9-May 23, most weekday evenings. Location: Armstrong’s Jenkins Hall Theater. Thu., March 28, 6:30 p.m. 912-344-2653. armstrong.edu. about.armstrong.edu/ Maps/index.html. Thu., March 28, 6:30 p.m Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn 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.

Classes, Camps & Workshops Art, Music, Piano, Voice Coaching

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

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. ongoing.

912-656-6383. rosesonthemove@gmail. com. ongoing 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.

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Book Study: Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth

A five-week study and discussion offered by Lydia Stone, Certified Life Coach. $45 registration fee plus weekly love offering Thursdays, 6-7:30 p.m..

912-656-6383. rosesonthemove@gmail. com. Thursdays, 6-7:30 p.m.

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.

Classical and Acoustic Guitar Instruction

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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.

Clay Classes

Savannah Clay Studio at Beaulieu offers handbuilding, sculpture, and handmade tiles, basic glazing and firing. 912-3514578. sav..claystudio@gmail.com.

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. savannahaux.com.

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

Guitar, Mandolin, or Bass Guitar Lessons

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.

Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource Center

DUI Prevention Group

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 March 28 Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Family Law Workshop

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. $30 912-3546686. mediationsavannah.com.

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

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

912-921-4646. ongoing 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 ongoing. 912223-7049. elaine.alexander@ymail.com. feldenkrais.com. ongoing 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 ongoing, noon. 912-897-9559. ongoing, 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. ongoing. 401-2556921. a.teixeira472@gmail.com. ongoing

Emphasis on theory, reading music, and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. ongoing. 912-232-5987. ongoing Housing Authority of Savannah hosts classes at the Neighborhood Resource Center. Adult literacy/GED prep: Mon-Thurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm.

Financial education: 4th Fri each month, 9am-11am. Basic computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1pm-3pm. Community computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3pm-4:30pm. ongoing. 912-232-4232 x115. savannahpha.com. savannahpha.com/NRC. html. ongoing Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St.

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Knitting & Crochet Classes

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

Individuals or groups. Spanish-English 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. ongoing. 912541-1337. sentientbean.com. ongoing The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Mastering Auditions

Building Professionalism and the Own-it Edge (for ages 15+). Includes: Breaking down the Sides; Making Choices;Taking Direction; Scene Study. Register via website. Offered by First City Films. $75 Sat., March 30, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. www.

FirstCityFilms.com. Sat., March 30, 10 a.m.-2 p.m Music Lessons--All Instruments.

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

Savannah Musicians Institute offers private instruction for all ages in guitar, ddrums, piano, bass, voice, banjo, mandolin, ukelele, flute, woodwinds.

7041 Hodgson Memorial Dr. ongoing.

912-692-8055. smisavannah@gmail. com. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912-354-1500. portmansmusic.com. ongoing Portman’s Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. Novel Writing

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

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1 Critical hosp. area 4 Ranks on the reggae charts 10 Reagan Supreme Court nominee 14 Late “Soul Train” host Cornelius 15 Creative type 16 Model married to David Bowie 17 Gets the final part of the collection 19 Brand of tea owned by Starbucks 20 System with an iconic joystick 21 90 degrees from starboard 22 Scatter seeds 23 Cash in a coupon 25 Analgesic target 27 “___ Day” (1993 rap hit) 28 Cracker with seven holes 31 They’re big in the circulatory system 35 Trite sentiment on a postcard 37 Flame attract-ee 40 Gets the message across 41 ___ a soul (nobody) 42 Makes efforts to attend prom, say 45 Harry Reid’s place 46 “Clueless” catchphrase 47 [the spelling’s intentional] 50 Gets the keg rolling 52 Something to lean on 54 “Wishing Well” singer Terence Trent ___ 57 Actress Zadora 60 Third-largest city in Japan 61 Falco of “Oz” 62 The west side of Mexico 64 Green gem 65 Detective played by Peter Lorre 66 Shriek from Michael Jackson 67 Part of ASL 68 Chart of constellations 69 Alternatives to urgent care clinics, for short

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2 “Dukes of Hazzard” mechanic 3 Like messed up beds 4 Jealous composer 5 Interior designer’s choice 6 ___ Cat (pet food brand) 7 Complaint 8 Rhymes with rhymes 9 Longtime Notre Dame coach Parseghian 10 What some fight until 11 Vizquel of baseball 12 Demolish, as a building 13 Have the 411 18 Season opener?

22 Exhibit 24 Blunder 26 Like some corrosives 29 Vanessa’s big brother 30 Company behind FarmVille 32 Syllable before “la la” 33 ___ Lingus (Irish airline) 34 Reserved 35 Golden brew 36 Adoring poems 37 The Cascades, e.g.

38 Smelted stuff 39 The only three-letter element 43 Linger 44 Genre for King Sunny Ade and Femi Kuti 47 Awesome facial hair 48 More gross 49 Rubs the wrong way?

51 Hybrid utensil 53 “Burn Notice” network 54 ___ vu 55 Levine of Maroon 5 56 Take the bus 58 “What ___ problem?”

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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. ongoing. 912-713-2718. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912-290-0072. savsew. com. ongoing 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. ongoing.

786-247-9923. anitraoperadiva.com. ongoing Spanish Classes

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. ongoing. conquistador-spanish.com. ongoing 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.

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

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. ongoing. abeniculturalarts@gmail.com. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912-9250903. theballetschoolsav.com. ongoing 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. ongoing. godzillaunknown@gmail.com. avegost. com. ongoing

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. ongoing. savannahcblv.org. ongoing 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. ongoing. buccaneerregion.org. ongoing 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. ongoing.

912-308-6768. ongoing 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. ongoing. chathamsailing.org. ongoing Young’s

Marina, 218 Wilmington Island Rd.

Mercer Blvd.

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. ongoing. 912-233-1240. ongoing

Meets every Wednesday. Different locations downtown. Call for info. No fees. Want to learn? Join us. ongoing.

912-308-6768. ongoing

Drop N Circle Craft Night

Energy Healers

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

Call for info. ongoing. 912-695-2305. meetup.com/SavannahEnergyHealers. ongoing 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. ongoing. onebornfree@yahoo.com. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912-596-1962. honorflightsavannah.org. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912-660-8257. ongoing 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. ongoing. ongoing 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. ongoing.

912-898-4344. kymmccarty@hotmail. com. mops.org. ongoing Islands MOPS

A Mothers of Preschoolers group that meets at First Baptist Church of the Islands, two Wednesdays a month, 9:15am-11:30am. ongoing. sites. google.com/site/islandsmops. fbcislands.com/. ongoing First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny

Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet

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. ongoing. 912-313-2230. ongoing Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary

Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1:00pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-7864508. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912-233-6014. ongoing 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. ongoing. athenapluto@yahoo.com. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912-308-2094. kasak@comcast.net. roguephoenix.org. ongoing 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. ongoing.

912-353-3148. safekidssavannah.org. ongoing Savannah Brewers’ League

Meets 1st Wednesday of the month, 7:30pm at Moon River Brewing Co. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912447-0943. hdb.org. moonriverbrewing. com/. ongoing Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St. 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

luncheon and program. Activities, tours and events to help learn about Savannah and make new friends. ongoing. savannahnewcomersclub.com. ongoing

Savannah Charlesfunders Investment Discussion Group

Savannah Parrot Head Club

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

Contact by email for info. ongoing. charlesfund@gmail.com. panerabread. com/. ongoing Panera Bread (Broughton St.), 1 West Broughton St.

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

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. ongoing. 912-748-7020. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912-429-6918. savannahfencing@aol.com. ongoing

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. ongoing. 912655-0994. savannahsacredharp.com. ongoing Faith Primitive Baptist Church, 3212 Bee Road.

Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club

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

Helps improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment. Mondays, 6:15pm, Memorial Health University Medical Center, Conference Room C. ongoing. 912-4846710. ongoing

Savannah Go Green

Meets most Saturdays. Green events and places. Share ways to Go Green each day. Call for info. ongoing. 912308-6768. ongoing

Savannah Writers Group

A gathering of writers of all levels for networking, hearing published guest

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. ongoing. 912-353-7700. savannahjaycees.com. ongoing

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. ongoing. 912-572-6251. savannahwritersgroup.blogspot.com/group. ongoing

5320 Waters Ave. All ages welcome.

Prior experience/boat ownership not required. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-598-7387. savannahaux. com. ongoing

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. ongoing. seersuckerlive.com. ongoing

Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671

Meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell for info. ongoing. 912-9273356. ongoing

Seersucker Live’s Happy Hour for Writers

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

Concerts

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. ongoing. foxyloxycafe. com/. ongoing Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St.

Muse Arts Warehouse SpitFire Saturday Open Mic & Showcase

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. ongoing.

912-596-0889. cairoonthecoast.com. ongoing

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla

Join the volunteer organization that assists the U.S. Coast Guard. Meets 4th Wednesday at 6pm at Barnes,

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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. ongoing.

912-238-3170. savannahkennelclub. org. ongoing Logan’s Roadhouse, 11301 Abercorn St.

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Savannah Newcomers Club

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ARIES

(March 21-April 19) I was too lazy to write your horoscope this week, so I went to a website that hawks bumper stickers and copied a few of their slogans to use as your “advice.”

Here you go. 1. Never follow a rule off a cliff. 2. Have the courage to honor your peculiarities. 3. It’s never too late to have a rebellious adolescence. 4. Criticize by creating. 5. Never make anything simple and efficient when it can be elaborate and wonderful. 6.

Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand, morally clear, wrong answers. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I wasn’t lazy at all. I worked hard to ensure that all the suggestions I just provided are in strict accordance with the astrological gestalt.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20) It’s a perfect time to watch the cult classic film *Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead.* It will provide you with just the right inspiration as you deal with your own problems. APRIL FOOL! I lied.

Don’t you dare watch any horror movies. You’re in a phase when you can make dramatic progress in transforming long-standing dilemmas -- but only if you surround yourself with positive, uplifting influences.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20) The coming week will be an excellent time to wash dishes, clean bathrooms, scrub floors, vacuum carpets, wash windows, do laundry, and clean the refrigerator.

The more drudge work you do, the better you’ll feel. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, you now have astrological license to minimize your participation in boring tasks like the ones I named. It’s high time for you to seek out the most interesting work and play possible.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22) You know what would be a really cool prank to pull off this April Fool’s Day? Arrange to have rubber tires airlifted into a dormant volcano, then set them on fire.

Smoke will pour out the top. Everyone who lives nearby will think the volcano is getting ready to

explode. Don’t forget to videotape the event for Youtube. Later, when you reveal the hoax, your video will go viral and you’ll become a celebrity. APRIL FOOL! I don’t really think you should try this prank. It’s old hat. Back in 1974, a guy named Porky Bickar did it to Alaska’s Mt. Edgecumbe. Here’s my real oracle for you: It *is* a good time to boost your visibility by doing something funny. Or to build your brand by being mischievous. Or to demonstrate your power by showing off your sense of humor.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22) In the animated TV show *The Simpsons,* ten-year-old Bart is constantly getting into trouble because of the monkey business he loves to perpetrate. His teachers punish him by compelling him to write corrective declarations on the classroom blackboard. It so happens that some of those apologetic statements should be coming out of your mouth in the coming week, Leo. They include the following: “I will not strut around like I own the place. I will not claim that I am deliciously saucy. I will not instigate revolution. I will not trade pants with others. I will not carve gods. I will not Xerox my butt. I will not scream for ice cream.” APRIL FOOL! I lied.

The truth is, you SHOULD consider doing things like that. And don’t apologize!

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The sport of ferret legging is an endurance contest. Participants vie to determine who can last longest as a live ferret runs loose inside their pants. The current record is five hours and 26 minutes, held by a retired British miner. But I predict that a Virgo will soon break that mark. Could it be you? APRIL FOOL! I misled you. I don’t really think you should put a ferret in your pants, not even to win a contest. It is possible, however, that there will soon be a pleasurable commotion happening in the area below your waist. And I suspect that you will handle it pretty well.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Risk being a crazed fool for love, Libra. Get as wild and extreme as you’ve ever been if it helps you rustle up the closeness you’re hungry for. Get down on your

knees and beg, or climb a tree with a megaphone and profess your passion. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating a little. It’s true that now is an excellent time to be aggressive about going after the intimate connection you want. But I suggest you accomplish that by being ingenious and imaginative rather than crazy and extreme.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21) British comedy team Monty Python did a sketch in which a policeman apprehends a criminal.

The bad guy says, “Yes, I did it, but society is to blame.” And the cop says, “Right! We’ll arrest them instead.” You should adopt this attitude, Scorpio. Blame everyone else but yourself for your problems and flaws. APRIL FOOL! I lied. In fact, the truth is the opposite of what I said. It’s time to take more responsibility for your actions. Bravely accept the consequences of what you’ve done -- with your sense of humor fully engaged and a lot of compassion for yourself.

is true that you should brainstorm about the kind of home you want to create and enjoy in the future.

But that probably means revising and refining your current situation rather than leaving it all behind and starting over.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Your brain has a bigger capacity than you realize. According to professor of psychology Paul Reber, it can hold the equivalent of three million hours’ worth of television shows. As I’m sure you know, your brain is not even close to being full of that much data.

And in accordance with the current astrological omens, I suggest you cram in as much new material as possible. APRIL FOOL! I told you a half-truth. While it’s correct that now is an excellent time to pour more stuff into your brain, you should be highly discerning about what you allow in there. Seek out the richest ideas, the most stimulating information, the best stories. Avoid trivial crap.

PISCES

SAGITTARIUS

(Feb. 19-March 20)

Banzai skydiving is a step beyond ordinary skydiving. To do it, you hurl your folded-up parachute out of the airplane, wait a while, and then leap into mid-air yourself. If all goes well, you free-fall in the direction of your parachute and catch up to it. Once you grab it, you strap it on and open the chute, ideally before you hit the earth. This is the kind of beyond-ballsy activity that would be perfect for you right now. APRIL FOOL! In truth, I don’t recommend banzai skydiving now or ever. Plain old skydiving is fine, though. The same principle applies in relation to any adventurousness you’re considering: Push yourself, yes, but not to an absurd degree.

July 2012 was a sad time in the history of mythic creatures. The National Ocean Service, a U.S. government agency, made a formal proclamation that there are no such things as mermaids.

But I predict those stuffy knowit-alls will soon get a big shock, when a Piscean scientist presents evidence that mermaids are indeed real. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating. I don’t really foresee the discovery of a flesh-and-blood mermaid -- by a Pisces or anyone else. I do, however, suspect that your tribe is now highly adept at extracting useful revelations and inspirations from dreams, visions, and fantasies -- including at least one that involves a coven of Buddhist Ninja clown mermaids.

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Should you relocate to Kazakhstan and grow sunflowers? Is it time to think about getting a job in Uruguay and living there for the next ten years? Can you see yourself building your dream home in Morocco on a bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean? I suggest you spend some quality time thinking way, way outside the box about where you belong on this earth.

APRIL FOOL! I went a bit overboard in my recommendations. It

Savannah State’s Urban Studies and Planning Program hosts this one day conference featuring lectures and panels on Savannah’s city planning history and legacy, from Oglethorpe to Historic Savannah Foundation to Don Mendonsa and beyond. In the Student Union building on campus. Free and open to the public. Wed., March 27, 8:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m. savannahstate.edu. savstate.edu/.

Wed., March 27, 8:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m Savannah State University, 3219 College St. Grant Writing & Non-profit Development Workshop

An overview of grant writing, budgeting, program development, evaluation planning, grant research, effective goals and objectives. Instructor: DaVena Jordan. A portion of proceeds benefits AWOL, Inc. $135 Fri., March 29, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

912-704-3812. awolinc.org. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/. Fri., March 29, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Dance Adult Ballet Class

Maxine Patterson School of Dance, 2212 Lincoln St, offers adult ballet on Thursdays, 6:30pm-7:30pm $12 per class. Call for info. ongoing. 912-234-8745. ongoing Adult Intermediate Ballet

Mondays and Wednesdays, 7pm-8pm. $12/class or $90/8 classes. Call for info.

Academy of Dance, 74 W. Montgomery Crossroad. ongoing. 912-921-2190. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912-9257416. savh_tango@yahoo.com. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912-4141091. info@cybelle3.com. cybelle3.com. ongoing C.C. Express Dance Team

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

Call Claudia Collier for info. ongoing.

912-748-0731. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912748-0731. ongoing Irish Dance Classes

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. ongo-

Line Dancing

Take down Tuesdays. Jazzy Sliders Adult Line Dancing, every Tuesday, 7:30pm-10:00pm. Free admission, cash bar. Come early and learn a new dance from 7:30pm-8:30pm. ongoing. doublesnightclub.com/. ongoing Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Mahogany Shades of Beauty

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. ongoing. 912-272-8329. ongoing Modern Dance Class

Beginner and intermediate classes.

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

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. ongoing. 912-398-4776. fitnessbodybalance.com. ongoing Fitness Body & Balance Personal Training Studio, 2209 Rowland Ave, Suite 2.

Salsa Lessons by Salsa Savannah

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

8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Sun. 5pm6pm and 6pm-7pm. Salon de Maile, 704B Hodgson Memorial Dr., Savannah, 31406. See website for info. ongoing. salsasavannah.com. ongoing Savannah Dance Club

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

Wednesdays, 7pm,at Doubles Lounge.

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

ongoing. doublesnightclub.com/. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912596-1952. ongoing Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

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. ongoing. trickydame@gmail.com. trickydame.com. ongoing 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. ongoing.

912-598-9860. savannahalanon.com. ongoing 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. ongoing.

912-350-3438. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. ongoing Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave.

ongoing 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. ongoing. 912-4414891. customfitcenter.com. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912429-9241. ongoing Mommy and Baby Yoga

Beastmode Fitness Group Training

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

Bellydancing Fusion Classes

Daily classes for all skill levels including beginners. Private and semi-private classes by appointment. Carol DalyWilder, certified instructor. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-2380018. savannahpilates.com. pilatessavannah.com/. ongoing Momentum Pilates Studio, 8413 Rerguson Ave.

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 8pm9pm. ongoing. beastmodefitnessga. com. ongoing YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. Mixes ballet, jazz, hip hop into a unique high energy dance style. Drills and choreographies for all levels.Small classes in downtown Savannah, and on request. $10 per person. Email for info. ongoing. bohemianbeats.com. ongoing 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. ongoing. egs5719@aol.com. ongoing Talahi Island Community Club, 532 Quarterman Dr. Fitness Classes at the JEA

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

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. ongoing. savannahcommons.com. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912-598-2300. gastateparks.org/SkidawayIsland. gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/.

Pilates Classes

Pregnancy Yoga

Ongoing series of 6-week classes.

Thursdays. A mindful approach to pregnancy, labor and delivery. Instructor Ann Carroll. $100. Call or email for info. ongoing. 912-704-7650. ann@aikyayoga.com. savannahyoga.com/. ongoing 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 ongoing. qigongtim. com/. ongoing 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, 912-756-5865, or Billy Tomlinson, 912596-5965. ongoing. ongoing 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. ongoing. savannahclimbingcoop.com. ongoing 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. ongoing. savannahdiscgolf@gmail.com. savannahdiscgolf.com. ongoing 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. ongoing. savystrider. com. ongoing Tai Chi Lessons in Forsyth Park

Tuesdays, 9am-10am. $10. North End of Forsyth Park. Email for info. ongoing. relaxsavannah@gmail.com. ongoing 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 ongoing. 586-822-1021. facebook.com/ turbokicksavannah. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912-655-4192. ganeshasplace.com. ganeshasplace. com/. ongoing 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. ongoing. 912-3509031. memorialhealth.com/. ongoing Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Yoga on the Beach

Wednesdays and Fridays at Tybees’s 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.

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Diabetic Test Strips Wanted Most types, Most brands. Will pay up to $10/box. Call Clifton 912-596-2275.

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CHISEL PRINTING & MEDIA Co. CD/DVD/Blu-ray Duplication, Replication, Paywall Streaming, Film Transfers, Audio Editing, Digital & Offset Printing, Graphic Design, T-shirts. www.ChiselCo.net, 678-388-8858

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CHILDCARE NETWORK is Hiring Afternoon Preschool Teacher.Must hold CDA, TCC or Assoc. Degree in early childhood education.Must be able to work afternoons and have clean criminal background.Apply in person:350 Johnny Mercer Blvd.31410

1/2 PRICE DEPOSIT APARTMENT FOR RENT 2 and 4 Bedrooms from $600 2410 Jefferson Street. 1BR/1BA. to $1,050. New carpet, new Newly renovated, new appliances. paint, back yard. Call Great place for students. Call Theodore Williams, 912-232-4906, 912-659-1276

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898-0078

One side of duplex,one level.

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1111 EAST 57TH STREET: 2BR/1BA Apartment, newly painted, kitchen, dining area, washer/dryer connections.

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608 HIGHAND DRIVE Nice Brick House For Rent 3BR/2BA,CH&A, w/d connection, New updated kitchen, $1000mo/$1000 dep, no pets. convenient neighborhood off Eisenhower & Waters Ave. 2017 E.38TH Apartment Ground Level 1BR $575/dep, close to Victory & Truman Parkway 912-352-4391

1 & 2 Bedroom Apts./1 Bath, Newly remodeled apts. LR, dining, ceiling fans each room, central heat/air, kitchen w/appliances, washer/dryer hookup. Lights, water & cable included. NO CREDIT CHECK REQUIRED; EVICTIONS OK. $179 One Bedrooms, $210-$235 Two Bedrooms/weekly. Biweekly & Monthly rates available. Call 912-319-4182, M-Sat 9am-6pm.

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

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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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HOUSES 4 Bedrooms 623 Windsor Rd $1200 3 Bedrooms 215 Laurelwood $895 235 Bordeaux Ln. $875 15 Wilshire Blvd. $850 5637 Betty Dr. $850 2214 E.43rd St. $825 2 Soling Ave $875 CONDOS 2 Bedroom Condo GEORGETOWN 40 Sand Dollar $795 SOUTHSIDE Windsor Crossing $650 APARTMENTS One Bedroom 3801 Waters Ave. $725 Two Bedrooms 1132 E. 53rd St. $550 FOR DETAILS & PICTURES VISIT OUR WEB PAGE WWW.PAMTPROPERTY.COM Pam T Property 692-0038

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*All above have carpet, kitchen appliances furnished, A/C/heat, washer/dryer hookup, fenced yard. References, application.

One-year lease minimum. Deposit same as rent. None total electric, No smoking, pets negotiable.

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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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912-920-1936

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FURNISHED APTS. $165/WK.

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Furnished RoomsShared House Furnished rooms for rent with tv,cable,central heat/air,enclosed porch, privacy fence and large sit-in kitchen. $125/week.

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CHEVROLET Silverado, 1997

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FORD Ranger, 2001- Ext Cab, V-6, A.C. Power Window. Good condition,$3,500.00 /obo 925-1907

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Offering Great Deals

LARGE VICTORIAN with windows on two sides, across from library, nicely furnished, all utilities.

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Boats & accessories 950 22’ PURSUIT, 1987- Center console, 200 HP outboard, bimini top, tandem trailer. $8,500. Call 912-210-2193

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