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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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Baseball and Fireworks: Savannah Sand Gnats

Book signing: Mary Kay Andrews

Crawdads, then wrap up with postgame, pre-Independence Day fireworks.

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

est book from this former Savannah Morning News reporter-turned New York Times bestselling fiction writer.

When: 1-4 p.m Where: Seaside Sisters, 1207 Hwy 80 East.

Cost: Free to attend. Books available for purchase.

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Film: La Traque (The Track) (1975, France)

What: Psychotronic Film Society presents a brutal and unpredictable French thriller reminiscent of the classic "humans hunting humans" film The Most Dangerous Game. French, with English subtitles. Mature audiences only.

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

Tybee Island Fireworks

What: The annual night-before-Independence Day display at the beach.

Where: Tybee Pier, Tybee Island.

Cost: Free and open to the public Info: VisitTybee.com

What: Celebrate the nation’s 237th

birthday with family-friendly programs, musket and cannon firing demos, hands-on crafts, and tours.

Children's craft activities July 5 only.

See Fort website for times.

When: July 4-7, 9 a.m.-6 p.m Where: Fort Pulaski National Monument, Cockspur Island.

Cost: $5 16-and-older. Free 15-andyounger.

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Fireworks over the Tybee Pier Wednesday night (July 3).

hands-on crafts, and tours. Children's craft activities July 5 only. See Fort website for times.

When: -7, 9 a.m.-6 p.m Where: Fort Pulaski National Monument, Cockspur Island.

Cost: $5 16-and-older. Free 15-andyounger.

Info: 912-786-5787. nps.gov/fopu

Fourth of July Festival on the River: Fireworks

What: Savannah's Independence Day

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fireworks display at dark. Music at 8:30pm by The Accomplices.

Where: Rousakis Plaza, River St. Info: riverstreetsavannah.com

Thursday Celebrate American Independence at Fort Pulaski

What: Celebrate the nation’s 237th birthday with family-friendly programs, musket and cannon firing demos,

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Comedy: Brian T. Shirley

What: Savannah Comedy Revue presents Shirley, a high-energy comic, and Dave Ugly, as seen on Comedy Central.

When: 8 & 9 p.m Where: Bay Street Theatre, 1 Jefferson St. Cost: Gen. Adm. $9. VIP seating $15.

Info: 314-503-9005. savannahcomedyrevue.com

First Friday Art March

What: March your way down to Starland District and the Desotorow Gallery to explore an Art Bazaar, live music, and unique gallery exhibits.

When: First Friday of every month, 6 p.m Where: Desotorow Gallery, 2427 Desoto Ave. Cost: Free Info: artmarchsavannah.com

What: Monthly folk music showcase hosted by the Savannah Folk Music Society in a friendly, alcohol-free environment.

When: July features Savannah's Lauren LaPointe and New York and New Zealand guitar duo Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb. First Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m Where: First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. Cost: $5 donation.

Info: 912-898-1876. savannahfolk.org

Festival on the River continues

What: Weekend long festival celebrating Independence Day. Saturday: Cornhole Tournament. Music daily.

Where: Rousakis Plaza, River St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

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Seersucker Live: The Read, Write & New Episode

What: Book telease Party for James Lough, Savannah author whose new book is This Ain’t No Holiday Inn: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel. Featuring Pittsburgh writer Aubrey Hirsch and Connect Savannah's own Bill DeYoung.

When: 7:30-9 p.m Where: Pirate's House, 20 E. Broad St. Cost: $10 door or online. $5 students.

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Saturday Celebrate American Independence at Fort Pulaski

What: Celebrate the nation’s 237th birthday with family-friendly programs, musket and cannon firing demos, hands-on crafts, and tours. Children's craft activities July 5 only.

When: July 4-7, 9 a.m.-6 p.m Where: Fort Pulaski, Cockspur Island.

Cost: $5 16-and-older. Free 15-andyounger.

Info: 912-786-5787. nps.gov/fopu

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Film: Berberian Sound Studio (UK, 2013)

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Forsyth Farmers Market

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

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

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Fourth of July Festival on the River continues

What: Weekend long festival celebrating Independence Day. Saturday: Cornhole Tournament. Music daily.

When: July 5-7 Where: Rousakis Plaza, River St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

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Lecture: Former POW Colonel Tom Norris What: Norris is a retired Air Force

veteran who was shot down in Vietnam and held as a POW for 6 years. He will show video footage of his plane being shot down. Q&A follows.

When: 1 p.m Where: Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, 175 Bourne Ave. Cost: Free and open to the public

Summerfest 2013

What: A fundraiser for Savannah Feed the Hungry, with headliner Kurtis Blow (now an ordained minister), Maxine Jones (founding member of En Vogue) Allure, Whodini, UTFO, MC Shan and Faith Crystal.

When: 6 p.m Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $19.50 Info: 912-257-2699. savannahfeedthehungry.com

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Sunday Celebrate American Independence at Fort Pulaski

What: Celebrate the nation’s 237th birthday with family-friendly programs, musket and cannon firing demos, hands-on crafts, and tours. Children's craft activities July 5 only. See Fort website for times.

When: July 4-7, 9 a.m.-6 p.m Where: Fort Pulaski National Monument, Cockspur Island.

Cost: $5 16-and-older. Free 15-andyounger.

Info: 912-786-5787. nps.gov/fopu

Fourth of July Festival on the River continues

What: Weekend long festival celebrating Independence Day. Saturday: Cornhole Tournament. Music daily.

When: July 5-7 Where: Rousakis Plaza, River St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

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Monday Tybee Service Industry Floatilla: Christmas in July

What: Connect Savannah is a sponsor for this party-on-the-water benefiting the Priceless Gifts Campaign, Tybee’s Mayor Motorcade, and all the churches of Tybee Island. Launch at Alley 3, on the Back River.

When: 2:30-6:30 p.m Cost: $30 Info: tybeefloatilla.com

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Tuesday Baseball: Savannah Sand Gnats Natty Light Two for Tuesday

What: Gnats v. Augusta Green Jackets.

Get two Natty Lights for the price of one all night long.

When: 7:05 p.m Where: Grayson Stadium, 1401 East Victory Dr. Cost: $7 Gen. Adm. Info: sandgnats.com

Tongue: Open Mouth & Music Show

What: Step up to the mic with 4 minutes of original material. Sign up begins at 7:30.

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

The real Paula Deen scandal

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by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

Do we always have to make people go away?

— Bill Maher, on Paula Deen It’s been written many times that slavery is America’s original sin. And much like Christianity’s idea of original sin, ours seems redeemable only by enormous sacrifice, if at all.

We’re often told how forgiving Americans are, how we more than any other people just love to give everyone a second chance.

This is true nearly all the time. Professional athletes, for example, routinely either do jail time or narrowly avoid it, and are celebrated when they return to the playing field. As long as they still play well, that is.

But when a racial transgression is involved, there seems to be no amount of time one can do to make it go away, no remedy to set things right. You have to go away.

The issue of race in 2013, even in an era of a successful, two-term African-American president, is still that charged.

Technically, slavery is the collective sin of many nations, the Bible itself being chock-ablock with it, just to name one example. But the United States is certainly unique in that we killed half a million of our own citizens in a war fought largely to retain slavery as an institution.

Take some time to read about the savagery of the Civil War battlefield. The injuries caused by artillery shells at nearly point-blank range. Entire trees cut down by the hail of bullets. The stark casualness of battlefield amputations, buckets filled with arms and legs. The bayonet charges at Gettysburg, cold steel in the belly. Dysentery, diarrhea, tuberculosis, trench foot.

Think about the passions that must have been stirred to compel men to endure such horror, and to mete it out.

Even the Europeans — who gleefully butchered each other for centuries over anything, or nothing — were slack-jawed with amazement at the level of violence here.

And for what? The causes are still debated in some quarters, but clearly one was slavery.

America, land of the perpetual second chance, was one of the last nations to relinquish slavery. Brazil — where 40 percent of the entire transatlantic slave trade disembarked — banned it in 1888, the last nation in the Western hemisphere to do so, just one generation after our Civil War. Yup, America gave slavery lots of those second chances we’re famous for. So yeah.

The feelings are still pretty raw.

Back to Paula Deen: You want a teachable moment out of these things. And if the only teachable moment is that a nearly 70-yearold white woman from rural Georgia might have some less-than-enlightened ideas about race… we’ve missed the moment.

It’s the journalistic equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel to opine that Deen said something wrong and she must pay the price. Of course it was wrong and of course there should be consequences in proportion to the wrongdoing, as with anyone else.

But if we stop there… it’s too easy. It’s going through the motions.

As Bill Maher insinuates, it becomes a ritual sacrifice instead of something we can all really learn from.

(For a very personal take on pervasive racism and its often insidious ways, see Jessica Leigh Lebos’s column this issue.)

It’s easy to make an example of Deen.

She’s made it easier by her bumbling way of addressing the scandal after her corporate handlers quickly deserted her. For contrast, see how excruciatingly long it takes Nike to terminate a controversial athlete’s endorsement contract.

But if you want to dwell on the semantics of the N-word, fine. Let’s dwell.

(However, speaking of inflammatory words, I strongly suggest we not follow the word choice of a Savannah Morning News columnist who recently wrote that Deen had been “lynched,” figuratively speaking. No. No, she hasn’t been lynched in any sense of the word. Just. Stop.)

As a Southern white male, I’ve been on the receiving end of opinions which might make your hair curl, the speakers simply assuming ahead of time that I’d be OK with whatever heinous thing they were saying.

Then again — unlike Deen in her deposition — I can’t remember the last time I heard a white person use the N-word. Not that I haven’t heard it, but it’s been so long I couldn’t tell you when it was or who said it.

But I can certainly remember the last time I heard the N-word said by someone who isn’t white. And the time before that. And the time before that.

So while we’re talking about uncomfortable things, maybe we should also talk about that, and what it might tell us, eh?

That said, and echoing many of Jessica’s sentiments, I prefer to focus on what the Deen story is really about: The intersection of race and money. That’s the real taboo.

So you want to talk about race? Let’s talk.

Let’s talk about widening economic disparity and its impact on minority communities in an era when unemployment benefits are constantly being slashed.

Let’s talk about the dire scarcity of African-American managers in companies like the Deen empire, and all over the U.S. Let’s talk about how food stamp programs incentivize people to eat the kind of nonnutritious processed crap that has the highest profit margin for the big corporations that sell said processed crap.

Let’s talk about how the least-healthy crops for American farmers to grow are the crops most subsidized by the government.

Let’s talk about food deserts in poor, mostly minority neighborhoods, where nary a piece of fruit or a leaf of vegetable can be found, but there’s a convenience store on every corner.

Let’s talk about the link between proper nutrition — of the type certainly not in evidence in Deen’s cookbooks and shows — and a child’s physical and mental well-being.

These are the conversations we should be having. Let’s leave discussions of the pariah N-word to academia, and really get down to business, shall we? cs

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Teamsters not the answer at port

Editor, Regarding Jessica Leigh Lebos’ article on port truckers: I have been in trucking for 21 years and owned my own equipment for over five years. I enjoy the independent status and gladly pay the 15% Surcharge to the IRS. Now I’m hearing the Teamsters are attempting to take over the Port of Savannah and Charleston. They claim that after 21 years I have been “misclassified” and I should be considered an employee.

So I did a little research in California and found out what being reclassified as an employee can and will do to the local economy here.

The Teamsters are attempting to rally members using the “misclassification” status, then they will pull out the Obama Energy Bill. When that action gets phased in, all the contractors who have older model equipment will be forced out of a job because their trucks will be denied access to the Georgia Port Authority. Agents and motor carriers will be forced to

pull out of Savannah and maybe the whole state.

The ones left behind who could afford these $16,8000 state-of-the-art “green” equipment will want their money back quick so they will probably lease the equipment back to a driver, making the driver work to make weekly payments. That’s gonna be hard to do considering the driver is now listed as an employee and getting employee pay.

Businesses surrounding the independent contractor industry will be forced to close because older model trucks aren’t running the area anymore. Food cart vendors will lose revenue because there is no more workers to purchase lunch. Warehouses will be forced to close because they can’t find trucks to take their freight into the ports.

My suggestion to drivers and contractors who are working for low wages is simple. Move the equipment to a more lucrative line of work. Over the last five years, many independant contractors like myself have fought hard to maintain a low CSA Score and only lease equipment onto a carrier or

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In doing this, we have been able to score higher rates hauling freight. We maintain our older model equipment and encourage other independent contractors to come work with us if their CSA Score is low, too.

Many are quick to want to unionize, thinking the Teamsters are going to fix their equipment and pay them all top dollar. This to me is a wrong approach to a problem situation.

Independent contractors need to band together again and realize the situation.

The Teamsters are not the solution but an end to your port profession.

Joe Meyers

Port ‘corruption’ is problem

Editor, I was the Savannah trucker hauling containers back in 1999 that was subpoenaed by U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Six of us from around the country belonging to several small trucking organizations had been working together causing ports, trucking companies, and ocean shipping companies a huge headache with our sporadic disruptions at specific port terminals.

There are many here in this harbor who don’t heed that lesson so they drive in a continuous circle of self destruction. By that I mean many drivers bring the problem on themselves by not saying “NO” to low-ball hauls and meaning it.

I don’t haul cheap freight. Never have, never will, I’ll park the truck first. There are too many jobs out here to keep one’s self busy without working for bread crumbs making some trucking company manager or their agent wealthy.

However, the union is not a good fit for every trucker in Savannah. There are many ways real change could come about in this industry but the mission these organizing folk are on is misguided.

For those who don’t want to own a truck, the Teamsters may be a great choice. But let’s not take away the choice of the drivers who wish to become an entrepreneur in this business. Instead let’s find better ways to help clean up some of the rampant corruption that’s plagued the Savannah Port for over 25 years.

Jim Stewart

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By Jeremy Scheinbart

On June 27, City Council unanimously voted to deny the Phase II study of a cruise ship terminal on the Savannah River Landing site. That’ll be the end of that for a while, maybe even longer.

The City Council meeting was filled to the brim with citizens, all of whom seemed to oppose the cruise terminal.

Some were allowed time to speak and subsequently denounce the idea.

Daniel Carey, executive director of the Historic Savannah Foundation, said, “there wasn’t compelling evidence to move forward.”

Dr. Ken Sapp of SCORE and the Downtown Neighborhood Association questioned information the City Council paid nearly $200,000 for, calling it “invalid and incomplete.”

Pam Miller, of Be Smart Savannah, a cruise terminal opposition group, pointed out that tiny Savannah would have little clout among heavyweight cruise companies if they ever wanted to pull out of an agreement with us.

Moreover, she said, “there’d be no boost to local businesses and any jobs created would be low-paying and seasonal.”

That was the gist of the 12 or so people who spoke, including downtown residents and business owners.

No one spoke in favor of the terminal.

Councilman Tom Bordeaux went furthest against the terminal, calling the whole concept “a dumb idea from the start.” But most people echoed the sentiment that cruising from Savannah was right to be explored, was looked into, the people spoke and now it’s done.

Most every Council member thanked Alderman Tony Thomas, a vocal backer of the terminal, for his diligent work and follow-through.

However, even Thomas had to admit that after examining the facts of the most recent study that the cruise terminal “is not the best idea for Savannah,” and ended up voting against it.

He also noted that if the same kind

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of deep inquiry was done with the Hutchinson Island racetrack, “things could have turned out differently over there.”

That portion of the meeting ended with Mayor Edna Jackson summing it up: “We had to look into this for the sake of job creation, tourism, for another way people could experience the city. It came about ... to help the local economy in tough times.”

The Council profusely thanked citizens for their input, and all reveled, albeit briefly, in a moment where government actually worked correctly and didn’t ramrod an issue through.

ANOTHER, somewhat shocking, undertone also emerged from this discussion, however.

City Council is looking for new ideas for Savannah. What? That’s right. Mayor Jackson said, “We want people to bring new ideas to council.”

According to her, a rail system to Tybee is being explored by the Metropolitan Planning Commission.

Bordeaux called for “new ideas” and “out-of-the-box” thinking to make Savannah a better place and create jobs. Councilman Van Johnson even said the concept of “casinos on Hutchinson Island” is being looked into and Savannah needs “innovative ideas” to stay relevant.

Maybe on the face of it, having a few cruise ships come through Savannah sounded good: Boatloads of people with wads of cash turned loose on the city with insatiable appetites for public drinking, candy and T-shirts.

Some of our local leadership obviously regarded this kind of tourism as an economic boon.

And, maybe it would have been, if not for all the negative external costs, including the projected $100 million terminal price tag, cruise ship pollution and the heavy pressure on an aging downtown infrastructure.

But should we have really looked into cruise ships at all? We could have asked Charleston about economic idealism and promises of cruise ship money. They spent a lot of money for a cruise ship terminal... and now they

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So. A cruise ship terminal in Savannah ... is not going to happen.

Rendering of a beautiful cruise ship that will never, ever dock in Savannah

hate it. Charleston’s Historic District is currently on the World Monuments Fund list of most endangered cultural sites. That sounds like killing the tourism golden goose, degradation of history aside.

Echoing Charleston’s caution are places like Key West, San Diego, Mobile, Venice, Cozumel, British Columbia and Norway. Considering Savannah’s unique, fragile and precious historic district, it’s good we put this cruise ship terminal experiment to rest.

However, it still seems like something does need to be done with the dormant Savannah River Landing site. The vacancy is costing local taxpayers almost $2 million a year in bond servicing — money that was supposed to come from sales and property tax revenue on SRL developments.

Despite the cheerleading of local officials to continue with the SRL project in 2009, especially guided by the rosy economic predictions of county staff, the economy remained stagnant and SRL developers bailed.

Whoops. No construction, no

tax revenue and no motivation to start fixing up President Street as promised.

Possibly, what our local government needs is some creativity, and maybe even a little out-of-the-box thinking when it comes to the SRL site. They said as much in the June 27 council meeting. Verbatim.

Ideally, Savannah would like to be a regional, national and global destination — because of our rich history and pretty architecture, sure, but also for our culture, people, and our own unique song. A cruise ship terminal was an “iffy” idea for many reasons, but most poignant, maybe, was that it was a spirit killer. It just wasn’t “Savannah.” It didn’t feel right.

If the city wants to develop the SRL land, 54 acres right on the Savannah river, let’s really seize the opportunity and seek out a spirit enhancer – something that benefits local quality of life, bolsters tourism and solidifies Savannah as a world-class destination.

Now, as our community considers what to put on the SRL site, let’s really explore our options. cs

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American dreamin’ What a week, America! I can barely digest my coleslaw for all the controversy: Yay! for the Supreme Court ruling on an egalitarian definition of marriage — and boo! to state Attorney General Sam Olens for reminding us immediately that the SCOTUS ruling doesn’t mean a thing in Georgia.

Yay! for immigration reform — and boo! for the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act that may render the votes of our new citizens irrelevant as the bums in charge gerrymander their districts.

Yay! for Wendy Davis and her sheroic Texas filibuster throwdown — and boo! for legislators who continue to wage their war on women’s rights.

Then we have our own homegrown scandal peppering the pot: The national news trucks double-parked in front of the Lady and Sons may have gone home, but the bad taste lingers. And it’s not because someone overcooked the okra.

The caramelized meltdown of Paula Deen’s empire continues as corporate sponsors and book publishers drop her like, well, a hot sweet potato. Let’s put her antiquated attitudes and the creepy business practices of her brother aside for a sec and acknowledge the greasy hypocrisy this great renunciation has been led by the CEOs of Walmart, who have

conveniently forgotten the 5,000+ lawsuits stupid about race in the South. I grew up filed against them every year from disgrun- Jewish in Arizona, where I heard horrid epithets about Latinos and Asians, but I tled former employees.

As for her linguistic blundering, she has don’t recall ever hearing the N-word, not even once. My parents raised me to judge apologized without guile. C’mon people, people only by the conshe’s not an actress — she’s tent of their character and a former agoraphobic their shoes. (“Tacky,” my and single mom whose mother would whisper friendly demeanor and when anyone walked by dastardly delicious recipes in jelly sandals.) twanged America’s heart My education about and gooped up its arterties. slavery came from a tatThat’s not to say she doesn’t tered history book. I have a Crisco vat of soullearned that the Civil searching to do, but her Rights Movement had disgrace is all of ours, like enlightened our conit or not. sciousness. Affirmative The Vilification of Our action had leveled the Lady of Perpetual Butter The work of Cedric Smith playing field. Men and has illuminated the crack women of color could be in our culture that won’t found in prominent political and corposeem to heal. And our quaint little city is ground zero for the American conversation rate positions. My rainbow coalition of friends and I quoted Nelson Mandela and on racism.

Bob Marley and Easy-E. (“Vulgar,” my Are we ready to talk, Savannah? mother frowned at the latter.)

We have here a certain history, a real I spent 12 years in the San Francisco ugly one. Those whose ancestors lived it Bay Area studying West African dance, carry it in their bones. Those of us not born here spout politically-correct outrage, aspiring to jump as high and leap as far as my teachers born in Guinea, Ghana but self-righteousness is unattractive and and Senegal. I do my best to show my disingenuous. More importantly, it gets children that both beauty and bad behavus nowhere. Hard to climb to moral high ior exist in every human shade. When ground in the Lowcountry.

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Yet he is keenly aware that as an African-American male, there will always be some who see him only as a potential criminal.

A few years ago on a cloudy day, he was shooting photos in the tony Design District when he tucked his long-lensed camera into his jacket to protect it from the rain. Next thing he knew, he was surrounded by cops screaming at him to put his hands on his head. They were responding to a call from a shopkeeper terrified of the black man stalking her storefront with the sawed-off shotgun under his coat.

One officer suggested that perhaps he and Van Gunten find a new place to shop. No one ever offered an apology.

“I don’t think things will ever change,” he sighed to me.

It hurts my heart that someone as talented and kind as Cedric would ever be subjected to such obvious injustice. It also forces me to be evervigilant of the more obsequious ways racism permeates Southern culture, food and politics.

What the holier-than-thou rejection of Paula Deen and the raciallycharged trial of George Zimmerman show us is that race still dominates the American consciousness, even when don’t say a word. We might think we see everyone the same in our hearts, but we are all complicit in a society that doesn’t.

On this Indepence Day, let’s remember that only we can emancipate ourselves from that mental slavery, friends, ‘cause none but ourselves can free our minds. cs

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and promises of true democracy, I believed America was long past its racial divide.

Sure, we’ll always be a judgmental people; it’s how we’re wired. That’s why TV is brimming with Teen Moms and Real Housewives. (“Lowclass,” I sniff to my kids.)

But when I moved to Savannah, I could hear so much unspoken. In the systemic poverty that always seems to fall along racial lines. In the sanitized history of downtown, where a cheery statue of an African-American family is the only marker to remind tourists that human beings were once sold like animals on the same cobblestones where they now shop and eat. In a broken school system that — in spite of endless negotiations and a fleet of diesel-spewing buses that cart students across town for hours a day — still looks pretty segregated.

As Southerners and Americans, we no longer have any excuse not to examine the injustice that the preponderance of incarcerated citizens in prison are black men. Or the food deserts that permeate African-American neighborhoods, cutting off access to fresh food and perpetuating health issues. Or that a Cheerios commercial featuring a biracial family can cause a repulsive internet backlash.

Artist, photographer and Connect contributor Cedric Smith explores such inconsistencies in American advertising. Layering old-school media with vintage images, his paintings shows us how racism is hidden away, especially from those of us who would naïvely believe it gone for good. His “American Gothic” reveals a world of many colors, its children patiently awaiting its wisdom.

Cedric’s paintings have been spotlit on Design Sponge and in galleries and

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With half of her hair curled and her eyelids closed to receive a brushing of powdery mauve shadow, Erin Fray looks like any other woman in the midst of a makeover.

But this 32 year-old mother of three has more than her share of trials in the past two years. Diagnosed with breast cancer as she was giving birth to her youngest child, she immediately underwent a double mastectomy. Seven harrowing reconstructive surgeries followed.

With her glowing skin and easy smile, Fray appears to have conquered cancer for good. Then she reveals she had a complete hysterectomy just six weeks ago.

“What I’ve learned about cancer is that it’s a lifelong process,” she says of her prognosis. “You don’t just have it and get it fixed.”

Suffice it to say this lady could use a little pampering. Enter the Survivor Glam Squad, a volunteer brigade of salon owners, hair stylists, make-up artists, photographers and fashion mavens who conspire regularly to give women (and a few men) living with cancer an opportunity to be prettified by professionals.

Founded in the United Kingdom by modeling agent Keely Webster, the Survivor Glam Squad hit American shores in early 2012 when Webster approached model and Savannah Harley-Davidson marketing manager Jennifer Hagan-Smith. Already

experienced with glamorous charity work from her foundation Bikini Nation (which provides models for fundraising events), Hagan-Smith embraced the idea of bringing SGS to Savannah.

“The idea of community service has always been instilled in me,” says Hagan-Smith. “Everyone is touched by cancer at some point in their lives, whether it’s a parent or a grandparent or themselves.”

She formed a team for the first Glam Squad event last April, and dozens of survivors received a day of hair and make-up attention along with professional photo shoots. Nominations came pouring in as well as requests for more Glam Squad events in Savannah and beyond.

A tony fundraising gala called the Diamond Ball was held in January at Red Gate Farms’ Mackey House in Savannah, and SGS has branched like fast-growing jasmine in every direction ever since: Hagan-Smith has organized makeover events in Virginia, Florida, New York and Maryland and partnered with the Women’s Survivors Convention in Nashville, TN for “100 Makeovers In Two Days” later this summer. With so many survivors and willing participants,

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Glam Squad volunteers Pea rl owner Connie Woods (r.) wit Wood (l.) and Milan Salon h cancer survivor Erin Fra y.

she and founder Webster realized the potential for a global organization.

“When we heard what it meant for the survivors in Savannah, we thought, ‘OK, we’re going to need to this everywhere,’” she says.

A system based on self-governing chapters was put into place to provide a way to match up survivors with volunteers, and Savannah serves as the template. Lauren Schoenecker (a Connect sales associate) heads the local chapter, corralling volunteers and arranging events like the upcoming meet-up at B&D Burgers on Abercorn on July 18.

Hagan-Smith continues to develop corporate relationships to grow the scope of the non-profit, like a partnership with international stylist Peter Coppola that will enable monthly SGS makeovers in Coppola’s 750 salons around the world. Survivor Glam Squad is also one of the official charities of the Rock N’ Roll Marathon.

“We want to reach as many people as possible,” enthuses Hagan-Smith, adding that she and her colleagues are working on a SGS program for men as well as caregivers.

Salon owner Connie Woods of Milan Salon & Day Spa in Richmond

Hill has been a Glam Squad volunteer since the group’s inception. She styled the hair of multiple survivors before the Diamond Ball and is always ready to launch into action when SGS calls.

If chemo treatments or radiation have rendered a woman’s hair difficult to style or even non-existent, she provides extensions or other accessories that help enhance their self-image.

“I just love making other people feel good,” explains Woods as she wields a curling iron within Wray’s short tresses. “These women deserve it after all they’ve been through.”

She stops to consider Fray in the mirror.

“Maybe a few pin curls in front,” she muses. Make-up artist Pearl Wood nods in agreement as she dusts Fray’s eyelids. As they work, conversation turns from Wray’s medical travails to girl talk.

“Do you have anywhere fancy to go tonight?” Wood asks Fray. “Because I’m going to give you a little silver sparkle in the corners.”

Fray smiles and says since they already have a babysitter, she can probably convince her husband, a pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Pooler, to take her out to dinner. After

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“Just knowing someone cares this much brings out that inner beauty,” says Fray of Milan Salon owner Connie Woods (r.) and Pearl Wood (l.).

all, he’s the one who nominated her in the first place.

Wray kept a blog about her experience with cancer called “Joy in the Journey” and counts her faith as the most important aspect of her positive frame of mind. But she admits that receiving a little indulgence has bolstered her view of herself.

“I believe how you feel about how

you look on the outside translates to the inside,” says Fray as she admires the careful craft of the Glam Squad.

“That’s not saying that outer beauty is all there is. It’s just that knowing that someone cares this much about you brings out that inner beauty.” cs Nominate a survivor at survivorglamsquad.org.

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By john bennett | bicyclecampaign.org

Surprising trends in transportation ON JUNE 20, Jennifer Colestock surprised some people. She was representing Savannah’s cyclists in the fifth annual Dump the Pump Challenge, a commuting race against a Chatham Area Transit bus rider and an automobile driver. Like Frank McIntosh and Kristin Mulzer, who rode for the Savannah Bicycle Campaign in previous years, Colestock was first to arrive at City Hall.

In fact, she rolled up unexpectedly while preparations were still being made at the finish line, having made the trip in less than 15 minutes on a steel frame, single speed bicycle. Bill Broker, who caught a CAT, arrived about 5 minutes later, briefcase in hand. City of Savannah Management Services Bureau Chief Sean Brandon drove from Midtown to Downtown and finally crossed the finish line about 2 minutes after Broker.

I knew Colestock to be a strong cyclist, but I was surprised at how quickly she travelled from Twelve Oaks Shopping Center to the intersection of Bull and Bay streets.

Sadly, what is probably more surprising to many is that someone would choose to ride her bike to work (or in the case of Broker, the bus).

Well, guess what: Get ready for more surprises. Americans’ attitudes about transportation are changing.

I grew up in South Georgia, and in the years before I was old enough to drive a car, I spent hours and hours building plastic models of them. I

couldn’t sleep the night before I got the keys to a 1968 Mustang. The car was 16 years old, just like me, but had lived a much harder life up to that point.

I was an inexperienced driver in command of a vehicle with a 289 cubic inch V-8 engine, a master cylinder that constantly hemorrhaged

title pawn operation, drive through fast food joints and automobile accident attorneys.

However, growing numbers of young people are less responsive to the car’s appeal. A report released last month by the Frontier Group, “A New Direction: Our Changing Relationship with Driving and the

“Young people aged 16 to 34 drove 23 percent fewer miles on average in 2009 than they did in 2001 – a greater decline in driving than any other age group.”

Another study found that bicycling among this group was up 24 percent, walking was up 15 percent and transit miles travelled were up 40 percent. brake fluid and a loosey–goosey steering box (I could turn the wheel 45 degrees in either direction without altering the path of the car).

Looking back and remembering my maturity level, it seems crazy that the state of Georgia would license me to do such a thing.

To some young adults reading this, it probably seems crazy that I was so wild about a car and so willing to pour into it the meager wages I earned at after school jobs.

Our national obsession with cars is still very powerful, no doubt. Just watch an hour of local television and count the number of commercials for car dealerships, insurance companies,

Implications for America’s Future,” presents some interesting findings. It concludes, “Young people aged 16 to 34 drove 23 percent fewer miles on average in 2009 than they did in 2001 – a greater decline in driving than any other age group.”

In addition, another Frontier Group study found that during the same period, bicycling among this group was up 24 percent, walking was up 15 percent and transit miles travelled were up 40 percent.

The Frontier Group suggests young people’s transportation choices are also showing up in their preference for less car-centric communities. If

you are skeptical of analysis by a think tank “producing ideas and research to promote a cleaner environment and a fairer and more democratic society,” consider that the American Association of Realtors reached a similar conclusion.

In “How Millennials Move: The Car-Less Trends,” published last year, the real estate trade group reports “Millennials own fewer cars and drive less than their predecessors. They’d rather walk, bike, car-share, and use public transportation — and want to live where that’s all easy.”

As she congratulated Colestock for her victory, Savannah Mayor Edna Jackson said, “Once again this race has opened our eyes to the fact that driving is not always the quickest way to commute, and it’s definitely not the cheapest. I hope this encourages some of our citizens to trying dumping the pump from time to time.”

I agree with her 100 percent. More Savannahians should consider going by bike or by bus, even if they still drive much of the time.

But for more and more Savannahians and their peers across the country, riding a bike or the bus is not something they do only from time to time.

They do it most or all of the time.

For them, what we call “alternative transportation” is simply... transportation. cs John Bennett is executive director of the savannah bicycle campaign.

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We got a runner here, people A suspect prone to running from police was involved in a double arrest and the seizure of dangerous weapons and illegal substances this past Thursday.

Daniel Marcus Hunter, 32, and Isadore Johnson III, 26, were taken into custody after a detective pursued Hunter into a house in the 200 block of West Street.

A sergeant from the Downtown Precinct had recognized Hunter walking in west Savannah as the subject of a contempt of court warrant just after noon. When he attempted to talk to him, Hunter ran and the detective saw him enter the house on West Street.

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Johnson was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of a drug related object, theft by receiving stolen property, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of firearms in the commission of a crime.

Hunter, who has been charged with obstruction of a law enforcement officer seven times in the past, was charged with obstruction again, along with the contempt of court charge.

• One man has died and another has been arrested after an earlymorning shooting in Savannah’s Southside.

Marco Cruz, 54, of the 100 block of Tibet Avenue died after being transported by an acquaintance to St. Joseph Hospital with gunshot wounds about 3:13 a.m. this past Sunday.

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news of the weird The new cheaters • As many as 50 exam monitors were forced to take cover at a high school in Zhongxiang, China, in June, fending off outraged students (and some parents) who hurled insults and stones at them after the monitors blocked cheating schemes on the all-important national “gaokao” exams. (It was “siege warfare,” and eventually “hundreds” of police responded, according to a dispatch in the Daily Telegraph of London.) Metal detectors had found secret transmitters and contraband cellphones used by groups beaming in exam answers from outside. Independent proctors had been assigned because of longstanding suspicions that the schools’ own proctors routinely enabled cheating (with results such as the 99 identical papers submitted in one subject on the previous year’s exam). Said one student (in the mob of about 2,000), noting how widespread cheating is nationally, “There is no fairness if you do not let us cheat.”

Things People Believe • Sheriffs and government deedrecorders in several states have reported annoying attempts recently by “Moorish American nationals” to confiscate temporarily vacant houses (often mansions), moving in without inhibition, changing the locks, and partying joyously - based on made-up documents full of gobbledygook and stilted legalese granting them sovereignty beyond the reach of law-enforcement. There

is a venerable Moorish Temple SciNew Orleans’s Westbank neighborence of America, but these trespassers hood, threatening to burn them down. in Florida, Maryland, Tennessee, and When taken into custody, Kersey had other states are from fanciful offshoots aluminum foil wrapped around his that demand reparations (usually in skull and secured by a baseball cap but gold) for Christopher- Columbus-era explained to an officer that he needed Europeans having stolen “their” land. it “to prevent microwave signals from A North Carolina police investigator entering his head.” told the Washington Post in March that • Among the character witnesses in “every state” is experiencMay at the New York ing the “Moorish AmeriCity sex-trafficking trial can” invasion. of alleged pimp Vin• Britain’s Anomacent George, Jr., 33, and lous Mind Management his father were three My CrazyLabo Abductee Contactee of the younger man’s robot says Helpline is the nation’s ladies, who praised you have bad “weirdest” support group, him unconditionally breath wrote the Daily Mirror in to the jury as a good June, providing a range father to the children of services to victims of they bore for him and kidnapping by extraterresas the person respontrials and other haunting sible for helping them incidents to about 1,500 kick their drug habits. people a year, accordHeather Keith, 28, and ing to co-founder Miles Danielle Geissler, 31, Johnston. AMMACH referred to each other uses an ordinary wall-stud as Vincent, Jr.’s “wife-indetector to locate bodily law.” Geissler admitted implants and employs that George (“Daddy”) magnetic field meters and mineral slapped her around a bit, explaining lamps to identify “signatures” left on a that they both “slapped each other skin’s atoms by visits to another dimenaround sometimes but never over work sional reality, Johnston explained. “We or staying in the (prostitution) life.” are under the threat of termination as a (Three weeks later, the Georges were species if we do not get this sorted out.” acquitted of sex trafficking, although convicted of money- laundering.)

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Bright Ideas • Technology companies are making great strides in odor-detection robots, valuable in identifying subtle scents ranging from contaminants in beer brewing to cancerous tumors in the body. And then there is CrazyLabo in Fukuoka, Japan, which is marketing two personal-hygiene robots, available for special occasions such as parties, according to a BBC News report. One detector, shaped as a woman’s kissable head, tests breath odor and responds (e.g., “smells like citrus”; “there’s an emergency taking place”). The other, resembling a dog, checks a person’s feet and can either cuddle up to the subject (no odor) or appear to pass out.

• The local council in Brunete, Spain, near Madrid, has now seen a radical drop in unscooped dog droppings after employing volunteers to find the names of derelict dogs. They then matched the dog with the town’s dog registrations to obtain the owners’ addresses, then mailed them packages containing their dogs’ business (terming it “lost property”).

• Elementary school teacher Carie Charlesworth was fired recently by Holy Trinity School near San Diego, Calif. - with the only reason given that her ex-husband has threatened to kill her. After a January weekend in which Carie was forced to call police three times because of the threats, the husband had shown up the next day in Holy Trinity’s parking lot to see her, provoking officials to immediately put the school in lockdown. In a termination letter, officials noted that Charlesworth’s students are constantly at risk from the ex-husband, that her restraining order against him is obviously not a deterrent, and that they thus “cannot allow” her to continue her career at the school, according to a report by San Diego’s KNSD-TV. (Battered-women support groups, of course, were horrified at the school’s decision.)

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Undignified Death • The man who claimed the “world’s record” for traveling the farthest distance on a zip line attached only to his hair was killed in April as he similarly attempted to cross the Teesta River in West Bengal, India, on a zip line. He died of a heart attack, and since observers were unclear whether his limpness was part of the performance, he hung lifeless for 45 minutes. CS By chuck shepherd UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE

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I was watching an Andy Griffith rerun the other day about a goat that ate dynamite, making everyone afraid he was going to blow up if bumped. Could/ would a goat eat dynamite? If so, would it explode? If not, would it poison him?

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The Andy Griffith episode titled “The Loaded Goat” first aired on January 28, 1963. The goat didn’t explode, most likely because that would have been too much for TV in 1963. But it’s also true the chances of a goat or other animal full of dynamite detonating are low.

Dynamite is a mix of nitroglycerine plus an absorbent filler such as sawdust or diatomaceous earth, which its inventor Alfred Nobel found resulted in an explosive that was safer to handle than pure nitro. Dynamite normally won’t blow up without a primer explosive such as a blasting cap, inserted just before use. However, things can still go seriously wrong.

While neither sawdust nor diatomaceous earth is especially dangerous to eat, nitroglycerine can be. In small doses it’s a vasodilator commonly used to treat angina, but greater amounts interfere with cardiovascular function, leading to severe low blood pressure, cyanosis (you turn blue), and death. The lethal dose varies greatly, but given the indiscriminate appetites for which goats are famous, theoretically one could eat enough dynamite to get sick and die.

But let’s get serious. Sick goats aren’t the real concern here. Could an animal full of dynamite explode? Time for a dive into the databases: • The earliest account we could find of a dynamite-eating goat was an 1899 story from a Boston newspaper relating a New Mexico mining-camp yarn in which a voracious specimen allegedly ate 27 sticks. The locals kept a respectful distance until one night a rambunctious cowboy taking potshots at random objects rode off in the goat’s direction. Ten minutes later there was a “mysterious explosion; and neither the goat nor the

cowboy were ever seen in New Mexico afterwards.” Right.

• More believable is a 1900 Philadelphia Inquirer item about a goat belonging to Mrs. McGlory in the coal town of Hazleton, Pa. The goat was chewing on a stick of dynamite when the “cartridge” (one assumes a ready-to-blow assembly including blasting cap) went off, reducing the animal to constituent parts. A primer used in the old days was mercury fulminate, which is sensitive to friction, so despite its minimal length (two sentences) this story could be legit.

• A 1902 report from Eden, Wisconsin, says Patrick Mulligan’s pet goat ate several sticks of dynamite, fell asleep in front of the fireplace in the Mulligan home, and soon detonated, taking the house with it. The family wasn’t there, there’s no indication witnesses saw any of this, and unless the animal was actually on fire, no way could a goat’s gut get warm enough to set off an explosive.

Verdict: BS. Goats aren’t the only critters said to favor high explosives for lunch: • In 1900 a cow named Venus bit down on a stick of dynamite with a percussion cap attached and was promptly blown to pieces. The story provides copious detail and unlike many similar reports doesn’t claim to describe events that occurred a thousand miles away from the newspaper carrying it—Venus was at a quarry near East St. Louis, and the article appeared in the St. Louis Republic. So yeah, coulda happened.

• Then there’s this: In 1908 two steers ate some dynamite a farmer was using to blast stumps. That evening the farmer threw a stone—a stone, mind you—that struck one of the steers. The blast jarred the other steer, which blew up too. The cattle were in Indiana; the newspaper reporting their fate was in San Jose, Calif. My question isn’t what the steers were eating in Indiana, but what the reporter was smoking in San Jose.

We found a few more such accounts, all equally implausible. More common are tales of animals feasting on dynamite (apparently it tastes sweet) without result other than freaking out the locals, although sometimes the eaters got sick.

Conclusion: detonating animals owe more to fancy than fact, as exemplified in a 1917 ditty by Bert Lee and R.P. Weston entitled “Paddy McGinty’s Goat,” about a goat that ate dynamite with predictable results: “So if you go to heaven you can bet a dollar note / That angel with the whiskers is Paddy McGinty’s goat.” cs By cecil adams

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Summerfest: Old school hip hop, R&B@Johnny Mercer Carl Gilliard wears many hats — he is president of the Georgia Coastal Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and pastor at the Life Center in Savannah.

He is a playwright, an author, a musician and a radio host, and so full of community spirit it’s coming out of his pores. For one thing, he co-founded the youth organizations Project L.OV.E. and Operation L.OV.E. Gilliard is also the CEO of Savannah Feed the Hungry, Inc., a non-forprofit charity that has been providing fresh food to the homeless in Savannah since 2009.

Feed the Hungry has a major fundraiser Saturday, July 6 in the Johnny Mercer Theatre. For those who love hip hop history, ‘90s rhythm ‘n’ blues and/or gospel, it won’t get any better than Summerfest 2013.

The headliner is Kurtis Blow, the very first rapper signed to a major label (in 1979). Among his many accomplishments, the erstwhile Kurtis Walker was the first hip hop artist to earn a gold single, for 1980’s “The Breaks.” He is also an ordained minister.

Maxine Jones was a founding member of the oh-so-smooth singing and dancing quartet En Vogue (the original funky divas, that’s right), and was right there (doing many of the leads) on “My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It),” “Don’t Let Go (Love),” “Whatta Man” and so many others.

Although En Vogue ostensibly still exists, Jones decamped in 2012 and is doing the solo thing. She has an

Rap pioneer Kurtis Blow and the singing group Allure are among the Summerfest performers July 6.

impressive four-octave vocal range.

The show also features Allure, the New York girl group that recorded with Nas (“Head Over Heels”), LL Cool J (“No Question”) and 112 (“All Cried Out”).

Wait, there’s more! Old school hip hop will be further represented by Whodini (“Friends,” “One Love,” “The Freaks Come Out at Night”), UTFO (“Roxanne, Roxanne’) and rapper MC Shan (“The Bridge”).

Gospel singer Faith Crystal is also on the bill, along with a talent show and some other stuff.

Tickets for the show, which starts at 6 p.m., are $19.50 at savannahfeedthehungry.com, or by calling (912) 257-2699.

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Elev8ted Urban Supply Company celebrates its one-year anniversary with an all-music blowout Friday (July 5) at Southern Pine Co. Starting at 5 p.m., and changing on the hour, here’s the lineup: Without, Crazy Bag Lady, Sauna Heat, Doc Oc, SuperToine, Cecil, Pay Up, K.P./Carmine.

It’s an all-ages show.

There’ll be a skate ramp, natch, along with food and drink vendors.

Advance tickets ($5) are available at the boutique, 404 W. Broughton. St. They’ll be $8 at the door.

Music and fireworks

Before you ask, the Tybee Pier fireworks go off Wednesday night (July 3), and the fireworks over River Street will fly Friday night (the 4th). There.

River Street Savannah has a fourday Independence Day fest going on Thursday through Sunday, with a nice cross-section of local bands participating. Here’s the lineup: Thursday, July 4, 8:30 p.m.: The Accomplices; Friday, July 5, 3 p.m.: Keith & Ross, 6 p.m.: Damon and the Shitkickers, 8:30 p.m.: Chuck Courtenay; Saturday, July 6, 3:30 p.m.: The Positions, 6 p.m.: Domino Effect, 8:30 p.m.: A Nickel Bag of Funk; Sunday, July 7, 1 p.m.: The Magic Rocks.

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• There’s a new band in town this weekend, with some familiar faces: American Hologram, July 4 at Huca-Poos, and the next night at the Tybee Island Social Club, consists of Britt Scott, Eric Britt, Craig Tanner and Eric Dunn. “Think Neil Young/ Ray Lamontagne with Stevie Nicks guest starring,” says Scott with a wink.

• After way too long without live music, Hang Fire has begun creeping back into the fray as of late. This long holiday weekend sees some pretty serious action at the venerable hangout on Whitaker.

To wit: Atlanta’s phenomenal funk band Baby Baby will tear the roof off the sucka Wednesday (July 3) with support from Creepoid. On Thursday, it’s the five-headed hip hop monster we all know and love as KidSyc@Brandywine, along with the wonderful electronic-based Electric Grandma and DAMS, a relatively new funk/rock band out of Atlanta, featuring Fine Peduncle vocalist Cole Murphy. CS

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The boys from Vienna

The kids in the Savannah Children’s Choir are probably the most-traveled residents of our city.

Early next year, the young singers will fly to Vienna, Austria for their first-ever “solo” tour (not with other choirs). Funding this trip, which will also include concerts in the Czech Republic, takes months of herculean efforts by the kids, their families and the choir faculty and staff.

These kids are doing good things.

In 2012, the choir brought home a gold medal from the Concors Internazionale Di Canto Corale in Verona, Italy.

Enter Metropolitan Opera baritone Keith Miller, whose annual contributions to the not-for-profit Savannah’s Children’s Choir are the stuff of legend.

“Keith’s agency is also the agency for the Vienna Boys Choir,” explains SCC artistic director Roger Moss.

“We have a great relationship with them, and they called and said ‘Look, the Vienna Boys Choir is going to be in Georgia and Florida in the fall.’

“Our international trip next year is to Vienna, and we thought you know what, how fortuitous is that?’

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Century and without question the most recognizable aggregation of young male vocalists in the entire world.

Tickets are on sale now for the Oct. 18 performance, which will be inside the breathtaking Cathedral of John the Baptist.

And here’s the best part: The SCC’s sponsors, primarily Georgia Power, have covered the Boys Choir’s fees.

Everything else goes to the Savannah kids’ Vienna trip.

It costs about $3,000 per child.

“This,” adds Moss, “has been our philosophy from day one: If kids make it into our traveling choir, one way or the other all kids will go on the trip.

“The interesting thing about travel with the children’s choir is that yes, the travel’s wonderful, but the whole process is such a great learning experience

for the kids. Our policy is, before we write one check, the kids have to do A, B, C and D. The other way we raise money is by selling ads in the program book. We have two spaghetti dinners.”

Then there’s “Letty’s Purse,” a grant fund from area residents Jim and Dottie Kluttz. “The kids have to do an oral presentation for them,” Moss says, “why they need the money, and then they have to tell them how they’re going to pay it forward. Whether it’s singing at a retirement center, or writing a paper on one of our composers …”

Miller himself returns in November for his third annual operatic fundraiser, this one called (what else?) “A Night in Vienna.” The concert, scheduled for the SCAD Museum of Art, will include, among others, famed mezzo-soprano Sandra Piques Eddy.

Moss is amazed and grateful for Miller’s contributions. “Keith just calls these opera stars,” he says, “and they say yes to him.” CS Vienna Boys Choir Where: Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, 222 E. Harris St. When: At 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18 Tickets: $100 VIP reserved (adult and student), $60 reserved (adult and student) or $35 general admission adult and $25 general admission student Phone: (912) 525-5050 Online: savannahboxoffice.com

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This week’s big news, of course, is the Savannah Stopover/Music File Productions Americana-rama event, Revival Fest, Sept.

14th at the Paint Shop and nearby open space at the Georgia State Railroad Museum. That’s westward (ho), on Louisville Road.

As usual, Music File honcho Kayne Lanahan has chosen an impressive lineup of bands, most of them new to us. Among the coolest is Nashville’s Truth & Salvage Co., discovered (and produced) by Black Crowe Chris Robinson in 2010.

The amazing six-member roots band will release its second album, Pick Me Up, on July 23.

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Tennessee’s Papa Moon & the Stargazers will be the first band onstage, at 1 p.m. Local bands the Accomplices and the Train Wrecks will perform as well.

The idea here is to do something a little different: In addition to 12 bands on two stages, plans call for a pig roast, oyster tasting, a bourbontasting tent, craft beers and loads of locally-made food and bev from Savannah-area vendors.

Says Lanahan: “It’s an idea we’ve been kicking around for a year or two; to marry the roots/Americana revival in music with our great local and regional food; sort of like a New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival for the Low Country.

“There are all these amazing people here brewing, growing, cooking and creating amazing things. We wanted to bring them together in one big celebration.”

Tickets go on sale at noon July 2 at savannahboxoffice.com. CS

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United States,” says the author and As graceful emcee of this collablocal writing professor. orative account, Lough In the ‘80s and ‘90s, sets the tone for chasing New York City’s ChelChelsea counterculture sea Hotel was a veriduring a bygone era of table Venus flytrap for safety pins, punk rock club kids, niche celeband anti-establishment. utantes, punk royalty, While conducting poets, musicians, drag research, Lough visited queens, dominatrices, pimps, drug dealers, Lough: ‘The streets shone with the Chelsea twice and interviewed as many forporn stars, painters red and green streaks and and photographers. even if it rained all week, wet mer residents as he could dig up. What followed “I had a good book or dry, it was all New York to was a reunion of sorts. and I knew somebody me.’

“Robert said to just would recognize that leave the door open, that’s the sign — I just thought they would recogthat people could hang. Someone nize that a lot faster,” Lough laughs. invariably brought the weed. Pretty Ten years, one agent and 65 rejecsoon we were having what former tions later, Lough was ready to give bellman Paul Volmer called a ‘Chelsea up when he saw an ad in the Atlantic moment.’” for an off-Beat book published by “One chick, she was a rich girl with Schaffner Press about Ken Kesey and schizophrenia or something. She basithe Merry Pranksters: Acid Christ. cally said, ‘I’ll go to bed with you if “I thought: Anyone with the balls I can spend the night in your room.’ to publish a book called Acid Christ She was just fucking her way into the was gonna like my book,” he says.

Chelsea. She and Robert were on the Schaffner not only liked it enough floor because I was the one paying for to publish it, they also just sent him the room,” Lough says. “I just put in on a 12-city West Coast book tour. earplugs and thought, hey. Whatever.”

“I accidentally ran into this story.

It all reads like a Chelsea moment; It was put into my lap by my exas if you’ve just lit up in a roachbrother-in-law, Robert Campbell. He infested room with punk artists who said, ‘Hey, you ever heard of Herbert used to be on the scene, as they spin Hunke? He was the first Beat writer, campfire tales of seedy underbelly.

I used to live next to that guy.’ I was Perhaps the most compelling ghost an English major snob. A Ph.D. in litstory is from Campbell’s jam sessions erature. I read the Beats, lived in Beat

with a post-Ramone’s Dee Dee Ramone, who was at the Chelsea trying to get clean.

“There was a sense of magic there and I felt it, created by the people.

Because of the freedom: freedom to create, freedom to screw themselves up, freedom to do anything as long as they didn’t bother other tenants.”

This Aint No Holiday Inn is a bittersweet bricolage. Since the property changed hands in 2011, there are no more opportunities for Chelsea moments. The new management isn’t too keen on its offbeat heritage; visitors aren’t even allowed in the lobby.

“It’s dead, gone, they’re not bringing it back. It’s so awful it could make you cry,” Lough laments. “It’s all part of a bigger picture: Fledgling artists can’t afford to live in New York anymore. The artists who are there have already made it or they’re rich kids.

New York doesn’t have that magic anymore, that hunger, that edge.”

If there’s hope for a modern quasirenaissance, Lough thinks the smaller towns could make it happen — great news for Savannah’s up-and-coming artists. At least the ones outside of what he dubs hipster “fauxhemia.”

“Millennials don’t feel any need to rebel. They’re a very conservative, very materialistic generation. I don’t think they believe Tide is going to make their clothes whiter. But if you separate what they’re selling from the ad itself, they want that lifestyle,” Lough outlines the problem.

“Why else would they buy their clothes at American Apparel?” cs Seersucker Live’s Read, White & New What: Book release party, also featuring Connect’s own Bill DeYoung.

Where: Pirate’s House, 20 E. Broad St. When: Friday, July 5, 7:30-9 p.m.

Cost: $10, $5 students.

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Non-Fiction Gallery buzzes with anticipation

By Paula S. Fogarty

photography shows, but also are truly The scene was a lively mix of local patrons and artists, SCAD students interested in continuing the expanand professors who welcomed the new sion and exploration that the previous owners of Non-Fiction Gallery at 1522 owners pursued. We intend to hold Bull Street to the gallery circuit. workshops, performances, and put on Alessandra exhibitions outHoshor, outgoing side of the regular owner, was presevents available ent to hand over in Savannah. The the reins of this creation of a convisionary enternection to the prise to a partcommunity while nership of four developing a place artists: Heather where contempoMacRae-Trulson, rary art can feel at Ben Tollefson, home in Savannah Naimar Ramirez, is our goal.” and Sam Bryer.

Heather added Above: Outgoing Gallery Hop writer Jared Works curButler, artist Bobi Perry, and architect/ that they will rently on display artist Alexandro Santana; below, forextend Hoshor’s are by Non-Fic- mer owner Alessandra Hoshor, middle, vision of a multition alumni such hands reins over to new owners, Naimar media exhibition Ramirez, Ben Tollefson, Sam Bryer, and as Alicia Linke Heather MacRae-Trulson. space and also and Giordano feature internaAngeletti. tionally recog“We are so nized artists who excited to have will be present such an enthufor lectures and siastic crowd workshops. for our soft Upcomopening. And ing exhibitions in the sumwill include the mer when so work of New many people York-based artist are gone!”

William Ruller, exclaimed Ben. opening July 19. Ruller’s mixed media Heather explained, “This is a great works on paper are textural abstract culmination of artists that we have reactions to decaying and residual worked closely with in the past. This urban areas. Preview them at www.wilevent is a jumping off point and we look forward to hosting painting and iamruller.com. cs

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Bikers, cowboys and babes rocked a mighty spectrum of personal flair on the sand and in the Tybrisa shopping district.

Seems that “American beach style” encompasses just about anything — as long as you don’t forget the sunscreen.

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Openings & Receptions

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Gallery Espresso: Celebrating 20 years of Coffee, Art, and Peace of Mind — A

Odenwelder, sculptural artist; and Isaac McCaslin, painter. The Butcher Tattoo Studio, 19 East Bay St.

KNIHT — Works by Garret

group show celebrating two decades of coffee and art, featuring work of Gallery’s staff, including Lucas Rager, William Palmer, Juliana Peloso, Christopher Berinato.

Reception Fri. July 19, 6-9pm. Music by Ghost Town Crooners.. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St.

Message — Work by Randy

Akers and Christopher Williams. Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St.

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. Museum admission. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St.

Tybee Arts: Holiday Picnic Show and Sale — Over a

dozen artists displaying their work. Saturday July 6, 10-6. Sunday July 7, 10-5. Featured artist: RL Brethauer’s mixed media sculpture. Reception Friday July 5, 6-9 p.m. Tybee Arts Center, 7 Cedarwood Dr. Alaine Daniel and Angela Erdy — Gallery 209’s July

featured artists. Watercolors by Alaine Daniel and jewelry by Angela Erdy. Gallery 209, 209 E River St.

Continuing Act/Natural: Photography —

Approximately 40 photos from Telfair’s permanent collection. Many new acquisitions are being exhibited for the first time.

Through Aug. 4 Jepson Center, 207 West York St.

Arsenal — A contemporary

installation of hundreds of hand-made paper “guns” suspended from the ceil-

ing. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Contemporary Southern Landscape — The unique

landscape of the South is the subject of this exhibition by a wide range of artists. Jepson Center, 207 West York St.

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Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein Collection — 33 looks

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

Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists by Jerry Siegel — Jerry Siegel’s ap-

The Ghost Within — New

Environmental Occupations — Photos by SCAD

Chakaia Booker’s exhibition of wall-mounted and freestanding sculptures.

proximately 50 portraits.

Jepson Center, 207 West York St.

alumnus Mark Dorf. Giant

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concrete forms loom within sweeping vistas.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

works on paper by SCAD alumna Blanche Nettles Powers. Arnold Hall (SCAD), 1810 Bull St.

Reception: Hybrid —

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this show by Association members. Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr.

Shadows Remain — A

selection of cedar sculptures by Ursula von Rydingsvard. 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 from Dr. Frank Rizza and his family. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Sitting in Savannah: Telfair Chairs and Sofas — High-

paintings and large-scale drawings on paper by artist Jessica Rankin.

Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E Liberty St.

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

Reconstruction — A site-

Sixty Shades of Blue —

Passages — Embroidery

Tybee Arts show is this weekend; reception Friday

Savannah Art Association’s Summer Show — Art in

specific painting installation by Adam Cvijanovic.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Rehearsals: The Practice and Influence of Sound and Movement — Works

from the Walter O. Evans Collection in dialogue with selected contemporary works that explore themes of sound, movement, practice and process. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

SCAD graduate student Nicky Soh has enlisted 15 sequential art and illustration majors to create interpretations of his personal illustrations.

Blick Art Materials, 318 East Broughton St.

Snapshots: summer sales exhibition — Works by

SCAD artists depicting imagery from around the world. Gutstein Gallery, 201 E Broughton St. Streaming Spirits: By Valerie Hammond and Kiki Smith — Taking inspiration

from the 19th-century genre of spirit photography. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

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

recurring object in Atlanta artist Jessica ScottFelder’s drawings,found object sculptures, installations and performances.

Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

“to draw with light” — Solo exhibition of works by acclaimed conceptual photographer and 2012 MacArthur Fellow Uta Barth. “SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Track Series (Octopus) —

Part of the continuing “Derrapagem” series of vinyl-decal mural installations by Brazil-based artist Regina Silveira.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Two Faced — Photography

meets graphic design in this exhibition by RAABstract, co-founder of The Soda Shop. The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave.

Witness to the Holocaust —

William Alexander Scott III was a photographer in a segregated battalion of the Army during World War II. His witness testimony of the liberation of Buchenwald is told in this exhibit which draws parallels between Jim Crow laws and the Nuremberg Race Laws Free and open to public. Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St. cs

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Sous chef Alfredo Soto executes dishes from the exciting menu developed by Executive Chef Brian Palefsky at 45 Bistro, located inside the Marshall House on Broughton Street.

By Chrystal Arboleda Lopez

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when the words “hotel restaurant” are mentioned? Is it a breakfast buffet of rubbery eggs and bacon?

I bet you didn’t think you could get pan-seared duck breast with confit thigh and leg, sautéed escarole, roasted baby beets, and carrots with roasted duck gastrique in the same place where the valet is also carrying in luggage for hotel guests.

45 Bistro is one of the restaurants that break the mold of what it means to be a restaurant affiliated with a hotel.

General Manager of 45 Bistro, Danny Steinfeldt, speaks about “the stigma of being inside of a hotel.

People think that we’re a ‘hotel restaurant,’ so they don’t realize how wonderful it’s going to be.”

Steinfeldt continues, “A lot of people have a preconceived notion of a hotel’s restaurant as being just kind of a cookie cutter, pre-made crap, if you will. Obviously, we are not like that. Everything is freshly made with the finest of ingredients. You know, as fresh and as local as we can get.”

Well, quinoa encrusted, pan seared, local black grouper with goat cheese gratinéed creamed spinach and sundried tomatoes isn’t so cookie cutter.

And with an appetizer of wild Georgia shrimp with local stone ground grits, tasso gravy and fried Vidalia onion rings — there are few dishes that stay so close to home.

While the restaurant does provide breakfast and wine and cheese receptions for the overnight guests, most business is independent from the hotel. They don’t do room service but they will deliver on a fine-dining experience.

Steinfeldt shares that one of his “customers who was staying at a different hotel say something about not wanting to support another hotel.

So, I haven’t really heard too much as to why concierges wouldn’t send us people, because I think people know we’re separate businesses.

I guess if they feel like they are

supporting another hotel, that could be a negative.”

Being limited on recommendations because of a location is something that may hold business back. But it’s a common misconception that a restaurant in a hotel is owned by the hotel.

While HLC Properties owns the Marshall House, 45 Bistro is a privately-owned, local restaurant.

“I guess originally they tried doing the restaurant here and they’re hotel people, and they weren’t able to make a go of their restaurant. So, they wanted to bring in a restaurant guy to take over the restaurant. Let them do the hotel business which is what they are good at. And let somebody else rent the property from them and run the restaurant,” says Steinfeldt.

Whether they are restaurant people or hotel people, each of these businesses has very different specialties.

Like any fine dining restaurant, 45 Bistro has its own executive chef, Brian Palefsky, and a kitchen staff comprised of specific roles that all take part in making a perfect dish.

Sous chef Alfredo Soto points out that what makes the difference is, “the fresh ingredients, the quality of

meats and fish and you know, the people that we have in the kitchen — we actually care. We really do care.

And it’s not just a couple of cooks off the street, it’s people who know what they’re doing. Each person has a special job in the kitchen, and they all tie it together.”

And even though space allows for special events and private parties, the dining room itself is modest in size.

“We don’t do as many people as a lot of the other fine dining restaurants in town do. And because of that we can put a lot more attention into each one of the plates,” mentions Steinfeldt.

Even in wedding parties of over one hundred guests, the kitchen staff will focus on a fraction of the orders at a time.

“The quality of the people in the kitchen also helps. You can have a really fine-dining restaurants but you know, you’re paying some guy eight dollars an hour and they’re not going to put their heart into their work.

And we put our heart into our work,” says Soto.

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Savannah goes to the movies

Left: Christmas and Ward (Chiwetel Ejifore and Jim Caviezel) on the river. Above: Annette Haywood-Carter directs the actors on set.

How a local legend became one of this year’s anticipated independent films

By Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

Roguish and charming, Ward Allen was one of Savannah’s most colorful characters in the early 20th century.

He isolated himself in the wild country, along his beloved Savannah River, where he fished and hunted ducks to supply the local markets.

An expert marksman, he was known as the Buffalo Bill of the River.

Armed with this information, and precious little more, Annette Haywood-Carter and her husband, Ken Carter, set out to re-create Ward Allen’s story for the movies.

Savannah, their independent film about the life and times of a legendary local hero, opens in 10 markets — including Savannah — Aug. 23.

“Ward,” says Ken Carter, “was to the manor born. He was the only son of a plantation-owning family. He had an uncle who was an ambassador and a famous attorney in Savannah.

He was educated in Edinburgh and Oxford. He had all the advantages.

“But he had a connection, from childhood, to nature and the Savannah River. To what he considered to be a more honest place. Whenever

given a choice, he chose to live his life closer to those elements.”

Through local businessman John Cay, whose father had written a small book (Ward Allen: Savannah River Market Hunter) about Allen’s exploits, the filmmaking couple learned about Allen’s unorthodox friendship with a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie.

As a young boy, Jack Cay had sat at the aging Moultrie’s knee and listened to stories about the duck hunter and his unconventional ways.

“Ward was also a wildman, a drunk,” Haywood-Carter explains.

“He was bigger than life. He changed people. People loved him on the one hand, and on the other hand they were always dragging him into court for breaking the law.”

In his later years, Allen — who’d

gamely tried city life, only to decide it wasn’t for him — repeatedly found himself on the wrong side of Georgia law by hunting out of season. And various other things.

He was also vocal about the dangers of industrialization, about which he wrote often — and eloquently — to the local paper and to the state legislature.

The world that he cherished was disappearing out from under him.

For the Carters, the challenge was clear. “The book is a collection of anecdotes about Ward and Christmas,” Haywood-Carter says. “Ken and I had to create a narrative from scratch, so perhaps 60 to 80 percent of what’s in the movie is fiction.

“You have to ask yourself ‘What makes this a movie?’ There’s a difference between something that works really well as a book and something that works really well as a movie.”

Adds Carter: “We have to make a connection with the characters, and think about them in the larger sense, beyond what we read in the story.

“There are little events in the book

that for us were huge — they opened doors to huge considerations in terms of what this man’s life must have been like. And you just start walking down those paths, trying to walk in his shoes. Ultimately, the process gets far enough down the road to where he starts talking to you.”

It was Haywood-Carter’s idea to frame Savannah with scenes of John Cay, as a boy, learning about Ward and Christmas from his dad. “The theme was universal — passing stories down through the generations, and a certain set of values that has to do with loyalty to a friend,” she says.

“And also a loyalty to, and a caretaking of, the environment. And a love of nature.

“So we started off with these two really wonderful characters, and added to it the universal themes.”

John Cay himself financed Savannah — although it’s a low-budget movie, it cost slightly more than a paltry few million — and HaywoodCarter, who’d directed the 1996 feature Foxfire, starring a young Angelina Jolie, decided to direct from

From there to here

Mississippi-born, Annette Haywood grew up in Macon. Ken Carter was an Army brat whose family moved around a lot; he spent his formative years in Atlanta.

When they married and moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s, they both dove neck-deep into the film business. As aspiring writers, they hoped to learn as much as possible by steeping in the culture of Hollywood.

He worked various crew positions, and eventually became an in-demand still photographer. Her job was script supervisor, a key role in any production. The script supervisor knows the movie, and its day-to-day operations, better than anyone. The job requires a thorough study of shot-by-shot continuity, dialogue changes and a thousand other things invaluable to the director.

Haywood-Carter worked on dozens of big-budget movies, including Driving Miss Daisy, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Cliffhanger, Queens Logic and The Flintstones.

Some weren’t so great. Often, she says, she would have to bite her tongue while a particularly badlywritten scene was being shot. “How could anyone actually write this stuff?” she’d think, using the experience to learn just one more lesson in screenwriting.

“The bad ones gave me confidence,” she remembers. “But the good movies, and the good directors, actually taught me how to do it. So in terms of writing and directing, my graduate school in film was entirely on the set.”

In 1994, Annette and Ken co-wrote a short film called The Foot Shooting Party (Official synopsis: “Set in 1970, the members of a rock band decide to shoot their lead singer in the foot so he won’t be drafted.”). She directed; Leonardo DiCaprio starred.

Eight years later, with their children growing up, the couple decided Los Angeles was no place to raise a family.

Haywood-Carter was offered a teaching position in the SCAD film department; Ken was hired to manage the Lucas Theatre.

Annette Haywood Carter and Ken Carter wrote Savannah; she directed. The film will open in 10 markets on Aug. 23.

The cast is key

Savannah was filmed, in Savannah, over 21 days in early 2011. “We were able to get the film on the budget, and in the 21 days, because of Savannah being Savannah,” Carter says proudly.

“One particular home interior was shot as it is, as it’s furnished. There was no set dressing required — we just shot this home, because it was absolutely authentic to the period.”

Their casting efforts were surprisingly easy. Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ, Pay it Forward) agreed to accept the pivotal role of Ward Allen.

“When you’re making a low-budget film, and you’re not paying an actor their normal salary, you have to think about what’s going to attract them to the movie,” Haywood-Carter explains.

“And what will usually attract an actor is a character that they haven’t done before.

“Jim not only had not done this character, he had been typecast as the solemn, moody, quiet guy. That’s all he was being cast in. So when we offered the role to him, he was very excited. What I saw in Jim was that he had a fantastic sense of humor. He’s really funny. And when he lets it go, he is this kind of big, fun, bigger than life character.”

Christmas Moultrie is played by Chiwetel Ejiofore (American Gangster, Love Actually); other names in the cast include playwright/actor Sam Shepard (Fair Game, Black Hawk

Down), Bradley Whitford (an Emmy winner for The West Wing), Jack McBrayer (30 Rock) and the venerable Hal Holbrook.

And Jaimie Alexander (The Last Stand, Thor) stars as Lucy Stubbs, the well-to-do woman who stole Ward Allen’s heart.

This part of the story is absolutely true.

“Lucy,” explains Carter, “was the one force of nature that he could not overwhelm. They had a tumultuous relationship.”

Ward and Lucy married and moved into a comfortable house on Liberty Street. But their only child was stillborn, and Lucy never recovered from the emotional trauma. She was sent away to Milledgeville, to convalesce.

When she died in the mental hospital, her distraught husband abandoned the city once and for all. In his later years, Christmas Moultrie was his constant companion and his only friend.

“He saw his river and the city that it had nourished turning into something he didn’t recognize,” Carter says.

“And he couldn’t go there.”

The reel world

Things started rolling for Savannah, and the Carters, in 2012. With positive advance buzz on their movie, and their kids old enough (and eager) to travel, they left their jobs in Savannah and re-located to New York City, the center of independent filmmaking in the United States. They’re already hard at work on their next project.

In May, Ketchup Entertainment picked up Savannah for national distribution; the hope is that after the limited Aug. 23 opening, word of mouth will result in wider demand.

As the marketing machine is greased — you’ll start hearing a lot about the movie in the coming weeks — Annette and Ken are feeling pretty good about their Ward Allen project.

“When you make a niche film, you have no idea how broad your audience is going to be,” says Haywood-Carter. “And we’ve just been overwhelmed at how powerful the response to this film has been.

“We’ve been at three festivals, and in two of these markets there was a second screening at the festival because the first one sold out.” cs For updates, see the Facebook page for Savannah — The Movie.

CinemaSavannah Muses on movies In an informal nod to his organization’s third anniversary, Tomasz Warchol of CinemaSavannah is bringing in a trio of indie films to Muse Arts Warehouse to spice up the late summer.

Coming up this Saturday in two screenings is the hot new British film Berberian Sound Studio. Directed by Peter Strickland — “whose Katalin Varga has been one the most phenomenal feature debuts of my film experience,” says Warchol — the film is getting tremendous buzz, having already won multiple British Independent Film Awards and the London Critics Circle Film Awards.

Cosponsored by Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah, this particular screening happens only two weeks after Berberian Sound Studio’s opening in New York.

The uniquely imagined horror film is about a meek British sound engineer who’s in Rome to work on the soundtrack of a tale of witchcraft and murder in an all-girl riding academy. (!)

Hot on the heels of its New York and LA openings will be CinemaSavannah’s screening of Tanta Agua (Too Much Water), a Uruguyan/Mexican project marking the debut of directors Ana Guevara and Laticia Jorge, winner of this year’s Miami and San Sebastian Film Festivals. It’s about a 14-year-old boy reluctantly on vacation with his father.

On Sept. 7, Warchol brings in The Hunt, a Danish film from 2012. Mads Mikkelsen (Open Hearts, After the Wedding, ) won the Best Actor Award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of Lucas, a former teacher forced continued on page 32

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the script she and her husband wrote.

Savannah was to be more than just another story about an enigmatic hermit in the rough. “For me, as a woman who’s not a hunter, this had to be a movie that I would want to go see,” Haywood-Carter says.

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to start over after a bitter divorce and the loss of his job.

Warchol chalks his success with bringing in so many hot new films to his long work at Georgia Southern as a film and literature professor, as well as to previously established relationships with distributors.

“It’s an investment that’s paying off now. Over the years I’ve been able to negotiate some good deals,” he says.

Warchol had been showing CinemaSavannah films at the Victory Square multiplex until that became cost-prohibitive. His partnership with JinHi Soucy Rand and Muse Arts Warehouse, he says, is ideal.

“We’ve established a very friendly and accommodating relationship,” he says.

“They work with me, they make the theatre available. We’ve been able to draw enough people that word gets around — so it’s good advertising for the venue as well. It’s a real win/ win for everybody.”

— Jim Morekis

CinemaSavannah Summer Films July 6: Berberian Sound Studio (UK, 2013) July 19: Tanta Agua/Too Much Water (Uruguay/Mexico, 2012) September 7: The Hunt (Denmark, 2012) When: All screenings 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd.

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THE HEAT

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In the annals of buddy-cop flicks, The Heat showcases a pretty good team in Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock.

It isn’t just the fact that they’re two women in what’s traditionally a male-oriented sub-genre - although the scarcity of such is partly why this movie stands out in a summer that is otherwise nothing but guy-onguy action.

It’s just a shame that the movie surrounding them isn’t much better. Had the screenplay by Katie Dippold (a writer for both Parks and Recreation and MADtv) been a bit punchier, this could have been a noteworthy bookend piece to director Paul Feig’s previous film, the uproarious and gender-smashing Bridesmaids. As it stands, the movie is almost pure formula, elevated out of the realm of the mediocre on the sheer strength of McCarthy’s bravura turn.

McCarthy, who earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Bridesmaids, here plays a similarly unrestrained sort. She’s Shannon Mullins, a Boston cop who’s loud, crude and prone to physical violence, and who treats her superiors only slightly better than she treats her perps. Her first appearance finds her utterly humiliating a goober who’s looking for hooker action while his wife is at home taking care of their five children.

Among Mullins’ moves? She calls the wife from the husband’s cell phone to let her know what he’s up to. It’s hard to imagine any of the male cops we’ve seen in movies performing a similar action. Not that there aren’t some additional digs. The other central figure is Sarah Ashburn (Bullock), and

she’s a hell of an FBI agent (excuse me; “Special Agent,” as she reminds everyone). But her boss might bypass her for a promotion that’s rightfully hers for the mere fact that all of the other (male) agents don’t like her. “I wonder why she’s single?” one sneers, although, to be fair, sexism isn’t the only reason the uptight and conceited Ashburn turns everyone off.

That becomes even more apparent when she meets and initially antagonizes Mullins, who also happens to be after the same drug lord as Ashburn. But despite their constant bickering, the two women are forced to pool their resources to barrel through various criminal underlings to reach the top man.

While she’s never been mistaken for a top comedienne, Bullock at least used to be lighter on her feet - I loved the levity her character brought to Speed, and she was aptly cast in movies like While You Were Sleeping. But she’s become more brittle as she’s matured, and while she proves to be a perfect foil for McCarthy, she’s not that funny on her own (casting someone like Kristen Wiig or Tina Fey would have solved this problem).

Fortunately, McCarthy provides enough standup material to fill the entire auditorium.

Her humor isn’t for everyone, but if you don’t mind streams of profanity triggering many of the key laughs, she’s a class (if not classy) act, with impeccable timing and brash self-confidence.

Only on rare occasion does the tenuous material defeat her. The majority of the time, she’s providing The Heat with its incendiary firepower.

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With the rapid succession of 2011’s Cars 2, 2012’s Brave and now Monsters University, it’s apparent that Pixar is no longer the top dog in the animation field, instead falling back with the competent but rarely inspired rest of the pack. Now operating under the Disney umbrella, the once cuttingedge outfit has traded complexity for complacency and comfort, with its latest efforts relying far too much on the sort of formulaic tendencies that have crippled Disney at various intervals over the years.

That’s not to say these newest releases are turkeys - far from it.

A prequel to 2001’s Monsters, Inc., this looks at the period before the diminutive, one-eyed Mike Wazowski (voiced again by Billy Crystal) and the furry and gentle giant James P. “Sulley” Sullivan (John Goodman) were BFFs working together at the Monsters, Inc. factory, generating scares from small children in order to generate power for Monstropolis.

The primary setting is college, where Mike has enrolled to pursue his lifelong dream of graduating as a top scarer. Because of his small stature and non-threatening demeanor, Mike has to hit the books hard in order to learn all the scaring techniques; not so Sulley, whose imposing size and ground-shaking roar means that he feels he can coast through his courses.

Sulley bullies Mike, which brings out Mike’s competitive streak; it all leads to a mishap that forces the pair to forget about joining top fraternities like Roar Omega Roar (ROR) and instead hook up with the worst. That would be Oozma Kappa (OK), whose members are basically the animated brethren of the leads in Revenge of the Nerds.

Like the other fraternities and sororities, Oozma Kappa finds itself competing in a multi-part competition known as the Scare Games, and it’s during this second-half stretch that the movie works most feverishly to instill its underdog tale with the usual kid-geared messages such as it’s OK to be yourself and individuals accomplish more when they work together as teams. It’s the sort of headpatting that Pixar used to present so subtly that it almost qualified as a subliminal message. Here, though, it’s punched across with the sort of thumping obviousness found in other

studios’ toon efforts.

Luckily, Monsters University is such a clever concoction in so many other ways that it’s still a solid bet for summertime cinema-surfing. Next to the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc. remains my favorite Pixar title, so it’s thrilling to reconnect with the wonderful characters of Mike and Sulley.

And as always, the visuals are absolutely staggering, with even the backdrops worthy of study.

early on, the filmmakers have no idea what to do with them), and the CGIsaturated segments in which hordes of zombies run down the streets or climb over walls are too impersonal to stir much emotion.

But the up-close-and-personal sequences - particularly one set aboard an airplane and another inside a World Health Organization facility are expertly presented, and they prove that there’s still some life left in this genre ... if just barely.

World War Z

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Because this new century has given birth to a startling number of grade-A zombie flicks, it’s only natural to worry that such familiarity will reduce World War Z to the level of a World War Zzzzz. That’s not the case, thanks largely to a committed performance by Brad Pitt and a handful of exciting sequences nicely staged by director Marc Forster. At the same time, it might be time to call for a moratorium on undead activities, as the tire thread on this particular genre might be growing thin.

Based on the novel by Max Brooks, WWZ is set in a near-future in which a virus has been turning people into zombies. Worse, those people are turning other people into zombies, via the standard bite on the body. North Korea is reported to have taken care of the problem by removing the teeth of all its citizens, but the rest of the world’s population is having to deal with the crisis head on.

Gerry Lane (Pitt), a former United Nations hotshot known for his ability to deal with tough situations, is brought back into the loop to find some way to handle the crisis. His brainstorm: If he can locate the source of the first outbreak, he might be able to discover its cause and prepare an antidote.

And so it’s off on a global excursion for Gerry, as he heads to South Korea, Jerusalem and Wales (Forster previously directed the 007 entry Quantum of Solace, so he was probably happy to rack up more Frequent Flyer miles). At every stop, he has to search for clues while evading zombies who seem fit enough for the 100mile dash.

Gerry’s mystery tour isn’t particularly compelling, the characters of his wife (Mireille Enos) and daughters could have been jettisoned (I say that only because after establishing them

MAN OF STEEL

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Who could possibly have imagined that Man of Steel, the latest attempt to reboot the Superman franchise, would be a massive superbore, with a solemnity so crushing that it makes those earnest Biblical epics from the 1950s and ‘60s seem like a Marx Brothers romp by comparison.

For what it’s worth - and it ultimately isn’t worth much - Man of Steel tackles the familiar origin story from a different angle than what might be expected. Jor-El (Russell Crowe) still anchors the first reel, futilely warning his fellow Kryptonians that their planet is doomed and they must evacuate before it’s too late.

And General Zod (Michael Shannon) and his band of misfits still turn up and are eventually hurled into the Phantom Zone, although the interesting twist here is that Zod and co. aren’t merely murderous egotists but well-meaning anarchists who seek to overthrow the doddering bureaucrats.

Unfortunately, Zod’s means aren’t peaceful - no sidewalk sit-ins for him - and before he’s imprisoned, he swears to track down Jor-El’s baby boy, who’s been hurled into space in advance of the planet’s demise.

That son, of course, is Kal-El, who lands on Earth and is raised by farm couple Jonathan and Martha Kent (Kevin Costner and Diane Lane) under the name of Clark Kent. Clark understandably feels like an outsider all the time, and he’s anxious to use the awesome powers he keeps bottled up inside.

But Jonathan instructs him to resist the urge, and this advice is largely what leads the adult Clark (now played by Henry Cavill) to wander the backroads with no real purpose, a bearded laborer who takes any job he can find. It isn’t until he meets reporter Lois Lane (Amy Adams) and

squares off against the newly arrived Zod that he begins to find direction in his life.

There’s a strong possibility that Man of Steel might be the most boring superhero saga ever filmed. It’s not lacking in action, but it’s endless and uninspired, with director Zack Snyder (300, Sucker Punch) maxing out the studio’s credit cards by shooting as much CGI bombast as the hardware could handle before sparking and catching on fire.

The scenes that rely on dialogue are no better, with the good guys prone to speechifying and the bad guys reduced to spouting haughty cliches.

THIS IS THE END

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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 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. CS

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Activism & Politics Drinking Liberally

An informal, left-leaning gathering to discuss politics, the economy, sports, entertainment, or anything else that comes up. Every first and third Thursday. Free ongoing, 7:00 p.m. See website or the Drinking Liberally facebook page for more information. Free July 18, Rene Teran of Well Fed Magazine on he importance of buying local.. ongoing, 7 p.m. livingliberally.org/drinking/chapters/GA/savannah. July 18, Rene Teran of Well Fed Magazine on he importance of buying local. ongoing, 7 p.m Brick House, 514 M.L.King Jr. Blvd.

Savannah Area Young Republicans

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.

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. Victorian Neighborhood Association Meetings

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

912-233-0352. alpost135.com/. second Tuesday of every month, 6-7 p.m American Legion, Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Young Democrats

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.

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

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

Artist Sacred Circle

Group forming on Fridays beginning in March. 1:30pm-3pm. Based on The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron.

Contact Lydia Stone, 912-656-6383 or

rosesonthemove@gmail.com. ongoing.

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

Mon, 4th Thursday. Call for times. $30 912-354-6686. mediationsavannah. com.

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

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

912-921-4646. ongoing

Beading Classes

Beading Classses at Bead Dreamer Studio

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

Beginning Belly Dance Classes

Taught by Happenstance Bellydance.

All skill levels and styles. Private instruction available. $15 912-704-2940. happenstancebellydance@gmail.com. happenstancebellydance.wordpress. com. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. 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. 912-351-4578. sav..claystudio@ gmail.com.

Boating Classes

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

DUI Prevention Group

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

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

English as Second Language Classes

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

Family Law Workshop

The Mediation Center has three workshops per month for people who do not have legal representation in a family matter: divorce, legitimation, modifications of child support, visitation, contempt. Schedule: 1st Tues, 2nd

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

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, 912355-0398 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. 912541-1337. sentientbean.com. ongoing The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Music Lessons--All Instruments.

Rody’s Music offers lessons for all ages on all instruments, beginners through advanced. Call or email for information.

ongoing. 912-352-4666. kristi@awsav. com. rodysmusic.com/. ongoing Rody’s Music, 7700 Abercorn St.

Music Lessons--Multiple Instruments

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

7041 Hodgson Memorial Dr. ongoing.

912-692-8055. smisavannah@gmail. com. ongoing New Horizons Adult Band Program

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

Mondays at 6:30pm at Portman’s. $30 per month. All ages and ability levels welcome. Call for info. ongoing.

912-354-1500. portmansmusic.com. ongoing Portman’s Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. Novel Writing

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

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

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

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

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Singing Lessons with Anitra Opera Diva

Teaching the Vaccai Bel Canto technique for improving vocal range and breathing capacity. A good foundation technique for different styles--opera, pop, rock, cabaret. Fridays 5:30-8:30pm. Institute of Cinematic Arts, 12 1/2 W. State St., 3rd floor. ongoing. 786-247-9923. anitraoperadiva.com. ongoing Spanish Classes

Learn Spanish for life and grow your business. Courses for professionals offered by Conquistador Spanish Language Institute, LLC. Classes offered in a series. Beginner Spanish for Professionals--Intro price $155 + textbook ($12.95). Instructor: Bertha E. Hernandez, M.Ed. and native speaker. Meets in the Keller Williams Realty meeting room, 329 Commercial Drive. ongoing. conquistador-spanish.com. ongoing The Strange World of Debits and Credits... in an hour!

A seminar for small business owners, led by Neville Stein, CPA. Th. July 11, 12-1pm. Co-sponsored by UGA’s Small Business Development Center and Hancock Askew & Co. Free. RSVP recommended. Through July 11. 912527-1337. bfierstein@hancockaskew. com. Through July 11 Hancock Askew, 100 Riverview Drive.

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

Fitness AHA in the AM

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

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

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AHA Yoga Classes

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

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Al-Anon Family Groups

An anonymous fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics. the message of Al-Anon is one of strength and hope for friends/family of problem drinkers.

Al-Anon is for adults. Alateen is for people age 13-19. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. check website or call for info. ongoing. 912-598-9860. savannahalanon.com. ongoing Bariatric Surgery Support Group

First Wednesday each month, 7pm, and third Saturday, 10am, in Mercer Auditorium of Hoskins Center at Memorial. For those who have had or are considering bariatric surgery. Free to attend. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-3503438. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. ongoing Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Beach Body Workouts with Laura

MONDAYS at 6:15 PM at the Lake Mayer Community Center $5.00 per session Mondays, 6:15 p.m. (912) 652-6784.

Mondays, 6:15 p.m Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

Beastmode Fitness Group Training

Train with this elite team. A total body program that trims, tones and gets results. Personal training options available. See website for info. Meets at West Broad YMCA. 5am-6am and 8pm-9pm. ongoing. beastmodefitnessga.com. ongoing YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. Bellydancing Fusion Classes

Mixes ballet, jazz, hip hop into a unique high energy dance style. Drills and choreographies for all levels.Small classes in downtown Savannah, and on request. $10 per person. Email for info. ongoing. bohemianbeats.com. ongoing Blue Water Yoga

Community donation-based classes, Tues. and Thurs., 5:45pm - 7:00pm. Fri., 9:30am-10:30am. Email for info or find Blue Water Yoga on Facebook. ongoing. egs5719@aol.com. ongoing Talahi Island Community Club, 532 Quarterman Dr. 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

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“Let Freestyle Reign”--who needs a theme? by matt Jones | Answers on page 37 ©2013 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com)

Across

1 Cap and gown wearer 9 Ticket ___ 14 Spying, as at a window 15 Sweet stuff 16 The Notorious B.I.G., for one 18 Team-building exercise?

19 Nastase of tennis 20 Be a bigmouth magician 27 It flows to the Baltic Sea 28 Words preceding “where the buffalo roam” 29 Regarding 30 Way off 33 Org. that uses the pattern XXX-XX-XXXX 36 Morphine alternative 37 Abbr. in Albany 38 It turns green in mid-March 41 Uncanny glow 42 Having wings (anagram of EAT AL) 43 When sold separately 47 Scorsese, Soderbergh or Shyamalan 50 Magazine founder Eric 51 “___ are exactly alike” 52 Forbidden 58 “Portlandia” executive producer Michaels 59 Pen pals?

60 Spiral-horned antelope 61 They end “time” and “date”

Down

1 Targeted (towards) 2 Make sure you won’t lose a file 3 Johnny Carson character who used crazy road maps 4 Formal pronouncements 5 Its deck has 108 cards 6 Turkish title

7 Opposite of ‘tain’t 8 Allergy specialist, perhaps 9 Sedimentary rock 10 Of interest 11 Crimethink offender flushed down the memory hole 12 Spelling competition 13 Mideast nat.

14 “Napoleon Dynamite” role 17 Surpassed 21 They may have innings past midnight 22 Anderson Cooper once hosted it 23 Irritation for a web surfer 24 Retired professors 25 Online DIY store 26 Ten below?

31 Harem quarters (hidden in SODA WATER) 32 A.L. Central team, on scoreboards 33 Line crosser 34 Feng ___ 35 Flying force 39 Mos Eisley saloon 40 2008 TV movie with Laura Dern as Katherine Harris 44 Churchill successor 45 Shrinks 46 Bill and George’s competitor, in 1992 48 Extension of the main building 49 “The Smartest Guys in the Room” company 52 Carte start 53 2003 and 2007 role for Morgan Freeman 54 Rolls out a prank?

55 Prefix with centennial 56 Sec. of State nickname 57 -speak

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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.

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ARIES

(March 21-April 19) In his book *The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden,* Robert Johnson says many of us are as much in debt with our psychic energy as we are with our financial life. We work too hard. We rarely refresh ourselves with silence and slowness and peace. We don’t get enough sleep or good food or exposure to nature. And so we’re routinely using up more of our reserves than we are able to replenish. We’re chronically running a deficit. “It is genius to store energy,” says Johnson. He recommends creating a plan to save it up so that you always have more than enough to draw on when an unexpected opportunity arrives. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to make this a habit, Aries.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20) In the course of your long life, I estimate you will come up with approximately 60,000 really good ideas. Some of these are small, like those that help you decide how to spend your weekend.

Some are big ones, like those that reveal the best place for you to live. As your destiny unfolds, you go through phases when you have fewer good ideas than average, and other phases when you’re overflowing with them. The period you’re in right now is one of the latter. You are a fountain of bright notions, intuitive insights, and fresh perspectives. Take advantage of the abundance, Taurus. Solve as many riddles and dilemmas as you can.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20) No one knows the scientific reasons why long-distance runners sometimes get a “second wind.”

Nonetheless, such a thing exists.

It allows athletes to resume their peak efforts after seemingly having reached a point of exhaustion.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, a metaphorical version of this happy event will occur for you sometime soon, Gemini. You made a good beginning but have been flagging a bit of late. Any minute now, though, I expect you will get your second wind.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22) Thomas Gray was a renowned

18th-century English poet best remembered for his “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” It was a short poem — only 986 words, which is less than the length of this horoscope column. On the other hand, it took him seven years to write it, or an average of 12 words per month. I suspect that you are embarking on a labor of love that will evolve at a gradual pace, too, Cancerian. It might not occupy you for seven years, but it will probably take longer than you imagine. And yet, that’s exactly how long it should take. This is a character-building, life-defining project that can’t and shouldn’t be rushed.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22) The 18th-century German philosopher Georg Christoph Lichtenberg accepted the possibility that some humans have the power of clairvoyance. “The ‘second sight’ possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events,” he wrote.

“I believe they possess this gift because they don’t wear trousers.

That is also why in all countries women are more prone to utter prophecies.” I bring this to your attention, Leo, because I believe that in the coming weeks you’re likely to catch accurate glimpses of what’s to come — especially when you’re not wearing pants.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Were you nurtured well by caring adults in the first year of your life? If so, I bet you now have the capacity to fix whatever’s ailing your tribe or posse. You could offer some inspiration that will renew everyone’s motivation to work together. You might improve the group communication as you strengthen the foundation that supports you all. And what about if you were NOT given an abundance of tender love as a young child? I think you will still have the power to raise your crew’s mood, but you may end up kicking a few butts along the way.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Summing up his experiment in living at Walden Pond, naturalist Henry David Thoreau said this: “I learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will

meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws will be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.” Given the astrological factors that will be impacting your life in the next 12 months, Libra, you might consider adopting this philosophy as your own.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Thirteen thousand years ago, lions and mammoths and camels roamed parts of North America.

But along with many other large beasts, they ultimately became extinct. Possible explanations for their demise include climate change and over-hunting by humans. In recent years a group of biologists has proposed a plan to repopulate the western part of the continent with similar species.

They call their idea “re-wilding.”

In the coming months, Scorpio, I suggest you consider a re-wilding program of your own. Cosmic forces will be on your side if you reinvigorate your connection to the raw, primal aspects of both your own nature and the great outdoors.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Who was Russia’s greatest poet?

Many critics say it was Alexander Pushkin, who lived in the 19th century. His abundant creativity was undoubtedly related to his unruly libido. By the time he was 31 years old, he’d had 112 lovers. But then he met his ultimate muse, the lovely and intelligent Natalya Goncharova, to whom he remained faithful. “Without you,” he wrote to her, “I would have been unhappy all my life.” I half-expect something comparable to happen for you in the next ten months, Sagittarius. You may either find an unparalleled ally or else finally ripen your relationship with an unparalleled ally you’ve known for a while. One way or another, I bet you will commit yourself deeper and stronger.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19) It’s Grease Week — a time when you need to make sure everything is as well-oiled as possible. Does

your car need a quart of Castrol?

Is it time to bring more extra virgin olive oil into your kitchen?

Do you have any K-Y Jelly in your nightstand, just in case? Are there creaky doors or stuck screws or squeaky wheels that could use some WD-40? Be liberal with the lubrication, Capricorn — both literally and metaphorically. You need smooth procedures and natural transitions.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Two years into the War of 1812, British soldiers invaded Washington, D.C. They set fire to the White House and other government buildings. The flames raged out of control, spreading in all directions.

The entire city was in danger of burning. In the nick of time, a fierce storm hit, producing a tornado and heavy rains. Most of the fires were extinguished. Battered by the weather, the British army retreated. America’s capital was saved. I predict that you, Aquarius, will soon be the beneficiary of a somewhat less dramatic example of this series of events. Give thanks for the “lucky storm.”

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20) Like the legendary Most Interesting Man in the World who shills for Dos Equis beer, you will never step in gum on the sidewalk or lose a sock in the coming weeks.

Your cereal will never get soggy; it’ll sit there, staying crispy, just for you. The pheromones you secrete will affect people miles away. You’ll have the power to pop open a pinata with the blink of your eye. If you take a Rorschach test, you’ll ace it. Ghosts will sit around campfires telling stories about you. Cafes and restaurants may name sandwiches after you.

If you so choose, you’ll be able to live vicariously through yourself.

You will give your guardian angel a sense of security.

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

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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.

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

Call or email for info. ongoing. 912-8975984. irishdancsav@aol.com. ongoing J Low & Friends

Interactive puppet show depicting 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., July 9, 7 p.m. 912-355-3366. puppets@ puppetpeople.com. PuppetPeople. com. Tue., July 9, 7 p.m Puppet People Studio, 3119 Furber Ave. Mommy & Me Yoga

Bring your baby (6 weeks-3 years) to this fun class that is beneficial for both of you! Meet other moms, exercise, relax and learn ways to release stress.

No experience in yoga is needed. Sign up preferred, but not necessary. $10 Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. 912-656-9663. awakeningyogastudio.com. Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m Awakening Yoga Studio, 2453A US Highway 17.

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Ages 8-12: June 24-25, July 8-9, July 22-23. Ages 12-16: June 19-20, July 1-2. Offered by Savannah Canoe and Kayak. $60/day Through July 31. info@

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Academic summer programs for students looking to sharpen their skills over the summer. Half-day program for students entering grades 1-6 seeking help with math and/or reading. June 17-July 18, Monday- Thursday. Students work in small groups to focus on improving basic skills and on summer reading projects. Scholarship funds available. Other programs:Enrichment Program Grades 1-6. Includes character building, communication and team work skills. Study Skills Program for students entering grades 6-12: a two week program in organization, note taking, understanding how to read a text book and test-taking skills. Oneon-one Tutoring is individually designed for students at all grade levels. Call or email for fees. Through July 31.

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Tybee Theatre Camp for Kids 2013

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

ROOM FOR RENT Washer & Dryer, CH/A, great location, $140-$150 weekly. Please Call Jason 912-484-6565 ROOMMATES WANTED VERY CLEAN. Stove, refrigerator, cable, washer/dryer included. On bus line. Starting at $125/week.

Call 912 272-6919

FEMALE ROOMMATE Wanted for Southside unfurnished bedroom. $199/month plus preparation of daily/evening meals.

Contact Lavinia, 912-927-2533 or Kathy, 912-786-4030 transportation 900

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1992 PONTIAC Bonneville For Sale, Reasonable price.

1984 MAZDA For Sale.

912-233-7536

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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2005 YAMAHA ROYAL STAR, Only Serious Need To Call, in excellent cond, low mileage, lots of extra.

8,500.00 912-507-9525 Boats & accessories 950 17FT. SAIL FISH with 150 Mercury EFI & Trailer. $4000 OBO. Call for info, 912-308-7754

2002 Bayliner Capri Cuddy Cabin POWERBOAT Bayliner-Great shape, 1952 Model, Mercruiser 135hp, full canvas, trailer. $8,000 OBO. 770-595-3367 Campers/rVs 960

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RV Coachman, 2011- 32ft.

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

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

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FURNISHED APTS. $165/WK.

FORD Conversion Van, 1995- Blue, runs good. Dependable. $900 OBO. Call 912-308-0724 FORD Ranger, 1998- Super cab, 5-speed, cold AC, very clean, 4 cyl, great on gas. $2,450. 912-441-2150 JAGUAR S-type, 2005- 4-door, Classic British racing green. Runs great, in excellent condition. $7500. Call 912-232-1753

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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.

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