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Film: Bayou Maharajah (2013, US)

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: The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Cost: $6 Info: sentientbean.com

Martinis at the Mansion benefiting Friends of Skidaway Island State Park What: Enjoy martinis, appetizers, and

a special raffle while supporting the Friends of Skidaway Island State Park.

When: 5:30-7:30 p.m Where: Mansion on Forsyth Park, 700 Drayton St. Info: (912) 721-5002

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 Where: The Club at Savannah Harbor, #2 Resort Dr. Cost: $25 per family vehicle Info: savannahharborfoundation.com/ festival-schedule.html

Skatefest continues

What: A Savannah tradition returns.

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

When: 4:30 & 7 p.m Where: The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $7 per person. Skatefest pass: $35 for 6 sessions.

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Thursday Film: Bayou Maharajah (2013, US)

What: Through a collection of montages of New Orleans, rediscovered footage of jazz pianist James Booker’s performances, and interviews with his admirers (including Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, and Harry Connick Jr.), Director/ Producer and Savannah Arts Academy graduate Lily Keber gives us access into the life of this musical genius. The film won Oxford American’s Best Southern Film Award this year and was also the 2013 Audience Award Louisiana Feature Winner at the New Orleans Film Festival.

When: 6 p.m Where: Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Cost: $10 general public, $5 students with ID. Cash only.

Info: 912.234.0917. annot1@comcast.net

Black Nativity: A Christmas Musical

What: The Performing Arts Collective of

Savannah will present its annual Christmas musical, Black Nativity, written

by Langston Hughes. A joyful retelling of St. Luke’s story of the birth of Christ by way of gospel music, dance, poetry, and narrative. It is the perfect way to celebrate the Christmas season with family and is sure to get you into the

What: Director/Producer and Savannah Arts Academy graduate Lily Keber gives us access into the life of little-known musical genius James Booker. See rediscovered footage of the jazz pianist and interviews with many of his compatriates (including Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, and Harry Connick Jr.).

This film won Oxford American’s Best Southern Film Award this year and was also the 2013 Audience Award Louisiana Feature Winner at the New Orleans Film Festival.

When: 6 p.m Where: Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Cost: $10 general public, $5 students with ID. Cash only.

Christmas spirit. For tickets call (912) 631-3452 or (912) 272-2797.

When: -20, 7:30 p.m Where: Abiding in the Word Christian Ministries, 203 W. Victory Drive.

Cost: $10 Info: 912.272.2797. abeniculturalarts@ gmail.com

December Nights and Holiday Lights

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

Film: The Harvest (2010, USA)

What: A documentary film about agricultural child labor in America.

Presented by Occupy Savannah.

When: 7 p.m Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: sentientbean.com

Free Downtown Garage Parking

What: Three hours of free parking in City Parking Garages every Thursday and Friday through Dec. 27.(Note: not offered during times when garages are charging special event rates.)

Cost: Free

The Santaland Diaries & Seasons’ Greetings

What: The Santaland Diaries is based on the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris’ experience as Crumpet the Elf in Macy’s SantaLand display.

Season’s Greetings follows Jocelyn Dunbar, a housewife who tries desperately to hang onto her holiday traditions.

Directed by Travis Harold Coles Adult themes; not recommended for young audiences.

When: -22, 7:30 p.m Where: Bay Street Theatre, 1 Jefferson St. Cost: $15

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Black Nativity: A Christmas Musical

What: The Performing Arts Collective of Savannah will present its annual Christmas musical, Black Nativity, written

by Langston Hughes. A joyful retelling of St. Luke’s story of the birth of Christ by way of gospel music, dance, poetry, and narrative. It is the perfect way to celebrate the Christmas season with family and is sure to get you into the Christmas spirit. For tickets call (912) 631-3452 or (912) 272-2797.

When: Dec. 19-20, 7:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m Where: Abiding in the Word Christian Ministries, 203 W. Victory Drive.

Cost: $10 Info: 912.272.2797. abeniculturalarts@ gmail.com

Christmas Cabaret

What: Classic Christmas favorites in an all-ages holiday show. Vocalists include Roger Moss, Natasha Drena, Cat Yates and Trae Gurley, with Kim Steiner on piano. Presented by On Stage at the Lucas.

When: 7 p.m Where: Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: $30 Gen. Adm. $15 students/children. Corkage fee $10 for BYO Wine.

Info: lucastheatre.com/

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.

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

When: 7 p.m

Where: Bay Street Theatre, 1 Jefferson

St.

Cost: $15

additional $15.)

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

Theatre: Bell, Book and Candle

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

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

Info: 912-232-0018. musesavannah.org

Comedy: Dave Chappelle

What: Comedian, TV writer, producer and actor returns to Savannah.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $55 Info: savannahga.gov/index. aspx?NID=604

Luminary Night with Santa

What: Children and pets invited for pictures with Santa. Walk along Skidaway Island State Park’s enchanted luminary trail and take a hayride around the park. Sip hot chocolate while decorating cookies and making holiday crafts.

When: 6-8 p.m Where: Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Cost: $5 per picture, hayrides $2. $5 parking fee Info: (912)598-2300. gastateparks.org/ SkidawayIsland

The Santaland Diaries & Seasons’ Greetings What: The Santaland Diaries is based

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Comedy: Chappelle

Saturday What: Seminal sketch comedy and stand-up genius returns to Savannah. When: 7:30 p.m Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $55 Info: savannahga.gov

on the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris’ experience as Crumpet the Elf in Macy’s SantaLand display.

Season’s Greetings follows Jocelyn Dunbar, a housewife who tries desper-

ately to hang onto her holiday traditions. Directed by Travis Harold Coles Adult themes; not recommended for young audiences.

When: Dec. 19-22, 7:30 p.m

“The Twelve Bars of Christmas” 5k Charity Bar Crawl

What: Santa’s list , aka the map, will lead you to each destination and 12 bars later, you’ll be sufficiently full of holiday cheer. By the end, you will have participated in a 5 kilometer or 3.1 mile adventure, enjoying delightful drink specials along the way. All participants

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A portion of proceeds will be donated to 1-3 p.m. Santa Claus and his elves Second Harvest of the Coastal Empire. entertain children of all ages with holiWhen: 2 p.m day treats and beverages. Snap family Where: McDonough’s, 21 East Mcphotos with Christmas-themed cut outs donough St. and enjoy seasonal tunes by caroling Cost: $15 adv / $20 day of group the Pixie Stix. Artsy gifts for the Info: 912.660.9001. Brian@Staffordkids.

Promotions.com or Chantal@ StaffordPromotions.com 3 p.m. Film: Rise monday of the Guardians.

Christmas Cabaa holiday fantasy in 3-D. ret 7 p.m. Film: Meet What: Classic Me In St. Louis, Christmas favorites the 1944 classic in an all-ages holithat debuted Judy day show. VocalGarland’s holiday ists include Roger standard Have Moss, Natasha Yourself a Merry Drena, Cat Yates Little Christmas. and Trae Gurley, Moviegoers receive with Kim Steiner on a complimentary piano. Presented popcorn and soda.

by On Stage at the When: 11 a.m.-9 Lucas. p.m When: 7 p.m Where: Trustees Where: Lucas TheTheater, 216 East atre for the Arts, 32 Broughton St. Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open Cost: $30 Gen. Adm. to the public with $15 students/chilnonperishable food dren. Corkage fee item donation for $10 for BYO Wine.

Second Harvest of Info: lucastheatre.

Coastal Georgia. com/ Film: Don’t Open ‘Til Info: scad.edu

Christmas in Savannah

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Nature Outing: Alligators and version of A Christ- ment, Psychotronic Film Society presents Other Animals of a 1984 horror mystery about Christmas. the Refuge mas Carol, with a What: A Savannah

What: In a special Monday night engage-

comedic twist. Big Ho, ho, ho!

What: Observe alWhen: 8 p.m boss Blair insists ligators basking in that her staff runs Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park the sun while great Ave. Christmas by the birds fish nearby. A Cost: $6 book, until an ecWilderness Southcentric bunch shows Info: sentientbean.com east naturalist guide her that she’s been shares alligator reading the wrong stories and informaholiday guidebook. tion on historic rice Presented by AWOL, Inc. and the City of plantations, including the importance Savannah. to wildlife of maintaining the old rice When: 7 p.m paddies. Fee includes use of binocuWhere: Black Box Theatre, 9 Henry St. lars and spotting scope. Reservations Cost: $12 (Trolley ride on 12/15 is an required. additional $15.)

When: 9:30-11:30 a.m Info: 912-303-4987. kgreen@awolinc.

Where: Savannah National Wildlife org. awolinc.org Refuge, Laurel Hill Wildlife Drive off S.C. 170.

Forsyth Farmers Market Cost: $25/person ($10/child under 12 What: Local and regional produce, accompanied by a parent) honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods Info: 912-236-8115. naturesavannah@ and other delights. Rain or shine. gmail.com When: 9 a.m.-1 p.m Where: Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Oatland Island’s Drop and Shop Cost: Free to attend. Items for sale.

What: Drop off the kids at Oatland Info: 912-484-0279. forsythfarmersIsland for making crafts and exploring market.com the animal trails, while Mom and Dad go shopping in town or nearby. Reservations and prepayment required.

711 Sandtown Rd. Cost: $25 per child ($15 for additional siblings).

Info: (912) 395-1500. oatlandisland.org

Sandpiper Trail Hike

What: Meander through the marsh

trail on a guided hike with a Skidaway Island State Park ranger.

When: 1 p.m Where: Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Cost: $5 parking, annual passes available Info: gastateparks.org/SkidawayIsland

The Santaland Diaries & Seasons’ Greetings What: The Santaland Diaries is based

on the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris’ experience as Crumpet the Elf in Macy’s SantaLand display. Season’s Greetings follows Jocelyn Dunbar, a housewife who tries desperately to hang onto her holiday traditions. Not recommended for young audiences.

When: Dec. 19-22, 7:30 p.m Where: Bay Street Theatre, 1 Jefferson St. Cost: $15

Theatre: Bell, Book and Candle What: Collective Face Theatre En-

semble presents the classic romantic comedy of a Greenwich Village witch and her supernatural love for a mortal man.

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

Info: 912-232-0018. musesavannah.org

Wilmington Island Farmers’ Market: Holiday Marketplace

What: Vendors offering unique holiday wares and food items. Plus holiday music, trees, wreaths, garlands, Toys for Tots donation box, Food Pantry donation box.

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

Where: Wilmington Island Farmers’ Market, 111 Walthour Rd @ Islands Community Church.

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

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Sunday Author appearance: Leon Malmed

What: Author and Holocaust survivor Leon Malmed shares his secret story of childhood and escape from the Nazis in France. He will also sign his new book, We Survived: At Last I Speak.

When: 10 a.m Where: Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Cost: $4 Gen. Adm. Free for JEA members.

Info: 912-355-8111. savj.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.

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

When: 3 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

Christmas with the Goliards

What: Christmas-themed music from the years 1150-1500, including choral works, instrumental pieces( featuring harp, hurdy gurdy, positive organ, medieval fiddle), and solos.

When: 3 p.m Where: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 34th & Abercorn Sts. Cost: $10 Info: savannahgoliards.org

The Santaland Diaries & Seasons’ Greetings

What: The Santaland Diaries is based on the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris’ experience as Crumpet the Elf in Macy’s SantaLand display.

Season’s Greetings follows Jocelyn Dunbar, a housewife who tries desperately to hang onto holiday traditions.

When: Dec. 19-22, 7:30 p.m Where: Bay St Theatre, 1 Jefferson St. Cost: $15

Theatre: Bell, Book and Candle

What: The romantic comedy of a Greenwich Village witch and her supernatural love for a mortal man.

When: 3 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $15-20, reservations suggested.

Info: musesavannah.org

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Infernal Affairs

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

Moles. Drugs. Cellphones. Tip-offs. Informants. Dirty cops.

It’s The Departed without bagpipes.

The bizarre tale of corruption within the Savannah/Chatham Metropolitan Police Department (SCMPD) and the Counter Narcotics Team (CNT) under former Police Chief Willie Lovett really does read like a film script. The jaw-dropping true crime intrigue is exhaustively chronicled in an independent report released late last Friday.

It’s an engaging, and enraging, read. We have it posted at connectsavannah.com.

After spending some quality time with the nearly 200-page report over the weekend, I wanted to break down some of the more sordid aspects which didn’t make it onto local TV or in the local daily paper, which strangely opined that there’s “little shock value” in the report.

There’s actually plenty of shock value, and it’s worth a much closer look.

The tale centers on Malik Khaalis, an SCMPD officer working with the Counter Narcotics Team, an elite unit which utilizes hand-picked SCMPD personnel on a rotating basis. For fans of The Departed, Khaalis is closest to the Matt Damon character, except apparently much less bright.

In 2008 CNT began investigating a drug ring based on tips from an informant known as “T-2.” The ring was run out of Coastal State Prison near Garden City.

According to T-2, a key figure was James Williams, a Coastal correctional officer and brother of SCMPD officer Willet Williams.

When CNT realized the Coastal investigation was going dry, they began looking at why. They noticed Khaalis had a pattern of excusing himself from the monitoring station, “the wire room,” at crucial times — a pattern so evident that coworkers gave him the nickname “Walk About Jones.”

The DEA was also on the Williams case and had similar suspicions. They got Willet Williams’ cellphone records and found seven calls between him and Khaalis between 5:08 p.m. and 5:13 p.m. on April 16, 2009, precisely when Khaalis was absent

from the wire room. Three calls also happened between officer Williams and his brother James an hour later the same day, precisely when James showed signs of suddenly realizing he was being surveilled.

Meanwhile CNT was on another case involving a suspect named Josh Varner.

Khaalis again “developed a disturbing pattern of disappearing from the wire room without authorization, on at least one occasion immediately subsequent to... a tap that was about to go live on Varner.”

Phone records from that time period show Varner was told to “drop” his cellphone, i.e., discard it because it was tapped.

This happened two more times.

CNT Director Roy Harris set up a sting on his own people to “find the rat,” in Departed parlance. Bogus info was given to Khaalis that a fourth wiretap was on Varner.

Sure enough, right before the fake tap was supposedly going live, Varner again “dropped” his cellphone.

Later, CNT got info that a Varner crony was to meet a woman, supposedly about a drug deal. When he heard this, Khaalis again excused himself and was then heard over the police radio asking a squad car to pull over the woman, obviously to interrupt the meeting and protect the associate.

That’s not all: On three occasions, Khaalis retrieved cellphones admitted as evidence and deleted their call histories!

Like I said, Khaalis might not be the sharpest tool in the shed. But at this point you do have to ask, what else would he possibly have to do to get fired?

The FBI explored a corruption case against Khaalis, but declined it and bounced it back to SCMPD Internal Affairs.

What did Internal Affairs do? They suspended Khaalis with pay — and during his suspension he was allowed to apply for a successful promotion to sergeant!

Khaalis subsequently failed a lie detector test — and was then returned to active duty

directly by Lovett, who later said he “did not believe in polygraph exams.”

Meanwhile, nothing was done to officer Williams, who only lost his job last Friday.

In mid-2010, Major Dean Fagerstrom was removed from Internal Affairs and replaced by Capt. Hank Wiley, who the report says “was widely viewed as being very close to Chief Willie Lovett.”

Internal Affairs then closed the Khaalis case, much to the chagrin of CNT’s Harris, who was reduced to sending a “sharply worded memorandum” to Chatham County Manager Russ Abolt, to no avail.

Most revealing, three CNT members instrumental in uncovering Khaalis’ double-cross were suddenly pulled from CNT and put on regular street patrol, by “special order” of Chief Lovett himself.

It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to deduce that Khaalis was possibly protecting drug activity and was possibly protected in turn by our former police chief.

The big question, one the report doesn’t touch, is: Who protected the chief?

Lovett’s boss for most of his tenure, former City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney, already left town in disgrace over other issues. Lovett, of course, suddenly resigned/ retired in September with full pension amid sexual harassment charges.

The rest is a mess. Incredibly, Khaalis still has his job, though on leave without pay.

Harris and Wiley have retired. Fagerstrom’s back at Internal Affairs, but is suing the City for discrimination in a separate matter. Chatham DA Meg Heap has referred the Internal Affairs fiasco to the GBI, though much is now past the statute of limitations.

New City Manager Stephanie Cutter vows to “leave no stone unturned.” Great, but easier said than done, especially when you don’t know which other major players might still be under which rocks.

It reads like a script, but real lives were impacted by the drugs and violence brought to Savannah’s streets for years, apparently under the protection of rogue cops.

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The civil society

by jessica leigh lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

Dios mio! An afternoon with the Hostess City’s most interesting hostess If you’re to believe the party poopers, Savannah society is a notoriously hard nut to crack.

They’ll tell you this city’s ruling class is a rarefied bunch, their rosters of splendiferous holiday galas, opulent charity balls and swank oyster roasts an impenetrable cloister for most of us peons. To make the invitation lists, your relatives either stepped off the ship with General Oglethorpe or you’re dripping in enough new money to allow the tacit overlook of your origins, dahlin’.

Those of us who arrived with the dust of other places on our bourgeois heels can forget the exclusive supper club invitations and gin-and-tonics at the Yacht Club. But like the great sage Groucho Marx, there will always be those who don’t give a flying fig about being a member of any club that would have them as a member.

Why waste time trying to climb the wrought-iron gates of high society when you can forge your own?

“Savannah can be whatever you make it, honey,” counsels Alexandra Trujillo de Taylor, who operates independently of any prescribed social circle snobbery.

The dazzling downtown doyenne has been cultivating guest lists for almost 20 years, her parties so legendary that invitations are coveted by even the most cerulean of bluebloods.

But it’s not your stock portfolio or who your daddy is that counts.

“I’ve always thought such things were absurd!” exclaims Taylor. “I’ve always wanted to meet everybody.

Who cares about backgrounds? The most important thing is, are you interesting?”

Well, are ya, punk? My own appeal was put to the test last week after receiving a printed invitation via snail mail for Taylor’s quarterly tea party.

I RSVP’d quickly as proper party etiquette dictates, and also because I’ve heard that La Taylor is appalled by the proliferation of what she refers to as mannures — “modern day manners meets manure.” The common

Savannah practice of not responding to a party request until the last minute gets a tsktsk and a Sharpie through your name next time.

Though this consummate hostess doesn’t feel beholden to any staid Southern conventions, her airs are no less aristocratic.

She even rocks her own title: The Duchess of State, bestowed upon her when she regularly hosted parties for the Savannah Philharmonic at her single gal apartment on State Street back in the late 1990s.

With a passionate flick of a bangled wrist, she clarifies that those fêtes were not for symphony patrons but exclusively for the musicians, “to give something back for their incredible talent.”

“Where I’m from, we pay homage to the artist,” she sniffs.

“Besides, with the musicians, it’s instant black tie!”

Raised in Mexico City in a traditional household where formality ruled (“You didn’t come out of the bedroom until you were fully dressed”), she learned to let her hair down in the deep South while spending her summers with her uncle Fernando, who had defected to Chattanooga to become a hairdresser.

She visited a sister in Savannah and was reminded of the circuitos of Mexico by its green squares and slow pace, and so decided to adopt the myth and mystery of the Garden as her own.

The Duchess dialed back her nightlife and moved a few blocks uptown after she married her Duke, Daniel, ten years ago, but she’s far from given up her inclinations to entertain.

The invitation for the tea party — emblazoned with Her Royal Highness’ own crest — commanded that winter hats were de rigeur. Wearing a hand-felted wool bowler my mother brought me back from Estonia (really), I knock on a jet black double door on a block of meticulously restored Victorians and languishing tear-downs. I’m greeted by the Duchess herself, resplendent in a creamcolored Chanel dress and matching

A portrait of the Duchess and Duke by Dominican-born Savannah painter Alejandro Santana, photo by Lily Lewin

ostrich feather pillbox hat.

“Dios mio, what a fetching chapeau!” she declares as she kisses both of my cheeks. “Vene, niña, come meet everyone.”

She styles these teas straight out of her Mexican childhood, when her mother and her friends played cards and gossiped until the men came home from work. Though she and the Duke host their own supper club for couples, these afternoons are for women only, plus “a sprinkling of the gays.” (Adorable SCAD fashion student Antonio Tombari was exempted from headgear but required to wear a bowtie.)

Some guests she’s known for years, like Christy Cook, who the Duchess once charmed into throwing a small cocktail party at the mansion Christy used to own on Gaston Street — for 250 of her closest friends.

Others, like 20-something stylist and

make-up artist Lady Katherine Taylor, she met yesterday.

“Isn’t she gorgeous?” exclaims the Duchess when I inquire about the lovely girl posed on the leather loveseat attired in a purple crushed velvet coat and Amy Winehouse eyeliner. “I just picked her up at Habersham Antiques.

She was wearing a full-on opera chignon at two in the afternoon! I had to know her.”

Present most always is her dear friend Lily Lewin, as blond and lissome as the Duchess is stately and brunette. Lily, an accomplished photographer, is married to Dr. Lucas Lewin, a Southcoast physician and honest-to-God count from Madrid, which makes her an honest-to-Goddess countess. It is pure charm to hear the Duchess and La Condesa cooing to each other in Spanish — a Castilian version of AbFab’s Patsy and Eddy, only sober.

However, the mejores amigas admit to some alpha female sparking when they first met.

“We were like two tarantulas in a box,” giggles the Duchess.

“Now I’m the only one who can talk back to her and not lose my head,” deadpans La Condesa.

Verdad, the Duchess’ temper is as legendary as her parties. She might be inclusive, tolerant and welcoming of the eccentric, but doesn’t mean that there aren’t rules: First and foremost, follow the dress code. Also, no cell phones at the table. And unless you want the Sharpie through your name, do not ever, EVER, go in the kitchen.

“It is where the magic happens, niña. Don’t ruin it!” she warns as she blocks the doorway. She explains later that in Mexico, guests do not mix with the help, though she stresses that her beloved longtime housekeeper, Bartola, is part of the family.

As for the sumptuous spread, the Duchess cooks it herself: Smoked salmon with dill sauce, lemony orzo, and from a lustrous tureen, the secret tomato soup recipe from SoHo South Café, bequeathed by a former chef with the oath that it would never be revealed.

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Perhaps this is the future of Savannah society, self-defined in its glamour and generosity, unburdened by any dusty pretensions. As far as the exclusive codes of the mythical Old Savannah gentry go, they don’t intimidate the Duchess in the least.

“I don’t even know what that tastes like. Tell me something new. If not, move it along,” she dismisses with a wave.

My afternoon in the Duchess’ court ended too soon, and I can only hope my Estonian chapeau and relentless questions were deemed captivating enough to be invited back. At the very least, it’s motivation to keep my mannures under control.

Which reminds me: If you’ll excuse me, I have a thank you note to write.

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For dessert, there are four kinds of loose tea in delicate pots and a homemade pear tart, courtesy of La Condesa. Everything is served in the shell pink dining room on fine china, an always-rotating collection that inspires the Duchess to design her parties “from the plate up.”

Her signature aesthetic is eclectic elegance meets high drama, spilling over into the other rooms of la casa: She and the Duke have commissioned enormous portraits of themselves by local artists, most notably the royal pose above the mantle by Alejandro Santana and another by Jason Zaloudik in the upstairs bedroomturned-dressing room, refurbished to accommodate her Highness’ fabulous wardrobe.

In her spare time, Alex (as some are brave enough to address her) lends her interior design talents to others and keeps a booth at Habersham Antiques to repurpose her clients’ cast-offs. On the Duchess of State blog, she documents her latest projects and outrage at los mannures, and has occasionally been known to dish deliciously on some of our

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Seeking Southside solutions As we pedaled our bikes on Hodgson Memorial Drive, just south of the Oglethorpe Mall, my friend turned to me and made an important point.

“As you can see,” he said, “people live here.”

His comment was instructive.

Those of us who spend most of our time north of DeRenne Avenue may mistakenly regard Savannah’s Southside as a monoculture of big box stores, fast food joints, and car dealerships.

Those things are present, of course, but if you look just beyond the shopping centers and office “parks,” you’ll find apartment complexes and single family homes that aren’t always visible from a speeding car, which is the vantage point from which most of us perceive the Southside.

The tens of thousands of people, who live in these residential areas, are within easy walking or biking distance to all sorts of shopping, restaurant and entertainment destinations.

Unfortunately, what looks like a short walk on a map can be totally different experience on the ground.

The Southside’s major commercial corridors are notoriously unfriendly (and even deadly) to pedestrians and bicyclists. It’s too charitable to say that people who walk and ride bikes were an afterthought in the design of these streets. The truth is they weren’t even considered at all.

My friend invited me on a Sunday morning bicycle tour of Southside to help me understand the numerous barriers to safe passage with which pedestrians and cyclists must contend. Some of them seem to have been created entirely out of spite.

For instance, he showed me a fence erected between a commercial development and an adjacent neighborhood that forces residents to walk blocks out of the way along a busy street with no sidewalks to reach nearby stores, restaurants and a transit stop. These destinations would

Bikes weren’t an afterthought when Southside streets were designed — they weren’t even a thought at all.

be only steps away without the fence blocking the way.

Yet inventive cyclists and pedestrians have learned to hack their environment, discovering tricks to make travel safer and more convenient. My friend recognizes that riding his bike through a parking lot comes with its own share of risks, but finds that it’s the best way to navigate a particularly troublesome intersection.

He’s also learned which traffic signals can be triggered by a bicycle (Hint: almost none all of them).

People who ride bikes on the Southside and in other unfriendly territories often develop a repertoire of alternate routes that permit them to reach destinations via calmer and slower streets. But there’s a tradeoff.

The safer way may be circuitous and time consuming.

Consider the official North/South Bikeway route, for example. A cyclist following it from Montgomery Crossroad to its southern terminus near Armstrong Atlantic State University will cross Abercorn twice.

You read that right. Twice.

If you’re running late you might be tempted to take a more direct route and take your chances on streets that are engineered to maximize motor vehicle throughput and speed.

These streets are populated with motorists who are also running late and attempting to get a jump on the workday by answering email, making phone calls or eating breakfast behind the wheel. Many are speeding.

That would dissuade most people

from riding their bikes to work, if they have a choice in the matter.

Many do not.

The good news is we can learn from Southside cyclists and pedestrians and formalize their informal solutions. Examine the shoulders of many roadways and you’ll see trails worn in grass and weeds by foot and bicycle traffic. These “desire lines” show the demand for sidewalk and bike paths and where they should be located.

Boundaries between neighborhoods can be made porous, permitting bicycle and pedestrian movement without increasing auto traffic. Simple fixes such as a gate installed in a fence or a couple yards of asphalt can help people safely and conveniently overcome currently impassible divides.

I saw several examples on my Southside tour. More are needed. This is the low hanging fruit.

The next level in complexity and expense involves new bike/pedestrian infrastructure using undeveloped right-of-ways to bridge wider gaps.

Neighborhood greenways would help avoid streets dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists, while offering more direct routes to popular destinations.

The real solution, however, is the adoption and implementation of Complete Streets policies to ensure that pedestrians, cyclists and transit riders are accommodated in street improvement or new roadway construction projects. Our citizens deserve transportation options that are safe and convenient, no matter how they move around our city. cs

Chatham Police Dept. incident reports

And bath salts, too Five Savannah residents were arrested last week after an investigation by the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team (CNT) led to a residence in the 1000 block of W. 38th Street.

Acting on an anonymous tip, agents began looking at the activities of twenty-year-old Travis Antwon Roberson, who was allegedly selling narcotics and who was reportedly in possession of an assault style weapon.

It was learned that Roberson was wanted by Savannah-Chatham Metro Police for various violations.

Agents, who set up surveillance in the vicinity of this home, observed Roberson approach and enter the house during the late afternoon

hours. With assistance of SCMPD officers, agents made contact with twenty-year-old Caitlin Arlene Pool at the residence who denied that Roberson was in the house, “refusing to allow agents to enter to search for him even after she was told he was seen entering,” a report says.

Acting on the knowledge that Roberson was in the house, agents entered the home and during their sweep of the interior rooms, Roberson voluntarily exited from one of the back bedrooms and was taken into custody without incident.

While conducting their initial search for Roberson, agents observed in plain view bags of marijuana, drug weighing scales, and a handgun.

With Roberson in custody, agents secured the home while a search warrant was obtained.

While holding the house in preparation for the arrival of the search warrant, twenty-two-year old Cornelius Morgan and nineteen-year-old Richard Isiah Wright were observed approaching the residence by agents adjacent to the front door. Wright fled

on foot and was appre• Two officers and hended after a short foot a suspect they were chase “but not before trying to question dropping a large trash bag were treated for along his route of flight. injuries after a vioInside the trash bag was lent confrontation. two additional pounds Angar Derium of marijuana.” Morgan, Williams, 36, of Some of CNT’s take from 38th who obeyed agents and Cimarron St., faces Street remained in place, was several charges found to be in possession after he fought of a handgun. with three officers in a neighborhood The following items were seized: off Ogeechee Road about 5:30 a.m.

8.4 ounces of marijuana, 22 grams of Two officers responded to comMethylone, commonly referred to as plaints of suspicious vehicles near Bath Salts, four handguns, and two Pate Street. “While questioning the assault style weapons. occupants of one car they encounAfter the home had been searched tered Williams in a second vehicle and just prior to leaving, twenty-yearsmelling of marijuana,” a spokesman old Cassidy Jane Kinsey came to the says. “A struggle began when they front door “and believing she may asked him to exit the car.” be paying a visit to purchase drugs, Williams finally was subdued. He an agent posing as one of the home had been sentenced to seven years in occupants answered the door and prison for possession of cocaine in asked her what she needed.” Kinsey December 2010 and was paroled in was taken into custody after telling February 2013. the agent that she wished to purchase Give anonymous crime tips to some marijuana.

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Redneck Geek: Edward Teller, the famous theoretical physicist known as the “father of the hydrogen bomb” for his work on the World War II-era Manhattan Project, died in 2003, but his daughter Rene told The Free Press of Kinston, N.C., in November that she had recently discovered two of her father’s precious mementos at a thrift shop near Kinston during a road trip to visit relatives. “(Father’s) work was so demanding” she said, that he needed “recreational activities” and tried “the things you’d suspect,” like chess. However, the two mementos were awards Teller had won at tractor pull competitions. “He’d show up at major tractor pulls” riding just a Cub Cadet mower, Rene said, and “leave the competition in the dust.” (Teller’s secret, she said, was using “nuclear fusion-based engines,” which sponsors ultimately had to ban.)

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• Restaurant Startups: (1) Japan’s “cat cafes” allow the pet-starved to relax

while dining by caressing house kit“narrowing the angle” by “standing tens that roam the facilities, but similar slightly to one side and aiming downeateries have opened recently featurwards at a low angle of impact.” ing owls (the Fukurou Sabou in Tokyo, • The Human-Rodent ConnecOwl Family in Osaka). (The owls are tion: University of British Columbia not caressable and easily spooked researchers, intent on judging whether by excessive noise.) (2) Liu Pengfei’s blocking dopamine D4 receptors can Five Loaves and Two Fish restaurant reduce the urge to gamble in subjects in Fuzhou, China, is losing money other than humans, claimed in Octorapidly despite overflow ber to have devised dining crowds, accorda test that works on ing to a December China the dopamine recepDaily report, because tors of rats - especially he allows customers to those with a gambling LIFE SUCKS, but pay only what they wish. problem. With a slot at least you’re (They must also wash out machine-like device not an their bowls.) “I want to dispensing sugar pellets, anglerfish. continue,” he said, “as I the researchers claimed believe the feeling of trust they offered rats meais contagious.” sured risks and even determined that rats are more likely to take risks Cutting-Edge Sciimmediately followence ing a close loss (as are • It may be a cliche of humans). domestic conflict, but physicists recently, earThe Kingdom nestly, tackled the dynam• The sex life of the ics of toilet bowl “splash anglerfish, according to back.” A stream delivered by a standa Wired.com interview in November ing male, because it travels five times with evolutionary biologist Theodore farther than a seated male’s, produces Pietsch, is as dismal as any on planet a splash easily reaching seat and floor Earth. According to Wired: “Boy meets - even without factoring in the “wellgirl, boy bites girl, boy’s mouth fuses known” Plateau-Rayleigh instability to girl’s body, boy lives the rest of his the inevitable disintegration of a liquid life attached to girl, sharing her blood stream “six or seven inches” after its and supplying her with sperm.” Only formation. Short of recommending that 1 percent of males ever hook up with men be seated, the researchers (speakfemales (because the ocean floor is ing to a November conference) suggest

dark), said Pietsch. The rest starve to death as virgins.

• Professor Pietsch may know his anglerfish, but Marlene Zuk of the University of Minnesota knows her insects, including the mating mechanics of damselflies, crickets and cockroaches, which she described for The New York Times in November. The damselfly male’s penis is a Swiss Army knife-like contraption (necessary to access the female’s well-hidden eggs). The cricket easily produces sperm, but then awaits its draining through a “long stem” “for several minutes” to achieve fertilization.

Cockroaches, Professor Zuk wrote, mate by “blind trust” as they hook up back-to-back and, with no neck, cannot even glance over a shoulder to check on their work.

• Elephant Whisperer: Nirmala Toppo, 14, is apparently the one to call if wild elephants overrun your village, especially in India’s Orissa and Jharkhand states, which are still home to hundreds of marauding pachyderms.

Her latest pied-piper act, in June, emptied a herd of 11 out of the industrial city of Rourkela. Said Toppo: “First I pray and then talk to the herd. I tell them this is not your home. You should return where you belong.” Somehow, the elephants followed her for miles away from the town, according to an October BBC News dispatch. cs

By chuck shepherd UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE

If a brain transplant were possible, would the recipient take on the personality of the donor? —Cleona Vassell Stop right there, Cleona. In a brain transplant, who’s the recipient and who’s the donor?

Here’s one way to think about it.

Although a brain transplant at the moment is impossible, no doubt that won’t always be so. What will probably become feasible first isn’t a brain transplant but a head transplant.

This simplifies matters in two respects. First, on a practical level, it sidesteps the fantastically complicated

transplants has been slow to evolve, and often grotesque. In 1954 Russian scientists transplanted the head and upper thorax of a puppy onto a larger dog, creating a two-headed dog. In 1965 one of the pioneers in the field, Robert White, topped this by transplanting the brain of a donor dog into the neck of another, thus briefly creating a twobrained dog. In 1970 White and his colleagues transplanted the head of a monkey onto another’s headless body.

The resulting monkey lived for eight days. Not only could it use its senses, it tried to bite the hand of a researcher.

In all three cases, the host body simply provided life support for the transplanted head or brain. There was no neurological connection between the two, and the newly added brain wasn’t in any sense the master of the body.

But give it time. Current schemes for head transplants involve keeping bodies of donor and recipient in deep hypothermia and using ultra-sharp knives to cleanly cut each patient’s spinal cord at the neck in hopes that the nerve cells will fuse when the brain end of one is joined to the body end of the other.

A special glue promoting such fusion would be applied to severed ends.

Purely as a thought experiment, consider: Jane and John crash their motorcycles into each other. Helmetless Jane is left brain-dead but otherwise intact; John’s brain is fine, but his body is mangled beyond repair. With death imminent, genius surgeons successfully implant John’s brain in Jane’s body.

Who wakes up, Jane or John?

The memories and consciousness clearly will be John’s. But personality to an unknown but surely significant degree is formed by the interaction between brain and body.

More generally, John’s brain must map itself to Jane’s body. Maybe you’d just get one of those comical scenarios beloved of screenwriters: a woman’s body with a man at the controls. Then again, maybe John becomes psychotic due to the brain/body disconnect.

But there’s a third possibility. John wakes up thinking he’s male, but after his body imprints itself decides: please, call me Jane.

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project of reconnecting the brain to the multitude of sensory organs and blood vessels in the head. Second, it goes a long way toward answering your question.

We’re not talking about grafting a new brain or head onto someone’s body; we’re talking about grafting a new body onto someone’s head. The self that lives in that head remains the boss.

As for personality . . . well, that’s a broader question, which we’ll get to.

Currently the dealbreaker here is the spinal cord—as yet there’s no way to reattach a severed cord to a brain.

Some think stem cell research may yield a way to splice the two together. A more exotic possibility is severing the brain at midpoint and connecting the upper lobes—and thus, presumably, the higher functions and consciousness—of one individual to the brain stem, spinal cord, and body of someone else. The rationale seems to be that we keep all the control circuitry needed to operate the body intact and simply put someone new in the driver’s seat. However you slice it, it won’t be easy.

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On Sunday night, Feb. 9, 1964, the Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, giving millions of American kids a muchneeded morale boost in that bleak period following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. For years, it ranked as the most-watched event in U.S. television history … even more significantly, it was The Night That Launched a Million Bands.

Sales of electric guitars skyrocketed in the days and weeks following the Fab Four’s debut, and pretty soon every town in the country had a gaggle of teen-aged garage groups, growing out their hair and rocking

with unbridled joy. That’s just one of the effects the Beatles had.

Of course, rock ‘n’ roll existed before the Beatles, much as jazz had existed before Miles and Coltrane.

But this watershed event profoundly changed the way the music was perceived, and the way it was played.

After Feb. 9, 1964, nothing would ever be the same.

A new organization called Savannah Rocks! intends to celebrate the Fab 50th with a Feb. 7 concert at the American Legion Post on Bull Street.

But the group has other plans, too.

Bigger plans. They want to honor and chronicle rock ‘n’ roll in Savannah.

“We have no illusion that we can tell THE history of rock ‘n’ roll in Savannah,” says Chatham–Savannah Citizens Advocacy director Tom Kohler, one of the group’s founders.

“So we’ve consciously chosen not to try to do that.

“What we’re asking is for people who touch in on it in some way to collectively build what we’re calling a history of rock ‘n’ roll in Savannah.

Because it would be assumptive and audacious for anyone to say they can tell the history.”

Kohler’s team includes local musicians past and present — Jim Reed, Stevie Bryan, Don Cogdell, Roy Swindelle, Colleen Heine and others.

With regard to the past, Savannah Rocks! wants you do dig back through your scrapbooks, shoeboxes, computers, dresser drawers and boxes of junk for pictures, ticket stubs, posters, any sort of imagery — “anything,” Kohler explains, “that had to do with being part of, and loving rock ‘n’ roll in Savannah over these past decades.”

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On Jan. 3, a 30-foot bulletin board will open to the public at the Sentient Bean, featuring every received contribution. “It’ll only be a history

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if people contribute their personal memories and touch,” says Kohler. “We’re not going to ‘curate’ it in any big way.

We’ll have an arrow pointing one way on the board that says ‘Back Then,’ and another arrow that points in the other direction and says ‘Now.’” The gang will be on-site at the Bean Dec. 29, from 2 to 6 p.m., with a scanner. After Jan. 3, Kohler chuckles, you can just bring whatever you’ve got to the Bean and tack it right up.

He sees this as a cross-generational thing. “Part of it is to give these people who share a common love of music a place to come together, and get to know one another,” he says.

“We think that will enliven the guys of my generation, and women of my generation, and there’s an opportunity for some of the young folks. Because a lot of guys who used to play rock ‘n’ roll here in the ‘60s and ‘70s are now attorneys and architects, and own businesses.”

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the concert — which will also combine musicians from then to now — will go towards a series of oral histories that the group hopes will culminate in a book about the rock ‘n’ roll through-line in our fair city.

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“Everyone involved has day jobs of all kinds and no one is getting paid,” laughs Kohler, “so it took a while to get rolling.

“But we kept hearing ‘Fifty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play’ and ‘will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m 64’ ringing in our ears, so we kept plugging along.” CS

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Savannah Philharmonic’s Peter Shannon helps healing through music Story and photos by bill deyoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

Peter Shannon is sitting behind a small piano in the lobby of Memorial University Medical Center Children’s Hospital. In a sing-songy voice, he addresses a small group of young patients and their families: Forget your troubles and your aches, it’s Prince Tamino being chased by a snake!

From behind a painted forest mural springs the prince in question — it’s Jamie Keena dressed in royal-looking duds — and Heidi Bindhammer in a big, black papier-mâché snake costume.

These are Savannah-based singers and actors, bringing a little light into young lives with a 20-minute adaptation of the Mozart opera The Magic Flute.

At the piano, Shannon — the artistic director and conductor of the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra

and Chorus — plays Mozart’s beautiful, dainty melodies and narrates the story, which comes to incorporate the adventures of a “bird-catcher” named Papageno (Billy Wooten), a princess (Michelle Evans Jarell), three ladies with magical powers, a funny bird and a couple of not-too-scary monsters. They all sing beautifully as they move around.

“I do really believe in the power of something like this,” Shannon explains after the mini-opera ends, and the kids in their hospital gowns

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have all said a shy hello to the performers. “Singing Christmas carols is nice, but to see a snake come out and chase a prince, that’s hard to beat. And it’s Mozart! I think if you’re going to be serious about doing it right, you’ve just got to go the whole hog.”

Shannon came up with this oncea-month idea, as part of the Philharmonic’s outreach program.

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“I talked to the people at Memorial about bringing music into the chemotherapy rooms. It’s been empirically proven that if you listen to live music when you’re receiving treatment, it’s a very good thing. And the whole idea of de-sterilizing this hospital environment was really important to me.”

Twice a week, Philharmonic musicians play at the Anderson Cancer Institute at Memorial. “Those two days a week, I’ve seen wonderful things,” Shannon beams. “The stories are really incredible.”

Bringing music to pediatric patients was a logical step for Shannon, who has two young children himself.

“I wanted to do something more interactive for kids,” he says. “And I was really wracking my brains. And the truth is that I had The Magic Flute on my music stand upstairs in my study, and as soon as I saw it I said ‘That’s it!’ An opera, you wouldn’t associate it with children, but this is such a wonderful story. All opera is basically storytelling.

“I spent the whole summer working on it, and making sure that I could pare it down to a kids’ amenable version. The most difficultly was trying to make sure there was a line through the story, that we weren’t just

shredding the whole opera.”

The music is all Mozart; the lyrics are (mostly) adapted from the original libretto. Shannon wrote the narration himself.

“I’ve done a lot of research on interpretive pediatric medicine,” the conductor explains, “and one of the things we learned a lot about was the use of storytelling in helping people to heal. Basically, the idea is to use an artistic tool to get them to open up.

“Music is obviously an artistic tool. But here, we went further and used imagery. For example, the three ladies — as they’re called in the story — who have magic powers and kill the snake in the opera. They’re wearing scrubs. And instead of carrying spears, they have IV poles. The “goodies” are the nurses; the “baddie” is the snake, which represents illness. And the snake costume has an open face, so that you can see that it’s a person.

So little kids won’t be scared.”

With funding from The One Hundred, Shannon and a revolving band of singers and actors plan to bring The Magic Flute to the Children’s Hospital once a month.

His goal, he says, is nothing more than to make these kids smile a little, enjoy the music and the story. Forget their aches. CS See www.savannahphilharmonic.org.

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Joseph Alfieris: Richard Klein, the publisher, is a good friend of mine.

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Back in the early 1990s, when the publishing industry was flush and no one had ever heard of the Great Recession, a small culture magazine called Contents emerged from little ol’ Savannah, GA. Its Savannah born-and-bred founder and creative director, Joseph Alfieris, envisioned an eclectic showcase of Southern artists, writers and tastemakers. The fast-forward design and glamorous photography quickly captivated influencers in New York and Paris, and Contents evolved

Since the last issue of Contents was on the stands, print publishing has taken a huge hit. What gave you and Richard the chutzpah to bring back the glossy?

In the ‘90s, Savannah native Joseph Alfieris launched the international culture magazine Contents.

into an edgy cultural doctrine that attracted world-class talent and launched Alifiers to international renown.

Contents enjoyed a happy shelf life next to Interview and Vanity Fair until 2003, and Alfieris has spent the last decade nurturing various creative projects and caring for extended family in Savannah. As of late, he’s been flying around the country as photo editor of the new FourTwoNine, a high-end glossy geared to — but not exclusively for — the LGBT community.

A sumptuous tome of substance and style, the first issue of FourTwoNine featured Sarah Jessica Parker and Bravo host Andy Cohen on the cover. It was voted “Launch of the Year” by publishing industry megalith Folio Magazine.

Connect caught up with Alfieris for a fried oyster sandwich at the Crystal Beer Parlor, which happens to be owned by his first cousin. As the truism goes, you might take the boy out of Savannah, but you’ll never take Savannah out of the boy.

JA: So many publications have gone through so many incarnations. There are news-driven publications and mass market brands, but there is still a discerning audience for a high-end print product. The quality of print in the marketplace has become a luxury, and there’s an audience and advertisers who find it appealing.

In terms of the business model, it has a high cover price, and the advertisers are interested because who the magazine caters to and ends up with are the influencers. These are people involved in the creative world and media; these are also the people we cover, people distinctive in their areas: Acting, writing, design, art, politics…

So, in a nutshell, the aim is the first mainstream gay magazine?

JA: In a nutshell, it’s hard to put it in a nutshell! It’s a style bible created by, but not necessarily for, the LGBT community. It’s involved in all sorts of cultural and creative issues.

Maybe the magazine elevates LGBT creativity and culture so that it’s no longer remarkable in its otherness, but we don’t want to be pigeonholed as a gay publication. It’s a route to influencers and those whose opinions matter. What we realized is that by showcasing people in the LGBT community who are highly accomplished,

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“literature music art design tabloid.”

We began to grow our advertising, and then we started distributing nationally, still featuring just Southern creatives. And then it just took off.

Soon, we had very accomplished peoDescribe the editorial vision for Four ple coming out of the global woodTwo Nine. work who didn’t care that we couldn’t JA: Kevin Sessums, our editor-inpay very much, they just wanted to chief, was a contributing editor at be a part of it: Image-makers like both Interview and Ellen von Unwerth and Vanity Fair and brings Paul Jasmin, filmmakthe focus to our editoers Atom Egoyan, Larry rial. Our art direction Clark and more… is sleek with a classic Also, most of the aesthetic, and of course then-emerging photogthe photography is raphers who helped up top-notch. build Contents went on Our first issue was to become very famous. the Friends issue; the Look at Richard Phibbs, next is Family, with who is now one of the Jared Leto on the cover top fashion photograwith his brother, Shanphers in the world. He non. They’re very hot had this idea to take all right now with their the white shirts of the The first issue of FourTwoNine new collections down band, 30 Seconds to Mars, and Jared to Mississippi to shoot is nominated for a them on people he Golden Globe for Dallas Buyer’s Club. found there, which turned out to be I’ve got that shoot coming up. stunning. We’re still in touch; he phoAnd though we’ve had to move tographed the New York City Ballet her story to the summer, we have for the next issue of FourTwoNine.

Maude Schuyler Clay — she’s an artBut we can’t do it like we did ist and photographer with pieces in back then. Now our budgets are just the MOMA permanent collection incredible — even for friends! Ran— on board to take family portraits dall Mesdon worked just for expenses in Mississippi. Did you know that for Contents. Now he’s the creative Mississippi has the highest number of director of Man of the World and same-sex couples with children in the takes photos for Esquire, Details, all country? That blows my mind. the Condé Nast brands. We wanted him to shoot the cover of the first Would you care to share any thoughts issue, but I couldn’t make his budget about growing up gay in Savannah?

— and he’s a friend of mine!

JA: I’ve never been one to define Any plans to shoot on site in someone as gay just because they hapSavannah? pen to be. You can’t get distracted by things like that or you can’t go about JA: I know that Kevin wants to do a doing what it is you’re inspired by. story about art students and their difI have to say, it was something that ferent styles — maybe compare and never bothered me. I grew up in the contrast SCAD students with the stumiddle class suburb of Magnolia Park dents at RISD [Rhode Island School of in the ‘60s and it just wasn’t discussed.

Design]. We would shoot that here.

I moved away in the mid-‘70s to go As a photo editor in what has become to the School of Visual Arts in New an incredibly image-saturated world, York, then to Paris in 1984 and stayed how do you curate the really worththere until 1990. while images?

How did Contents come about?

JA: These days a worthwhile image JA: It was the early ‘90s, I was trying can come from a cell phone. Everyto work in the movies like everyone one’s got megapixels right in their else my age back then. I picked up a hands. But what makes a photograph free weekly and thought, what if we great is that it says everything in one tried to do something that showcased instant. So the art of photography is writing and photography from all always going to be there, no matter these different cities? We called it a how many images there are. cs

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Like snarled traffic, retail clusterf@#%s and the endless repetition of the same 10 songs on the radio, you can always count on Bay Street Theatre during the days leading up to Christmas. Yes, Virginia, Bay Street will always have a holiday show. Yes, it will always be weird.

This year, it’s The SantaLand Diaries paired with Season’s Greetings, both from the prolific pen of humorist David Sedaris. They are bizarre and, wouldn’t you just know it, damn funny.

“The trend for us, for the Christmas shows, is to pick something that’s light-hearted,” says director Travis Coles, who also handled last year’s bizarre (and damn funny) Eight Reindeer Monologues. “Not the traditional.

Something to get away from the seriousness of the season.”

Each show has just one character.

In SantaLand, it’s Sedaris himself, recounting his experiences assisting a department store Santa. He’s an elf named Crumpet, and he hates his job.

Natch.

A Mrs. Dunbar is the narrator of Season’s Greetings. Dressed in an overly festive (aka tacky) Christmas sweater, she’s reading her annual “family holiday newsletter,” all the while explaining away an increasingly strange series of circumstances.

There are four Bay Street shows,

Crumpets and Dunbars aplenty: Christopher Stanley, left, Valerie America Lavelle, Nick Dephetereos and Erin L. Muller.

and two sets of performers doing two shows each (thare are two alternating Crumpets, and two alternating Mrs. Dunbars).

Show up whenever you like, Forrest Gump, because (and I’m paraphrasing here) you never know who you’re gonna get.

“While it technically is a reading,” says Coles, “I picked these particular folks because they’ll bring a lot more acting into it. All four of them are very talented at these kind of shows that are monologues, where the actor has to rely on himself, not his interaction with other actors.”

We spoke to the Christmas quartet about this gift they’re giving: Bay Street perennials Christopher Stanley, who played Pirelli in Sweeney Todd and recently wrapped up his first term as Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, and Valerie America Lavelle (in 2013: Speech and Debate, Reefer Madness); plus Erin L. Muller and Nick Dephetereos, who were both part of the antlered ensemble cast of the 2012 holiday show, The

Eight Reindeer Monologues, among other things.

Valerie America Lavelle (Season’s Greetings): “It’s really funny how she recounts everything that’s happened to her throughout the year, and the desperation of her trying to keep going … even though all these horrible things have happened, to rock her sense of what’s good and righteous in her world. The way David Sedaris wrote it, I think it’s so very easy to get into that character. They’re very relate-able in ways. Even though everything is going crazy for her, I think everybody can sort of relate to her saying ‘No, no, it’s all fine!’ because it’s the holiday season.”

Nick Dephtereos (SantaLand Diaries): “He’s working at Macy’s department store, and there’s a bunch of ... well, they’re probably just normal people, but if I was swamped by a million crazed people with screaming kids, and ridiculous ideas of Christmas, I think I would probably be rotten and miserable too. And I would probably want to tell people about it!”

Christopher Stanley (SantaLand Diaries): “I think the first David Sedaris story I heard was Holidays on Ice — him talking about learning about Santa in … Belgium, I think it was. Where rather than eight reindeer, he has eight black men. Who used to be his slaves, now they’re just really good friends. And when you’ve been naughty, rather than getting coal, they beat you up and take you to Spain. Which apparently is a bad thing in Belgium.”

Erin Muller (Season’s Greetings): “All the shows Bay Street does are really interesting. Because we do the big moneymakers like The Rocky Horror Show and Sweeney Todd, the big musicals that bring everyone in, we’re fortunate enough to be able to do these smaller shows. Not that David Sedaris isn’t well-known! But this isn’t a huge show. And that’s what I like about Bay Street.”

Nick Dephtereos: “I have to be careful that I’m playing my Crumpet, and not David Sedaris. Crumpet has to be me, through the lens of David Sedaris. I have to go inside and find my inner queeny catty bitch. And it’s very easy!”

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Hopefully, your mama taught you that if you’re lucky enough to be invited to someone’s home for the holidays, you’d better bring a small gift for your host or hostess.

For the most part, you can’t go wrong with a bottle of wine. But how to set apart your impeccable good taste from the rest of the regular Bruts and Merlots?

We asked local wine shop experts what they’re bringing to the party.

Christian Depken of Le Chai, 15 E. Park Ave., (912) 713-2229

Not pronounced like the spicy Indian tea or as in the Jewish toast “l’chaim!”, Le Chai rhymes with “the hay” and is named after the glorified wine storage sheds of Bordeaux, France. Le Chai’s proprietor, Christian Depken, recently moved his galerie du vin from the Starland District to Forsyth Park, gutting the space next to the Sentient Bean down to bare brick to create a simple, well-lighted place to showcase his wines.

When it comes to Le Chai’s collection of nectarious wares, Depken trafficks exclusively in European varieties, arranged punctiliously by region. (For real, he uses a level.) He snubs ratings

systems, preferring not only to taste each and every vintage himself, but to examine soil samples culled from the hallowed grounds of Europe’s most famous wineries. Though some consider it a conceit, his loyal clients deeply appreciate Depken’s thoroughness and passion.

Considering his allegiance to deep, dark Burgundys, his favorite grape may come as a surprise: “What you need to know is that the most important wine is Riesling,” he counsels. “People think it’s all sweet.

Not true.”

Though he touts the Austrian Rieslings as nice and dry, he recommends the German-produced Weingut St. Urbans-Hof Wiltinger Schlangengraben Riesling Feinherb 2011.

“Feinherb” means “half-dry,” making this mouthful an amenable pairing for almost anything. $22.

Ralph Champion of Sandfly Fine Wines, 7359 Skidaway Rd., (912) 354-1426

For 35 years, Champion has been advising wine lovers from the inside of Newton’s Package Shop on Skidaway Road. He’s the go-to guy for Sandfly, Isle of Hope and Dutch Island residents, though plenty of midtowners are happy to make the drive for his sage advice. Most days he’s accompanied by his honorary sommelier, Patty Jane III, a friendly Golden Retriever who learned the

Ralph Champion of Sandfly Fine Wines with his assistant, Patty Jane III.

ropes from her predecessors, Patty Jane and Patty Jane, Jr. For holiday festivities, Champion recommends Belle Glos Meiomi Pinot Noir, a full-flavored blend from California’s most noteworthy coastal vineyards.

“It pairs well with all the Christmas fare — turkey and dressing, ham — but of course, it’s extraordinary with beef,” he says.

This mélange of rich, purple grapes from Sonoma, Monterey and Santa Barbara is sure to keep spirits bright this season. $20.

Stan Ray of Savannah Wine Cellar, 5500 Abercorn St., (912) 355-9463

It may be tucked away in Twelve Oaks Shopping Center, but the Savannah Wine Cellar presents a world of its own. With pressurized tasting machines and 40 wines on tap, a person could while away an entire afternoon choosing the perfect bottle — as a matter of fact, many people do: Since it opened two years ago, the place brims with folks ostensibly “running errands” at the shopping center’s other stores, and the Cellar’s regular $10 Saturday tastings are always packed.

Ray, a musician who moonlights as the beat-keeper for Savannah’s favorite string band, The Accomplices, explains that the Cellar stocks perennial favorites but also aims to “move beyond the usual suspects.”

In the vein of encouraging an unusual holiday season, Ray suggests starting with dessert: Each bottle of Saunier de Longchamps’ Pineau de Charentes contains two-thirds wine and one-third aged cognac for a ripe, sweet sip with a whistle-clean finish.

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Saunier de Longchamps’ secret blend comes in two versions: A golden honey blanc and a rouge spiced with cinnamon, cardamom and nutmeg. $24.99.

Claude Auerbach of FORM, 1801 Habersham, (912) 236-7642

After a change in partnership, Savananah’s foodies are relieved that everyone’s favorite wine-cheesecheesecake shop will remain in its brick venue on Habersham.

Though remaining owner and consummate sommelier Claude Auerbach now carries a robust selection of craft beers and is expanding the already popular Gourmet to Go

section, FORM is still a top spot to pop into on the way to a dinner party: “I look for wines that not everyone carries, and obviously, we focus on things that work best with food,” says Auerbach.

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Turntable Show and Reception — Second annual

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

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OK, there are indeed matters to discuss when it comes to this picture, but most pertain to common issues that affect most middle chapters of a planned cinematic trilogy (The Hobbit: There and Back Again will be released December 2014). There’s the sense of narratively treading water, stretching out some passages and reserving other plot points for the next entry. There’s the desire to keep the action fast and furious, since most of the expository material was doled out in the first picture (it’s in this manner that the movie most resembles The Lord of the Rings’ own middle chapter, The

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The primary cast newcomers, Evans and Evangeline Lilly (as the elf Tauriel), smoothly integrate themselves into Jackson’s fantasy vision, although the return of Orlando Bloom as Legolas isn’t the thrill many might be expecting. As for McKellen, his performance at this point (five films and counting) is as comforting as hot chocolate on Christmas Day. It’s impossible to imagine anyone else in this role.

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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.

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 Jacob Latimore. Hudson’s singing and Forest Whitaker’s acting compensate somewhat, but for a truly inventive and uplifting African-American piece set in New York during the Yuletide season, skip spending the bucks on Black Nativity and watch Run-DMC’s “Christmas in Hollis” music video on YouTube instead.

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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 KatnissPeeta-Gale or Bella-Edward-Jacob.

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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.

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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. C 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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Activism & Politics Drinking Liberally

An informal, left-leaning gathering to discuss politics, the economy, sports, entertainment, or anything else that comes up. Every first and third 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 Muffins with Mary Ellen

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

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Wednesdays, 6-9 a.m coffee deli, 4517 Habersham St. Savannah Area Young Republicans

Get involved. Contact is Michael Johnson, via email or telephone, or see website for info. 912-604-0797. chairman@sayr.org. sayr.org. Call or see website for information. Free . 912-3083020. savannahyoungrepublicans.com.

Savannah Tea Party

Free to attend. Note new location, date and time. Food and beverages available for purchase. Call for additional information. Reservations not necessary. Annual Dues $10.00. Free , 5:30 p.m. 912-598-7358. savannahteaparty. com. , 5:30 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. Benefits 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/ police/fire. Early bird regis: $30-$35.

Through Jan 3.. Through Feb. 21, 2014. 912.233.7787. myHSF.org. Early bird regis: $30-$35. Through Jan 3.

Through Feb. 21, 2014 Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. A Chance to be Mysterious Santa

The Mysterious Santa visits hospitals

and nursing homes on Christmas Day. To volunteer to help Santa, call Mike 912.352.8722, Carol 912.354.7827 or Pete 912.356.1447. Through Dec. 25.

Through Dec. 25 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. Donations for Meals on Wheels at Gaslight Group's Restaurants

Monetary donations for Senior Citizens' Meals on Wheels, a daily meal delivery program for elderly people in Savannah, will be collected at each Gaslight Group location including B. Matthew’s Eatery, The 5 Spot, Blowin’ Smoke and Abe’s on Lincoln through December 20, 2013 during normal business hours.

Through Dec. 20. Through Dec. 20 Forsyth Farmers Market Seeks Sponsors

Market sponsors invest in a healthy community and show consideration for the local economy. Sponsorship opportunities begin at $350. Help keep food fresh and local. . kristen@forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket. com. forsythfarmersmarket.com/.

Forsyth Farmers' Market, 501 Whitaker St., South End of Forysth Park. $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.

Martinis at the Mansion benefiting Friends of Skidaway Island State Park

Enjoy martinis, appetizers, and a special raffle while supporting the Friends of Skidaway Island State Park. Wed., Dec. 18, 5:30-7:30 p.m. (912) 721-5002. mansiononforsythpark.com/contact/.

Wed., Dec. 18, 5:30-7:30 p.m Mansion on Forsyth Park, 700 Drayton St. One Love Animal Rescue Benefit

Special needs animal rescue organization has taken in three more dogs with unique needs. Fundraiser online to benefit medical treatment for these animals. Through Jan. 1, 2014. youcaring.com/pet-expenses/one-love-sspecial-needs-animals/99094. Through Jan. 1, 2014 Professional Clothing Drive at Armstrong

Armstrong Atlantic State University’s

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

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

Help dogs and cats stay warm while awaiting homes. Please donate your used towels, blankets and pet bedding, as well as food or any other items useful to pets. Call 912-658-8299 to arrange free pickup OR Take directly to Savannah Chatham Animal Control between 1pm-4:45pm. OR Drop off items at these drop box locations: Savannah Veterinary Medical Center, 2014 E. Victory, 912-447-8711; Tail Spin, 4501 Habersham St. 912-691-8788; Critter Sit Doggy Daycare, 101 Sunshine Ave., 912-238-0067 or 912-631-6068; Tail Spin, 437 Pooler Pkwy, 912-330-8852 Through Jan. 15, 2014. 912-658-8299. savannahblanketdrive@gmail.com.

Through Jan. 15, 2014 Chatham County Animal Shelter, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. SCMPD Animal Control seeks Volunteers

Savannah Chatham County Animal Control seeks volunteers to serve as greeters, office assistants, animal photographers,event coordinators, groomers, property maintenance workers, kennel assistants, dog walkers, cat socializers, play area monitors, off-site adoption managers, veterinary service supporters, and foster coordinators. No prior animal shelter experience is necessary. Newly trained volunteers will be authorized to serve immediately after orientation. Potential volunteers are asked to notify J. Lewis prior to orientation; though, walk-ins are welcome. Volunteers must be at least 17-years-old. . (912) 525-2151. jlewis01@savannahga.gov.

Volunteers Sought for Holiday "Trading Places" Program by Savannah Jewish Federation

The Savannah Jewish Federation’s “Trading Places” program will provide volunteers from the Jewish community to help other non-profit organizations on Christmas Day 2013, giving non-Jewish employees the day off to celebrate Christmas with their families.

Part of the Savannah Jewish Community’s mission of Tikkun Olam – Repairing the World. This year’s volunteers will have the opportunity to give their time and energy to the Salvation Army, Humane Society, Union Mission, and the Jewish Educational Alliance. Open to volunteers of all ages. Volunteer positions are still available. To sign up, call 912-355-8111 or email programming@savj.org. Through Dec. 25. 912355-8111. programming@savj.org. savj. org. Through Dec. 25 Call for Entries Auditions for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Appointment-only auditions for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" on January 6th and 7th. For ages 17 years and up. Through Jan. 7, 2014. (912) 257-0671. jewelconservatorytheatre@ gmail.com. jewelconservatory.com.

Through Jan. 7, 2014 Jewel Conservatory Theatre, 6014 Hwy 21 S. 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.

All artwork must be 11x17, horizontal 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. 912-651-6411.

Lspracher@savannahga.gov. savannahga.gov/artcontest. Through Jan. 31,

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.

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 ,.

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.

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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 continues on p. 36

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. . 912-6516417. cnorthcutt@savannahga.gov. savannahga.gov\arts).

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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.

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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 as gifts!

Studio S.P.A.C.E. Give the gift of creativity or develop your own artistic skills!

The Department of Cultural Affairs’ Studio S.P.A.C.E. offers educational fine craft classes and specialty workshops in visual arts for all ages and skill levels. Classes range from beginner to advanced and include courses in children’s and teen clay, teen jewelry, metalsmithing, stained-glass, sculpture, ceramics, and painting. Classes begin the week of January 20, 2014. Gift certificates available. | Through Jan. 20, 2014. 912.651.6783. SAVANNAHGA. GOV/ARTS. Through Jan. 20, 2014 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 inquiries only. 912-961-7021 or 912667-1056.

Artist Sacred Circle

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

Taught by Happenstance Bellydance.

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

This dance-based fitness class blends belly dance moves to create a core strengthening workout. These quick paced classes build heat, endurance, flexibility, and strength through core isolations. Be prepared to have fun and

| Submit your event online at connectsavannah.com 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 place emphases on the connection of the mind and body through movement.

Contemporary Soul will help the recognize traditional boundaries through balance, floor work and improvisation.

This class is open to ages 10+. $15 for drop-on or 4 for $50 Sundays, 3:30 p.m.

404-709-9312. inspiredanceprogram@ hotmail.com. Sundays, 3:30 p.m First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Dance Conditioning

Be prepared to sweat! Bring your towel and your water bottle! This class is designed to enhance your strength, flexibility, balance, and overall body fitness. With belly dance movements in mind, this is a total body work out! $10 drop in or $80 for 10 classes Wednesdays, 7 p.m. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Wednesdays, 7 p.m Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

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. 912-897-

3604. islandchristian.org.

Family Law Workshop

The Mediation Center has three workshops per month for people who do not have legal representation in a family matter: divorce, legitimation, modifications of child support, visitation, contempt. Schedule: 1st Tues, 2nd Mon, 4th Thursday. Call for times. $30 912354-6686. mediationsavannah.com.

Fany's Spanish/English Institute

Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children held at 15 E. Montgomery Crossroad. Register by phone. . 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, 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. 404-7099312. inspiredanceprogram@hotmail. com. Sundays, 2:30 p.m First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Knitting & Crochet Classes

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

Latin Cardio

Latin Cardio is a cardio based workout class that is designed to get your off the couch and sweat while having fun! We dance to all your favorite latin style dances like cha cha, samba, jive, rumba, salsa and more! Don't worry... you will be sweating off the pounds every time you put your feet into action on

the dance floor! No partner necessary.

Workout clothes required! $10 drop in or $80 for 10 classes Mondays, 6 p.m.

912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio. com. Mondays, 6 p.m Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Learn to Sew!

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

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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,

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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.

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.

West Coast Swing Class

Interested in learning how to West Coast Swing? Come learn from the best in Savannah. Rick Cody will take you though the smooth rhythms of beach music to help you get ready for the dance floor. $12 drop in fee or $35 for 4 weeks Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio. com. Wednesdays, 7 p.m Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Yoga for Couples

A two hour class for prospective moms and their delivery partners. Learn labor and delivery stages and a "toolbox" of

hands-on comfort measures from a labor doula, including breathing, massage, positioning, and pressure points.

Bring and exercise ball. Quarterly, Saturdays 1pm-3pm at Savannah Yoga Center. Call or email to register. $100 per couple. . 912-704-7650. douladeliveries.com.

Clubs & Organizations Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes

Classses for multiple ages in performance dance and adult fitness dance.

African, modern, ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, gospel. Held at Abeni Cultural Arts studio, 8400-B Abercorn St. Call Muriel, 912-631-3452, or Darowe, 912-272-2797. . abeniculturalarts@ gmail.com.

Adult Intermediate Ballet

Beginner and Intermediate Ballet, Modern Dance, Barre Fusion, Barre Core Body Sculpt, and Gentle Stretch and Tone. no experience needed for beginner Ballet, barre, or stretch/tone.

The Ballet School, Piccadilly Square, 10010 Abercorn. Registration/fees/info online or by phone. . 912-925-0903. theballetschoolsav.com.

Avegost LARP

Live action role playing group that exists in a medieval fantasy realm. generallly meets the second weekend of the month. Free for your first event or if you're a non-player character. $35 fee for returning characters. . godzillaunknown@gmail.com. avegost.com.

Blindness and Low Vision: A Guide to Working, Living, and Supporting Individuals with Vision Loss

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

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

Business Networking on the Islands

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

Tradewinds Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Call for info. . 912-3086768.

Chatham Sailing Club

Meets first Friday of each month, 6:30pm at Young's Marina. If first Friday falls on a holiday weekend, meeting is second Friday. No boat? No sailing experience? No problem. . chathamsailing.org. Young's Marina, 218 Wilming-

ton Island Rd.

Drop N Circle Craft Night

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

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

Energy Healers

Meets every Monday at 6pm. Mediation and healing with energy. Discuss aromatherapy, chakra systems and more.

Call for info. . 912-695-2305. meetup. com/SavannahEnergyHealers.

Exploring The American Revolution in Savannah

Interested in exploring the role Savannah played in the American Revolution?

Join like-minded people including artists, writers, teachers and historians for discussion, site exploration and creative collaboration. Email Kathleen Thomas at exploretherevolution@gmail.com for more info. third Thursday of every month, 6 p.m. exploretherevolution@ gmail.com. galleryespresso.com/. third Thursday of every month, 6 p.m Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Fiber Guild of the Savannahs

Open to all who are interested in the fiber arts: weaving, spinning, basket making, knitting, crocheting, quilting, beading, rug hooking, doll making, etc. Meets at Oatland Island Wildlife Center the first Saturday of the month September through June 10:15am. See our website for programs and events: http://fiberguildsavannah.homestead. com/ Mondays, 10:30 a.m. Mondays, 10:30 a.m Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown Road GA. Freedom Network

An international, leaderless network of individuals seeking more freedom in an unfree world, via non-political methods.

Savannah meetings/discussions twice monthly, Thursdays, 8:30pm. Topics and meeting locations vary. No politics, no religious affiliation, no dues, no fees.

Email for next meeting day and location. . onebornfree@yahoo.com.

Historic Flight Savannah

A non-profit organization dedicated to sending area Korean War and WWII veterans to Washington, DC to visit the WWII Memorial. All expenses paid by Honor Flight Savannah. Honor Flight seeks contributions, and any veterans interested in a trip to Washington. Call for info. . 912-596-1962. honorflightsavannah.org.

Historic Savannah Chapter: ABWA

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

Attendees pay for their own meals.

RSVP by phone. . 912-660-8257.

Ink Slingers Writing Group

A creative writing group for writers of poetry, prose, or undefinable creative ventures. Based in Savannah and a little nomadic. Meets two Thursdays a month, 5:45pm. Discussion of exercises, ideas, or already in progress pieces.

Island MOMSnext

For mothers of school-aged children, kindergarten through high school.

Authentic community, mothering support, personal growth, practical help, and spiritual hope. First and third Mondays, excluding holidays. Childcare on request. A ministry of MOPS International. Info by phone or email. .

912-898-4344. kymmccarty@hotmail. com. mops.org.

Islands MOPS

A Mothers of Preschoolers group that meets at First Baptist Church of the Islands, two Wednesdays a month, 9:15am-11:30am. . sites.google.com/ site/islandsmops. fbcislands.com/.

First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet

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

Want to learn? Join us. . 912-308-6768.

Knittin’ Night

Knit and crochet gathering held each Tuesday evening, 5pm-8pm All skill levels welcome. Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m.

912-238-0514. wildfibresavannah.com/.

Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m Wild Fibre, 409 East Liberty St. Low Country Turners

A club for wood-turning enthusiasts.

Call Steve Cook for info at number below. . 912-313-2230.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary

Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1:00pm. Call for info. . 912-786-4508.

American Legion Post 184, 1 Legion Dr. Peacock Guild--For Writers and Book Lovers

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

Location changes each month. Call or see Facebook group "Peacock Guild" for info. . 912-233-6014. Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Street.

Philo Cafe

Weekly Monday discussion group that meets 7:30pm - 9:00pm at various locations. Anyone craving good conversation is invited. Free to attend. Email for info, or see ThePhiloCafe on Facebook. . athenapluto@yahoo.com.

R.U.F.F. - Retirees United for the Future

RUFF meets the last Friday of each month at 10am to protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and related senior issues. Parking in the rear. Free to all Seniors . 912-344-5127. New Covenant Church, 2201 Bull St. Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

Members of Starfleet International and The Klingon Assault Group meet the 1st Sunday at 4pm at 5429 LaRoche Ave., and the 3rd Tuesday at 7:30pm at Super King Buffet, 10201 Abercorn St., Call or email for info. . 912-308-2094. kasak@ comcast.net. roguephoenix.org.

Safe Kids Savannah

A coalition dedicated to preventing childhood injuries. Meets 2nd Tuesday each month, 11:30am-1:00pm. See website or call for info. . 912-353-3148. safekidssavannah.org.

Savannah Brewers' League

Meets 1st Wednesday of the month, 7:30pm at Moon River Brewing Co. Call or see website for info. . 912-4470943. hdb.org. moonriverbrewing.com/.

Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St. Savannah Authors Autonomous Writing Group

Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays each month. Prose writing, fiction and non fiction. Discussion, constructive criticism, instruction, exercises and examples. Location: Charles Brown Antiques/Fine Silver, 14 W. Jones St. All are welcome. No charge. Contact Alice Vantrease via email or phone. . 912308-3208. alicevantrease@live.com.

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

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

Savannah Fencing Club

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

Savannah Go Green

Meets most Saturdays. Green events and places. Share ways to Go Green each day. Call for info. . 912-308-6768.

Savannah Jaycees

Meeting/info session held the 1st Tuesday each month at 6pm to discuss upcoming events and provide an opportunity for those interested in joining Jaycees to learn more. Must be age 21-40. Jaycees Building, 101 Atlas St. .

912-353-7700. savannahjaycees.com.

Savannah Kennel Club

Monthly meetings open to the public.

Held at Logan's Roadhouse, the 4th Monday each month, Sept. through May. Dinner: 6:pm. Speaker: 7:30pm.

Guest speakers each meeting. .

912-238-3170. savannahkennelclub. org. logansroadhouse.com/. Logan's

Roadhouse, 11301 Abercorn St. Savannah Newcomers Club

Open to women who have lived in the Savannah area for less than two years. Membership includes monthly luncheon and program. Activities, tours and events to help learn about Savannah and make new friends. . savannahnewcomersclub.com.

Savannah No Kidding!

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

Savannah Parrot Head Club

Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check website for events calendar or send an email for Parrot Head gatherings. . savannahphc@yahoo.com. savannahphc.com.

Savannah Sacred Harp Singers

Everyone who loves to sing is invited to join Savannah Sacred Harp Singers. All are welcome to participate or listen too one of America's most revered musical traditions. Call or email. . 912-6550994. savannahsacredharp.com. Faith Primitive Baptist Church, 3212 Bee Road. continues on p. 40

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Savannah Charlesfunders Investment Discussion Group

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

Contact by email for info. . charlesfund@gmail.com. panerabread.com/.

Panera Bread (Broughton St.), 1 West Broughton St.

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Free to attend. See Facebook page savinkslingers. . Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St.

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Savannah SCA

The local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism meets every Saturday at Forsyth Park for fighter practice and general hanging out. If you're interested in re-creating the Middle Ages and Renaissance, come join us! South end of Forsyth Park, just past the Farmer's Market. Free. www. savannahsca.org Free , 11 a.m. savannahsca.org. , 11 a.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Savannah Story Games

We play games that help us tell improvised stories. Get together over food - roleplayers, storytellers, or the merely curious - and help us create an amazing story in just three hours.

We'll use games with special rules that craft characters, settings, and conflicts.

Weekends, in different locales - check savannahstorygames.com for more information. free Fridays-Sundays. info@savannahstorygames.com. savannahstorygames.com. Fridays-Sundays Downtown Savannah, downtown.

Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club

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

Savannah Toastmasters

Helps improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment. Mondays, 6:15pm, Memorial Health University Medical Center, in the Conference Room C. . 912-4846710. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Savannah Writers Group

A gathering of writers of all levels for networking, hearing published guest speaker authors, and writing critique in a friendly, supportive environment.

Meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 7:00 PM at the Atlanta Bread Company in Twelve Oaks Shopping Center. Free and open to the public. fourth Tuesday of every month, 7 p.m. savannahwritersgroup.blogspot. com. atlantabread.com. fourth Tuesday of every month, 7 p.m Atlanta Bread Company, 5500 Abercorn St. A gathering of writers of all levels for networking, hearing published guest authors, and writing critique in a friendly, supportive environment. 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7:00pm, Atlanta Bread Company, Twelve Oaks Shopping Center, 5500 Abercorn. Free and open to the public. See website or call for info. . savannahwritersgroup.blogspot.com.

Seersucker Live's Happy Hour for Writers

A no-agenda gathering of Savannah's writing community. First Thursdays, 5:30pm-7:30pm. Free. Open to all writers, aspiring writers, or those interested in writing. 21+ with valid ID. Usually at Abe's on Lincoln, 17 Lincoln St. See website for info. . seersuckerlive.com.

Tertulia en espa単ol at Foxy Loxy

Spanish conversation table. Meets second and fourth Thursday of each month. 7:30pm to 9pm at Foxy Loxy, 1919 Bull street. Come practice your

| Submit your event online at connectsavannah.com Spanish, have a cafe con leche or Spanish wine, and meet nice people....All levels welcome. Free. Purchase beverages and snacks. . foxyloxycafe.com/.

Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla

Join the volunteer organization that assists the U.S. Coast Guard. Meets 4th Wednesday at 6pm at Barnes, 5320 Waters Ave. All ages welcome. Prior experience/boat ownership not required.

Call or see website for info. . 912-5987387. savannahaux.com.

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671

Meets second Monday of each month, 7pm, at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. . 912-429-0940. rws521@ msn.com. vvasav.com.

Waving Girls--Smocking Arts Guild of America

The Waving Girls welcomes smockers and all those who create fine heirloom items. At each meeting there is an opportunity to learn and share our work.

The group makes over 100 "wee care" gowns for memorial hospital each year. fourth Monday of every month, 6:30 p.m. 912 536 1447. debcreation@hotmail.com. smocking.org. fourth Monday of every month, 6:30 p.m Coastal Center for Developmental Services, 1249 Eisenhower Drive.

Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation

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

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

All levels and styles of bellydance welcome. Classes are every Monday from 5:30-6:30pm. $15/lesson. Drop-ins welcome or call Carrie @(912)704-2940 for more info. happenstancebellydance@ gmail.com happenstancebellydance. wordpress.com $15/lesson , 5:30 p.m.

(912) 704-2940. happenstancebellydance.wordpress.com. , 5:30 p.m Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. C.C. Express Dance Team

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

Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Windsor Forest.

Dance for Peace

A weekly gathering to benefit locals in need. Music, dancing, fun for all ages. Donations of nonperishable food and gently used or new clothing are welcomed. Free and open to the public. Sundays, 3 p.m. 912-547-6449. xavris21@yahoo.com. Sundays, 3 p.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Dance Party

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

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 Line Dancing, every Tuesday, 7:30pm-10:00pm. Free admission, cash bar. Come early and learn a new dance from 7:30pm-8:30pm. . doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Mahogany Shades of Beauty

Dance classes--hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step.

Modeling and acting classes. All ages/ all levels welcome. Call Mahogany for info. . 912-272-8329.

Modern Dance Class

Beginner and intermediate classes.

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

Pole Dancing Classes

Beginners class, Wednesdays, 8pm.

Level II, Mondays, 8pm. $22/one class. $70/four classes. Preregistration required. Learn pole dance moves and spins while getting a full body workout.

Pole Fitness Classes Monday/Wednesday, 11am. Nothing comes off but your shoes. Call or see website for info. .

912-398-4776. fitnessbodybalance. com. Fitness Body & Balance Personal Training Studio, 2209 Rowland Ave, Suite 2.

RAVE NIGHT with DJ ORSON WELLS

Get your Rave on with the the one and only DJ Orson Wells! We got glow sticks! Saturdays, 9 p.m. Saturdays, 9 p.m Salsa Lessons by Salsa Savannah

Tues. 8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Thur.

8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Sun. 5pm6pm and 6pm-7pm. Salon de Maile, 704B Hodgson Memorial Dr., Savannah, 31406. See website for info. . salsasavannah.com.

Savannah Dance Club

Shag, swing, cha-cha and line dancing.

Everyone invited. Call for location, days

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Wednesdays, 7pm,at Doubles Lounge.

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

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

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

Events "The Twelve Bars of Christmas" 5k Charity Bar Crawl

“Santa’s List”, aka the map, will lead you to each destination and 12 bars later, you'll be sufficiently full of holiday cheer.

By the end, you will have participated in a 5 kilometer or 3.1 mile adventure, enjoying delightful drink specials along the way. All participants will receive presents, including a red Santa hat, koozie, free cover to bars, plenty of swag, and a “Santa’s List” scorecard.

Also, the first 250 participants to complete their scorecard will get a “The Twelve Bars of Christmas” t-shirt. A portion of proceeds will be donated to Second Harvest of the Coastal Empire. $15 adv / $20 day of Sat., Dec. 21, 2 p.m.

912.660.9001. Brian@StaffordPromotions.com or Chantal@StaffordPromotions.com. innatmcdonoughs.com/ restaurant-lounge/. Sat., Dec. 21, 2 p.m McDonough's, 21 East Mcdonough St. Charles Dickens Victorian Savannah Walk

Three walking tour companies join forces for A Victorian Christmas Walking Tour with Carolers and a Fiddler taking guests on a tour of historic squares and regaling them with traditional Savannah Christmas stories in a "Charles Dickens" style. Enjoy mince-meat pie, smoking bishop punch and a Victorian Parlor. Profits benefit The Homelessness in Savannah Advocacy. Adults $42, Children $30 Mondays-Saturdays, 5:30 p.m.. 912-358-0700. info@oldcitywalks. com. zerve.com/oldcitywalks/dknswalk.

Mondays-Saturdays, 5:30 p.m. Chippewa Square, Bull and McDonough Streets.

December Nights and Holiday Lights

A walk through lighted gardens (half a million holiday lights!) while listening to carolers, musicians and traditional holiday music. Warming stations, Mrs. Claus’ Kitchen with baked holiday goodies and hot chocolate,and photos with Santa every Saturday night. $5 Through Dec. 24, 6-9 p.m. (912) 921-5460. elubrani@uga.edu. coastalgeorgiabg.org. coastalgeorgiabg.org/. Through Dec. 24, 6-9 p.m Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens, 2 Canebrake Rd. Farm a la Carte: A Mobile Farmer's Market

At various spots around town, including

Green Truck on Wednesdays, 2:30pm6:30pm. Bethesda Farmers' Market on Thursdays, 3:00-5:30pm. Forsyth Park Farmers' Market on Saturdays, 9am-1pm. Sustainable meats, organic produce, local dairy. . revivalfoods.com. greentruckpub.com. Green Truck Pub, 2430 Habersham St.

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Free Downtown Garage Parking

Three (3) hours of free parking in City Parking Garages every Thursday and Friday through Dec. 27.(Note: not offered during times when garages are charging special event rates.) Free Thu., Dec. 19 and Fri., Dec. 20. Thu., Dec. 19 and Fri., Dec. 20 Guided Tours of the Lucas Theatre for the Arts

Learn the history of the historic Lucas Theatre on a 20-30 minute tour. Restoration, architecture, history of the theatre and of early cinema. $4. Group rates for ten or more. School trips available. No reservations needed for 10:30am, 1:30pm and 2pm. Other times by appointment. Call for info. . 912-5255023. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. PBJ Pantry

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

Film & Video Film: Bayou Maharajah (2013, US)

Through a collection of montages of New Orleans, rediscovered footage of jazz pianist James Booker's performances, and interviews with his admirers (including Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, and Harry Connick Jr.), Director/ Producer and Savannah Arts Academy graduate Lily Keber gives us access into the life of this musical genius. Winner of Oxford-American's Best Southern Film Award, 2013, this documentary was also the 2013 Audience Award Louisiana Feature Winner at the New Orleans Film Festival. $10 general public, $5 students with ID. Cash only. Thu., Dec. 19, 6 p.m.

912.234.0917. annot1@comcast.net. telfair.org/jepson/. Thu., Dec. 19, 6 p.m Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Film: They Came From Beyond Space (1967, USA)

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. $6 Wed., Dec. 18, 8 p.m. sentientbean. com. sentientbean.com. Wed., Dec. 18, 8 p.m The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Film: Don't Open 'Til Christmas

Psychotronic Film Society presents a 1984 horror mystery about Christmas.

Ho, ho, ho! $6 Mon., Dec. 23, 8 p.m. sentientbean.com. sentientbean.com.

Mon., Dec. 23, 8 p.m The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave.

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Across

1 Martial artist in “Lethal Weapon 4” 6 River that empties into the Caspian 10 Take quickly 14 Sweeping 15 Heat up in a hurry 16 Prefix that means “transcending” 17 Do a radio remembrance of a late Pantera founder?

19 Critters that may be “live” 20 Alternatives to Cokes 21 Portrayer of Ricky on “I Love Lucy” 22 “___ Lang Syne” 24 Metal coating that’s all the rage?

29 Another, in Argentina 30 Open a barrel 31 Electric fan setting 32 Altar area 35 Nicolas whom “Dog the Bounty Hunter” once posted bail for 36 Bilbao bear 37 Cater a party for Drew Brees?

42 Overly permissive 43 The Runnin’ Rebels of the NCAA 44 Some, in Seville 45 Lob’s trajectory 46 “___ recall...”

47 Right in the atlas 50 Punch out the clown from “It”?

55 A restaurant may hold it for you 56 Inkling 57 “Do Ya” rock group 59 “Burlesque” actress 61 Ubiquitous arcade game message, or a hint to this puzzle’s theme 64 Means 65 Drama king?

66 Water park slide 67 Some stocking stuffers 68 ___ of thousands 69 Logical flaws

Down

1 Hook-shaped ski lift 2 “Love Story” novelist Segal 3 Trunk 4 Youngster 5 Statement of denial 6 World Heritage Site org.

7 His fame involved a lot of twists 8 Wanted poster letters 9 21, often 10 “New car” or “burning tire” 11 TV ad come-on 12 The Falcons, on scoreboards 13 Pump contents 18 Former Israeli PM Golda 23 Word with crust or hand 25 Open-___ shoes 26 Coup d’___ 27 1900 Puccini premiere 28 Furry movie creatures 32 Insurance co. with a “spokesduck” 33 Oyster’s offering 34 “American Pie,” e.g.

35 Honda SUV 38 Visibly nervous 39 Pristine, to Brits 40 “That’s ___!”

41 “___ digress...”

47 “___ Game” (2013 film) 48 Yesterday, in Cuba 49 1980s timepiece 51 “Who ___?”

52 Jewish month that sounds like a car 53 Asian economic hub 54 Best of the best 58 Binary digits 59 Where Alabama may be viewed, for short 60 Follower of boo, yoo or woo 62 Wedding column word 63 Stand-up comic Margaret

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and times. . 912-398-8784.

A documentary film about agricultural child labor in America. Presented by Occupy Savannah. Free and open to the public Thu., Dec. 19, 7 p.m. sentientbean.com. sentientbean.com. Thu., Dec. 19, 7 p.m The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave.

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$5 Community Yoga Classes

Savannah Power Yoga offers a community yoga class nearly every day of the week for just $5. All proceeds support local organizations. Check out our schedule at www.savannahpoweryoga.com for details. Note that most of our classes are heated to 90 degrees and you will sweat! Bring a yoga mat, towel and some water and get ready to 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

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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 Saturday of the month, 10am-11am.

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

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 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.

Food Events

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.

Forsyth Farmers Market

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.

Honey Tasting and Body Care Samples + Store Tour

Savannah Disc Golf

Savannah Striders Running and Walking Club

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

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

Tai Chi Lessons in Forsyth Park

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

Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights. Rain or shine. Free to attend. Items for sale. 912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Daily store tour, honey tasting, and body care. FREE Come to the WILMINGTON ISLAND store and see the bees behind our observation hive glass.

FREE Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m. 912234-0688. tildsley@savannahbee.com.

Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m Savannah Bee Company, Wilmington Island, 211 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

Prepare Sunday Suppers at Union Mission

Local organizations are invited to sign up to prepare Sunday Supper for people who are homeless and live at Union Mission's shelters for homeless people.

Groups must sign up in advance and bring/prepare a meal, beginning at 2pm on Sundays. Call for information. . 912236-7423.

Gay & Lesbian First City Network Board Meeting

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

Gay AA Meeting

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

Georgia Equality Savannah

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

Savannah Pride, Inc.

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

Stand Out Youth

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

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

What Makes a Family

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

Health 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.

Armstrong Prescription Drug Drop-Off

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

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

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

Hoskins Center at Memorial. . 912350-3438. bariatrics.memorialhealth. com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. 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.

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 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.

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.

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

800-264-7154.

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 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.

Music 13th Colony Sound (Barbershop Singing)

“If you can carry a tune, come sing with us!” Mondays, 7pm. . 912-344-9768. savannahbarbershoppers.org. Thunderbolt Lodge #693, 3111 Rowland Ave. Christmas Cabaret

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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.

OPEN @ 4PM ON FOOTBALL SUNDAYS!!!

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.

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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

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.

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Roger Moss, Natasha Drena, Cat Yates and Trae Gurley, with Kim Steiner on piano. Presented by On Stage at the Lucas. $30 Gen. Adm. $15 students/ children. Corkage fee $10 for BYO Wine. lucastheatre.com/. lucastheatre. com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Christmas with the Goliards

A program of Christmas-themed music from the years 1150-1500, including choral works, instrumental pieces( featuring harp, hurdy gurdy, positive organ, medieval fiddle), and solos. $10 (912) 495-9081. savannahgoliards.org.

St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 34th & Abercorn Sts. Live Music with Craig Tanner

Live music every Wednesday with Craig Tanner and rotating guests such as Eric Britt, Eric Dunn and Mr. Williams. FREE Bonna Bella Waterfront Grille, 2740 Livingston Avenue.

The Love and Soul Experience

Kimberly Gunn Music Presents The Love and Soul Experience every third Friday of the month beginning May 17th. There will be music, poetry, comedy, creative arts, and networking. Kimberly Gunn Music and friends will provide musical entertainment. An event for ages 18 and up. $10 Admission $12 VIP (912) 224-6084 or (912) 224-4461. kimberlygunn.com. The Eden Room, 1105 Stiles Avenue.

Piano Lessons

Give the gift of music. Piano lessons with a classically trained instructor, with theater and church experience.

Adults & children welcome. All levels.

Call Renee Miles, 912-312-3977. GA Music Warehouse. . georgiamusicwarehouse.com/. Georgia Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. Nature and Environment Dolphin Project

Dolphin Project's Education Outreach Program is available to speak at schools, clubs, organizations. A powerpoint presentation with sound and video about estuarine dolphins and their environment. Age/grade appropriate programs and handouts. See website for info. . thedolphinproject.org.

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Observe alligators basking in the sun while great birds fish nearby. A Wilderness Southeast naturalist guide shares alligator stories and information on historic rice plantations, including the importance to wildlife of maintaining the old rice paddies. Fee includes use of binoculars and spotting scope.

Reservations required. $25/person ($10/child under 12 accompanied by a parent) 912-236-8115. naturesavannah@gmail.com. Observe alligators basking in the sun while great birds fish nearby. A Wilderness Southeast naturalist guide shares alligator stories and information on historic rice plantations, including the importance to wildlife of maintaining the old rice paddies. Fee includes use of binoculars and spotting scope. Reservations required. $25/person ($10/child under 12 accompanied by a parent) 912-236-8115. naturesavannah@gmail.com. Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, Laurel Hill Wildlife Drive off S.C. 170.

Recycling Fundraiser for Economic Opportunity Authority

Support EOA through the FundingFactory Recycling Program. Recycle empty cartridges, cell phones, small electronics, laptops, to EOA for recycling. They will receive technology products and cash. Businesses may also recycle items on behalf of EOA for credit. Drop off at EOA, 681 W. Anderson St. See website, email or call for info. . 912238-2960 x126. dwproperty@aol.com. fundingfactory.com.

Sandpiper Trail Hike

Meander through the marsh trail on a guided hike with a Skidaway Island State Park ranger. $5 parking, annual passes available (912)598-2300. gastateparks.org/SkidawayIsland. gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Sustainability Advisor Certificate Program

Georgia Southern University’s Center for Sustainability announces the winter session of its newly updated and fully online Sustainability Advisor Certificate Program, offered through Continuing Education. See the attached flyer for more information. The cost is $385 and the course is available with no prerequisites. The 8-week course will be offered January 29 - March 26, 2014. $385 Through Jan. 17, 2014. cfs@ georgiasouthern.edu. Through Jan. 17, 2014 Online only, none.

Walk on the Wild Side

A two-mile Native Animal Nature Trail winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland, salt marsh habitats, featuring live native animal exhibits.

Open daily, 10am-4pm except Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years. Call or see website for info. . 912-898-3980. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland.org/.

Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Wilderness Southeast

A variety of programs each month including guided trips with naturalists.

Canoe trips, hikes. Mission: develop appreciation, understanding, stewardship, and enjoyment of the natural world.

Call or see website for info. . 912-2368115. wilderness-southeast.org.

Readings & Signings Author appearance: Leon Malmed

Author and Holocaust survivor Leon Malmed shares his secret story of childhood and escape from the Nazis in France. He will also sign his new book, We Survived…At Last I Speak. $4 Gen. Adm. Free for JEA members. 912-3558111. savj.org. savannahjea.org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. 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. 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.

Candlelit Christmas Eve Services

All within the community are invited to celebrate this special night. 5:30pm Prelude Music by Young Musicians 6:00pm Family Candlelight Service with Holy Communion 10:30pm Prelude Music 11:00pm Candlelight Service with Holy Communion Tue., Dec. 24, 5:30 & 10:30 p.m. ascensionsavannah.org. elcota.org. Tue., Dec. 24, 5:30 & 10:30 p.m Lutheran Church of the Ascension, 120 Bull St .

Catholic Singles

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Christmas Psychic Reading Madness Sale

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Guided Silent Prayer

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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.

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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/.

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

Service of Compline

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

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

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

Tapestry Church

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.

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

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

Sunday Celebration services 9:15am and 11am. Children's Church and childcare 11am. Thursday noon prayer service.

See website or call for info on classes, workshops, and more. . 912-355-4704. unityofsavannah.org. unityofsavannah. org/. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd.

Sports & Games Adult Coed Flag Football League

8x8 Coed Flag League. Play adult sports, meet new people. Sponsored by Savannah Adult Recreation Club. Wed. nights/ Sun. mornings, at locations around Savannah. $450. Minimum 8 games. Ages 18+. Coed teams. See website or call for info. . 912-220-3474. savadultrec.com.

Derby Devils Roller Derby Classes

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Grief 101 Support Group

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

Like regular polo, but with bikes instead of horses. Meets weekly. See facebook for info. . facebook.com/savannahbikepolo.

Savannah Jets Basketball Reunion

5pm Reception, 6pm Dinner & Program. The public is invited to share this evening with these former outstanding basketball players. Call for info, including ticket information. 912-236-7496.

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ARIES

(March 21-April 19) “Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base,” wrote psychologist John Bowlby. Some of you Aries enjoy the “daring venture” part of that formula, but neglect the “secure base” aspect. That’s why your daring ventures may on occasion go awry. If you are that type of Ram, the first half of 2014 will be an excellent time to correct your bad habit. Life will be offering you considerable help and inspiration in building a strong foundation.

And if you already appreciate how important it is for your pursuit of excitement to be rooted in well-crafted stability, the coming months will be golden.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20) Here’s a tale of three renowned Taurus brainiacs: Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and Bertrand Russell. They all had IQs over 175 and all made major contributions to philosophy. Yet all three were physically inept. Kant had trouble keeping a sharp point on his writing instrument, the quill, because he was clumsy using a knife. Mill was so undexterous he found it a chore to tie a knot.

Russell’s physical prowess was so limited he was incapable of brewing a pot of tea. Chances are that you are neither as brilliant nor as uncoordinated as these three men. And yet, like them, there is a disconnect between your mind and body -- some glitch in the way the two of them communicate with each other. The coming year will be an excellent time to heal the disconnect and fix the glitch.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20) A horticultural company in the UK is selling TomTato plants to home gardeners. Each bush grows both cherry tomatoes and white potatoes. The magic was accomplished through handcrafted hybridization, not genetic engineering. I foresee a comparable marvel in your long-term future, Gemini. I’m not sure about the exact form it will take. Maybe you will create a product or situation that allows you to satisfy two different needs simultaneously.

It’s possible you will find a way to express two of your talents in a single mode. Or perhaps you will be able to unite two sides of you that have previously been unbonded. Congratulations in

advance!

CANCER

(June 21-July 22)

“To destroy is always the first step in any creation,” said the poet E. E. Cummings. Do you buy that idea, Cancerian? I hope so, because the cosmos has scheduled you to instigate some major creative action in 2014. In order to fulfill that potential, you will have to metaphorically smash, burn, and dissolve any old structures that have been standing in the way of the future. You will have to eliminate as many of the “yes, buts” and “I can’ts” and “not nows” as you possibly can.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22) When did you first fall from grace?

Do you remember? It has happened to most of us. We spend time being privileged or cared about or respected, and then, suddenly, we no longer are. We lose our innocence. Love disappears.

Our status as a favorite comes to an end. That’s the bad news, Leo. The good news is that I think the months ahead may be time for you to climb back up to one of those high states of grace that you fell from once upon a time.

The omens suggest that even now you’re making yourself ready to rise back up -- and sooner than you think, there will be an invitation to do so.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Leonardo da Vinci created the painting *St. Jerome in the Wilderness* around 1480. It now hangs in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, a museum in Vatican City. For several centuries, though, the treasured work of art was missing. Legend tells us that in the early 19th century, Napoleon’s uncle found the lower half of the painting in a junk shop in Rome.

Years later he stumbled upon the top half in another back alley, where it was being used as a wedge in a shoemaker’s bench.

I foresee the possibility of a comparable sequence unfolding for you in 2014, Virgo. You just may manage to restore a lost beauty to its proper place of honor, one step at a time.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22) The Italian painter Tintoretto (1518-1594) was a Libra. He

worked with such vigor and passion that he was nicknamed Il Furioso -- The Furious. One of his crowning achievements was his painting *Paradise,* which is 74 feet long and 30 feet tall -- about the size of a tennis court. It adorns a huge wall in the Doge’s Palace, a landmark in Venice. I propose that Tintoretto serve as one of your inspirational role models in 2014. The coming months will be an excellent time for you to work hard at crafting your own personal version of paradise on earth. You may not be so wildly robust to deserve the title “Il Furioso.” But then again, you might.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Between 2002 and 2009, Buddhist monk Endo Mitsunaga spent a thousand days meditating as he did a ceremonial walk around Mount Hiei in Japan. In 2006, English writer Dave Cornthwaite took 90 days to skateboard across the entire length of Australia, a distance of 3,618 miles. The first man’s intentions were spiritual, the second man’s adventurous.

The coming months will be prime time for you to contemplate both kinds of journeys, Scorpio. The astrological omens suggest that you will generate extra good fortune for yourself by seeking out unfamiliar experiences on the open road. To get yourself in the mood, ruminate on the theme of pilgrimage.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Many farms in California’s Tulare County grow produce for supermarket chains. Here’s the problem: Those big stores only want fruits and vegetable that look perfect. So if there are brown spots on the apples or if the zucchinis grow crooked or if the carrots get too big, they are rejected. As a result, 30 percent of the crops go unharvested. That’s sad because a lot of poor people who live in Tulare don’t have enough to eat. Fortunately, some enterprising food activists have begun to work out arrangements with farmers to collect the wasted produce and distribute it to the hungry folks. I gather there’s a comparable situation in your life, Sagittarius: unplucked resources and ignored treasures. In 2014, I hope you take dramatic action to

harvest and use them.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Derrick Brown has a poem entitled “Pussycat Interstellar Naked Hotrod Mofo Ladybug Lustblaster!” I hope that at least once in 2014 you will get up the nerve to call someone you love by that name. Even if you can’t quite bring yourself to utter those actual words, it will be healing for you to get to the point where you feel wild enough to say them. Here’s what I’m driving at, Capricorn: In the coming months, you will be wise to shed any inhibitions that have interfered with you getting all of the free-flowing intimacy you’d love to have.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “Artists who are content merely to hone their gifts eventually come to little,” says the Belgian writer Simon Leys. “The ones who truly leave their mark have the strength and the courage to explore and exploit their shortcomings.” I’d like to borrow that wisdom and provide it for you to use in 2014, Aquarius. Even if you’re not an artist, you will be able to achieve an interesting kind of success if you’re willing to make use of the raw materials and untapped potential of your so-called flaws and weaknesses. Whatever is unripe in you will be the key to your creativity.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20) In 2014, you will have the mojo to escape a frustration that has drained you and pained you for a long time. I mean you can end its hold on you for good. The coming months will also provide you with the chance to activate and cultivate a labor of love that will last as long as you live. While this project may not bloom overnight, it will reveal its staying power in dramatic fashion. And you will be able to draw on the staunch faith you’ll need to devote yourself to it until its full blessings ripen.

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Skatefest 2013

A Savannah tradition returns. Multiple sessions each day. Each session is 1.5 hours. Times vary. Closed 12/20 and 12/25. $7 per person. Skatefest pass: $35 for 6 sessions. Tue., Dec. 24, 10 a.m., 12:30 & 3 p.m. savannahga.gov/ DocumentCenter/View/3920. savannahcivic.com. Tue., Dec. 24, 10 a.m., 12:30 & 3 p.m The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave.

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. .

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Ultimate Frisbee

Come play Ultimate! Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30pm until dark. Sundays, 4:30pm until we get tired. The west side of Forsyth Park. Bring a smile, two shirts (one light or white, one dark), water, and cleats (highly recommended). . savannahultimateproject@ gmail.com. savannahultimateproject. wordpress.com/pick-up/. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. USMNT (Soccer) American Outlaws Chapter

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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.

Amputee Support Group

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.

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.

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

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Back Pain Support Group

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 .

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.

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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.

Saturdays, 6:45pm at Savannah Christian Church. For couples dealing with primary or secondary infertility, whether for one or many years. Call or email for info. . 912-596-0852. emptycradle_savannah@hotmail.com. Savannah Christian Church, 55 Al Henderson Blvd.

Eating Disorders Anonymous

Free, volunteer-led support group for recovery from anorexia/restrictive eating and/or bulimia/binge/purging. Mondays, 7:30pm-8:30pm. Email for info. . edasavannah@yahoo.com. Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church, 1008 Henry St. Fibromyalgia Support Group

Second Thursdays, 5:30pm-6:30pm. Call or see website for info. . 912-819-6743. 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.

Georgia Scleroderma Support Group

Meets regularly. Call for day and time.

Lovezzola's Pizza, 320 Hwy 80 West, Pooler. Info: 912-412-6675 or 912-4143827. .

Grief Support Groups

Hospice Savannah’s Full Circle offers a full array of grief support groups and individual counseling available at no charge. Counseling is at 450 Mall Blvd., Suite H in Savannah, and appointments are available in the United Way offices in Rincon and in Richmond Hill. Call or see website for info. . 912-303-9442. HospiceSavannah.org/GriefSupport.

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ROOM FOR RENT Furnished Private Bedroom & Bath, walk-in closet, shared washer & dryer, kitchen, all utilities furnished. Good location. $185/per week. Call 656-5372 or 354-4011 to see.

SPACIOUS ROOMS FOR RENT Newly renovated on busline. 2 blocks from Downtown Kroger,3 blocks from Historic Forsyth Park. $150/week with No deposit. 844-5995

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130 ALFRED STREET & 1-7 PECAN COURT 44 unit Apt. complex: 28 Two bedrooms; 16 one bedrooms, plus vacant one acre lot. Great cash flow. Owner anxious. $2.1 million. Call Alvin, Realty Executives Coastal Empire 6045898 or 355-5557

2250 Utah St. 3BR/1BA, LR, Eat-in Kitchen w/Gas Stove & Refrigerator. CH&A, Fenced backyard. $700/Rent, $650/Deposit.

Section 8 Accepted. 898-4135

APARTMENTS FOR RENT WEEKLY PAYMENTS 2 Bedroom Apts./1 Bath, Newly remodeled apts. LVRM, dining, ceiling fans each room, central heat/air, kitchen w/appliances, washer/ dryer hookup. Lights & water included. NO CREDIT CHECK REQUIRED; EVICTIONS OK. $200-$235/weekly. Biweekly & Monthly rates available. First Week Deposit Required. Call 912-319-4182, M-Sat 10am-6pm.

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