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

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

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

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Lecture: A Conversation with Jerry Siegel

What: Curator of Art Courtney McNeil interviews photographer Jerry Siegel, regarding his current exhibition Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists.

Reception follows.

When: 6 p.m Where: Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Cost: Free for Telfair members, or museum admission.

Info: telfair.org

Wednesday Cirque du Soleil: Quidam

What: In their first visit to Savannah, this acrobatic/dance extravaganza tells the story of a young girl who enters an imaginary world.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $35 to $100.

Info: 912- 651-6556. CirqueduSoleil. com/Quidam

Preservation Awards Luncheon

Deen Family Book Signing

What: Paula, Jamie and Bobby sign books and dish out Savannah charm.

Only 350 tickets will be given out starting one-hour before the book signing.

No cameras--a professional photographer will be present to take photos.

When: 2-4 p.m Where: The Lady and Sons, 102 West Congress St. Info: pauladeen.com

Film: Tribute to George Peppard Mystery Screening (1976, USA)

What: Best known for his iconic roles as Audrey Hepburn’s love interest Paul Varjak in the 1961 romantic comedy “Breakfast At Tiffany’s” and as “Hannibal” Smith in the campy TV action series “The A-Team.” For this Special Mystery Screening, the Psychotronic Film Society presents an overlooked Peppard feature from the early ’70s that was never released theatrically.

When: 8 p.m Where: Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Cost: $6 Info: sentientbean.com

Tours: Archaeology Under the Live Oak What: Tours of an archeological dig at the site of a late 18th century plantation and the site of Civil War activity. Daily tours, Tues.- Sat., 8:30am, 10:30am, 12:30pm, 2:30pm. Under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Through May

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Cirque du Soleil is in residence at the Martin Luther King Arena through May 9, with Quidam.

11. Location: Behind Parker's Convenience Store at Ga 204 & King George Boulevard intersection.

When: April 28-May 12 Cost: Free and open to the public.

Reservations needed ONLY for groups of 11 or more, or for tours with special requirements e.g. Boy Scout badges or school credit.

Info: relliott@newsouthassoc.com.

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Thursday Cirque du Soleil: Quidam

What: Acrobatic/dance extravaganza

tells the story of a young girl who enters an imaginary world.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $35 to $100.

Info: 912- 651-6556. CirqueduSoleil. com/Quidam

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Coastal Connections, presented

by Ships of the Sea, Gray's Reef, and Skidaway Institute

What: Dr. Paul Pressly in the first of a five part speaker series. Presenting Savannah as a Caribbean town back in the 1700s. Discussing the culture and attitudes that made colonial Savannah seem closer to St. Kitts than Virginia.

Based on his newly released book.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 912-232-1511. shipsofthesea.org/

Covered Dish Supper and Celebration

What: Chatham Savannah Citizen Advocacy's annual gathering. Bring a dish to share or $5 cover.

When: 5:30-8:30 p.m Where: Savannah Station, 601 Cohen St. Info: savannahcitizenadvocacy.org

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What: The annual awards presented by Historic Savannah Foundation, for excellence in a variety of areas of historic preservation.

When: 11:30 a.m Where: The Chatham Club, 15 East Liberty Street.

Cost: $45 Info: 912-233-7787. dmeunier@myHSF. org. myhsf.org

Tea in the Garden at the Davenport House

What: Early 19th century tea traditions come to life with this tour of the historic house museum, followed by afternoon tea. Must be able to climb stairs.

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

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Friday Release Party: Document

What: Celebrate the release of Document, the graduate journal of SCAD's writing program. Free journal copies, readings and a party.

When: 4-5:30 p.m Where: Afifi Amphitheater, 324 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

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

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Tea in the Garden at the Davenport House

What: Taste a wee sip of whisky. And another wee sip.

When: 5-6 p.m Where: Molly MacPherson's Scottish Pub, 311 West Congress St. Cost: $25 advance. $30 door.

Info: savannahscottishgames.com

What: Early 19th century tea traditions come to life with this tour of the historic house museum, followed by afternoon tea. Must be able to climb stairs.

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

Savannah Scottish Games: Bagpipe Band March What: The Savannah Pipe Band and St Augustine Ancient City Pipes and Drums perform in Ellis Square, then march two blocks to Molly MacPherson’s for a celebratory gathering.

When: 6 p.m Where: Ellis Square Area Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: savannahscottishgames.com

Theatre: Pride and Prejudice

SCAD Sand Arts Festival

What: Annual SCAD student competition of sand sculpture on the North Beach of Tybee, near the lighthouse. beach.

When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m Where: North Beach, Tybee Island.

Cost: Free and open to the public as spectators.

Info: scad.edu/info-for/parents/dates. cfm

SCAD’s Sand Arts Festival takes a beach day May 10 on Tybee Island.

St. Joseph’s/Candler's Smart Living Expo & Health Fair

What: Health information and lots of swag, plus free screenings for glaucoma, body mass index, and asthma, blood pressure checks, and spine

evaluations.

What: Collective Face Theatre Ensemble presents an adaptation of the Jane Austen classic romantic comedy. In a society where subtle snubs and deceit proliferate, is it possible for Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy to look beyond his pride and her prejudice?

When: 8 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $15/Gen. Adm. $12/seniors and students.

Info: 912-232-0018 (reservation line). musesavannah.org

When: 9 a.m.-1 p.m Where: The Armstrong Center, 13040

Abercorn St.

Info: 912-352-4405. sjchs.org

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Saturday 3rd Annual Pet Care & Adoption Fair

What: Groomers, pet trainers, pet sitters, daycare facilities, plus pet rescue agencies with adoptable pets. Jacob G. Smith will hold a Children's Carnival for kiddie entertainment.

When: 11 a.m.-3 p.m Where: Jacob G. Smith Elementary School, Lamara Street (one block east of Habersham Village).

Cost: Free Info: (912) 691-8788

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Conflict MMA presents Havoc

What: Mixed martial arts in the SAV! When: 7:30 p.m Where: Martin Luther King Jr Arena,

301 West Oglethorpe Ave.

Cost: $25 - $100 Info: savannahcivic.com

5th Annual Beach Bum Open Volleyball Tournament (Pro-Am)

What: Ths 5th annual tournament kicks off Beach Bum week. (The parade is next weekend!) It's a stop on the EVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour. Men's and women's professional athletes and amateur competitors.

When: 9 a.m.-7 p.m Where: South Beach, Tybee Island.

Cost: Free and open to the public as spectators.

Info: evptour.com

Film: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

What: Come in "street clothes" or dressed as a Trek character for costume contest. Audience approval decides. No masks, face paint only.

When: 7 p.m Where: Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: $8/$5 student/senior Info: 912-525-5050. lucastheatre.com

Forsyth Farmers Market

Johnny Mercer Theatre

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Tickets Available at the Civic Center Box Office,by calling 912-651-6556 or online at BroadwayInSavannah.com

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

When: 9 a.m.-1 p.m Where: Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Info: forsythfarmersmarket.com

Free Family Day: Inside a Portrait What: Hands on art projects, gallery

exploration activities, story time and much more designed specifically for the entire family. Walk inside the room sized camera and build your own pinhole camera.

When: 1-4 p.m Where: Jepson Center, 207 W York St. Info: telfair.org

Honoring Ossabaw's Gullah Geechee People: Day Trip

What: Tour Pinpoint Heritage Museum

and then travel to Ossabaw Island for a daytrip to the island's mid-19th century slave cabins. Programming with Joe McGill, officer with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a Civil War Re-enactor, part of his national program of spending the night in slave cabins in the South. Trip includes a Gullah storyteller performance and a resident of Pin Point sharing memories.

When: 9 a.m.-4 p.m Cost: $70-$85 Info: 912-233-5104. elizabeth@ossabawisland.org. ossabawisland.org

Human Trafficking Workshop

What: Learn how to identify, prevent and provide assistance to victims of human trafficking. Pre-registration is required.

Sponsored by United Methodist Women of Canaan Community Church.

When: 10 a.m Where: Canaan Community United Methodist Church, 2401 Elgin Street.

Cost: Free and open to the public Info: umwevent6.eventbrite.com

Savannah Scottish Games

What: 37th annual games. A day of Scottish heritage with competitions in Scottish dance, heavy athletics, and bagpiping. Music by Moira Nelligan and the Dixie Jigs and The Wyndbreakers. Scottish Market, children’s activities, border collie demonstrations, genealogy tents.

When: 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m Where: Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. Cost: $10 advance. $12 Gate. $5 age 11-17. Free age 10 and under. $8 military.

Info: savannahscottishgames.com

Theatre: Pride and Prejudice

What: Collective Face Theatre Ensemble presents an adaptation of the Jane Austen classic romantic comedy. In a society where subtle snubs and deceit proliferate, is it possible for Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy to look beyond his pride and her prejudice?

When: 8 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $15/Gen. Adm. $12/seniors and students.

Info: 912-232-0018 (reservation line). musesavannah.org

Wiffle Ball for Pink Heals

What: Firefighters, police officers and local companies square off in a wiffle ball tournament and festival raising funds for Pink Heals, a charity for breast cancer victims and children with cancer. Sponsored by Big Red, Incorporated.

When: 11:30 a.m Where: Taylor Park, 1824 Pine Barren Road.

Cost: Call for pricing info.

Info: 912-748-0970. bloomingdale-ga. com

Sunday Dance for Peace

What: A weekly gathering to benefit

locals in need. Music, dancing, fun for all ages. Donations of nonperishable food and gently used or new clothing are welcomed.

When: 3 p.m Where: Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 912-547-6449. xavris21@yahoo. com

Savannah Scottish Games: Kirkin of the Tartans What: Highlander patriotism, faithful-

ness, and independence are remembered by the displaying of tartans and public parade of Scottish clans to the sound of bagpipes in downtown Savannah.

When: 11 a.m Where: Independent Presbyterian Church, Bull Street and Oglethorpe Ave. Info: savannahscottishgames.com

Theatre: Pride and Prejudice

What: Collective Face Theatre Ensemble presents an adaptation of the Jane Austen classic romantic comedy. In a society where subtle snubs and deceit proliferate, is it possible for Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy to look beyond his pride and her prejudice?

When: 3 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $15/Gen. Adm. $12/seniors and students.

Info: 912-232-0018 (reservation line). musesavannah.org

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Monday Blue Man Group

What: The theatre/music/comedy phenomenon--three guys in blue.

Founded by a preacher's kid from Savannah, and two New York buddies.

No, we're not kidding.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $37.50 - $65 Info: savannahcivic.com

Symposium: Echoes of the Civil War: How America has Remembered

What: A day of historical lectures along with a luncheon/keynote address. Hosted by the Learning Center at Senior Citizens, Inc. Discounts for members of the Learning Center.

When: 8:30 a.m

Fahm Street.

Cost: $15 per lecture, $30 for luncheon/

keynote, $85 for full day combo Info: 912-236-0363. seniorcitizens-inc. org

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Tuesday Blue Man Group

What: The theatre/music/comedy phe-

nomenon--three guys in blue. Founded by a preacher's kid from Savannah, and two New York buddies. No, we're not kidding.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $37.50 - $65 Info: savannahcivic.com

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Wednesday Film: Embryo (1976, USA)

What: Psychotronic Film Society presents the 37th anniversary screening of this Rock Hudson sci-fi film. For mature audiences only.

When: 8 p.m Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E Park Ave. Cost: $6

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Lucas Theatre. @ Film: Jaws. June 15. Trustees Theater. @ Bangers & Mash theater: Falsettos. June 1422. Muse Arts Warehouse. @ Summer Solstice Festival. June 21-13. Red Gate Farms. @ Film: The Big Lebowski. June 21. Lucas Theatre. @ Savannah Asian Festival. June 22. MLK Arena. @ Film: How to Train Your Dragon. June 22. Lucas Theatre. @ Film: E.T. June 29. Trustees Theater. @ Film: Jurassic Park. July 13. Trustees Theater. @ Film: Saving Private Ryan. July 27. Trustees Theater. CS

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Hot sea rising

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

Yeah, I know. It’s been a chilly spring so far.

Over the weekend I saw a lame cartoon in another local publication. Two dudes in winter clothes are up to their knees in snow.

One holds a sign that says “Beware Climate Change.” The other dude says, “When?”

Get it?

Yes, another tired variant of the old “How can there be global warming when it’s cold here at this exact spot where I am” pseudojoke — though at least this one had a bit of topicality given the unseasonably cool spring.

Usually we hear this joke, or some equally threadworn version, during the winter.

When it’s, you know, supposed to be cold.

In fact, that’s usually the tart response of WTOC meteorologist Pat Prokop when some comedy genius is all, “Where’s your global warming now?” on a really cold day.

“It’s cold because it’s winter,” Pat deadpans.

Granted, it’s not winter anymore, it’s May. It’s been an unseasonably cool spring, to say the least. Here where we are, anyway.

But on some places of the planet — news flash — the weather isn’t the same as here where we are. It’s a big planet!

This is another reason why the words we choose are so important. If the misleading phrase “global warming” had never seen the light of day, climate change deniers would have so much less ammunition with which to disparage the concept. It’s a shame, really.

The entire premise of climate change is that the average temperature of the entire atmosphere is rapidly rising across the board, which — and here’s the kicker — may or may not result in warmer temperatures at the exact spot where you are.

The most visible result is generally a massive disruption of typical weather patterns, including things such as our unseasonably cool spring, the unseasonably warm winter which preceded it (here anyway), and the possibly brutally hot, record-setting scorcher of a summer to come, if past trends are any indicator.

Recently, my old buddy Dave Kyler of the St. Simons-based Center for a Sustainable Coast gave a talk to the local Sierra Club chapter. At the meeting held at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Kyler talked about the latest developments in the arena of climate change, specifically the concept of permafrost thaw.

Simply put, the thawing of the Arctic permafrost soil layer — essentially removing the “perma” part from the scenario — means the release of an enormous amount of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, millions of years worth spewing upward and outward in a very brief amount of time, geologically speaking.

At issue, Kyler says, is the recent report from the United Nations Environment Program which says “all global climate projections… are biased on the low side relative to global temperature.”

According to Kyler, the group which does climate analysis on behalf of the UN — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — is still using computer modeling from 2009 as the basis of its most recent reports. The 2013 and 2014 reports will also rely on 2009 models.

The face of climate science is rapidly changing, and unfortunately almost all the numbers get worse, not better. The use of the older models, while perhaps admirably conservative and consistent, could serve to mask the true nature of the threat.

“By locking down the computer model many years before related assessments are issued, the IPCC has left out some very important research done since 2009,” Kyler says.

“By being overly cautious in corroborating global scientific studies, the IPCC is failing to keep decisionmakers and the public current on extremely important trends that directly threaten both our economy and environment.”

According to Kyler, the “neglected information,” as he puts it, has enormous

implications, including wildfires, crop loss, and extinction of species.

For us here on the coast, or more accurately, for our grandchildren here on the coast, one of the main implications is sea level rise.

Until now, the IPCC has predicted that sea level will rise about three feet by the year 2100. “But that forecast was based on very limited analysis of the causes and effects of global warming, primarily the expansion of water volume in the oceans as temperatures rise and cautious, limited assessment of glacier melting,” Kyler says.

When taking into account the effects of permafrost thaw, accelerated rate of glacier melting, and increasing destruction of forests from wildfires, “it is probable that future conditions will be far worse,” he adds.

One could always take the long view and say, well, who knows what other crazy stuff will be happening in the year 2100 anyway.

Technology could find an answer to all this.

The entire East coast was underwater not that long ago anyway, so in a sense rising sea levels are just the ocean reclaiming its own.

But a more immediate concern about climate change in our region is ocean acidification, mentioned in the UN report and countless other studies.

Coral reefs in warm waters are dying exponentially due to the effects of increased acid levels in the ocean. The removal of a key part of such a sensitive ecosystem can have disastrous effects up and down the food chain.

If the fish who make coral reefs their home can’t adapt and hence die off, the fish who eat those fish will die off as well. This has impacts all the way up to your friendly neighborhood grocery store.

You need to eat too, and not every fish you eat can or should be from a farm off the coast of China.

So maybe temps will heat back up to normal soon. In any event, I’d certainly enjoy the coolness while you can — the trend is not our friend. cs

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The sexy drawl, the Low Country Boil he cooked up for my birthday, his refusal to wear a skirt like the other scruffily-bearded hippie boys … let’s just say he stood out.

He sugared me up with his “y’alls” and his “yes ma’ams,” and introduced me to his mama, who patted my cheek and called me “dahlin’”.

When we wed, I thought I might automatically become Southern, as if I could absorb by osmosis a dewy complexion, elegant gentility and the ability to make a tasty casserole out of nothing but some pencil shavings and a Vidalia onion.

I write thank you notes on heavy card stock. I wear lipstick to the grocery store. After much gagging, I developed a palate for boiled peanuts. I once tried to make a dress out of the curtains, but it looked less Scarlett O’Hara than Project Runway Reject.

But try as I might to be a true Southerner, it is clearly hopeless that I will ever get it right, bless my heart.

Instead of rising pretty and fluffy as your grandma’s knitting, my breakfast biscuits resemble something knocked out of a granite quarry.

My Derby hat is a fedora. My children, no matter how many pointed looks of death are shot their way, cannot seem to remember to address their elders with “Yes, sir” instead of “Whatevs.”

So it was with some trepidation that I approached The Southern C Summit, a resplendent gathering of Southern tastemakers, bloggers and brandmakers held at Jekyll Island last week. Surely I would out myself as an imposter by lapsing into Valley Girl-speak or not knowing the difference between bourbon and whiskey.

It did not help that instead of booking a hotel room on the island like normal people, my husband and I stayed up the road at the Hostel in the Forest. This rustic respite is one of my favorite places in Georgia,

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where cells phones tend to freeze and the only streetlights are fireflies. I’ll take any excuse to escape into nature, even if it means the paradox of blowdrying my hair in a treehouse.

Hosted by the Southern Coterie, a vibrant online social network to “connect, congregate and converse” about all things below the Mason-Dixon line, the summit was far from a bunch of ladies chirping about china patterns.

Creators Whitney Long and Cheri Leavy brought a tremendous line-up to the glassed-in halls of the stunning new Jekyll Island Convention Center, where Southern media’s biggest brains (wearing its most fabulous shoes) shared strategies for entrepreneurs on how to capture the essence of the front porch aesthetic.

“The South is hot right now,” advised speaker Erin Shaw Street, the travel and web editor for Southern Living, an icon successfully forging the identity of the New South while preserving the unique heritage of the Old. While china patterns remain a charming mainstay in SL’s

content, the classic magazine keeps a manicured finger on the pulse of new trends in culture and cuisine. It rolled out a sleek digital edition last year and commands Pinterest like a sweet-tempered colonel.

The South’s role as major player in the new economy was also a summit theme: Confounding the stereotypes that everyone around here is either Eudora Welty or Honey Boo Boo was Charlestonian Stanfield Gray, the executive producer of the recent interactive techfest DigSouth.

Where it might have once been dismissed, Southern culture is now coveted in the mainstream conversation about innovation and the digital era.

“We are mentally, physically and spiritually mobile,” Gray entreated. “We no longer have to move to succeed here.”

Success in the contemporary South comes down to one simple adage: “Be authentic,” counseled Street.

Thing is, you just can’t fake Southern. The true belles have a gimlet eye for wannabes and liars, though they’ll still be as sweet as tea to your face while you wax on about your pimiento cheese dip recipe that you obviously purloined from Southern Living.

So I decided to stop trying. You don’t have to be Southern to live and love the South, and I’ve found that if you mind your manners and clean up after yourself, the South will welcome you in like family anyway.

I pulled the stray twigs out of my hair and settled in with a cadre of fabulous Savannah folk who know me well enough to forgive my endless repertoire of faux pas.

The Hostess City was well-represented in this well-coiffed coterie: Ruel Joyner set up a cozily chic 24E living room in the lobby. Roberto and Lacie Leoci were rained out of their outdoor appetizer event, but they adapted by adding Leoci’s

anybody, come sit by me.” They didn’t even flinch when I told them I showered al fresco that morning.

The lines began to blur between hostel and the convention center, the fireflies and Twitter, the connection to nature and the networking with smart, forward-thinking people, between who I really am and who I still hope to become.

By the time bowtie designer and quintessential Southern gentleman K. Cooper Ray took the stage as keynote speaker, I felt right at home among so many genuine Southern belles and beaus. Even if I did forget my lipgloss in the woods.

A revelation came when Ray, an Alabama-born international stylemaker who strikes the perfect balance between the traditional and the eccentric, described his new Social Primer tuxedo line — a black tie collection without any black — thusly: “Colorful and eclectic, just like we want our Southern women to be.”

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culinary goodies to the epic swag bags. Hunter Cattle Company sent their marketing mama Kristen Fretwell to the Southern C for tips on how to handle sudden massive success. (I made a quiche out of Leoci’s Hunter-supplied duck prosciutto last week, and let me tell y’all, it was dee-vine.)

It was a wonder to watch artist Katherine Sandoz dashing off delightful renderings of summitgoers that then flashed across the live Twitter feed wall. I shared a cocktail with public relations powerhouse Jennifer Abshire and marketing whiz Cari Clark Phelps, who has helped brand dozens of businesses and has recently turned her talents inward with her line of luxury bath products Salacia Salts (really, only a genius could tie together Roman mythology and Tybee lore.)

Photographer Jade McCully, stylist Liz Demos and event planner Andrea Gray Harper patted the chair next to them, just like in Steel Magnolias when Clairee tells Truvy, “If you can’t say anything nice about

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‘Look out! I think I might be a runner.’

About running, life, and testing your mettle Do you know what happens when a 30-something married mother of four realizes her love of food from a drive-thru window and general First World living has her scale reading more than her first pregnancy?

She becomes an Ultra Marathon Runner.

Yeah, so maybe not the next day or anything. In fact, I bumbled around numerous misstarts, scale rage, safety pinned pants, and photo editing fails before I successfully walked the dog six miles.

That was two years ago. That same year I finished my first 5k. I placed in my first 10k. The Savannah Bridge run unsuccessfully tried to kill me. I signed up for my first half marathon.

Look out! I think I might be a runner.

But I wasn’t the only one. All of Savannah seemed to be discovering this idea. The crazy notion that getting up at 6 a.m. on a Saturday and run until your legs jellied became less absurd. There was a momentum shift.

The Rock ‘n Roll Marathon series was on its way to our city. We had visions of morphing into Kenyans.

“The running community was there but significantly smaller and fragmented,” remembers Dan

Quincy Martel, Andy Bruner, the author, and Karen Heitner at SAV’s first Ultra

Hernandez, a systems administration from Cadiz, Spain. “I was so amazed at how popular running became in Savannah after the announcement of the first Savannah Rock ‘n Roll. To be honest, I thought it was just a fad, but man was I wrong!”

It was exciting. I wanted to be part of that excitement. I had the opportunity to be a part of that excitement.

I chickened out.

In 2012, I swore off fast food and lost 30 pounds. I finished that half marathon. I was determined that I may do a good many things, but chickening out again would not be one of them.

While I will never get back the opportunity to participate in the inaugural event, I conquered the 2012 Savannah Rock ‘n Roll Marathon. That I was even able to run at

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As I look at the rest of my 2013 race calendar and into the challenges of early next year, I believe there are stories to tell. Understandably my journey is uniquely mine, and unable to come from any perspective other than my own.

However, I would do this and future tellings an unforgivable injustice if I couched it as simply another runner profile.

It’s not simply health, wellness, and mommy gets her sexy back.

It is more than one vegan woman and her barefoot running shoes.

The running community has discovered a whole new level of mettle hidden amidst the traditional spectator favorites. They can tap into it, explore it, and build relationships through it. There is a story of growth here in the South. There is a wealth of community, social responsibility, personal challenge, human spirit, camaraderie, strength, and kindness.

If nothing else, I hope to convey, in some small way, regardless of profiles, accolades, races, or routes, we would still run. cs

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all was a testament to Ledesma Sports Medicine nursing a fractured heel six weeks before the event. I finished under four hours.

My last official act of 2012? I became a dietary vegan, or what is sometimes referred to as a “plant powered athlete,” another interesting movement growing in our area.

The landscape of the running community has quickly evolved in the Lowcountry. Victoria Ten Broeck, local runner and blogger extraordinaire has also noticed the uptick in Savannah running.

“New runners, old runners, businesses alike have all come together to promote a sport that has made our city healthier! New races have formed, more people are entering 5k’s, and people are excited to get healthy!

It’s a win-win for the city!”

More than health and recreation, runners look to be good stewards of the community. Nearly all of those 5k races Victoria alluded to are formed to benefit some person or group in need. With the help of local runners and businessmen Robert Espinosa and Tim Waz, Dan brought the first Ultra Marathon, a race covering a distance greater than 26.2 miles, to Savannah.

It benefited the Rails to Trails restoration project near Fort Pulaski. It is also where I earned the right to be called an Ultra Runner.

“Savannah has become a running town! Runners are everywhere. Running groups are springing up in different parts of town doing their own

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Less than 500 of these majestic whales remain on earth. Crucial federal protections, some of which are set to expire this year, are preventing their extinction.

But while right whales are on the move once again, Washington is not.

As right whales cross busy shipping lanes and port entrances while making their long journey, they risk being hit by ships. Federal regulations on ship speeds put in place in 2008 have reduced the chances of large ships killing whales. Simply by slowing down, ship operators can save whales’ lives.

Now that a key migratory season for the whales is upon us, there has been a surge in sightings of right whales off Massachusetts as they gather to feed after a winter of fasting.

On just one day recently, government researchers spotted 60 right whales.

More are on the way. It is a spectacular sight, and should give comfort to countless millions of us humans who care about these leviathans.

Before the ship speed rules, ship strikes were a leading cause of death for the species. Mothers and their young were the most common victims.

Now, federal rules require large ships to slow down within areas of the Atlantic where whales are most concentrated. Ships must slow to 10 knots when travelling through the whales’ feeding areas off New England in the spring and early summer, in the southeastern calving areas during the winter, and along the migratory route through the mid-Atlantic in the months during the whales’ spring and fall migrations.

Without a doubt, these protective speed limits work. No right whales have been found dead from vessel collisions in protected areas since the

regulations went into effect.

In fact, the risk of a right whale getting hit and killed by a ship has been reduced by as much as 90 percent, according to one recent study.

Ship strikes are brutal. They cause fractures to whales’ skulls and spines and can cause massive blood loss.

Calves are often left to fend for themselves when their mothers die.

Just a couple of weeks ago, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources reported that 20 right whale calves were born this year.

These new births are welcome additions, and the whales will contribute to the recovery of the species, assuming these newborns live long enough to reproduce.

But it’s unclear that they will.

Despite the success of the ship speed rules, the rules are set to expire at the end of the year.

The Humane Society of the United States is part of a coalition of animal welfare and environmental groups that has petitioned the government to extend the ship speed rules beyond the expiration date.

In the last five years, we’ve gained so much with the ship speed rules in place. The species is making a slow recovery, birth rates are improving and no whales have died in protected areas.

It would be wrong to lose our investment in this species to inaction.

The HSUS and its coalition partners will continue to press the Obama administration to extend ship speed rules while these animals struggle for survival. cs Sharon Young is Marine Issues Field Director with The Humane Society of the United States

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Up the creek without a paddle, literally A Savannah man who escaped from a transitional center and tried to elude capture in a canoe without a paddle was arrested.

Frederick Neil Rushing, 36, was apprehended by Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Marine Patrol Officers and officers from Metro’s helicopter Eagle One, aided by Islands Precinct Crime Suppression and Patrol officers, Georgia Department of Natural Resources officers and members of the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force.

Rushing had tried to escape from officers investigating a theft from the visitor’s center of Wormsloe Plantation by “paddling away in a plastic canoe using only his hands about 4:15 p.m. His broken paddle was found in a camp he had set up on

the state-owned plantation property,” police say.

Isle of Hope residents alerted officers of a man living in the woods before the reports. Police already had identified him as a runaway from the Georgia Coastal Transitional Center before the helicopter pilot led Marine Patrol officers to the canoe at another camp about 6 p.m. They found him hiding under the canoe on Long Island, between Wormsloe and Skidaway.

A warrant charging him with escape had been issued April 8.

Detectives are investigating burglaries in the area to determine a connection.

• Detectives are seeking witnesses to a 3 a.m. confrontation on West Broughton Street that left two victims with gunshot wounds.

Vaughn Cornelia, 20, was transported to Memorial University Medical Center by Emergency Medical Services and taken to surgery. Mamie Smith, 20, was transported to the same hospital by private automobile with a non-life threatening wound. As

many as 100 people were A confidential Tip present near Broughton Line is open at and Jefferson as the inci(912) 525-3124. dent took place just before 3 a.m.

• Detectives and An officer was “near forensics officers the intersection when sevhave identified a eral shots were fired and 47-year-old man Police seek this man in conhe moved into the large who is in serious s fraca n nection with Broughto crowd to find Cornelia condition, apparbeing placed in a car. He ently after falling advised that an ambulance through the roof of a warehouse. was in route and began first aid for Patrol officers responded to a call at Cornelia as other officers tended to ABC Supply Co. on the 1300 block of the unruly crowd and secured the Rogers Street at 7 a.m. after employscene,” a spokesman says. ees found Russell Aaron Bishop on Gunfire also broke windows of two the concrete floor. He had fallen from businesses and additional officers about 30 feet. At the hospital forenwere assigned to the hospital where sics officers identified him from his “several bystanders announced they fingerprint. would follow victims.”

Officers had been called to the locaThe investigation is continuing. tion about 1 a.m. when an employee Police seek for questioning a black reported a window had been broken male in his late teens or 20s with and a man was caught on video entershort, curly hair and a slight goatee ing a truck. Officers found no one and and “an unusual large tattoo on his the building doors were secured. cs right forearm.” Anyone with info is Give anonymous crime tips to asked to call Crimestoppers at (912) Crimestoppers at 234-2020 234-2020 or text CRIMES (274637).

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news of the weird Well-Earned Retirement In March, twin sisters Louise and Martine Fokkens, 70, announced their joint retirement after more than 50 years each on the job — as Amsterdam prostitutes. (In February, the minimum age for prostitutes in the Netherlands was raised to 21, but there is no maximum.) The twins estimated they had 355,000 client-visits between them, and Martine noted that she still has one devoted regular who she’ll have to disappoint. Louise, though, appeared happier to hang up her mattress for good because of arthritis. The sisters complained about the legalization of brothels in 2000 (with East European women and pimps out-hustling the more genteel Dutch women) and ensuing taxation (which required the women to take on more clients).

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• “Traditional Taiwanese funerals (combine) somber mourning with louder, up-tempo entertainment to fire up grieving spirits,” reported BBC News in February. They are tailor-made, in other words, for Ms. Liu Jun-Lin, 30, and her Filial Daughters Band with their acrobatic dance routines because Liu has the reputation as Taiwan’s most famous professional mourner.

After the musical festivities, Liu dons a white robe and crawls on her hands and knees to the coffin, where she “performs her signature wail.”

• Norwegian Wood: A 12-hour TV miniseries shown this winter on

Norway’s government channel NRK, years. With “accidental” incest thus a National Firewood Night, was conceived genuine problem, three software engias a full series, then cut to “only” 12 neers recently created a mobile phone hours, eight of which focused entirely app that allows strangers to “bump” on a live fireplace. Nearly a million phones with each other and know, people tuned in to the series, and at one instantly, whether they are closely point 60 text messages came in comrelated. In its first few days of release in plaining about whether the wood in the April, the developers said it had already fireplace should have been placed with been used almost 4,000 times. bark up or bark down. “(F) Latest Religious irewood,” said the show’s host, “is the foundation Messages of our lives.” A New York • New York City Times dispatch noted that Councilman Dan Hala best-selling book, Solid loran was charged in ISN’T IT GOOD Wood, sold almost as many NORWEGIAN April with aiding state WOOD? copies in Norway, proporSen. Malcolm Smith’s tional to the population, as alleged bribery scheme a book’s selling 10 million to run for mayor — copies in the U.S. thus bringing Hal• Imagine the Person loran’s extraordinary Who First Suggested back story light as the This: The newest beautyfirst “open” pagan to be treatment rage in China, elected to office in the according to Chinese U.S. Halloran converted media quoted on the in the 1980s to mediInquisitr.com website in eval Theodish, whose March, is the “fire facial,” outfits and ceremonies in which alcohol and a resemble scenes from “secret elixir” are daubed on the face Dungeons & Dragons - horns, sacrifices, and set ablaze for a few seconds, then feasts, duels using spears and public extinguished. According to “ancient floggings. (The Village Voice reported in Chinese medicine,” this will burn off 2011 that Halloran was the “First Athe“dull” skin — and also alleviate the ling” of his own Theodish tribe of 100, common cold and reduce obesity. called New Normandy, but Halloran • Most of Iceland’s 320,000 inhabitsaid in April that today he is merely an ants are at least distantly related to each “elder.”) other, leading the country to compile • The Lord Works in Strange Ways: the “Book of Icelanders” database of At least 11 people were killed and family connections dating back 1,200

36 injured on March 15 in Tlaxcala, Mexico, when a truck full of fireworks exploded as Catholic celebrants gathered. Rather than remain in the safety of their homes, they had been moved to honor Jesus Tepactepec, the patron saint of a village named after him.

• Recent Icons: (1) In March, a vegetable wholesaler in India’s Jharkland state decided that a pumpkin he purchased was so enormous (about 190 pounds) that it must be a reincarnation of the god Shiva — and he began worshipping it. A priest counseled the man to continue his fealty until the following Sunday, a holiday, after which he should carve it into pieces for devotees.

(2) In Buri Ram, Thailand, in March, a woman sliced open a sausage to find the distinctive body of a very small kitten, which she took to be a symbol of some sort deserving to be placed onto an altar. Neighbors gathered to pray to it, also, and several said they had considered the woman so fortunate that they played her age (52) in a local lottery, and won.

Questionable Judgments An unnamed man was hospitalized in April in Tucson, Ariz., after firefighters, finding him unconscious at 3 a.m. pinned under an SUV parked in his driveway, lifted the vehicle and dragged him to safety. A police spokesperson learned that the man was trying “a stunt in which he was going to put the SUV in reverse, jump out and lay on the ground behind it, have the vehicle (roll) over him, and then get up and (get back

While “comprehensive immigration reform” winds through the U.S. political process, a few countries (including the United States) have already severely bent the nationalistic standards supposedly regulating entry of foreigners. The U.S., Britain, Canada and Austria allow rich investors who pass background checks to qualify for an express lane to residence or citizenship, and the line is even less onerous in the Caribbean nations of Dominica and St. Kitts & Nevis, which offer quick citizenship

tenant was late again with the rent. A magistrate said he intended to drop the charge in six months if Kronenberger stayed out of trouble, but in March, a man who worked for Kronenberger filed a lawsuit accusing him of spanking him on four occasions, using a belt and a paddle.

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The Narcotics Task Force of Jackson County, Miss., arrested Henry Ha Nguyen, 41, in April as operator of a large marijuana grow house — a facility that would normally reek of the distinctive pot fragrance. However, Nguyen had tried to mask the smell, but chose the alternative scent

The man who was “citizen of the year” in Waynesville, Ohio, in 2006, businessman Ron Kronenberger, 53, was charged in January with beltwhipping one of his tenants on his bare buttocks — though he had a good reason, he said, because the

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Readers’ Choice A vendor at the largest bazaar in Buenos Aires has recently been selling knock-off “toy poodles” that were actually artistically groomed ferrets raised on steroids. A news dispatch from June 2012 suggested that such a report might be an “urban legend,” but Buenos Aires TV exposed the scam in March, revealing two victims, one of whom paid the equivalent of about $150 for his “pure-bred.” CS By chuck shepherd UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE

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The 1887 article is what your reader [of April 12] was looking for, I think.

—Bill Mullins, Huntsville, Alabama Every so often in this business, you have one of those weeks.

Reader Mullins sent us three emails, devoted respectively to newspaper reports of fatalities due to falling pianos, anvils, and safes. The one about pianos contained 26 items dating from 1887 to 1989. Scanning the list for the referenced account, we found the following from the Jackson [Michigan] Citizen of January 11, 1887: “A young man named George Snyder was instantly killed at Grand Rapids Monday. He was employed at Chase Bros’ [sic] piano manufactory, and as he was passing out of the factory on his way to dinner, a piano which was suspended by a windlass fell on him, crushing his chest and skull and causing instant death.”

Other than its lacking any mention of the Acme Company, this was undeniably the classic cartoon trope. I sent a quizzical note to the research department, namely Una and Fierra.

“We worked hard on this one,” they wailed. “We searched everything. This is mortifying. We’re going to go outside and hope a piano falls on us.”

Don’t despair, I said. A simple flogging will be sufficient. Then I looked at reader Mullins’s email address, which ended in “.mil.” I wondered: was he tapping into top-secret military databases in underground bunkers? It would hardly do to blame Una and Fierra if they’d been outsearched by someone with access to the resources of the National Security Agency.

Nope, replied Mullins, I’m a civilian engineer working for the military. We didn’t ask him what he did, but seeing as Huntsville is home to several U.S. space and missile facilities, we assume it involves rockets and stuff. In any case, he had used the GenealogyBank

newspaper archive, which claims to contain a billion-plus articles published in the U.S. between 1690 and 2010. Accessing the archive required no security clearance. It did, however, require a credit card.

Back to our subject. Thanks to reader Mullins, we may now add the following datapoints to the sum of human knowledge: • Twenty-six piano deaths throughout the entire U.S. over more than a hundred years may not qualify as common, but they’re not rare either, contrary to our earlier claim.

• What is rare is a piano falling from overhead, as large, heavy objects routinely do in the canyon country frequented by the Road Runner. Except for the Grand Rapids case, all reported instances involved a piano toppling over, falling off a truck or cart, sliding down stairs, or some similar scenario.

• Now to safes. Mullins has turned up just seven cases, but in three the safe fell from above, the purest example from a literary standpoint being the following from the 1943 New York Post: “An express company helper, Frank Draskovitz . . . was crushed when the rope by which [a] safe was being lowered from a second-floor window . . . broke.”

• Finally, anvils. Mullins has provided six articles, of which three are of particular interest. A 1911 account from Syracuse, New York, reports that one John Vandusen suffered injuries expected to be fatal when someone dropped a 200-pound anvil on him from a landing above.

• More puzzling are the other two.

Here’s the complete text of a November 1896 report filed from Middlesboro, Kentucky: “In celebrating McKinley’s victory at Clintwood Va., an anvil exploded, killing Pollam Colley and Preston Mullins [no relation, presumably] and frightfully injuring three other men.” One thinks: the anvil exploded?

Next, a piece datelined Luling, Texas, November 12, 1884, which begins: “Yesterday afternoon the Democratic celebration over the election was turned to sorrow by the bursting of one of the anvils used. The force of the explosion showered particles of steel in all directions,” killing two men in a nearby saloon. Details of how celebration might cause an anvil to explode remain elusive; we can only suppose that the inexplicable pastime known as anvil shooting, described in our original column, goes back further than we thought. CS By cecil adams

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Say hello to the Rosies Less than a year after she and her sister arrived in Savannah, Kyrsten Roseman can say with certainty she’s found her musical home. “It has opened its arms to us in a way I’ve never really experienced,” says the elder half of the indie folk duo the Rosies.

Kyrsten, 22, and Kourtney, 18, arrived in October 2012 with a couple of acoustic guitars, a satchel full of original songs, and a telepathic way with the sort of delicately-embroidered vocal harmony that only siblings can achieve (there’s a middle sister, too, but she’s more into athletics than singing and songwriting).

Within weeks of landing in town, the Rosies landed a weekly gig (Tuesday nights) at the River House restaurant downtown. In addition, they’ve performed at most of Savannah’s acoustic rooms.

Raised in Tennessee, the Roseman sisters began singing together at an early age — their parents, both musicians, included them in their touring gospel shows (Glen and Joyce Roseman also live in Savannah now, where they operate a business called String Up Jewelry, and the non-profit Concerts For Hope, Inc.).

“I did music for a long time on my own,” says Kyrsten. “Ever since I could read and write, I was writing stuff. Probably 7 was my first poem. It slowly branched into music.”

For many years, the girls were homeschooled. Entering public high school, however, Kyrsten had her world rocked. “For some reason — it wasn’t because we were sheltered — I didn’t have music,” she says. “I didn’t

Kyrsten, left, and Kourtney Roseman stopped in for a Connect Sessions this week.

listen to other than what my parents listened to, Christian Contemporary radio and stuff like that.

“When I rode the bus my freshman year, they were like ‘We’ve got to introduce you to the world of music.’

And they did. It was amazing. I had a friend bring in 50 CDs, and we took that week and just listened to stuff.

And then I started picking out the stuff I liked from what they threw at me, and slowly started building what I listen to now.”

The songs she writes — some alone, others with Kourtney — show a wide and colorful variety of influences, none of them so obvious as to dilute the tactile strength of the Roses’ distinctive sound.

“I range from Civil Wars and indie folk, Alison Krauss, bluegrass, and I’m even starting to like country,” Kyrsten says. “Rock, ‘70s and ‘80s, Journey and the Eagles. And the whole other end of the spectrum, which is the new artists like Alex Clare and Adele. I try to pull from as many genres as I can and find something I like.”

All six songs on Spectrum, the Rosies’ debut LP, are self-penned (the sisters are just starting work on a second recording). The live shows blend their

originals with choice, harmony-rich covers — everything from the Beatles, to Sarah McLachlan, to Iron & Wine.

“I love our mashups,” Kourtney Roseman offers. “That’s not a new thing — a lot of people do mashups — but I personally think we put a new spin on it, and really pull from different genres. One of our mashups has Lady Gaga and ‘Sweet Dreams’ by the Eurythmics, and then Adele, ‘Rolling in the Deep.’ Our latest one has White Stripes, Nirvana and Gretchen Wilson in it. I enjoy doing that.”

Writing and rehearsing, she adds, are team efforts. “We do a lot of collaborating. It’s really an equal effort.

She’ll say something, then I’ll say something, and then it goes another way.”

The Rosies, strangely enough, almost never happened.

“I wanted to be a solo artist when I graduated high school,” Kyrsten says.

“I wrote and recorded a whole album … and I never really thought about her. She was kind of doing her own thing with acting and drama.”

But illness, and the need for a string of corrective surgeries, sent the elder Roseman to Orlando, Fla. And

little sister Kourtney came along to look after her.

“When she came to Orlando, we started singing together out of necessity,” explains Kyrsten. “I wasn’t able to work, so we actually started going over to Winter Park in the evenings to sing for tip money, and that would go towards rent and food and everything. When that started happening, we realized we had something special.”

These days, she adds, she can’t imagine singing without that other voice. “We’re both on the same page,” Kyrsten says. “Which is great.”

Official site: www.therosiesmusic. com. Check out Spectrum at www. therosiesmusic.bandcamp.com.

On connectsavannah.com: The Rosies in our office for The Connect Sessions.

Greyboy and O.A.R.

• California’s groove-heavy band Greyboy Allstars will headline SCAD’s free “New Alumni Concert” Friday, May 31 in Forsyth Park.

The jazz/funk band, formed 10 years ago by DJ Andreas Stevens and tenor sax player Karl Denson, have a new album out (minus Stevens, the original “DJ Greyboy”): Inland Emperor, says allmusic.com, is “a menagerie of sounds that are so evocative and mood-setting, they almost work as a soundtrack to a film.”

Also on the bill for the school’s end-of-the-semester show are Atlanta’s Gringo Star, a longtime Savannah favorite, and R&B singer, songwriter and producer Mayer Hawthorne.

• O.A.R. (Of A Revolution) will perform June 8 in Daffin Park, brought to us by — I’m still trying to figure this one out — Spider-Man creator Stan Lee. Tickets are on sale now ($25-$70) at buyblitzticketscom. CS

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Not that she was tired of shooting weddings and family portraits, but photographer Megan Jones was looking for another, more creative focus for her lens.

She found it in pinup photography — crafting colorful images of attractive women in retro clothes, hairstyles and makeup.

When Jones was hired by pinup aficionado Bonnie Bozell for a photo shoot, Savannah hatched the first DNA of a nascent pinup community.

Bozell, a former portfolio review manager for SCAD, is a part-time model whose specialty is retro-chic and rockabilly fashion. She hired on as hair and makeup technician for Jones’ burgeoning — and quickly successful — pinup business. The

two got to talking, and decided to take things a step further, by creating Savannah’s first-ever homegrown retro burlesque show.

“I lived out in L.A. for a couple of years, and it’s huge out there,” Bozell explains. “Absolutely huge. Retro culture, you can’t go anywhere without seeing somebody dressed in pinup, and hearing about burlesque shows.

“I was like, ‘Why don’t we have any of it here?’ Atlanta even has its own hub of it. So we thought ‘We need to start it and get it going.’”

That’s just what they’ve done. “Ol’

Devil Sherman and the Mint Juleps” has already been booked into Muse Arts Warehouse for June 27 and 28.

“We wanted to bring pinup to the stage, to bring it to Savannah on a large scale as opposed to just one show at a time,” Jones says, referring to the touring Pretty Things Peepshow, which came to Savannah for one night in March.

“And pinup onstage easily fell into burlesque onstage. We’re keeping it a classy retro burlesque, with vaudeville integrated into it in a kind of variety show.

“And we’re both interested in dancing. I don’t know if we’ll be in the show, per se, but we’re getting a strong group of people together.”

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about an old-time burlesque show, with pretty girls in skimpy costumes, music, a bit of offbeat comedy. And maybe, just maybe, a fleeting glimpse of some freako sideshow acts.

It’s planned as an 18 and older event. “There might be a little bit of fun stripping,” Jones explains, “but it won’t come down that much.”

Adds Bozell: “Ours is more ‘20s and ‘30s. It’s when vaudeville and burlesque were just starting to become known as a crossed-over entity. What they did at the Pretty Things Peepshow was pretty much in that same vein, but they put more emphasis on the burlesque performance, with the women in the tassels.”

Two things have to happen before Ol’ Devil Sherman (that’d be master of ceremonies Christopher Jean Soucy) and the Mint Juleps take the stage.

First, there’s a matter of money.

Jones and Bozell have a Kickstarter account all set up, with a bunch of neat rewards for anyone willing to contribute to the cause (the idea is to

“We’re trying to make it really Savannahthemed,” says photographer Jones, left.

do several productions a year).

The two captains of this ship will hold auditions May 15, looking for prospective Juleps (women who have some dance or performance skills and interest in pinup culture preferred) and everything else, from a piano player to sideshow acts to those who’d like to help backstage.

It’s going to be fun for everyone involved, swears Bozell. “It doesn’t matter what size, what stature you are, if you have the confidence and you want to bring it to the stage.

That’s how they do it in L.A. and Seattle. They really perpetuate it out there like that. I think that’s a good thing for Savannah, too, to have

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Key to the whole thing, Jones says, is that it’s to be entirely homegrown.

“We’re trying to make it really Savannah-themed. We’re the Mint Juleps — even the name says Savannah. It’s from here, for here.”

If anyone requires still more incentive, how’s this: All profits will go directly to Muse Arts Warehouse, which has become something of a hub for culture and performance in the city.

Ol’ Devil Sherman and the Mint Juleps, Take One, is just the beginning. “This is more about getting it started in Savannah, getting a good flow going for this kind of retro culture and burlesque,” Bozell adds. “It needs to start up.” CS

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Blueareyou A colorful conversation with Shane Andries of Blue Man Group

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Shane Andries happens to be a white guy, but he inhabits a utopian universe where everyone’s skin color is the same. Blue.

Since its inception in 1987, Blue Man Group — let’s call it a musical theater stage show — has charmed millions around the globe with its childlike examination of human beliefs, new technology and the simple joy of living.

That’s because its appeal is universal. The three playful Blue Men perform non-verbally, using elements of silent film comedy, vaudeville shtick and contemporary multimedia and computer effects. Through this combination, they provide innocent commentary on the stuff that you and I, along with everybody else, experience every day.

Created by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Savannah native Phil Stanton, Blue Man Group has been to Japan, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands and all points in between.

On the current American tour, Shane Andries is anonymously bald-capped and greasepainted along with two other guys. Born in Texas, he’s a graduate of the University of North Caro-

lina School of the Arts, a musician and an aspiring filmmaker.

Andries dove into the Blue Man gene pool five years ago, during the show’s Off Broadway run at the Astor Place Theatre.

I admit I have a hard time explaining to people just what the Blue Man show is. How do you describe it?

Shane Andries: I describe the show as a theatrical experience that uses comedy, technology, science, art, and music — that’s a huge element — and all of that’s used to create an atmosphere of connection and

joy. On a higher level, Blue Man is sort of a commentary on our current world. That’s why the show changes; we have to always keep it current with what’s going on, because Blue Man is always having fun with our culture. A big theme in the new show is “people and their devices.” Our obsession with iPhones and iPads, and the loss that we’ve all experienced with connectivity with each other. The finale piece is all about getting people to shed that mask and find that inner child, dance and find their inner bliss.

People ask us if the Blue Man is an alien. We don’t like that term at all because it just makes it seem different.

Really, the Blue Man is very similar to us. It’s more or less a dimension of us.

He is kind of an everyman. He’s definitely from a different place, but that’s really the only label we like to attach to it. We don’t like to define where he’s from or anything. It brings out all these things that we think about, but somehow the Blue Man has a fun way of looking at things, and people are able to laugh at it.

So who is Blue Man?

As an actor, you’re pulling a lot from your bag of talents, aren’t you? Isn’t there a lot of mime in the show?

Shane Andries: Well, he’s kind of great for that, because he’s a bit of an innocent, but a hero at the same time.

And there’s no ego involved with the Blue Man, so we try to get the people to like the character and see things in a different way, and see the Blue Man’s point of view.

Shane Andries is one of the three guys in this photograph. We don’t know which one - and that’s kind of the point of Blue Man.

Shane Andries: It’s definitely nonverbal, but I didn’t have any mime training or anything. We’re not creating the whole miming thing with hands and whatnot. But Blue Man does have its roots in vaudeville and mime, and I think it opens up a lot of doors to us. What’s great is, all those things are there, but then it’s all just something completely different. It wasn’t like a direct path to the character; it evolved over the years.

The history of non-verbal theater, silent comedy, three-person comedy … you know, the creators of the show did not start out just wanting three Blue Men. When they were creating the show, people were

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Shane Andries: I grew up playing drums. My father was a drummer; my parents had seen the show when I was in high school. I went to drama school to study acting, and right when I got out of school I started thinking about it. And I was like, “You know, I might be able to do that show.” Because it was kind of this hybrid of drummers and actors.

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Shane Andries: It changes drastically.

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And that’s kind of how the show is. The scenes go in a certain order, but the way we do it and the improv that can happen — especially when we bring somebody from the audience onstage — we never know what’s gonna happen.

We have our marks that we try to hit, but the great thing about the character is there is so much room for improv.

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By Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

A busy week for leading ladies as two female-centered productions open this Friday: In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, plucky protagonist Elizabeth Bennet envies her more beautiful sister, calls out snobbery with sarcasm and falls in love with the bad boy. It’s bit like an episode of The Hills, only with longer hemlines.

Of course, it’s the 19th century, and Mr. Darcy doesn’t turn out to be so bad after all. It could be because of Austen’s sly wit, embedded in the language like tart currants in a scone, or the ineffable spirit of a young girl who stands up for herself to get what she wants. But this English coming-of-age tale endures as an entertaining statement on society and relationships even as modern treatments of the same themes evaporate into the Land of Cancelled TV Shows.

“I think it’s because the situation never goes out of style,” muses Alexis Mundy, who plays Elizabeth in the Collective Face’s production of Pride

and Prejudice, running at Muse Arts Warehouse May 10-26. “The miscommunication, the rumor mills, the catand-mouse games with a guy — it all still applies.”

Mundy, with her natural alacrity and fresh-faced visage, is perfectly cast as the strong-willed Elizabeth, who has no qualms about forming fast opinions on just about everything.

“I feel like I have a lot in common with her — she’s strong, she’s independent, she doesn’t take any bullshit,” grins the Pennsylvania native, last seen in the Collective Face’s What the Butler Saw. Directed by David I. L. Poole, the cast also includes Mickey Dodge, Eric Salles, Rebecca Gomberg, Bill DeYoung, Zach Blaylock, Ginger Miles, Sariah McCall, Clare Ward, Josh Gilstrap and others. Poole and Chann Givens are creating the Regency-era

costumes from scratch.

The “prejudice” in the title comes from Lizzy’s judgment of the tall, dark and aristocratic Mr. Darcy, who suffers the “pride” side of the equation; tumultuous chemistry ensues. But how to convey that intense-yet-chaste attraction without the modern theatrical devices of open flirtations and steamy sex scenes?

“It’s all in the text,” assures Mundy.

She credits fellow castmate Alexander Nathan with infusing Darcy with a nuanced complexity that reveals the gap in social class between the characters as well as the humanity that ultimately brings them together.

“He is extremely talented,” she says.

“I love our scenes together because he really takes the time to interpret the script.”

Jon Jory’s stage adaptation of Austen’s popular novel (over 20 million copies sold!) retains the best lines without losing the satirical elements that skewer 19th-century English society. Pride and Prejudice remains a classic because at its core, it’s just

women are the play’s only characters, their internal conflicts circling around each other like planets in a tiny galaxy.

“It’s such a powerful story,” says Sean Carleton, a SCAD performing arts major making his directorial debut. “It lets us know that we’re not alone in asking some of the big questions.”

Raised in a religious home, Carleton holds his own doubts about the Catholic Church’s overarching authority and intolerance. He was at his own spiritual crossroads when he came across John Pielmeier’s script at the Jen Library one evening and its context hit home. He decided to produce it as part of Third Act, an independent student production house within SCAD that raises its own funds, designs its sets and has complete casting control. With a budget limited to what Carleton raised on Kickstarter, Agnes of God’s small cast was as attractive as its thematic challenges.

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and speculates that going from a cast of 37 to three may be quieter but no less complex.

“The actors are on stage almost the entire time, and there so much depth between these three people,” he says.

As far as tackling Agnes of God’s controversial and theological questions, Carleton doesn’t mind not coming up with fast answers: “The point of this show isn’t to define one thing or another; it’s to let people know it’s OK to ask questions.

“I want to create art that starts a dialogue.” cs Pride and Prejudice When: 8 p.m. Fri-Sat, May 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25; 3 p.m. Sun. May 12, 19, 26 Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $15/$12 students/seniors Info: 912.232.0018 or collectiveface.org Agnes of God When: 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat. May 10-11 Where: Mondanaro Theater, Crites Hall, 217 MLK Blvd.

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And even though you know the girl gets the guy in the end, you can’t help but be proud that she did it her way.

Poor Agnes the novice nun has a lot less gusto than empowered Lizzy Bennet, but the tormented main character in Agnes of God has her own unmovable strength. Abused as a child, she entered the convent as a young woman and gives birth to a stillborn; the mysterious origins of the pregnancy are the crux of the plot and its catechism on miracles and faith.

Starring fourth year performing arts major Gina Hughes, Agnes of God runs for two shows only, May 10-11 at SCAD’s Mondanaro Theater. Both performances are free and open to the public.

Presiding over Agnes’ fate are the Mother Superior Miriam Ruth (played by Ryan Long), representing religion in its all its flawed glory, and Martha (Amaya Murphy), a court psychiatrist attempting to reconcile logic and rationality with her own imperfect convictions. The three

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Tricia Cookson’s ‘Ubiquity and Balance’ @ Desotorow May’s First Friday Art March featured two particularly well-executed exhibitions.

At Desotorow Gallery, Tricia Cookson presented her MFA Fibers thesis show, titled “Ubiquity and Balance.” Through large gauge crochet compositions and accompanying finely-focused color photographs of her constructions, Cookson explored material and mental manifestations of suspension, tension and weight. From her chosen title, to space planning, to the textures and colors she chose to juxtapose, her show evinced remarkable mindfulness and meticulous attention to detail.

Like living, organic masses, massive crocheted forms seemed to grow from all corners of the gallery space.

Nest-like knit forms encased the room’s white walls and, creeping up to the ceiling, suspended white, egg-like objects at their apex.

At the room’s center, three white orbs sheathed in heavy, brown knit netting hung at eye level, tethered to the ceiling by thin, pink strands of

Tricia Cookson shows off “Ubiquity and Balance” at Desotorow Gallery.

yarn. Dense brown yarn appeared to drip from the suspended globes to pool on the floor in an amorphous crocheted shape. The fine, pink fibers converged in a pop of exuberant color at the point where Cookson affixed them to their thick, brown counterparts. Dispersing upwards, the pink threads urged beholders to shift their

gaze up to explore the full extent of the artist’s transformation of the gallery’s interior. Cookson thoughtfully staged the browns and pinks of this central installation before a knit purple web dynamically unfurling in a loose V shape, and these varying densities achieved a stunning comparison between masses, textures and colors.

Cookson said she turned to crochet after a long process of experimenting with various materials and techniques. Recalling her grandmother, she noted crochet’s traditional association with the home, its utilitarian feel and its flexibility. These features rendered the method ideal for her artistic investigations of mental and physical tension, pull and balance.

The artist, a native of San Francisco, took full advantage of these properties to make work as beautiful as it was legible. Crochet offered Cookson the degree of pattern control necessary to give accessible, sculptural form to the experience of being pulled in many directions. A mother of two, her medium’s maternal connotations only bolstered the emotive quality of her fabrications.

Evoking universal experiences of tension, packed schedules and overstimulation, Cookson’s constructions mirrored their maker’s calm presence, grace and sense of whimsy. “Ubiquity and Balance,” then, proved the perfect name for an exhibition that forged direct connections with viewers as it impelled the sort of grace under pressure necessary for twenty-firstcentury living.

Home Sweet Home @ Non-Fiction Just north of Desotorow on Bull Street, Non-Fiction Gallery exhibited “Home Sweet Home,” a collection of large-format color photographs by Abigail Cassner and Carson Sanders that communicated each artist’s impressions of Savannah living.

Cassner’s set of nine “Low Country Studs” humorously posed shirtless, bearded and burly beefcakes in coastal marsh settings. Further down the wall, 10 more landscapes and portraits evidenced the artist’s facility with formality and photographic effects.

Insistent geometry and skillful manipulation of light conveyed the sublime, the ephemeral and the unutterable.

Sanders’s photographs occupied the opposite wall. His “Southern Comfort” body of work offered viewers a bevy of images of the city and its residents. Sanders noted his love for West Savannah, and recounted with utter sincerity his affinity for getting to know local Savannahians, specifically at such locations as barber shops. He said it’s been important for him to form relationships with the city and its people outside SCAD, the squares and costumed tour guides.

His photographs, then, were decidedly informal when contrasted with Cassner’s well-planned and well-composed images. Yet his portraits told the stories of born and raised Savannahians, and his sitters’ countenances and eased postures illustrated their acceptance of Sanders and his lens into their environments.

Hung on opposite walls, Cassner’s “Low Country Studs” and Sanders’s “Southern Comfort” portraits spoke to each other, but their dialog nonetheless framed a tension between the staged studs, presumably Savannah transplants, and the local men, women and urban spaces Sanders sought to register as they are.

While photographs are typically dependent upon titles or captions, “Home Sweet Home” included no labels or artist statements. The absence of supplemental texts allowed the images to impart a neutral tone, engaging viewers in the labor of constructing a likeness of Savannah out of the images and impressions the artists offered.

“Home Sweet Home” thus successfully blended photographic techniques, subject matter and individual interpretations of Savannah to express just how multifaceted and idiosyncratic the Hostess City is. cs

First Friday Art Marchers crowd Non-Fiction Gallery at the “Home Sweet Home” reception.

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Show by Lauren Flotte & Jahmad Balugo about Southern spirituality opens at Gallery S.P.A.C.E. with reception Friday; above is Flotte’s ‘In the Spiritual Realm’

Exhibits Act/Natural: Photography — Photos from Telfair’s

permanent collection.

Many new acquisitions are on exhibit for the first time. May 10-Aug. 4 Jepson Center, 207 W York St.

Syntax — Features Lomaho Colton Kretzmann, Justin Lee Harris, Shelby Suzanne Corbett, Carolyn Hepler-Smith, Casey Danielle Caulley, Sunyong Kali Moon.

The Porch, 17 E. 31st St. Opening reception Friday May 10 5–10 pm. Also open Saturday May 11, 12–5pm.

Who Is My Neighbor?

Justice in the City — The

Beach Institute, in conjunction with the Hurn Museum, present a panorama of mixed media artworks. The theme is that we are custodian for our fellow man, no matter how distant or from what walk of life.

May 1-August 31, Beach Institute, 502 East Harris St. Tues – Sat 12 – 5 p.m.

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cal photography group holds it first Art Show for the community. Free Fri., May 10, 6 & 8 p.m.

Desotorow Gallery Inc, 2427 Desoto Ave.

Annual Show & Sale of the Fiber Guild of the Savannahs — Recent

fiber artwork created by members of the Fiber Guild of the Savannahs at Blick Art Materials, 318 E Broughton St, Savannah, GA. M-F 8-8, weekends 11-6.

Arsenal — A contemporary installation of hundreds of hand-made paper “guns” suspended from the ceiling. Created

by Sarah Frost in 2010 for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

Through Sep. 22 Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. The Art of Seating: Two Hundred Years of American Design — Using 40 chairs

which span more than two centuries of design and manufacture, this exhibition from homes, workplaces and public settings captures a slice of Americana that parallels the arc of United States history. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St.

Tangible Spirits — Recent

works by Will Ursprung and Jerome Meadows.

Runs through May 19.

Indigo Sky Community Gallery, 915 Waters Ave.

Candice Breitz: Queen (A Portrait of Madonna) —

Video artist Brietz’s multichannel video installa-

tion, featuring avid Italian Madonna fans performing their way through Madonna’s “Immaculate Collection” album. March 5 - July 14. Through July 14 SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Nostalgia: Paintings by Oksana Gruszka Harmouche — Includes oil paint-

ings and watercolors of Savannah scenes that focus on the beauty and harmony of man, nature, and buildings. Reception May 24, 6-9pm. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St.

Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists by Jerry Siegel — Jerry

Siegel’s black-and-white and color portraits of Benny Andrews, Radcliffe Bailey, William Christenberry, Lamar Dodd, Ida Kohlmeyer, Charlie Lucas, Charles Shannon, Kathryn Windham and others. Jepson Center, 207 West York St. Heaven’s Gate: Exhibition by Odili Donald Odita — Odita’s installation

celebrates color and light within the museum through site-specific wall paintings. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Illustrations by W. Gerome Temple and Etchings by Gwendolyn Blackwell DiCroce — Hand colored

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furniture is a recurring object in Atlanta artist Jessica Scott-Felder’s drawings,found object sculptures, installations and performances.

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up. June 24-28: Portrait Drawing and Painting, half-day session working from a live model. Beginners welcome. $175 per workshop includes all materials and models fees. Through June 23.

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Almost Home: Paintings — A solo exhibition by J.

Wait Weight Don’t Tell Me — Mary Hartman’s draw-

Free Family Day: Inside a Portrait — Hands on art

Michelle Connors; her paintings are a voyage into an astral projection.

Through May 31 Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton 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. Through May 31 Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St.

Into the Fold: An Exploration Southern Spirituality —

The photographic works of Lauren Flotte and Jahmad Balugo, showcasing religious influence and spirituality. Reception is Friday, May 10, 5pm - 7pm. S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry St.

Rosemarie Fiore: Firework Drawings — A selection

of large-scale works on paper created using live fireworks and their pigments. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Silver From the Rizza Collection — Recently do-

nated collection of 18thto-20th century American and English silver from Dr. Frank Rizza and family. Jepson Center, 207 W York St. Sitting in Savannah: Telfair Chairs and Sofas — High-

lights Telfair Museums’ significant collection of chairs and sofas as functional objects and sculptural forms. Originally from the collections of 19th-century Savannahians and other collectors.

Also at the Owens-Thomas House, 124 Abercorn St. Museum admission Telfair Academy, 121 Barnard St.

The High Chairs: An Installation by Jessica Scott-Felder — Antique

ings on panel and paper in charcoal, graphite, pastel and acrylic wash.

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

Call for Artists at ThincSpace — ThincSavannah,

Savannah’s premiere coworking space, inhabits more than 8,000 square feet of shared office and exhibition space.

Applicants work must not be religious, political, or graphic in nature.

Fee: $100/10 pieces for duration of exhibition, 5-15 pieces/artist.

Space rental provides for reception. Email for info. summer@thincsavannah. com. Thinc Savannah, 35 Barnard St. 3rd Floor.

Classes Children’s Summer Day Camps at the Telfair — Eight sessions of

one-week day camp for students, June 17 - Aug. 9 at the Jepson Center.

Each camp for a different age group, from Pre-K to high school. Photography, jewelry, technology, basic art skills. Call or see Telfair website for info, pricing and registration. Varies. Through Aug. 25. 912-790-8800. telfair. org. telfair.org/jepson/.

Through Aug. 25 Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

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dio School offers June art workshops: June 10-14: Youth Oil Painting Intensive, a one-week, daylong camp for the serious middle or high school student. June 17-21: Drawing the Figure, halfday session working from a live model. Beginners welcome. Ages 15 and

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Visions in Watercolors: May Painting Classes at Tybee — Taught by watercolor

artist, Brad D. Hook, owner of “Strokes” by Hook. Class dates: Wed. May 15, 11:00am-2:00pm Sun. May 19, 11:00am2:00pm Tues. May 28, 6:30-9:30pm. Email for registration, fees, supplies needed and other information. strokesbyhook@gmail.com.

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Workshop: The Great Chair — Sat. May 18,

10am-5pm. Tour The Art of Seating exhibition at Telfair Academy, then enter the Guenther Wood Group workshop, 409 E. York St., for a lesson on traditional joinery in historic wooden chair and chest construction, and participate in constructing a small stool. Tour leader: Tania Sammons.

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Designer showcase & Trunk Show hit Belk Bet ya didn’t know Belk’s tagline is “Modern Southern Style.” Well, maybe you did.

They’ve been living up to that moniker with their Southern Designer’s Showcase, an annual regional competition of up-and-coming designers.

“We were going to just have one winner, but we had so many great entries we couldn’t choose,” explains Jennifer Stephenson, assistant manager of the local Belk at Oglethorpe Mall. “So we decided the top 15 would all be our winners.”

Two of the 15 are from Savannah: overall winner Faith Thornburg and Stone Morris.

The coterie of designers represent style from across the spectrum.

“There’s something from every family of business,” Stephenson says.

“Their work covers everything we offer in the entire store,” from handbags to jewelry to footwear to dresses.

Speaking of dresses: Top entrant Thornburg, a SCAD grad, is holding a Trunk Show this Saturday to show off her line of social occasion dresses and bridal gowns. She’s shown her work at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York City and Charleston Fashion Week.

Morris is also a dress designer, specializing in clothing for “the modern Southern woman,” which fits in nicely with the Belk ethos. Her newest work is inspired by a recent trip to Africa.

To see Thornburg’s work and that of the other designers, go to the Trunk Show and do take some time to walk around the store – you’ll see special displays featuring photos and products of the individual designers, all up through this month. cs Faith Thornburg’s Trunk Show is Sat. May 11, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. in the dress department on the lower level of Belk, Oglethorpe Mall.

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R.O.S.E. Public House owners Rex Osborn and Sue Else

Fine fare & cool blues light up Broughton’s east end

By Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

The marquee of the old Avon Theater has been neglected for so long, it’s a delightful surprise to see it light up Broughton Street, all its letters intact.

The theater next to the Marshall House has housed several restaurants in the past decade, none of which utilized the grand art deco sign with any real finesse. But now that the owners of R.O.S.E. Public House have taken over, Savannahians can expect careful attention to this historic spot, inside and out.

Though new to the Hostess City, Rex Osborn and Sue Else (their initials spell out R.O.S.E) understand that the way to our hearts is as much through aesthetics as it is our stomachs. The pair has shined up this once cluttered spot to reveal the building’s stone walls while repurposing old details like beveled glass and notched wood. The jazz paintings of A.J. Siedel overlook cozy banquettes, and the result is a romantic, unpretentious ambience.

Based on the concept of a traditional “gastropub,” R.O.S.E Public House offers upscale fare in a relaxed environment, a place to linger over a ribeye and a few cocktails without having to bother with high heels or a tie.

“It’s several notches up from pub food, but there’s nothing uptight here,” assures Osborn.

“We don’t care if you wear your flipflops,” laughs Else. “We want people to feel comfortable.”

Originally from Iowa, Osborn is

the veteran of several successful restaurants in the Midwest. Else is the former director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence in Washington, D.C. and has worked with multiple rape crisis and women’s organizations; she has appeared countless times as a resident expert on Dr. Phil. The couple scouted Savannah to escape D.C.’s hectic pace and realized there was a niche to fill in the downtown restaurant scene.

They found a willing partner in Executive Chef Michael Rafferty, a Chicago native who recently served under the world’s youngest Master Chef, Jason Koppinger, at a fourdiamond resort near Boise, Idaho.

Tired of “living out in the middle of nowhere,” Rafferty had been circling between Savannah and Charleston when Osborn snapped him up.

Together they’ve created an eclectic menu to please most any palate, equally balanced with standards and surprises: Standout starters are the Piggy Backs ($12), horseradish-stuffed shrimp wrapped in bacon served with sweet chili sauce, and the CrabStuffed Jalapenos ($8), a dazzle of flavors involving Panko-breaded peppers, goat cheese and local blue crabs.

Lunch offers a selection of mealsized salads and specialty sandwiches, and Osborn often brings in his Iowa

roots to the specials board with the stupendous-looking pork tenderloin, a golden-baked slab draping outside of a toasted bun.

“It’s a Midwest thing,” he says with a grin.

As for entrées, Rafferty puts an elegant twist on the Braised Short Ribs in red wine (with applewood smoked bacon and horseradish mashed potato, $22). The Asian-influenced Cedar Roasted Salmon ($21) — with hints of miso, ginger and sesame — comes with nutty purple sticky rice and a sizzling mushroom-asparagus mix straight from the wok.

Any gastropub worth its salt has to have a Shrimp and Grits dish, and Rafferty shows he’s right at home in the South with his perfectly-prepared yellow grits, smothered in local crustaceans steeped in white wine and tomato butter ($18.) He shows vegetarians equal love with the colorful Vegetable Napolean, a rainbow of roasted Portobello, red pepper, grilled eggplant and zucchini and fontina cheese ($18), and the popular Mushroom Torta ($18), served with a brandy cream sauce worth that reportedly has had even nonvegheads licking the plate.

Dessert includes cheesecake from Lulu’s Chocolate Bar as well as a R.O.S.E. original, the Pretzel-Bottomed Brownie, as sweet and salty as it is sinful. The bar menu is a nod to old school cocktails like Pink Squirrels, Sidecars and the requisite Dirty Martini, though the adventurous will appreciate new takes on tradition, like

the Ghost Julep.

Both big fans of live music (look for the Rolling Stones tongue hidden in the R.O.S.E. logo), Osborn and Else have styled R.O.S.E. as a place to eat, drink and tap your toes. The aforementioned marquee lauds live music on the weekends, a mellow jazz combo or some kickin’ blues, and a Saturday afternoon jam session is in the works.

There are plans to convert the longshuttered upstairs area into a banquet room and Osborn describes a glorious vision to turn the balcony above the marquee into private party space (destined to be one of the most coveted spots in town come St. Patrick’s Day.) But mostly when they talk about their plans for R.O.S.E., Osborn and Else talk about community. Already members of most every business and downtown civic organization, the couple see themselves and their restaurant as part of Savannah, one haven among many along the downtown corridor.

“It’s important to us be involved, to help others,” says Else, who doesn’t discount going back into the local non-profit sector should the opportunity arise.

“We’re striving to be a local destination, a place for the neighborhood as much as for tourists,” adds Osborn.

“We want people to feel like family.” cs R.O.S.E. Public House, 125 E. Broughton St., 912-200-4258

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Jon Favreau, who helmed the first two pictures, has vacated the director’s chair, with Shane Black now occupying the seat (Favreau remains attached to the project as an executive producer and in the supporting role of Happy Hogan). Black is best known as the veteran screenwriter of the original Lethal Weapon and made his own directorial debut with 2005’s grandly entertaining Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, but despite the swap, there’s no discernible difference in his approach and Favreau’s: Like Iron Man 2, the movie is generally engaging, occasionally dull, frequently cluttered, and recommended with only the greatest of reservations. And with The Avengers still fresh in everyone’s minds, this tin-man outing might seem even more tinny to many prospective viewers.

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Drew Pearce, the picture nicely ties into the plot of The Avengers by presenting Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) as a man who’s been humbled (or as humbled as someone like Stark can be) by his close encounters with otherworldly gods as well as that frightening free fall from the heavens. These events have caused him to experience frequent anxiety attacks, although it will take much more than that for him to shirk his duties as Iron Man: When a madman named the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) arrives on the scene and starts destroying American property and endangering American lives (Happy, Stark’s erstwhile bodyguard, is one of the potential victims), Stark not only promises to kill the foreign assailant but even provides his own home address over the airwaves to facilitate their continues on p. 38

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But the Mandarin isn’t the only heavy on the scene. There’s also Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), a former nerd whose cruel treatment by Stark back on New Year’s Eve 1999 fuels his increasingly prominent role in the narrative. Now a wealthy scientist and entrepreneur, he has created a way for his minions to serve as living weapons of mass destruction.

A fellow scientist named Maya Hansen (Rebecca Hall) also shares Killian’s theories about bodily regeneration (if not his dastardly machinations), as she likewise views the work as the next step in human evolution.

Maya is one of Stark’s former onenight stands, a fact that has the potential to cause a greater rift between Stark and girlfriend Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow). In addition to his primary suit and the red-whiteand-blue one he created for his friend James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) to wear as the military-sanctioned Iron Patriot, Stark has also built an entire line of Iron Man suits with the ability to be operated remotely.

As Stark, Downey still delivers the one-liners with gusto (“I loved you in A Christmas Story,” he tells one bespectacled kid), but his chemistry with Paltrow, strong in Part 1 and meh in Part 2, continues its downward slide.

There’s potential in his relationship with Hall, but her role is both inconsistent and drastically underwritten.

Indeed, Downey’s best moments are with his male co-stars: The easy rapport between Stark and Cheadle’s Rhodes harkens back to Lethal Weapon’s Murtaugh-Riggs banter, while Stark’s scenes opposite a helpful young boy in Tennessee (the talented Ty Simpkins,. so good in Insidious) provide the picture with most of its heart and humor, as Stark can’t help but insult this fatherless lad even as he accepts his much-needed assistance.

Pearce does what he can with a threadbare villainous role, while Kingsley emerges as an MVP: His work as the Mandarin is exemplary, but not for the reasons one would expect.

Considering The Avengers kicked off the cinematic summer of 2012 in high-flying fashion, there’s a palpable sense of letdown with Iron Man 3 serving as this new season’s opening salvo. Still, the film does enough right to keep the customers satisfied.

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Michael Bay is, of course, the schlockmeister behind such works as Armageddon and the Transformers trio, so one can only assume he approached this decidedly less giggly material with visions of sugarplummed Oscars dancing in his head.

And why not? Movies about lowlife crooks shooting themselves in the foot (literally or figuratively) have enjoyed award runs in the past.

The factual tale being related here, made famous by a series of articles Pete Collins wrote for the Miami New Times, is solid gold. Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) is a Miami bodybuilder who loves his body but not his lot in life, which entails a low-paying job working in a gym. After attending a seminar presented by motivational speaker Johnny Wu, Daniel decides that there’s no reason he can’t enjoy the American Dream himself ... by stealing it from someone else.

Enlisting the aid of two other hunky lunks - Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson), an ex-con and ex-cokehead who has found Jesus, and Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie), a steroidabusing weightlifter whose habits have left him with penile dysfunction - Daniel sets his sights on gym patron Victor Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub), a sandwich-shop owner who worked his way up to riches and now treats everyone else with contempt. The plan is to kidnap Victor and torture him until he signs away all his assets his funds, his house, his boat.

But when it comes to doing anything right, Daniel, Paul and Adrian are even less adept than Moe, Larry and Curly, and the saga soon involves botched snatches, more hostages, an endless supply of dildos, severed hands roasting on an open grill and, sure enough, a murder or two.

Besides a head-spinning story, what Pain & Gain most has going for it is a superb cast. As a none-too-bright guy who tries to better himself in all the wrong ways, Wahlberg has rarely been better. I’ve been touting the talents of Johnson even back when he was still billing himself as The Rock (and most recently in February’s Snitch), and he’s very good here, ably filling out the character who goes through the most changes during the course of the story.

But salient ingredients largely count for naught with the Pearl

Harbor director at the helm. Not able to get out of the way of a promising movie, Bay smothers the project in the sort of juvenile hijinks we had hoped he would skip this time around: homophobia, misogyny, scatological humor and other ingredients sure to make a 13-year-old boy titter.

It’s not that sordidness should be absent from a sordid tale, but Bay loves to wallow in it. Bay’s immature streak goes even deeper than homo and bitch jokes: Rather than the attentive yet dispassionate stance that shrewd filmmakers employ when they don’t want to condemn their immoral characters outright, there’s a sense that he’s actually cheering these thugs on.

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There’s a musty smell surrounding The Company You Keep, directorstar Robert Redford’s drama about a smalltime lawyer who’s forced to go on the lam after he’s outed as a murderous 1970s radical.

It includes many scenes set at a newspaper office where editors bark at staff members in the trusty Perry White-Jimmy Olsen manner and where reporters tend to do most of their research on microfilm machines, only remembering every once in a while that there are computers parked on their desks.

Redford stars as Jim Grant, a widower raising his daughter while doing plenty of pro bono work. The arrest of a housewife (Susan Sarandon) who turns out to be a former member of the Weather Underground’s more radical branch - a reactionary involved with a bank heist that left a guard dead - prompts smug young reporter Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf) to aggressively pursue the story, and he eventually discovers that Jim Grant is actually Nick Sloan, who’s been wanted all this time for his participation in the bank job. Jim/Nick is forced to go on the run, but is he trying to merely escape capture or is he seeking evidence that will clear his name?

Redford has created a perfectly respectable film that’s fairly intelligent until it elects to insult our intelligence with an obvious and lazy denouement that would have been predictable even 40 years ago. Rather than the story, the source of strength in this picture comes from its amazing

cast, almost equal to any ever seen in a Woody Allen flick or one of those all-star idiocies from the ‘70s. In addition to Redford and Sarandon (and, oh yeah, little LaBeouf), the film also features Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Stanley Tucci, Brendan Gleeson, Anna Kendrick, Chris Cooper and a half-dozen other performers of recognizable name value.

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Set in writer-director Jeff Nichols’ home state of Arkansas, the picture follows teenage boys Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland) as they make an unusual discovery in some woodland located on a small island off the Mississippi River: a boat stuck up in a tree. No sooner have the lads claimed it as their own than they discover it’s already being used for shelter by an unkempt man who identifies himself as Mud (Matthew McConaughey). Insisting he can’t leave the area because he’s scheduled a rendezvous there with his one true love (Reese Witherspoon), Mud implores Ellis and Neckbone to help him by bringing him some food.

The boys comply, but with each subsequent visit they become more involved with Mud’s plight and soon learn that everything is not what it seems.

With keen instinct, Nichols offers a look at the hardscrabble lives of folks eking out an existence in difficult circumstances — a definite step up from the protagonists of Winter’s Bone and Beasts of the Southern Wild, but a trying experience nonetheless.

Sheridan and Lofland are perfectly cast as the inquisitive Ellis and the no-nonsense Neckbone, and there’s a sharp supporting turn by Sam Shepard as a neighbor who knows Mud better than anyone.

If Nichols’ script isn’t quite as memorable as the one he crafted for the edgy Get Shelter — McConaughey’s title character could use more fleshing out, and the ending is a bit limp — his choices as director are first-rate throughout, not only in tapping both the inherent humor and suspense in the tale but also for keeping a leash on his leading actor’s tendency to solely rely on his aw-shucks mannerisms.

The character of Mud can be as messy as his name, but McConaughey cleanly punches him across. CS

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Activism & Politics 13th Colony Patriots

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

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

An informal, left-leaning gathering to discuss politics, the economy, sports, entertainment, or anything else that comes up. Every first and third Thursday. Free ongoing, 7:30 p.m.

See website or the Drinking Liberally facebook page for more information.

Free ongoing, 7:30 p.m. livingliberally. org/drinking/chapters/GA/savannah. tacoabajo.com. ongoing, 7:30 p.m Taco Abajo, 217 1/2 West Broughton St. 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 ongoing, 5:30 p.m.

912-598-7358. bdburgers.net. ongoing, 5:30 p.m B & D Burgers (Southside), 11108 Abercorn St. Victorian Neighborhood Association Meetings

Open to all residents, property owners and businesses located between Anderson and Gwinnett, M.L.King,Jr. Blvd to East Broad Street. Free second Tuesday of every month, 6-7 p.m.

912-233-0352. alpost135.com/. second Tuesday of every month, 6-7 p.m American Legion, Post 135, 1108 Bull 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 200 Club presents Savannah Mile Run

Sat. May 25, 8am. Seventh annual run starts at Drayton and Park Ave., running one mile north on Drayton to

finish on Broughton St. All ages and running levels. Five heats include a fun run plus five-year age groups. Benefiting the 200 Club. $15 through April 30, $20 through May 23, $25 May 24 and 25 Through May 26. 912-238-1200. rlaurie@princebush.com. twohundredclub. org. Through May 26 Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St.

Forsyth Farmers Market Seeks Sponsors

Saturday, May 11, 4-7pm. BBQ contest for amateur teams, corn hole tournament with cash prizes, live music by The Accomplices and City Hotel Band, line dancing, a $1,000 raffle drawing, and kid-friendly activities. $200 prizes will be awarded for the Best Chicken BBQ, Best Beef BBQ and Best Pork BBQ. Bring a lawn chair and appetite.

BBQ Team Registration Fee: $35. $20 adults, $10 age 12-18, Free under 12.

Through May 12. 912-354-4047. roycelearningcenter.com/. Through May 12 Royce Learning Center, 4 Oglethorpe Professional Blvd.

Friends and Family 5K for Africa

Bringin’ It Back Home BBQ and Cookoff Benefiting Royce Learning Center

Containers for Cancer

Bring all those unused, “must be good for something” flower vases to John Davis Florist for the Containers for Cancer program. Davis will donate $1 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure for every empty container or vase dropped off through Mother’s Day, May 12. And, for every Mother’s Day flower order received, a $5 donation will be made on behalf of the Containers for Cancer program. Through May 12. 912-2336077. johndavisflorist.com. Through May 12 John Davis Florist, 2430 Abercorn St. Covered Dish Supper and Celebration

Chatham Savannah Citizen Advocacy’s annual gathering. Bring a dish to share or $5 cover. Thu., May 9, 5:30-8:30 p.m. savannahcitizenadvocacy.org. Thu., May 9, 5:30-8:30 p.m Savannah Station, 601 Cohen St. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. May Week Celebration

Transforming Communities through Sisterhood and Service: A week of community activities sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Savannah Alumnae Chapter. Kick-off Sunday, May 5, 4pm, at Savannah State University Student Center Ballroom, presenting the annual Academic and Community Service Scholarships and Torchbearer Awards. May 6-10, daily service projects at America’s Second Harvest Food Bank of Coastal Georgia, J. C. Lewis Respite Care Unit, Notre Dame Academy, the Red Cross, and Old Savannah City Mission. Through May 11.

912-232-6048. savstate.edu/. Through May 11 Savannah State University, 3219 College St.

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., South End of Forysth Park.

A 5K race raise funds for a group from First Baptist Church of Rincon traveling to Sanyati, Zimbabwe to help with an ongoing rebuild of The Sanyati Baptist Hospital. Plus a kids one mile race. Sat. May 11, 8am. $30 advance. $35 on-site.

Reduced prices for children under 10 and for Kids Fun Run. Through May 11, 8 a.m. 912-547-1067. monaunder@aol. com. active.com. Through May 11, 8 a.m First Baptist Church of Rincon, 201 East Sixth Street.

Hospice Savannah Golf Tournament

Fundraising tournament on Mon. 5/13 features lunch at noon and shotgun start at 1:30pm. Seeking sponsorships.

Register online as a single player or a foursome. $150/golfer Through May 13.

912-231-6809. Katherine.blair@wellsfargo.com. Through May 13 Landings Club, 71 Green Island Road.

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 Lowcountry Down Syndrome Society’s Night of Champions

Thurs. May 9, 6pm. Celebrates contributions made by differently-abled adults who are employed, contributing members of our community. Local businesses that both hire people with intellectual disabilities and encourage other area businesses to do the same will also be recognized.Awards ceremony, silent auction, dinner and cash bar. Business attire. $25 Through May 10. ldssga.org. westinsavannah. com/. Through May 10 Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, 1 Resort Drive.

OH LIP ICS Sports Fashion Show & Lipstick Auction

The Rotary Club of Savannah East invites you to its 4th annual event for literacy. Ticket prices include beer, wine, tasty food and lucious desserts!

This one-of-a-kind evening includes models imaginatively dressed as sports figures and the opportunity to bid on amazing lipsticks. Proceeds benefit the

GED program at Savannah Tech and Royce Adult Learning Center. Come and join the fun!! Tickets: $25 at the door Sat., May 11, 6 p.m. shipsofthesea. org. Sat., May 11, 6 p.m Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.

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 Stamp out Hunger! Food Drive

National Association of Letter Carriers’ food drive. Local beneficiary is America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia. Place a bag of non-perishable food donations beside your mailbox before your letter carrier arrives to collect it while delivering mail. Join staff and volunteers at America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia from 5-8 pm to receive and sort the food that is collected during this drive. Sat., May 11.

912-236-6750. helpendhunger.org. Sat., May 11 America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia, 2501 E. President St. Wiffle Ball for Pink Heals

Firefighters, police officers and local companies square off in a wiffle ball tournament and festival raising funds for Pink Heals, a charity for breast cancer victims and children with cancer.

Sponsored by Big Red, Incorporated.

Call for pricing info. Sat., May 11, 11:30 a.m. 912-748-0970. bloomingdale-ga. com. Sat., May 11, 11:30 a.m Taylor Park, 1824 Pine Barren Road.

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 ,.

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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 City Seeks Proposals for 2014 Cultural Services

City of Savannah seeks proposals for 2014 programs in Cultural Programs and Cultural Tourism. Applicants must be a 501-c-3 nonprofit. Programs must occur in 2014. Applications, guidelines and information online or by contacting Crystal Northcutt by email or telephone. Application deadline: July 12, 2013 at 6pm. first time application workshops are May 16, May 23, June 4, and May 22. Attendance required for first timers. Call for details and times..

Through July 12. 912-644-7927. cnorthcutt@savannahga.gov. savannahga.gov/ arts. first time application workshops are May 16, May 23, June 4, and May 22. Attendance required for first timers.

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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.

Beading Classses at Bead Dreamer Studio

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 Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Book study:Marianne Williamson’s A Return to Love

A five-week book study and discussion led by Lydia Stone, Certified Life Coach. $45 registration plus weekly love offering Mondays, 6-7:30 p.m.. 912-6566383. rosesonthemove@gmail.com.

Mondays, 6-7:30 p.m.

Homeschool Music Classes

Champions Training Center

Savannah Asian Festival Seeks Vendors

Classical and Acoustic Guitar Instruction

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

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.

Vendors sought for the Savannah Asian Festival, occurring at the Savannah Civic Center, Sat. June 22, a free event organized by the City of Savannah.

Chatham County Health Department rules apply for food vendors. Call or see website for vendor rental fees and application forms. Through May 31.

912-651-6417. eseals@savannahga.gov. savannahga.gov/arts. Through May 31

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.

Telfair Teen Council now accepting Applications for Membership

Telfair’s Teen Council will help the museum create products and programs for teens. Council will include between 10-20 teenagers who want to engage with art in their community. Participation in the Teen Council is free. Application process is free and open to the public. Call for Applications, required activities, benefits of participating and criteria for selection. Through May 31.

912-790-8800. telfair.org/learn/getinvolved/teens/. Through May 31

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.

Comprehensive SAT Preparation Classes

Three comprehensive SAT prep courses. Essay Writing for the SAT: Tuesdays, April 9-30, 6-8pm. $125 Critical Reading for the SAT: April 22-May 27, 6-8pm. $160 Math Prep for the SAT: Tuesdays, April 28-May 28, 6-8pm. $160 Fees

discounted for groups of three or more students, and for students who register for all three courses. Presented by the Division of Continuing Education of Georgia Southern University. Through May 22. 912-644-5967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/satprep.html. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. Through May 22 Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Continuing Ed. Courses through June 2013

Georgia Southern’s Continuing Education Program in Savannah offers new courses through June: Social Media for Small Business; Facebook for Beginners; five Microsoft Office Courses (Word 1 & 2, Excel 1 & 2, and PowerPoint); Beginning and Advanced Project Management; Drawing 2; Short Story Writing; Beginning Sign Language; five Photography courses (Point & Shoot, Beginning and Advanced Creative Photography, Portrait Photography, Advanced Photoshop); and Essay Writing for SAT. See website for dates/times/ fees. Through June 30. 912-644-5967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. ceps. georgiasouthern.edu/conted/cesavannahmenu.html. cgc.georgiasouthern. edu/. Through June 30 Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

DUI Prevention Group

Offers victim impact panels for intoxicated drivers, DUI, offenders, and anyone seeking knowledge about the

dangers of driving while impaired.

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

English as Second Language Classes

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

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 912354-6686. mediationsavannah.com.

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

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

912-921-4646. ongoing First session: Youth Getting Reel

Designed for ages 8-15, a week long intensive designed for Young Actors.

June 3rd-7th,6pm-9pm. We will shoot the short film June 8th-9th AUDITIONS: May 6 (4-8pm) & 7 (2-5pm.) Email for your appointment time and location. Offered by First City Films. $350 Through June 10. Angelique@FirstCityFilms. com. FirstCityFilms.com. Through June 10 Free Fitness Boot Camp

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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 Guitar, Mandolin, or Bass Guitar Lessons

Emphasis on theory, reading music, and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. ongoing. 912-232-5987. ongoing Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource Center

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. 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. 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.

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

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Photography Classes

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

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Piano Voice-Coaching

Pianist with M/degree,classical modern jazz improvisation, no age limit. Call 912-961-7021 or 912-667-1056. Serious inquiries only. ongoing. ongoing 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 912-12-660-7399.

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 Savannah Authors Autonomous

Savannah Authors Autonomous is a group of writers, published and unpublished, who encourage first-class prose, both fiction and non-fiction. We use discussion, constructive criticism, examples, and exercises. We meet every second and fourth Tuesday of each month, at 7:00 pm. The group was founded by Christopher Scott and Alice Vantrease. Beginners are welcome. If you are interested in writing, please join us. Free Tue., May 14, 7 p.m. (912) 308-3208. Tue., May 14, 7 p.m Private Residence, 630 East Victory Drive.

Savvy Small Business Seminar Series:Income Statement vs. Cash Flow Statement - what and why the difference?

An installment in the bi-monthly lecture series co sponsored by the Small Business Development Center and Hancock Askew. Presented by Hancock Askew partner Neville Stein Thu., May 9, 12-1 p.m. 912-527-1337. bfierstein@hancockaskew.com. Thu., May 9, 12-1 p.m Hancock Askew, 100 Riverview Drive.

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 5:30-8:30pm. Institute of Cinematic Arts, 12 1/2 W. State St., 3rd floor. ongoing. 786-247-9923. anitraoperadiva.com. ongoing Spanish Classes

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45 Author referenced in “The Following” 46 Brit. reference that added “uplink” in 2013 47 Mining find 48 Nuremberg number 50 Eagle’s nest 55 Big trouble 61 Vulcan mind ___ 64 Old pantyhose brand with a famous Joe Namath ad 65 Berry variety 66 Pocahontas’ husband John ___ 67 Oaxaca water 68 What the four circled answers “crack” 69 Outdo 70 Bestselling 16-bit console, briefly

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4 Manhattan restaurateur Vincent 5 Rank on a cereal box 6 Wide-eyed 7 Bad substance for a 22-across 8 Mideastern ruler 9 South Asian 10 It’s rated with alarms 11 Pet name 12 Charter ___ (tree on Connecticut’s state quarter) 13 Acne-fighting brand 18 Fixed a squeak 21 Bohemian 24 Word used with defibrillators 25 He wrote “Endymion” and “Hyperion” 27 Grammarian’s concern 28 Overzealous 29 Nostalgia-evoking 30 Take the helm 32 Suffix after Rock or Raisin 33 Provide freebies 34 Tinseltown, in old headlines 35 “Did ___ tell you about the time...”

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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.

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 Youth Getting Reel: From Class to Film

A first of its kind... Class with a final produc. June 17-22. Designed for ages 7-15. A week long intensive designed for Young Actors. Students must audition into the class. Auditions will be in late April. Tentative dates for class are in June. See website for info and audition dates. Offered by First City Films.

Price To Be Determined. Through June 22. firstcityfilms.com. Through June 22

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;

| Submit your event online at connectsavannah.com 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.

liveoakstore.com/tubbysthunderbolt. second Monday of every month, 6 p.m Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. Historic Flight Savannah

Business Networking on the Islands

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

Chatham Sailing Club

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

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 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 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. Drop N Circle Craft Night

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

All levels of experience welcome. Call for info. ongoing. 912-233-1240. ongoing 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 Fiber Guild of the Savannahs

Open to all who are interested in the fiber arts: weaving, spinning, basket making, knitting, crocheting, quilting, beading, rug hooking, doll making, etc. Meets at Oatland Island Wildlife Center the first Saturday of the month September through June 10:15am. See our website for programs and events: http://fiberguildsavannah.homestead. com/ Mondays, 10:30 a.m. Mondays, 10:30 a.m Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown Road GA. 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 Geechee Sailing Club

Founded in 1971, GSC promotes sailing and boating safety, education, and fellowship.Member of the South Atlantic Yacht Racing Association. second Monday of every month, 6 p.m.

912-356-3265. geecheesailingclub.org.

Historic Savannah Chapter: ABWA

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 Mercer Blvd.

Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet

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

912-308-6768. ongoing 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.

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 R.U.F.F. - Retirees United for the Future

RUFF meets the last Friday of each month at 10am to protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and related senior issues. Parking in the rear. Free to all Seniors ongoing. 912-344-5127. ongoing New Covenant Church, 2201 Bull St. 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 Vantrease via email or phone. ongoing.

912-308-3208. alicevantrease@live. com. ongoing Savannah Charlesfunders Investment Discussion Group

Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary

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.

Peacock Guild--For Writers and Book

A dinner meeting the 4th Tuesday of the month at 6:00pm (except December.) Location: Hunter Club. Call John

Low Country Turners

A club for wood-turning enthusiasts.

Call Steve Cook for info at number below. ongoing. 912-313-2230. ongoing Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1:00pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-7864508. ongoing American Legion Post 184, 1 Legion Dr.

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

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 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 Jaycees

traditions. Call or email. ongoing. 912655-0994. savannahsacredharp.com. ongoing Faith Primitive Baptist Church, 3212 Bee Road.

Savannah SCA

The local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism meets every Saturday at Forsyth Park for fighter practice and general hanging out. If you’re interested in re-creating the Middle Ages and Renaissance, come join us! South end of Forsyth Park, just past the Farmer’s Market. Free. www. savannahsca.org Free ongoing, 11 a.m. savannahsca.org. ongoing, 11 a.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club

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

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

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. logansroadhouse.com/. ongoing Logan’s Roadhouse, 11301 Abercorn St.

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 A gathering of writers of all levels for networking, hearing published guest speaker authors, and writing critique in a friendly, supportive environment. Meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 7:00 PM at

Have a great love of the dead drop, tradecraft and signals? Then this is the book club for you! We meet every 2nd Thurs of the month @6:30 pm, 2nd floor, Southwest Chatham Lib. This months read: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Savannah Newcomers Club

Savannah Writers Group

Open to women who have lived in the Savannah area for less than two years. Membership includes monthly luncheon and program. Activities, tours and events to help learn about Savannah and make new friends. ongoing. savannahnewcomersclub.com. ongoing

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. U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla

Join the volunteer organization that assists the U.S. Coast Guard. Meets 4th Wednesday at 6pm at Barnes, 5320 Waters Ave. All ages welcome.

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

Seersucker Live’s Happy Hour for Writers

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

Savannah Toastmasters

None second Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m. 912-925-8305. second Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St.

the Atlanta Bread Company in Twelve Oaks Shopping Center. Free and open to the public. second Tuesday of every month, 7 p.m. 912-572-6251. savannahwritersgroup.blogspot.com/group. atlantabread.com. second Tuesday of every month, 7 p.m Atlanta Bread Company, 5500 Abercorn St. A gathering of writers of all levels for networking, hearing published guest authors, and writing critique in a friendly, supportive environment. 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7:00pm, Atlanta Bread Company, Twelve Oaks Shopping Center, 5500 Abercorn. Free and open to the public.

See website or call for info. ongoing.

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

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

Spies and Mysteries Book Club

Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation

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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

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ARIES

(March 21-April 19) The Tarahumara Indians of northwestern Mexico are renowned for their ability to run long distances.

The best runners can cover 200 miles in two days. The paths they travel are not paved or smooth, either, but rather the rough canyon trails that stretch between their settlements. Let’s make them your inspirational role models in the coming week, Aries. I’m hoping that you will be as tough and tenacious as they are -- that you will pace yourself for the long haul, calling on your instinctual strength to guide you.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20) You may have only a dim idea about how your smart phone and computer work, but that doesn’t prevent you from using their many wonderful features. While you’re swimming, you know almost nothing about the physiological processes that are active inside you, and yet you have no problem making all the necessary movements.

In that spirit, I’m not worried about whether or not you will grasp the deep inner meaning of events that will be unfolding in the coming week. Complete understanding isn’t absolutely necessary. All you need to do is trust your intuition to lead you in the direction of what’s interesting and educational.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20) “I need not sell my soul to buy bliss,” says a character in Charlotte Bronte’s 19th-century novel *Jane Eye.* “I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.” This would be a great speech for you to memorize and periodically recite in the next two weeks. Do it in front of your mirror at least once a day to remind yourself of how amazingly resourceful you are. It will also help you resist the temptation to seek gifts from people who can’t or won’t give them to you.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22) What is the big adventure you’ve been postponing forever because it hasn’t been convenient? How about an intriguing possibility you have always wanted to experiment with but have consistently denied

yourself? Or what about that nagging mystery you’ve been wishing you had the time and energy to solve? Wouldn’t your life change for the better if you finally dived in and explored it? In the next two weeks, Cancerian, I urge you to consider giving yourself permission to pursue something that fits one of those descriptions.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22) Right now, Leo, you are a majestic and mysterious mess of raw power. You are a fresh, flaming fountain of pure charisma.

Irresistible! That’s you! Unstoppable! You! Impossible to fool and immune to the false charms of heartfelt mediocrity! You! You! You! In your current condition, no one can obstruct you from seeing the naked truth about the big picture.

And that’s why I am so sure that victory will soon be yours. You will overcome the fuzziness of your allies, the bad vibes of your adversaries, and your own inertia.

Not all conquests are important and meaningful, but you will soon achieve the one that is.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22) A character in Herman Hesse’s novel *Demian* says the following: “I live in my dreams. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own.” Whose dreams do you live in, Virgo? What is the source of the fantasies that dominate your imagination? Are they the authentic outpourings of your own soul? Or did they originate with your parents and teachers and lovers? Did they sneak into you from the movies and songs and books you love? Are they the skewed result of the emotional wounds you endured or the limitations you’ve gotten used to? Now is an excellent time to take inventory.

Find out how close you are to living in your own dreams.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Charles Ives was a renowned American composer who lived from 1874 to 1954. Because his music was experimental and idiosyncratic, it took a long time for him to get the appreciation he deserved. When he was 73 years old, he won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for a symphony he had written when he was 30. I expect that in the near future you might be the beneficiary of a similar kind

of mojo, Libra. A good deed you did or a smart move you made in the past will finally get at least some of the recognition or response you’ve always wanted.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “There are no right answers to wrong questions,” says science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin.

And that’s why you must be so conscientious about coming up with the very best questions. Right, Scorpio? All your efforts to hunt down solutions will be for naught unless you frame your problems elegantly and accurately. Now here’s the very good news: Your skill at asking pertinent questions is at a peak. That’s why I suggest you make this Focused Inquiry Week. Crisply define three questions that will be important for you to address in the next seven months.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Charlie Parker was a great jazz musician. As a saxophonist and composer, he was an influential innovator. Unfortunately, he also had an expensive heroin addiction.

It interfered with his ability to achieve financial stability. There’s a famous story about him showing a bystander two veins on his arm as he prepared to shoot up. “This one’s my Cadillac,” he confessed.

“And this one’s my house.” I’m bringing this up, Sagittarius, in the hope that it will provide a healthy shock. Are you doing anything remotely like Charlie Parker?

Are you pouring time and energy and money into an inferior form of pleasure or a trivial distraction that is undermining your ability to accomplish higher goals? If so, fix that glitch, please.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good,” said iconic songwriter Woody Guthrie. “I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world.” Amen, brother Woody! I have the same approach to writing horoscopes. And I’m happy to advise you, Capricorn, that you should have a similar attitude

toward everything you put out and take in during the coming week.

Just for now, reject all words, ideas, and actions that demoralize and destroy. Treat yourself to a phase of relentless positivity.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “I know not what my past still has in store for me,” testified the Indian spiritual poet Tukaram.

I believe most of us can say the same thing, and here’s why: The events that happened to us once upon a time keep transforming as we ripen. They come to have different meanings in light of the ever-new experiences we have.

What seemed like a setback when it first occurred may eventually reveal itself to have been the seed of a blessing. A wish fulfilled at a certain point in our history might come back to haunt us later on.

I bring up these ideas, Aquarius, because I think you’re primed to reinterpret your own past.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20) According to legend, Jennifer Lopez’s butt is insured for $300 million. Bruce Springsteen has supposedly insured his voice for $31 million and wine expert Angela Mount is said to have insured her taste buds for $16 million. In that spirit, Pisces, I encourage you to consider insuring your imagination. To be clear, I don’t anticipate that you will have occasion to collect any settlement. Nothing bad will happen. But taking this step could be a fun ritual that might drive home to you just how important your imagination will be in the coming weeks. Your power to make pictures in your mind will either make you crazy with unfounded fantasies and fearful delusions, or else it will help you visualize in detail the precise nature of the situations you want to create for yourself in the future.

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 Belly Dance classes with Nicole Edge

Every Sunday, 1:15-2:15PM All ages and skill levels welcome. $15.00 per class or 4/$48.00 ongoing. 912-596-0889. edgebellydance@gmail.com. edgebellydance. com. ongoing Bellydance lessons with Happenstance Bellydance

All levels and styles of bellydance welcome. Classes are every Monday from 5:30-6:30pm. $15/lesson. Drop-ins welcome or call Carrie @(912)704-2940 for more info. happenstancebellydance@ gmail.com happenstancebellydance. wordpress.com $15/lesson ongoing, 5:30 p.m. (912) 704-2940. happenstancebellydance.wordpress.com. ongoing, 5:30 p.m Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. 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.

Dance for Peace

A weekly gathering to benefit locals in need. Music, dancing, fun for all ages. Donations of nonperishable food and gently used or new clothing are welcomed. Free and open to the public. Sundays, 3 p.m. 912-547-6449. xavris21@yahoo.com. Sundays, 3 p.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. 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

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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.

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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 Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St.

encouragement of good health, hosted

by Every Step Counts. Call for location and registration. Free and open to the public, especially cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers. Through May 26. 912-398-6554. Through May 26

Jivamkuti Inspired w/ Brittany Roberts Mondays 6:30pm – 7:45pm Soul Progression w/ Lynn Geddes Tuesdays/ Thursdays 12:30pm – 1:45pm & 6:30pm – 7:45pm TGiF! Power Hour with Lynne McSweeny Fridays 5:45pm – 6:45pm All Levels Yoga w/ Christine Harness Glover Saturdays 9:30am – 10:45am n/a first Monday, Tuesday, Thursday-Saturday of every month. 912-308-3410. first Monday, Tuesday, Thursday-Saturday of every month Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B.

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.

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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. Beach Body Workouts with Laura

MONDAYS at 6:15 PM at the Lake Mayer Community Center $5.00 per session Mondays, 6:15 p.m. (912) 6526784. Mondays, 6:15 p.m Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

Beastmode Fitness Group Training

Train with this elite team. A total body program that trims, tones and gets results. Personal training options available. See website for info. Meets at West Broad YMCA. 5am-6am and 8pm9pm. ongoing. beastmodefitnessga. com. ongoing YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. Bellydancing Fusion Classes

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. Every Step Counts Survivors Walk

Sat. May 25, 9am. A free monthly fitness walk for fellowship, support and

Fitness Classes at the JEA

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 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/. 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

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

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. cs

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NICE ROOM FOR RENT. NO DRUGS! 912-844-8716 ROOM FOR RENT: Safe Environment. Central heat/air, cable, telephone service. $450-$550 monthly, $125/security deposit, No lease.

Immediate occupancy. Call Mr. Brown:912-663-2574 or 912-234-9177. transportation 900

cars 910

CHEVROLET Venture, 1999One car owner. Great running condition. Last serviced in March 2013. $4,000. Call 912-306-9427

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Paint & Body Work. Reasonably Priced. Insurance Claims. We buy wrecks. Call 912-355-5932.

Boats & accessories 950

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

TV/cable/internet, washer/dryer, $140/week. $504/month.

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20FT. BOAT, 175 Johnson Evinrude. New water pumps. Aluminum Trailer. 40-gallon gas tank. $2,500 OBO. Call 912-236-0165 for more information

Furnished, affordable room available includes utility, refrigerator, central heat/air. $115-$140/weekly, no deposit.Call 912-844-3609 NEED A ROOM? STOP LOOKING! Great rooms available ranging from $115-$140/weekly. Includes refrigerators, central heat/air. No deposit.

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RV Coachman, 2011- 32ft.

BHDS travel trailer, 2 slides, A/C,heater,microwave,sleeps 8,near mint condition,master,FULL bath w/tub $22,000.

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

Speak directly to Community Managers, Gwen or Della, 912-964-7675

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