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

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Film: The Pretty One (2013) Friday

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Film: Valentine's Day Mystery Cult Movie

What: Title of this cult-followed romantic comedy will be revealed at the screening. Never released on DVD, this early '90s indie film has a small but loyal following. A Psychotronic Film Society screening.

For mature viewers.

When: 8 p.m Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Cost: $7 Info: sentientbean.com

Georgia Day Parade

What: Savannah's schoolchildren pa-

rade through downtown in costume, to commemorate the founding of Georgia in 1733. Musicians, local dignitaries, and marching bands. Beginning at Forsyth Park and parading north on Bull Street, finishing with a program in front of City Hall.

When: 10:30 a.m Where: Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: georgiahistory.com

Kiss a Pig: Cocktails for a Cause

What: Hosted by the Mad Hams Kiss A Pig team, raising funds for the American Diabetes Association. The Mad Hams, a spoof of Mad Men, are a group of over 20 business leaders.

When: 4:30-7 p.m Where: Ruth's Chris Steak House, 111 West Bay St. Info: gcutlip@rcsavannah.com

Savannah Black Heritage Festival: Theatre: Gees Bend

What: SSU Players by the Sea present a play by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder in the Kennedy Fine Arts Auditorium.

When: 8 p.m Where: Savannah State University, 3219 College St. Cost: Free to attend. Reservations required.

Info: 912-358-3190. savannahblackheritagefestival.com

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah --Free Admission Week

What: A free admission week for this exhibition, held in conjunction with the book of the same title. The images, documentary accounts and objects from Telfair Museums and other collections provide a deeper understanding of our collective American past. Exhibition opens Feb. 8. Book release is Feb. 12.

Film: The Pretty One (2013)

What: A coming-of-age comedy about identity and loss and a wallflower who finally learns how to break out of her shell. From CinemaSavannah.

When: 5 & 8 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $8 Info: musesavannah.org

Great Backyard Bird Count at Skidaway Island State Park

CinemaSavannah presents the film that won Best Director and Best Film awards at the Savannah Film Festival. Twin sisters reunite for their birthday, tragedy strikes and a mix-up leaves one faced with an opportunity to reinvent herself—and her life—as her beloved sibling! Yikes.

5 & 8 p.m, Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd., $8, musesavannah.org When: Feb. 9-15. Book release is Feb. 12 at 6 p.m. with cash bar and musical performances.

Where: Jepson Center, 207 West York St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

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Thursday Kiss a Pig: Valentine's Boxers and Boots Social

What: Karaoke, drink specials and Valentine's boxers and costume contest benefiting American Diabetes Association. Hosted by Phi Pigma Kappa team.

When: 5:30-7:30 p.m Where: McDonough's, 21 East Mcdonough St. Info: Marianne@johnnieganem.com

Savannah Book Festival: Scott Turow

What: The opening lecture for this year's book festival features NYT bestselling legal thriller writer Turow.

When: 6 p.m Where: Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Cost: $15 Info: savannahbookfestival.org/

Theatre: Machinal

What: The 1928 play that's a current Broadway hit, based on a true story.

Helen works as a stenographer in the industrial, male-dominated world of the 1920s. She finds her only joy in an illicit

love affair, but when reality sets in and she must return to her routine existence, she’ll go to any lengths to regain her freedom.

When: 8 p.m Where: Mondanaro Theatre at Crites Hall, 217 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Cost: $10 Info: scad.edu

Theatre: Reasons to be Pretty

What: Armstrong Masquers present Neil

Labute’s edgy Broadway comic-drama and 2008 Tony nominee about the deadend lives of four friends who confront America’s obsession with beauty headon. In Armstrong Jenkins Hall Black Box Theater. Adult language/content.

Sponsored by Connect Savannah.

When: Feb. 13-16, 7:30 p.m Where: AASU, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: $10, free for Armstrong w/ID. Info: armstrong.edu

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Annual City Market Wedding Vow Renewal Ceremony

What: Rev. William Hester leads a ceremony renewing marriage vows.

Prizes from City Market shops awarded in various categories. I When: 7-8 p.m Where: City Market Cost: Free and open to the public.

What: Help count birds as part of this national birdwatching weekend. Bring your own binoculars or borrow from the limited supply at the park.

Where: Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Cost: $5 parking fee.

Info: gastateparks.org/SkidawayIsland

An Intimate Evening with Art Garfunkel

What: Multiple Grammy-Award winning singer, poet, actor, and songwriter, Art Garfunkel brings his solo acoustic tour to Savannah. This special evening will consist of songs from both past and present and a Q&A session.

When: 8 p.m Where: Dollhouse Productions, 980 Industry Dr. Cost: $65 (sold out!)

Info: brownpapertickets.com/ event/552951

Potable Gold: Savannah's Madeira Tradition

What: Tour behind the scenes of the Davenport House while learning about the long and rich tradition of Madeira wine. Includes two Madeira samples.

When: 7:30 p.m Where: Davenport House, 324 East State Cost: $20 (must be 21 years of age) Info: 912-236-8097. davenporthousemuseum.org

Robert Cohen Book Signing

What: Local writer signs his book of poetry, Men vs. Women: Needs, Wants, and Desires.

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

Savannah Book Festival: Mitch Albom

What: The keynote speaker for this year's book festival is the author of the bestselling Tuesdays With Morrie and his latest book, The First Phone Call From Heaven.

When: 6 p.m Where: Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Cost: $15 Info: savannahbookfestival.org\

What: A real Irish dance party, to kick off the Savannah Irish Festival weekend. Music by the Savannah Ceili Band.

When: 6:30 p.m Where: Knights of Columbus Hall, 3 West Liberty St. Cost: $5 cash Info: savannahirish.org

Shuman Cup Cricket Tournament

What: Come cheer for the teams of the fourth-annual Georgia History Festival colonial cricket tournament for Chatham County elementary schools.

When: 9 a.m Where: Shuman Elementary School, 415 Goebel Avenue.

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

Theatre: Consequences

What: A poetic play based on the work

of Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni.

Teenager Mya goes on a musical and poetic journey from the 1800's into the future.Presented by Act Up! All Walks of Life (AWOL) youth theater program.

When: -15, 7 p.m Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $20-$5 Info: awolinc.org

Theatre: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

What: A hilarious musical look at everything you've ever thought about romance and marriage, but were afraid to admit.

When: 8 p.m Where: The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. Cost: $35 adults $17 youth Info: savannahtheatre.com/

Theatre: Machinal

What: The 1928 play that's a current Broadway hit, based on a true story.

When: 8 p.m Where: Mondanaro Theatre at Crites Hall, 217 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Cost: $10 Info: scad.edu

Theatre: Reasons to be Pretty

What: Armstrong Masquers present Neil Labute’s edgy Broadway comicdrama and 2008 Tony nominee. In Armstrong Jenkins Hall Black Box Theater. Adult language/content.

When: Feb. 13-16, 7:30 p.m Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: $10. Discounts available. Free for Armstrong w/ID. Info: armstrong.edu

Valentine Wine & Chocolate Tasting

What: Chocolates from local chocolatiers paired with fine wines from around the world. Limited seating, reservations encouraged.

When: 8-10 p.m Where: Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens, 2 Canebrake Rd. Cost: $20 Info: (912) 921-5460. coastalgeorgiabg. org

A Valentine’s Party Featuring Eclipse and Skyelite

What: Savannah Arts Band Presents

A Valentine’s Party Featuring Eclipse and Skyelite, Friday February 14th from 8pm-11pm. Snacks served and all ages Welcome. Call for tickets: (912) 3955000. All proceeds benefit the Savannah Arts Academy Band.

When: 8 p.m Where: American Legion, Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Cost: $15

Valentine's Day Weddings at the Davenport House Garden

What: Get married in the garden of this historic house museum. Ceremonies will be offered every 10 minutes. A local judge will officiate. Confirmed reservations are highly recommended

as the event tends to sell out.

When: 5-7 p.m Where: Davenport House, 324 E State Cost: $100 donation to the museum.

Info: 912-236-8097. davenporthouse-

museum.org

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Saturday Forsyth Farmers Market

What: Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods.

When: 9 a.m.-1 p.m Where: Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St.

Fort Pulaski Backyard Bird Count

What: Novice to expert bird watchers may participate in this national bird count that helps track trends in the bird population. Pick up bird checklists at the visitor center. Record what birds you see on the sheet, then enter your info on www.BirdCount.org.

When: Feb. 15-16 Where: Fort Pulaski National Monument, Cockspur Island.

Cost: Free park admission.

Info: nps.gov/fopu

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An Intimate Evening with Art Garfunkel

What: Art Garfunkel brings his solo acoustic tour to Savannah. Limited to only 250 tickets, this special evening will consist of songs from both past and present and a Q&A session.

When: 8 p.m Where: Dollhouse Productions, 980 Industry Dr. Cost: $65 Info: brownpapertickets.com/ event/552951

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Let the Good Times Roll: Puppet People Cabaret

What: The premiere of Puppet People's new show, plus a tour and reception (tour/reception at 3pm).

When: 3:30 p.m Where: Puppet People Studio, 3119 Furber Ave. Cost: $15 adults. $12 children/seniors Info: puppetpeople.com

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What: This black-tie affair features a bayou-inspired dinner, dancing, and a lively conversation with Georgia Trustees inductees: Arthur Blank and Billy Payne.

When: 7 p.m Where: Hyatt Regency, 2 West Bay St. Cost: $295 Info: georgiahistory.org

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What: Tour behind the scenes of the Davenport House while learning about the tradition of Madeira (wine). Includes two Madeira samples.

When: 5:30 p.m Where: Davenport House, 324 E State Cost: $20 (must be 21 years of age) Info: 912-236-8097. davenporthousemuseum.org

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Major funding for the Savannah Music Festival is provided by the City of Savannah through the Department of Cultural Affairs, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., National Endowment for the Arts, Wet Willie’s Management Corp., Connect Savannah, Critz Auto Group, Visit Savannah,

Savannah Morning News & Savannah Magazine, Memorial Health/Mercer University School of Medicine, Andaz Hotel, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Proud sPonsor of the 2014 savannah Music festivaL Hunter Maclean, The Kennickell Group, The Olde Pink House, Savannah College of Art & Design, Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, WSAV

What: Presented by the SSU-NOAA African American Oral History Project.

When: 12:30 p.m Where: Pin Point Heritage Museum, 9924 Pin Point Avenue.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: savannahblackheritagefestival. com

Savannah Book Festival: Festival Day

What: Presentations and book signings by 36 authors at venues in and around Telfair and Wright Squares.

When: 9 a.m.-5 p.m Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: savannahbookfestival.org

Savannah Irish Festival

What: Internationally acclaimed IrishAmerican and Celtic music, dance, and culture perform continuously on four stages. The Irish Marketplace, food and fun, all in historic downtown Savannah.

Featured acts: Seven Nations, The Pure Drop with Mairtin de Cogain, Ennis, Seamus Kennedy, Harry O'Donoghue and the Savannah Ceili Band.

When: 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m Where: Civic Center, 301 W Oglethorpe Cost: $12, one day ticket (Sat or Sun) $16 two day ticket. Free both days for 14 & under. Free Sunday for students, military & mil. dependents.

Info: savannahirish.org

Savannah Tweed Ride

What: Savannah Bicycle Campaign sponsors this ride from Daffin Park (Grayson Stadium) to Forsyth Park.

Grab your bike, gather up your tweed and ride. Dress up in your dandiest cycling gear and get ready for croquet, photo shoots with all the participants.

When: 2-5 p.m Where: Daffin Park Info: bicyclecampaign.org

The Soul Lounge

What: Experience the lives of the Revo-

What: A space where passion, desire and the musically talented have a stage to captivate audiences and feed the thirst for soul in music.

When: 8 p.m Where: Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Info: soulloungeofsavannah.com

Savannah Bazaar and Savannah Bazaar After Party

What: A poetic play based on the work

lutionary and War of 1812 soldiers who were sent to the fort to protect Savannah from the British.

When: Feb. 15-16, 9 a.m Where: Old Fort Jackson, 1 Fort Jackson Rd. Cost: $7 adult/$4 per child(ages 2-12) Info: 912-232-3945

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Savannah Black Heritage Festival: African Americans in Georgia’s Fisheries

What: Community marketplace show-

casing local artists is back for another day, cultivating local artists. After Party (21+) will be at the Wormhole from 7pm-3am.

When: 1-6:30 p.m Where: Southern Pine Co., 616 E. 35th St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: savannahbazaar@gmail.com

Theatre: Consequences

of Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni.

Teenager Mya goes on a musical and poetic journey from the 1800's into the future.Presented by Act Up! All Walks of Life (AWOL) youth theater program.

When: Feb. 14-15, 7 p.m Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $20-$5 Info: awolinc.org

Presented by Armstrong’s College of Liberal Arts

2/25/14 | 6 p.m.

Temple mickve israel 20 east Gordon street keynoTe address andrew delbanco, mendelson Family chair of american studies and Julian clarence levi, professor in the Humanities at columbia University “What is College For? The Future of American Education”

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Writers, writers, everywhere, with presentations and signings by 36 authors at venues in and around Telfair and Wright Squares. All free!

9 a.m.-5 p.m, Free and open to the public. savannahbookfestival.org

Theatre: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

What: A musical look at everything you've ever thought about romance and marriage, but were afraid to admit.

When: 3 & 8 p.m Where: The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. Cost: $35 adults $17 youth Info: savannahtheatre.com/

Theatre: Machinal

What: The 1928 play that's a current Broadway hit, based on a true story..

When: 8 p.m Where: Mondanaro Theatre at Crites Hall, 217 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Cost: $10 Info: scad.edu

Theatre: Reasons to be Pretty

What: Armstrong Masquers present

Neil Labute’s edgy Broadway comicdrama and 2008 Tony nominee. In Armstrong Jenkins Hall Black Box Theater.

Adult language/content. S When: 7:30 p.m Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: $10, free for Armstrong w/ID. Info: armstrong.edu

Tybee Island-Wide Yard Sale

What: Over two dozen homes on Tybee

Island host simultaneous yard sales.

Pick up maps to all sales at Fish Art Gallery or any participating sale. A benefit for the Tybee Post Theater.

When: 8 a.m.-2 p.m Info: info@tybeeposttheater.org

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Event is free and open to the public.

For more inFormaTion 912.344.2523 | armstrong.edu/liberal_arts

Sunday Book Signing: W. W. Law and His Peoples

What: Charles Hoskins signs his new book on the late Savannah civil rights and historic preservation leader.

When: 4 p.m Where: Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St.

Savannah Black Heritage Festival: Songs and Stories of Faith, Resistance and Freedom What: Featuring Storyteller Lillian

Grant-Baptiste and Second African Baptist Church Choir.

When: 5 p.m Where: Second African Baptist Church, 123 Houston Street (Greene Square).

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Info: savannahblackheritagefestival. com

Savannah Book Festival: Eben Alexander, M.D. What: Closing lecture features the

author of Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife.

When: 3 p.m Where: Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Cost: $15 Info: savannahbookfestival.org

Savannah Friends of Music Concert

What: Carnegie Hall violinist, Artur Kaganovskiy. Accompanied by pianist Eric Clark and directed by Philip Greenberg.

When: 3 p.m Where: Wesley Monumental United

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What: Seven Nations (above) is back as the headlining musical act for this year’s Irish Fest. Eat, drink, and enjoy Celtic music on four stages. Other acts are The Pure Drop with Mairtin de Cogain, Ennis, Seamus Kennedy, Harry O’Donoghue and the Savannah Ceili Band.

10 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Saturday, noon-6 p.m. Sunday Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $12 one day ticket (Sat or Sun) $16 two-day ticket. Free both days for 14 & under. Free Sunday students, military & mil. dependents. savannahirish.org

Methodist Church, 429 Abercorn St. Cost: $35. Students, $10.

Info: savannahfriendsofmusic.com

Savannah Irish Festival

What: Celtic music, dance, and culture perform on four stages. Featured acts: Seven Nations, The Pure Drop with Mairtin de Cogain, Ennis, Seamus Kennedy, Harry O'Donoghue and the Savannah Ceili Band.

When: 12-6 p.m Where: Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: $12-16.

Info: savannahirish.org

February 21-23 Savannah International Trade & Convention Center Friday 10am-8pm | Saturday 10am-7pm | Sunday 11am-6pm

Adults $10 at the Door | Youth (6-12) $5 | Under 6 FREE with Paying Adult

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Theatre: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

What: A musical look at everything you've ever thought about romance and marriage, but were afraid to admit.

When: 8 p.m Where: The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. Cost: $35 adults $17 youth Info: savannahtheatre.com/

Theatre: Machinal

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What: The 1928 play that's a current Broadway hit, based on a true story..

When: 3 p.m Where: Mondanaro Theatre at Crites Hall, 217 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Cost: $10 Info: scad.edu

Theatre: Reasons to be Pretty

What: Armstrong Masquers present Neil Labute’s edgy Broadway comicdrama and 2008 Tony nominee. In Armstrong Jenkins Hall Black Box Theater.

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Connect Savannah.

When: Feb. 13-16, 7:30 p.m Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: $10, free for Armstrong w/ID. Info: armstrong.edu

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Monday ‘Liberation of Paris’ Day Camp

What: The National Museum of the

Mighty Eighth Air Force holds a one-day children's camp with instruction on mission planning, map reading, bombardier training, paratrooper training, and the ground soldier experience.

When: 9 a.m.-4 p.m Where: Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, 175 Bourne Ave. Cost: $30 includes lunch and activities Info: 912-988-1832. jhanna@mightyeighth.org

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Wednesday Megatrends in Global Affairs Lecture

What: A lecture by Dr. Yale H. Ferguson, Rutgers University. In Ogeechee Theatre/Student Union.

When: 12-2 p.m Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

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Hitting the high school lottery

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by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

For many of you, this weekend means Valentine’s Day. For others, it means another annual event a lot less titillating but just as ripe with potential for heartbreak: auditions to get into Savannah Arts Academy.

Or more correctly and to the point: Auditions to get the opportunity to enter the lottery for Savannah Arts Academy (SAA).

For those of you without kids, the manic drive to get a child into a particular school may seem a bourgeois fixation. But for those of the parental persuasion in Chatham County, it’s a drama of epic proportions and very high stakes.

Not only is SAA excellent in its own right—ranked the number four high school in all of Georgia—its desirability is made even more stark by the sad scarcity of even marginally acceptable public high schools in the rest of the district.

It’s feast or famine. If your child gets into the 775-member SAA student body and is able to cope with the heavy workload, they get to feast on one of the best educations in the Southeast, at a school with a nearly 100 percent graduation rate.

But if your child fails the SAA audition or the subsequent lottery, then comes famine: the possibility (probability?) that your child might have to attend a local high school with a graduation rate nearly half that.

To be fair, SAA is far from the only local academy program with a lottery. It gets the most press because it’s the most desirable.

(Full disclosure: I’m one of the “lucky” ones, a parent whose child passed both the audition and the lottery to get into SAA. I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t a really big deal.)

The pressure to get into SAA is even higher given the large number of private school and home school students whose families decide to fully participate in the public school system only when their child finishes eighth grade, specifically to bid for a freshman slot at SAA. It may not sound fair, but those families will tell you they’ve paid Board of Education taxes all those years just like everyone else.

And of course they’re correct.

An audition process is part and parcel of a performing arts academy like SAA, and is to be expected. But what takes the whole experience into a level more akin to medieval torture or a waterboarding session is the lottery for those who’ve passed auditions.

Having your child’s future depend on names randomly picked out of a hat makes for some heavy scenes: Families standing and cheering when they make it into the last available slot, as other families sitting beside them literally collapse and weep.

(I’m told the process will be more humane in the future, with the news coming via email instead of the public spectacle.)

So yeah, people get worked up about getting into SAA. And people got even more worked up recently when parents at Garrison School for Visual and Performing Arts asked the school board to make their students immune from the SAA lottery, saying they’d been promised that their K-8 would be the “feeder school” for SAA. Predictably, the proposal triggered a bitter outcry from parents at other schools. The Facebook page for Charles Ellis Montessori Academy, another K-8 school, nearly spontaneously combusted from the amount of indignant commentary.

No offense to Garrison, a great school, but I imagine parents of kids at Oglethorpe Charter School were grimly amused by the claim that Garrison kids should get preferential treatment because it’s the number-two performing middle school in the state— considering that Oglethorpe is the numberone middle school in Georgia.

School Superintendent Thomas Lockamy, who’d previously endorsed the Garrison feeder proposal, seemed to back away, and outgoing School Board President Joe Buck declined to pursue the matter further.

Promises or not, the feeder-school concept is a non-starter, especially given the long history in Chatham County of any high-performing school being accused of “elitism,” or even racism. But the dispute isn’t going away, because this is what happens whenever demand far outstrips supply.

And that should be the Board of Education’s takeaway: Not to water down SAA’s excellence, and not which schools to favor for too few slots, but instead the need for more slots in more quality high schools.

The dirty little secret is that the Savannah/Chatham public school system excels at only one thing: Building buildings. If they’d spend half the effort on quality education as on new buildings, then we’d get somewhere.

If you want a brand-new building, the Board of Education’s tax burden on homeowners—over half the typical property tax bill—combined with the district’s addiction to the revenue from sales taxes like ESPLOST means you’ll eventually get one, whether you really need it or not.

But the educational product that goes into those new buildings is the real issue, and that’s where the real public demand is.

Jolene Byrne gets it. She’s one of the candidates for school board president to replace the esteemed Dr. Buck (and the election isn’t in November, peeps—it’s in May! Surprise.)

She’s also the only candidate so far who actually has a child in the public school system. Byrne’s take makes sense to me: “Many parents start grooming their children at a very early age for SAA because they feel it’s the only way their children will receive an excellent public high school education. The uproar after Garrison’s request underscores how many gifted children are missing out simply because there isn’t enough room,” Byrne says.

“Clearly, it’s time to open a second arts academy in Savannah.”

Building new buildings is easy. Building new schools is difficult. That’s the challenge.

The demand’s there. The money’s there.

The next step is to find the political will and energy to get it done. cs

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‘C’ is for cookie: Girl Scouts hawk way more than a sugar fix I have this amazing dream where I’m surrounded by cookies.

Chocolate-enrobed wafers piled up at my feet…stacks of coconut caramel chewies blocking the hallway…a tower of lemony shortbread threatening to topple on my head…

Wait, this isn’t a dream. It’s my living room.

Last month, my daughter charged around our neighborhood in her spiffy green vest covered with badges, taking orders for Girl Scout cookies.

She was an impressive little general, polishing her front-porch pitch and mapping out the territory for maximum sales coverage.

This weekend those hundreds of pre-sold boxes arrived for distribution, temporarily transforming the front of our house into a confectionary wonderland. It’s taking every ounce of adult restraint to keep from tearing into the Trefoils and eating them all myself.

I don’t need a Jungian analyst to understand my urge to turn into a furry blue monster with a speech impediment.

I’m not the only one struck by cookie fever this week.

It’s officially Girl Scout Cookie season, and there’s drool everywhere: #cookieboss was a recent trending hashtag on Twitter, and the baked morsels reached iconic hipster status with a list of beer pairings traveling around the Internet (Thin Mints with a pint of coffee stout is all I need for dinner, how ‘bout you?)

Some 200 million pre-paid boxes are hitting the streets right about now, and do not fear if my—or someone else’s—daughter didn’t snare you into her adorable entrepreneurial hold.

The girls in green will be out in full force for several weeks, hawking their delectable wares at in front of grocery

stores and shopping centers.

And check it out: Girl Scout cookies may be an enduring tradition, but they’ve moved into hi-tech: Those looking for the Dos-Si-Do hook-up can download the “Cookie Finder” app that directs you to the closest cookie booth via GPS. But Girl Scout cookies aren’t just about the sugar fix.

“This is the biggest girl-led business in the world. We’re really proud of that,” says Tara Nobles, Senior Manager of Creative Services for the Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia, who helped oversee the dispersal of 11,000 boxes out of a Pooler warehouse this weekend. “It’s important to remember what these girls take away.”

Nobles—herself a lifelong Scout—is referring to the money management skills and business ethics absorbed by the girls as they sell. Every time you snarf up a four-dollar box of crumbly delight, you’re helping a young woman gain professional and economic footing, not to mention earn another badge (and let me tell you, Girl Scouts

really love those stinkin’ badges!)

Waving the banner of developing its millions of members into “women of courage, confidence and character,” the Girl Scouts continually ups its programming game. They host all-important science and engineering activities and implement interactive antibullying campaigns.

Public service is a core value; thousands of cases of cookies will be sent overseas to deployed soldiers, and many individual troops donate profits to local food banks. High school-age Scouts plant community gardens, build solar-powered wells and start literacy programs to earn their Gold Awards. (The biggest badge of ‘em all, Gold Awards can also mean scholarship money for college.)

Best of all, diversity and inclusion are not only loudly embraced but have been part of the Girl Scout creed since the very beginning. Founder Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low invited socially-spurned Jewish and disabled girls to her first troop meeting and opened up her club to African-American, Latina and other minorities long before the Civil Rights Act. Daisy did all of that right here in Savannah a century ago, and thousands of scouts a year make the pilgrimage to Girl Scout Mecca sites the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace and the First Headquarters.

(Speaking of hometown pride, some of the first Girl Scout cookies ever were baked by Savannah’s own Gottlieb’s Bakery in the 1940s, and sold in wax paper bags for a quarter. Sure, they’re a bit more spendy now, but they’re also a bit more palate-pleasing. A well-meaning devotee baked up a dusty-tasting batch from the original recipe for the Girl Scouts 100th Anniversary Celebration back in 2012, and Georgia Red Clay Clods might have been an appropriate name for them.)

If you need to assuage any guilt about indulging in a box of Savannah Smiles, just know that each nommy bite is an act of solidarity for the women of tomorrow.

Of course, there will always be nincompoops who think teaching girls ANYTHING constitutes a “radical feminist agenda.” Conservative groups have long accused the Girl Scouts of cultivating a “breeding

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That’s fine with me, because I don’t need the Girl Scouts to teach my daughter to be a proud feminist.

Or that when women around the world have access to affordable birth control, it directly correlates with higher education rates, economic prosperity and better health.

Or that there’s nothing remotely wrong with being gay or transgender.

She will learn all those things from me.

What I can’t teach her that the Girl Scouts already has: How to tie six different knots that won’t come undone, start a fire with dryer lint and extract DNA from a strawberry.

And as evidenced by all these dang delicious cookies piled near the piano, how to market a product and sell the hell out of it.

If it helps ensure that millions of girls develop such “self-confidence and good decision-making skills,” then bring on the cookies.

I just hope the Girl Scouts teach the decision-making skill of not eating an entire box of Samoas in one sitting.

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ground for lesbians, communists and pagans,” and folks like Pro-Life Waco director John Pisciotta howl that holding up Gloria Steinem and Hillary Clinton as role models somehow promotes abortion.

Pisciotta and other anti-abortion activists have recently announced a “cookiecott” in response to a GSUSA tweet that dared suggest filibustering Texas congresswoman Wendy Davis and Affordable Care Act spokeswoman Kathleen Sebelius as potential candidates for Woman of the Year.

Their misplaced outrage makes me want to double my Tagalong order.

Sure, introducing girls to their own abilities and strengths might inspire them to take responsibility for their own bodies and health.

In reality, the Girl Scouts has no partnership with Planned Parenthood and clarifies on its website that it takes no official position on sexuality or birth control.

There will never be Plan B pills spilling out of your box of Thin Mints, and nobody is discussing D and Cs on their sit-a-pons.

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City notebook Shots from the set: At left, Jamie Casino prepares for the climactic scene. At right, Director of Photography/ Co-Director Tim Gill smiles; the high-dollar Red Epic camera is in the foreground.

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How Jamie brought the hammer down Behind the scenes of the viral sensation Casino Law Firm Super Bowl ad by jim morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

You’ll always remember where you were when you saw the Jamie Casino Super Bowl ad.

The game itself may have been over literally after the first snap, which sailed over Peyton Manning’s head. For those in the Savannah viewing area, however, there was no shortage of drama or suspense when the Casino law firm commercial came on the air at halftime.

Conversation stopped in thousands of homes in Chatham, Effingham, Bulloch, and Bryan counties, as revelers put down their Bud Lights to take in the addictive, hallucinogenic quality of Casino’s over-the-top yet undeniably gripping two-minute spot on the local Fox affiliate, put together by e3 Media.

It tells the story of Casino’s “conversion” from defense attorney to crusader against crime and police corruption, with a death metal soundtrack. The spot takes us from the interior of St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church to a cemetery, where

Jamie Casino swings a Thor-like hammer of the gods at the tombstone of his brother Michael, murdered along with Emily Pickels in a 2012 shooting.

We spoke to First Assistant Director Angelique Chase and Location and Casting Director Chip Lane, two

crew members on the commercial, which was put together this past January in only three full shooting days.

CS: How in the world did you get permission to shoot in St. Paul’s?

Chip Lane: My understanding is that one

of Jamie’s junior attorneys is a member of the church. He set that up. That was one of the first places we shot.

Jamie really loved all the icons and everything.

CS: Where did you get the ridiculously perfect heavy metal soundtrack?

Chip: That was Jamie. He brought in

that song before we even had locations. A lot of filmmakers do this, they’ll have a particular song in mind

first. He liked the message — the song is called “The Devil Gets Your Soul.”

It’s by Nick Nolan. Jamie just found it on one of those sites where you buy the rights online.

CS: Who storyboarded this thing?

Angelique Chase:

Jamie did! He didn’t know exactly what a storyboard was beforehand [laughs]. By the time it got to me, as first assistant director, my job is to put everything in order.

The producer said, yeah, Jamie drew them up. There were about 35 pages of storyboard. That’s a lot of storyboard! And I would say we used 95 percent of it. Jamie had such a clear vision of what he wanted, yet he was humble enough to know he didn’t

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CS: The daytime cemetery scene was in

Laurel Grove. But where was the climactic scene when Jamie brings down the hammer of God on Michael’s tombstone? Also Laurel Grove?

Chip: No, that was a clearing on some

property just outside JCB, between JCB and the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum. We shot on the coldest day of the year. It was 18 degrees outside.

We were concerned about the camera freezing. We were shooting on a Red Epic, basically this unbelievably expensive camera. Jamie actually bought that camera, by the way, it’s his. We also had issues with the smoke machine, with the water, with the fire.

would break first. Jamie hit the heck out of that thing and ended up busting a piece off the handle.

CS: Who made the tombstones?

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CS: Wait, what? Isn’t the whole point of a sledgehammer that it doesn’t break?

Chip: We tried to see if the tombstone

Angelique: The people who actually make real tombstones were like, ‘Are you kidding? There’s no way we can make them that quickly.’ So we had to figure out how to have tombstones made, with names, in three days. Our production designer Bobbie Harley had a friend pour concrete in the shape of a tombstone. We had four made in total. We were pretty much all breathing on them hoping they would dry in time for the scene.

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CS: Where were each of you when the ad actually came on?

Chip: I was in Atlanta during the Super

CS: The exploding tombstone was obviously CGI. Angelique: That was one of the things

Steve Withers did, a digital special effect in post. We shot with the stone there, and then there are shots with the stone gone, and Jamie slinging the sledgehammer.

CS: The flames are CGI too?

Chip: No, that was real fire for the most

part! A lot was done in post, and we did make the flames bigger in post.

But, no, we had a rain machine and real fire, and all the tricks with the buried cables. When Jamie drags the hammer through the grave, that was real fire, man.

CS: Where do you get a sledgehammer

like that and can I have one too?

Chip: Jamie had two hammers custom-

made. He actually broke one on the tombstone.

Bowl shooting a national commercial for Ryan’s Steakhouse. My phone started blowing up at halftime. Everybody was like, ‘I saw you on that commercial.’ I also play a cop in it. The next day a Ryan’s ad exec comes up and asks if I was in the Super Bowl ad. He said, ‘I don’t know if you know this, but that thing has blown up on the internet.’ I said, yep, that was me.

Then he turned to someone and said, ‘I told you that was him.’

Angelique: My story is I was at a friend’s

house watching the game. I warned everybody beforehand that when it gets close to halftime everyone has to shut up. As soon as I heard the music start, I yelled ‘Everybody be quiet!’

When it was over there was sort of a long pause. Then they were all like, wow, that was pretty good. cs For a full cast & crew list, see the online version at connectsavannah.com

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Returning to Harris Neck

Group seeks to preserve Gullah-Geechee culture and resume a ‘green way of life’

By Jessica Leigh Lebos | jll@connectsavannah.com

Wilson Moran remembers growing up with the stories of bucolic waterways of Harris Neck, in McIntosh County, where his parents and grandparents cultivated rice, picked oysters and sang the hymns of their West African ancestors.

“They knew how to work on the land, with the land,” he recalls wistfully.

“They were ‘green’ before anyone knew what it was.”

One of 13 brothers and sisters, Moran would have grown up in Harris Neck himself, if the 2,687 acres belonging to his and dozens of other African-American families had not been confiscated by the government in 1942. Reportedly irked by the success and self-sufficiency of Harris Neck’s independent black community, officials designated the land for an Army airfield and gave the residents only three weeks to abandon their farms and homesteads.

Though they were promised they could return after WWII was over, Harris Neck citizens were dismayed when the federal government turned over the land to the county—then took it back from McIntosh County’s

notoriously corrupt commissioners in 1962, citing “mismanagement.” Harris Neck has been federal property ever since, and the parcel is currently a designated wildlife refuge managed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and overseen by the Dept. of the Interior.

The original inhabitants and their descendants have challenged the edict in courts over the years to no avail.

“What our ancestors left for us, we lost it all,” lamented Moran at the day-long Harris Neck Symposium at Savannah State University last week.

About 50 attendees listened to and shared stories about Harris Neck, including Rev. Edgar Timmons, Olive Hillery and moderator Otis Johnson. Organized by the Harris Neck Land Trust, the symposium aimed to provide a historical context as well as a future strategy to preserve the land’s unique potential as a cultural center.

Former Harris Neck residents Mary Moran (r.) and Olive Smith (center) attended a symposium addressing their right to return at Savannah State last week.

Moran’s 92-year-old mother, Mary, resplendent in leopard print, also spoke.

She was 21 years old and seven months pregnant when her family was forced out of Harris Neck, and still holds hope that she might live out the rest of her days on the still-pristine woodlands and ponds.

As a child, Ms. Moran absorbed the culture of her elders, slaves stolen from West Africa who were later bequeathed parcels of the Harris Neck property by the former plantation overseer. These farmers and fishermen maintained their traditions as part of the interconnected scattering of coastal black communities known as the Gullah-Geechee.

Ms. Moran caught the attention of ethnomusicologists in 1997, who recorded her singing a tune eerily similar to a funeral hymn of the Mende tribe

in Sierra Leone. That song had been passed down through the generations at Harris Neck, and Ms. Moran and several of her children traveled to Africa in 2002 to track down the song’s origins.

Since 2005, the Harris Neck Land Trust has been working to revert ownership back to the former residents, and several members testified before a Congressional subcommittee in 2012.

“It’s literally going to take an act of Congress to bring them home,” explained Dave Kelly, the trust’s project coordinator.

Kelly organized last week’s symposium not only to garner support for the cause, but also to inform interested parties about a change in strategy: Rather than seek to push a bill through Congress (a prospect deemed

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affirmed Hayes, who “unlikely” by panelwas present at the ist and land trust symposium but not expert Russ Marane), invited to sit on one the former residents of the panels. are now proposing a “The place where long-term lease perwe can connect is mit similar arrangethe preservation of ments made with the Gullah-Geechee Native American and history.”

Alaskan Inuit tribes Though the stoliving on federal land. ries received rapt “Even if there attention from the wasn’t a precedent, symposium audiit doesn’t mean it ence, Hayes reitercan’t be done. This ated that no museum is very doable,” said can move forward or Kelly, who added that homes constructed possible developuntil plans are put on ment might include a paper. museum with a work- A cemetery with vernacular, handmade tombstones is all that remains of the “We’re still waiting ing oyster house and independent fishing and farming community that once thrived in Harris Neck. on an official proposal,” a limited number of said Hayes. residences on an 80-acre parcel of the migratory birds, including American As of now, that’s where Kelly, current wildlife refuge. bald eagles.

Moran and the rest of the Harris Neck But after 70 years, returning home Refuge manager Kimberly Hayes Land Trust are putting their efforts. isn’t that simple. While a long-term believes the Harris Neck residents and “The goal is the re-creation of a lease does not require Congressional the federal government will be able to community that’s in balance with approval, it has to work within the reach an agreement. nature,” promised Kelly. existing needs of the wildlife refuge, “We at Fish and Game are com“The ball is in our court.” cs which serves as a protected habitat for mitted to being a whole community,”

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

GA Ports fire under control Firefighters from Savannah Fire and Emergency Services with help from the Garden City Fire Department worked to contain an enormous rubber fire at the Georgia Ports Authority’s Ocean Terminal warehouse No. 3 on West River Street from about 11:30 a.m. Saturday and through the night and well into Sunday morning.

As of Sunday afternoon firefighters remained at the scene battling occasional flare-ups in the rubble.

West Bay Street between East Lathrop Avenue and Fahm Street were reopened to traffic after a period of shutdown on Saturday. Heavy smoke affected portions of Interstate 16, Interstate 516 and Interstate 95 as well as the Talmadge Bridge.

No injuries were reported.

• A Savannah man has been arrested after shooting his finger in a reported accident.

Alajuawon Williams, 23, of the 1100 block of East 31st Street was transported to Memorial University Medical Center for treatment of the injury after the 2:55 p.m. shooting. He was taken into custody upon release after Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police violent crimes detectives determined the gun had been stolen.

Williams was charged with theft by receiving stolen property.

Downtown Precinct Patrol officers responded to the area of Price Street and Duffy Lane where Williams reported he was checking the weapon to assure it was not loaded when he accidentally pulled the trigger. The investigation is continuing.

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Some shots from Saturday afternoon showing the extent of the smoke from the rubber fire in the GPA Warehouse at Ocean Terminal 3 (pics

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Why is it that exposure of the female areola and/or nipples is considered pornographic while exposure of the male areola and/or nipples is not?

I read your answer to the question “Why do men have nipples?” and it seems that, physiologically, nipples are nipples. So why the different reactions?

—Sheryl, Michigan Listen, Sheryl. You know how in some cultures men can show their uncovered mugs in public but women have to wear a bag over their heads?

Same idea. Now if what you’re really wondering about is the rationale behind the double standard on nipples, fine, let’s walk through it.

1. Female humans are the only primates with permanently enlarged breasts, which has led to much harebrained speculation about why. I’m not about to add to it. I merely cite my favorite theory, from zoologist Desmond Morris’s 1967 The Naked Ape (I elaborate somewhat): (a) male apes mount their paramours from behind; (b) female apes are only in heat at certain times; (c) as a signal that the female ape is sexually receptive, her buttocks become enlarged and red; (d) humans generally do it face to face, and women may be game at any time; (e) any billboard of human female availability thus would logically be installed permanently in front; (f) inasmuch as the female breast becomes enlarged anyway during lactation, it’s the obvious candidate. In other words, men like the female breast because, at a primordial level, it reminds them of a monkey’s butt.

2. It’s not just women’s partners who like boobs. Most women find their breasts a source of sexual pleasure—more than eight in ten report playing with their breasts and nipples increases their arousal. That said, while the nipple is the most sensitive part of the breast, sex play tends to

involve the breast as a whole, not the nipple in particular—excessive concentration on the latter is likely to get your partner annoyed.

3. The male nipple is also a source of sexual pleasure—more than half of men report playing with their nipples increases their arousal. So the argument that the female nipple alone must be covered because it’s an erogenous zone and the male nipple isn’t won’t wash.

4. Exposure of much (as distinct from all) of the human female breast is decidedly not taboo. On the contrary, it’s the basis of entire industries.

5. In significant parts of the U.S. the unspoken assumption seems to be that, except in narrow circumstances, the exposed female nipple is the equivalent of public fornication.

For the definitive word on this subject we must turn to the U.S. Supreme Court. In City of Erie v.

Pap’s A.M. (2000), the justices took up the question of whether Erie, Pennsylvania, was legally empowered to prohibit totally nude erotic dancing by women, the difference between illegal total nudity and acceptable partial nudity being that, to comply with the law, “dancers had to wear, at a minimum, ‘pasties’ and a ‘G-string.’”

Pap’s argued that Erie was unconstitutionally infringing on its right to freedom of expression. Piffle, said the court: “Even if Erie’s public nudity ban has some minimal effect on the erotic message by muting that portion of the expression that occurs when the last stitch is dropped, the dancers . . . are free to perform wearing pasties and G-strings. Any effect on the overall expression is de minimis.”

But never mind the strangely arousing juxtaposition of strip-club jargon and Latin. “A person who knowingly or intentionally, in a public place . . . engages in sexual intercourse, . . . appears in a state of nudity, or . . . fondles the genitals of himself, herself or another person commits Public Indecency.” Nudity is elsewhere defined as including an uncovered female nipple but not a male one.

Ponder the significance of that. A man walks around bare-chested and the worst that happens is he won’t get served in restaurants. But a woman who goes topless is legally in the same boat as if she’d had sex in public. That may seem crazy, but in the U.S. it’s a permissible law. CS By cecil adams

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The semi-obscure Florida Statute 790.15 took center stage in January following a Miami Herald report of a resident of the town of Big Pine Key who routinely target-shoots his handgun in his yard, with impunity, to the consternation of neighbors. The statute permits open firing on private property (except shooting over a public right of way or an occupied dwelling), and several cities have tried, unsuccessfully, to restrict that right, citing “public safety” in residential neighborhoods. (A 2011 lobbying campaign by the National Rifle Association, and a state supreme court decision, nixed any change in the law.) “Negligent” shooting is illegal, but only a misdemeanor. Thus, even skillful shooting next door to a day care center or in a small yard that abuts a hightrafficked pedestrian street is likely perfectly legal. One Florida legislator who was originally from Alaska noted that even in Anchorage people cannot fire at will in their yards.

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• South Korea is a well-known hub for cosmetic beautification surgery, with a higher rate per capita than the U.S., but the procedures can be expensive, inspiring many young women recently to resort to do-it-yourself procedures for their professional and romantic upgrades. A December Global Post dispatch noted that some might try to force their eyes to stay open without blinking (using a novel $20 pair of

glasses for hours on end) as a substitute We want the customer to feel comfortfor costly “double-eyelid” surgery. Also able, a bit like he’s at home.” in use: a $6 jaw-squeezing roller device for the face to push the jaw line into a Questionable Judgments fashionable “oval” form. One teen told • Interesting Life Ahead: From the the reporter she applies an imaginabirth register of Elkhart (Ind.) Gentive contraption to her face for hours a eral Hospital, reported by The Elkhart day to pressure her nose into more of a Truth, Jan. 19, 2014: “Tamekia Burks, point, which is considered a desirable Elkhart, daughter Western look. (named La’Soulja Major • Acquired Tastes: (1) La’Pimp Burks, 6 lbs., 8 In December, thieves in oz.), 3:20 p.m. WednesWicklow, Ireland, raided day, Jan. 15, 2014.” a convent’s field at the • The makers of a Dominican Farm and FOX MEAT? product called PooBUT I WANTED Ecology Center, stripping Pourri garnered a DONKEY MEAT! it of its entire crop of Brus“coveted” advertising sels sprouts. A nun at the award from USA Today farm said the sisters were in December as one of devastated to miss out on the five worst ads of the the lucrative market for year. Toilet users conhigh-end Christmas dincerned about smell are ners. (2) In January, Walencouraged to spray Mart in China recalled its Poo-Pourri on the com“Five Spice” donkey meat mode, pre-use, and in sold in some locations the television ad, a Britbecause the popular snack ish-accented female sits was found to be tainted on the throne, extolling with fox meat. the product. Opening • Labor’s Influence in France: The line: “You would not believe the mother French social security agency URSSAF lode I just dropped.” (Nonetheless, USA initiated an enforcement action in Today still found two other ads that December against the Mamm-Kounifl upset its editors more.) music bar in the town of Locmiquelic for underpaying employee contributions - in that the tavern encourages The Continuing Crisis customers to bus their own tables and • The Power of Prayer: Nelson Thabo thus reduces its need to hire more servModupe threatened a lawsuit in Januers. The owner denied he was trying to ary against South Africa’s Eskom elecsave money. “It’s (just) our trademark. tric utility unless the company paid

him the equivalent of about $22.3 million for “saving” the firm that amount during the weeks of the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Modupe reasoned that he had joined the Zion Christian Church just before the event and had prayed (“successfully”) to God to spare the utility from blackouts and power reductions during that period (which would have cost Eskom millions more).

Modupe, open to negotiation, said he would accept a partnership in the company as a compromise.

• World’s Laziest Dog Sitter: Tyler Smith, 23, was charged in December with violating the city animal care ordinance in Greenville, S.C., after a photograph was posted on Facebook of his father’s dog being lowered by rope from the second-story balcony of an apartment. According to the posting, it was time for the dog to make a call of nature, but it was raining, and Smith preferred not to go downstairs with him.

Perspective

Three million Americans are infected with hepatitis C (as are millions more overseas), but a very recent drug, Sovaldi, completely cures it with 84 daily doses. However, its manufacturer, Gilead Sciences, has somehow determined that a fair U.S. price for the drug should be $1,000 per pill ($84,000 for the total treatment). Shouldn’t Gilead reduce the price once it has recouped its expensive investment, asked an NPR reporter in December? “That’s very

People With Issues

Trevor Robinson, 67, of Skellingthorpe, England, was re-arrested in November for violating a previous Anti-Social Behavior Order by pushing a doll-carrying baby carriage in public. (He was also reportedly performing a sex act on himself.) The 2009 ASBO barred him from possessing dolls, baby carriages and “any other” means in which toys might be transported.

Least Competent Criminals

It Pays to Know Your Rap Sheet: Jerry Pancoast, 42, was arrested on at least four charges after a high-speed chase through Iowa’s Polk and Jasper counties in January following an alleged shoplifting of tweezers and an eyebrow pencil - not even taken

by Pancoast but by his companion.

Pancoast drove at 100 mph, even on deflated tires and three rims that eventually caused his truck to catch on fire. The episode started as “a simple theft case,” said the arresting officer, until Pancoast abruptly took off.

He later explained that he panicked because he knew there were already arrest warrants against him - but a subsequent search turned up none.

Recurring Themes

Stories That Never Get Old: (1) Following the early-January winter storm in East Kingston, N.H., emergency

crews came to the aid of a 12-year-old girl who had a “what would happen” moment and tried to lick a metal flagpole in her front yard. (2) Police in the Los Angeles suburb of Harbor City were searching in February for the man suspected of stealing surveillance cameras from a home, but not before he apparently failed to distinguish between the camera (which he took with him) and the recording unit (which remained in the home and captured his face clearly as he removed the camera).

A News of the Weird Classic (November 2010)

Can’t Possibly Be True: Kyle Johnson shattered his skull so badly in a high-speed longboard accident in June (2010) that ordinary “decompressive craniectomy” (temporarily removing half of the skull to relieve pressure) would have been

inadequate. Instead, doctors at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah, removed both halves, leaving only a thin strip of bone (after placing Johnson in a drug-induced coma) and kept the skull frozen to prevent brittleness. After the swelling subsided, they reattached both halves of the skull to his head and woke him up gradually over a week’s time. Johnson admits some memory problems and cognitive dysfunction, most notably his inability to focus on more than one concept at a time - even when they are part of the same scene, such as two crayons on a table. Johnson said he probably won’t go back to the longboard (but would try snowmobiling). CS By chuck shepherd UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE

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unlikely we would do that,” said Gilead’s Gregg Alton, but “I appreciate the thought.” (According to NPR, Gilead “developed” Sovaldi merely by buying Sovaldi’s actual developer for $11 billion. At $84,000 per patient, Gilead would “recoup” that investment from the first 150,000 customers, leaving 2.85 million more U.S. patients to pay $84,000 each, for an income of $239 billion.)

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by bill deyoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

Cozying up with COEDS: Our first date The incestuous nature (and I mean that in a good way) of our rock ‘n’ roll community has borne more fascinating fruit.

Just about every musician in town knows every other musician in town, and the resulting crosspollination keeps things on the edge (also meant in a good way).

The point of all this is the introduction of COEDS (yes, all in capital letters), a brand-new band with Anna Chandler (General O and the Panhanders, the Lovely Locks), Phillip Price (An Albatross, the Sw!ms), Jeremiah Stuard (Whaleboat, Sins of Godless Men) and Donald Moats (Sins of Godless Men, Whaleboat, Habitat Noise).

Chandler has traded in her trademark accordion for the guitar, which was her first instrument anyway.

Price is a guitar and keyboard player, and the Stuard-Moats rhythm section (bass and drums, respectively) is one of the most powerful in Savannah circles. Chandler sings lead, with Price chiming in on harmonies.

“I had a bunch of songs I’d written around General O time, and Lovely Locks time, that just didn’t really have a place,” Chandler says. “Either poppier stuff, or covers, or rowdier stuff.

Phil and I both love Buddy Holly a lot. I wanted to do something with those.

“And I always wanted to play with Jeremiah. He is my favorite performer to watch in this town. He and Donald had started playing together in Whaleboat, and the way they

COEDS from left: Chandler, Price, Stuard and Moats.

synch together was just awesome. So we jammed with them— ‘let’s just have fun’ —and it sounded good.”

They’ve cut two ridiculously cool power-pop songs, which you can hear at coeds.bandcap.com (I’m particularly taken by “I Wanna Dance With You,” which planted its hooks in my subconscious on the first listen).

COEDS makes its live debut Friday, Feb. 14 at Graveface Records. Southern Hemisphere and Rubrics will open the free 7 p.m. show.

Later than evening, Chandler will hump it over to the Jinx, where the Lovely Locks are playing along with the delightful Savannah Sweet Tease Burlesque Revue.

Look in the dictionary under “Savannah musical collaborations,” and you’ll see Jeremiah Stuard’s photo. The high-octane bass player seems to be everywhere at once. “I can’t really say that I’m a fan of one music,” Stuard explains. “And I like playing with a lot of people. I think Donald and I play really well together.

He plays what I want to hear, and I think vice versa. We’ve just gotten along so well as friends, so it just makes sense.”

The COEDS project, he adds, has been gestating for about five months.

Chandler called him as Whaleboat was taking a much-needed breather.

And what of Whaleboat, our favorite gauzy, shoegazy, split-infinite rock ‘n’ roll trio? Stuard, Moats and singer, songwriter and guitarist Brent Collins all but disappeared in the middle of 2013.

The band will return with a show March 29 at Dollhouse, to celebrate the release of a new EP. “We worked out some personal things,” says Stuard. “We all feel like we miss the Whaleboat a little bit.

I guess things needed to be walked away from; nothing to do with the music, or the chemistry of the band.”

Most welcome to these ears is “Cold Love Wars,” the new Whaleboat single. You can hear it via the band’s Facebook page.

Savannah rock of ages

A splended time was guaranteed for all at the Feb. 7 Savannah Rocks! concert and celebration at the American Legion Hall on Bull Street. Organizers Tom Kohler. Jim Reed, Colleen

Heine and their crew delivered with a night of music that swerved between sweetly nostalgic and hard-charging.

It was great to see old-timers (and I use the phrase affectionatley) The Veraflames and the Rogues blasting through Beatles hits and other vintage material. The ad hoc group called the Bill Avila All-Stars absolutely roared through “Revolution” and other Fab tunes (particular kudos to drummer Mark Vaquer, who is a huge Beatles aficionado; he knew how to pound the skins for maximum Ringo power).

Avila, the 89-year-old “Godfather of Savannah Rock ‘n’ Roll” (as a ‘60s and ‘70s manager, agent and promoter) was presented onstage with a portrait by none other than Scott “Panhandle Slim” Stanton.

The earlier part of the sold-out show, with the veteran players onstage, resembled a sock-hop: The older folks danced, while the younger ones mostly stood off to the sides and watched, and smiled.

Everything changed when GAM came on. Bassist Ronny Kersey wore an old-school “Beatle wig,” keyboard player Ricardo Ochoa (does this guy play with everybody?) sported a red fez, and singer Keith Kozel—Savannah’s ever-spindly Mick/Iggy mongrel —threw himself around the stage.

The crowd makeup changed immediately; the oldsters backed up, and everyone else moved down front to glom on GAM. Kevin Rose is one of the city’s best rock ‘n’ roll guitarists—I stood three feet in front of him while he absolutely shredded “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.”

I had to be on the road very early the next morning, so I missed the closing set from Cusses. At any rate, I’ve never seen that band put on a bad show.

So there you go. CS

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Art Garfunkel is in Savannah Feb. 14 and 15, for shows at Dollhouse Productions, which seats 300. From his classic work with Paul Simon in the 1960s, through a solo career that produced some of the most sublime pop music (“All I Know,” “I Only Have Eyes For You,” “Crying in My Sleep,” “What a Wonderful World”), Garfunkel has never stepped outside a tiny circle of excellence.

Simon and Garfunkel had just announced a reunion tour, in early 2010, when Garfunkel inexplicably lost his voice, a gossamer instrument that bonds to Simon’s tenor like morning dew to a robust flower.

The voice just laid down like a bridge over troubled water.

Things are much, much better now, as you’re about to read.

Garfunkel, 72, began our conversation by asking if I’d seen the Grammy Awards, which had aired the previous night (he has eight of them with Simon, and another for his 1998 album Songs From a Parent to a Child).

He was surprised, he said, that the show was so entertaining (although he bailed shortly before it ended), and had high praise for Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.

And then we got started …

CS: At the Grammys in 1975, John

Lennon, Paul Simon and Andy Williams were bantering at the podium.

Then you came out and had a really funny deadpan exchange with Simon.

I never forgot it. Was it scripted?

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Art Garfunkel: No. The nature of the friendship with Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel is jokes, jokes, jokes.

Always the inside poke in the ribs, that’s all we ever say. Our knives are sharp when it comes to looking for the inside joke in a flash. So it comes out as if we practiced, but the mind works very fast, when Paul Simon is

what, 3 ½ years? The voice is happening.

CS: What happened, exactly?

AG: I did a show in Nicaragua,

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around, to find the inside, hip joke.

CS: That comes from knowing each

other so well?

AG: Yeah, we went to junior high

school together. We were always laughing. We’re Lenny Bruce fans.

We love Mike Nichols. We love Mel Brooks. These three funny people, but mostly Lenny Bruce, had tuned us.

When we first met our manager, Mort Lewis, he had Lenny Bruce’s album signed “From Lenny to Mort.” And that impressed us a lot. So there’s the overlap.

CS: I have to ask you, my friend, how’s

the voice?

AG: It’s good. I’m happening again.

It’s a thrill to have it back. It’s taken,

and I remember they were burning leaves in back of the outdoor show that I was doing.

And it was a funny kind of a smell. I came home in late January of 2010. I went to the Palm Restaurant, where they have great lobsters. I was with my son. I gagged on one of the strands of this giant lobster, and it was a near-panic situation. I had to kick up the lobster.

From that point on, after that night, I was experiencing a tightness of the vocal cords and my voice started getting husky.

I saw the doctors, and they said “Something in the fine symmetry of your two vocal cords has gone crude.” That’s the closest I can get to an explanation.

The truth is, it’s a mystery to me what happened.

The doctor said nothing except scratch your head, and that’ll be $1,200, please.

The body is a mystery. To grope and figure out things about the mystery seems to be, from a doctor’s point of view, hooking up expensive machines, taking pictures, and charging the patient a bloody fortune.

That’s what doctors have meant to me.

CS: But you did think at one point it

might be gone?

AG: I did think at one point that it

might be gone, yeah. I definitely did think it might not happen again. You can’t count on God’s work. Our body and how it works, you can’t count on anything. And I was really having vocal trouble—my speaking was husky. I gave it months of resting and then began to sing, and it wasn’t coming back very easily. I went through a lot of things.

I sing in a way that has to do with fine-ness. If it gets crude, then I’m not Artie Garfunkel any more. Oddly enough, I could sing in the high range. I had my upper notes, which is my stock-in-trade. I could sing in the bass, which I hardly ever use. But the whole midsection, which requires finesse, there’s where you need fineness. That was blunted and crude, and there was the heartbreak of it all.

I kept singing, and singing in

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said really touches me. Now you’re my pal. Now you get it, you understand. It’s very unnatural, and very exposed, to say to a house full of people “Hush up and watch what I can do.” It’s all so presumptuous! It’s what fancy people do! It’s not my nature.

It’s a pretense to say “I am going to take care of your reality for the next 60 minutes.” And I was back to that early stage of presumption and fear.

At my advanced age! My knees were knocking. I was 15 years old again, just a year and a half ago. But you do it anyway. And only with the repetition of dozens of doing that do you settle back into the groove.

CS: I hear you signed a book deal?

AG: They don’t want me to talk about

it. I’ve been writing for 30 years. I write these bits. I don’t know how to describe them, they’re one-page,

these years?

AG: Because I’ve been behind Paul

Simon all through that famous Simon & Garfunkel career. And during my own solo 20 years I had my four-piece band. I only slowly began to be a talker. That’s why. I don’t know if they know how proud I am of my body of work.

CS: OK, you brought it up, so I have

to ask. You were about to tour with Paul when the voice troubles began. Are the two of you thinking about doing it again? is working again. We’re a hot duo! The world loves us, I love us, so it begs the question why wouldn’t we do it again when the voice is back. But you gotta ask him. It takes two to make a tour.

stage fright. I do a lot of theater, and play a little music, but never got over it. I look at someone like yourself and you look so friggin’ confident up there!

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CS: Why do you say finally, after all

AG: Who knows? If the voice

CS: I’ve never gotten over

AG: It’s acting. What you just

I have just one guitar player, Bill.

That’s my show. It is what I call severe less-is-more. I’m trying to make every little thing be a big thing. And grow from there. At the end, I’ll do a question-and-answer and finally, finally open up as a guy with a lot of love and a lot of experience, and a lot of accessibility. Ask me what you want to know, folks!

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half-page reflections. They’re memoirs of my life, my career, of my wife, my children, family, show business, Paul Simon, my history. I’m entranced by the living experience, if you must know, Bill. And so I write as a philosophically questioning guy.

I’ve been doing it for about 30 years, to myself, for myself, thinking well, I like what I’m doing; I think I have my own voice. I don’t know if it translates. I would sometimes read it to people, and some of them work, some of them don’t. I finally got the courage to shop them around with a literary agent. And he came back with great responses: “You are a writer.”

So I’m in the editing phase. But if you must know, the thrill of shaping up this show that I’m bringing to Savannah has completely captured me. I love what’s going on. A new three-part concert has emerged in

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CS: When you get to this age, are

all the old animosities gone?

AG: Animosities, Bill? Something

you know?

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front of my eyes. And I’m into it.

CS: Do tell.

AG: I read some of these things we’ve

been talking about. And I reflect on the song I’m about to sing. And I weave in and out of things I wrote and this now-returned voice. I go back and forth and I go through my repertoire while I show them my prose-poem bits. It has an identity of its own. I don’t know anybody who does this, but it works. I’ll come onstage and I’ll go “Somewhere around the middle of the ‘60s, I took a room at the Hampshire House. I remember the carpet, cherry vermillion. The balcony looked up the axis of Central Park, dead center. Twentyfifth floor. I was new to fame, and to room service.”

CS: There’s been hot and cold

running water over the years.

AG: We’re different personalities. You

see Paul Simon, you see Artie Garfunkel, you see two different kind of guys. My job is to keep the class of Simon & Garfunkel. I don’t want to knock us off the pedestal and bring in the earthiness of two different personalities. We mesh pretty well. I don’t think our story is animosity, I think it’s harmony. Being two different people, we managed an alchemy of fusion in a pretty exciting way, right from childhood on. I think that’s our story. CS

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unison to my iPad. I would sing to Chet Baker and JJ Cale. And I was starting to get there. My unison to these great masters was starting to happen. I would sing to my old albums, in my iPod. I would sing to the Everlys—first Don, the lower voice, and then dear Phil, that great angel in the sky now. And I could get it. I sounded dead-nuts on. And that was promising.

When I took to the stage … first I booked an empty house, so I could have microphone, reverb, speakers and projection, which is the real show business experience … I was quivery.

And it wasn’t happening. I kept doing it, and a couple of years went by. I finally started singing to small houses.

My wife is a Buddhist; I would sing to her Buddhist meetings, and it was all about facing your obstacle. And I was living example of “Man Meets His Obstacle.” You do your best.

I ended up thinking “You’ve gotta get onstage and act as if you’re ready, even though you’re not ready.” The adrenaline and the fear of doing a show, even when you’re not ready, and throwing yourself into it, helps you get ready.

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Maureen Ennis: I can’t remember a time when music wasn’t a huge part of my life. It’s in every memory I have.

Our dad plays the button accordion —a very traditional NL instrument.

Karen learned a lot of her tunes from him. I learned to play guitar by playing along with him. Our mother plays the piano and she plays a little guitar.

They passed on their love of music to the three of us.

We were encouraged to follow whatever made us the happiest in the world. It just happened to be music.

They did everything to ensure we experienced it to the fullest.

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In other words, were you forced to grow up too soon?

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If you were paying any attention at all to the Canadian music scene at the turn of this century, you couldn’t have missed the Ennis Sisters.

For a while, the three folksinging siblings were everywhere; they sold tons of records, they had their own Christmas special on CBC, and they won a prestigious Juno Award as the country’s Best New Duo or Group.

Today, they are literally a duo and not a group—sisters Maureen and Karen Ennis from St. John’s, Newfoundland. Teresa, the youngest, is no longer a part of the act (although she’s still in Canada, handling her sisters’ business affairs, and still performs with the family on occasion).

The group is now called Ennis, and they’re co-headlining the 2014 Savannah Irish Festival, along with returning champions Seven Nations and Mairtin O’Corgain’s Pure Drop (both of whom have been interviewed over the years in these pages).

There are three stages, including one dedicated to music and performances for children.

Although Ennis briefly flirted with

a more complex sound (there are some fantastic videos on YouTube), these days it’s a sweet and supple, mostly acoustic, purely Celtic vibe.

Maureen Ennis, in particular, has an ethereal alto singing voice, and Karen sings harmony, plays various instruments and step-dances like the proverbial banshee.

Ennis, incidentally, is Gaelic for “island.”

When we reached out to Maureen, she and Karen were somewhere in the Caribbean, on a “Folk ‘n Irish” cruise with Joanie Madden and Cherish the Ladies. We conducted this interview via e-mail when the ship docked somewhere with a wi-fi connection.

CS: First, about your family: I confess I

know absolutely nothing about Newfoundland, so did you live in a little town or a big city?

Maureen Ennis: We spent the week going to school in St. John’s and spent every weekend and holiday in a small community about 45 minutes out of town called Cape Broyle. We don’t consider ourselves “townies.” We prefer to think of ourselves as “shore girls.”

CS: Was it a musical family—musical

parents who encouraged you guys to write and sing together, that sort of

Maureen Ennis: We were very fortunate to experience the music industry together as a family. Our parents protected us from the darker side of the industry early on in our careers. Our dad was our manager. They were on the road with us at all points. When they stopped traveling with us, we had a good understanding of the business and what was expected of us to maintain a career. They kept us very grounded. Through all of our success we never lost sight of what we were doing. We were singing music and having a lot of fun doing so.

We’ve seen all sides of this industry and we’ve been fortunate to settle into a really great place within it.

We’ve met so many amazing people and seen some pretty cool places along our way.

We’ll never stop learning and growing inside this career. Just when we think we have a handle on it, something will change and we’ll need to come at it from another angle. Just like in any other business.

We’re still having fun performing and seeing the world because of our music.We always say that when it stops being fun, that’s when we’ll stop doing this. We get along really well and we work great together. We have so much to be grateful for.

CS: How did you come by your inter-

est in Celtic music and culture?

Maureen Ennis: Our mother and father listened to Irish/Newfoundland folk music. We grew up surrounded

by Celtic music and the wonderful

home in Newfoundland. We will be singing songs and telling stories that show our strong connection to Ireland. Karen will be performing her humorous recitations, and of course she will be bringing her wit and charm along with her throughout our show.

Karen sings and plays the tin whistle and the bodhran. Mark is an amazing singer. He also plays the cajon.

I play the guitar and sing the lead vocal. Mark and I wrote most of the songs we sing in our show which can be found on the CDs we have with us.

Our show will make you cry and laugh. We’ll help you forget your worries for a while. :) CS

CS: And how did you decide who was

going to dance in the stage show, and who was going to play tin whistle, bodhran et cetera?

Maureen Ennis: Everything happened

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deFINE art: A river runs through it Tim Rollins and K.O.S. bring local students into the flow

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Art educator Tim Rollins (r.) collaborated with Garrison students for the RIVERS exhibit.

Tim Rollins has been called “unorthodox” and “far out” for his approach to art education and art-making itself.

In the early 1980s, the Bronxbased artist and public school teacher opened up his studio to “at-risk” youth and “unteachable” students— and please note that when Rollins talks, he uses air quotes around those terms since most of them quickly proved themselves otherwise. The formally-trained painter engaged these “Kids of Survival” with art supplies and straight talk, collaborating with them on large-scale works inspired by the same literature and music they once eschewed in the classroom.

“I knew there was something transgressive about it, but I wasn’t doing it on purpose,” chuckles Rollins, who was raised in rural Maine. “I come from a real working class situation, and so do these kids. I wanted to get them to see that art and music and literature are for them, too.”

Using a signature method that involves deconstructing first edition books and mining the yellowed pages, Rollins and K.O.S. began creating canvasses and conceptual works that explore themes of classic art and

social justice, of history and how to find one’s place in it. They call it “honorific vandalism,” a process that imbues each piece with the spirit of the book’s author.

More than 30 years later, it’s clear the experiment worked. Rollins and his now-grown posse of former students continue to create together and travel the country hosting workshops for teachable students of all kinds.

Their collaborative paintings are currently in the permanent collections of almost a hundred museums around the world.

“We started out as an after school program, then we became a fraternity,” he says. “Now we’re a family.”

The latest Tim Rollins + K.O.S. exhibit is RIVERS, opening this week at the SCAD Museum of Art and running through June 8. Part of SCAD’s deFINE ART showcase taking place simultaneously at SCAD’s Savannah, Atlanta and Hong Kong campuses, RIVERS functions on a dizzying number of levels, moving between different media and various centuries

until all lines have been blurred.

But that’s exactly the point of deFINE ART, a program of exhibits and lectures collated to stretch the mind beyond mainstream definitions.

“The goal is to bring in artists who are pushing the envelope of what contemporary art can be,” explains SCAD’s executive director of exhibitions, Laurie Ann Farrell. “Artists who are moving issues forward, artists who will inspire.”

For deFINE ART, Rollins and the K.O.S. team selected pieces specifically to display in SCAD MoA’s sweeping central gallery space, which Rollins saw on a visit to Savannah last spring. He and K.O.S. also constructed the show along Southern themes with a focus on AfricanAmerican perspectives, and senior curator Melissa Messina calls the exhibit’s confluence with Black History Month “a happy coincidence.”

“They literally use the layers of history as their canvas,” points out Messina. “There’s this metanarrative going on in every piece.”

Several historical periods and pieces of literature inform the works of RIVERS, beginning with the Mark Twain-inspired “Asleep on the Raft,” a massive rendering of a pen-and-ink

drawing from the first-edition book that composes the first layer. The drawing is visible in the upper right corner under the whitewash, and the transposed larger indigo version is painted in the exact veins of the original hatch sketches, right down to the illustration’s original signature.

“You can think of the Mississippi river as a metaphor for America,” offers Rollins, constantly shifting between his roles as artist and teacher.

“We’re all together on the raft, you know?”

The tension of history is heightened by the Messina’s placement of the exhibit: The two panels of “I See the Promised Land,” a pair of isosceles triangles posing like mountains atop the works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., face the richly-textured “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” its ribbon tendrils trailing the floor.

The space between serves as a symbolic crossing, bisected on the far wall with a single portrait-sized canvas featuring a page from Langston Hughes’ poem “I’ve Known Rivers.”

The referential loop of the metanarrative is everywhere, flooding the banks of the imagination.

“You can’t step in the same river twice, right?” muses Rollins. “A river

“Asleep on the Raft” is an exact rendering of a pen-and-ink illustration from the first edition book layered on the canvas.

has motion, it has flow. It’s a great metaphor for what art making is all about.”

On Rollins’ last visit to Savannah, he brought original K.O.S. members Rick Sauvinon and Angel Abreu to engage with local students from Garrison School of Visual and Performing Arts. With the help of art teachers Briana Thayer and Catriona Schaefer, the New Yorkers and 50 students created two installations for RIVERS, debuting at the museum Tuesday, Feb. 18.

The haunting “Darkwater,” a series of pages swathed in black and gold, came from the writings of AfricanAmerican essayist W.E.B. Du Bois, an unfamiliar figure to most of the Garrison students. By the end of the three-day workshop, however, they had an intimate understanding of Du Bois’ essays, including “The Damnation of Women” and the “Immortal Child.”

“At first it seems almost sacreligious to break apart any book, but we’re having a conversation with history,” explains Abreu, who will be reunited with his students at the deFINE ART event. “We feel like Du Bois is a part of the collaboration.”

Coming up with museum-quality work with middle school students might sound like a long shot, but K.O.S. comes prepared.

“We bring the protocol and the materials, but we don’t know exactly what’s going to happen. We go with the flow,” continues Abreu. “But we

also ask students them to elevate their game, to come up to our level as artists.”

He and the rest of the team tested dozens of colors in advance to come up with particular shade of indigo used in The River, another collaboration based on Duke Ellington’s 1970 ballet score of the same name. K.O.S. played YouTube videos of Ellington while they worked with the materials,

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The writings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. serve as inspiration as well as the actual base layer for the two panels of “I See the Promised Land.”

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then helped collate the individual interpretations into one collaborative piece.

All the while, without really trying, the students absorbed the leitmotif of how rivers, both the literal ones like Huck Finn’s Mississippi and the allegorical ones like Ellington’s ballet, inform the historical, economic and cultural aspects of their lives.

“It’s not just dipping the pages in the ink,” admires Messina. “They’re immersing themselves in the metaphor.”

For Rollins, this total immersion has proved a successful educational model that helps students navigate the not only the deeper waterways of history and literature but how to find the value of their own contributions.

It also provides context for learning itself.

“Look, I get teaching to the standards, because, hey, we need standards. But we can go way beyond that,” he says.

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A pioneer at a young age, Jonah Bokaer is a force to be reckoned with. His art and career brings a new perspective to the world of dance, combining performing and visual arts backgrounds to provide the means to give back to the professional dance community and help create jobs for other dancers.

Bokaer in a a performance at the Musee d’Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean (architect I.M. Pei)

It’s with nail-biting excitement that the local arts community awaits the debut of his work in Savannah at SCAD’s deFINE ART, before Bokaer moves on to present other pieces at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest, the Center for Jewish History in New York, and the LVMH Museum in Paris.

Bokaer’s approach to his craft is unique in its methodology. He relates choreography to the action of design.

Following this train of thought, there are periods of discovery, research and development in each idea.

“Choreography, I think, is much closer to design,” muses Bokaer.

“They share a time-based element, but performance art is usually action and situation, where choreography is movement and tempo.”

Choreographed dance, as opposed to other theatrical and performance endeavors, requires exact execution, practice and refinement—often leaving little to no room for improvisation. Much like a well-designed visual piece, Bokaer’s performances have a purpose met through the careful sequencing of motions in space. His calculated approach to a fully scripted dance allows for a technical precision that is characteristic of his work.

Trained at Cornell University and North Carolina School of the Arts, Bokaer went on to receive a degree in Visual and Media Studies at the New School, and additional studies at Parsons School of Design and NYU Performance Studies. After 2002,

his approach to the electronic study of movement opens a conversation unparalleled in traditional dance practices.

As his body of work grew, he kept the peculiarity of abandoning the commonly known spaces for dance performances. By adopting the museum as a stage, Bokaer activates a space in a way that invites to the visual appreciation of the surrounding exhibition in a new light.

The Guggenheim and Whitney Museums in New York, MAC Marseille and MUDAM in Luxembourg are only a few of the museums that have hosted or commissioned Bokaer’s work.

Each year, a solo and a group performance are debuted and toured.

This year, SCAD’s deFINE Arts Festival was chosen as the venue for the debut of 2014’s solo piece.

Bokaer will be debuting his solo piece “The Rebel (and other myths)” between Feb.18-21 at the SCAD Museum of Art. This piece is based on literature by Albert Camus written during the 1930s for his Théâtre du Travail (later de l’Equipe). His writing

contains a theme of resistance and perseverance that Bokaer has skillfully translated into a challenge to human physical endurance.

The first section of the piece—the other myths—will be a series of three eight-hour dances performed by Lilja Ruriksdottir and Laura Gutierrez in the gallery spaces of the SCAD MoA in the three days leading to the final piece. The design of the museum, as well as its curatorial style, allows for interesting experiences.

As the dancers perform across the continuous galleries, the setting around them will change, but not the context of the story told through motion. The different “stages” allow spectators to interpret the story with additional depth. Their relation to and interpretation of the art on the walls will undoubtedly affect their understanding of Gutierrez’s and Ruriksdottir’s performance.

The second section of the piece— The Rebel—will be a 45-minute solo performed by Bokaer himself at the SCAD MoA Theater. We can only dare to imagine what pushing the limits of physical endurance will

mean to a dancer who is not scared of bearing his soul on stage.

In his exploration of physical limits, Bokaer is faced with the challenge of creating a choreography that will be visually pleasing and emotionally exhausting at the same time. He takes pride in defeating the obstacle presented by having to script a piece that will last such a long time.

Bokaer also strives to remain humble in the face of so much fame at such a young age.

“I think the gift is to continue, actually, so it doesn’t feel that much like recognition. It just feels like we get to keep working,” he says. “It’s very rewarding to me to have dancers who have work each year, meaningful work. That feels like one of the biggest signs that we’re on the right track.” cs Jonah Bokaer at SCAD deFINE ART The Rebel (and other myths): Performances choreographed by Jonah Bokaer SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Tuesday, Feb. 18-Friday, Feb. 21 Bokaer’s world solo premiere performance is Friday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m.

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Bokaer evolved into a choreographer and began the career we know him for today.

His early work was heavily influenced by an almost formal approach to the study of movement through animation and digital capture. Bokaer correlates animation to choreography through the shared idea of defining events in a set time frame to achieve a final result.

“It is similar,” Bokaer says. “In choreography, you’re defining events in time, and there’s a set temporality, and then you map it out. It’s the same in animation—you’re dividing time, and designing with motion in time.”

Taking in consideration the passionate and personal nature of Bokaer’s choreographies, it’s interesting and almost unfathomable to find a foundation in such a technical field as is motion capture and media. As a choreographer and media artist, he creates a middle ground where dance and digital animation meet.

It is not unprecedented for visual artists to endeavor in the world of dance in the areas of set design, props and even costume. However,

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Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, was our third president, and is remembered as one of the greatest and most influential Americans.

Alexander Hamilton is mostly remembered for having his face on the $10 bill and being killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.

But it’s Hamilton’s America we live in today, dominated by Wall Street banks, a centralized federal government, and an enormous standing military — all anathema to Jefferson.

Historian John Ferling describes the intense rivalry between these two very different men, one a Virginia farmer and Renaissance man, the other a brash New Yorker who was a war hero and close aide to George Washington.

Indeed, our first president is almost the third main character in Ferling’s book, Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation.

CS: You say you began as a Jeffersonian, but when you finished writing this book you almost admired Hamilton more. Why? John Ferling: I didn’t come away with a

lesser appreciation for Jefferson, just a greater appreciation for Hamilton.

That appreciation came out of two or three things: his military service — I was impressed by fact he stayed so many years and saw so much combat.

Also, he came to understand economics better than anybody at that time.

CS: But doesn’t modern history bear out that Jefferson was right, that central government leads to plutocracy and too much power and wealth in too few hands?

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JF: Absolutely. Jefferson did see clearly

what others couldn’t see, that ultimately that’s what Hamiltonianism was going to lead to. In some ways the pivotal point for Jefferson is the time he spends in Europe. He sees European society up close on a firsthand basis. He sees what monarchy can do, and what centralized government can lead to, especially if people have little power—and people were powerless in Europe. Jefferson really did understand what Hamilton’s policies were leading to. But then again, today we live in Hamilton’s world.

CS: I was shocked to read how intense the clash between the North and the South is even that early in our history.

JF: The very first

clash between North and South is in the first Continental Congress in 1774. They wanted to pass a boycott against British trade to get the Brits to back down and forestall the danger of war. The South is willing to go along with a non-importation agreement but the North wants the whole country to stop exporting goods. The South says no, we can’t do that, if we do we can’t export rice and tobacco. There’s a tremendous clash.

So almost from day one when the sections get together, North and South are at one another’s throat.

CS: Still, Jefferson is a paradox. He

claimed to be against slavery but continued to own slaves.

JF: We don’t know what would have happened if Jefferson not fallen so far into debt. He had quite a mountain to climb to extricate himself. Had he not been in debt he might have worked out an accommodation to slavery, and at least done what Washington did, See RIVALRY on p. 34

A TRAVEL WRITER’S job isn’t all cocktails and safaris and massages. It’s time-intensive, incredibly detail-oriented, and rarely very lucrative.

But Patricia Schultz managed to leverage her successful, if arduous, 15-year career as a writer of travel guidebooks into the hugely popular 1,000 Place to See Before You Die franchise (it has its own app). The initial weighty tome, published in 2003, has sold over three million copies. A second, fullcolor edition is out now.

CS: At what point do you lose selectivity when you’re

writing about a number as large as 1000 places, and just start throwing in too-obvious stuff like The Lady and Sons?

Patricia Schultz: There’s no obligation, no quota, no X number of places I have to do

for each country. Nor am I obligated to include against my better judgment places that were going to raise eyebrows. I always went with my gut at end of the day.

CS: At the same time, you probably have to include a lot of the obvious stuff or else

you look out of touch.

PS: Well, with tourist traps which are overly popularized, I did stand back and try

to understand where the appeal was, and maybe where they’d gone wrong, what

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Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Rupert Murdoch are probably the first people you think of when you think of Fox News.

But as Gabriel Sherman writes in his best-selling tell-all, The Loudest Voice in the Room, the real power behind the throne at the still-influential Fox News Channel is its first and current president, Roger Ailes. According to Sherman, Ailes is as brilliant a figure as he is a divisive and controversial one.

CS: Most liberals probably blame Rupert Murdoch for Fox News, but you say differently.

GS: Rupert Murdoch is a newspaper man at heart. He has ink in his veins, and his first loves are his newspapers. He relies on Ailes to program Fox in a way that delivers ratings and profits. Fox News is a complete expression of Roger Ailes’s worldview. He has ultimate editorial control over what does or doesn’t get on the air.

I do explore the rise and eventual decline of Ailes’s career — which is multidecade, in politics, show business and TV. I argue that Fox News reached its limit in the 2012 election. They fought very hard to get Mitt Romney elected, and it was partially a reflection of Fox’s weakness that he was unable to deliver a national majority. The truth is that Fox’s audience is continuing to age, and Ailes hasn’t demonstrated an ability to recruit younger viewers.

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CS: You’ve come under frequent fire

for including so many high-dollar

PS: You can’t take that into consider-

ation, mostly because it’s a book written for everyone. There are the Irish castles for $700 a night where the staff wears white gloves. Maybe the people staying there are a couple celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and the kids are pitching in to give them the trip of a lifetime. Maybe the person on a shoestring budget goes and sits in the lobby and has tea and takes it all in that way. And a lot of hotels in the book are tourist destinations in themselves.

Also, with 25 translations, I can’t really worry about Americans being able to afford the airfare of getting to Tokyo, when another person might have bought the book in Taiwan.

If I could find the money, would I go to a blues fest in Chicago or a migration in Serengeti or see the penguins in Antarctica? Yeah I would, but it might not be all in the same year.

CS: Is there a certain post-9/11 fatalism

in the title that maybe has helped its success?

PS: Yes, the book was overdue and

ended up coming out in 2003, when for a good year or two or three after 9/11 Americans were sticking close to home. And the great irony was that home really wasn’t so safe, especially if you were a New Yorker. It was finally released about at that moment when Americans were finally ready to grab a passport and go see the world.

Originally people were like, you can’t put “die” in the title. It wasn’t a Sept. 11, 2001, mentality so much as the idea of urgency, the alarming realization that life is short. Whether or not you believe in reincarnation, at the end of the day the only real guarantee is this life, this one here, is right now.

But over the last 10-11 years, with the advent of the whole top ten list stuff, the vernacular of the “before you die” thing is now used very lightly.

The reality is that life is precious. Do what you love. And if you love to travel there’s no time like the present. cs

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FOX NEWS | from previous page CS: Yet MSNBC seems to have completely reinvented itself in the Fox News’s template, except as the left-wing mirror image.

GS: Yes and no. I agree that MSNBC counterprograms to Fox News and carves out a progressive niche. But where I take issue with you is that, number one, MSNBC is not as good at Ailes at developing narratives and storylines. Partially as a result, MSNBC’s audience is about half of Fox’s at any given hour.

Secondly, MSNBC is a business created by execs at NBC basically to market to a particular type of viewer.

Fox News, however, is a political organization which is run to advance Roger Ailes’s personal political agenda.

MSNBC was not created for explicit political purposes. But everything at Fox flows out of the morning editorial news meeting that Ailes runs. It’s his show, and everyone in the building is constantly taking cues from him.

CS: That said, Fox News is undeni-

ably great TV from an entertainment aspect.

GS: Definitely. It’s a testament to Ailes’s long career in show business and TV. He even had an interlude in the ‘70s as a Broadway producer, where he learned about drama and theatricality.

He learned you need to create suspense and conflict and excitement to keep people’s attention.

Well, what’s interesting is that was Ailes’s mission all along. To achieve that mission he needed to hide behind the mantra of “fair and balanced.” He has his audience conditioned to believe they’re getting not conservative propaganda but legitimate news. In fact Ailes’s actual agenda was to counterprogram to the rest of the media, which he saw as liberal.

I write that Fox News is the culmination of four decades of the attempt to deliver a conservative countermedia establishment. I trace the seeds from the late 1960s to the Nixon White House, where Roger Ailes was a consultant to Nixon. You fast forward two decades to 1996, when he finally teamed up with Murdoch and got the capital to do what he’d been working towards all that time.

CS: So what is Roger Ailes’s true legacy?

GS: Ailes and Fox News are actually part of a long American tradition of partisan media, going back to the founding of the country, when every political party in every big city had its own newspaper. It wasn’t until after World War II when you got this notion of objective journalism. Ailes is essentially taking us back to an earlier age when media outlets were megaphones for political parties.

The big difference is that Ailes claims Fox News isn’t involved in politics and that they’re a straight news network.

My book reveals the subterfuges he’s used to obscure the true agenda that makes Fox a new kind of influence in our democracy. It’s the first time a TV network has surpassed a major political party in terms of influence and control over the political agenda. It’s a testament to Roger Ailes’s genius that he was able to pull this off. He’ll always be remembered as a pioneer of his time. cs Gabe Sherman at the Savannah Book Fest 9 a.m. Sat. Feb. 15, Lutheran Church sanctuary, Wright Square

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made them diminished and overbuilt.

As tourist-trappish as some places are, so many still give me that thrill. We were in Egypt seeing the Great Pyramid, and because of the deteriorating safety situation we were two of only 12 tourists seeing it, in a very personal way.

But I still assess things with a modern traveler’s eye: do I need to get on a plane to go see this thing? If it’s in the book, I’ve decided even if it’s swarming with tourists it still holds some remarkable element of wowness.

I don’t want to instill frustration, like, “oh my God I have to see all 1000 of these places or I’ve failed.” I’d rather open up people’s heads to the embarrassment of choices we have in this world. It’s much more than Disneyworld and Rome and Vegas — though I love all those places too! I love all of it.

I love the hot dogs, and I love a $200 French meal in Paris or Lyons. I love natural beauty or manmade beauty.

I don’t mind standing in line for the Louvre or for the Hermitage — which by the way made the line at the Louvre look like some podunk place.

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free his slaves in his will.

CS: I didn’t realize until I read your book how, despite being a Southern aristocrat, George Washington strongly embraced Hamilton’s worldview instead of Jefferson’s. It’s really quite dramatic.

JF: That’s what surprised me the most too! I found that letter by Edmund Randolph, Washington’s attorney general, who writes that Washington told him in 1791 that partisanship had become so great that Washington thought it might destroy the union.

He relates that if the union breaks up, Washington said he would move from Virginia to a northern state! I’d never seen or heard that before. It was the most striking discovery in the book.

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JF: It came both from their shared

wartime experience, and also because of Washington’s huge landholdings out west. He owned about 60,000 acres he couldn’t sell. He’s committed to a strong central government and so is the North, for its own economic

interest. As a young officer in the French and Indian War at age 22, Washington’s already out there fighting to open the west. It’s a lifelong concern for him.

CS: Everyone knows about Jefferson’s

affair with his enslaved mistress, Sally Hemings. But you write about Hamilton’s homoerotic crush on a fellow officer, John Laurens.

JF: Hamilton might have had bisexual proclivities. Certainly he is highly sexually charged all through his life.

John Adams and others mention Hamilton’s reputation as a womanizer. He was something like the Bill Clinton of his time period. When he’s living there at HQ with Laurens that would have been a supercharged environment. A life and death business, exposed to enemy fire, not knowing how long they would live. They’re at headquarters without female companionship for months on end. But then, the moment Hamilton gets involved with his future wife, he stops writing Laurens those very impassioned letters.

CS: Then there’s the affair with a married woman, after which the woman and her husband shake Hamilton down for hush money.

JF: That’s a common interpretation.

But it may have been more of an insider trading thing, and Hamilton made up the story about the affair to cover that up. Hamilton goes down to Philadelphia and spends several days in a rooming house writing a pamphlet acknowledging the affair. Some people say Hamilton went there to write because he couldn’t make himself confess he’d been disloyal to his wife while at home in the same house with her. But I thought he probably went down to Philly so he could look at the books of the National Bank. We have no way of knowing which side is really telling truth. cs John Ferling at the Savannah Book Festival 9 a.m. Sat. Feb. 15, Neises Auditorium in the Jepson Center for the Arts

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Coastal Empire Beer Co. is all in In an era when new breweries are springing up like winter weeds in dormant St. Augustine lawns, Savannah’s Coastal Empire Beer Co. has taken a slow, controlled strategy for growth, giving themselves the best possible shot at longevity.

Started by brothers Chris and Kevin Haborak, Coastal Empire has a simple mission statement: Live. Relax.

Savor. The statement focuses on a lifestyle they wish to bottle for their customers, but doesn’t mean they don’t have bigger ambitions as a company.

Relaxing hasn’t been easy for the siblings over the past three years as Coastal Empire transitioned from being the far-fetched dream of a veteran home brewer, to a full-scale business with all of the accompanying stresses.

Building a full brewery involves substantial financial risk, so in the early days Coastal Empire got its product in stores through contract brewing. This method is essentially renting space in existing breweries to craft, keg and can its beers.

For brewmaster Kevin, this meant long days traveling to Alabama’s Straight to Ale brewery to brew and oversee the production. This was in addition to his day job as Technical Manager at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

“I’ll work a full day, drive the 8 hours over there, take the next day off, participate in brew day and come back that night. 16 or 17 hour days in a row,” says Kevin.

While Kevin was formulating and perfecting his recipes at a large scale, Chris was networking and building accounts, finding more outlets to carry Coastal Empire’s beer. Being director of sales is an equally highstress position. After all, it doesn’t matter how good your product is if no one can find it on shelves or taps.

Luckily, the flavor-rich reputation of Coastal Empire’s beer has made Chris’ job markedly easier. The Savannah Brown Ale won first place in the People’s Choice category at the

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Kevin’s expressive face widens into a smile when he talks about those accolades. “When we got the silver medal, it was cloud nine — pretty ecstatic. Getting the bronze for the barrel aged, we didn’t expect that at all and it was very exciting.”

Tybee Island Blonde followed up on the brown’s success by winning first in the People’s Choice category at both the 2012 and 2013 Savannah Craft Brew Fests, proving the merits of a thirst-quenching Kolsch for satisfying sun-baked Labor Day revelers. Those two flagship beers have recently been joined by the citrus and earthy bite of Coastal Empire Pale Ale. After developing a loyal customer

But the equipment that truly makes this home brewer’s dream a reality already stands in the far corner of the expansive space. That’s where you’ll find the unmistakable stainless steel that can only mean a real-live brewhouse.

Controlling its own facility from brewing to packaging means that Coastal Empire has the ability to triple its annual production to around 3,000 barrels a year, with plenty of space to add additional fermenters as the business grows.

There’s still permitting and additional buildout to be performed, but the Haborak brothers hope to be brewing in their Savannah facility by the end of April.

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The cavernous rooms offer more space than currently needed, but provide ample room for growth. Twoby-fours mark where cold storage will be erected with an adjacent tasting room. Offices hold boxes of T-shirts, pub signs and tap handles. Large bay doors stand in front of where a canning line will soon exist.

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“They’ve all been really cooperative,” says Chris. “We’ve gotten together to get the tours and tasting ordinance to go through. We get recommendations for contractors.”

As for the future, Kevin says, “You don’t know how fast or how slow it’s going to go.”

Growth is the next big question for Coastal Empire Beer Co. Whether it’s further expansion into the huge Atlanta market or deeper into South Carolina or making an entrance into Florida, one thing is for sure: Coastal Empire will use lessons learned in these heady start up days to guide its future. cs

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Sandfly Market Place draws crowds of fascinated shoppers

By Cheryl Baisden Solis

It all began with two friends who loved to shop antiques and flea markets up and down the East Coast, from hidden corners in Boston to tiny antique lairs in Boca Raton.

Krystle Venticinque, a Puerto Rican beauty from New York, and her pal Amber Lair, a Savannah girl from way back, have an eye for a bargain and wide-ranging good taste. They’ve filled up the 10,000 square foot space of the old J.C. Clements Furniture building with enough eye-grabbing paraphernalia, crystal, china, jewelry, carvings and interesting furnishings to keep you poking through the corners for hours on end.

Don’t try to take it in all at once.

Every time I go there are crowds of folks searching, smiling and finding just what they were looking for and maybe something unexpected—the golden Isis statue or the fierce-looking stuffed bobcat on a tree branch come to mind.

This new store, opened just last April, is a natural corollary to the Sandfly Foodie Loop: what more excellent way to finish up your meal at La Fiore or Sandfly BBQ than to take a trip to their fascinating jewelcase of a shop? That’s just what happens one afternoon when my teacher buddy and I decide to follow the crowds around the corner to see what the fuss was all about—we can barely find a parking space for all the cars gathered like thirsty horses at the

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Besides the antiques and furnishings that the girls have chosen, the whole store is one vast consignment paradise, with booths and spaces of various sizes rented by the month to those who have something remarkable to sell. The eclectic result is straight out of Victoria magazine, with each space taking on the personality of the seller—artfully arranged in a visual panoply that arouses the antique-hound in us all.

“We wanted to make a place full of interesting things that people can afford; a place for the hobbyist, the collector or the casual shopper,” Krystle says. “We’re always going on buying trips up and down the coast and have a lot of contacts for finding that unique item you want.”

The whole place is neat as a pin, dusted daily, arranged with care and artistic sparkle. The furnishings vary from heavy, carved Oriental antiques to tables created from old ship’s wooden doors or dining sets straight out of the Brady-bunch era. Gentlemen will find plenty to browse over from Civil War memorabilia and vintage tavern signs, bear skins and wolf

skulls, hand-painted beer steins, ivory knives and sexy dames in frames: Roaring Twenties flappers or photos of Marilyn look-alike, model Nikki Ludowese, it’s all here. Jewelry lovers can feast themselves on well-priced sets of glittering, baroque bracelets, chandelier earrings or unique glazed clay tile necklaces as well as genuine silver and antique pieces up front; the selections are placed all around the store, according to the seller.

There are over 50 vendors in this one market and you never know who will be added and what they will bring to the table. I’ve found Mexican Mayan statues, delicate Chinese paintings, French cooking tomes, English scrimshaw knives, blue and white Dutch plates, heavy German beer steins and colorful Italian glassware—it’s not your average American antique market.

Krystle has her special areas of interest such as Victoriana, china and crystal, jewelry and antique glass. “I like to find items that have an interesting story behind them!” she says.

Amber is fascinated by handcarved wood and ivory, marble, stone and leather goods, WWII and Civil

War items—“When I see the time and effort that goes into these intricate works, it’s fascinating; I want to share them with people.”

Krystle is also obsessed with chairs—row upon row of them divide the store into sections and you have your pick of delicate Victorian velvet-covered beauties or sturdy kitchen chairs in bright colors, wicker, mahogany, pine or teak.

An old doctor’s office skeleton hangs on an antique scale to greet you as you pass through the foyer, groups of shoppers take in the intricate detail of oriental rugs or the various galleries of paintings by local artists, and Holly Morgan, the smiling and patient manager, will lead you to that statue of St. Michael the Archangel that you wanted last week but maybe didn’t have room in your budget for just then.

Take your lunch on the Foodie Loop and head on over to Sandfly Market Place’ afterwards to check out the new goods and antiques. Just make sure you have plenty of time to search and savor because Krystle and Amber are sure to have something that will catch your eye. cs Sandfly Market Place 8511 Ferguson Ave. 912/777-4081

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Nicola Lopez: “Babel Revisited: History Repeats Itself” — A four-part, print-

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Reception: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 6:30-7:30 p.m. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Continuing Art in City Hall: Peter Halpern — Paintings in acrylic

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Art With Meaning: Folk Art in the Twenty First Century — A show of mixed-media

art, presenting an educational overview of the three branches of Folk Art. Joint project of Beach Institute and Hurn Museum. Mondays. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St.

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Contemporary Southern Landscape — The unique

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Viscoelastic Creep — Recent mixed medium paintings by artist Carolyn Hepler-Smith. Artist’s reception Friday February 21, 6-8 pm. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Warhol/JFK: November 22, 1963, A Selection of Andy Warhol Prints from the Herbert Brito Collection — Featuring rarely seen

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Principal photography begins Feb. 21 on Midnight Rider, based on legendary rocker Gregg Allman’s autobiography, at Meddin Studios. The film is being produced by Unclaimed Freight Productions, which made CBGB at Meddin in 2012.

Like the book, My Cross to Bear, the movie will take an unflinching look at Allman’s early years in the band he co-founded with his brother Duane, and the roller-coaster of massive successes and personal trials that followed Duane’s death in 1971.

“I’ve read a number of rock ‘n’ roll biographies, and I think his book is really self-effacing, honest and raw,” says director Randall Miller, who cowrote Midnight Rider with his wife Jody Savin (they’re both producers of the film). “And he’s not afraid to say he didn’t like people, or their music.

For us, as filmmakers, the fact that the book basically pulls no punches is pretty cool.”

Allman, who lives in Richmond Hill, is an executive producer on the film, along with Meddin owner Nick Gant.

Miller says the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has been extremely handson during the process. “If you’re making a movie about real people, you’ve got to work with the people,” he explains. “I can’t tell a squeakyclean story; I’ve got to tell a story that has all the warts or it’s not a movie. So Gregg is really open. There’s stuff in the movie that’s even far worse than what’s in the book.

“We talk about being a movie like Ray, where you really get the journey and you understand what the fame bubble is like.”

Allman’s battles with drugs and alcohol are well-known; he told Connect last year he got clean and sober in the 1990s. In 2010, however, he had a liver transplant. “He’s like the cat with nine lives,” Miller says.

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Hurt will play the present-day Allman. For the glory days of the Allman Brothers Band, the role will be assayed by All-American Rejects singer Tyson Ritter.

Many of the classic Allman Brothers songs have been re-recorded by an all-star band, without vocals: Ritter will sing them live. And Wyatt Russell, who plays Duane, is an accomplished slide guitarist who can reproduce the band’s hottest licks.

(In some scenes, the characters will lip-synch to Allman tracks, the technique Miller and Savin, and coproducer Brad Rosenberger used for CBGB).

Casting isn’t complete yet, but several roles have been filled: Zoey Deutch (Vampire Academy) will play one of the band’s most rabid fans, and Eliza Dushku (TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Miller/Savin movie Bottle Shock) has signed on as another “woman of the road”).

CBGB co-stars Bradley Whitford and Joel David Moore will also be in town for the Midnight Rider shoot, which is expected to take about six weeks.

Unclaimed Freight has hired young SCAD actors to fill several smaller

roles; extras casting is underway now.

While Meddin’s soundstages will be used to film the interior scenes, the Midnight Rider company will also shoot in downtown Savannah and on Tybee Island. There will be a “concert in the park” with the erstwhile Allman Brothers Band, too. Miller isn’t sure yet where or when that will take place.

Additional scenes will be shot in Macon, the Allman Brothers Band’s base in the late 1960s and early ‘70s.

Miller, Savin and company decided early on to change the title, the director explains, because My Cross to Bear —although it accurately describes Allman’s many ups and downs—has a religious connotation (it’s actually the title of a song Gregg wrote for the band’s debut album). Midnight Rider (from another Allman song) is an “evocative” title.

After spending hours talking with Allman, Miller says, he understands why the autobiography had that name.

“Even today with Gregg, the whole thing about his brother is really right under the surface. There’s a bit of guilt: ‘Why did I survive and he didn’t?’” CS

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It’s a question that’s been posed in one way or another through the ages, but let’s co-opt the variation employed in Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway. Chewing over weighty matters, Sheldon Flender (Rob Reiner) asks fellow playwright David Shayne (John Cusack), “Let’s say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare’s plays or some anonymous human being.

What would you do?”

That query is the tickle at the back of the throat throughout The Monuments Men, a true-life World War II tale that was captured in book form by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter. That novel, titled The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, served as the source for this film version from writerdirector-producer-star George Clooney and his frequent collaborator, writer-producer Grant Heslov.

It’s the sort of picture for which no expense was spared, given its high production values and its A-list cast. It’s also the sort of picture that one wishes were better, as the number of missed opportunities seemingly equals the number of unexploded landmines at the war’s close.

It’s deep into the war, and art preservationist Frank Stokes (Clooney) is being given the go-ahead by FDR to assemble a group of men with the purpose of hightailing it to Europe, where they’ll try to locate and take back the thousands of paintings and statues that the Nazis had stolen during their tear through various countries.

The classic works have been earmarked for inclusion in the Fuhrer Museum being

planned by Hitler; the more modern ones (like those by a fellow named Picasso) are being destroyed.

Clearly, it’s a daunting assignment, so Stokes recruits the best that the U.S. art world has to offer: museum curator James Granger (Matt Damon), architect Richard Campbell (Bill Murray), sculptor Walter Garfield (John Goodman) and art historian (and ballet director) Preston Savitz (Bob Balaban). He completes the group with two overseas allies, the charismatic Frenchman Jean Claude Clermont (Jean Dujardin) and the boozing Englishman Donald Jeffries (Hugh Bonneville), as well as Private Sam Epstein (Dimitri Leonidas), a Jewish kid from New Jersey whose family had managed to escape from Germany just in time.

After the team has been assembled and put through the most minimal of basic training, the film largely turns episodic, with the members scattered to carry out various assignments. Granger heads to Paris to gather valuable intel from Claire Simone (Cate Blanchett), a museum curator whose position allowed her to note all Nazi activities related to art. Garfield and Clermont are paired up continues on p. 40

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and make a lovely couple; Campbell and Savitz are tag-teamed and make a cantankerous one.

And Stokes orchestrates all the proceedings, eventually worrying not only about the Germans but also the Russians, who plan to keep all discovered artwork for themselves (unlike the Americans and Brits, who plan to return it to the rightful owners).

The Monuments Men serves up a terrific premise for a movie, although buffs will recall at least two previous efforts with the same subject: the 2006 documentary The Rape of Europa, with its Monuments Men-friendly tagline, “Imagine the World Without Our Masterpieces,” and John Frankenheimer’s 1964 The Train, starring Burt Lancaster as a French Resistance operative attempting to stop the Nazis from absconding with prized works of art.

It’s usually a pleasure when a new one appears on the horizon, and this particular picture has enough going for it to deserve a look.

Particularly, the manner in which it mulls over the aforementioned notion of Art vs. Life gives it some degree of heft. Stokes argues that preserving art is preserving history itself — as such, it must not be callously destroyed .

But the other side has its say as well — an officer angrily tells Stokes that he’s not prepared to write a letter to a mother stating that her son died so a church tower could be saved — and it’s difficult not to continue to reflect on this issue well after the film has ended.

It’s just too bad that all aspects of the movie aren’t as worthy of such contemplation. The characterizations are a joke, with practically every character assigned one trait or quirk to differentiate him from the rest. Damon’s Granger is constantly mocked for his atrocious French (admittedly, an amusing running gag); Dujardin’s Clermont smiles and smokes with the dapper grace of a bon vivant; Goodman’s Garfield is a jovial giant, not unlike Gilligan’s Island’s Skipper (I kept expecting him to call Clermont his “little buddy”); and so on. When characters die, it’s hard to get emotional because we know next to nothing about them.

All technical attributes (including the minimal effects) are topnotch, and the balance between the serious and the comical strikes me as OK. What does bother me is that much of the humor is barely worth a wan smile

(many quips sound like outtakes from a wheezy vaudeville act) and the drama rarely reaches a boil, preferring instead to remain lukewarm (a climactic The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! segment proves to be especially feeble).

I appreciate Clooney shining a light on this historical footnote, and the movie is accomplished enough to inspire viewers to further examine the real story. But with its shallow characters and hopscotching narrative, The Monuments Men frequently recalls the board game Risk, as both feature largely indistinguishable tokens making their way across a war-torn surface that’s noticeably flat.

LABOR DAY

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With just four films, Jason Reitman established himself as a director who was interested in original and offbeat material, teaming with scripter Diablo Cody to make Juno and Young Adult and taking it upon himself to adapt the novels Thank You for Smoking and Up in the Air into glorious movies (with the latter emerging as 2009’s best film). With these fresh and funny pictures under his belt, it’s proving to be extremely difficult to accept the fact that he’s the one behind the colorless, humorless and utterly predictable Labor Day. The source novel by Joyce Maynard, one-time teen lover of J.D. Salinger and author of the acclaimed To Die For, is by all accounts an intelligent coming-of-age story, but while the protagonist of the film version is indeed a 13-year-old boy, its compression of characterizations and storylines makes it seem like it was adapted from one of those trashy beach reads that are digested and forgotten over the course of one sunburnt afternoon.

Henry Wheeler (Gattlin Griffith) is the boy caring for his mom Adele (Kate Winslet), who’s withdrawn from the world ever since her husband (Clark Gregg, usually seen rounding up superheroes as Agent Coulson) left her for another woman. As the adult Henry helpfully explains via voiceover (thanks, Tobey Maguire), Adele wasn’t in love with her ex as much as she was in love with the notion of love, and she figures that she’s now doomed to be alone.

All that changes when they go to the supermarket and an injured man named Frank (Josh Brolin) forces

them to drive him to their house. It turns out that he’s an escaped convict, and he just needs a place to catch his breath for a few hours. But before you can say “Stockholm syndrome,” Adele discovers she’s happy to have this guy around. After all, how many lonely women can claim to have a hunky con to call their own, especially one who’s a skilled handyman, an adept mechanic and a superb cook? (On the latter point, there’s even a piemaking sequence that stirs memories of Ghost’s pottery-spinning segment.)

For his part, Henry is initially pleased to have the big lug around - he teaches him baseball, just like a real dad should! - but his affection wavers after he has a couple of chats with a funky classmate (Brighid Fleming) who even at her young age is already suspicious of men.

In the context of the film, Henry’s whiplash emotions and dunderheaded actions don’t suggest typical teen behavior as much as wretched writing on Reitman’s part. The same strain of sloppy scripting also affects the romance between Adele and Frank, which occurs in about the same amount of time as it takes most people to pick out a card on Valentine’s Day. If the movie works in spurts, it’s only because of the three central performances: Brolin and Winslet are believable as the damaged grownups, while Griffith’s eager eyes and moonshaped face work well for his part of a sensitive and protective son.

The movie is called Labor Day because all the action takes place over the long holiday weekend. Yet given its fondness for wince-inducing exchanges and disagreeable plot contrivances, they should have opted for Labor Pains instead.

RIDE ALONG

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If you can’t stand The Heat, then stay out of the multiplexes showing Ride Along.

Melissa McCarthy’s vibrant performance opposite Sandra Bullock modestly elevated that 2013 summer hit out of its holding pattern as just another formulaic comedy involving mismatched cops. In this new picture, Kevin Hart similarly huffs and puffs and tries to bring the moviehouse down, but both he and co-star Ice Cube are defeated by drowsy direction and a screenplay that doesn’t take

enough advantage of their talents.

The movie’s tagline is both clever and pushes the plot: “Propose to this cop’s sister? Rookie mistake.” (Give its creator a bonus ... or, better yet, a share of the profits.) Hart plays Ben Barber, a high-school security guard who, despite spending most of his free time playing video games, is somehow in a serious relationship with the beautiful Angela (Tika Sumpter).

James (Cube), Angela’s brother and a veteran with the Atlanta Police Department, doesn’t feel Ben is worthy of his sister’s affection, so when Ben, after getting accepted to the police academy, confidently asks for James’ blessing regarding Angela, the senior cop makes a proposal: Survive a day with me on the streets and you have my blessing to marry my sister.

And so off they go in James’ squad car. This is where the hilarity is supposed to kick into high gear, but as we watch Ben timidly tangle with burly bikers blocking a handicapped-parking space, tackle a crazy guy (comedian Gary Owen) throwing produce in a marketplace and lose a verbal match to a little boy (rapper Benjamin “Lil P-Nut” Flores) in a playground, it becomes clear that the flimsy script (credited to four writers) will offer the actors little in the way of choice quips or promising scenarios, forcing them instead to animate their characters through sheer star power alone.

So even though Kevin Hart is basically playing Chris Tucker in Rush Hour and Ice Cube is basically playing Nick Nolte in 48 Hrs., some of their own patented patter breaks free every now and then.

Ben’s ineptitude at a shooting range allows James to smugly lord over him, and Cube’s slow-burn swagger works well in this context.

As for Hart, his rapid-fire hucksterism is put to good use during a lengthy sequence in which Ben is forced to pose as a criminal kingpin.

Ride Along is instantly forgettable, but at least Cube and Hart provide it with a few choice moments.

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT

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Jack Ryan should have quit while he was ahead.

The hero of numerous novels penned by the late Tom Clancy, the stalwart CIA analyst (among other careers) was successfully brought to the screen in 1990’s The Hunt for Red

story that could fit on a cocktail napkin from one of Jay-Z’s lavish parties.

There are no narrative surprises, just a straight line connecting predictable plot points, and while Pine has proven to be aces as Star Trek’s Captain Kirk, he’s rather bland here, and his turn only accentuates Costner’s gravitas in the role of his mentor.

If they insist on moving forward with this franchise, maybe another reboot is in order, this one with the grown-ups back in charge?

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It would be correct to state that Meryl Streep is one of the great actresses of our (all?) time. But it would be incorrect to state that it’s impossible to steal a film from her. And in August: Osage County, adapted from Tracy Letts’ play (a Pulitzer and Tony Award winner), she’s battling against plenty of top talent attempting to usurp her throne. In the end, one of them manages to pull off the coup.

As befits its stage origins, virtually all of the action occurs inside one residence: the Oklahoma home of poet Beverley Weston (Sam Shepard) and his wife Violet (Streep), whose steady supply of pills (to deal with her mouth cancer) has made her rude, combative and all-around unpleasant.

When Beverley goes missing, it’s suggested that he might have committed suicide, and over the course of several days, various family members show up to provide support. Beverley’s brother (Chris Cooper) and his wife (Margo Martindale) are on the scene, as are the Westons’ three daughters: Barbara (Julia Roberts), arriving with her estranged husband (Ewan McGregor) and their teenage daughter (Abigail Breslin) in tow; Ivy (Julianne Nicholson), secretly carrying on an affair with her stammering cousin (Benedict Cumberbatch); and Karen (Juliette Lewis), who brings along her skeevy fiance (Dermot Mulroney).

With so much bad blood and family secrets suddenly contained under one roof, it’s no wonder the clan members are all at each other’s throats, with the Westons’ maid (Misty Upham) silently watching the proceedings from a safe distance.

A:OC doubtless works better in the theater, where its supposedly shocking twists are par for the course and where the restrictive mise-en-scene is expected. CS

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October (with Alec Baldwin essaying the role), 1992’s Patriot Games (Harrison Ford), 1994’s Clear and Present Danger (ditto) and 2002’s The Sum of All Fears (Ben Affleck).

That ‘02 effort was an attempt to reboot the franchise after an eightyear hiatus, and while the movie was a hit, no further adventures were filmed.

So Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is in effect the second try at resuscitating the series, but it only succeeds in demonstrating that, like last year’s dreadful Die Hard sequel, some beloved franchises are best left undisturbed in the video bins of our mind.

While Sum felt like a prequel to the first three pictures - Ryan’s career was just revving up - Shadow Recruit is its own creation, starting from scratch and veering away from developments and dates in the other movies (tellingly, this is the first Ryan film not based on a Clancy novel; instead, a script that had nothing to do with the character was rewritten for this cinematic plug and play).

Thus, as the story begins in 2001, Ryan (Chris Pine) is a student attending college in London when the Twin Towers fall. A tour of duty follows, along with major injuries that put him in the company of both medical student (and future wife) Cathy Mueller (Keira Knightley, feigning an adorable American accent) and CIA agent Thomas Harper (Kevin Costner). Cut to 10 years later, and Ryan’s now living with Cathy and working undercover for the agency. His job is to spot financial irregularities that might signal criminal activity, and he locates a doozy that leads him to Moscow, where a bigwig named Cheverin (Kenneth Branagh, who also directed) is plotting to bring down Wall Street.

While the prospect of watching The Wolf of Wall Street’s Jordan Belfort being taken out is enough to make one salivate, it’s not compensation enough for the drudgery that defines this film’s every move. The previous Ryan exploits were meaty endeavors, with plenty to engage our senses and our smarts - sub commander Sean Connery trying to escape Mother Russia, Ford and black-ops leader Willem Dafoe teaming up to fight corruption on both American continents, weary CIA specialist Liev Schreiber doing the dirty work like a ragtag 007, etc. - but the dull Shadow Recruit is distressingly bare, with a

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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 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 Veterans for Peace

The Savannah chapter of a national organization of men and women vets of all branches of service, eras and duty stations, working to expose the costs of war and to support veterans and civilian war victims. Last Monday of every month, 7:30 p.m. 303-550-1158. satisfiedsav.com/. Last Monday of every month, 7:30 p.m Satisfied, 301 West Broughton St. Young Democrats

Mondays at 7pm on the second level of Foxy Loxy, Bull Street. Call or visit the Young Democrats Facebook page for more information. Free . 423-619-7712. foxyloxycafe.com/. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Benefits 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. Through Feb. 21. 912.233.7787. myHSF.org. Through Feb. 21 Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Chatham County Animal Control Seeks Donations of Items

Chatham County Animal Control is in need of items for pets in the facility.

Seeking donations of canned and dry

dog and cat food, baby formula, newspaper, paper towels, soaps, crates, leashes, collars, wash cloths, and towels. Open daily from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. . 912-351-6750. animalcontrol. chathamcounty.org. Chatham County Animal Shelter, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. 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.

The Market at 3 West Ridge

Upscale boutique sale benefitting the Rape Crisis Center and The Mediation Center. Twenty-three vendors from around US to sell unique merchandise not available in Savannah including; clothing, accessories, home decor, jewelry, gourment, gardening, etc.

Lunch available both shopping days.

Charitable door admission $5, lunch $15 Fri., Feb. 21, 10 a.m. and Sat., Feb. 22, 10 a.m. 912.598.4318. doxnard99@ aol.com. stpeterssavannah.org. Fri., Feb. 21, 10 a.m. and Sat., Feb. 22, 10 a.m St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 3 West Ridge Road.

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.

Auditions and Calls Call for Artists

The Sentient Bean is seeking experienced artists interested in showing their work for the duration of one

month at the Bean. Artists must have a website with current images representing a sample of the work to be shown in order to be considered. To apply, please send an email to sentientbooking@gmail.com with the subject line “art show” and include the following information: 1. Artist name and phone number 2. Link to website that has current and relevant images of work for proposed show 3. Link to artist resume (preferred) or artist resume attached as a PDF file ONLY 4. Type of work to be shown, including medium, general sizes, price range, and how many of pieces will be in the show 5. Link to artist statement (preferred) or artist statement attached as a PDF file ONLY . sentientbean.com/booking#visualarts. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Call for Proposals for Neighborhood Arts Programming Instructors

City of Savannah seeks proposals for visual and performing art instructors for the 2014 Neighborhood Arts Programs funded through its Weavea-Dream program. Arts programming will take place throughout 2014 at Crusader, Woodville and Tatemville Neighborhood Centers. See City of Savannah Cultural Affairs website for details and proposal requirements. Proposal deadline: March 17, 2014. Find applications on the Cultural Affairs website.

Call or email for information. Through March 17. (912) 644-7927. cnorthcutt@ savannahga.gov. savannahga.gov/arts.

Through March 17 Chatham Apprentice Program recruiting for job training program

Step Up Savannah’s Chatham Apprentice Program (CAP) is recruiting now for the next “E3: Educate, Empower, Employ” job training program, scheduled to start on Monday, Mar.3 and run through Mar. 27. The program is open to men and women interested in enhancing their basic employment skills. Free to adults (18+.) Those without a high school diploma or GED are encouraged to apply. Successful graduates receive assistance with their job search and one-on-one coaching. Call to apply or learn more about CAP. The next class will take place at the West Broad Street YMCA, located at 1110 May Street. Mondays.. (912) 656-4079. stepupsavannah.org. Mondays.

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.

Fresh Exhibition Fellowship

Apply for a Fresh Exhibitions Fellowship. Recipients receive a three-week exhibition at Art Rise/Fresh Exhiitions Gallery during May, June, July or August. Includes free showcards, marketing support, First Friday Art March reception, opening reception, and a supplemental event (i.e. Artist Talk).

Solo, group, and experimental exhibits encouraged to apply. Application deadline: February 28. $40.00 Submission Fee Through Feb. 28. (912) 376-9953. info@freshexhibitions.org. freshexhibitions.org/fellowship/. freshexhibitions. org. Through Feb. 28 Fresh Exhibitions, 2427 Desoto Ave. Gallery Seeks Local Artists

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.

Seeking Nonprofit Grant Applications for Alan S. Gaynor Fund

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

Weave-A-Dream Grant Applications Sought

Call for proposals for its 2014 WeaveA-Dream—Cultural & Arts Projects initiative. Applications will be accepted

Wilmington Island Farmers Market Seeks Vendors

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

Classes, Camps & Workshops Art Classes at The Studio School

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

Art, Music, Piano, Voice Coaching

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

Chatham County Sheriff’s Office Explorers Post 876

The Chatham County Sheriff’s Office Explorers Post 876, is currently accepting applications from young men and women (ages 14-20 years old) who are interested in a career in Law Enforcement. Explorers experience mentoring, motivation, and learn skills which help prepare them for their roles as a productive citizen in the Coastal Empire. Interested parties may visit the Chatham County Sheriff’s web page, click “Community” then Explorers Post 876” for applications, or contact Cpl. R. Bryant-Elleby at (912)651-3743. . 912651-3743. chathamsheriff.org.

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. CRITICAL READING PREP FOR THE SAT

This course focuses on strategies in active reading that pertain specifically to the SAT. While improving their vocabulary, students will learn to identify key words, recognize main ideas/themes, draw conclusions and make inferences.

By improving these skills, students will enhance their ability to read critically for increased comprehension and be able to approach the SAT with confidence and the necessary tools for optimal results. Cost: $160 per person; $135 for groups of 3 or more Students will need to purchase The Official SAT Study Guide, 2nd edition. Approximate cost $13 Mondays, 6 p.m.. (912) 6445967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/. Mondays, 6 p.m. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

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. 912-8973604. islandchristian.org.

Family Law Workshop

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

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

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

February Watercolor Classes at Tybee

Tybee Arts Association and Brad D. Hook, instructor offer watercolor class dedicated to the basics of watercolor painting and the different techniques that can be used to create a painting.

Monday February 24th, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Through Feb. 24. strokesbyhook@ gmail.com. Through Feb. 24 Figure Drawing Classes

Tuesdays 6-9pm and Wednesdays 9:3012:30am. $60/4-session package or $20 drop-in fee. At the Studio School. . 912-484-6415. melindaborysevicz@ gmail.com. thestudioschoolsavannah. com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. Free Fitness Boot Camp

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

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. Introduction to Oil Painting One-Day Class

Tybee Arts Association hosts three oneday introduction to oil painting classes with Jean Cauthen, a Charlotte, N.C., based painter with an MFA in painting and drawing from James Madison University. Jan. 21, Feb. 18 and March 4, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (bring a lunch). Sign up by email for all three or just one.

Bring your own supplies or pay an additional $15/class supply fee. Supply list available via email. $35 ($30 for current TAA members) Through March 1. jeancauthen@yahoo.com. Through March 1 Tybee Arts Center, 7 Cedarwood Dr. 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. .

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through the calendar year, while funds are available. Programs are to be completed prior to December 31, 2014 and the application must be submitted at least eight weeks prior to the start date of the project. Project funding is available up to $2,500 per program/project.

Emphasis on proposals that actively involve youth, seniors, and those who have limited access to arts based programs in Savannah. Applicants must be a non-profit, 501c3, head-quartered in Savannah’s corporate limits. Proposed programs must also be produced within the City’s corporate limits. No individual artist applications will be accepted.

Applications are available on the Department of Cultural Affairs website.

Mondays.. 912-651-6417. cnorthcutt@ savannahga.gov. (savannahga.gov\arts.

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Learn to Speak Spanish

Novel Writing

Lyrical Fusion Dance

Photography Classes

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 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.

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.

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. .

Project Management – Basics

You’ll gain an understanding of the Access working environment and become proficient in tables, forms, reports, and queries. You’ll define queries and criteria and extract data from tables. You’ll create forms and reports, and then explore and enhance their properties $95 per person Thu., Feb. 20, 6:30 p.m.

(912) 644-5967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/.

Thu., Feb. 20, 6:30 p.m Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

This 12-hour course provides an overview of the ten knowledge-based principles for managing successful projects: scope, integration, communication, time, cost, procurement, risk management, quality control, human resources, and project stakeholder management. The training includes practical exercises and an in-class group project. $650 per person Thu., Feb. 20, 6 p.m. (912) 644-5967. jfogarty@georgiasouthern.edu. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. Thu., Feb. 20, 6 p.m Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

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.

: 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.

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Music Instruction

Music Lessons: Private or Group

Portman’s Music Academy offers private or group classes for ages 2 to 92, beginner to advanced level. All instruments. Also, voice lessons, music production technology and DJ lessons.

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

Savannah Musicians Institute offers private instruction for all ages in guitar, ddrums, piano, bass, voice, banjo, mandolin, ukelele, flute, woodwinds. 7041 Hodgson Memorial Dr. . 912-692-8055. smisavannah@gmail.com.

New Horizons Adult Band Program

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

Mondays at 6:30pm at Portman’s. $30 per month. All ages and ability levels welcome. Call for info. . 912-354-1500.

Quilting Classes

Reading/Writing Tutoring

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

Russian Language Classes

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

Call for info. . 912-713-2718.

Sewing Classes

Beginner in sewing? Starting your clothing business or clothing line?

Learn to sew. Industry standard sewing courses designed to meet your needs in the garment industry. Open schedule.

Savannah Sewing Academy. 1917 Bull St. . 912-290-0072. savsew.com.

Short Story Writing

Gives students with some experience in fiction and nonfiction storytelling the opportunity to use assigned readings, writing homework, and workshop style

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

Singing Classes

Bel Canto is the name of the style of singing invented by Nicola Vaccai, which helps the voice become flexible and expressive, improves the vocal range and breathing capacity and is the technique Anitra Warren uses to train her students. It carries over well as a foundation for opera, rock, pop, gospel and musical theatre. $25 Mondays-Sundays, 6 p.m. 786-247-9923. anitraoperadiva@yahoo.com. Mondays-Sundays, 6 p.m Institute of Cinematic Arts, 12 West State Street, 3rd and 4th flrs.,.

Singing Lessons with Anitra Opera Diva

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

Spanish Classes

Learn Spanish for life and grow your business. Courses for professionals offered by Conquistador Spanish Language Institute, LLC. Classes offered in a series. Beginner Spanish for Professionals--Intro price $155 + textbook ($12.95). Instructor: Bertha E. Hernandez, M.Ed. and native speaker.

Meets in the Keller Williams Realty meeting room, 329 Commercial Drive. . conquistador-spanish.com.

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. . buccaneer-

Business Networking on the Islands

for info. . 912-596-1962. honorflightsavannah.org.

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.

Historic Savannah Chapter: ABWA

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 Wilmington Island Rd.

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.

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

Chatham Sailing Club

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.

Mondays, 10:30 a.m. fiberguildsavannah.homestead.com/. 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

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

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. 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.

Savannah Kennel Club

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy 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.

Safe Kids Savannah

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.

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. 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.

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 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. 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 Newcomers Club

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 Quilt Guild

Meet the second Saturday, September through June, at Woods of Savannah, 1764-C Hodgson Memorial. Social time 9:30am, meetings 10:00am followed by a program. Open to all who are interested in quilting. Membership is $25 per year. . (912) 598-9977. savannahquiltguild@comcast.net.

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.

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.

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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 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.

Tertulia en español 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 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

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Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Windsor Forest.

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

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.

Adult Intermediate Ballet

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.

Dance for Peace

Dance Lessons (Salsa, Bachata)

Learn to dance Salsa & Bachata.

For info, call Austin (912-704-8726) or Omar (Spanish - 787-710-6721).

Thursdays. 912-704-8726. salsa@ salsasavannah.com. salsasavannah. com. Thursdays Great Gatsby, 408 West Broughton Street.

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.

Monthly Dance Parties

Ready to put those dance moves into action? Come join our dance party! Our dance parties are every 3rd Friday of the month from 8pm-10pm. Our dance parties are designed for you to practice all of the things that you have learned in your private lessons, group lessons, or if you just want to come and have some fun! FREE for private lesson students/ $5.oo for social dancers third Friday of every month, 8 p.m. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. third Friday of every month, 8 p.m Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

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 and times. . 912-398-8784.

Savannah Shag Club

Wednesdays, 7pm,at Doubles Lounge.

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

. doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Visions: An Odyssey in Black Dance

Abeni Cultural Arts Performing Dance Studio of The Performing Arts Collective of Savannah will present Visions: An Odyssey in Black Dance February 21 through February 23 at the Muse Arts Warehouse. The show presents a journey through history from the beginning of slavery to present day with African,

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 Art on Tap - Coastal Empire Beer Co.

Jepson Café will be hosting their monthly Art on Tap event on February 20 from 5-8pm. This month they will be featuring Coastal Empire Beer Co. Tickets are $10 for Telfair members and $15 for non-members; pricing includes one drink ticket, light appetizers and general museum admission. A wine and beer cash bar will be available and the Jepson Café will be open for dinner. $10 for Telfair members and $15 for non-members Thu., Feb. 20, 5 p.m. telfair.org/artontap. telfair.org/jepson/.

Thu., Feb. 20, 5 p.m Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. deFINE ART

SCAD presents the fifth edition of deFINE ART, the university’s annual contemporary art showcase. Taking place Feb. 18-21 at the SCAD Museum, Trustees Theater, and galleries around Savannah, the program features artist Alfredo Jaar as honoree and keynote speaker and installation artist Theaster Gates as the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation lecturer. Free and open to the public Through Feb. 21.

(912) 525-7191. scadmoa.org/. Through Feb. 21 SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

deFINE ART 2014 Opening Reception: “Manipulated”

“Manipulated” features the innovative work of 10 contemporary artists who use experimental and often alternative studio and darkroom photography processes to expand the expressive possibilities and structure of making photographs. Featured artists include Kim Anno, Radcliffe Bailey, Christopher Bucklow, Chuck Close, Dan Estabrook, Abelardo Morell, Richard Mosse, Mariah Robertson, Alison Rossiter, and V. Elizabeth Turk Free and open to the public Wed., Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m. (912) 525-4743. scad.edu/defineart2014.

Wed., Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m Gutstein Gallery, 201 E Broughton St,.

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. 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.

Soul Band, Joseph Brack Jr., Sankofa Dance Theatre, Comedian Sylvia “Small Fry” Leake, Monica Daughtry, and Davita Capers-White and the Love & Soul Dance Line. Tickets for this event are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Vendor space is available. $15 Advanced Tickets $20 Door Fri., Feb. 21, 7 p.m. 912-224-6084. booking@ kimberlygunn.com. kimberlygunn.com.

Fri., Feb. 21, 7 p.m Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Savannah Airport - Pooler, 103 San Drive.

Megatrends in Global Affairs Lecture

A lecture looking at the major trends at work in the world today, by Dr. Yale H. Ferguson, Professorial Fellow in the Rutgers University graduate Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers UniversityNewark. In Ogeechee Theatre/Student Union. Free and open to the public.

Wed., Feb. 19, 12-2 p.m. armstrong. edu. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/index. html. Wed., Feb. 19, 12-2 p.m Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. NeoPopRealist Art Contest Dedicated ti its 25-Year Anniversary

Deadline: December 15, 2014. Artists’re welcome to submit up to 3 images of NeoPopRealist work as .JPEG files 300dpi with brief info about self & work’s medium, email: neopoprealismPRESS@mail.com. Winners ‘ll be

announced Dec. 31, 2014. Grand prize for the 1st place is signed original drawing by NeoPopRealism creator Nadia Russ. S2nd place winner’ll receive signed print of the same work. See the Grand Prize at www.neopoprealism. org Free Through Dec. 15. neopoprealismpress@mail.com. Through Dec. 15 Online only, none.

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Modern, Contemporary, Jazz and Hip-Hop dance. This is the company’s seventh year producing the show to celebrate Black History Month. $10 Fri., Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Feb. 23, 3 p.m. 912-6313452. abeniculturalarts@gmail.com. abeniculturalarts.com. musesavannah. org/. Fri., Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Feb. 23, 3 p.m Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd.

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One of the spookiest tours in town.

Learn about the untold stories of some of the most haunted locations here in Savannah Georgia. Guaranteed to give you a few goose bumps and an unexplained need for a night light.

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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.

Potable Gold: Savannah’s Madeira Tradition

Tour behind the scenes of the Davenport House while learning about the long and rich tradition of Madeira (wine) as it relates to the history of Savannah and then they will participate in a Madeira party. Includes two Madeira samples. On 2/14, tour is at 7:30pm. $20 (must be 21 years of age) Fri., Feb. continues on p. 48

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KARAOKE Every Sunday 10pm-1am & every Wednesday from 9pm-12am, Come join the fun. Sundays, 10 p.m. and Wednesdays, 9 p.m. 912-341-7427. tondees.com/. Sundays, 10 p.m. and Wednesdays, 9 p.m Tondee’s Tavern, 7 East Bay Street.

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21, 5:30 p.m. and Sat., Feb. 22, 5:30 p.m. 912-236-8097. jcredle@davenporthousemuseum.org. davenporthousemuseum.org. Fri., Feb. 21, 5:30 p.m. and Sat., Feb. 22, 5:30 p.m Davenport House, 324 East State St. Savannah Storytellers

Tall tales and fun times with the classic art of storytelling. Every Wednesday at 6pm. Reservations encouraged by calling 912-349-4059. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. liveoakstore.com/tubbysthunderbolt.

Wednesdays, 6 p.m Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. Shire of Forth Castle Fighter Practice

Local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism meets Saturdays at Forsyth Park (south end) for fighter practice and general hanging out. For those interested in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. . savannahsca.org.

Vinyl Appreciation

It’s all about the records. Bring them, spin them, or just listen. Any and all vinyl welcome. How-to-DJ demos from 5pm-6pm. Graveface Records & Curiosities sells new and used records on site and Foxy Loxy provides complimentary treats. $3 donation Last Sunday of every month, 5-10 p.m. vinyl912.tumblr. com. musesavannah.org/. Last Sunday of every month, 5-10 p.m Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. What’s in Your Pocket? Tales of U.S. Banknote Design

Eugenie Foster, retired from the Federal Reserve and the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing, will share information and anecdotes learned during more than 25 years of working in currency design and distribution. Learn more about how and why U.S. currency looks, feels, and functions as it does. Sat., Feb. 22, 3 p.m. Sat., Feb. 22, 3 p.m Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Fitness $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

| Submit your event online at connectsavannah.com 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.

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Insanity Workout Group Class

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.

INSANITY turns old-school interval training on its head. Work flat out in 3 to 5-min blocks, and take breaks only long enough to gulp some air and get right back to work. It’s called Max Interval Training, because it keeps your body working at maximum capacity through your entire workout. $10 or $80 for 10 fitness classes Saturdays, 11 a.m.

912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio. com. Saturdays, 11 a.m Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

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.

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.

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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. 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.

Dude’s Day at Savannah Climbing Coop

Thursdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climbing Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Every Thursday 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,

Israeli Krav Maga Self-Defense Classes

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. .

Ladies Day at Savannah Climbing Coop

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

912-495-8010. savannahclimbingcoop. com.

Savannah Disc Golf

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

Handicapped League: Saturdays, 1pm.

Singles at the Sarge: Sundays, 10am.

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

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 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.

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Art on Tap

Happy Hour experience with sights, sounds and latest exhibitions at the Telfair Museum Jepson Center. Admission includes one drink ticket, light appetizers and museum admission. Wine and beer cash bar also available. Sponsored

by Connect Savannah. $10 Telfair Museum Members/ $15 Non-Members telfair.org. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Bourbon Tasting to benefit Senior Citizens, Inc.

Taste classic and new bourbons from United Distributing including the new Savannah Bourbon and enjoy appetizers provided by Butterhead Greens Cafe. A sample of wines will also be available. $20 per person. No RSVP required.

Proceeds benefit SCI’s Senior Companion Program. $20 per person (912) 236-0363. kdaiss@seniorcitizens-inc.org. seniorcitizens-inc.org. johnnieganem. com. Johnnie Ganem’s Package & Wine Shop, 501 Habersham St. Forsyth Farmers Market

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.

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.

LGBT First City Network Board Meeting

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

Gay AA Meeting

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

Georgia Equality Savannah

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

Savannah Pride, Inc.

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

Stand Out Youth

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

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

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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.

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The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG) $197 866-458-2965. steven.martin1@gmx.com. Online, 2222 Sedwick Drive.

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. . 912-350-3438. 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. Free HIV Testing at Chatham County Health Dept.

Free walk-in HIV testing. 8am-4pm Mon.-Fri. No appointment needed. Test results in 20 minutes. Follow-up visit and counseling will be set up for anyone testing positive. Call for info. . 912-6445217. 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.

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1 “___ have what she’s having” (line from “When Harry Met Sally...”)

4 Computer science pioneer Turing 8 Unlikely hero 14 Romantic lead-in 15 Oscar Robertson’s nickname, with “The” 16 Audrey Tautou movie 17 Roasted on a skewer 19 Short-tempered 20 Win 21 “___ It Up” (Bob Marley classic) 22 Needing stitches 25 Built onto the house, maybe 30 Genre for B.B. King 32 Space or nautical prefix 33 Parkay product 34 Refuses to admit 36 Bust ___ (laugh really hard) 38 He followed Peyton as Super Bowl MVP 39 10 years ago 42 Neely of hockey 44 Sidekicks 45 Exactly so 48 “Now we’re in for it!”

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52 Stick or gel alternative 53 Did some birthday party work 56 Give a hoot 57 “Dirty Jobs” host Mike 58 “Aladdin” parrot 60 Rocky conclusion?

63 What the theme entries are full of 67 Stagecraft 68 Don Juan’s mother 69 Homer’s dad 70 Low poker pair 71 Site of the Taj Mahal 72 “Don’t think so”

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2 “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper 3 Arced toss 4 Inspiration for Broadway’s “Mamma Mia!” 5 Scales in the sky 6 “To do today” list 7 Bid silently 8 Make people wonder 9 “Labor ___ vincit” (Oklahoma’s motto) 10 Oddball 11 Yodeling setting 12 Tatter 13 “L.A. Law” actress Susan 18 Epic poem with 9,896 lines 21 Coat fabric 22 Unknown, on a sched.

23 Cape-waving cheer 24 Go haywire 26 Lowest point on Earth’s surface 27 Record label of Cee Lo Green 28 Toon collectible 29 Japanese carp 31 Filter through slowly 35 Imps 37 New Mexico arts mecca 40 “Curiouser and curiouser!” utterer 41 Company behind “Mega Man” and “Street Fighter” 42 Rookie reporter 43 You might say it when you get it 46 Stirrup’s spot 47 Needle hole 49 Jazz legend Hancock 51 Aspen activity 54 Lorna of literature and cookies 55 Picky ___ 59 Strip in the Middle East 60 Echolocation user 61 Berlin wail 62 8 1/2” x 11” size, briefly 63 By means of 64 Mr. McKellen 65 Thunder’s org.

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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. 912-651-7730. chathamcountysafetynet.org. Through March 31 Hypnobirthing

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

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

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

Hypnosis, Guided Imagery and Relaxation Therapy

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

La Leche League of Savannah

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

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

Living Smart Fitness Club

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

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

Planned Parenthood Hotline

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

800-264-7154.

Savannah CPR Initiative

An initiative by the City of Savannah to train 6,000 Savannahians in CPR by year’s end. The City will train 1,000 Savannahians in CPR this year. Each of these trainees will in turn pledge to train at least five other individuals, bringing to 6,000 the total number of Savannahians trained in CPR. The hope is that “Savannah’s 6,000” will vastly improve our community’s ability to respond to sudden cardiac emergencies, doubling our survival rate for witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Call for info. . 912-651-6410.

Kid’s Happenings Irish Dancers of Savannah

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

Convenient mid-town location. Whether

| Submit your event online at connectsavannah.com just for fun, or for competition, IDS is for everyone. Adult classes available.

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

sion $12 VIP (912) 224-6084 or (912) 224-4461. kimberlygunn.com. The Eden Room, 1105 Stiles Avenue.

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

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

Matthew Cochran is a singer-songwriter and virtuoso guitarist who mixes the folksong of his native Appalachia with classical conservatory training. $5 912232-4447. kristin@sentientbean.com. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave.

Mommy & Me Yoga

Savannah Children’s Museum School Year Hours

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

Toddler Tuesdays at Oatland Island Wildlife Center

Toddlers 6 months to 4 years, and their adults. Themed programs--story books, singing songs, finger puppet plays, crafts, guided walks, up close encounters with Oatland animals. Preregister by 4pm Monday. $5 children.

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

Come join us for our Winter Theatre Classes! Our classes begin for children 4 years old to 17. These 9 week classes fill up quickly, so call to register today!

Classes will culminate in a demonstration for friends and family. For more class information please check out our website: www.jewelconservatory.com $90-$115 Tuesdays-Thursdays, 5 p.m..

706-589-2267. jewelconservatorytheatre@gmail.com. jewelconservatory. com. Tuesdays-Thursdays, 5 p.m. The Jewel Conservatory Theatre, 6014 Hwy 21.

Concerts 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. 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 Admis-

Matthew Cochran’s “Vapor Trail from a Paper Plane”

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. Savannah Music Festival: Latin Dance Party: Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra

The winner of the nation’s Highest Honor in Jazz Music (2012 NEA Jazz Master)brings his Salsa Orchestra back to Savannah for another blazing dance party. $35 savannahmusicfestival.org. charleshmorriscenter.com. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. Savannah Philharmonic: Handel’s Messiah

Performed by the Phil’s orchestra and chorus, with guest musicians and soloists from the State Opera House of Halle, Germany, the birthplace of Handel. see website savannahphilharmonic.org. savannahcathedral.org/.

Cathedral of St John the Baptist, 222.

East Harris St. Nature and Environment 2014 Arbor Day

Three Oaks Realty Company is sponsoring the City of Thunderbolt 2014 Arbor Day celebration on Saturday, Feb. 22nd @ 10:00am with support from the Savannah Tree Foundation and Thunderbolt Tree Commission. The public is invited to help honor Arbor Day— an annually celebrated tradition originating in 1874—by planting 3 white oaks and 2 Chinese pistache trees around the ball field. No tools or skills necessary… fun for kids of all ages. WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Thunderbolt Baseball field (behind Fire Station) 2702 Mechanics Road, Thunderbolt INFO: www.SavannahTree.com info@SavannahTree.com FREE 912-233-8733. info@savannahtree.com. savannahtree. com. Thunderbolt Baseball Field, 2702 Mechanics Road.

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.

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.

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. . 912-395-1500. 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.

Pets & Animals Catch the Buzz at the FUNdamentals of Beekeeping

Learn about the fascinating world of the honeybee and the art of beekeeping through classes, lectures and hands-on experience in the bee yard (apiary). Lunch will be offered or bring your own. On-site registration is from 8-9 a.m. Open to anyone 12 years and up. $35 per person or $55 per couple 912-395-1509. annie.quinting@sccpss. com. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Low Cost Pet Clinic

TailsSpin and Dr. Stanley Lester, DVM, host low-cost pet vaccine clinics for students, military and seniors the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. 5pm-6pm. Vaccinations: $12, ($2 is donated to Savannah pet rescue agencies). See website for info. . tailsspin.com. tailsspin.com. TailsSpin Pet Supplies Store, 4501 Habersham St., Habersham Village.

Operation New Hope

Operation New Hope allows inmates to train unadoptable dogs from the Humane Society for Greater Savannah. The goals of the program are to decrease the recidivism rate among Chatham County inmates, help inmates learn a new skill, and help previously unadoptable dogs find loving homes.

The graduated dogs are available for adoption can be viewed at www. humansocietvsav.org, and www.chathamsheriff.org. Operation New Hope is funded by the Humane Society and community donations. . chathamsheriff. org. humanesocietysav.org/. Humane Society for Greater Savannah, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. St. Almo’s

Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks on Sundays,

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.

A Buddhist Meditation Center

Welcoming all lineages and spiritual traditions. Newcomers to meditation welcome. Daily meditation, study groups and classes. Sunday includes a talk given by resident priest on Buddhist philosophy and how it relates to daily life. The center is available for individual and group retreats, weddings and funerals. Visit Savannahzencenter. com for schedule and see us on Facebook. Soto Zen lineage, resident Priest Un Shin Cindy Beach Sensei. 912-4277265 . The Savannah Zen Center, 111 E. 34th St. Catholic Singles

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

Christmas Psychic Reading Madness Sale

December Madness Sale!!!!!!! $15 for 20 minute phone readings! payable at PayPal savannahpsychic@gmail.com or go to website and check out Christmas monthly Specials Love and Light Low Country Psychic of Savannah ~Kelly Spurlock 15.00 Mondays-Sundays.

9125592169. savannahpsychic@gmail. com. Mondays-Sundays Ellis Square, Barnard Street and St. Julian Street.

Guided Silent Prayer

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

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

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

Savannah Friends Meeting (Quakers)

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

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

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

Come share with us on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month at the Sweet Water Spa in downtown Savannah. Sign up at Savannah Reiki Share or Reiki by Appointment on Facebook. Free , 7 p.m.

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

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.

Read the Bible in One Year

A Bible book club for those wanting

8 games. Ages 18+. Coed teams. See website or call for info. . 912-220-3474. savadultrec.com.

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

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

See website for info. . savannahderby. com.

Unity Church of Savannah

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.

Theology on Tap

Derby Devils Roller Derby Classes

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.

Grief 101 Support Group

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.

Savannah Bike Polo

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

Ultimate Frisbee

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

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, continues on p. 52

South Valley Baptist Church

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

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

Tapestry Church

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

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

YMCA. tapestrysavannah.com. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Habersham Branch), 6400 Habersham St.

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5pm (weather permitting). Meet at Canine Palace. Call for info. . 912-2343336. caninepalacesavannah.com.

Canine Palace Inc, 618 Abercorn St.

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ARIES

(March 21-April 19) In her TED talk, science writer Mary Roach made it clear that human beings don’t need genital stimulation to experience orgasms. She spoke of a woman who routinely reaches ecstatic climax by having her eyebrows caressed, and another woman who reaches the big O simply by brushing her teeth. Then there’s the woman who can simply think herself into coming, no physical touch necessary. I can’t guarantee that a similar aptitude will suddenly turn on in you, Aries, but the coming days could bring you as close as you have ever been. Right now you’re a connoisseur of deep pleasure -- a blessed bliss master.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20) “The fact that someone else loves you doesn’t rescue you from the project of loving yourself,” writes blogger Sahaj Kohli. Nothing else rescues you from that quest, either, I would add. Sooner or later, whether it’s now or 20 years in the future, you will have to master this fine art. It’s not enough to merely feel affection for yourself; not enough to seek pleasure and avoid pain. You’ve got to make extensive investigations to discover what it means to love yourself; you have to develop rigorous plans for how to accomplish it; and you must fire up a deep commitment as you actually carry out those plans. By the way, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to work on mastering this fine art.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20) “Drunk with my madness, I shouted at him furiously, ‘Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!’”

So says a character in a prose poem by Charles Baudelaire. And now, even though I am neither drunk nor furious nor consumed with madness, I am whispering the same command to you. I hope you will respond by embarking on a heroic effort to make life beautiful everywhere you go. The astrological omens suggest that if you do, you will be inundated with practical blessings that are as valuable as money. This will also be an excellent way to drum up the kind of love you crave.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22) Here’s what I wish for you during

the Valentine season: to be happily in love with an intimate partner who loves you back. If that’s not feasible, here’s what I hope: that you are learning provocative lessons about yourself through your growth-inducing relationship with a close ally. And if you’re not blessed with either of those experiences, here’s a third alternative: that you cherish your fathomless longing for its own sake, feeling wonder and reverence for its wild power even if it’s unfulfilled.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22) Making eye contact is essential for building potent links with people you care about. It bypasses rational thought, stimulating chemical reactions in your bodies that enhance empathy and intimacy.

In practicing the art of love, it’s one of the most potent moves you can make. This Valentine season would be an excellent time for you Leos to explore the frontiers of what’s possible through prolonged eye contact. Start here: Cultivate a sincere desire to know what’s simmering inside the souls of your dearest allies. With that as your driving force, your gaze won’t be clouded by shyness or self-consciousness.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “I prefer an ecstatic orgasm to a lot of angst,” says Filipino artist David Medalla. I hope you consider making that your battle cry during this Valentine season. It would be in rapt harmony with the current cosmic omens. There really is no need for you to get sidelined by anxiety or distracted by stress when the natural remedy is so easily available. In every way you can imagine, Virgo, fight off sourness and dourness by engaging in acts of joy and pleasure.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In her poem “Implications of One Plus One,” Marge Piercy marvels at the way she and her long-term partner keep finding new nuances in their love-making. “Ten years of fitting our bodies together / and still they sing wild songs in new keys,” she writes. What’s their secret? It’s “timing, chemistry, magic and will and luck.” What I wish for you this Valentine season, Libra, is that you will have access to all five of those ingredients as you reinvigorate your relationship

to love. More importantly -- based on the current cosmic omens -- I *predict* you will have access to them.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Jesuit priest Pedro Arrupe touted the practical value of being totally in love. “What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything,” he said. “It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.” Are you in love, Scorpio? With either a person, a beloved animal, a certain patch of land, your creative work, or life itself? If not, there’s no excuse! Astrologically speaking, it’s an excellent time for you to be stupendously in love with someone or something -- anything! If you are already in this state, trust your intuition to make it even smarter and finer.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Borrowing the words of Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks), I’ve prepared a love note for you to use as your own. Give it to a person whose destiny needs to be woven more closely together with yours: “You are the sky my spirit circles in, the love inside love, the resurrection-place.” Would you like even more inspirational words to deliver to your chosen one?

I hope so. Be greedy for lyrical bonding. Lust for springy intimacy.

Feed your churning yearning. Try saying this, lifted from the book *The Last Unicorn*: “We are two sides of the same magic.” And be sure to say this, paraphrased from Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh: “I love you in a way that will always make you feel free.”

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit,” says author Elizabeth Gilbert. “But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back . . . They tear down your walls and smack you awake. . . shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you . . . transform your life.” Does that sound like the kind of person you want in your life, Capricorn? Or do you prefer someone who likes

what you like, appreciates you just as you are, and makes your life more secure and comfortable? This Valentine season is a good time to make or renew your commitment to one choice or the other. Whatever you decide, you’re likely to experience it on a richer, deeper level during the next 12 months.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Do you feel oppressed by Valentine’s Day? Maybe you’re single and reject the cultural bias that says being in an intimate relationship is the healthy norm.

Or maybe you’re part of a couple but are allergic to the cartoonish caricatures of romance that bombard you during the Valentine marketing assault. If you’d rather consecrate love and intimacy in your own unique way, untainted by the stereotypes flying around, I invite you to rebel. Make this the year you overthrow the old ways and start a new tradition: Valentine’s Day 2.0. Mock sappy, sentimental expressions of romance even as you carry out futuristic experiments in radically slaphappy love.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20) “I have come to be fascinated with the messiness of desire,” writes novelist Ashley Warlick, “with the ways people fit themselves together, take themselves apart for each other, for want of each other, for want of some parts of each other.”

Your assignment, Pisces, is to celebrate the messiness of desire; to not just grudgingly accept it as an inconvenience you’ve got to tolerate, but rather to marvel at it, be amused by it, and appreciate it for all the lessons it provides. Your motto this Valentine season could be, “I bless the messy largesse of my longing.”

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The “From Survival to Recovery” Adult Children of Alcoholics/Al-Anon Group is a fellowship and support group for those who grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes. Meets Thursdays, 5:45pm at the 24-Hour Club, 1501 Eisenhower Dr. Call for info. . 912-598-9860.

Alcoholics Anonymous

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

912-356-3688. savannahaa.com.

Alzheimer’s Caregiver and Family Support Group

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.

Amputee Support Group

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

Call for info. . 912-355-7778.

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. Breast Cancer Survivors Group

Tuesdays, 5:20pm at First Presbyterian Church. For survivors and caregivers.

Call for info. . 912-844-4524. fpc.presbychurch.net. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. Cancer Support Group

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. Children’s Grief 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 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. Free and open to the public. . 912-927-8332. coastalempirepoliosurvivors.org.

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For people with debting problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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A group for people with scleroderma for the greater Savannah area and surrounding counties. Meets regularly.

Call for day and time. Lovezzola’s Pizza, 320 Hwy 80 West, Pooler. Info: 912-4126675 or 912-414-3827. .

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

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

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

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

912-598-8457. jeff@heartbeatsforlifega.org. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Klinefelter Syndrome/47-XXY Support Group

For parents of children with this diagnosis, and for men with this diagnosis.

Started by the mother of a boy with 47XXY. Email to meet for mutual support. . amkw21@gmail.com.

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912-350-7845. Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute (at Memorial Health Univ. Medical Center), 4700 Waters Ave. Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group

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Assists survivors of rape and sexual assault. Free, confidential counseling for victims and families. 24-hour Rape Crisis Line operates seven days a week.

912-233-7273. .

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Second Tuesdays at 7pm in Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. For anyone with this disorder, plus family members/caregivers interested in learning more. Call for info. . 912-8582335. sjchs.org/. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. Sisters Network (Breast Cancer in the African American Community)

Call for the Savannah Lowcountry Area NA meeting schedule. . 912-238-5925.

Third Mondays, 6pm-7pm. At the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute at Memorial. A national organization to raise awareness about the impact of breast cancer on the African American community. Call for info. .

912-236-7405. memorialhealth.com/.

Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave.

Weekly 90-minute support group for anyone with a mental health diagnosis. Also offer weekly family support group. Both meet Tuesdays, 6pm-8pm.

Free and open to the public. . Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd.

Third Thursdays, 5:30pm, at the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial. Call or see website for info. . 912-350-8900. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth. com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave.

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Is food a problem for you? Overeaters Anonymous can help. Savannah meetings Mon 6:30pm, Wed 5:30pm, Fri 6:30 p.m. See website for locations and info, or call 912-358-7150. . oa.org/ meetings.

Parents of Children with IEP’s (Individualized Education Plans)

For parents of children attending Chatham-Savannah Public School System who have IEP plans, to offer mutual support through the challenges of the IEP process. Email for info. . amkw210@gmail.com.

Parents of Ill Children

Backus Children’s Hospital sponsors this group for parents with a seriously ill child receiving inpatient or outpatient treatment. Case manager facilitates the meetings. Meets weekly. Call for info . 912-350-5616. memorialhealth. com/backus. memorialhealth.com/ backus. Backus Children’s Hospital,

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Volunteers Bethesda seeks volunteer docents for their new visitors center/museum. Volunteer docents needed during regular museum hours, Thurs.-Sat. 10am4pm. Docents will share Bethesda’s rich history and inspiring legacy with visitors from across the country and around the world. . 912-351-2061.

Elizabeth.brown@bethesdaacademy. org. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. Docents and Volunteers Needed at Flannery O’Connor House

Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home seeks additional volunteers and volunteer docents to help on Fridays and Saturdays, 1p-4pm, and for possible extended hours. Duties: greet visitors, handle admissions, conduct merchandise sales and help with tours. Docent training and written narratives for reference during tours are provided. . 912-233-6014. haborrello@aol.com. flanneryoconnorhome.org. Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Street.

Dolphin Project Seeks Volunteers

Dolphin Project needs boat owners, photographers, and other volunteers to help with scientific research on the Atlantic Bottlenose dolphin along coastal Georgia. Must be age 18 or older. Call or see website for info. . 912-232-6572. thedolphinproject.org.

Good Samaritan Health Clinic

St. Joseph’s/Candler’s Good Samaritan Clinic in Garden City needs volunteer nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, Spanish interpreters and clerical staff. The clinic serves people without insurance and those whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Call to volunteer. .

912-964-4326.

Survivors of Suicide Support Group

Suicide often leaves survivors with guilt, anger, hurt and unanswered questions. Hospice Savannah/United Way of Coastal Empire/Coastal Suicide Prevention Alliance offer an support group. Third Thursdays, 6:30-7:30pm.

Safe and confidential. Free to attend.

Barbara Moss at Full Circle of Hospice Savannah, 912-629-1089. . Full Circle Center for Grief Support, 450 Mall Blvd., Suite H. Teens Nurturing Teens (Cancer Support)

Support group for teens with a family member or loved one impacted by cancer. Meets at the Lewis Cancer Pavilion.

Call for information. . 912-819-5704.

Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. Teens With No One to Turn To

Help for people ages 11-18, or concerned parents of teens. Park Place Outreach Youth Emergency Shelter.

Call or see website. . 912-234-4048.

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SPACIOUS ROOMS FOR RENT Newly renovated on busline. 2 blocks from Downtown Kroger,3 blocks from Historic Forsyth Park. $150/week with No deposit. 8445995

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Move IN 4BR, 2.5 BA, Southside, VERY NICE Refrigerator and Stove, CH/A, *221 Croatan St: 3BR/1BA $885 Deposit $550, $1150 MO, Section *2103 Causton Bluff Rd. 8 Preferred. Call 912-507-3796 3BR/1BA $775 *122 Seminole St: 4BR/1BA $875.

OFF DELESSEPS: Lovely brick Apt. *114 Bowsprit Ln., Wilmington 2BR, kitchen furnished, washer/ Island-Battery Point. 3BR/2BA dryer connections. Central heat/ $1,050/mo. air, all electric, carpet, blinds. *5621 Betty Dr., Bacon Park $575. No pets. 912-355-6077 2BR/1BA $665.

POOLER: Brick 3BR/2BA, CH&A, *15 Gerald Dr., Bacon Park. very nice neighborhood. LR/DR 3BR/1BA $725. combo, eat-in kitchen, fenced Call 507-7934, 927-2853 or 631backyard, covered patio, storage 7644 bldg. No pets/No smoking. No Section 8. $950/month, $950/ Room for Rent deposit. 912-844-1825, 912-8441812

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