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Week At A Glance Wednesday / 10
Pooler Farmers' Market
Featuring regional farmers, local cottage industries and community non-profits. Music, activities, lectures and cooking demos. 4-7 p.m. Pooler Recreation Complex, Pooler Parkway. Free and open to the public. poolerfarmersmarket.com
Theatre: A Piece of My Heart
Shirley Lauro’s true drama of six women who went to Vietnam to entertain the troops. Presented by Armstrong's Black Box Theatre, in Jenkins Hall on campus. Sponsored by Connect Savannah. -13, 7:30 p.m Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. $12, iscounts for military/senior/alumni/children. Free for Armstrong. armstrong.edu
Wednesday Night Supper Club
A new Savannah tradition. Gather at Pacci's community table to make new friends and share in a night of food, wine and Southern hospitality. With seasonally inspired dishes from Executive Chef, Roberto Leoci. 7-9:30 p.m. Pacci Italian Kitchen + Bar, 601 E Bay St. Call for pricing. Reservations required. 912-233-6002 jackie.blackwelder@paccisavannah.com
Lecture: On the Waterfront: Artists and the Savannah River
Telfair Museums curator Harry DeLorme shares stories of artists who spent time on the Savannah waterfront. 6 p.m Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Museum admission applies. Free for members. telfair.org
Lecture: Star Spangled Banner
Armstrong presents a faculty lecture by Robert Harris, D.M.A. 2 p.m Armstrong Fine Arts Center, 11935 Abercorn St. Free and open to the public. armstrong.edu
SSU Campus Night Out
Savannah State University Department of Public Safety hosts this cookout focusing on public safety, with guests from first responder/public safety organizations,plus Savannah Mayor Edna B. Jackson. 5-9 p.m Tiger Arena (Savannah State), 3219 College St. Free and open to students/faculty/staff and public.
Save Water, Drink Beer
Georgia Conservancy's Generation Green highlights water conservation issues and initiatives across Georgia with networking, discussion, food, music by Robert Benton and one free Sweetwater beer.
Thursday / 11 Author Appearance: Lee Child
The author of Jack Reacher books appears at this Savannah Book Festival-sponsored talk. Book signing follows. 6 p.m. Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. $15 912.525.5050. savannahbookfestival.org
Bethesda Farm Stand
Bethesda students and staff sell fresh produce, organic garden seedlings and farm-fresh eggs. 3-5:30 p.m. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. 912-351-2061. bethesdaacademy.org
Coffee Brewing Workshop with The Florence
A coffee brewing and tasting workshop with the skilled baristas of The Florence Restaurant. 5-7 p.m One West Victory, 1 W Victory Dr. Free and open to the public. Email RSVP. info@bofcreative.com
Confluence 2014
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The only water conference focused on creating meaningful dialogue between Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina about water resources. Westin Savannah Resort, 1 Resort Drive. $239/$50 (student) 4 confluence.cc
Theatre: A Piece of My Heart Thu-Sat
compiled by robin wright gunn | happenings@connectsavannah.com Week At A Glance is Connect Savannah’s listing of events in the coming week. If you want an event listed, email WAG@ connectsavannah.com. Include specific dates, time, locations with addresses, cost and a contact number. Deadline for inclusion is 5pm Friday, to appear in next Wednesday’s edition.
6:30-9 p.m Churchill's Pub, 13 West Bay St. $12
Theatre: A Piece of My Heart
Shirley Lauro’s true drama of six women who went to Vietnam to entertain the troops. Presented by Armstrong's Black Box Theatre, in Jenkins Hall on campus. Sponsored by Connect Savannah. Sep. 10-13, 7:30 p.m Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. $12 Gen. Adm. Discounts for military/senior/alumni/ children. Free for Armstrong. armstrong.edu
Friday / 12 Book Launch: Spirits of Savannah
A new book about ghosts in Savannah. 7 p.m Gallery Le Snoot, 6 East State Street. Free to attend. Books available for purchase.
Coffee Cupping
Like a wine tasting, but with coffee. A lesson on coffee process methods and origins worthy of a connoisseur. 11 a.m. PERC Coffee Roasters, 1802 East Broad Street. Free and open to the public. Donations welcome.
Josh Sanders Live Video Shoot & Concert
Singer/ songwriter originally from Faulkville, Ga, has opened for Corey Smith this summer. Part of a video shoot. 8 p.m Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street. $20 marstheatre.com
Deen Family Book Signing
Paula, Jamie & Bobby Deen will sign various books. 350 wristbands distributed at 9 am. 10 a.m.-noon The Lady and Sons, 102 West Congress St. Free to attend. Books available for purchase. pauladeen.com
Richmond Hill Festive Friday
The kickoff Friday party event in a new series of fundraisers at Richmond Hill City Center. Benefits Bryan County Bark Park. 5-7 p.m Richmond Hill City Center, 520 Cedar Street.
Theatre: Spine Tingling Tales
A late night ghost show that's appropriate for most ages, but a little bit scary. Produced by Odd Lot Comedy Troupe. 11 p.m. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. $25 soucyman@gmail.com. spinetinglingtales.com
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Theatre: A Piece of My Heart
Shirley Lauro’s true drama of six women who went to Vietnam to entertain the troops. Presented by Armstrong's Black Box Theatre, in Jenkins Hall on campus. Sponsored by Connect Savannah. Sep. 10-13, 7:30 p.m Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. $12 Gen. Adm. Discounts for military/senior/ alumni/children. Free for Armstrong. armstrong.edu
Theatre: Grey Gardens
A musical comedy, telling the story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, once bright names on the social register who became East Hampton's most notorious recluses. Based on the film Grey Gardens. Presented by Collective Face Ensemble. 8 p.m Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. $20 Gen. Adm. $15 senior/student/military 912/ 232-0018. collectiveface.org/
11 a.m.-1 p.m Belk, 7804 Abercorn St., In Oglethorpe Mall. Free. Must pre-register by phone. 855-655-2662
Forsyth Farmers Market
Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods. 9/13, 10am-11am, Market Chef Tour with Alligator Soul's chef, on how to pair seasonal delights. Free. 9 a.m.-1 p.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Free to attend. Items for sale. 912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com
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16th Annual Sea Kayak Races
Benefiting the Tybee Island Marine Science Center. Three races on the waters near Tybee. An American Canoe Association sanctioned event. Tybee Island, Tybee Island. TybeeKayakRaces@gmail.com tybeekayakrace.blogspot.com/
Beaches and Borders tour of Tybee Island
Wilderness Southeast's two-hour exploration led by a naturalist guide of the salt marshes and beach on Tybee Island. Fee includes use of binoculars and spotting scope. Reservations required. 9-11 a.m Tybee Island $25/person. $15/child under 12 accompanied by a parent 912-236-8115. wilderness-southeast.org
Free Mammograms presented by Belk and Ralph Lauren
The BelkGives on the Go Mobile Mammography Center, a 39-foot-long, state-ofthe-art screening center on wheels, offers free, convenient mammogram screenings. Women age 40 and over with no breast concerns, who have not had a mammogram in the last 12 months and have a primary care physician are eligible. Sponsored by Belk and Ralph Lauren.
Pianist and singer who's performed professionally for more than 55 years, amassing a repertoire of original and classic blues and R&B songs. 8 p.m Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street. $20 marstheatre.com/
Savannah Philharmonic: Opening Night: Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Dvorak With piano soloist Fanya Lin. Program features Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture Op. 80; Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43; Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7 Op. 70. 7:30 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $16 to $70 savannahphilharmonic.org
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Savannah Pride Festival
Performances by Debby Holliday headline Savannah’s annual celebration of, by, and for the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender community, and their friends,family, neighbors and community. 11:30 a.m. Opening Ceremony Noon Jeremiah Clark (entertainer) 1 p.m. Lindsey Hinkle (entertainer) 2 p.m. Neil Brothers (entertainer) 3 p.m. Spirit I am (entertainers) 4 p.m. Christy Alan Band (entertainers) 5 p.m. Dance Party DJ Jam… 6 p.m. Steppin Stones (entertainers) 7 p.m. Kristina Fox, Club One Cabaret 8 p.m. Debby Holiday Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. $5 savpride.com/
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Low Country Sisters in Crime, Inc.
Tea Party in the Garden
PetSmart Charities National Adoption Event featuring Save-A-Life
Theatre: A Piece of My Heart
Reading group for lovers of crime fiction, focusing on books and authors. Topic: Writers' Police Academy--Tips, Tricks and Insider Info. 10 a.m.-noon Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Free and open to the public. lowcountrysistersincrime.blogspot.com
Future man's best friend and furry family members are available for adoption. 10 a.m.-5 p.m PetSmart, 11132 Abercorn St. 912 598-SPAY (7729). savealifepets.org
Service Brewing Company Grand Opening
Tours and tastings at this new local craft beer brewing facility and tasting room. $1 from sale of each $12 souvenir glass will be donated to Healing 4 Heroes. 12-6 p.m Service Brewing Company, 574 Indian Street. Free and open to anyone age 21 and over.
Theatre: Spine Tingling Tales
A late night ghost show that's appropriate for most ages, but a little bit scary. Produced by Odd Lot Comedy Troupe. 11 p.m. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. $25 soucyman@gmail.com. spinetinglingtales.com
Derby-style hats are the dress code; hat contest is part of the day. Croquet and a guided tour of the gardens. A benefit for Lutheran Services of Georgia. 4-6 p.m SAV Botanical Gardens, 1388 Eisenhower Drive. $50 (Group Discounts Available) 912-353-8875. dharrison@lsga.org. Shirley Lauro’s true drama of six women who went to Vietnam to entertain the troops. Presented by Armstrong's Black Box Theatre, in Jenkins Hall on campus. Sponsored by Connect Savannah. Sep. 10-13, 7:30 p.m Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. $12 Gen. Adm. Discounts for military/senior/ alumni/children. Free for Armstrong. armstrong.edu
Theatre: Grey Gardens
A musical comedy, telling the story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who became East Hampton's most notorious recluses. Based on the film Grey Gardens. Presented by Collective Face Ensemble. 8 p.m Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. $20 Gen. Adm. $15 senior/student/military 912/ 232-0018. collectiveface.org/
Tunnel to Towers Run
A 5k race honoring Stephen Stiller, FDNY firefighter who ran to the Twin Towers when it was hit on 9/11 and lost his life. Firefighter teams will compete to take home a traveling trophy from last year’s winner. Register online, at Fleet Feet Sports,or on race day at Orleans Square. Celebrity Captains Bobby and Claudia Deen. 8 a.m Orleans Square, Barnard Street and Hull Street. $30 through Sept. 10. $40 Sept. 11, 12, and race day. $25 for military/firefighters/police. 912.313.4806. T2TSAV@gmail.com
Wilmington Island Farmers' Market
Vendors offering produce, prepared foods, crafts, plus storytime, musical performances, and community information. Wilmington Island Farmers' Market, 111 Walthour Rd @ Islands Community Church. Free and open to the public wifarmersmarket.org
Sunday / 14 PetSmart Charities National Adoption Event featuring Save-A-Life Future man's best friend and furry family members are available for adoption. 12-4 p.m PetSmart, 11132 Abercorn St. 912 598-SPAY (7729). savealifepets.org
Theatre: Grey Gardens
A musical comedy, telling the story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, once bright names on the social register who became East Hampton's most notorious recluses. Based on the film Grey Gardens. Presented by Collective Face Ensemble. 3 p.m Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. $20 Gen. Adm. $15 senior/student/military 912/ 232-0018. collectiveface.org/
Tuesday / 16 Cooking Class: The Ultimate Cook Book End of Summer Party with Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough
The first-ever appearance by these prolific (and fun) cookbook writers who've penned 23 books in 14 years and are QVC network bestsellers. 6:30 p.m Kitchenware Outfitters, 5500 Abercorn St. #18, Twelve Oaks Shopping Center. $50. Advanced registration by phone or in store. 912-356-1117
Stand Down for Homelessness: Resource and Job Fair
Representatives from more than 40 social service agencies provide information and outreach on housing options, job resources, resume writing tips, substance abuse
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Cooking Class: The Ultimate Cook Book End of Summer Party with Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough Tue / 16
Latin Chicks Restaurant Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting
The second location of this locally owned coal-fired Latin restaurant with full bar. Live music by Vaina Eventos, a PuertoRican/Dominican Latin band; door prizes and sampling of Latin cuisine. 5:30-7:30 p.m Latin Chicks (Waters Ave.), 5205 Waters Avenue. Free and open to the public. Bring donations for America's Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia latinchicksrestaurant.com
Pegasus Riding Academy Fall Session This therapeutic riding program provides equine assisted activities for individuals in Savannah with physical, mental or emotional disabilities. Horse experience not necessary. Wicklow Farm, Wicklow Ave.(behind Johnny Harris Restaurant). 912-547-6482. prasav.org
Tongue:Open Mouth And Music Show
Music, poetry and spoken word on the first and third Tuesdays of the month. 7-10 p.m. Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 West Liberty Street. Free and open to the public.
Workshop: Fall Veggie Garden
UGA Extension Agent David Linvill covers annuals & perennials, raised beds, vegetables, fruits, and any questions posed by students. 12-2 p.m Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens, 2 Canebrake Rd. Free to attend. Reservations required. (912) 652-7981. uge3051@uga.edu
Wednesday / 17 Savannah Antique Mall Open House
Meet the owners and vendors. Live music, hors d’oeuvres, beverages, and merchandise markdowns. 5-7 p.m Savannah Antique Mall, 1650 E Victory Drive. Free and open to the public.
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Second Annual Ms. Savannah AMBUCS Womanless Beauty Pageant
"The Big Guy” Frank Sulkowski passes the crown to Savannah's manly beauties. Proceeds support Savannah AMBUCS' work in the community, inspiring mobility and independence for people with different abilities. 5:30-9 p.m B & D Burgers (Congress St.), 912-238-8315. $10 donation
Lecture: Why Not ‘The Greatest Generation?’
The Learning Center of SCI presents Georgia Historical Society’s senior historian Dr. Stan Deaton on the issues surrounding the causes of the First World War and its effects today, including why the veterans of this war are overshadowed by those of the Second World War. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. $5 for Learning Center members, $10 for visitors $6 for lunch (must be reserved by Sept. 11). Please reserve and pay in advance. 912-236-0363
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editor’s note
City’s bar proposals solve nothing While our situation is great for the local house party scene, which has flourished in the absence of all-ages venues, I’m guessing it probably hasn’t helped keep alcohol out of It’s ironic, and also the hands of underage drinkers—likely the oddly appropriate, that our opposite result in fact. annual College Student The City’s blind spot towards adults aged Guide comes out this week. 18-20 years old is so thick that they’re not This is the first issue we’ve even acknowledged as legally adult. published since the City of The initial draft of the new law said anySavannah rolled out one under 21 in any restaurant which serves its controversial alcohol after 10 p.m.—that’s a crap ton of revision of the restaurants!—would either have to leave as bar and alcohol ordinance. soon as the clock strikes ten, or have a “parThe proposed new law has been the talk ent or legal guardian” handy. of the town despite the best efforts of the So, a SCAD freshman or sophomore out City to bury the rollout—first by waiting to for a meal with friends would get kicked out, publicize it until late afternoon the Friday unless mom and dad is hanging with them. before Labor Day, then by scheduling the first public meeting on it less than one busi- As would a young Army Ranger based at Hunter, out for a bite after having, say one ness day later. or two tours in Afghanistan under his belt. They didn’t want us to notice it maybe (This brilliant idea is to replace the curbecause the proposals don’t really address any current issues, and instead seem likely to rent “hybrid” law, another only-in-Savannah close some businesses and put people out of thing. It says a restaurant which serves work—while concentrating still more power mostly alcohol after a certain time is essentially a bar. Or something like that.) and influence into the hands of big hotel City officials are quick to say they’ve and chain store developers downtown. already killed the 10 p.m. curfew, and we Our College Student Guide is more should all “just move on.” But the only reason about lifestyle than academics, and the colthey killed it—and we don’t really know it’s lege lifestyle includes nightlife. Savannah dead yet—is precisely because of the enorhas a robust nightlife and unique drinking mous pushback on social media when they culture, with one of the most liberal open thought public attention was elsewhere. container laws in the nation. It’s disturbing that this ordinance was But our government has a schizophrenic drafted in committee for a solid year and relationship to Savannah’s favorite vice. Nowhere is this schizophrenia more appar- this preposterous provision remained intact. The City claims one reason for the new ent than with those aged 18-20 years old, ordinance is the law hasn’t been updated i.e., the typical college student. For example, most other cities don’t have in 15 years. If after 15 years this is the best they can come up with, that’s pretty sad. Savannah’s civilized and tolerant tradition Any functioning adult who doesn’t live in of to-go cups. But they do have all-ages venues. Savannah, for all intents and purposes, a bubble could tell you how infeasible and recognizes no such thing, not as the term is unenforceable a 10 p.m. curfew would be in a major tourist destination known for its commonly recognized. nightlife and cultural offerings. In Atlanta or Athens or Jacksonville and The whole idea really calls into question any number of other metro areas in and the judgment of those crafting the ordiout of the region, there are venues which nance, and by extension anything else in it. sell mostly alcohol, which also admit those Speaking of what else is in it: The City, to under 21 to see the band(s) of the evening support the changes, rolled out a bunch of or whatever entertainment is offered. The process is simple: The venue holding crime statistics, knowing crime is the other the all-ages event cards everybody, and those hot-button issue here besides alcohol. Hey, did you know most of the trouble in under 21 get a wristband or other signifier downtown’s entertainment district tends to saying they can’t buy alcohol. happen late on Friday and Saturday nights? That’s it. Real rocket science. But SavanShocker, right? nah can’t, or won’t, figure it out. by Jim Morekis
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Along with that breaking news, the City and Savannah/Chatham Police also said that 1) the vast majority of increased police calls on weekend nights do not involve underage drinkers, 2) a large number of police calls in the Historic District happen outside the bars after they let out at 3 a.m., and 3) it’s just a handful of bars that are a consistent problem for police. So of course City leaders concluded from this that: 1) There needs to be more of a crackdown on underage drinking, and bar owners will remain almost 100 percent responsible, 2) bar owners will be required to provide additional security inside bars before last call at 3 a.m., at their expense, and 3) all bars will be punished collectively rather than targeting rogue establishments. Not only that, but if a bar serves alcohol after midnight on weekends they have to get a separate Late Night License. The City claims that’s a benevolent move—since previously the only enforcement option was to revoke a liquor license entirely—but let’s face it: Taking away a downtown bar’s ability to serve drinks after midnight on a weekend will put them out of business anyway. Attempting to put lipstick on this turd of a new law, the City is trumpeting their magnanimous decision to extend the to-go cup boundary south of Jones Street to include Forsyth Park, where everyone already uses to-go cups anyway during events. While I certainly support that move—the only provision that makes sense—the rest of the proposed law is another in a long line of attempts to shake down the downtown bar industry for more fees and licenses, while the big hotel and high-dollar retail developers who want to flagrantly disregard Historic District guidelines continue to get their requests fast-tracked by City staff and approved by City Council directly. So what can you do about it? If you’re a bar owner, organize. And fight it collectively. That’s the hard part, easier said than done. If you’re a college student who will also have your lifestyle directly impacted by the new proposals, it’s a bit easier: Register to vote. And then… Vote. Voting is the one thing bureaucrats and politicians can’t take away from you. And it’s the one thing that scares them. cs
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All across America, our lauded institutions of higher education have begun their fall semesters, ushering in a new season of academia, adventure and the opportunity for my husband to spend the next four months complaining bitterly about Georgia Bulldogs coaching strategies. While we may not have an SEC football team here in Savannah, this is a college town nonetheless. And that means there’s a whole new class to be schooled. For Connect’s yearly College Issue, I usually like to dole out a bit of advice to the new kids, as I did manage to graduate from college and I did have a lot of issues. It is always my deepest hope that someone can benefit from the many valuable lessons I learned my freshman year: • Even if your roommate is a World of Warcraft-obsessed sociopath who uses your brush and then lies about it though it’s obvious because your hair is hair-colored and hers is Manic Panic Voodoo Blue, it is not OK to replace her toothpaste with Preparation H. Especially if she sleeps with a knife. • If you’re trying to shoplift a carton of cigarettes by sticking them down your pants leg, you’d better not be wearing short shorts. Actually, since the Georgia Board of Regents enacted a smoking ban on all public colleges last spring and both Armstrong State University and Savannah State are now officially entirely tobacco-free campuses, you should just stick to shoplifting candy and condoms. • Should you be interested in gaining intimate knowledge of the encrusted ooze on the dorm bathroom floor, be sure to mix up a big tumbler of Southern Comfort with Dr. Pepper to celebrate passing your first biology mid-term. Herm. Maybe I’m actually not the best person to give advice to college students. Perhaps it’s best that I abdicate to the authority of Amy Ziezula, Assistant Dean of Student Integrity at Armstrong, who I’m quite positive never passed out in the planters outside the Chemistry building. A former SUNY residence director and conduct officer at Georgia Southern, Ziezula serves as a kind of cool aunt to help
students adjust to what may be their first extended time away from home. While most students hope to pattern their college careers in the vein of Real Genius rather than Van Wilder, some may need a bit of extra tutoring to guide them on the right track. The Armstrong administration has figured out that if you want people to act like the kind of grown-ups that pay taxes and cover their faces when they sneeze, they must be treated as such, and Armstrong has taken a pro-active strategy with the newlycreated Department of Student Integrity. While part of Ziezula’s job is to administer disciplinary measures in the advent of delinquent academic behavior—don’t even think of plagiarizing your English essay or she will expel your cheating ass—her main task is to educate newbies on how not to fail at life. “With this new department, we’ve created a way to educate faculty and students sbout what it means to act with civil behavior inside and outside of the classroom,” explains Ziezula. On the scholarship front, 75 percent of college students admit to cheating at least once during their academic careers, and Ziezula has authored new materials for faculty on how to prevent and address dishonesty. But mostly she spends her time creating programs for students still learning to navigate the nebulous zones of society outside the comforts of home, where it might be perfectly fine to use someone else’s hairbrush. She warns that the advent of social media has not made us any less passive-aggressive as a culture, and learning to handle confrontation can be tricky. “Conflicts are going to arise,” counsels Ziezula. “If you’ve got a problem, actually talk to your roommate. Don’t tweet or text or leave a Post-it note because it can blow up into something else later.” Especially if she sleeps with a knife. Cultivating a climate of personal safety is also tantamount, and part of the intra-curricular education includes admonitions to be aware of one’s surroundings and to take your face out of your phone while walking around campus. But by far one of the most pressing concerns for college administrators everywhere is the prevalence of sexual assault on American campuses. According to studies, one in five college women have reported a rape, and
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Armstrong Assistant Dean of Student Integrity Amy Ziezula is a far better source of wisdom for proper collegiate behavior than the person who wrote this column. many are subjected to belittlement and dismissive attitudes by their schools while they
watch their violators walk away with nary a mark on their permanent record, free to assault again. This year, multiple federal Title IX complaints have been levied at some of the nation’s highest-ranking universities— including University of North Carolina, UC Berkeley, Dartmouth and Swarthmore—for their mistreatment of rape survivors and the mishandling of their cases. At Columbia, a class action lawsuit was filed against the administration by 23 separate sexual assault victims, including visual arts major Emma Sulkowicz, who has channeled her anger into a powerful protest—and admirable senior thesis—by carrying around campus with her a mattress identical to the one on which she was raped. The White House has created a task force to put pressure on colleges to protect students from sexual assault on campus and this summer the Senate introduced the Campus Accountability and Safety Act to hold schools accountable. But task forces and legislation won’t change a damn thing unless the culture supports a rape-free climate. A panelist at last year’s Women’s Empowerment Conference, Ziezula knows sexist, victim-blaming nonsense like “don’t wear a
short skirt” or “that’s what you get for drinking a beer in a frat house” isn’t the answer. Starting this semester, Armstrong has joined hundreds of universities in implementing mandatory participation in EverFi’s Haven module, an online training that leads young men and women very clearly through the bad behaviors of sexual violence, harassment and stalking. While some of its obvious messages are bound to inspire some eye-rolling, Ziezula says that one of Haven’s most valuable elements is how it empowers students to protect each other. “Bystander intervention is very powerful,” she affirms. “We’re trying to teach students that it’s OK to do the right thing.” The key word there is “try.” You can lead them to the moral compass, but it doesn’t mean they’ll point in the right direction— there’s always going to be some genius who looks at it and thinks whoa, this’d make a really cool bong! The rest of you are probably pretty good kids, so good luck, study hard and keep your cute mug out of the papers. At the very least, let’s see if we can have it end up here in The (Civil) Society Column and not the Police Blotter. cs
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Bicycling is good in Savannah. You can make it better It’s also important to lock to something that cannot be moved. Don’t hitch your ride to wooden porch or stair railings, which can Welcome, college be easily broken or sawed through. students! If you’ve Locking to a street sign? First make sure just moved to our city, here’s it’s firmly anchored to the Earth’s core. If something you should be you can store your bike inside, that’s the best pleased to learn about option. Next best are bike racks. your new home: “Savan• You are not riding a bike. You are drivnah is arguably the state’s most bike friendly cityâ€? and has one of ing it. In Georgia bicycles are considered vehicles and people who ride them must Georgia’s “largest and most diverseâ€? bicycle cultures. That’s according to a leading bicycle comply with traffic regulations. That means stopping at stop signs and traffic signals. expert, who I did not pay to say that. That means riding with the flow of trafSavannah earned Bicycle Friendly Community status from the League of American fic, not against it. Maybe your hometown has some of those awesome two-way cycle Bicyclists last year and is becoming one of tracks. Congratulations! We don’t have the Southeast’s best bicycling cities. If you those here yet. That means the Lincoln like using bikes for transportation or recreStreet bike lane is for northbound traffic ation or both, you are in the right place at only and the Price Street bike lane is excluthe right time. sively for riding south. Before you take to the streets, however, Georgia law requires you to use a white here are some things you need to know. front light and a red rear reflector after dark. • Your bicycle will be stolen. Unless Buy a red rear light, too. The cost of both you are extremely cautious and obsessively lights will be much less than the moving consistent about how and where you lock violation or medical bills you could be stuck it. Trying to decide between a U-lock and with if you are not visible at night. a cable lock? Get both. Heed the words of • You also need to be aware of and obey Sheldon Brown (1944-2008) the Yoda of an unusual local law. An area in Forsyth bicycle wisdom: “If you use both the U-lock and the cable Park, beginning north of the Confederate monument and ending south of the founlock ‌ you are more than twice as safe as tain, was many years ago designated as a you would be with either of them alone. Either type of lock can be defeated, but each “pedestrian zoneâ€? by city ordinance. People are supposed to walk their bikes through requires a different large, bulky tool, which this area, but few do because it is wide is useless against the other.â€? By John Bennett
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• You won’t be in Savannah long. But four (or five) years is plenty of time to make a difference by helping to resolve situations like the one described above. Even if you plan to move away immediately after graduation, you can make Savannah better for bicycling while you are here by joining the Savannah Bicycle Campaign. Who knows, you might even want to stick around to enjoy the fruits of your labor. cs John Bennett is executive director of the Savannah Bicycle Campaign. Find them at bicyclecampaign.org
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The college issue | đ&#x;?ľ coffeeshops Cup java, coffee.deli features some super tasty lunch fare as well, including a Reuben, a Cuban, and rotating specials like the Banh Mi So Hungry, a take on the classic Vietnamese sandwich. Open daily 6 a.m.10 p.m., they’re also a dependable spot for tasty egg sandwiches and bagels to get your morning going.
Best Spot for a Rainy Day: The Foundery Coffee Pub
Location: 1313 Habersham St. Serves: Cup to Cup, Savannah I recently discovered this newly-opened gem of a coffee shop, and one of my favorite things about it is they offer board games and books with Monday night dedicated to ‘Game Night’. They opened last November and have already become one of Savannah’s favorites. The Foundery’s cozy booth seating, large space offering plenty of room and location of being away from the hustle and bustle of downtown make it the perfect spot for enjoying a cup of coffee indoors on a rainy Savannah day.
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Best Evening Entertainment Spot: Foxy Loxy
Location: 1919 Bull St. Serves: PERC, Savannah Acoustic Tuesdays, Fire + Wine Saturdays, and Vinyl Night. At least three nights out of the week, Foxy Loxy will provide affordable and good entertainment for us. If the weather permits, these events all take place in Foxy’s court yard, which, by itself with no entertainment but good company and coffee is enjoyable.
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Location: 1 B West Victory Dr. Serves: Counter Culture, Durham, NC By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of the restaurant and probably the bar, but did you know The Florence had a coffee shop? Exciting, I know! What’s even more exciting is that you never have to worry about Best Spot When One Wants Coffee and The Other Wants Alcohol: parking because of the free parking garage located right next to it. Their indoor seating The Coffee Fox is a bar with some comfy-looking bar chairs, Location: 102 West Broughton St. however, I prefer sitting outdoors at one of Serves: PERC, Savannah the three big tables under the string lights. Not being a drinker of alcohol, I often On a sunny afternoonI find myself drawn to find myself in a dilemma with friends when The Florence for delicious Counter Culture they want to meet up for drinks downtown. coffee and good conversation with friends. Enter The Coffee Fox. Because of their menu which provides an amazing selection Best International Getaway: which including locally roasted coffee and The Paris Market CafĂŠ beer and wine, I’m able to suggest the perLocation: 36 West Broughton St. fect spot for “drinks.â€? Serves: Cup to Cup, Savannah So it’s not solely a coffee shop, but The Paris Market CafĂŠ serves one of my favorite iced mochas and delicious treats. They’ve recently expanded their seating and it’s the ideal spot for when I want to feel like I’m enjoying a cup of good coffee in a cafĂŠ in France.
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Best Coffee Date Spot: Vic’s Coffee House
Location: 15 E River St. Serves: Savannah Coffee Roasters, Savannah Best Spot To See Local Talent: The Sentient Bean It’s located right on River Street and open until 11 p.m. most nights. Vic’s Coffee Location: 13 E Park Ave. Serves: Cafe Campesino, Americus, GA House and its more formal booth seating Whether you’re looking for local talent or and round tables make for a perfect coffee you are the local talent, The Sentient Bean is date spot. After you and your date have dinthe spot for you. Twice a week they host an ner, you can stop at Vic’s for a pick me up Open Mic Night for Music and Poetry and before strolling River Street to enjoy all the once a month they host an Open Mic Night local vendors and talent to be found there on a weekend night. for Comedy. And for my fellow film lovers, The Bean also frequently host screenings by Best Get-It-And-Go Spot: The Psychotronic Film Society.
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Location: 7360 Skidaway Rd. Serves: Cutters Point Coffee, Gig HarLocation: 234 Bull St. bor, WA Serves: A private blend! Although there are several Cutters Point Gallery has been around since 1993 and Coffees on the west coast, Cutters Point is considered one of the local coffee shop located in Sandfly is locally owned and veterans. When family and friends come to going on 11 years. It’s the only local coffee visit and they want a taste of old historic shop with a drive-thru window, making downtown Savannah, you have to take them it easy for those on their way to work or to Gallery. Gallery Espresso’s commitment school who need to get it and go. They also to local art, location on a historic square, and have a self-service coffee station set up inside coffee and food options have made it a must and for those who love exact change, there visit coffee shop for Savannah visitors. is an honor code system allowing you drop in your money, make your coffee, and be on Best Breakfast or Lunch Spot: your way. cs
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SCAD Soccer blends international styles By Orlando Montoya savannahpodcast.com
I saw a MAN at Flip-Flop Tiki Bar this summer with red, white and blue face paint. It was a USA match in that quadrennial exercise of American soccer fandom called World Cup. Once every four years, for about a month, our country loves this global sport. But for a few of us in Savannah, soccer is a constant mania. For us, I think some of the area’s best soccer is played now, during a few short weeks in the fall. That’s when the Savannah College of Art and Design men’s and women’s soccer teams take their serious and fastpaced games to small but appreciative crowds. I spoke with the college’s two soccer coaches, the men’s Tom Melville and the women’s Rebecca Gunn. “It is entertaining,” says Melville. “I always use that as my thumbnail gauge to the players. Have you entertained me tonight?” Their headers, tackles, shots and goals have delighted me for years. They’re good. The men have made it to their conference final in four of the last five seasons. They
Jordan Trinci-Lyne (no. 10) on the pitch. The forward is a native of Chester, England. Photo courtesy of SCAD claimed the championship in 2010. “We’ve got a very good squad this year,” Melville says. “But you do need a little bit of luck in that final moment.” Like any good coach, Melville doesn’t
settle for second-best. The women also have that drive. After a subpar season, they’re regrouping under a new coach, Rebecca Gunn, a former assistant coach. “I’ve been amazed at the pressure,” Gunn
says. “As an assistant, you feel it. But it doesn’t keep you up at night.” Both teams play at SCAD’s soccer complex, one of the area’s best pitches. Fans drive six miles over the Talmadge Bridge and sit
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that week and understand why the students are coming here,” Gunn says. “These are student-artist-athletes.” In that order. Only a few players go pro. But all of them are looking for creative careers. “If someone’s passionate about something and if they persist and continue to follow their dream, more often then not, they reach that goal,” Melville says. I just wish they could change two things. First, the season is too short! Each team only plays about a dozen home games and already about half of them are over. But the entire American college soccer universe apparently operates on this schedule. And two, the hellish bugs! The pitch is surrounded by a marsh! Melville says the college is building a viewing platform that will have fans to shoo away the flesh-biting critters... [Insert obligatory Luis Suarez joke]. Go, Bees! cs
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September 12, 2014–January 4, 2015 Since the founding of Savannah in 1733, artists have gravitated toward the city’s waterfront. Drawn from local collections, the Library of Congress, and Telfair Museums’ collection, Port City tells the story of the Savannah riverfront as depicted by artists in prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs from the 1730s to the present.
Jack Leigh; Moored Ship and Silos, 1986; Telfair Museum of Art, 2007.24.5. Andrée Ruellan; Savannah, c.1942; Telfair Museum of Art, 1998.8.
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Classes are back in session, and that means the return of college football, one of the South’s favorite pastimes. Not everyone will agree on a favorite team, nor will fans agree on a definitive college football beer. Instead of weighing the merits of lowalcohol session beers, arguing the benefits of small craft labels to the big beer behemoths or trying too hard to make connections between a school’s mascot and a specific beverage, the following list is a good place to start when planning your next tailgating party. After all, it’s based on the most important criteria when evaluating colleges: place. And if you’re a college football fan, it’s hard to beat the SEC East (unless you’re in the SEC West, of course). When watching match ups between your favorite SEC East teams this year, grab some friends and one of these college-town hand-crafted brews. Home state pride compels us to begin with the Georgia Bulldogs. Athens, GA is home to two breweries, including the well-known Terrapin, and a meadery with several others in the planning stages. Creature Comforts is the new kid on the block, and its Athena is a Berliner Weiss that practically screams game day. It’s only 4.5% alcohol by volume and the mixture of sweet and tart pushes it past the usual suspects relegated to football beer status. Only available on draft, you’ll have to do some legwork to track it down, but kegs have started to make their way to Savannah. Let’s hope Athens doesn’t swallow it all up before the season ends, and you can cheer on the silver britches while proudly drinking a fine regional brew. The Dawgs’ arch-rival Florida Gators play in a stadium nicknamed “The Swamp,� and Gainesville’s Swamphead Brewery is the obvious brand if you’re looking to show support. Wild Night is a honey cream ale that uses state-sourced ingredients to create a sweet and crisp beer that is
balanced with an even malt profile. To enjoy this tasty drink in Savannah, you’ll have to visit the brewery and pick up a growler. It’s not quite Gatorade, but it will do the trick. What may be the nicest surprise of this SEC East beer tour is Columbia, SC. Even if you don’t root for the South Carolina Gamecocks, as long as you like beer, you’ll find plenty of excellent drinking options for their next game from breweries like River Rat and Conquest. Conquest’s Warrior Heart is an IPA that sounds like it was named for a team still struggling to get over the loss of Marcus Lattimore in 2012. Lexington, KY is home to the Kentucky Wildcats as well as West Sixth Brewing. Perhaps best known outside of the state for its recent legal battles with Magic Hat Brewing, West Sixth makes a good beer as well as good press. West Sixth IPA is its citrusy, hoppy flagship beer. It utilizes four hops, including the always welcome brightness and lemon flavors of Citra. Best of all, if you’re willing to drive to Kentucky or Ohio, it’s available year round, so you can buy more in March to cheer the UK basketball team after another disappointing football season. The Tennessee Volunteers’ home of Knoxville isn’t known for a local beer scene. The Tennessee brewing climate is
notoriously tough due to the state’s alcohol ordinances. Nowhere is the lack of quality breweries more evident than in the state’s premiere college town. Saw Works Brewing Co. and its Rocky Hop IPA are certainly up-and-comers to watch. That clever beer name should help the brewery as it will depend heavily on home town fans to boost its bottom line. Also of note, there’s apparently another SEC East football team in Tennessee. Go figure. That leaves us with the newest member of the SEC East, the Missouri Tigers. If there’s a place that has a lesser brewery scene than Knoxville, it’s Columbia, MO. They do have a promising start up brewery in Logboat, which opened last year. Logboat’s main line includes usual suspects of a Pale Ale, IPA and Witbier along with a surprising English Mild selection. If you venture due west out of Columbia, however, the highway takes you to Kansas City, home of Boulevard Brewing Co. Boulevard produces a large line of fantastic beers, but perhaps none are better than their herbal and spicy Tank 7 Saison, which the Tigers would be proud to have as a fan-favorite drink. cs
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Savannah’s Fashion Night brought the beautiful people to Broughton—inside and out! After a very brief rainshower cooled things off just as the evening got underway, runway shows entertained at both ends of the street, while musicians like Dent May and artists like Jose Ray did their thing. Our contributing photographer Geoff Johnson freeranged up and down providing his usual unique perspective and talent.
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One of the true tests of growing up is how you handle your first illness away from home. Do you take a NyQuil and hope to sleep off your illness, or do you go to the doctor? What do you do if something major happens and you can’t handle it yourself? Never fear, Class of 2018—if you’re living on campus and need some healthcare, your college has you covered. Three universities in Savannah—Armstrong State University, SCAD, and Savannah State—each have a clinic available to currently enrolled students. Schools with residence halls are required to have oncampus health services for students living on campus, but the care provided at these clinics does more than meet a requirement. Memorial Health University Medical Center runs the clinics for both Armstrong and SCAD, and Savannah State’s clinic, Harris-McDew, is run through United Healthcare. All three provide the basic healthcare services that one might expect —cold and flu management, physicals, prescriptions—but some services are specifically tailored to students and the college lifestyle. The clinics all offer STD and pregnancy testing and contraceptive management, as well as prescription fulfillment. The freedom and privacy offered by this can be immensely gratifying—this doctor won’t tell your mom about the birth control pills you’re on or that you came in asking for help with a drug problem. Each clinic also offers smoking cessation, a popular service offered back in 2012 when Armstrong banned smoking on campus. It may increase in popularity as the University System of Georgia recently banned smoking on all of its public school campuses. Savannah State is one of the USG schools newly affected by the ban, and the smoking cessation service can help make that transition easier, as it did for Armstrong’s students trying to wean off the habit. The Armstrong and SCAD clinics are funded through student fees, meaning that students pay for their clinic access but still have to pay each time they go. Both clinics accept
students gain unlimited access to the clinic, as well as no additional costs to services provided. Comparatively, Harris-McDew also seems to offer just as many services as Armstrong and SCAD’s clinics do. Knowing that students may not be able to travel in times of great illness, each clinic is in a fairly central location. Armstrong’s clinic is located on campus near the residence halls. Savannah State’s clinic is at 3219 College Street, also adjacent to the Payne residence hall. SCAD’s clinic is at 300 Bull Street in the Desoto Hilton building, nearest the Admission Welcome Center. Since the clinics have fairly By Rachael Flora standard business hours, they each recommend going to emergency facilities for after-hours care. For Armstrong students, the Urgent One clinic on Abercorn St. is a good option insurance, but since it’s also run by Memorial, making cash or debit document transfer and other factors easier. payments are also On its website, Harris-McDew recomaccepted, allowing for mends the St. Joseph/Candler hospital for emerdiscretion if necessary. gencies, as well as other primary healthcare providers. Each visit to ArmSCAD students have Urgent Care of Historic strong’s clinic costs $10; Savannah just a few blocks away on Lincoln Street, as SCAD’s cost $45 but well as Southern Urgent Care on Whitaker. can also be paid with the Next time you need medical help, don’t feel pressured SCAD Card. to find a general provider immediately. Your campus can However, Savannah help you with all the basics. cs State’s clinic seems to be more inclusive. By paying the health fee, included in annual tuition,
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Connect Savannah is a fully-engaged partner in the Canyon Ranch Institute Savannah Partnership (CRISP) along with Charles H. and Rosalie Morris. We are proud to be committed to helping this effort to make Savannah healthier, and we urge all our readers, advertisers, and partners to join the CRISP effort. We will dedicate this space each week to reporting not only the activities the CRISP effort is undertaking here in Savannah but also the larger ideas about health and well-being that build the foundation for that effort in our community. We thank you for your continued readership of Connect Savannah and for your support of the CRISP effort.
Help yourself to better health with health literacy decisions and, as a result, change behaviors to improve health and well-being. Andrew Pleasant is Senior Director for No matter your age, education level, genHealth Literacy and Research at Canyon der, income, race, ethnicity, health status, or Ranch Institute. He is also a member of the family background, you can improve your Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on ability to seek and receive the best possible Health Literacy and of the U.S. Food and health care, and enjoy your best possible Drug Administration’s Risk Communication health, by using and improving your health Advisory Committee. Andrew is co-author literacy. of the book, Advancing Health Literacy: A Do you remember the last time you comframework for understanding and action. plained about a medical visit? Maybe you In Part 1 of a series for Connect Savanwere frustrated because you left without a nah readers that will focus on health literacy, full understanding of what your doctor said. Andrew examines both sides of the commuOr you felt rushed and didn’t get talk about nication gap and ways to improve health care anything other than the immediate problem. using the “currency” of health literacy. Or perhaps you were treated impersonally —as if you were an appointment and not a person. There are three steps you can take to Part 1—Health Literacy: Put yourself into the picture become an informed and active partner in The door opens, and at last you’re face-to- your health care. These steps will help you face with the health professional – a doctor, create an effective team with health profesnurse, or physician’s assistant – you’ve been sionals and health facilities. Step 1. Be prepared. Whenever you nervously waiting to see. You’re not feeling well, and you are worried about your health. visit a health care facility, always take a list You want answers. What you may not real- of questions. Start with the following questions and add your own: ize is that you’re not the only person in the • What health problem(s) do I have? room with problems. • Why is that important to me? The health professional is working to • What should I do about that? the best of his or her abilities in a poorly • Where do I go for any tests, medidesigned and inefficiently incentivized syscine, or appointments that I need tem. That creates a host of problems often next? invisible to patients, but that can critically • How, how often, at what time(s) of impact the care. day, and in what amount should I From the outset of the encounter, effectake my medicine? tive communication is often compromised, • How will I know if my medicine is if not completely lost. This happens not working or not? only in Savannah but across the nation. • What else I should know or do to Health literacy lies at the core of this comstay healthy? munication challenge. • When is my next appointment and Health literacy is not only about reading how should I prepare for that? skills or using simple words and sentences. • Who do I call with my questions in Rather, health literacy empowers patients the future? and health professionals to work together Make sure that you know the answers to to find, understand, evaluate, communicate, these questions before you leave your next and use information to make informed By Andrew Pleasant, Ph.D.
Training health professionals in health literacy is one way to increase the likelihood of excellent outcomes from health care. Above, Carolyn Eiland, ANP-BC, the director of clinical services at Curtis V. Cooper Primary Health Care, Inc., works with Ron Woods, an actor portraying a patient. This conversation occurred during a recent training provided by Canyon Ranch Institute focused how to offer the Canyon Ranch Institute Life Enhancement Program in Savannah. For more information about the CRI Life Enhancement Program, visit www.canyonranhinstitute.org or call the Canyon Ranch offices at 912-443-3264. permission to do so. Take charge of your own health, and you will find that health professionals are more than willing to help you. Reach out and actively work toward a healthier and happier life. The rewards last —and lengthen—a lifetime.
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health care visit. Step 2. Test your understanding before you leave. Don’t listen to that little voice inside your head telling you that you should act like you understand what the health professional is saying, even when you don’t. Take the time to repeat to the doctor or nurse what you think the answers to your questions are. That way you can test your understanding before you leave. This process is called the Teach Back technique, and it’s been proven to help improve understanding and help people do a better job taking care of themselves after they leave the clinic, doctor’s office, or hospital. Step 3. Develop your personal health team. The process of asking questions and getting answers will alert your health professionals that you are truly engaged in living a healthier life. Your goal should be to create the best possible partnership with your health professionals. Their job should not only be to take care of you when you are sick, but also to help you take better care of yourself throughout your life so that you don’t become sick! You can be the best advocate for your own health if you simply give yourself
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33-story condominium/apartment tower housing both luxury units (219, facing the Hudson River) and “affordable” units (55, facing the street) -- with separate entrances so the beautiful people could avoid the more downscale. (The developer, Extell, said it deserves credit for carving out the “affordable” units because the luxury units are more Compelling Explanations profitable.) • Not Our Fault: In July, • Considering the height two of the four fertilizer restrictions zoned into Lonmanufacturers operating in don’s super-prime real estate, the vicinity of the April 2013 the only practical way for massive explosion and fire in some owners to expand is to West, Texas, filed motions i lost my go underground (as deep as contesting the city’s lawsuit bar card five stories’ worth of “baseagainst them. According to ment”), which requires heavy the companies, it was actudigging machines. However, ally the city’s ill-trained first by the time the excavation responders and volunteer fireis finished, the machines fighters who caused many of are mired at the bottom of The Continuing Crisis the injuries. a huge pit with no easy way • After several contestants in the 2013 • A Matter of Scale: (1) to bring the behemoths up. world swimming championships in BarPolice in Cologne, Germany, Consequently, on some jobs, celona, Spain, remarked that the racers in wrote a bicycle-equipment reported the New Statesman lanes 5 to 8 seemed to swim faster than infraction against Bogdan in June, property owners those in lanes 1 to 4, two researchers inves- Ionescu in April because his have elected merely to leave tigated further and concluded, in July, that bike had no right-side handlethe machines buried under there was a rogue current on the lane-8 bar brake. But since Ionescu what would be their sub-basement. side of the pool. In fact, most of the losers has no right arm, he fought the ticket, and -- The Convention on International Trade swam in lane 1, and the lane 8 swimmers in July received a police apology. (2) David in Endangered Species recently estimated produced a glut of medals, and, wrote the Rainsford, 44, is contesting the fee charged that nearly 50,000 African elephants were researchers, a current would be “the only for a routine eye exam by Specsavers in cause that we can propose to explain these Cramlington, England. He wants a discount killed for their tusks in the last two years, continuing the century-long drastic decline findings.” because he has no right eye. (However, in wild pachyderms. The Fish and Wildlife • The New Normal: In America, TV Specsavers says Rainsford’s glass eye can pundits merely shout at each other, but pose risks for the good eye and that the area Service (FWS) has thus proposed new rules to curb ivory imports into the United States, twice recently in Middle East TV debates, surrounding both eyes must be checked, as to discourage American buying. However, in discussants have roughhoused on the air. well.) July, the National Rifle Association warned Journalist Shakir al-Johari was involved that the FWS rules would be “disastrous” both times, on the Jordanian 7 Stars chanLeading Economic Indicators for America’s collectors of antique pearlnel in May and on Dubai TV in July. In the • Despite all that has transpired in handled guns and urged members to fight first, the studio was wrecked, according to Ukraine this year, the country’s defense Al-Arabiya news service, and the latter inci- industry manufacturers continue to sell mili- the regulations (even though, as NRA advocates acknowledged, few gun owners would dent was calmed only after al-Johari threw tary gear to Russia (including “key parts for be affected). his chair at lawyer Saleh Khrais. ship engines, advanced targeting technology • From the Foreign Press: (1) After police for tanks and upkeep for Russia’s heaviest issued a plea for help in July to identify the nuclear missiles,” according to an August Ironies perpetrators of a porn movie filmed inside Washington Post dispatch). The Ukrainian In August, a criminology professor at an Austrian church and in which actors’ government may be hostile to Russia, but Rome’s La Sapienza University arranged faces were obscured, a serious fan of Ausworkers at companies such as Motor Sich a two-hour guest lecture on “emergency trian porn spoke up, naming the 24-yearfear loss of jobs in an already deep recession. practices” by an “experienced” hand -- Franold female lead. The nude breasts of the star, Said a Motor Sich spokesman, “We have cesco Schettino, the captain currently on he said, were unmistakably those of “Babsi,” our own (political) party, the party of Motor trial in Italy for his role in the sinking of a popular actress, and she was subsequently Sich.” the cruise ship Costa Concordia in 2012, charged with trespassing in the church. when 32 people died. Said the captain: “I • Dilemmas of the 1 Percent: In July, (2) Wilfred Mashaya told a magistrate in was called to speak because I am an expert. New York City approved construction of a (1) German Rolf Buchholz, who owns the Guinness Book world record for most body piercings (453), said he was upset to be denied entrance into United Arab Emirates in August to fulfill a performance of sorts at Dubai’s Fairmont Hotel. Buchholz said officials gave no explanation, although in addition to the piercings (example: at least 50 beads stuck to his lips), he has also implanted horns in his forehead. (2) Caius Veiovis, 33, is similarly concerned about his forehead horns. While preparing for trial in Hamden, Massachusetts, in a gruesome 2011 triple murder, he has decided to freshen up somewhat by removing the spikes from his nostrils, but still needs the judge’s help to warn prospective jurors not to presume guilt from his six horns.
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Bright Ideas: (1) Bradley Hardison, 24, on the lam in the Elizabeth City, North Carolina, area from two break-in charges, nonetheless decided to enter a newsworthy contest in August -- a public “doughnuteating” competition, in which police officers and firefighters were his competitors. Hardison managed to win, downing eight doughnuts in two minutes, thus attracting even more attention. After one officer recognized him, he fled but was easily caught. (2) Recurring Theme: Raymond Betson became the most recent perp (in July in Swanley, England) to intend to break into a store (this time, a money-lending store) by ramming the wall with a digger -- but broke through the wrong wall (and then another wrong wall after that). Police were summoned by the commotion and arrested him.
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(1) The tornado that ripped through Kingsport, Tennessee, on July 27 damaged Jerrod Christian’s house, leaving furniture and tools strewn about his lawn. Unfortunately, according to police who filed four charges against him the next day, some of the items (an air compressor, a welder, a ratchet, an air hose, a weed trimmer) belonged to his neighbors, who had long suspected (without proof ) that Christian had burglarized their homes. (2) Russian researchers launched several critters into space on July 19, including a male and four female geckos (to follow their mating capabilities), but by July 25 reported that they had lost contact with the satellite, drawing comical concern (most notably, from TV’s Stephen Colbert). Although the communication link was restored several days later, with the geckos reportedly still copulating, ultimately only the mission’s fruit flies survived the satellite’s return to Earth. cs By chuck shepherd UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE
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sponge or toothbrush and some detergent. Freezing your jeans is another story. The idea has been floating around the Internet for a while, and evidently Levi’s spokespeople have blithely passed it along, but it wasn’t part of Bergh’s pitch in this instance. The Canadian undergrad you refer to, Josh Le, wore a pair of jeans for a year-plus without washing them, and claimed to have controlled their odor via freezing. But his project wasn’t conducted rigorously enough to support any claims about bacteria. So let’s break down your question: The CEO of Levi Strauss recently suggested Q: Should you freeze jeans to kill bacteria jeans shouldn’t be laundered, but left in the and remove odors? freezer overnight to kill bacteria and remove A: This advice is without scientific basis. odors. Supposedly this preserves the fit and Q: Do you need to wash jeans? saves water. Previously, a student at the UniA: I won’t say never. But you can probably wash them less often than most people do. versity of Alberta studied the growth of bactePersonal testimony: Years ago, before the ria on his jeans after wearing them for months dawn of pre-washed denim, I maintained at a time, and concluded that the bacterial count eventually flatlines. He also put his jeans one might go a long spell between jeans washings, not so much to conserve water as in the freezer to remove offensive smells. Will to preserve jeans that had attained the optifreezing my jeans get rid of their odor? —Joe mal broken-in state between new-bought F., Berkeley stiffness and eventual disintegration. My jeans-care method was as follows: HIGH TIME we got this sorted out. 1. Buy jeans. In the frontier days of my At the Brainstorm Green sustainability conference in May that set the online world youth, while you did see some variety in jeans styles, for fabric you had one choice: a-twittering about denim-washing best new denim, which was a uniform blue and practices, Levi Strauss CEO Chip Bergh had the suppleness of plywood. You wanted didn’t in fact suggest putting your jeans in the freezer. (At least he didn’t do so on cam- to hustle through this phase as quickly as possible. era.) What he said was you didn’t need to 2. Wear jeans every day and wash them launder jeans, and claimed the year-old pair every night. I wasn’t one of those feckless he was wearing had never seen a washing adolescents who washed their jeans five machine. Bergh’s previous employer was soapmaker times in a row or wore them wet to improve Procter & Gamble. One suspects there was the fit. However, it was obvious machine washing accelerated the aging process, so I bad blood. Anyway, his green brainstorm: Life-cycle figured I might as well scoot things along. 3. The desired degree of fade and give havwater consumption for a pair of jeans is ing been achieved, sharply reduce the washing more than 900 gallons. Much of this goes schedule, thereby postponing the day when the into pre-washing the denim at the factory; jeans get so threadbare you have to patch them, half is used by the customer washing the or (later) make cutoffs, or (finally) toss them jeans at home. To save water, therefore, one might: (a) buy the new Levi’s line of factory- and start over. I didn’t go a year between washings, and never tried the freezer treatunwashed jeans, and/or (b) stop washing ment (frankly I’d never heard of the freezer your jeans, other than spot-cleaning with a
treatment). However, assuming I didn’t spill 30-weight or something on my pants, I might go weeks or months between washings. Then I met the future Mrs. Adams. She believed frequent if not daily washing of jeans (and everything else) was not merely a moral imperative but a practical necessity, because dirt itself, not agitation in the washing machine, was what accelerated fabric deterioration. I had a choice: empirical observation or domestic harmony. I caved. The facts remain: • Nobody claims you shouldn’t wash jeans if they become grimy or smelly. We assume, however, that the modern jeans-wearer leads a life of dirt-free, climate-controlled comfort. • Freezing jeans does nothing. It doesn’t kill bacteria, it just temporarily slows their growth. Heating jeans would do the trick, but is at odds with the goal of conserving resources. • As we’ve established here recently, the average person sheds a liter or more of insensible sweat per day. Much of this no doubt migrates through one’s clothes. However, the sweat emanating from most of the body’s surface is produced by eccrine glands, contains no oil, and doesn’t become smelly. The apocrine glands, which produce oily and potentially fragrant sweat, are concentrated in a few regions of the body, the relevant one for present purposes being the groin. Assumption number two: the modern jeans-wearer also wears underwear and changes it daily. • Washing jeans from the standpoint of odor suppression, therefore, isn’t urgent— and, to be blunt, blue hides the dirt. No sense being an extremist, of course. My advice: wash those jeans annually, whether they need it or not. cs By cecil adams Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.
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‘I try to stay positive. That’s the main thing.’ Statts Fest is when the local music community comes together to help one of their own by jim morekis jim@connectsavannah.com
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It’s been six years since the hot summer night in 2008 when Jason Statts and his friend and bandmate David Williams were shot in an armed robbery on 48th Street. They were unloading their gear right after a gig at the old Live Wire. One bullet from the robber’s pistol entered Statts’ neck, immediately paralyzing him from the chest down. The same bullet kept going and hit Williams in the throat, injuring a vocal cord. A lot has changed—and not changed— in those six years. Statts remains paralyzed and largely bedridden. He went through a divorce. David Williams recently moved to Atlanta. The shooter, Desmond Hunter, was convicted of the crime and is serving a life term plus 80 years. And in a horrible déjà vu, this year’s hot summer brought yet another barrage of shootings all over Savannah. One thing that’s remained constant, however, is Statts Fest, which since its inception as an ad hoc benefit just two months after the shooting has become one of Savannah’s most anticipated musical events. The fifth edition of the fully-realized Statts Fest happens all day Saturday at the Jinx, with an impressive lineup including local favorites CUSSES and nationally renowned local metal band Black Tusk. The festival not only brings together a diverse range of local and regional acts, it also celebrates Statts’s own devotion to making music—which he continues to do, in his own way. “I have no movement in my legs or basically below my chest. I’m able to move my right and left arms, but no fingers yet,” Statts explains from his bed. “I can do certain things with my hands. There’s a lot I can do that I didn’t think I’d be able to do. A lot of it is just relearning how to do certain things.” The game-changing technology for Statts is something now pretty commonplace: the iPad. He uses that to compose the album art he’s known for, as well as getting back into writing and playing music. “The iPad has been my thing, my tool for like two years,” he says. “I guess you could say I definitely got hurt in the right techno28 logical time.”
Jason Statts in his home. The local musician was shot in an armed robbery attempt in 2008. He remains paralyzed from the chest down. Photo by Geoff L. Johnson Statts is mostly limited to using the back of his pinkie to interface with the iPad, but he says “I just figured out I can use a little stylus I’ve had for awhile. I tried it the other day and it actually works pretty well. The drawing’s getting there with practice. I’m glad I can still do it.” His music these days is “mostly just sound. I like sounds and noises and soundtrack kinds of things. I don’t do it as often as I wish I could. I’m trying to get back into making music in a style I’m happy with given what I’ve got to work with.” Statts doesn’t get out of his Parkside house much—maybe three times a year to non-medically related events. For the most part he’s bedridden, and attended to by a small but trusted group of caregivers.
While remaining immobile in a bed poses its own problems, long stints out of bed in the wheelchair are not only fatiguing, but due to the nature of his spinal injury potentially dangerous as well. “Since I’ve been bedridden so long it’s a process of building back time in the chair, a few hours at a time. Without jumping into it, because I can cause more damage that way,” he says. “I almost get there and something will happen and I’m back in the bed for awhile. It can happen real fast and that’s it. And then it’s a lot of recovery time.” Statts says there’s never a time when he’s not in pain. “People think when you’re paralyzed you don’t feel anything, but that’s just not the case. They don’t know I still have pain all
the time, 24/7,” he says. “You have nerve pain that’s pretty terrible. I get impulses shot through, but they just don’t make it. It’s a really weird feeling.” Statts is on a regular regimen of prescribed painkillers, “but I try to keep the dose pretty low,” he says. “I’m trying not to increase the medicine because I don’t want to be a zombie. So I choose the pain over being a zombie. Which is sometimes kind of a stupid decision,” he laughs. Lately, Statts has been battling a series of health issues directly related to the extent of his bed confinement. “I was just in the hospital for about a week, with a kidney stone, bladder stone, bladder infection, and UTI all at the same time. Usually it’s stuff like that that gets me. It’s all a normal part of dealing with a spinal injury,” he says. “I try to stay positive. That’s the main thing. To stay positive. I don’t think I’ll walk again. I guess there’s always a hope that I’ll be able to walk again, but I just don’t think it’s medically possible or scientifically possible,” Statts says. Still, Statts makes a point of attending each edition of Statts Fest for as long as he’s physically able. “Hopefully I’ll be able to go for most of it this year. I usually try, but sometimes it’s to my detriment if I stay out too long. I’m still trying to figure out that sweet spot.” Statts jokes that he’s usually the last to know what bands are playing at the festival named for him. “I usually get surprised at the end. They tell me who’s going to be there and where it’s going to be. I have no clue most of the time,” he smiles. “We keep Jason on a need-to-know basis,” laughs John Collenberger. Since Williams’s departure to ATL, Collenberger—drummer in Conquer/Devour, also playing at the Fest —has been taking a lead role in organizing the benefit. “We usually start putting it together probably about six months before the event,” Collenberger says. “Last year’s was so big we sort of wanted to scale back a little this year. We got a lot of bigger bands this year, but it’s still mostly a local thing. Most of the acts haven’t performed at any of the past benefits.” continues on p. 30
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Savannah-born metal band Black Tusk performs at this year’s Statts Fest at the Jinx; their sound is reminiscent of Statts’s own style. Photo by Geoff L. Johnson Angel Bond is vocalist of CUSSES, one of the bands that hasn’t yet performed at a Statts Fest. “We are super excited and honored to be a part of Statts Fest this year. We love seeing Jason’s friends and this community come together for a great guy, showing us how caring the people in this city are time and time again,” Bond messages us from the road. “This will be our first time playing it, AND we get to play earlier than most of you are used to seeing us, game on!” In a way, Statts Fest has played its own role in helping the once-disparate Savannah music scene coalesce in ways not always apparent in years past. “The scene has always been good, but bands could have done more to support one another in the past. Seems like there was a cliquey, almost kind of a high school thing going on,” recalls Statts. “I think everybody in the scene should support everyone no matter the sound. That’s why they try to pick such diverse bands to be in this thing. I think that’s cool. It brings people out who might never really talk to each other, so they can have a better dialogue.” As Savannah’s arts and culture scene progresses, however, one thing doesn’t seem to get much better: Out-of-control gun violence continues to plague the city. “They’re a bunch of little cowards with guns. And cowards and guns are a bad mixture,” Statts says by way of explanation of the latest summer of violence.
“I just think they’re cowards who don’t know what else to do. It’s sad in a way. And it all makes me feel for the victims, because I know what can happen in just one second,” he says. Statts remains puzzled at the apparent need for some to inflict pain and damage on others. “If you wave a gun at someone, they’re probably going to do whatever you want them to do. You don’t really have to shoot them to make your point,” he muses. “I don’t know if there’s a courtesy involved with ripping someone off [laughs], but there should be at least a little bit of nicety before you blow someone away.” As for Statts’ assailant, “I don’t really think about him or the shooting for long. I know he wasted his life. But that was his decision. I’m at peace with myself. Whatever happens now happens.” But Statts doesn’t go so far as to say he always feels fortunate to have survived. “Yeah, sometimes I do wish I’d just gone away that night. But most of the time it’s good. It could be worse, much worse.” cs Fifth Annual Statts Fest Featuring Devil at My Side; Conquer/Devour; Bottles and Cans; City Hotel; Black Tusk; Hot Pink Interior; Crazy Bag Lady, CUSSES; and The Savannah Sweet Tease Burlesque Revue. When & Where: Sat. Sept. 13, 5 p.m.-3 a.m., doors 4 p.m., The Jinx, 127 W. Congress St. Cost: $20, ages 21+ Full schedule and lineup: www.friendsofstatts.com
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Peter Shannon on the Savannah Philharmonic’s season opener in May. And folks like me who like a little contemporary music will get a rise in April. “We’re going to try and do… modern, and The Savannah try that first in a chamber setting and see if Philharmonic’s sumthere’s an audience,” Shannon says. “Savanmer break has been a nah’s a quirky town, as you know.” bit like that one sumQuirky enough for works composed in mer you took lots of 1932, 1940 and 1944 at least. The conducphotos and regretted tor says if all goes well, that concert, featurnothing. There’s been ing about a half-dozen musicians, will be a a lot of activity, to say the least. preview for even bigger and more modern Since the curtain closed on last season, works, by living composers, next year. the orchestra announced that conductor Whiplash now. Haydn. His magnificent, Peter Shannon will take a second job, conlooking-back-to-Handel “The Creation” is ducting the orchestra in Jackson, TN. on the calendar. The orchestra and chorus And last month, the ensemble announced will perform this sacred and lavish oratorio a collaborative production. They’ll put in the dead of winter. And if that doesn’t on two Puccini operas in March, with merit highlight, nothing does. Will any of these exacting concerts sufthe Savannah Music Festival and Savannah fer from Shannon’s monthly, weeklong visits Voice Festival. This week, however, the focus gets back to with the Jackson Symphony Orchestra? He where it all belongs: on that baton, that first says, far from it, assuring that more baton time will compliment his work here. Like an downbeat, when the magic begins and the athlete practices, a conductor must conduct. music pours non-stop through spring. I spoke to Shannon about the upcom“That really translates into a much more ing season, includsovereign countenance on stage,” Shannon ing opening night’s says. “And that relaxes meaty Dvořák. The the musicians, it relaxes Czech composer me and makes a wonon a program usuderful catalyst for good ally means his music-making.” popular ninth symphony, “From the Orchestras share conNew World.” But ductors all the time. It’s fairly common. And so Shannon is going is collaboration with with Dvořák’s pastoral Conductor Peter Shannon other affiliated cultural seventh symphony. groups. Partnerships bring talent together. “It’s quite somber, which is unique in Next year’s “Puccini alliance” might end Dvořák’s work,” Shannon says. “But I up being like that modern chamber music absolutely love it. And the somberness of the first movement is contrasted with the concert, a test run, for three growing and scherzo in the third movement, which evolving, but separate, organizations. “It’s a hand-in-glove fit,” Shannon says. is incredibly lighthearted and very cleverly The Music Festival, Voice Festival and put together.” Philharmonic will present two comThe season opener also features a piano tour de force, Rachmaninoff ’s “Rhapsody on plete operas on the same bill. Puccini’s a Theme by Paganini.” It’s a popular work, “Gianni Schicchi” (pronounced “Johnny Ski setting 24 musical variations end to end Key”) and Suor Angelica are typically staged as one piece. I guarantee you’ve heard the together since they’re two of the composswooning 18th variation. er’s shorter works. Rounding out Saturday’s concert will Those tickets go on sale with the Music be a medley of booze-swilled student Festival in November. But for the Philharmonic, your season has just turned. cs songs, timely enough for us. Brahms wrote his “Academic Festival Overture” as a tongue-in-cheek ode to his college Savannah Philharmonic benefactors. Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Dvorák, soloist Fanya Lin Later, Shannon says he’s looking forward Sat. Sept. 13, 7:30 p.m. Lucas Theatre to the challenging all-German season closer tickets.savannahboxoffice.com By Orlando Montoya savannahpodcast.com
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The local Dirty Dolls burlesque troupe travels extensively throughout the Southeast. They could easily perform elsewhere this weekend if they wanted to. But this is Pride Weekend back home, and Dirty Doll Mary Contrary says there was never a question where they’d be. “The Dirty Dolls’ first show was in the basement of Club One during Pride 2013. We’re still thrilled to be Savannah’s only event catering to LGBT women. As such, we can’t imagine not being here to celebrate,” she says. About hometown audiences, she tells us, “We perform throughout the east coast and Midwest but there’s something very special about our Savannah audience. They seem to understand and appreciate what we do on a different level. I always want our show to be more than just a sexy striptease. Savannah audiences recognize and enjoy the artistry and creativity that doesn’t always resonate with other audiences.” Mary confirms the general sense about Pride Week activities, and LGBT-oriented events in general: That as a celebration of inclusiveness, they welcome anyone. “You see plenty of straight people coming out to support their LGBT friends. Gay and straight parents bring their children out to enjoy the festival. It’s no longer just for gays and lesbians,” she says. “It’s always been important to me that everyone feels comfortable and welcome at our shows. It ties right into the purpose of Pride: creating a sense of community and acceptance.” The Pour Larry’s show features a 6 p.m. meet ‘n’ greet with the ladies; all proceeds benefit Savannah First Responders.
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Perhaps it’s the Real Housewivesesque schadenfreude that comes from seeing society ladies fall from grace. Or maybe it’s just our infatuation with hoarders. Whatever the cultural root, there’s something about the saga of aristocrats Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith Bouvier Beale, that continues to fascinate. Known as “Big Edie” and “Little Edie,” this quirky pair of New York bluebloods once enjoyed the highfalutin Manhattan high life of the 1950s, attending parties and entertaining suitors. Decades later, they were discovered living among stray cats and fetid squalor in their decaying Long Island estate, Grey Gardens. First captured in David and Albert Maysles’ 1975 documentary of the same name, the fact that these charming, tragic eccentrics were close cousins of former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis only served to embroider their legend. The film inspired a Broadway musical, nominated for 10 Tonys in 2007 and winning three, including Best Actress awards for leads Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson as well as Best Costume Design. Deliciously campy with surprising emotional depth, the musical examines social constructs about class and the mother/ daughter dynamic while giving plenty of opportunity for the audience to tap its toes. (Another film, sans singing and starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange, was released by HBO in 2009.) The stage show’s catchy score and complex themes inspired Collective Face Ensemble artistic director David I.L. Poole to choose it for the company’s first musical. Assisted by musical director Warren Heilman and wardrobe designer Chan Givens, Poole aims to strike the balance between the show’s droll lyrics with its tragic absurdity. “It’s going to appeal to people who like musicals and to people who don’t,” he says. “It’s a perfect play about what you’ve accomplished in life and what you haven’t.” Though the main characters eventually become recluses, there are plenty of supporting roles for Collective Face members Chris- Mickey Dodge (l.) and Maggie Hart play the mother/daughter duo Big Edie and Little 36 topher Blair, Mark Rand, Zachary Burke, Edie in Grey Gardens The Musical. Photos courtesy of Collective Face Ensemble.
Brandon Spaulding, Anna Claire Edenfield and Anna Smith. But it’s Big Edie and Little Edie that drive the pathos. Echoing the casting switch-up of the Broadway production, Maggie Hart anchors the play as Big Edie in the first act, then swaps roles to become Little Edie in the second. Armstrong theatre major Mary Caitlin McMahon plays Little Edie in the first act, and Mickey Dodge captures the delusional Big Edie in her later years. Theatre fans have previously seen Dodge as “the ditzy old lady” in local productions of Pride and Prejudice, Tom Sawyer and Suddenly Last Summer. Audiences will surely recognize Hart, perennially voted Best Actress by Connect readers and thoroughly excited about her latest role as the new middle school drama and music appreciation teacher at St. Andrews. Connect sat down with these Savannah stage veterans to discuss the enduring adoration of Grey Gardens, the Kennedy connection and the importance of being Edie. Have you been coveting these plumb female roles for a while? Mickey Dodge: I’ve wanted to do this show
for six, seven years. I saw the documentary when it first came out and the newer film with Jessica Lange. Then I saw that there was an award-winning Broadway musical where an older woman won a Tony! So I’m amazed that I’ve been asked to play Big Edie and that I’ve still got the pipes to do it. Maggie Hart: [to Dodge] Yes, you do! With your character, the range is so wide. There are moments where we’re down in the low tones, and then suddenly we’re trilling up the higher ranges for the high society days. Vocally, this show is really challenging. Maggie, there’s also the challenge of playing the double role, right? MH: Well, it’s been quite a journey because
I’ve been focusing on two different women. I observe Mickey a lot, because I play her in the first act. So I notice what characteristics she has and concentrate on how to keep the through line. Then I have to observe Mary Caitlin, so I can bring her Little Edie into the second act. I’m trying to have two separate brains here.
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As always with any Collective Face production, there’s careful attention paid to matching the set and costumes to the period, in this case both the 1950s and the 1970s.
The documentary came out in the 70s, and both of these women are long dead. Why do we continue to adore them?
MH: Well, the clothing is so much a part of the characters, and David [Poole] insists on being as genuine as possible. Costume designer Chan Givens has helped him source all these items, and almost everything every character wears is as authentic from the era. MD: [nodding enthusiastically] David is amazing about what he can find online. Joe Kennedy wears an actual “swimming outfit” from Maggie Hart plays a double role as Big Edie in the first act and Little Edie in the the 50s. It’s gorgeous. second. One of Little Edie’s shining moments in the second act is her song about her “revo- MD: She really embodies what it’s like not to lutionary costume.” What revolution is fit in. I lived through the 50s and 60s, and I she dressing for? remember if you didn’t wear pink and black, if you didn’t wear the Weejun loafers with a MH: Well, first, she’s revolting against her penny in them, you were just snubbed. mother…[conspiratorially] ”mother wanted It’s also about Little Edie’s delusion, I me to wear a kimono…” think. She talks about how she would have Then we get into the people living in the decorated the White House if she and Joe Hamptons at this time. The polo riders, the Kennedy had gotten married. topsiders, the khakis—she’s rebelling against the conformity of society.
MD: In my mind, they echo that little bit of madness that’s in all us. Also, being an older mother of grown daughters, I understand the conflicts and yet, the dedication to each other. I think that resonates with people. And of course the Kennedy connection will always fascinate people. MH: David told us from the beginning, “these women live theatrically.” And what fun that is, to just live... [singing] to have your cake, and eat it too! So even though they’re kind of tragic, they are full of joy, and I think that’s why people just love these women. They’re just so unapologetically eccentric.
But there’s this element of repulsion there, too. I mean, these ladies are the first famous hoarders. Was there anything about them that was just too much? MD: [makes a face] Ugh, the bedbugs… MH: [wrinkling her nose] And the paté. Which
was really cat food… MD: …and just the idea that this glorious house fell into such disrepair … I can’t even
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Every evening, as darkness descends in downtown Savannah, the streets begin to fill with specters. They come from all corners of the world, perusing the shops and attractions by day but prowling the shadows at night, listening. Some are just looking for a little spinetingling thrill on their visit to the Hostess City. Others are seeking answers relating to parallel dimensions and beliefs about eternity. But what most haunts these visitors to Savannah (and its locals, too) is the city’s reputation for a good ghost story. “We’re all looking for affirmation that our souls know where to go,” muses Louis Clausi, co-author of the recently-released book Spirits of Savannah. “It’s not a ghost thing, it’s a human thing.” Clausi knows his ghosts and their stories: He’s spent a decade as a guide with Savannah Hearse Ghost Tours, chauffeuring thousands and giving out goosebumps like candy. The seasoned raconteur of spooky tales has mined history and lore for the 16 stories that he and “co-conspiritor” Julie Lieberman present in this richly illustrated tome, launching this Friday, Sept. 12 at Le Snoot Gallery. Clausi and Lieberman characterize Spirits of Savannah as historical fiction, combining facts and dates with personal accounts and a splash of poetic drama. But each story contains a foundation from the city’s actual chronicles, researched by Clausi as he earned his Masters’ degree from Armstrong State University earlier this year. “I had a professor, Dr. Barbara Fertig, who always related any point in history back to what was happening in Savannah at that time,” says Clausi. “For any good ghost story,
it’s history that sets the stage.” Readers meet ancient natives and former slaves trapped in time’s endless loop. Phantom piano players, mystical mirrors and eternal Jones Street resident Eliza Thompson make eerie appearances. Three little girls murdered in a Greek Revival House on Calhoun Square just won’t go to bed, ever. The suspenseful narratives are set against smoky graphics, and Lieberman’s lavish, jewel-toned illustrations deepen the delicious creepiness. “Louis would tell me the stories and they immediately inspired the visuals,” says Lieberman, a SCAD illustration professor and longtime believer in the supernatural. “I’ve had a ghost following me around since I was five,” she laughs. Lieberman and Clausi have both lived in the Thomas Square neighborhood for years, “back when it was really rough,” and she has always been deeply attracted to Savannah’s otherworldly atmosphere. “I think I became an artist because I’m sensitive to the intrinsic and extrinsic elements of a place,” says the former New Yorker. Strangely enough, Lieberman and Clausi circled the same neighborhoods for years in New York, but providence only brought them together in Savannah. Though they were once linked romantically, their relationship has evolved exclusively into the artistic realm. The creative partners’ affinity for ghost stories transmogrified into the project last year, and the initial thousand copies of Spirits of Savannah were printed last month with the help of a Kickstarter fund. Those have been distributed for sale in downtown shops frequented by Savannah visitors and locals
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Duplessie and contribu(real and ethereal), tions by local filmmakincluding Roots Up ers and live performers, Gallery and Artsy’s the show promises to on River Street. bring even more life to For ghost enthusithe local undead. asts, it’s a far more In the meantime, as meaningful souvenir Louis Clausi and Julie Lieberman cap- they entwine Savannah than a fuzzy photo history with its spectral of a shadow cast by a ture the city’s creepy charm in their illustrated book, Spirits of Savannah. folklore, the authors streetlight. Photo by Jessica Leigh Lebos invite the curious to Friday’s launch at tread into a more philLe Snoot is the first osophical dimension. event in the digital galWhile he claims no direct experience with lery’s new space on West Duffy. The airy, open floor design will host the book signing, the paranormal, Clausi believes in unlimited possibilities about how “one’s spirit can prints of Lieberman’s work as well as the embrace the afterlife.” He points out that town’s most metaphysical musicians: many cultures have rituals that allow the livNicodemus and Anitra of Men Smash ing to relate with the dead, and the fascinaAtoms will send up the sonorous vibes tion with Savannah’s ghosts may fulfill the along with the Baked Alaska Band, Xulu and Yonahbug—perhaps with the intention primal urge to interact with what he calls “the great mystery.” of conjuring spirits who like to dance. “We’re not trying to convince people of As interest in the project builds, the Spiranything,” assures Clausi. its of Savannah collaboration has extended “People have to decide what they believe beyond the book’s glossy pages. Clausi and on their own.” cs Lieberman have used the words and paintings as a springboard for an interpretive Spirits of Savannah Book Launch multimedia extravaganza, to be performed at the end of October at the Jepson Center When: 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12 for the Arts. Where: Le Snoot Digital Print Gallery, 11 W. Duffy St. Employing original music by Clausi, ani- Cost: Free mation by digital design wizard Matthew Info: facebook.com/spiritsofsavannah
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Latin Chicks opens second location the new place on Wednesday, and the variety of dishes was a bit mind-bending, even for a foodie of gustatory fame like himself. Mary Githens of He’s a steak-lover from way back, so he San Borca in Lima, Peru went with the Columbian-style Churrasco came here as a young Steak, flame-grilled pieces served with chigirl with big ideas. Mirmichurri sauce, which, if you’ve never tried iam Sosa of Torreon, it, I encourage you to do so: finely-chopped Coahuila, Mexico has parsley or cilantro, minced garlic, olive oil, made her fascination oregano, and lime juice makes an excellent with Mexican, Latin dip for bread, steak, or chicken. American and I was in hog heaven, literally, over the new Caribbean cuisine a lifetime study. Bring these two friends together, throw in Roasted Pork in Mojo sauce. Made of fresh pineapple, orange and lime juices with garlic a Business and Economics degree, and the strong will to introduce something special to and seasonings that vary according to country, the sauce tenderizes the meat, which is their new home in Savannah, and you have cooked slow, producing a light, juicy gravy ignition! that makes anything it touches divine— Years of hard work and saving every penny has paid off, my friends, because that even ordinary rice and beans experience an apotheosis under its tender touch! colorful little nook in the Oglethorpe Mall, Fish tacos are famous here and the prowith its distinctive burnt orange and black color theme and evocative images of golden vocative scent of the Saltado de Pollo— chicken sautéed in a rich wine-based chickens roasting over open flames—the Mary Githens of Peru (left), and Miriam Sosa of Mexico, Latina entrepreneurs! one that serves actual Latin cooking—and I sauce—drew me from across the room to Photo by Cheryl Baisden Solis don’t mean tacos!—has expanded itself to a investigate. For those looking for delicious, yet ecoSweets are few but potent—you may full-service restaurant with a complete bar, teeth ache. Half will do, even for those with nomical take-out, try the Family Meal: think that two churros are not enough with a killer sweet-tooth. The flan here is wellas well as a big deck out back. Whole Fire-Roasted Chicken, four full sides a family dinner, but you gotta see ‘em first: Located on Waters where Salsarita’s formade and may be the preferred dessert for and 2 filled churros, all for only $21.99 and about a foot long, fried crisp, like a ridged, merly resided, catty-corner from Barnes, those of us who do not seek a sugar-high. worth every penny. They’ve added more heavier doughnut, sprinkled with cinnamon it’s easy to find and, least you worry, has Last but not least is the full bar, with a plenty of parking in back. Just as in the mall sides as well, so if you want to go all health- and sugar, stuffed with Dulce de Leche and very Happy Hour 3-6pm daily. Along with conscious, choose the green salad or sautéed crowned with strawberry or guava fruit store the specialty remains the coal-fired plenty of domestic and imported (usually veggies. topping, they are rich enough to make the chicken—aka Pollo a la Brasa (Peru’s verLatin-based) beers to choose from, I take sion of rotisserie chicken—only MUCH advantage of the fine Mojitos, made with better), but the move to the new place has fresh mint, or the Brazilian caipirinha that brought plenty of fresh dishes with it. will knock your socks off with pure, hardDon’t be too timid in your selections: liquor squeezed from sugar cane. sure, the chicken is great, but these ladies Though it’s not listed on the menu, ask have a lot more to offer. for the Pisco Sour, Peru’s national drink, “We have a whole new section of the which sounds deceptively girly, being commenu with delicious appetizers,” Mary says. posed of their white wine brandy Pisco, “The recipes are mostly Miriam’s because fresh lime juice and a froth of egg white on she’s the one with the broad base of all kinds top, sprinkled with a soupçon of cinnamon. of Latin cooking—she trains all our cooks My Peruvian husband courted me with and makes sure that everything looks beauthis superb concoction, so tread lightly at tiful and tastes good when it comes out.” first, unless you want to end up at the altar Now you can find Brazil’s Bolinhos de or under the tattoo needle some midnight. Bacalhau, golden fried fritters of salt cod Don’t miss the Grand Opening Sept. 16, and potatoes, or two Peruvian delights: Papa with live Latin music, lots of free appetizers, Rellena, round potato balls stuffed with a probably some hot dancers as well—plans juicy, well-seasoned mix of beef and onions, are still brewing—and a ribbon cutting. cs as well as Papa a la Huancaina, slices of potato in a mild, creamy cheese sauce—if ‘Latin Chicks’ Latin American Restaurant you ever go to a Peruvian party, you’ll see at 5205 Waters Ave., 912-495-5133 least three dishes of it—it’s popular for good Mon-Thu 10am-9pm, Fri-Sat 10am-10pm, Sun 11amreason! Stuffed Tostones (plantain fritters) with Avocado & Grilled Shrimp. 9pm 40 One of my best buds and I checked out Photo by Cheryl Baisden Solis www.latinchicksrestaurant.com SEP 10-16, 2014
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us her large scale pastel and charcoal drawings on wood panels utilizing her well known expressive style. Closing Reception Friday, Sep. 26, 6-8 pm. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St.
Animal Sculpture Workshop — Cultural Arts
Gallery host a two-day Animal Sculpture Workshop taught by Armstrong State University’s ceramics professor, Mac McCusker. This workshop will teach students how to build solid sculptures, hollow them out, and create textured finishes. Open to all skill levels and ages 12 and up. Fee based Sat., Sep. 13. Cultural Arts Gallery, 9 W. Henry St.
Helen Levitt: In the Street — The exhibit, a collaboration with the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, displays the work of one of America’s ground-breaking photographers. The photographs are drawn from the permanent collections of both the Telfair and the High. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.
Call for Entries for Fall’s Miniature Masterpiece Show — The Hospice Savannah Art Gallery
invites local artists to donate a piece of art no larger than 12” by 12” (including frame or mat) for their annual silent auction and reception on Thursday, November 6, 2014. Works will hang October 1st and should be delivered with the entry form by September 15th. Art will be priced at $50 with silent bid increments of $10. Work will be judged and prizes given at the closing reception. Download an application at www.HospiceSavannah.org/ArtGallery. Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, 1352 Eisenhower Drive.
Cloth, Color & Creativity — The Savannah Quilt Guild presents an exhibition featuring over 70 handmade quilted works by 36 members of the Guild. Guided tours and demonstrations will accompany the show on four consecutive Wednesdays starting September 24 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Demonstration topics include: September 24, Enhancing Your Quilts with Machine Embroidery; October 1, Building Confidence in Your Fabric Selection; October 8, Art Quilts; and October 15, Embellishments. An opening reception will be held on Friday, Sep. 12 from 5-7pm. Sep. 12-Oct. 17. Cultural Arts Gallery, 9 W. Henry St. Call for Artists for Slideluck Savannah — Slideluck Savannah, the local chapter of a national arts nonprofit, is looking for artists for its November 13 show. Deadline for submissions is October 24. Through Oct. 24. alpost135.com/. American Legion, Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Meet the Artist: Debora Oden — Printmaker Deb-
ora Oden will be at Kobo Gallery to discuss her recent work during this meet the artist
Interrelated Dialogues — Jerome Meadows presents his solo show at Whit’s End Gallery. Through Sep. 15. Indigo Sky Community Gallery, 915 Waters Ave. Jack Leigh: Full Circle, Low Country Photographs, 1972-2004 — The first museum survey of
Work by R. Land is at the Butcher, opening reception 7-10 pm on Friday, Sept. 12 event. Also on display will be the diverse work 13 additional gallery artists. Sep. 11, 2-5 p.m. Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard Street ,. From Under the Southern Cross: the People and Patterns of Argentina — A student international
art exhibition inspired by study-abroad experiences in Argentina includes artwork by Armstrong students and faculty. Sep. 15-Oct. 3. Armstrong Fine Arts Center, 11935 Abercorn St. A special collaborative project shaped by an Argentina study abroad experience that includes artwork by Armstrong students and faculty. Armstrong Fine Arts Center, 11935 Abercorn St. Land Marks by R. Land — Sep. 12-Nov. 8, 7
p.m. whatisthebutcher.com/. The Butcher Tattoo Studio, 19 East Bay St.
Lecture: On the Waterfront: Artists and the Savannah River, by Harry DeLorme, Telfair Museums Senior Curator of Education — Port City’s cura-
tor shares stories of artists who spent time on the Savannah waterfront, including tales of Savannah’s small but lively riverfront art scene and Factor’s Walk art studios of the 1930s -1980s. Free to museum members or included with museum admission. Thu.,
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Sep. 11, 6-7 p.m. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Port City: The Savannah Riverfront through Artists’ Eyes — Drawn from Telfair Museums’ col-
lection with key loans from the Library of Congress, the Georgia Historical Society and local collections, Port City tells the story of the Savannah riverfront as depicted by artists in prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs from the 1730s to the present. Sep. 12-Jan. 4. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Reception for Savannah Arts Association’s Board Show — Meet the artists of the SAA’s board
show. Exhibit runs through Sept. 29. Fri., Sep. 12, 5:30-7:30 p.m. tacasushi.com/. Ta Ca Sushi & Japanese Fusion, 513 E Oglethorpe Ave.
Continuing Exhibits Carrie Moyer: Pirate Jenny — Moyer combines
her interests in graphic design and painting in works that featured imagery from 1960s protest graphics, challenging divisions between abstract art and political content. Free for SCAD students, faculty, staff and museum members. Open to the public at the cost of museum admission. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.
Grain Fed — Recent large scale drawings
by local artist Mary Hartman. She brings
work by the acclaimed Savannah photographer since his passing 10 years ago. Leigh’s images are alongside works by photographers who inspired him, such as Eva Rubinstein, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt and George Tice. Open to public at cost of museum admission. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Joseph Ebberwein Exhibition — The JEA Art Gal-
lery presents a Joseph Ebberwein exhibition featuring mainly paintings of landscapes of the beautiful coastal marshland. Free and open to the public. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Li Hui: Halcyon Fracture — The installation, marking the artist’s first major solo exhibition in the U.S., will feature a site-specific installation titled “Halcyon Fracture.” Free for SCAD students, faculty, staff and museum members. Open to the public at the cost of museum admission. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Maggie Evans: Status — Evans creates paint-
ings and drawings that depict uniform rows of chairs and nondescript apartment buildings. Free for SCAD students, faculty, staff and museum members. Open to the public at the cost of museum admission. TSCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Orly Genger: Undertone — Genger is renowned for her monumental sculptures composed of intricately hand-knotted and painted rope. Free for SCAD students, faculty, staff and museum members. Open to the public at the cost of museum admission. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.
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O There’s one clever idea in Life After Beth, and it’s the suggestion that zombies really dig smooth jazz. When it comes to movies taking pot shots at that maligned musical genre, this concept is almost as funny as the moment in Wayne’s World 2 when Garth (Dana Carvey), hearing the name Kenny G, imagines himself having his teeth drilled by a dentist while sitting in attendance at one of his concerts. Otherwise, when it comes to the overstuffed annals of undead cinema from A (Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies) to Z (Zombies on Broadway), this anemic effort rests near the bottom of the heap. It begins with the death of Beth Slocum (Aubrey Plaza), felled by a poisonous snake bite while hiking through the woods. Her boyfriend Zach Orfman (Dane DeHaan) is understandably devastated by the loss, and he starts spending more time with Beth’s parents, Maury and Geenie (Year of the Dog co-stars John C. Reilly and Molly Shannon), than with his own folks (Paul Reiser and Cheryl Hines, both wasted) and easily agitated brother (Matthew Gray Gubler). Imagine Zach’s surprise, then, when he spots Beth lurking around the Slocum household; at first convinced that her death was a sick prank, he soon believes her parents when they tell him that she somehow came back from the dead. Geenie thinks it’s a holy resurrection while Zach figures she’s a zombie; at any rate, because she’s acting normally, with no memory of her death, Maury makes Zach promise not to tell her what really happened. That grows increasingly more difficult, not only because the Slocums don’t want their daughter ever leaving the
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house but also because her behavior grows more erratic -- and violent -- by the day. Jeff Baena makes both his directing and solo screenwriting debuts here (he previously co-wrote I Heart Huckabees with David O. Russell), but while he may have come up with an interesting seed of an idea, he has no idea how to bring it to full fruition. The picture is badly paced and, for a comedy, pretty devoid of laughs, but its primary problem is that its title character never comes across as anything more than a plot device. The movie would have been more interesting had it followed Beth and how she coped with her unique situation, but she only turns up sporadically to act sweet and, later, turn psychotic. Instead, the focus is squarely on Zach and the poor boy’s plight in dealing with a girlfriend who’s not all there in too many ways to count. This askew viewpoint is even accentuated by the second-act introduction of Erica (Anna Kendrick), a nice girl who’s only shoehorned into the plot so we can all rest assured that Zach will have a new relationship waiting once he lays his current one to rest (pun fully intended). If there’s any subtext to be found in this, it’s not particularly pleasant. Those interested in a worthwhile romantic comedy featuring zombies -- zom-rom-com is the terminology, I believe -- check out last year’s Warm Bodies. It’s far more satisfying than Life After Beth, which is strictly DOA.
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person with a death wish and more like someone who’s miffed that her local grocery store stopped carrying her favorite brand of OO pizza. Co-conspirators Robert Rodriguez and Then there’s Rourke’s Marv, who rightly Frank Miller serve up a steaming pile of sloppy seconds with the long-delayed sequel emerged as an audience favorite after the release of the first film. In fact, Marv’s poputo the 2005 hit Sin City. When the original hit theaters nine years larity explains his presence in much of this picture, as chronologically, it makes no sense ago, it was a screen original, offering dazfor him to still be alive during at least one zling visuals that were intricately patterned of the vignettes. Nevertheless, he’s the closafter those found on the pages of Miller’s est thing to a constant thread in this film, successful series of graphic novels. This alternately coming to the aid of Dwight and follow-up functions in the same manner, Nancy and even wiping out a group of sadisoffering shots so beautifully conceived that they represent one of the reasons why DVD tic frat boys on his own. Lastly, there’s a new protagonist in the remote controls offer a “pause” button. It’s worth studying these images with the same form of Johnny ( Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a level of analysis and awe usually reserved for cocky kid who’s an expert gambler. Johnny insists he never loses, whether it’s while museum exhibits. Unfortunately, whereas the 2005 model of Sin City showcased a trio engaging in a hand of poker or when pulling the arm of a slot machine, and he elects of decent stories to further embellish the to pit his card skills against those of Senaocular assault, the sordid sagas on display here are by and large a feeble bunch, further tor Roark. Pound for pound, Johnny’s is the most interesting storyline, which makes it all hampered by atrocious continuity errors the more frustrating when his saga ends on that suggest Rodriguez and Miller didn’t the most unsatisfactory note. Then again, it’s even have any recollections of making a Sin hard to get too worked up about anything City flick before this one. that occurs in this disappointing neo-noir; In the 2005 picture, the heroes were to paraphrase Chinatown, “Forget it, Jake; it’s played by Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis Sin City.” and Clive Owen, and they all return in this combo prequel-sequel, albeit in altered versions. There was a line in Sin City about THE NOVEMBER MAN Owen’s Dwight McCarthy having had facial OO reconstruction, and that’s borne out with It was in 2002 that the spy trade became the casting of Josh Brolin as Dwight, giving a young man’s game. While Pierce Brosnan us the man before he went under the knife. was making his final appearance as James Yet while his different looks are explained, Bond in the roundly, soundly ridiculed Die his different actions are not - simply put, it’s Another Day, Vin Diesel came roaring to the impossible to reconcile the Dwight played front with xXx (which even opens with a by Brolin with the one essayed by Owen. sequence in which a 007-esque secret agent In this outing, Dwight gets mixed up with gets murdered while on assignment) and a femme fatale named Ava; she’s played by Matt Damon did even better by kicking off Eva Green, who’s making a year out of play- the successful Jason Bourne franchise with ing strong women in weak movies (she was The Bourne Identity. the only positive to be found in the execrable But the older agents weren’t quite ready to 300: Rise of an Empire earlier this year). throw in the towel. Daniel Craig reenergized Meanwhile, Willis’ good cop Hartigan the Bond stock with 2006’s Casino Royale, died at the end of his segment in the first Gary Oldman picked up a Best Actor Oscar picture, so here he only pops up now and nomination for 2011’s Tinker Tailor Soldier then as a ghost, causing exotic dancer Nancy Spy, and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman ( Jessica Alba) to intone, “I see dead people.” commanded attention in this summer’s No, not really; she actually doesn’t see him, A Most Wanted Man. Heck, even Rowan focusing all her thoughts on murdering Sen- Atkinson did his part for Queen and Counator Roark (Powers Boothe), the corrupt try with a pair of Johnny English comedies. kingpin responsible for her miseries. Nancy And now here’s Brosnan, the former is given the largest character arc out of any Bond himself, back in the saddle again at Sin City resident: Once a perpetually chipthe age of 61, showing he’s still got what it per survivalist who wouldn’t let anything get takes by engaging in espionage activities in her down, she has, in the wake of Hartigan’s The November Man. It’s a pet project for the death, become an embittered alcoholic with actor - he’s been trying to bring the late Bill suicidal tendencies. Or at least that’s what Granger’s novel (original title: There Are the plot suggests: As played by the limited No Spies) to the screen for almost a decade, and he receives an executive producer credit 44 Alba, Nancy seems less like a damaged SEP 10-16, 2014
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- and he’s even stated that there will be a sequel based on one of Granger’s other novels. Yet the result is so desultory, it’s hard to imagine anyone wanting to see a follow-up best to wait for the next 007 outing instead. Brosnan’s Peter Devereaux is a CIA operative who quits the agency after his eagerbeaver young partner David Mason (Luke Bracey) accidentally kills a little boy during one of their missions. A CIA superior (Bill Smitrovich) shows up with an assignment, one that leads to Devereaux springing back into action. It also leads to him subsequently protecting a woman (Olga Kurylenko) who’s being sought by the CIA as well as a Russian politico (Lazar Ristovski) who doesn’t want his past war crimes impeding his climb to the top. Once the double-crosses begin, Devereaux ends up on the run from everyone; that includes Mason, his former protégé who now has a license to kill his erstwhile mentor. Roger Donaldson is a competent director - past credits include two very good thrillers, No Way Out with Kevin Costner and The Bank Job with Jason Statham - and he does acceptable work in keeping this film moving. And there’s an interesting bit of Six Degrees of Separation at play since Kurylenko played a Bond girl opposite not Brosnan but Craig, in 2008’s Quantum of Solace. Otherwise, this is warmed-over spy vs. spy material, albeit featuring characters whose illogical actions repeatedly place them closer on the IQ scale to Atkinson’s bumbling Johnny English than any of the Bond incarnations. In the central role, Brosnan lends his usual conviction, but one particular attempt to add complexity to the character goes too far when Devereaux brutally, almost fatally, injures Mason’s innocent girlfriend (Eliza Taylor) just to make a point. Should we assume he also drowns puppies on the side?
As if her life wasn’t already blessed enough, she also acquires a boyfriend in Adam ( Jamie Blackley), a fledgling rock star and the coolest guy at school. Matters take a turn for the horrific, though, once the Halls are involved in a brutal car accident. R.J. Cutler directs his first theatrical feature after a career spent helming TV shows and historical documentaries, and there’s nothing to indicate that branching out was a sound decision. Working from a script by Shauna Cross, he has managed to create a film that’s banal at almost every turn, with the ample flashbacks proving to be especially suffocating. Moretz is given precious little to do besides looking anxious, while Blackley is a complete dullard as this supposedly magnetic Mick-Jagger-in-the-making.
THE EXPENDABLES 3
OO Say this for The Expendables 3: It’s arguably a fraction better than the two previous installments in this AARP-endorsed franchise. Then again, I’d hate to live on the difference. The series has always been promoted as an all-star action romp in which all these muscular marquee fillers have equal rights, but really, it’s been a Sylvester Stallone vanity project all along. That’s never more apparent than in this entry, which finds Stallone’s Barney Ross deciding that his fellow mercenaries (among them Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren and newest old kid on the block Wesley Snipes) are, in the vernacular of Roger Murtaugh, too old for this shit. Of course, Barney doesn’t apply this line of logic to himself, so he axes the other oldies and surrounds himself with four young ‘uns (including Twilight player Kellan Lutz and Olympic and MMA star Ronda Rousey in her film debut) as he goes after Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), a former colleague IF I STAY who has long journeyed over to the dark OO side. Yet when these whippersnappers get Early summer found The Fault in Our captured by Stonebanks, it’s up to the seaStars producing the tears in our eyes, but late soned soldiers to pop in their dentures and summer can only offer the heaviness in our come to the rescue. eyelids in the form of If I Stay. Like Stars, Stay is similarly adapted from THE GIVER a novel in which lovestruck kids are coping OO with life-and-death situations. Yet unlike An adaptation of Lois Lowry’s awardthat earlier teen titan, this pedestrian picture winning novel, The Giver might be one of remains an emotional flatline. Chloe Grace the best films of the year ... were the year Moretz plays Mia Hall, a high school stu1996. As it stands, it’s merely the latest in dent blessed with hip parents (Mireille Enos the recent deluge of movies based on popuand Joshua Leonard), a saintly little brother lar Young Adult titles, and it hardly stands ( Jakob Davies) who refrains from doing at the head of the class. bratty little-brother things like flushing his The Giver takes place in a future world sister’s makeup down the toilet or pelting in which everyone is the same and there’s her with spitballs during dinner, and an no hunger or war but also no love or music amazing talent as a cellist. or even color (the early portion of the film
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is in black and white). The Receiver of Memories ( Jeff Bridges) is the only one who knows about the past, and he’s instructed by the Chief Elder (Meryl Streep) to pass his memories on to a new Receiver, a teen named Jonas (Brenton Thwaites). Now referring to himself as The Giver, the old man hopes that his young charge will use the memories as a springboard to a conscious awakening and rediscover what it truly means to be human. Lowry’s 1993 book has long been heralded as an essential read for middle school kids, and for the past 18 years, Bridges had been interested in bringing it to the screen. It’s a shame no one would finance the project back in the day, when it might have stood a better chance of distinguishing itself in a pre-Harry Potter/Hunger Games era. At this period in time, though, it feels like a knockoff of this past spring’s Divergent, which, on the literary front, of course came long after Lowry’s brainchild.
BOYHOOD
OOOO Richard Linklater’s Boyhood sports a gimmick that appears to be a screen original: Follow the life of an individual (as well as those around him) from the age of 7 to the age of 18, shooting new footage over the course of all 12 years. This method does have a precedent: With his Up series, Michael Apted has been filming the same group of people every seven years since he first began the project in 1970 (the most widely seen of the bunch was probably 1991’s 35 Up, though the series is up to 56 Up, released in 2012). But the key difference is that while Apted’s works are documentaries, Linklater’s film is a piece of fiction. I daresay that’s
the more difficult challenge, as the writerdirector had to build a narrative to house these people, all the while praying nothing bad would happen over the years. Fortunately for Linklater — and for us — everything turned out OK, and what’s now on view is a work that easily breaks free of the shackles of “just a gimmick” and emerges as a superb motion picture in its own right. Ellar Coltrane landed the leading role of Mason, and he was a great pick. The typical cute moppet at 7, he transforms before our eyes into a handsome teen of the brooding, soft-spoken variety. Nearly — maybe just? — as important to the proceedings is Linklater’s own daughter Lorelei Linklater, who’s cast as Mason’s older sister Samantha. When we first meet them, their parents are already divorced: Mom Olivia (Patricia Arquette) raises them as best she can, while Dad Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke) is only just now returning to their Texas stomping grounds. Over the ensuing years, we watch as Olivia tragically finds herself attracted to men who end up being alcoholic bullies while Mason Sr. pops up on weekends with the hope of bonding more fully with his offspring.
aggressively geared toward kids who aren’t particularly bright. Then again, that’s generally the modus operandi of Michael Bay, who’s attached as producer and whose sticky fingers are all over this thing (the director is Jonathan Liebesman, helmer of such junk as Battle Los Angeles and Wrath of theTitans). The
major problem with this latest TMNT product -- well, aside from its impersonal nature, mediocre performances, sloppy script and unseemly visual style - rests with the title characters themselves. cs
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OP There’s a moment late in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when one of our shell-stocked heroes woos plucky reporter April O’Neil (Megan Fox) by playing the song “Happy Together.” The joke, of course, is that the group behind that classic song was The Turtles, but this fact isn’t mentioned in the movie, meaning it’s the only gag over the course of 100 minutes that’s targeted at adults. The rest of the film, though, seems
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Activism & Politics 13th Colony Patriots
Conservative political activists that meet the 13th of each month. Dedicated to preserving the U.S. Constitution and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. See Facebook page for meeting location. Free 13th of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 912-604-4048. liveoakstore.com/ tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby's Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. Muffins with Mary Ellen
Alderman Mary Ellen Sprague's weekly conversation with District 4 constituents. Drop in to ask questions and discuss local issues. Free and open to the public. Wednesdays, 6-9 a.m. 912-659-0103. ogeecheecoffee.com/. coffee deli, 4517 Habersham St. Savannah Area Young Republicans
Get involved. Contact is Michael Johnson, via email or telephone, or see website for info. 912-604-0797. chairman@ sayr.org. sayr.org. Call or see website for information. Free ongoing. 912-3083020. savannahyoungrepublicans.com. Savannah Libertarians
Join the Facebook group to find out about upcoming local events. Mondays. Facebook.com/groups/SAVlibertarians. Savannah Tea Party
5pm social time. 5:30pm meeting begins. 6pm speaker. Reservations not necessary. Free to attend. Food and beverages available for purchase. Mondays, 5:30 p.m.. 912-598-7358. savannahteaparty.com. liveoakstore.com/ tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby's Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. Young Democrats
Mondays at 7pm on the second level of Foxy Loxy, Bull Street. Call or visit the Young Democrats Facebook page for more information. Free ongoing. 423619-7712. foxyloxycafe.com/. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Auditions and Calls for Entries Audition for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (adults and children)
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This Savannah Children's Theatre production features adults and children. Show weekends are January 23-25, 30-Feb 1, Feb 6-8 Open to ages 7 (and in second grade) to Adult. Grades 2nd-12th must be accompanied by a parent or guardian (forms will need to be signed by parents in order to audition). No need to prepare. All the materials for auditioning are provided. Sep. 15-16, 7 p.m. savannahchildrenstheatre.org/. savan46 nahchildrenstheatre.org. Savannah
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Children's Theatre, 2160 East Victory Dr. Auditions for Rocky Horror Picture Show
Possible second round Tues. Sept. 16. Callbacks Wed. Sept. 17. Show dates Oct. 17-19, 24-26, and 30. Actors should come prepared with a 16 bar (about 1 minute) audition piece, with piano sheet music. Dancing will be part of the callbacks. Mon., Sep. 15, 7 p.m. support@ baystreettheatre.org.. baystreettheatre. org/. Bay Street Theatre, 1 Jefferson St. Auditions for Tybee Arts Association Comedy
Tybee Arts Association auditions for Kitchen Witches, a play at the Jim Ingham Black Box Theater. Isobel Lomax and Dolly Biddle are two cable-access cooking show hostesses who have hated each other for 30 years, ever since Larry Biddle dated one and married the other. Auditions at the Black Box Theater. Performances: Nov. 7-10, and Nov. 14-17. Sep. 10-11, 6 p.m. (828) 226 – 1689. Tybeearts@gmail.com or Rspilton@gmail. com. Jim Ingham Black Box Theater, 7 Cedarwood Dr. Tybee Island, GA 31328. Call for Artists
The Sentient Bean seeks experienced artists for one-month-long exhibitions of his/her work. Artists must have a website with current images representing a sample of the work to be shown in order to be considered. Apply to sentientbooking@gmail.com, subject line “art show." See website for info. Fridays.. sentientbean.com/booking#visualarts. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Call for Artists/Craftsmen
Telfair Museum Stores are calling local artists & craftsmen to participate in the Annual Telfair Trunk Show held in conjunction with the "Cool Yule" sale days Dec. 6 & 7. Twelve artists will be selected: potters, jewelry makers, sculptors, glass, wood, fiber, paper & mixedmedia artists, etc.No work on canvas or that requires wall hanging. To submit sample photos and pricing, or for more info, email Lisa Ocampo at ocampol@ telfair.org. Deadline Oct. 1. Through Oct. 1. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.
donations of art work in any medium. Exhibition will hang Oct 1-Nov 6. Local artists are invited to donate a maximum of two pieces no larger than 12” by 12”. Work will be judged and prizes awarded at the closing reception. All art will be priced at $50 with bid increments of $10. Donations cannot be accepted without an entry form (see website) and must be received by September 15th, 2014. Through Sep. 15. 912-355-2289. HospiceSavannah.org/ArtGallery. Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, 1352 Eisenhower Drive. Canyon Ranch Institute Healthy World Scholarships
Canyon Ranch has generously donated 25 stays at Canyon Ranch in Tucson, AZ, as scholarships for people who work or volunteer in low-income and medically underserved communities helping to enhance the health and well-being of their local populations. What’s Included: A complimentary five-day, four-night stay at Canyon Ranch in Tucson in 2015. Apply by October 1. Details and requirements online. Wednesdays.. canyonranchinstitute.org/storage/ FINAL_Call_for_CRI_Healthy_World_ Scholarship_Apps_REV__6_17_2014.pdf. Casting for a New, Savannah-based Reality Show
Seeking possible reality show cast members who have suffered from online harassment or stalking; identity theft; cyber bullying. Show hosted by attorney Jamie Casino. Information: FirstCityFilms@Comcast.net or CastingLaw@ gmail.com Every 3 days. FirstCityFilms. com. First City Films, POB 8185. City of Savannah TV Show Seeks Entries
The City of Savannah's TV station, SGTV, seeks 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. No compensation. SGTV offers an opportunity to expose local works to over 55,000 households in Chatham County. Submit proposals via website. Saturdays.. savannahga.gov/engagesgtv.
considered includes painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture, glass, ceramics and wood. Submit 5-10 images of work, resume/CV and bio to info@kobogallery.com. Mondays. 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. ongoing. CoastalEmpireMusic. com. Oatland Island Seeks Memories and Recollections for 40th Anniversary
Oatland Island Education Center is looking for memories of Oatland Island in honor of their 40th anniversary. People who were part of the Youth Conservation Corp that helped to build Oatland Island Education Center in the 1970’s. Great memories from field trips. Special family memories of Oatland Island. Send your photos and stories to memories@ oatland40th.org. Deadline is August 31. undefined. 912-395-1500. oatlandisland. org. Weave-A-Dream Grant Applications Sought
Call for proposals for the 2014 WeaveA-Dream—Cultural & Arts Projects initiative. Applications will be accepted 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. Grants are $2500 maximum.Priority for projects for youth, seniors, and those who have limited access to arts. 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. See website for application. Mondays.. 912651-6417. cnorthcutt@savannahga.gov. (savannahga.gov\arts. Benefits Chatham County Animal Control Seeks Donations of Items
Chatham County Animal Control seeks items for pets in the facility. Canned Psyched: A Savannah-based zine to open Gallery 209, 209 East River Street, seeks and dry dog and cat food, baby formula, positive dialogue about mental health a 3D artist to join its cooperative gallery. newspaper, paper towels, soaps, crates, and illness, seeks essays, poetry, phoInterested artists call 236-4583 between leashes, collars, wash cloths, towels. Open daily, 1pm-5pm. Mondays.. 912tography and art of all kinds reflecting 10:30am--1:30 pm, or emailbmrous351-6750. animalcontrol.chathamcounpersonal experience with mental illness, seau@aol.com. Sundays.. gallery209sahealth and dis-ease. Submissions can be vannah.com/. Gallery 209, 209 E River St. ty.org. Chatham County Animal Shelter, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. Gallery Seeks Local Artists anonymous. Deadline: September 30th. Forsyth Farmers Market Seeks Sponsors Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard Street, seeks Every 3 days. psychedzine@gmail.com. Market sponsors invest in a healthy Call-for-Entries for Miniature Masterpieces 2-D and 3-D artists to join its cooperative gallery. Must be a full-time resident community and support the local econHospice Exhibition and Auction omy. Sponsorships begin at $350. Help The Hospice Savannah Art Gallery seeks of Savannah or nearby area. Work to be keep food fresh and local. Tuesdays.. Call for submissions: Psyched Zine
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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. ongoing. 912.356.8280. bikramyogasavannah.com. Richmond Hill Festive Friday
The kickoff Friday party event in a new series of fundraisers at Richmond Hill City Center, held every 2nd and 3rd Friday. This week benefits Bryan County Bark Park. Fri., Sep. 12, 5-7 p.m. Richmond Hill City Center, 520 Cedar Street. Save Water, Drink Beer
Georgia Conservancy's Generation Green highlights water conservation issues and initiatives across Georgia with networking, discussion, food, music by Robert Benton and one free Sweetwater beer. $12 Thu., Sep. 11, 6:30-9 p.m. https://secure.donationpay. org/georgiaconservancy/beer2014.php. thebritishpub.com. Churchill's Pub, 13 West Bay St. SCMPD Animal Control seeks Volunteers
Savannah Chatham County Animal Control seeks volunteers to serve various tasks as needed by the shelter. 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-yearsold. ongoing. (912) 525-2151. jlewis01@ savannahga.gov. Tea Party in the Garden
Derby-style hats are the dress code; hat contest is part of thday. Croquet and a guided tour of the gardens. Specialty drinks, tea, and tapas. A benefit for Lutheran Services of Georgia, assisting families and children in Savannah. $50 (Group Discounts Available) Sat., Sep. 13, 4-6 p.m. 912-353-8875. dharrison@ lsga.org. bit.ly/lsgteaparty. Savannah Botanical Gardens, 1388 Eisenhower Drive. Classes, Camps & Workshops
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prior 3D printing experience required. Ages: Adult Thursdays, September 4-25, 6-8 pm Telfair members $100, Nonmembers $125 Thursdays, 6-8 p.m.. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Argentine Tango Beyond Basics Group Class
A class for advanced beginners in Argentine Tango. Prerequisite: knowledge of Basic elements of Argentine Tango. No partner required. This is a 4 week course that will progress each week. $35 Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m.. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Art Classes at The Studio School
Ongoing weekly drawing and painting classes for youth and adults. See website, send email or call for details. 912484-6415. 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 912-667-1056. Artist Sacred Circle
Group forming on Fridays beginning in March. 1:30pm-3pm. Based on The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. Contact Lydia Stone, 912-656-6383 or rosesonthemove@gmail.com. ongoing. 912-6566383. rosesonthemove@gmail.com. Beading Classes
Offered every weekend at Perlina Beadshop, 6 West State Street. Check website calendar or call for info. 912-441-2656. 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. Beginner Group Guitar Classes
Covers basic chords and strumming techniques, rhythm, tuning, and use of a flatpick. Eight-week course begins Monday, September 8. Kids 6-12 from 4-4:45PM. Adults/teens from 6-6:45PM. $120 for 8 week course Mondays, 4-4:45 & 6-6:45 p.m.. savannahschooloffolkmusic@gmail.com. savannahschooloffolkmusic.org. Savannah School of Folk Music, 2421 Waters Ave.
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Taught by Happenstance Bellydance. All skill levels and styles. Private instruction available. $15 912-704-2940. happenstancebellydance@gmail.com. happenstancebellydance.wordpress. com. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Champions Training Center
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. 912-3494582. ctcsavannah.com. E3: Educate, Empower, Employ (job skills training program)
Step Up Savannah’s Chatham Apprentice Program (CAP) is recruiting for this competitive job training course. Course dates: September 22-October 16. Open to adults wanting to enhance basic employment skills or further their education. Those without a high school diploma or GED encouraged to apply. Program open to anyone unemployed or underemployed. Graduates will receive assistance with job search and one-onone coaching. Space is limited. Class is held at the Housing Authority of Savannah’s Neighborhood Resource Center on Wheaton Street. Free. Must pre-register. Through Sep. 16. (912) 656-4339 or (912) 401-0672. Chatham County Sheriff's Office Explorers Post 876
Chatham County Sheriff's Office Explorers Post 876, is taking applications from young men and women (ages 14-20) interested in law enforcement careers. Explorers experience mentoring, motivation, and learn skills which help prepare them for their roles as productive citizens. See Chatham County Sheriff's web page, click "Community/Explorers Post 876 or call. Wednesdays.. 912-651-3743. chathamsheriff.org. Classical Guitar Instruction
Professional level classical instruction with a university professor. Lessons available for all levels with Dr. Brian Luckett, DMA. Private studio in Starland District. $25/half hour, $45/hour. brian@ brianluckett.com. (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. Coffee Cupping
Like a wine tasting, but with coffee. A lesson on coffee process methods and origins worthy of a connoisseur. Free and open to the public. Donations welcome. Fridays, 11 a.m.. 912-209-0025. perccoffee.com. PERC Coffee Roasters, 1802 East Broad Street. Conscious Kids Yoga
A yoga class for children age 4 and up, to build skill, confidence, strength, and abilities of the body, mind, and heart.
$15 per class or $50 for 6 sessions (to be used within 2 months) Wednesdays, 4-4:45 p.m.. 912-544-6387. erigosavannah.com. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street. Creative Magic Mondays
A way to begin the week on a creative note. Doodling, planning, manifesting, crafting. Participants bring their own art supplies. Free. Love donation appreciated. Mondays, 11 a.m.. relaxsavannah@ gmail.com. facebook.com/creativemanifest. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. DUI Prevention Group
Offers victim impact panels for intoxicated drivers, DUI, offenders, and anyone seeking knowledge about the dangers of driving while impaired. A must see for teen drivers. Meets monthly. $40/session 912-443-0410. English as Second Language Classes
Learn conversational English, comprehension, vocabulary and life communication skills. All ages. Thursdays, 7:30pm, Island Christian Church, 4601 US Highway 80 East. Free. 912-8973604. islandchristian.org. Family Law Workshop
The Mediation Center has three workshops per month for people who do not have legal representation in a family matter: divorce, legitimation, modifications of child support, visitation, contempt. Schedule: 1st Tues, 2nd Mon, 4th Thursday. Call for times. $30 912-3546686. mediationsavannah.com. Fany's Spanish/English Institute
Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children held at 15 E. Montgomery Crossroad. Register by phone. ongoing. 912-921-4646. Feng Shui Simplified!
Feng Shui Simplified occurs on the second Sunday of the month. The class covers the nine main areas involved in Feng Shui to boost harmony in your life! $30/ class second Sunday of every month, 1 p.m. relaxsavannah@gmail.com. facebook.com/relaxsavannah. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Figure Drawing Classes
Tuesdays 6-9pm and Wednesdays 9:3012:30am. $60/4-session package or $20 drop-in fee. At the Studio School. ongoing. 912-484-6415. melindaborysevicz@ gmail.com. thestudioschoolsavannah. com. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. Guitar, Mandolin, or Bass Guitar Lessons
Emphasis on theory, reading music, and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. ongoing. 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. Finan-
cial education: 4th Fri each month, 9am-11am. Basic computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1pm-3pm. Community computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3pm-4:30pm. ongoing. 912-232-4232 x115. savannahpha.com. savannahpha.com/NRC.html. Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. Knitting & Crochet Classes
Offered at The Frayed Knot, 6 W. State St. See the calendar of events on website. Mondays. 912-233-1240. thefrayedknotsav.com. Learn to Sew
Sewing lessons for all ages and skill levels. Private and Group classes. Tuesdays.. 912-596-0889. kleossewingstudio.com. Kleo's Sewing Studio, 36 W. Broughton St. #201. Life Coaching
Group & individual life coaching with a Certified Life Coach. Plan for a career change, new lifestyle, or an opportunity to pursue creative or business projects. Step-by-step guidance to fulfill aspirations. In person or telephone sessions. Thursdays.. 912-596-1952. info@roiseandassociates.com. Downtown Savannah, downtown. Microsoft - Word 1
Achieve proficiency and confidence in basic Word functionality including: working with documents, text and page formatting, clip art, themes/styles, tables, templates, mail merge and bulleted and numbered lists. You’ll also acquire sound knowledge of the Office Ribbon. $95 Tue., Sep. 16, 6:30-9:30 p.m. 912-651-2005. ProfTrainingTech@ georgiasouthern.edu. academics. georgiasouthern.edu/ce/programs/ personaldevelopment/microsoft/. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street. Mommy & Me Relaxation Class
Teaches techniques to face the physical, mental, and emotional changes of a new mother's body, mind and heart with poise and grace. a variety of relaxation techniques for mother and child. For expecting and new moms as well as those with small children (4 and under). $15/ class or 6 classes for $50 (to be used within 2 months) Tuesdays, Thursdays, 10-11 a.m.. 912-544-6387. erigosavannah.com. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street. Music Instruction
Georgia Music Warehouse, near corner of Victory Drive & Abercorn, offering instruction by professional musicians. Band instruments, violin, piano, drums and guitar. All ages welcome. ongoing. 912-358-0054. georgiamusicwarehouse. com/. Georgia Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. Music Lessons: Private or Group
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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. Fridays.. 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. ongoing. 912692-8055. 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. ongoing. 912-354-1500. portmansmusic.com. Portman's Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St.
A six-week educational series for family caregivers, Tues. 9/16 - 10/21. How to reduce stress, build self-confidence, improve communication and decision-making techniques, locate helpful resources and create balanced lives. Pre-registration required by 9/5. Presented by Senior Citizens, Inc. Free Tuesdays, 10-11:30 a.m.. 912-236-0363. jobrien@senior-citizensinc.org. https://seniorcitizens-inc. org. Senior Citizens Inc., 3025 Bull St.
developing safety and health programs in construction. Successfully complete the course and pass a multiple-choice test to become an outreach trainer, authorized to conduct both 10- and 30hour construction courses. Construction industry outreach trainers must take OTI 502 every four years to maintain their status as an outreach trainer. 795 Mon., Sep. 15, 10 a.m. Georgia Tech Savannah, 210 Technology Circle.
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Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for General Industry
For beginners or advanced sewers. Industry standard sewing courses designed to meet standards in the garment industry. Open schedule. Savannah Sewing Academy. 1917 Bull St. Sundays.. 912-290-0072. savsew.com. Short Story Writing
In this course, students with some experience in fiction and nonfiction storytelling will use assigned readings, writing homework and workshop style critiques to explore various writing techniques. Offered by Georgia Southern Novel Writing Univ. Continuing Education department, Write a novel, finish the one you've in Savannah. $200 Mondays, 6:30-8:30 started, revise it or pursue publication. p.m.. 912-651-2005. PersonalDevelopAward-winning Savannah author offers ment@georgiasouthern.edu. academics. one-on-one or small group classes, georgiasouthern.edu/ce/programs/permentoring, manuscript critique, ebook sonaldevelopment/writingclasses/. cgc. formatting. Email for pricing and sched- georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia uling info. ongoing. pmasoninsavannah@ Center, 305 Fahm Street. gmail.com. Singing Classes Photography Classes Bel Canto is a singing style which helps Beginner photography to post producthe voice become flexible and exprestion. Instruction for all levels. $20 for sive, improves vocal range and breathing two-hour class. See website for comcapacity. A foundation for opera, rock, plete class list. 410-251-4421. chris@ pop, gospel and musical theatre. $25 chrismorrisphotography.com. chrismor- Mondays, 6 p.m.. 786-247-9923. anirisphotography.com. traoperadiva@yahoo.com. Institute of Piano Lessons Cinematic Arts, 12 West State Street, 3rd Piano lessons with a classically trained and 4th flrs.,. instructor, with theater and church Spanish Classes experience. 912-312-3977. ongoing. Spanish courses for professionals ofgeorgiamusicwarehouse.com/. Georgia fered by Conquistador Spanish Language Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. Institute, LLC. Beginner Spanish for Piano Voice-Coaching Professionals--Intro price $155 + textPianist with M/degree,classical modern book ($12.95). Instructor: Bertha E. Herjazz improvisation, no age limit. Call nandez, M.Ed. and native speaker. Meets 912-961-7021 or 912-667-1056. Serious in the Keller Williams Realty meeting inquiries only. ongoing. room, 329 Commercial Drive. Tuesdays.. Reading/Writing Tutoring conquistador-spanish.com. Ms. Dawn’s Tutoring in reading, writStress Reduction: Arising Stillness in Zen ing, and composition. Remedial reading Stress-reducing practices for body, skills, help with borderline dyslexia, speech and mind. Five Thursday night to grammar, term paper writing, and classes from 6- 7:00pm. $15 drop-in; English as a Second Language. Fun $70 for series. Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach, methods for children to help them learn Sensei. Savannah Zen Center 111 E. 34th quickly. 912-660-7399. cordraywriter@ St. 31401 revfugon@gmail.com ongoing. gmail.com. Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Russian Language Classes
Learn to speak Russian. All experience levels welcome, beginner to expert. Call for info. ongoing. 912-713-2718. Senior Citizens, Inc.’s Powerful Tools for Caregivers Educational Series
Health Standards for Construction Industry
Use OSHA standards to learn effective training techniques with a special emphasis on the most hazardous areas in construction. This course is for privateand public-sector workers interested in
Implement in your workplace the OSHA provisions provided by several privateand public-sector personnel representing numerous industries. Learn about your rights and responsibilities under the OSHA Act. Mon., Sep. 15, 10:15 a.m. Georgia Tech Savannah, 210 Technology Circle. Vocal Lessons
A group of voice instructors who believe in the power of a nurturing community to help voice students blossom into vibrant artists. Each instructor holds a Masters of Music in Voice Performance. Group classes held once a month, plus an annual recital. Varies Wednesdays.. 912-656-0760. TheVoiceCoOp.org. The Voice Co-op, Downtown. Clubs & Organizations 13th Colony Sound Barbershop Chorus
Sing in the harmonious barbershop style with the Savannah Chorus of the Barbershop Harmony Society. No charge Mondays, 6:30 p.m.. 912-344-9768. rfksav@gmail.com. savannahbarbershoppers.org. Savannah Arts Academy, 500 Washington Ave. 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. ongoing. abeniculturalarts@gmail.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. ongoing. godzillaunknown@gmail.com. avegost. com. 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. ongoing. buccaneerregion.org. Business Networking on the Islands
Small Business Professionals Islands Networking Group meets first Thursday each month, 9:30am-10:30am. Tradewinds Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Call for info. ongoing. 912308-6768. Chatham Sailing Club
Meets every Friday evening for an informal social gathering of like minded people who enjoy the water. Watch the sun go down over Turner Creek. All are welcome, including kids and dogs. Fridays.. chathamsailing.org. Young's Marina, 218 Wilmington Island Rd. Drop N Circle Craft Night
Sponsored by The Frayed Knot and Perlina. Tuesdays, 5pm-8pm. 6 W. State Street. A working gathering of knitters, crocheters, beaders, spinners, felters, needle pointers, etc. All levels of experience welcome. Tuesdays.. 912-2331240. Exchange Club of Savannah - Weekly Lunch
Meets every Monday (except on the fifth Monday of the month), 12pm-1pm. Weekly speaker, and honor a student of the month and year, police officer and fireman of the year. Charities: Jenkins Boys & Girls Club; Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse. Guest are welcome Mondays, 12-1 p.m.. 912-4416559. Savannahexchange.org. Exchange Club of Savannah, 4801 Meding Street. Fiber Guild of the Savannahs
A club focusing on weaving, spinning, basket making, knitting, crocheting, quilting, beading, rug hooking, doll making, and other fiber arts. Meets at Oatland Island Wildlife Center, first Saturday of the month (Sept.-June) 10:15am. Mondays, 10:30 a.m. fiberguildsavannah.homestead.com/. Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown Road GA. Historic Flight Savannah
A non-profit organization dedicated to sending area Korean War and WWII veterans to Washington, DC, to visit the WWII Memorial. All expenses paid by Honor Flight Savannah. Honor Flight seeks contributions, and any veterans interested in a trip to Washington. Call for info. ongoing. 912-596-1962. honorflightsavannah.org. Historic Savannah Chapter: ABWA
Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6pm-7:30pm. Tubby's Tank House, 2909 River Drive, Thunderbolt. Attendees pay for their own meals. RSVP by phone. ongoing. 912-660-8257. Hostess City Toastmasters Club
A group for improving public speaking and leadership skills. Professional, friendly, peer-run. Every Tuesday 6-7 PM at 35 Barnard Street 3rd Floor (ThincSavannah.) $10/month Tue., Sep. 16, 6-7 p.m. 912-484-0165. hostesscicontinues on p. 50
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A free creative writing group for writers of poetry, prose, or undefinable creative ventures. Meets two Thursdays a month, 5:45pm. Discussion of exercises, ideas, or already in progress pieces. See Facebook page savinkslingers. Thursdays. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Island MOMSnext
For mothers of school-aged children, grades K-12. Mothering support, personal growth, practical help, and spiritual hope. First and third Mondays. Childcare on request. A ministry of MOPS International. third Monday of every month.. 912-898-4344. kymmccarty@ hotmail.com. mops.org. Islands MOPS
A Mothers of Preschoolers group that meets two Wednesdays a month, 9:15am-11:30am. Wednesdays.. 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. ongoing. 912308-6768. Knittin’ Night
Knit and crochet gathering held each Tuesday evening, 5pm-8pm All skill levels welcome. Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m. 912238-0514. wildfibresavannah.com/. Wild Fibre, 409 East Liberty St. Low Country Turners
A club for wood-turning enthusiasts. Call Steve Cook for info at number below. ongoing. 912-313-2230. Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary
Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1:00pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-7864508. American Legion Post 184, 3003 Rowland Ave. Philo Cafe
Discussion group that meets every Monday, 7:30pm - 9:00pm at various locations. Anyone craving good conversation is invited. Free to attend. Email for info, or see Facebook.com/SavannahPhiloCafe. Mondays. athenapluto@yahoo.com.
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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 ongoing. 912-344-5127. New Covenant Church, 2201 Bull St. Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club
A local club for role-players, gamers, and fans from all over the sci-fi /fantasy
universe. Meetings on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Super King Buffet 10201 Abercorn St., Savannah at 7PM. third Tuesday of every month.. 912-308-2094. kasak@comcast.net. roguephoenix.org.
new friends. ongoing. savannahnewcomersclub.com. Savannah No Kidding!
A coalition dedicated to preventing childhood injuries. Meets 2nd Tuesday each month, 11:30am-1:00pm. See website or call for info. ongoing. 912-353-3148. safekidssavannah.org.
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 ongoing. The Historic District, Downtown Savannah.
Savannah Brewers' League
Savannah Parrot Head Club
Safe Kids Savannah
Meets 1st Wednesday of the month, 7:30pm at Moon River Brewing Co. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912447-0943. 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--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. third Tuesday of every month.. 912-3083208. alicevantrease@live.com. Savannah Charlesfunders Investment Discussion Group
Meets Saturdays, 8:30am to discuss stocks, bonds and better investing. Contact by email for info. ongoing. 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. ongoing. 912-748-7020. Savannah Fencing Club
Beginner classes Tuesdays and Thursdays for six weeks. $60. Some equipment provided. After completing the class, join the Savannah Fencing Club; $5/month. Experienced fencers welcome. Tuesdays, Thursdays.. 912-4296918. savannahfencing@aol.com.
Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check website for events calendar or send an email for Parrot Head gatherings. ongoing. savannahphc@yahoo.com. savannahphc.com. Savannah Quilt Guild
Meets second Saturday, 9:30am11:30am. Social time, business meeting and program. September through June, at Woods of Savannah, 1764-C Hodgson Memorial. Membership: $25/year. second Saturday of every month.. (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 to one of America's most revered musical traditions. Call or email. ongoing. 912655-0994. savannahsacredharp.com. Faith Primitive Baptist Church, 3212 Bee Road. Society for Creative Anachronism
Meets every Saturday at the south end of Forsyth Park for fighter practice and general hanging out. For people interested in re-creating the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Free Saturdays, 11 a.m.. savannahsca.org. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Savannah Story Games
A group that plays games that tell improvised stories. Create an amazing story in just three hours, using group games with special rules that craft characters, settings, and conflicts. Sundays Savannah Go Green at 6pm. free Saturdays, 6 p.m.. info@ Meets most Saturdays. Green events and savannahstorygames.com. savannahstoplaces. Share ways to Go Green each rygames.com. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomday. Call for info. ongoing. 912-308-6768. ery Street. Savannah Kennel Club
Monthly meetings open to the public. Held at Logan's Roadhouse, the 4th Monday each month, Sept. through May. Dinner: 6:pm. Speaker: 7:30pm. Guest speakers each meeting. ongoing. 912-238-3170. savannahkennelclub.org. Golden Corral, 7822 Abercorn St.
Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club
Meets Thursdays from 7:30am-8:30am at the Mulberry Inn. ongoing. savannahsunriserotary.org. Savannah Toastmasters
Helps improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment. Mondays, 6:15pm, Memorial Savannah Newcomers Club Health University Medical Center, in the Open to women who have lived in the Conference Room C. ongoing. 912-484Savannah area for less than two years. 6710. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Membership includes monthly luncheon Health University Medical Center, 4700 and program. Activities, tours and events Waters Ave. Savannah Veggies and Vegans to help learn about Savannah and make
Join the Facebook group to find out more about vegetarian and vegan lifestyles, and to hear about upcoming local events. Mondays. Spies and Mysteries Book Club
A book club for readers who love thrillers, spy novels, and mysteries. We meet every 2nd Thurs of the month @6:30 pm. None second Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m. 912-925-8305. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. 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. All levels welcome. Free. Purchase beverages and snacks. second Thursday of every month.. foxyloxycafe. com/. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671
Meets second Monday of each month, 7pm, at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. ongoing. 912-429-0940. rws521@msn.com. vvasav.com. Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation
Meets second Tuesday each month (except October) 6:00pm, Woodville-Tompkins, 151 Coach Joe Turner St. Call or email for info. ongoing. 912-232-3549. chesteraellis@comcast.net. Concerts 13th Colony Sound (Barbershop Singing)
“If you can carry a tune, come sing with us!” Mondays, 7pm. ongoing. 912-3449768. savannahbarbershoppers.org. Thunderbolt Lodge #693, 3111 Rowland Ave. Josh Sanders Live Video Shoot & Concert
The singer/ songwriter originally from Faulkville, Ga, has opened for Corey Smith this summer. This show is part of a video shoot for his upcoming album. $20 Fri., Sep. 12, 8 p.m. marstheatre. com. marstheatre.com. Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street. Ironing Board Sam
Pianist and singer who's performed professionally for more than 55 years, amassing a repertoire of original and classic blues and R&B songs. $20 Sat., Sep. 13, 8 p.m. marstheatre.com/. marstheatre.com. Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street. Savannah Philharmonic: Opening Night: Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Dvorak
With piano soloist Fanya Lin. Program features Brahms' Academic Festival Overture Op. 80; Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43; Dvořák's Symphony No. 7 Op. 70. $16 to $70 Sat., Sep. 13, 7:30 p.m. savannahphilharmonic.org. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Conferences Confluence 2014
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The only water conference focused on creating meaningful dialogue between Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina about water resources, and highlighting innovations in the water resources field that will have an impact on the Southeast. $239/$50 (student) Thu., Sep. 11 and Fri., Sep. 12. confluence.cc. westinsavannah.com/. Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, 1 Resort Drive. Rural HIV Research and Training Conference
A two-day forum for exchanging the latest information and learning the newest tools to address the challenges of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in rural communities. $145 on or before 8/22/14; $160 after 8/22/14 Fri., Sep. 12, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sat., Sep. 13, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. 912-4782584. RuralHIVResearch@georgiasouthern.edu. academics.georgiasouthern. edu/ce/conferences/ruralhiv/. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street. Dance Adult Ballet Class
Maxine Patterson School of Dance, 2212 Lincoln St, offers adult ballet on Thursdays, 6:30pm-7:30pm $12 per class. Call for info. ongoing. 912-234-8745. Adult Intermediate Ballet
Mondays and Wednesdays, 7pm-8pm. $12/class or $90/8 classes. Call for info. Academy of Dance, 74 W. Montgomery Crossroad. Wednesdays. 912-921-2190. Beginner and intermediate ballet, modern dance, barre fusion, barre core body sculpt, gentle stretch & tone. Tuesdays.. 912-925-0903. theballetschoolsav.com. Ballet School, 10010 Abercorn St. Argentine Tango
Lessons Sundays 1:30-3;30pm. Open to the public. $3 per person. Wear closed toe leather shoes if possible. Doris Martin Dance Studio, 8511-h ferguson Ave. Call or email for info. ongoing. 912-9257416. savh_tango@yahoo.com. PICKArgentine Tango Basics Group Class This beginners group class will focus
on the basic elements of movement and Argentine Tango. This class is a 4 week session that will start from week 1 and progress while reviewing each week until week 4. No partner or experience required. $35 Wednesdays, 6-7 p.m.. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio. com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.
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A free-flowing, meditative dance, with eclectic music selected to resonate with each specific chakra, along with guided imagery. No dance experience or chakras knowledge needed. $20 ongoing, 7-8:30 p.m. 912-6631306. Chakradancer@comcast.net. chakradance.com/. synergisticbodies. com. Synergistic Bodies, 7901 Waters Ave.
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Weekly ballroom dance classes focus on two types of dance each month. Open to partners/couples or to solos. The $35 for 4 weeks or $10 drop in Mondays, 7 p.m. 912.312.3549. reservetodance@gmail. com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Ballroom Series Group Class
A group ballroom dance class for beginners through advanced. Rumba, Swing, Tango, Foxtrot, Waltz, Cha Cha, Samba, and more. Singles or couples. $10.00 per person or $35 for 4 weeks (per person) Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m.. 912.312.3549. reservetodance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Ballroom/Latin Group Class
Group classes every Tuesday and Wednesday at 8pm. Tuesdays focus on fundamental steps, styling, and techniques. Wednesday's classes are more specific, with advanced elements. $15/ person and $25/couple Wednesdays, 8 p.m. and Tuesdays.. 912-335-3335. savannahballroom@gmail.com. savan-
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nahballroomdancing.com. Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street. Beginner's Belly Dance Classes Every Wednesday
Beginner's belly dance class instructed by local performer Nicole Edge. Learn the basics of American Cabaret belly dance. 15$ Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m.. 912-596-0889. edgebellydance@gmail. com. edgebellydance.com. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St.
Beginners Belly Dance Classes
Instructed by Nicole Edge. All ages/Skill levels welcome. Sundays, 12pm-1pm. Fitness body and balance studio. 2127 1//2 E. Victory Dr. $15/class or $48/hour. Call or see website. ongoing. 912-5960889. cairoonthecoast.com. Beginners Belly Dancing with Cybelle
For those with little-to-no dance background. Instructor is formally trained, has performed for over ten years. $15/
person. Tues. 7pm-8pm. Private classes and walk ins available. Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave. ongoing. 912-4141091. info@cybelle3.com. cybelle3.com. Happenstance Bellydance
All levels and styles of bellydance welcome. Classes every Monday, 5:306:30pm. Drop-ins welcome. $15/lesson Mondays, 5:30 p.m.. (912) 704-2940. happenstancebellydance@gmail.com. happenstancebellydance.wordpress.
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Wednesdays, 6pm-8pm. Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary. Call Claudia Collier for info. ongoing. 912748-0731. Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Windsor Forest. Dance for Peace
A weekly gathering to benefit locals in need. Music, dancing, fun for all ages. Donations of nonperishable food and gently used or new clothing are welcomed. Free and open to the public. Sundays, 3 p.m. 912-547-6449. xavris21@yahoo.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. 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. Great Gatsby, 408 West Broughton Street. Dance Party
Dance on Thursdays at 8pm--fun, friendship, and dancing. Free for Savannah Ballroom students. $10 for visitors ($15 for couples). free - $15 Thursdays, 8 p.m. 912-335-3335. savannahballroom@gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing.com. Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street. Disco Hustle Dance Class
Do the hustle! A New York style Disco Hustle group class taught by Jos'eh Marion, a professional ballroom dance instructor. Sundays at 5pm. Call for pricing. Sundays, 5 p.m.. 843-290-6174. Trudancer@gmail.com. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Habersham Branch), 6400 Habersham St. FUNdamentals Dance Lesson
Group dance lessons every Tuesday and Wednesday at 8pm. Tuesday: fundamental steps, styling, and techniques. Wednesday: advanced elements. $15/ person $25/couple Tuesdays, 8 p.m. and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.. 912-335-3335. savannahballroom@gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing.com. 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. ongoing. 912748-0731.
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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. Wednesdays.. 912-704-2052. prideofirelandga@gmail.com. Kids Hip Hop and Jazz
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A kids dance class with high energy music. Students learn different elements of hip hop dancing and how to put it together in a routine. $8 Thursdays, 5:15-6 p.m.. 912.312.3549. reservetodance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive. 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. Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street. Line Dancing
Take down Tuesdays. Jazzy Sliders Adult Line Dancing, every Tuesday, 7:30pm10:00pm. Free admission, cash bar. Come early and learn a new dance from 7:30pm-8:30pm. ongoing. 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/ levels welcome. Call Mahogany for info. ongoing. 912-272-8329. Modern Dance Class
Beginner and intermediate classes. Fridays 10am-11:15am. Doris Martin Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. Call Elizabeth for info. ongoing. 912-354-5586. Salsa Group Classes
The hottest dance class around. For solo dancers or duos. $5 undefined, 5:30 p.m. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio. com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.
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rates for ten or more. School trips available. No reservations needed for West Coast Swing Class 10:30am, 1:30pm and 2pm. Other times Instructor Rick Cody teaches the smooth by appointment. Call for info. ongoing. rhythms of beach music and west coast 912-525-5023. lucastheatre.com. Lucas swing. $12 drop in fee or $35 for 4 weeks Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Lecture: On the Waterfront: Artists and the Wednesdays, 7 p.m.. 912.312.3549. saSavannah River londebaile.dance@gmail.com. salondeTelfair Museums curator Harry DeLorme bailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile shares stories of artists who spent time Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial on the Savannah waterfront. Museum Drive. West Coast Swing Group Class Series admission applies. Free for members. This 4 week class series teaches the Thu., Sep. 11, 6 p.m. telfair.org. telfair. basics of West Coast Swing. Each month org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, will begin a new series teaching you the 207 West York St. Lecture: Star Spangled Banner from the very beginning. No experience Armstrong presents a faculty lecture by or partner required. $35 Tuesdays, 6-7 p.m.. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@ Robert Harris, D.M.A. Free and open to the public. Thu., Sep. 11, 2 p.m. armgmail.com. salondebailedancestudio. strong.edu. Armstrong Fine Arts Center, com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 11935 Abercorn St. Hodgson Memorial Drive. Events Awaken with Chakradance™ - Thursdays
Join us for a free-flowing, meditative dance and experience the healing power of Chakradance™. With eclectic music selected to resonate with each specific chakra, along with guided imagery, Chakradance™ will take you on a spiritual journey, free the energy in your body and open you to a deeper experience of life. No dance experience or prior knowledge of the chakras is necessary. Limited to 12 participants – email to reserve a spot today! $20 Thursdays, 6:458:15 p.m. 912-663-1306. Chakradancer@ comcast.net. anahatahealingarts.com/ healing-aha/. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B.
NeoPopRealist Art Contest Dedicated to its 25Year 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. Online only, none. The original Midnight Tour
One of the spookiest tours in town. Learn about the untold stories of some Deen Family Book Signing of the most haunted locations here in Paula, Jamie & Bobby Deen will sign Savannah Georgia. Guaranteed to give their various books. 350 wristbands you a few goose bumps and an unexwill be distributed at 9 am. Free to atplained need for a night light. 33.00 ontend. Books available for purchase. Fri., Salsa Lessons by Salsa Savannah going. 1-866-666-3323. 6thsenseworld. Sep. 12, 10 a.m.-noon. 912-232-1579. Tues. 8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Thur. com. 6th Sense Savannah Tours, 404 mandy@pauladeen.com. pauladeen.com. 8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Sun. 5pmAbercorn Street. ladyandsons.com. The Lady and Sons, 6pm and 6pm-7pm. Salon de Maile, PBJ Pantry 102 West Congress St. 704B Hodgson Memorial Dr., Savannah, A free food pantry held every Thursday, Stand Down for Homelessness: Resource and 31406. Tuesdays.. salsasavannah.com. 10-11am and 6-7pm. Contact Jessica Job Fair Savannah Shag Club Sutton for questions. 912-897-1192 Representatives from more than 40 soWednesdays, 7pm,at Doubles Lounge. ongoing. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA cial service agencies provide information Fridays, 7pm, at American Legion Post (Wilmington Island), 66 Johnny Mercer and outreach on housing options, job re36, 2309 E. Victory Dr. ongoing. doublesBlvd. sources, resume writing tips, substance nightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Savannah Storytellers abuse treatment, income tax assistance, Abercorn St. Tall tales and fun times with the classic access to Social Security and Veteran’s Savannah Swing Cats--Swing Dancing art of storytelling. Every Wednesday at Administration services, and more. ongoing. doublesnightclub.com/. 6pm. Reservations encouraged by callPresented by Goodwill of the Coastal Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. ing 912-349-4059. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Empire. Free to the public Tue., Sep. 16, Sizzle: Dance and Cardio liveoakstore.com/tubbysthunderbolt. 8 a.m.-2 p.m. homelessauthority.org. A class designed to maintain that sumTubby's Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 savannahcivic.com. The Savannah Civic mer body by dancing and having fun. River Dr. Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Incorporates dance and cardio to fun, Shire of Forth Castle Fighter Practice Guided Tours of the Lucas Theatre for the Arts spicy songs. $10 drop in or 10 classes Local chapter of the Society for Creative Learn the history of the historic Lucas for $80 Tuesdays, Fridays, 10 a.m. 912Anachronism meets Saturdays at ForTheatre on a 20-30 minute tour. Res312-3549. reservetodance@gmail.com. syth Park (south end) for fighter practice toration, architecture, history of the salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon and general hanging out. For those theatre and of early cinema. $4. Group
interested in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. ongoing. savannahsca.org. Tunnel to Towers Run
A 5k race honoring Stephen Stiller, an FDNY firefighter who ran to the Twin Towers when it was hit on 9/11 and lost his life as he saved the lives of others. Firefighter teams will compete in The Siller Cup Firefighter Challenge, to take home a traveling trophy from last year’s winner. Register online, at Fleet Feet Sports,or on race day at Orleans Square. Celebrity Captains are Bobby and Claudia Deen. $30 through Sept. 10. $40 Sept. 11, 12, and race day. $25 for military/firefighters/police. Sat., Sep. 13, 8 a.m. 912.313.4806. T2TSAV@gmail. com. Orleans Square, Barnard Street and Hull Street. Festivals Savannah Pride Festival
Performances by Debby Holliday headline Savannah's annual celebration of, by, and for the gay/lesbian/bisexual/ transgender community, and their friends,family, neighbors and community. $5 Sat., Sep. 13. savpride.com/. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Savannah State Univ. Campus Night Out Cookout and Open House
Savannah State University Department of Public Safety hosts this cookout focusing on public safety, with guests from various first responder/public safety organizations, plus Savannah Mayor Edna B. Jackson and Savannah City Alderman John Hall, District 3. Tiger Arena parking lot. Free and open to SSU students/faculty/staff and the public. Thu., Sep. 11, 5-9 p.m. 912-3583004. simba.savannahstate.edu/news/ read.aspx?=422. Tiger Arena (Savannah State), 3219 College St. Fitness $6 Community Yoga Classes
Savannah Power Yoga offers a community yoga class nearly every day of the week for just $6. All proceeds support local organizations. See schedule online for details. Most classes are heated to 90 degrees. Bring a yoga mat, towel and some water. $6 $5 Mondays-Fridays, Sundays. (912) 349-2756. info@savannahpoweryoga.com. savannahpoweryoga.com. savannahpoweryoga.com/. 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 continues on p. 54
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website or call for info. ongoing. 912598-9860. savannahalanon.com. Bariatric Surgery Support Group
First Wednesday each month, 7pm, and third Saturday, 10am, in Mercer Auditorium of Hoskins Center at Memorial. For those who have had or are considering bariatric surgery. Free to attend. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-3503438. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Beach Body Workouts with Laura
MONDAYS at 6:15 PM at the Lake Mayer Community Center $5.00 per session Mondays, 6:15 p.m. (912) 652-6784. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. Beastmode Fitness Group Training
Train with this elite team. A total body program that trims, tones and gets results. Personal training options available. See website for info. Meets at West Broad YMCA. 5am-6am and 8pm-9pm. ongoing. beastmodefitnessga.com. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. Bellydancing Fusion Classes
Mixes ballet, jazz, hip hop into a unique high energy dance style. Drills and choreographies for all levels.Small classes in downtown Savannah, and on request. $10 per person. Email for info. ongoing. 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. ongoing. egs5719@aol.com. Talahi Island Community Club, 532 Quarterman Dr. Dance Conditioning
A class designed to enhance strength, flexibility, balance, and overall body fitness, with belly dance movements for a total workout. $10 drop in or $80 for 10 classes Wednesdays, 7 p.m.. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio. com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Fitness Classes at the JEA
Sin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba. Prices vary. Call for schedule. ongoing. 912-355-8811. savj.org. savannahjea.org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St.
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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 in need of support for the caregiving they provide. ongoing. savannahcommons. com. Free Dance and Fitness Classes at Lake Mayer
Every Thursday. 9:30am-10:15am Tod-
dler Class. 12pm-1pm Adult Lunch Break Dance Class. 1:30pm-2:30pm Super Seniors Workout. 5:30pm-6:15pm Youth African Dance Fitness (ages 6-12). 6:30pm-7:30pm Adult African Dance Fitness. Wear comfortable clothing. Free and open to the public. Thursdays, 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m.. 912-652-6784. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. Free Yoga Day
Catch yoga fever. Free classes all day beginning at 8:30 a.m. Try one or all. Free and open to the public. Sign up online. Sat., Sep. 13, 8:30 a.m.-2:45 p.m. 912-200-4809. info@savannahyogabarre. com. savannahyogabarre.com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2135 E Victory Drive.
A cardio-based workout class designed to get students fit while having fun. Latin style dances like cha cha, samba, jive, rumba, salsa. 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. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Mommy and Baby Yoga
Mondays. Call for times and fees or see website. ongoing. 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 Thursdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climb- classes by appointment. Carol Dalying Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Wilder, certified instructor. Call or see Every Thursday men climb for half price, website for info. ongoing. 912-238-0018. $5. See website for info. Thursdays, 2 & savannahpilates.com. pilatessavannah. 10 p.m. 912-495-8010. savannahclimbcom/. Momentum Pilates Studio, 8413 ingcoop.com. Savannah Climbing CoOp, Rerguson Ave. Piloxing 302 W Victory Dr. Hiking & Biking at Skidaway Island State Park Piloxing (c) cardio fusion incorporates Year round fitness opportunities. Walk cutting edge research and fitness techor run the 1-mile Sandpiper Nature Trail niques to burn maximum calories, build (accessible) the additional 1-mile Avian lean muscles, and increase stamina. Loop Trail, or 3-mile Big Ferry Trail. Uses weighted gloves, toning the arms Bicycle and street strider rentals. Guided and maximizing cardiovascular health; hikes scheduled. $5 parking. Open daily also includes dance moves. $10.00 drop 7am-10pm. Call or see website. ongoin or 10 classes for $80 Fridays, 10-11 ing. 912-598-2300. gastateparks.org/ a.m.. 912.312.3549. reservetodance@ SkidawayIsland. gastateparks.org/info/ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio. skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 52 Diamond Cswy. Hodgson Memorial Drive. Dude's Day at Savannah Climbing Coop
Insanity Workout Group Class
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. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.
Pole Fitness Classes
Pole fitness classes taught by Pole Dance America's 2014 National Professional Champion and Miss Fitness 2013 & 2014, Sabrina Madsen. Pole fitness concentrates on upper body strength and overall flexibility as well dance elements. Beginner class: Tue. 8-9pm. Advanced class: Wed. 8-9pm. Stiletto Sundays 5-6pm. Open Pole, Sun. 6pm7pm. Call for pricing. Wednesdays, 8-9 p.m. and Sundays, 5-7 p.m.. 801-6736737. info@firstcityfitness.com. First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr.
Israeli Krav Maga Self-Defense Classes
Pregnancy Yoga
Kung Fu School: Ving Tsun
Qigong Classes
A system of self-defense techniques based on several martial arts. The official fighting system of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Custom Fit offers individual and small group training and intensive workshops. ongoing. 912-4414891. customfitcenter.com. Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) is the world's fastest growing martial arts style. Uses angles and leverage to turn an attacker's strength against him. Call for info on free trial classes. Drop ins welcome. 11202 White Bluff Rd. ongoing. 912-429-9241. Latin Cardio
Ongoing series of 6-week classes. Thursdays. A mindful approach to pregnancy, labor and delivery. Instructor Ann Carroll. $120. Call or email for info. ongoing. 912-704-7650. ann@aikyayoga. com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. 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 ongoing. 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 ongoing. 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, 912-7565865, or Billy Tomlinson, 912-596-5965. ongoing. Ronin Academy Self Defense Classes
A short course in simple self defense techniques for adults. Uses real life scenarios designed to provide greater self confidence and empowerment. Fees vary. Every 3 days. michael@roninacad. com. roninacad.com. aikidosavannah. com/. Aikido Center of Savannah, 5500 White Bluff Rd. 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. ongoing. 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. ongoing. 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. ongoing. savystrider.com. SIZZLE- Dance Cardio
The hottest cardio class to keep or get you in shape for summer. Sizzle is designed to give you cardio, strengthening, and stretch training that you need for that bikini body. Enroll now and get the first class free. $10.00 or $80 for 10 classes Tuesdays, Fridays, 10 a.m. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio. com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Tai Chi Lessons in Forsyth Park
Tuesdays, 9am-10am. $10. North End of Forsyth Park. Email for info. ongoing. relaxsavannah@gmail.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Turbo Kick Cardio Workout
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boxing. 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 ongoing. 586-822-1021. facebook.com/turbokicksavannah.
Chef, Roberto Leoci. Call for pricing. Reservations required. 7-9:30 p.m.. 912233-6002. jackie.blackwelder@paccisavannah.com. paccisavannah.com. Pacci Italian Kitchen + Bar, 601 E Bay St. Bethesda Farm Stand
Bethesda students and staff sell fresh produce, organic garden seedlings and Free for cancer patients and survivors. farm-fresh eggs. Students lead or assist 6:30pm Tuesdays. 12:45pm Thursdays. in planting, cultivating and harvesting Fitness One, 3rd floor of the Center for all items at Bethesda Academy using Advanced Medicine at Memorial. Call for sustainable, organic farming techniques. info. ongoing. 912-350-9031. memorial- 3-5:30 p.m.. 912-351-2061. betheshealth.com/. Memorial Health University daacademy.org. Bethesda Academy, Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. 9250 Ferguson Ave. Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors
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. ongoing. 912-604-9890. Zumba Fitness (R) with April
Mondays at 5:30pm, Thursdays at 6:30pm. Nonstop Fitness in Sandfly, 8511 Ferguson Ave. $5 for nonmenbers. call for info. ongoing. 912-349-4902. Food Events Blendfresh Blending Party
Team Blendfresh offers a presentation of raw, whole plant-food powders, samples, and a Blendtec blender give-away. Free and open to the public. Sep. 10, 7-8 p.m. 843-816-6179. carla@carlagoldenwellness.com. CarlaGoldenWellness. com. Courtyard Savannah Midtown, 6703 Abercorn Street. Pooler Farmers' Market
Featuring regional farmers, local cottage industries and community non-profits. Music, kids activities, sustainability lectures and cooking demonstrations--and, it's in Pooler. Free and open to the public. 4-7 p.m.. poolerfarmersmarket@gmail.com. poolerfarmersmarket.com. Pooler Recreation Complex, Pooler Parkway.
Coffee Brewing Workshop with The Florence
A coffee brewing and tasting workshop with the skilled baristas of The Florence Restaurant. Free and open to the public. Email RSVP required. Sep. 11, 5-7 p.m. info@bofcreative.com. https://facebook. com/events/1006572329369038/. onewestvictory.com. One West Victory, 1 W Victory Dr.
(Waters Ave.), 5205 Waters Avenue. Richmond Hill Farmers Market
The City of Richmond Hill's weekly market offers a variety of produce and local crafts to purchase as well as prepared food and entertainment. Rain or shine. Pet-friendly (on a leash please). Free to attend. 3-7 p.m.. richmond-hill-farmersmarket. J. F. Gregory Park, Richmond Hill. Workshop: Let's Plan Our Fall Veggie Garden
UGA Extension Agent David Linvill covers annuals & perennials, raised beds, vegetables, fruits, and any questions posed by students. Free to attend. Reservations required. Sep. 16, 12-2 p.m. (912) 652-7981. uge3051@uga.edu. coastalgeorgiabg.org/. Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens, 2 Canebrake Rd. Health Armstrong Prescription Drug Drop-Off
Armstrong Atlantic State Univ. hosts a permanent drop box for disposing of unused prescription drugs and over the Service Brewing Company Grand Opening Tours and tastings at this new local craft counter medication. In the lobby of the University Police building on campus. beer brewing facility and tasting room. Open to the public 24 hours/day, year $1 from the sale of each $12 souvenir round. Confidential. All items collected glass will be donated to Healing 4 Heroes. Receive up to eight 4-oz pours with are destroyed by the Drug Enforcement the purchase of the souvenir glass. Free Administration. ongoing. 912-344-3333. and open to anyone age 21 and over. Sep. armstrong.edu. about.armstrong.edu/ 13, 12-6 p.m. Meredith@servicebrewing. Maps/index.html. Armstrong State Unicom. Service Brewing Company, 574 Indian Street.
versity, 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. ongoing. 912-350-3438. bariatrics.memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Free Mammograms presented by Belk and Ralph Lauren
The BelkGives on the Go Mobile Mammography Center, a 39-foot-long, state-of-the-art screening center on wheels, offers free, convenient mammogram screenings. Women age 40 and over with no breast concerns, who have not had a mammogram in the last 12 months and have a primary care physician are eligible by calling 855-655-2662 to schedule an appointment. Sponsored by Belk and Ralph Lauren. Free. Must pre-register by phone. Sat., Sep. 13, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. 855-655-2662. Belk, 7804 Abercorn St., In Oglethorpe Mall. Lauren Pink: Breast Cancer Awareness
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Wilmington Island Farmers' Market
Vendors offering produce, prepared foods, crafts, plus storytime, musical performances, and community information. Every Saturday. Free and open to the public wifarmersmarket@aol.com. wifarmersmarket.org/. Wilmington Island Farmers' Market, 111 Walthour Rd @ Islands Community Church. Cooking Class: The Ultimate Cook Book End of Summer Party with Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough
The first-ever appearance by these prolific (and fun) cookbook writers who've penned 23 books in 14 years and are QVC network bestsellers. $50. Advanced registration required by phone or in the store. Sep. 16, 6:30 p.m. 912-356-1117. kitchenwareoutfitters.com/home/. Kitchenware Outfitters, 5500 Abercorn St. #18, Twelve Oask Shopping Center. Latin Chicks Restaurant Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting
The second location of this locally owned coal-fired Latin restaurant with full bar. Live music by Vaina Eventos, a PuertoWednesday Night Supper Club Rican/Dominican Latin band; door prizes A new Savannah tradition. Gather at and sampling of Latin cuisine. Free Pacci's community table to make new and open to the public. Bring donafriends and share in a night of food, wine tions for America's Second Harvest of and Southern hospitality. With seasonCoastal Georgia Sep. 16, 5:30-7:30 p.m. ally inspired dishes from Executive latinchicksrestaurant.com. Latin Chicks
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featuring free mammogram screenings, giveaways and health demonstrations. Ten percent of the purchase price from all Lauren Pink products sold at Belk, and online at belk.com, will benefit the Belk Women's Health Fund. Call 855-655-BMMC (2662) to schedule mammogram and learn about eligibility. Presented by Belk and Ralph Lauren. Free and open to the public. Sat., Sep. 13, 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m. 912-352-1830. darla_hammond@belk.com. Belk, 7804 Abercorn St., In Oglethorpe Mall.
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. 5:30-7:00 Zumba at St. Joseph's Candler African American Resource Center. (Program sponsors.) ongoing. 912-447-6605. Planned Parenthood Hotline
First Line is a statewide hotline for women seeking information on health Free Hearing and Speech Screening services. Open 7pm-11pm nightly. ongoHearing: Thursdays, 9am-11am. Speech: ing. 800-264-7154. First Thursdays,. Call or see website for Register for Functional and Medical Needs times. ongoing. 912-355-4601. savanEmergency Registry nahspeechandhearing.org. savanThe Chatham County Health Departnahspeechandhearing.org/. Savannah ment is encouraging residents who may Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th be eligible for the Functional and MediSt. cal Needs Registry to apply. The RegFree HIV Testing at Chatham County Health istry is for people who may need help Dept. functioning within a general shelter or Free walk-in HIV testing. 8am-4pm the support of medical professionals at Mon.-Fri. No appointment needed. Test a more specialized facility and have no results in 20 minutes. Follow-up visit other way to evacuate, in a community and counseling will be set up for anyone emergency such as a hurricane evacutesting positive. Call for info. ongoing. ation order.To apply, residents should 912-644-5217. Chatham County Health call 912-691-7443. The application and Dept., 1395 Eisenhower Dr. protected health information authorizaFree Yoga in Forsyth Park tion form can also be downloaded by One hour of Sadhana style of yoga, com- going to www.gachd.org/chatham Every bining meditation, pranayama, yoga, and 3 days. reiki. Meet near the basketball court. Kid's Happenings Free and open to the public. Mondays, Irish Dancers of Savannah Wednesdays, Fridays, 8:15-9:30 a.m.. 518-788-8002. Forsyth Park, 501 Whita- Savannah's first organized Irish dance school welcomes dancers, ages 4 and ker St. up. Learn Irish Step and Ceili (Irish Harvest of Hope Retreat for Cancer Patients square) Dancing at a relaxed pace. Conand Families venient mid-town location. Adult classes Cancer survivors of all ages and their available. Thursdays.. 912-897-5984. families are invited to the 12th annual irishdancsav@aol.com. Harvest of Hope Retreat on September New Mamas Club 27, sponsored by Memorial University A gathering of new moms and their Medical Center. Free to attend. Please babies. Practice baby & mom yoga, do a preregister. Mondays.. 912-350-7845. planned activity. Dream boards, affirmaHealth Care for Uninsured People tion writing, personalized aromatherapy Open for primary care for uninsured residents of Chatham County. Mon.-Fri., and other projects. Dates: Aug. 29; Sept. 12 & 26; Oct. 10 & 24; Nov. 7 & 21; Dec. 8:30am-3:30pm. Call for info or ap5 & 19. $20 per session. Six session dispointment. ongoing. 912-443-9409. St. count. Every other Friday, 10 a.m.-noon. Joseph's/Candler--St. Mary's Health 912-704-7650. ann@douladeliveries. Center, 1302 Drayton St. com. douladeliveries.com. erigosavanHypnosis, Guided Imagery and Relaxation nah.com. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street. Therapy Pegasus Riding Academy Fall Session Helps everyday ordinary people with This therapeutic riding program everyday ordinary problems: smoking, provides equine assisted activities for weight loss, phobias, fears, ptsd, life individuals in Savannah with physical, coaching. Caring, qualified professional mental or emotional disabilities. Horse help. See website or call for info. ongoexperience not necessary. Tuesdays.. ing. 912-927-3432. savannahypnosis. 912-547-6482. prasav.org. Wicklow com. Farm, Wicklow Ave.(behind Johnny HarLa Leche League of Savannah A breast feeding support group for new/ ris Restaurant). expectant monthers. Meeting/gathering Savannah Children's Museum School Year Hours first Thursdays, 10am. Call or see website for location and other info. ongoing. continues on p. 57
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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 ongoing. 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/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. LGBT First City Network
Georgia's oldest LGBT organization (founded in 1985), is a local non-profit community service organization whose mission is to share resources of health care, counseling, education, advocacy and mutual support in the Coastal Empire. Members and guests enjoy many special events throughout the year, including First Saturday Socials held the first Saturday of each month at 7pm. Mondays. 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. ongoing. Georgia Equality Savannah
Local chapter of Georgia's largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 912-5476263. ongoing. Savannah Pride, Inc.
Organizes the annual Savannah Pride Festival and helps promote the well-being of the LGBT community in the South. Mission: unity through diversity and social awareness. Second Tuesday/month. Call for location. ongoing. 912-288-7863. heather@savpride.com. savpride.com. Stand Out Youth
A gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth organization. Meets every Friday at 7pm. Call, email or see website for info. Fridays, 7-9 p.m. 912-657-1966. info@standoutyouth.org. standoutyouth.org. Vineyard Church Office, 1020 Abercorn Street. 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. ongoing.
912-352-2611. Literary Events Author Appearance: Lee Child
The author of the Jack Reacher books appears at this Savannah Book Festivalsponsored talk. Book signing follows his remarks. $15 Thu., Sep. 11, 6 p.m. 912.525.5050. savannahbookfestival.org. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St.
sentation with sound and video about estuarine dolphins and their environment. Age/grade appropriate programs and handouts. See website for info. ongoing. 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 Book Launch: Spirits of Savannah cash. Businesses may also recycle items A new book about ghosts in Savanon behalf of EOA for credit. Drop off at nah. Free to attend. Books available for purchase. Fri., Sep. 12, 7 p.m. facebook. EOA, 681 W. Anderson St. See website, com/spiritsofsavannah. Gallery Le Snoot, email or call for info. ongoing. 912238-2960 x126. dwproperty@aol.com. 6 East State Street. fundingfactory.com. Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club Walk on the Wild Side Meets last Sunday of the month, 4pm. A two-mile Native Animal Nature Trail Call for info. ongoing. 912-447-6605. winds through maritime forest, freshsjchs.org/body.cfm?id=399. Africanwater wetland, salt marsh habitats, American Health Information & Refeaturing live native animal exhibits. source Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Open daily, 10am-4pm except ThanksExhibit: Savannah Historical Maps and Prints giving, Christmas, New Years. Call or A selection of maps and prints from the see website for info. ongoing. 912-395collection of John and Virginia Duncan, 1500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland. tracing the growth and development of org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Savannah through the 18th and 19th Sandtown Rd. centuries, on exhibit in celebration of the City of Savannah's 225th anniversary Wilderness Southeast A variety of programs each month in 2014. Free and open to the public. including guided trips with naturalists. Through Dec. 31. savannahga.gov. SaCanoe trips, hikes. Mission: develop apvannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street. preciation, understanding, stewardship, Low Country Sisters in Crime, Inc. and enjoyment of the natural world. Call A reading group for lovers of crime or see website for info. ongoing. 912fiction, focusing on books and authors. 236-8115. wilderness-southeast.org. Meets the 2nd Saturday of each month, 10am-12pm. Free and open to the public. Sep. 13 topic: Writers' Police AcademyPets & Animals -Tips, Tricks and Insider Info.. second Low Cost Pet Clinic Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-noon. TailsSpin and Dr. Stanley Lester, DVM, owcountrysistersincrime.blogspot.com. host low-cost pet vaccine clinics for Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 students, military and seniors the Abercorn St. second and fourth Wednesdays of each Tea Time at Ola's (Book Club) month. 5pm-6pm. Vaccinations: $12, A book discussion group that meets the ($2 is donated to Savannah pet rescue 4th Tuesday, 1pm. Bring a book you've agencies). See website for info. ongoing. read this month and tell all about it. tailsspin.com. tailsspin.com. TailsSpin Treats to share are always welcomed. Pet Supplies Store, 4501 Habersham St., Tea is provided. Call for info. ongoing. Habersham Village. 912-232-5488. liveoakpl.org/. Ola Wyeth Operation New Hope Branch Library, 4 East Bay St. Operation New Hope allows inmates to train unadoptable dogs from the HuNature and Environment mane Society for Greater Savannah. The Beaches and Borders tour of Tybee Island Wilderness Southeast's two-hour explo- goals of the program are to decrease the recidivism rate among Chatham County ration led by a naturalist guide, of the salt marshes and beach on Tybee Island. inmates, help inmates learn a new skill, Fee includes use of binoculars and spot- and help previously unadoptable dogs find loving homes. The graduated dogs ting scope. Reservations required. $25/ person. $15/child under 12 accompanied are available for adoption can be viewed by a parent Sat., Sep. 13, 9-11 a.m. 912- at www.humansocietvsav.org, and www. chathamsheriff.org. Operation New 236-8115. wilderness-southeast.org. Hope is funded by the Humane Society Tybee Island, Tybee Island. and community donations. ongoing. chaDolphin Project thamsheriff.org. humanesocietysav.org/. Dolphin Project's Education Outreach Program is available to speak at schools, Humane Society for Greater Savannah, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. clubs, organizations. A powerpoint pre-
PetSmart Charities National Adoption Event featuring Save-A-Life
Future man's best friend and furry family members are available for adoption. Sat., Sep. 13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sun., Sep. 14, 12-4 p.m. 912 598-SPAY (7729). savealifepets.org. petsmart.com. PetSmart, 11132 Abercorn St. St. Almo's
Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks on Sundays, 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at Canine Palace. Call for info. ongoing. 912234-3336. caninepalacesavannah.com. Canine Palace Inc, 618 Abercorn St. Religious & Spiritual Back to School Gospel Explosion
Daughters Of The King (CMBC girls ministry) hosts an evening of song, spiritual dance, and prayer for the Chatham County School staff & students. Free and open to the public. Sat., Sep. 13, 5 p.m. 912-927-0610. Christ Memorial Baptist Church, 1023 Dutchtown Road. 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) ongoing. 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. 912-427-7265 ongoing. 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. ongoing. familylife@diosav.org. diosav. org/familylife-singles. Center for Spiritual Living--Savannah
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day School" Sundays. cslsavannah.org. Columba House
Columba House is an inclusive, welcoming hospitality space dedicated to building and sustaining a community of faith committed to social justice with the city's young adults, college students, and creative demographic. Tuesday evenings 6:30-8pm, includes dinner and a program focused on justice. All are welcome. Free and open to the public. Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. 912-228-9425. Columba House, 34th Street between Abercorn and Lincoln Streets. Guided Silent Prayer
Pastor Rev. Dr. Barry B. Jackson, 480 Pine Barren Road, Pooler, GA "Saving a nation one soul at a time." ongoing. Tapestry Church
A church for all people! We don't care what you are wearing, just that you are here. From the moment you walk in until the moment you leave, Tapestry is committed to delivering a creative, challenging, straight forward, and honest message about the role of biblical principles in your life. Come experience an environment that helps you connect with God and discover his incredible purpose for your life. Join us every Sunday morning 10AM at the Habersham YMCA. Sundays, 10 a.m. tapestrysavannah.com. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Habersham Branch), 6400 Habersham St.
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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. Theology on Tap ongoing. vineyardsavannah.org. Meets on the third Monday, 8:30pmA New Church in the City, For the City 10:30pm. Like the Facebook page: Gather on Sundays at 10:30am. Like Theology on Tap Downtown Savannah. the Facebook page "Savannah Church ongoing. distillerysavannah.com. The Plant." ongoing. Bryson Hall, 5 E. Perry Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St. St. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah Read the Bible in One Year Liberal religious community where peoA Bible book club for those wanting ple with different beliefs gather as one to read the Bible in one year. Open to faith. Sundays, 11am. Email, call or see all. Book club format, not a traditional website for info. ongoing. 912-234-0980. Bible study. All welcome, regardless of admin@uusavannah.org. uusavannah. race, creed, sexual orientation, religion. org. uusavannah.org. Unitarian UniverThurs. 6:00pm-7:00pm. Call for info. salist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. ongoing. 912-233-5354. Holy Spirit LuUnity Church of Savannah theran Church, 622 E. 37th Street. Everyone is welcome. Unity of SavanSavannah Friends Meeting (Quakers) nah is not concerned with where people Un-programmed worship. 11am come from, what they look like, or whom Sundays, third floor of Trinity United they love – Unity is just glad that each Methodist Church. Call or email for info. person is here. Sunday 9:15am meditaAll are welcome. ongoing. 912-308tive service and 11:00am celebratory 8286. savbranart@gmail.com. trinityservice show what the New Thought church1848.org/. Trinity United Method- Movement is all about. Children’s church ist Church, 225 West President St. 11am service. Unity loves all people, Savannah Reiki Share just as they are. Sundays. 912-355-4704. During shares, participants take turns unityofsavannah.org. unityofsavannah. giving and receiving universal life force org/. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 energy via Reiki and other healing Sunset Blvd. modalities. Present at the shares are Weekly Spiritual Gathering usually no less than 2 Reiki Masters. A spiritual gathering with artist Joanne Come share with us on the 1st and 3rd Morton and friends on Wednesdays at Thursday of every month at the Sweet 12:12pm in a different square in the HisWater Spa in downtown Savannah. Sign toric Distric of Savannah. This is a new up at Savannah Reiki Share or Reiki by Savannah ritual - a growing heart colAppointment on Facebook. Free ongoing, lective for those who are committed to 7 p.m. 440-371-5209. Sweet Water Spa, living from their hearts, and believing in 148 Abercorn Street. the collective power of law of attraction. Service of Compline See website for each week's location. A chanted service by candlelight held ev- Wednesdays.. magicpassionlove.com/ ery Sunday night at 9pm. "Say goodnight savannah-gratitude. to God." Presented by Christ Church Sports & Games Anglican. ongoing. Independent Presby16th Annual Sea Kayak Races terian Church, Bull Street and OglethoBenefiting the Tybee Island Marine Scirpe Ave. ence Center. Three races on the waters South Valley Baptist Church Weekly Sunday services. Sunday school, near Tybee. An American Canoe Association sanctioned event. Sat., Sep. 13. 10:00am. Worship, 11:30am. Tuesday TybeeKayakRaces@gmail.com. tybeekayBible Study/Prayer Service, 6:30pm. akrace.blogspot.com/. Tybee Island, 58
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8x8 Coed Flag League. Play adult sports, meet new people. Sponsored by Savannah Adult Recreation Club. Wed. nights/ Sun. mornings, at locations around Savannah. $450. Minimum 8 games. Ages 18+. Coed teams. See website or call for info. ongoing. 912-220-3474. savadultrec.com. Derby Devils Roller Derby Classes
Roller derby league offers 12-week courses for beginners, recreational scrimmaging for experienced players and two annual bootcamp programs. See website for info. ongoing. savannahderby.com. Grief 101 Support Group
Seven-week morning or evening adult support group 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. ongoing. 912-303-9442. Full Circle Center for Grief Support, 450 Mall Blvd., Suite H. Savannah Bike Polo
Like regular polo, but with bikes instead of horses. Meets weekly. See facebook for info. ongoing. facebook.com/savannahbikepolo. Southeast Georgia Flag Football
An adult recreation 4 on 4 flag football league. Registration now open for this league's inaugural season (Fall 2014) with a targeted start date of Aug 28th - could be a week or two sooner if registration goes well. $200 per team Sundays.. 912-342-3019. segaflag.com. segaflag.com. Pooler Recreation Complex, Pooler Parkway. Ultimate Frisbee
Come play Ultimate! Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30pm until dark. Sundays, 4:30pm until we get tired. The west side of Forsyth Park. Bring a smile, two shirts (one light or white, one dark), water, and cleats (highly recommended). ongoing. savannahultimateproject@gmail.com. savannahultimateproject.wordpress. com/pick-up/. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. USMNT (Soccer) American Outlaws Chapter
USMNT is a national soccer team that represents the U.S. in international soccer competitions. American Outlaws Savannah chapter of USMNT meets regularly. Call for details. ongoing. 912398-4014. savannahflipflop.com. Flip Flop Tiki Bar & Grill, 117 Whitaker St. Support Groups ACOA-Al-Anon
The "From Survival to Recovery" Adult Children of Alcoholics/Al-Anon Group is a fellowship and support group for those who grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes. Meets Thursdays, 5:45pm at
the 24-Hour Club, 1501 Eisenhower Dr. Call for info. ongoing. 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. ongoing. 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. ongoing. 912-236-0363 x143. Amputee Support Group
Open to all who have had limbs amputated and their families or caregivers. Call for info. ongoing. 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 ongoing. Brain Injury Support Group
For traumatic brain injury survivors and their caregivers. Third Thursdays, 5pm. In the gym of the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial. ongoing. 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. ongoing. 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. ongoing. 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. ongoing. 912-303-9442. Full Circle Center for Grief Support, 450 Mall Blvd., Suite H. Citizens With Retarded Citizens
For families with children or adults with autism, mental retardation, and other developmental disabilities. Meets monthly. Call for info. ongoing. 912-3557633. Citizens With Retarded Citizens, 1211 Eisenhower Drive. Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Assoc.
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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. ongoing. 912-927-8332. coastalempirepoliosurvivors.org. Debtors Anonymous
For people with debting problems. Meets Sundays, 6:30pm at Unity of Savannah. See website or call for info. ongoing. 912-572-6108. debtorsanonymous.org. unityofsavannah.org/. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd.
912-598-8457. jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga. org. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. 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. ongoing. amkw21@gmail.com.
912-844-4524. elissabeam@yahoo.com. unityofsavannah.org/. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd. 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. ongoing. oa.org/meetings.
Legacy Group: For individuals with advanced and recurrent cancer.
Parents of Children with IEP's (Individualized Education Plans)
Klinefelter Syndrome/47-XXY Support Group
Group addresses the concerns of advanced and recurrent cancer survivors Eating Disorders Anonymous from the physical, emotional, spiritual, Free, volunteer-led support group for and social aspects of healing. To register recovery from anorexia/restrictive eating for a specific session and to learn about and/or bulimia/binge/purging. Not a diet the group, please call Jennifer Curringroup, nor for those who struggle solely McCulloch at 912-350-7845. ongoing. with overeating. Mondays, 7:30pm912-350-7845. Curtis and Elizabeth 8:30pm. Email for info. ongoing. edasaAnderson Cancer Institute (at Memovannah@yahoo.com. Asbury Memorial rial Health Univ. Medical Center), 4700 United Methodist Church, 1008 Henry St. Waters Ave. Essential Tremor Support Group
For those with the disease, care partners, family and caregivers. Managing the disease, treatments and therapies, quality of life. First Thursdays, 3:00pm4:30pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-8192224. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. Fibromyalgia Support Group
Second Thursdays, 5:30pm-6:30pm. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912819-6743. sjchs.org. sjchs.org. Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5353 Reynolds Ave. Gambling Problem 12 Step Program
Twelve step program offers freedom from gambling. Meets weekly. Leave message with contact info. ongoing. 912-748-4730. Georgia Scleroderma Support Group
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: 912-412-6675 or 912-414-3827. ongoing. Grief Support Groups
Hospice Savannah’s Full Circle offers a full array of grief support groups and individual counseling for children, teens and adults is available at no charge. Counseling is offered at 450 Mall Blvd., Suite H in Savannah, and appointments are also available in the United Way offices in Rincon and in Richmond Hill. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-303-9442. HospiceSavannah.org/ GriefSupport.
Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group
For patients with blood-related cancers and their loved ones. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-350-7845. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Narcotics Anonymous
Call for the Savannah Lowcountry Area NA meeting schedule. ongoing. 912-2385925.
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 ongoing. 912-350-5616. memorialhealth. com/backus. memorialhealth.com/ backus. Backus Children's Hospital, 4700 Waters Ave. Savannah-South Coast Parkinson's Support Group
The Savannah-South Coast Parkinson's Support Group will meet the first Saturday of each month from 9am - 11am
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. ongoing. Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd. For people who are eating compulsively. If nothing else has worked, there is help. Savannah has 2 OA meetings a week: Wednesday 5:30pm First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Avenue (at Paulsen Street) Friday 6:30pm Unity Church, 2320 Sunset Blvd. (off of Skidaway Rd.) Wednesdays, Fridays..
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Meets the second Tuesday of each month at St. Joseph’s Hospital,11705 Mercy Blvd., Meeting Room 1(on the 2nd Floor above ER entrance) at 6 p.m. An opportunity for people with MS and their families and friends to share information, develop coping strategies, receive support and become involved in community activities. ongoing. 912-819-2224. sjchs.org/. St. Joseph's Hospital, 11705 Mercy Blvd. Rape Crisis Center
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(March 21-April 19) In the 2000 film *Cast Away,* Tom Hanks plays an American FedEx executive who is stranded alone on a remote Pacific island after he survives a plane crash. A few items from the plane wash up on shore, including a volleyball. He draws a face on it and names it “Wilson,” creating a companion who becomes his confidant for the next four years. I’d love to see you enlist an ally like Wilson in the coming week, Aries. There are some deep, messy, beautiful mysteries you need to talk about. At least for now, the only listener capable of drawing them out of you in the proper spirit might be a compassionate inanimate object that won’t judge you or interrupt you.
TAURUS
(April 20-May 20) As far as I know, there has been only one battleship in history that was named after a poet. A hundred years ago, the Italian navy manufactured a dreadnought with triple-gun turrets and called it Dante Alighieri, after the medieval genius who wrote the *Divine Comedy.* Other than that, most warships have been more likely to receive names like Invincible, Vengeance, Hercules, or Colossus. But it would be fine if you drew some inspiration from the battleship Dante Alighieri in the coming weeks. I think you will benefit from bringing a lyrical spirit and soulful passion to your expression of the warrior archetype.
GEMINI
(May 21-June 20) If you go to a 7-Eleven convenience store and order a Double Big Gulp drink, you must be prepared to absorb 40 teaspoons of sugar. But what will be an even greater challenge to your body is the sheer amount of fluid you will have to digest: 50 ounces. The fact is, your stomach can’t easily accommodate more than 32 ounces at a time. It’s true that if you sip the Double Big Gulp very slowly -- like for a period of three and a half hours -- the strain on your system will be less. But after the first half hour, as the beverage warms up, its taste will decline steeply. Everything I’ve just said should serve as a useful metaphor for you in the coming week. Even if you are very sure that the stuff you want to introduce into your life is healthier for you than a Double Big Gulp, don’t get more of it than you can comfortably hold.
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hand, you animate the proactive side of your personality, you are likely to correct sloppy arrangements that have kept you off-balance. You will heal rifts and come up with bright ideas about how to get the help you need. It’s also quite possible you will strike a blow for justice and equality, and finally get the fair share you were cheated out of in the past.
LEO
(July 23-Aug. 22) In his 1982 martial arts film *Dragon Lord,* Jackie Chan experimented with more complex stunts than he had tried in his previous films. The choreography was elaborate and intricate. In one famous sequence, he had to do 2,900 takes of a single fight sequence to get the footage he wanted. That’s the kind of focused attention and commitment to detail I recommend to you in the coming weeks, Leo -- especially if you are learning new tricks and attempting novel approaches.
VIRGO
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22) In 1786, Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard were the first explorers to reach the top of 15,781-foot Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border. They were hailed as heroes. One observer wrote that the ascent was “an astounding achievement of courage and determination, one of the greatest in the annals of mountaineering. It was accomplished by men who were not only on unexplored ground but on a route that all the guides believed impossible.” And yet today, 228 years later, the climb is considered relatively easy for anyone who’s reasonably prepared. In a typical year, 20,000 people make it to the summit. Why am I bringing this to your attention? Because I suspect that you are beginning to master a skill that will initially require you to be like Balmat and Paccard, but will eventually be almost routine.
LIBRA
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Those who invoke the old metaphor about the caterpillar that transforms into the butterfly often omit an important detail: the graceful winged creature is helpless and weak when it first wriggles free of its chrysalis. For a while it’s not ready to take up its full destiny. As you get ready for your own metamorphosis, Libra, keep that in mind. Have plans to lay low and be self-protective in the days following your emergence into your new form. Don’t try to do loop-the-loops right away.
(June 21-July 22)
SCORPIO
If you surrender to the passive part of your personality, you will be whipped around by mood swings in the coming days. You will hem and haw, snivel and procrastinate, communicate ineptly, and be confused about what you really feel. If, on the other
According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you Scorpios are currently the sign of the zodiac that is least likely to be clumsy, vulgar, awkward, or prone to dumb mistakes. On the other hand, you
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
are the most likely to derisively accuse others of being clumsy, vulgar, awkward, or prone to dumb mistakes. I recommend that you resist that temptation, however. In the coming week, it is in your selfish interests to be especially tactful and diplomatic. Forgive and quietly adjust for everyone’s mistakes. Don’t call undue attention to them or make them worse. Continue to build your likeability and finetune your support system.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You have cosmic permission to be bigger than life and wilder than sin. You have a poetic license to be more wise than clever. And you should feel free to laugh longer than might seem polite and make no apologies as you spill drinks while telling your brash stories. This phase of your astrological cycle does not require you to rein yourself in or tone yourself down or be a well-behaved model citizen. In fact, I think it will be best for everyone concerned if you experiment with benevolent mischief and unpredictable healing and ingenious gambles.
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19) For over 2,000 years, Chinese astronomers have understood the science of eclipses. And yet as late as the 1800s, sailors in the Chinese navy shot cannonballs in the direction of lunar eclipses, hoping to chase away the dragons they imagined were devouring the moon. I have a theory that there’s a similar discrepancy in your psyche, Capricorn. A fearful part of you has an irrational fantasy that a wiser part of you knows is a delusion. So how can we arrange for the wiser part to gain ascendancy? There’s an urgent need for you to stop wasting time and energy by indulging in that mistaken perspective.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Squirrels don’t have a perfect memory of where they bury their nuts. They mean to go back and dig them all up later, but they lose track of many. Sometimes trees sprout from those forgotten nuts. It’s conceivable that on occasion a squirrel may climb a tree it planted years earlier. I see this as a useful metaphor for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. You are on the verge of encountering grown-up versions of seeds you sowed once upon a time and then forgot about.
PISCES
(Feb. 19-March 20) On a German TV show, martial artist Jackie Chan performed a tough trick. While holding a raw egg in his right hand, he used that hand to smash through three separate sets of four concrete blocks. When he was finished, the egg was still intact. I see your next task as having
for victims and families. 24-hour Rape Crisis Line operates seven days a week. 912-233-7273. ongoing. Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Support Group
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. ongoing. 912-858-2335. sjchs.org/. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. Sisters Network (Breast Cancer in the African American Community)
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. ongoing. 912-236-7405. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Spinal Injury Support Group
Third Thursdays, 5:30pm, at the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-3508900. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Support Group for Women Coping with Infertility or Who Desire to Pursue Adoption
For women who are on the infertility journey, or have the desire to pursue adoption, and need support from other women who have been there or are on the same journey. Meeting location: 217 E. 55th Street. Email for meeting days/ times. Every fourth Thursday. emptycradle_savannah@hotmail.com. 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 ongoing 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. ongoing. 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. ongoing. 912-8195704. 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. ongoing. 912-234-4048. parkplaceyes.org. Theatre Theatre: Spine Tingling Tales
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A late night ghost show that's appropriate for most ages, but a little bit scary. Produced by Odd Lot Comedy Troupe. $25 Fridays, 11 p.m. and Saturdays, 11 p.m.. soucyman@gmail.com. spinetinglingtales.com. savannahtheatre.com. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. Theatre: A Piece of My Heart
Shirley Lauro’s true drama of six women who went to Vietnam to entertain the troops. Presented by Armstrong's Black Box Theatre, in Jenkins Hall on campus. Sponsored by Connect Savannah. $12 Gen. Adm. Discounts for military/senior/ alumni/children. Free for Armstrong. Sep. 10-13, 7:30 p.m. armstrong.edu. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/index. html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Theatre: Grey Gardens
A musical comedy, telling the story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, once bright names on the social register who became East Hampton's most notorious recluses. Based on the film Grey Gardens. Presented by Collective Face Ensemble. $20 Gen. Adm. $15 senior/ student/military Fri., Sep. 12, 8 p.m., Sat., Sep. 13, 8 p.m. and Sun., Sep. 14, 3 p.m. 912/ 232-0018. collectiveface.org/. musesavannah.org/. Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Volunteers Bethesda Seeks Volunteer Docents for New History Museum/Visitors Center
Bethesda seeks volunteer docents for their new visitors center/museum. Volunteer docents needed during regular museum hours, Thurs.-Sat. 10am-4pm. Docents will share Bethesda’s rich history and inspiring legacy with visitors from across the country and around the world. ongoing. 912-351-2061. Elizabeth.brown@bethesdaacademy.org. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. Davenport House seeks Volunteer Docents
Davenport House volunteer docent/ tour guide training is offered in October. A four week training program. Dates/ times will be determined by participants. Docents lead tours and assist with programming for visitors. Call for info. Through Oct. 1. 912-236-8097. info@davenporthousemuseum.org. davenporthousemuseum.org. Davenport House, 324 East State St. 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. ongoing. 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. ongoing. 912-2326572. 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. ongoing. 912-964-4326. Hospice Volunteers Needed in Chatham and other Coastal Counties
Island Hospice, THA Group's nonprofit hospice service, seeks volunteers for patient socialization and caregiver respite. Also seeking nonpatient contact volunteers who can contribute by providing services including, but not limited to, office work, crafting, sewing, light yard work, housekeeping, playing guitar for patients, and licensed hairdressers. Serving patients in Chatham, Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham, Liberty, Camden, Glynn, McIntosh, and Screven Counties in Georgia, and Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, Charleston, Colleton Counties in South Carolina. See website or email or call for info. ongoing. 888-842-4463. kbuttimer@thagroup.org. thagroup.org. Live Oak Public Libraries
Volunteers needed to assist in a variety of ways at its branches in Chatham, Effingham, and Liberty Counties. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-6523661. liveoakpl.org. Medical Professional Volunteers Needed
St. Joseph's/Candler's St. Mary's Health Center, a free clinic serving the uninsured, seeks physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, lab techs, and patient care techs. Non-clinical volunteers needed to to schedule appointments. Contact Stephanie Alston. ongoing. 912-4439409. St. Joseph's/Candler--St. Mary's Health Center, 1302 Drayton St. Oatland Island Wildlife Center
Oatland Island Wildlife Center often needs volunteers. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-395-1500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Pre-School Volunteers Needed
Seeking early childhood education majors, retired elementary teachers and/or community residents to help 3 & 4 year olds with language development skills. Mon.-Fri., 9am-12noon. Call for info. ongoing. 912-447-0578. sjchs.org/1969. cfm. St. Mary's Community Center and Health Center, 812 W 36th St.
volunteer tutors to assist adult learners. Monday - Thursday, 5pm-7pm. Tuesday & Thursday, 9am-11am. Classes at Royce Learning Center and at Wesley Community Center. Free tutor training. Email or call for info. ongoing. 912-3544047. kmorgan@roycelc.org.
Retired and Senior Volunteer Program
An after school program for inner city children seeking adult volunteers to help with homework, Bible Study, art classes, and more. See website or email for info. ongoing. urbanhopesav@aol. com. urbanhopesavannah.org.
Share time and talents through the RSVP program of the Equal Opportunity Authority. Seniors 55 and older serve in various community organizations. Call for information. ongoing. 912-238-2960 x123. Ronald McDonald House
Help in the "home away from home" for families of hospitalized children. Volunteers needed to provide homecooked meals for families at the house. Volunteer internships available for college students. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-356-5520. rmhccoastalempire.org. rmhccoastalempire.org/. Ronald McDonald House, 4710 Waters Avenue. Specialized Foster Care Services
Lutheran Services of Georgia provides Specialized Foster Care services for children in the custody of DFACS and Department of Juvenile Justice. We specialize in placing children that are special needs including (a) sibling groups, (b) teens, (c) children with physical, mental, developmental and behavioral disabilities, (d) commercially sexually exploited children. We look for the best home to match the children’s needs. Lutheran Services seeks to provide the best support for the child and the foster family. LSG Foster families have been evaluated to ensure that children in care will be provide a safe and nurturing home that can provide care and attention to children’s medical, emotional, educational and social needs. ongoing. (912)228-7873. lmccrary@lsga.org. lsga. org.
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Volunteer at the Forsyth Farmers' Market
The market occurs each Saturday morning at the South End of Forsyth Park, from February through December. To volunteer, see website for contact info. ongoing. forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket.com/. Forsyth Farmers' Market, 501 Whitaker St., South End of Forysth Park. Volunteer for Meals on Wheels
There are seniors in our community who are hungry. You can make a difference by volunteering one hour a week to delivering Meals on Wheels to homebound seniors. We have routes throughout Savannah, so we can match you to an area that is convenient. Training included. Volunteers use their own vehicle. Gas stipend is optional. There are over 500 seniors on the waiting list to receive meals, and the number continues to grow. For more information, contact Lauren at Volunteer@seniorcitizens-inc. org or 912-236-0363 Mondays-Fridays, 10:45 a.m. Senior Citizens Inc., 3025 Bull St. The Yoga Room
visit the website or call for a schedule of classes, times, and fees. ongoing. 912898-0361. thesavannahyogaroom.com. thesavannahyogaroom.com/. Savannah Yoga Room, 115 Charlotte Dr.
Stand-Up Paddleboarding
Lessons and tours. East Coast Paddleboarding, Savannah/Tybee Island. email or call for info. ongoing. 912-484-3200. eastcoastpaddleboarding.com.
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Education majors, retired reading teachers or community residents sought to volunteer for a reading and math tutorial program for elementary and middle school students. Call for info. ongoing. 912-447-6605. sjchs.org/body. cfm?id=399. African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Tutors Sought for Adult Learners (GED Prep and Literacy Needs)
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624 MONTGOMERY STREET. Downtown. Furnished, all utilities. Clean, quiet, nice room on busline. $120 & Up per week. 912-944-0950 RENT OR RENT-TO-OWN: mobile homes, 9B OAK FOREST LANE: Savannah, Remodeled GA 31404. 2BR/1BA. $650/rent + 3BR/2BA, in Garden City mobile $650/deposit. Call 912-398-4424 home park. Low down affordable payments. Credit check approval. ADAMS REALTY Call Gwen, Manager, at 912-964& 7675 MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC. Where Savannah goes to make a house a home. Many rental homes available now. Call 354-0484 to preview our listings.
SOUTHSIDE •1BR Apts, washer/dryer included. $25 for water, trash included, $625/month. •2BR/1.5BA Townhouse Apt, total electric, w/washer & dryer $675. 912-927-3278 or 912-356-5656
CHARMING HOME 2324 Florida Avenue
SPRINGFIELD: Forest Hills Subd. Little McCall/Courthouse Rd. 3BR/2BA, kitchen appliances furnished, fireplace,washer/dryer hookup, central heat/air, nice COASTAL PLACE @ TIBET front porch, large yard. No pets. 2BD/2BA Apartment. Eat-in $800/month, $800/deposit. 912kitchen, large LR, washer/dryer 657-4583 connections, new paint and STOP RENTING flooring. 6 closets, all electric. Own your own home. Renting is $750 /month. 912-655-4303. just throwing money away. It’s a Buyer’s market, so take advantage of the great deals. I still work with CROSSROADS APARTMENTS Good, Okay and Bad Credit. 9122 Bedroom $650, 3 Bedroom $695. 604-6145. $600 Security Deposit. Section 8 Email: antoniob@spfs.com welcome. 401 W. Montgomery VERY NICE Crossroads. 912-596-9946 *Nassau Woods: Lot C37, 2BR/2BA $675/month. *13 Hibiscus St. 4BR/1BA $875. LEWIS PROPERTIES *15 Sidney Ct. 4BR/1BA $900. 897-1984, 8am-7pm Call 912-507-7934, 912-927-2853 NEAR LAMARVILLE/LIBERTY CITY or 912-631-7644 *1921 COWAN: 3BR/1BA $750 *1912 COWAN: 3BR/2BA $825 Room for Rent *1921B FENWICK: 2BR Duplex $550 ROOMS FOR RENT EASTSIDE $75 Move-In Special Today!! *430 LAWTON: 5BR/2BA, 2-story Clean, furnished, large. Busline, Victorian house $900 central heat/air, utilities. $100*All above have carpet, A/C/heat, $130 weekly. Rooms w/bathroom kitchen appliances, washer/dryer $145. Call 912-289-0410. hookup, fenced yard. References, EFFICIENCY ROOMS application. One-year lease stove, refrigerator, minimum. Deposit same as rent. Includes None total electric, No smoking, private bath. Furnished! $180/ week. Call 912-844-5995. pets negotiable. 2BR, 1 Bath, CH/AC, living/dining, laundry, fenced backyard. $725/ month, $625/deposit. No Section 8. Available Oct. 1. 912-656-9676
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FURNISHED APTS. $180/WK. Private bath and kitchen, cable, utilities, washer furnished. AC & heat, bus stop on property. No deposit required. Completely safe, manager on property. Contact Denise, (352)459-9707, Linda, (912)690-9097, Jack, (912)342-3840 or Cody, (912)6957889
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SENIOR LIVING AT IT'S BEST FOR AGES 50 & BETTER Shared community living for full functioning seniors ages 50 & above. Nice comfortable living at affordable rates. Shared kitchen & bathroom. All bedrooms have central heating/air and cable. Bedrooms are fully furnished and private. Make this community one you will want to call home. SAVANNAH'S HOUSE OF GRACE also has community housing with its own private bath. Different rates apply. Income must be verifiable. We accept gov. vouchers. Prices starting at $550.
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