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Picnic Contest Hosted By Savannah Area REALTORS 2013 Theme Is ‘Celebrate The Arts’

PICNIC IN THE PARK

Sunday, October 6  Forsyth Park 4-5pm Picnic registration opens 5-6pm Judging begins 7:15-9:30pm Savannah Philharmonic concert Under The Baton of Peter Shannon (Artistic Director & Conductor)

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

Include specific dates, time, locations with addresses, cost and a contact number.

Deadline for inclusion is 5pm Friday, to appear in next Wednesday’s edition.

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Film: Beetlejuice (1988, USA)

What: Michael Keaton as the eponymous Beetlejuice, in that trademark black and white suit and "killer" makeup. Plus Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones, Winona Ryder.

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

Film: Picture Mommy Dead (1966, USA)

What: Psychotronic Film Society presents Zsa Zsa Gabor and Don Ameche in the tale of a young girl released from an insane asylum after witnessing her mother's death.

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

Film Lecture: Walt Disney with Blood

What: Dakota Jackson Master Class presents this talk by SCAD cinema studies professor Tracy Cox-Stanton.

When: 2-3:15 p.m Where: Arnold Hall (SCAD), 1810 Bull St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: scad.edu

Savannah Entrepreneurial Stories featuring Ed Rieker What: The first in a series of talks with

successful serial entrepreneurs. This session features Ed Rieker, a business owner and entrepreneur who has a successful track record starting, building and selling software businesses.

When: 6-8 p.m Where: Creative Coast Alliance, 15 West York St.

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Thursday Art lecture: Claire Rosen

What: A 30-minute "Look Again" guided discussion of Reverie, Rosen's exhibition, given by the photographer.

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

Cost: Museum admission. Free for all SCAD. Info: scad.edu

Broadway Night at the Lucas

What: Enjoy a selection of Broadway

tunes in the Lucas's now signature cabaret style.

When: 8 p.m Where: Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: $30 Gen. Adm. $15 students. $100 VIP. Info: lucastheatre.com

First Friday Art March

First Friday Art March

What: Open houses, new exhibitions, and family-friendly activities at this monthly Friday night art gallery hop in SoFo (South of Forsyth). Savannah Bicycle Campaign and SpokeModels sponsor a scavenger hunt. Stops in October: Anahata Healing Arts, Black Orchid Tattoo, The Chocolate Lab,Desotorow Gallery, Foxy Loxy Print Gallery & Cafe, The Grand Bohemian Gallery, Graveface Records (with an appearance by the Vinyl Apprecation crew), Maldoror’s Frame Shop, Non-Fiction Gallery, Of Two Minds Studio,Sentient Bean, Sicky Nar Nar, Starland Cafe, and Veronica’s Closet.

Music at Desoto Ave.: Keith Kenny, B.B. Wolf, Yonahbug.

Foxy Loxy: The Rosies Anahata Healing Arts: Joshua Hamilton Sponsored by Connect Savannah.

When: first Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m Where: Desotorow Gallery, 2427 Desoto Ave. Cost: Free & open to the public Info: artmarchsavannah.com

Lecture: Preview to Spanish Sojourns Exhibition

What: Robert Henri in America: His Life and Influence. A preview lecture presented by Courtney McNeil.

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

Info: telfair.org

Theatre: Purgatorio

What: More Greek theatre! Ariel Dorf-

man's contemporary adaptation/retelling of Medea.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: The Sparetime, 36 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 912-232-7094

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Friday 66th Annual Junior League of Savannah Thrift Sale

What: The Junior League of Savannah is excited to announce the 66th Annual Thrift Sale. The doors open at 10am on October 4 and 5 at 10am.

When: 10 a.m Where: The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: CASH Only Info: 912-790-1002

Dreadful Pestilence: Savannah Epidemic of 1820.

What: A living history program recreating the horror of Savannah's 1820 yellow fever epidemic that devastated the city. Historically creepy!

When: 7:30 & 8:45 p.m.

Where: Davenport House, 324 East State St. Cost: $15 in advance for adults, $10 in advance children (ages 8-17) and $17

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

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

First Friday for Folk Music

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

When: October features Thomas Oliver, plus Jamison Murphy & The Casual Forces. first Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m Where: First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. Cost: $5 donation.

Info: 912-898-1876. savannahfolk.org

Oktoberfest on the River

What: It's the Weiner Dog Races! A weekend-long festival on the river celebrating October in food, beer, and all kinds of fun. Teenie Weenie Races, River Street Stien Race, Sausage Eating Contest, River Street Keg Roll, Beer Garden and Music.

When: Where: Rousakis Plaza, River St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: riverstreetsavannah.com

Theatre: Blithe Spirit

What: Noel Coward's comedy, by the Tybee Arts Association. Seating is limited, so reservations are strongly suggested.

Call (912) 786-5920 for tickets, or buy with Paypal at tybeearts.org.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: Tybee Arts Center, 7 Cedarwood Dr. Cost: $18 ($15 for TAA members) Info: 912-786-5920. tybeearts.org

of Thomas Angell, ASLA and Agustina Hein presents their newly-planted sustainable streetscape, using only native plants.

When: 5-8 p.m Where: Verdant Enterprises Studio, 3 W. Henry Street.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: verdantenterprises.com

Theatre: Equus

Theatre: Purgatorio

What: Ariel Dorfman's contemporary adaptation/retelling of Medea.

When: Oct. 3-4, 7:30 p.m Where: The Sparetime, 36 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: 912-232-7094

What: It’s the last weekend for the

Collective Face Theatre Ensemble production of the Tony-winning British drama by Peter Shaffer. A psychiatrist struggles to get inside the mind of a young stable boy who blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion.

When: 8 p.m Oct. 4 and 5, 3 p.m. Oct. 6 Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $20 Gen. Adm. $15 seniors/students/ active mil.

Info: 912-232-0018. collectiveface.org

What: The landscape architecture team

What: Collective Face Theatre Ensemble with Peter Shaffer’s Tony-winning British drama. A psychiatrist struggles to get inside the mind of a young stable boy who blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion.

When: 8 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $20 Gen. Adm. $15 seniors/students/active mil.

Info: 912-232-0018. collectiveface.org

Theatre: Equus

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Saturday 66th Annual Junior League of Savannah Thrift Sale

What: The Junior League of Savannah is excited to announce the 66th Annual Thrift Sale. The doors open at 10am.

When: 10 a.m Where: The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: CASH Only Info: 912-790-1002

Comedy: Eddie Griffin

What: Best known as the star of Undercover Brother, Grffin's observational urban wit lands somewhere between Richard Pryor and D.L. Hughley.

When: 8 p.m Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $25-$35

Dreadful Pestilence: Savannah Epidemic of 1820.

What: A living history program recreating the horror of Savannah's 1820 yellow fever epidemic that devastated the city. Historically creepy!

When: 7:30 & 8:45 p.m.

Where: Davenport House, 324 East

State St.

Cost: $15 in advance for adults, $10 in

advance children (ages 8-17) and $17 for adults and $15 for children at the time of the performance Info: 912-236-8097. info@davenporthousemuseum.org

Fall Plant Swap

What: Bring a plant. Or not. Take a plant. Or not. The fall edition of this twice-yearly plant exchange that's part gardening get-together, part social hour. (Loosely) organized by Jane Fishman. At the Boundary Street Garden between Chatham Steel and SCAD's Boundary Hall.

When: 8-11 a.m Cost: Free and open to the public.

Film: All the President's Men (1976, USA)

What: The true story of WashPo reporters Woodward and Bernstein (Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman) in dogged pursuit of the Watergate story.

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

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Sustainable Streetscape Open House at Verdant Enterprises

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Forsyth Farmers Market What: Local and regional

produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights. Rain or shine.

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

Info: 912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com

Local Author Day

What: Fourteen local authors meet, greet and sign books, including Rosemary Daniell, Jane Fishman, Bill DeYoung, Jim Morekis, and Kristine Stevens and Southern Poetry Review. Special appearance by Flannery O'Connor!?! Rain date, Sat. Oct 26.

When: 12-4 p.m Where: The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty St. Cost: Free to attend. Books available for purchase.

Info: bookladybookstore.com

Oktoberfest on the River

What: It's the Weiner Dog Races! A weekend-long festival on the river celebrating October in food, beer, and all kinds of fun. Teenie Weenie Races, River Street Stien Race, Sausage Eating Contest, River Street Keg Roll, Beer Garden and Music.

When: Oct. 4-6

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

Pooler Outdoor Music Concert

What: Outdoor concert featuring Chuck Courtenay, with performances by Lyn Avenue and Pace Brothers. Benefiting Wounded Warrior Project.

When: 5 p.m Where: Oglethorpe Speedway, 200 Jesup Rd. Cost: $10. $50 VIP tix. Free for kids 10 and under.

Info: office@poolerchamber.com. pooleroutdoormusic.com

Theatre: Blithe Spirit

What: Noel Coward's comedy, by the Tybee Arts Association. Seating is limited, so reservations are strongly suggested. Call (912) 786-5920 for tickets, or buy with Paypal at tybeearts.org.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: Tybee Arts Center, 7 Cedarwood Dr. Cost: $18 ($15 for TAA members) Info: 912-786-5920. tybeearts.org

Theatre: Equus

What: Collective Face Theatre Ensem-

ble with Peter Shaffer’s Tony-winning British drama. A psychiatrist struggles to get inside the mind of a young stable

boy who blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion.

When: 8 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $20 Gen. Adm. $15 seniors/students/active mil.

Info: 912-232-0018. collectiveface.org

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Sunday Benjamin Burrell Piano Recital

What: The recital will be a celebration of the release of Benjamin Burrell’s new CD Impressions, the solo piano music of Francis Poulenc, Enrique Granados, Federico Mompou and Franz Liszt.

When: 4 p.m Where: Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church, 429 Abercorn St. Cost: $15 Info: 617-271-5575. info@benjaminburrell.com. benjaminburrell.com

Design for Ability Greenhouse Grand Opening

What: The first fundraiser for Design for Ability,showcasing the construction of a brand new greenhouse. Music by City

Hotel, The Accomplices, Lovely Locks, and Kid Syc. Plus food and support for a vocational training program.

When: 3-8 p.m Where: Southern Pine Co., 616 E. 35th St. Cost: $20 advance. $25 door.

Info: designforability.org

Film: The Uninvited (1944, USA)

What: The Psychotronic Film Society

presents a "haunted house" movie, starring Ray Milland as a composer who buys a beautiful gothic mansion in England -- only to learn the former tenants' evil spirits have no intention of moving out.

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

Loretta Lynn

What: The Queen of Country Music is 81 and still singing "Coal Miner's Daughter" plus her other classics.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $45-$65

What: It's the Weiner Dog Races! A weekend-long festival on the river celebrating October in food, beer, and all kinds of fun. Teenie Weenie Races, River Street Stien Race, Sausage Eating Contest, River Street Keg Roll, Beer Garden and Music.

When: Oct. 4-6 Where: Rousakis Plaza, River St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: riverstreetsavannah. com

The 24th Annual

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Monday First City Films Showcase

What: A First City Films screening of recent work.

Blind Spot, New World Leaders, Music videos by Dodd Ferrelle, Al Coleman and Phil Parham; short films, Doritos commercials and more.

Please bring toiletries and other items to donate to Safe Shelter.

When: 6-8 p.m Where: Flip Flop Tiki Bar & Grill, 117 Whitaker St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: FirstCityFilms. com

SATURDAY

Picnic in the Park What: An outdoor

concert featuring the Savannah Philharmonic, plus picnic content. Picnic theme is "Celebrate the Arts." Design a creative picnic spread that is inspired by any form of the arts. 4 p.m. Picnic registration for prie competition. 5 p.m. Picnic judging.

7:15p.m. concert.

Harlem Wizards Basketball Game

When: Where: Forsyth Park,

501 Whitaker St.

Cost: Free and open to

the public.

Info: savannahga. gov/arts

Theatre: Blithe Spirit

Film: All the President’s Men (1976, USA)

What: The true story of WashPo reporters Woodward and Bernstein (Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman) in dogged pursuit of the Watergate story, triggering the eventual downfall of President Richard Nixon.

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

What: Noel Coward's comedy, by the Tybee Arts Association.

Seating is limited, so reservations are strongly suggested.

Call (912) 786-5920 for tickets, or buy with Paypal at tybeearts.org.

When: 3 p.m Where: Tybee Arts Center, 7 Cedarwood Dr. Cost: $18 ($15 for TAA members) Info: 912-786-5920. tybeearts.org

Theatre: Equus

What: Collective Face Theatre Ensemble with Peter Shaffer’s Tony-winning British drama. A psychiatrist struggles to get inside the mind of a young stable boy who blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion. Final performance.

When: 3 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $20 Gen. Adm. $15 seniors/students/active mil.

Info: 912-232-0018. collectiveface.org

What: The Harlem Wizards basketball team and their goofy and clever basketball tricks take on a team of Jacob G. Smith School teachers and staff, plus local celebrities. Benefiting the school's PTA. When: 6:30 p.m Where: Sol C. Johnson High School, 3012 Sunset Blvd.

Cost: $10 Info: harlemwizards. com

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Architecture lecture: Building to Heal What: The School of Building Arts

Lecture Series presents Patricia Gruits, on how design can improve people’s lives. She is senior associate at MASS Design Group, a nonprofit architectural firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, and Kigali, Rwanda The firm’s work in Africa, Haiti and the U.S. focuses on leveraging architecture to become an engine for better health, economic growth and long-term sustainability.

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

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: scad.edu

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Savannah Folk Music Festival 11th, 12th & 13th October, 2013 FRIDAY 11TH OCTOBER

Folk Fest in Ellis Square 7pm-11 pm

Featuring: Chris Desa, Mike Maddox, Jamison Murphy, CYNERGY, Jim McGaw and The Ogeechee River Rounders

Noteworthy Art and Guitar Auction 7:00pm to 9:30PM Rainsite: Stewart Hall, First Presbyterian Church 520 Washington Ave SATURDAY 12TH OCTOBER

Youth Songwriting Competition Finals 2:00-3:00 pm Prizes worth $1000/- from event sponsor Portman’s Music Superstore.

Folk songwriting workshop with John Flynn 3:30 to 5:30 pm

Both events will be held at: Stewart Hall, First Presbyterian Church 520 Washington Ave, Savannah

Old Time Country Dance 7:30-11pm Notre Dame Academy Gym, 1709 Bull Street, Savannah GA 31401 Music by: FREE ASSOCIATION SUNDAY 13TH OCTOBER

CONCERT IN GRAYSON STADIUM

2:00 to 7:30pm Featuring: Major Handy, John Flynn, The Waymores & PETER YARROW. Concessions available on site - NO COOLERS please.

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC For more Info: www.savannahfolk.org call (912) 355 3357 or (912) 898 1876 Major Sponsors of the FREE Savannah Folk Music Festival

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Earth. Second Tuesday of each month at 5:30pm. Location varies monthly.

September gathering at Zunzi's 2.

When: second Tuesday of every month, 5:30 p.m Cost: Free to attend. Cash bar.

Looking Ahead 63rd ANNUAL SAVANNAH GREEK FESTIVAL

Join us as we yell “OPA”to celebrate our 63rd year!

Homemade Authentic Greek Food & Pastries!

Live Greek Entertainment Everyday!

Thursday, Friday & Saturday October 10th, 11th, & 12th 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM - Daily Don’t forget to visit our Bakaliko (Greek grocery store) or the Agora (marketplace) Free Admission Thu and Fri until 4:00 PM $ 2.00 Donation after 4:00 PM on Thur, Fri & all day Sat

St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Hellenic Community Center For more info visit www.savannahgreekfest.com

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.

Savannah Folk Music Festival. Oct. 11-13.

Film: Edward Scissorhands. Oct. 11, Lucas Theatre.

Film: The Silence of the Lambs. Oct. 12, Lucas Theatre.

Stattsfest. Oct. 13, Muse Arts Warehouse.

National tour: Mamma Mia! Oct. 17, Johnny Mercer Theatre.

Mercer Cabaret Night. Oct. 17. Lucas Theatre.

Film: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Oct. 18, Lucas Theatre.

Bay Street Theatre: The Rocky Horror Show. Oct. 18-31, Club One. Vienna Boys Choir. Oct. 18, Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.

Columbia City Ballet: Dracula. Oct. 19, Johnny Mercer Theatre.

Great Ogeechee Seafood Festival. Oct. 19, Richmond Hill.

Savannah Philharmonic: Faure’s Requiem. Oct. 20, Lucas Theatre.

Savannah Stage Co.: The Turn of the Screw. Oct. 25-Nov. 3, S.P.A.C.E. Savannah Film Festival. Oct. 26-Nov. 2.

Shalom Y’all Jewish Food Festival.

Oct. 27, Forsyth Park.

Disney On Ice. Oct. 30-Nov. 3, MLK Arena.

The Foundry: Film and live dance by choreographer Alex Ketley, Nov. 2, Jepson Center.

Asbury Memorial Theatre: Our Town.

Nov. 7-16.

Della Mae. Nov. 7, Randy Wood Guitars.

Shooter Jennings: Pirate Fest Oct. 12

Mike Epps. Nov. 9, Johnny Mercer Theatre.

Film: Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

Nov. 9, Trustees Theater.

Rock and Roll Marathon. Nov. 9.

Jim Brickman. Nov. 11, Lucas Theatre.

Savannah Food & Wine Festival. Nov. 11-17.

Joe Bonamassa. Nov. 13, Johnny Mercer Theatre.

Telfair Art Fair. Nov. 15-17.

“A Night in Vienna” opera concert.

Nov. 16, SCAD Museum of Art. Children’s Book Festival. Nov. 16, Forsyth Park.

Bay Street Theatre: Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Club One, Nov. 21-24.

Savannah Philharmonic: Big Band Pops. Nov. 21, Lucas Theatre.

Columbia City Ballet: The Nutcracker.

Nov. 30, Johnny Mercer Theatre.

Film: Doctor Zhivago. Dec. 6, Lucas Theatre.

The Collective Face: Bell, Book and Candle. Muse Arts Warehouse. Dec. 6-22.

David Bromberg. Dec. 14, Randy Wood Guitars.

Savannah Philharmonic: Holiday Pops.

Dec. 13 and 14, Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.

Nureyev State Ballet Theatre: Sleeping Beauty. Jan. 12, Johnny Mercer Theatre. CS

Sponging off Jay Self

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

I’m on pretty good terms with Jay Self and with Spongebob Squarepants. I can confidently say there’s room enough in this town for both of them.

That, however, isn’t the sentiment of the City of Savannah, which just fired Self, our longtime film services director.

As is typical with City personnel matters these days, we heard one story, then a contradicting story, then the initial story was confirmed (see Lovett, Willie C.) Stories made the rounds about disgruntled downtown business owners upset over the disruption and alleged low compensation during the Spongebob movie shoot, in which Broughton Street facades were painted fancifully to mimic Bikini Bottom (please don’t tell me I have to tell you what Bikini Bottom is).

There was a weak attempt to say Self ’s suspension had nothing to do with that.

Then another reversal, in the form of an official memo to Self saying exactly that.

But the pre-firing memo itself could just as easily be a cover story for some personal slight against some “important person.”

Wouldn’t be the first time.

Something we know with near 100 percent certainty at this point is that Self ’s attorney is likely drooling at the prospect of a potential wrongful termination lawsuit due to the City’s ham-fisted handling of his client’s firing.

Full disclosure: I’m not at all impartial about Jay Self. I worked alongside Jay when I was on the Oglethorpe Charter School Board of Governors, while he was chairman.

If you know much about charter schools you know that unlike most boards — which are generally little more than rubber stamps — the governing board of a charter school is actually a governing board.

Because charter schools are largely autonomous from the regular school board, their governing boards make real policy, and drive and direct the activities of the principal and staff. Though a volunteer position, it’s a hard job with a lot of responsibility.

Chairman that much more so.

As chairman of the Oglethorpe board, Self consistently displayed what I can only describe as an almost frighteningly high level of intelligence and a precise, practical grasp of all the facts and numbers at hand.

He combined that with the rare gift of being able to articulate exactly what he meant at any given time.

I suspect many people were deeply threatened by that imposing skill set.

And there’s no doubt in my mind that he brought the exact same skill set to his 18 years as film services director.

Can Self occasionally come across as a bit aloof? Glib? Yes and yes.

I’ve had the same things said about me. Maybe you too. They’re not crimes, and they’re certainly not grounds for termination.

The truth is that anyone in Self ’s former position, in a small town as politically prickly and personality-driven as Savannah, will eventually find themselves in a loselose situation. Between a sponge and a hard place, as it were.

Before lifting a finger, a film services director in a parochial, conservative city like ours already comes into the job with three strikes against them: 1) You have to be able to keep secrets.

And I mean really keep secrets, which is almost impossible here and certainly frowned upon given the beloved local pastime of rampant gossiping.

2) Politicians’ egos: One of the, um, charming things about Savannah is that pretty much every mayor, alderman and county commissioner thinks they’re the president of the United States. Imagine the self-regard of a president multiplied by 18.

That’s what a film services director here has to deal with on a regular basis, not to mention dealing with movie producers, directors, actors, crew, and local businesses.

3) You have to dress and behave like the film crews you interact with. Not a small thing. Movie people are very informal. This means T-shirts and jeans much more often than blue blazers and pinstripes. This means a certain amount of resentment from oldschool politicians and the more conservative Chamber of Commerce types who are important constituencies for a film office.

The culture clash can’t be ignored.

That’s three strikes-you’re-out before you even come up to bat. Combine that with whatever went down during the Spongebob shoot and the unbelievably disrespectful treatment of Self by former City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney — ripples of which are still reverberating — and you have the recipe for what happened now: A city dumped its veteran film services director in the middle of a high-profile major studio movie shoot, during a banner time for local film production.

What could possibly go wrong?

The bottom line here isn’t about Self ’s future. He’s more than bright and capable enough to take care of himself. And the bottom line isn’t about whether or not Broughton Street merchants will soldier on.

The bottom line is that a very small market like Savannah was extremely lucky to have a person of Self ’s abilities in what amounts to an almost impossible job.

Savannah has the only film office in the state outside Atlanta. Continuing to have that local office is by no means a given.

There is no guarantee — none, zero — that it will continue now that Self is out.

For whatever faults Self has — and he has his share, like anyone else — stop for a moment and imagine his potential successor.

Picture the chain of fortunate events which would have to happen to get someone as qualified and motivated as Self to work here under these conditions, for a public servant’s salary.

Now put a number on those chances.

I’d say about the same as meeting a talking sponge with big blue eyes. cs

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by Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

Fall fever? Get sick at the Davenport House Feel that lovely breeze? Notice the absence of demonic insects gnawing at your ankles? Welcome to fall, good people. We made it.

‘Tis the season of the best weather these parts have to offer, and even the couch potatoes ought to take it outside for the next few weeks. (For reals, move your couch outside. Better yet, push it on over to Picnic in the Park this Sunday. See page 30 for details.)

It’s also time to get sugared up, grossed out and scared ‘til you pee your pants.

Mine is a family that for prepares for Halloween like other people wait for the Apocalypse. We start discussing costumes after Fourth of July and buy fake blood by the bucket. The kids hassle me like hyper little hyenas until I bring down the Big Box of Decorations on the first day of October. (Any earlier is Halloween sacrilege. You hear that, neighbor with the skeleton lawn ornaments up since Labor Day?) As soon as the androgynous lifesize doll we call Bobby is hanging from a noose on the front porch, the children then begin their lobby for our yearly tour of haunted houses, ghoulish groves and creepy corn mazes anywhere in a 50-mile radius.

Sometimes when we run out of thrills to satisfy them, so we just drop them off in a grody alley in a dark part of town and let them explore.

This year, I suggested we kick off

our macabre junket at the Isaiah Davenport House Museum, where director Jaime Credle and a cast of volunteers have revived their living history production, Dreadful Pestilence: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1820. Set in various parts of the refined American Federal-style domicile on Columbia Square, the hour-long show chronicles the horrific illness that killed one out of five Savannah citizens and provides a fascinating and germane context of social norms, race relations, media propaganda and medical inefficacy.

But according to my children, Halloween shouldn’t be educational.

“Ugh, history?” complained Abraham. “We want ghosts.”

“And goblins,” added his sister, Yellow fever patient Lauren Purcell Liberty. “And scary clowns on tiny motorcycles.”

“But that wasn’t real,” countered I don’t mention that when clowns Abe. show up anywhere, including the cir“Proving my point. Get in the van,” cus, both of them keep their faces in I commanded. my armpits the entire time.

Dreadful Pestilence begins inside “Plus, it sounds unsanitary. Didn’t the former Kennedy Pharmacy on yellow fever make people puke black the east end of Broughton Street vomit?” sniffed Abraham, ever the where the cast sets the tone of 19thgermophobe. century Savannah. The port is thriv“It can’t possibly be as disgusting as ing, the construction trade is up and the festering herpes sores on the zomfolks are flocking here to start new bies at that place we went to last year,” businesses, explains show co-creator I pointed out.

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Raleigh Marshall as he greets guests at the door in a sateen striped waistcoat. Savannah Arts Academy theater major Catie Morris delivers a cute commercial for a snake oil that’s supposed to cure yellow fever, and young songstress Kate Bosen tries to keep the mood high as the death toll mounts.

It’s morbidly entertaining as well as historically correct: Much of the script is lifted word-for-word from Savannah’s two competing newspapers at the time. Jeff Freeman and Iain Woodside play the dueling editors, one warning the public about the coming epidemic, the other completely denying any danger whatsoever.

“This isn’t scary,” whispered Liberty. Speak for yourself, kid.

But she clutched my arm tightly after the intro, when guests are separated into small groups and escorted into the grand main house, the only time of year the museum is open at night. We climbed the candlelit staircase to the unfinished attic, which is honestly the scariest place I’ve ever been in my life, not counting my children’s bathroom.

Here the production’s other cocreator, Jamal Touré, plays a free African named Mingo Bwa who has been tapped to help bury the many uncounted slaves dying of the fever.

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that the disease is carried by the most sinister monster of all: The swamp mosquito.

Finally, we came to the salon, somber as mourner Jan Vach hovered over the coffin her young daughter.

Surrounded again by Bosen’s lilting voice, we chose our fates from a basket: Three of us barely survived the dreadful pestilence, one did not.

With everyone satisfyingly freaked out, I felt a little sorry for the tourists clopping around outside hearing made-up ghost stories. Though Marshall assured me that the Davenport House is “not haunted in the least,” it is definitely one spooky place.

Just goes to show that real history is creepier than fiction. And according to my personal Halloween police, every bit as cool as vampire zombie clowns with chainsaws.

However, Abraham still wants to remind you not to forget the hand sanitizer. cs

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history for his tour company Day Clean Journeys, explained that whites would not inter blacks nor count them in the death numbers.

Thus the historical record can only guess at how many African slaves died during the epidemic.

“It is a pandemonium of darkness,” he cried, gesturing to unseen bodies.

Next we found Shakespearespouting Lauren Purcell awaiting treatment, which was frighteningly primitive compared to modern medicine no matter how you feel about Obamacare. Back in the day a prescription might have included having your arms cut and bled, drinking cayenne pepper tea or a tying a pigeon to one’s arse. Liberty snorted with laughter at that last one, but Abe was too busy digging in my purse for the Purell.

Even if they’d had gobs of antibacterial goo back them, it wouldn’t have helped. Though yellow fever was blamed on dirty air, the Irish and/or inauspicious astrological alignments, the true cause of yellow fever wasn’t discovered until the 1890s, when Army doctor Walter Reed confirmed

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Running for Liam “Imagine giving birth to a child, only to see him whisked away to neonatal ICU for an unexpected mass found in his neck.

“Liam was born January 5, 2010. A few hours later we were told the mass was called cystic hygroma. A condition now called lymphatic malformation which affects 1 in 2,000 to 4,000 births.” (www.liamsland.org) This was my first introduction to Liam, his local family, and the organization “Liam’s Land for Lymphatic Malformation.” Staring at the computer, I could not help but think of my own four healthy children.

I thought of the children of friends who had passed far too soon from various ailments. And I thought of my own lost child.

I wept.

After my Cremator 50 mile race in July, I seriously decreased my training routine. Ramping up for a race like that had taken a lot of time. I was going to have to readjust my schedule a bit. There was nothing on my race calendar.

But how could you not run for Liam?

When I arrived at the race site in Whitemarsh Island Preserve, it was easy to see I wasn’t the only one that thought the same thing. While I’m of the opinion that ultra race start lines are some of the happiest places on earth, this one had something even more special.

“The running community in Savannah is, above all else, one of the most generous groups of people we’ve ever met,” remarks Tony Varney, a local Savannahian and IT Helpdesk Manager for BrasselerUSA. “Their generosity is shared not only through dollars but also their time and their willingness to donate supplies.”

I’d like to point out that Tony does this as well. Tony was the race coordinator for this widely successful event that raised $3,500 to support Liam’s Land. BrasslerUSA was the Gold Sponsor of the event.

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“Ultras often feel more like a family gathering than a competition.

This idea was reinforced by the positive energy from the racers, volunteers, and crew members who came together to make this event successful,” says Tony.

Joey Morcock (41.14 miles) and Lara Zoeller (39.27 miles) took the top male and female places for the 6 hour race. For the 12 hour solo run, Kyle Brandenberger (63.58 miles) and Karen Jackson (54.23 miles) earned the honors.

The Renegades (Michael Butler, Lee Ann Somers, Dawn Hannah, and Thomas Cook) went a total of 50.49 miles to best the 6 hour relay pack.

The 12 hour relay race was arguably the hardest fought race with only two teams competing. Watching Team Crazy Train and R.A.T.S. duke it out for 12 hours was worth the price of admission all by itself. At the end of the day, Team R.A.T.S. (Tony Murphy, James Sinclair, Allen Higginbotham, Drew Rabun) pulled it out with just over 100 miles logged — in 12 hours.

But some of the most impressive stuff was accomplished by folks who simply love Liam. People like one of his nurses, Missy Sailer.

“Saturday night I did not feel it

was a victory for me, as I hadn’t gotten close to my goal,” says Missy, “but Sunday brought a whole new perspective. I wanted to accomplish 31 miles so I could have a real 50K. I did 19 miles and had no stiffness, blisters, body discomfort at all! I remember when doing a 5K was a long run, and would present some discomfort. So all in all, 19 miles was huge for me.”

Being able to run those miles for Liam added sweetness to them as well Missy explains, “Liam is the love of my life. I’ve been with him since he came home from the hospital at 18 days old. We had no idea what his life would look like. There was not a lot of information about lymphatic malformation. But this boy was a fighter, just thrived, and never stopped amazing us!”

Liam was amazing that day and I can’t tell you how excited I was to meet that dude in person. Remember I said I had cut my training way back.

12 hours solo was going to be difficult. So in the beginning, my running buddies Tiana and Jason and I just decided we were going to have fun.

And Liam was happy to oblige.

Every fifth lap (9.37 miles) Tiana and I took a ride down the pirate bouncy house slide from Bounce Inflatables.

We cross the lap line and look at Liam. “Are you ready to go?” His face would light up and he’d run over to the slide and “teach” us how to do it right.

He is also getting the hang of this runner business. On one of my last laps when I was getting a bit tired, that smart kid had some gummy bears waiting for me. I was struck by the fact that while we are trying to be great for him, he is being great all the time.

“I think the event was such a huge success,” Missy says. “The day was magnificent, the venue was perfect, and the company was exquisite. In retrospect, it was the perfect thing to be doing on a fall day. I can’t wait till next year. I do see this as 1of the events people will wait all summer for.”

I agree. And I hope they bring back the bouncy house. cs

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The mother of all thrift sales Pop some tags with the Junior League this weekend

by Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

The 66th annual Junior League Thrift Sale promises to be a wonderland of good deals and epic scores, boasting aisles of gently-used clothes, lovely furniture, in-demand toys, barely-read books and adorable tsotchkes (defined by a certain grandmother as “stuff you have to dust.”)

But the annual event does more than delight those looking for a come-up.

“This is our biggest fundraiser of the year,” reminds Leslie Dunn, chair of this year’s sale. “And every penny goes back to our community projects.”

Past sales have grossed over $100,000, allowing the Junior League to extend a charitable (and well-manicured) hand to deserving Savannah women-and-children-focused organizations like the Ronald McDonald House and the Backpack Buddies program. The League also hosts teddy bear clinics and Christmas parties for patients at Memorial Children’s Hospital as well as “Done in a Day” workshops to help local citizens.

Established in 1901 as part of the

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social reform movement, the Junior League has 293 chapters in North America and galvanizes women to volunteer in their communities.

Eleanor Roosevelt and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor are counted amongst its many notable members.

Still, the League has suffered a reputation as a hobby for a hoity-toity housewives in pumps and pearls.

Kickin’ retro style aside, it’s a wholly unjustified stigma, say modern Leaguers.

“We’re not the stuffy, white-gloved ladies that were portrayed back in the day,” chastens Dunn. “We’re working women, mothers, teachers, doctors, lawyers — our president, Nelle Bordeaux, is a minister.

“We’re the ones you see every day, you just might not know we’re in the Junior League.”

Dunn herself works full-time as a juvenile intensive supervision probation officer and joined the Junior League five years ago.

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Far from some exclusionary country club, the Junior League is open to any woman 21 or older who can commit to a year-long provisional class that educates members on the various good works of the organization.

The Savannah chapter counts over 150 active members and 300-400 sustaining members; this year’s class is one of the largest in history with over 60 newbies.

Dunn and her committee of 25 have worked for months sourcing donations, and the rest of the League is logging shifts all week to tag and organize them before the doors open on Thursday evening.

That’s right: Any hardcore thrifter can wrangle early bird shopping privileges the night before the rest of the public. Tickets to the sale’s preview party are $35 and prices are doubled for this event — still an excellent deal for a first shot at the loot. Preview attendees can also bid on new items from various local businesses at the silent and live auctions.

The rest of the bargain hunters must wait until Friday at 10am, when tickets are $5. The Civic Center box office doesn’t open until 10, and Dunn recommends buying tickets online at etix.com to skip the morning lines. On Saturday, admission is $3 and prices drop 50 percent. What booty doesn’t sell by Saturday afternoon will be donated to Goodwill.

What can savvy shoppers expect?

Dunn reports that there’s a lot of Georgia Southern memorabilia, sporting equipment, TVs, pots, pans and stylish clothes. Extra eager? Follow the Junior League of Savannah on Facebook for photos of choice items.

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Left: Southern Pine Company owners Ramsey and Pam Khalidi Above: Reclaimed materials ready for milling in the wood shop Below: Located in the former Star Laundry, Southern Pine is part factory, part community gathering space.

Savannah’s sustainability headquarters

How Southern Pine Co. and its ‘entrepreneurial alliance’ are raising the roof on a green economy story by Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

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It’s early in the morning, but the mill saws are already buzzing inside Southern Pine Company’s sprawling compound on a sleepy stretch of East Broad Street.

The crisp smell of freshly-sheared wood permeates the air. Denim-clad laborers — some actually whistling as they work — carry molasses-hued planks through the cavernous, sunlit warehouse. The bustle is at once industrial and industrious, a Platonic ideal of productive enterprise.

“Watch your step!” calls out 19-year-old Justin Frazier as he guides a two-by-four along a maze of piled beams.

Some of the cut timber could end up as a fence or paneling for a kitchen remodel across town; other chunks may find their way across the room to Southern Pine Co.’s furniture building studio. One thing is for sure, however: Every piece of

wood stacked inside this building originally started out as something else.

“All of this is reclaimed from construction sites or it was abandoned. It’s perfectly good; why should it go in a landfill?” asks Ramsey Khalidi, Southern Pine’s bespectacled owner and energetic visionary.

He and his wife, Pam, rescued the building itself from demolition in the early 2000s, when it was still known by its original incarnation, Star Laundry.

The Khalidis’ commitment to the reincarnation of found materials is rigorous to the point of obsession: Shattered windows encased in protective coating become tabletops affixed to rust-worn machine parts.

Driveways are laid with the remains of a crumbling brick house. Even the discarded pointed ends of ancient pylons excavated from the Savannah River find new life as lamps and decorative fencing.

The term “sustainability” means the responsible management of resources in the interest of long-term survival, and while the term often elicits criticism for its liberal overuse, Ramsey illustrates its real-world application in terms of actual resources — both material and human.

“Sustainability and design are the underpinnings of an evolving planet,” he proclaims, demonstrating how massive windows have been turned into shoji-like sliding doors in his office.

“There are toxins in breast milk and PCBs in polar bears’ bloodstreams. How do we not understand that everything needs to be reclaimed and re-used?”

For those who would dismiss that as flower child rhetoric, take note that revenue from the green construction industry rose 18.3 percent in 2012 and is expected to increase to more than $245 billion by 2016, according to a recent report by market research firm IBISWorld.

The Khalidis didn’t know that back in 2008, when the real estate market tanked and their current holdings got shaky.

Though Ramsey had always had a passion for reclamation, sourcing valuable old wood became a way to make up some of the losses.

“We’ve always reused stuff, but we were just doing our thing,” remembers Pam. “We weren’t really trying to be inspirational.”

As environmental concerns and rising energy costs began driving a new design aesthetic, the Khalidis positioned their

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After participating in a partnership with Savannah High, former intern Justin Frazier now works full-time as a denailer in Southern Pine Co.’s wood shop.

courtyard (laid with bricks reclaimed from a demolished city building, naturally.)

The local food movement has also found a nest here: An 18-foot tall greenhouse is under construction in the back corner, the brainchild of Design for Sustainability MFA and former Southern Pine intern Meagan Hodge. The New Orleans native conceived the indoor garden as her final thesis while working with highfunctioning special needs students from Savannah High.

“These kids are allowed to train during school hours, and we brought them out to help clear the site. We grew microgreens in old bathtubs, but I saw how much students loved being exposed to the deconstruction industry,” Hodge recalls.

She came up with a conceptual design for a structural oasis of fresh produce for the neighborhood that also provides green job training. But the project found real footing when her professor and Emergent

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But repurposed wood is just one wedge in Southern Pine’s complete role in the local economic community, green or otherwise. In addition to providing paychecks to around 25 full-time employees, the Khalidis also run a franchise of the national staffing agency Labor Ready out of the building, which draws day laborers from the surrounding neighborhood.

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Left: No piece of machinery goes unused in this warehouse Above: PERC proprietor Philip Brown Below: A colored window pane and the original star of Star Laundry on display in the Southern Pine conference room

Structures founder Scott Boylston encouraged her to actually build it.

“The challenge of reclaimed materials is that you have to go backwards and actually find them first, then design around it,” says Hodge.

Fortunately, she had a warehouse of used wood nearby and quickly launched a non-profit, Design for Ability, to organize her student trainees. (Justin Frazier, the happy woodshop worker, has since been hired on permanently at Southern Pine as a denailer.)

As the greenhouse approaches completion, Hodge has partnered with carpenter and Oxform director Ben Mattern (formerly of Wooden Sheep, another Southern Pine alum) to help Design for Ability repurpose wood for picture frames and dining tables to raise funds. In another circular stroke of local sustainability, several of

those tables are being put to use in the eating area of the new Whole Foods. (There’s a chance to win one of these covetable 3’x6’ farm tables at a fundraiser featuring music by City Hotel, the Accomplices, Lovely Locks and KidSyc this Sunday, Oct. 6.)

Thus job training, social action, urban gardening and historic preservation swirl together in the former factory setting on East Broad and 34th streets. Hodge calls the combined powers the result of “Hurricane Ramsey.”

To the force that bringing it all together, it simply adds up to a sensible and innovative way to transform unused industrial sites.

“What I’m trying to do is form a model for urban development that combines job creation with community relationships and artistic support,” describes Ramsey.

charge of innovative ideas.

“If you had told me I would have seen this type of place — in this part of town!

— 20 years ago, I would have laughed you under the table,” says George, shaking his head. “Now I think there should be one in every city.”

Not surprisingly, Southern Pine Co. has become a beacon for other consciously-minded local ventures.

Print and design firm STEAM rents space here, and Gullah chef and cookbook author Sallie Ann Robinson is drawing up plans for a restaurant and cooking school, likely sourcing herbs and produce from the aforementioned greenhouse. Proprietors often strike up in-kind trades with each other, bartering for goods and services in a friendly economic loop.

Ramsey views these small business owners as partners who share the overall value of making the world a cleaner, better connected place.

“These businesses seem unrelated, but they’re all green in purpose and operation,” he surmises. “It’s an entrepreneurial alliance, if you will.”

The most recent cohort in this intriguing collective is PERC Coffee, a local roasting company that started as owner Philip Brown’s one-man show in 2010

and has grown to a staff of six to keep up with weighing, labeling and deliveries.

Emphasizing education and training on how to make the best cup of java, PERC serves 70-80 local restaurants and hotels and is the exclusive coffee provider for Foxy Loxy and its downtown sister shop, the Coffee Fox (both studded with reclaimed materials, go figure.)

PERC’s new 2,300 square-foot space opens into the brick courtyard and is stocked with reclaimed salvaged wood tables, custom-built bathrooms and a giant new roaster that will triple the company’s output to 2,000 pounds of coffee a week. It’s not a full-service café, though Brown is planning coffee tastings and classes and the occasional brewed cup for fellow Southern Pine dwellers.

Previously working out of a 450 square-foot shop in the Starland District, Brown inquired about the corner building at the end of the Southern Pine property several times before Ramsey would negotiate.

“I think he really wanted to make sure it was a good fit,” laughs Brown.

Brown translates his commitment to sustainability to conscious waste management and the personal relationships he has cultivated with the coffee farmers in Nicaragua, Ethiopia and Brazil.

“When you put a face on the people who make your product, you can see its value,” he says, drawing comparisons between fairly-traded coffee beans and the craftsmanship of the materials salvaged by the Khalidis.

Will the aroma of roasted coffee blended pleasantly with the scent of cut pine replace the “smell of money” from Savannah’s established (and polluting) industries?

That depends on whether there is an official push to mandate reclamation in construction. When developers are forced to reuse perfectly good materials, that’s when Ramsey says we will “reverse the process of stealing from the planet.”

For now, Southern Pine Co. serves as a nexus for an environmentally conscious economic model that’s creating real jobs and an engaged community.

Though Ramsey confesses, “I never could have designed this on purpose. It grew from the mother of invention.” cs Design for Ability Greenhouse Opening When: Sunday, Oct. 6, 3-8 p.m.

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That may have sounded like a preposterous notion a generation ago, but creative economic collaborations are gaining traction in cities like Detroit and Cleveland. Growing green jobs from within urban centers was a hot topic at last week’s Georgia Green Economy Summit, and as far as Summit founder Albert George is concerned, a national priority.

“How do we deal with urban blight and systemic unemployment? We engage people in the surrounding community,” says George, who advocated for hightech solutions to local energy and water supply challenges at this year’s summit, hosted at Savannah State University and themed “What Will it Take to Make the Coastal Empire the Silicone Marsh?”

George, a Savannah native and Yaleeducated marine biologist, is a great admirer of the Khalidis. He invited Ramsey to speak at the summit along with SCAD professor of Design for Sustainability Boylston, Laura Lee Bocade of Savannah-based modular interior manufacturers DIRTT Environmental Solutions and ecology advocate and media scion Laura Turner Seydel. The opening reception, held in the Southern Pine courtyard, hummed with the electrical

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

When school buses attack A school bus driver was charged with several offenses after twice striking a parked car and leaving the scene without reporting the collision Sept. 5.

Valeri Williams, 50, was charged by Traffic Unit officers from the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department who investigated the collisions.

She was driving a 2001 school bus belonging to First Student and transporting students about 8:30 a.m. that day when she entered the Fenwick Village apartment complex in West Chatham County and struck a parked car. She struck the car a second time as she attempted to back up and finally drove across a grassy area to leave the scene.

She has been charged with hit and run and leaving the scene of an

accident, failure to maintain her lane and reckless driving.

• A prolonged investigation sparked by shootings and two homicides in the Live Oak area of east Savannah culminated with a police sweep and the arrest of six people.

The investigation was initiated after residents in the area reported that shootings — some leading to deaths — were related to drug activity in the area.

Detectives from Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department’s Central Precinct led the warrant sweep on three houses on the 1100 and 1200 blocks of East 38th Street.

They were joined by crime suppression unit officers from Central, Islands and West Chatham precincts, Probation and Parole and the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams.

Besides the arrests, they also seized from the three locations various amounts of powdered cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana and MDMA, aka “Molly.”

The investigation (marijuana), two stemmed from several counts sale of conshootings in the area, trolled substance including one at East (cocaine), and pos39th and Cedar streets on session of crack July 30 in which Syheem cocaine with the Spaulding, 15, and Domiintent to distribute. nique Bright, 18, were Dominique Antkilled and Sha’nai Harris, wan Giles, 26, conMarlon Harris, multple 15, was injured. David charges spiracy to violate Randy Daniels Jr., 21, is the Georgia Conbeing sought for those trolled Substance Act and possession shooting after murder warrants were of cocaine with intent to distribute. taken by SCMPD Violent Crimes Latoya Renee Young-Evans, 24, detectives. three counts possession of controlled Charged were: substance (cocaine and Molly,) posMarlon Harris, 22, sale of consession of marijuana, and possession trolled substance (crack cocaine), two of a controlled substance with the counts sale of controlled substance intent to distribute (crack cocaine.) (marijuana), conspiracy to violate Malcolm Everett Orr, 22, possesthe Georgia Controlled Substance sion of marijuana.

Act, possession of marijuana with James Montrell Wong Jr., 23, probathe intent to distribute, possession of tion violation. cocaine with the intent to distribute, possession of tools for the commission of a crime and obstruction by fleeing.

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Oh, there’s been plenty. Longtime readers will recall the studies years ago by the Transcendental Meditation people, which among other things purported to show that a critical mass of meditation had reduced the violence in Lebanon. I have a special mantra I use when I come across claims like that: riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

There’s no wide agreement on what meditation is. Meditation as practiced by Christian monks, to cite the most obvious division, bears minimal resemblance to what their Buddhist brethren do. Even within the Eastern tradition, which is where one tends to see the extinction-of-individual-consciousness thing you’re talking about, we find a variety of techniques.

Some would argue these boil down to a basic two: concentrative meditation, also known as focused attention, where one concentrates on an object (a mantra, one’s own breathing); and “mindfulness,” where “the mind passively observes the spontaneous experience,” as one writer puts it. How does one accomplish the latter? At the risk of being thought cretinous, I’d say it sounds the same as concentrative meditation, except you don’t say “om.”

As for what Zen is “little more than” — that’s a typically reductive Western way of looking at things,

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I’m curious if science has made any inquiries into enlightenment via meditation, including Zen Buddhism and similar methods. If you strip out all of the mythological and moral aspects of it, Zen is little more than a way of training yourself to not think—to stop the internal verbal monologue. As I understand it, enlightenment means you have completely and permanently rid yourself of this monologue, bringing about major changes. Since thinking is a biological/electrical process, isn’t this sort of thing measurable? Has there been any scientific investigation of this?

—Adam Price

grasshopper. Nonetheless, we do have a host of meditation practitioners making testable claims—for example, the TM crowd declares their technique improves cognitive function and increases intelligence. It’s to such folk we now turn.

• Two studies of more than 100 meditation novices who were taught mindfulness meditation for 30 minutes a day found noticeable changes in brain connectivity and white matter function in just two weeks, and significant improvements after four weeks.

• A study of Zen meditation practitioners with an average of 23 years of experience found their brain connectivity was significantly greater than that of controls.

So, does meditation produce measurable physiological effects? I concede it’s possible, although I don’t see anything suggesting meditators have somehow ”permanently rid themselves of the monologue,” as you put it. But let’s take up a more important question: does meditation do you any actual good?

You can find mounds of research asserting that it does. A few items plucked from the stack: • Women who’d practiced TM for an average of 23 years were found to be a much lower risk for heart problems than controls.

• A study of stress-reduction techniques for black men and women, a population disproportionately prone to cardiovascular disease, found that after eight years of TM training practitioners were only two-thirds as likely as a control group to have died or suffered a nonfatal heart attack or stroke.

I admire determination. However, an element of wishful thinking is surely involved here. Investigators funded by the NIH’s alternative-medicine group who analyzed 813 studies of five different meditation techniques offered this summary: “Scientific research on meditation practices does not appear to have a common theoretical perspective and is characterized by poor methodological quality.

Firm conclusions on the effects of meditation practices in healthcare cannot be drawn based on the available evidence.”

Translation: the research sucks and doesn’t prove squat. CS

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American Exceptionalism: Which is more characteristically American - that a Texas company could invent an ordinary rifle that mimics a machine gun or that America’s incomparable legal minds could find a loophole in existing anti-machine-gun laws to permit it to be manufactured and sold? The Slide Fire company’s weapon can spray bullets “like a fire hose” from a legal, semiautomatic gun by simple application of muscle, yet an official opinion of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives acknowledges that the agency is powerless to regulate it because of the wording in 1934 and 1986 legislation that otherwise restricts private ownership of machine guns. One gun shop owner told London’s Daily Mail in September that the Slide Fire rifle is “not as easy” to use as a machine gun, but still, “(I)t’s fairly idiot-proof.”

Fine Points of the Law

(1) In July, a New York City judge tossed out Joseph Lozito’s lawsuit against the police - even though two officers had stood by in February 2011, out of harm’s way, while a man attacked Lozito as part of a four-murder crime spree. The judge ruled that it was not clear enough that Lozito was in danger when the officers began to ignore him (while they were inside a subway motorman’s booth). (2) In September, a federal jury in New York City upheld an employment agency worker’s

claim that she (an African-American) was racially harassed by her boss. The supervisor, Rob Carmona, had insisted that he could not be liable for racebased harassment because, he, too, is African-American and thus entitled to use the “n-word.”

a feature for iPads that prevents student inattentiveness during an online course. Facial recognition software notices a user looking away (or, worse, falling asleep) and thus pauses the course at that point until the eager learner re-engages the screen. (Mindflash assured reporters that the program has more serious uses, such as The Continuing treatment of autism and Crisis Alzheimer’s disease.)

• Busy Being Superhe• For people who roes: In separate incidents believe that “rave” paron successive Septemties’ music is too faint, ber days, people dressed prepare an August event at Engfor the as Batman and Captain land’s Liverpool Intergovernment America rescued a cat national Music Festival shutdown from a burning house offered a solution: The in Milton, W.Va., and DaDaFest program feaSuperman came to the tured an ear-crushing aid of Wonder Woman in sound level especially Hollywood, Calif. (The staged for deaf people’s West Virginia pair were dancing - since they performing at a function can “hear” only by when they noticed nearby the vibrations saturatsmoke, and Superman and ing their bodies; the Wonder Woman were posnon-deaf should bring ing for tourists’ tips when earplugs. Among the a passerby got belligerent.) performers: deaf DJ In July, another Superman tackled a Troi “Chinaman” Lee, who claims he shoplifter on the streets of Sheffield, easily feels distinctions in his mix of hip England, where he was appearing at hop, R&B, reggae, dance and electro a fundraiser. (However, less elegantly, swing. two Captain Americas and a Spider• In an epic failure, according to Man brawled briefly in May over access Madrid’s El Pais newspaper, a 20-story to a contested, lucrative Hollywood condominium building (“InTempo,” street corner.) likely the tallest residential edifice in • Our Freedom to Doze Off, Now the European Union) in the resort in Danger: The training technology town of Benidorm, Spain, was hastcompany Mindflash recently revealed ily upsized to a planned 47 stories, but

a series of architectural mistakes and developer bankruptcies has left it limping, still 65 percent unsold. Most notably, El Pais discovered in 2012 that the then-current design made it impossible to build an elevator shaft to go past the 23rd floor because of space limitation.

(The architects resigned, and unconfident developers were forced to turn to financing from one of the shakier banks in the country’s feeble economy.)

Oh, Dear!

• In a YouTube video, reported by the political website RawStory.com in August, well-known tea party activist Jerome Corsi elaborates on the biblical importance of child-bearing and implores followers to “(hold) the line” on the principle that “(s)ex is about the procreation of children.” “(S)ex is not about fun,” he says. “If you want to have fun, read a book, go to a movie.”

• Evidently, Surgery Is Kinda Boring: A 36-year-old patient is suing California’s Torrance Memorial Medical Center, claiming that anesthesiologist Patrick Yang decorated her face with stickers while she was unconscious and that an aide took photos for laughs, later allegedly uploading them to Facebook. Dr. Yang and the aide were later disciplined but remained in good standing. Some hospitals (not Torrance Memorial yet) prohibit cellphones in operating rooms at all times.

• According to his road manager, pioneer 1970s musician Sly Stone (of Sly and the Family Stone) has a lot of “real interesting ideas,” including once trying to hire “ninja chicks and clowns” for his security entourage.

Stone’s latest brainstorm, reported London’s The Guardian in August: form a musical group of albinos, which Stone says “could neutralize all the racial problems” that plague society. “To me,” he said, “albinos are the most legitimate minority group of all.”

• In the concluding race in September of the Rally de Misiones in Campo Viera, Argentina, it was important for drivers to complete the laps even if they had no chance of winning, but near the end, driver Sebastian Llamosas experienced a throttle malfunction and began coasting, still about a half-mile from the finish line. However, in a move reminiscent of actor Slim Pickens jumping on the atomic bomb in Dr. Strangelove, Llamosas’s partner Mauricio Sainz jumped onto the open engine and accelerated the car by hand while Llamosas steered the final distance.

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• (1) Klaus Eder, a 25-year veteran team trainer for Germany, working its World Cup soccer qualifier match with Austria on Sept. 8, had a rough time despite the players’ 3-0 win. Rushing onto the pitch during the game to treat player Marcel Schmelzer, Eder first tore a muscle in his left leg and then, as he fell to the ground, broke a finger. (Schmelzer’s injury was comparatively minor.) (2) Dallas police officer Antonio Quintanilla was the victim in an August incident, but handled it by the book even though what the perp had done was urinate off a balcony at 3 a.m., onto Quintanilla’s head. (Because the bladder-reliever did not know that Quintanilla was a cop, he was given a nonarrest citation.) Quintanilla also calmly helped a colleague investigate the crime scene - locating the “wet and humid areas where the urine had fallen,” according to the police report.

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It’s partially a fundraiser for AMBUCS of Savannah, a non-profit service organization dedicated to creating mobility and independence for people with disabilities.

Taking place Oct. 4 and 5 on two stages at the Boiler Room, “Ear Candy” features performances from a cross-section of winners and nominated bands from the Atlanta-based Georgia Music Awards.

It’s quite a lineup: Friday’s hip hop/ R&B schedule includes Sevon, Toon & The Real Laww, D’Ambra Renee, BB London, Metropolis, Tia Michelle, Final Draft, Doski Wo, Janis Mara, Chi Chi Diva.

Saturday includes rock/pop and country/Americana and bluegrass bands: Nalee, Byron Hatcher, James Ethan Clark & The Renegades, Liquid Ginger, A Nickel Bag of Funk, Unbreakable Bloodline, Kelly Ballard, Kris Youmans, Swamp Da Amp. (The Savannah-based Nickel Bag, I’ve been hearing, is getting ready to put out its long-gestating first CD. Admission: $15 for one night, or $20 for both. Showtimes are 8 p.m. both days

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The Chuck Courtenay Band, Lyn Avenue and the Pace Brothers will play at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5 at Oglethorpe Speedway Park, 200 Jesup Road in Pooler. Tickets for the show, benefitting the Wounded Warrior Project, are $15 through etix.com.

VIP tickets (meet Mr. Courtenay and get a copy of his latest CD, Good Side of This Bar) are $50.

Liquid Ginger is a past winner in the Atlanta-based Georgia Music Awards.

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Passafire again

@ Reason for celebrating: Savannah’s reggae/rocking Passafire has a band new one coming Nov. 11. The Vines download is available via preorder on iTunes; order a physical copy at easystarrecords.com.

Wait, there’s more: Passafire plays the Jinx — for the first time ever!

— Oct. 11, with Bear Fight! and Ballyhoo.

Half notes

• One of our favorite touring guitarist/songwriters, Eric Sommer, is back on Friday, Oct. 4 for a show at Abe’s on Lincoln.

And the super-funky horn ‘n’ show band Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love throws one of its infrequent soul dance parties Saturday (Oct. 5) at the Alee Shriners’ Temple. This is always

a fun show.

Other noteworthy shows this week: Blackrune opens for the wintry Brooklyn duo Graph Rabbit Oct. 4 at the Sparetime; Tybee folkie Thomas Oliver headlines the October Savannah Folk Music Society First Friday show (Oct. 4 at First Presbyterian Church); the Rosies (you really need to check them out) provides the Foxy Loxy music during the Oct. 4 First Friday Art March (Joe Nelson plays the FL courtyard Tuesday, Oct. 8).

You’ll read more about it in Jessica Leigh Lebos’ story elsewhere in this issue, but it bears repeating that City Hotel, the Accomplices, KidSyc and the Lovely Locks are all performing Sunday (Oct. 6) at Southern Pine Co.’s greenhouse grand opening. Tickets for the 3-8 p.m. event ($20 advance) are at designforability.org; they’ll be $25 at the door.

• Next week: Celebrating our bud Jason Statts. CS

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With The River, his seventh album, Jacksonville, Florida native JJ Grey delivers definitive proof that he is the unchallenged master of swampy, soulful southern rock.

Now you know what jam-band festival followers have known for a dozen years — that Grey and his smokehouse band Mofro deliver the goods, sizzling and funkinfused, each and every time.

On one hand, JJ is a white Wilson Pickett. On the other, he’s like the bastard love child of Delbert McClinton and Tony Joe White — an explosive combination of energy, sweat, deeply felt soul and a talent for expressive (and very Southern) storytelling in the context of a catchy four-minute song.

And the band — well, it’s a Muscle Shoals-type R&B powerhouse with a twin horn section that carries Grey’s gritty vocals higher and higher (baby). Mofro got the mojo.

JJ Grey and Mofro return to Savannah for a Lucas Theatre show Thursday, Oct. 10. We spoke with JJ this week …. And here’s (part of) what he had to say. The man can spin a yarn.

Peer pressure

“When you’re young, you want to try to be somebody other than the people you grew up around. In other words, when I was in school everybody wanted to be Elvis Costello or something. They didn’t want to have

nothing to do with say, something like Lynyrd Skynyrd. Even though deep down everybody was still listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd. If they heard it, they’d be humming along and then they’d catch themselves — ‘wait a minute, I’m not supposed to be listening to this!’ Whereas Elvis Costello, wherever he’s from, and his generation would probably die to be the Allman Brothers.

“If you got straight hair, you want it curly; if you got curly hair, you want it straight.

“I honestly made no effort to be like the music that I’m doing. I made no effort to try to have a certain sound or anything, really. It just kind of all happened. We’re all a collection of our influences — eventually, I feel, you get to be who you are, whenever you quit thinking about it.”

“My sister and I grew up where you weren’t supposed to listen to any of that kind of music. Rock music and all that stuff was bad, it was sinful, it was different things. But my sister had a lot of 45s, and a lot of that music was like KC & the Sunshine Band, a lot of horn stuff, man. I loved all that stuff. And the Bee Gees had some nasty arrangements, great songs … now, I’m learning to appreciate that falsetto kind of voice they sang with.

I wasn’t crazy about it back then, but now I’ve learned to love that, too. I feel like that was influencing me early on.”

Hot stuff

“My dad loved the Grand Ole Opry.

He had a Grand Ole Opry box set of 8-tracks. I can’t remember how many of them was on there. The tracks that I kept coming back to, over and over again, was Jim Reeves and Hawkshaw Hawkins. But I really loved Jerry Reed; he was my favorite.

“When I listened to his tracks, ‘Amos Moses’ and ‘When You’re Hot,

You’re Hot,’ stuff like that … he had stuff with horns in it! I didn’t never really think of it as straight-ahead country music at all. I thought it was country/funk, country swamp soul funk blues. If I wanted to be like anybody, I always wanted to be Jerry Reed. Of course, I haven’t come close.

And certainly haven’t come close in the guitar-playing world, because that guy was probably one of the nastiest guitar players around.

“I wanted to land somewhere between him and Jerry Clower.

Because he was a storyteller; if you put on Jerry Clower Live in Picayune, Mississippi, I could probably still recite it.”

Skynyrd

“My sister got me Skynyrd’s Gold & Platinum for Christmas one year, that double album with the light blue cover, and my parents let me keep it.

My dad, for whatever reason, loved Creedence Clearwater Revival. I don’t know, maybe they didn’t have too long a hair. I can’t remember.

“When I was about 14, I played him the Skynyrd song ‘I Know a

Little.’ And he was like ‘Well, that’s just jookin’ music.’ And I was like ‘OK, that’s good enough for me! I love it.’

Horn charts

“I didn’t put horns on the first two records, on Blackwater or Lochloosa.

Because Dan, the producer, said ‘Don’t write a check in the studio you can’t go cash live; you can’t afford to take horns out.’ I had horn parts written out for all those tunes, and I just had to drop ‘em.

“Anyway, in a review of the Country Ghetto album, the guy was saying I had left my Tony Joe White roots, because I added horns and stuff like that. ‘Gone is the Tony Joe White flavor.’ And I’m like dude, Tony Joe White’s got horns all over his records.

I don’t know what record you were listening to, but all those tracks, they have horns and strings … Skynyrd used horns on ‘Call Me the Breeze’ and ‘T For Texas.’ And those mellotron strings on ‘Tuesday’s Gone.’

Recording The River live

“I wanted the horns with us in the

room. I didn’t want to add horns as an afterthought — not that they were an afterthought on the other records.

The thing is, you’d go in and record as a four-piece rock band — me, bass and drums, then I’d get the guitar and keys, and then I’d add horns. And hell, by the time you do that, there’s not a lot of room left.

“So this time, I said I want to think in terms of these tracks as drums and bass and vocals, and then horns.

Because the guitar players — me and Trube — we can find a little spot.

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Niche debut their second album Friday, Oct. 4 at the Jinx, with Sauna Heat and Omingnome on the bill.

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A show I’d pay to see: Burning Mansions and Niche on the same bill together. Well, one of these days.

The Effingham-based Burning Mansions, as I’ve described here before, is a smoking-hot rock ‘n’ roll trio centered around the singing and riffing of Jonathan Murphy, an electric guitarist who has some sort of genetic cerebral link to the great axe-men like Hendrix, Kossoff and Trower.

Niche, born and raised in the heart of Savannah, has evolved tremendously from its 2009 beginnings as a Southern-rock boogie machine.

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Not metal or R&B or string-band acoustic.

Niche is raw and riff-based, with swirls of psychedelia, swamp blues and even prog. Like Burning Mansions, there’s a definite and very welcome ‘70s feel. Justin Dick (guitar), Michael Redmond (bass), Corey Barhorst (organ and keyboards) and Lee Vallier (drums) don’t fight each other but work together as a cohesive melodic unit.

And — this is important — the songwriting on The Other Side of the End is uniformly strong. Bad songs can ruin an otherwise great band.

Niche celebrates the release with a show Friday, Oct. 4 at the Jinx.

Sauna Heat and Omingnome will open.

Justin and Redmond, fixture for years on the Savannah music scene (Whiskey Dick, Two Days of Freedom, The Bricks), recruited Barhorst as the already-in-place first album (So Be It) was being recorded.

Vallier (from the naturally heavy band Bear Fight!) came along as the new album was being written.

Barhorst, who also plays (along with Vallier) in Tonto, says Niche’s move from tough twangbot to sizzling riff machine was “a natural evolution, with the four of us. Heavy ‘70s rock is definitely a favorite of mine. I think bringing in that organ-driven sound helped Justin’s songwriting to go that way. I think he wanted to go that way. And also,

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we’re four guys Lee is a more from Georgia”). aggressive drumNow that the mer than what the record’s out, Niche other drummer will be hitting the was.” road — hard — in With songs support. like “Chasing In Savannah, After Daylight” Niche and the Jinx and “Dogs of are almost synthe Plague,” The onymous. WhenOther Side of the ever they play, they End adds thrillseem to play there. ing time-signature Bassist Redchanges and mond is the club’s phase-shifting soundguy. “But instrumental turns The Other Side of The End that’s not really to what are, at their the reason why,” core, catchy (and Barhorst explains. cool) rock ‘n’ roll tunes.

“Since that place has opened, it’s “I think it would be pretty lame to been a mainstay for all of us, from pigeonhole ourselves with a certain Justin and Mike’s old band to the ‘sound,’” Barhorst laughs. “Rock ‘n’ old bands that I played with. It roll is definitely a good term to use, was always our second home. And but it’s also kind of a misleading it’s pretty much the only place term. Because there’s so many styles most of us usually go and hang that could be associated with that.” out, anyway. It’s like your livHe admits that the Southern-rock ing room, you know? And that’s vein still runs through their lives where you go.” CS shows, on occasion (“I mean, well,

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Both Cooper Nolan and Lori Guilbeau have performed previously in Savannah. They’re opera singers with strong national reputations, and the Savannah-based V.O.I.C.E. Experience has had them on local stages more than once.

Acclaimed tenor Nolan has sung with the Savannah Philharmonic, too, in La Boheme and Carmina Burana, and Metropolitan Opera soprano Guilbeau has been a shining star at nearly all the V.O.I.C.E.-sponsored opera showcases.

But the 2013 Picnic in the Park, taking place Sunday (Oct. 6) in Forsyth Park, will be a special occasion for both Nolan and Guilbeau, who happen to be longtime sweethearts.

“We rarely get to work together, so we’re very excited,” raves Nolan. “She’s doing this big recital next year in New York, and of course I have a month off before, and two weeks after. Then she’s giving the recital on the day I’m giving a performance in St. Louis.

We’d love to go see each other sing, but when it rains, it pours — it always turns out that way.

“So this is fantastic. It’s always a pleasure to be able to sing with Lori.

It’s fun to be able to do what we love to do together, instead of across the country.”

For those of you new to our fair city, Picnic in the Park is one of those local traditions that goes back a ways — it originated in the 1980s — and seems to be little more than an excuse to get folks out onto the grass for a late-afternoon of family fun and fellowship.

Add “food” to the alliterative equation — and hey now, nothing could be finer.

Something like 20,000 people will attend the event, some to simply enjoy the ambiance and the Savannah

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Philharmonic’s free program of symphonic works, from Bernstein to Strauss, some opera favorites and more.

Others will be there to compete for prizes in the annual pic-a-nic contest; this year’s theme is Celebrate the Arts.

Participants are encouraged to design a creative picnic spread inspired by any form of the arts.

These can get pretty creative, and colorful, and wacky. It’s all part of the fun and the flavor.

(The City of Savannah also offers up these helpful hints for aspiring picnic designers: “ideas to spur your design ideas and perhaps your attire: Recreate a particular well known artwork [a tableau vivant] or design an artistically inspired picnic spread representing the art of painting, graphic arts, sculpture, fiber arts, an eclectic mix, or even a replica of a well-known monument, museum or inspired architecture. Contestants can also create a picnic motivated by performing arts, film and literature such as a

favorite dance piece, a design based on a drama or musical production, a particular piece of music, or a particular musician or composer; create a still scene of a movie, perhaps one filmed in Savannah; a picnic based on a poem or a book depicting characters or scenes from that book. There are no limits to your creativity”).

Picnic registration is free and begins at 4 p.m.; the judging is at 5.

In the second half of the evening’s musical program, Nolan will sing something he’s becoming famous for: The tender “Bring Him Home,” from Les Miserables. It’s a bittersweet ballad that includes high notes to test the mettle of any good tenor.

Ironically, Nolan didn’t know he was capable of such vocal feats until he was singled out by his instructors at the University of Florida.

“I was always a choir guy, a classic musician in the choir vein,” he reports. “My undergrad degree is actually in music education and choral conducting.

“That’s the exact opposite of singing. It’s to make a whole group sound like as few voices as possible. You want to blend in. And of course operatic singing, especially when you have a chorus behind you, is to make you sound as distinct as possible.

“And to be able to cut through all the noise that’s happening behind you, with a full orchestra and chorus.

It’s the exact opposite concept.”

But his choral professor heard something special in Nolan’s voice, and encouraged him to audition for the opera program.

“As I was studying,” Nolan says, “I was starting to sing in a way that I thought, ‘I might be able to do this for a living.’

“And so I gave it a shot in my junior year. And it started to work out.” cs Picnic in the Park Where: Forsyth Park When: Sunday, Oct. 6. Picnic judging at 5 p.m. Savannah Philharmonic program at 7:15 p.m.

Admission: Free

Spirit-seeking (clockwise from left): Jody Buelterman, Howard Bowden, Kim Trammell and Renee DeRossett.

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Framed photos slide mysteriously up and down the walls, clock hands spin wildly, furniture bobs and bounces — all of it untouched by human hands.

That’s because Noel Coward’s classic comedy is about a ghost — her name is Elvira — who comes back to cause trouble for her husband, who has remarried.

Typically British, Blithe Spirit, a community theater evergreen since the 1950s, is dry, witty and extremely verbose.

“It’s actually one of the most difficult pieces to do,” says DeRossett, who’s co-directing with Trammell.

“It’s like doing Shakespeare. Noel Coward takes 20 words to say what he could in five. The actors have to take each sentence and make it their own, for it to not just drill the audience to death with overkill.”

These two have been the backbone of Tybee’s small performing arts community for years. In fact, they’ve worked together so much, they can (and do) finish each other’s sentences.

“It (the script) is very rhythmic,” Trammell interjects, “and that’s what we’ve worked very hard on. Because once you find that rhythm, then it’s not just reciting words.”

DeRossett illustrates with a few of Coward’s lines of poetic dialogue for Madame Acarti, the medium who inadvertently brings Elvira back from that other place: Some of your remarks have been

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discourteous in the extreme, and I should like to say, without umbrage, that if you and your husband were foolish enough to tamper with the unseen for paltry motives, or in a spirit of debauchery …

Trammell: “That makes it lyrical, instead of reciting word after word after word. And that was one of the first hurdles that I think our two leads

had to get over.”

DeRossett: “To make it their own.”

The central character in Blithe Spirit, writer Charles Condomine, is played by Howard Bowden. Jody Buelterman has the part of Ruth Condomine, Charles’ (living) spouse.

Trammell is cast as the ghostly (and annoying) Elvira, while DeRossett is seance-starter Madame Acarti.

They also played more or less to type in the 2011 production of The Wizard of Oz — the acerbic Trammell wore the green makeup as the Wicked Witch of the West, while the affable DeRossett assayed the Cowardly Lion.

Both admit that Blithe Spirit is a bold step for theater on Tybee. “This is a great show,” says Trammell.

“Most of our shows are lighthearted, fun, comedy.

And they love that.

“It’s a much more intellectual comedy, but I do not underestimate the audience here. I think they’re ready. I think they’re prepared.”

DeRossett, the theater chair for the Tybee Arts Association, reports that the City of Tybee kicked in $20,000 last year to replace the electrical system in the Black Box building (it was in such bad shape that The Wizard of Oz had to be staged in the YMCA).

Between that and a newlyacquired light board, the Black Box is comfy, cozy and ready for a crowd.

Like everything the multi-disciplined TAA does, Blithe Spirit and the other plays are designed to be, well, Tybee-centric. It’s a tiny venue. Trammell and DeRossett know their target audience.

“Why shouldn’t we do it for them?”

Trammell asks. “For our island. For our community. They enjoy these shows that we do — we’re asked constantly ‘When’s the next show?’

“There’s so much more that we can do here, and they are really receptive. And we are so very grateful for that. Because that makes us excited, to want to step out of the little fluff-piece box and do something like this. Never underestimate your audience, ever.

And I think they’re going to love it.” CS Blithe Spirit Where: Tybee Arts Association Black Box, 7 Cedarwood Drive When: October 4-7 and 18-21. Evening shows at 7:30 p.m. (Mondays too), Sundays are 3:30 matinees Tickets: $18 public, $15 TAA members Reservations: (912) 786-5920

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Rene DeRossett and Kim Trammell are spending yet another weekday afternoon inside the Tybee Arts Association’s Jim Ingham Black Box Theater, working on the special effects for Blithe Spirit, the show they’ve been preparing for months.

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You probably wouldn’t notice the place if you passed it a hundred times, maybe on your way to Lake Mayer for a picnic, or coming back from a shopping trip at The Pig in Sandfly — unless you have an eye for Spanish and a taste for delectable baked goods.

My Spanish may be rickety but I do have a nose for sniffing out fresh baked goods, an eye for hidden (or half-noticed) little goodie-spots.

When La Canasta arrived almost four years ago, I gave it a glance and said to myself I’ll stop sometime when my schedule wasn’t so full. But even I let six months pass me airily by before I came upon them one morning, faint with hunger for something Latin-inspired.

It was the name that intrigued me: La Canasta is Spanish for ‘basket’ and a ‘panaderia’ is ‘bakery’ and the two sent dreams of wide woven baskets of warm bread and rolls dancing through my head. I opened the door to get the scent of fresh, yeasty, sweet baked goods blowing gently over me, and before I took two steps inside, well, I was sold.

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Oh, and don’t miss the Chamuco, a big, thick, golden-orange butter cookie, fragrant with vanilla, looking like someone had pressed a baseball in the middle — it’s a signature sweet of Julio’s home state, Guerrero.

In case you’re not in the mood for sweets, look by the counter for the little menu board that holds their selection of savory treats. Keep in mind these are cooked by Mexican people for Mexican tastes — no Americanizing influences invade this kitchen.

Tacos (soft corn tortillas), huaraches (oblong, fried masa-corn base topped with meat, queso and salsa), sopes (thick, golden, fried cornbread fritter topped with beans, meats, avocado and such), tortas (sandwiches of crusty bread stuffed with ham, eggs, cheese and pico-de-gallo), taquitos (corn tortillas rolled tight around meat/cheese/bean filling and deepfried) and empanadas (delicious white corn pastry with shredded chicken or beef filling).

The owner’s 9-year old son, Julio Jr. sat and talked with me while I had lunch and told me about the weekend specials: Pozole, a rich stew made with hominy and pork; they also make a fine Menudo, a tasty soup of tripe, tomatoes, onion, fresh cilantro in a light broth; mouth-wateringly delicious whole, fried Mojarra (a Caribbean fish), moist and tender tamales (steamed corn pastries stuffed

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with beef, chicken, or pork with a spicy sauce) as well as Carne Asada and Bistec Mexicana.

Specials change by the weekend so make sure and ask Rosa or Lucie each Friday, “¿Cuáles son los fines de semana especiales?”— I have ‘em write it down, then go look it up on the Internet or inquire of a Latino friend, then make damn sure I’m there when it’s getting’ served up fresh and hot.

All the food can be taken to-go if you’re in a hurry. For those who like a little leisure with their meal, there’s a small dining area with warm, orange walls, fun and funky Mexican party

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his own. He’s a sweet, humble sorta guy, but happy to be of service when you need a rich Tres Leche cake for a celebration, or serve you a piping hot bowl of menudo on a cold autumn afternoon. His English is perty decent (better than my Spanish!) so ask questions if you want to know more about a dish.

Don’t worry if you’ve left all memory of that eighth grade Spanish class behind you with the pom-poms and football helmet. Rosa and Lucie will get your meaning, and are sweet-tempered, patient ladies who will do their best to make you comfortable.

Whether it’s a hunka-hunka lovin’ cheesecake you want, or a box of authentic tamales to take home for a family lunch or dinner, you really should, finally, seriously, put on those brakes, pull into the little parking lot, and find out just what you’ve been missing. cs

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An evening with brews, bites & nature Skidaway Island State Park fundraiser pairs local food and beer with a beautiful setting THIS FALL, Skidaway Island State Park is offering the community a chance to experience the perfect trifecta: local craft beer, a menu of appetizers curated to pair deliciously with that beer, and all served in a gorgeous outdoor setting.

Many people may already be familiar with some of the more familycentric events typically hosted by Skidaway Island State park, geared to get children and their parents excited about conservation and preservation.

But this year, the park’s Marketing Director Laura Seifer was looking to create a different dynamic for their fall event series.

With her “Brews & Bites” concept, she wanted to create the atmosphere of a cool, neighborhood picnic where adults could gather to celebrate local food and drink with a bit of environmental education thrown in for good measure.

The fundraiser’s format was crystallized into a three-night series, each night featuring beer from one of Savannah’s breweries and food prepared by a chef that creates innovative dishes with locally harvested ingredients.

Coastal Empire Beer Co. cofounder Chris Haborak was quick to say yes when asked to participate in the first night, which will be held on October 10 and features food pairings from Thrive Cafe.

“My son is in Boy Scouts and we’ve gone there many times and seen the beauty of the park. It’s truly unique,” Haborak remarked. “Lowcountry living — that’s what we love. What Georgia has done to preserve the coastal area is remarkable.”

Coastal Empire has three beers in its line, all with a local focus: Savannah Brown Ale, Tybee Island Blonde and their latest release, Coastal Empire Pale Ale. Savannah Brown Ale exudes a

roasted nut flavor, complemented by chocolate and citrus. Resinous hops blend into the rich malty base and fade nicely into the palate. It was that combination of flavors that got Katherine Hankey, catering coordinator at Thrive, excited about crafting a menu.

Thrive’s fresh, inspired take on hors d’oeuvres are small plates that allow attendees to easily mix and mingle.

For Brews & Bites, that will start with a biscuit bar, which Hankey calls the “next big thing” in food stations. The bar features Southern staples like ham and gravy along with local honey and jams.

Hankey was particularly interested in tapping into seasonal transition.

“We really want to use the fall flavors, thinking of cooler weather.” Thrive plans to serve loaded sweet potato skins and traditional fruit pies that definitely fall into that mindset.

Thrive is Savannah’s first greencertified restaurant, which impressed Seifert and made Thrive an ideal

partner for the event. “They have great food and a civic mission behind their philosophy,” said Seifert.

The admiration was mutual, with Hankey praising Skidaway Island State Park’s landscape. “It’s a beautiful low country backdrop that’s often overlooked. There are not a lot of venues that give you the feeling of being out in nature with a distinctly low country feel.”

That beautiful, distinctive setting made choosing the location for the event an easy decision. Skidaway Island State Park is a local treasure, with lush, southern marsh scenery, native wildlife and accessible facilities.

By attending the event there, participants will see first-hand how their donations will be put to use. One of the most immediate needs is trail maintenance.

“Erosion can be a big project here and a lot of stabilization work is needed,” says Seifert.

Longer term projects like revitalizing the interpretive center will be next to tackle on their list.

In addition to savoring local food and drink, attendees will also be able to learn about Savannah’s unique environmental concerns from scientist presentations, tours of the educational exhibits at the park and meeting with sponsors.

Ticket prices are $30 and are discounted to $25 for Friends of Georgia State Parks members. Sponsorships are also available for companies and organizations with ecological or educational components and include tickets as well as exhibition space during the event. cs Brews & Bites Schedule of Events October 10, 6-9 PM: Coastal Empire Beer Company & Thrive Café October 17, 6-9 PM: Southbound Brewing Company & Creekside Catering November 7, 6-9 PM: Moon River Brewing Company & Sandfly BBQ Tickets and sponsorship packages are available at gastateparks.givezooks.com/

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Lee Woolhiser, Rachel Evans & Lynn Serulla, and Adam Gabriel Winnie.

Winter Exhibition Fellowship submissions are currently open until Oct. 31.

Information: desotorow. org/exhibition-fellowship.

Desotorow Gallery, 2427 Desoto Ave.

Armstrong “Alumni Homecoming” Exhibition — The

Armstrong Invitational Alumni Art Exhibition.

Gallery reception: October 25. Oct. 7-25. Fine Arts Gallery (Armstrong Atlantic State University), 11935 Abercorn St., Fine Arts Hall.

Exhibition by Diana Al-Hadid — Large-scale gypsum

Art lecture: Claire Rosen —

A 30-minute “Look Again” guided discussion of Reverie, Rosen’s exhibition, given by the photographer. Museum admission.

Free for all SCAD. Thu., Oct. 3, 5 p.m. scad.edu. scadmoa.org/. Thu., Oct. 3, 5 p.m SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

KOKEAHI — The Non-Fiction Gallery presents an exhibition by fiber artist Akiyo Kaneko and fine artist Daniela Izaguirre.

On view October 4-8. The exhibition showcases several interactive multimedia projects exploring the essence of human connections, through the use of the Japanese icon, the Kokeshi doll. Reception October 4, 7-10pm.

Non-Fiction Gallery, 1522 Bull St. Composition: Photographs

by Karen Abato — This is

her first show of photographs, featuring images from various Savannah music events. Artist’s reception is part of first Friday Art March, Fri. Oct. 4, 6pm. Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave.

Music-themed photos from Karen Abato at the Bean, reception this Friday Ice or Salt — Iconic and

recent works by artist Ellen Gallagher. Reception: Friday, Oct. 4, 6:30-7:30 p.m., part of SCAD gallery hop. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Lecture: Preview to Spanish Sojourns Exhibition —

Robert Henri in America: His Life and Influence. A preview lecture presented

by Courtney McNeil.

Museum admission. Free for Telfair members. Thu., Oct. 3, 6 p.m Jepson Center, 207 West York St.

SCAD Gallery Hop — The SCAD Gallery Hop features museum receptions for Ellen Gallagher’s “Ice or Salt,” Alex Prager’s “Mise-en-scène,” and SCAD alumna Claire Rosen’s “Reverie,” along with a reception for artist Wardell Milan’s “The Kingdom or Exile: Parisian Landscapes” at Pinnacle Gallery. Free shuttles between all stops. Museum recep-

tions free for SCAD students, faculty, staff and members and open to public with cost of museum admission. Gallery hop receptions at other SCAD galleries are free and open to the public.

Fri., Oct. 4, 6:30 p.m.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Continuing Abrie Fourie: Oblique —

Guest curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg, Abrie Fourie’s exhibition follows the publication of the artist’s monograph of the same name published in 2011 in Berlin. Gutstein Gallery, 201 E Broughton St. Alex Prager: Mise-en-scène — Features two of Alex

Prager’s short films, “Despair” and “La Petite Mort,” together with film stills. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

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Indigo Sky Community Gallery, 915 Waters Ave.

Contemporary Southern Landscape — The unique

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.

Desotorow’s Exhibition Fellowship program. — De-

signed to give all artists and/or artistic groups a chance to showcase their work in a professional, public gallery. This season’s recipients of the Exhibition Fellowship include Hayden John, Sami

and metal sculptures, small bronzes and drawings inspired by Italian and Northern Renaissance painting, Gothic architecture and Hellenistic sculpture. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Fifth Annual “Five by Seven” Show and Sale benefiting Hospice Savannah — Over

150 miniature masterpieces on exhibit and for sale by silent auction.

Final bids and closing reception Fri. Oct. 18, 5:307pm. Free and open to the public. Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr.

The Ghost Within — New

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

Here Begin the Terrors, Here Begin the Miracles —

A two-woman art show with paintings by Kelley Hagemes and Juliana Peloso. The Butcher Tattoo Studio, 19 East Bay St.

Leonardo Drew: Selected Works — Elaborate ab-

stract sculptural installations and compositions and selected works on paper. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

New York Accents — An exhibition from Telfair Museums’ permanent collection exploring the rich influence of New York on Savannah. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St. Allure of the Near East: Treasures From the Huntington Museum of Art’s Touma Collection — Ex-

hibition features more than 70 objects from the Middle East, Turkey, Indian sub-continent, North Africa and Europe and spanning 20 centuries.

Jepson Center, 207 West York St.

Richard Coyne and Mary Ingalls — Gallery 209’s

October exhibition includes Coyne’s landscape paintings capturing the light and spirit of the low country and Ingalls’s fun and fanciful stain glass work. Gallery 209, 209 E River St. Savannah Squares by Night — Images by photogra-

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DON JON

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the talented young actor who’s appeared in such hits as Inception and (500) Days of Summer, stars as the title character in Don Jon, a comedy that also marks his feature-film writing and directing debuts. Centering around the recreational use of online porn, the film’s general, uh, thrust concerns Jon as he must decide whether to continue his lifelong habit of watching erotica or give it all up for his new girlfriend Barbara (Scarlett Johansson), a woman who is grossed out by it and demands that he choose between her and his online ladies.

Being a novice behind the camera, we can pretty much expect Gordon-Levitt to allow his story to unfold - and end - in one of two ways. The more conventional is that Jon does indeed unplug himself from porn and devote his life exclusively to Barbara; the other is that he follow the advice that Dan Savage regularly doles out in his Savage Love column and elect to DTMFA, cutting loose an unreasonable woman who would require him to make such an extreme choice and sticking with the smut. But hold the phone: Proving he’s more than just a pretty face, Gordon-Levitt goes beyond these simplistic choices in his screenplay and blazes the way with a neat series of turns that left me surprised by the story’s developments and impressed with its creator’s generosity of spirit and understanding of human nature.

To further insulate himself from any potential hazards, GordonLevitt has surrounded himself with an impeccable cast - and, yes, that includes successful TV actor, failed movie star and real-life thug Tony Danza as Jon’s coarse father. Johansson keeps us guessing as to whether Barbara will turn out to be the best thing in Jon’s life or the worst, while Brie Larson’s lack of dialogue adds humor to her turn as Jon’s sister.

The script’s wild card comes in the form of Julianne Moore as Esther, a woman Jon meets in his community-college class. Jon is initially annoyed by this sad person who pries into his affairs and appears to want to share her baggage with him, but as time passes, he realizes he could use another friend. More than anyone

From Argo to Zodiac, even the best attempts by Hollywood to adapt a true-life tale will result in some falsehoods being created for the screen. Timelines will be compressed for the sake of expedience, several real people will be reincarnated as one composite, and even irrefutable historical events will be altered to fall more in line with a filmmaker’s particular vision (or bias).

Rush, the latest picture from the Frost/Nixon team of director Ron Howard and writer Peter Morgan, relates the story of the bitter rivalry between Niki Lauda and James Hunt, the highly competitive Formula 1 drivers who hated each other with a burning passion back in the 1970s.

There’s just one thing: Lauda and Hunt were actually friends in real life. Oops.

Ah, well, damn veracity and full speed ahead. While dramatic license was clearly applied to give the film its skeletal outline, it gets so many other details right that it even has the full blessing of Lauda himself (Hunt passed away years ago). And it doesn’t completely stint on the real-life dynamics of both men, who were fierce rivals on the racetrack and pursued markedly different lives off it.

The British Hunt (played by American actor Chris Hemsworth) is clearly the more outgoing of the pair, with a pronounced interest in sex (though it’s not mentioned in the film, he claimed to have slept with over 5,000 women), booze and a rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. He’s animated and outgoing, and everyone wants to orbit his sunny presence.

In contrast, the Austrian Lauda (played by German actor Daniel Bruhl) is not very attractive (his nickname among

drivers was “the rat,” due to his prominent buck teeth), tends to show little emotion and holds most people around him in contempt. The film traces their initial forays into the world of racing, with the bulk of the running time focusing on the incredible 1976 season. Lauda is the reigning Formula 1 world champion after finishing first in 1975, and this new season finds the two men’s on-track competition being played out until the very last race of the season, a dangerous, rain-battered excursion at the Japanese Grand Prix at Mount Fuji.

As an actor, Howard made his adult debut in George Lucas’ 1973 classic American Graffiti and had his first top-billed role in the 1976 Roger Corman production Eat My Dust; as a director, he made his bow with another Corman quickie, 1977’s Grand Theft Auto. In short, car culture fits quite nicely in the Ron Howard catalog, and Rush allows the filmmaker to get back to that milieu. The shooting of the racing sequences don’t really push the envelope in any discernible manner - after all, even an awful NASCAR flick like Days of Thunder looked good on the track. But they’re nevertheless exquisitely staged and scored, with the talents of various Oscar winners - cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire), the editing team of Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill (Apollo 13) and composer Hans Zimmer (The Lion King) - working in tandem to juice the proceedings.

There’s always a chance in sports films that the scenes set away from the hard-hitting action won’t measure up, but Morgan writes the two leading characters with such complexity that there’s never a concern the drama will go flat. Initially, it’s set up that Hunt will be the audience favorite while Lauda will be his nasty antagonist, and while the movie never completely dispels that notion (particularly thanks to a scene in which Lauda shows no pity for a driver just killed in an accident), it’s balanced enough to allow

PRISONERS

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Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners feels like an AMBER Alert writ large, using the queasy notion of missing children as a starting point for its exploration of several issues that aren’t black and white but instead rot away inside a malodorous area of gray. It’s Thanksgiving in a small Pennsylvania town, and the Dovers - dad Keller (Hugh Jackman), mom Grace (Maria Bello), teenage son Ralph (Dylan Minnette) and young daughter Anna (Erin Gerasimovich) - and the Birches - dad Franklin (Terrence Howard), mom Nancy (Viola Davis), teenage daughter Eliza (Zoe Borde) and young daughter Joy (Kyla Drew Simmons) - have gathered at the Birch residence for a sumptuous meal. But after Anna and Joy wander off down the street to the Dover house to fetch a toy whistle, they never return, sending the adults into a panic. The only possible clue to the girls’ whereabouts is a van previously seen parked down the street, a vehicle that’s later discovered in a parking lot.

Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal), a cop who reportedly has never met a case he couldn’t solve, is quick to apprehend the driver, a young man by the name of Alex Jones (Paul Dano).

Keller is convinced that Alex is the one who snatched the girls, but Loki isn’t so sure: There’s no evidence in

the van of foul play, and, as Paul’s aunt (Melissa Leo) confirms, Alex has the mind of a 10-year-old boy and seems unlikely to have pulled off such a caper. But there’s no convincing Keller: He alone has been privy to clues that strongly suggest the simpleminded man was responsible, so he snatches Alex at gunpoint, keeping him bound in an abandoned house and repeatedly torturing him in the hopes that a confession will eventually be whispered through bloody and battered lips.

The script by Aaron Guzikowski is wonderfully dense, with very little feeling extraneous. An elderly priest (Len Cariou) battling his own demons, a young man (David Dastmalchian) even more odd than Alex, a dog dangling from a raised leash, small containers with something ominous inside (a great scene), that little red whistle - the film is like a lean cut of meat, with all the fat trimmed off and the rest providing the necessary protein to keep functioning.

To be sure, Guzikowski does make a few missteps - in particular, the end game of one character is never adequately explained - but none are make-or-break moments, the type of dunderheaded leaps of logic that have crippled lesser mysteries. In fact, it’s been a few days since I’ve seen the film, and its gaffes continue to matter less even as its themes continue to haunt and resonate. How far is too far when it comes to the safety of our children? How much slack do we cut those who are less fortunate than the rest of us? What defines a hero most?

(After the film, the knight in shining or maybe tarnished - armor still probably isn’t who you think.)

And - that old classic - does the end justify the means? To its credit, Prisoners refuses to be held captive by any rigid rules of conformist conduct, choosing instead to present moviegoers with a rusty moral compass and asking them to navigate their own choppy waters.

THE FAMILY

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The Manzonis are an Italian-American family whose patriarch, Giovanni (Robert De Niro), was once a powerful Mafia figure until he elected to turn snitch. Now it’s up to FBI agent Robert Stansfield (Tommy Lee Jones, looking pretty bored in his few scenes) to keep the Manzonis secure

in the witness protection program, a real problem since all of the family members - wife Maggie (Michelle Pfeiffer), daughter Belle (Dianna Agron) and son Warren (John D’Leo) - are always blowing their covers by hurting people who annoy them.

The outfit’s latest location is Normandy, France, where the Manzonis try to start fresh as the Blakes. Fat chance: Within a day or two after arrival, Dad is pummeling a dishonest plumber with a baseball bat, Mom is blowing up a supermarket run by locals who sneer at Americans’ fondness for peanut butter, Sis is using a tennis racket to thrash a high school boy making unwanted advances and Little Brother is assembling his own version of a mini-Mafia to help deal with a bullying classmate and his sycophants. Meanwhile, the mob kingpins that Giovanni betrayed continue to look high and low for him, having no success until the most improbable of clues makes its arrival stateside, literally wrapped like a present.

Sure, seeing De Niro wield a bat is nothing new - he did it benignly as a baseball player in Bang the Drum Slowly and fatally as Al Capone in The Untouchables - but the important takeaway here is that this is one of those rare recent occasions where the actor does more than merely mug for the camera (maybe not much more, but every additional tic or tonal variation is greatly appreciated). Pfeiffer’s even better, as Maggie works her way through her perpetual anger and frustration in an effort to hold the family together.

Most amusing, though, are Agron and especially D’Leo, with their characters emerging as the most original creations. Additionally, whereas most movies present teen siblings who squabble over the most inane reasons, this one details a relationship that is mutually respectful and loving - a nice change of pace.

Writer-director-producer Luc Besson has shown a penchant for extreme violence in several of his films (The Professional, La Femme Nikita), and this one’s no exception.

But with more humor involved than usual, he has a hard time maintaining a consistent flow, and much of the brutality comes across as cruel rather than crucial. His screenplay (based on Tonino Benacquista’s novel Malavita) is frequently as messy as these mob rub outs, with some good ideas

abandoned too soon (Warren’s social network at school; Maggie’s altercations with the locals) and at least two subplots (Belle’s love for a substitute math teacher; Giovanni’s crusade to have clean water in his home) that are clumsily executed and wrapped up.

With Martin Scorsese serving as an executive producer - one scene even lavishes love on the filmmaker’s GoodFellas - viewers might have hoped for a more polished mob hit.

But while it qualifies as OK entertainment - especially for September (that dead zone between summer blockbusters and fall award contenders - The Family is ultimately nothing to write home about.

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A step up from the 2004 slumber party The Chronicles of Riddick but still a few rungs down the ladder from 2000’s pitch-perfect Pitch Black, the third theatrical endeavor featuring everyone’s favorite killer-with-aheart-of-gold, foregoes the disastrous epic scope of that middle movie and attempts to return to the more fleetfooted thrills of the original.

Vin Diesel reprises his role as Riddick, once again stranded on a desolate planet teeming with hostile creatures. He manages to domesticate a canine-like critter - it appears that even in space, a dog is man’s best friend - but otherwise has his hands full warding off monstrous eel-scorpion thingies. In order to get off this rock, he activates a beacon so that mercenaries may come and find him - at which point he plans to steal one of their ships and vacate the premises.

Two vessels do arrive, one commandeered by the vicious Santana (Jordi Molla), the other captained by Boss Johns (Matt Nable), the father of Cole Hauser’s cowardly (and deceased) merc from Pitch Black.

With the arrival of these additional characters, the film turns into a slog, with Riddick playing feeble cat-andmouse games with the hopelessly outmatched mercenaries.

Given the sorry sequels, it’s clear that Riddick should have been a oneand-done deal. But don’t shed a tear if Diesel can’t find funding for any more films in the series - with a seventh Fast & Furious title now in production and a xXx sequel on the books, the actor will still be able to draw from other wells. CS

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sympathies to repeatedly shift. Hunt’s increasing disregard for his first wife, fashion model Suzy Miller (Olivia Wilde), reveals his ugly side (and it’s smirk-inducing to see a man who drives cars in circles for a living disparage the career of a woman whose job of posing with products hardly seems any more frivolous than his).

Meanwhile, a tragedy that involves Lauda has the effect - in addition to providing the piece with its most harrowing moments - of dramatically softening his character and making his outlook on life seem far more sensible than that of Hunt.

Between the excitement of the Formula 1 sequences and the excellent performances by Hemsworth and Bruhler, even those who couldn’t care less about auto racing - and who wouldn’t know Niki Lauda or James Hunt from Richard Petty or Dale Earnhardt - should get a premium rush from a film that never eases up on the entertainment value.

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An informal, left-leaning gathering to discuss politics, the economy, sports, entertainment, or anything else that comes up. Every first and third Thursday. Free , 7:00 p.m. See website or the Drinking Liberally facebook page for more information, including location.

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Alderman Mary Ellen Sprague hosts a weekly gathering for District 4 constituents every Wednesday morning. Residents and business owners of District 4 are invited to drop-in to ask questions and discuss local issues. Free and open to the public. Wednesdays, 6-9 a.m.

912-659-0103. ogeecheecoffee.com/.

Wednesdays, 6-9 a.m coffee deli, 4517 Habersham St. 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 . 912-3083020. savannahyoungrepublicans.com.

Savannah Tea Party

Free to attend. Note new location, date and time. Food and beverages available for purchase. Buffet is optional. Call for additional information. Reservations not necessary. Annual Dues $10.00. Free Next mtg. Location: Ole Times Country Buffet, 209 Stephenson, Savannah. Time: 5:00 PM social, 5:30 business meeting.. , 5:30 p.m. 912-5987358. savannahteaparty.com. Next mtg.

Location: Ole Times Country Buffet, 209 Stephenson, Savannah. Time: 5:00 PM social, 5:30 business meeting. , 5:30 p.m Ole Times Country Buffet, 209 Stephenson Ave. “Toby” Buttimer Awards Dinner

Annual celebration and awards dinner for the Chatham County Democratic Committee (CCDC). Saturday October 5, 2013, 7:00 PM, Savannah Marriott Riverfront. US Congressman Elijah Cummings is keynote speaker. Call or email for ticket info. Through Oct. 5.

(912) 495-8309. 2013ButtimerDinner@ gmail.com. Through Oct. 5

Victorian Neighborhood Association Meetings

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

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

Young Democrats

Mondays at 7pm on the second level of Foxy Loxy, Bull Street. Call or visit the Young Democrats Facebook page for more information. Free . 423-619-7712. foxyloxycafe.com/. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Benefits

16th Annual Trick or Trot 10k and 5k

Annual benefit run/walk on Wilmington Island hosted by Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club, to raise funds for several local and regional charitable causes. Sponsored by Connect Savannah. Through Oct. 26. TrickorTrot.net. savannah.chatham.k12. ga.us/Schools/Elementary+Schools/ Howard+Elementary/. Through Oct. 26 May Howard Elementary School, 115 Wilmington Island Road.

3rd Annual Scholarship/Missions Golf Tournament

Hosted and sponsored by West Savannah Area Women’s Missionary Society (WMS). Cherokee Rose Country Club, 225 Cherokee Trail; Hinesville, GA Saturday,October 5, 2013 1:00pm $200/ team, $50/person. Men and women welcome. Prizes will be awarded.

Sponsors also sought. Through Oct. 5.

912-570-1320. Through Oct. 5 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. . 912-351-6750. animalcontrol. chathamcounty.org. Chatham County Animal Shelter, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. Extra Life Gaming Marathon: Benefiting The Children’s Hospital at Memorial

25-hour video game marathon on November 2 for gamers of all ages, to raise funds for The Children’s Hospital at Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC), a member of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Enrolling participants now. Free sign-up. Gamers asked to get sponsorships/donations.

Through Nov. 2. extra-life.org. Through Nov. 2 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. . kristen@forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket. com. forsythfarmersmarket.com/.

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. . 912-344-1278. bikramyogasavannah.com.

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

Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Office of Career Services is accepting donations for its Clothing Closet, a professional clothing drive seeking gently used professional attire—oxford shirts, men’s and women’s suits, slacks, blouses, dress shoes. Clothing Closet will culminate with a Spring 2014 campus event where Armstrong students who participate will be given individual career advice and resume-writing instruction, along with an outfit that will help them look professional at their job interviews, career fairs or internships and full-time jobs. The Spring Clothing Closet will prepare Armstrong students to start their careers just in time for the close of the academic year. Donations are accepted until February 1, 2014.

Drop off unwanted professional clothing in the alumni office in Burnett Hall on the Armstrong campus. Through Feb. 1, 2014. 912.344.2563. careers@ armstrong.edu. about.armstrong.edu/ Maps/index.html. Through Feb. 1, 2014 Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St.

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

Professional Clothing Drive at Armstrong

Savannah Food & Wine Festival: Volunteers Needed

Volunteers over age 21 are needed for numerous food and wine festival events. To volunteer, contact Jan Gourley, jan@savannahfoodandwinefest. com or 843-812-5802. Through Nov. 17.

Through Nov. 17 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.

Classes, Camps & Workshops Acting Classes: Act & React

For ages 15+. October 5, 10am-1pm, $75. See website for info. Through Oct. 5. firstcityfilms.com. FirstCityFilms. com. Through Oct. 5 First City Films, POB 8185.

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

Beading Classes

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. Bellydance for Fitness

This dance-based fitness class blends belly dance moves to create a core strengthening workout. These quick paced classes build heat, endurance, flexibility, and strength through core isolations. Be prepared to have fun and sweat as you shimmy. No prior dance experience is necessary. All levels are welcome. $15 for drop-in or 4 for $50 (must be used in 30 days) Tuesdays.

912-293-5727. firstcitysav@gmail.com.

Tuesdays First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Champions Training Center

Offering a variety of classes and training in mixed martial arts, jui-jitsu, judo and other disciplines for children and adults. All skill levels. 525 Windsor Rd. 912-349-4582. ctcsavannah.com.

Classical and Acoustic Guitar Instruction

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

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

Clay Classes

Savannah Clay Studio at Beaulieu offers handbuilding, sculpture, and handmade tiles, basic glazing and firing. 912-351-4578. sav..claystudio@ gmail.com.

Boating Classes

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

Contemporary Soul Dance

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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. $30 912-3546686. mediationsavannah.com.

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children held at 15 E. Montgomery Crossroad. Register by phone. . 912921-4646.

Free Fitness Boot Camp

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

Free Health Classes in Spanish

Classes on Women’s Health and Diabetes. How to improve your health and avoid complications. Every Tuesday in October, 6-9pm. Sponsored by Community Health Mission. Free Through Oct. 30. 912-692-1451 ext 110. chmsavannah. org. Through Oct. 30 Hispanic Center, 1 Gamble Rd. Free Women’s Health Classes in Spanish

Free classes in Spanish on women’s health, including improving health status and avoiding complications.

Thursdays in October, 3-5pm. Hosted by Community Health Mission. Free admission. Through Oct. 31. 912-692-1451 ext 110. Through Oct. 31 Hair Dazzle Beauty Salon, 620 Hwy 80, Savannah, 31408.

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. . 401-255-6921. a.teixeira472@gmail.com.

Guitar, Mandolin, or Bass Guitar Lessons

Emphasis on theory, reading music, and

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improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. .

912-232-5987.

Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource Center

Housing Authority of Savannah hosts classes at the Neighborhood Resource Center. Adult literacy/GED prep: MonThurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri each month, 9am11am. Basic computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1pm-3pm. Community computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3pm-4:30pm. . 912-2324232 x115. savannahpha.com. savannahpha.com/NRC.html. Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St.

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Jazz Funk Dance

Jazz Funk dance Sundays at 2:30pm 3:15pm. This dance style is a blend of jazz and funk characterized by a strong back beat, groove, and electrified sound.

It implements all types of improvisational elements from soul and funk arrangements. Jazz Funk will get you in the mood to groove to the music and having fun doing it. This class is open to ages 10+. $15 for drop-in or 4 for $50 Sundays, 2:30 p.m. 404-709-9312. inspiredanceprogram@hotmail.com.

Sundays, 2:30 p.m First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Knitting & Crochet Classes

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

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. . 912-541-1337. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Lyrical Fusion Dance

Lyrical Fusion dance Sundays at 4:30pm - 5:00pm. This dance style is a combination of ballet, jazz and contemporary styles. Dancers will be instructed how to perform precise movements while conveying the emotion of a song’s lyrics through dance. Lyrical Fusion will challenges the dancer’s flexibility and their ability to perform with emotion.

This class is open to ages 10+. $15 for drop-in or 4 for $50 Sundays, 4:30 p.m.

404-709-9312. inspiredanceprogram@ hotmail.com. Sundays, 4:30 p.m First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Music Instruction

Georgia Music Warehouse, near corner of Victory Drive & Abercorn, offering instruction by professional musicians.

Band instruments, violin, piano, drums and guitar. All ages welcome. . 912358-0054. georgiamusicwarehouse. com/. Georgia Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. 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.

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1 AMA members 4 Defiant stayer’s stance 11 Race participant?

14 Black Eyed Peas singer will.___ 15 Place for a friend to crash 16 SOS part 17 Bed linen where bad stuff goes on?

19 Hosp. diagnostic 20 “___ fair in love and war” 21 Smooth fabric 22 Random link from some stranger, say 23 Late comedian Phyllis 26 Island show 28 Planner square 29 “West Side Story” actor Tamblyn 32 Site to search for stomach remedies 36 Drinkware crafted between the mountains?

40 “In ___ of flowers...”

42 Clearer, as the sky 43 “Silver Spoons” actress Gray 44 What sports car engines have?

47 Put at, as a price 48 Sinn ___ 49 “But ___ Cheerleader” (Natasha Lyonne movie) 52 “The Georgia Peach” 55 “Primal Fear” actor Edward 57 Roo, for one 60 Disaster relief org.

63 Better Than ___ 64 Major miner concern?

65 Technical genius at filmmaking?

68 Animation studio drawing 69 D, E and F, but not F#, on a piano 70 Quit fasting 71 Daily ___ (political blog) 72 Instant coffee brand 73 Common omelet ingredient

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2 Mexico’s national flower

3 Reason for insoles, maybe 4 “Was ___ das?”

5 Pursue with passion 6 Deep-sixes, to a thug 7 Language spoken in “Avatar” 8 Government IOU of sorts 9 Lizard that pitches insurance 10 Kind of poem 11 Easy win 12 A psychic may claim to see it 13 Barber’s quick job 18 Adult ed. course 22 “Jackass” crewmate once on “Dancing with the Stars” 24 Pitching stat 25 Rough game on a pitch 27 Abbr. in personal ads 30 Toby Keith’s “Red ___ Cup” 31 Tobacco type 33 Event where 13 is a good number 34 1051, to Caesar 35 Opium lounge 37 Utter madness 38 Late golfer Ballesteros 39 Senator Hatch 40 Jazzophile’s collection, often 41 Detroit suburb Grosse ___ 45 General ___’s chicken 46 “Bed-In” participant 50 Pat of “The Karate Kid” 51 Headwear of yore 53 Bingo call 54 Jeff who bought the Washington Post in 2013 56 Court judge 57 Sporty stereotype 58 Brand with a “Triple Double” variety 59 Slippery critters 61 “Walking in Memphis” singer Cohn 62 Coloratura’s offering 65 Earn a title 66 Cool, to the Fresh Prince 67 Suffix for sugars

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at 3:30pm - 4:15pm. A softer genre of jazz and hip hop, this distinct dance style is an outgrowth of modern dance blended with elements of rhythm and blues. Dancers are encouraged to place emphases on the connection of the mind and body through movement. Contemporary Soul will help the recognize traditional boundaries through balance, floor work and improvisation. This class is open to ages 10+. $15 for drop-on or 4 for $50 Sundays, 3:30 p.m. 404-7099312. inspiredanceprogram@hotmail. com. Sundays, 3:30 p.m First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr.

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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. . 912-354-1500. portmansmusic.com. portmansmusic.com.

Portman’s Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. Music Lessons--Multiple Instruments

Savannah Musicians Institute offers

| Submit your event online at connectsavannah.com private instruction for all ages in guitar, ddrums, piano, bass, voice, banjo, mandolin, ukelele, flute, woodwinds. 7041 Hodgson Memorial Dr. . 912-692-8055. smisavannah@gmail.com.

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. . 912-354-1500. portmansmusic.com. 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

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912-233-5448

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formatting. Email for pricing and scheduling info. . pmasoninsavannah@ gmail.com.

Photography Classes

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

Piano Voice-Coaching

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

Quilting Classes

: Quilting classes for beginners and advanced stitchers. Learn to make your first quilt or learn a new technique. See the website, call, or come by the shop. varies . 912 925 0055. email@colonialquilts.us. colonialquilts.us. Colonial Quilts and Savannah Sewing Center, 11710 Largo Drive.

Reading/Writing Tutoring

Ms. Dawn’s Tutoring in reading, writing, and composition. Remedial reading skills, help with borderline dyslexia, to grammar, term paper writing, and English as a Second Language. Fun methods for children to help them learn quickly. Contact: cordraywriter@ gmail.com or text or call 912-12-6607399. Call for fee information.

Russian Language Classes

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

Call for info. . 912-713-2718.

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. . 912-290-0072. savsew.com.

Short Story Writing

Gives students with some experience in fiction and nonfiction storytelling the opportunity to use assigned readings, writing homework, and workshop style critiques to explore various writing techniques. Works of Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Ann Beattie and others will be studied. Upon completion, students will understand narrative structure and scenic writing, dialogue, character, place, word choice, rhythm and pacing, and the art of revision. Offered by Georgia Southern’s Continuing Education division in Savannah. Call or email for days/times/pricing. . 912644-5967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern. edu. ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/ cesavannahmenu.html.. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Singing Classes

Bel Canto is the name of the style of singing invented by Nicola Vaccai, which helps the voice become flexible and expressive, improves the vocal range and breathing capacity and is the technique Anitra Warren uses to train her students. It carries over well as a foun-

Singing Lessons with Anitra Opera Diva

Teaching the Vaccai Bel Canto technique for improving vocal range and breathing capacity. A good foundation technique for different styles--opera, pop, rock, cabaret. Fridays 5:308:30pm. Institute of Cinematic Arts, 12 1/2 W. State St., 3rd floor. . 786-2479923. anitraoperadiva.com.

Social Media Workshop

Local digital strategist Shawndra Russell will present how businesses can establish routines to take control of their social media. October 2, 9:3010:30am. $15 and payable by cash or check upon arrival. Through Oct. 2. shawndra@shawndrarussell.com.

Through Oct. 2 Andaz Hotel, 14 Barnard Street.

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. . conquistador-spanish.com.

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 .

Vocal Lessons

The Voice Co-op is a group of voice instructors in Savannah, Georgia who believe in the power of a nurturing community to help voice students blossom into vibrant artists. Each of our instructors have earned the degree of Master of Music in Voice Performance.

Group master classes are held once each month for students of the Co-op.

In the winter and spring the students will have the opportuinty to present a vocie recital for the community. Varies .

912-656-0760. TheVoiceCoOp.org. The Voice Co-op, Downtown.

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. . 912-704-7650. douladeliveries.com.

Dance

Adult Ballet Class

Maxine Patterson School of Dance,

2212 Lincoln St, offers adult ballet on Thursdays, 6:30pm-7:30pm $12 per class. Call for info. . 912-234-8745.

Adult Intermediate Ballet

Mondays and Wednesdays, 7pm-8pm. $12/class or $90/8 classes. Call for info. Academy of Dance, 74 W. Montgomery Crossroad. . 912-921-2190.

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. . 912-9257416. savh_tango@yahoo.com.

Ballroom/Latin Group Class

Every Tuesday and Wednesday we will be having group classes at 8pm!

Tuesdays classes will focus on FUNdamental steps, styling, and techniques.

Wednesday’s classes will be more specific and advanced elements. Each class will have specific themes, so stay tuned for details. $15/person and $25/couple Wednesdays, 8 p.m. 912335-3335. savannahballroom@gmail. com. savannahballroomdancing.com.

Wednesdays, 8 p.m Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

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. . 912-414-1091. info@cybelle3.com. cybelle3.com.

7-8pm Advanced class-Fridays 6-7pm $15 per session, discount for Fitness on Broughton members. . 912-596-0889. edgebellydance.com. First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. 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 , 5:30 p.m.

(912) 704-2940. happenstancebellydance.wordpress.com. , 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. . 912-748-0731.

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. Dance Party

Join us on Thursdays at 8pm for fun, friendship, and dancing! Parties are free for our students and are only $10 for visitors ($15 for couples). free - $15 Thursdays, 8 p.m. 912-335-3335. savannahballroom@gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing.com. Thursdays, 8 p.m Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

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dation for opera, rock, pop, gospel and musical theatre. $25 Mondays-Sundays, 6 p.m. 786-247-9923. anitraoperadiva@yahoo.com. Mondays-Sundays, 6 p.m Institute of Cinematic Arts, 12 West State Street, 3rd and 4th flrs.,.

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Every Tuesday and Wednesday we will be having group classes at 8pm!

Tuesdays classes will focus on FUNdamental steps, styling, and techniques.

Wednesday’s classes will be more specific and advanced elements. Each class will have specific themes, so stay tuned for details. $15/person $25/ couple Tuesdays, 8 p.m. 912-335-3335. savannahballroom@gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing.com. Tuesdays, 8 p.m Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

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FUNdamentals Dance Lesson

Home Cookin’ Cloggers

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

No beginner classes at this time. Call Claudia Collier for info. . 912-748-0731.

Irish Dance Classes

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Beginning Pole Fitness

Our pole classes offer a fun and flirty way to get a great workout in a safe and comfortable environment. Our National Miss Fitness 2013 and Miss Georgia Pole 2012 instructor, Sabrina Madsen, will teach you the basics including spins and pole dance moves. All fitness levels are welcome! $25 for drop-in or 5 for $100 (must be used in 30 days) Tuesdays, 8 p.m. (801) 673-6737. firstcitysav@gmail.com. Tuesdays, 8 p.m First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Belly Dance Classes with Nicole Edge

At Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. Beginners class-Wednesdays

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petitive programs, workshops, camps.

Certified. Info via email or phone. . 912704-2052. prideofirelandga@gmail.com.

ARIES

(March 21-April 19) Are you good at haggling? Do you maybe even enjoy the challenge of negotiating for a better price, of angling for a fairer deal? The coming week will be a favorable time to make extensive use of this skill.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will thrive on having friendly arguments with just about everyone, from your buddies to your significant other to your mommy to God Herself.

Everywhere you go, I encourage you to engage in lively discussions as you hammer out compromises that will serve you well. Be cheerful and adaptable and forceful.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20) In David Markson’s experimental novel *Wittgenstein’s Mistress,* the protagonist fantasizes about the winter she lived at the Louvre Museum in Paris. She says that to keep warm she made big fires and burned some of the museum’s precious artifacts. I’m hoping you won’t do anything remotely resembling that mythic event in the coming week, Taurus. I understand that you may be going through a cold spell -- a time when you’re longing for more heat and light. But I beg you not to sacrifice enduring beauty in order to ameliorate your temporary discomfort. This, too, shall pass.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20) “Don’t say you want love,” writes San Francisco author Stephen Sparks. “Say you want the morning light through a paint-flecked window; say you want a gust of wind scraping leaves along the pavement and hills rolling toward the sea; say you want to notice, in a tree you walk past every day, the ruins of a nest exposed as the leaves fall away; a slow afternoon of conversation in a shadowy bar; the smell of bread baking.” That’s exactly the oracle I want to give you, Gemini. In my opinion, you can’t afford to be generic or blank in your requests for love. You must be highly specific. You’ve got to ask for the exact feelings and experiences that will boost the intensity of your lust for life. (Here’s Sparks’ Tumblr page: invisiblestories. tumblr.com.)

CANCER

(June 21-July 22) “The world breaks everyone, and

afterward, many are stronger in the broken places,” wrote Cancerian writer Ernest Hemingway. By my estimation, my fellow Crabs, we are now entering a phase of our astrological cycle when we can make dramatic progress in healing the broken places in ourselves.

But even better than that: As we deal dynamically with the touchy issues that caused our wounds, we will become stronger than we were before we got broken.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22) Let’s hope you have given deep thought to understanding who you are at this moment of your life. Let’s also hope that you have developed a clear vision of the person you would like to become in, say, three years. How do you feel about the gap between the current YOU and the future YOU? Does it oppress you? Does it motivate you? Maybe a little of both? I’ll offer you the perspective of actress Tracee Ellis Ross. “I am learning every day,” she told *Uptown Magazine,* “to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.”

VIRGO (

Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Do the words “purity” and “purify” have any useful purpose? Or have they been so twisted by religious fundamentalists and mocked by decadent cynics that they’re mostly just farcical? I propose that you take them seriously in the coming week. Give them your own spin. For instance, you could decide to purify yourself of petty attitudes and trivial desires that aren’t in alignment with your highest values. You might purify yourself of self-deceptions that have gotten you into trouble and purify yourself of resentments that have blocked your creative energy.

At the very least, Virgo, cleanse your body with extra-healthy food, good sleep, massage, exercise, and sacred sex.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22) I periodically hike alone into the serene hills north of San Francisco and perform a set of my songs for the birds, insects, squirrels, and trees. Recently I discovered that British comedian Milton Jones tried a similar experiment. He did his stand-up act for a herd of cows on a farm in Hertfordshire. I can’t

speak for Jones’ motivations, but one of the reasons I do my nature shows is because they bring out my wild, innocent, generous spirit.

Now is a good time for you to do something similar for yourself, Libra. What adventures can you undertake that will fully activate your wild, innocent, generous spirit?

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Are you anxious and agitated, afraid that you’re careening out of control? Is there a flustered voice in your head moaning, “Stop the insanity!”? Well, relax, dear Scorpio. I promise you that you no longer have to worry about going cray-cray. Why? Because you have already gone cray-cray, my friend.

That is correct. You slipped over the threshold a few days ago, and have been living in Bonkersville ever since. And since you are obviously still alive and functioning, I think it’s obvious that the danger has passed. Here’s the new truth: If you surrender to the uproar, if you let it teach you all it has to teach you, you will find a lively and intriguing kind of peace.

SAGITTARIUS

for you to do something similar: Take an inventory of the beauty and love and power you have sought to escape and may still be trying to avoid. You’re finally ready to stop running and embrace at least some of that good stuff.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18) *The Dragon Lives Again* is a 1977 film that tells the story of martial arts legend Bruce Lee fighting bad guys in the underworld. Among the villains he defeats are Dracula, James Bond, the Godfather, Clint Eastwood, and the Exorcist. I urge you to use this as inspiration, Aquarius. Create an imaginary movie in your mind’s eye. You’re the hero, of course.

Give yourself a few superpowers, and assemble a cast of scoundrels from your past -- anyone who has done you wrong. Then watch the epic tale unfold as you do with them what Bruce Lee did to Dracula and company. Yes, it’s only pretend. But you may be surprised at how much this helps you put your past behind you. Think of it as a purgative meditation that will free you to move in the direction of the best possible future.

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

PISCES

To give you the oracle that best matches your current astrological omens, I’ve borrowed from “Sweetness,” a poem by Stephen Dunn. I urge you to memorize it or write it on a piece of paper that you will carry around with you everywhere you go. Say Dunn’s words as if they were your own: “Often a sweetness comes / as if on loan, stays just long enough // to make sense of what it means to be alive, / then returns to its dark / source. As for me, I don’t care // where it’s been, or what bitter road / it’s traveled / to come so far, to taste so good.”

After studying the myths and stories of many cultures throughout history, Joseph Campbell arrived at a few conclusions about the nature of the human quest. Here’s one that’s apropos for you right now: “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” He came up with several variations on this idea, including this one: “The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.” I urge you to consider making this your operative hypothesis for the coming weeks, Pisces.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19) In her book *Teaching a Stone to Talk,* Annie Dillard apologizes to God and Santa Claus and a nice but eccentric older woman named Miss White, whom she knew as a child. “I am sorry I ran from you,” she writes to them. “I am still running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain.” Judging from your current astrological omens, Capricorn, I’d say that now would be a good time

(Feb. 19-March 20)

Kids/Youth Dance Class

Kids Group class on various Ballroom and Latin dances. Multiple teachers.

Ages 4-17 currently enrolled in the program. Prepares youth for social and/ or competitive dancing. $15/person Saturdays, 10 a.m. 912-335-3335. savannahballroom@gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing.com. Saturdays, 10 a.m Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

Line Dancing

Take down Tuesdays. Jazzy Sliders Adult Line Dancing, every Tuesday, 7:30pm10:00pm. Free admission, cash bar.

Come early and learn a new dance from 7:30pm-8:30pm. . doublesnightclub. com/. 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. . 912-272-8329.

Modern Dance Class

Beginner and intermediate classes.

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

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. .

912-398-4776. fitnessbodybalance.com.

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. . salsasavannah.com.

Savannah Dance Club

Shag, swing, cha-cha and line dancing.

Everyone invited. Call for location, days and times. . 912-398-8784.

Savannah Shag Club

Wednesdays, 7pm,at Doubles Lounge.

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

. doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Zumba & Zumba Toning with Anne

Ditch the workout & join the party. All levels welcome. Wednesdays, 6:30 PM 7:30PM. Lake Mayer Community Center

/Gay & Lesbian First City Network Board Meeting

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

Gay AA Meeting

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

Georgia Equality Savannah

Local chapter of Georgia’s largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 912-5476263. .

Savannah Pride, Inc.

Organizes the annual Savannah Pride Festival and helps promote the wellbeing of the LGBT community in the South. Mission: unity through diversity and social awareness. Second Tuesday/month, 7pm, at FCN office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. . 912-288-7863. heather@savpride.com.

Stand Out Youth

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

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

What Makes a Family

A children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Ages 10 to 18. Meets twice a month. Call for info. . 912-3522611.

Readings & Signings

Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

Meets last Sunday of the month, 4pm.

Call for info. . 912-447-6605. sjchs.org/ body.cfm?id=399. African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. An Evening with Nicholas Sparks

The author of 11 New York Times #1 best-selling books on the national tour for his forthcoming book, The Longest Ride. A Savannah Book Festival event. $10 Tue., Oct. 8, 6 p.m. trusteestheater. scad.edu. www2.scad.edu/venues/ trustees/. Tue., Oct. 8, 6 p.m Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Local Author Day

Fourteen local authors meet, greet and sign books, including Rosemary Daniell, Jane Fishman, Bill DeYoung, Jim Morekis, and Kristine Stevens and Southern Poetry Review. Special appearance by Flannery O’Connor!?! Rain date, Sat. Oct 26. Free to attend. Books available for purchase. bookladybookstore.com. thebookladybookstore. com/. The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty St. Tea Time at Ola’s (Book Club)

A book discussion group that meets the 4th Tuesday, 1pm. Bring a book you’ve read this month and tell all about it.

Treats to share are always welcomed.

Tea is provided. Call for info. . 912-2325488. liveoakpl.org/. Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 East Bay St. Religious & Spiritual Art of Peaceful Living

How is it possible to apply the ancient art of Buddhist meditation to today’s hectic and busy modern world? Join us to learn how to solve your problems and develop a peaceful mind by applying Buddha’s classic advice to daily life.

Everyone is welcome to attend, no previous experience necessary. Drop in for any class. $10 or $5 seniors/students (912) 358-0228. meditationinsouthcarolina.og. unityofsavannah.org/. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd.

Band of Sisters Prayer Group

All women are invited. Second Tuesdays, 7:30am-8:30am. Fellowship Assembly, 5224 Augusta Rd. Email or call Jeanne Seaver or see website for info.

“The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hands of the Lord.” (Prov.

21:1) . 912-663-8728. jeanneseaver@ aol.com. capitolcom.org/georgia.

Catholic Singles

A group of Catholic singles age 30-50 meet frequently for fun, fellowship and service. Send email or check website to receive announcements of activities and to suggest activities for the group. . familylife@diosav.org. diosav.org/ familylife-singles.

Guided Silent Prayer

Acoustical songs, 30 minutes of guided silent prayer, and minutes to receive prayer or remain in silence. Wednesdays, 6:45-8:00pm at Vineyard Church, 615 Montgomery St. See website for info. . vineyardsavannah.org.

A New Church in the City, For the City

Gather on Sundays at 10:30am. Like the Facebook page “Savannah Church Plant.” . Bryson Hall, 5 E. Perry St. Read the Bible in One Year

A Bible book club for those wanting to read the Bible in one year. Open to all. Book club format, not a traditional Bible study. All welcome, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, religion.

Thurs. 6:00pm-7:00pm. Call for info. . 912-233-5354. Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, 622 E. 37th Street.

Savannah Friends Meeting (Quakers)

Un-programmed worship. 11am Sundays, third floor of Trinity United Methodist Church. Call or email for info. All are welcome. . 912-308-8286. savbranart@gmail.com. trinitychurch1848.org/.

Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. Savannah Reiki Share

During shares, participants take turns giving and receiving universal life force energy via Reiki and other healing modalities. Present at the shares are usually no less than 2 Reiki Masters.

Come share with us on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month at the Sweet

Water Spa in downtown Savannah. Sign up at Savannah Reiki Share or Reiki by Appointment on Facebook. Free , 7 p.m.

440-371-5209. , 7 p.m Sweet Water Spa, 148 Abercorn Street.

Savannah Zen Center

Buddhist study classes, yoga workshops, retreats, Reiki sessions, attunements, meditation, classes, events. See website for location and schedule, or see Facebook page. . savannahzencenter.com.

Service of Compline

A chanted service by candlelight held every Sunday night at 9pm. “Say goodnight to God.” Presented by Christ Church Anglican. . Independent Presbyterian Church, Bull Street and Oglethorpe Ave. South Valley Baptist Church

Weekly Sunday services. Sunday school, 10:00am. Worship, 11:30am.

Tuesday Bible Study/Prayer Service, 6:30pm. Pastor Rev. Dr. Barry B. Jackson, 480 Pine Barren Road, Pooler, GA “Saving a nation one soul at a time.” .

Tapestry Church

A church for all people! We don’t care what you are wearing, just that you are here. From the moment you walk in until the moment you leave, Tapestry is committed to delivering a creative, challenging, straight forward, and honest message about the role of biblical principles in your life. Come experience an environment that helps you connect with God and discover his incredible purpose for your life. Join us every Sunday morning 10AM at the Habersham YMCA. tapestrysavannah.com. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Habersham Branch), 6400 Habersham St. Theology on Tap

Meets on the third Monday, 8:30pm10:30pm. Like the Facebook page: Theology on Tap Downtown Savannah. . distillerysavannah.com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah

Liberal religious community where people with different beliefs gather as one faith. Sundays, 11am. Email, call or see website for info. . 912-234-0980. admin@uusavannah.org. uusavannah.org. uusavannah.org. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. Unity Church of Savannah

Sunday Celebration services 9:15am and 11am. Children’s Church and childcare 11am. Thursday noon prayer service. See website or call for info on classes, workshops, and more. .

912-355-4704. unityofsavannah.org. unityofsavannah.org/. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd.

Sports & Games

2013 Enmark Savannah River Bridge Run

Saturday, December 7. Conquer Savannah’s Talmadge Bridge, a 1.4-mile span at a 5.5% grade, 196 feet above the Savannah River, on foot. Walkers and runners welcome. See website for info on registration, including fees and

deadlines. Through Dec. 7. SavannahRiverBridgeRun.com. Through Dec. 7 Adult Coed Flag Football League

8x8 Coed Flag League. Play adult sports, meet new people. Sponsored

by Savannah Adult Recreation Club.

Wed. nights/Sun. mornings, at locations around Savannah. $450. Minimum 8 games. Ages 18+. Coed teams. See website or call for info. . 912-220-3474. savadultrec.com.

Adult Coed Ultimate Frisbee League

Sponsored by Savannah Adult Recreation Club. Thurs. nights/Sun. morning matches. in Daffin and Forsyth Parks. $350/team. Ages 18+. Call or see website for info. . 912-220-3474. savadultrec.com.

Derby Devils Roller Derby Classes

Roller derby league offers 12-week courses for beginners, recreational scrimmaging for experienced players and two annual bootcamp programs.

See website for info. . savannahderby. com.

Grief 101 Support Group

Seven-week morning or eventing adult support grooup offers tools to learn to live with loss. Tuesdays, 10am-11am; or Thursdays, 6:00pm-7:00pm. Free of charge. Offered by Hospice Savannah, Inc. Call for info. . 912-303-9442. Full Circle Center for Grief Support, 450 Mall Blvd., Suite H. St. Vincent’s/BC Cheerleader Reunion

A gathering at the BC Homecoming Game for all women from Saint Vincent’s Academy that have cheered for Benedictine Military School since the first cheer team in 1945, through last year’s graduating class of 2013.

Meet pre-game at the SVA/BC Cheerleader reception tent in the tailgate area for refreshments and a picture.

Friday, October 4, 2013 Game begins at 7:30pm. Meet at 5:30pm at Savannah State University’s T.A. Wright Stadium.

Call 912.236.5508 for email winters15@ comcast.net. Bring a snack or drink to share.

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DAVIS RENTALS 310 EAST MONTGOMERY X-ROADS, 912-354-4011 OR 656-5372

HOUSEMATE: Safe Environment. Central heat/ air, cable, telephone service.

Bi-weekly $270, $270/security RINCON deposit, No lease. Immediate Doublewide, 3BR/2BA, private occupancy. Call Mr. Brown: 912• Real Estate lot. $650/Rent, $450/deposit.

663-2574 or 912-234-9177.

• Vehicles Call 912-964-4451 • Pets NEED A ROOM? STOP SOUTHSIDE • Employment •1BR Apts, washer/dryer LOOKING! • Miscellaneous included. $25 for water, Great rooms available ranging $115-$145/weekly.

• Garage Sales trash included, $625/month. from •2BR/1.5BA Townhouse Apt, Includes refrigerators, central total electric, w/washer & heat/air. No deposit. Call 912- • Call our Classifieds Department at dryer $675. 912-927-3278 or 398-7507.

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VERY NICE *2103 Causton Bluff Rd: 3BR/1BA $775 *34 Chatham St. 3BR/1.5BA $850 *301 Forrest Ave: 3BR/2BA $795 *318 Forrest Ave: 3BR/1.5BA $795. Call 507-7934 or 9272853

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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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Roommate Wanted LARGE VICTORIAN with windows on two sides, across from library, nicely furnished, all utilities. TV/cable/internet, washer/dryer, $140/week. $504/month.

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Completely furnished. Central Cards Accepted) heat and air. Conveniently • Basic rate includes up to 25 words. 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

ROOMMATE WANTED To Share 2BR/1BA Apt. Ferguson Ave near Skidaway Island.

Kitchen/dining room, living room/lanai, fully furnished, CH/A, cable, utilities included. $550/mo.Available Immediately 912-344-4216

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*All above have carpet, A/C/ heat, washer/dryer hookup, fenced yard. References, application. One-year lease minimum. Deposit same as rent.

None total electric, No smoking, pets negotiable.

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