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

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or toiletries for Second Harvest Food Bank, or pet food and/or cat litter for the Humane Society.

Info: lucastheatre.com

Wednesday

Fort Pulaski's Confederate Nog Party of 1861

Film: The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970, USA) What: Psychotronic Film Society pres-

ents this Edward G. Robinson Birthday Screening--a rare public viewing of one of the best made-for-TV thrillers of its time.

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

Holiday Oyster Roast Business Connection

What: Food, live entertainment by The Howard Paul Trio, beverages and networking with hundreds of the Savannah area’s business professionals. Toy drive to benefit Toys for Tots: bring an unwrapped child’s toy will receive a $5 discount on admission at the door.

When: 5:30-7:30 p.m Where: Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, 1 Resort Drive.

Cost: $25 gen. adm. $10 Chamber and Launch Savannah members.

Info: 912-644-6458

The Journey

What: A walk through the recreated ancient Middle Eastern town of Bethlehem teeming with bakery, tannery, blacksmith and jewelry shops and an inn tfull to capacity.

When: Dec. 11-15, 6-8 p.m Where: Savannah Christian Church, 55 Al Henderson Blvd.

Cost: $5 per person. Children free.

Maximum family fee: $20 Info: 912-925-9657. SCCJourney.com

Sandfly Holiday Open House & Toy Drive

What: Join 24 businesses in Sandfly Community (Skidaway Rd. and Ferguson Ave./Norwood Ave.) for special sales, goodies, and entertainment for an evening of shopping. Bring a toy for the Toys for Tots drop boxes.

When: 4:30-8:30 p.m Cost: Free and open to the public Info: SandflySavannah.com

Savannah Harbor Festival of Lights continues

What: More than 80 lighted holiday-

themed displays at the Savannah Harbor Road Course on Hutchinson Island. With horse carriage rides and the Staples Safari Zoo. When: 5:30-10 p.m

Friday

Film: The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992, USA)

What: Plus Michael Caine (we always suspected he was a Muppet) When: 7 p.m Where: Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: Donation of nonperishable food or toiletries for Second Harvest Food Bank,

or pet food and/or cat litter for the Humane Society of Greater Savannah.

Info: lucastheatre.com

Where: The Club at Savannah Harbor,

#2 Resort Dr. Cost: $25 per family vehicle Info: savannahharborfoundation.com/ festival-schedule.html

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Thursday December Nights and Holiday Lights

When: 5:30-7:30 p.m Where: First Presbyterian Church, 520

Washington Ave.

Info: sdonovan@stepupsavannah.org

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Christmas in Savannah

What: Three (3) hours of free parking in City Parking Garages every Thursday and Friday through Dec. 27.(Not offered during special event rates.)

What: A Savannah version of A Christmas Carol, with a comedic twist. Big boss Blair insists that her staff runs Christmas by the book, until an eccentric bunch shows her that she's been reading the wrong holiday guidebook.

Presented by AWOL, Inc. and the City of Savannah.

When: Dec. 13-14, Dec. 20-21 at 7pm, 3 pm matinees Dec. 15 & 22. After the Dec. 15 show take al trolley ride to the Festival of Lights for $15, accompanied by the cast singing Christmas carols along the way. 7 p.m Where: Black Box Theatre, 9 Henry St. Cost: $12 (Trolley ride on 12/15 is an additional $15.)

Info: 912-303-4987. kgreen@awolinc. org. awolinc.org

Roving Listener: An Evening of Creative Conversation

Film: The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992, USA)

What: A walk through lighted gardens

(half a million holiday lights!) while listening to carolers, musicians and traditional holiday music. Photos with Santa every Saturday night.

When: Nightly 6-9 p.m Where: Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens, 2 Canebrake Rd. Cost: $5 Info: (912) 921-5460. elubrani@uga.edu. coastalgeorgiabg.org

Free Downtown Garage Parking

What: A positive approach to strengthening communities by learning about people’s gifts and talents, and building on their strengths. Sponsored by Step Up Savannah and Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy.

What: This version of Dickens' classic tale stars Gonzo, Rizzo the Rat, Kermit and Robin.

When: 7 p.m Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: Donation of nonperishable food

What: Relive the Christmas holiday celebrations experienced by soldiers occupying Fort Pulaski during the Civil War. Take night-time tours by candlelight and oil lamps. Hot cider and cookies, music, caroling and night-time weapons firings will allow visitors to relive the festive occasion. 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, and 8:30 PM each night.

Where: Fort Pulaski National Monument, Cockspur Island.

Cost: $5. Free 15 and under. Reservations required for adults and children.

Info: nps.gov/fopu

Habersham Village Open House

What: Most Habersham Village shops are participating with treats, specials, door prizes. Benefiting America’s Second Harvest and Hospice Savannah.

When: 6-9 p.m Where: Habersham and 61st Streets.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

A Joyous Christmas Concert!

What: The annual Christmas concert by the Sacred Heart Folk Choir, directed

by Jenny Brown, and folk singer Joni Bishop, with John Powers & special guests. Love offering optional.

When: 7 p.m Where: Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 1707 Bull St.

Sandpiper Trail Hike

What: Meander through the marsh on a guided hike with a park ranger.

When: 1 p.m Where: Skidaway Island State Park Cost: $5 parking fee.

Info: gastateparks.org/SkidawayIsland

Savannah Philharmonic: Holiday Pops

What: Classical and contemporary holiday favorites featuring the Philharmonic orchestra and chorus.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: Cathedral of St John the Baptist, 222 East Harris St. Cost: see website Info: savannahphilharmonic.org

Theatre: Bell, Book and Candle

What: Collective Face Theatre Ensemble presents the romantic comedy of a witch and her love for a mortal man.

When: 8 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $20-$15. Reservations suggested.

Info: 912-232-0018. musesavannah.org

Christmas in Savannah

What: A Savannah version of A Christmas Carol, with a comedic twist. Big boss Blair insists that her staff runs Christmas by the book, until an eccentric bunch shows her she’s been reading the wrong guidebook. Presented by AWOL, Inc. and the City of Savannah.

When: Dec. 13-14, Dec. 20-21 at 7pm, 3 pm matinees Dec. 15 & 22. After the Dec. 15 show take trolley ride to the Festival of Lights for $15, accompanied by the cast singing Christmas carols along the way. 7 p.m Where: Black Box Theatre, 9 Henry St. Cost: $12 (Trolley ride on 12/15 is an additional $15.)

Skatefest 2013

What: A Savannah tradition returns.

Multiple sessions each day. Each session is 1.5 hours. Times vary. Closed 12/20 and 12/25.

When: Dec. 14-Jan. 4, 10 a.m., 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8 p.m Where: Civic Center, 301 W Oglethorpe Cost: $7 per person. Skatefest pass: $35 for 6 sessions.

Homegrown Holiday Hoedown What: Music by Train Wrecks, Ac-

complices, American Hologram, New Familiars. A Toys For Tots benefit. Cash bar; 21+.

When: 7 p.m Where: American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Cost: $15 advance, $20 at the door

What: A Savannah version of A Christmas Carol, with a funny twist. Big boss Blair insists that her staff runs Christmas by the book. But an eccentric bunch shows her she’s been reading the wrong holiday guidebook.

Presented by AWOL, Inc. and the City of Savannah.

When: After the 12-15 show take a trolley ride to the Festival of Lights for $15, with the happily caroling cast. 7 p.m Where: Black Box Theatre, 9 Henry St. Cost: $12 (Trolley ride on 12/15 is an additional $15.)

Info: awolinc.org

Connecting Georgians to Coverage

What: Information and help for individuals, families, and small businesses, to apply for health insurance via the Affordable Care Act (ACA). State-certified health care navigators will be on hand to assist. Meet with a navigator and receive a bagged lunch and the chance to win a Wal-Mart gift card.

When: 10 a.m.-1 p.m Where: Civic Center, 301 W Oglethorpe Cost: Free and open to the public

Info: seedco.org/healthcare-access/ georgia/

December Savannah Bazaar

What: Indie crafts, food, and live music

by KidSyc, A.live, Mysterium, and Broken Glow . A holiday festival that's home grown goodness.

When: 1-6:30 p.m Where: Southern Pine Co., 616 E. 35th Cost: Free Info: savannahbazaar@gmail.com

Downtown Neighborhood Association Holiday Tour of Homes

What: Annual downtown tour showcases historic homes. Afternoon Holiday Home Tour at 11 am ($35) Evening Holiday Home Tour at 5 pm ($35) Victorian Tea at 3 pm and 4 pm ($25) Info: dnaholidaytour.com/

Festival of Our Lady of Guadalupe

What: Celebrating the appearance of the Virgin Mary in Mexico in 1531. Latin bands, kids activities (yes, a pinata), Mexican food, and Santa Claus.

When: 12-5 p.m Where: Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 501 S. Coastal Highway.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

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Film: A Christmas Story (1983, USA)

Sunday

What: Savannah Urban Garden Alliance 5th Annual Tour de Coop offers participants a peek at the chicken coops and urban gardens in Savannah. This year is bigger than ever, with 3 trolleys, a selfguided bike tour, silent auction, food, drink, and an urban homesteading expo! Trolley $20 (Kids under 12 $10), Bike $10, Expo $10.

Tickets available at Brighter Day, Economy Feed and Seed, or at sugacentral.org.

When: 1-5 p.m Where: Southern Pine Co., 616 E. 35th St. Cost: Trolley $20, Kids $10, Bike $10, Expo $10.

What: All Ralphie Parker wants is an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model BB rifle with a compass in the stock. And then there's that leg lamp....

When: 7 p.m Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: Non-perishable food items and toiletries for Second Harvest Food Bank, or pet food and/or cat litter for Humane Society of Greater Savannah

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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.

The BYOB Project

What: Kickoff event for effort to encour-

age the use of recyclable bags.

When: Noon-4 p.m.

Where: Forsyth Park, begins near tail end of Farmers Market Cost: Free admission; dodgeball tournament $10 adults/$5 students/$50 team Info: BYOBProject@gmail.com and facebook.com/Bring Your Own Bag Project

Fort Pulaski's Confederate Nog Party of 1861 What: Relive the Christmas holiday

celebrations experienced by soldiers occupying Fort Pulaski during the Civil War. Take night-time tours by candlelight and oil lamps. Hot cider and cookies, music, caroling and night-time weapons firings will allow visitors to re-live the festive occasion. 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8, and 8:30 PM each night.

Where: Fort Pulaski National Monu-

5th Annual Tour de Coop

ment, Cockspur Island.

Cost: $5. Free for children 15 and under. Reservations adults and children.

Info: 912-786-5787 x 109. nps.gov/fopu

Free Family Day: Holiday Special What: Will include printmaking, DIY

cards and wrapping paper how-to's.

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

Half Price Dog Adoption

What: Humane Society of Greater Sa-

vannah is cutting the dog adoption fee by half for this weekend. $75 just this weekend.

Where: Humane Society for Greater Savannah, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. Info: HumaneSocietySAV.org

Music: David Bromberg

When: 8 p.m Where: Randy Wood's Concert Hall

(Bloomingdale), 1304 East Hwy. 80.

Cost: $35 Info: randywoodguitars.com

Nature Outing: Exploring Ebenezer Creek by canoe

Savannah Reindeer Run (8k)

What: 4th annual race, kiddie race, and

fun times all benefiting Savannah Rape Crisis Center. Holiday themed constume contest. Chili cook-off judged by the Deens and Stratton Leopold.

When: 9 a.m Where: Hutchinson Island Info: 912-233-3000. director@rccsav. org. fleetfeet.com

Savannah Santa Train

What: Savannah's only Polar Express themed event featuring train rides, crafts and activities, a visit with Santa, hot chocolate and hot cocoa ice cream from Leopolds! Trains begin running at 9am and run every 30 minutes (except at 12:30) with last train at 5pm. Preregistration and pre-payment required. chsgeorgia.org for more information.

When: 9 a.m Where: Georgia State Railroad Museum, 655 Louisville Road.

Cost: $15 per adult/$15 per child

Theatre: Bell, Book and Candle

What: A canoeing day trip in this tract of cypress-gum swamp forest in the Savannah River basin. Fee includes canoe, paddling instruction, and guide.

Call or email for required reservations.

When: 9 a.m.-1 p.m Cost: $50/person.

Info: 912-236-8115. naturesavannah@ gmail.com

What: Collective Face Theatre Ensemble presents the romantic comedy of a witch and her love for a mortal man.

When: 8 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $20-$15 Info: 912-232-0018. musesavannah.org

Savannah Philharmonic: Holiday Pops

Wilmington Island Farmers' Market: Holiday Marketplace

What: Classical and contemporary holiday favorites featuring the Philharmonic orchestra and chorus.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: Cathedral of St John the Baptist, 222. East Harris St. Cost: see website Info: savannahphilharmonic.org

What: Vendors offering unique holiday wares and food items.

When: 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Where: Wilmington Island Farmers' Market, 111 Walthour Rd Cost: Free and open to the public

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What: Featuring music by Lauren

LaPointe, Jan Spillane, Junkyard Angel, Stewart & Winfield & The Sweetfield of Eden Choir. Benefiting Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia. 1:30-3:30 Chili Cook Off. Tree Lighting, Santa Visit, Food Drive. Paxton Park (behind the Isle of Hope Pool /Fire Department) When: 12:45-8 p.m Where: Paxton Park, Isle of Hope Cost: $15 advance. $20 door.

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Sunday 5th Annual Tour de Coop

What: Savannah Urban Garden Alliance

5th Annual Tour de Coop offers participants a peek at the chicken coops and urban gardens in Savannah. Trolley $20 (Kids under 12 $10), Bike $10, Expo $10. Tickets available at Brighter Day, Economy Feed and Seed, or at sugacentral.org.

When: 1-5 p.m Where: Southern Pine Co., 616 E. 35th Cost: Trolley $20, Kids $10, Bike $10, Expo $10.

Big Ferry Guided Hike at Skidaway State Park

What: A two-to-three mile hike through a maritime forest, learning history of Skidaway. Meet at Big Ferry Trail Head.

When: 2 p.m Where: Skidaway Island State Park Cost: $5 parking fee.

Info: gastateparks.org/SkidawayIsland

Bob Strozier reads Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory"

What: A Flannery O'Connor Home tradition: retired Armstrong Atlantic State University English professor Bob Strozier reads Capote's classic as part of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home’s Gulfstream Fall Lecture Series.

When: 3 p.m Where: Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Street.

Cost: Free and open to the public Info: flanneryoconnorhome.org

Christmas in Savannah

What: A Savannah version of A Christmas Carol, with a comedic twist. Big boss Blair insists that her staff runs Christmas by the book, until an eccentric bunch shows her that she’s been reading the wrong holiday guidebook.

When: Dec. 13-14, Dec. 20-21 at 7pm, 3 pm matinees Dec. 15 & 22. After the Dec. 15 show take al trolley ride to the Festival of Lights for $15, accompanied by the cast singing Christmas carols along the way. 7 p.m Where: Black Box Theatre, 9 Henry St. Cost: $12 (Trolley ride on 12/15 is an additional $15.)

Info: 912-303-4987. kgreen@awolinc. org. awolinc.org

Community Christmas Sing

What: Join friends and neighbors in singing carols. The Ceremonial Brass ensemble provides accompaniment.

When: 5 p.m Where: Village at Skidaway Island, Skidaway Island.

Cost: Free and open to the public Info: 912-598-7242, ext. 5

Holiday Tour of Inns

What: Part of the Downtown Neighborhood Association's annual tour weekend, benefiting DNA's grants for local nonprofits.

When: 12:30 p.m Cost: $25 Info: dnaholidaytour.com/

Theatre: Bell, Book and Candle

What: Collective Face Theatre Ensemble

presents the romantic comedy of a witch and her love for a mortal man.

When: 3 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $20-$15 Info: 912-232-0018. musesavannah.org

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Monday John Besh Book Signing

What: Book signing and food tasting with recipes from his highly anticipated third cookbook, "Cooking from the Heart." The celebration will take place December 16th from 5-7 p.m. at The Paris Market, 36 W. Broughton street.

When: 5 p.m Where: Paris Market & Brocante, 36 West Broughton St.

Savannah River Holiday Sessions featuring the Equinox Orchestra

What: Dinner and a show--holiday style, of course. Benefiting the Empty Stocking Fund. Reservations required. Call for times.

Where: Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, 1 Resort Drive.

Cost: $50 Info: 912.596.2525

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Wednesday Film: They Came From Beyond Space (1967, USA)

What: Escape from the holiday madness with a dose of alien madness.

Psychotronic Film Society presents this low-budget sci-fi thriller directed by Freddie Francis.

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

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Facing the wrong way

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A little after 1 a.m. this past Saturday, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the middle of West 42nd Street.

A few hours later, a man was found dead in his bed on East Anderson Street with head trauma.

At about 11:30 that night, a triple shooting on East 39th Street left one man dead and two others in the hospital.

All in all, an extraordinarily violent Saturday a couple of weeks before Christmas.

But I wouldn’t have seen it coming the Friday before, when the City of Savannah’s apparent priority was sending someone to my Parkside neighborhood just south of Daffin Park to write parking tickets.

Not just any parking tickets — tickets for being “parked facing wrong way on street.”

One morning, out of almost 365 mornings so far this year, these dumb tickets were written.

And yes, yours truly got one.

On one hand, it’s certainly ridiculous for me to complain about a $12 ticket when people are getting gunned down all over town, when people are mourning for family members lost to violence.

On the other hand, giving out egregiously silly parking tickets amidst so much gunplay does make you wonder about the City’s priorities.

Few people question the difficult job Savannah/Chatham Metro Police face in fighting crime in a city long notorious for its spiraling socio-economic problems and associated violence.

And few people question the need to enforce paid parking spaces in high-traffic areas where spots are at a premium and frequent turnover must be guaranteed, i.e., downtown.

But parking “facing the wrong way” in a little-traveled residential neighborhood, where there are no metered or pay spaces of any kind, is the very definition of a victimless crime.

Writing such parking tickets, especially just one day out of the year, is an unseemly revenue grab by the City, nothing more.

(A cynic might say the City is just trying to recoup revenue lost from offering a few days of free parking downtown for holiday shopping. They giveth, and taketh away.)

Parking “facing the wrong way” is common practice throughout residential areas everywhere south of Gaston Street — most anywhere there aren’t paid spots, basically.

It’s done by simply veering left and parking on the left side of the street, rather than doing a clumsy U-turn in the middle of the narrow street.

You’ve done it, I’ve done it, we’ve all done it.

In some neighborhoods, like mine, about half the cars at any given time are parked the “wrong” way. Which I guess is precisely why the City sent someone to Parkside to hand out tickets like candy on a Friday morning, one morning out of the year.

I’m not bitching about the $12. Beats the hell out of getting shot, or having a loved one get shot.

And in a way I got off easy, because after the first of the year those $12 tickets are all going up to $20, with bigger tickets getting even more expensive. Another revenue grab.

My point is certainly not that anyone should feel sorry for me, or that a bogus parking ticket is in any way comparable to losing a family member to gun violence.

The point is: on Savannah’s streets you’re apparently at equal risk for both getting shot and getting a bogus parking ticket, and that ain’t good.

An attorney friend of mine suggested that every one of us who got these ludicrous tickets should all request jury trials in order to clog up the courts as a form of civic protest, to discourage the City from pulling these blatant money-grubbing shenanigans in the future.

But like everyone else, I’ll go online and pay the twelve bucks. I’d just like the money to go to fighting crime, instead of to pay salaries for more Parking Service employees to write more tickets to generate more revenue to pay salaries for more Parking Services employees, etc, etc.

Or here’s an idea: Maybe the money could go to help make it possible to at least pay our water bills online without a PayPal account, since interestingly the City has already chosen to make it very quick and easy for us to pay parking tickets online.

Choosing which way to face doesn’t just apply to parking your car. cs

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Below average: We’re the Spicolis of the world and we’re OK with that The results of the Programme for International Student Assessment were released last week, and compared to their international compatriots, American kids are a bunch of wall-eyed mouthbreathers who can’t do math.

OK, not exactly. But who doesn’t love a little hyperbole in the face of bad news? The PISA scores unarguably reflect a disturbing trend in American education: Basically, we’re not trending whatsoever.

Statistically, the U.S. ranked 26th out of 34 countries assessed by the France-based Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) in mathematics.

Hopefully you don’t need a calculator to see that’s below average.

No one’s surprised to see Hong Kong, Korea and Japan dominate the top scores; those kids eat algebra flakes for breakfast.

But dude, we were beaten by Estonia. The PISA test doesn’t have a geography section, but considering the results of another educational assessment test, most American high school students doesn’t even know where Estonia is. (It’s hiding on the western edge of Russia, across the Baltic Sea from Finland. Yes, I had to look it up. By the way, it’s unlikely Estonia will remain unheard of for long: This tiny former Soviet country has only had the internet for like five minutes and is already leading the charge in e-commerce, producing over 1 percent of its GDP from information technologies.)

Let’s face it: In the fast times of the world’s classroom, the American kid is Spicoli. The bureacrats can blow endless hot air about “preparing our students for the global marketplace” and “technology skills blahblahblah,” but our happy-go-luckies know they can fritter away the afternoons surfing and playing Minecraft and still live in the wealthiest democracy that ever existed.

Do you hear Mr. Hand shaking his head a and muttering, “You’re just not living up to your potential, son”?

When it comes to reading and science, the U.S skates in at right around average compared to other OECD

countries. What’s wrong with average, you ask? Maybe we’re not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but at least there’s some electricity moving through the synapses, right?

Except that our C-to-C minus scores haven’t changed at all since the last PISA 10 years ago, while poor countries like Poland and Ireland showed vast improvements. That means for all the money shoveled in educational assessment programs in the past decade, American educational scores have stayed stagnant as a pond next to the nuclear waste dump.

Some will say that the PISA scores don’t mean so much that we’re getting dumber; it’s just that the other countries are getting smarter. Really, what’s the difference? It’s a global game now, baby, and our kids are sitting on the bench examining their navels while their Asian and European counterparts bounce in free throws off the backboard. (Come to think of it, that’s a ridiculous metaphor. Everyone knows that if this was a basketball contest, we would be killing it.)

The flip side is that often out of navels comes brilliance — some of the worst test takers have gone on to become the geniuses and entrepreneurs who invent Silicon Valley or take cancer treatment to the next level.

According to education expert and Reign of Error author Diane Ravitch, the “can-do spirit” of America can’t be measured by international tests.

“The scores tell us nothing about students’ imagination, their drive, their ability to ask good questions, their insight, their inventiveness, their creativity,” wrote Ravitch last week.

If we continue to ruler-slap our kids for their lame international rankings, she continues, “we will crush the very qualities that have given our nation its edge as a cultivator of new talent and new ideas for many years.”

No one is suggesting that we turn our climate of creative capitalism into factories full of blank-faced automatons spewing out calculus formulas.

But we’ve spent a crapton of money on programs to address our poor performance that seem like the exact opposite of actual education. Literally billions have been spent trying to figure out how to make our kids perform better on tests like PISA while schools themselves are starved of educational resources. We’re the rich

Mr. Hand, will I pass the assessment test? Gee, Mr. Spicoli, I don’t know!

but no new materials or funds to implement them.

We say we want to grow engineers and scientists in this country, but budgets for new computers and lab facilities continue to be chopped.

Teachers are dealing with a constantly shifting foundation, trying to navigate overstuffed classrooms and administrative commands.

Students — our kids — are tested to hell and back on subjects they may not have had time to understand.

Throw in a coarsening culture where third graders regularly drop F-bombs at recess and an epidemic of special needs diagnoses that each come with a separate and unique individual education plan, and it’s no wonder American education is a snarl of unfocused chaos.

It seems like America’s performance in the global classroom probably won’t improve until we have the courage to address it in the context of our particular cultural and socioeconomic problems: The disparate poverty gap, our hellacious nutritional habits (including their effects on brain development) and the ultimate elephant sitting in the corner wearing a dunce cap, race relations.

Maybe it’s time for America to stop trying to keep up with the rest of the world’s test scores and instead focus our standards on how to become good global citizens — perhaps our role isn’t to churn out math prodigies, but well-rounded leaders.

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kids whose parents keep trying to buy good grades instead of sitting down at the kitchen table and helping with the homework, and it just doesn’t work.

No Child Left Behind promised results but punished teachers, and the Hunger Games-esque Race to the Top pit already struggling schools against each other for funding. Talk about suffocating that “can-do spirit”!

Now it’s corporate-sponsored Common Core, a set of “robust and relevant to the real world” standards spearheaded by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

Higher standards are good. But expecting teachers and students to accomplish them in the trenches of our broken public school system is a level of magical thinking straight out of Hogwarts. How can your raise standards when the old ones aren’t even being met? Over a quarter of American sophomores still don’t even meet the baseline math proficiency at which students “begin to demonstrate skills that will enable them to participate effectively and productively in life.” The OECD report doesn’t specifically list what those productive life skills are, but surely they surpass the simple ability to operate a cash register while simultaneously asking “would you like extra horsey sauce with that?”

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City brings conservation to the classroom and beyond

Everything takes water.

From agriculture to engineering and manufacturing to electricity, humanity depends on those two hydrogen atoms attached to a single oxygen atom.

Lately, however, our fate appears grim as pollution and salinization threaten what was once thought to be a limitless fresh water supply. Millions of people around the world are without access to clean water. Futurists claim that the next giant wars will be fought over water, not oil.

Here in Savannah, with its shimmering creeks and sparkling ocean, there seems to be plenty of water, water everywhere. But that doesn’t mean citizens shouldn’t be paying attention.

“We can’t separate our local water issues from our global water issues,” implores Margosia Jadkowski, Environmental Services Planner for the City of Savannah. “You don’t have to go very far from home to see water shortages.”

The last decade’s extreme droughts have left the middle of the state and parts of South Carolina parched, and water quality remains a relevant topic. The city draws the majority of its water from the Floridan Aquifer, a confined natural underground well that stretches across the entire state of Florida as well as parts of Georgia,

South Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama. Billions of gallons are pumped per day from it for urban and industrial use, though recent intrusions of saltwater into the aquifer have necessitated cutbacks. Supplemental sources, like the Savannah River at the intake at Abercorn Creek, are also in potential danger of salinization with the proposed harbor deepening.

What this means is we don’t have water to waste. While Jadkowski assures that the Savannah’s water system is in good shape compared to other cities where water and other utilities have been privatized (“We’re accountable to our residents, not to shareholders,” she explains), she also advocates for public awareness for our most precious resource.

“Being a responsible steward of our resources is part of the definition of what it means to be a good citizen and a good neighbor.” says the trained geologist and environmental policy wonk.

A regular presenter at the Earth Day and Food Day festivals, Jadkowski engages folks of all ages to conserve water in manageable ways by shutting off the sink while brushing your teeth and keeping pipes free of clogs by not dumping fats, oils and grease (a triple threat collectively known as F.O.G.) Operating from a

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City of Savannah Environmental Services Planner Margosia Jadkowski wants us all to become better stewards of our water resources.

small office on Factor’s Walk with a view of the freighters floating by on the river, she also oversees the city’s regular prescription pill collections to prevent folks from flushing hazardous materials into the water system.

To encourage locals to use water responsibly, Jadkowski has also developed several outreach programs to educate citizens on conservation. Her department gives away free Water Conservation Kits and heads up the city’s Free Low-Flow Toilet Program. Replacing leaky old toilets with higher-efficiency models can save a household up to 35,000 gallons a year — and a significant reduction on the utility bill.

“It can be hard to incentivize

conservation,” she says. “The Lowflow Toilet program has been successful because it’s real water savings we can measure.”

Though some are in a flurry that water rates will go up $1.50 a month in 2014, it’s still far cheaper to drink: Jadkowski points out that savings also come when residents realize the superiority of drinking out of the tap.

While many believe drinking bottled water is healthier, all of those plastic bottles clog waterways and create pollution. What many don’t know is that EPA’s regulations for tap water are far more stringent than the FDA’s for bottled water, and Savannah’s water is some of the cleanest in the world.

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“Margosia did a great job of relating a variety of water issues that the city is dealing with,” says Marsha Lucas, who teaches high school chemistry and environmental science at SCDS. “She began by taking them on a Google trip down the Savannah River and discussed the importance of keeping the river clean as related to the ocean.

The deepening of the harbor was an especially relevant topic which allowed her to explain the importance of an Environmental Impact Statement.”

Lucas says that the curriculum helped her students make the connection between what goes down the drain and the environment, informing them about the clogging effects of F.O.G and the dangers of flushing medications.

“She stressed conservation, sustainability, recycling and reusing and did an amazing job of relating to my students,” affirms Lucas.

Jadkowski and the City of

Savannah have also published an activity coloring book for younger minds. Saving Savannah’s Water follows Salty the Pelican as he learns how to protect the watershed, bringing third graders along for the ride.

The concepts of salinization, conservation and sustainability are clearly

communicated, aided by Cami Sanders’ art.

The idea is to grow awareness at all levels not just about direct water usage (flushing the toilet, washing clothes, etc.) but also the indirect water usage involved in the food we grow and our electricity sources. (Your average shower uses 60 gallons. The water cost of a single hamburger: 660 gallons.)

The city makes Jadkowski and her programs available not just for school visits, but also to educate neighborhood associations and civic organizations.

“The goal is to instill an ethic of conservation in our residents,” says Jadkowski, adding that every drop makes a difference.

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cups a day out of the tap costs about fifty cents a year. The same amount from a bottle? Around $1400.

With the help of Environmental Services colleague Laura Walker, Jadkowski has also implemented school curriculums to help a new generation of conscious water users learn not just the how of conservation, but the why.

Sustainability and the Savannah River Watershed is an interdisciplinary high school curriculum that brings together biology, earth science and social studies for a comprehensive view of what a sustainable watershed could look like. Jadkowski admonishes that Savannah is an excellent place to teach students about water thanks to its unique tide, flat river bottom and “dendritic” system of waterways (referring to the rootlike maze of creeks and tributaries intersecting the marshes and islands.)

Defining sustainability as “the intersection of the environment, society and the economy,” Jadkowski uses her place-based curriculum to “take standard concepts and frame them in a localized way.” So far she has presented it at Islands High, Windsor

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Oh, we how love “to go.”

Whether it’s a burger or a beer, Savannahians take full advantage of the ability to take their food and beverages out the door of their original establishments.

The problem is that all those Solo cups, Styrofoam clamshells and plastic bags add up to a tremendous and tragic amount of waste. Overflowing landfills and the giant churning whirlpool of pollution in the Pacific Ocean are wake-up calls to cut down on those ubiquitous disposable containers.

But it is possible to turn the tide?

Ashley Workman believes you have to start somewhere.

The Molly McPherson’s bartender and Tybee surfer girl has launched the BYOB Project, an awareness campaign to encourage patrons of Savannah restaurants to “bring your own bag.” Though she admits the task sounds overwhelming, she is buoyed by her motto: “Saving the planet, one bag at a time.”

A 14-year veteran of the downtown bar and restaurant scene, Workman has also rallied members of the tightknit service community around reducing plastic bag use. She and other servers now give out reusable ones emblazoned with restaurant logos to use for to-go orders — promoting environmental awareness with the added bonus of free marketing.

“I consider it a privilege to represent the Hostess City, and I think we can lead by example,” explains the recent AASU Liberal Studies graduate, a festive flower tucked behind one ear. “We spend 12 million gallons of fossil fuels on plastic bags every year. That’s disgusting.”

What started as a “vigilante citizen rant” to county officials has blossomed into a movement. Customers who bring their own bags Dec. 14-22 will receive 10 percent off their to-go orders at participating restaurants, including Molly McPherson’s, Congress Street Social Club and all three B&D Burgers locations. Tybee Island’s Huc-a-Poo’s and Sting Ray’s have also joined the crusade.

“I would love more establishments to join in — even up until the last minute!” Workman urges. “Even just pledging a discount to encourage their customers to participate would be fantastic.”

The point is to offer an alternative to what Workman calls “an alternative to the running tally of environmental mishaps in the realm of food and beverage.” The commemorative bags sell for around $10, and she points out that customers pay a charge anyway for disposable packaging.

But the success of the project depends on folks bringing the bag back the next time they call in for takeout. To inspire diners to get in the habit of bringing their own bags not just to the grocery store, Workman Surfer girl Ashley Workman of the BYOB project

has spearheaded a BYOB kickoff event in Forsyth Park this Saturday, Dec. 14.

“How do you make a loud roar?

You throw a big party!” she laughs.

The festivities begin at noon in conjunction with the last hour of the Forsyth Farmers Market and continue into the afternoon. Restaurant vendors will offer merch and raffle tickets, and the City of Savannah will set up a RecycleRama collection point for old electronics. A slammin’ dodgeball tournament is open to those 16 and older, and the Train Wrecks, the Accomplices and the Charlie Fog Band will serenade.

Hopefully, there won’t be a plastic bag in sight.

Twenty years of surfing on Tybee Island have cultivated Workman’s passion for ecological clean-up. She often spends time picking up trash off the beach and laments that the average plastic bag only gets 20 minutes of use but sticks around forever in the environment.

“I’d love for this to be a jumping-off point to address a whole spectrum of issues,” says Workman, maintaining that the way for progress to be made is for each of us to make small efforts where we can.

“I want to show people that it is feasible to minimize waste. Just pick an area. This is just one.”

Armed with that sunny attitude and community spirit, Workman has already made waves on the plastic bag front with the BYOB Project.

Her next target of consciousness-raising in the local restaurant industry? Those horrid Styrofoam clamshells. cs The BYOB Project When: Noon-4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 14 Where: Forsyth Park Cost: Free admission; dodgeball tournament $10 adults/$5 students/$50 team Info: BYOBProject@gmail. com and facebook.com/ Bring Your Own Bag Project

Chatham Police Dept. incident reports

Violent week Two homicides and shootings that left three hospitalized on Saturday are being investigated by police.

“Detectives believe they are not related and the victims and suspects in each case were known to each other,” a police spokesman says.

Rahssan Baker, 16, of the 900 block of East Victory Drive, was found in the street on the 700 block of West 42nd Street about 1:08 a.m. Saturday with at least one gunshot wound. He was transported to Memorial University Medical Center where he is in critical condition.

Moses Mack, 57, of the 800 block of East Anderson Street was found dead in his bed about 8:30 a.m. with head trauma.

And Hector Brown, 36, died and two other men were injured in a triple shooting on the 1200 block of

East 39th Street about 11:29 p.m.

Brown, Fred Stringer, 34, of 2129 Oakland Court, and Jerome Polite, 33, of the 400 block of Carolynn Street had left a party on the block when the shootings took place. They reported a man in a pickup truck pulled up beside their vehicle and began firing at then.

The three men were transported to the hospital in private vehicles.

Brown was dead on arrival and the other men were treated for their injuries.

• Police have charged a 20-year-old Statesboro man with murder in the Oct. 19 shooting death of Audie W. Murphy in Savannah.

Jemari Dyquwann Carter was arrested Thursday in Statesboro on warrants taken by homicide detectives. He has been incarcerated in the Chatham County Detention Center.

He admitted his part in the shooting.

Murphy, 25, was found about 8 a.m. on the ground behind the New Covenant Holiness Church in the lane of the 900 block of East Duffy

Street. He had multiple gunshot wounds.

• Investigators are seeking witnesses and clues to a 1:49 a.m. shooting that hospitalized a Savannah man.

Victor Ross, 46, of the 800 block of Kline Street was in critical but stable condition at Memorial University Medical Center where he was transported after the shooting. He was not cooperating with the investigation.

Officers responded to calls to find him with a gunshot wound on Barnard Street near West 33rd Street. He said he was walking towards his residence when a man shot him.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Crimestoppers at (912) 234-2020 or text CRIMES (274637). Tipsters remain anonymous and may qualify for a cash reward. A confidential Tip Line also is open directly to investigators at (912) 525-3124.

• Police have identified a 77-year-old Beaufort, S.C., man who died after a onevehicle crash at the Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport Thursday.

Stuart Dean was declared dead at Memorial University Medical Center after the 3:26 p.m. crash. His wife, Catherine Dean, was listed in stable condition.

The couple was leaving the airport in a maroon Nisssan Murano when the SUV accelerated, left the roadway and struck a tree.

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news of the weird Yellow and brown values

A Swedish TV show, “Biss och Kajs,” found itself in the spotlight in November - in Russia, where government-run television apparently used it to send a political message to Ukraine by highlighting the program’s theme of teaching children about bodily functions.

The episode Russia chose featured three bulkily-costumed actors sitting around talking - with one dressed in yellow, one in brown, and the other unmistakably as a large, nude human posterior. (“Biss och Kajs” is highly regarded in Sweden; “biss” and “kajs” refer, respectively to the yellow and brown functions.) Ukraine (against Russia’s wishes) is considering a trade agreement with the European Union, and, the Russian station director said, pointedly, “There you have European values in all their glory.”

Compelling Explanations

The Bank of England, arguing before the U.K.’s Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards in October, warned against limiting the bonuses that bankers have come to expect from their lucrative deals because that might encroach on their “human rights.” The Bank suggested it is a human rights violation even to ask senior executives to demonstrate that they tried hard to comply with banking laws (because it is the government’s job to prove violations).

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and that they needed a sizable offering to burn. (Actually, the jury bought it.

• (1) A young woman, accosted by a “Distribution” charges were dismissed, robber on Washington, D.C.’s Capitol but the couple still faces jail for their Hill in October, told the man she was cultivation activity.) a low-paid intern - but an intern for the National Security Agency, and that within minutes of robbing her, the man Ironies would be tracked down by ubiquitous The Seattle City Council voted NSA surveillance. She said, in October to seize a later (reported the Washwaterfront parking lot ington Examiner), the man by eminent domain just “looked at me and ran from the 103-year-old away (empty-handed).” owner after negotiations (2) A 29-year-old cafeteto buy the property on i’m stealing ria worker at Sullivan East the open market broke this stuff ...

High School in Blountville, down. The state is fundby the way, can Tenn., swore to police on i have a job? ing a six-year tunnelthe scene in October that digging project in the she was not the one who area, and the city has took money from a codecided it needs the worker’s purse, and she property for not-yetvoluntarily stripped to specified uses - except near-nakedness to demthat in one part of the onstrate her innocence. property, the city said it “See? I don’t have it,” she plans to operate a parksaid. Moments later, an ing lot. officer found the missing $27 stuffed in the woman’s Karma shoe.

• (1) Larry Poulos was stopped on • Katarzyna Dryden-Chouen and an Arlington, Tex., street in Septemher husband Clive, busted in a Lonber, bleeding from a head wound and don police raid last year with a maricomplaining that he had just been juana grow operation that had netted robbed by two men. A friend of Pouan estimated (equivalent) of $450,000, los later corroborated that, but police insisted to a jury in October that their also learned that the money Poulos had massive haul was not for sale but for been carrying was the proceeds of his “personal” use - in that they worhaving robbed a credit union earlier ship the Hindu god Shiva, and truly that evening. He was treated for his believed that the world would end soon wounds and then arrested. (2) At least

44 health workers were struck with a suspected norovirus in September at a Creative Health Care Management convention in Huron, Ohio. (Noroviruses are sometimes called the “Norwalk” virus, named after one notable outbreak in 1968 in Norwalk, Ohio, about 12 miles from Huron.)

• “Masculine” Values: Breakaway former officials of the Boy Scouts of America met in Nashville, Tenn., in September to establish a Scouts-type organization that can freely discourage homosexuality, with one leader promising Fox News that the result would be “a more masculine” program. Another prominent attendee, also quoted in the Fox News dispatch, described his sorrow at the BSA’s embrace of gay boys.

Since this issue broke, he said, “I’ve cried a river.”

• In November, Sweden’s National Housing Board, in charge of building codes, ordered the country’s famous Ice Hotel in Jukkasjarvi (built anew annually out of fresh ice blocks) to install fire alarms. “We were a little surprised when we found out,” said a spokeswoman (who acknowledged that the hotel’s mattresses and pillows could catch fire).

Not My Fault

Conscience-Cleansing: Greg Gulbransen of Oyster Bay, N.Y., announced in September that he was about to sue the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for dragging its feet in implementing the

Perspective

An exhaustive American Civil Liberties Union report in November showed that more than 3,200 people are serving life sentences in the U.S. for non-violent offenses (about 80 percent for drug crimes). Most were sentenced under “three-strikes”-type laws in which the final straw might be for trivial drug possession, for instance, or for a petty theft such as the $159-jacket shoplifting in Louisiana, or the two-jersey theft from a Foot Locker. Said the jacket thief, Timothy Jackson, “I know that for my crime I had to do some time but . . . I have met people here whose crimes are a lot badder with way less

time.” Added his sister, “You can take a life and get 15 or 16 years,” but her brother “will stay in jail forever. He didn’t kill the jacket!”

Undignified Deaths

(1) Douglas Yim, 33, was convicted in September of murdering a 25-year-old man in Oakland, Calif., in 2011 after an evening of teasing by the man, who mocked Yim’s certainty about the existence of God. (2) A 27-year-old yoga fanatic in St. Austell, England, drowned in a pit in May during a well-publicized attempt to create an “out-of-body experience” to get as close to death as possible but without going over the line.

Least Competent Criminals

Recurring Themes: (1) Lawrence Briggs, 18, was arrested in Marshalltown, Iowa, in November after he walked out of a Sports Page store with $153 worth of merchandise he did not pay for. Moments earlier, he had filled out an application to work at Sports Page, and when surveillance cameras

exposed him, managers called him in for an “interview,” and police made the arrest. (2) Troy Mitchell, 47, was arrested after allegedly robbing the Valley First Credit Union in Modesto, Calif., on May 14th. While he was standing at the teller’s window, another employee of Valley First saluted him (“Hi, Troy”) because he remembered Mitchell from April 3rd, when he had applied for a car loan.

A News of the Weird Classic (April 2009)

Australian Marcus Einfeld (a prominent lawyer, federal judge, and Jewish community leader) was once so revered that one organization named him a “living treasure,” but he fell into total disrepute in 2006 by deciding to fight a simple speeding ticket. By March 2009, Einfeld had been sentenced to two years in prison for perjury and obstructing justice for lying in four elaborate detailed schemes to “prove” that he was not driving that day. His original defense (that he had loaned the car to a friend who then passed away) was accepted

by the judge, but dogged reporting by Sydney’s Daily Telegraph revealed that Einfeld lied, and lied to cover up each successive lie. Encouraged, reporters went on to uncover Einfeld’s bogus college degrees and awards and a double-billing fraud against the government. (The speeding ticket would have cost about $80.) CS By chuck shepherd UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE

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I read once about a pork processing operation that was the largest in the U.S. The stockyard had a giant lake of pig excrement contaminated with hormones, heavy metals, and other substances so toxic that people who fell in died in minutes. Surely it would take at least a few hours to die from that kind of exposure. Shed any light? —Mike Industrial pig farming is gross, and industrial pig farm waste, which is measured in the millions of gallons, is really gross. However, it won’t kill you in minutes. Having investigated, we can safely conclude that somebody got their stories mixed up.

I will say this: not all the gruesome things that happen on a pig farm happen to the pigs. We’ll straighten that out later. First, however, we need to get a fix on pig crap.

Remember Upton Sinclair’s 1906 exposé The Jungle, about the Chicago meatpacking industry? Maybe you don’t, but take my word for it: conditions were vile, and they haven’t gotten much prettier since. The main change with respect to pigs is that the loci of disgustingness are now diffused throughout the countryside— good if you’re a city dweller, bad if you live next door to a pig farm: • Fecal floods. A modern hog-raising operation may house tens of thousands of animals, all producing waste, which flows into a vast holding pond and mainly stays there—when all goes according to plan. When it doesn’t, such as happened in June 1995 at Oceanview Hog Farm in North Carolina, the holding pond gives way and 25 million gallons of liquid waste inundates the vicinity, submerging fields and killing 3,000 fish in a river.

• Exploding foaming pig poop. You think I’m making this up? Sadly, no.

Pig manure, like most forms of solid animal excreta, gives off methane as it decays—not a good thing for the

environment, but historically not an immediate threat. That changed four or five years ago, when factory farm workers started finding a layer of foam up to four feet thick forming on top of some pig waste pits. Methane and other gases get trapped beneath, and when ignited by a stray spark they can explode with deadly effect.

Since 2009 more than such 30 incidents have been reported, with barns destroyed, workers injured, and pigs killed as result of FPP detonations.

One blast in Iowa turned 1,500 hogs into premature bacon. The practice of feeding hogs leftover grain from ethanol production may have something to do with it: the foam primarily afflicts farms in the ethanol belt— Minnesota, Illinois, and Iowa—and not so much in hog-rich North Carolina and Virginia.

• Intense eau de pig. The smell of hog farms can affect your health. My assistant Una, who’s been downwind of a feedlot on a warm day, describes it as “like a pile of burning diapers.”

The gases from the urine and feces of hog farms contain ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, methane, and other chemicals so corrosive the miasma from the barns dissolves metal. A survey of residents near North Carolina hog farms found many suffered from burning eyes, scratchy throat, respiratory problems, nausea, vomiting, and similar complaints.

• Toxic waste. Thus do we arrive at your question, Mike. No question, heavy metals and other poisons readily find their way into what goes into hogs and thus what comes out.

An extreme example is China, where arsenic is added to pig feed to make the meat redder—a big feedlot there can add a ton of arsenic to the soil in five years.

Extensive searching of news databases turned up no case of anyone dying purely as a result of tumbling into pig excrement. Just the same, you don’t want to lose your footing at a pig farm. In September 2012 an Oregon hog farmer known for the exceptional size of his animals (some over 700 pounds), went missing after going out to feed them. All that could be found several hours later was his dentures and some body parts. Although too little remained to permit a precise determination, apparently he’d fallen and been eaten by his pigs. cs By cecil adams

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Hoedown 2013: The gang’s all cheer It wouldn’t be Christmas in Savannah without the annual Homegrown Holiday Hoedown. Well, OK, it would still be Christmas, but since 2011 — when the Hoedown tradition began — the season’s been considerably more festive ‘round here.

Featuring the Train Wrecks, the Accomplices, American Hologram and the New Familiars (a Charlottebased band), it starts at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14. Be there or be square.

Eric Dunn, who plays standup bass in the Train Wrecks (and is one of the city’s omnipresent and most welcome musicians for “sitting in” with everybody else) recalls the inaugural HHH. Like this one, it took place in the ballroom of American Legion Post 135 on Bull Street.

“I always wanted to do a show at the Legion,” he explains. “You know, do a show not in a bar, basically. A real show. And our band and the Accomplices wanted to play together.

It was two or three months before Christmas so we decided to go ahead and make it a Christmas party.”

More specifically, they crafted the With John Pomeroy pulling Santa duty, the 2013 Hoedown crowd includes (clockwise from lower left): Britt Scott, Colleen Heine, Eric Britt, Craig Tanner, Stan Ray, Jeremy Hammons, Matt Eckstine, Jason Bible, Stuart Harmening, Zach Smith and Eric Dunn.

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The 2011 and 2012 Hoedowns sold out — man, were those fun shows — and there’s no reason to think this one will be any different. “I think it’s because it’s not in a bar, and it’s not at midnight,” Dunn reiterates. “It’s more of an event.”

It’s 21+, and there is a cash bar. So, duh.

The Accomplices were fresh-faced and new at the first event; as they get ready to co-headline the 2013 Hoedown as a veteran band, singer and guitarist Matt Eckstine marvels at the changes over the last two years.

“It’s been really coming together with us,” he says. “We’ve been starting to do the touring thing, pretty much like a week a month. I think we’ve been out of town like six weeks in the past four months. We just did the Levon Helm Tribute show in Charlotte, with the Train Wrecks and the New Familiars. It was awesome.”

Also in the pipeline is the second Accomplices’ album. Eckstine, bassist Zach Smith, fiddler Colleen Heine and drummer Stan Ray cut the basic tracks in a rented Fripp Island beach house, and are finishing up with vocals and overdubs at Elevated Basement here in Savannah.

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Britt Scott, one-third of the Lovely Locks, is also part of American Hologram, along with Eric Britt and Craig Tanner.

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It all happened over the summer.

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Craig was always playing with him; he plays really good lead guitar.

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In the middle of Market Street, just a stone’s throw from Compton Park in Wilmington, Delaware, you’ll find David Bromberg Fine Violins, a shop that specializes in appraisals, acquisitions and sales of rare instruments.

The tall, bespectacled fellow behind the counter might look familiar.

Perhaps you’ve seen Mr. Bromberg before — as a folk/blues singer and guitarist, he was Columbia Records’ second-biggest seller in that vein in the early 1970s (the first was Bob Dylan, whose Self Portrait and New Morning sessions — recently reissued, to great acclaim — prominently featured David Bromberg on several virtuosi acoustic instruments).

Bromberg, who studied blues guitar under Rev. Gary Davis, co-wrote a song with George Harrison, played fiddle on an Eagles album and was a guest at The Last Waltz, had a roughly 10-year career exploring American music in all its (dis)guises. He played solo, in duos and small groups, and with an expansive rock ‘n’ roll Big Band. The Grateful Dead backed him on his second album.

In 1980, he called it quits, packing up his wife and guitars for Chicago, where he enrolled at the Kenneth Warren School of Violin Making.

(You read that correctly.)

Bromberg has released three albums since his (sort of) return to performing a dozen years ago; the latest, a blues/rock band album called Only Slightly Mad, brings “The Godfather of Americana” to Randy Wood Guitars’ Pickin’ Parlor for an intimate solo show Saturday, Dec. 14.

We reached Mr. Bromberg at the violin shop.

You stopped making music to learn how to make violins. Why? David Bromberg: The first and

most obvious thing is, I got burnt out.

At one point I was on the road for two years without being home for two weeks. And that is going to do it to you. I was too stupid to realize that I could ever burn out. The conclusion I reached was that I wasn’t a musician, if ever I had been one. I didn’t want to be one of these guys who gets up onstage and does a bitter imitation of something that he used to love — and there are guys like that on the circuit.

I hadn’t gotten to that point, but it was coming.

Did you set a time limit for yourself away from the stage?

David Bromberg: Oh, I didn’t think I would ever play again. If I had realized it was burnout, I would have taken nine months off and been fine.

But instead I felt that I had to find another way to live my life. At the time I was living in Marin County, and the only intellectual stimulation I found was in the violin shop. It fascinated me how a violin maker could look at a violin, and tell when and where it was

made, and sometimes by whom.

Without looking at the label, ‘cause labels are very often changed and switched. And that’s what I wanted to learn. In order to do that, the first thing I had to learn was how to make them myself so I would understand the different methods of construction.

So that’s why I went to violin-making school. I went to school for four years, and after I graduated I spent another 18 years studying old violins. I’ll never learn it all. No human ever will — like music, it’s a bottomless pit. But I really enjoy it. The only thing about doing all this is that I regret, and it’s not that terrible a regret, is that I sold all my guitars, one by one.

So are you a crafts-

David Bromberg: I’m not interested in making them. I think there are plenty of really fine instruments already made, and some very good makers. I don’t use edge tools. I don’t do repairs. People will bring me instruments, and I tell them what I can about them from looking at them.

Generally, I can tell them what country it was made in, and more or less when, and sometimes by whom. But sometimes I don’t know. And one thing I learned is, when I don’t know I say I don’t know. And that’s an important thing to learn, because your customers want you to know.

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Did they ask why you weren’t doing the thing you were famous for?

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Gay. Black. One-eyed. Junkie. Genius.

Despite his talent and life story, few people outside New Orleans know about the pianist James Booker, but within serious jazz circles he’s legend.

New Orleans lore has it that District Attorney Harry Connick Sr. made a deal with Booker, making a prison sentence for drug possession go away in exchange for piano lessons for his son, Harry Connick Jr. True or not, Connick Jr. did learn the ivories from Booker, as recounted

by Connick himself in the film Bayou Maharajah, screening next Thursday, Dec. 19 at the Jepson Center.

In addition to Connick, Bayou Maharajah features interviews with Hugh Laurie, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, and Charles Neville.

Booker died in 1983 after a troubled life, leaving behind little but memories of his over-the-top personality and complex musical style.

We talked to filmmaker Lila Keibler, a Savannah Arts Academy (class of 2000) and University of Georgia graduate, about her debut documentary, inspired after several years living in the Big Easy.

How did you find out about Booker and what led you to make a film about him?

Lila Keber: In New Orleans he’s such a legend, but when I moved there in 2006 I’d never heard of him before.

My friends in Savannah had also never heard of him. I’m not a musician, but what drew me in was him, his personality and life. The emotional honesty of his music. It’s not easy listening, but if you’re willing to go there you’ll really get a lot out of it.

I felt like I had to get more involved.

It’s been an incredible journey.

And of course there’s this very interesting angle of New Orleans and a whole different musical lifestyle.

This is a story unique to New Orleans, but at the same time not unique at all.

The more I tried to learn about him the more mysterious he became.

There’s very little about him on the internet. The few albums that are out are very strange.

Another mystery about Booker is how he lost his eye. There are all kinds of different stories. To me the whole

thing is a metaphor for the mystery that is him. Rather than having me decide which version is most truthful, I decided to leave it all in, sort of a montage of every story. With someone like Booker, the greater truth is the fact that all these bizarre stories exist at all.

There’s a whole sociopolitical angle with Booker as well — a victim of both racism and homophobia.

Lila Keber: Well, the film is really the story of a creative person trying to find his way in the world. It does deal with race and sexuality but in a more implicit way. Those things are absolutely intrinsic to the story, but I don’t dwell on it. I do touch on him being gay, but for me that’s as far as it needs to go.

Look at the world he was living in then — it wasn’t easy being him even in New Orleans, even in the French Quarter. He also did a stint in Angola, the state penitentiary. Louisiana at that time was not an easy place to be an African American male, and of course there’s never a good time to be in Angola.

Even 30 years later some people I talked to about him were shocked

What is Booker’s impact on the jazz world really?

they all say is how that relationship is one of the deepest in the film. You really feel the love when Harry talks about Booker. He becomes that little kid on screen again, he becomes a kid talking about his favorite uncle.

Many documentary filmmakers I interview seem to err on the side of inclusion and pack too many interviews and too much footage into one film.

Lila Keber: Booker’s Lila Keber: I had the whole life is a series opposite problem of complicated (laughs). People mysteries, but said, oh you’ll the one inconnever find any trovertible footage of him. thing is his Well, that’s not music is stunreally true. I ning. He was found enough one of Amerfootage to ica’s greatest populate the piano players. film. It’s very He developed interesting — 90 an entirely new percent of it is approach.

European. EuropeThere’s this early ans for whatever reascene where Harry Conson — we hear this again nick Jr., breaks down and again — could take Booker’s style. He shows Filmmaker and Savannahian him more seriously and Lily Keber the left hand doing one appreciate him more thing, the right hand than he ever was statedoing another thing, and also finger side. It’s an implicit commentary by finger. With Booker every finger that’s true today. In New Orleans was doing a different thing, referenceven today all the bands go to Europe ing a different part of the song. for summer festivals to make their It’s incredible. It’s unlike anything money for the year. else before or since. Certainly pianists It also seems common for filmmakers and musicians can hear how comto sort of over-identify with their subplicated his style was, but I wanted ject, to get too detailed for the general to make sure this was accessible to public. How do you check yourself to anyone. make sure that doesn’t happen?

Harry Connick Jr. is known for being Lila Keber: It’s a fine line. You want to very approachable, but still... you getmake a film that on one hand anyone ting so much cooperation from him on regardless of background or knowlthis film is a really big deal. edge can appreciate, but also one that Lila Keber: Harry Connick Sr. was appeases diehard fans. I wanted to the New Orleans district attorney for make sure I was saying something many, many years. As a sitting DA deeper. Not just crazy anecdotes, but he would have James Booker, this revealing deeper truths. renowned outspoken drug user, over The film raises more questions than to his house to give lessons to young answers. One of the greatest compliHarry Connick Jr. It’s a real New ments I get is people saying “I was Orleans story. Only in New Orleans is thinking about your movie the next that social dynamic going to work. couple of days afterward.” There’s Harry Connick Jr. is an integral no instance where there’s a simple character in the film. He’s almost a answer. With Booker, it’s always more narrator. And there would be no Conlike, “yes, but…” cs nick Jr. as we know him today without James Booker.

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Karla Mobley and Patty Caswell have been best friends for over 17 years. Between raising kids and keeping the hubbies happy, they spent a lot of time in the kitchen working on what tasted good, what dishes really brought a smile to people’s faces…and they discovered they were pretty good at it too.

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Retiring from years in food service may mean to some that all that kitchen time is put to the side and living on take-out is the way to go, but not these two. Karla grew up in Savannah and knows what is popular down south. Patty hails from Missouri, not so far away — when her husband retired from the military they decided to move back here where her parents live.

So, what do you do when the kids have vacated the nest, and you have so much time on your hands, those same hands that kept busy for so long making meals and changing diapers?

As Patty tells me, “We’re just two grandmas who are not getting any younger and we decided to do something we always wanted to do. We both love to cook, and we wanted to open a neighborhood café where people could gather, be comfortable, eat good food at good prices, browse the Internet, study, read, relax.”

No interior designers needed, the two ladies decided on a soft, comforting sage green for the walls, mismatched but tidy table and chair sets,

paintings dug up from artistic relatives and fun garage-sale trips, and a touch of exotica to spice things up— check out that lovely wall hanging made of old saris from India.

Oh, yes, and “NO paper plates and plastic cutlery here!” says Patty. The plates are heavy Fiesta-ware types in bright colors, good-quality sturdy cutlery and cute additions like the little pitchers for the cream with your coffee!

Friendly service, a handful of delicious baked goods that changes weekly, breads that are baked fresh daily, home-grown specials that are fast becoming favorites, like baked spaghetti or the wildly popular Sloppy Joes, Karla’s favorite chicken salad available by the pint (as well as on sandwiches) and a few favorites like Red Velvet, Carrot cake, real butter Pound cake, Triple Chocolate, Cranberry-Orange and Caramel cake make up a tempting selection for desserts.

One of my faves is the very rich Crème-de-Menthe iced brownie — perfect with a hot cup of coffee and

cream from that little pitcher. My daughter likes their lemon squares— plenty of sweet delights to choose from here.

And what about the food? “We fix food that we like to eat ourselves!” says Patty. Good sandwiches and paninis, fresh salads, a good pasta salad with olive oil and pesto (instead of drenched in mayo), tuna salad and chicken salad — choose hot or cold and pick your cheese.

The sliced turkey with Havarti-Dill cheese is quite tasty — it started out cold, as ordered, but when I see my friend’s Hot Roast Beef Panini, I ask for my sandwich to be put into the press as well, and Karla kindly obliges.

Breakfast here is light and easy to carry out, like their baked croissants, muffins with honey butter, and Morning Pocket with ham, cheddar and scrambled egg stuffed in a toasted pita. Bring in your laptop and take advantage of the free wi-fi, have a light and tasty lunch or a cuppa joe with a banana nut muffin while you study.

Patty and Karla are happy to continue their family tradition of good, simple food served with warm heart, and make that special effort to help each customer feel welcomed and at home. What else could one ask from two grandmas on a mission? cs Kapa Café, 1514 Bull St., 344-4828

FORM’s foray into craft beer “IT’S NOT a typical restaurant.”

That’s how chef John Osborne describes FORM, a bustling hybrid retail space that seamlessly transforms into a dining room at night. Located in a former bank on the Habersham Street corridor well known for casual but quality restaurants, FORM is flanked by the gourmet burgers of Green Truck and the BBQ twists from Blowin’ Smoke. But like John says, FORM isn’t what you may expect in a traditional restaurant.

The inside of FORM is tight but expertly curated with a well-stocked cheese case, hundreds of bottles of wine and a wide variety of local, artisan olive oils and assorted packaged foodstuffs. What most people seem to know about FORM isn’t the retail side per se; but its divine cheesecakes along with an ever-evolving “gourmet-to-go” menu.

Co-owner Claude Auerbach isn’t satisfied to rest on its current reputation. He’s beginning to expand his

retail and dining operations to include a new offering: craft beer.

“Our hope is that FORM will be a welcome addition to the beer event world,” says Auerbach.

The initial foray into craft beer retail includes cases of Bell’s Two Hearted Ale, Westbrook’s White Thai and Lagunitas’ IPA stacked high next to the register, patiently waiting for a reorganization of the shelving, a new cooler and redesign of the former bank vault to hold additional bottles. Large format offerings from Dogfish Head like Birra Etrusca and Black and Blue are available cold, just inside the front door. The six-pack pricing is aggressive for craft beer and on the lower side of what local buyers may be used to paying.

To announce its new emphasis on craft beer, FORM hosted a craft beer pairing dinner Dec. 6. The five course menu was a varied collection, each matched with an English, Belgian or Belgian-inspired beverage.

Alongside a welcoming bread and cheese board complemented by a creamy and salty bacon-chicken liver mousse, glasses of La Chouffe Belgian Strong and Saison Dupont ales were poured. Guests mingled over the sounds of classic LPs on a turntable.

Holy craft beer, Batman! FORM Chef Osborne

After seating and an introduction from owners Auerbach and Brian Torres, Chef Osborne drew back the curtain to his surprisingly tiny kitchen to preview the first course of fresh octopus, squid and shrimp in curried seafood broth with sesame rice noodles, paired with Houblon Chouffe Dobbelen IPA Tripel. This is a world-class Belgian IPA with a hearty 9% ABV and notes of lemony citrus, honey sweetness and herbal spices.

Chef Osborne described it as “French technique using Thai ingredients” — a statement that synthesizes his unique outlook and creativity in preparing meals.

A palate cleanser of cucumbers with pomegranate and vanilla in a sorbet glass led to the second course,

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golden fig and moroccan spice braised chicken over tri-color cous cous with butternut squash and sweet potato puree with herb puree garnish presented with a glass of Allagash’s Curieux Tripel.

The main course was bison short ribs braised with coffee and cocoa served over northern white beans with red wine and soy mushrooms. Being paired with Sam Smith’s Organic Chocolate Stout was another surprise.

Typically described as a dessert beverage due to the chocolate flavor in the beer, it held up well against the earthy beans and sharp bursts of flavor from the juicy rehydrated mushrooms.

The final course was dessert and in perhaps the biggest shock of the evening, FORM forsook their go-to cheesecake line and instead served a date and cranberry bread pudding with St. Bernardus’ Christmas Ale. FORM plans to regularly host beer dinners along with wine tastings and perhaps even hold dual pairing events to expose beer drinkers to new wines and vice-versa. The segue into craft beer and incorporating diverse beer styles into the menu is a natural fit for Chef Osborne, a long-time craft beer drinker and occasional homebrewer.

“I got into North Coast’s Old Rasputin and started buying big bottles.

As I started to cook I began to love it even more and realize the potential of what beer could do with food was a huge thing for me” says Osborne. cs

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Savannah’s Clay Spot, 1305 Barnard St.

Paintings by Cait Willis —

Paintings that interpret visual constructs gleaned from TV and computer screen anomalies. Opening reception Saturday, 12/14 6-9pm. Conversation between the artist and Jody Jenkins at 7pm.

Indigo Sky Community Gallery, 915 Waters Ave.

New York Accents — An exhibition of visual art, decorative and fine art objects from Telfair Museums’ permanent collection dating from the early 19th century to the present, exploring the rich influence of New York on Savannah. Museum admission. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St.

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lery presents a combined show by Austin Highfield and Dame Darcy that examines the duality of 2D and 3D art work. Show opening Friday December 13th 6-8pm. Blick Art Materials, 318 East Broughton St.

Curious Creatures and Terrible Tales — Michael

Mahaffey’s detailed handmade stencils and spray paint on canvas, wood and paper. Reception Friday December 13, 2013 6-8pm (Rescheduled from Dec. 6). Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St.

Continuing Exhibits 1st Art Exhibition and Sale — Works created in the

City of Savannah’s classes and workshops during 2013, featuring over 200 works created by thirtyfive students and instructors. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St.

Work by Cait Willis is on display at Indigo Sky on Waters Avenue; reception Saturday Adam Gabriel Winnie Exhibition — Life-size charcoal

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Closing Reception: Fri. December 13, 7-9pm.

Desotorow Gallery, 2427 Desoto Ave. Alex Prager: Mise-enscène — Features two

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SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Art by Edward Jones — Sculpture using a

variety of media, including recycled wood, PVC, resin and glass. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St.

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hibition features more than 70 objects from a broad geographical area including the Middle East, Turkey, Indian sub-continent, North Africa and Europe and spanning 20 centuries. Jepson Center, 207 West York St.

Leonardo Drew: Selected Works — Elaborate ab-

Pierre Gonnord: Portraying the South — In recognition

Tibby Llewellyn and fiber artist Gini Steele. Gallery 209, 209 E River St.

Savannah’s iconic Spanish moss. Arnold Hall, 1810 Bull St.

Contemporary Southern Landscape — The unique

Ice or Salt — Iconic and re-

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

Exhibition by Diana Al-Hadid — Large-scale gypsum

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.

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works on paper by SCAD alumna Blanche Nettles Powers, whose abstracted imagery derives from

Allure of the Near East: Treasures From the Huntington Museum of Art’s Touma Collection — Ex-

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

Marc Osborne’s ‘It’s Going to be Okay, Even if it Isn’t’ — Works in illustration,

fine art, and printmaking trying to make beautiful works from prior mistakes. The Butcher Tattoo Studio, 19 East Bay St.

Merry Art Market — Meet and greet the artists and purchase pottery, silver-

of the 50th anniversary of the death of William Faulkner, the artist conducted a three-month residency in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

Reception Friday, Jan. 24, 6:30-7:30 p.m. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Reconstruction — A sitespecific, commissioned painting installation by Adam Cvijanovic. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Reverie: Claire Rosen photography — Recent

photographs by SCAD alumna Claire Rosen (B.F.A. photography, 2006). SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

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exhibition of turntables hand crafted with lumber salvaged from local antebellum homes, North Carolina mountain barns and an old country schoolhouse in Bryan County. Free and open to the public. Maldoror’s Frame Shop, 2418 Desoto Ave. Vibe Electricity — An exhi-

bition of folk art paintings by local artist Jeff Zeigler.

The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave.

Warhol/JFK: November 22, 1963, A Selection of Andy Warhol Prints from the Herbert Brito Collection — Featuring rarely seen

Warhol prints, including “Flash – November 22, 1963” screenprint portfolio, including a complete collection of 11 images inspired by the tragic event. Jepson Center, 207 West York St. cs

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Unfortunately, the film itself is a disappointment, a flat endeavor so tonally off that it fails to stir much emotion. Upon revisiting the trailer, it’s easy to see how I was duped: Much of the two minutes is powered by the singing of Jennifer Hudson, and her incredible voice would make even a laundry detergent commercial seem like an occasion to stand up and cheer.

Hudson plays Naima, a Baltimore single mom whose impending eviction forces her to ship her teenage son Langston (Jacob Latimore) to Harlem to live with her parents until she can take care of him again. Reverend Cornell Cobbs (Forest Whitaker) and his wife Aretha (Angela Bassett) haven’t spoken to their estranged daughter Naima in years, but as Christians, they’re not about to turn away their own grandson. But Langston

isn’t happy with the arrangement, and his desire to nab enough money to reunite him with his mom places him in the company of a shady character named Loot (Tyrese Gibson), a street huckster with the potential to lead the boy down the wrong path.

Lemmons has proven herself to be an accomplished filmmaker with such interesting works as Eve’s Bayou and Talk to Me, so it’s surprising to note just how lackluster this turns out to be, with its simplistic storyline and frequently drab camerawork almost as much of a drag as the amateurish central performance by Latimore. Hudson’s singing and Whitaker’s acting compensate somewhat, but for a truly inventive and uplifting AfricanAmerican piece set in New York during the continues on p. 34

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Frozen

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Using Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen as its loose source, this Disney delight dares to crinkle the studio’s patented formula a tad by presenting audiences with not one but two female leads - neither of whom make it her main mission in life to snag a fellow. Instead, Frozen is ultimately a tale of sisterly love, as young Anna can’t understand why she’s forced to spend much of her childhood segregated from her older sibling Elsa. What she doesn’t know is that Elsa can’t touch anything without it frosting over - she’s like a combination of X-Men sweethearts Rogue and Iceman - and the girls have been separated for what’s believed to be in the best interests of both.

But on the day that Elsa (now voiced by Idina Menzel) is declared queen, her powers inadvertently freeze the entire town, leading her to

dash into the icelands while the villagers clamor for her head. But not Anna (Kristen Bell), who, with the encouragement of a dashing suitor named Hans (Santino Fontana), hightails it after her sister. This being a Disney toon, she naturally picks up some companions along the way, including the hulking outdoorsman Kristoff (Jonathan Groff), his reindeer sidekick Sven and the perpetually perky snowman Olaf (Josh Gad), who amusingly has it in his icy head that he would love the summer months.

As is often the case with CGI cartoons, the backgrounds are rendered in more convincing detail than the human characters’ expressions; here, the animation team kicks it up a notch, creating a wintry wonderland that’s dazzling to behold.

The romance is more complicated than in most Disney flicks, with Anna-Hans-Kristoff basically serving as the animated equivalent to CatnissPeeta-Gale or Bella-Edward-Jacob.

It’s all in the service of a crowdpleaser certain to ice most of its holiday competition.

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE

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Is it November 2014 yet? Because that’s when the third movie in the franchise based on Suzanne Collins’ best-selling novels is due for release - an impossibly long wait for those of us ready to keep watching as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire came to its climactic close. Yes, it’s that good. Bucking the laws of diminishing returns when it comes to sequels, it’s even better than last year’s The Hunger Games, itself no slouch in the entertainment department.

Picking up where the first film left off, with Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) back at home in District 12 after winning the 74th annual Hunger Games (sorry, series newbies will have to catch up on their own), there are all sorts of problems brewing on the local and national scenes.

Katniss’ main squeeze, Gale (Liam Hemsworth), wants to believe that her heart still belongs to him, but he’s bothered by her actions during the competition, when she convincingly

made it look like she loved Peeta in an effort to save both their lives. Peeta, for his part, doesn’t appreciate the brushoff she’s given him since returning home, and he mopes around as only the puppyish Peeta can.

Meanwhile, in the Capitol, President Snow (Donald Sutherland) senses in Katniss the spark needed for a revolution, and he employs ominous threats against her loved ones to get her to cooperate. She agrees to be a complacent winner, smiling wanly at the throngs of crowds as she and Peeta make their way through the requisite victory tour, but Snow remains unconvinced. So at the urging of the latest Games designer (a slippery Philip Seymour Hoffman), the prez decides that it’s back to the killing fields for Katniss and Peeta, with their new allies and enemies coming in the form of the cocky Finnick (Sam Claflin), the volatile Johanna (Jena Malone), the soft-spoken Beetee (Jeffrey Wright) and other past winners like themselves.

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Brett (Chris Pratt), David’s lawyer and best friend, urges his client to lay low until he can file a countersuit, but finally sensing an opportunity to add meaning to his life, David instead assigns himself the role of guardian angel, injecting himself into the lives of these now-grown kids while keeping his identity hidden.

This leads to countless vignettes of wavering mediocrity. It’s a remake of 2011’s Starbuck, with that film’s writer-director, Ken Scott, assuming the same positions here; I haven’t seen that picture, but surely it must contain more humor and heart than the synthetic slop presented here.

12 Years a Slave

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Slavery is such a cancerous tumor on our American heritage that it always amazes me that anyone can call this the greatest nation in the world with a straight face. Like the

landmark 1977 miniseries Roots, 12 Years a Slave turns to recorded history to gather the evidence, but because it’s an R-rated movie rather than a primetime-friendly TV show, the ghastly sights and accompanying sounds on display in this new piece will disturb far more deeply.

Based on the same-named 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup, this shows how Mr. Northup (superbly played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) is enjoying life as a happy husband, a proud papa and, most crucially, a free black man in 1841 New York when his life takes a calamitous turn.

Lured to Washington, D.C., under the pretense of employing his musical skills for the benefit of a traveling show, he instead is chained, beaten and provided with a new identity as a Georgia runaway named Platt. He’s taken to a particularly capitalistic slave trader (Paul Giamatti), who in turn sells him to a soft-spoken Baptist preacher named William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch).

Ford, who owns a vast Louisiana plantation, admires Northup for his engineering skills, but trouble arises when one of his foremen (Paul Dano) takes it upon himself to teach this slave a lesson.

Circumstances dictate that Northup be shuttled off to another owner, but unlike Ford, the sadistic Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender) likes nothing about his new slave and seeks only to keep him down.

Knowing the story’s outcome does nothing to lessen the potency of what’s shown on screen, largely because of the courageous manner in which director Steve McQueen holds certain shots as if he’s daring us to look away for even a second.

Audience unease also solidifies when the focal point is Patsey, a young slave who stirs the lust of Epps and earns the hatred of his wife (Sarah Paulson). Making her feature debut, Mexican-born, Kenyan-raised and Yale-educated Lupita Nyong’o is outstanding in the role, as Patsey is willing to learn what it takes to survive (as Northup has done) but too boxed in to really persevere.

While Ejiofor and Nyong’o should emerge as the film’s award contenders, Fassbender and Cumberbatch deserve mention for presenting wide contrasts in the banality of evil. CS

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palpable sense of danger. For all the kid-on-kid brutality in the first film, it truly felt like a “game,” as these teens and preteens ran around the forest picking up skills while picking each other off - you could almost envision a Parker Bros. board game.

But in this latest film, the tension is heightened on every front. As again portrayed by a chilling Sutherland, President Snow is a deadly adversary, far more threatening than anything the Hunger Games can conjure up (be it the wasps in the first film or a tidal wave in this one), and his malevolent presence hangs over all 12 districts like a poisonous fog.

Still, it’s Jennifer Lawrence who holds our attention throughout the film. Katniss Everdeen makes for a fantastic heroine, and her appeal is only accentuated by the intuitive and commanding work by Lawrence in the role.

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Free to attend. Note new location, date and time. Food and beverages available for purchase. Call for additional information. Reservations not necessary.

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

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

An informal, left-leaning gathering to discuss politics, the economy, sports, entertainment, or anything else that comes up. Every first and third Thursdays, 7:00 p.m. Tondee's Tavern, 7 E. Bay Street (912) 341-7427 Free , 7 p.m. livingliberally.org/drinking/chapters/ GA/savannah. , 7 p.m

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.

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8th Annual Seacrest Partners Race for Preservation 10K/5K

The newly-redesigned 10K and 5K courses wind through five historic neighborhoods, raising money for Historic Savannah Foundation’s mission of preserving and protecting Savannah’s heritage. Saturday, February 22, 2014 8 a.m. race time. Registration open through 2/21/14. Jan. 4 through Feb. 20, $35-$40. Feb. 21 & 22, $40-$45. $25 for first responders/military/

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Through Feb. 21, 2014 Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. 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. Downtown Neighborhood Association Holiday Tour of Homes

Annual downtown tour showcases historic homes. Funds raised are given to Savannah nonprofits as grants from the Downtown Neighborhood Association.

Afternoon Holiday Home Tour at 11 am ($35) Evening Holiday Home Tour at 5 pm ($35) Victorian Tea at 3 pm and 4 pm ($25) Varies Sat., Dec. 14. dnaholidaytour.com/. Sat., Dec. 14 Forsyth Farmers Market Seeks Sponsors

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Part of the Downtown Neighborhood Association's annual tour weekend, benefiting DNA's grants for local nonprofits. $25 Sun., Dec. 15, 12:30 p.m. dnaholidaytour.com/. Sun., Dec. 15, 12:30 p.m $5 Bikram Yoga Class to Benefit Local Charities

Bikram Yoga Savannah offers a weekly Karma class to raise money for local charities. Thursdays during the 6:30pm class. Pay $5 for class and proceeds are donated to a different charity each month. This is a regular Bikram Yoga class. . 912.356.8280. bikramyogasavannah.com.

Martin de Porres Society Fundraiser

Fundraising dinner, cash bar and auction at The Plantation Club at the Landings. Tickets are $65 per person.

Entertainment will be provided by the Claire Frazier Dupo and Magic Mark Dunston. For information or tickets, call 598-0310. Benefiting The Martin de Porres Society of Savannah's efforts to feed needy families at Christmas. $65 Tue., Dec. 17, 6:30 p.m. Tue., Dec. 17, 6:30 p.m The Plantation Club (at The Landings), Skidaway Island.

One Love Animal Rescue Benefit

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Toys for Tots Fundraiser and Toy Drive

The Coastal Bank’s office in Hinesville, Ga. is raising money and accepting unwrapped toys for the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation in Hinesville. Proceeds from the Toys for Tots fundraiser will purchase Christmas gifts for military families and families in need in Liberty and Long County. Toys and donations may be brought to The Coastal Bank’s Hinesville office, 101 W. Henry Street, through December 15, 2013. Through Dec. 15. Through Dec. 15

Union Mission seeks Holiday Food, Clothing and Toy Donations

Union Mission's Holiday Hope & Happiness Campaign consists of three programs providing food, clothing and toys to people in need during the holidays. Hand Up For Hope seeks general donations for children, teens, adults and veterans. All The Trimmings seeks donations of canned goods and dry goods this holiday season, to provide Union Mission’s permanent supportive housing residents with a nutritious and festive holiday meal. fulfill the wishes of a child or a family as part of Union Mission’s Angel Tree program. The Union Mission Angel Tree program offers an ideal opportunity for individuals, businesses, civic organizations, retailers and faith communities to help local children in need this holiday season. The Angel Tree program seeks donors to fulfill the wish of a child or a family basedon a wish list detailing specific items and sizes. Participants are also encouraged to make donations of new and unwrapped gifts including toys, clothing, games, school supplies and gift cards. Please call for more information. Donations are requested

by December 12. Through Dec. 12. 912236-7423. unionmission.org. Through Dec. 12 Yule Tide Jam

Featuring music by Lauren LaPointe, Jan Spillane, Junkyard Angel, Stewart & Winfield & The Sweetfield of Eden Choir. Benefiting Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia. 1:30-3:30 Chili Cook Off. Kids Activities:drum circle sessions and craft sessions. Tree Lighting, Santa Visit, Food Drive. Paxton Park (behind the Isle of Hope Pool / Fire Department) $15 advance. $20 door. Sat., Dec. 14, 12:45-8 p.m. Sat., Dec. 14, 12:45-8 p.m Paxton Park, Isle of Hope, next to the Isle of Hope Pool.

Call for Entries City of Savannah Art Competition for High School Students

Seeking art depicting City Squares and Parks. The City of Savannah seeks original student artwork depicting the beauty of historic Savannah squares and parks to display in a permanent exhibit in City Hall's third floor rotunda.

Chatham County students 9th through 12th grade are eligible. Submission Deadline: January 31, 2014, 5 p.m.

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| Submit your event online at connectsavannah.com or vertical orientation and unframed, with a protective sleeve or plastic sheet cover. Students may work in any media, but the final work must be two-dimensional and easily scanned and digitized. Each student can submit up to two pieces for consideration. An information sheet should be completed for each submission. Download the information sheet at savannahga. gov/artcontest. Submissions will be digitized and posted online and the winners will be chosen by an online vote of Savannah’s citizens. Prizes for the winning students include art supplies, gift cards and special recognition at an exhibit opening and awards reception at City Hall. Deliver submissions to: City of Savannah, Research Library & Municipal Archives, City Hall, Room 103, 2 E. Bay Street Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Through Jan. 31, 2014. 912-6516411. Lspracher@savannahga.gov. savannahga.gov/artcontest. Through Jan. 31, 2014

City of Savannah TV Show Seeks Entries

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

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

City seeks applications for Weave A Dream Initiative

Weave-A-Dream grant applications will be accepted through the calendar year, while funds are available. Programs must be completed before December 1, 2013. Application must be submitted at least eight weeks before the start date of the project. Project funding is available up to $3,500 for specific and innovative arts, cultural, or heritage programming or presentations that have a measurable, quantifiable benefit to Savannah’s diverse populations.

Particularly interested in proposals with a strong youth focus (under 21). All program disciplines including multi-disciplinary projects are encouraged. Applicants must be a non-profit 501-c-3 headquartered in the Savannah city limits. For more information see website. . 912-651-6417. cnorthcutt@ savannahga.gov. savannahga.gov\arts).

Energy Assistance Offered by EOA

The Economic Opportunity Authority of Savannah's Energy Assistance Program for low-income residents, 65 years of age and older as well as homebound residents is accepting applications

at 618 West Anderson Street, on a walk-in basis, from 9:00am to 12:30pm and from 2:00pm to 4:00pm Monday through Friday, with the exception of November 11 (Veteran's Day), November 28 & 29 (Thanksgiving Holiday), on a first come first serve basis. The following documentations are requested for the Energy Assistance Program to complete applications: written proof of the total household for the last 30 days, social security numbers for all household members, most recent heating bill, proof of age (required for the elderly, 65 years and older), and an authorization statement if someone is applying for you. The name of the person authorized to apply for you must be included in the note, along with your signature. Through Dec. 24. Through Dec. 24

inquiries only. 912-961-7021 or 912667-1056.

Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard Street, in downtown Savannah seeks 2-D and 3-D artists to join its cooperative gallery. Must be a full-time resident of Savannah or nearby area. Work to be considered includes painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture, glass, ceramics and wood. If interested please submit 5-10 images of your work, plus resume/CV and biography to info@ kobogallery.com. . Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard Street ,.

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.

Gallery Seeks Local Artists

Homeschool Music Classes

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

Seeking Nonprofit Grant Applications for Alan S. Gaynor Fund

The Savannah Community Foundation Accepting The Savannah Community Foundation, Inc is accepting nonprofit organization grant requests for funding from the Alan S. Gaynor Fund, held and managed by the Community Foundation. Applicants must be governmental or public charities and use the grant funds on a public project to benefit the people of Chatham County. For more information about the Gaynor Fund or to receive a grant application, contact by telephone or email. . 912-921-7700. grants@savfoundation.org.

Wilmington Island Farmers Market Seeks Vendors

The Wilmington Island Farmers' Market, scheduled to open in Fall 2013, seeks applications from potential vendors. Vendor application, market rules and regulations are available on the website. . wifarmersmarket.org.

Classes, Camps & Workshops Art Classes at The Studio School

weekly drawing and painting classes for youth and adults. See website, send email or call for details. 912-484-6415. melindaborysevicz@gmail.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com.

Art, Music, Piano, Voice Coaching

Coaching for all ages, beginners through advanced. Classic, modern, jazz improvization and theory. Serious

Artist Sacred Circle

Group forming on Fridays beginning in March. 1:30pm-3pm. Based on The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. Contact Lydia Stone, 912-656-6383 or rosesonthemove@gmail.com. . 912-656-6383. rosesonthemove@gmail.com.

Beading Classes

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

Beading Classses at Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio

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

Beginning Belly Dance Classes

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. 912-3514578. sav..claystudio@gmail.com.

Boating Classes

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

Contemporary Soul Dance

Contemporary Soup dance Sundays 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

Digital Photography: Point and Shoot

Learn how to use your pocket digital camera effectively for better photos.

This class covers the basic principles of light and composition, camera functions and settings, work-flow habits and printing/storage options. Class critiques and homework assignments help you learn about your camera, how to improve your shooting style and produce good quality images. Digital Imaging Basics is recommended as a prerequisite. You need to be somewhat familiar with your camera’s functions, so read your camera manual prior to coming to class! $90 per person Thu., Dec. 12, 6:30 p.m. 912.644.5967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. Thu., Dec. 12, 6:30 p.m Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

DUI Prevention Group

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

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

English as Second Language Classes

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

and 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, 9am-11am. Basic computer training:

Tues & Thurs, 1pm-3pm. Community computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3pm-4:30pm. . 912-232-4232 x115. savannahpha. com. savannahpha.com/NRC.html.

Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. 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. 404-709continues on p.40

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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. $30 912-354-6686. mediationsavannah. com.

Fany's Spanish/English Institute

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

Free Fitness Boot Camp

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

Guitar, Electric Bass & Double Bass Lessons

Instruction for all ages of beginner/ intermediate students. Technique, chords, not reading, theory. Learn songs and improvisation. Taught two blocks from Daffin Park. Housecalls available. First lesson half price. . 401255-6921. a.teixeira472@gmail.com.

Guitar, Mandolin, or Bass Guitar Lessons

Emphasis on theory, reading music,

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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.

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Knitting & Crochet Classes

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

Sewing lessons for all ages and skill levels. Private and Group classes. .

912-596-0889. kleossewingstudio.com.

Kleo's Sewing Studio, 36 W. Broughton St. #201.

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. Also, voice lessons, music production technology and DJ lessons.

Teaching staff of over 20 instructors with professional, well equipped studios and a safe, friendly waiting area for parents and siblings. . 912-354-1500. portmansmusic.com. portmansmusic. com. Portman's Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. Music Lessons--Multiple Instruments

Savannah Musicians Institute offers private instruction for all ages in guitar, ddrums, piano, bass, voice, banjo, mandolin, ukelele, flute, woodwinds. 7041 Hodgson Memorial Dr. . 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

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Novel Writing

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

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

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.

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.

Spanish storytime

Come shake a maraca, toca un tambor, baile to la música, and hear a new cuento ¡en español! Stick around after storytime to read to your child in Spanish, meet other parents who share your interests, and give the children time to play with each other. This fun and engaging Spanish storytime is a great way to expose your child to Spanish literacy and world cultures. FREE second Thursday of every month, 10:30 a.m..

864-399-4828. bilingualfamilia@gmail. com. bilingualfamilia.com. second Thursday of every month, 10:30 a.m.

Richmond Hill Public Library, 9607 Ford Avenue.

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.

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 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

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.

Wednesdays, 6pm-8pm. Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary. Call Claudia Collier for info. . 912-748-0731.

Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Windsor Forest.

Modern Dance Class

C.C. Express Dance Team

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.

FUNdamentals Dance Lesson

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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Get your Rave on with the the one and only DJ Orson Wells! We got glow sticks!

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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.

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18 Handlebar feature 19 1980’s White House name 20 Magazine that summarizes the contents of some cookies?

23 “Upstairs at Eric’s” duo 24 Electronic surveillance gp.

25 Noah’s project 26 Pelican State sch.

27 Captain Kirk’s journal 29 Job in “The Santaland Diaries” 32 Magazine that stops you from dancing to a Madonna hit?

38 First words of “Baby Got Back” 39 Plumb of “The Brady Bunch” 40 “What now?!”

41 Magazine that shouldn’t try to fit into an elevator?

44 Do some quilting 45 “Licensed to ___” (Beastie Boys album) 46 “Solve for x” subj.

47 Blind rage 49 Olive ___ (Popeye’s lady) 50 “Blueberries for ___” (kiddie lit classic) 53 Magazine that draws readers to it 52 times a year?

58 Earth tremor 59 ___-Seltzer 60 Cold War org.

61 1983 comedy with the line “Kenny, don’t paint your sister!”

62 Factual 63 “Let’s Get ___” 64 Not all there 65 Programming language designed by Larry Wall 66 Book-lined retreats

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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

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Ditch the workout & join the party. All levels welcome. Wednesdays, 6:30 PM 7:30PM. Lake Mayer Community Center 1850 East Montgomery Crossroads $5 class - discount cards available Bring a friend & it's free for you! . 912-5961952. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

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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.

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have some fun! $5 Mondays-Fridays, Sundays. (912) 695-9990. info@savannahpoweryoga.com. savannahpoweryoga.com. savannahpoweryoga.com/.

Mondays-Fridays, Sundays Savannah Power Yoga, 7360 Skidaway Rd. Al-Anon Family Groups

An anonymous fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics. the message of Al-Anon is one of strength and hope for friends/family of problem drinkers. Al-Anon is for adults. Alateen is for people age 13-19. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. check website or call for info. . 912-598-9860. savannahalanon.com.

Bariatric Surgery Support Group

First Wednesday each month, 7pm, and third Saturday, 10am, in Mercer Auditorium of Hoskins Center at Memorial. For those who have had or are considering bariatric surgery.

Free to attend. Call or see website for info. . 912-350-3438. memorialhealth. com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Beach Body Workouts with Laura

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

Beastmode Fitness Group Training

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

YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. Bellydancing Fusion Classes

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

Blue Water Yoga

Community donation-based classes, Tues. and Thurs., 5:45pm - 7:00pm.

Fri., 9:30am-10:30am. Email for info or find Blue Water Yoga on Facebook. . egs5719@aol.com. Talahi Island Community Club, 532 Quarterman Dr. Critz Tybee Run Fest--Registration Now Open

Registration is now open for this twoday running event on Tybee Island.

Event dates: January 31 and February 1, 2014. See website for details on the many races and events held during the weekend. Through Jan. 29, 2014. critztybeerun.com/registration. Through Jan. 29, 2014 Fitness Classes at the JEA

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

For anyone caring for senior citizens with any affliction or illness. Second

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Savannah Commons, 1 Peachtree Dr. Refreshments. Free to attend. Open to anyone i need of support for the caregiving they provide. . savannahcommons.com.

Guy's Day at Savannah Climbing Co-op

Thursdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climbing CoOp 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Every Wednesday men climb for half price, $5. See website for info.

Thursdays, 2 & 10 p.m. 912-495-8010. savannahclimbingcoop.com. Thursdays, 2 & 10 p.m Savannah Climbing CoOp, 302 W Victory Dr. Hiking & Biking at Skidaway Island State Park

Year round fitness opportunities. Walk or run the 1-mile Sandpiper Nature Trail (accessible) the additional 1-mile Avian Loop Trail, or 3-mile Big Ferry Trail. Bicycle and street strider rentals.

Guided hikes scheduled. $5 parking.

Open daily 7am-10pm. Call or see website. . 912-598-2300. gastateparks.org/ SkidawayIsland. gastateparks.org/info/ skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Israeli Krav Maga Self-Defense Classes

A system of self-defense techniques based on several martial arts. The official fighting system of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Custom Fit offers individual and small group training and intensive workshops. . 912-441-4891. customfitcenter.com.

Kung Fu School: Ving Tsun

Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) is the world's fastest growing martial arts style. Uses angles and leverage to tunr an attacker's strength against him. Call for info on free trial classes. Drop ins welcome.

11202 White Bluff Rd. . 912-429-9241.

Mommy and Baby Yoga

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

Daily classes for all skill levels including beginners. Private and semi-private classes by appointment. Carol DalyWilder, certified instructor. Call or see website for info. . 912-238-0018. savannahpilates.com. pilatessavannah. com/. Momentum Pilates Studio, 8413 Rerguson Ave. Pregnancy Yoga

series of 6-week classes. Thursdays. A mindful approach to pregnancy, labor and delivery. Instructor Ann Carroll. $120. Call or email for info. . 912-7047650. ann@aikyayoga.com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Qigong Classes

Qigong exercises contribute to a healthier and longer life. Classes offer a time to learn the exercises and perform them in a group setting. Class length averages 60 min. Any level of practice is welcome. $15 . qigongtim. com/. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Renagade Workout

Free fitness workout, every Saturday, 9:00 am at Lake Mayer Park. For women only. Offered by The Fit Lab. Information: 912-376-0219 . Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

Richmond Hill Roadies Running Club

A chartered running club of the Road Runners Association of America.

Monthly training sessions and seminars. Weekly runs. Kathy Ackerman, 912-756-5865, or Billy Tomlinson, 912596-5965. .

Savannah Climbing Co-op Ladies Day

Wednesdays, 2 til 10 p.m. at Savannah Climbing CoOp 302 W Victory Dr, every Wednesday women climb for half price, $5. . 912-495-8010. savannahclimbingcoop.com.

Savannah Disc Golf

Weekly events (entry $5) Friday Night Flights: Fridays, 5pm. Luck of the Draw Doubles: Saturdays, 10am.

Handicapped League: Saturdays, 1pm.

Singles at the Sarge: Sundays, 10am.

All skill levels welcome. Instruction available. See website or email for info. . savannahdiscgolf@gmail.com. savannahdiscgolf.com.

Brady St (at Barnard St) 31401 $3.00/ class (Non-Members) Wednesdays @ 9:30AM Zumba/Toning Frank Murray Community Center (912) 898-3320 160 Wilmington Is Rd 31414 $3.00/class Bring water, proper shoes and attire. .

912-604-9890.

Zumba Fitness (R) with April

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

Health 90 Day Wellness Challenge FREE Discovery Workshop

Dr. Ranicki's Creating Wellness Center presents a discovery workshop on the upcoming 90 Day Challenge. Learn how this can help you stay or get on track for your food, fitness and wellness goals. FREE 912-376-1506. info@ RanickiChiropractic.com. ranickichiropractic.com/. Ranicki Chiropractic Complex, 1147 W. Highway 80.

Alcoholics Anonymous

Savannah Striders Running and Walking Club

For people who want or need to stop drinking, AA can help. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. Free to attend or join. Check website for meeting days/times, or call 24 hours a day. .

912-356-3688. savannahaa.com.

Tai Chi Lessons in Forsyth Park

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

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

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

Monthly meetings with quality speakers. Frequent social events. Sign up online or look for the Savannah Striders Facebook page. . savystrider.com.

Tuesdays, 9am-10am. $10. North End of Forsyth Park. Email for info. . relaxsavannah@gmail.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Turbo Kick Cardio Workout

Lose calories while dancing and kickboxing. No experience or equipment needed. Tues. and Thurs. 6pm, Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton Wed. 6pm Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. $5 . 586-822-1021. facebook.com/turbokicksavannah.

Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors

Free for people with cancer and cancer survivors. 6:30pm Tuesdays. 12:45pm Thursdays. Fitness One, 3rd floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine at Memorial. Call for info. . 912-350-9031. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Zumba and Zumba/Toning with Mai

Fall/Winter schedule. Mondays at 8:30AM Zumba/Toning Lake Mayer Community Center 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads $5.00/class Mondays/ Wednesdays at 6:00PM Zumba/ Toning Windsor Forest Elementary Gym 308 Briarcliff Circle $5.00/class Tuesdays/Thursdays 10:00AM Zumba/ Toning Curves @ Savannah Mall (912) 921-1771 14045 Abercorn St #1610 31419 $5.00/class (Non-Members) Tuesdays @ 5:30PM Zumba St. Paul CME Social Hall (912) 233-2849 123

Armstrong Prescription Drug Drop-Off

Bariatric Surgery Information Session

Information on bariatric surgery and the program at Memorial Health Bariatrics. Learn surgical procedures offered, support and education programs involved, and how bariatric surgery can affect patients' lives. Call or see website for info. Free to attend.

Hoskins Center at Memorial. . 912350-3438. bariatrics.memorialhealth. com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Connecting Georgians to Coverage:Health Insurance Information Event

Information and help for individuals, families, and small businesses, to apply for health insurance via the Affordable Care Act (ACA). State-certified health care navigators will be on hand to assist. Meet with a navigator and receive a bagged lunch and the chance to win a Wal-Mart gift card. Sponsored by Seedco, and nonprofit that advances economic opportunity for people, businesses, and communities in need. Free and open to the public 404-909-5695. charnae@prototypepublicrelations.com. seedco.org/healthcare-access/georgia/. savannahcivic.com. The Savannah

Free Hearing and Speech Screening

Hearing: Thursdays, 9am-11am.

Speech: First Thursdays,. Call or see website for times. . 912-355-4601. savannahspeechandhearing.org. savannahspeechandhearing.org/. Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St.

Free HIV Testing at Chatham County Health Dept.

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

Test results in 20 minutes. Follow-up visit and counseling will be set up for anyone testing positive. Call for info. .

912-644-5217. Chatham County Health Dept., 1395 Eisenhower Dr. Health Care for Uninsured People

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

Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollment Assistance

Enroll in the new health care plan between Oct. 1, 2013 and March 31, 2014.

Free, in-person guidance and counseling for enrolling in the new health plan can be done by appointment at: Curtis V. Cooper Health Clinic, 912527-1115; and J.C. Lewis Health Clinic, 912-721-6726. Or general information at CVS, Kroger, Rite-Aid, Walgreens, or Walmart pharmacies. Through March 31, 2014. 912-651-7730. chathamcountysafetynet.org. Through March 31, 2014 Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollment Fair

Come get the health insurance coverage you need to stay healthy. Enrollment assistance for the Affordable Care Act will be provided from GA Certified Application Counselors. Participate for a chance to win a $100 gift card. Free 912-644-5219. aca_questions@chlink. org. chathamsafetynet.org. savannahcivic.com. The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Hypnobirthing

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

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

Call or email for info and reservations. . 912-704-7650. carroll362@bellsouth. net.

Hypnosis, Guided Imagery and Relaxation Therapy

Helps everyday ordinary people with everyday ordinary problems: smoking, weight loss, phobias, fears, ptsd, life coaching. Caring, qualified professional help. See website or call for info. . 912927-3432. savannahypnosis.com.

La Leche League of Savannah

A breast feeding support group for new/ expectant monthers. Meeting/gathering first Thursdays, 10am. Call or see

website for location and other info. .

912-897-9544. lllusa.org/web/savannahga.html.

Living Smart Fitness Club

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

(Program sponsors.) . 912-447-6605.

Living With Diabetes Six Session Course

Jacqueline Huntly, M.D., MPH, a family medicine physician, is forming this support group to help people with diabetes gain information about nutrition, physical activity, stress management, and relaxation techniques.Featuring diabetic-friendly cooking demos. 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Mondays, January 13, 20, 27, and February 3, 10 and 17, Memorial Health University Physicians – Family Medicine Center, 1107 East 66th Street.

Space is limited. Plan to attend all six sessions. Information or to register call 912-350-8404. Free to attend. Registration required. Through Jan. 12, 2014.

Through Jan. 12, 2014 Managing Chronic Pain Six Session Course

Jacqueline Huntly, M.D., MPH, a family medicine physician, is forming this support group to help people with chronic pain. The group will learn about nutrition, physical activity, stress management, and relaxation techniques to cope with chronic pain. 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Tuesdays, January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 11,18, Memorial Health University Physicians – Family Medicine Center, 1107 East 66th Street. Information or to register call 912-350-8404.

Free to attend. Registration required.

Through Jan. 14, 2014. 912-350-8404.

Through Jan. 14, 2014

of these trainees will in turn pledge to train at least five other individuals, bringing to 6,000 the total number of Savannahians trained in CPR. The hope is that "Savannah's 6,000" will vastly improve our community's ability to respond to sudden cardiac emergencies, doubling our survival rate for witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Call for info. . 912-651-6410.

Kid's Happenings Irish Dancers of Savannah

Savannah's first organized Irish dance school welcomes dancers, ages 4 and up. Learn Irish Step and Ceili (Irish square) Dancing at a relaxed pace.

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

Call or email for info. . 912-897-5984. irishdancsav@aol.com.

Mommy & Me Yoga

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

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

Hours

SCM hours beginning 8/31/13 will be Sunday 11am-4pm; Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4pm. Open on holiday Mondays that SCC Public Schools are not in session including Labor Day. For more details go to savannahchildrensmuseum. org . Savannah Children's Museum, 655 Louisville Road.

Savannah Santa Train

Savannah's only Polar Express themed holiday event featuring train rides, crafts and activities, a visit with Santa, hot chocolate and hot cocoa ice cream from Leopolds! Trains begin running at 9am and run every 30 minutes(except at 12:30) with the last train at 5pm. Preregistration and pre-payment required. chsgeorgia.org for more information. $15 per adult/$15 per child 912-6516840 Ext. 4. membership@chsgeorgia. org. http:events.constantcontact.com/ register/event?llr=wsh9l7dab&oeidk =a07e8fkavxj9800bd13. Georgia State Railroad Museum, 655 Louisville Road.

Toddler Tuesdays at Oatland Island Wildlife Center

Toddlers 6 months to 4 years, and their adults. Themed programs--story books, singing songs, finger puppet plays, crafts, guided walks, up close encounters with Oatland animals.

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Planned Parenthood Hotline

First Line is a statewide hotline for women seeking information on health services. Open 7pm-11pm nightly. .

800-264-7154.

Savannah CPR Initiative

An initiative by the City of Savannah to train 6,000 Savannahians in CPR by year's end. The City will train 1,000 Savannahians in CPR this year. Each

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Gen. Admission for adults ($5 or $3 for military & seniors) Tuesdays. 912-3951500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland. org/. Tuesdays Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd.

ARIES

(March 21-April 19) Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of the United States four times, more often than any other president. We can conclude that he was one of the most popular American leaders ever. And yet he never won a majority of the votes cast by the citizens of his home county in New York. I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life. You may be more successful working on the big picture than you are in your immediate situation. It could be easier for you to maneuver when you’re not dealing with familiar, up-close matters. What’s outside your circle might be more attracted to your influence than what’s nearer to home.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20) In 2009, actress Sandra Bullock starred in three films, two of which earned her major recognition. For her performance in *All About Steve,* she was given a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress. Her work in *The Blind Side,* on the other hand, won her an Oscar for Best Actress. I’m thinking that you may experience a similar paradox in the coming days, Taurus. Some of your efforts might be denigrated, while others are praised. It may even be the case that you’re criticized and applauded for the same damn thing.

How to respond? Learn from Bullock’s example. She gave gracious acceptance speeches at the award ceremonies for both the Golden Raspberry and the Oscar.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20) Almost 2,000 years ago, a Roman doctor named Scribonius Largus developed recipes for three different kinds of toothpaste. One contained the ashes of burned-up deer antler, aromatic resin from an evergreen shrub known as mastic, and a rare mineral called sal ammoniac. His second toothpaste was a mix of barley flour, vinegar, honey, and rock salt. Then there was the third: sun-dried radish blended with finely ground glass. Let’s get a bit rowdy here and propose that these three toothpastes have metaphorical resemblances to the life choices in front of you right now. I’m going to suggest you go with the second option. At the very least, avoid the

third.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22) Are you feeling a bit pinched, parched, and prickly? Given the limitations you’ve had to wrestle with lately, I wouldn’t be surprised if you were. Even though you have passed some of the sneaky tests and solved some of the itchy riddles you’ve been compelled to deal with, they have no doubt contributed to the pinched, parched prickliness. Now what can be done to help you recover your verve? I’m thinking that all you will have to do is respond smartly to the succulent temptations that life will bring your way in the coming weeks.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22) Have you ever situated yourself between two big bonfires on a beach and basked in the primal power? Was there a special moment in your past when you found yourself sitting between two charismatic people you loved and admired, soaking up the life-giving radiance they exuded? Did you ever read a book that filled you with exaltation as you listened to music that thrilled your soul?

These are the kinds of experiences I hope you seek out in the coming week. I’d love to see you get nourished stereophonically by rich sources of excitement.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Mythically speaking, this would be a propitious time for you to make an offering to the sea goddess. In dreams or meditations or fantasies, I suggest you dive down into the depths, find the supreme feminine power in her natural habitat, and give her a special gift. Show her how smart you are in the way you express love, or tell her exactly how you will honor her wisdom in the future. If she is receptive, you may even ask her for a favor.

Maybe she’ll be willing to assist you in accessing the deep feelings that haven’t been fully available to you. Or perhaps she will teach you how to make conscious the secrets you have been keeping from yourself.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Don’t linger in a doorway, Libra.

Don’t camp out in a threshold or get stuck in the middle of anything. I understand your caution,

considering the fact that life is presenting you with such paradoxical clues. But if you remain ambivalent too much longer, you may obstruct the influx of more definitive information. The best way to generate the clarity and attract the help you need will be to make a decisive move -- either in or out, either forward or backward, either up or down.

coming days, Capricorn. This is the tail end of your cycle. It won’t be healthy for you to shun climaxes and denouements. Neither will it be wise to merely tolerate them. Somehow, you’ve got to find a way to love and embrace them.

(P.S. That’s the best strategy for ensuring the slow-motion eruption of vibrant beginnings after your birthday.)

SCORPIO

AQUARIUS

“It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear,” said TV talk show host Dick Cavett. I will love it if you make yourself one of those rare types in the coming week, Scorpio. Can you bring yourself to be receptive to truths that might be disruptive?

Are you willing to send out an invitation to the world, asking to be shown revelations that contradict your fixed theories and foregone conclusions? If you do this hard work, I promise that you will be granted a brainstorm and a breakthrough. You might also be given a new reason to brag.

According to 20th-century British author John Cowper Powys, “A bookshop is a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.” He didn’t mean that literally, of course. He was referring to the fact that the words contained in books can inflame and enthrall the imagination. I think you will be wise to seek out that level of arousal in the coming weeks, Aquarius. Your thoughts need to be aired out and rearranged. Your feelings are crying out for strenuous exercise, including some pure, primal catharses.

Do whatever it takes to make sure that happens.

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21) There are pregnant truths I could reveal to you right now that I’ve decided not to disclose. I don’t think you’re prepared to hear them yet. If I told you what they are, you wouldn’t be receptive or able to register their full meaning; you might even misinterpret them.

It is possible, however, that you could evolve rather quickly in the next two weeks. So let’s see if I can nudge you in the direction of getting the experiences necessary to become ready. Meditate on what parts of you are immature or underdeveloped -- aspects that may one day be skilled and gracious, but are not yet. I bet that once you identify what needs ripening, you will expedite the ripening. And then you will become ready to welcome the pregnant truths.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “Finifugal” is a rarely used English adjective that I need to invoke in order to provide you with the proper horoscope. It refers to someone who avoids or dislikes endings -- like a child who doesn’t want a bedtime story to conclude, or an adult who’s in denial about how it’s finally time to wrap up long-unfinished business. You can’t afford to be finifugal in the

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20) “I am not fearless,” says Mexican journalist and women’s right advocate Lydia Cacho, “but I’m not overtaken by fear. Fear is quite an interesting animal. It’s like a pet.

If you mistreat it, it will bite, but if you understand it and accept it in your house, it might protect you.” This is an excellent time to work on transforming your fright reflexes, Pisces. You have just the right kind of power over them: strong and crafty and dynamic, but not grandiose or cocky or delusional. You’re ready to make your fears serve you, not drain you.

Readings & Signings Bob Strozier reads Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory"

A Flannery O'Connor Home tradition: retired Armstrong Atlantic State University English professor Bob Strozier reads Capote's holiday classic as part of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home’s Gulfstream Fall Lecture Series. Free and open to the public 912-233-6014. flanneryoconnorhome.org. Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Street.

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. Deen Family Book Signing

Join Paula, Jamie and Bobby for a book signing. Only 350 tickets will be given out starting 1 hour before the book signing.

No cameras permitted; a professional photographer will be on site to take your photo. Free to attend. Books available for purchase. pauladeen.com. ladyandsons.com. The Lady and Sons, 102 West Congress 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/family-

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.

The Journey

Experience life the night Christmas began in an outdoor production that draws thousands from across the Southeast. A walk through the recreated ancient Middle Eastern town of Bethlehem teeming with bakery, tannery, blacksmith and jewelry shops and an inn that’s full to capacity. Follow shepherds to find Mary, Joseph and a baby crying softly in a manger. $5 per person. Children free. Maximum family fee: $20 912-925-9657. SCCJourney. com. Savannah Christian Church, 55 Al Henderson Blvd.

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.

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

Brain Injury Support Group

For traumatic brain injury survivors and their caregivers. Third Thursdays, 5pm.

In the gym of the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial. . memorialhealth. com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Breast Cancer Survivors Group

Tuesdays, 5:20pm at First Presbyterian Church. For survivors and caregivers. Call for info. . 912-844-4524. fpc. presbychurch.net. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. Cancer Support Group

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Unity Church of Savannah

Seven week structured educational support group for children 6-17. Support, coping tools, utilizing play and activity to learn to live with loss. Free of charge. A service of Hospice Savannah, Inc. Call for dates. . 912-303-9442. Full Circle Center for Grief Support, 450 Mall Blvd., Suite H.

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. 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.

Support Groups ACOA-Al-Anon

The "From Survival to Recovery" Adult Children of Alcoholics/Al-Anon Group is a fellowship and support group for those who grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes. Meets Thursdays, 5:45pm at the 24-Hour Club, 1501 Eisenhower Dr. Call for info. . 912-5989860.

Alcoholics Anonymous

For people who want or need to stop drinking, AA can help. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. Free to attend or join. Check website for meeting days/times, or call 24 hours a day. .

912-356-3688. savannahaa.com.

Alzheimer's Caregiver and Family Support Group

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

Tuesday Bible Study/Prayer Service,

Open to all who have had limbs amputated and their families or caregivers.

Call for info. . 912-355-7778.

South Valley Baptist Church

Second Monday of every month,7:00pm.

Denny’s Restaurant at Hwy. 204. Everyone is welcome. For more info, contact Debbie at 912-727-2959 .

For anyone living with, through or beyond a cancer diagnosis. First Wednesdays, at Lewis Cancer Pavilion. Call for info. . 912-819-5704. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave.

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.

For individuals caring for Alzheimer's and dementia family members. Second Monday, Wilm. Isl. United Methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island Rd. Second Thursday, Ruth Byck Adult Care Center, 64 Jasper St. Sponsored by Senior Citizens, Inc. Call for info. . 912236-0363 x143.

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Back Pain Support Group

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Children's Grief Support Group

Citizens With Retarded Citizens

For families with children or adults with autism, mental retardation, and other developmental disabilities. Meets monthly. Call for info. . 912-355-7633.

Citizens With Retarded Citizens, 1211 Eisenhower Drive.

Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Assoc.

Meets regularly to discuss issues affecting the lives of polio survivors. Call or see website for info. Polio survivors and guests are invited. James Aberson, Chatham County ADA Coordinator, will be the speaker. Free and open to the public. . 912-927-8332. coastalempirepoliosurvivors.org.

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Call or email for info. . 912-596-0852. emptycradle_savannah@hotmail.com.

Savannah Christian Church, 55 Al Henderson Blvd.

Debtors Anonymous

For people with debting problems.

Meets Sundays, 5pm-6pm at Unity of Savannah. See website or call for info. .

912-572-6108. debtorsanonymous.org. unityofsavannah.org/. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd.

Eating Disorders Anonymous

Free, volunteer-led support group for recovery from anorexia/restrictive eating and/or bulimia/binge/purging.

Not a diet group, nor for those who struggle solely with overeating. Mondays, 7:30pm-8:30pm. Email for info. . edasavannah@yahoo.com. Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church, 1008 Henry St. Essential Tremor Support Group

For those with the disease, care partners, family and caregivers. Managing the disease, treatments and therapies, quality of life. First Thursdays, 3:00pm4:30pm. Call for info. . 912-819-2224.

Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. Fibromyalgia Support Group

Second Thursdays, 5:30pm-6:30pm.

Call or see website for info. . 912-8196743. sjchs.org. sjchs.org. Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5353 Reynolds Ave. Gambling Problem 12 Step Program

Twelve step program offers freedom from gambling. Meets weekly. Leave message with contact info. . 912-7484730.

Grief Support Groups

Hospice Savannah’s Full Circle offers a full array of grief support groups and individual counseling for children, teens and adults is available at no charge.

Counseling is offered at 450 Mall Blvd., Suite H in Savannah, and appointments are also available in the United Way offices in Rincon and in Richmond Hill.

Call or see website for info. . 912-3039442. HospiceSavannah.org/GriefSupport.

Heartbeats for Life

Free support and education group for those who have suffered from or want to prevent or reverse heart disease and/or diabetes. One Tuesday/ month, 6pm. Call or email for date.

All meetings at Southwest Chatham Library. Next meeting:Tuesday, Dec. 17th, 6:00-7:45pm Topic: Live talk and Q&A with Dr. John McDougall, (via Skype) Bestselling writer and founder of McDougall system.. . 912-598-8457. jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga.org. Next meeting:Tuesday, Dec. 17th, 6:007:45pm Topic: Live talk and Q&A with Dr. John McDougall, (via Skype) Bestselling writer and founder of McDougall system. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St.

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