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Film: A Cold Night's Death, aka The Chill Factor (USA, 1974)
Film: Doubting Thomas (USA, 2013)
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Wednesday What: Psychotronic Film Society presents an 83rd Birthday Tribute to the late actor Robert Culp. When: 8 p.m Where: Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Cost: $6 Info: sentientbean.com
Film Series: Art in the 21st Century
What: Daily marathon screenings of the
Peabody Award-winning film series featuring in depth interviews and profiles of the contemporary art scene. When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily Where: Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Cost: $12 museum admission. Free for Telfair members. Free for military and their families through Blue Star Museums. Info: telfair.org
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Thursday Air bnb 101
What: What's this sharing economy thing-a-ma-jig? Come to this meeting hosted by airbnb.com and find out. When: 9:30-11 a.m Where: Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Info: local@airbnb.com
"Illuminate the Art of Savannah" Party
What: A party benefiting Desotorow's Illuminate the Art of Savannah campaign, to upgrade Desotorow’s lighting. Music by members of Omignome, a light-show, and art-making. Decorate light bulbs and take a picture with your illuminated creation for $15. When: 6-9 p.m Where: Desotorow Gallery, 2427 Desoto Ave. Cost: Free to attend. Decorate a lightbulb for $15. Info: desotorow.org
[it] Improv Troupe
What: An improv show by the Savannah
THURSDAY Savannah Voice Festival: Tito Capobianco Master Class
What: One of opera’s greatest stage directors and the founder of the Julliard Opera Center shares his insights and creativity with festival singers. When: 6:30-8:30 p.m Where: Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, 1 Resort Drive. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: info@savannahvoicefestival.org. savannahvoicefestival.org
Stage Company.
When: 8 p.m Where: Sicky Nar Nar, 125 W Duffy St. Cost: $7 Info: savannahstagecompany.com
Music: T.I. & Friends - America's Heroes Celebration
What: Hip hop aqnd R&B charity concert with rapper T.I., Ashanti and Eve. When: 8 p.m Where: Martin Luther King Jr Arena, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $32-$100
Theatre: Les Miserables
What: The Savannah Theatre’s limited
run of the classic musical drama, through Aug. 24 When: 8 p.m Where: 222 Bull Street Cost: $35 adults; $17 age 17 and under, at www.etix.com
What: A screening of a new mystery thriller short film, produced during the Summer 2013 academic term. Armstrong Student Union Ogeechee Theater. Written, produced, directed and edited by Armstrong student Travis Marshall. Length: 10 minutes. When: 4:30 p.m Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: 912.344.2801
Theatre: Medea
What: Euripides' timeless tragedy brought to life by Savannah's 4th World Theater, complete with Greek chorus. Original music by Electric Grandma. Runs through Aug. 24. When: 8 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $10 Gen. Adm. $5 students. Info: musesavannah.org
Theatre: Les Miserables
What: The Savannah Theatre’s limited run of the classic musical drama, through Aug. 24 When: 8 p.m Where: 222 Bull Street Cost: $35 adults; $17 age 17 and under, at www.etix.com
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Saturday The Art of Richard Law: Makeand-Take Family Arts Program
What: Hands on activities for children and parents, in connection with the painting exhibition by Richard Law that blends folk art, jazz and commentary. When: 10 a.m.-noon Where: City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: savannahga.gov/arts
Authors After Dark Convention: Guest Authors Book Signing
What: This national conference for fans and writers of genre fiction, hosted in Savannah for the first time, opens its doors to the public for a two hour book signing extravaganza, featuring dozens of bestselling romance, YA, fantasy, and "vampire" lit writers. When: 2-4 p.m Where: Savannah Marriott Riverfront, 100 Gen. McIntosh Blvd. Cost: Free to attend. Books available for purchase. Info: authorsafterdark.org
The Color Run
What: Don't get muddy, get colorful. Wear white in this 5k and get colors thrown all over you. A portion of proceeds benefits Horizons programming at Savannah Country Day School and Bethesda Academy. When: 8 a.m Where: Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Cost: Solo: $45. Team: $40 per person. Info: thecolorrun.com/savannah-2
Derby Devils Roller Derby Backto-School Brawl
What: 5 p.m. Regional Derby Scrimmage, 7 p.m. Savannah Derby Devil All-Stars vs. Texas Rollergirls Hustlers (Austin, TX) Where: The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Info: savannahderby.com
Forsyth Farmers Market
What: Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights. Rain or shine. When: 9 a.m.-1 p.m Where: Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Cost: Free to attend. Items for sale. Info: 912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com
Gazing in the Garden
What: The quarterly stargazing session hosted by the award winning Oglethorpe Astronomical Association. Bring your own telescope or let astronomers guide you through the galaxy. A 1950s sci-fi film screens at 7:30pm, with stargazing from 8-10pm. Bring lawn chairs and picnics. No pets. No alcohol. When: 7:30-10 p.m Where: Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens, 2 Canebrake Rd. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: (912) 921-5460. elubrani@uga.edu. coastalgeorgiabg.org
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Theatre: Sweeney Todd
What: “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”: Tony-award winning musical thriller continues through Aug. 25, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. When: 7:30 p.m Where: Bay Street Theatre, 1 Jefferson St. Cost: $25 Info: sweeneysavannah.com
Jepson Pre-Near East Family Day Workshop
What: Families focus on making shadow
puppets, marbleizing paper and piecing together a carpet puzzle. Reservations required. When: 11 a.m Where: Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: 912-790-8823. telfair.org
Nature Outing: Exploring Ebenezer Creek by canoe
What: A canoeing day trip in this Nation-
al Natural Landmark tract of cypressgum swamp forest in the Savannah River basin. Guided by the Sierra Club. Canoe rentals for $30 ($15/person) or bring your own canoe or kayak. Call or email to reserve a spot on the trip. When: 8 a.m.-noon Info: 912-961-6190. karengrainey@ bellsouth.net
Savannah Voice Festival Finale: A Grand Night for Singing
What: Festival wrap concert showcases all types of vocal music. Guests include arranger/composer Eddie Wilson and hosted by the festival’s Sherrill Milnes. When: 6:30 p.m Where: Christ Church, 28 Bull St. Cost: $25 Info: savannahvoicefestival.org
Theatre: Sweeney Todd
What: “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”: Blood-and-guts Tony-award winning musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. When: 7:30 p.m Where: Bay Street Theatre, 1 Jefferson St. Cost: $25 Info: sweeneysavannah.com
Theatre: Medea
What: Euripides' timeless tragedy brought to life by Savannah's 4th World Theater, complete with Greek chorus. Original music by Electric Grandma. Runs through Aug. 24. When: 8 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $10 Gen. Adm. $5 students. Info: musesavannah.org
Theatre: Les Miserables
What: The Savannah Theatre’s limited run of the classic musical drama, through Aug. 24 When: 8 p.m Where: 222 Bull Street Cost: $35 adults; $17 age 17 and under, at www.etix.com
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Sunday Theatre: Medea
What: Euripides' timeless tragedy brought to life by Savannah's 4th World Theater, complete with Greek chorus. Original music by Electric Grandma. Runs through Aug. 24. When: 2 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $10 Gen. Adm. $5 students. Info: musesavannah.org
Theatre: Sweeney Todd
What: "The Demon Barber of Fleet Street": Blood-and-guts Tony-award winning musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. All ages shows on Sundays. When: 7:30 p.m Where: Bay Street Theatre, 1 Jefferson St. Cost: $25 Info: sweeneysavannah.com
Tybee Floatilla: Will Float for Kids
What: Another party-on-the-water
sponsored by Connect Savannah. Benefiting the Burton 4-H Center, Eastern Surfing Association, Fresh Air Home, and Surfers for Autism. Launch at Alley 3, Back River. When: 12-4 p.m Where: Tybee Island, Tybee Island. Cost: $30 Info: tybeefloatilla.com
Monday The Odd Lot Improv Event
What: Improv comedy from the oddest
lot of folks. When: 8 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $5 (or what you can give) Info: musesavannah.org
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Tuesday Is Starting a Business for You?
What: For those thinking of starting a business. Learn how to: identify frauds and scams billed as business opportunities, consider space and time needs, and identify factors that contribute to success. Sponsored by: UGA's Cooperative Extension- Chatham County and Small Business Development Center. When: 6-7:30 p.m Where: Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens, 2 Canebrake Rd. Cost: Free. Pre-registration required. Info: 912-652-7981. uge3051@uga.edu
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Jepson Family Day and Concert by TURKU
Film: On Fire aka Forgive Me Father (USA, 2001)
What: From Egypt to India, bring the family for activities in conjunction with Near East Art from the Touma Collection, now on exhibition at the Jepson Center. Sponsored by the City of Savannah. When: 3pm by TURKU, a North Carolina band perform music reflecting the musical traditions of Turkey, Persia, 1-4 p.m Where: Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: turkumusic.com
Lunch & Thinc Seminar with Brie Pawlak, Avatar Master
What: The August installment of ThincSavannah's lunchtime seminar series. Pawlak gives an overview of the Avatar course, a self-development program, of "tools to create a sense of peace and purpose in your life." Reservations requested by Aug. 19. When: 12:30-1:30 p.m Where: Thinc Savannah, 35 Barnard St. 3rd Floor. Cost: Free and open to the public. $10 for lunch by Moon River Brewing Co. Info: 912-544-1200. summer@thincsavannah.com. ThincSavannah.com
What: Lecturers are James Frame and Dr. Corey Schuler. Information for men's and women's health. Presented by Brighter Day and Natural Health, International. When: 7 p.m Where: Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: (912) 236-4703
What: Psychotronic Film Society salutes the legacy of one of the least known (and least talented) action film stars: Ivan Rogers, a martial arts champ who wrote, directed and starred in a number of unintentionally bad, cliche-riden and poorly made low-budget action flicks before his untimely death in 2010. Ivan plays a former mob hitman who has turned his back on the past, but who is dragged back into a world of revenge and violence when his brother is murdered. Filled with cringe-worthy line readings, heavy-handed production design and ludicrous dialogue. When: 8 p.m Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Cost: $5 CONNECTSAVANNAH.COM Info: sentientbean.com
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Kick-off for CASA's Dancing with Savannah Stars
What: Savannah/Chatham Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), Inc. will announce the eight "Savannah Stars" who will participate in this fundraiser and dance competition. Part of the monthly Martinis at the Mansion event. When: 5:30-7:30 p.m Where: Mansion on Forsyth Park, 700 Drayton St. Info: 912-447-8908 ext. 101. savannahcasa.org
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Looking Ahead 4th World Theatre: Medea. Aug. 16-24, Muse Arts Warehouse. The Boxcars. Aug. 17, Randy Wood Guitars. Craft Beer Festival. Aug. 31, Trade & Convention Center. Savannah movie opens, Aug. 23. Victory Square. Corey Smith. Sept. 5, Johnny Mercer Theatre. Savannah’s Fashion Night. Sept. 5. Mighty Clouds of Joy. Sept. 6, Johnny Mercer Theatre. Sandra Bernhard. Sept. 8, Club One. Grey’s Reef Ocean Film Festival. Sept. 13 and 14. Revival Fest. Sept. 14, Georgia State Railroad Museum. The Collective Face: Equus. Sept. 20-Oct. 6, Muse Arts Warehouse. Savannah Philharmonic Season Opener. Sept. 21, Lucas Theatre.
Savannah Jazz Festival. Sept. 22-28. ‘Skyway’ book launch. Sept. 24, Ships of the Sea Museum. Eddie Griffin. Oct. 4, Johnny Mercer Theatre. Loretta Lynn. Oct. 6, Johnny Mercer Theatre. Nicholas Sparks. Oct. 8, Trustees Theater. JJ Grey & Mofro. Oct. 10, Lucas Theatre. Tybee Island Pirate Fest. Oct. 10-13. Savannah Greek Festival. Oct 10-12, St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church. CBGB opens. Oct. 11. Hunter Hayes. Oct. 11, Johnny Mercer Theatre. Film: The Silence of the Lambs. Oct. 12, Lucas Theatre.
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The tax cut that wasn’t by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com
Taxpayers take good news where they can get it. And a tiny amount of good news came last week, when City Council voted unanimously to roll back the property tax millage rate. The change is incremental, miniscule even: A mere .02 mill reduction, from 12.50 to 12.48. (A mill is a thousandth of a dollar, by the way.) In a press release headlined “City of Savannah Reduces Property Tax Rate,” the vote was trumpeted as if it were a hugely magnanimous act. In actuality the tax cut is more properly termed a “rollback.” A rollback is a state-mandated compensation to taxpayers due to a larger-thanexpected increase in property tax collection. Even the timing of the release was largely out of Council’s hands; tax rates must be certified in August of each year. And had Council not voted for the reduction? The City would then have been required by state law to send out a press release with the legally-mandated and quite different headline “Notice of Property Tax Increase.” If you’re a politician, which headline do you prefer? None of this stopped Alderman Van Johnson from saying “When possible, we reduce our millage rate, and obviously this was an opportunity to give back,” a statement which in my view lies somewhere between poorly informed and disingenuous. Again, as a homeowner myself, I’ll take it. But everyone should know the backstory, which in this case comes courtesy of section 560-11-2-.58 of the Georgia Code, bluntly titled “Rollback of Millage Rate When Digest Value Increased by Reassessments.” The name says it all. That section was passed in 2000 as part of the Georgia Taxpayer Bill of Rights. It’s intended to prevent backdoor tax increases, whereby a government takes in surplus money over the previous year because tax assessments are higher. I expect politicians to tout anything as an accomplishment. I expect politicians to say, as the City claims, that an increase in the tax digest is due to an improved economy.
And I expect them to take credit for it. I suppose I’d do the same in their shoes. But essentially what we have here is a City Council congratulating itself not only for following state law, but for not raising taxes. Puts the unanimous vote in context, eh? By far the most problematic part is that the City advertises the tax cut as having something to do with SPLOST (Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax). SPLOST and its various clones we’re plagued with in Savannah — a municipal tax rate nearly that of New York City — are of course not property taxes at all. After the vote, Mayor Edna Jackson said of SPLOST: “This affords us the opportunity to develop critical infrastructure, and build police and fire stations without having to rely on property taxpayers to foot the bill.” You’re certainly free to make the argument, as Madame Mayor does, that SPLOST helps keep property taxes down, in the sense that politicians will be less inclined to raise property taxes when they can tack on one more sales tax to the several we already pay. But one is much less free to say SPLOST has anything to do with the City’s obligation to property taxpayers under state law. Some local observers even think that by explicitly claiming SPLOST as a reason for the millage cut, the City might have lost its claim to a rollback and could conceivably still be on the hook to make that required “Notice of Property Tax Increase” announcement. The law covering rollbacks refers only to property tax assessments, not total collection including sales tax. But most local media dutifully reported the propaganda anyway. (As a side note, SPLOST was never intended to fund essential services, as the mayor implies. New police and fire stations, while technically the kind of capital projects SPLOST covers, come uncomfortably close to the category of basic funding.)
Sales taxes are always sold to the public based on the idea that non-residents (for Savannah purposes read: tourists) pay a disproportionate share. In our case, it’s estimated, I think a bit generously, that 40 percent of SPLOST comes from non-residents. I’ve never understood why that’s supposed to make me feel better. Regardless of who else pays sales taxes... we pay ‘em too. As for the whole improving-economy thing, my take is that much of the increase in local assessments is largely because of entrepreneurial improvements in previously depressed neighborhoods. The areas just north and south of the Starland District, for example, have seen or are about to see much improvement. There’s the existing Butterhead Greens/Foxy Loxy/ Arnold Hall nexus in the Thomas Square area. (While SCAD doesn’t pay property tax, student/staff activity clearly stimulates nearby businesses.) In the near future, Hugh Acheson’s hotlyanticipated “The Florence” restaurant coming to the One West Victory development will provide a similar tax digest boost to a somewhat run-down area. The key part of this equation — and this also goes to the tourists-pay-sales-tax idea — is that these new improvements are happening outside downtown, in areas not driven by the tourist economy. That’s a huge and welcome sea change in terms of economic outlook. If City Council is going to tout anything, that’s what they should be touting. And supporting. While City Council is certainly free to trumpet their perceived successes, they should also remember that the economic vitality which indirectly led to the property tax rollback is largely due not to politicians or to sales taxes, but to the burgeoning partnership between local entrepreneurs and our growing intellectual/creative class. *** Don’t worry, Jessica Leigh Lebos fans. Our intrepid Community Editor and “(Civil) Society” Columnist is on a muchdeserved vacation. She returns next issue. cs
Of shopping carts & parking lots Savannah City Council’s announced intention to hold retailers responsible for shopping carts that leave their properties in the hands of customers has drawn to the surface opinions about our duties as citizens and our responsibilities to one another. As Jim Morekis astutely noted in his column last week, “America has a weird relationship with its citizens who are in poverty.” I would submit that we also have a weird relationship with citizens who don’t have cars. These are often, but not always, the same citizens. I can’t imagine stealing a shopping cart. Even if I had a truck or SUV large enough to carry one, hefting a cart into such a vehicle would be no easy task. And what would I do with it once I got home? Nope. Can’t imagine ever doing such a thing. Similarly, many of us can’t imagine walking to the store. Yet for thousands of Savannahians, shopping and all other daily tasks are done on foot, bike or bus. Some 20 percent of Savannahians live in what the Census Bureau calls “Zero-Vehicle Households.” Overlay a map with census data and you’ll see Savannah neighborhoods in which up to 50 percent of households don’t have cars. This fact escapes lots of folks. A tongue-in-cheek (at least I hope it was) letter to the editor of the daily newspaper suggested carts could be wired to deliver a mild electric shock if pushed outside the boundaries of a supermarket parking lot. Many other letter writers and commenters were not winking when they labeled people
as “lazy,” “sorry,” “thieves” and worse for using a shopping cart to transport their purchases home and then neglecting to walk it all the way back to the store. Don’t get me wrong. I understand abandoned shopping carts are a form of blight. I agree that returning shopping carts to the store is the right thing to do. However, I’ve observed that many of us can’t be bothered to place carts in corrals only yards away, once we’ve loaded our groceries into our cars, much less take them back inside the store. Think about the number of times you’ve returned to your car to find a shopping cart resting against a bumper or body panel. Maybe the person who left the cart was in a rush to get to work, home to a sick child or to an important appointment. Imagine the same scenario, but without a car to speed you to those destinations. What would you do? Can you be so sure you’d push the empty cart all the way back to the store, when time is short and the weather is hot? When we drive most everywhere we go, we are insulated from the realities that face those who do not enjoy continuous access to a dependable automobile. Not only that, but we are often unaware of the accommodations made on our behalf. For example, take the Gwinnett Street Kroger store, which is an unreturned cart hotspot. An entire city block is devoted to customer parking. Kroger shoppers are permitted to park their cars on this prime real estate, surely worth millions, for free.
Of course, there’s really no such thing as free parking. The cost of parking lots and their ongoing maintenance is passed on to all customers, even those who don’t own cars. I assure you these expenses surpass many times over the cost of replacing and retrieving wayward shopping carts. As UCLA professor and noted parking expert Donald Shoup recently told the Freakonomics podcast, “If you don’t pay for parking your car, somebody else has to pay for it. And that somebody is everybody. We pay for free parking in the prices of the goods we buy at places where the parking is free.” People who walk to the store pay so others can park. And when we criticize them for pushing carts home and thus choosing convenience over courtesy, we ignore the extensive and expensive efforts undertaken to ensure we, as motorists are not required to make such choices. Vilification of “shopping cart scofflaws” also lends credence to the erroneous idea that making it easier and safer to walk, bicycle or ride the bus to the store represents some sort of subsidy or giveaway to people who don’t deserve it. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, providing these options is a sensible and responsible way to restore balance to a transportation system that, in its current state, rewards us if we drive and penalizes us if we don’t. cs John Bennett is executive director of the Savannah Bicycle Campaign.
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A peek at a homeless camp The scene under the Truman Parkway ramp at President Street Extension
By Sinjin Hilaski
Scouting from a distance, the search for an exit from the homeless camp under the Truman Parkway was my initial concern. If things took a turn for the worse, I intended to have a fully formed ‘bug out’ plan. I pushed past the brush to find the worn dirt trail that bypassed the stagnant pool of rainwater, human byproduct and a forsaken grocery cart. Shuffling through the first 50 feet of the camp, I gazed down the underbelly of the bridge attempting to see if any of the camp’s inhabitants were up and about that Tuesday morning. Sidestepping through the daily debris
of empty bottles and bags, I began to traverse one of Savannah’s most forgotten areas. Eerie and surreal can only begin to describe how it felt. I snuck through, ignoring makeshift spray-can “No Trespassing” signs and the ubiquitous pitchfork sign of the Folk Nation gang at times, less than two feet from the entrance of their tent. As I became more comfortable
— or just less scared — I took my moments of bravery as opportunities to get close and take photographs. Each camera click sounded like a cannon. While my shooting didn’t wake up the campers, when I attempted to venture further back beyond the woods and into what seemed a sprawling homeless encampment less than a hundred feet away, I was pulled aside by a worn —though relatively well-kept given the circumstances — white, middle-aged male who curtly informed me that regardless of intention I needed to leave immediately. The Chatham-Savannah Homeless Authority reports that at least 12 such encampments exist throughout the Chatham area at both respective ends
of the Truman Parkway, off Louisville road and throughout Garden City. The location of all other camps wasn’t disclosed. “There’s a lot of campsites down there near President Street,” says Ronnie Flournoy, a formerly homeless individual now working with the Chatham-Savannah Homeless Authority. The 2012 numbers of homeless individuals are still being compiled, reports Herb Smith of the ChathamSavannah Homeless Authority. At least 344 veterans are currently homeless in Savannah. The forces that lead to homelessness are many and vary case to case, but with a Homeless Authority and various shelters, one wonders why
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A combination of personal preference and heavy government regulation leads many to live in tent villages like this one rather than seek homeless shelters.
individuals are still camping underneath a bridge. “Typically to avoid rules and regulations,” says Smith. While the Chatham-Savannah Homeless Authority attempts to provide services and help reintegrate homeless individuals into the system, often after receiving medical care the homeless tend to then sever any connection with the Authority. “I have a person that might come to me ten times saying ‘I need help’,” says Flournoy. “I help them whether they’re lying or whatever the case may be. I try to
help them ‘cause you never know that tenth time or eleventh time might be the last time.” A typical response to the plight of the homeless is to question why they don’t simply go and find employment or stay at shelters as opposed to makeshift tent villages like the one I visited. While shelters seem to be a viable option, there are stipulations — including a ban on alcohol and other intoxicants — that limit a homeless person’s ability to use these facilities. For example, in order to stay at Grace House of Union Mission,
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With an increasing homeless population and a Homeless Authority with a shrinking budget, the future for those living on the street, under the bridge and by the river is uncertain and precarious. “The city does what they can do, but they don’t want to touch that situation,” says Flournoy. cs
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Why Nunn is your business By Chrystal Arboleda Lopez
It may seem a bit early to be thinking about the next Senate election. But a politician’s campaign season is longer than the gestation period of an elephant (about 11 months — now you don’t need to Google it). When Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) announced his retirement, the statistically unlikely task of winning against an incumbent was taken off the table — giving Georgia a chance to contribute to a change in party popularity in the Senate. When Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) was replaced by Jeffrey Chiesa (R-NJ) on June 6, the party division became even more competitive with 52 Democrats, 46 Republicans and 2 Independents. With a Senate seat up for grabs this nation ponders the question: What will Georgia do? The declared Democrats are: Branko Radulovacki, an Atlanta physician, and Michelle Nunn, CEO of Points of Light. On the Republican side we have: former Secretary of State Karen Handel, Rev. Derrick Grayson, businessmen Eugene Yu and David Perdue (cousin of former Gov. Sonny Perdue), and U.S. Reps. Paul Broun, Phil Gingrey, and Savannah’s own Jack Kingston. According to a survey released Aug. 5 from the left-leaning firm Public Policy Polling, Democrat Michelle Nunn is virtually tied with the two most prominent GOP candidates: Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.)
and businessman David Perdue. While the Republican playing field looks crowded with a number of candidates polling well, Nunn is by far the front-running Democrat. Playing to her advantage is that her father, former Senator Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), is still favorable to 56 percent of the people recently surveyed by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Sam Nunn was even more favorable to white voters in this survey, at 62 percent. Her father’s approval rating can certainly work to her advantage. But, even though her father’s name is established, Michelle Nunn has only recently entered the political arena. In an interview with Morris News she comments on her father, “He is someone I have learned a lot from and want to carry on his legacy.” She added that her father helped shape her views when she stated that “the defense industry and the military bases here are vital to our economy.” Her great, great uncle chaired an influential defense committee and federal interest in Georgia’s military bases were advocated by her father during his Senate career. While she is genetically linked to politics, Michelle Nunn’s credentials are not limited to her family tree.
Nunn, 47, is on leave from her job as CEO of the volunteer organization Points of Light — an organization, she points out, that was founded by former President George H.W. Bush. Even so, Republicans wasted no time trying to pin Michelle Nunn to President Barack Obama — assuming it might hurt her campaign because of Obama’s generally low approval rating in Georgia. In an email to her supporters, former Secretary of State Karen Handel described Nunn as “President Obama’s liberal, hand-picked candidate.” The state Republican Party issued a statement promising regular attacks. While Republicans are loading verbal ammunition to fire against Nunn, she wasn’t shy to criticize Obama when saying that she wishes more actions were being taken to address the federal deficit. In an interview with the Associated Press, Nunn claims that “we need to take a much harder look at that and really make some hard choices, and I think neither side is willing to do that.” Nunn added that she has “spent a lot of time looking at how people are willing to sacrifice for others and
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to be called upon for something greater than themselves, and I think that is a big part of the equation for solving the deficit.” Nunn also didn’t seem like “President Obama’s liberal, handpicked candidate” when she explained that changes need to be made to Obama’s signature health care law. “I think we need to look at it from a pragmatic perspective and fix the things that are not working and move it forward without all the politicizing,” said Nunn. Nunn also points out that some aspects of the Affordable Care Act are beneficial, using the detail of how parents will still be able to keep kids on their health insurance until age 26. On a local scale, Nunn — who was just in town this past Monday to help give out Meals on Wheels to Savannah seniors — favors taxpayer spending on deepening the shipping channel of the Savannah River. Whether Nunn will be able to continue her momentum in a relentlessly red state remains to be seen. But one thing’s for sure, given the crowded field overall: The next year will be quite an interesting one for Georgia political observers. cs
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Family shootout Detectives are investigating gunshots fired in the Tatemville area that led to the arrest of one man on a Sunday night.
Police still are sorting out the details that led to Ishmal Dangelos Mikell, 21, being charged with false statements and writings and reckless conduct after crashing his car at 58th and Bull Street and then calling police to 38th and Bull. Patrol officers had responded about 8:45 p.m. to the shots fired call at Lamar and Tatum streets. There they were told two cars had driven up and occupants had exchanged fire with a man who was walking in the area. No one was injured but a green Buick and a church near the corner had been struck. The investigation revealed that all participants of the shootout were
family members. Mikell called police to 38th and Bull streets to report that someone had fired at his green Buick and he had returned fire but insisted he did not know who had fired at him. He was charged for the false statements after being warned that lying on a police report was illegal. Detectives continue to investigate the shots fired call. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Crimestoppers at (912) 234-2020 or text CRIMES (274637). • A 30-year-old Stockbridge, GA., man died instantly Saturday when the cargo truck in which he was a passenger collided with a tree on I-16. Ronald V. Lawrence Jr., was killed when the 2003 GMC truck ran into the wood line of the eastbound lanes between Dean Forest Road and Chatham Parkway about 3 p.m. Rai Rajen, 33, of Clarkston, GA, driver of the truck, escaped serious injury. The truck was eastbound when it swerved to the right shoulder of the
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• Two people are in custody following a large seizure of marijuana by the ChathamSavannah Counter Narcotics Team (CNT). The Circle K robber Earlier this week, CNT, along • Detectives are requestwith officers from ing the public’s help in the Garden City Police Department, identifying a man who robbed the began a joint investigation into the Circle K on the 8900 block of White possession of a large amount of mariBluff Road on a Saturday morning. juana in a residence in the Garden The stocky black male wearing a City Mobile Home Park. light T-shirt and dark baseball-type Shortly after 1 p.m., CNT agents cap had socks over his hand and and Garden City police officers exeface when he walked into the store cuted the search warrant at the resiabout 2:30 a.m. He appeared to have dence. Agents seized about 90 pounds a weapon in his hand under a sock of marijuana, most of which was when he ordered the clerk to put the packaged in large, separate bundles. cs cash drawer on the counter. Then he took money and walked out. Anyone with information on the identity and/or location of the suspect is asked to call Crimestoppers at (912) Give anonymous crime tips to 234-2020 or text CRIMES (274637). Crimestoppers at 234-2020
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The National Security Agency is a “supercomputing powerhouse,” wrote ProPublica.org in July, with “machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second” - but apparently it has no ability to bulk-search its own employees’ official emails. Thus, ProPublica’s Freedom of Information Act demand for a seemingly simple all-hands search was turned down in July with the NSA informing ProPublica that the best it could do would be to go one-by-one through the emails of each of the agency’s 30,000 employees - which would be prohibitively expensive. (ProPublica reported that companywide searches are “common” for large corporations, which must respond to judicial subpoenas and provide information for their own internal investigations.)
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• To commemorate its 500th “deep brain stimulation” surgery in May, UCLA Medical Center live-Tweeted its operation on musician Brad Carter, 39, during which he was required to strum his guitar and sing so that surgeons would know where in his brain to plant the electrical stimulator that would relieve his Parkinson’s disease symptoms. Carter had developed hand tremors in 2006, but the stimulator, once it is properly programed and the surgery healed, is expected to reduce his symptoms, restore some guitar-playing ability, and reduce his
medication need. (And, yes, patients the favorites. normally remain conscious during the • Fruit of any kind retails for outsurgery.) landish prices in Japan, but some, such • Firefighters are not infrequently as Yubari cantaloupes, are so prescalled on to extricate adventurous tigious that they are often presented men from sex toys, but one “armoras gifts to friends or colleagues, and plat(ed)” device, six inches in diameter, it was only mildly surprising that a into which the 51-year-old German pair of the melons sold in May for the entrapped himself in July in Ibiza, equivalent of about $15,700 at aucMallorca, was especially tion at the Sapporo challenging, according Central Wholesale to the Diario de Mallorca Market. The melons newspaper, and took two appeared to be perfect hours and a dose of anesspecimens, with their CAN I JUST SAY, thesia toward the end. The T-shaped stalk still THAT BOVINE IS saw blade the emergency attached. The record UDDERLY GORworkers used wore out melon-pair price, set in GEOUS. during the rescue and had 2008, is about $24,500 to be replaced, along with measured at today’s two sets of batteries. The exchange rate. man was kept overnight at • Still Unclear on Can Misses hospital, but the Concept: Briar was otherwise OK. MacLean, 13, of Cal• Americans stage gary, Alberta, was repdog shows, and Middlerimanded by school Easterners stage camel officials in May (and beauty contests, and in then also lost an June, the annual German appeal) after he stepped Holstein Show took over between two students the city of Oldenburg, with the twobecause one, holding a knife, was bulday event won by “Loh Nastygirl,” toplying the other. The vice principal ping bovine beauties from Germany, appeared to regard Briar’s action as Luxembourg and Austria. The event equal to that of the bully, telling Briar’s is also a showcase for the cow hairmother later that the school does not dressers, who trim cows’ leg and belly “condone heroics,” and that it was hair (to better display their veins). “beside the point” that Briar might Said one dresser, “It is just like with us well have prevented a slashing (which people - primping helps.” Groomed or could have occurred if he had left the not, cows with powerful legs, bulging boys behind to go find a teacher). udders and a strong bone structure are • Some crime-scene investigative
techniques seem far-fetched, as News of the Weird has reported, but police use of “ear prints” might be approaching the mainstream. Britain convicted its first burglar based on an ear print in 1998, and in May 2013, investigators in Lyon, France, tied a 26-year-old man from the Republic of Georgia to a string of about 80 burglaries - by taking prints from doors the man had leaned against while listening for activity inside the home. • It is not quite to the level of the $15,700 Japanese melons, but the behavior of women descending upon New York City stores in June for the annual “sale” on designer shoes is nonetheless a spectacle. The event makes the city’s upscale commercial district look like “an insane asylum of very well-dressed women,” reported The New York Times. The shoes’ everyday prices require, wrote the Times, “the willful suspension of rational thinking.” The average transaction at Barneys is $850, still far below, for example, a pair of wicker-basket-like sandals ($1,995 by Charlotte Olympia) or a certain Christian Louboutin pump ($1,595 - $4,645 if in crocodile). • Among the oldest classic stories in News of the Weird is the hapless burglar or bank robber who inadvertently incriminates himself at the scene of the crime. Recently, (1) Korey Harris, a defensive lineman for West Virginia University’s football team, was arrested in July for a home invasion he allegedly committed while wearing his practice sweatpants emblazoned with his jersey
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• The Mexican economy has improved markedly since News of the Weird first mentioned the EcoAlberto theme park in the central state of Hidalgo in 2005, which offers an attraction simulating the rigors of border-jumping. In 2005, it was thought that many of the attendees were using the setup to improve their chances of sneaking into the U.S., but now park officials believe nearly all are being discouraged, with the improving economy (and stepped-up U.S. enforcement) helping. The ordeal is played out as a three-hour game, with “U.S. Border Patrol” agents using sirens, dogs and verbal threats, and chasing the players into the night. CS
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I’ve heard rumors about gargantuan animals living in the deepest parts of the sea that we haven’t been able to explore yet. One tale was of deep rumbling sounds from the belly of an enormous beast. Is there any truth to these stories? Are there large enough stretches of unexplored ocean to suggest there might be unknown animals there? —Johannes Lund With
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You bet. While finding new megafauna is tougher than it used to be, there are still remote reaches of the globe where you might stumble across an animal nobody’s ever seen before. However, be forewarned: don’t get your hopes up if it goes “bloop.” That’s the lesson we draw from those rumbling ocean sounds you refer to, which were recorded by underwater microphones in the South Pacific in 1997. The Bloop, as it was soon nicknamed, sounded like Godzilla with a bad case of gas. Unfortunately for cryptozoologists, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration declared it was most likely vibrations from the breaking of Antarctic sea ice. But yes, there are large stretches of ocean where unknown megafauna could be hiding. NOAA estimates 95 percent of the sea remains unexplored. Since the ocean covers 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, that means almost two-thirds of the planet is as mysterious to us as in Magellan’s day. The immense mid-ocean ridges formed by plate tectonics, which at 40,000 miles are by far the longest continuous mountain range in the world, weren’t discovered until the 1950s. The amount of properly mapped seafloor in the public domain is 2 to 3 percent, and even when you add in what’s been mapped by the world’s navies and kept secret, the figure is likely no more than 10 percent. Bear in mind this is strictly
topographical mapping, to keep submarines from crashing into underwater mountains. An expedition to the Philippines in 2011 found hundreds of new marine species The ocean around Antarctica is vast and poorly explored, and more than half the deep-water creatures known to live there have been spotted only once or twice. Most newly discovered species don’t qualify as gargantuan, but some are pretty big. The megamouth shark, undiscovered till 1976, can reach 18 feet in length. The giant squid, long believed to be the largest invertebrate in the world, had never been seen alive till 2004, when a specimen more than 25 feet long was caught on camera; meanwhile an apparently even bigger critter, the colossal squid, remains elusive. Researchers from the Census of Marine Life reported in 2010 that even though there are 250,000 known ocean species, perhaps 750,000 more await discovery. But it’s not just the sea that holds mysteries. The mountains of the Sierra de Maigualida region of Venezuela, covering 4,500 square miles, are almost entirely unexplored. The same is true of large swaths of Antarctica, which also features enormous freshwater lakes locked deep under the ice. The largest, Lake Vostok, holds about 1,500 cubic miles of million-year-old water, potentially harboring prehistoric creatures unlike anything else we’ve encountered. Megafauna could be hiding in caves. By some estimates, even in well-explored regions like the U.S. only 50 percent of caves have been investigated, and worldwide it’s maybe 10 percent. I’d stick with the tropics. The Vu Quang ox of Vietnam wasn’t proven to exist until 1994, when a live specimen was captured. Soon afterward, a new species of deer was discovered in the same Vietnamese rain forest. In fact, since 1993 more than 400 new species of mammal have been discovered, about 10 percent of the total mammalian species known. Most of these are small (rodents and bats), but 40 percent are large and distinctive. Are there swarms of enormous beasts out there, waiting for a doughty explorer to find them? Probably not. But just because we’ve got Google Earth doesn’t mean we’ve discovered all there is to know. cs By cecil adams
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Thomas Oliver’s new lease on life Like so many people who’d forged successful careers in print journalism, Thomas Oliver watched the business decay under his very feet in the 2000s. After 29 years as a writer, editor, columnist and all-around essential guy on the business desk at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he accepted the company’s buyout offer and plunged feet-first into “retirement.” But he did not go quietly. For years, Oliver had a lucrative side project, as the singing/songwriting frontman for a country music trio he called the Usual Suspects. He’d released five CD on an independent Atlanta label. So when he said goodbye to Hot ‘Lanta three years ago — convincing his longtime lady friend, fellow journalist Melissa Turner, to leave the paper, too — Oliver put new strings on his guitar and made plans to do music full-time. Well, as full-time as he felt like. Freshly married, the pair bee-lined for Tybee Island. “We both took the buyout,” Oliver laughs, “and said ‘Let’s see if we can make chicken salad out of chicken shit, and make this work for us.’ We had been coming down here for years; in fact, just a few years before we’d purchased a little house … it was our plan that Tybee would be where we’d retire. We just moved it up five or 10 years.” The first tangible result of Oliver’s life-change is the CD The Edge of America, produced by the esteemed Thomm Jutz (Jefferson Ross, Lauren Lapointe) in Nashville. It’s out this
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week, and Oliver has a CD Release Show Friday, Aug. 16 at the Flying Fish on US 80 (that’s technically Whitemarsh Island). Oliver wrote all 11 songs on the record, which includes “The Ballad of Tybee Island,” a Buffett-esque comic narrative for which he’s earned a reputation around the island clubs. On tracks like “The Edge of America” and “Old Men,” he displays a fine — one might say journalistic — eye for detail and poetic flow. “The Girl With an Accidental Memory” (it’s about his mom, sort of) is pure leftof-center outlaw Americana. Oliver says he started learning the minute he stumbled into the Tuesday night acoustic jams that, until recently, took place at Doc’s Bar. There he met Roy Swindelle, Jeff Ross and the rest of Chatham County’s
old-guard acoustic troubadours, likeminded guitar guys one and all. “It really amazes me when I look back at how much that affected my music — both the music that I play now, at gigs, the music I’m writing and the music I’m listening to,” he says. “I just got exposed to a whole new thing. John Hiatt and Jason Isbell and all this other stuff. ‘Cause I was pretty much stone cold country in Atlanta.” (The first song he ever learned to play, as a UGA journalism student back in 1970, was Merle Haggard’s “Okie From Muskogee.”) “It started to evolve real quick. I think 20 percent of my playlist, things I play now, are songs I first heard at the jam. I would hear something and go ‘Damn! I like that song,’ and I’d steal it. I was just soaking it up.”
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• FYI Department: Country music’s Shooter Jennings, who’s never actually had a hit but is instead famous as the son of the late, great Waylon Jennings and singer/songwriter Jessi Colter, has been booked to perform with his band at the 2013 Tybee Island Pirate Fest. The show is Oct. 12. The weekend will also feature tribute bands that play the music of Jimmy Buffett and Journey. • Although the band is based in South Carolina, the members of Turku are all proficient in the sounds of Middle Eastern “village music” from Turkey, Persia, Kurdistan, Caucasus and the Balkans. Turku plays Saturday, Aug. 17 for the Telfair Museums’ Family Day (1-4 p.m. at the Jepson Center). It’s all free, and Turku will writhe and shine at 3. CS
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What’s the difference between the 4th of July and the 15th of August? OK, smart guy, in practical terms it’s something like 41 days. For South Georgia military families, it’s the difference between no celebration at all and the biggest party of the summer. Million-selling rap artist T.I. headlines the “America’s Heroes Celebration” Aug. 15 in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Arena, and he’s doing it — smack in the middle of a crosscountry, co-headlining tour with Lil’ Wayne — purely because the Fourth of July concert at Fort Stewart was canceled this year. Well, it’s a little more complicated than that — but not much. T.I. (aka
Atlanta-born Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.) just got in line with a whole bunch of people who wanted to make things better. The show, which will also include performances from R&B/hip hop vocalists Ashanti and Eve, was the brainchild of a group of local business leaders. Military veteran Christopher Dorm, who operates a veteran-services company called Military Deals and Discounts, coordinated a multiday event on Jekyll Island, with family activities and a concert by country artist Rodney Atkins. The business brain trust began thinking about expanding to Savannah. “Then T.I. expressed interest,” Dorm explains. “He basically was like ‘I got one day off, and it’s August 15. If you can make arrangements to get
me to Savannah on that one day. I will come and do your benefit concert.’” Dorm and company, the squeaky wheels, got the grease in the form of California filmmaker Ryan Combs, who brokered the week’s entertainment and will be documenting the Savannah concert. “I kind of knew somebody that knew somebody,” Combs says, “just the whole Hollywood thing. I think it was one degree of separation. And I’d met T.I. a few times. “I knew he was from this area, and his fan base was huge, obviously, in his home state. When we told him it was for the military he said ‘If you can make it work for that one day, we’ll make it happen.’ And obviously Mr. Dorm made it happen.” Ashanti, who has a co-starring role on the cable series Army Wives, came
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(Just so we’re clear, Lil’ Wayne is not on this particular bill.) For Combs, who’s hoping to get a movie or TV special out of the proceedings, it’s all about giving back. “I’m a military fan and always have been,” he says. “You know, the war has just gone on … a few years ago, I was watching something about military families, and it just kinda clicked. I was like ‘If I ever have the chance to do anything for the military, it would be awesome.’ “Then my manager was telling me about the area, about how all the branches are represented. And how there was a lot of cutbacks on the bases. They lost a lot of things that they normally did. They took away the Easter egg hunt for the kids!” CS America’s Heroes Celebration Where: Martin Luther King Jr. Arena, Savannah Civic Center, 307 W. Oglethorpe Ave. When: At 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15 Tickets: $32-$100 at etix.com
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Les Misérables is a mold-breaker for the Savannah Theatre by Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com
Every once in a while, the creative team at the Savannah Theatre just has to shake things up. “We like to give the actors the chance to do something different from the musical revues that we do the rest of the year,” says Michael Meece, the theater’s founder and creative director, the man behind The Beat Goes On, Jukebox Journey and the other razzle-dazzle shows the triple-threat cast puts on for months (or more) at a stretch. The Savannah Theatre’s core cast is good, really good at that stuff, and for 11 years musical revues have put plenty of butts in seats and sent many tourists (and locals) home happy, with a song in their hearts. Yes … but still. “It really rejuvenates the cast to sink their teeth into
something different,” Meece says. “And we like to provide a change of pace for the locals that come and see our normal musical revues, but would like a different diet every now and then.” This week, Meece and company go out on a revolutionary French limb with a fully-realized performance of Les Misérables, for eight performances. “This is one that we were wanting to do the second the rights were available for non-Equity productions,” explains Meece, who’s directing the (relatively) massive undertaking. “We actually had our name in the hat, and were on a list
to be notified the second that they became available. And literally, we were notified online and grabbed it the very second day.” Les Misérables, of course, has a very, very big cast. Last spring, Meece held auditions for every role in the big historical musical. “When we said this one was totally open, we even made our own people audition for it,” he explains. “I didn’t want people to think that it was just a done deal that all the largest parts were going to be filled by our own people. It was a fair and square audition, where everybody had the same chance.” Of the lead characters in Les Misérables, the following are played by members of the Savannah Theatre’s regular repertory cast:
Valjean (Stephen Dobson), Fantine (Gretchen Kristine Stelzer), Cosette (Michelle Meece), Marius (Matthew Meece), Eponine (Shannon Zaller) and Thenardier (Michael Zaller). On the recommendation of his best buddy, Savannah Theatre regular Sheldon Pinckney, Equity performer Jonathan “Goose” Burgard has been bought in to essay the pivotal role of Inspector Javert. “When you see him you’ll see why so many regional theaters around the country have cast him as Gaston in Beauty and the Beast,” Meece enthuses. “He has that sort of physical stature.” (“Goose” stands sixfoot-six.) At last count, Burgard had done nearly 400 performances as Gaston, in as many as six Equity productions of Beauty and the Beast around the country. Non-regulars in the cast include Richie Cook (Enjolras), Michelle Turley (Madame Thenardier), Les Taylor (Bishop) and Finn Repella (Gavroche). As for the ensemble, “Assorted Convicts, Prostitutes, Beggars, Rebels and Townspeople” (as it says in the script) are played by a combination of Savannah Theatre regulars and those hired during the audition process. Originally, the Savannah Theatre production was to be the “concert version” of Les Misérables, with the actors — in character, in costume — at center stage microphones. This, quite serendipitously, has changed. “We only chose to do the concert version because we assumed that our stage was not capable of having the giant ‘barricade’ set,” Meece says. “But we have a creative way of pulling it off; as we got into the staging we realized yes, we can do the whole thing. “So it’s going to be the full-out production. The full-out staging.” CS Les Misérables Where: Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. When: At 8 p.m. Aug. 15-17, 22-24; at 3 p.m. Aug. 18 and 24 Tickets: $35 adults; $17 age 17 and under), at etix.com Online: savannahtheatre.com
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Because theater in ancient Greece was all about language and subtext, rather than spectacle and show, those who direct modern productions of the classics must create ways to keep the audience engaged. And focused on the richness of the story, the message, and the language itself. First produced in 431 BC, Medea was written by the classical tragedian Euripides, based on the mythological tale of the hero Jason (of Argonauts fame) and his wife, the title character. Jason is a hero; Medea, when she is spurned by her husband, is consumed by madness and seeks revenge.
Kevin Gavin, who teaches Latin at Savannah Country Day School, is directing a contemporary Medea — under his 4th World Theater banner — at Muse Arts Warehouse. “It presents a specific kind of challenge — there were no stage directions,” he says. “It was just chanted
by people wearing masks. So all the meaning is on the language. “And I wanted to do that — but at the same time, it’s so formal, and so conventionalized, that if you did it the way it was presented then, it would be too stiff for a modern audience. They’re not really going to respond to that.” At the same time Gavin — whose last directorial assignment was a 1995 Roundhouse Railroad Museum production of Marat/Sade — knew he needed to make his Medea attractive to, well, younger (and non-Athenian) audiences. At least those who
generally don’t spend much quality time with classical Greek theater. “What I wanted to do was be faithful to that original intent as much as we could,” he explains. “There are long set pieces, and the audience has to pay attention to some extent. But to keep them from being fatigued, or just non-plussed, we have these experimental choral interludes. “The Greek had songs, and the chorus would filter what was going on onstage for the audience, but we’re opening up that space to new things.” There is a “Greek chorus” — on the stage, as always, to comment and
experience together with the youthful energy,” Gavin smiles. With cryptic anti-war messages interwoven between the lines of personal and social upheaval, Medea is a “talky” play; indeed, points out the director, that’s key. “It sounds very often like a court case,” Gavin says. “And this is intentional. There’s an agon, a contest of speeches, between Medea and Jason. It’s all about competing discourses, and it’s very much like a court of law. “His discourse is economic prosperity. He’s arguing that what he was doing, by taking a second wife, was good for the family by providing for them with more money. And her argument is all about emotions and affection, ‘How can you do this to me?’ Both of them have claims to rightness. So the audience is in the position of the jury.” CS 4th World Theater: Medea Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Road When: At 8 p.m. Aug. 16 and 17; 2 p.m. Aug. 18; 8 p.m. Aug. 23 and 24 Admission: $10 public, $5 students
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pass judgment on the dramatic proceedings — but this Medea is also augmented with multi-media installations by SCAD student Lubomir Kocka, live electronic music from Electric Grandma, recitations and choreography. “It’s a way to not just break it up, but to present another layer of meaning for the audience to deal with,” Gavin says. “You’re asking them to think, but you’re also asking them to be open to the emotional power of the play.” The role of Medea is considered the strongest in the classical Greek repertoire for women. Gavin says he was inspired to take on the project after a chance meeting with actress Anna Burrell, who’d co-starred in his Marat/ Sade all those years ago. Gavin considers Burrell the finest dramatic actress in Savannah, and when she agreed to do Medea, he set about landing her Marat/Sade co-star Jim Morekis (the editor-in-chief of Connect Savannah) to play Jason, as well as J.R. Roberts and Adam Bailey as Creon and Aegeus, respectively. “So we’re bringing the talent and
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As the crowd grew at the Indigo Sky Community Gallery on a recent Friday evening to view the new group of drawings by Morgan Santander, they repeatedly heard the words rhythmic, indigenous, hidden, figural, and symbolic. A native of Mexico, Santander comes with a big resume of degrees from UC Berkeley and University of Chicago, international exhibitions, a large number of works in collections throughout the world, and, most recently, a 12-year teaching gig at SCAD. He’s now off to Puerto Rico and then Asheville, N.C. where he will continue to expand his oeuvre. His main body of work consists of brightly colored, often representational, canvases. This group of drawings at Indigo Sky is a departure from this vibrant body of work in that they are charcoal on paper, conveying a simple, yet somewhat somber mood. At first glance, each work appears to be an overall abstraction, or composed of what Clement Greenberg would have called “pure form.” My dearly departed friend and mentor, Tom Hoving, who was a great art historian and the revolutionary director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, taught me an exercise for looking at works of art. He said that the first glance is the truest, the most powerful, and it should be given quickly. Then immediately look away and examine your gut reaction. If it is strong, then dive into the details. Santander’s works certainly drew
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many into the details. We all love to see “something” in abstract art. When I was an art dealer representing a great abstract expressionist painter, my clients would always ask what was “in” the works, vainly searching for representation, never being content with abstract form and color. It is just too unsettling for some people. Well, Santander’s drawings allow the viewer to have his abstraction and see his signs too. Deepening the viewer’s experience through a few of the works, Santander provided laser light pointers so that viewers can follow the white spaces around the forms as mazes.
And they work! This interactivity is something Santander is continuing to explore and gleefully talks about what informs his work: “This group is unique as a body of work for me because it is charcoal and paper. You cannot hide. Drawing is pure. There is no trickery of painting.” He explained that in some ways, he is getting back to foundational elements of art like drawing and the exploration of the human figure. The figures are recognizable up close as somewhat human, however, they are mutant, imperfect, and fantastical. Literature has always informed Santander’s works, and he cites Kafka’s Metamorphosis as the guiding
influence of these drawings. “I love the idea of continuous change and tumultuous times. These are tumultuous times,” he said. Figures appear with human bodies and jester-like heads. Some have happy trumpets for noses, and others are becoming elephants. Eyes slowly pop out from deeper layers. Words are embedded in the works as well and one recognizes words such as “lost,” “Teo,” and “Gregor.” Gregor is the main character in Kafka’s Metamorphosis who, for no particular reason, is transformed from a salesman into a giant insect. At this stage of examination, the viewer is deep into the work that now calls us to make our own stories, yet none of them are clear. What is clear, as the figures jumble, turn, and fall through space, is that these are pictures of an uncertain world. Music also informs Santander’s works and his rhythmic compositions indeed resonate with a kind of tribal backbeat and a plucky guitar. (He also plays flamenco guitar.) Backing away again to a distance, the drawings do vibrate with a mysterious, almost indigenous, aura. The magic of Santander’s drawings is that they are somehow joyful renditions of an uncertain world. It feels okay to not know exactly what we are looking at, yet the more one looks, the more one sees, even backing away, and gazing from a distance. cs Works by Morgan Santander Where: Indigo Sky Community Gallery, 912 Waters Ave. When: Through Aug. 31 Info: indigoskycommunitygallery.com and morgansantander.blogspot.com
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Remixing Banality: Rural Studies by Jon Walker — Landscape oil
paintings by this Kentuckybased artist. The Butcher Tattoo Studio, 19 East Bay St. Did someone say ‘Near Eastern art objects?’ New exhibit of work from the Huntington Museum of Art opens at the Jepson with a special free day this Saturday
Art inspired by Law’s upbringing in the South, black culture and the landscape of the low country of Georgia and South Carolina. Free and open to the public. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St.
The Ghost Within — New works
Contemporary Southern Landscape — The unique
exhibition of wall-mounted and freestanding sculptures, highlighting Booker’s focuse. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.
landscape of the South is the subject of this exhibition of work by a wide range of artists, media, and styles. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.
Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists by Jerry Siegel —
Jerry Siegel’s approximately 50 black-and-white and color portraits. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Environmental Occupations — Photographs by SCAD
alumnus Mark Dorf (B.F.A., photography, 2011). Giant concrete forms loom within sweeping vistas and panoramic triptychs, articulating the artist’s broader interest in human encroachment on the natural environment. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.
Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein Collection — An exhibition of
designs by 2013 Andre Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award winner Francisco Costa. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.
on paper by SCAD alumna Blanche Nettles Powers, whose abstracted imagery derives from Savannah’s iconic Spanish moss. Arnold Hall (SCAD), 1810 Bull St.
Hybrid — Chakaia Booker’s
Karen Harvell Exhibition — New artist to Kobo Gallery,Harvell is a ceramic artist whose work includes wheel thrown vessels, bowls, platters and altered forms. Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard Street ,. New York Accents — An exhibi-
tion of visual art, decorative and fine art objects from Telfair Museums’ permanent collection dating from the early 19th century to the present, exploring the rich influence of New York on Savannah. Museum admission. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St.
Passages — Embroidery paint-
ings and large-scale drawings on paper by artist Jessica Rankin. Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E Liberty St.
Reconstruction — A site-specific, commissioned painting installation by Adam Cvijanovic. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.
Rick Woods & Jim Griffin —
Featured artists for August. Woods is a travel and nature photographer. Griffin, an original Gallery 209 member, creates jewelry with gold, silver, fossils and semi-precious stones. Gallery 209, 209 E River St.
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Food and community converge at Whole Foods Market
They’re not the first in town to do it, and they may be an international corporation, but as we see in these pics taken last week before the store opening Whole Foods Market is trying its best to keep things local at its new Victory Drive location with products from over 25 community vendors, including Nourish Savannah’s natural bath products (below). Interiors were designed using found materials like the kitchen shutter installation (left), and store swag is imprinted with winning entries from the SCAD mural contest (bottom right.) Overall a welcome addition to Savannah’s foodie community...
21st Century tasting notes ONE OF THE most important things you can do as a craft beer lover is take good notes. That might seem like an odd statement, but there are a number of reasons to collect tasting notes on beers you’ve tried. That goes for any beer, whether it made you so excited that you texted your friends midway through a bottle, or was so vile you poured it down the drain. These notes help you formulate a baseline for your palate and allow you to recognize how your palate changes over time. For example, when I first started keeping a beer journal in 2011, it was full of pale Belgian beers. Wits, Tripels, Goldens were all well represented, with glowing notes about yeast profiles, degrees of refreshment and residual sweetnesses. Over the last two years, my drinking habits have become much more varied, with Russian Imperial Stouts, porters and farmhouse ales filling up my glasses. While I still love a good Tripel, I’ve noticed that some of my old favorites simply aren’t as exciting to me any more. Likewise, some beers I initially despised are now some of my favorites. The beers haven’t changed, but I have developed an appreciation for their styles and craftsmanship. Keeping a beer log is also a way to “tick” beers off your list. Making a record of having tried that beer lets you know whether you should buy it again, buy extra to cellar or avoid it at all costs. You’d be surprised how many times I’ve stared at the rows of beer at Habersham Beverage Warehouse wondering if I’d tried a particular seasonal before. For example, I was surprised to see White Oak from The Bruery on a recent shopping excursion. It’s a blended ale comprised of 50% Golden Strong ale and 50% wheatwine aged in bourbon barrels. That certainly sounds right up my
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ELYSIUM OOP
South African writer-director Neill Blomkamp made one of the more noteworthy feature debuts of late with the 2009 summer release District 9, a box office hit and Best Picture Oscar nominee about the wretched treatment of extra-terrestrials who had the misfortune of landing on our planet. The story was obviously a metaphor for apartheid in Blomkamp’s home country, and the film proved to be another shining example of science fiction serving as a sturdy framework for a social message. With Elysium, Blomkamp again tries to mind-meld sci-fi and social change, but the results this time aren’t nearly as satisfying. A futureworld version of the Occupy Wall Street movement, the film takes place in 2154, when the 1 percent is living comfortably on a manmade space station (Elysium) while everyone else is struggling to survive on a burned-out planet Earth. One of the regular joes is Max (Matt Damon), a bluecollar laborer whose job-related injury radiation, wouldn’tcha know - means he’ll be dead in five days. Up on Elysium, everyone has a machine that cures all illnesses and injuries, but no one from the earth’s surface is even allowed to set foot on Elysium, let alone breathe its rarefied air or use its cutting-edge facilities. Willing to do anything to reach the celestial paradise, Max enters into a partnership with a tech-savvy hustler named Spider (a good performance by Wagner Moura, the
star of the Brazilian twofer Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within), taking along his best friend Julio (Diego Luna) for good measure. But to accomplish his mission, which involves downloading valuable intel from within the mind of a sleazy CEO (William Fichtner), Max has to contend with Elysium’s defense secretary, the smug Delacourt (Jodie Foster), and her earthbound henchman, the psychotic Kruger (District 9 star Sharlto Copley). Nobody can accuse Blomkamp of failing to cram his tale with topical material, most of it pertaining to the class struggles dominating U.S. news these days: the heartless treatment of undocumented immigrants, the urban plight of minorities (whereas Blade Runner posited that Asians were the ones that were abandoned by Caucasians settling on other worlds, here it’s mostly Latinos who are left behind), rampant police brutality, and the hypocrisy of those in power. It’s potent material, or at least it would be if the movie surrounding it didn’t take so many shortcuts in terms of its characterizations. Foster and Copley might be playing
THE WAY, WAY BACK
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The Way, Way Back is a disarming seriocomedy that will doubtless remain one of this season’s undiscovered gems. Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, who both won Oscars (along with Alexander Payne) for adapting 2011’s best movie, the Hawaiian-set The Descendants, again head to the beach with this piece centered around 14-year-old Duncan (Liam James), an awkward, introverted kid who’s forced to spend his vacation trapped in a summer home with his caring mom Pam (Toni Collette) and her overbearing boyfriend Trent (Steve Carell). Pam doesn’t see that Trent is cruel to her son (he tells the lad that, on a scale of 1 to 10, he rates a 3), and Trent’s teenage daughter Steph (Zoe Levin) doesn’t treat Duncan much better. But his misery is alleviated by the presence of the sweet girl next door, a teen named Susanna (AnnaSophia Robb), and especially by the unexpected friendship of Owen, a laid-back, wisecracking employee at the nearby Water Wizz water park. As a coming-of-age tale, The Way, Way Back doesn’t break any new ground, but it’s never less than entertaining, marked by some amusing interludes and a sympathetic performance by the young James. Its most inspired stroke is having Carell play the loathsome jerk and Sam Rockwell the decent guy, a nice reversal of
expectations. And if you want to see the guys responsible for this low-key winner, that’s Faxon as Owen’s perpetually grinning co-worker Roddy and Rash as his perpetually complaining coworker Lewis.
THE WOLVERINE
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Hugh Jackman hardly needs this character to sustain his Hollywood career - he is, after all, just coming off an Oscar nomination for Les Miserables - so clearly he feels an affinity for the part and wants to do right by it. Unfortunately, these solo outings, away from the rest of the X-Men, just aren’t quite cutting it. Like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, this latest effort is a middling superhero saga that attempts to deepen our understanding of the character but instead ends up mainly treading narrative water. Indeed, huge chunks of the film feel draggy and underdeveloped, and yet the moments that work feel fresh and invigorating, as director James Mangold , A-list writer Scott Frank (Get Shorty) and C-list writer Mark Bomback (the Total Recall remake) break free from the template of the big-screen superhero saga to fashion something more personal. This solemnity often feels at odds with the filmmakers’ need to satisfy the blockbuster quota (an extended battle atop a speeding bullet train is a doozy), but it nevertheless makes for an occasionally sharp film that can cut through Man of Steel and perhaps even Iron Man 3 like an adamantium claw through hot butter.
THE CONJURING
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I suppose it’s possible to be shaken to the core by this movie - even if it’s ultimately not much more frightening than, say, The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone or Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island -- but ultimately, it’s just one more haunted-house yarn, albeit one that’s modestly elevated by James Wan’s relatively restrained direction and a roster of characters who are more levelheaded than the usual gang of idiots who populate films of this nature. This examines what paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) consider the most frightening and baffling case of their careers. It’s the
early 1970s, and they’re called upon to check out a house newly purchased by the Perrons: dad Roger (Ron Livingston), mom Carolyn (Lili Taylor) and their five daughters. It’s a pleasant enough property, but once the Perrons move in, weird things begin happening. To his credit, Wan relies on establishing and maintaining mood more than engaging in cheap scares or buckets of blood, but there’s only so much that can be done with a premise as overexposed as this one (is there anything less cinematic than watching people monitoring cameras and tape recorders?). The filmmakers try to generate some tension with a leering doll that’s no match for Trilogy of Terror’s Zuni doll, a guest appearance by the title apparition in Mama, and even the Pixar ball being rolled across a floor, but the return on investment is minimal - the concession prices will scare more people than any of these devices. The Conjuring boasts top production values and an admirable refusal to condescend to its audience, but we really should be demanding more from our horror flicks.
RED 2
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The 2010 box office hit Red was directed by Robert Schwentke, who finds himself spending this summer enduring awful feedback for his latest effort, R.I.P.D. Instead, it’s Dean Parisot who handles helming duties for Red 2 -- it’s a smooth changing of the guard, made easier by the fact that the same duo who wrote the first picture, Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, are back for this follow-up. Although it might qualify as more of the same, this sequel isn’t a lazy toss-off, meaning filmgoers who enjoyed Red will likely enjoy Red 2 as well. Since I’m included among that number, it was two hours well spent at the movie theater. Morgan Freeman obviously doesn’t return (fans of the first film know why), but everyone else is back on board: Bruce Willis as retired CIA agent Frank Moses, trying to settle into a life of domesticity; Mary-Louise Parker as his girlfriend Sarah, who enjoyed the taste of danger she previously experienced and wants more; John Malkovich as Marvin, whose rampant paranoia is proven to be justified as often as not; Helen Mirren as Victoria, the cucumber-cool
killer who treats her profession like a hobby; and even Brian Cox as Ivan, Victoria’s Russian roll in the hay. They’re all reunited for a twisty tale that finds the gang globe-hopping in an effort to locate a nuclear device before anyone else does. The film is occasionally too bloodthirsty for its own good, and some of the comedic banter between Frank, Sarah and Marvin is forced and lunges for laughs that don’t materialize. Yet the good cheer of the performers as they wholeheartedly throw themselves into their roles is infectious, the script contains a few satisfying surprises, and the action scenes are crisply staged and cleanly shot.
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The studio pitch was probably nothing more than “robots vs. monsters,” and that indeed holds summerfilm potential. At some point in the next couple of years, gargantuan creatures (“Kaijus”) will emerge from cracks in the ocean floor and begin leveling cities across the globe. As the mass destruction continues, all of the world’s nations pool their resources to build equally massive robots (“Jaegers”) to stop them. Each robot is inhabited by two humans whose minds are synchronized so that they can effectively control it. Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam) and his brother Yancy (Diego Klattenhoff) make up one of the most effective teams, but after they disobey a direct order from their commanding officer, Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba), Yancy is killed by a Kaiju and Raleigh quits the biz. Years later, the Kaijus have again taken the upper hand in the endless war, and Stacker coaxes Raleigh back into the fold. But Raleigh will need a new partner, and he finds that the Force is strong in Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi), a rookie robot-jock with a backstory as tragic as his. Pacific Rim is the first film Guillermo del Toro’s directed that feels like a for-hire assignment, a mercenary job done only for the sake of collecting a paycheck. What’s bizarre is that this clearly isn’t the case, given del Toro’s affinity for this genre and the fact that he also served as co-writer. The film’s special effects are superb, yet their frequent and coolly detached employment means that this is basically a CGI circle jerk. CS
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different types of villains - she’s cool and calculating, he’s impulsive and destructive - but the end result is the same in that, given the arch performances, it’s impossible to take either one very seriously. As for the good guys (no fair naming names), some predictably get to go the route of the (take your pick) sacrificial lamb/martyr/Christ figure, and even the ones that don’t aren’t given much personality or depth - in short, no robust and memorable Sarah Connors or Han Solos here (heck, not even a Buckaroo Banzai). Elysium is certainly better than other similarly themed films from 2013 (After Earth, Oblivion), but given the glut of movies that take place decades or centuries from now, maybe Hollywood will give it a rest and refrain from heading back to the future any time soon - at least until, oh, 2014 or thereabouts.
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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, including location. Free ongoing, 7 p.m. livingliberally.org/drinking/chapters/ GA/savannah. ongoing, 7 p.m 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. Young Democrats
Mondays at 7pm on the second level of Foxy Loxy, Bull Street. Call or visit the Young Democrats Facebook page for more information. Free ongoing. 423619-7712. foxyloxycafe.com/. ongoing Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Benefits
Chatham County Animal Control Seeks Donations of Items
Chatham County Animal Control is in need of items for pets in the facility. Seeking donations of canned and dry dog and cat food, baby formula, newspaper, paper towels, soaps, crates, leashes, collars, wash cloths, and towels. Open daily from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ongoing. 912-351-6750. animalcontrol.chathamcounty.org. ongoing Chatham County Animal Shelter, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr.
Georgia’s HOTTEST Fundraiser! DAN VADEN CHEVROLET presents
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Register online at www.TybeeFloatilla.com TybeeFloatilla Call 912-660-9001 with any questions
The Color Run
Don’t get muddy, get colorful. Wear white in this 5k and get colors thrown all over you. A portion of proceeds benefits Horizons programming at Savannah Country Day School and Bethesda Academy. Solo: $45. Team: $40 per person. Sat., Aug. 17, 8 a.m. thecolorrun.com/savannah-2. Sat., Aug. 17, 8 a.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Forsyth Farmers Market Seeks Sponsors
Market sponsors invest in a healthy community and show consideration for the local economy. Sponsorship opportunities begin at $350. Help keep food fresh and local. ongoing. kristen@ forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket.com/. ongoing Forsyth Famers’ Market, 501 Whitaker St., South End of Forysth Park. Karma Yoga Class for Local Charities
Bikram Yoga Savannah has added a new weekly Karma class to raise money for local charities. Mondays during the 6:30pm class. Pay $5 to participate; proceeds are donated to
a different local charity each month. ongoing. 912-344-1278. bikramyogasavannah.com. ongoing
Tybee Floatilla: Will Float for Kids
Another party-on-the-water sponsored by Connect Savannah. Benefiting the Burton 4-H Center, Eastern Surfing Association, Fresh Air Home, and Surfers for Autism. Launch at Alley 3, Back River. $30 Sun., Aug. 18, 12-4 p.m. tybeefloatilla.com. Sun., Aug. 18, 12-4 p.m Tybee Island, Tybee Island. Wilmington Island Farmer’ Market Masquerade Ball
A costume party benefiting the new community farmers market on Wilmington Island. Friday, November 1st, 2013, 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. see website for pricing Through Nov. 1. wifarmermarket.org. shipsofthesea. org. Through Nov. 1 Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. AUDITiONS & Calls for Entries 3-D Artist Sought for Gallery
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Auditions for Improv Nights at Armstrong
Seeking actors for IMPROV Night sponsored by the Armstrong Atlantic State University Department of Art, Music & Theatre (Armstrong AMT) Masquers student theatre troupe. Auditions are Friday, Aug. 23 and Saturday, Aug. 24 at 6pm (both nights) in Armstrong’s Jenkins Hall Theater. Audition sides will be provided on site. Prepared comedic monologues are also welcome. Auditions are open to the public. Performances/IMPROV Night will be held September 6-7. Through Aug. 24. 912-344-2556. armstrong.edu. about. armstrong.edu/Maps/index.html. Through Aug. 24 Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Beaufort Labor Day Music & Art Festival Calls for Artist and Food Vendors
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Telfair Museum Stores are calling local artists & craftsmen to participate in the 4th Annual Telfair Trunk Show held in conjunction with the “Cool Yule” sale days Dec. 7 & 8. We will select 12 potters, jewelry makers, sculptors, glass, wood, fiber, paper & mixed-media artists, etc. We cannot accept canvas paintings or work that requires walls. To submit sample photos and pricing, or for more info, please email Lisa Ocampo at ocampol@telfair.org. Deadline for submissions is Sept. 30th. Thank you! N/A Through Sep. 30, 9 a.m. 912-790-8800. ocampol@telfair.org. Through Sep. 30, 9 a.m Telfair Museums, PO Box 10081. City of Savannah TV Show Seeks Entries
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erative gallery. Artist must be a full-time resident of Savannah or nearby area. Work to be considered includes sculpture, glass, ceramics and wood. If interested please submit 5-10 images of your work, plus resume/CV and biography to info@kobogallery.com. ongoing. info@ kobogallery.com. ongoing Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard Street ,.
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is seeking insightful and well-crafted profiles, documentaries, animations, original music videos, histories or other original works by or about the citizens of Savannah to run on “Engage”, a television show produced by the city. Interested in collaborating with filmmakers, artists, musicians and others in producing original content for the program. While the City does not offer compensation for such programs, SGTV does offer an opportunity to expose local works to a wide audience. More than 55,000 households in Chatham County have access to SGTV. Submit proposals via website. The City reserves the right to reject any programming that does not meet content standards. ongoing. savannahga.gov/engagesgtv. ongoing City seeks applications for Weave A Dream Initiative
Weave-A-Dream grant applications will be accepted through the calendar year, while funds are available. Programs must be completed before December 1, 2013. Application must be submitted at least eight weeks before the start date of the project. Project funding is available up to $3,500 for specific and innovative arts, cultural, or heritage programming or presentations that have a measurable, quantifiable benefit to Savannah’s diverse populations. Particularly interested in proposals with a strong youth focus (under 21). All program disciplines including multi-disciplinary projects are encouraged. Applicants must be a non-profit 501-c-3 headquartered in the Savannah city limits. For more information see website. ongoing. 912-651-6417. cnorthcutt@savannahga.gov. savannahga.gov\arts). ongoing Davenport House Museum Junior Interpreter Program for High School Students
Young people ages 14-19 will learn to
| Submit your event online at connectsavannah.com give tours of the Davenport House Museum in downtown Savannah during an eight week program. Training sessions held at the museum, Thursdays,6-8 pm, June 13-August 3, when the newly trained JIs give tours to the public. Especially seeking students interested in history, art, public speaking and historic preservation. Through Aug. 18. 912-236-8097. jcredle@davenporthousemuseum.org. davenporthousemuseum.org. davenporthousemuseum. org. Through Aug. 18 Davenport House, 324 East State St.
Homeschool Music Classes
Music classes for homeschool students ages 8 - 18, and their parents. Offered in Guyton and Savannah. See website for details. ongoing. CoastalEmpireMusic.com. ongoing Nominations Sought for Workplace Innovator Award
An award given by Step Up Savannah to an employer demonstrating creative and meaningful employer practices that benefit that employer’s low-wage employees. Award is presented at the Step Up Annual Meeting at a breakfast scheduled this year on October 18 at Savannah Technical College. The award recognizes employers that are implementing a wide array of creative processes or programs to develop their low-wage workforce professionally and personally, ultimately providing tools to increase their income. These practices must add value to the employer and the employee. Deadline is August 30. Through Aug. 30. 912-232-6747. jjohnson@stepupsavannah.org. stepupsavannah.org/employersupport. Through Aug. 30 Savannah Literary Anthology: Writers Wanted
Writers sought for inclusion in the 2013 issue of A Savannah Anthology. Open to residents of Georgia and South Caroli-
na. Unpublished fiction and non-fiction entries of up to 5,000 words will be considered. Deadline is midnight August 15, 2013. Entries must be submitted via the Savannah Authors website using the template and bio sheet available there. $10 fee per entry. Prizes will be awarded: First Place - $100; Second Place - $50; Third Place - $25. Plus several Certificates of Merit. A project of Savannah Authors, a Savannahbased writing group. Through Aug. 15. 912-308-3208. alicevantrease@gmail. com. savannahauthors.org. Through Aug. 15 Telfair Museums Seeks Artisans and Craftspeople
Telfair Museum Stores are calling local artists and craftspeople to participate in the 4th Annual Telfair Trunk Show held in conjunction with the “Cool Yule” sale days Dec. 7 & 8. Telfair will select 12 potters, jewelry makers, sculptors, glass, wood, fiber, paper and/or mixedmedia artists. No canvas paintings or work that requires walls. To submit sample photos and pricing, or for more info, email Lisa Ocampo, ocampol@telfair.org. Deadline is Sept. 30. Through Sep. 30. telfair.org. Through Sep. 30 Theatre Auditions: Armstrong Masquers Fall Productions
Seeking actors for three fall productions by Armstrong Atlantic State University Department of Art, Music & Theatre (Armstrong AMT) Masquers student theatre troupe. Auditions are Monday Aug. 19 and Tuesday, Aug. 20 at 6pm in Armstrong’s Jenkins Hall Theater. Productions to be cast: Dreams of Anne Frank--performances, September 19-22. Killer Joe--performances, October 24-27. The Amen Corner--performances, November 14-24. Audition sides will be provided on site. Prepared comedic monologues are also welcome. Information: 912-344-2556 Free and open to the public. Through Aug. 20. armstrong.edu. about.armstrong. edu/Maps/index.html. Through Aug. 20 Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Wilmington Island Farmers Market Seeks Vendors
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The Wilmington Island Farmers’ Market, scheduled to open in Fall 2013, seeks applications from potential vendors. Vendor application, market rules and regulations are available on the website. ongoing. wifarmersmarket. org. ongoing Youth Songwriting Competition
Savannah Folk Music Society’s annual contest for young songwriters is under way. Deadline August 15. Winner will perform at the Savannah Folk Music Festival in October and receive a $500 gift certificate to Portman’s Music Superstore. See website for details. Through Aug. 15. savannahfolk.org. Through Aug. 15 Classes, Camps & Workshops Art, Music, Piano, Voice Coaching
Coaching for all ages, beginners through advanced. Classic, modern, jazz improvization and theory. Serious inquiries only. 912-961-7021 or 912667-1056. Artist Sacred Circle
Group forming on Fridays beginning in March. 1:30pm-3pm. Based on The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. Contact Lydia Stone, 912-656-6383 or rosesonthemove@gmail.com. ongoing. 912-656-6383. rosesonthemove@gmail. com. ongoing Beading Classes
Offered every weekend at Perlina Beadshop, 6 West State Street. Check website calendar or call for info. 912441-2656. perlinabeadshop.com. Beading Classses at Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio
Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced. Call for class times. 912-920-6659. Epiphany Bead & Jewelry 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
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Classical and Acoustic Guitar Instruction
Savannah Classical Guitar Studio offers lessons for all levels. Dr. Brian Luckett, Ph.D. in music. Starland District. Guitar technique, music theory, and musicianship. Folk/rock based lessons available. No electric instruments. $25/half hour. $45/hour. brian@brianluckett.com. Clay Classes
Savannah Clay Studio at Beaulieu offers handbuilding, sculpture, and handmade tiles, basic glazing and firing. 912-3514578. sav..claystudio@gmail.com. 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 Mon, 4th Thursday. Call for times. $30 912354-6686. mediationsavannah.com. Fany’s Spanish/English Institute
Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children held at 15 E. Montgomery Crossroad. Register by phone. ongoing. 912-921-4646. ongoing Free Fitness Boot Camp
Mondays and Wednesdays, 6pm at Tribble Park, Largo & Windsor Rd. Children welcome. Free 912-921-0667. Guitar, Electric Bass & Double Bass Lessons
Instruction for all ages of beginner/ intermediate students. Technique, chords, not reading, theory. Learn songs and improvisation. Taught two blocks from Daffin Park. Housecalls available. First lesson half price. ongoing. 401-255-6921. a.teixeira472@gmail. com. ongoing Guitar, Mandolin, or Bass Guitar Lessons
Emphasis on theory, reading music, and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. ongoing. 912-232-5987. ongoing
Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource Center
Housing Authority of Savannah hosts classes at the Neighborhood Resource Center. Adult literacy/GED prep: Mon-
Thurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri each month, 9am-11am. Basic computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1pm-3pm. Community computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3pm-4:30pm. ongoing. 912-232-4232 x115. savannahpha.com. savannahpha.com/NRC. html. ongoing Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St.
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For those thinking of starting a business. Learn how to: identify frauds and scams billed as business opportunities, consider space and time needs, and identify factors that contribute to success. Sponsored by: UGA’s Cooperative Extension- Chatham County and Small Business Development Center. Free. Pre-registration required. Tue., Aug. 20, 6-7:30 p.m. 912-652-7981. uge3051@ uga.edu. coastalgeorgiabg.org/. Tue., Aug. 20, 6-7:30 p.m Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens, 2 Canebrake Rd. 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.
mandolin, ukelele, flute, woodwinds. 7041 Hodgson Memorial Dr. ongoing. 912-692-8055. smisavannah@gmail. com. ongoing
Reading/Writing Tutoring
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
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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Music Lessons: Private or Group
Portman’s Music Academy offers private or group classes for ages 2 to 92, beginner to advanced level. All instruments. Also, voice lessons, music production technology and DJ lessons. Teaching staff of over 20 instructors with professional, well equipped studios and a safe, friendly waiting area for parents and siblings. ongoing. 912-3541500. portmansmusic.com. portmansmusic.com. ongoing Portman’s Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. Music Lessons--Multiple Instruments
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style critiques to explore various writing techniques. Upon completion, they will understand narrative structure and scenic writing, dialogue, character, place, word choice, rhythm and pacing and the art of revision. For more information contact Christina Taylor @ christinataylor@georgiasouthern.edu. $125.00 Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m.. 912-651-6206. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. Gives students with some experience in fiction and nonfiction storytelling the opportunity to use assigned readings, writing homework, and workshop style critiques to explore various writing techniques. Works of Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Ann Beattie and others will be studied. Upon completion, students will understand narrative structure and scenic writing, dialogue, character, place, word choice, rhythm and pacing, and the art of revision. Offered by Georgia Southern’s Continuing Education division in Savannah. Call or email for days/times/pricing. ongoing. 912-644-5967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/ conted/cesavannahmenu.html.. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. ongoing Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.
ARIES
(March 21-April 19) Normally, International CAPS LOCK DAY happens only once a year, on June 28. But in alignment with your current astrological omens, you have been granted the right to observe the next seven days as your own personal International CAPS LOCK DAYS. That means you will probably be forgiven and tolerated if use OVERHEATED ORATORY and leap to THUNDEROUS CONCLUSIONS and engage in MELODRAMATIC GESTURES. You may even be thanked -- although it’s important to note that the gratitude you receive may only come later, AFTER THE DUST HAS SETTLED.
TAURUS
(April 20-May 20) William Turner was a 19th-century English landscape painter born under the sign of Taurus. His aim was not to capture scenes in realistic detail but rather to convey the emotional impact they made on him. He testified that on one occasion he had himself tied to the mast of a ship during a snowstorm so that he could experience its full effects firsthand. The result was “Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbor’s Mouth,” a painting composed mostly of tempestuous swirls. What would be the equivalent for you, Taurus? I’m trying to think of a way you could be perfectly safe as you treated yourself to an up-close encounter with elemental energies.
GEMINI
(May 21-June 20) Some years back, the Greek government launched a huge antismoking campaign. In response, cigarette sales spiked dramatically. When my daughter was six years old, I initiated a crusade to ban Barbie dolls from our home forever. Soon she was ripping out pictures of the accursed antifeminist icon from toy catalogs and leaving them on my desk. With these events in mind, I’m feeling cautious about trying to talk you into formulating a five-year master plan. Maybe instead I should encourage you to think small and obsess on transitory wishes.
CANCER
(June 21-July 22) “Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly,” the Canadian poet Robert Bringhurst reminds us. That will be a good
principle for you to keep in mind during your own adventures during the coming weeks. I suspect that any liberation you are able to achieve will come as the result of intense discipline. To the degree that you cultivate the very finest limitations, you will earn the right and the power to transcend inhibitions that have been holding you down.
LEO
(July 23-Aug. 22) “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” When I came across that quote while surfing the Web, I felt that it jibed perfectly with the astrological omens that are currently in play for you. Every website I consulted agreed that the speaker of this wisdom was Socrates, but I thought the language sounded too contemporary to have been uttered by a Greek philosopher who died 2,400 years ago. After a bit of research, I found the real source: a character named Socrates in *Way of the Peaceful Warrior,* a New Age self-help book by Dan Millman. I hope this doesn’t dilute the impact of the quote for you, Leo. For now, it is crucial that you not get bogged down in quarreling and brawling. You need to devote all your energy to creating the future.
VIRGO
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Do you know that you are a host for more than 10,000 different species of microorganisms? Many of them are bacteria that perform functions essential to your health. So the stunning fact of the matter is that a large number of life forms share your body and constantly help you in ways about which you have no conscious awareness. Might there be other examples of you collecting benefits from unknown sources? Well, do you know who is responsible for providing you with the water and electricity you use? Who sewed your clothes and made your medicine? Who built the roads and buildings you use? This is an excellent time to take inventory of all the assistance, much of it anonymous, that you are so fortunate to receive.
LIBRA
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22) More often than not, your fine mind does a competent job of defining the problems that need solving. It comes up with concise
questions that lead you in the right direction to find useful clues. It gathers evidence crisply and it makes smart adjustments as the situation evolves. But after studying the astrological factors currently at work, I’m a little concerned that your usually fine mind might temporarily be prone to suffering from the dreaded malady known as *paralysis through over-analysis.* To steer yourself away from that possibility, keep checking in with your body and your feelings to see what alternate truths they may have to tell you.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21) By the standards of people who don’t know you well, the triumph you achieve in the coming days might seem modest. But I think it will actually be pretty dramatic. Here’s my only concern: There’s a slight danger you will get grandiose or even a bit arrogant in the aftermath of your victory. You could also get peeved at those who don’t see it for the major achievement it is. Now that I’ve given you this warning, though, I’m hoping you will avoid that fate. Instead you will celebrate your win with humble grace, feeling gratitude for all the help you got long the way.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” So said French writer André Breton. I suspect that many of us feel the same way, which is kind of depressing. But the good news for you, Sagittarius, is that there will be times in the coming months when you will get as close to naming that mysterious thing as you have ever gotten. On more than a few occasions, you may be able to get a clear glimpse of its true nature. Now and then you might even be fully united with it. One of those moments could come soon.
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19) The *Paris Review* did a story on novelist William Gass. The interviewer asked him why he wrote his books. That was “a very dumb question,” he sneered. Nevertheless, he answered it, saying, “I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.” In other words, his primary motivations for expressing himself creatively were loathing, malice, and hostility. I beg you not to use him as your role model, Capricorn. Not now. Not ever. But especially
now. It is essential to your longterm health and wealth that you not be driven by hate in the coming weeks. Just the opposite, in fact: The more you are driven by love and generosity, the better chance you will have of launching a lucky streak that will last quite a while.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are,” said author Marianne Williamson. “Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.” Your assignment, Aquarius, is to seek out the deepest possible understanding of these truths. To do that, you will have to identify the unripe, shadowy qualities of the people who are most important to you. And then you will have to find it in your smart heart to love them for their unripe, shadowy qualities almost as much as you do for their shiny, beautiful qualities.
PISCES
(Feb. 19-March 20) Aldous Huxley was the renowned 20th-century intellectual who wrote the book *Brave New World,* a dystopian vision of the future. Later in his life he came to regret one thing: how “preposterously serious” he had been when he was younger. “There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,” he ruminated, “trying to suck you down into fear and selfpity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling . . . Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.” I would love for you to put this counsel at the top of your priority list for the next ten months, darling Pisces. Maybe even write it out on a piece of paper and tape it to your bathroom mirror.
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 Stress Reduction: Arising Stillness in Zen
Stress-reducing practices for body, speech and mind. Five Thursday night classes from 6- 7:00pm. $15 drop-in; $70 for series. Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach, Sensei. Savannah Zen Center 111 E. 34th St. 31401 revfugon@gmail.com ongoing. ongoing Yoga for Couples
A two hour class for prospective moms and their delivery partners. Learn labor and delivery stages and a “toolbox” of hands-on comfort measures from a labor doula, including breathing, massage, positioning, and pressure points. Bring and exercise ball. Quarterly, Saturdays 1pm-3pm at Savannah Yoga Center. Call or email to register. $100 per couple. ongoing. 912-704-7650. douladeliveries.com. ongoing Dance
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Mondays and Wednesdays, 7pm-8pm. $12/class or $90/8 classes. Call for info. Academy of Dance, 74 W. Montgomery Crossroad. ongoing. 912-9212190. ongoing Argentine Tango
Lessons Sundays 1:30-3;30pm. Open to the public. $3 per person. Wear closed toe leather shoes if possible. Doris Martin Dance Studio, 8511-h ferguson Ave. Call or email for info. ongoing. 912-925-7416. savh_tango@yahoo.com. ongoing Beginners Belly Dancing with Cybelle
For those with little-to-no dance background. Instructor is formally trained, has performed for over ten years. $15/person. Tues. 7pm-8pm. Private classes and walk ins available. Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave. ongoing. 912-414-1091. info@cybelle3. com. cybelle3.com. ongoing Belly Dance classes with Nicole Edge
Beginners, Wednesdays 7-8PM, Advanced, Sundays 1:15-2:15PM. $15 per session. All ages and skill levels welcome. ongoing. 912-596-0889. edgebellydance.com. ongoing at First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Beginner and Advanced Belly Dance Classes at First City Fitness (formerly Fitness, Body and Balance studio), 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Beginner’s Wednesdays 7-8PM, Advanced Sundays 1:15-2:15PM Instructed by Nicole Edge. Walk-Ins welcome, all ages $15.00 per class or 4/$48.00 ongoing. 912-596-0889. edgebellydance@gmail.com. edgebellydance.com. ongoing Bellydance lessons with Happenstance Bellydance
All levels and styles of bellydance welcome. Classes are every Monday from 5:30-6:30pm. $15/lesson. Drop-ins welcome or call Carrie @(912)704-2940 for more info. happenstancebellydance@ gmail.com happenstancebellydance. wordpress.com $15/lesson ongoing, 5:30 p.m. (912) 704-2940. happenstancebellydance.wordpress.com. ongoing, 5:30 p.m Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. C.C. Express Dance Team
Wednesdays, 6pm-8pm. Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary. Call Claudia Collier for info. ongoing. 912-748-0731. ongoing Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Windsor Forest. Dance for Peace
A weekly gathering to benefit locals in need. Music, dancing, fun for all ages. Donations of nonperishable food and gently used or new clothing are welcomed. Free and open to the public. Sundays, 3 p.m. 912-547-6449. xavris21@yahoo.com. Sundays, 3 p.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Home Cookin’ Cloggers
Wednesdays, 6pm-8pm, Nassau Woods Recreation Building, Dean Forest Road.
No beginner classes at this time. Call Claudia Collier for info. ongoing. 912748-0731. ongoing
Irish Dance Classes
Glor na Dare offers beginner to champion Irish Dance classes for ages 5 and up. Adult Step & Ceili, Strength and Flexibility, non-competitive and competitive programs, workshops, camps. Certified. Info via email or phone. ongoing. 912-704-2052. prideofirelandga@ gmail.com. ongoing Line Dancing
Take down Tuesdays. Jazzy Sliders Adult Line Dancing, every Tuesday, 7:30pm-10:00pm. Free admission, cash bar. Come early and learn a new dance from 7:30pm-8:30pm. ongoing. doublesnightclub.com/. ongoing Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Mahogany Shades of Beauty
Dance classes--hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step. Modeling and acting classes. All ages/ all levels welcome. Call Mahogany for info. ongoing. 912-272-8329. ongoing Modern Dance Class
Beginner and intermediate classes. Fridays 10am-11:15am. Doris Martin Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. Call Elizabeth for info. ongoing. 912-354-5586. ongoing Pole Dancing Classes
Beginners class, Wednesdays, 8pm.
Level II, Mondays, 8pm. $22/one class. $70/four classes. Preregistration required. Learn pole dance moves and spins while getting a full body workout. Pole Fitness Classes Monday/Wednesday, 11am. Nothing comes off but your shoes. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-398-4776. fitnessbodybalance.com. ongoing Fitness Body & Balance Personal Training Studio, 2209 Rowland Ave, Suite 2. RAVE NIGHT with DJ ORSON WELLS
Get your Rave on with the the one and only DJ Orson Wells! We got glow sticks! Saturdays, 9 p.m. Saturdays, 9 p.m Dosha Bar & Lounge, 128 East Broughton St. Salsa Lessons by Salsa Savannah
Tues. 8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Thur. 8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Sun. 5pm6pm and 6pm-7pm. Salon de Maile, 704B Hodgson Memorial Dr., Savannah, 31406. See website for info. ongoing. salsasavannah.com. ongoing Savannah Dance Club
Shag, swing, cha-cha and line dancing. Everyone invited. Call for location, days and times. ongoing. 912-398-8784. ongoing Savannah Shag Club
Wednesdays, 7pm,at Doubles Lounge. Fridays, 7pm, at American Legion Post 36, 2309 E. Victory Dr. ongoing. doublesnightclub.com/. ongoing Doubles
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Savannah Swing Cats--Swing Dancing
ongoing. doublesnightclub.com/. ongoing Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Fitness AHA in the AM
Mondays and Fridays, 7:30am-9:00am. Open to free form yoga/movement with guided meditation. A great way to start and end the work week. Email or see website for info. Fee: donations. ongoing. trickydame@gmail.com. trickydame.com. ongoing Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Al-Anon Family Groups
An anonymous fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics. the message of Al-Anon is one of strength and hope for friends/family of problem drinkers. Al-Anon is for adults. Alateen is for people age 13-19. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. check website or call for info. ongoing. 912-598-9860. savannahalanon.com. ongoing Bariatric Surgery Support Group
First Wednesday each month, 7pm, and third Saturday, 10am, in Mercer Auditorium of Hoskins Center at Memorial. For those who have had or are considering bariatric surgery. Free to attend. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-350-3438. memorialhealth. com. memorialhealth.com/. ongoing Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. 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.
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HOUSES 3 Bedrooms 208 Andover Dr. $1500 1907 E. Henry St. $1500 818 Granite Ln. $1395 10 Versailles $1300 2311 E. 37th St. $1125 212 Forest Ridge $920 105 Nelson Ave. $895 14 Sherwood Rd. $825 1734 E.33rd St. $795
2301 ABERCORN STREET 1 Bed & 1 Bath Apts. $550 & $575. All electric. NO PETS. Reese & Co. 236-4233 2BR/1BA APARTMENT, Newly remodel, total electric, ch/a, offstreet parking on the westside. $575mo/$575 dep. 912844-7932
APARTMENTS One Bedroom 110 E. Gaston $895 740 E. 45th St. $725 Two Bedrooms 1130 E. 53rd St. $500 Townhome/Pooler 47 Fairgreen St. $1100 2 master bedrooms Furnished Loft Lafayette #108 $1395 321 Broughton St. $1500
APARTMENTS FOR RENT WEEKLY 2 Bedroom Apts./1 Bath, Newly remodeled apts. LR, dining, ceiling fans each room, central heat/ air, kitchen w/appliances, washer/dryer hookup. Lights & water included. NO CREDIT CHECK REQUIRED; EVICTIONS OK. $200-$235/ weekly. Biweekly & Monthly rates available. First Week Deposit Required. Call 912319-4182, M-Sat 10am-6pm. By Daffin Park: 2BR/1BA APARTMENT: Refrigerator, stove, washer/dryer hookup, central heat/air, $635/month + $635 deposit. No pets. 912-6574583
SPECIAL! 11515 White Bluff Rd. 1BR/1BA, all electric, equipped kitchen, W/D connection. Convenient to Armstrong College. $595/month 207 EDGEWATER RD. Southside near Oglethorpe Mall. 2BR/2BA $775/mo., $500/dep. DAVIS RENTALS 310 E.MONTGOMERY X-ROADS 912-354-4011 OR 656-5372
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SECTION 8 WELCOME- 307 Treat Ave.,Savannah.Newly renovated, 3BR, 1 Full Bath, LR, DR, kitchen w/refrigerator, electric stove, washer/dryer connection, CH&A. Will accept tenants other than Section 8. $900/month. 912-604-8308 SOUTHSIDE •1BR Apts, washer/dryer included. $25 for water, trash included, $625/month. •2BR/1.5BA Townhouse Apt, total electric, w/washer & dryer $675. 912-927-3278 or 912356-5656
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ROOMS FOR RENT Completely furnished. Central heat and air. Conveniently located on busline. $130 per week. Call 912-844-5995. SECTION 8 WELCOME ONE, TWO & THREE BR Apts. & Houses for rent. Stove, refrigerator, washer/dryer. 1/2 month Off-Good for this month only. 912-844-5996 OR 912-2726820 SPACIOUS ROOMS FOR RENT Newly renovated on busline. 2 blocks from Downtown Kroger,3 blocks from Historic Forsyth Park. $150/week with No deposit. 844-5995
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*1905 Harrison Eastside St 2BR, central air and heat, w/d hook-up. $650mo . off Pennsylvania in front of Savannah High . *2228 Greenwood St East side off Pennsylvania & Capitol2 BR, carpet through out, quiet neighbors, window a/c & heat, fenced yard, refrigerator, wash room 912-663-1908
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