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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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What: Deadpan humor and absurdity are set loose on the hallowed British legend of King Arthur and his wayward knights. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin collaborated on the script.

When: 7 p.m Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: $8

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Baseball: Pack the Park Wednesday at the Sand Gnats

What: The Sand Gnats vs. Asheville Tourists, for a great cause. Wednesdays feature a different charity or non-profit organization each week.

When: 7:05 p.m Where: Grayson Stadium Cost: $7 general admission Info: sandgnats.com

Film Mystery Screening: Honoring the original Raiders of the Lost Ark What: Psychotronic Film Society salutes

the 32nd anniversary of the release of the original “Raiders” with a screening of a little-know, closely related film.

When: 8 p.m Where: Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Cost: $7 Info: SentientBean.com

Solar Town Hall

What: A town hall meeting on Georgia

Power’s 2013 Integrated Resource Plan, the company’s 20 year energy plan for Georgia. Official public comment time follows.

When: 6-8 p.m Where: Coastal GA Ctr, 305 Fahm Street.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 404-607-1262 Ext 233. Seth.gunning@sierraclub.org

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Thursday Baseball: Savannah Sand Gnats Budweiser Thirsty Thursday What: Connect Savannah sponsors

another Thursday with Half price Bud draft beer and soda. Tonight’s opponent: Greenville Drive.

When: 7:05 p.m Where: Grayson Stadium Cost: $7 Gen. Adm. Info: sandgnats.com

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Film: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Georgia Alternative Fueled Vehicle Roadshow

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Showcase & Seminar making a stop in Savannah during its three-week tour of the state.Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols,leads an eight city, statewide educational tour to introduce the public and private sector fleet and city managers, to the benefits of clean, domestic fuels that are replacing gasoline and diesel.

When: 9 a.m.-noon Where: Savannah Technical College, 5717 White Bluff Rd. Cost: Free. Registration required.

Info: 678-810-0929

Open Mic Comedy Night

What: The Bean’s monthly showcase for standup comedy.

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

Info: sentientbean.com

Pup Crawl

What: A pub crawl for the pups! (And the kitties.) Purchase $10 cups at Shrimp Factory or Jen’s and Friends, then follow the scavenger hunt map. Benefits Humane Society of Greater Savannah.

When: 5-9 p.m Cost: $10 Info: humanesocietysav.org

Speakeasy Cabaret Onstage

What: Jazz & Cabaret night on the storied stage of the Lucas Theatre, transformed into a 1920s lounge for the evening. Live music, open bar. Limited to 100 people.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: $20 at the door. $10 students.

Info: 912-525-5040

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Friday Night Feast and Film

Jonesing for the Knights Who Say “Ni”? Python, Grail, Lucas, 14th.

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Friday Baseball: Savannah Sand Gnats T-shirt Night

What: Free limited-edition Sand Gnats

T-shirt for the first 1000 fans. Gnats take on the Greenville Drive.

When: 7:05 p.m Where: Grayson Stadium Cost: $7 general admission Info: sandgnats.com

Falsettos

What: Bangers and Mash Theatre Works presents an “adult” musical about love, sex and a bar mitzvah. Directed by DJ Queenan with Musical Direction by Warren Heilman.

When: 8 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: Adults: $20/Students: $15 Info: 912-920-3594. info@bangersandmashtheatre.com. bangersandmashtheatre.com

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What: Join AHA & Occupy Savannah for a feast and film, a screening “Edible City - Grow the Revolution,” a documentary that shows how everyone can get involved in transforming our food system. Potluck starts at 6pm, movie to begin around 7:10ish.

Where: Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. Cost: FREE

Friday Puppet Shows at Puppet People

What: Fridays in June, a show by Angela Beasley’s Puppet People. Shows include Back Stage Pass Tour and a Puppet Craft. Call for reservations.

When: 11 a.m.

Where: Puppet People Studio, 3119 Furber Ave. Cost: $12 per child, $7 per adult. Group rates available.

Info: 912-355-3366. puppets@puppetpeople.com. PuppetPeople.com

Music: Crystalyn Snow

What: Piano concert featuring works by Bach, Brahms, Debussy and Chopin.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: Messiah Lutheran Church, 1 Westridge Road (The Landings).

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 912-598-1188. messiahsk.com

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What: Savannah Folk Music society

presents a concert by this harp-guitarist and nylon string guitarist.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. Cost: $15 Gen. Adm. $12 Folk Music Society members Info: 912-898-1876. savannahfolk.org

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A Year With Frog and Toad

What: A cast of adults and youth perform in this Tony-nominated Broadway musical which follows two great friends: the cheerful, popular Frog and the grumpy Toad.

When: 8 p.m.

Where: Savannah Children’s Theatre, 2160 East Victory Dr. Info: 912-238-9015. savannahchildrenstheatre.org

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Saturday Baseball: Savannah Sand Gnats Boy Scout Night Post-game Fireworks

What: Gnats v. Greenville Drive. Boy Scout troops contact Evan Christian at 912-351-9150 to sign up. Fireworks after the game.

When: 6:05 p.m Where: Grayson Stadium Cost: $7 Gen. Adm. Info: sandgnats.com

Blackwater Paddle on Ebenezer Creek

What: A naturalist guide explains the river swamp ecosystem at work with its resident turtles, herons, swallow tail kites, and maybe a gator.

When: 9 a.m.-1 p.m Cost: $50 includes canoe, paddling instruction and naturalist guide.

Reservations required.

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Book Release Party for Dan Kennedy

What: Dan Kennedy, a veteran of the Moth & the Unchained Tour, and a McSweeney’s contributor, releases his novel American Spirit.

When: 7 p.m Where: The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty St. Info: 912-233-3628. thebookladybookstore.com

Falsettos

What: Bangers and Mash Theatre Works presents an “adult” musical about love, sex and a bar mitzvah.

Directed by DJ Queenan with Musical Direction by Warren Heilman.

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

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Week at a glance | continued from page 5 Cost: Adults: $20/Students: $15 Info: 912-920-3594. info@bangersand-

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Film: Jaws

What: When a gigantic great white

shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.

When: 7 p.m Where: Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Cost: $8

Fishing, Food & Antique Autos at the Bamboo Farm/Coastal Gardens

What: Hosting the Antique Auto club of Savannah and the Dixieland Cruisers for an old-fashioned cruise-in. Plus lakeside catch and release fishing and lunch at the lakeside pavilion.

When: 10 a.m.-2 p.m Where: Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens, 2 Canebrake Rd. Cost: $10 per vehicle. Fee for lunch.

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Forsyth Farmers Market

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

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

Free Family Day: Juneteenth Celebration

What: Telfair Museums’ monthly family days continues with art projects, gallery activities, story time. June events include performances and storytelling celebrating the emancipation of African-American slaves.

When: 1-4 p.m Where: Jepson Center, 207 W York St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: telfair.org

Savannah Derby Devils Roller Derby Match

What: The derby is back with another

When: 3 & 8 p.m.

Where: Savannah Children’s Theatre,

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What: Bangers and Mash Theatre Works presents an “adult” musical about love, sex and a bar mitzvah.

When: 3 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: Adults: $20/Students: $15 Info: bangersandmashtheatre.com

AWOL Open Mic Therapy Session

Jazz Across the River: Kevin Bales

2160 East Victory Dr. Info: 912-238-9015. savannahchildrenstheatre.org

Sunday What: Showcase for spoken word.

When: 7 p.m Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E Park Ave. Info: sentientbean.com

Baseball: Savannah Sand Gnats: Kids Eat Free

double header. 5 p.m. Hostess City Hellions vs. Atlanta Rollergirls, 7 p.m. SDD All-Stars vs. Atlanta Rollergirls Where: MLK Arena, 301 W Oglethorpe Cost: $16. Children 3-12 $2. Free under 3. Discounts avail.

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What: Gnats wrap up a home stand against Greenville Drive. Plus kids 12 and under receive a voucher good for 1 free slice of Marco’s Pizza.

When: 2:05 p.m Where: Grayson Stadium

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Concert: Bells of Christ Church

Christ Church Anglican performs their summer tour concert.

When: 3 p.m Where: Bull St Baptist Church, 17 Anderson Street.

What: Coastal Jazz Association’s Fathers Day show features jazz pianist with a long list of popular recordings.

When: 5 p.m Where: Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, 1 Resort Drive.

Cost: $10 Gen. Free CJA members.

Seersucker Live presents Safety Third’s March to the Sea

What: Hosting Atlanta authors John Carroll, Scott Daughtridge & Matt DeBenedictis, Celebrating the release of John Carroll’s chapbook, Slow Burn.

Hosted by Zach Powers. Live music.

When: 4:30-5:30 p.m Where: Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Street.

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Passing into legend

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by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

If there was ever a question who Savannah’s leading citizen was, we now have the answer.

With a funeral service and procession more like the passing of a head of state than a musician, Savannah said goodbye to the late Ben Tucker, “Jazz Ambassador” to the world, an integral part of jazz history as well as local history, and just a hell of a great guy.

He was killed on Hutchinson Island on the Westin Harbor golf course, when a man driving recklessly on a portion of the old racetrack collided with Ben’s golf cart at 90 mph.

While Ben left us too early and all too tragically, we can take a bit of solace in knowing he died at a ripe old age after a

successful and influential life, doing what he dearly loved — playing golf.

He avoided the lingering fate of so many people who pass away in obscurity: Nursing homes, respirators, loneliness, dementia robbing precious memories.

It’s not much to go on — not really that much solace after all — but it’ll have to do.

The true human tragedy is that Ben passed away without getting a chance to say goodbye to his loved ones, without them getting a chance to say goodbye to him.

All we can do now is say our goodbyes the way we know how.

Thanks to Scott “Panhandle Slim” Stanton for our specially-commissioned cover art this issue.

Inside this issue, along with our previously scheduled Summer Living special section, you’ll find our reminiscences and remembrances of Ben Tucker.

We wish we had better news to report this week. cs

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Keep up fight against GMOs

Editor, Thank you Jessica Leigh Lebos for your article on Monsanto (“What To Do When You’re Blue In the Face”). The Forsyth Park Rally you drew an impressive crowd. It was reassuring to see how many people were aware of the issues involved, since they don’t get covered on the evening news.

The day before the rally I briefed myself with movies from YouTube. In the film Genetic Roulette, Andrew Kimbrell, director of the Center for Food Safety, makes an encouraging speech recounting the victories citizens have won against Monsanto—how we’ve successfully kept genetically engineered potatoes, tomatoes, rice and wheat off the market. I was heartened.

But on May 30 there was a very troubling story on NPR about an Ohio farmer who suspected his wheat had been transgenically contaminated. He had the wheat tested and his fears

were confirmed by the Dept. of Agriculture. But they reassure us there is no public health danger.

Like Monsanto and their puppet, the FDA, they lie, lie, lie.

All the scientific studies done (including Monsanto’s own, which they buried, of course) pointed to very alarming conclusions—linking the GMOs (Genetically Modified Foods) to cancer, autoimmune diseases and reproductive problems just to name a few.

The NPR story also mentions that in 2006 traces of genetically engineered rice were found in a large part of the American rice harvest. It’s scary. Once Pandora’s box is opened how do you get that stuff back in?!

Now what do we do? Inform as many people as we can about the issues and sit on our representatives to repeal section 735 of the Consolidated and further Continuing Appropriations Act (also called The Monsanto Protection Act) exempting biotech companies GMOs from legal review. “Organic Bytes,”

the online newsletter of the The Organic Consumers Organization has educational material as well as petitions to sign and action alerts.

Make noise, rally, talk, write, research, march—we’ve got to.

It’s the world’s food supply at stake.

Eve Herbst

CATastrophe

Editor, I recently read your column about Savannah’s CAT program.

Seeing how much its Executive Director “earns” really brings to the forefront some problems that I have noticed with CAT as a new Savannah resident, problems that REALLY need to be talked about if their Executive Director makes substantially more than the governor of Georgia (how ridiculous!)

Even if we disregard the absolute impossibility of using Savannah’s public transit system if you live in Thunderbolt (which I do) and if you would like to go downtown or come home from

downtown after 7 pm — which as a SCAD student and someone who works in Ellis Square, I certainly need to — it is difficult to miss the poor state of the buses themselves.

I use the buses daily and literally half the time I observe that the fare machines on various buses on various routes, don’t even work. Essentially everyone gets a free ride. While I think free public transit should be available in all cities (how liberal of me!), obviously convenience is not on the minds of the people paying an Executive Director $240,000 a year. The buses are dirty and uninviting, and very few people actually want to ride them (except when the buses can’t accept money, then everyone wants to ride!)

The CAT program in Savannah is appalling and is need of massive restructuring. A restructuring that might just cost $240,000 or more.

Amanda Stone

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The (Civil) Society Column

by Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

One neighborhood’s nightmare is another neighborhood’s wake-up call I know some of y’all are just itching to know what drama transpired at last week’s public meeting with Chance Partners, the Atlanta-based developers responsible for the blocky behemoth rising up from midtown Savannah like the Kraken in Clash of the Titans.

To the rest of you who couldn’t care less, I promise this will be the last column that I will devote to the evil Avenues on 61st. Unless, of course, it grows tentacles and starts attacking.

But every therapist agrees that closure is healthy, so thank you for your patience.

The purpose of Wednesday evening’s meeting was to address citizens’ concerns about the three-story-andchange student housing project that went up practically overnight with nary a whisper from city officials.

The good Reverend Grover Bell had kindly offered up the Whitefield Methodist Church as the setting, though personally, I would have preferred to meet someplace that served beer. Then again, there’s something to be said for a clean, well-lighted sanctuary to keep things civil. ‘Cause this one was a pressure cooker, folks.

Citizens Office director Susan

Broker and Lee Olin Heights Neighborhood Association president Richard Bartels presided; as vicepresident of the NA, I took copious notes. Broker’s cordial colleague Joe Shearhouse set up the Powerpoint as the pews filled with neighbors and Habersham Village businessowners.

Everyone shook hands and exchanged “how’s your mommas” like the small community we are. An audible hiss could be heard as Chance Partners CEO Judd Bobilin and project manager Bill Newell filed in with their attorney, Phillip McCorkle.

At issue here was not only the development’s eyeball-searing affront to reasonable aesthetic sensibility but also how its 128 new residents will affect nearby parking, traffic, noise levels and crime. Oh, and how the damn thing got approved in the first place.

Some may roll their eyes, but I believe it is a testament to transparency that City Manager Stephanie Cutter brought representatives from every relevant department to account for their part in the process. Charlotte Moore of the Metropolitan Planning Commission displayed a timeline of the site plan review, which did not require public notice because it was submitted under already existing zoning allowances.

Engineering director Julie McClean earnestly explained the complex route of how a bill becomes a law — er, how a site plan becomes

a construction zone — as it moves along from each department. (How the violent murder of one of the largest live oaks in the city passed Park & Tree is beyond me.) Public Works director John Sawyer patiently defended the necessity of relocating a storm water line to the lane and the rigorous research involved to prevent any increased flooding in this low plain that has long been deemed a “special flood hazard zone.”

Of course, any of this information would have been far more helpful before five buildings sprouted up like giant poisonous mushrooms. But the upshot of it all is that this lot has been all dressed up for multi-family development since the ‘60s, and Chance Partners’ submitted plan fit like an Ann Taylor suit. All i’s were dotted, all t’s crossed, the legalities buttoned up.

Yet somehow, after the city’s rigorous process designed to protect the neighborhood and enforce the zoning laws, we’ve still ended up with way too tall and way too ugly.

I doodled the words “EPIC FAIL” in the margins of my notebook.

Others expressed their disappointment more vocally.

“So basically, you’ve just made us sit here for two hours telling us how you messed up,” someone scoffed.

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in the whole dealio. But Chance’s legion of lawyers remedied it easily by massaging the leasing agreements. Everyone patted themselves on the back, even though the newfangled leases do absolutely nothing to address the aforementioned parking and traffic issues. City attorney Brooks Stillwell remained silent.

I personally had gotten over my craving for a public flogging after my husband and I had a cathartic shaming session all over Bill Newell’s sushi a few weeks ago. But here in the Methodist church, others began calling for a demo crew. And possibly Bobilin’s head.

Ms. Cutter stood up amidst the clamoring. “The building can’t come down,” she said sternly. “Mr. Bobilin is here to address the issues of the neighbors. Give him a chance to share his plans.”

I always like to remind people that “mitigation” is not a synonym for “solution,” it merely means to make a problem “less bad.” Regarding the nightmare on 61st street, mitigation will mean an as-yet-undetermined tree buffer, permanent shades on the third floor windows and the designation of one of the units for an on-site property manager, who will ostensibly monitor party noise and drug use.

Bobilin got snickers at the mention of a 6-foot fence to protect residents from pass-throughs; Broker quickly suggested it be moved up to eight feet, maybe 12. (Fifty would suffice.)

As far as parking goes, the existing laws absolve Chance from responsibility.

“Then it’s a done deal,” said Bartels, shaking his head.

“It is what it is,” echoed another neighbor.

The truth is, us mere mortals were never any match for the Kraken. But a monster like Avenues on 61st doesn’t — and shouldn’t — ever happen again. Hopefully after this cautionary tale, property owners are now aware of the vulnerability of their neighborhoods (Fairway Oaks and Kensington Park have already begun applying for historic status) and all those poor city employees forced to sit through this very long meeting will surely have their ears pricked towards future developments.

And if Chance Partners ever has the nerve to bring their bulldozers back to Savannah, we’ll see if Medusa’s head is available to stop them in their tracks. cs

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ineptitude appears more as the result of vague wording within the codes: Subjectivity is for art and your favorite ice cream flavor. There should not be room for interpretation in permissable height limits.

“We’ve obviously got a lot of work to do to make changes in those zoning ordinances,” said District 4 Alderwoman Mary Ellen Sprague, shaking her finger at the pew holding city staff and reiterating her commitment to residents.

That point driven home like a wearisome prom date, there were still a few more matters to discuss. Punch & Judy owner Eric Karpf asked when Chance’s construction trailer would clear out so trucks could resume delivering baby furniture to the back door Karpf has used for over 40 years, only to be informed it will remain private property. Karpf left angry, and Ms. Cutter admonished the partners to work with one of Savannah’s most beloved businesses.

Bikram Yoga Savannah owner Leslie Tucker Carey wondered how the development’s dearth of parking spaces would affect the Habersham Village shopping strip, already overcrowded during peak hours. Mr. McCorkle presented a glossy parking study meant to allay such worries.

Though the other student housing facilities in the study contain an even smaller tenant-to-parking ratio, residents and proprietors resented McCorkle’s “apples to apples” comparison and argued that extra cars will clog residential streets and spots reserved for customers.

“That’s just speculation,” said McCorkle.

Tailspin owner Jeffrey Manley shot back, “It’s not speculation, it’s a likelihood.”

Lastly, there are the leasing issues.

From the very beginning, Avenues on 61st has been marketed on its website as rent-by-the-bed student housing.

After mentioning granite countertops several times to illustrate the Avenues’ “luxurious” quality, Bobilin insisted that the units were intended to be for families, and that the whole “miscommunication” was the fault of an overaggressive property manager.

Except his leasing company was called Asset Campus Housing until a few weeks ago — renamed Asset Plus only after city officials contacted Chance about accompanying zoning violations.

Therein lay the only possible snag

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Summer’s a chance to see sights, imagine possibilities I often write about the economic, public health, public safety and other benefits that accrue to communities where people make bicycling part of their daily lives.

I’m intrigued and encouraged by the innovative ways cities and towns all over the U.S. are using bikes to solve their most pressing problems.

No less interesting to me, but harder to quantify, are the ways that bicycling can change our perceptions of the world around us and help us find those solutions. When we speed through our surroundings in cars, we are unable to detect details about our neighborhoods and public spaces. It’s equivalent to the compression algorithm used to create MP3 files. Data is lost. Musical nuances disappear.

In his book, “Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places,” Harvard professor John R. Stilgoe suggests wandering by foot or bike and keeping a watchful eye can help expand our thinking and change our perceptions. Taking a long walk or “riding a bicycle down a different street” puts us in the position of “seeing what no one photographs and noticing what no one realizes.”

Now that summer is here, the longer days provide an opportunity to examine the previously unexamined. I’ve begun varying the routes I take to my regular destinations and have been pleased to find myself seeing things for the first time — or more likely, noticing them for the first time — despite having lived in my neighborhood for a decade.

Long summer days also stoke the desire to pedal beyond the boundaries of one’s own neighborhood and explore other parts of the city.

Unfortunately, in many parts of our community, riding outside of bicycle friendly areas forces cyclists to contend with roads engineered to maximize motor vehicle speed and capacity.

These sorts of thoroughfares are, to borrow a phrase from the Transportation for American coalition,

“dangerous by design.” We have sacrificed the safety of pedestrians and cyclists in hopes of shaving a few seconds off our morning commutes. The streets produced in service of this futile pursuit can dissuade even the most adventuresome bicycle explorer. That’s unfortunate. But the real tragedy is that many people must ride and walk these streets and the results can be deadly. While those responsible for creating these roadways will probably never walk or ride a bike on them, the fact is that people have no choice but to do so.

Still, people are making the choice to ride or walk in increasing numbers and they are searching for solutions. Stilgoe suggests that when we explore our surroundings by bike or foot, we may be able to

will be a blessing to residents who will use it for weekday trips to the store or work, or leisurely weekend rides or walks to socialize with family and friends.

We realize that even a minor tweak, such as a thoughtfully placed bicycle cut-through, can link neighborhoods to more destinations and help cyclists avoid unfriendly roads.

We understand that small changes can yield real results and that in aggregate they help us create a community in which people of all ages and abilities have the freedom to go by bike.

We become aware of the desirable shifts in cultural, social, political and economic patterns that become possible when we expand our transportation options.

So get out there and explore this summer. Look for the patterns and imagine the possibilities.

Then share what you see. Talk to your neighbors and elected officials about what could be.

Even if you don’t experience a major revelation on your first exploratory bike ride, you won’t be disappointed. Simply riding a bike on a summer evening has its own

Long summer days also stoke the desire to pedal beyond the boundaries of one’s own neighborhood and explore other parts of the city. Unfortunately, in many parts of our community, riding outside of bicycle friendly areas forces cyclists to contend with roads engineered to maximize motor vehicle speed and capacity. “see great cultural and social and economic and political patterns unnoticed by journalists and other experts.”

We see how a safe route to Tybee Island would transform the concept of a day at the beach for many Savannahians and attract cycle tourists from around the world (While also alleviating Tybee’s notorious summertime parking crunch).

We know that completion of the long overdue Truman Greenway

rewards. The sensation of catching a cool breeze while riding your bike is far superior to the feeling of cold air blasting from a floor vent. And if you’re diligent about exploring you may encounter one of the great pleasures of summertime cycling: an improperly aimed lawn sprinkler spraying into the street. Feel free to turn around and ride through it again. cs John is executive director of the Savannah Bicycle Campaign.

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Islands standoff A 53-year-old man is charged with a felony and two misdemeanors after threatening to harm himself, family members and police officers in a four-hour standoff on a recent Sunday night.

Weir Cleve Walker was charged with terroristic threats and acts, reckless conduct and discharging a firearm near a public street after he surrendered to Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department’s SWAT Team about 12:30 a.m.

Police were called to Hillary Street on Wilmington Island before 8 p.m. and advised that Walker had threatened to shoot himself if he saw police officers. Islands Precinct officers closed off portions of the neighborhood two blocks away and called in SWAT, Explosive Ordnance Device (Bomb Squad) and the SCMPD

Hostage Negotiation Team.

Walker fired a shot in the back yard and three more from inside, threatening officers and challenging them to kill him. Instead, police brought in his brother who convinced him via telephone to surrender. After he was transported to Memorial University Medical Center for evaluation, police found an assortment of shotguns and high powered rifles in the house.

• Police have issued warrants for the arrest of a Savannah woman wanted for drug trafficking.

26-year-old Ashley McClendon’s residence was one of several units searched in Yamacraw Village by detectives during a shooting investigation. Inside, investigators found a bag of crack cocaine along with multiple scales.

McClendon is described as a black female with black hair and brown eyes. She stands about 5-6 and weighs 115 pounds. McClendon is known to frequent Yamacraw Village and was last known to work at the McDonald’s on the 2000 block

Skidaway Rd. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (912) 234-2020 or text CRIMES (274637). A confidential Tip Line also is open directly to investigators at (912) 525-3124.

Jones was paroled in September 2012 after serving 15 months of a 60-month sentence for theft by receiving, theft by taking, receiving stolen Police search for Terah goods and theft by Kamel Jones receiving stolen • Detectives seek help property. He frefrom the public in locating quents East Savannah. a Savannah man wanted for burglary.

Warrants have been drawn charg• Detectives have charged a ing Terah Kamel Jones, 25, with two 20-year-old man in the shooting burglaries and parole violation. He is death of a 19-year-old in west Savana black male, 6-1, weighing about 155. nah this past Sunday evening.

He is reported to drive cars rented in Rasheen “Bo Cat” Alexander of the area and a white 2003 Buick Centhe 400 block of Carolyn Street was tury with the Georgia license plate found shot to death on Eagle Street at PQK 3077.

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news of the weird Very Personal Hygiene Orestes De La Paz’s exhibit at the Frost Art Museum in Miami in May recalled Chuck Palahniuk’s novel and film “Fight Club,” in which lead character Tyler Durden’s principal income source was making upscale soap using discarded liposuctioned fat fetched from the garbage of cosmetic surgeons (thus closing the loop of fat from rich ladies recycled back to rich ladies). De La Paz told his mentor at Florida International University that he wanted only to display his own liposuctioned fat provocatively, but decided to make soap when he realized that the fat would otherwise quickly rot. Some visitors to the exhibit were able to wash their hands with the engineered soap, which De La Paz offered for sale at $1,000 a bar.

The Entrepreneurial Spirit • As recently as mid-May, people with disabilities had been earning hefty black-market fees by taking strangers into Disneyland and Disney World using the parks’ own liberal “disability” passes (which allow for up to five relatives or guests at a time to accompany the disabled person in skipping the sometimes-hours-long lines and having immediate access to the rides).

The pass-holding “guide,” according to NBC’s “Today” show, could charge as much as $200 through advertising on CraigsList and via word-of-mouth to some travel agents. Following reports in the New York Post and other outlets, Disney was said in late May to be

warning disabled permit-holders not to Sun-Sentinel found one woman being abuse the privilege. begged to sign up while she was still • After setting out to create a proteccrying out for her dog that remained tive garment for mixed martial arts trapped in the blaze. fighters, Jeremiah Raber of High Ridge, Unconventional Treatments Mo., realized that his “groin protection device” could also help police, • Researchers writing recently in the athletes and military contractors. journal PLoS ONE disclosed that they Armored Nutshellz underwear, now had found certain types of dirt that selling for $125 each, has contain antimicrobial multiple layers of Kevlar agents capable of killing plus another fabric called E. coli and the antibiDyneema, which Raber otic-resistant MRSA. said can “resist” multiple According to the article, your phone shots from 9 mm and medical “texts” back to records .22-caliber handguns. He 3000 B.C. mentioned are belong said the Army will be testclays that, when rubbed to us ing Nutshellz in August, on wounds, reduce hoping it can reduce the inflammation and pain. number of servicemen • Researchers writing who come home with devin May in the journal astating groin injuries.

Pediatrics found that • “Ambulance-chasing” some infants whose lawyers are less the cliche parents regularly sucked than they formerly were their babies’ pacifiers because of bar association to clean them (rather crackdowns, but fire truckthan rinsing or boiling chasing contractors and them) developed fewer “public adjusters” are still allergies and cases of a problem -- at least in Florida, where asthma. (On the other hand, parentalthe state Supreme Court tossed out a cleansing might make other maladies “48-hour” time- out rule that would more likely, such as tooth decay.) have given casualty victims space to Leading Economic Indicators reflect on their losses before being overwhelmed by home-restoration • Until recently, apparently, gene salesmen. Consequently, as firefighters mutations were considered merely told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in freaks of nature, but that was before May, the contractors are usually “right Myriad Genetics obtained binding behind” them on the scene, pestering U.S. patents for mutations it discovanxious or grief-stricken victims. The ered -- now known as BRCA-1 and

BRCA-2. Those mutations were in the news in May when actor Angelina Jolie announced that she had chosen to have a double mastectomy based on the presence of the cancer-causing mutations, which she had learned of through a Myriad Genetics test costing about $4,000. There is no price competition for the test, due to the patent, and Jolie, along with oncologists and OB-GYN doctors, fret that the test is too expensive for tens of millions of women around the world whose lives could be saved by knowing their status.

• Archeologists discovered in May that a construction company had bulldozed 2,300-year-old Mayan ruins in northern Belize -- simply to mine the rocks for road fill to build a highway. A researcher said it could hardly have been an accident, for the ruins were 100 feet high in an otherwise flat landscape, and a Tulane University anthropologist estimated that Mayan ruins are being mined for road fill an average of once a day in their ancient habitats. Said another, “(T)o realize” that Mayans created these structures using only stone tools and then “carried these materials on their heads” to build them -- and then that bulldozers can almost instantly destroy them -- is “mind-boggling.”

Fine Points of Law A woman in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood reported to a local news blog in May that she had seen (and her husband briefly conversed with) a man who was operating a “drone” from a

Perspective Army Major Nidal Hasan went on trial in June for killing 13 and wounding another 32 in the notorious November 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, but his 43 months in lockup since then have been lucrative. WFAA-TV (Dallas-Fort Worth) reported in May that Maj. Hasan has earned $278,000 (and counting) in salary and benefits because his pay cannot be stopped until he is convicted. By contrast, some of the 32 surviving victims complain of difficulty wrenching money out of the Army for worker compensation and disability treatment -- because the Army has refused to classify the spree-shooting as a combat-similar “terrorist attack” (in favor of terming it the politically correct “workplace violence”).

People With Issues (1) John Allison, 41, who was arrested inside a Hannaford’s grocery store in Massena, N.Y., in May, first aroused suspicion as an anticipated shoplifter, but it turns out that all he wanted to do was to remove a pepperoni from the meat case, rub it

on his penis and put it back. He was charged with criminal mischief. (2) David Beckman, 64, was charged in DuPage County, Ill., in May with misdemeanor animal cruelty after he allegedly sexually abused his pet peacock, “Phyl.”

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sidewalk, guiding the noisy device to a point just outside a third-floor window in a private home. The pilot said he was “doing research” and, perhaps protected by a 1946 U.S. Supreme Court decision, asserted that he was not violating anyone’s privacy because he, himself, was on a public sidewalk while the drone was in public airspace. The couple called for a police officer, but by the time one arrived, the pilot and his drone had departed, according to a report on the Capitol Hill Seattle blog.

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Three men committed home invasion of a Houston residence on May 14 and, although two escaped, one wound up in the hospital and under arrest. The three men kicked in a door and shut the resident in an upstairs closet while they ransacked the home, but they failed to inspect the closet first and thus did not realize that it was the resident’s handgun-storage closet. A few minutes later, the resident emerged, locked and loaded, and wounded one of the men in the shoulder and leg.

Readers’ Choice (1) Bryan Zuniga, 20, was (according to a deputy) weaving in traffic in his SUV in May near the St. Petersburg, Fla., city limit, but instead of submitting to the deputy, he fled on foot and eventually climbed a fence to a water-treatment plant -- and apparently disturbed an alligator residing in a pond. Zuniga was treated at St. Petersburg General Hospital for bites to his face and arm. (2) In Albuquerque in May, Luis Briones, 25, became the most recent person arrested for distracted driving -- after he crashed into another car while having sex in the driver’s seat. (His naked ladyfriend was thrown from the car, but not seriously hurt.) cs By chuck shepherd UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE

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I weigh 110 pounds. How many trained houseflies it would take to lift me?

—Tanya Wilson As always, we’ll take it step by step: 1. I can’t say I was all that surprised to learn this, but scientists have determined experimentally how much a housefly can lift. It’s about 10 milligrams, or about 22 millionths of a pound. That may not sound like much, but it’s an impressive 50 percent of a fly’s body weight—you try picking up 55 pounds and flying off under your own steam.

2. We know it’s possible to harness fly lifting power because of an inventive and evidently somewhat disturbed aircraft modeler named Frank Ehling, who constructed tiny balsa-woodand-tissue-paper airplanes powered by houseflies. He would catch one or more flies and stun (or freeze) them, dab glue on their rear ends, and stick them to the plane. When the flies recovered (or warmed up), they buzzed away, pulling the little planes aloft. Two of these aircraft currently reside in the Smithsonian.

3. Practical problems now intrude.

Dividing 110 pounds by the lift of a housefly, we find you’d need five million of the insects to lift you off the ground.

Not finding this a pleasant visual, Tanya? Hey, it was your idea. The more pressing question is, how will they hold on to you? Assuming a surface area of 17.2 square feet for the average adult woman and a quarter square inch of gripping surface needed per fly, you can only have 39,680 flies on you at once.

Either flies will have to sit on top of flies (which won’t work, since all but the outermost flies won’t be able to use their wings), or you’ll need to have numerous tiny filaments glued to your body and yoked to sufficient flies to get you airborne. My assistants Una and Fierra initially proposed using 14-pound-test nylon fishing line and concluded the job was impossible, since the weight of the line would exceed the lifting strength of

the flies.

“Knuckleheads,” I said. “Fishing line is too bulky. You want spider silk. Five times as strong as an equal weight of steel, and the amount needed to circle the earth weighs less than 500 grams.”

“Where are you getting this from?”

Una asked.

“Wikipedia,” I said.

“You said not to use Wikipedia.”

“I said you couldn’t use Wikipedia.

You’re the engineer. I can use Wikipedia. I’m the big-picture guy.”

“Where are we going to get enough spider silk, and how are we going to tie it around five million flies?” asked Fierra. “We’ll leave that to the contractor,” I said. “All we have to do is write the spec.”

4. The two returned to their spreadsheets. Assuming spider silk weighs 500 grams per 24,075 miles, they calculated you’d need 4,989,542 flies to take flight.

5. We suspect you’re thinking better of this. Shall we try bumblebees? Each can lift about 252 millionths of a pound, about ten times as much as a housefly.

Total requirement: 437,240 bees.

6. However, some people make it a priority to avoid being surrounded by vast swarms of bees, and perhaps you’re one of them. Better idea: monarch butterflies. Each can carry about 1.7 thousandths of a pound, meaning 65,644 should suffice.

7. Personally I’m charmed at the thought of being conveyed through the heavens by butterflies. Saddling them up would be slow work, though, so let’s consider some brawnier candidates: • Rufous-tailed hummingbirds.

Lift capacity about a hundredth of a pound—10,610 needed.

• House sparrows. Lift capacity 3.7 times greater—2,910 needed.

• Jamaican fruit bats. Lift capacity nearly an ounce, 1,915 needed. At some point surely we’ll need to switch back to nylon fishing line. We’ll let the critter wranglers worry about when.

• Common pigeons. Lift about a quarter pound, 441 needed.

• Bald eagles. Lift capacity approximately 4.5 pounds, 25 needed, although the research department speculates that if the eagles didn’t have to take off with you already in their clutches but could instead be trained to swoop down in formation and snatch you up on the wing, you might be able to get by with 16. I make no promises. I merely observe that if eagles were good enough for Gandalf, they ought to be good enough for you. cs By cecil adams

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A new beginning for Junkyard Angel Introducing the best Savannah band you might never have heard of.

Junkyard Angel makes raucous, rootsy music with a deep countryrock flavor, with echoes of vintage 1966 Dylan and bits of the Stones, the Burritos, Waylon, Willie and even Asleep at the Wheel tossed into the mix.

The band has been around for five years or more, and in 2009 made what might have been that year’s coolest local record, Medicine Jar. In an instant, Junkyard Angel all but disappeared.

That’s because guitarist Scotty Rahn, who also writes the lion’s share of the songs, had to bow out due to health issues.

Things have changed, happily for the better, and the band is back this week with an all-new set of tunes.

Recorded at Skyville Studios in Nashville, Silent Hero is even more brazen fun than Medicine Jar. “We cut 14 songs in three days,” explains Stewart Marshall, one of the band’s singer/guitarists. “We really just hammered ‘em out. We were so excited to be there. I think a lot of it was adrenaline. We didn’t do anything else.”

Junkyard Angel celebrates the new release with a show Friday, June 14, at Bonna Bella Marina.

That unusual choice of venue should be your first clue that Junkyard Angel is a band that plays by — and adheres to — its own rules.

“Everybody’s got jobs and families, so we’re kind of tapped for time,” Marshall says. “Except for my brother Jim, all of us are in our mid 40s. Between kids, soccer, lacrosse, football and karate … one of the

Scotty Rahn (center) is back in full swing as Junkyard Angel’s resident songwriter-in-chief.

reasons I guess we’re all in Junkyard is because we want it to work. So to put this record out is really just a labor of love.”

Marshall, of course, was (and is) one-half of Stewart and Winfield, one of the region’s most popular and successful touring acts of the last decade (the other fellow is Winfield Smith).

Stewart and Jim also gig around, when they can, as the Marshall Brothers.

See, the things is, there’s another fly in this particular ointment. Jim Marshall lives in Johns Island, just outside of Charleston. And Allen Hughes, the band’s all-purpose string master (he plays killer pedal steel, fiddle, Dobro and a half dozen others) is a resident

of Athens.

Although drummer Joe Ippolito and bassist Scott Tanner live in the Savannah area, it’s obviously not easy getting everyone together at the same time.

During Rahn’s recuperation, Wormsleow’s Andrew Gill filled in with the band. When it came time to head to Tennessee to cut the tracks for Silent Hero, Gill — who also plays lead guitar for the Marshall Brothers — graciously stepped aside to make room for Junkyard’s co-founder and songsmith.

Don’t expect to see the revitalized band turning up all over town, however. After spending seven years on the road with Winfield Smith, pretty

much nonstop, Marshall is determined to avoid playing in some club or other every night of the week.

“I’ve been there, I’ve done that,” he says, “and I think if we can strike a healthy balance of playing a certain amount of shows in any given twomonth period or something like that, we’ll have perspective.

“In order to properly build a market, you’ve really got to be a little more calculating about it, and not play every single gig that’s offered to you.”

And then there’s this: The June 14 performance starts at 7 p.m. and will wind up at 10. “It’s family-friendly,” Marshall laughs. “This way, nobody has to hire a babysitter.” CS

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The Second Line procession through downtown following Ben Tucker’s funeral

Ben Tucker probably would have laughed loudest at the stories his family, friends and colleagues told about him during Monday’s memorial service at Lutheran Church of the Ascension.

by bill deyoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

Reuben Tucker talked about being mistaken for his identical twin at a particularly inconvenient moment.

Westin Resort manager Mark Spadoni discussed Ben’s singular prowess on the golf course. Several speakers brought up the time Ben inadvertently sat on the sheet cake at a party celebrating his 80th birthday (“and he put out the candle with his youknow-what,” offered Savannah Music Festival director Rob Gibson).

The mood was somber but celebratory during the two-hour service. Tucker’s bass, “Bertha,” stood at attention near the casket. Every seat in the sanctuary was filled, as was a downstairs meeting room where a

closed-circuit television feed has been hastily installed.

Ben’s doctor, his first realtor, Savannah Mayor Edna Jackson and State Representative J. Craig Gordon were among those who praised Tucker’s civic spirit, his always-positive attitude and his dedication to helping young people get a foothold on life.

A jazz combo played between the speakers, the hymns and the prayers, as if to remind everyone that music — and its soothing, redemptive power — was a very large part of Ben’s life.

Toward the end of the service, the group (Teddy Adams, Howard Paul, Jody Espina, Delbert Felix, Quentin Baxter and Kevin Bales) produced

out, because they didn’t want to work for a black man. It was not a good time. There were a lot of death threats.

Dead cats left on our porch.”

After a while, the son challenged the father to take a stand.

“I said ‘Dad, did you hear what that guy said to you? Give him the business. What the hell?’

“And he said ‘Son, that’s not my problem. That’s their problem.’

“He said ‘That person has hate in his heart. I don’t have room for that.’”

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a beautiful rendition of the Tucker composition “Right Here, Right Now.” Huxsie Scott then sang a bluesy “Comin’ Home Baby,” Ben’s bestknown song.

Wayne Tucker, Ben’s son, told a story that, for many, best illustrated how the great man ticked.

“When my father and Gloria moved here in 1972, Savannah was not the cosmopolitan place it is now,” he said. “When my father bought WSOK, the first day he shows up for work, all the important staff walked

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Exactly two weeks later, he was gone.

“He was the face of jazz for Savannah,” says Skip Jennings, president of the Coastal Jazz Association. “He was the most important person for jazz in Savannah. He was the one iconic figure we had for jazz in Savannah. We have other people around here who

have good reputations and such, but none of them are Ben Tucker.”

Born in Brentwood, Tenn., Benjamin Mayor Tucker grew up in Nashville, playing tuba in his high school band. He served in the United States Air Force for four years, 1950-54, and by 1960 he was well-established as one of the premiere jazz bassists in New York and Los Angeles. He made his first record, with saxophonist Warne Marsh, in 1959.

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His song “Comin’ Home Baby” became a hit for his flutist pal Herbie Mann, and — with Bob Dorough’s lyrics added — for Mel Torme.

Ben and his wife Gloria relocated to Savannah in the early 1970s. Ben had given up on performing and recording — Bertha was in storage in New York City — to follow yet another entrepreneurial dream.

“We bought the radio station in 1971 and took it over on Jan. 5, 1972,” he told Connect a few years ago. “We became the 15th African American– owned radio station in America, out of 9,000 back then.

“I wanted to play jazz music here in Savannah, but I’d be losing my ratings if I did. It was a gospel station, but I took the gospel out and cleaned all that up, R&B, cleaned all that up. We

Bill DeYoung remembers:

had black classical music. And you lose ratings when you play that kind of music. But we were No. 1 in the market from ’72 to ’84.”

The station was WSOK-AM, and during its run at the top Tucker was convinced by Teddy Adams, a Savannah-bred trombone player who’d been living in Japan, to get the lead out.

Or, rather, get the bass out.

“When I got here, Ben was strictly a businessman,” Adams says. “I went to the radio station, because I had met him a few years before in Tokyo, and I said ‘Come on, we’ve got to start doing something.’ Ben was not playing at that time; he was actively running the station.

“And when we started playing, Ben was playing electric bass. Which he hated. He said ‘This ain’t my thing.’

Last December, I was sitting with Ben Tucker and Teddy Adams in the chilly rear courtyard of Foxy Loxy Café. I asked Ben if he was aware that the Beatles song “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” was, in part, a ripoff of “Comin’ Home Baby,” the brilliantly torturous jazz tune Ben wrote (with Bob Dorough) back in the early 1960s.

“No, I’d never heard that,” he boomed, then asked me to write down the exact title of John Lennon’s song so he could consult with a lawyer. He laughed when he said it.

I meet a lot of musicians, and to tell you the truth, most of them don’t really register. I can’t say I knew Ben well, but when you were with him you knew, you just knew, that his gentle, still waters ran deep. He had a natural gravitas, an aura that said ‘Man, I have BEEN there.’ Go look at his resume and try to grasp his rich history; see where he went and the cats he played with. And sit up straight.

He commanded respect; one quick shake of his massive right hand and you knew you were in “no bullshit” territory.

You couldn’t lie to the man. He looked you square in the eye.

He came to Savannah in the early 1970s, when the local jazz scene had eroded to a raw nub of what it had been, and — standing shoulder to shoulder with Teddy Adams and a handful of other dedicated jazzheads — recharged it, revitalized it. Rebuilt it from scratch.

He loved Savannah, and he loved jazz, and he was supremely confident about both.

A few interviews back, Ben told me a story.

During his 27 years in a South African prison, Nelson Mandela was permitted very few books to read. Whitney Baillett’s Such Sweet Thunder — named for a classic Duke Ellington tune — was one of his favorites.

In 2010, the author of a book about Mandela told Tucker that his name — Ben Tucker’s name — appeared in the book several times. “I was elated that I was actually a part of his ordeal while he was in prison,” Ben said.

“I was doing a concert in New York in 1962 with Grady Tate, Jerome Richardson, Clark Terry and Billy Taylor. We played ‘Take the A Train,’ and Duke Ellington was there. And Duke commented ‘Hey man, you guys played the hell out of the song for me.’ That’s how I got in the book. And the kids today have no idea what I was doing in 1962.” cs

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He was accustomed to his upright bass, the contrabass. So he got his bass shipped here from New York.

And he always told people, about me, ‘This cat is the reason I started playing again.’”

Going back to the 1920s, Savannah had a rich jazz history. By the ‘70s, however, it had all but disappeared.

Tucker and Adams were part of a group of visionaries who started an appreciation and performance group, the Telfair Jazz Society (which later became the Coastal Jazz Association).

For a few years, he ran a jazz club, Hard Hearted Hannah’s, and anchored the house band six nights a week. Everyone in town knew him.

Teddy Adams: “After Ben moved Hannah’s from City Market to the Hilton, we were playing a gig there

Jessica Leigh Lebos remembers:

Jazz often gets pushed to the side in this day of electronicallygenerated beats and ripped loops. That’s why the world needs musicians like Ben Tucker, who in his decades of thumbing the bass also deeply understood that no other genre captures life’s capricious hum quite like the loose rules, improvisational riffs and cooperative synergy of jazz. Indeed, the title on his business card read “jazz ambassador.”

I would also like to point out that “ambassador” is an anagram for “badass roam.” Though a consummate classy gentleman, Ben traveled around with all kinds of gonzo-mouthed musicians his whole life, so I don’t think he would object.

Those who knew him well will attest that his diplomacy skills stretched far beyond jazz. Though I was more fan than friend, he displayed this generosity of spirit as the band leader at my wedding. While Jewish weddings aren’t necessarily known for their jazz themes, my husband and I had spent many a Savannah night hanging on to every sizzling note when Ben played at Hannah’s East, and we knew he would bring the party.

After discovering that my elderly grandfather had been a working jazz musician for 70 years, Ben invited him up to join the band. I don’t know what happened to the original piano player (I hope he enjoyed the open bar), but my Grandpa George and Ben Tucker played all night long, from our first song, “Sea of Love,” to “Tangerine” and other standards full of meandering improv solos, and finally to a rollicking rendition of “Hava Nagila” that spilled out into the Hyatt lobby and scared attendees at the electrician’s convention in the ballroom next door.

It’s been almost 15 years since we’ve danced to those tunes.

Since last Tuesday, my husband and I have had “Sea of Love” on heavy rotation in the iTunes queue, grossing out the kids as we twirl around the kitchen, thanking the heavens that this time there are no drunk relatives around to carry us around on chairs.

The loss of Ben Tucker reminds us that if we’re lucky, life is so much like jazz: Unpredictable and full of syncopation that switches up on a dime, sometimes difficult to get through but rewarding if you can stick it out until the chorus comes back around.

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it. He could play solos, he could play flashy, but he didn’t view that as the role of a bassist.

“He loved traditional and straightahead jazz, that was his thing. And he knew every tune, in every key, and knew not just the bassline and the harmony but he knew the melody and the words. And I think it was a real matter of pride for him that he had such a deep vocabulary.”

Huxsie Scott: “I learned to become a jazz singer working with him. When he hired me to sing with the Telfair Jazz Society, I had been working with a Top 40 group. He gave me freedom.

Basically, without actually saying the word, I was allowed to just fly, and isn’t that what jazz is all about? You take something that has been written, you respect melodies and all of that, but you’re able to interpret it the way you see fit. And you’re able to fly with it. He allowed me to fly. Ben encouraged me to do so.”

Without Ben Tucker, it’s likely that Huxsie Scott, Howard Paul and the other reliably great jazz players in town wouldn’t turn our heads today.

Tucker was deeply committed to keeping the spirit of the music not just alive, but vibrant, and moving forward.

Jazz in Savannah did not die under the wheels of some fool’s speeding car on June 4. It will outlive Ben Tucker; it will outlive all of us.

And that will be this great man’s legacy. cs

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…. I’m not aware that Ben has a twin brother, OK? We take a break, and I’m well aware of what Ben was wearing, because he had on some plaid sport coat that was kind of flamboyant. It would catch your eye. I’m walking around the club, and I see Rueben, talking to somebody, the same mannerisms, identical. From where I’m standing, I think it’s Ben … I think ‘You mean Ben has gone out and changed clothes between sets? That’s a new approach.’”

Tucker became the go-to guy for jazz in town. Everyone wanted to play with him; he rarely turned anyone down. “I think as time went on he saw an opportunity to help forward the cause of jazz in Savannah,” says Jennings. “He was always very concerned about the future of CJA; he realized what a unique opportunity he had to be the guy who spurred a lot of other people to take the music forward. Ben was always trying to think of ways to reach out and make this music alive to young people.”

Guitarist Howard Paul was a frequent collaborator. “I think that Ben had really relished the fact that he had grown into an elder statesman of jazz,” Paul reflects.

As a musician, “Ben was the quintessential old-school bass player, like Slam Stiller, Ray Brown and guys from that era. Solid time. He recognized that the role of the bass player was to provide support, and keep time. I hate to say it’s a lost art, but that was a very specific era of jazz and Ben was the quintessential example of

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The folks at Oatland Island, which is run by the local public school system, are old hands at summer camps, and continue to run one of the most expansive nature-based programs in the region.

Always impressive, Oatland’s K-8, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. summer camps have only become larger and more impressive in scope. Beginning June 17, the weekby-week lineup continues through the first week in August and includes segmented, themed weeks with names like The Mad Scientist, Journey to the Stars, Survivor, and Fundamentals of Beekeeping.

“I’d say we’ve easily doubled our offerings in the past ten years or so,” says Pam Hewatt of Oatland Island.

“We really make an effort to serve as many kids as possible.”

However, Pam urges parents to quickly sign up this year due to the school board’s recent tweaking of the calendar, resulting in a bit less summer this summer.

“Because of the shorter summer schedule we have six weeks of camps instead of the usual eight or so,” says Hewatt. “So we urge parents to hurry up and register.”

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No other entity in the area offers a summer camp with such solid scientific credentials as the University of Georgia Marine Extension Service’s Marine Education Center and Aquarium (MECA) at Skidaway Island. Their camps for ages 4-14 make full use of a fleet of honest-togoodness research vessels as well as the Aquarium and touch tank facilities at MECA.

“We take them out to Ossabaw Island, we trawl in the estuary,” says Anne Lindsay, Marine Educator and Summer Camp Director. “It’s all very boat-based.”

That said, UGA’s MECA also makes full use of their land-based facilities on the salt marsh of Skidaway, which include two miles of trails, the Aquarium and touch tanks, and lab quarters.

“We take long look at the communities of phytoplankton attached to the dock. The kids help feeding the animals in the touch tanks, and the older kids will actually assist with the Aquarium itself,” says Lindsay. “We do a little of the standard dissection stuff, and we have full-fledged plankton and invertebrate labs.”

Overall, Lindsay says, UGA MECA offers “a sampler of all the concepts you’ll find in the enormous field of marine science and technology.”

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For those wanting a real outdoor immersion experience – in all senses of the word “immersion” – families might try the summer programs at Sea Kayak Georgia on Tybee Island.

“Paddlesport is becoming a big focus, and we include kayaking and paddleboarding within the program,” says Marsha Henson, one of the owners. “We teach fitness for the on-thewater lifestyle, and while outside we want to share the amazingness of our coastal setting.”

In addition to boarding and kayaking skills, kids learn about charts, tides, and “understand how the marsh is formed and the keystone role it plays in the environment,” says Henson. “And when you’re in the watercraft, you really feel like you’re part of that environment.”

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involve paddles up Chimney Creek, on the Back River, and almost always involve crossing over to Little Tybee.

“The reason we do a full day of activity instead of a short session is it teaches children how to really be an outdoors person. You really learn what to do to sustain yourself, to keep yourself happy, during an entire day outside,” explains Henson.

“Kids just don’t get enough of that experience anymore, with iPhones and iPads and all the rest. This is full immersion into sport and environment, full of salt and sun.”

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“Sea Sprouts” is a program for 8-12 year-olds with four-hour sessions “to promote safety on the waterfront and based around kayaking,” says Nigel Law, owner/operator. “It’s about confidence building and safety on the water, wrapped in a lot of games and general buffoonery,” he laughs.

The program is based at the scenic and accessible Skidaway Narrows, specifically the Rodney Hall Landing at the foot of the Skidaway Bridge (often known simply as “Butterbean Beach).

“The currents aren’t quite as strong there, and you’re a little more protected. It’s a no-wake zone,” says Law. “It’s got a nice little beach area there where we spend time doing exercises and games, getting familiar with the boats and how they work. Then without too much trouble we can launch and get away and soon be immersed

in a nice faraway place without actually being far away.”

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Capt. Mike Neal at Moon River Kayak/Bull River Cruises doesn’t run summer programs per se, but does run plenty of tours on the water geared specifically to families. Kayak tours leave from the Hall Landing (“Butterbean Beach) at Skidaway Narrows.

“The tours are at a beautiful location with a state park and historic site right there. It’s a better location and can really enjoy it,” says Neal.

For those who want a more independent family paddle, Neal rents kayaks out of Hogan’s Marina on Turner’s Creek near Wilmington Island. Turner’s Creek isn’t most people’s first guess for a kayaking spot, but as Neal points out: “The way traffic to Tybee gets on weekends I don’t know why any local person goes to the beach anymore, especially on a holiday weekend.”

Neal also has two tour boats, a big one and a little one, also based on Turner’s Creek. “On the bigger boat we can pull the trawl net, and that’s a huge bonus for families,” he says of the big net, from which everything is thrown back into the sea. “It changes everything. People talk about how great it is to see the dolphins, but when you interview people after the trip, the kids almost always say the trawling was the best part.” cs

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Offbeat Tybee Eats Beach dining beyond the usual suspects

By Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

After a day (or if you’re super lucky, days) of sitting in the sand while the Atlantic laps your toes, the last thing you need are difficult decisions.

We know that figuring out what’s for dinner is too taxing for your sun-toasted brain. So we’ve got a few suggestions for fun fare that’s off the beaten track. For locals who have never tried these buried Tybee treasures, what better excuse to drive to the beach?

Vicki’s on Tybee

If you’ve worked up the appetite for a nice, juicy steak, Vicki’s is your place. And you’ll likely meet the namesake of this peach-colored bungalow when you arrive.

Vicki Hammons and her husband, Rich, opened this surf-and-turf eatery in March 2012 after another

restaurant success on the other side of the island. After revamping Lighthouse Pizza a few years back into a sweet joint to get a slice of pie, the Hammons were ready to expand their horizons.

“My husband is a big steak eater, and we thought it would be a nice addition to the island,” says Vicki.

Heralding “seafood, steak and spirits,” Vicki’s gives equal time to all three: The menu boasts a big dish of locally-sourced shrimp n’ grits as well as Lowcountry boil, along with all-you-can-eat shrimp on Tuesday nights. The bar is full of top shelf liquor with a selection of specialty cocktails.

But if truth be told, the real stars are those steaks — choice cuts rubbed with special seasoning and grilled over charcoal. Pricing is fair, ranging from $14.95 for a New York strip to $24.95 for an almost two-pound porterhouse.

Vicky’s is open for dinner daily.

But don’t call it fine dining. The dress code is “Tybee formal”: Cover up your suit with clean shorts and a t-shirt and wear some kind of shoes, please.

“We’ve got a laidback atmosphere, we’re not trying to be big and fancy,” says Vicki. “It’s just good Tybee food.”

quintessential Americana roadside joint.”

Serving up baskets of slow-cooked barbecue, ribs and beef brisket as well as local shrimp and oysters cooked up in a myriad of ways, Gerald’s keeps it simple.

“When I hire someone I ask them to hold up four fingers,” says Gerald.

“That’s how many ingredients we use on just about everything.”

The former diner owner and stained glass artist uses no salt (“People can add their own”), preferring to season his dishes with fresh ground pepper, garlic and “a couple of secrets.” The Lowcountry Boil features local Roger Wood lumberjack sausage, the coleslaw is chopped fresh every day and tossed with just enough vinegar and mayo, and Gerald’s famous limeade — a revelation on a hot, muggy day — is squeezed fresh.

The ambience is pure local quirk with a dirt floor and mismatched chairs. Eric Culberson just signed on to play Wednesday evenings, and nailed to the reclaimed poles are handpainted signs by local legend Leonard “The Sandman” Miller — Buddha quotes, Einstein, and our personal favorite: “It doesn’t cost anything to be nice.”

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Gerald’s Pig and Shrimp

What is that funky pavilion on Highway 80, you ask?

“It’s actually a pole barn,” explains proprietor Gerald Schantz, who built his beach pole barn from reclaimed heart pine and its patio from old Savannah bricks.

“I think of this place as the

Sundae Café

Smack in the middle of a shopping strip behind a gas station lies what was once the best kept culinary secret on Tybee — perhaps on the entire coast.

However, judging from its overwhelming 5-star average on Yelp.com, the secret is out.

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Other island favorites Tybee Island Social Club

With its white curtains and breezy chic décor, Social feels like the Lowcountry St. Tropez. An eclectic menu of gourmet tacos, seafood big plates and burgers both meat and veggie adds to the casually cosmopolitan atmosphere; any one of their gorgeous craft cocktails will make you feel like Brigitte Bardot.

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Fannie’s on the Beach

For 20 years, these three stories of pink have been serving up lunch, dinner and snacks just steps away from the sand. Famous for its shrimp burgers, Crab Benedict and Bloody Marys, Fannie’s is a Tybee icon.

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Huc-A-Poo’s

Nothing like pizza and a beer under the oak trees. Owner Eric can be seen tossing up dough while local bands rock into the night.

Try the “Popsie” — jalapeños,

sausage, black olives and ‘shrooms.

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A.J.’s Dockside

Tucked away on the Back River, A.J’s is the best sunset spot around.

The menu offers up fish house classics like po boys, fried oysters and shrimp every way for lunch and dinner.

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The Crab Shack

Apparently you don’t even need shoes to dine on the Shack’s freshcaught seafood. Casual, fun and full of surprises like baby alligators on the balcony, this is the place to for an ocean feast. When you’re done, just push it all through the hole in the center of the table and order another round!

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Fugeddaboudit. Also check out the epic lounge in back where you’ll find locals spinning yarns at the threesided bar.

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Did someone say band on the water? Overlooking Lazaretto Creek, Coco’s has live music every Friday.

Menu standout include the locallycaught Buffalo Shrimp, Mojo Mahi with pineapple mango salsa and the epic Captain Frank’s Seafood Platter.

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North may be the island’s quiet side, but there’s nothing mellow about the flavors served up in this funky beach shack. “Eclectic fusion with a Caribbean flair” translates as jerk chicken, spicy ropa vieja and the delectable whole fish escovitch.

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traditional Southern dishes, Sundae Café brings everything good from the sea to their expertly-plated presentations.

Standout appetizers include the seafood cheesecake (a creamy concoction of Gouda cheese, shrimp and lump crab baked in a garlic butter crust) and the sushi nachos (pepperinfused Ahi tuna atop wonton chips and fresh-mixed guacamole.)

The pistachio-encrusted tuna served with Jack Daniels-spiked sweet potato souffle is an entrée to die for, and one should leave the planet without tasting the Lobster Mac N Cheese.

Of course, less adventurous palates will find grouper sandwiches, excellent steaks and crispy fried seafood.

Definitely worth coming off the beach for are the traditional Southern daily lunch specials (Monday-Friday) — $8 comes with sides and a drink.

Be forewarned: Reservations for dinner are essential. And befitting of Tybee’s often ironic charm, Sundae Café is not open on Sundays.

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Mary Poppins

The Big Lebowski

Jaws

Few things go together as well as summertime and the movies. Once God created air conditioning – what year was that again? – it was only a matter of time before people began to appreciate the ritual of sitting in a dark, cool theater, perhaps with a bag of popcorn and some sugary liquid or other, and letting go of the real world for a couple of hours.

By Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

Of course, the usual suspects will be in town all summer long — the blowsy blockbusters at our local mega-multi cineplexes. SCAD, however, gives Savannahians another option — classic films on the big screen in the comparatively lush and luxurious Lucas Theatre, and right around the corner, in the Trustees Theater.

Last weekend’s Marilyn Monroe birthday tribute paired Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like It Hot — and for those of us who don’t particularly like it hot, there are more celluloid classics ahead on the SCAD summer movie schedule.

Next up is the British comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We probably all know someone who can quote this 1975 cult classic line-for-line — it’s been a nerd staple for all these years. But if you’ve only seen Spamalot, the after-the-fact stage version, check out Holy Grail, for it’s the Arthurian fountain from which all things Python floweth. It is, to be precise, one of Great Britain’s funniest ever. Lucas, June 14.

Jaws (June 15, Trustees) happens to be one of this writer’s all-time favorite films (and he’s not alone, not by a long shot). Steven Spielberg’s 1975 shark tale really needs to be seen on the big screen to be appreciated.

It’s been stylistically ripped off thousands of times, but try to imagine experiencing all this incredible tension-and-release back in the day, when Spielberg was the very first director to put it on screen. Outstanding.

The Coen Brothers’ black comedy The Big Lewbowski wasn’t a massive hit in theaters in 1998, but its absurd story of The Dude (Jeff Bridges) and his bowling buddies (John Goodman, Steve Buscemi and an unforgettable John Turturro) has become the cult favorite to beat. Factor in a weird and wobbly subplot about The Dude’s lineage (hello, Julianne Moore and Philip Seymour Hoffman) and you’ve got one of the

means that even if you’ve never seen it, you’ve seen it. An absolutely robust black and white classic.

The Steven Spielberg summer fest continues with E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial (June 29 at the Trustees). You know the story: Young Elliot discovers and befriends a lost little alien, and defends him from a host of curious scientists and Drew Barrymore.

It’s from 1982 (here’s a game for you college kids: Count how many passing Elvis Costello references Spielberg planted in the movie).

It just made the rounds as a 3D re-release, but Spielberg’s 1993 Jurassic Park bears experiencing over and over again; it’s that good (although

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Screening July 20 at the Lucas, Walt Disney’s 1964 musical Mary Poppins is, as we all know, a joy on every level. Here you have Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke at the top of their game, a wonderful Sherman Brothers score, and a bizarre (but very British) moral about the responsibilities of being a good parent. “Let’s Go Fly a Kite” gets me every time.

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You know him as Honest Abe in Lincoln and oilman Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood, but Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis has been making movies for 30 years. James Fenimore Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans became a film in 1992, directed

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era’s most satisfyingly strange howlers. June 21, Trustees Theater.

Screening June 22 at the Lucas, How to Train Your Dragon was one of the first computer-generated animated films (non-Shrek, that is) to dominate at the box office (2010).

It’s about a young Viking boy who befriends a “fierce” dragon, rather than slaying it, as is the custom of his village elders. It received two Academy Award nominations.

Top Hat (Lucas, June 28) is a classic Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers dance musical from 1935. Technically, it’s a “screwball comedy,” but Top Hat gave the world Fred and Ginger singing and dancing “Cheek to Cheek,” which

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The solar roof at Dublin High School

By Jeremy Scheinbart

The city of Dublin, Georgia, just a couple of hours up I-16, is proving that a school building powered with solar energy can save taxpayers millions of dollars on electricity bills. So, why not here?

Admittedly, I’m biased toward solar energy. For three and a half years, I worked with a Georgia-based alternative energy company and helped install solar systems on homes, churches, businesses and government buildings. In all, our small crew constructed about 1.75 megawatts of solar energy around the Southeast and Caribbean; everything from family-sized roof mounts to commercialscale powerhouses.

Simply put, I’ve seen this stuff work and make solid financial sense in numerous applications. But I often wondered why Georgia schools — with their massive roofs and daytime electricity needs — seemed resistant to cheaper solar power.

“When we think about schools, we think about buildings that are square, flat and have a lot of property surrounding them,” says spokeswoman Jaymie Fuentes for Conergy, a solar supplier headquartered in Germany.

“That does make them very good for solar. They typically don’t have a lot of trees. So there’s not going to be a

lot of shading issues.”

It sounds good, but only one community statewide is putting it into practice. In early March, Dublin City Schools announced plans to install roughly 4,000 solar panels on Dublin High’s roof and surrounding campus, generating over a megawatt of power for the school. These renewable energy additions are expected to save area taxpayers about 40 percent on energy costs over the next 25 years.

School officials say the money saved this year — $100,000 — will keep five teachers on staff and reduce furlough days to a minimum.

“The whole plan is over a year in the making, but the entire solar panel installation will be producing power by the end of May,” according to Superintendent Dr. Chuck Ledbetter.

Despite commonsense financial rationale, including the fact solar panel prices have dropped considerably in recent years, the planning and execution of the project was not easy.

And nearly illegal.

The Dublin High project is a knot

of public/private partnerships and Georgia Code loopholes, but contorting around the Territorial Act of Georgia was necessary in getting solar power on the school.

Adopted in 1973, the Territorial Act gives control of the state’s energy market to a single government regulated monopoly: Georgia Power.

Amongst its regulations and protections, the Act restricts private solar companies and consumers from entering into a Power Purchase Agreement, a common practice in most other states. Utilizing a PPA, a school, business or homeowner partners with a private solar company; that company puts up a solar system on the customer’s structure; and the customer agrees to purchase and use the power at a standard price, usually for 20+ years.

For the customer, upfront construction costs are avoided, electricity bills are lowered to a long-term fixed rate and the private energy company — which installs and owns the system - is responsible for the upkeep.

“It’s unfortunate that Georgia is one of the few states that prevents power purchase agreements, based on a reading of an archaic law,” says Jack Star, a leading Savannah solar advocate. “Many schools and civic buildings would benefit as there are no up-front costs, and maintenance of the solar panels stays with the financing agency.”

If Dublin City Schools had the PPA option they would have most likely taken it, but that financing model is illegal in Georgia due to the Territorial Act. In Dublin’s case, however,

they found a way around Georgia’s antiquated restrictions, chiefly because local government is central in the process, not the private sector.

“It’s the first time public bonds have been used to finance a government solar project in Georgia,” says Steve Green of Greeovations, LLC. “It’s a unique financing model.”

Trickily, nobody is ‘selling’ any power; the school pays to lease the solar system on its roof and campus.

Maybe more notable is how many Dublin-area public and private entities came together to back this project. Strongly supporting it was Dublin-Laurens Development Authority, Dublin City Council, the Laurens County Commission, The City of Dublin, Dublin City Schools, Dublin High School, Mage Solar, Greenavations, LLC., Renewable Energy Equipment Leasing (REEL), the law firm Arnall Golden Gregory and practically every locally elected State representative.

Superintendent Ledbetter said simply, “It took everyone working together to make this happen.”

At the solar system groundbreaking, Georgia Public Service Commissioner Lauren “Bubba” McDonald echoed Dr. Ledbetter’s sentiments.

“This is the first day of tomorrow,” he said. “This day represents entities coming together to work toward a common goal and to break the ice for solar in Georgia.”

Absent from the groundbreaking ceremony was Georgia Power.

Considering taxpayers in Chatham County, the Dublin High solar system prompts at least a few questions.

Firstly, should we be doing this with a few of our local school buildings?

Saving 40 percent on electric bills and reinvesting that money into schools sounds pretty good.

Secondly, are we shortchanging our students by building “new” schools with “old” technology? LED lights, water saving devices and efficient HVAC systems are certainly a step in the right direction (all in the ESPLOST budget). But there’s a whole universe of products and services when it comes to saving money through efficiencies and energy alternatives.

Thirdly, and maybe more uncertain, could our local officials and representatives get behind something with such resolve and unity? Would the financial process be too difficult?

That last question, at least, has

international point for manufacturing looking to come to the United States,” he says. In March 2012, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released a report on green jobs stating, in part, that manufacturing plays a strong role in the green economy. And it seems clear that manufacturing jobs are key to our nation’s prosperity.

Mage Solar, a German energy company with a US manufacturing base in Dublin is providing the solar panels for the school project.

“Solar is starting to grow across the whole country. And even across Georgia it’s starting to grow. But hopefully this project will accelerate that growth and make people take a look at it and consider what solar can do for them” says Joe Thomas, CEO of Mage Solar.

The BLS report also concludes that greener industries grow faster than the overall economy, states with greater green intensity have generally fared better in the current economic downturn and green jobs are accessible to workers across the education spectrum. If local entities like the Savannah Economic Development Authority (SEDA) are giving longterm tax breaks to entice companies to relocate here, why not target a durable industry that’s critical to our nation’s economic future and ideally suited for our current workforce?

According to a 2011 press release, Mage Solar plans to create 350 wellpaying jobs for the Dublin area in five years. Putting solar panels on

Chatham County schools (or any school) is no silver bullet for attracting green manufacturing jobs to our area, but it does help demonstrate that the community is serious about it.

Locally, the dizzying mix of chronic student poverty, mandated teacher curriculum and entrenched political interests proves a formidable reality.

But, aside from saving money, solar technology, in conjunction with a commitment to sustainable practices, can potentially be an attractive attribute for families or businesses considering a move to our area.

While safety and a quality education are the ultimate standards of a school, incorporating alternative energy in buildings and curriculum could further solidify and polish the image of SCCPSS. It’s pretty clear that utilizing solar electricity doesn’t make sense in everybody’s situation. A homeowner, for example, with difficult access to upfront capital and a heavily shaded residence might have little use for it.

But powering local schools with

solar energy can save taxpayers millions on electric bills and aid diversification of the local economy. Should we still regard solar power as an educational extravagance?

“We feel like it’s good stewardship of the taxpayer money and also good stewardship of the Earth God gave us,” Dr. Ledbetter says. “Over time, as power rates go up, it saves us even more money.” cs

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some clarity.

In 2011, Chatham County voters resoundingly approved a second round of ESPLOST funding. This one-penny, special-purpose local option sales tax was billed as a nobrainer for local education, mainly because forty percent of the collected money comes from area tourists.

Also, ESPLOST dollars must be spent on predominantly new construction and capital improvements.

This lawfully prohibits using the money for future costs of building maintenance, staffing and utilities.

Solar panels, especially discounted 40 percent by tourist dollars, can actually reduce and possibly eliminate decades’ worth of taxpayer funded electricity bills, which area tourists don’t help us pay for.

Rachel Gutter, director of the Center for Green Schools, points out that utility bills are the second-highest expense for school districts after teacher salaries.

“The economic downturn has prompted school districts to really investigate how they can reduce their energy expenses,” Gutter says.

Over the past few years, SCCPSS has spent around $8 million per year on utilities.

Cal Wray, President of the Dublin-Laurens County Development Authority, says he hopes the solar move will attract more global business to the area and brand the local economy.

“It’s really making us an

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Jeremy Childers zips above Broad Creek at Zipline Hilton Head

From a wooden platform 75 feet off the ground in a loblolly pine, the world appears uncannily peaceful.

Zip through the forest on Hilton Head Island

By Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

The tops of the trees sway gently. Ospreys dance in the breeze. Boats putt along Broad Creek, the halcyon tributary that bisects Hilton Head Island.

Then the tranquility dissolves as you step off the platform with a whoosh, screaming like a banshee the entire way.

Fortunately, you’re harnessed to a steel cable, one of eight that crisscross this stretch of pristine patch of maritime forest. A friendly guide waits at the next platform and secures you with a clip. Now safely leaning against the high branch of a lovely live oak, all you can think is “When do I get to go next?!”

Tucked back into the island’s north side, Zipline Hilton Head is entering its second summer of high adventure. Boasting seven platforms, three towers, two suspension bridges and eight lines referred to as “zips,” the facility opened in April 2012 to a spectacular following as one of the most exciting and unique activities in the Lowcountry.

Appropriate for ages 10 and up weighing at least 80 pounds, the zipline tour takes a total of two hours and begins with a briefing from one of the aforementioned guides. Spunky, athletic and unfailingly polite, the guides play a vital part in the overall experience. Trained not only in the tour’s technical aspects, this collection of college kids and local outdoorfolk can also expertly

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point is from the 75-foot Crow’s Nest, which exceeds the lighthouse in Harbour Town by three feet and is the tallest visitable point on the island, unless you work for the phone company. Keeping with Hilton Head’s overarching philosophy and practice of environmental synthesis, nothing of the course mars the view from the water.

The commitment to the island’s indigenous ecology is reflected in the hiring of DeCanio, an interpretative naturalist and former Survivor contestant whose last gig was leading people on three week journeys through the Amazonian jungle.

“I try to explain nature in meaningful ways, so that anyone from a 5 year-old to a Ph.D. candidate can appreciate what we have here,” he says.

This glorious amalgam of engineering and nature almost didn’t happen: The area was once slated to be covered with high-end condos, but after the 2009 real estate crash, owners Roger and Pam Freeman decided to rethink their original plan to develop this untouched acreage.

allay any fear factor one might have about jumping out of very tall trees and towers.

“Don’t look down,” advises the pink-haired Olivia Leeds. “Just sit comfortably in your harness. Have fun! Yeeaahhh!”

A recent graduate from North Georgia College with a degree in physics, Leeds assures that the cables and carribeeners are scientifically tested. To demonstrate, her sprightly guide partner, Ashley Atkins, pushes off with a sneakered toe and sails out above the forest floor.

The course was engineered by national adventure challenge firm S.T.E.P.S, Inc. and implemented by local builders who utilized over 27,000 bolts. It was designed to artfully blend into its surroundings as well as withstand a Category 3 hurricane, should the occasion arise.

Though this may be the Lowcountry, be prepared for a change in elevation.

“As your skills get better, the course gets a little faster, a little higher,” grins General Manager Rob DeCanio. “You get views you can’t get anywhere else.”

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“It turned out to be a blessing in disguise,” says Roger, a seasoned businessman in his 60s who foresaw a niche for Hilton Head’s 2.5 million visitors a year. “We’ve highlighted the best aspects of the area and have become a tremendous asset for the island itself.”

There’s real truth in that statement: TripAdvisor, the globe’s number one user-generated travel site, recently awarded Zipline Hilton Head a 2013 Certificate of Distinction for its consistently high marks from participants, placing it in the top 10 percent of attractions in the entire world.

“I think we received the award because we’re truly focused on giving people a good time,” ponders Roger.

“This is the only vacation some of these folks get all year, and we want it to be fantastic for them.”

Leaving the majority of the property intact, the Freemans have also monetized their land with a drydock boat storage unit as well as a restaurant, Up the Creek Pub. The pub attracts a relaxed evening crowd for beers and live music and uses local seafood as well as produce from its

on-site garden, bursting with tomatoes, basil and peppers.

“We’re very proud of the garden,” says DeCanio in a brief moment of respite between tours.

He’ll be overseeing up to 36 tours a day through Labor Day, including sunset trips that include a view of fireworks set off at Shelter Cover on Tuesday nights.

He also shares that the best days for locals to zipline during the summer are on the weekends, as SaturdaysMondays are usually turnover days for vacationers. Tours are $89 per person plus tax, and $20 will buy you a single thrill ride on the racing line.

Tours run in groups of eight, so you and your smaller crew may share this experience with total strangers.

By the third or fourth zip, however, most groups have bonded like they’ve known each other for years.

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those things that fall in the cracks between. He worked with the reverently-remembered Cardinal Rep, and with the also-long-gone Little Theatre of Savannah.

Queenan’s final City of Savannah show, Once On this Island, went up in the summer of 2008.

That fall, he created the theater program at Savannah Country Day School — it’s just wrapped its fifth successful year — and enrolled in summer classes at Central Washington University in Seattle.

Queenan now has a Masters degree in theater production, and his summers are free. So he’s directing again — Falsettos, a musical by William Finn and James Lapine, represents the re-introduction of his theatrical toe into Savannah waters.

Falsettos runs June 14-23, on the weekends, at Muse Arts Warehouse.

“Working with students has been incredibly rewarding for me,” Queenan explains. “What I found was that turning a young kid on to theater was so incredibly rewarding that I ended up receiving as much as I was giving. This year, my students won the Georgia Theatre Conference with their one act production of The Laramie Project.”

He doesn’t miss the city and its teeny-tiny Black Box on Henry Street (anyway, the theater program was tellingly shuttered for good two years after Queenan’s departure).

Just as much, he loves Savannah Country Day. “The rewards have just been incredible working in a 400-seat proscenium theater, working with a budget and working with administrative support,” he offers.

“It’s really been great.

“But what I have missed is working with adults.”

Queenan and his longtime partner, musical director Warren Heilman, are producing Falsettos under a brand-new banner: Bangers & Mash Theatre Works (“Adult Food For the Stage!”).

The moniker refers to a traditional working-class British dish — sausages and mashed potatoes.

“I guess the idea for me is that it’s bits and pieces of something hearty that you can take a bite out of,” says Queenan. “And that’s what I want the theater company to be like. I absolutely love light, fluffy theater, I adore it, but I want the things we do at Bangers & Mash to have more meat to them.”

Enter Falsettos, a poignant (and ultimately) uplifting musical about Marvin (Ray Ellis), who’s left his wife for another man (Whizzer, played by Dan Finn). It won two Tonys in 1992, for Best Book and Best Musical Score. Variety called the show “A masterly feat of comic storytelling and ...visionary musical theater.”

Cecelia Arango (this year’s “Best Local Actress” winner in our Best of Savannah readers’ poll) plays Marvin’s long-suffering ex-wife Trina.

The cast also includes Christopher Stanley, Finn Repella, Carol Melton and Josie Streiff.

“The great thing about Falsettos,” points out the director, “is that it’s not just a gay story, it’s not just a Jewish story — it’s very Jewish, which makes it so rich — and it’s not just a story about heterosexual people, or about childhood in a family of divorce … it’s about all of those things.”

Queenan first saw the show — which is an amalgam of three William Finn one-acts — as a resident of the New York/New Jersey area in the 1980s.

“I lived there when the AIDS crisis came,” he says. “And watched all of my friends die, and my partner.

And so this is the tail of the beginning of that — in this play, they don’t even know what HIV is. At the time, they called it GRID, Gay Related Immuno Deficiency.

“You know, we always come to the theater to see a bit of ourselves.

I don’t care if you’re seeing a bit of yourself in Curly in Oklahoma!, or Laurie, or if you’re seeing a bit of yourself in Marvin or Whizzer. I think at this time, gay people were just starting to see a bit of themselves represented in the media. And thirsty for it. Thirsty dying for it.”

Falsettos preceded Rent, another incredibly moving musical that approached many of the same subjects.

“When I heard this music and went to see the show,” Queenan recalls, “I could, on a human level, relate to what was happening.” CS Falsettos Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703D Louisville Road When: At 8 p.m. June 14, 15, 21, 22; at 3 p.m. June 16 and 23 Tickets: Adults $20/Students $15 (by reservation and at the door) Reservations: (912) 920-3594

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‘Unnamed Places’ and Kickstarter Thank You Party at Foxy Loxy

Gallery spaces south of Forsyth once again participated in the First Friday Art March on the evening of June 7.

Foxy Loxy Print Gallery and Café hosted a reception for work on view there this month, a collection of mixed media works on paper titled “Unnamed Places” by local artist Benjamin Stanley. Additionally, the folks at Foxy threw a thank-you party that night to show their appreciation for the successful Kickstarter campaign that permitted the coffeehouse’s upstairs expansion.

Owner, artist and SCAD printmaking professor Jennifer Jenkins was busy upstairs prepping for the night, but took a few minutes to chat about the goings-on at Foxy.

With the flood of espresso-addicted students from the nearby SCAD outpost Arnold Hall having receded, Jenkins and her staff find themselves finally able to catch their collective breath. The weekend after SCAD’s graduation thus proved the perfect time to show off the renovation.

Upstairs continues Foxy’s familiar look, which is marked by a decidedly disciplined brand of eclecticism. Generously sized windows allow ample light in, and a door leads out to a second-floor porch that only adds to the venue’s already generous outdoor spaces.

The renovated second floor’s focal point is a burlap proscenium Jenkins calls “the band shell.” More than a cozy nook in a warm space, the structure will serve as a stage for spoken-word acts and small band performances in the future.

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Foxy Loxy has made a measurable impact on Savannah’s midtown neighborhoods over the course of the last two years.

Better put, Foxy is part of a network of creative and strategic thinkers who aim to redefine the area south of Forsyth Park. Following suite, Desotorow Gallery is redefining itself as Desotorow, Inc., 501(c)(3) art agency concerned with social change and community development.

Director Clinton Edminster was on hand to discuss those changes at

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Desotorow’s “Staff Infection” show, which offered viewers works by the organization’s dedicated volunteers and staff.

Edminster expanded on the ambitions he shared in an interview featured in Gallery Hop on April 24, 2013. In the six weeks since that interview, he’s led Desotorow’s rebranding initiatives, which include a new mission statement, added volunteer staff, an enhanced leadership role with the monthly Art March and some secret projects in the works that will be revealed over the summer.

According to its new mission statement, Desotorow, Inc. will “research and understand the local economy, create opportunities for artists to pursue creative and financial goals,

provide resources to artistic groups and individuals, and showcase local art to promote a sustainable creative economy in Savannah, GA.” The folks at Desotorow and at related spots like Foxy are proving that a synergetic relationship between the arts and local business can and will lead to the revitalization midtown Savannah is begging for. Today’s research into ways to create a sustainable market infrastructure through the sale and exhibition of art will contribute to a thriving midtown community tomorrow.

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Lynne Ellen’s small prints of housing structures emerging from the slop of consumer waste were understated critiques of heightened consumerism, and Jordan Acosta’s plaster and wood accumulations made for a nice contrast between reaching branches and plaster sculpted into caressing hands. presented on a dress form, which feaThe show’s standout piece was tured a head-turning print of his own without doubt Steven Miller’s apron, design. A muscle-bound Uncle Sam

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guest artists in Bob Rizzo’s Assemblage Workshop on April 27. Participants used found and collected objects to tell stories and create new ways of looking at things.

Thu., June 13, 6-8 p.m Thinc Savannah, 35 Barnard St. 3rd Floor. mer sales exhibition of work

by SCAD students, professors, staff and alumni. Imagery from around the world. Free and open to the public. Fri., June 14, 6:30-8 p.m Gutstein Gallery, 201 E Broughton St.

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. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

Artists Sought for Exhibitions in 2014 — The City of Savan-

nah’s Department of Cultural Affairs is seeking artists to exhibit at the Cultural Arts Gallery in 2014. All mediums =considered for a non-degree seeking solo or group exhibition, including video and installation pieces.

Proposals should include a cover letter; a resume; an artist statement; a previous exhibition record; 10-12 digital images of work==; and a self-addressed a stamped envelope if = proposal needs to be returned. Deadline, September 6, 4 p.m. Submit to Debra Zumstein, Arts Programs Coordinator, City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 W. Henry St., Savannah, GA 31401.

Proposal guidelines online at www.savannahga.gov/arts or by calling (912) 651-6783.

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Reception: Return Of the Primordial Goddess — A solo exhibi-

Continuing proximately 40 photographs from Telfair’s permanent collection that explore candid and staged compositions to create portraits. Many new acquisitions are exhibited for the first time. Jepson Center, 207 West York St.

On The Congress Strip New York Accents — An exhibition of visual art, decorative and fine art objects from Telfair Museums’ permanent collection exploring the rich influence of New York on Savannah. Telfair Academy, 121 Barnard St.

Reception: Snapshots — Sum-

Act/Natural: Photography — Ap-

Akers and Christopher Williams. Showcases historical research through encaustic paintings, photography and sculpture. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St.

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Reception for ‘Assemblage’ at Thinc Savannah is Thursday Beautifice — MFA Painting Thesis Exhibition by John Jeremie Faircloth. Paintings that explore a unique character, the Diminished Man. Fahm Street Gallery, One Fahm Street.

Candice Breitz: Queen (A Portrait of Madonna) — Video artist Bri-

etz’s multichannel video installation, featuring avid Italian Madonna fans performing their way through Madonna’s “Immaculate Collection” album. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Contemporary Southern Landscape — The unique land-

scape of the South is the subject of this exhibition of work by a wide range of artists, media, and styles. Jepson Center, 207 West York St. Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists by Jerry Siegel —

Jerry Siegel’s approximately 50 black-and-white and color portraits. Jepson Center, 207 West York St.

Form - Figurative Works — A selection of figurative paintings and photographs from multiple artists. The first curated exhibition from the new collaboration between June Stratton of Whitney Gallery and Susan Laney of Laney Contemporary. Whitney Gallery, 415 Whitaker St.

Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein Collection — Featuring 33

looks from Costa’s Spring 2013 collection. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Hybrid — Chakaia Booker’s

exhibition of wall-mounted and freestanding sculptures.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

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

colored and painted etchings

by DiCroce feature whimsical figures, animals and plants.

Drawings by Temple exhibit bio-mechanical interaction and imaginary entomologies. Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr.

Kate Greene — Greene is the

featured artist at Starland Cafe, 11 E. 41st St. from now through late July. The show, entitled Extract Photography, is a return to the photography that Kate first tackled while living in Germany in the late 70’s. Her current interest is decaying material, peeling paint, and rust.

KNIHT — Works by Garret

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tion by Emily Kell of paintings and mixed media works that embrace mysticism, ancient cultures,and feminism.

Reception June 14th, 6-8 pm Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Rehearsals: The Practice and Influence of Sound and Movement — Works by acclaimed

artists from the Walter O. Evans Collection in dialogue with contemporary works.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Shadows Remain — A selec-

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Wall reliefs and monumental freestanding floor pieces.

Through Sep. 22 SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Silver From the Rizza Collection — An exhibition of the

recently donated collection of 18th-to-20th century American and English silver. Jepson Center, 207 West York St. Sitting in Savannah: Telfair Chairs and Sofas — Highlights

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

Sixty Shades of Blue — SCAD

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Unlike the raunchy Wedding Crashers, this Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson comedy is rated PG-13 instead of R, it avoids the strain of mean-spiritedness that’s in vogue in modern comedy, and its leads are now more comfortable making jokes about 1953’s Stalag 17 and 1983’s Flashdance than anything from the brave new world of 2013.

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Certainly, a lot of that has to do with the chemistry between Vaughn and Wilson.

Here, they’re respectively cast as Billy and Nick, two watch salesmen who unexpectedly find themselves out of work after their boss (John Goodman) shuts down his business (reasoning that everyone now checks for the time on their iPhones and such).

Nick briefly finds employment at a mattress store (cue yet another tiresome cameo by Will Ferrell), but he’s quickly talked by Billy into dropping that gig and joining him in an attempt to land internships at Google headquarters (aka The Googleplex) in California.

They manage to get their feet through the door, but they now find themselves competing with numerous other interns for permanent positions - and unlike them, the other recruits are college kids who eat, drink and breathe computers.

The Internship is conventional in the ways one would expect: A longtime Google employer (Rose Byrne) initially resists Nick’s flirtations but eventually falls for him; one intern (Max Minghella) mentally bullies everyone around him, especially the “old guys”; and Billy and Nick find themselves

hanging out with the youthful rejects. Yet the script by Vaughn and Jared Stern smartly addresses the generation gap without making fun of either side: There’s something to be said for the work ethic of these students who acknowledge the harsh realities of contemporary career-building, but there’s also much to learn from the easygoing attitudes of people who grew up in a time before every baby is automatically handed an iPod the minute it pops out of the womb.

What’s more, Vaughn as both writer and co-star generously gives the younger performers in the cast room to maneuver, and even with sketched-in characters, this allows all of them to make positive impressions. Of course, the two stars still get the lion’s share of the choice quips, but that’s OK: They’re both on their game, and it’s their ingratiating ways with a line that keeps the humor percolating.

Aside from an uproarious scene involving Professor Charles Xavier (yes, that Professor X), the laughs are mostly low-key — but at least they’re there, which automatically places this above many guffaw-free films of its genre.

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While the PG-13 The Internship traffics in gentle humor, This Is the End repeatedly hits for the outskirts of the R-rated fence - and it scores an awful lot of the time. It starts with Jay Baruchel (playing Jay Baruchel) visiting Seth Rogen (playing Seth Rogen; see the pattern?) in LA in the hopes of spending some quality one-on-one time getting high and playing video games with his friend. Instead, Seth drags Jay to a party at James Franco’s house, a loud and boisterous event where the guests include Michael Cera (revealed as a sex fiend), Jason Segel, Paul Rudd and other Judd

Apatow-endorsed comics.

But what starts off as a typical Hollywood evening turns both cryptic and apocalyptic when the earth opens up and begins swallowing some people while others are whisked into the sky. Is it End of Days? The few remaining survivors - among them James, Jay, Seth, Jonah Hill and Craig Robinson - aren’t sure, but they do know that they need to board up the house and ration the supplies if they hope to hang around long enough to find out.

The moments of comic gold are sometimes diluted by considerable stretches of tedium, generally occurring when writer-directors Evan

Goldberg and Rogen (adapting Jason Stone’s short film Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse) and their improvising actors refuse to end scenes and instead carry them past the point of comedic no-return. Clearly, these are all performers who are in love with themselves, which is fine except that it makes the movie a rather insular experience.

At one point, it seems that Emma Watson will rack up considerable screen time, and we eagerly anticipate seeing the Harry Potter franchise player bring a dash of girl power to this boys’ club. But no, her appearance is more limited than expected, as if these guys were completely

unequipped to write female characters (even with Ms. Watson’s presumed assistance). Instead, it’s Danny McBride who’s late to the party (in both senses of the phrase) and then allowed to hang around.

Look, I’ll come clean and admit that, for me, a little McBride goes a loooong way, so if you think he’s a modern equivalent to Chaplin or even Belushi, then raise my rating a full star. But aside from a few moments, his presence harms the picture, particularly in an interminable sequence in which his discussion of how he likes to shoot his wad all over the place seemingly runs as long as

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I daresay that making the entire Grand Canyon disappear would be an easier feat of magic than trying to whip the screenplay for Now You See Me into something remotely logical.

The theme of the movie is misdirection — the magician’s practice of making audiences focus on something while the real trick is taking place away from the center of attention — and that notion has seeped into every aspect of the production.

A terrific cast, a promising trailer, a zippy pace, glitzy locales — all of that is merely meant to distract us from noticing that the movie itself is nothing more than an empty spectacle hopelessly riddled with gaping plotholes, narrative coincidences and a final twist that couldn’t have been more preposterous had it revealed that Chewbacca was actually Luke’s father.

For a while, the film delivers on its promise of a good time. Four magicians of differing popularity perform acts of magic, either for the amusement of audiences or for themselves.

J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg) is the most successful of the bunch, first seen showing off his skills with a nifty card trick. Then there’s Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher), whose act involves being dumped into a tank of piranha. Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson) is largely a has-been, a mentalist who now employs his skill to bilk money out of folks with unsavory secrets. At the bottom is Jack Wilder (Dave Franco), the rookie who’s still performing con jobs at street level. All four accept the invitation of an unknown person to gather at a certain location; cut to a year later, and we now see that the quartet has formed a world-class outfit known as the Four Horsemen, playing to massive audiences under the sponsorship of the wealthy Arthur Tressler (Michael Caine in a role that makes absolutely no sense).

Their gig in Las Vegas is a doozy: They teleport a Frenchman to his bank in Paris and return him with a vaultful of Euros in tow, all of which

are rained down upon the crowd.

This Robin Hood act doesn’t sit well with Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo), an FBI agent who doesn’t like to see anybody fleeced. Forced to team up with an Interpol agent named Alma Dray (Melanie Laurent), he works hard to not only nab the team but also debunk their tricks — to help him with the latter, he turns to Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman), a former magician who has made a name for himself exposing trade secrets.

The opening portion of Now You See Me works so well because it focuses exclusively on the four tricksters, who are all interesting characters whether working alone or sharing the screen. The Vegas show and its aftermath are also riveting, as Thaddeus patiently explains the act to a frustrated Rhodes. But after this point, the screenplay by Ed Solomon, Boaz Yakin and Edward Ricourt spirals wildly out of control, with the emphasis taking a hard right away from its intriguing angle and settling into a more standard cat-and-mouse pursuit, one that’s capped by an endless car chase filled with inconsistencies and illogical diversions. Indeed, the ludicrous nature of this sequence is representative of much of the film.

Working under director Louis Leterrier (the Clash of the Titans remake), the writers go beyond forgetting to dot their i’s and cross their t’s — their script is ofttimes so sloppily constructed that it’s the equivalent of also leaving off periods and confusing your and you’re.

This is one of those films where the plot can only progress if characters perform a specific act at a specific time, or where one unanticipated reaction from a peripheral character) would unravel all the plans.

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With After Earth, Will Smith and his son Jaden seem to be heading down this precipitous path of cinematic nepotism. While Will was clearly the lead in their previous joint effort, The Pursuit of Happyness, he made it clear that he wanted his young son to share the superstar spotlight in this new film — no longer as dicey a proposition for studios, given the huge success of Jaden’s Karate Kid remake. But After Earth is simply a bad movie, and while it probably won’t damage Big Willy’s A-list

standing, it stands to potentially halt little Jaden’s momentum in its tracks.

This stillborn drama is set in a future in which the planet Earth has been rendered uninhabitable by alien invaders (called Ursas) and everyone still alive is now living in outer-space colonies far, far away.

The imaginatively named Cypher Raige (the senior Smith) is a legend because, like Daredevil, he was born without fear and is thus able to slaughter Ursas at, uh, will. His son Kitai (the junior Smith), on the other hand, is frightened of the alien monsters, particularly since he saw one rip apart his sister (Zoe Kravitz) at a younger age. So when their spaceship crashes on Earth and Cypher’s broken legs render him immobile, it’s up to the lad to make his way across the treacherous landscape to locate the craft’s tail end and a rescue beacon.

For a science fiction feature, After Earth proves to be anemic in both concept and execution. An ample amount of important exposition is missing, and even what’s promised on screen isn’t delivered.

Even more than a science fiction spectacle, this film registers as a father-son tale — and a rather dreary one at that. Working from a story suggested by Will Smith, director M. Night Shyamalan (whose career continues to plummet at Mach speed) and co-scripter Gary Whitta fail to establish any sort of believable rapport between their central characters — amazing considering they’re related in real life.

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Generally speaking, any series that has managed to make its way to a sixth installment is running solely on fumes, but that’s not the case with the Fast & Furious brand. This wildly inconsistent franchise seems to rise and fall on whenever the muse randomly hits its creators, which may be often (2011’s series-best Fast 5), inconsistently (the 2001 original, The Fast and the Furious) or not at all (2003’s wince-inducing 2 Fast 2 Furious). Place Fast & Furious 6 (or simply Furious 6, as it’s called on screen) toward the front of the assembly line: It may not be quite as satisfying a ride as its immediate predecessor, but with its cast of series notables, slam-bang action sequences and even a narrative surprise or two, it largely delivers the

goods while also nicely setting up July 2014’s Fast & Furious 7.

Star Trek Into Darkness

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What J.J. Abrams and his writers (Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman on the first picture, Orci, Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof on this one) are accomplishing with Gene Roddenberry’s brainchild mirrors a tightrope act performed with exquisite delicacy and balance. They’ve managed to embrace the Star Trek canon while also expanding it, expertly weaving together elements that will appease the Trekkie faithful while also making the property more friendly toward the uninitiated.

Having introduced an alternatetimeline scenario in the previous picture, Abrams and company charge full steam ahead, opening with an Indiana Jones-like sequence that will inform many of the scenarios unfolding throughout the picture.

Chief among them is the tension between James Kirk (Chris Pine), who hasn’t met a Starfleet regulation he can’t break, and Spock (Zachary Quinto), whose adherence to the rules taxes not only Kirk but also Uhura (Zoe Saldana), who’s learning that it’s not always easy dating a Vulcan.

But personal issues take a back seat once a terrorist attack decimates a London building; the culprit is one John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch), and Admiral Marcus (Peter Weller) orders the Enterprise crew to follow Harrison into the heart of darkness - his hideout deep in the Klingon zone - and terminate him with extreme prejudice.

From here, the story takes some interesting turns; it also lends an enormous amount of complexity to Harrison, allows the returning cast members individual moments to shine (although I wished Dr. McCoy, perfectly played by Karl Urban, was as integral to these films as he was to the series) and reworks elements from one of the classic Trek films in a highly imaginative manner.

Star Trek Into Darkness only flags toward the end, when a careful excision of a few minutes of CGI bombast would not have been unwelcome.

In most other regards, though, the film is an unqualified success, and it promises a bright future for this tireless franchise. CS

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site or the Drinking Liberally facebook page for more information. Free ongoing, 7 p.m. livingliberally.org/drinking/ chapters/GA/savannah. ongoing, 7 p.m Brick House, 514 M.L.King Jr. Blvd.

Forever Tybee Potluck

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.

A potluck dinner followed by a workshop for people considering running for Tybee City Council. Presenters are trainers who have run successful campaigns. 6:00pm pot luck, 7:00pm workshop. Who should attend: Is this for adults only? Children? All concerned citizens are welcome to attend, especially those with an interest in public service Sponsored by: Forever Tybee, PAC Free. Bring a delicious dish to share. frufflefeathers@comcast. net. Mon., June 17 Old Tybee School (Cafeteria), 204 Fifth Street.

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, 7:00 p.m. See web-

Get involved. Contact is Michael Johnson, via email or telephone, or see website for info. 912-604-0797. chairman@sayr.org. sayr.org. Call or see website for information. Free ongoing.

13th Colony Patriots

Drinking Liberally

Savannah Area Young Republicans

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912-308-3020. savannahyoungrepublicans.com. ongoing Savannah Tea Party

Free to attend. Food and beverages available for purchase. First Monday of each month at 5:30pm(social) with meeting at 6pm. 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. Young Democrats

Mondays at 7pm on the second level of Foxy Loxy. Call or visit the Young Democrats Facebook page for more information. Free Sundays, 3:30 p.m. 423-6197712. foxyloxycafe.com/. Sundays, 3:30 p.m Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St.

Benefits Chatham County Animal Control Seeks Donations of Items

Chatham County Animal Control is in need of items for pets in the facility.

Seeking donations of canned and dry dog and cat food, baby formula, news-

paper, paper towels, soaps, crates, leashes, collars, wash cloths, and towels. Open daily from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ongoing. 912-351-6750. animalcontrol.chathamcounty.org. ongoing Chatham County Animal Shelter, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr.

Fathers Helping Mothers Father's Day Run

A one-mile walk/run and a 5K walk/ run, benefiting moms in need. $5-$10 Sun., June 16, 6:30 p.m. 912-755-3322. torantamike@gmail.com. Sun., June 16, 6:30 p.m Daffin Park, 1198 Washington Ave. Forsyth Farmers Market Seeks Sponsors

Market sponsors invest in a healthy community and show consideration for the local economy. Sponsorship opportunities begin at $350. Help keep food fresh and local. ongoing. kristen@ forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket.com/. ongoing Forsyth Famers' Market, 501 Whitaker St., South End of Forysth Park. continues on p. 44

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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 Pup Crawl

Bull Street Auctions

2819 Bull Street (behind Two Women & A Warehouse) · 443-9353 Always accepting quality consignments Auction Co. License #AU-C002680

A pub crawl for the pups! (And the kitties.) Purchase $10 cups at Shrimp Factory or Jen's and Friends, then follow the scavenger hunt map to 11 bars, restaurants and lounges downtown. Wrap party at 9pm at Joe's Crab Shack. A benefit for the Humane Society of Greater Savannah. $10 Thu., June 13, 5-9 p.m. humanesocietysav. org. Thu., June 13, 5-9 p.m Quarterly Book Sale

art camp

SUMMER ART CAMP | JUNE 3 - AUGUST 9 9 week-long sessions 7 full-day sessions for ages 6-12

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Books for a quarter--once per quarter! This four-times-per-year sale has books, CDs, DVDs and even VHS for 25 cents each. June 15,9am-12pm. A fundraiser for the Humane Society of Greater Savannah. Through June 15. humanesocietysav.org/‎. humanesocietysav.org/. Through June 15 Humane Society for Greater Savannah, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. Savannah Uncorked

Annual wine-tasting event raises funds for The Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial University Medical Center, and Memorial’s trauma and critical care services. 7-10pm, Sat. June 15. Guests sample a variety of wines from around the world and pair them with cuisine from some of Savannah’s finest chefs. This year’s honored patient is Steve Stephens, president/CEO of Stage Front Presentation Systems.

Call or email for tickets. $75 Through June 15. 912-350-6381. HowarMa3@ memorialhealth.com. thesavannahgolfclub.com/. Through June 15 The Savannah Golf Club, 1661 President St. Smiles for Life: Benefits Children's Charities

Through June 30, Godley Station Dental in Pooler will provide tooth-whiten-

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ing 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

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 ,.

Apply for City of Savannah Boards, Commissions and Authorities

The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah are accepting applications for appointment(s) and reappointment(s) to fourteen boards, commissions, committees and authorities. At least one slot is open on each. Term lengths vary. Applications can be found on the City’s website. Deadline is 12pm, Wed. June 12. Through June 12. 912-6516441. clerkofcouncil@savannahga. gov. savannahga.gov/boards. Through June 12 Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

City art contest open to Chatham County students

The City of Savannah seeks original artwork from Chatham County rising 9th graders through 2013 high school graduates depicting the beauty of the city's historic squares and parks. Submissions will be digitized and posted online and the winners will be chosen by an online vote of Savannah’s citizens. Winning entries will be framed and displayed in a permanent exhibit in City Hall for all our citizens and visitors to enjoy. Submission deadline Friday, July 12. To download a copy of the information sheet which must accompany each submission,see website. Through July 12. 912-651‐6411. lspracher@savannahga.gov.. savannahga.gov/ArtContest. Through July 12 City of Savannah TV Show Seeks Entries

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The City of Savannah's TV station, SGTV is seeking insightful and wellcrafted profiles, documentaries, animations, original music videos, histories or other original works by or about the citizens of Savannah to run on "Engage", a television show produced by the city. Interested in

collaborating with filmmakers, artists, musicians and others in producing original content for the program. While the City does not offer compensation for such programs, SGTV does offer an opportunity to expose local works to a wide audience. More than 55,000 households in Chatham County have access to SGTV. Submit proposals via website. The City reserves the right to reject any programming that does not meet content standards. ongoing. savannahga.gov/engagesgtv. ongoing

Junior League of Savannah seeks good women with a heart for voluntarism for the 2013-14 Provisional Class. To request an application, please contact the Membership Development Chair, Erinn Carter at erinnfitzgerald@hotmail. com or the Junior League of Savannah headquarters at headquarters@ jrleaguesav.org. Application deadline extended to July 19. Through July 19. jrleaguesav.org. Through July 19

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

Art, Music, Piano, Voice Coaching

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. Through July 12. 912644-7927. cnorthcutt@savannahga.gov. savannahga.gov/arts. Through July 12

Beginning Belly Dance Classes

City seeks applications for Weave A Dream Initiative

City Seeks Proposals for 2014 Cultural Services

Davenport House Museum Junior Interpreter Program for High School Students

Young people ages 14-19 will learn to give tours of the Davenport House Museum in downtown Savannah during an eight week program. Training sessions held at the museum, Thursdays,6-8 pm, June 13-August 3, when the newly trained JIs give tours to the public.

Especially seeking students interested in history, art, public speaking and historic preservation. Through Aug. 18. 912-236-8097. jcredle@davenporthousemuseum.org. davenporthousemuseum.org. davenporthousemuseum. org. Through Aug. 18 Davenport House, 324 East State St. Homeschool Music Classes

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

Classes, Camps & Workshops 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.

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. Beginning Project Management

An overview of the nine components for project success: scope, integration, communication, time, cost, procurement, risk management, quality control, and human resources. This 12-hour course, together with the 24-hour Advanced course (also offered this summer), will complete the 35-hour course requirement for the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional certification application. Friday, June 7, 9:00am3:30pm, and Tuesday & Wednesday, June 18 & 19, 6:30-8:30pm. Offered

by Georgia Southern's Continuing Education Division in Savannah. $600 Through June 17. 912-644-5967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. ceps. georgiasouthern.edu/conted/cesavannahmenu.html.. cgc.georgiasouthern. edu/. Through June 17 Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Champions Training Center

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

912-349-4582. ctcsavannah.com.

Classical and Acoustic Guitar Instruction

Savannah Classical Guitar Studio offers lessons for all levels. Dr. Brian Luckett, Ph.D. in music. Starland District. Guitar technique, music theory, and musicianship. Folk/rock based lessons available.

No electric instruments. $25/half hour. $45/hour. brian@brianluckett.com.

Clay Classes

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

Coast Guard Auxiliary Boating Classes

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

Continuing Ed. Courses through June 2013

Georgia Southern's Continuing Education Program in Savannah offers new courses through June: Social Media for Small Business; Facebook for Beginners; five Microsoft Office Courses (Word 1 & 2, Excel 1 & 2, and PowerPoint); Beginning and Advanced Project Management; Drawing 2; Short Story Writing; Beginning Sign Language; five Photography courses (Point & Shoot, Beginning and Advanced Creative Photography, Portrait Photography, Advanced Photoshop); and Essay Writing

for SAT. See website for dates/times/ fees. Through June 30. 912-644-5967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. ceps. georgiasouthern.edu/conted/cesavannahmenu.html. cgc.georgiasouthern. edu/. Through June 30 Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

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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.

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Effective Business Communications: On Paper, Online, On Your Feet

Effective Business Communications is Georgia Southern University’s newest professional development seminar for Human Resources. Earn 2 hours of HRCI re-certification credit. Success or failure in business often hinges on effective communication. Learn to understand and apply the 3 key elements of successful communication: content, organization and presentation. Instructor Frank J. Mendelson is an author, and marketing and communications professional. $75 / $65 for 4 or more Tue., June 18, 8:30 a.m. 855.478.5551. ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/ BEST.html. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/.

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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.

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 Free Fitness Boot Camp

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

Guitar, Electric Bass & Double Bass Lessons

Instruction for all ages of beginner/ intermediate students. Technique, chords, not reading, theory. Learn songs and improvisation. Taught two blocks from Daffin Park. Housecalls available. First lesson half price. ongoing. 401-255-6921. 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: MonThurs, 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. Kamp PHUN (Peace, Hope, Unity, Now)

A camp for the children of current or formerly incarcerated parents. A ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia.

For children ages 9-11. Camp dates: July 28 - August 2. Applications or more info contact: Cindy Coward, 912-3550398 Email: goofycindy@gmail.com.

Free. Through July 28. Through July 28 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. 912-

| Submit your event online at connectsavannah.com 541-1337. sentientbean.com. ongoing The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave.

Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens, 2 Canebrake Rd.

Promotes proficiency and confidence in basic Word functionality including: documents, formatting, clip art, themes/ styles, tables, templates, mail merge, bulleted and numbered lists, and the Office Ribbon. Monday & Wednesday, June 17 & 19, 6:30-9:30pm. Offered

by Georgia Southern's Continuing Education division in Savannah. $85 Through June 17. 912-644-5967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. ceps. georgiasouthern.edu/conted/cesavannahmenu.html.. cgc.georgiasouthern. edu/. Through June 17 Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

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.

Microsoft - Word 1

Microsoft Word I

Achieve proficiency and confidence in basic Word functionality including: working with documents, text and page formatting, clip art, themes/styles, tables, templates, mail merge and bulleted and numbered lists. You'll also acquire sound knowledge of the Office Ribbon. For more information contact Christina Taylor at christinataylor@ georgiasouthern.edu $85.00 Every other day, 6:30 p.m. 912-651-6206. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. Every other day, 6:30 p.m Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Music Lessons--All Instruments.

Rody's Music offers lessons for all ages on all instruments, beginners through advanced. Call or email for information. 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@gmail.com. ongoing Orchid Repotting Workshop

The Summer Gardening Series kicks off on Saturday June 15, 10am-12pm with this Orchid Repotting Workshop, in the Orchid Greenhouse. $20 includes materials. Through June 15.

912-921-5460. coastalgeorgiabg.org. coastalgeorgiabg.org/. Through June 15

Photography Classes

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 912-12-6607399. Call for fee information.

Russian Language Classes

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

Call for info. ongoing. 912-713-2718. ongoing Sewing Classes

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

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

Savannah Sewing Academy. 1917 Bull St. ongoing. 912-290-0072. savsew. com. ongoing Short Story Writing

Gives students with some experience in fiction and nonfiction storytelling the opportunity to use assigned readings, writing homework, and workshop style critiques to explore various writing techniques. Works of Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Ann Beattie and others will be studied. Upon completion, students will understand narrative structure and scenic writing, dialogue, character, place, word choice, rhythm and pacing, and the art of revision. Offered by Georgia Southern's Continuing Education division in Savannah. Call or email for days/times/pricing. ongoing.

912-644-5967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/ conted/cesavannahmenu.html.. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. ongoing Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Singing Lessons with Anitra Opera Diva

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

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

Learn Spanish for life and grow your business. Courses for professionals offered by Conquistador Spanish Language Institute, LLC. Classes offered in a series. Beginner Spanish for Profes-

sionals--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" Acting for Film

Getting "Reel" for Youth (A class with a product) Eight classes June 3rd, $350 • Find your range through self study. • Discover your characters • Use direction to transform your choices • Create characters and apply those characters to a short film. Email for audition time: Short film to be filmed with actors form this class. $350 Tuesdays.. 912-6564927. FirstCityFilms.com. Tuesdays.

First City Films, POB 8185.

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

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Buccaneer Region SCCA

Local chapter of the Sports Car Club of America, hosting monthly solo/autocross driving events in the Savannah area. Anyone with a safe car, insurance and a valid driver's license is eligible to participate. See website. ongoing. buccaneerregion.org. ongoing Business Networking on the Islands

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

Tradewinds Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Call for info. ongoing. 912308-6768. ongoing

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

Attendees pay for their own meals.

RSVP by phone. ongoing. 912-660-8257. ongoing Ink Slingers Writing Group

A creative writing group for writers of poetry, prose, or undefinable creative ventures. Based in Savannah and a little nomadic. Meets two Thursdays a month, 5:45pm. Discussion of exercises, ideas, or already in progress pieces. Free to attend. See Facebook page savinkslingers. ongoing. ongoing Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Island MOMSnext

Drop N Circle Craft Night

Energy Healers

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.

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

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

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Historic Savannah Chapter: ABWA

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

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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

Islands MOPS

Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet

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

Want to learn? Join us. ongoing. 912308-6768. 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. Low Country Turners

A club for wood-turning enthusiasts.

Call Steve Cook for info at number below. ongoing. 912-313-2230. ongoing Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary

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

Peacock Guild--For Writers and Book Lovers

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

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19 Me, myself ___ 20 Field female 21 City that’s peacefully centered?

23 JFK guess 25 Checkup sounds 27 Award for Sgt. York 28 Part of a b-ball play 29 Pool plaything 31 Dorky David 33 City where everyone wakes up for the day?

38 Dame ___ Everage 39 Worshipped one 40 DC swingers, for short 44 City full of Bugs?

47 Highly unusual event 50 Kia car 51 Certain MIT grads 52 Hardly a crowd 55 “I’m ___ Boat” 56 Month of the Indianapolis 500 57 City known for its cute cat videos?

60 A quarter of XII 62 Gone across a pool 63 City that prevents others from copying them?

67 Ameliorate 68 Feasted one’s eyes upon 69 ___ vez (again, in Spanish) 70 Cannon of cinema 71 “___ the problem?”

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1 Surprised sounds 2 Little battery 3 SAN, in this puzzle 4 BBQ side 5 Jose opening 6 Set of students 7 Number between sieben and neun 8 “The Witches” author Dahl 9 Tropical palms 10 Berry in drinks 11 Security system feature 12 Like some plumbing 13 Ren’s partner 18 Author Zora ___ Hurston 22 “Fiat lux” is its motto 23 Non-PC suffix 24 ___ the line (obeyed) 26 “___ Gabler” (Ibsen play) 30 Arizona baseball player, for short 32 “Are too!” comeback 34 “___ sure, boss” 35 Wok coater 36 Turnpike’s kin: abbr.

37 Vacuum cleaner tycoon James 41 They believe nature has a soul 42 “Breaking Bad” rating 43 Go from side to side 45 Bulk 46 “Buy U a Drank” rapper 47 Owned (up) 48 Margin for error 49 Olympics chant 53 It gets thrown in basketball 54 Consider carefully 55 Baby barn bird 58 “Untouchable” feds 59 Norah Jones’ “___ Dream” 61 “___ your back” 64 They may reveal your age: abbr.

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Workshops on the 3rd Thursday of each month on vision losss, services, and technology available to participate in the community. And, how the community can support individuals with vision loss. Orientation and Mobility Techniques; Low Vision vs. Legal Blindness; Supporting People with Low Vision to Achieve Maximum Independence; Low Vision Simulator Experiences; Resources. Free and open to the public. ongoing. savannahcblv.org. ongoing Savannah Center for the Blind and Low Vision, 214 Drayton St.

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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 Authors Meeting

Savannah Authors encourages firstclass prose writing, fiction or nonfaction, using discussion, constructive criticism, instruction, and examples.

We welcome unpublished authors, new writers, and people who just want to know more about our craft. We limit ourselves to prose, both fiction and non-fiction. Free Through Aug. 30, 7 p.m. (912) 308-3208. Through Aug. 30, 7 p.m Private Residence, 630 East Victory Drive.

Savannah Charlesfunders Investment Discussion Group

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

Contact by email for info. ongoing.

| Submit your event online at connectsavannah.com charlesfund@gmail.com. panerabread. com/. ongoing Panera Bread (Broughton St.), 1 West Broughton St.

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Conferences

Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club

Savannah Toastmasters

Helps improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment. Mondays, 6:15pm, Memorial Health University Medical Center, in the Education Building. ongoing. 912-4846710. ongoing Savannah Writers Group

Savannah Kennel Club

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

Savannah Newcomers Club

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 Jaycees

Meeting/info session held the 1st Tuesday each month at 6pm to discuss upcoming events and provide an opportunity for those interested in joining Jaycees to learn more. Must be age 21-40. Jaycees Building, 101 Atlas St. ongoing. 912-353-7700. savannahjaycees.com. ongoing 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. 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 Savannah No Kidding!

No Kidding. Join Savannah's only social club for people without children! No membership fees, meet great new friends, enjoy a wide variety of activities and events. savannahnokidding.angelfire.com/ or e-mail savannahnokidding@gmail.com ongoing. ongoing The Historic District, Downtown Savannah.

Seersucker Live's Happy Hour for Writers

Spies and Mysteries Book Club

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. 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. Tertulia en espaĂąol at Foxy Loxy

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

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.

Everyone who loves to sing is invited to join Savannah Sacred Harp Singers. All are welcome to participate or listen too one of America's most revered musical traditions. Call or email. ongoing. 912655-0994. savannahsacredharp.com. ongoing Faith Primitive Baptist Church, 3212 Bee Road.

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

Savannah Parrot Head Club

Savannah Sacred Harp Singers

Savannah SCA

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671

Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation

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

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

2127 1//2 E. Victory Dr. $15/class or $48/hour. Call or see website. ongoing.

912-596-0889. cairoonthecoast.com. ongoing

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. 912-2348745. 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. 912-9212190. 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.

912-925-7416. 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. 912-414-1091. 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. 912-5960889. 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

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tap dance experience is necessary.

Call Claudia Collier for info. ongoing.

912-748-0731. ongoing Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Windsor Forest.

PICKDance 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. Dynamics of Dance- Kids Camp 2013

Do you have a child who loves to dance or interested in dancing? Kids camp consists of sessions of dance for all ages 5-16. We will be teaching Jazz, Tap, Ballet warm-ups and stretches, Ballroom, and Belly dancing. Includes Kids Camp T-shirt, sessions $8 per, snacks, and exhibition on last day. $352.00 Tuesdays-Thursdays, 9 a.m..

912.312.3549. salondebailedancestudio. com. Tuesdays-Thursdays, 9 a.m. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

GRAND RE-OPENING Black and White Party!

Dancing, light eats, and entertainment from students and instructors.

Come dressed in your casual black and white attire to sport studio colors and celebrate. Adult cocktails are welcome. $10.00 Fri., June 14, 8 & 10 p.m.

912.312.3549. salondebailedancestudio. com. Fri., June 14, 8 & 10 p.m Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Home Cookin' Cloggers

Wednesdays, 6pm-8pm, Nassau Woods Recreation Building, Dean Forest Road.

No beginner classes at this time. Call Claudia Collier for info. ongoing. 912748-0731. ongoing Irish Dance Classes

Glor na Dare offers beginner to champion Irish Dance classes for ages 5 and up. Adult Step & Ceili, Strength and Flexibility, non-competitive and competitive programs, workshops, camps.

Certified. Info via email or phone. ongoing. 912-704-2052. prideofirelandga@ gmail.com. ongoing 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

| Submit your event online at connectsavannah.com 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.

RAVE NIGHT with DJ ORSON WELLS

Get your Rave on with the the one and only DJ Orson Wells! We got glow sticks! Saturdays, 9 p.m. Saturdays, 9 p.m Dosha Bar & Lounge, 128 East Broughton St. 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.

Events Armstrong's "Become a Teacher" Info Session

For individuals with a bachelor’s degree in any major who want to become certified teachers. Paths to certification, the application process and financial aid.

Attendees will be able to ask questions and receive individual attention. Tue., June 18, 6-7 p.m. 912-344-2568. greg. dziuban@armstrong.edu. armstrong. edu. Tue., June 18, 6-7 p.m The Armstrong Center, 13040 Abercorn St. AWOL Open Mic Therapy Session

Monthly showcase for spoken word poetry hosted by A.W.O.L. Sun., June 16, 7 p.m. sentientbean.com. sentientbean. com. Sun., June 16, 7 p.m The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Downtown Business Assoc. Luncheon

Monthly luncheon features speaker Amir Farokhi, Executive Director of Georgia Forward. RSVP required. $25 Wed., June 12, 11:30 a.m. SavannahDBA.com. charleshmorriscenter.com.

Wed., June 12, 11:30 a.m Charles H.

Morris Center, 10 East Broad St.

Farm a la Carte: A Mobile Farmer's Market

At various spots around town, including Green Truck on Wednesdays, 2:30pm6:30pm. Bethesda Farmers' Market on Thursdays, 3:00-5:30pm. Forsyth Park Farmers' Market on Saturdays, 9am1pm. Sustainable meats, organic produce, local dairy. ongoing. revivalfoods. com. greentruckpub.com. ongoing Green Truck Pub, 2430 Habersham St. Farmers' Market and Fleatique

Local vendors of regionally grown produce, antiques, flea market finds on Wilmington Island. Outdoor market or indoor booths. Free to attend. Booths for rent. Cents and Sensibility, 6703 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Saturdays, 9am1pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-6592900. ongoing Fishing, Food & Antique Autos at the Bamboo Farm/Coastal Gardens

The Bamboo Farm/Coastal Ga. Botanical Gardens hosts the Antique Auto club of Savannah and the Dixieland Cruisers for an old-fashioned cruise-in.

Plus lakeside catch and release fishing and lunch at the lakeside pavilion. $10 per vehicle entry fee. Fee for lunch.

Sat., June 15, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 912-9215460. coastalgeorgiabg.org. coastalgeorgiabg.org/. Sat., June 15, 10 a.m.-2 p.m Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens, 2 Canebrake Rd. Free Family Day: Juneteenth Celebration

Telfair Museums' monthly family days continues with art projects, gallery activities, story time. June events include performances and storytelling celebrating the emancipation of AfricanAmerican slaves. Free Sat., June 15. telfair.org. telfair.org/jepson/. Sat., June 15 Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Friday Night Feast and Film

Join AHA & Occupy Savannah for a FRIDAY NIGHT FEAST & FILM, screening "Edible City - Grow the Revolution," a documentary that shows how everyone can get involved in transforming our food system. Potluck starts at 6pm movie to begin around 7:10ish. FREE Fri., June 14, 6 p.m. Fri., June 14, 6 p.m Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. Guided Tours of the Lucas Theatre for the Arts

Learn the history of the historic Lucas Theatre on a 20-30 minute tour. Restoration, architecture, history of the theatre and of early cinema. $4. Group rates for ten or more. School trips available. No reservations needed for 10:30am, 1:30pm and 2pm. Other times by appointment. Call for info. ongoing. 912-525-5023. lucastheatre.com. ongoing Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. J Low & Friends

Interactive puppet show reenacting TRUE events from Juliette Low's extraordinary life done in "reality TV" style. Great music and fun for all ages!

Reservations preferred. $16 for show only; $20 for show & studio tour Tue.,

June 18, 7 p.m. 912-355-3366. Tue., June 18, 7 p.m Puppet People Studio, 3119 Furber Ave. KARAOKE

KARAOKE Every Sunday 10pm-1am & every Wednesday from 9pm-12am, Come join the fun. Sundays, 10 p.m. and Wednesdays, 9 p.m. 912-341-7427. tondees.com/. Sundays, 10 p.m. and Wednesdays, 9 p.m Tondee's Tavern, 7 East Bay Street.

The original Midnight Tour

One of the spookiest tours in town.

Learn about the untold stories of some of the most haunted locations here in Savannah Georgia. Guaranteed to give you a few goose bumps and an unexplained need for a night light. 33.00 ongoing. 1-866-666-3323. 6thsenseworld.com. ongoing 6th Sense Savannah Tours, 404 Abercorn Street.

PBJ Pantry

A free food pantry held every Thursday, 10-11am and 6-7pm. Contact Jessica Sutton for questions. 912-897-1192 ongoing. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. ongoing YMCA (Wilmington Island), 66 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

Refer Madness: A Business Social and Networking Event

That's "refer"...as in "referral." (Gotcha!) A networking event to learn about Revenu of Greater Savannah, a bartering network (formerly NuBarter). Wine, hors d'oeuvres and door prizes. Open to all coastal Georgia business owners.

Free Thu., June 13, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

912-233-0808 ext. 107. nubarter.com. mycreativeapproach.com. Thu., June 13, 5:30-7:30 p.m Creative Approach, 408 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Refresh Savannah: Detangle your jQuery

Refresh Savannah offers a talk on jQuery and about using CoffeeScript’s native language constructs to apply what we have learned from frameworks and tools like Backbone and Bootstrap. If this makes sense to you, then you should attend. Free and open to the public Tue., June 18, 6 p.m. refreshsavannah.com/2013/06/junesrefresh-detangle-your-jquery-usinglessons-from-coffeescript-to-createbetter-design/. thincsavannah.com.

Tue., June 18, 6 p.m Thinc Savannah, 35 Barnard St. 3rd Floor.

Savannah Storytellers

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

Wednesdays, 6 p.m Tubby's Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. Savannah Vendor Blender

JUNE 15TH.... Mark your calendars for OUR 2ND SAVANNAH VENDOR BLENDER!!! It's FREE... and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!!!! Raffle tickets will be sold at the door. www.savannahvendorblender.com Free Sat., June 15, 9 a.m. savannahvendorblender.com. Sat., June 15, 9 a.m Savannah Vendor Blender, 2 W. Bay Street.

Shire of Forth Castle Fighter Practice

Speakeasy Cabaret Onstage

Jazz & Cabaret night on the storied stage of the Lucas Theatre, transformed into a 1920s lounge for the evening. Live music, open bar. Hors d’oeurves available. Limited to 100 people. $20 at the door. $10 students.

Thu., June 13, 7:30 p.m. 912-525-5040. lucastheatre.com. Thu., June 13, 7:30 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St.

for people age 13-19. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. check website or call for info. ongoing.

912-598-9860. savannahalanon.com. ongoing

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

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.

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.

Bariatric Surgery Support Group

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.

Festivals Burning of Darien Civil War Commemorative Re-enactment and Festival

A 150th commemoration of the June 11, 1863 burning of the entire city of Darien by Union forces.

Reenactors,cannon firings, living history demonstrations, boat tours, and historical talks by the County Historian Buddy Sullivan. Vendors on Broad Street selling arts, crafts, and food. Cosponsored by Fort King George Historic Site. Free, except for boat tours Sat., June 15, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 912-437-4770. gastateparks.org/fortkinggeorge. Sat., June 15, 10 a.m.-5 p.m Darien Waterfront, Downtown Darien.

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

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Al-Anon Family Groups

Fitness Classes at the JEA

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

For anyone caring for senior citizens with any affliction or illness. Second Saturday of the month, 10am-11am.

Savannah Commons, 1 Peachtree Dr. Refreshments. Free to attend. Open to anyone i need of support for the caregiving they provide. ongoing. savannahcommons.com. ongoing Hiking & Biking at Skidaway Island State Park

Year round fitness opportunities. Walk or run the 1-mile Sandpiper Nature

iRun/iYoga Run Club

Everyone is welcome to join us for this donation-based Run/Yoga get together!

Meet at JF Gregory Park (RHill) at 8am, run together at your own pace/distance.

Yoga will follow at 9am at Awakening Yoga Studio. No pre-reg or experience with running or yoga needed! donation Every other Sunday, 8 a.m.. 912-6569663. awakeningyogastudio.com. Every other Sunday, 8 a.m. Awakening Yoga Studio, 2453A US Highway 17.

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 JCB Mud Run

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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.

Blue Water Yoga

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.

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ARIES

(March 21-April 19) Irish poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan didn’t confine his lyrical wit to well-crafted poems on the printed page. He used it to say things that would advance his practical ambitions. For example, when he first met the woman who would eventually become his wife, he said to her, “Why don’t you come into my garden? I would like my roses to see you.” That’s the kind of persuasive power I hope you will summon in the coming days, Aries. According to my analysis of the omens, you should have it in abundance. So what’s the best use of this mojo? Is there anything you would really like to sell? What new resources do you want to bring into your sphere? Who do you want to convince?

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20) In *The Book of the Damned,* Charles Fort revealed one of the secrets of power. He said that if you want power over something, you should be more real than it.

What does that mean? How do you become real in the first place, and how do you get even more real?

Here’s what I think: Purge your hypocrisies and tell as few lies as possible. Find out what your deepest self is like -- not just what your ego is like -- and be your deepest self with vigorous rigor. Make sure that the face you show the world is an accurate representation of what’s going on in your inner world. If you do all that good stuff, you will eventually be as real and as powerful as you need to be.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20) Long after the artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani died, his paintings sold for millions of dollars. But while alive, he never got rich from doing what he loved to do. He expressed frustration about the gap between his ambitions and his rewards. “I do at least three paintings a day in my head,” he said. “What’s the use of spoiling canvas when nobody will buy anything?” I hope you don’t arrive at a comparable conclusion, Gemini. It’s crucial that you NOT keep your good ideas bottled up in your imagination. You need to translate them into practical actions, even if there’s no immediate or obvious benefit in doing so.

Expressing yourself concretely has rarely been more important than it

is right now.

apples and oranges.

CANCER

LIBRA

In 1967, dissidents dreamed up a novel way to protest America’s horrific Vietnam War. They marched to the Pentagon, the military’s headquarters, and performed an exorcism to purge the place of its evil. With the power of songs and chants, they invoked magic spells designed to levitate the 6.5 million-square-feet building into the air. Their plan didn’t quite work in a literal way -- the Pentagon remained firmly fixed to the ground -- but the legend they spawned was potent. When I heard about it years later, it inspired me to become an activist. I see mythmaking as a worthy goal for you right now, Cancerian. Dream up an epic task or project that will fuel your imagination for a long time.

Gonzo columnist Mark Morford wrote a list of liberated behaviors he wants to cultivate. Since you’re in the emancipatory phase of your yearly cycle, I invite you to try some of his strategies. 1. Have a gentler grip. Let go of tight-assed attitudes. 2. Make deeper penetration. Don’t be satisfied with surfaces. 3. Raise the vibration. Isn’t it a waste of precious life energy to mope around in a sour and shriveled frame of mind? 4. Appreciate appreciation. Treat gratitude as an emotion of the same caliber as joy. 5. Cultivate ecstatic silliness.

Develop a blissful ability to take everything less seriously. 6. Drink the awe. Allow astonishment to seep in. (More: tinyurl.com/morford joy.)

LEO

SCORPIO

In 1926, surrealist artist Max Ernst painted “The Blessed Virgin Chastising the Infant Jesus in Front of Three Witnesses.” It shows Mary vigorously spanking her son as he lies on her lap. Nowadays, the image doesn’t seem nearly as scandalous as it did when it first appeared. Even some Christians I know find it amusing, welcoming the portrayal of Jesus as a genuine human being with lessons to learn. What would be your equivalent of creating a cheeky image like this, Leo? How could you achieve cathartic release by being irreverent toward something or someone you respect? I recommend it. (See the image: tinyurl. com/SpankingJesus.)

From an astrological perspective, now would be a good time to go on a meditation retreat for a few days or make a pilgrimage to your ancestral homeland. You would generate just the right shifts in your brain chemistry by doing something like that. Other recommended adventures: reviewing the story of your entire life from your first memory to the present moment; writing a brief letter to the five people you have loved best, telling them why you’ve loved them; spending a day outside of time, when you don’t consult a clock or use electronic media for the duration.

(June 21-July 22)

(July 23-Aug. 22)

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22) It’s prime time to promote crosscultural liaisons and interspecies relationships, Virgo. I encourage you to experiment with hybrids and facilitate the union of diverse interests. You will be working in alignment with cosmic trends if you strengthen the connections between influences that belong together, and even between influences that don’t know they belong together. So see what you can do to facilitate conversations between Us and Them. Negotiate peace treaties between Yes and No. Look for legitimate ways to compare

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Sagittarius comedian Steven Wright says he took a class in speed waiting. “Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes,” he brags. I think you will have the same knack in the coming days, Sagittarius. Your patience is likely to be much more effective than usual. Results will come faster and they’ll be more intense. The only catch is that you will really have to be calm and composed and willing to wait a long time.

It won’t work if you’re secretly antsy and only pretending to be imperturbable.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Let the boundaries blur a bit, Capricorn. Don’t stick too rigidly to

the strict definitions. Play around with some good old-fashioned fuzzy logic. The straight facts and the precise details are important to keep in mind, but you shouldn’t cling to them so ferociously that they stifle your imagination. You need to give yourself enough slack to try open-ended experiments.

You’ll be smart to allow some wobble in your theories and a tremble in your voice. Magic will happen if there’s plenty of wiggle room.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather,” said French poet Paul Valery. How do you interpret that thought, Aquarius? In the book *The Science of Self-Control,* here’s how Howard Rachlin expands on Valery’s idea: “We need to be spontaneous, but only in the context of some framework that allows us to attain higher levels of spontaneity; a feather is a slave to the wind, while a bird *uses* the wind.” Take heed, Aquarius!

Your creative flights will go further and last longer if you have a solid foundation to take off from.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20) Let’s call today Sigh-Day. Tomorrow, too, and the next day, and the two days after that. During these five Sigh-Days, you should feel free to let out big, deep sighs at a higher rate than usual. Allow yourself to be filled up with poignant thoughts about life’s paradoxical mysteries. Give yourself permission to be overwhelmed with emotions that are midway between lamentation and reverent amazement. For even better results, indulge in some free-form moaning during your five SighDays. That’ll help you release your full backlog of tension and give you more appreciation for the crazy beauty of your fate. (P.S. Try not to whine, though.)

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. 912-4299241. 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. 912-238-0018. 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, 912-7565865, or Billy Tomlinson, 912-596-5965. ongoing. ongoing Savannah Climbing CoOp Ladies Night

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

Weekly events (entry $5) Friday Night Flights: Fridays, 5pm. Luck of the Draw Doubles: Saturdays, 10am. Handicapped League: Saturdays, 1pm. Singles at the Sarge: Sundays, 10am. All skill levels welcome. Instruction available.

See website or email for info. ongoing. savannahdiscgolf@gmail.com. savannahdiscgolf.com. ongoing Savannah Striders Running and Walking Club

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

Monthly meetings with quality speakers.

Frequent social events. Sign up online or look for the Savannah Striders Face-

Stillness in the Midst: A Movement Meditation Workshop

An afternoon exploration of the 5Rhythms through movement, art, massage and food designed to help us "still the mind". Saturday June 29, 1-5pm. For details: Waves Savannah, a 5Rhythms Dancing Community (on Facebook) or via email for location and fees. Through June 29. danald@planters.net. Through June 29

Foods, 10 West Broughton St., Corner of Broughton and Bull.

Ongoing Balsamic Vinegar and Ice Cream Pairings and Tastings

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Low Country Gourmet Foods, 10 West Broughton St., Corner of Broughton and Bull.

Forsyth Farmers Market

Tai Chi Lessons in Forsyth Park

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

Turbo Kick Cardio Workout

Gay & Lesbian

Tuesdays, 9am-10am. $10. North End of Forsyth Park. Email for info. ongoing. relaxsavannah@gmail.com. ongoing Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Lose calories while dancing and kickboxing. No experience or equipment needed. Tues. and Thurs. 6pm, Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton Wed. 6pm Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. $5 ongoing. 586-822-1021. facebook.com/ turbokicksavannah. ongoing Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors

Free for people with cancer and cancer survivors. 6:30pm Tuesdays. 12:45pm Thursdays. Fitness One, 3rd floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine at Memorial. Call for info. ongoing. 912-3509031. memorialhealth.com/. ongoing Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Yoga on the Beach

Wednesdays and Fridays at Tybees's North End. 7am-8am, weather permitting. Come to North Beach Parking Area, Gulick Street walkover. Multilevel class. Hatha 1 and 2. Instructor Ann Carroll. Bring yoga mat or beach towel. Call or email for info. Fee: donations. ongoing. 912-704-7650. ann@ aikyayoga.com. ongoing North Beach, Tybee Island.

Zumba and Zumba/Toning with Mai

Mondays: 8:30am and 7pm. Lake Mayer Community Center. $5. 5:30pm Frank Murray Community Center, Whitmarsh Island. $3. Tuesdays: 10am Curves @ Savannah Mall. $5/class for non-members. 5:30pm St. Paul CME Social Hall, 123 Brady St. $3 Per class/ non-members. Wednesdays: 9:30am, Frank Murray Community Center, Whitemarsh Island, $3. Thursdays: 10am, Curves at Savannah Mall, $5.

Bring water, proper shoes and attire.

Contact Mai @ 912-604-9890. ongoing.

912-604-9890. ongoing Zumba Fitness (R) with April

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

Food Events Balsamic Vinegar and Ice Cream Pairings and Tastings

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First City Network Board Meeting

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

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

Local chapter of Georgia's largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 912-5476263. ongoing. ongoing Savannah Pride, Inc.

Organizes the annual Savannah Pride Festival and helps promote the wellbeing of the LGBT community in the South. Mission: unity through diversity and social awareness. Second Tuesday/month, 7pm, at FCN office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. ongoing. 912-2887863. heather@savpride.com. ongoing Stand Out Youth

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

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

A children's therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Ages 10 to 18. Meets twice a month. Call for info. ongoing.

912-352-2611. ongoing

Health Meet and Greet for 7-Day Diabetes Repair

Learn about a course on how to 'repair' your diabetes, in just seven weeks, meeting one day per week. Strategies for change, stress managing techniques, films, an offsite tour,foods that heal. Cooking demonstrations and tastings. Led by Jeff Adams and Carolyn Guilford. Meet the trainers and learn more about the program that begins June 19 and June 20. Free and open to the public. Fees for full course. 912236-8987. Butler Presbyterian Church, 603 W. Victory Dr.

Alcoholics Anonymous

For people who want or need to stop drinking, AA can help. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. Free to attend or join. Check website for meeting days/times, or call 24 hours a day. ongoing. 912-356-3688. savannahaa. com. ongoing Armstrong Prescription Drug Drop-Off

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

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

Information on bariatric surgery and the program at Memorial Health Bariatrics. Learn surgical procedures offered, support and education programs involved, and how bariatric surgery can affect patients' lives. Call or see website for info. Free to attend. Hoskins Center at Memorial. ongoing. 912-3503438. bariatrics.memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. ongoing Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Cancer Patient & Survivor Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Techniques of deep relaxation, breathing and gentle movement that can be practiced daily to develop mindfulness, reduce stress and enhance well-being.

Wednesdays: May 15-July 10, 6:308:00pm at Fitness One on the Memorial campus. Call for information and to register. Through July 10. 912-3507845. memorialhealth.com/. Through July 10 Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Effingham's Biggest Loser

Cash prize for the winner! The winner will be determined by percentage of overall weight lost. Registration and weigh in will be on Saturday June 15th. First group exercise class will be on Wed, June 19th. You do not have to join the contest to attend the classes.

Classes will be $5 per person for those not in the contest. $50 912-656-3760.

Low Country Baseball Academy, 606 Laurel Street.

Energy Workshops

Energy Medicine Workshops June 9, and 22nd/23rd led by Ellen Farrell. See website for information. Through June 23. ellenfarrell.com. Through June 23 Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Free Hearing and Speech Screening

Hearing: Thursdays, 9am-11am.

Speech: First Thursdays,. Call or see website for times. ongoing. 912-3554601. savannahspeechandhearing. org. savannahspeechandhearing.org/. ongoing Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St.

Free HIV Testing at Chatham County Health Dept.

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

Test results in 20 minutes. Follow-up visit and counseling will be set up for anyone testing positive. Call for info. ongoing. 912-644-5217. ongoing Chatham County Health Dept., 1395 Eisenhower Dr. Health Care for Uninsured People

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

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

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

Call or email for info and reservations. ongoing. 912-704-7650. carroll362@ bellsouth.net. ongoing Hypnosis, Guided Imagery and Relaxation Therapy

Helps everyday ordinary people with everyday ordinary problems: smoking, weight loss, phobias, fears, ptsd, life coaching. Caring, qualified professional help. See website or call for info. ongoing. 912-927-3432. savannahypnosis. com. ongoing La Leche League of Savannah

A breast feeding support group for new/ expectant monthers. Meeting/gathering first Thursdays, 10am. Call or see website for location and other info. ongoing. 912-897-9544. lllusa.org/web/ savannahga.html. ongoing Living Smart Fitness Club

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

(Program sponsors.) ongoing. 912-4476605. ongoing CS

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Looking For Skilled Concrete Labors Experience is a plus, also need skilled concrete finishers, two years exp required. Good pay. And study work in and around Savannah Area.

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1412 E 56th St. 3BR/1BA, Hardwood floors, LR, Kitchen/Dining w/Fridge & Gas Stove, W/D connections, CH&A, Fenced backyard, Carport & Extra Storage $800/rent, $750/deposit.

503 Lucian Court Paradise Park. Total Electric, 3BR/2BA, LR, Eat in Kitchen, Dining/Den, W/D Hookups, CH&A. Fenced Yard $825/rent & $775/deposit 1136 E. 39th Street 3BR/1BA, eat-in kitchen w/Stove & Refrigerator, CH&A, Fenced backyard, garage. $725/rent, $675/deposit.

Section 8 Accepted

898-4135

LEASE-TO-OWN OR FOR SALE

3BR/2BA. One side of duplex,one level. Southside. Conveniently located to elementary school & busline. $74,900 OBO. Investors welcome. 912-308-0550 Land/Lots for saLe 840 5 Acres on Savannah Town Rd. Springfield Ga Call 843-413-0547 Call 912-721-4350 and Place Your Classified Ad Today!

commercial property for sale 845 RETIRING: American Chinese/Fast Food Restaurant For Sale. Serious Inquiries Only. Call 912-352-2205

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1004 W. 41St, 4BR/2BA Home CH/A, LR, Separate DR, Den, Dinette Area, Furnished Kitchen Section 8 Welcome $950. mo/$500dep 912-354-1453 100 LEWIS DRIVE: 2BR/1.5BA Apt. for rent. Central heat/air, stove, refrigerator. $625/month, $500/deposit. 912-308-0957

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1935 BEECH STREET, Savannah 2BR/1 Bath cute home for rent. $750/month, $750/security deposit.

1-Year Lease required.

Available June 15th.

912-323-7194 1BR/1 BA TOWNHOUSE, fully furnished w/all amenities. $800/per month, $500/deposit.

Call 912-344-1332 2021 WESTLAKE AVENUE 2BR/1BA Apt. completely remodeled, hardwood floors $600/rent, $300/deposit. .

Call 912-844-3990 or 912-655-9121 *2027 1/2 E. 36th: Studio Apt. $500. * 5 Monica: 3BR/ 1 1/2 BA $950. * 808 E. Waldburg: 4BR/2BA $900.

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310 Tibet Ave

2BR/2BA, Gated Community.

Laundry Rm. furnished kitchen, LR/DR Combined, Section 8 Welcome. Great Loc. Available July 1st. $900mo/$900 dep.

912-507-0639 4 BED, 2 BATH HOME Large Home. Very Spacious. Section 8 Accepted. Move In Specials.

Call 912-272-4378 •5533 Betty St., 3 BR, all electric. $850 •2226-1/2 East 50th: 2BR , all electric $600 •2122 Alaska: 3BR, cute house with washer & dryer $825 912-257-6181

ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED 1BR, kitchen and bath, private entrance, patio. $600/month, $600/security deposit. Near St. Joe’s and AASU. 912-224-3164

CARVER HEIGHTS AREA 1013 Carter St, 2BR/1BA CH/A W/D hook-up, fenced yard

$585mo/$585dep.

912-844-2344

EDEN - EFFINGHAM 3 Bedrooms, 1 Bath, Country atmosphere. $675/month plus deposit. No Section 8. 912-234-0548

FOR RENT

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

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

FOR RENT 51 East Fairmont Ave, 2BR/1BA, CH/A, Carpet & Ceramic Tile. $695 month/$695dep now available.

Call Dawn, 912-661-0409 HOME FOR RENT: 1016 West 45th Street, Savannah. 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath, LR, DR, kitchen. $495/per month. Call 912-330-0463 HOUSES 3 Bedrooms 166 Lion’s Gate $1650 1702 E. 35th St. $825 2 Bedrooms 2309 E. 42nd St. $750 APARTMENTS One Bedroom 917-A Harmon St. $855 3801 Waters Ave. $645 315-B E.57th St. $625 Two Bedrooms 917-B Harmon St. $925 1230 E. 54th St. $525 Three Bedrooms Pooler/Twnhse 303 Gallery Way-$1000 Three Bedrooms 123 Harmon Creek $825 Furnished Loft 321 Broughton St. $1500 3-4 Month Rental 116 1/2 E. Gaston St. $1495 FOR DETAILS & PICTURES VISIT OUR WEB PAGE WWW.PAMTPROPERTY.COM Pam T Property 692-0038

LARGO TIBET AREA

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

Call 912-704-3662 OLD SECTION PORT WENTWORTH 2 Big BR, 1BA, New CH/A, New Roof, New Carpet. W/D Hook-Up, $650/month, $650/deposit.

912-964-1213

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SECTION 8 WELCOME

307 Treat Avenue,Savannah. Newly renovated, 3BR, 1 Full Bath, LR, DR, kitchen w/refrigerator, electric stove, washer/dryer connection, CH&A. Will accept tenants other than Section 8. $900/month. 912-604-8308

SECTION 8 WELCOME

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

912-844-5996 OR 912-272-6820

SOUTHSIDE

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

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

912-927-3278 or 912-356-5656

Southside Condo

2BR/2 Full Baths, w/d connections, screened porch, pool, down stairs unit, on bus line. $700 cash dep, $ 775 rent, small pets under 20lbs ok. No calls after 8pm

please. 912-308-0206

SOUTHSIDE

TOWNHOUSE- Lewis Dr. 2-Bedroom, 1.5-Bath, Stove, Refrigerator, washer/dryer connections, dishwasher, central heat/air, total electric, no pets. $625/month $625/deposit. 912-657-4583.

Whitemarsh Island Garage Apartment 1 LR/KIT Unfurnished, all utilities $750 per month 1 year quired. Available July pointment only.

912-898-0179

BR, 1 B, included lease re1st. ApCall

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***WHY RENT when you can OWN for darn close to what you are paying your landlord! Call Pamela for free options.What do you have to lose??...

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WINDSOR FOREST HOMES •Available Now! 3BR/1.5BA, family room has been used as 4th BR, new CH&A, new interior paint, new energy efficient windows and sliding doors.

Conveniently located. $999/month, $989/security deposit. Military or Police Discount.

•Available Now! Really nice inside & out! 3BR/1.5BA, LR, DR, new wood floors, new paint interior & exterior, new vinyl floors in baths, new ceiling fans, new high-efficiency windows & sliding glass door, utility room, carport. $999/rent, $979/security deposit.

•Available Now! 3BR/1BA, LR, family room, dining area, large kitchen, laundry room, central heat & A/C, shed w/electricity & concrete floor. No pets or smoking.$959/Rent + security deposit $999. (1yr. lease required) Police & Military Discount NO SECTION 8 OR SMOKING ACCEPTED. 912-920-1936 CommerCial ProPerty For rent 890 WAREHOUSE / STORAGE AREA Available. 3,000 Sqft. Drive in ability, fenced parking area, Chatham Pkwy. area. Email: info@coastalbath.com. rooms for rent 895

ROOMS FOR RENT Completely furnished. Central heat and air. Conveniently located on busline. $130 per week. Call 912-844-5995.

SPACIOUS ROOMS FOR RENT Newly renovated on busline.2 blocks from Downtown Kroger,3 blocks from Historic Forsyth Park. $150/week w/No deposit.

844-5995 EFFICIENCY ROOMS Includes stove, refrigerator, private bath. Furnished! $180/week.

Call 912-844-5995.

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

Call Ike @ 844-7065 CLEAN, QUIET, NICE ROOMS & EFFICIENCES from $100-$170.

Near Buslines.Stove, Refrigerator, Washer & Dryer .For More Info Call 912-272-4378 or Email: jamesthomas5817@yahoo.com

EAST & WEST SAVANNAH

$100 & Up Furnished, includes utilities, central heat/air, Comcast cable, washer/dryer. Ceramic tile in kitchen. Shared Kitchen & Shared bath. Call 912-210-0144

FURNISHED APTS. $165/WK.

Private bath and kitchen, cable, utilities, washer furnished. AC & heat, bus stop on property. No deposit required. Completely safe, manager on property. Contact Cody, 695-7889 or Jack, 342-3840.

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

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

912-231-9464 Other apts. avail.

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

Call 912-398-7507.

NEW ROOMS FOR RENT Freshly painted rooms including, cable, central air/heating, washer & dryer. No deposit. $100-$150/week.

Call 912-401-8899, Marie.

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.

ROOMMATES WANTED VERY CLEAN. Stove, refrigerator, cable, washer/dryer included. On bus line. Starting at $125/week.

Call 912 272-6919 transportation 900

cars 910

1986 Grey Mercedes Benz 190 E 24O K + Miles $2995.00 OBO Call 912-604-7773 ACURA Vigor, 1993- 1 owner, black/tan interior, like new under hood. $2800. Call 912-598-3742

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

Boats & accessories 950

1995, 20’ AQUASPORT with 2004 150HP Mercury. Pic posted on Craigslist. $4,500. Call 912-313-0662 Campers/rVs 960

32ft Coachman Catalina

RV Coachman, 2011- 32ft.

BHDS travel trailer, 2 slides, A/C,heater,microwave,sleeps 8,near mint condition,master,FULL bath w/tub $17,999.

(912)658-7500

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