Connect Savannah 19 November, 2014

bye-bye big oak, 12 | trainwrecks new cd release party, 22 | tribute to the band, 26 | savannah stage co. preview, 34 Nov 19 – 25, 2014 news, arts & Entertainment weekly connectsavannah.com

Gift Guide Inside, See Page 17

Futurebirds head Southbound Athens faves are set to brew up a good time

By Jim Morekis | 24 Futurebirds at Revival Fest, photo by Jim Morekis

DON’T MISS IT! NOV 19-25, 2014

December 4 • 7PM

2

912-651-6557 BroadwayInSavannah.com

NOV 19-25, 2014

Name: Wild Wing Cafe Width: 9.5 in Depth: 10.5 in Color: Process color File Name: \\morrismultimedia.com\savps\AccountScout\Retail Images\2014\Sep\7449_4.pdf Comment: Wild Wing Cafe

Week At A Glance

compiled by Rachael Flora | 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.

Wednesday / 19

Film: Where Have All The People Gone?

The Psychotronic Film Series' 60th birthday salute to Kathleen Quinlan, where she and Peter Graves some of the last surviving humans after a series of strange solar flares cause most of mankind to vanish and most animals to go insane.

More disturbing than one might expect from a made-for-TV film, it has never been released on DVD and is highly sought after by sci-fi and horror film fans.

8 p.m The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. $6

Harrison Scott Key

Key, a humorist, will bring his writing students to share new work.

6 p.m The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty St.

Thursday / 20 Art on Tap: Craft Beers at the Jepson

The monthly happy hour featuring art and craft beer.

5 p.m Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Call for pricing.

912-790-8866. telfair.org

Community Symposium: Creating a More Ethical Culture in the Workplace

Armstrong State University and Savannah State University co-host this presentation about ethics and fraud in today's workplace.

6-7 p.m Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Concert: Thursday Night Opry w/ Walter Parks, Waits & Co.

The Trinity Church Concert Series rolls on with Walter Parks and Waits & Co. 7:30 p.m Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. $10

International Business 101

NOV 19-25, 2014

This introductory program is designed for those looking to work in international markets. There will be a panel of experts and a Q&A session following the program.

Register at wtcsavannah.org.

8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m World Trade Center Savannah, 131 Hutchinson Rd. Free 912-447-9707

4

Lauren Lapointe

The final Third Thursdays on Tybee performance for 2014.

5:30-7 p.m Tybee Roundabout, Tybrisa Street and Strand Avenue

wed/26

a A e a a Film: Chaos 7 Chaos is an exhilarating "feminist" black L comedy thriller from an occasional direc- $ tor, Coline Serreau. The film has been l hardly seen and has been out of print for S the last few years.

5 p.m B Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. I $8 W Houses of Civil War America Book e Signing o Hugh Howard, author of Houses of Civil r War America, will host a book signing b and a presentation at the Green Meldrim 9 house. Books are available for purchase. T 4:30 p.m $ Green Meldrim House, 14West Macon St. 9 Free and open to the public

Concert: Life is a Carnival Savannah Philharmonic: Anthony Kearns in Concert: Ireland's Finest Tenor

"Songs, Arias, and Melodies of a Golden Age." Kearns performs light opera overtures and opera choruses, in addition to Irish traditional favorites and opera standards.

7:30 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $16 to $70 savannahphilharmonic.org

Friday / 21 Blues in the Night: Johnny Mercer Songbook

Cathedral Preservation Benefit Concert features the Equinox Orchestra, Rebecca Flaherty, Jillian Pashke, and Kurt Ollmann.

Tickets are $50 per adult. The concert takes place in the Cathedral on Friday November 21st beginning with a reception on the plaza at 6:00 pm.. For more information about tickets, email savannahcathedralgala@gmail.com or call 912429-7612. All proceeds go to support the on-going renovation and preservation of the historic church.

6-8 p.m Cathedral of St John the Baptist, 222. E Harris St. $50 per adult 912-429-7612. savannahcathedralgala@gmail. com. savannahcathedral.org

Christmas Made in the South

Get ready for Christmas with this festival, which showcases a wide variety of handmade works that are perfect for gifts. One admission good for all three days with a hand stamp. Free parking.

10 a.m.-8 p.m Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, 1 International Dr. $7, kids under 12 free

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.

912-209-0025. perccoffee.com

Concert: Futurebirds, this mountain, Amythyst Kiah

Kick off the 2015 Savannah Stopover Season. Futurebirds will release their very own small batch of Biere de Garde brewed

by Southbound just for the show.

8 p.m Southbound Brewing Company, 107 E Lathrop Ave. $28

Deen Family Book Signing

Paula, Jamie & Bobby Deen will sign their various books. 350 wristbands will be distributed at 9 am.

10 a.m.-noon The Lady and Sons, 102 West Congress St. Free to attend. Books available for purchase.

912-232-1579. mandy@pauladeen.com pauladeen.com

Film: Courageous

A film by well-regarded Christian film producers Sherwood Pictures, "Courageous" is the story of four policemen courageous in their jobs but having trouble being good dads. The film explores how an unexpected community tragedy helps them grapple with their hopes, fears and faith to draw closer to their children and to God. 7:30-9 p.m Higher Ground Baptist Church, 9120 Whitefield Ave. 912-355-1505. highergroundsav.org/

Passages: A Reflection on Youth and Exuberance

B

B p A repertory dance concert featuring bal- f let, modern, contemporary, and musical i theater that includes all 86 dance majors i at Savannah Arts Academy. a Nov. 21, 7 p.m 8 Savannah Arts Academy, 500 Washington Ave. B $15 9

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

Film: To Kill A Mockingbird

B N

S e 5 B $ 9

C

To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American F drama film directed by Robert Mulligan. p The screenplay by Horton Foote was based f on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel n of the same name by Harper Lee. It stars M Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch,

week at a Glance |

continued from previous page

Fri/21

FILM: CHAOS Saturday / 22 Beaches and Borders Tour of Tybee Island

Wilderness Southeast hosts a 2-hour exploration of the salt marshes and beach on Tybee Island. Tour size 4-15 people; reservations required. Fee includes use of binoculars and spotting scope.

9:30-11:30 a.m Tybee Island, Tybee Island. $25, $15 for kids 912-236-8115

Bethesda Farm Stand

Bethesda students and staff sell fresh produce, organic garden seedlings and farm-fresh eggs. Students lead or assist in planting, cultivating and harvesting all items at Bethesda Academy using sustainable, organic farming techniques.

8:30 a.m.-noon Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. 912-351-2061. bethesdaacademy.org

Bonaventure After Hours: Stories, Nightfall & More!

Savannah's only after-hours cemetery event, in this riverside Victorian cemetery.

5-8 p.m.

Bonaventure Cemetery, 330 Bonaventure Rd. $35 912-319-5600. info@bonaventurecemetery.com

Captain Red Ned's Oyster Fest

Featuring a wide variety of oysters, beer pairings, pirate drinks, and pirate names for each guest. noon Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St.

Christmas Made in the South

Get ready for Christmas with this festival, which showcases a wide variety of handmade works that are perfect for gifts. One admission good for all three days with a hand stamp. Free parking.

10 a.m.-6 p.m Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, 1 International Dr. $7, kids under 12 free

Come and Take It: Revolutionary War Encampment

Experience the Revolutionary War at Fort Morris with a wreath laying ceremony, solider talks, cannon demonstrations, live colonial music, and a presentation by George and Martha Washington.

10 a.m Fort Morris Historic Site, 2559 Fort Morris Road.

912-884-5999

Concert: Erica Campbell

Award-winning gospel artist Erica Campbell of Mary, Mary performs. This concert is hosted by Overcoming by Faith Ministries.

7-9 p.m Hilton Head Marriott Resort & Spa, 1 Hotel Cir. Free and open to the public 912-927-8601. overcomingbyfaith.org

Flying Fortress 5k and Family Fun Day The 5th annual Flying Fortress 5k adds a Family Fun Day component to this year's festivities. All proceeds benefit the museum.

8:30 a.m Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, 175 Bourne Ave. $30 912-748-8888. mightyeighth.org

Forsyth Farmers Market

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

9 a.m.-1 p.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Free to attend. Items for sale. continues on p. 6

NOV 19-25, 2014

and Mary Badham in the role of Scout.

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depressionera South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.

7 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $5-$8 lucastheatre.com/schedule/2014-11/

5

week at a Glance |

continued from previous page

Harvest Festival and Cane Grinding: Old Timey Southern Celebration

The annual event takes visitors back in time to a traditional Southern celebration of community living and scrumptious foods. Visitors will enjoy music, hay rides, pony rides, children's activities and more.

10 a.m.-4 p.m Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. $7 per adult; $5 per child (4-17), seniors and military 912-395-1500. oatlandisland.org

Inland Rice Cultivation at Wormsloe

Presented by Alessandro Pasqua as part of the Wormsloe Foundation Lecture Series.

1 p.m Wormsloe Historic Site, 7601 Skidaway Rd. $10

Lecture: The Media & Georgia's Environment

The Center for a Sustainable Coast hosts this forum, which will discuss the media's role in affecting environmental policies.

Reservations requested.

5-7 p.m The Pirate's House, 20 East Broad St. 912-506-5088. susdev@gate.net

Live Mural Competition

The mural competition winner will be commissioned to paint a full mural inside the brewery. For the art show, 10 spaces are available for artists to sell or promote their work for $40 per table.

2 p.m Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. 912-777-3686

A Painting at Wormsloe

Instructor Brandi Hurlebaus will teach participants how to paint the Wormsloe oak avenue. The first event is family-friendly, and the second event includes wine after 5 p.m. for adults only.

4-6 p.m Wormsloe Historic Site, 7601 Skidaway Rd. $25-50

Passages: A Reflection on Youth and Exuberance

NOV 19-25, 2014

A repertory dance concert featuring ballet, modern, contemporary, and musical theater that includes all 86 dance majors at Savannah Arts Academy.

Nov. 22, 7 p.m. and 2:30 p.m Savannah Arts Academy, 500 Washington Ave. $15

6

FILM: Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday is a 1953 romantic comedy directed and produced by William Wyler. It stars Gregory Peck as a reporter, and Audrey Hepburn as a royal princess out to see Rome on her own. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance; the screenplay and costume design also won.

7 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. 5.00-8.00 emuller@lucastheatre.com. lucastheatre.com/ schedule/2014-11/

Southbound Art Show featuring The Train Wrecks and City Hotel

Afternoon of local craft beer, music and art at Southbound Brewing Company. Live performances by The Train Wrecks and City Hotel as local artists show off their work and local muralists compete live for a chance to paint a large-scale mural inside the brewery. Ticket includes samplings of Southbound's craft beers.

21+ show (ID required at the door). $20 tickets in advance online, or $25 at the door.

2-6 p.m Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. $20 in advance 912-335-7716. katie@southboundbrewingco.com.

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

Urban Hope's 1st Annual Pee Wee Rodeo Join Urban Hope for a fun filled day of all things cowboy and cowgirl. The Pee Wee Rodeo will introduce children to the fun and unique lifestyle of the rodeo. Children will be able to participate in rodeo events using a stick horse! There will also be pony rides, arts and crafts from Scribble Art Studio, farm animals and cowboy/ cowgirl demonstrations.

10 a.m.-2 p.m Red Gate Farms, 136 Red Gate Farms Trail,. $10-$15 912-398-9811. cassie.beckwith@yahoo.com.

Wilmington Island Farmers' Market

Vendors offering produce, prepared foods, crafts, plus storytime, musical performances, and community information. Every Saturday.

111 Walthour Rd @ Islands Community Church.

Free and open to the public wifarmersmarket.org/

continued from previous page

Sunday / 23

Wednesday / 26

Christmas Made in the South

Concert: Life is a Carnival

Get ready for Christmas with this festival, which showcases a wide variety of handmade works that are perfect for gifts. One admission good for all three days with a hand stamp. Free parking.

11 a.m.-5 p.m Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, 1 International Dr. $7, kids under 12 free

Passages: A Reflection on Youth and Exuberance

A repertory dance concert featuring ballet, modern, contemporary, and musical theater that includes all 86 dance majors at Savannah Arts Academy.

Nov. 23, 2:30 p.m Savannah Arts Academy, 500 Washington Ave. $15

Rev. Saundra Stiles-Thomas Book Signing

Rev. Saundra Stiles-Thomas presents her memoir, "A Charge to Keep and a God to Glorify," and will participate in a meetand-greet and book signing.

4 p.m Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. Free and open to the public

Savannah Philharmonic: Chamber Concert No. 3 - Totally Mozart

Mozart's Horn Quintet in E flat Major K. 407; Oboe Quartet in F Major K. 370; and Quintet in E flat Major for piano and winds K. 452 performed by a chamber orchestra comprised of the region's finest classical musicians.

5 p.m Ascension Lutheran Church, 120 Bull St. $20 savannahphilharmonic.org

Fri/21

To Kill A Mockingbird Monday / 24 Tuesday / 25 Karla Bonoff

With a career spanning four decades, Karla Bonoff has enjoyed critical acclaim, commercial success, enduring popularity and the unwavering respect of her peers.

In addition to achieving chart success with her own recordings, Bonoff's songwriting has provided hits for Bonnie Raitt, Wynonna Judd and Linda Ronstadt.

7:30 p.m Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street. $25 marstheater.com

Odd Lot Improv

In the tradition of The Groundlings, Second City, and Whose Line is it Anyway?, The Odd Lot Comedy Troupe presents live, in the moment, hilarity with a showcase of improvisational comedy. Theress no telling where the evening will take you! Appropriate comedy for a PG crowd.

8 p.m.

Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd.

Bethesda Farm Stand

Bethesda students and staff sell fresh produce, organic garden seedlings and farm-fresh eggs. Students lead or assist in planting, cultivating and harvesting all items at Bethesda Academy using sustainable, organic farming techniques.

3-5:30 p.m.

Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. 912-351-2061. bethesdaacademy.org

Life is a Carnival is an all-ages tribute to The Band, featuring all local artists.

Featured artists include: The Train Wrecks and The Accomplices With Special Guests: Eric Culberson, City Hotel, Craig Tanner, Ray Lundy, Ricardo Ochoa, plus many more!

7 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. 20.00 lucastheatre.com

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

Heartbeats for Life

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

Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Free and open to the public.

912-598-8457. jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga.org

Richmond Hill Farmers Market

The City of Richmond Hill's weekly market offers a variety of produce and local crafts to purchase. Rain or shine. Pet-friendly (on a leash please).

3-7 p.m.

J. F. Gregory Park, Richmond Hill.

Free to attend.

BUFFET

WWW.SOHOSOUTHCAFE.COM 912.233.1633

NOV 19-25, 2014

week at a Glance |

7

News & Opinion Proud Sponsor of the Savannah Music Festival

Connect Savannah is published every Wednesday by Morris Multimedia, Inc

1464 East Victory Drive Savannah, GA, 31404 Phone: (912) 238-2040 Fax: (912) 231-9932 www.connectsavannah.com twitter: @ConnectSavannah Facebook.com/connectsav

Administrative Chris Griffin, General Manager chris@connectsavannah.com (912) 721-4378 Editorial Jim Morekis, Editor-in-Chief jim@connectsavannah.com (912) 721-4360 Jessica Leigh Lebos, Community Editor jll@connectsavannah.com (912) 721-4386 Anna Chandler, Arts & Entertainment Editor anna@connectsavannah.com (912) 721-4356 Rachael Flora, Events Editor happenings@connectsavannah.com Contributors John Bennett, Matt Brunson, Lauren Flotte, Lee Heidel, Geoff L. Johnson, Orlando Montoya, Cheryl Solis, Jon Waits Advertising Information: (912) 721-4378 sales@connectsavannah.com Jay Lane, Account Executive jay@connectsavannah.com (912) 721-4381 Matt Twining, Account Executive matt@connectsavannah.com (912) 721-4388 Design & Production Brandon Blatcher, Art Director artdirector@connectsavannah.com (912) 721-4379 Alice Johnston, Graphic Designer ads@connectsavannah.com (912) 721-4380 Distribution Wayne Franklin, Distribution Manager (912) 721-4376 Thomas Artwright, Howard Barrett, Jolee Edmondson, Brenda B. Meeks.

NOV 19-25, 2014

Classifieds Call (912) 231-0250

8

editor’s note

Trailblazing a new Canal District

by Jim Morekis jim@connectsavannah.com

AS MOST OF YOU are probably aware, nine more people were shot in Savannah over the last three days, two fatally.

That’s as we go to press; the number may be higher by the time you see this.

This was also the first week that new Police Chief Jack Lumpkin takes over the reins. I wonder if the Chief is already feeling nostalgic for Athens.

“We need the community’s help to combat this violence,” said Chief Lumpkin in a special press conference this past Monday addressing the shootings, during which the phrase “state of emergency” was suitably used by police.

“Gaining their trust is paramount. It’s not going to happen in a day or two, and it may not happen in a month,” he said. “But I am going to work hard to restore that trust.”

He’s absolutely right, of course. But unfortunately I think the community has heard that one before, and is expecting more dramatic action this time around.

In any case, it’s become clear that the gun violence is not so much a spike or anomaly, but apparently now the default mode for much of Savannah.

Crime has now joined workforce development as the major obstacle to future economic growth in Chatham County.

Which brings us to the resurgent plan, first unveiled a year ago, for an ambitious “Canal District” on the city’s Westside.

The well-articulated plans make use of existing infrastructure to form a multi-use, pedestrian and bike-friendly urban trail system designed to join downtown proper with the site of the new $120 million Westside arena complex.

As an added plus, the proposed Canal District would be sited largely on land already owned by taxpayers.

For a vision of a very successful similar project, look to Atlanta’s Beltline, an inspired repurposing of old rail beds into heavily-used walking and bike trails connecting dozens of neighborhoods of the city.

The eastern corridor of the ATL Beltline is complete and has been a smash hit from day one. On a typical weekend it’s nearly

maxed out with traffic, whether folks out walking the dog or cyclists running errands or families enjoying the day. Importantly, the traffic continues through the week.

Just last week the western portion of the Beltline broke ground. When it and the remaining portions are finished, the Atlanta Beltline will comprise 33 miles of trails and 1300 acres of parks, and connect nearly 50 neighborhoods in a vast circle—a much more pleasant Doppelganger of Atlanta’s infamous I-285 perimeter.

The Beltline’s economic impact is visible and tangible throughout Midtown and Intown Atlanta. It’s an inspiring vision of just how reinvigorating these kinds of projects can be when done right, in the right communities.

Retail establishments and restaurants with rear exteriors facing the trails now specifically market to people on the Beltline, inviting them to rack their bikes, take a break and stop in and shop or eat.

Adjacent apartment buildings use convenience to the Beltline as a major marketing tool, and it works. The Beltline is spurring a residential boom of young professionals in Midtown Atlanta.

Pop-up businesses, exhibits, urban farms, and yoga classes happen along the Beltline’s length. It has its own evening lantern parade.

You can even buy Beltline merch.

Simply put, in its short lifetime the ATL Beltline has already transitioned from mode of transportation to a destination in and of itself.

But here’s the thing: The Beltline is a destination for residents. While you can indeed take a special bus tour of the Beltline—yet another barometer of its success—it’s not a tourism project per se.

Atlanta’s reclamation project is suitably huge, but as our News Cycle columnist John Bennett has detailed, smaller Georgia cities from Athens to Columbus to Rome are enacting similar repurposed greenway ideas.

Wait—doesn’t Savannah already have plans for a Beltline of sorts, on the Eastside?

Why yes, that would be the Truman Linear Park Trail, a million-dollar project for which funds are already available.

The idea was for a bike/pedestrian path running from Daffin Park to Lake Mayer.

But it’s been bogged down in the typical Savannah city vs. county squabble of who will bear financial responsibility for maintenance (though the City apparently does have

enough money on hand for Council to have voted itself a future pay raise).

It’s not the most encouraging precedent for what might happen if Canal District plans are approved and funded by taxpayers.

But an even larger issue for a mixed-use trail in Savannah is crime. And Eastside and Westside, the two locations for Savannah’s mixed-use trails, both happen to run through the areas of town most plagued by gun violence.

The key to the success of any urban trail/ greenway project is frequent, regular use at all hours of the day by residents. That is certainly the biggest deterrent to crime on Atlanta’s Beltline.

But if the primary vision for Savannah’s Canal District is just to help tourists find their way to the new Arena, then it will have failed before it’s even begun.

The critical mass of regular dawn-to-dusk resident users needed to deter crime will not be achieved, and the Canal District will soon look more like Savannah River Landing then the Atlanta Beltline.

Don’t get me wrong—it would be wonderful to see the Canal District help spur economic growth in an organic fashion, as the Beltline has done.

But who will be the first to blaze the new trail? SCAD students? Westside residents?

Tourists?

Young professionals?

What young professionals?

And who will patrol the Canal District to ensure safety? Chief Lumpkin’s undermanned, overtaxed force, about to be split in two with the merger’s breakup?

And hey, how about a nighttime lantern parade through West Savannah? Sound like your idea of a good time? How do you think that will work out? As well as in Midtown Atlanta?

Who knows? Maybe it’s just what the doctor ordered.

Simply put, the Canal District is as risky a gamble as the Westside arena itself.

Then again, taxpayers have already voted to fully fund the arena. So do we go all in and fund a Canal District too?

Do we build on success a little bit at a time? Or do we just say screw it and build everything as quickly as we can, as seems to be the current sentiment of your City leadership?

Maybe the better question is: What does the track record show us? cs

GET BUCKS FOR BOOKS IN-STORE OR ONLINE AT BUYBACK.COM 228 MARTIN LUTHER KING BLVD. | EXLIBRIS.BKSTR.COM /EXLIBRISBOOKSTORE

NOV 19-25, 2014

EX LIBRIS BOOKSTORE

9

news & Opinion | The (Civil) Society Column

Tangled up in a view

This place matters…but can it be saved?

Longtime National Trust member Carolyn Bennett of the Foundation for Historical Louisiana knows keeping the past relevant can be a challenge, and she wanted In his column last to kick up the dust this year for her fellow week, Connect editor-inguardians of yore with the seditious riot of chief Jim Morekis highcolor known as a yarnbomb. A knitter herlighted the irony of the self, she enlisted Preservation Pennsylvania National Trust for Historic Preservation executive director and fiber cohort Mindy coming to Savannah Crawford in an endeavor they call Knit, just as many locals are practically coming Purl, Preserve. to fisticuffs over downtown’s development “Knitting creates keepsakes that are free-for-all. kept in families and passed down—the old Other than opining that it seems totally sweater reminds a newer generation of a bananas to put a huge arena a mile away grandmother and prompts storytelling of from the major hotel sector…and a ballpark past times,” explains Carolyn, threading the on sinking landfill…and a bunch of chain seam between purling and preservation. stores on a storied commercial strip, I try to “That’s what treasured old buildings do.” stay out of the fray. Besides, there’s already Carolyn and Mindy put out the call for been enough blood shed on Facebook about local hook-and-needle nerds for help, and this stuff to float a post-Panamax ship. the intrepid SYS kninjas answered: Every But I found myself literally tangled up in time the National Trust colleagues crossed the conversation when the Savannah Yarn- the river or walked from the lobby of the bomb Squad hit the Hutchinson Island Westin, they were met with a shimmering ferry landing as part of the National Trust’s kaleidoscope of string.

Past Forward conference and its ongoing Yarn of every color and texture covered #ThisPlaceMatters social media campaign. the landing railing and a couple of benches.

Held across the river at the still new A splashy mandala emblazoned on a and very shiny Savannah International reclaimed Goodwill sweater stretched across Trade Center (not so much an ironic as a two pillars, the National Trust maxim “This pragmatic choice of venue), the convention Place Matters” embroidered on one side. brought together over 2,000 preservationThe fiber pirates even festooned a garbage ists, architects, urban planners, scholars and can along the river walk, eliciting the giggly anyone else in the business of “saving places.” observation that that it resembled R2D2 (Lord knows, our places need saviors. If wearing a beanie. not for the Historic Savannah Foundation Points on the Savannah side of the river and the efforts of SCAD, our downtown were targeted, too. Jennifer Schofield and might have been razed long ago for one mas- her crew at the Frayed Knot gave the statue sive Family Dollar circle of hell.)

Waving Girl Florence Martus a lovely skirt

By Jessica Leigh Lebos

LIVE! Saturday, November 22nd 4 shows featuring a

Special Reading of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and Audience Participation with Holiday Songs.

Immediately followed by a special Meet and Greet

Show Times 11am, 1, 3 & 5pm

jll@connectsavannah.com

NOV 19-25, 2014

Coming Soon: Pole Position Raceway and Wing Shack

10

Open Mon. – Sat. 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m Sun. Noon to 6:00 p.m. • Holiday Hours May Vary 14045 Abercorn St., Savannah, GA 31419 • (912) 927-7467 www.SavannahMall.com © 2014 Savannah Mall. All rights reserved.

Can you spot the Tybee Lighthouse? Photo by Star Kotowski/ArtPop Productions

The (Civil) Society Column |

continued from previous page

and matching scarf, and a group of SCAD students took on Reynolds Square.

“Yarnbombing of vintage city landmarks puts a human and softer touch on hard structures of metal, wood, and glass,” enjoined Carolyn.

“It makes the viewer stop for a minute and get into color, design, zaniness and a bit of fun.”

Lady, you don’t need to tell me! I’m all about colorful zany art popping up in unexpected places. (Hey, have y’all seen the new mural at 40th Street and Drayton yet?)

In fact, I was so dizzy with delight with this National Trust project that it rendered me a little stupid.

When I drove down River Street the first morning of the conference to find that the Waving Girl’s accoutrements had been removed by the City before the sun even hit the squares, I was actually shocked. I scratched my head for a full ten minutes, wondering what happened.

What a knitwit. I’ve only written about eleventy billion stories about the City’s public art policy. I am fully apprised on the role of the MPC’s Site and Monument Commission. I of all people should have known better to think an unsanctioned art installation on public property would be tolerated, even if it were commissioned by the Messiah.

Yet it took me until after the fact to realize that there was no way this enterprise would have ever possibly been issued a perknit—er, permit. (Thanks for the pun, Matthew McCully.)

Hoping to rescue the materials from the landfill, I tracked down the big ball of yarn at Park and Tree, the department in charge of keeping Savannah’s sacred monuments free of extraneous accessories.

I took my scolding like a woman.

“If the Waving Girl was meant to be wearing a sweater, she would have been

created with one,” rebuked Park and Tree director Jerry Flemming, adding that drunk tourists are always trying to put beads on General Oglethorpe during St. Patrick’s Day. (Flemming will be leaving next month for a city manager position in Texas and is quoted in an article about trees on page 12.)

Fortunately, the ferry landing is under the jurisdiction of the state maritime authority, so that yarnbomb stayed snug for the duration of the conference.

But the incident illuminated Savannah’s paradoxical relationship with the sacred and profane: When it comes to temporary public art like a mural or a crocheted hat for a trashcan, there is a doctrine of protocol that borders on the religious.

Yet when it comes to longview commercial development that inexorably alters the skyline, the holy zoning codes suddenly become more elastic than the waistband of Mama June’s sweatpants.

The juxtaposition was contained in the view: During the National Trust conference, you could look through the colored fabric towards the eastern end of River Street, where the gold dome of City Hall glimmered, its sister statues of “Art” and “Commerce” presiding over Bay Street from the 110-year-old front façade.

But one small turn towards the west, the sharp-edged pumpernickel cube of the Marriott rose from the bluff, indicative of an architectural period I call “Bourgeois Modern.”

You wouldn’t have been able see the Waving Girl’s friendly greeting, since Morrell Park was blocked by someone’s colossal black yacht. Can’t say for sure that it belonged to a certain notorious developer— who knows? Maybe Batman was in town.

But I swear, when it comes to saving Savannah from itself, it sure seems like we’ve got our priorities all tied up in knots. cs

NOV 19-25, 2014

The Savannah Yarnbomb Squad hit the ferry landing for the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference. Photo by Star Kotowski/ArtPop Productions

11

News & Opinion | city notebook

Goodbye to a giant

Victory Heights ‘Big Oak’ slated for removal this week

by Jessica Leigh Lebos jll@connectsavannah.com

long before most of modern Savannah was even paved, a magnificent live oak has presided over the easternmost end of 41st Street.

Estimated to be anywhere from 170 to 250 years old, the tree has a diameter of seven feet and a leafy canopy that spreads almost 16 yards. Its gnarled roots have pushed through the pavement, its branches dapple sunlight over half the block.

It is believed to be one of the few dozen arboreal survivors of the 1895 Sea Island Hurricane that left Savannah’s landscape almost completely denuded.

As far as icons go, the Victory Heights “Big Oak” is an exemplary representation of Savannah’s famous urban forest, both in its grandeur and its inevitable slow deterioration.

But to Dr. Felix Maher the old oak is more than a symbol; it’s a friend. He and his two brothers grew up frolicking under it, and all them still live nearby.

“It’s been a part of my life ever since I can

The giant live oak on E. 41st Street has seen its last days in spite of neighborhood protest. Photo by Geoff L. Johnson remember,” says Maher, a local dentist. “It’s a presence. It slows down traffic, it provides shade.”

Early last month, he saw an ominous orange sign posted by the City’s Park and Tree Department on the tree’s trunk

accompanied by a large, red “X.” His old companion was on the chopping block, and he wasn’t going to let it go without a fight— or at least a second opinion.

The Park and Tree report indicated extensive rot and termite damage and called

for a full removal of the tree, including the stump.

Worried that the diagnosis of unsalvageable decay was premature, Maher spearheaded a vocal campaign to save the tree, or at least extend its life. He and neighbors

Advantage

NOV 19-25, 2014

With 14.7 million pixels, the new iMac with Retina 5K display is the most powerful iMac ever, with the topof-the-line quad-core Intel processor, the latest AMD graphics, Fusion Drive, and great built-in apps. All in the same ultrathin design that’s just 5mm at the edges.

12

Visit our store to test drive. Now in-stock.

18 Months Special Financing Available*

On purchases of $1,499 or more made with your Computer Advantage Credit Card from Synchrony Financial, now through 1/16/15. *Subject to credit approval. See store for complete terms and conditions.

Apple, the Apple logo, iMac and Retina are registered trademarks of Apple Inc.

Apple products, training and service.

Abercorn Common Shopping Center

8108 Abercorn St

Between Ulta and Michaels.

(912)

920-3440

www.computeradvantage.us

continued from previous page

flooded the City with requests for a stay of execution.

“I think the city is more worried about lawsuits than they are the tree,” Maher said at a neighborhood meeting in October, referring to last year’s $9.5 million settlement paid to Shanta Greene, who lost her right leg and sustained a brain injury after a tree branch fell on her in 2010.

“I think our tree deserves another look.”

He invited UGA Extension Agent David Linvill out to survey the tree and paid independent arborist Michael Pavlis of Ossabaw Consulting to do another examination.

Linvill didn’t offer any definitive recommendations, but Pavlis came to the same conclusion as the city: That the Big Oak presents a significant hazard and needs to come down.

“The massive amount of decay on the lower trunk and the potential to damage multiple homes are the driving reasons for the removal of this tree,” wrote Pavlis in his Oct. 20 report.

“The termites will continue to eat away at the dead woody tissue within the tree and, if the tree is allowed to remain, it will be a target for continued wood boring insects.”

Now convinced of the old oak’s unavoidable fate, Maher still chafes at the unceremonious way it was handled.

“I think oak trees of prominence in Savannah neighborhoods and the citizens deserve more than a red tag and spray painted X,” he laments.

“We deserve more of explanation on why some our neighborhood trees are dying.”

In response to concerns that the City is preemptively taking down trees to avoid litigation, Park and Tree Director Jerry Flemming explains that the increase in live oak removals is simple, though no less tragic.

“Trees are living, and they all die, eventually,” he gently reminds.

“Our entire canopy is aging out.”

Flemming, an International Society Arboriculture-certified arborist, says he’s found the old wives’ tale that dictates oaks grow for a hundred years, live for a hundred years and die for a hundred years to be true—give or take a couple of decades.

He points out that most of Savannah’s live oaks were planted between 1898 and 1923 to fill in the bare spaces left by the catastrophic1985 hurricane, and many of those have reached their full maturity.

“A hundred years on the street, surrounded by concrete, that’s a pretty great life for a tree,” he says, explaining that the root systems of most urban oaks are impeded from a full 300 life span by pavement, sewer lines and constant traffic.

He is sympathetic to Maher’s concerns about the removal of the 41st St. oak and promises that while public safety is always a priority, Park and Tree’s arborists wouldn’t cut down a tree unnecessarily.

“We prune far more trees than we remove. But sometimes a tree just has to come down,” Flemming says.

At the City’s budget retreat last week, it was announced that Flemming is leaving his position next month and has accepted a city manager position in Iowa Park, TX. The tree removal is scheduled for Nov. 18 and is expected to take three days.

According to the most recent analysis, live oaks make up around 17 percent of Savannah’s urban forest and are its most abundant species (crape myrtles come in second at 15 percent.) Around 66,000 trees from 250 species have been inventoried by the City, and over 1000 new trees are planted each year by Park and Tree and the Savannah Tree Foundation.

(Before it became known as a hostess, Savannah was often referred to as The Forest City, a sobriquet revived recently on this year’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon swag.)

Savannah Tree Foundation executive director Karen Jenkins believes there is underutilized potential in the fallen giants and would like to see more of Savannah’s dying trees put to use instead of mulched at the landfill.

“As trees come down for public safety, we should be reclaiming that usable wood,” muses Jenkins.

“Why isn’t every tourist leaving Savannah with a live oak cheeseboard from our urban forest?”

This summer STF hosted a lecture about the 1797 warship U.S.S. Constitution.

Known as “Old Ironsides,” it was built with wood from live oaks felled near Savannah and is still in commission today.

Maher plans to put aside wood from the Big Oak and hopes his old friend will be repurposed by local craftsmen.

Flemming says Park and Tree will honor the request to replace the Big Oak with another live oak sapling, planted in the same cutout that has calmed traffic for decades.

He reiterates that he understands the neighbors’ grief, and that sometimes cutting down a dying tree is the most merciful option.

“The trees deserve our respect. We also don’t want dead skeletons standing around,” he says.

“We want them to die with dignity.” cs

NOV 19-25, 2014

city notebook |

13

News & Opinion | community

Can you afford your kids’ health insurance?

Campaign helps parents navigate the public option enrollment process

three with a yearly income of less than or equal to $48,912 can meet the requirements ($58,932 for a family of four).

The problem is parents may not be aware.

Single mother LaToya Brannen has Mayor Edna Jackson’s Campaign for a full-time job but, like many Savannahians, Healthy Kids and Families is aiming to has to stretch every paycheck to cover the make sure that they are—and it will help groceries and bills. with the paperwork, too.

As a state employee, she took advantage “Even if a worker is given a family plan of the health insurance offered for her and option through their job, they can put their her 15 year-old son, Tyler, but the $300/ month premiums took a hefty chunk of her children on PeachCare if the out-of-pocket premium is five percent or more of their budget. She worried over the high deductgross income,” explains campaign manible and expensive co-pays, and the plan ager Eva Elmer, adding that Georgia state didn’t even include dental visits. employees and public school teachers can After legislation changes in 2012, Brannen discovered Tyler was eligible for Peach- now sign up for PeachCare with no waiting period.

Care, Georgia’s government-sponsored Last July, the National League of Cities health insurance program. awarded Savannah and Mayor Edna Jackson Now Tyler’s coverage costs $24 a month one of eight $250,000 grants to reduce the with no deductible, including vision and number of uninsured children in Chatham dental care. Visits to the doctor are just $2.

County by 50 percent. Collaborating with “It’s been great because the financial savthe Chatham County Safety Net Planning ings now pays for his athletic fees,” laughs Council and Step Up Savannah, the CamBrennan, explaining that Tyler’s affinity paign for Healthy Kids and Families has for basketball, baseball and football can get created a strong support for families all the expensive. “Plus, he got to keep the same way through the application and/or renewal pediatrician.” processes for PeachCare and Medicaid.

All Americans are now required to have A coalition of partner agencies is also on health insurance under the Affordable Care board, including Moses Jackson AdvanceAct, which also expanded eligibility for ment Center, Curtis V. Cooper, St. Mary’s assistance programs like PeachCare and Community Center, MedBank Foundation, Medicaid. An estimated 5000 children are qualified to receive subsidized health cover- Centro Hispano and Memorial Hospital.

With a goal of enrolling 2500 children 14 age in Chatham County, and a family of

by Jessica Leigh Lebos

NOV 19-25, 2014

jll@connectsavannah.com

Clockwise from left: Andrea Huisa, Ruth Deffley, Natasha Butler, Angela Toole and LaToya Brannen are from a few of the partner organizations participating in a county-wide campaign to enroll eligible families in health insurance.

by December 31, 2015, Elmer has been working small health fair events and passing out flyers at PTA meetings. But getting the word out to the area’s most underserved families remains a challenge—even to those already “in the system” through the Dept.

Family and Children Services.

“With cutbacks to DFCS, families aren’t able to access actual people anymore with their questions,” says Elmer. “They have to call an 877 number and often wait for hours.”

Enrollment through the campaign has been rising slowly but steadily, with an average of 200 newly-insured kids a month.

There have been marked successes, such as implementing enrollment services in the Juvenile Court system.

“Families who have court-mandated counseling or need psychiatric care can now get help with getting insured,” points out Elmer.

Bringing the public school system on board has also been a coup. SCCPSS nurses, counselors, social workers and

parent facilitators have been trained in the available resources and can give parents direct access to sign up. The campaign has also connected with the Tourism Leadership Council to help insure one of the Hostess City’s most notoriously underpaid sectors, hospitality workers and sub-contractors.

Even the children of state employees like Brennan can be eligible. A six-year veteran of the Chatham County Safety Net Planning Council, Brennan now helps enroll other families in PeachCare and Medicaid as part of the campaign.

“It’s really rewarding to show people how this can help them and how many services are available,” says Brennan, adding that even with the ACA requirements, not everyone who lives in the same household has to be on the same insurance plan.

“It may be a little more work, but in the long run it’s worth it to make sure everyone is covered.” cs To find out if your family qualifies for reduced health insurance, go to healthykidssavannah.org.

r r ! r !

A !

Join us for Captain Red Ned’s Oyster Fest starts at noon, Sat. Nov. 22nd MONDAYS Free Bacon Night TUESDAYS Dollar Drink Night SATURDAYS Live Music - 8pm Ever changing & evolving food & drink menu

This oyster festival will feature a wide variety of fresh oysters raw on the half shell or barbecued.

Oyster & beer pairings galore, matey!

“Sing for Dinner” discounts Pirate rum drinks & Bloody Mary specials Each guest gets a Pirate Name Pirate bar fights & much more!

Weekly special menu

OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK 4PM TIL 1AM 4523 HABERSHAM ST | HABERSHAM SHOPPING VILLAGE | 355.5956

NOV 19-25, 2014

Every night Service Industry domestic beer & shot - $5

21 W. BAY ST. // 912-447-0943 // MOONRIVERBREWING.COM

15

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.

Gadgets and Gizmos

Boost your health with user-friendly technology

By Ted Vickey, M.S.

You may not think of yourself as a high-tech kind of person. Or maybe you’re the first among your friends and family to learn about – and test – the latest devices.

Either way, today’s technology tools are definitely worth considering as a way to stay healthy or meet new health goals.

There’s an old saying that “energy follows attention,” meaning what you give attention to is what you will get involved with in a sustainable way. A feedback device can bring your attention to your health and fitness goals and accomplishments, which is particularly helpful if you find yourself in a same-o, same-o pattern.

But where do you start? With thousands of health-related applications (apps) and gadgets trying to entice you to use their product or service, people can get lost in the marketing messages and give up. Don’t give up! Use these tips to help you make a more informed and healthy decision.

Mobile Fitness Apps. With websites, smartphone apps, and your own Facebook or Twitter friends, you have lots of options when looking for a workout buddy, either human or virtual.

Fitness technology is tearing down the four physical walls of a gym and allowing people to interact with their own personal workout buddy no matter the time, place, or activity.

Many of the popular mobile fitness apps include online communities that allow members to keep track of their own progress toward health goals, and support other people on their journeys to health. Check out free apps like RunKeeper, MapMyFitness, Endomondo and MyFitnessPal, and start tracking your activity and sharing your health journey.

Device communities also allow you to connect your Facebook account to find people you already know who are ready and willing to support your health goals.

Fitness Technology Devices – Heart Rate Monitors. How do you know if you’re benefitting from the time you invest in your workout? One of the best ways is to check your heart rate during your cardio activity such as riding a bike, walking briskly, or climbing steps.

There are a few different types of heart rate monitors currently available. To date, the most accurate devices tend to be those that monitor your heart rate using a chest strap. If you exercise using equipment at your local gym, you most likely will want a Polar-compatible device. Look for the Polar logo on the equipment or ask the staff at your fitness center. Price will depend on the number of features you want to use. Entrylevel models work very well and cost about $50. High-end elite athlete models are priced at about $450.

Wearables. One of the hottest areas of fitness and health technology is devices you wear. From monitors that look like jewelry to devices that are small enough to wear undetected under your street clothes, today’s technology is available in many sizes and shapes. Whatever your fitness needs, there is probably a wearable for that!

Need some coaching during your workout? Consider using your smartphone, a mobile fitness app, and a pair of heart rate monitoring headphones from LG or Jabra during your workout.

Having trouble sleeping? Track and monitor your sleep with a device like the ResMed S+ or Withings and find out how you can improve your sleep.

Do you have a weight goal? Are you keeping yourself accountable during the week? Think about getting a bathroom scale from iHealth that is connected to the internet and shares your weight with people you approve to be on your support team.

The status quo isn’t enough when we’re trying to stay healthy. Instead, continuous improvement helps overcome the effects of aging and enables us to live younger… longer. Fitness and health technologies are not the magic pill to health. But as a tool in your overall health journey, these apps and devices can motivate you to stay on the path to wellness.

With the holiday season right around the corner, a health gadget or gizmo might be a great choice for you or someone you care about. A gift of health lasts so much longer than a sweater, no matter how cool it is!

Ted Vickey is Canyon Ranch Institute Senior Advisor for Disruptive Health Technologies. He has more than 20 years of experience in exercise science and business with special expertise in fitness technology, and served for 11 years as Executive Director of the White House Athletic Center in Washington, D.C., during the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

NOV 19-25, 2014

Smartphone apps and tracking devices are available at a variety of prices for monitoring all activity levels from running and walking to vigorous outdoor cycling.

16

One way to determine if you’re working out at a level that provides optimal benefit is to know your heart rate. Cardio machines in gyms, such as treadmills and elliptical trainers, sometimes have heart rate devices built into sensors on equipment handles. For the most accurate readings, use a personal heart rate monitor paired with a chest strap positioned near your heart.

It doesn’t get any easier than this. Wear a small gadget to record your steps and your higher-intensity movement, such as climbing steps. Your daily information is automatically logged in an easyto-interpret dashboard-style display that you can check on a smartphone or computer.

Holiday Gift Guide Portman’s Music Superstore

Savannah Yoga Center Thoughtful gifts available in our 800sq ft downtown location boutique! We carry earth conscious gifts, books, yoga mats, comfy clothing, jewelry and more. Between our 2 convenient locations, we offer 75+ classes weekly.

Class packages & gift certificates make great presents!

Downtown: 1319 Bull St 912.232.2994 Pooler: 111 Canal St 912.988.1320 savannahyoga.com

Seagull S6 original SF w/minor finish flaws. Save $100! $399 w/ hardshell case. Made in North America. Solid cedar top, laminated cherrywood sides & back. Great value!

Mon-Sat 10am-8pm Sun. 1pm-5pm TailsSpin 7650 Abercorn St. Savannah TailsSpin has beds that satisfy dogs’ burrowing instincts!

912.354.1500 Real Dog Burrow Bedding™ -made from innovative fabric! portmansmusic.com It’s a burrowing bed…a blanket, used by dogs and humans.

It’s durable and great for camping. Manufactured by, with proceeds going to, Industries for the Blind (IFB).

Midtown Savannah • 912-691-8788 Pooler Marketplace • 912-330-8852

Atelier Galerie An eclectic collection of handcrafted jewelry at great prices from local, regional and international artisans.

Find the perfect gift!

Mon-Sat 10-5:30 Sun. 11:00-3:30 150 Abercorn St. (corner of Oglethorpe Ave) 912.233.3140 agsavannah.com

Studio S.P.A.C.E. Create a sparkling holiday ornament or two.

Join us in the Fused Glass Ornament Workshop where we will be cutting and layering glass to create ornaments.The finished works will be fired in the glass kilns. December 6, 10am–1pm.

Advanced registration required.Workshop fee $15 per person.

912.651.6783 • www.savannahga.gov/arts

Savannah Music Festival Give the gift of live music: tickets for the 2015 Savannah Music Festival are on sale now! See the complete lineup online at savannahmusicfestival.org, and shop for ticket deals at savannahmusicfestival.org/deals.

March 19 – April 4, 2015 • 912-234-3378

Savannah Day Spa Telfair Museums Give the gift of art! Telfair Museum memberships give you access to art all year long, starting at only $35! Or gift an official licensed reproduction Sylvia Shaw Judson’s Bird Girl statue!

Membership: 912.790.8866 Shop: 912.790.8831 • www.telfair.org

NOV 19-25, 2014

Get away from it all this holiday season.Whether it’s couples massages, facials, nail care, body care, a waxing or makeup... Savannah’s premier day spa has it all!

Give the gift of ultimate pampering with a $25-$200 gift certificate.

18 E. Oglethorpe Ave. 912.234.9100 savannahdayspa.com

17

news & Opinion | The straight dope

1919 BULL ST., SAVANNAH, GA • FOXYLOXYCAFE.COM VOTED BEST

slug signorino

COFFEE HOUSE + COFFEE

certain age, how long we’ve got left has been predetermined by our genes and previous lifestyle choices.

Unlike the population at large, however, the Straight Dope doesn’t trust random online quizzes, so we decided to delve a little further into the facts on this one. ( Just don’t expect us to get into the science of Which Disney Princess Are You?) Studies have traditionally defined “elderly” as 65 and older, and in most studies lifestyle choices (diet, exercise, etc) were seen to have an effect through age 75. That’s I’m in my mid-40s. My cholesterol is great; my around where the data have tended to stop, blood pressure and weight are perfect; I have in part because for most of human history no history of serious illness; I’ve never smoked, few people cracked 70—for a while there it and my use of drugs has been minimal; I rarely was pretty much just Charlemagne, a couple drink anymore. I don’t exercise as much as I of shahs, and quite a surprising number of inconsequential Lithuanians. should, but my job keeps me on my feet and But this research is becoming less and moving. The handful of life-expectancy calculators I’ve used online have me living to between less relevant: it’s the 21st century now, and Hugh Hefner’s doctors want to know if 80 and 84. At what age can I just say fuggit they should restrict his Viagra consumption. and start eating any damn thing I want without fear of negative health consequences before I The proportion of the population identified as the “extreme elderly”—85 and up—will croak? —Daniel T. increase by more than half in the next 15 YOU PIQUED my interest. After googling years. As a public service, then, we’ve broken it down for the post-80 crowd: my way to the University of Pennsylvania’s Cardiovascular disease. This is a major life-expectancy calculator, I soon received health problem among those over 75, affectthe information that I will most likely live ing 50 percent of women and 70 to 80 peruntil I’m 93, with a 25 percent chance of reaching 102½. Egads, I thought—I haven’t cent of men. Reducing blood pressure can help the extreme elderly avoid heart attacks saved nearly enough money for the nursing and strokes, but studies show it won’t actuhome/vegetable incubator I will undoubtally make you live longer. Go figure. edly need for those last couple decades.

Cholesterol reduction. Diet and exercise Luckily, the stress of the subsequent hours don’t have clear proven effects. Nor do most of financial calculations caused the healthtraditional drugs, like statins or beta blockdamage equivalent of a brain aneurysm, ers. Aspirin might be beneficial, but it also changing the UPenn prediction to “You might make your stomach bleed. Your call could keel over at any moment.” Those on that one. weren’t going to be fun years anyway.

Smoking. A study using data from nearly Interestingly, when I altered my starting 95,000 Japanese men and women found age to 85 I found I could only gain or lose reduced mortality risk for ex-smokers who about three quarters of a year by playing around with the diet, exercise, and smoking quit between ages 65 and 79. On the other parameters. This seems to point towards the hand, some doctors have speculated that idea of a death clock: by the time we reach a for the very old the stress of trying to quit

SATURDAYS, 7-11 PM Enjoy our firepits in the courtyard and complimentary marshmallows.

S’mores kits available for purchase!

FEATURING:

HALF OFF

BOTTLES OF WINE The COFFEE FOX 102 W. BROUGHTON ST., SAVANNAH, GA 31401 HOURS: MON.-SAT. 7AM-11PM • SUN. 8AM-6PM

WWW.THECOFFEEFOX.COM

Warm up with our

SPICED WINE

may have a harmful effect outweighing the benefit.

On to some of the things we do know.

Perhaps surprisingly, the extreme elderly who are slightly overweight have the most favorable mortality rate. Those who gain a modest amount of weight while getting older are also much better off. Only the obese and the diabetic stand to benefit from weight loss in old age—weight loss among the diabetic can actually reduce cognitive decline. But: those who were overweight when younger still had a higher risk.

Maybe most baffling is the news on alcohol consumption (pay attention here, Daniel): A very large 23-year study of elderly Californians reported that drinkers’ annual risk of death was 15 percent lower than nondrinkers’. This was true for men and women, as well as for all types of alcohol.

Mortality was highest for those who quit drinking during old age, while those who picked it up lived longer. In other words, we should stop fretting over the fact that Gérard Depardieu drinks 14 bottles of wine a day.

It seems reasonable to conclude that unless you already have serious health problems (like diabetes), your best bet in advanced age is probably to avoid any drastic changes to whatever lifestyle your body has gotten used to. However, if you’re not that fussed about losing those last ten years of drooling on the crossword you’re desperately trying to finish in order to stave off Alzheimer’s, I would say go for it.

Throw back the Twinkies. Shovel down the deep-fried everything. Swear off exercise and sit on the couch binge-watching Netflix for the rest of your life. Just God forbid you stop drinking. cs By cecil adams Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

Download the FREE Sav Happs APP!

NOV 19-25, 2014

SAV HAPPS

18

APPLE CIDER

Or Text “savannah” to 77948

Savannah’s only Event & Entertainment Guide

Brought To You By

news & Opinion | blotter Chatham Police Dept. incident reports

Live Oak gets lively

Four men and two women were arrested and investigations continue after two warrant sweeps in the Live Oak neighborhood of east Savannah Thursday.

The sweeps followed an eight-month investigation, expedited into Thursday’s sweep by the shooting of a man in the area on Tuesday.

Dominic Manwell Williams of the 1100 block of East 33rd Street was charged with three counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and one count of reckless conduct for Tuesday’s shooting.

He was arrested in the first warrant service about 2 p.m. Williams fought with officers and was arrested after being bitten by a canine officer.

Three other men were arrested in a second sweep two hours later on the 1200 block of East 33rd Street. They included Quenton Ismel Sparks, 20, two counts of sale of cocaine and one count of sale of marijuana; Jahquell Jamonte Smith, 23, two counts of the sale of crack cocaine, two counts of the sale of powdered cocaine, four

counts of the sale of marijuana, and possession of marijuana; and Keith Lashaun McClain, 36, sale of cocaine, three counts sale of marijuana, sale of crack cocaine and sale of MDMA (Ecstasy.)

Two women arrested in the second sweep included Deiondra Donnika Roberts, 22, two counts each of conspiracy to violated the Georgia Controlled Substance Act and sale of marijuana; and Jacari Rashidah Roberts, 18, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.

Weapons and illegal drugs were seized in the raids on three houses in the 1100 and 1200 blocks of East 33rd.

TIU agents had been investigating drug sales in the area after being alerted by neighbors before April but the decision to expedite to arrests was made after a man was grazed by a bullet fired into his vehicle on Tuesday afternoon.

“We had been observing increased shootings and robberies in the area and those crimes traditionally accompany drug sales,” said Central Precinct Capt. DeVonn Adams.

• Police are investigating One man was taken several shootings, including to a hospital for treatfour in a single Saturday, ment after being shot One was a homicide in the in the arm about 7:30 Hudson Hill neighborhood. p.m. at Riverview A male subject was found Mobile Estates off deceased in a car on the 2200 Lucas Drive south of block of Hudson Street from Savannah. an apparent gunshot wound.

The incident occurred just • A special secbefore 4 a.m. tion of the SavanAnother homicide on nah/Chatham Metro police website Westlake Avenue. The inciDominic Manwell Williams received more than dent occurred at approxi27,000 page views on mately 6:45 p.m.

Saturday and SunThe victim has been idenday from participants and non-participants tified as Willie Lee Bostic, Jr., 25, of alike in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon, police Savannah. say.

Police are investigating a shooting on Sgt. Eddie Grant and Advanced Police the 1500 block of Maryland Avenue. A Officer Jason Pagliaro, who rebuilt the male subject was shot ith serious injuries. website SCMPD.org earlier this year, Police are investigating a shooting at added the Rock n’ Roll segment.

1450 W. Bay St. The shooting occurred The website drew 12,000 page views on just after 8 p.m. A male victim was Friday and more than 15,000 on race day transported to the hospital with serious Saturday. injuries.

The fourth shooting was in a trailer park in unincorporated Chatham County Saturday night.

Give anonymous crime tips to Crimestoppers at 234-2020

JOHNNY MERCER THEATRE • THURS. FEBRUARY 5 TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY AT 10AM! TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE BOX OFFICE ONLINE AT ETIX.COM OR SAVANNAHCIVIC.COM

NOV 19-25, 2014

All cases from recent Savannah/

19

news & Opinion | News of the weird The Other World Series

convicted in the notorious 1969 Sharon Tate murders. And “I Am Stephon Marbury,” a musical featuring the former star NBA basketball player, ran for 11 nights in September in Beijing, where the popular Marbury has led the Beijing Ducks to national basketball championships the last two seasons. Marbury has a role onstage in what is described as a parable about pursuing one’s dreams.

• The most challenging toys this holiday season might be the series of furry anyone need The New Math human innards from the a signed todd More than 6 million stuU.S. firm I Heart Guts gurley jersey? dents have downloaded — not just the soft and the new iPhone app Phocuddly pancreas, brain and prostate, but especially the toMath to solve Algebra I rectum. Each part is packand Algebra II problems by aged with a cheekily writpointing the phone’s camera ten educational description Can’t Possibly Be True at a printed equation. The explaining its importance • Carnell Alexander at one point owed answer, and the explanation, (the rectum being “the butt about $60,000 in child support for a kid he quickly appear on a screen, as of many jokes” yet with “a did not father (according to a DNA test) a teaching tool — or for the serious role” in waste disand knew nothing about, but despite “sucstudents to show “their” work posal as the “fecal loading cessfully” challenging the claim 20 years ago, if PhotoMath is used on dock”), and each sells for he still owes about $30,000. The mother exam questions. The Croatiaabout $20. who accused him long ago admitted lying based developer told the Quartz website (in that naming a “father” was necessary to in October that it is working on upgrades get welfare benefits), and while a judge thus for higher-level math equations (though no Weird Scenes wiped out Alexander’s debt to her, the state relief is in sight for those chronically pesky (1) Richard Shear, 28, was arrested in of Michigan nonetheless still demands that “word problems”). Meanwhile, the debate Muskegon County, Michigan, in October has been triggered over whether PhotoMath after an apparent violent episode with his Alexander repay benefits it had paid to the is a dynamic technological advance in educa- mother and girlfriend. Shear had allegmother. tion — or a cheating-enabler.

• America’s largest pornography website, edly threatened the two, slashed an SUV PornHub.com, decided recently to erect tire, and tried to burn down their home a public billboard prominently encouragBright Ideas with gasoline and a lit candle — but when ing the use of its service, first selecting as • Neighbors in the Mandarin neighborit was time to flee the premises, hopped its location the New York City neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida, complained on his moped, ensuring his flight from hood formerly the smut epicenter of the city, to the city recently about a resident who police would be a short one. (2) A woman Times Square. However, that area is now scattered hundreds of mothballs — over (described only as “robust”) in Darmstadt, respectably tourist-friendly, and the bill400 now, at least — around her front yard, Germany, fled with the equivalent of about board had to be relocated — to Los Angeles’ even driving over them in her car to crush $125 from a pharmacy in October and is West Hollywood, near the headquarters them open and extend their noxious odor. still at large. According to the police report, of PornHub’s parent, MindGeek. The sign The National Pesticide Information Center she swiped money from two cash registers features a person’s two thumbs and fingers warned that the mothballs were hazards by twice lifting her shirt and squirting breast forming a rough version of a heart, beside to plants, wildlife, water and air, but the milk at a clerk as a diversion. the message (inspired by a Beatles song), “All female resident (unnamed in a report by You Need Is Hand.”

First Coast News) said she was forced into The District of Calamity the tactic in order to prevent neighborhood The Washington, D.C., school system last Brits Behaving Britishly Bad dogs from defecating in her yard. year declared Avery Gagliano, 13, a habitual (1) Literature professor Thomas • Celebrity Musicals: In September in truant whose parents somehow require Docherty was back at work in October folHamburg, Germany, “Charles Manson: special training to ensure her attendance. lowing his nine-month suspension from Summer of Hate — The Musical,” opened The eighth-grader was a straight-A student the University of Warwick for “inappropriat the Thalia Theater, covering the influat Alice Deal Middle School, but also a ate sighing” during meetings with a senior ences and failed musical career of the man piano prodigy selected for prestigious world

NOV 19-25, 2014

In October, another premier world sports event reached its climax, with one team left standing, rewarded for months of grueling practices, to the cheers of adoring, frenzied fans. The “world series” of professional team computer games was settled on a stage in a packed, 40,000-seat stadium in Seoul before three gigantic TV screens and an Internet audience of millions. The powerhouse Samsung White team out-moused and -keyboarded the Chinese champions at “League of Legends” (which 27 million gamers worldwide play every day), using its fantasy characters to destroy opponents’ bases.

The winning team took home $1 million of corporate money, but future earnings should escalate when idolized world-class players unionize and swing merchandising endorsement deals.

20

colleague, along with “making ironic comments” and “negative body language.” (2) In October, Andrew Davies, 51, was ordered by magistrates in High Wycombe, England, not to lie down in public places anymore (unless genuinely stricken by emergency).

Previously, he had a habit of making bogus “999” (911) calls to get attention, and when police confiscated his phone, he began compensating by lying in roads until compassionate passersby called for ambulances.

exhibitions — which caused her to exceed the maximum 10 “unexcused” absences that trigger the assignment of a truancy officer and a series of relentless threats against the parents (which ultimately provoked them to withdraw Avery and this season to home-school her). (In October, following a Washington Post account, D.C.’s governing council honored Avery in a public ceremony, and the D.C. schools chancellor overnight began begging the Gaglianos to bring Avery and her suddenly “excused” absences back to school.)

The Aristocrats!

(1) Sean Johnson, 19, was arrested in Brooksville, Florida, in October at the WalMart after he was spotted at about 3 p.m. taking a toy stuffed horse into the bedding department and masturbating with it. (2) Paul Mountain, 38, pleaded guilty to burglary in Darwen, England, in October — accused by a homeowner whose shed was vandalized. Among the damaged items was a teddy bear streaked with semen. Mountain told officers that he was coming down off of an amphetamine high and felt an “overwhelming need for sexual relief.”

Least Competent Criminals

• Daniel Rice, 21, on the lam from jailers in Muscatine, Iowa, found himself in nearby Rock Island, Illinois, according to his 911 call to emergency personnel there. Rice had made his way to the Loud Thunder Forest Preserve, where he thought he could safely hole up, but reported that he was being chased by a pack of wild coyotes and begged for help.

• Jamie Brown, 29, stole a fish tank from a hardware store in Leeds, England, in August (thus violating a previous hardware-store stayaway order) and made a run for it, but had to be rescued by police and emergency personnel after he stopped to urinate in a bush — and, inadvertently, directly onto a wasps’ nest. Police said he later spent six very unpleasant hours at Leeds General Infirmary. cs By chuck shepherd UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE

retro boutique

The Future is NOW!

at gwinnett & whitaker

Find Something Tasty

Restaurant listings available online at connectsavannah.com

GREAT ESTATE & ANTIQUE AUCTION Sunday November 23

Call for 1 free question

Services include:

new • used • vintage • retro

RD

PsychicVirginia Lane

@ 1pm

PALM READINGS • TAROT READING PSYCHIC READING MEDITATION SERVICES PHONE SERVICES Virginia has appeared on TLC’s hit show “Breaking Amish”

912.220.8866 • 113 E. President St

PREVIEW Sat. November 22 , from 11am-3pm & on Sun. November 23RD, from 11am-1pm ND

Visit bullstreetauctions.com

Bull Street Auctions 2819 Bull St. 443-9353

(behind Two Women & A Warehouse)

AUCTION CO. LICENSE #AU-C002680

NOV 19-25, 2014

Always accepting quality consignments

21

Music | Feature

Rolling on with The Train Wrecks Nothing gets Savannah’s hardest-working band down, and their long-awaited third album proves it

by ANNA CHANDLER anna@connectsavannah.com

NOV 19-25, 2014

In the Bible household, a Fisher-Price xylophone sits atop a $6,000 deer hidewrapped piano. Pixar party decorations twirl in front of silkscreened Lucero gig posters. A sweet, oafish dog named—what else?—Hank Elvis, is playfully biting an aging, chronically sneezing cat with an Old Testament name, and The Train Wrecks’ Jason Bible is cozy in his La-Z-Boy, pulling occasionally at an e-cig, as his son, Jack Bible, naps down the hall. Drummer Jeremy Hammons is right at home, disciplining the animals as if they’re his own.

The park, where Bible and Jack spent the morning playing, and Elevated Basement Studios, where the Wrecks cut their long-awaited third record, are both mere minutes away from the homestead—perfect for Bible’s intertwined life of musician and proud papa.

“If it’s midnight and I want to do a vocal track, it’s right down the road,” Bible says of 22 Kevin Rose’s studio.

For three years, word’s been floating around town about the follow-up to 2011’s Saddle Up—would it get made? Who’d be in the band? Had the whole thing been scrapped? Had the band set the demos on fire? You’d think we were talking about Chinese Democracy here.

Bible waves the talk off—“it’s all been written about”—and he’s right. The personal has been the focus of Savannah’s hardestworking band for some time now, from battling addiction to recovery to recruiting new drummers. Given what The Wrecks have been through, it makes bands breaking up over “artistic differences” seem awfully quaint.

But a decade in, Bible is still as passionate about the alt-country project as he was from day one. It’s what makes We Roll On such an apt title track (a track that almost didn’t even make the record), and keeps Savannah rooting for our own local-boys-done-good.

“Through everybody’s personal lives, and band life and party life, the goal is just to keep persevering,” he says. “That’s the central theme running through a lot of songs. We’ve

been through a lot as a band. My vision is always to keep the band together, to keep rolling on—and here we are.”

“We started playing, I don’t know, almost 10 years ago,” Bible reflects. “I guess that’s beating a lot of odds these days. With bands, with marriages.”

“A band kind of is a marriage,” I note as Hank Elvis nuzzles me.

“It is,” Bible agrees. “It’s dysfunctional, but sometimes dysfunction and resentment can form the best working music sometimes.

Because you’re pissed. You want to play your best for everyone in the band. You give 180 percent, or you just stay home.”

Guitarist Bible and bassist Eric Dunn are the remaining founding members; Bible says their longtime bond has given them a rare kind of telepathy onstage. “It’s like brothers…that are married,” he laughs.

When they initially set out to cut We Roll On, Bible, Dunn, dobro/guitar/banjo player Stuart Harmening, and then-drummer Paxton Willis sought isolation in the form of a farmhouse outside of town.

“There was nobody there but some horses

in a field, and a train going by every five hours,” Bible remembers. “We went in with 36 songs and cut 18 of them.”

While paring down tracks and being in an environment that allowed for complete focus helped, the decision to handle all duties in-house presented a new set of challenges.

“We were trying to engineer it, produce it,” says Bible. “And you know how it is when you have a lot of creative minds.”

Bible took the files to Rose at Elevated Basement to have a listen and see what could be improved. In the end, the farmhouse cuts were scrapped.

“After this long of doing this, it’s good to have a team,” Bible notes. “There are those cats who engineer, write, master it all themselves. I admire that, I love that. But it’s great to have a team effort.”

After plenty of rehearsals and live gigs to tighten up the new material, the band booked three days at Elevated Basement.

Jared Hall added keyboards, the record was mixed, and, just like that—complete.

It was all worth it. We Roll On strikes the

continued from previous page

perfect balance between the raucously mesmerizing experience of watching the Train Wrecks live and capturing a clean (but not too clean) recording that allows the tones and lyrics to be fully appreciated.

“We didn’t use the studio as an instrument as much,” says Bible.

Hammons, Wrecks drummer of two years, calls the first two Wrecks albums “fantasy records,” with their female backup singers and extra percussion tracks. For We Roll On, the band decided to strip down to the bare essentials.

“If there’s a stacked vocal harmony, it’s me, Stu and Eric doing three-part harmonies live,” says Hammons. “There’s one guitar solo. Everything we’re doing, we can play the album a hundred percent how it sounds live.”

We Roll On is a grungier, dirty rock ‘n’ roll record (with his caustic, bloody-raw vocals, Bible is a country Cobain—look no further than their “All Apologies” cover). Where Saddle Up and Whiskey and War dwelled on tradition, We Roll On reads like a toughedup Wilco, with inspiration derived from Lucero, John Prine, and even Reverend Horton Heat (see track nine, the wicked ‘Reverend’s Jacket,’ which Bible immediately wrote after attending a RHH concert).

The Wrecks have mastered the ebb and flow of a record. The delicate picking and sincerity of “Rain Clouds” eases beautifully into barn-burner “Far Enough.” With Hall wailing on a Hammond B3 organ, Hammons throwing down those freight-train rhythms, and chill-inducing harmonies swelling beneath a big, catchy chorus, it may be the strongest song they’ve ever recorded.

Bible can spin a transfixing story as easily as he can write a barroom chant; from Paradise Lost to Parker’s gas stations, We Roll On is a captivating journey studded with a myriad of characters and locales.

“I like to try to cover as much subject matter as we can,” says Bible. “You got 40 minutes to grab somebody.”

Now working with a booking agent, the band will hit the road off and on through September to promote the album, heading out in one and two-week jaunts. Bible looks forward to bringing the band home to Texas—a first.

As Bible and Hammons list their upcoming tour dates, little Jack wakes up down the hall. Bible carries him into the living room, swinging him into his lap. He notes that the CDs shipped four days ago.

“I’m surprised they’re not here right now,” says Hammons.

The Wrecks will celebrate their release at The Jinx; they’re longtime regulars on the Congress Street stage.

“That room is never going to be the same again without Athon’s red beard over there, laughing with Igor,” Bible says quietly. “It’s exciting to release the album, but at the same time, I can feel the sadness of the music community. It’s blowing through the air.”

“Anytime we’ve lost someone in music, it’s pushed me,” he says. “As in, this could be the last chance to record. Tonight. Let’s make it count.”

Hank Elvis interrupts with a loud bark directed at an approaching vehicle.

“Oh, Stu might be here,” Bible guesses; they’re practicing tonight.

Hammons opens the door and swivels around with a huge grin—the CDs have arrived.

Bible’s face lights up. “I can’t believe it!

Let’s crack open a box!”

Alabama boy Hammons whips a knife off his belt and slices through the packing tape, revealing sleeve upon sleeve of We Roll On. Three years in the making, and it’s officially arrived.

“I think I’m gonna weep, curl up in a ball,” says Bible. Sleeping two-year-old in one hand, CD in the other, he checks the casing for the right finish, barcode and spelling.

“I can’t believe I’m holding this right now!” exclaims Jeremy, shaking his head, pouring over the artwork. “I think I’m gonna cry.”

“I hope this helps move the band forward,” says Bible. “Playing in Savannah for so long, we beat this town to death. ‘Hardest-gigging band in town,’ I guess people called us.

“For a time, anytime we could play, we’d play. I just wanted to pay the bills and drink.”

Those times have come and gone for the now-sober family man, but the goals, admirably, haven’t. “Traveling and music are the two best things in the world,” says Bible.

“The goal is to be in it. To make it work.

Because there is no other option than to stay in it. There’s no retirement or 401k. I hope that I’m 80 and still able to play ‘Reverend’s Jacket’ and scream my ass off and not care. I hope life is that kind to me.”

Jack wakes up and Bible excitedly holds the album in front of him. “DaDa’s CD is here!” he says, bouncing him on his knee.

Relief floods the room, and a new kind of excitement swells; there’s nothing like holding your CD in your hands for the first time.

And for The Train Wrecks, that feeling’s not fading any time soon. CS The Train Wrecks CD release party with Everymen Saturday, November 22 The Jinx, $5

THE GREAT TASTE OF SAIGON IS BACK!

COMING SOON TO

DINE IN, TAKE-OUT & DELIVERY LUNCH • DINNER • LATE NIGHT OPEN MON-SAT 11AM-CLOSE

SAT 11/22: MAGIC ROCKS LIVE @ 10PM!!!

409 W. CONGRESS ST. • 436-6660

™

cOLDEST, CHEAPEST bEER IN TOWN 18 E. River Street • 234-6003

HAPMP-TYh HOUR 3-7

24 Beers on Tap $ 8 Dom. Pitchers

catc h ev ery gam e on 14 tvS! $15.99 Sunday Football Special!

12 Piece Wings & Dom. Pitcher

Big Door Burgers & Dogs Wings

LIVEMUSIC THURS. 11/20, 8-12

Randy Cuba FRI. 11/21, 8-12

Time Walkers SAT. 11/22, 8-12

Damon & The Shitkickers SUN. 11/23, 7:30-11:30

Thomas Claxton

18 e. river st. 234-6003

NOV 19-25, 2014

MUSIC |

or l f Out l Ca ke 23 Ta

Music | interview

10an Questions: BEST OF SAVANNAH • 2014 •

Carter King of Futurebirds

Athens psychedelic i c o Cove r! country rockers set Mu sMusic N Li veLive to brew great sound THURSDAY 11-20 at Southbound Live Music DJ BLACKOUT FRIDAY 11-21

BLACKFOOT GYPSIES SATURDAY 11-22 COPIOUS JONES SUNDAY 11-23

VOODOO SOUP

$2 Mimosas $5 Absolut Bloody Marys MONDAYS

$2.50 BOURBON & CRAFT BEER NIGHT TUESDAY NIGHT

No Cover!

TRIVIA @9PM

$100 FIRST PRIZE • PRIZES & GIVEAWAYS

$2.50Use Dosyour Equis Daily! phone

No Cover!

NOV 19-25, 2014

Get Directions, seeUse our lineuP your phone anD more Get Directions, www.socialcluBrocks.com see our lineuP anD more www.socialcluBrocks.com

24

conGress street social cluB 411 west conGress street savannah, Ga 31401

By Jim Morekis jim@connectsavannah.com

AT ANY given time over the years, one band is usually seen by the music world as chief standard-bearer of the Athens sound.

Despite the fact that most of them actually live outside the Classic City these days, the main flag-waver today would almost certainly be Futurebirds.

The friendly ensemble performs the rare feat of blending rock, country, and psychedelia into a seamlessly satisfying package—along with an active and playfully fun social media presence that has helped gain a devoted following outside Georgia.

They recently followed up their influential 2013 full-length album Baba Yaga with a special EP, Baba Java, tied into a new coffee blend by Jittery Joe’s roasters in Athens, complete with a drawling cover of R.E.M.’s “(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville.”

Savannah crowds saw them just this past September headlining Revival Fest, their sweeping and nostalgic Southern-fried echoes a perfect fit for the old stones of the Georgia Railroad Museum.

You get the opportunity to see Futurebirds again this Friday night in an early Savannah Stopover concert in another unique venue, Southbound Brewery.

Just as with Jittery Joe’s, the band will help promote a special Southbound sarsaparillaflavored ale named “Johnny Brewtah” —the winning entry in a Facebook contest and of course named after their popular song “Johnny Utah.”

We chatted with singer/guitarist/songwriter Carter King last week as he was walking down the street before soundcheck for a gig in Pittsburgh.

Carter King with Futurebirds onstage at the Georgia State Railroad Museum during this year’s Revival Fest. Photo by Jim Morekis

1. The show y’all did here at Revival Fest was one of the best shows this town has seen in a long time. What did you think?

Carter King: That was really one of those dream festivals where everyone there is your friend or in a band you really love. It was small enough that it wasn’t overcrowded with people. Everything was nice and tight, in a really beautiful venue. It was pretty spot-on all around. We all had a really great time.

2. By this point you’ve played all sizes of crowds, from Bonnaroo to little college town dives. What’s the ideal Futurebirds venue?

CK: All sizes have their pros and cons. We

enjoy a small or mid-sized club that’s packed

with energy and people who are excited to be there. But obviously playing in front of huge crowds must mean we’re doing pretty good (laughs). I guess that’s a cop-out answer, isn’t it? But we love ‘em all.

3. At this year’s AthFest, I was struck by

the many different types of fans lined up around the block to get into your show at the 40 Watt: hipsters to frat bros to everyone in between. Is that crowd diversity something y’all particularly pride or work toward?

CK: It’s something we definitely enjoy. That’s

one of the great things about Athens—it’s such a small town with such a large array of different types of people on top of each other. If you’re open-minded you can make friends in all kinds of different groups. We

interview |

SCAD

continued from previous page

CARDS ACCEPTED!

DAILY SPECIALS!

Expect a new full-length album from Futurebirds next year

4. The flipside of Athens is that musi-

mean, it’s the same group of guys writing and playing. But the production’s a little different. It’s a little tighter. More sparse. Not as lush, I guess you’d say.

6. Wait, so you’re saying the next album is recorded and good to go?

CK: Yeah, other than a few tweaks it’s basi-

cally in the can. We’re going to call it Hotel Parties. It’s an on-the-road album for sure (laughs).

7.

The reviewers all mention your cians can get a little too comfortable there “reverb-drenched” sound, but to my ears because it’s so supportive and everyone Dennis Love’s pedal steel is at least as knows everyone else. You guys have clearly emblematic of Futurebirds. made the successful jump outward.

CK: Well, we’re all huge fans of pedal steel, CK: Yeah, as we’ve said many times, Athens and I guess you could describe it as sort of is the perfect baby band incubator. You have the groove of the band. Of course I like to this totally supportive community with think of our sound as the sum of all parts. club owners giving smaller bands a chance.

But Dennis is definitely one of the most fanYou can push yourself outside your comfort tastic pedal steel players in the country and zone. And an Athens crowd is just cooler in we’re real happy to be playing with him. general. It’s a cooler town all around than most places.

When you’re not writing songs, what do you guys listen to for fun on the road?

Your 2013 album Baba Yaga is an instant classic, a staple of dorm rooms and CK: Oh man, riding around in the van it’s house parties and frat parties all over the just all over the place, between the six of us Southeast. Are you guys ever like, ‘Holy and all the places we come from. A lot of old crap, there’s no way our next record can ‘70s Americana, Neil Young, Grateful Dead, possibly be that good?’

Rolling Stones. Maybe some Galaxie 500.

We’ll even put on the new Taylor Swift CK: (Laughs) Not really. I mean, we worry record, or whatever’s new. We’re all over the about everything all the time, so you’ve got place. to throw that in the mix. We’ve got a great new album we’re sitting on, to be released next year. It’s a lot different from Baba Yaga.

It’s definitely not just more of the same. I

8.

5.

9. Your touring schedule this year has

been brutal. Are y’all on autopilot by now?

CK: Not really. The thing is everywhere you

go it’s still clear that the last step was a little higher than the one before. They might be small steps but you’re still climbing. We see more people in every town coming out to see us, and that’s great. It’s definitely not getting stale for us.

We’re kind of on the last leg for a little while. I’m wandering around the streets of south Pittsburgh right now, before this polar storm sets in. We’re finishing out this weekend up here and then we’ll come down to Savannah, then Charleston. Another short little run to New York City and then we play New Year’s Eve in Atlanta.

10. Is there a noticeable difference

between Southern crowds and our friends north of the Mason-Dixon line?

CK: People might be a little less drunk up

North, I’m not sure (laughs). People still really dig it everywhere we go. You’d be surprised.

I feel like the Southeast is one of the biggest transplant parts of America—everywhere we go someone tells us they just moved there from Georgia or North Carolina. Maybe it just seems that way since we’re all from Georgia. They’ll always tell us they’re happy we’re there. And we’re definitely happy to be there with them. cs

Futurebirds w/ this mountain & Amythyst Kiah Fri. Nov. 21, 8 p.m., Southbound Brewing Co. $28 ticket includes souvenir pint glass and tastings. ticketfly.com, 21+

420 E. BROUGHTON ST 236-0530 RESTAURANTJUAREZ.COM

LIVE MUSIC EVERY FRI & SAT Friday, Nov. 21st

CLEAR DAZE Saturday, Nov 22nd

HIGH VELOCITY

KARAOKE Thurs

LADIES NIGHT Tues GREAT FOOD Kitchen open late

15

TVS

7360 SKIDAWAY RD • 354.8288 SANDFLYSPORTSBAR.COM

NOV 19-25, 2014

find ourselves fortunate to play to all different types of people, and have them be receptive.

Not too long ago we played a doubleheader, two shows on a Saturday. We played like on a college campus at HampdenSydney, and when we got done with that we raced to Richmond and played some kind of psych fest that night, this total psychedelic festival. We were tired as shit after all that, but we all agreed it was pretty awesome to be able to do that.

25

Music | noteworthy

A still from Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz

The Shape We’re In

Life Is a Carnival proves that Savannah’s music scene is flourishing Tickets on sale now!

March 19–April 4, 2015

NOV 19-25, 2014

Proudly sPonsored by

26

savannahmusicfestival.org box office: 912.525.5050

American Hologram, Ray Lundy of Bottles and Cans, Ricardo Ochoa, and more.

“This show is about bringing our musical THERE’S NOTHING quite like seeing community together to not only showcase our local musicians get together to perform The Band’s great music but to be able to in unique, unexpected ways. From open perform it with all of our friends,” says orgamics to Halloween at The Jinx, we’re lucky nizer Eric Dunn of The Train Wrecks. “It’s to have a tight-knit community of perform- more of a celebration to me, personally. It’s ers who love nothing more than supporting important for our community to see what’s one another and calling each other up to the happening music-wise around here.” stage.

Adds City Hotel’s Aaron Zimmer: “I In an exciting new turn, The Train think that this show is about honoring one Wrecks and The Accomplices are, ahem, of the greatest rock and roll groups of all banding together to pay tribute to beloved time, but also about honoring the comradrock group The Band. ery that exists in the Savannah music scene.”

Life is a Carnival: A Tribute to The Band is “We’ve all played shows together before, an all-ages affair held in the luminous Lucas Zimmer explains. “We all swap members Theatre. In the style of The Last Waltz, The from time to time. Colleen Heine (AccomBand’s legendary farewell concert, The Train plices) and Jared Hall (Train Wrecks and Wrecks and Accomplices will call guests to Velvet Caravan) are both featured on our help out on beloved hits like “The Weight,” upcoming record.”

“Ophelia,” and more.

“I heard someone the other day refer to While the star-studded original cast feathe Savannah scene as ‘a bit incestuous,’” he tured Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, Van Mor- adds. “I thought that was pretty funny.” rison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, and others, Savannah’s will highlight some of our most We chatted with the stars of Life is a Carprolific and talented musicians: blues guitar nival about what The Band means to them master Eric Culberson, members of blueand what makes this event so special: grass band City Hotel, Craig Tanner of

By Anna Chandler

anna@connectsavannah.com

noteworthy |

continued from previous page

THE BAND was some of the first rock ‘n’ roll I ever listened to, as The Band and with Dylan. They always reminded me of the raw blues that I love, and one of the few groups I never get tired of hearing.

As far as the gig goes, I am more than honored to be invited. I get to perform some of my favorite music, in one of the coolest venues in my hometown, with Savannah’s finest. I remember when the Lucas was in a state of disrepair—I was an electrician back in the ‘80s, and the company I was working for actually ran the temporary lights for the renovation. Not long after that I believe Kevin Spacey came through and donated some money. Just to be playing music there after all these years as a profession-al musician is such an arrival for me, very exciting I’m very happy to be a part of it.

Eric Culberson

THE BAND, to me, is a group of uber-talented musicians who simply make and perform top notch music and musicianship as a whole. Their shows were always highly rehearsed, tight, and their songs were meaningful on every level.

Eric Dunn (The Train Wrecks, Velvet Caravan)

THE BAND is one of the main reasons that I play music in the first place. They created some of the best songs ever recorded. We have some incredibly talented local musicians that have gathered to play and I think we’ll convey the spirit of The Band’s music in an entertaining way for our audience.

This much high-end local talent on the same stage at the same time, you can bet that I feel grateful to have the chance to be a part.Shows like this one give folks a good reason to support Savannah’s live music scene.

Ray Lundy (Bottles & Cans)

I’M A CHILD of the 60’s and 70’s. In addition to listening to what was popular on the radio—Beatles, early rock and roll, Southern rock, etc., I got heavily influenced by my Dad’s side of the family, which was littered with a bunch of great bluegrass musicians. My Dad was also heavily into country and western music. So for me, hearing the early Band songs was something I naturally loved. As great as all of these guys were as musicians, the reason they are still as relevant today as ever is amazing songs. The

Band’s music is a big inspiration and reminder for me to spend just as much time on my writing as I do on my playing and singing.

Craig Tanner (American Hologram)

MY DAD used to make me listen to The Band, John Prine, Allman Brothers, The Eagles, and Dire Straits cassette tapes over and over again when we used to take his ratty Oldsmobile to and from the store, school, fishing excursions, to pick my sister up from daycare, etc. The same five tapes over and over again. I used to hate The Band...and fishing. Overexposure I guess.

Then I watched The Last Waltz when I was about 15 and thought that Levon and Rick and Richard were just about the most amazing thing I’d ever seen. The Band was my gateway to appreciating really good music.

Aaron Zimmer (City Hotel) CS

Life is a Carnival: A Tribute to The Band Wed, November 26, Lucas Theatre for the Arts, $20 tickets.savannahboxoffice.com, 912.525.5050, or Savannah Box Office (216 E. Broughton St.)

The most original and unforgettable way to see downtown!

Holds up to 15 people ∙ Small groups welcome Great for birthdays, company or retirement parties, pub crawls etc.

Dogs, food & drink allowed ∙ Eco-friendly

Ride Times: 12:30pm-10pm 7 days a week Custom Ride Times offered ∙ Call or text for ride availability

912-414-5634 SavannahSlowRide.com

$1 OFF 1801 E. Victory Dr., Ste. 102 Next to Whole Foods in Savannah!

(912) 777-6903

Expires 11/25/14.

Cannot be combined with any other offer.

Valid at Victory Dr. Savannah Bruster’s location only.

One coupon per transaction. With coupon.

Cannot be duplicated.

NOV 19-25, 2014

any item

27

Let us do the cooking this

Thanksgiving $150 package feeds 6-8 people Choice of protein, starch & 2 veggies Includes orange zest cranberry sauce, Chorizo/sage stuffing, Pecanwood bacon, gravy & dinner rolls Veggie/Vegan menu available Orders must be placed by 4pm on 11/21 Orders will be ready by 5pm on 11/26

Call Chris or Griz for details 33 Meddin Dr. Tybee Island 912-786-4442 northbeachbarandgrill.net

THANKSGIVING DAY DINNER ON THE RIVER!

11AM-7PM, FULL MENU ‘TIL 2AM

COZY FIREPLACE & RIVER VIEW BALCONY!

LIVE MUSIC

NOV 19-25, 2014

NIGHTLY @ 8PM

28

Irish Folk & Celtic

Kevin Barry’s Pub 117 W. River St. 233.9626 KevinBarrys.com

Music | Interview

Karla Bonoff: ‘I always felt totally empowered’ Legendary ‘70s singer/songwriter plays the Mars Theatre

By Jim Morekis jim@connectsavannah.com

Though an immensely talented vocalist and performer in her own right—as you’ll see this Monday night at the Mars— Bonoff is perhaps best known as a go-to songwriter who’s contributed hits to the likes of Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, and Wynonna Judd.

From her self-titled 1977 debut, Bonoff became an influential presence in the Southern California recording scene, especially with her work alongside longtime collaborator Kenny Edwards, who sadly passed away in 2010.

Bonoff continues a vigorous touring schedule however, and comes to Effingham County with another old friend, Nina Gerber, accompanying her on guitar.

Being a strong and independent woman artist yourself, are you noticing sort of a backlash today against very empowered young female singer/songwriters such as Taylor Swift?

Karla Bonoff: I’m not so much aware of a backlash. It’s more about when people get overexposed, whether it’s Kim Kardashian or Taylor Swift, people get sick of them. It’s not so much that it’s a backlash about her being a great songwriter, which she is. She’s just making the most of her moment—you have to admire that.

But I was asked this question 20 or 30 years ago. I’ve never felt discrimination in this business because I’m a woman or ever felt I had to work harder because I was a woman. I thought we all had a pretty even playing field. I always felt totally empowered, but of course felt like I could have Does it seem like that golden period of done a lot more. The main difference is that ‘70s singer-songwriters, which you come a lot of us were more timid then than today. out of, is finally getting the appreciation it In some ways there was so much less deserves? competition then, too. There really weren’t a lot of women in the business, so you could Karla Bonoff: It’s hard to say. I lean towards Karla Bonoff sort of write your own script. Now there’s that time period as far as songwriting goes, so much out there, so much competition. but certainly a lot of good songs have been That time period when you hit it big was Everyone’s competent, everyone has a home written since then. It has gotten more in itself an amazing time in Southern Cali- studio. diluted over time. A lot of what we were fornia, with Jackson Brown, James Taylor, doing was coming out of folk music and Linda Ronstadt, the Eagles, all the rest, all So what’s the snapshot of what you’re up blues and creating our own songs. It hadn’t writing and playing and partying together. to these days? been done that much up to that point. Of course people were writing show tunes and Karla Bonoff: To some extent it’s still kind Karla Bonoff: I’ve been touring basically nonstandards, but that was sort of a new genre. of a mystery to me in hindsight. How’d all stop since the 1980s. I’m still playing with A lot of times I’ll hear something recent those people end up in that tiny square mile Nina Gerber. Kenny Edwards recently and I’ll think, wow I can hear Joni Mitchell of area at the same time and coming from passed away, of course. I decided not to try or Sean Colvin. You can’t tell how many gen- all over the place? Arizona, Texas, Detroit. and actually replace him—I decided to just erations down someone’s been influenced I guess probably the biggest reason is the do it this time as the girls. by something. But I can see the ancestry of record industry was there. If you wanted a I haven’t done a lot of recording lately. I all that. record deal in those days you had to come to did take part in that Jackson Brown tribute LA or New York City, that was it. album last year, and contributed a song to You’re a folk writer mainly, but what’s the But beyond that I don’t profess to comthat. extent of how the Motown/Soul explosion pletely understand it. A huge percentage of of the ‘60s influenced you? people from that time and place became suc- Tell us what we can expect at the show. cessful. Some really incredible talent.

Karla Bonoff: Well, when I was a young girl of Karla Bonoff: We’ll be playing stuff from maybe 11 or 12, that’s the music we listened But unlike most of them, you’re actually my favorite three or four or five albums. to on the radio. It was the current hit music from California.

We’ll play the Jackson Browne tune (“Somehere in California. I can remember just thing Fine”). Basically a retrospective, with laying on the beach at Santa Monica and Karla Bonoff: My grandfather came from Chi- my favorite stuff out of everything I’ve writlistening to those songs. They formed my cago to Hollywood when the movie business ten. Plus a couple of new songs! cs early sense of pop music. The music I ended was just starting. There were dirt roads. Peoup writing came out of folk music and soul ple from all over came down to the movie Karla Bonoff music. That all had a huge influence on me. business. It was definitely the new frontier.

Mon. Nov. 24, 7:30 p.m., Mars Theatre, Springfield $25, www.marstheatre.com

Music | FEATURE BEST

Walter Parks: ‘Swamp mode’ and beyond

OF SAVANNAH • 2014 •

BOOZERY & MUSIC CAVERN

HAPPY HOUR MON-FRI 4-8PM

Guitarist goes back to his roots at Trinity UMC show

BUY 1 DRINK GET THE 2ND FOR $1

FREE VIDEO GAMES Visit our sister company

GHOST TOWN TATTOO @ 35 Montgomery St.

anna@connectsavannah.com

SO MANY TYPES of musicians have found inspiration in the boggy, sultry nature that we’re so lucky to be surrounded in. But guitarist Walter Parks is the true master of that distinctly Southern sound.

Parks, who developed his unique style while touring with Woodstock legend Richie Havens, takes a banjoesque picking approach to electric guitar. Rippling in tremolo with a tough, bluesy swagger, it’s undeniable: if the swamp could sing, it would do so through Parks’ guitar.

Though he’s made a career (both solo and with Swamp Cabbage) around that geographical sound, Parks wasn’t always eager to show his roots.

“Being a Southerner and coming from the Southeast Georgia, North Florida area, when I first moved to New York, I didn’t want much ‘Southern’ in my music,” says the seasoned player. “I didn’t want people to detect that. They found that in my music anyway, and I started surrendering to that.”

The 56-year-old is in full stride, having recently performed with Judy Collins and toured wtih Emmylou Harris.

Parks spent the 2000s supporting Havens in his band, all the while honing his craft and writing his own original songs. There’s “a whole different pressure you have on you when you’re up there all by yourself,” Parks says. “My role is very clear when I’m in a supporting role as a side man: I try to make the band leader sound and look as good as I can—I have to completely serve him or her.

Solo, there’s a lot more. I have to almost be a lot more open-minded and completely in the moment.”

Parks’ setlist can vary with his audience.

“Being that open is very much the distinct difference,” he explains. “I have to be open to turn on a dime. I might change from my swamp mode to my more ethereal, pensive, solo mode if I feel like the audience is a real listening type audience. That’s the wonderful

‘From having grown up in Jacksonville, I always thought of Savannah as this paradise that I assumed was not available to me,’ says Parks. Photo by Chris Brinlee. thing about my repertoire right now—I can go in a different directions.”

The man sure knows variety. Parks excitedly shares that he’s been collaborating with a Chicago singer on a project that’s “almost operatic in nature, but performed on electric guitar.” He looks forward to sharing those songs, as well as his solo and Swamp Cabbage work, at his Trinity concert.

The Trinity show is also a kind of experiment for Parks—fascinated with the sound of the sanctuary, he’s opting for an acoustic guitar instead of his signature electric. He says his the tone that fans have come to recognize will still be there, though; he’ll be using a modified speaker system, salvaged from an old Southern gospel church, and a hand-wired tube amp, keys in attaining that swampy sound.

It’s a homecoming, too; a few years ago, the former Savannah resident relocated to New York for business opportunities.

“Every time I come back, I want to go straight to a realtor and get another place,” he shares. “It’ll happen soon enough.”

His last Savannah performance was at A-Town Get Down. Parks and wife Margo are both heavily involved in the festival.

Parks was actually a mentor to Andrew Townsend, whose life is celebrated at the day-long fest, while Townsend attended SCAD. Just a few weeks after their first meeting, the vibrant, aspiring artist was killed in an accident.

“Sometimes, the most free-spirited of us have to get taken away,” Parks says. “I’m not sure why that is.”

“It’s important that people understand how to constructively take charge of a freeflowing, free-spirited nature,” he continues.

“A free-spirited nature can destroy you if you completely flow with your whims

throughout life...on the other hand, you can do some tremendously constructive things with your art and your life in general if you know how to control and steer your muse rather than be completely led around by it.”

Helping people find direction in the arts is something Parks is particularly drawn to; he studied Business at UGA, and finds that it’s been a tremendous help to him in his work as a professional musician. He imparts this knowledge largely through his workshop “The Stewardship of Arts and Commerce.” Parks feels the set of skills he’s learned is of particular use to young artists in Savannah; plus, the town is a perfect example of art and entrepreneurship in itself.

“The prime reason I’m inspired to be in Savannah is it’s a creative, inspiring-looking city,” he says. “I’m talking about the design of yesteryear, the pre-Civil War era that was so meticulous and so mindfully adherent to a certain aesthetic of an era, and it’s still preserved. It’s so inspiring, and it drives so many dollars to that town because people were wise enough to not destroy those artistic structures.”

Parks looks forward to returning to a city he dreamed of as a boy. “When I finally moved there, I felt oddly at home like I never had been before. This place was perfect for me.”

“It always feels like an honor that I have to live up to, to play back in Savannah,” he says. “It’s kind of the symbolic epicenter of the music that I make.” CS Historic Trinity UMC’s Sanctuary Concert Series: Walter Parks with special guest Waits & Co. Thursday, November 20, 7:00 PM $10 via walterparks.brownpapertickets.com

WED PBR PRESENTS: NOV ROCKNROLL

BINGO 19 TATTOO INDUSTRY NIGHT BUY 1 DRINK, 2ND $1 ON EVERYTHING! NO COVER!

THURS

DANCE RTY 20 PA SQUARE ONE NOV

W/

$2 WELLS • 10PM

hour w/] FRI [happy IGUEZ NOV A.M. RODR

21

SAT

NOV

22

[happy hour w/] DAMON & THE SHITKICKERS

CD RELEASE PARTY W/

EVERYMEN

MON

NOV

24

FOR $1 BUY 1, GETINSECOND BAR OR RESTAURANT)

25

T HT N IGH NIG @ 11PM

(IF YOU WORK

TUES P OP HO IP H HIP NOV H w/ SOLO

NOV 19-25, 2014

By Anna Chandler

29

Music | the band page

By Anna Chandler | anna@connectsavannah.com

Psychomagic, Santoros @Ampersand

NOV 19-25, 2014

Anthony Kearns @Lucas Theatre

30

Anthony Kearns became a household name as a founding member of singing group and PBS stars The Irish Tenors.

Kearns, considered Ireland’s foremost and finest tenor, returns to Savannah in an exciting collaboration with The Savannah Philharmonic.

Of performing solo after years with the trio, Kearns explains: “With one person alone, you’re trying to create a ‘ta-da’ moment. You can take people on a little journey with you. There’s an ebb and flow; there’s an art to building programs.”

This particular program is strikingly diverse; Kearns goes for crowd-pleasers and variety to keep the audience transfixed. Expect show tunes, opera, songs of the ‘40s, tunes that attendees grew up with from television and advertising, and, of course, Irish favorites like “Danny Boy.” Kearns often works with his accompanist of 20 years for solo performances, but he also finds great joy in the experience of collaborating with local orchestras; he’s already come up to Savannah to rehearse with the Philharmonic.

“It’s lovely to walk onstage and have the warmth of the song behind you,” he says. “It’s like watching a movie. An orchestra lifts music to another level— there’s no question about it.”

Thursday, $16-70, tickets via savannahphilharmonic.org.

Les Racquet @Barrelhouse South

Barrelhouse South is packed; if you’ve wandered down Congress Street on a weekend night, you know this, as getting around or inside the venue takes some expert navigational skills. The concept of free shows seems to have been a smart one. It’s put the place on the radars of downtown music lovers and has made the venue a necessary pit stop.

Les Racquet have already packed the house at Barrelhouse. The Brooklynsometimes-Tybee residents have become a local favorite for their brand of indiepop—a concoction of jazz grooves, jam influences, and melodic harmonies. It’s high-energy and plenty of fun, and this time, it’s for a cause: the show will support Second Harvest Food Bank of Coastal Georgia.

There will be a meet and greet with the band, raffle prizes, food and drink specials ($1 off Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Fire and Southbound beer all night). Everyone who attends gets a raffle ticket, and when you buy a drink, you get another one. Attendees are encouraged to bring a canned good for Second Harvest (you get a raffle ticket for each of those you bring, too). With a drawing every hour and a midnight drawing for $500—well, bottoms up, eh?

Friday, free.

Lolipop Records artists are becoming regulars here in Savannah; Dollhouse Productions brought their label showcase to Hang Fire in early fall, a showcase is planned for Savannah Stopover, and artists are touring through on their own. Lucky us—Lolipop is curating some of the most contagious, fun throwback rock and pop out there right now.

Psychomagic features vocals thrown ‘round like Jerry Lee Lewis paired with guitar grooves straight out of the mid-‘60s and soaked with enough reverb to fill your go-cup to the brim.

They released their debut cassette on Lolipop this year.

Santoros, seven musicians strong, is jangly, fuzzy, and downright groovy psych-garage rock.

Their cassette Animals has a busty, well-coiffed cat cutting the rug with an Elvis impersonator dog—what else do you need to know, really?

(Pictured is Psychomagic, Santoros, and Mister Tang in a tour pic from the road.)

Our resident hook-driven punk pros Crazy Bag Lady will rep Savannah on the bill; we’re counting down the days ‘til that Retro Futurist debut of theirs drops.

Saturday, $5.

Wizard Rifle @The Jinx

Portland’s Wizard Rifle makes weird and wonderful art-metal songs that would sit comfortably between Lightning Bolt and Melt-Banana on a mixtape. Despite being a damn good band name, it’s also an apt descriptor; Wizard Rifle specialize in doomy, trippy assault, like a psychedelics-fueled World of Warcraft battle happening in your ears.

It will be interesting to see how, live, a three-piece creates as many mind-bending textures as Wizard Rifle does while maintaining such an intensity. If new track “Crystal Witch,” a preview of upcoming LP Here in the Crystal Lights (Seventh Rule Recordings), tells us anything, with its fusing of the experimental impulses of Deerhoof with the aggression of Karp, it’s sure to be a wild show.

Friday.

the band page |

continued from previous page

Savannah Songwriters Series: Jon Waits, Ben Wells, Pete Love, Arsena Schroder

@Johnny Harris After that full weekend of shows, you probably need to cool your heels on Sunday, right? What if I told you could do that while eating barbecue and attending more shows?!

Bless the Savannah Songwriter’s Series. What’s a better way to spend Sunday evening than mingling with your community and listen to our best songwriters in an intimate environment over famous ‘cue and fried chicken? Heck, start it all off in the morning by eating a cathead biscuit and watching Paving Gravy at Tybee Island Social Club.

Distracted by soul food, I digress.

If you’ve never attended the monthly Songwriter’s Series, now’s the time to start. Local, and occasionally touring, songwriters, are seated in a row, and go down the line taking turns playing songs— usually three each, in total. It’s cool because, even if you’ve seen someone play dozens of times, the Series encourages performers to speak in depth about their songs—the stories behind them and their creative process.

Jon Waits of Waits & Co. (pictured) headlines Sunday evening; his alt-country and Southern storytelling is a Savannah favorite.

“While Waits & Co. is the primary ‘business’ of music for me I’ve got a lot of material that doesn’t always fit the Savannah circuit gigs that we regularly play,” shares Waits. “I feel that this series is something we badly need more of here, and I was thrilled to be asked to do it. I feel the Savannah Songwriters Series allows folks of a much wider variety to be a part of this town’s music community without having to get into the thick of the downtown nightlife—loud bars and rambunctious partiers.”

Pete Love, a returning SSS performer, is a sought-after guitarist, who also performs solo.

Ben Wells can be regularly found at Coffee.Deli’s Wednesday night jams; he’s only been writing songs for a few years now, but he’s got plenty to show off at Johnny Harris.

Charlotte’s Arsena Schroeder’s 2013 EP, Abundantly, was likened to Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman; the American Idol contestant has a new release, For My Artist Child, due next month. CS

chamber concert no.3

totally mozart SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2014 5:00PM I $20

Anthony Kearns in Concert

LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION Mozart Mozart Mozart

ireland’s finest tenor

songs, arias, and melodies of a golden age

Horn Quintet in E flat Major K. 407 Oboe Quartet in F Major K. 370 Quintet in E flat Major for piano and winds K. 452

For the first time, the Savannah Philharmonic presents a beautiful chamber music concert devoted exclusively to the music of Mozart.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 I 7:30PM LUCAS THEATRE FOR THE ARTS I $16-$70

2014-15 SEASON

The Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus invite you to enjoy a selection of the very best Irish folk music and classical pops featuring Danny Boy, I’ll Be Seeing You, and Shenandoah from Ireland’s Finest Tenor, Anthony Kearns.

CHAMBER SERIES

NOV 19-25, 2014

FOR TICKETS I 912.525.5050 I savannahphilharmonic.org PETER SHANNON, CONDUCTOR Supporting Sponsor

Contributing Sponsors

Media sponsor

Season sponsors

Co-Presenting Sponsors

Supporting Sponsors

LIVE THE MUSIC

31

music | soundboard Club owners and performers:

Soundboard is a free service - to be included, please send your live music information weekly to anna@connectsavannah.com. Questions? Call (912) 721-4356.

Afternoon Trivia Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia

Wednesday / 19 Bay Street Blues Hitman (blues) Bayou Cafe Thomas Claxton Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Mike Sweat, piano/vocal Boomy’s Eric Culberson Band coffee deli Acoustic Jam Hang Fire Boyfriend, House of Gunt, Dip, The Mad Wikkid Jazz’d Tapas Bar Eddie Wilson Rachael’s 1190 Jeremy Riddle Rocks on the Roof Trae & Ethan The Wormhole Open Mic Wild Wing Cafe Jeff Beasley

Karaoke

Club One Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke/DJ Tondee’s Tavern Karaoke

Monday / 24 Abe’s on Lincoln Open Mike with Craig Tanner and Mr. Williams Bay Street Blues Open Mic Bayou Cafe David Harbuck The Wormhole Late Night Open Mic Wild Wing Cafe Eric Britt

Trivia & Games

Huc-A-Poo’s Name That Tune The Jinx Rock n Roll Bingo Rachael’s 1190 Trivia Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia

Trivia & Games

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Bingo Mediterranean Tavern Butt Naked Trivia with Kowboi Tybee Island Social Club Trivia

Karaoke

Ampersand Karaoke Club One Karaoke Hercules Bar & Grill Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke Tondee’s Tavern Karaoke

DJ

Club One Karaoke

Other

The Wormhole Open Mic

Thursday / 20 The 5 Spot Jackson Evans & Friends (jazz) Ampersand Jazz Night B Tillman The Rosies Barrelhouse South JP Treadway Bay Street Blues Hitman (blues) Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Mike Sweat, piano/vocal Congress Street Social Club DJ Blackout Hang Fire Shy Violet Album Release Party w/ Milo & the Sweeties, Amarillo By Morning, Ugly Hussy Jazz’d Tapas Bar Trae Gurley Kayak Kafe Midtown City Hotel Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Time Cop Vs. Danger Snake Rocks on the Roof Ashley Rivera Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Open Mic The Warehouse Randy Cuba Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry

NOV 19-25, 2014

Trivia & Games

32

The Britannia British Pub Trivia Coach’s Corner Bingo Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Trivia Pour Larry’s Explicit Trivia Tybee Island Social Club Bingo & Blues

Karaoke

Applebee’s Karaoke

Lyn Avenue plays World of Beer on Friday. Photo by Marcus Cliatt

Karaoke

Flashback Karaoke Hang Fire PBR Street Gang Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke Mediterranean Tavern Karaoke Rachael’s 1190 Karaoke Rusty Rudders Tap House Karaoke The Wormhole Karaoke

Comedy

Vive Tapas Lounge Open Mic

DJ

Congress Street Social Club DJ Blackout The Jinx Live DJ

Bar & Club Events

Club One Drag Show Mediterranean Tavern Lip Sync Battle

Friday / 21 The 5 Spot Jackson & Maggie Evans Barrelhouse South Les Racquet Bayou Cafe David Harbuck, Hitman Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Mike Sweat & Nancy Witt, piano/vocal Congress Street Social Club Blackfoot Gypsies Fiore Italian Bar and Grill Annie Allman Jazz’d Tapas Bar Velvet Caravan The Jinx A.M. Rodriguez, Wizard Rifle Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Sarah Poole Band Mansion on Forsyth Park Tradewinds Mediterranean Tavern Versatile

Band Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Magic Rocks Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Espina Trio Rocks on the Roof Voodoo Soup Ruth’s Chris Steak House David Duckworth & Kim Polote Sandfly Bar & Grill Clear Daze The Sentient Bean Eric Sommer The Wormhole Late Night Open Mic Tybee Island Social Club Jeff Beasley Band The Warehouse Time Walkers Wild Wing Cafe Warren Stone Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Stolen Rhodes The Wormhole Broken Glow, Sara Clash, Theft World of Beer Lyn Avenue

Trivia & Games

Coach’s Corner Movies & Music Trivia

Karaoke

Bay Street Blues Karaoke Lucky’s Tavern Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke Sunny’s Lounge Karaoke Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke/DJ

Comedy

Ampersand Friday Night Comedy

DJ

Club 309 West DJ Zay Hang Fire DJ Sole Control

Bar & Club Events

Club One Drag Show Guild Hall Dirty Dolls Revue

Saturday / 22 17 Hundred 90 Restaurant Gail Thurmond Ampersand Psychomagic, Santoros, Crazy Bag Lady bar.food Danielle Hicks Barrelhouse South The Syndicate Bayou Cafe David Harbuck, Hitman Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Mike Sweat & Nancy Witt, piano/vocal Boomy’s Magic Rocks Casimir’s Lounge Jackson Evans Trio (jazz) Congress Street Social Club Copious Jones Fiore Italian Bar and Grill Kristin Gustafson Jazz’d Tapas Bar Bottles & Cans The Jinx Train Wrecks, Everymen Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Jimmy Wollings Band Mediterranean Tavern A Nickel Bag of Funk Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Hitman The Olde Pink House David Duckworth & Kim Polote Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Espina Trio Rocks on the Roof Brandon Crocker Band Sandfly Bar & Grill High Velocity Savannah’s Oyster House After Hours The Wormhole Kill Matilda, Rotten Co Founders, Naked for Strangers Tybee Island Social Club Isaac

Smith The Warehouse Damon and the Shitkickers Wild Wing Cafe The Well Reds Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Catalyst World of Beer Quick Trixie

Karaoke

Applebee’s Karaoke Bay Street Blues Karaoke Lucky’s Tavern Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke Sunny’s Lounge Karaoke

DJ

Club 51 Degrees DJ Lil G Disco Party Fogon - Fogon Katracho DJ

Bar & Club Events Club One Drag Show

Sunday / 23 17 Hundred 90 Restaurant Gail Thurmond Ampersand Blues & Brews Aqua Star Restaurant (Westin Harbor Hotel) Sunday Jazz Brunch Barrelhouse South Royal Noise Bayou Cafe Don Coyer Congress Street Social Club Voodoo Soup Jazz’d Tapas Bar Trae Gurley The Olde Pink House Eddie Wilson Rocks on the Roof R&R Tybee Island Social Club Bluegrass Brunch with Paving Gravy The Warehouse Thomas Claxton Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry Zunzi’s II Open Mic

Trivia & Games

Lulu’s Chocolate Bar Sunday

Boomy’s Karaoke Night Club One Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke

DJ

The Jinx DJ Lucky Bastard

Other

Abe’s on Lincoln Open Mic The Wormhole Open Mic

Tuesday / 25 Bay Street Blues Jubal Kane Bayou Cafe Jam Night with Eric Culberson Foxy Loxy Cafe Rae Fitzgerald Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Open Mic The Warehouse Hitman Wild Wing Cafe Chuck Courtenay

Trivia & Games

Coach’s Corner Trivia CoCo’s Sunset Grille Trivia Congress Street Social Club Trivia Mediterranean Tavern Battle of The Sexes Game Mellow Mushroom Trivia The Wormhole Trivia

Karaoke

Club One Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke The Rail Pub Karaoke

Comedy

Chuck’s Bar Open Mic

DJ

Hang Fire Vinyl DJ Night The Jinx Hip Hop Night

Other

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Open Mic Savannah Coffee Roasters Open Mic Tybee Island Social Club Open Mic cs

Culture

Talking about… the Confucius Institute

New Savannah State University program reinforces global connectivity

By Orlando Montoya SAVANNAHPODCAST.COM

Next spring, any member of the community can enroll in free Mandarin courses. some things about them already.

They teach Chinese language. They’re funded by the Chinese government. They’re seen as paths to international careers.

But other things were new to me, including the fact that they’re not just for students.

Next spring, any member of the community can enroll in free Mandarin courses.

“If there will be a large number of people interested, we will be increasing the number of instructors to make sure that we serve a large segment of the population,” Naniuzeyi says. “And we will also include our sister institutions, Armstrong and Georgia Southern.”

I also didn’t know that they have a business component.

“We will be inviting U.S. citizens who

do business in China to come to share their experiences with members of the business community,” Naniuzeyi says. “And maybe this will increase the number of U.S. citizens going to China to do business.”

Any business can participate in these workshops. Art exhibits and cultural performances round out the program’s public components.

(There’s a sublime exhibit up this month in the Kennedy Social Sciences Building featuring the work of Taiwan-born former Savannah resident Ching Ma, whose paintings and calligraphy have graced many venues here. She relocated to Atlanta a few years ago.)

But it’s that Chinese government part that has a lot of people spilling their pearl

NOV 19-25, 2014

City Hall observers will remember a dust-up back in 2008 involving then-mayor Otis Johnson.

Compared to the political hurricanes that battered Johnson in the years that followed, it now seems like a summer breeze. But Johnson’s trip to China, announced without input or discussion from the full council, heralded the unraveling of the mayor’s 9-0 political unity.

Six years and a new mayor later, the results of that trip went largely unnoticed.

Last month, with Johnson and his successor in attendance, Savannah officially joined about 80 cities nationwide and six in Georgia to host a Confucius Institute.

The program links Savannah with Jiujiang, a river port city of about 600,000 people in southeastern China.

Our Confucius Institute is located at Savannah State and co-directed by Emmanuel Naniuzeyi (pronounced NAN-you-zay) at the university’s Center for International Education.

“We have students who have never been outside the state of Georgia,” Naniuzeyi says. “So we are changing this. We are teaching our students that it’s important to understand that the job market extends beyond the states.”

I’ve read about Confucius Institutes since they began about ten years ago. And I knew

milk tea.

You might be aware that educational institutions in Toronto, Chicago and Pennsylvania have ended their relationships with the Confucius Institute. Officials complain of books with funny maps showing Taiwan part of China and teachers with funny ways of declaring “nothing to see here” when asked about human rights.

Naniuzeyi says he visited other Confucius Institutes and says his fears are assuaged.

“Whenever we have any department at Savannah State that wants to organize a conference on issues facing China, we will do it,” Naniuzeyi says. “The Confucius Institute will not stop us from doing what we have to do to expose our students to the knowledge that they need.”

Atlanta’s Emory University has a Confucius Institute and also regularly hosts Tibet’s exiled Dalai Lama as a “Presidential Distinguished Professor.”

Texas A&M University has a Confucius Institute and also has hosted academic forums on challenging topics, including Tianamen Square.

And Naniuzeyi himself is publishing an academic paper and spoke to me at length about China’s economic colonization of his native Democratic Republic of Congo.

“The Confucius Institute is a platform that promotes communication among people,” Naniuzeyi says. “We believe that through communication, exchange of goods and mutual understanding of culture, we can promote peace.”

Communication among people? City Council, hello! cs

Mayor Edna Jackson, right, at the ribbon-cutting

Emmanuel Naniuzeyi, director

33

culture | theatre

Pay what you can, enjoy all you can

Savannah Stage Company set to unveil unique 2015 season

“It’s obviously not a tra“We have a pay-what-youditional theatre space,” says can policy,” Goetz explains, Goetz of Ampersand. “But “which means that, even if you LOVE THEATRE? Get ready: Savannah that’s who we are—we aren’t have a penny, you can come very traditional!”

Stage Company is ready to announce their see our show. It’s $15 general They closed last season with 2015 third season. admission, but if you don’t Indifferent or intimidated by performing Oedipus in the downtown reshave that, that’s okay.” arts? You best get ready too, because Savan- taurant, bar and venue’s top “Last year for Oedipus,” he nah Stage Company is ready to change your floor, selling out each 70-seater remembers, “we had a family of performance. The Company mind with their accessible, communityfive that paid $25 total. We’ll is looking forward to imaginfocused, innovative approach to theatre. accept that. We just want peoing new ways to utilize the That’s why everyone is invited to the ple to experience this—everyunusual location.

Andaz Savannah to hear, firsthand, what one deserves that opportunity.

Savannah Stage Company is the Company’s up to in the new year. With Theatre’s not just for a certain all about being accessible and cocktails, hors d’oeuvres provided by 22 group of people.”

Square, live entertainment from The Savan- bringing theatre to those who Allowing any and everynah Sweet Tease Burlesque Revue, a peek at otherwise might not make it one to be a part of the season exciting new partnerships and sponsorships, to the main stage. Last year, announcement celebration just they toured 12 libraries in one and, of course, upcoming Savannah Stage goes to show that Savannah week with their production of Company performances, the free event is Stage Company is in this for The Adventures of Huckleberry sure to get you in the spirit of the season. everyone, and they’re thrilled Finn, showing local kids a new “We’ll have three little segments of the to let us know what they’re way of understanding both three shows we are announcing,” divulges up to next. Goetz praises Savannah Stage Company Creative Director theatre and literature. the Andaz, which hosts the “A lot of kids had read some Evan Goetz. “We’ve been in rehearsals, and monthly Andaz Salon. The version of it,” Goetz explains, have a great cast for the season announcehotel welcomes local artists, “so it was great that they could ment party. We’re going to give a little taste non-profits, and entrepreneurs, experience a live version of it, Savannah Stage Company’s open rehearsal policy welcomes the of what to expect next year.” allowing them to mingle, share to see that in front of them.”

While specifics are still under wraps, the community to go behind the scenes. their vision and educate the In addition to taking the new season’s shows will all be based on litercommunity on their projects. show to new audiences, Savanary classics.

“It’s going to be a great time,” nah Stage Company provides a new kind A large part of transparency is the Com“Something with substantial plots, very Goetz says. “It’s going to be a really fun, of accessibility in their rehearsals and main pany’s open rehearsal policy. Anyone can relatable,” Goetz explains. “They’ve all been great networking opportunity, and a way to stage performances. come in, observe the action behind the adapted by a living playwright to make it a get to know who we are.” CS “One of our values is demystifying theatre scenes, and perhaps even be inspired to get little more condensed.” into theatre themselves.

Because the Company tours their shows, and humanizing the process,” says Goetz.

Savannah Stage Company 2015 Season Announce“Allowing people to know that it’s not just, Goetz has found that their openness and ment Party they need to keep them under an hour so they can perform in schools, libraries, nurs- all of the sudden, there’s a performance! We sense of fun has brought in entirely new Andaz Savannah (Ellis Square) want to show them that we are human, and audiences; their admission policy is a key ing homes, and the third floor of AmperThursday, November 20, 5:30-7:30 P.M. it does take time and work.” factor in giving back to the community. sand, their new main stage.

Free

By Anna Chandler

anna@connectsavannah.com

Your Historic Downtown Day Spa Looking for the perfect gift?

14.99%

INVESTMENT RETURN ON SECURED TITLES

NOV 19-25, 2014

We offer gift certificates to fit any budget!

34

Local, SCAD & Military discounts Complimentary Weekday Garage Parking available

BEST OF SAVANNAH • 2014 •

101 Bull Street | 912-236-1490 www.SpaBleu-sav.com

Call ERIC FREEDLANDER Managing Partner

(912) 925-0360 11400 Abercorn Savannah

If you like us, throw your thumb in the air continues on p. 34

SINCE 2001 – BREWING COFFEE & COMMUNITY

artpatrol@connectsavannah.com

the sentient

BEAN

Openings & Receptions Figuring It Out — Brenda Turner displays a

variety of paintings and sketches of the human figure. Wed., Nov. 19, 6-8:30 p.m.

The Plantation Club (at The Landings), Skidaway Island.

13 E. Park Ave 232.4447 full listings @ sentientbean.com OPEN 7AM–10PM MON - SUN

For Hope: Blick Gallery show — For Hope is a

non-profit organization whose mission is to enrich the lives of children and families affected by cancer. During the month of November Blick Art Gallery will display various works of art created by cancer patients and family members. An artist reception and silent auction will be held Friday, November 21 from 6-8pm. All auction donations will continue to fund more paint days. See more information about the For Hope organization at forhope-inc.org.

Fri., Nov. 21, 6-8 p.m. Blick Art Materials, 318 East Broughton St. Little Evils — Artist Xiaolu Zhang will pres-

ent both large and small-scale portraits.

Reception Nov. 21 7-10 p.m.. Nov. 21-25.

Non-Fiction Gallery, 1522 Bull St.

Continuing Exhibits Armstrong’s Senior Art Majors’ Exhibitions — Arm-

strong State University’s graduating senior art majors showcase their college portfolios in these gallery exhibitions. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free and open to the public. Through Nov. 21. Fine Arts Gallery (Armstrong Atlantic State University), 11935 Abercorn St., Fine Arts Hall.

Between Realism and Abstractionism — Three

artists using different styles, reflect their personal message about the human condition – the forlorn silence of the modern world, reality as seen by the mind’s eye and the introspective search for personal meaning. Giuliano Corsi, Michael Banks and Larry Beaver carry on the visual dialogue.

Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. Call for Entries for ThincSMALL — Art Rise Sa-

vannah is currently accepting submissions for their ThincSMALL exhibit, which will be on display December 11-February 15.

Framed or unframed work may not exceed 18”x18”, and all 2D mediums and styles are welcome. Art must be priced below $250 including a 30% commission. Art Rise members may submit up to 10 images for $5. Non-members may submit up to 5 images for $15. Send submissions to submissions@artrisesavannah.org. $5-$15 Thinc Savannah, 35 Barnard St. 3rd Floor.

The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisted by Contemporary African Artists — This

exhibit explores the sequences of Dante’s poem through new works by 40 contemporary artists from 19 African countries.SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

5

HAPPY HOUR EVERY DAY 5PM-9PM

Have a look at hoodoo and what it means at the Beach Institute.

$5 WINE & $3 BEER WED. NOV 19| 8 PM | $6

Doctuh Buzzard’s Hoodoo Awakening — This

exhibit celebrates Gullah Geechee spiritual heritage and looks closely at hoodoo artifacts. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St.

Edward Jones — Edward Richard Jones is an

artist who works with wood, sterling silver, copper and brass. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Gallery Open House — Featuring artwork by

William Weyman and Jacqueline Carcagno Weyman of Daedalus Gallery. Light refreshments provided. Forsyth Park Inn, 102 W. Hall St.

Ornaments and Keepsakes: Memories in Adornment, 1780-1885 — From now through December,

the Georgia Historical Society is offering an exhibit on 18th and 19th century jewelry.

Features several pieces from the GHS collection including brooches, mourning pendants, and pocket watches dating from 1780-1885. In the Georgia Historical Society Research Center located in Hodgson Hall and is open to the public during regular hours. The Research Center is open on the first and third Saturday each month from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays, 12-5 p.m. georgiahistory.com/. Georgia Historical Society, 501 Whitaker St.

Port City: The Savannah Riverfront through Artist’s Eyes — 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.

Artists have captured the vibrancy of life on this working river, from important historical events to daily life in Georgia’s port city.

General museum admission. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Johnson Collection — Exhibit examines the

romantic movement in the American South.

Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St.

Stefania Cancemi — Italian SCAD student

Stefania Cancemi presents a collection of photographs. Through Nov. 30. galleryespresso.com/. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St.

Whitfield Lovell: Deep River — Lovell’s art pays

tribute to the lives of anonymous African Americans and explores passage, memory, and the search for freedom. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Works by W. Gerome Temple — Using both

illustration and painting as his media, W. Gerome Temple has created a body of work that encompasses the natural and the unexplored. The Butcher Tattoo Studio, 19 East Bay St.

Classes All Speeds Wheel Throwing — Instructed by Clair Buckner. Ages 17+. $150/$140 city residents. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Beginning/Intermediate Wheel Workshop —

Instructed by Dave Peterson. Ages 17+. $150/$140 city residents. Thursdays, 6-9 p.m. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Bookmaking Workshop — Instructed by

Johanna Hickey. Ages 8+. $85/$80 city resident. Wednesdays, 4-5 p.m. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St.

PSYCHOTRONIC FILM SOCIETY KATHLEEN QUINLAN 60TH BIRTHDAY SALUTE

WHERE HAVE ALL THE PEOPLE GONE?

THURS. NOV 20 | 6:45 PM | FREE OCCUPY SAVANNAH PRESENTS:

THE NEXT AMERICAN REVOLUTION “BEYOND CORPORATE CAPITALISM & STATE SOCIALISM”

FRI. NOV 21 | 8 PM | FREE

ERIC SOMMER TUES. NOV 25 | 8 PM | FREE

TONGUE: OPEN MIC

THURS. NOV 27 | CLOSED

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! TUES. DEC 2 | 8 PM DONATION

JEREMIAH DALY WILLIAM CUSACK WED. DEC 3| 8 PM | $7

PSYCHOTRONIC FILM SOCIETY

THE SADIST

SAT. DEC 6 | 8 PM DONATION

NIKKI TALLEY SAT. DEC 13 | 8 PM DONATION

HIGHBEAMS FRI. DEC 19 | 8 PM DONATION

STRANGLED DARLINGS

NOV 19-25, 2014

culture | art patrol

35

culture | food & Drink

Have your cupcake and eat it too Smallcakes brings sweet perfection to Sandfly

By Cheryl Baisden Solis

It’s refreshing to talk to a franchiser who really knows what she likes. Elizabeth Lane wasn’t really searching all that hard, but the former pharmaceuticals rep knows what she likes—and aren’t we all glad she does. While on a business trip to Valdosta she got a craving for a little something sweet, and was informed by a local friend that Smallcakes was the place to go.

Elizabeth was amazed at the tempting variety of cupcakes displayed and picked out six for a take-home treat…then found she couldn’t quite resist tasting them then and there.

Returning home she put the pink bakery box aside and her household and business duties took over, until it was another four days before she got back to her goodies… and found them just as fresh, moist and delicious as the day they were purchased… which got her thinking…

All the travel and hassle of being a pharm

Lane has designed her own store interior beautifully, right down to the specialized display case and white hutch, to the whimsical calligraphy on the chocolate brown walls. One of my first thoughts, upon seeing the scrumptious display of cupcakes, was that this place was Instagram heaven—you upload of pic of these lovely goodies and you’re bound to garner plenty of comments!

Though some Smallcakes stores sell cookies or other sweets too, this is a new place, still feeling around for the customer baseline, and the offering presently is cupcakes alone…ahhhh, but what cupcakes!

Moist, tender cake, gently flavored, meltin-your-mouth lusciousness—good enough to eat on its own, for sure!—topped with a buttercream or caramel swirl, fruits, chocoLexi presents Vanilla Pink Sugar Crystal Cupcakes. Photos by Cheryl Baisden Solis late, sprinkles or glazes of an astonishing variety.

I have tried many cupcakes around town, The store, neighbors of Cutter Point Cof- including a certain well-known store on the rep was taking her away from her little son and she considered that buying such a fran- fee, sits facing Skidaway Road and sends out Southside that is known for its towering chise might keep her at home more often— waves of that fresh bakery scent that drifts icing (though, truthfully, rather dry cakes), and she loved the product, and that’s when past your open car window. The combo of but the flavor, the exquisite succulence of the Smallcakes came to Sandfly, opening up on coffee and the buttery sweet fragrance of texture of these big cupcakes (much bigger March this year.

Smallcakes is undeniably enticing. than most local competitors’), just blew me

CATCH EVERY SINGLE GAME

NOV 19-25, 2014

PHOTO: SAVANNAH MENU

36

Savannah’s largest video wall!

16 BEERS ON TAP • DRINK & FOOD SPECIALS DURING ALL GAMES!

1190 King George Blvd. 920.7772 ∙ rachaels1190.com

DOWNTOWN 113 MLK Blvd. -

Find Something Tasty

Restaurant listings available online at connectsavannah.com

food & Drink |

continued from previous page

away.

My family is, by now, accustomed to these taste-tests, and actively looks forward to them. With decadently rich fare like this, the pattern goes: Take home the goodies, cut each one in four parts, then pass around the plate, asking each one to give their opinion—it’s the only way to avoid overdosing on salt, sugar and fat (an admitted danger for food writers everywhere) yet still get to savor the new taste, and you get brownie points for sharing! Heaven forbid that I should consume every bite of the dishes and desserts I am in the business of writing about—the results would be scary, to say the least.

Let me say that this taste-test was an eyerolling success—a friend of my daughter, something of a writer himself, stated that the Red Velvet was like angel wings, glowing, creamy, a taste of Heaven itself—and I second that Elizabeth states that not a single cupcake stays for a second day review—yet nothing goes to waste. Smallcakes makes regular donations to the Children’s Hospital at Memorial and to Second Harvest Food Bank’s ‘Kids Café”. Her assistant, Lexi, assures me that not a crumb gets lost—you gotta spread that joy around!

Elizabeth tells me, “A friend of mine shocked me with a story of little kids seen downtown scrabbling through garbage bins after school in search of something to eat.

She’d asked one of them, and was told they’d heard there were day-old cupcakes behind the grocery store, that mama worked all the time and didn’t have time to bake and daddy couldn’t afford such treats. Oh, my God, that just broke my heart! Every child should be able to enjoy a special sweet now and then!”

Baby showers, weddings with snow-white cupcake towers, tea parties and office meetings now boast the lavish Smallcakes treasures in and around Sandfly, and I, for one, will be glad to have my cupcake and eat it too! cs

Savannah’s Original Authentic British Pub!

Six Pence Pub In The Heart of the Historic District

Smallcakes, a CupCakery 7360 Skidaway Road, Unit L-1 Mon-Sat 10:00am - 8:00pm Phone (912) 200-4395 www.smallcakescupcakery.com

Tapas til 2am

Happy Hour 2pm-8pm Mon: Comedy Night @ 8pm Tues: Battle of The Sexes @ 9pm-Come Defend Your Sex or Sit Back & Watch!

Wed: Salsa Night @ 8pm-Learn Dance Moves Then Show Your Stuff That Night Thurs: Lip Sync @ 9pm (Hosted by Dyce Law)

Sat 11/22: LMAO Comedy Show w/ Kool Bubba Ice & Big E Live Music w/ Nickel Bag of Funk advance tickets $15

Serving Delicious Thanksgiving Dinner All Day Open 7 Days A Week 11:30 a.m. – Midnight

125 Foxfield Way 988-1052 (Across from the IMAX Theatre)

Happy Hour 5-7 p.m. • Bar Open Until 2 a.m.

NOV 19-25, 2014

Full Menu Served Until Midnight 912-233-3156 / 245 Bull St. (Across From the Desoto Hilton)

37

culture | brew/drink/run

The GA beer scene is about to get very interesting The amount of money generated from on-site sales is minuscule compared to the lee@brewdrinkrun.com potential sales at retail; but for small brewer/@brewdrinkrun ies, the Guild says that influx of cash may brewdrinkrun.com help to make ends meet in the early, lean years.

Beer is big business. As the craft beer The Georgia Craft market continues to expand, more breweries Brewers Guild, the trade are opening throughout the state. organization that repreBut, the Guild maintains the number of sents the state’s breweries, breweries (and brewery jobs) would increase has launched a new even more with a few changes to the existing awareness and fundlaws. To get those changes made, they’re askraising campaign to ing for help directly from their patrons. highlight the state’s Last month, the Georgia Craft Brewers beer-focused regulaGuild began promoting GABeerJobs.com. tory laws. In particular, It’s a petition website modeled after South they are shining a light on the differences between Georgia and its southern neighbors Carolina brewers’ recent push to revise that state’s laws. as the laws relate to the ability of breweries Those efforts in South Carolina were sucto sell their own beer directly to consumers. cessful, and breweries in that state can now In Georgia, breweries cannot sell their sell packaged beer and tasting room pours own beer to brewery visitors in any form.

This means no growler fills, bottles, cans or directly to visitors.

GABeerJobs.com effectively illustrates full pint glasses. They are allowed to conhard to swallow facts about the Georgia duct tours and provide a limited amount beer climate. Georgia is only one of five of free samples for those that stop in to see states in the country that does not allow where the magic happens. direct to consumer sales. It ranks 44th in the Most breweries offset this by offering sales of glassware to accompany the no-cost country for economic impact per capita in pours. But technically, they are not selling terms of brewery jobs. the beer directly.

When larger craft breweries look for The members of the Georgia Craft Brew- expansion states or new breweries are lookers Guild want to change this. Their reason- ing for a home base, limiting laws like lack of ing is simple. With the ability to sell their direct sales are a big red strike in the “no” colown product comes increased revenues for umn that can be impossible to overcome. the brewery.

Over 5,000 people have signed the online by lee heidel

petition at GABeerJobs.com to express their support for the “Beer Jobs Bill” that would allow the state’s breweries to sell pints at the brewery as well as beer to take home.

But the Georgia Craft Brewers Guild is hoping fans of its breweries are willing to do more than just sign a petition.

They want the state’s craft beer drinkers to help directly fund their lobbying efforts as well.

On the heels of the GABeerJobs.com site came an Indiegogo campaign (www.indiegogo.com/ projects/support-georgia-craft-brewers) soliciting for donations to pay for the organization’s lobbying efforts to pass the “Beer Jobs Bill.” Similar to Kickstarter, or a traditional Public Radio campaign, different pledge levels entitle the donor to different perks.

For example, $300 gets a personalized, private tour at their in-state brewery of choice. Ten dollars will get you a Facebook

shout out. The fundraising drive is set to end in January and has a goal to collect $30,000 to offset the Guild’s costs.

Savannah has several major players on the Georgia Craft Brewers Guild board of directors. John Pinkerton of Moon River Brewing Co is a former president of the organization and currently serves as Chair of the Technical Committee. Carly Wiggins of Southbound Brewing Co is the Chair of the Membership Committee. All four Savannah breweries are members of the Guild.

The upcoming push for direct sales to brewery visitors will be a defining point for the state’s craft beer scene. With the promise of increased brewery revenues and the potential for more jobs from existing and new facilities, the Georgia Craft Brewers Guild hopes to make 2015 a year of change and growth in the world of hops and barley. cs

DownloaD the FrEE Sav happS app!

SAV HAPPS

Or tExt “Savannah” tO 77948

NOV 19-25, 2014

AUTHENTIC MIDDLE EASTERN CUISINE BELLY DANCING NIGHTLY

r!

om

38

BEST MIDDLE EASTERN RESTAURANT We specialize in birthday parties!

Savannah’S only EvEnt & EntErtainmEnt GuidE

Brought To You By

20 East Broughton St. 236-5464 themiragesavannah.com

film Screenshots

by Matt Brunson myeahmatt@gmail.com

CARMIKE 10 511 Stephenson Ave. 353-8683

Interstellar, Ouija, Birdman, The Best of Me, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible No Good, Very Bad Day, Annabelle, The Boxtrolls, The Equalizer, The Maze Runner

spotlight EISENHOWER 352-3533 1100 Eisenhower Dr.

Big Hero 6, Interstellar, Birdman, The Book of Life, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Gone Girl

1132 Shawnee St. 927-7700

Beyond the Lights, Big Hero 6, Nightcrawler, John Wick, Fury, The Book of Life, Addicted, St. Vincent, The Judge, Gone Girl

VICTORY SQUARE 9 1901 E. Victory 355-5000

Beyond the Lights, Dumb and Dumber To, Big Hero 6, Interstellar, Nightcrawler, Ouija, Gone Girl

WYNNSONG 11 1150 Shawnee St. 920-1227

Interstellar, Ouija, Birdman, The Best of Me, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible No Good, Very Bad Day, Annabelle, The Boxtrolls, The Equalizer, The Maze Runner

POOLER 12 425 POOLER PKWY. 330-0777

Beyond the Lights, Dumb and Dumber To, Big Hero 6, Interstellar, Nightcrawler, John Wick, Ouija, Fury, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Gone Girl

ROYAL POOLER 5 TOWN CENTER CT. 998-0911

Dumb and Dumber To, Big Hero 6, Interstellar, Nightcrawler, John Wick, Ouija, Fury, The Book of Life, Annabelle, The Maze Runner

MARS THEATRE 106 S. LAUREL ST., SPRINGFIELD 754-1118

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt. 1 screens at 8 p.m. on Thursday, November 20, and at 6 and 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, November 21 and 22 (two screenings each day)

Birdman

OOOO

WHERE TO BEGIN in tackling the numerous excellent qualities that make up the moviegoing experience known as Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)? The logical starting point would be Michael Keaton, whose superstar status really didn’t extend much past the 1980s.

His breakthrough turn as motormouth Bill Blazejowski in 1982’s Night Shift remains one of the classic comic performances of modern times (“Is this a great country or what?”), and he extended his winning streak with such hits as Mr. Mom, Beetlejuice and Tim Burton’s Batman twofer. But a hefty number of flops toppled his standing, and he now stands as less a bankable commodity than a Trivial Pursuit answer.

In that respect, he has much in common with Riggan Thomson, the character he plays in Birdman. Riggan was once an A-list movie star, having starred in three successful films as the superhero Birdman. But those days are long gone, and in an effort to not only revitalize his career but also to make Art-with-a-capital-A, Riggan has opted to write, direct and star in a Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

His best friend Jake (Zach Galifianakis) is producing the show, his ex-addict daughter Sam (Emma Stone) is serving as his assistant, his girlfriend Laura (Andrea Riseborough) is part of the four-character ensemble, and leading lady Lesley (Naomi Watts) is throwing herself into her work.

Even his ex-wife Sylvia (Amy Ryan) occasionally drops by to offer support.

Yet mounting this play is hardly smooth sailing, not only due to Riggan’s personal

demons — his Birdman alter ego is always cluttering his mind, telling him he’s going to fail — but also because of the arrival of Mike Shiner (Edward Norton), a popular Method actor who appears as a last-minute replacement to tackle the production’s other male role.

Mike Shiner is one of the movie year’s great characters, odious and unforgettable.

A talented and dedicated professional who only feels alive when performing (in fact, he can only get it up sexually when he’s on the stage), he threatens to derail the show with his boorish behavior and childish tantrums — all while delivering lofty speeches about seeking truth through performance.

Keaton’s been receiving all of the awards buzz — and he deserves it (he’s terrific) — but Norton proves to be his match step by step. In fact, there isn’t a weak link in this entire cast, with Watts in especially excellent form and even Galifianakis pulling his own weight.

In one respect, Birdman is a movie about a turf war, specifically the one that exists between Hollywood and Broadway. New Yorkers like Mike and the Times theater critic Tabitha Dickinson (Lindsay Duncan, playing the most laughably miserable reviewer since Bob Balaban’s film scribe Harry Farber in Lady in the Water) resent the fact that a shallow, callow celebrity would dare come to their neck of the woods and pollute the hallowed stage with an amateur production; Tabitha even goes so far as to tell Riggan that she plans to destroy his play in print, regardless of whether or not it’s good.

It’s an insider topic made accessible through the terrific dialogue by

writer-director Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Biutiful) and his three coscripters, and it’s joined by a cheeky dig at the film capital’s obsession with superhero flicks, a look at the tempestuous backstage relationships that often inform a show (in this case, not only between Riggan and Mike but also Riggan and Laura, Mike and Lesley, and more), and musings on the fine line that separates artistic inspiration from out-and-out insanity.

Birdman, which shares some show business DNA with Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz but tops it in nearly every regard, is further elevated by the constantly roaming camera of the brilliant cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, who finally won an Oscar for last year’s Gravity after racking up noms for Sleepy Hollow, The Tree of Life and other eye-popping efforts.

Working in tandem with Iñárritu and editors Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione, Lubezki apes the style of Hitchcock’s Rope (or, if you will, the openings of Welles’ Touch of Evil and Scorsese’s GoodFellas) by shooting the entire picture in one continuous take, using subtle means when necessary to break stride but always maintaining the illusion of an edit-free effort. It’s a nifty trick of the trade perfectly suited for a superb motion picture that’s perpetually on the prowl in its quest for humor, insight and Art-with-a-capital-A.

DUMB AND DUMBER TO

OP It’s amusing to glance over the early reviews stating that Dumb and Dumber To is no comedy gem like its 1994 predecessor.

Continued on page 40

NOV 19-25, 2014

REGAL SAVANNAH 10

39

screenshots |

continued from previous page

NOV 19-25, 2014

Reading over those words, one might get the impression that the original Dumb & Dumber compares favorably to cinematic masterpieces from the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen or the Marx Brothers.

Um, no. Instead, it was just one more slapdash flick released in an era in which dum-dum comedies were all the inexplicable rage, appearing the same year as star Jim Carrey’s first Ace Ventura outing, a year before Adam Sandler’s Billy Madison and two years before Tom Arnold’s The Stupids (and believe me, there’s plenty more where these came from). It was the first effort from sibling filmmakers Bobby and Peter Farrelly, who would subsequently make a pair of films so hilarious and genuinely clever (Kingpin and There’s Something About Mary) that they made D&D look even more imbecilic by comparison.

Certainly, Dumb & Dumber has its fans, and they’ve been eagerly waiting 20 years for this sequel. But they’re mistaken if they think this movie was produced for them.

When it takes two decades for a sequel to appear on the scene, it only means that those involved have been experiencing career freefalls and are hoping for an easy payday to revive their flagging fortunes.

Dumb and Dumber To begins with a bit involving a stubborn catheter, and it’s one of the film’s few gross-out gags that actually works, thinks to an amusing buildup and some deft physical shtick on Carrey’s part.

There’s also a hilarious – and clean! Imagine that! – joke involving an addressed envelope, annnnnd … well, those two instances pretty much tap out the comic inspiration on view.

The rest is a feeble reworking of the first film’s story, with champion morons Harry (Daniels) and Lloyd (Carrey) again hitting the road to deliver a package, and again running afoul of some nasty people who want them dead. Along the way, there are gags involving Lloyd’s fingers up a septuagenarian’s dusty, cobwebbed hoohah, a dog licking peanut butter off teenage Harry’s penis, Lloyd stuffing his adult diaper with other people’s poop – in short, the sorts of skits once routinely seen on Ed Sullivan’s weekly prime-time TV show.

As Lloyd, Carrey doesn’t seem to have missed a beat in nailing Lloyd’s nuttiness, while Rachel Melvin, best known for (depending on one’s preference in entertainment) her work on the TV soap opera Days of Our Lives or her co-starring role in this year’s Zombeavers, is a bright presence as Penny, a nitwit who might be Harry’s daughter. Daniels, though, doesn’t seem to be playing the same character he essayed 20 40 years ago, meaning he’s either forgotten how

to tackle the part or he couldn’t be bothered to do much more than draw air in exchange for a paycheck.

And then there’s the tragic case of Kathleen Turner, cast as the boys’ old flame Fraida Felcher. In another lifetime, she was a terrific, alluring actress known for hits like Romancing the Stone and (as the voice of Jessica Rabbit) Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Here, she turns up only to be subjected to fat jokes and play it straight next to our heroes.

Then again, maybe she’s just come full circle. In her exciting debut in 1981’s Body Heat, she delivered one of cinema’s great lines, murmuring to William Hurt, “You aren’t too smart, are you? I like that in a man.” And now she’s with two men who aren’t too smart – she must be loving that.

our species.

Despite a running time that ends just shy of three hours, Interstellar never drags – a testament to Nolan’s ability to keep us glued to his quietly unfolding tale. It turns out to be a strange, fitful trip, far flung in its scientific pursuits but down to earth with its potent father-daughter tale.

And if some of the science seems suspect (although noted physicist Kip Thorne was on hand to offer Nolan guidance – and earned an executive producer credit for his trouble), it easily falls into the realm of suspension of disbelief – certainly as much as 2001’s star child, or a man who dresses like a bat, for that matter.

BIG HERO 6

OOOP It’s apt that the Christmas season is just INTERSTELLAR around the corner, because only a Scrooge OOO could fail to succumb to the charms of IMAX blunders aside, do see this movie. Baymax, the lovable, marshmallow-shaped It’s deeply flawed but also wholly absorbrobot found at – and in – the heart of the ing, and it marks Nolan as one of our most new Disney animated effort Big Hero 6. ambitious, go-for-broke directors, unafraid An adaptation of a lesser-known Marvel to attempt Sistine Chapel ceilings while Comics title, the picture, set in the Easthis fellow filmmakers are working with meets-West landscape of San Fransokyo, Crayolas. centers on Hiro Hamada (voiced by Ryan Set in a near future when a dusty, ravaged Potter), an aimless 14-year-old genius who’s Earth seems unlikely to sustain another full given some much-needed guidance by his generation of humans, Interstellar finds Mat- older brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney). thew McConaughey playing a cross between Tadashi is a student at the San FransoRichard Dreyfuss’ Everyman from Steven kyo Institute of Technology, where he has Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third developed a vinyl, inflatable robot named Kind and any of the brave astronauts seen Baymax (Scott Adsit). Baymax has been in Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff (two programmed to serve as an efficient health care provider (doubtless to the chagrin of more classics whose DNA can be detected Republican politicians), and he and Hiro in Nolan’s film).

His Cooper is a former NASA pilot end up forming a special bond.

The first hour of Big Hero 6 is superb, and present-day farmer who loves his son Tom (Timothee Chalamet) but who clearly complete with an array of interesting enjoys a special bond with his daughter characters, an eye-popping visual design Murphy (Mackenzie Foy, Renesmee to all and, courtesy of the bulky Baymax, a sizyou Twilight fans). able number of hearty laughs. As befits its comic-book origins, the second part turns Therefore it’s Murphy who’s most shatmore standard, as Hiro forms a superhero tered when Cooper is recruited by NASA’s Professor Brand (Michael Caine) for a outfit with other science-nerd misfits. This potentially planet-saving mission that part plays like a junior-league Avengers, with will keep them separated for years, maybe the likes of Iron Man, Captain America and forever.

Thor replaced with kids sporting monikers But since it might mean salvation for like Honey Lemon, Wasabi and Fred. It’s a the planet’s inhabitants, Cooper can hardly shame that the relationship between Hiro refuse, thereby blasting off into space along- and Baymax takes a backseat to various side Brand’s daughter Amelia (Anne Hatha- action set-pieces – and let’s not even discuss way), fellow astronauts Doyle (Wes Bentley) the head-smackingly obvious identity of the master villain – but even in this latter and Romilly (David Gyasi) and a pair of portion, the film is overflowing with visual unique, monolithic robots named TARS (voiced by Bill Irwin) and CASE ( Josh invention and genuine sentiments.

Stewart). Their mission is to check on three Be sure to arrive at the theater on time so distant planets tagged by previous explorers as not to miss Feast, the delightful short that as suitable for human life and decide which precedes the main attraction. holds the most promise for the survival of

ST. VINCENT OOO

2014 has given rise to a number of terrific turns that were doubtless conceived through blood, sweat and cheers.

Now joining the ranks is Bill Murray, who knocks it out of the park with a terrific performance in St. Vincent.

Murray stars as Vincent, a misanthropic curmudgeon with little use for other people.

That changes, though, once the recently divorced Maggie (Melissa McCarthy) moves in next door. Initially, Vincent couldn’t care less about Maggie or her young son Oliver ( Jaeden Lieberher), but he changes his tune — slightly — once he realizes that Maggie will pay him to look after her boy each weekday after school.

Murray’s Vincent is often odious, and when we finally think he’s softening up, he turns around and becomes even more insufferable. It’s a bravura turn, one which gives this picture an extra kick. With Murray delivering his best performance since 2003’s Lost in Translation, there’s enough excellence on tap to occasionally turn this picture into a blessed event.

Fury

OOP Set in 1945, Fury makes its one major concession to convention by shaping its story as the experience of a greenhorn soldier who finds himself coming of age in the presence of his more seasoned comrades.

That would be Norman Ellison (The Perks of Being a Wallflower’s Logan Lerman), who’s only been in the army for a few months when he’s assigned to a tank unit led by a gruff sergeant known as Wardaddy (Brad Pitt).

Wardaddy expects equal animosity from his tank team, and while he receives it from the hardened members of his crew (Shia LaBeouf, Michael Pena and Jon Bernthal), it’s the soft rookie who worries him, since any hesitation in battle on the kid’s part could result in G.I. deaths.

Subscribing to the “War Is Hell” theory, Fury (incidentally, the name given to the tank) depicts the brutality and the insanity of armed combat in punishing, visceral fashion. Ayer doubtless intended for the sweet, sensitive Ellison to serve as the audience surrogate and de facto tour guide through this landscape—a logical approach, even if the character’s presence sometimes feels too facile. In every other regard, though, Fury stares deep into the mouth of madness and steadfastly refuses to flinch. CS

We reserve the right to edit or cut listings because of space limitations.

Activism & Politics

Drinking Liberally

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

Saturdays with Alderwoman Shabazz

Residents in Savannah’s 5th District are invited to meet with their Alderwoman every 4th Saturday of the month. Residents may come with specific issues and concerns, or just to meet their representative on Savannah City Council. District 5 runs roughly west of Bull Street and north of 36th Street, and also includes newly developing areas of the City in the southwest quadrant of Chatham County. Free and open to the public. fourth Saturday of every month, 2-4 p.m. 912-651-6410.

Shabazz Seafood Restaurant, 502 W. Victory Dr. 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. 912-308-3020. 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. 423-6197712. foxyloxycafe.com/. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Auditions and Calls for Entries

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.

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.

Gallery 209 Call for Artists

Gallery 209, 209 East River Street, seeks a 3D artist to join its cooperative gallery.

Interested artists call 236-4583 between 10:30am--1:30 pm, or emailbmrousseau@ aol.com. Sundays.. gallery209savannah. com/. Gallery 209, 209 E River St. Gallery Seeks Local Artists

Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard Street, seeks 2-D and 3-D artists to join its cooperative gallery. Must be a full-time resident of Savannah or nearby area. Work to be considered includes painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture, glass, ceramics and wood. 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.

munity and support the local economy.

Sponsorships begin at $350. Help keep food fresh and local. Tuesdays.. kristen@ forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket. com/. Forsyth Farmers' Market, 501 Whitaker St., South End of Forysth Park.

Harvest Festival and Cane Grinding: Old Timey Southern Celebration

The annual event takes visitors back in time to a traditional Southern celebration of community living and scrumptious foods. Visitors will enjoy music, hay rides, pony rides, children's activities and more. $7 per adult; $5 per child (4-17), seniors and military Sat., Nov. 22, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

912-395-1500. annie.quinting@sccpss. com. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland. org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. $5 Bikram Yoga Class to Benefit Local Charities

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

This is a regular Bikram Yoga class. ongoing. 912.356.8280. bikramyogasavannah. com.

Pie in the SCI Thanksgiving Fundraiser

Buy a pie to help Senior Citizens Inc. make this holiday a special one for their seniors. There are pecan, apple and pumpkin pies available for $25 each.

Oatland Island Seeks Memories and Recollec- Please place your orders by November tions for 40th Anniversary 20 by calling 912-236-0363 and asking Oatland Island Education Center is looking for The Pie Line. Through Nov. 20. 912for memories of Oatland Island in honor 236-0363. seniorcitzens-inc.org. Senior of their 40th anniversary. People who were Citizens Inc., 3025 Bull St. Professional Clothing Drive at Armstrong part of the Youth Conservation Corp that Armstrong State University’s Office of helped to build Oatland Island Education Career Services is accepting donations for Center in the 1970’s. Great memories its Clothing Closet, a professional clothing from field trips. Special family memories drive seeking gently used professional of Oatland Island. Send your photos and attire—oxford shirts, men's and women’s stories to memories@oatland40th.org. suits, slacks, blouses, dress shoes. ClothDeadline is August 31. undefined. 912ing will be available to students seeking 395-1500. oatlandisland.org.

Ukulele Group career guidance assistance. Drop off locaContact Warren Walker for lessons or tion: the alumni office in Burnett Hall on information on participation at 912-398the Armstrong campus. Through Feb. 1, 1640. Through Jan. 4, 2015. Downtown 2015. 912.344.2563. careers@armstrong.

Savannah, downtown. edu. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/index. html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Benefits Chatham County Animal Control Seeks Donations of Items

Chatham County Animal Control seeks items for pets in the facility. Canned and dry dog and cat food, baby formula, newspaper, paper towels, soaps, crates, leashes, collars, wash cloths, towels.

Open daily, 1pm-5pm. Mondays.. 912-3516750. animalcontrol.chathamcounty.org.

Chatham County Animal Shelter, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. Forsyth Farmers Market Seeks Sponsors

Market sponsors invest in a healthy com-

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-years-old. ongoing. (912) 525-2151. jlewis01@savannahga.gov.

Classes, Camps & Workshops

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. 912-4846415. 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.

Baby Basics

This class is strongly recommended for first-time parents. A variety of topics are covered in this class such as basic newborn care, feeding, infant hygiene, life with a new baby, safety in the home, car seat safety, and infant CPR. $45 per couple Sat., Nov. 22, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 912350-2676. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Basic Breastfeeding Class

This two-hour session is designed to educate and support the mother planning to breastfeed. Topics include information on preparing to breastfeed, basic breastfeeding concepts, nutrition, and a discussion of common concerns. Issues such as family support for the breastfeeding mother, the father’s role in feeding, and how to breastfeed and continue to work are also covered. Your support person is encouraged to attend. $20 per couple Tue., Nov. 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 912-3502676. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. 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 &

continues on p. 42

NOV 19-25, 2014

happenings

compiled by Rachael Flora | happenings@connectsavannah.com Happenings is Connect Savannah’s listing of community gatherings, events, classes and groups. If you want an event listed, email happenings@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.

41

Happenings |

continued from previous page

Jewelry Studio, 407 East Montgomery Xrds.

Beginning Belly Dance Classes

Taught by Happenstance Bellydance.

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

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.

Couples Toolbox for Labor and Delivery

NOV 19-25, 2014

This hands-on, two hour class is designed for a mom and her spouse, partner, friend, mom, or whomever will be supporting her during labor and delivery. It’s a unique and fun way to prepare for this special time. We will talk about the different stages of labor and delivery as well 42 as the best comfort techniques for each

stage. Participants will learn a “toolbox” full of hands-on comfort measures including breathing, massage, positioning, pressure points, and much more from a labor doula. Plan to bring an exercise ball with you. $130 Sat., Nov. 22, 1-3 p.m.

912-232-2994. marketing@savannahyoga. com. savannahyoga.com/events/couplestoolbox/. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St.

Knitting & Crochet Classes

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.

Life Coaching

Creative Magic Mondays

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.

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.

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.

Mommy & Me Relaxation Class

Learn conversational English, comprehension, vocabulary and life communication skills. All ages. Thursdays, 7:30pm, Island Christian Church, 4601 US Highway 80 East. Free. 912-897-3604. islandchristian.org.

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.

The Mediation Center has three workshops per month for people who do not have legal representation in a family matter: divorce, legitimation, modifications of child support, visitation, contempt.

Schedule: 1st Tues, 2nd Mon, 4th Thursday. Call for times. $30 912-354-6686. mediationsavannah.com.

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.

English as Second Language Classes

Family Law Workshop

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.

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. Financial education: 4th Fri each month, 9am11am. Basic computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1pm-3pm. Community computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3pm-4:30pm. ongoing. 912232-4232 x115. savannahpha.com. savannahpha.com/NRC.html. Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St.

Music Instruction

Music Lessons: Private or Group

Portman’s Music Academy offers private or group classes for ages 2 to 92, beginner to advanced level. All instruments.

Also, voice lessons, music production technology and DJ lessons. Teaching staff of over 20 instructors with professional, well equipped studios. Fridays.. 912-3541500. 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. 912-6928055. 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. Novel Writing

Write a novel, finish the one you've

started, revise it or pursue publication.

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

Photography Classes

Beginner photography to post production.

Instruction for all levels. $20 for two-hour class. See website for complete class list.

410-251-4421. chris@chrismorrisphotography.com. chrismorrisphotography.com.

Piano Lessons

Piano lessons with a classically trained instructor, with theater and church experience. 912-312-3977. ongoing. georgiamusicwarehouse.com/. Georgia Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. Piano Voice-Coaching

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

Reading/Writing Tutoring

Ms. Dawn’s Tutoring in reading, writing, and composition. Remedial reading skills, help with borderline dyslexia, to grammar, term paper writing, and English as a Second Language. Fun methods for children to help them learn quickly. 912660-7399. cordraywriter@gmail.com.

Russian Language Classes

Learn to speak Russian. All experience levels welcome, beginner to expert. Call for info. ongoing. 912-713-2718.

Sewing Classes

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.

Singing Classes

Bel Canto is a singing style which helps the voice become flexible and expressive, improves vocal range and breathing capacity. A foundation for opera, rock, pop, gospel and musical theatre. $25 Mondays, 6 p.m.. 786-247-9923. anitraoperadiva@yahoo.com. Institute of Cinematic Arts, 12 West State Street, 3rd and 4th flrs.,.

Spanish Classes

Spanish courses for professionals offered

by Conquistador Spanish Language Institute, LLC. Beginner Spanish for Professionals--Intro price $155 + textbook ($12.95). Instructor: Bertha E. Hernandez, M.Ed. and native speaker. Meets in the Keller Williams Realty meeting room, 329 Commercial Drive. Tuesdays.. conquistador-spanish.com.

Stress Reduction: Arising Stillness in Zen

Stress-reducing practices for body, speech and mind. Five Thursday night classes from 6- 7:00pm. $15 drop-in; $70 for series. Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach, Sensei. Savannah Zen Center 111 E. 34th St. 31401 revfugon@gmail.com ongoing.

Vocal Lessons

continued from previous page

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.. 912656-0760. TheVoiceCoOp.org. The Voice Co-op, Downtown.

Writing Your Memoir

Memoir is a nonfiction, literary art form that–unlike autobiography–relies heavily on storytelling techniques derived from fiction, and is formed around the memory and observation of the author. In Writing Your Memoir, students will survey from the memoir canon, including Mary Karr’s The Liars Club, Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, Beverly Donofrio’s Riding in Cars with Boys, Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life and others, to inform their own writing. Students will have reading and writing homework and will participate in workshop-style critiques. $200 Mondays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.. 912-651-2005.

PersonalDevelopment@georgiasouthern. edu. academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ce/ programs/personaldevelopment/writingclasses/. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/.

Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Yoga on the Beach

After Labor Day Yoga, every Saturday until the weather gets too cold or if raining.

North Beach Parking Lot, Gulick Street beach walkover. Drop-ins and beginners encouraged. Bring yoga mat or beach towel. Taught by Ann Caroll. By donation Saturdays, 10-11 a.m.. 912-704-7650. ann@aikyayoga.com. aikyayoga.com.

North Beach, Tybee Island.

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, 912272-2797. 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 nonplayer character. $35 fee for returning characters. ongoing. godzillaunknown@ gmail.com. avegost.com.

Blindness and Low Vision Workshop

Workshops on the 3rd Thursday of each month on vision loss, services, and technology available to participate in the

community. For people with blindness or low vision, and for caregivers and friends.

Free and open to the public. third Thursday of every month.. savannahcblv.org.

Savannah Center for the Blind and Low Vision, 214 Drayton St. Buccaneer Region SCCA

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

See website. 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.. 912-233-1240.

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.. 912-441-6559. 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. At-

tendees 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., Nov. 25, 6-7 p.m.

912-484-0165. hostesscitytm@gmail.com. facebook.com/hostesscitytoastmasters. thincsavannah.com. ThincSavannah, 35 Barnard St. Suite 300.

Ink Slingers Writing Group

A free creative writing group for writers of poetry, prose, or undefinable creative ventures. Meets every other Wednesday.

Discussion of exercises, ideas, or already in progress pieces. See Facebook page savinkslingers. Every other Wednesday.. foxyloxycafe.com/. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Islands MOPS

A Mothers of Preschoolers group that meets two Wednesdays a month, 9:15am11:30am. 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. 912-3086768.

Knittin’ Night

Knit and crochet gathering held each Tuesday evening, 5pm-8pm All skill levels welcome. Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m. 912-2380514. 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.

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

RUFF meets the last Friday of each month at 10am to protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and related senior issues.

Parking in the rear. Free to all Seniors ongoing. 912-344-5127. New Covenant Church, 2201 Bull St. Rotary Club of Savannah Sunrise

Meets every Thursday, 7:30 a.m. for breakfast at Ort Hall (Lady & Sons) 112 West Congress Street. Visitors are welcome. Thursdays.. savannahsunriserotary.org. Ort Hall, 112 W. Congress St. Safe Kids Savannah

A coalition dedicated to preventing child-

hood injuries. Meets 2nd Tuesday each month, 11:30am-1:00pm. See website or call for info. ongoing. 912-353-3148. safekidssavannah.org.

Savannah Brewers' League

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

Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St.

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 every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6:00 pm at local restaurants.

3rd Tuesday in November; none in December. For dinner reservations, please call Sybil Cannon at 912-964-5366. ongoing. 912-748-7020. savannahnavyleague. us.

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.. 912-429-6918. savannahfencing@aol.com.

Savannah Go Green

Meets most Saturdays. Green events and places. Share ways to Go Green each day.

Call for info. ongoing. 912-308-6768.

Savannah Kennel Club

Monthly meetings open to the public the 4th Monday each month, Sept. through June. ongoing, 7 p.m. savannahkennelclub.org. barnesrestaurant.com.

Barnes Restaurant, 5320 Waters Avenue.

Savannah Newcomers Club

Open to women who have lived in the Savannah area for less than two years.

Membership includes monthly luncheon and program. Activities, tours and events to help learn about Savannah and make new friends. ongoing. savannahnewcomersclub.com.

Savannah No Kidding!

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

Savannah Parrot Head Club

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

Savannah Sacred Harp Singers

Everyone who loves to sing is invited to

continues on p. 44

NOV 19-25, 2014

Happenings |

43

Happenings |

continued from previous page

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. 912-6550994. savannahsacredharp.com. Faith Primitive Baptist Church, 3212 Bee Road.

us!” Mondays, 7pm. ongoing. 912-3449768. savannahbarbershoppers.org.

Thunderbolt Lodge #693, 3111 Rowland Ave.

org/. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. Karla Bonoff

NOV 19-25, 2014

With a career spanning four decades, Karla Bonoff has enjoyed critical acclaim, Sun., Nov. 23, 3 p.m. Armstrong Fine Arts commercial success, enduring popularity Society for Creative Anachronism Center, 11935 Abercorn St. and the unwavering respect of her peers.

Meets every Saturday at the south end of Blues in the Night: Johnny Mercer Songbook In addition to achieving chart success with Forsyth Park for fighter practice and gen- Cathedral Preservation Benefit Concert her own recordings, Bonoff's songwriteral hanging out. For people interested in features the Equinox Orchestra, Rebecca ing has provided hits for Bonnie Raitt, re-creating the Middle Ages and RenaisFlaherty, Jillian Pashke, and Kurt OllWynonna Judd and Linda Ronstadt. $25 sance. Free Saturdays, 11 a.m.. savannah- mann. Tickets are $50 per adult. The con- Mon., Nov. 24, 7:30 p.m. marstheater.com. sca.org. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. cert takes place in the Cathedral on Friday marstheatre.com. Mars Theatre, 109 S. Savannah Story Games November 21st beginning with a recepLaurel Street.

A group that plays games that tell impro- tion on the plaza at 6:00 pm.. For more Lauren Lapointe vised stories. Create an amazing story The final Third Thursdays on Tybee perinformation about tickets, email us at in just three hours, using group games savannahcathedralgala@gmail.com or call formance for 2014. Thu., Nov. 20, 5:30-7 with special rules that craft characters, 912-429-7612. All proceeds go to support p.m. Tybee Roundabout, Tybrisa Street settings, and conflicts. Sundays at 6pm. the on-going renovation and preservation and Strand Avenue. free Saturdays, 6 p.m.. info@savannahsto- of the historic church. $50 per adult Fri., The Love and Soul Experience rygames.com. savannahstorygames.com. Nov. 21, 6-8 p.m. 912-429-7612. savanKimberly Gunn Music Presents The Love Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street. nahcathedralgala@gmail.com. savannah- and Soul Experience every third Friday Savannah Toastmasters of the month beginning May 17th. There cathedral.org. savannahcathedral.org/.

Helps improve speaking and leadership The concert features the Equinox Orches- will be music, poetry, comedy, creative skills in a friendly, supportive environtra, Rebecca Flaherty, Jillian Pashke, and arts, and networking. Kimberly Gunn ment. Mondays, 6:15pm, Memorial Health Kurt Ollmann. Tickets are $50 per adult.

Music and friends will provide musical University Medical Center, in the Conferentertainment. An event for ages 18 and The concert takes place in the Cathedral ence Room C. ongoing. 912-484-6710. up. $10 Admission $12 VIP third Friday of on Friday November 21st beginning with memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health every month, 7:30 p.m. (912) 224-6084 or a reception on the plaza at 6:00 pm.. For University Medical Center, 4700 Waters more information about tickets, email sa- (912) 224-4461. kimberlygunn.com. The Ave. vannahcathedralgala@gmail.com. $50 per Eden Room, 1105 Stiles Avenue.

Savannah Veggies and Vegans Savannah Philharmonic: Anthony Kearns in ticket Fri., Nov. 21, 6-7:45 p.m. 912-429Join the Facebook group to find out more 7612. savannahcathedralgala@gmail.com. Concert: Ireland's Finest Tenor about vegetarian and vegan lifestyles, "Songs, Arias, and Melodies of a Golden savannahcathedral.org. savannahcatheand to hear about upcoming local events. dral.org/. Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Age." Kearns performs light opera Mondays. overtures and opera choruses, in addition 222. East Harris St. Savannah Writers Group Concert: Anthony Kearns to Irish traditional favorites and opera A gathering of writers of all levels for Anthony Kearns, one of Ireland's most standards. $16 to $70 Thu., Nov. 20, 7:30 networking, hearing published guest aufamous tenors, performs light opera over- p.m. savannahphilharmonic.org. lucasthors, and critique. 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, tures and choruses. $16 to $70 Thu., Nov. theatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 7:00pm, Atlanta Bread Company, Twelve 20, 7:30 p.m. tickets.savannahboxoffice.

32 Abercorn St. Oaks Shopping Center, 5500 Abercorn. com. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for Savannah Philharmonic: Chamber Concert No. Free and open to the public. fourth Tues3 - Totally Mozart the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. day of every month.. savannahwritersConcert: Erica Campbell Mozart's Horn Quintet in E flat Major K. group.blogspot.com.

Award-winning gospel artist Erica Camp- 407; Oboe Quartet in F Major K. 370; and Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671 bell of Mary, Mary performs. This concert Quintet in E flat Major for piano and winds Meets second Monday of each month, is hosted by Overcoming by Faith MinisK. 452 performed by a chamber orchestra 7pm, at the American Legion Post 135, tries. Free and open to the public Sat., comprised of the region's finest classi1108 Bull St. ongoing. 912-429-0940.

Nov. 22, 7-9 p.m. 912-927-8601. info@ cal musicians. $20 Sun., Nov. 23, 5 p.m. rws521@msn.com. vvasav.com. overcomingbyfaith.org. overcomingbyfaith. savannahphilharmonic.org. Ascension Waving Girls--Smocking Arts Guild of America org/#/welcome. Hilton Head Marriott Lutheran Church, 120 Bull St. The Waving Girls welcomes smockers and Resort & Spa, 1 Hotel Cir. PICKSouthbound Art Show featuring The all those who create fine heirloom items.

Concert: Futurebirds, this mountain, Amythyst Train Wrecks and City Hotel At each meeting there is an opportunity Afternoon of local craft beer, music and Kiah to learn and share our work. The group Kick off the 2015 Savannah Stopover art at Southbound Brewing Company. makes over 100 "wee care" gowns for me- Season. Futurebirds will release their very Live performances by The Train Wrecks morial hospital each year. fourth Monday own small batch of Biere de Garde brewed and City Hotel as local artists show off of every month, 6:30 p.m. 912 536 1447.

by Southbound just for the show. $28 their work and local muralists compete debcreation@hotmail.com. smocking.

Fri., Nov. 21, 8 p.m. Southbound Brewing live for a chance to paint a large-scale org. Coastal Center for Developmental Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. mural inside the brewery. Ticket includes Services, 1249 Eisenhower Drive.

Concert: Karla Bonoff samplings of Southbound's craft beers.

Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation One of the finest singers/songwriters of 21+ show (ID required at the door). $20 Meets second Tuesday each month her generation, Karla Bonoff performs tickets in advance online, or $25 at the (except October) 6:00pm, Woodvilleat the Mars. $25 Mon., Nov. 24, 7:30 p.m. door. $20 in advance Sat., Nov. 22, 2-6 Tompkins, 151 Coach Joe Turner St. Call marstheatre.com. Mars Theatre, 109 S. p.m. 912-335-7716. katie@southboundor email for info. ongoing. 912-232-3549.

Laurel Street. brewingco.com. https://facebook.com/ chesteraellis@comcast.net.

Concert: Thursday Night Opry w/ Walter events/1554617738102814/. Southbound Parks, Waits & Co. Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. Concerts The Trinity Church Concert Series rolls 13th Colony Sound (Barbershop Singing) on with Walter Parks and Waits & Co. $10 Dance “If you can carry a tune, come sing with Thu., Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m. trinitychurch1848. 5Rhythms Wave Class 44 AAYO Fall Concert

A Moving Meditation. A dance. A spiritual practice. A path to higher vibration. Each person does his/her own dance to a wave of music through the rhythms of: flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness.

Exploring the "energy" of these rhythms.

There is no right or wrong way and no steps to follow. No experience is needed.

Led by Dana Danielson. Sign up or just show up. $15 per class, or purchase class packs fourth Sunday of every month, 121:30 p.m.. savannahyogabarre.com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2135 E Victory Drive.

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. 912-925-7416. savh_tango@yahoo.com.

Argentine 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.

Awaken with Chakradance™

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. 912-663-1306. Chakradancer@ comcast.net. chakradance.com/. synergisticbodies.com. Synergistic Bodies, 7901 Waters Ave. Ballroom Group Dance Class

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,

continued from previous page

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. savannahballroomdancing.com. Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

Beginner's Belly Dance Classes

Learn basic moves and choreography with local Belly Dancer, Nicole Edge.

Class is open to all ages and skill levels.

Walk-ins welcome. 15.00 Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m. 912-596-0889. edgebelly@gmail. com. edgebellydance.com. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. 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. 912-596-0889. 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. 912-414-1091. 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. com. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. C.C. Express Dance Team

Wednesdays, 6pm-8pm. Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary. Call Claudia Collier for info. ongoing. 912-7480731. 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. Free Dance Thursdays at Lake Mayer

Lake Mayer is offering free dance and fitness classes for all ages every Thursday, in the Community Center. 9:30 am and 10:30 am is the "Little Movers" class for toddlers. 12:00 pm Lunch Break Fitness.

1:30 pm Super Seniors. 5:30 pm youth hip hop. 6:30 pm Adult African Fitness. FREE ongoing, 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. 912-6526780. sdavis@chathamcounty.org. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

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. 912-7480731.

Irish Dance Classes

Glor na Dare offers beginner to champion Irish Dance classes for ages 5 and up.

Adult Step & Ceili, Strength and Flexibility, non-competitive and competitive programs, workshops, camps. Certified.

Wednesdays.. 912-704-2052. prideofirelandga@gmail.com.

Kids Hip Hop and Jazz

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.

LaBlast- Dance Fitness designed by Louis Van Amstel from DWTS

Created by world renowned dancer and ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" professional, Louis Van Amstel, LaBlast uniquely combines a wide variety of ballroom dance styles and music genres. Do the Cha Cha Cha, Disco, Jive, Merengue, Salsa and Samba set to everything from pop and rock to hip-hop and country – and burn fat and blast calories! No experience and no partner necessary. $15.00 drop in or 10 classes for $80.00 Mondays, 6-7 p.m. and Fridays, 10-11 a.m.

912.312.3549. reservetodance@gmail. com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

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 7:30pm8:30pm. 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.

Monthly Dance Parties

A dance party for students to put dance moves into action. Every 3rd Friday of the month, 8pm-10pm. Designed for practice of all of the moves learned in private lessons, group lessons, or for anyone who wants to come have fun. Free for private lesson students/ $5 for social dancers third Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m.

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

Passages: A Reflection on Youth and Exuberance

A repertory dance concert featuring ballet, modern, contemporary, and musical theater that includes all 86 dance majors at Savannah Arts Academy. $15 Nov. 21-22, 7 p.m. and Nov. 22-23, 2:30 p.m.

Savannah Arts Academy, 500 Washington Ave. Salsa Lessons by Salsa Savannah

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

8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Sun. 5pm6pm and 6pm-7pm. Salon de Maile, 704B

Hodgson Memorial Dr., Savannah, 31406.

Tuesdays.. salsasavannah.com.

Salsa Night

Come and shake it to the best latin grooves and bachata the night away in Pooler where it's cooler. Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m. 912-988-1052. medi. tavern314@gmail.com. Mediterranean Tavern, 125 Foxfield Way. Savannah Shag Club

Wednesdays, 7pm,at Doubles Lounge.

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

ongoing. doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Sizzle: Dance and Cardio

A class designed to maintain that summer body by dancing and having fun.

Incorporates dance and cardio to fun, spicy songs. $10 drop in or 10 classes for $80 Tuesdays, Fridays, 10 a.m. 912312-3549. reservetodance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

West Coast Swing Class

Instructor Rick Cody teaches the smooth rhythms of beach music and west coast swing. $12 drop in fee or $35 for 4 weeks Wednesdays, 7 p.m.. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Events

Anthony Kearns in Concert

The Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus performs light opera overtures and opera choruses, in addition to Irish traditional favorites and opera standards from one of Ireland’s most famous tenors, Anthony Kearns. 16.00-70.00 Thu., Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m. emuller@lucastheatre.com. lucastheatre.com/schedule/2014-11/. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Aquaponics Building Ground-Breaking

Fri., Nov. 21, 1:30 p.m. about.armstrong. edu/Maps/index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. 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, 6:45-8:15 p.m.

912-663-1306. Chakradancer@comcast. net. anahatahealingarts.com/healingaha/. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 continues on p. 46

NOV 19-25, 2014

Happenings |

45

Happenings |

continued from previous page

Drayton St. Suite B.

Board of Public Education Capital Improvement Committee Meeting

Wed., Nov. 19, 9 a.m. Savannah Chatham County Public Schools, 208 Bull St. Bonaventure After Hours: Stories, Nightfall & More!

Savannah's only after-hours cemetery event, in this riverside Victorian cemetery. $35 Saturdays, 5-8 p.m.. 912-319-5600. info@bonaventurecemetery.com. savannahga.gov/cityweb/cemeteriesweb.nsf/ cemeteries/bonaventure.html. Bonaventure Cemetery, 330 Bonaventure Rd.

Come and Take It: Revolutionary War Encampment

Experience the Revolutionary War at Fort Morris with a wreath laying ceremony, solider talks, cannon demonstrations, live colonial music, and a presentation by George and Martha Washington. Sat., Nov. 22, 10 a.m. 912-884-5999. gastateparks. org/FortMorris/. Fort Morris Historic Site, 2559 Fort Morris Road.

Deen Family Book Signing

Paula, Jamie & Bobby Deen will sign their various books. 350 wristbands will be distributed at 9 am. Free to attend.

Books available for purchase. Fri., Nov. 21, 10 a.m.-noon. 912-232-1579. mandy@ pauladeen.com. pauladeen.com. ladyandsons.com. The Lady and Sons, 102 West Congress St. District 5 Town Hall Meeting

Mon., Nov. 24, 6:30 p.m. Beach High School, 3001 Hopkins St. Family Portrait Sessions

Stevie Nicole Photography will be offering a limited number of Mini Family Portrait Sessions in the beautiful Forsyth Park. The heart of Savannah has many photo opportunities to capture beautiful memories with your family. Call for Pricing Sundays, 2-4 p.m.. 678-392-9219. photography@stevienicole.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Great Estate and Antique Auction

Peruse and purchase items from estates and other antiques. Preview Saturday from 11am-3pm and Sunday right before the auction. Sun., Nov. 23, 1 p.m. 912-4439353. bullstreetauctions.com/. Bull Street Auctions, 2819 Bull Street.

Guided Tours of the Lucas Theatre for the Arts

NOV 19-25, 2014

Learn the history of the historic Lucas Theatre on a 20-30 minute tour. Restoration, architecture, history of the theatre and of early cinema. $4. Group rates for ten or more. School trips available. No reservations needed for 10:30am, 1:30pm and 2pm. Other times by appointment.

Call for info. ongoing. 912-525-5023. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Harvest Tea Luncheon

Proceeds benefit Annie Scott Grant Women's Missionary Society mission projects. $5 donation asked Sat., Nov. 22, 2:30 p.m.

St. Peter's A.M.E. Church, 626 Staley Ave. Heating Bill Help

46 The Economic Opportunity Authority is

taking applications to help low-income Chatham residents with their heating bill.

Required documentation is: written proof of total household income for last 30 days, Social Security numbers for all members in household, most recent heating bill, proof of age, statement of authorization if someone else is applying for you, and a government-issued picture ID. Call for more information. Through Nov. 28. 912238-2960. Economic Opportunity Authority (EOA), 618 W. Anderson St. Live Mural Competition

The mural competition winner will be commissioned to paint a full mural inside the brewery. For the art show, 10 spaces are available for artists to sell or promote their work for $40 per table. Sat., Nov. 22, 2 p.m. 912-777-3686. Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. NeoPopRealist Art Contest Dedicated to its 25-Year Anniversary

Deadline: December 15, 2014. Artists're welcome to submit up to 3 images of NeoPopRealist work as .JPEG files 300dpi with brief info about self & work's medium, email: neopoprealismPRESS@ mail.com. Winners 'll be announced Dec. 31, 2014. Grand prize for the 1st place is signed original drawing by NeoPopRealism creator Nadia Russ. S2nd place winner'll receive signed print of the same work. See the Grand Prize at www. neopoprealism.org Free Through Dec. 15. neopoprealismpress@mail.com. Online only, none.

Odd Lot Improv

In the tradition of The Groundlings, Second City, and Whose Line is it Anyway?, The Odd Lot Comedy Troupe presents live, in the moment, hilarity with a showcase of improvisational comedy. There’s no telling where the evening will take you! Appropriate comedy for a PG crowd. Mondays, 8 p.m.. musesavannah.org/. Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. Open House

Tour the city's largest wastewater treatment facility and mingle with water conservation mascot Less Waters at this open house. Wed., Nov. 19, 2-6 p.m. 912651-2221. City of Savannah Wastewater Treatment Plant, 1400 E. President St. The original Midnight Tour

One of the spookiest tours in town. Learn about the untold stories of some of the most haunted locations here in Savannah Georgia. Guaranteed to give you a few goose bumps and an unexplained need for a night light. 33.00 ongoing. 1-866666-3323. 6thsenseworld.com. 6th Sense Savannah Tours, 404 Abercorn Street.

PBJ Pantry

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

It stars Gregory Peck as a reporter, and Audrey Hepburn as a royal princess out to see Rome on her own. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance; the screenplay and costume design also won. 5.00-8.00 Sat., Nov. 22, 7 p.m. emuller@lucastheatre.com. lucastheatre.com/schedule/2014-11/. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Savannah Storytellers

Tall tales and fun times with the classic art of storytelling. Every Wednesday at 6pm. Reservations encouraged by calling 912-349-4059. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. liveoakstore.com/tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby's Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. Senior Citizens, Inc. Autumn Benefits Fair

Learn about Senior Citizens, Inc.'s autumn benefits, from grocery discounts to adult daytime care. Wed., Nov. 19, 2-5 p.m. 912-236-0363. Senior Citizens Inc., 3025 Bull St. Shire of Forth Castle Fighter Practice

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

Southbound Brewery Saturday Tours and Tastes

Savannah's first microbrewery is open for public tours and tastings Wednesday - Fridays from 5:30-7:30 and Saturdays from 2-4. Hang out, have a few cold ones, and learn a little more about Savannah's first craft brewery. Free Saturdays, 2-4 p.m. 912-335-7716. info@southboundbrewingco.com. southboundbrewingco. com. Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. Southbound Brewery Tours and Tastes

Savannah's first microbrewery is open for public tours and tastings Wednesday - Fridays from 5:30-7:30 and Saturdays from 2-4. So come hangout at the brewery, have a few cold ones, and learn a little more about Savannah's first craft brewery! Free Wednesdays-Fridays, 5:30-7:30 p.m.. 912-335-7716. info@ southboundbrewingco.com. southboundbrewingco.com. Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave.

Southbound Brewing Company Mural Competition and Art Show

Ramblin' Man Productions is hosting a live painting competition and art show at Southbound Brewing Company. Blick Art Materials is sponsoring the competition and materials. Email to register. 21+. $20 Sat., Nov. 22, 2-6 p.m. 912-335-7716. katie@southboundbrewingco.com. https:// facebook.com/events/1554617738102814/.

Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. Film: To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American Film: Roman Holiday drama film directed by Robert Mulligan.

Roman Holiday is a 1953 romantic comedy The screenplay by Horton Foote was directed and produced by William Wyler. based on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning

novel of the same name by Harper Lee. It stars Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch, and Mary Badham in the role of Scout. Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice. $5-$8 Fri., Nov. 21, 7 p.m. emuller@lucastheatre.com. lucastheatre.com/schedule/2014-11/. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Tongue: Open Mic & Mouth

.A poetry and music open mic with an emphasis on sharing new, original, thoughtful work. fourth Tuesday of every month.. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Festivals

Christmas Made in the South

Get ready for Christmas with this festival, which showcases a wide variety of handmade works that are perfect for gifts. One admission good for all three days with a hand stamp. Free parking. $7, kids under 12 free Fri., Nov. 21, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Sat., Nov. 22, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sun., Nov. 23, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. savtcc.com. Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, 1 International Dr. Harvest Festival

See how it was back in the day at the 1800s Heritage Homesite at Oatland Island, and enjoy old-time music, a cane boiling, and more. $7 adults, $5 kids Sat., Nov. 22, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 912-395-1212. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. 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. AlAnon is for adults. Alateen is for people age 13-19. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. check website or call for info. ongoing. 912-598-9860. savannahalanon.com.

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.

continued from previous page

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.

SkidawayIsland. gastateparks.org/info/ skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

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

Israeli Krav Maga Self-Defense Classes

$120. Call or email for info. ongoing. 912704-7650. ann@aikyayoga.com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Qigong Classes

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

continues on p. 48

Renagade Workout

Free fitness workout, every Saturday, 9:00 am at Lake Mayer Park. For women only.

Offered by The Fit Lab. Information: 912376-0219 ongoing. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

A system of self-defense techniques based on several martial arts. The official Richmond Hill Roadies Running Club Sin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aeroA chartered running club of the Road fighting system of the Israeli Defense bics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba. Forces (IDF). Custom Fit offers individual Runners Association of America. Monthly Prices vary. Call for schedule. ongoing. training sessions and seminars. Weekly and small group training and intensive 912-355-8811. savj.org. savannahjea. runs. Kathy Ackerman, 912-756-5865, or workshops. ongoing. 912-441-4891. cusorg. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Billy Tomlinson, 912-596-5965. ongoing. tomfitcenter.com.

Abercorn St. Kung Fu School: Ving Tsun Rock'n Body Fitness Bootcamp Flying Fortress 5k and Family Fun Day Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) is the world's Ultimate outdoor power workout! Group The 5th annual Flying Fortress 5k adds fastest growing martial arts style. Uses physical training program conducted by a Family Fun Day component to this angles and leverage to turn an attacker's former military personnel. Build strength year's festivities. All proceeds benefit strength against him. Call for info on free and fitness through a variety of intense the museum. $30 Sat., Nov. 22, 8:30 a.m. trial classes. Drop ins welcome. 11202 group intervals lasting approx. 45 min912-748-8888. mightyeighth.org. mightWhite Bluff Rd. ongoing. 912-429-9241. utes. First Class FREE Mondays-Fridays, SMOKING NEEDS yeighth.org/. Mighty Eighth Air Force Latin Cardio PREMIER SMOKE SHOP FOR ALL YOUR 6:30-7:30 p.m. 912-675-0952. rocknbodyMuseum, 175 Bourne Ave. A cardio-based workout class designed fitnessbootcamp@gmail.com. rocknbodyFree Caregiver Support Group to get students fit while having fun. Latin fitnessbootcamp.com. Forsyth Park, 501 For anyone caring for senior citizens with style dances like cha cha, samba, jive, Whitaker St. any affliction or illness. Second Saturday Ronin Academy Self Defense Classes rumba, salsa. No partner necessary. of the month, 10am-11am. Savannah A short course in simple self defense Workout clothes required. $10 drop in Commons, 1 Peachtree Dr. Refreshtechniques for adults. Uses real life or $80 for 10 classes Mondays, 6 p.m.. ments. Free to attend. Open to anyone in 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@gmail. scenarios designed to provide greater self need of support for the caregiving they com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon confidence and empowerment. Fees vary. provide. ongoing. savannahcommons.

Every 3 days. michael@roninacad.com. de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson com. roninacad.com. aikidosavannah.com/.

Memorial Drive.

Free Dance and Fitness Classes at Lake Mommy and Baby Yoga Aikido Center of Savannah, 5500 White Mayer Mondays. Call for times and fees or see Bluff Rd. Every Thursday. 9:30am-10:15am Toddler website. ongoing. 912-232-2994. savanna- Ladies Day at Savannah Climbing Coop Class. 12pm-1pm Adult Lunch Break Wednesdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah hyoga.com. savannahyoga.com/. SavanDance Class. 1:30pm-2:30pm Super SeClimbing Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. niors Workout. 5:30pm-6:15pm Youth Af- Pilates Classes nah Every Wednesday women climb rican Dance Fitness (ages 6-12). 6:30pm- Daily classes for all skill levels includfor half price, $5. See website for info.

7:30pm Adult African Dance Fitness. ing beginners. Private and semi-private ongoing. 912-495-8010. savannahclimbWear comfortable clothing. Free and open classes by appointment. Carol Dalyingcoop.com. to the public. Thursdays, 9:30 a.m.-7:30 Savannah Disc Golf Wilder, certified instructor. Call or see p.m.. 912-652-6784. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Weekly events (entry $5) Friday Night website for info. ongoing. 912-238-0018.

Montgomery Crossroads.

Flights: Fridays, 5pm. Luck of the Draw savannahpilates.com. pilatessavannah.

Dude's Day at Savannah Climbing Coop Doubles: Saturdays, 10am. Handicapped com/. Momentum Pilates Studio, 8413 Thursdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climb- Rerguson Ave. League: Saturdays, 1pm. Singles at the ing Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Pole Fitness Classes Sarge: Sundays, 10am. All skill levels welEvery Thursday men climb for half price, Pole fitness classes taught by Pole Dance come. Instruction available. See website $5. See website for info. Thursdays, 2 & America's 2014 National Professional or email for info. ongoing. savannahdisc10 p.m. 912-495-8010. savannahclimbChampion and Miss Fitness 2013 & 2014, golf@gmail.com. savannahdiscgolf.com. ingcoop.com. Savannah Climbing CoOp, Savannah Striders Running and Walking Club Sabrina Madsen. Pole fitness concen302 W Victory Dr. trates on upper body strength and overall With a one-year, $35 membership,free Hiking & Biking at Skidaway Island State Park flexibility as well dance elements. Call training programs for beginners (walkers Year round fitness opportunities. Walk and runners) and experienced athletes. for pricing. Wednesdays, 8-9 p.m. and or run the 1-mile Sandpiper Nature Trail Fun runs. Advice from mentors. Monthly Sundays, 5-7 p.m.. 801-673-6737. info@ (accessible) the additional 1-mile Avian meetings with quality speakers. Frequent firstcityfitness.com. First City Fitness, Loop Trail, or 3-mile Big Ferry Trail. social events. Sign up online or look for 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Bicycle and street strider rentals. Guided Pregnancy Yoga the Savannah Striders Facebook page. hikes scheduled. $5 parking. Open daily Ongoing series of 6-week classes. Thurs- ongoing. savystrider.com.

7am-10pm. Call or see website. ongoSIZZLE- Dance Cardio days. A mindful approach to pregnancy, ing. 912-598-2300. gastateparks.org/ labor and delivery. Instructor Ann Carroll. The hottest cardio class to keep or get you Fitness Classes at the JEA

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.

Smoke Shop

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

Lose calories while dancing and kick-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.

Yin Yoga with Live Music

Yin Yoga poses are held longer to release connective tissue and old patterns in the body.This is a meditative practice as we are able to turn our attention inward.

Lynne McSweeney will be joined by Kyle Shiver on guitar to lead you through 90 minutes of hip opening and heart opening. $20 Sun., Nov. 23, 4-5:30 p.m. 912200-4809. info@savannahyogabarre.com. savannahyogabarre.com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2135 E Victory Drive.

Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors

Free for cancer patients and survivors.

The classes help with flexibility and balance while also providing relaxation.

Located at FitnessOne, on the third floor of the Memorial Outpatient and Wellness Center. Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays, 12:45 p.m. 912-350-9031. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. 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

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. Call for pricing. Reservations required. 7-9:30 p.m.. 912-233-6002. jackie.blackwelder@paccisavannah.com. paccisavannah.com. Pacci Italian Kitchen + Bar, 601 E Bay St. PICKArt on Tap: Craft Beers at the Jepson The monthly happy hour featuring art and craft beer. Call for pricing. Nov. 20, 5 p.m. 912-790-8866. telfair.org. telfair.org/

123 E. Congress St. 912-233-5448 | facebook.com/LowCountryGlassArt | instagram.com/redlightsavannah (ACROSS FROM THE PINK HOUSE ON REYNOLDS SQUARE) MON-SAT 11AM-11PM SUN 12PM-11PM

NOV 19-25, 2014

Happenings |

47

Happenings |

continued from previous page

jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Bethesda Farm Stand

Bethesda students and staff sell fresh produce, organic garden seedlings and farm-fresh eggs. Students lead or assist in planting, cultivating and harvesting all items at Bethesda Academy using sustainable, organic farming techniques.

8:30 a.m.-noon. 912-351-2061. bethesdaacademy.org. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. Captain Red Ned's Oyster Fest

Featuring a wide variety of oysters, beer pairings, pirate drinks, and pirate names for each guest. Nov. 22, noon. moonriverbrewing.com/. Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St. 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.

Bethesda Farm Stand

Bethesda students and staff sell fresh produce, organic garden seedlings and farm-fresh eggs. Students lead or assist in planting, cultivating and harvesting all items at Bethesda Academy using sustainable, organic farming techniques.

3-5:30 p.m.. 912-351-2061. bethesdaacademy.org. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave.

sity Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Bone Marrow Donor Drive

BeTheMatch.org and The Savannah Jaycees have partnered for this bone marrow donor registry drive. Sat., Nov. 22, 10 a.m.2 p.m. 912-660-0079. savannahjaycees. org. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. Celebrate 3D Mammography

Hologic’s mobile coach travels across the country to spread the word and celebrate the benefits of 3D Mammography. On Wednesday, November 19th we invite you to the mobile coach which will be located outside of Belk at Oglethorpe Mall in Savannah. Take a tour and learn how 3D Mammography works! Let’s celebrate this amazing technology! $0 Wed., Nov. 19, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 912.691.4200. SCMG-Imaging@SouthCoastHealth.com. SouthCoastHealth.com. Belk, 7804 Abercorn St., In Oglethorpe Mall.

Free Enrollment Help for Medicaid and PeachCare

Parents can find the help they need to renew or sign up their children (ages 0-19) on Medicaid or PeachCare. Enrollment Assisters will work with clients through the process. Free and open to the public.

Mondays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and Wednesdays, 1-5 p.m.. 912-356-2887. Chatham County Health Department, 1395 Eisenhower Drive (facing Sallie Mood Dr.).

Free Hearing and Speech Screening

Hearing: Thursdays, 9am-11am. Speech: First Thursdays,. Call or see website for times. ongoing. 912-355-4601. savanRichmond Hill Farmers Market nahspeechandhearing.org. savannahThe City of Richmond Hill's weekly market speechandhearing.org/. Savannah Speech offers a variety of produce and local crafts and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St. to purchase as well as prepared food and Free Help Signing Up for the Affordable Care entertainment. Rain or shine. Pet-friendly Act (Obamacare) (on a leash please). Free to attend. 3-7 Seven care navigators to answer all your p.m.. richmond-hill-farmers-market. J. F. questions and sign you up through the Gregory Park, Richmond Hill.

ACA Insurance Marketplace. Able to enroll between November 15 to February 15, Health 2015. Free Thursdays, 8 a.m.-noon & 8 Armstrong Prescription Drug Drop-Off a.m.-5 p.m. and Mondays-Wednesdays, Armstrong Atlantic State Univ. hosts a 8 a.m.-7 p.m.. 912-721-6726. srogers@ permanent drop box for disposing of jclewishealth.org. J. C. Lewis Primary unused prescription drugs and over the Health Care Center, 125 Fahm Street. counter medication. In the lobby of the Free HIV Testing at Chatham County Health University Police building on campus.

Dept.

Open to the public 24 hours/day, year Free walk-in HIV testing. 8am-4pm Mon.round. Confidential. All items collected Fri. No appointment needed. Test results are destroyed by the Drug Enforcement in 20 minutes. Follow-up visit and counAdministration. ongoing. 912-344-3333. seling will be set up for anyone testing armstrong.edu. about.armstrong.edu/ positive. Call for info. ongoing. 912-644Maps/index.html. Armstrong State Uni5217. Chatham County Health Dept., 1395 versity, 11935 Abercorn St. Eisenhower Dr. Bariatric Surgery Information Session

NOV 19-25, 2014

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. Free ongoing, 6 p.m. 912-350-3438. bariatrics.memorialhealth.com. memori48 alhealth.com/. Memorial Health Univer-

Health Care for Uninsured People

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

Helps everyday ordinary people with everyday ordinary problems: smoking,

weight loss, phobias, fears, ptsd, life coaching. Caring, qualified professional help. See website or call for info. ongoing.

912-927-3432. savannahypnosis.com.

La Leche League of Savannah

A breast feeding support group for new/ expectant monthers. Meeting/gathering first Thursdays, 10am. Call or see website for location and other info. ongoing. 912897-9544. lllusa.org/web/savannahga. html.

Living Smart Fitness Club

An exercise program encouraging healthy lifestyle changes. Mon. & Wed. 6pm7:15pm 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.

Mommy & Me Relaxation Class (Prenatal & Postpartum)

This class offers you the education needed to face the physical, mental, and emotional changes of your body, mind and heart with poise and grace. Open to expecting and new moms as well as those with small children (4 and under). $15 a session. 15.00 Tuesdays, Thursdays, 1011 a.m.. 912-544-6387. info@erigosavannah.com. erigosavannah.com/. erigosavannah.com. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street.

Planned Parenthood Hotline

First Line is a statewide hotline for women seeking information on health services. Open 7pm-11pm nightly. ongoing. 800-264-7154.

Zumba

A total workout, combining elements of fitness, cardio, muscle conditioning, balance and flexibility, boosted energy, mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style, calorieburning dance fitness party. Free. Call to register and for eligibility. Mondays, Wednesdays, 4:45-5:45 p.m.. 912-5252166. zumbabrandistyle@gmail.com. brandimuhammad.zumba.com/. Moses Jackson Advancement Center, 1410B Richards Street.

Kid's Happenings

Baby & Mom Yoga

For mothers with babies who are precrawlers. Moms learn poses for baby to help with digestion and sleeping -- and get a bit of relaxation, movement and camaraderie for themselves. $120 for a six session pass. Tuesdays, 10-11 a.m..

912-704-7650. ann@douladeliveriescom. savannahyogacenter.com. savannahyoga. com. Savannah Yoga Center Pooler, 111 Canal Street.

Irish Dancers of Savannah

Savannah's first organized Irish dance school welcomes dancers, ages 4 and up.

Learn Irish Step and Ceili (Irish square) Dancing at a relaxed pace. Convenient mid-town location. Adult classes available. Thursdays.. 912-897-5984. irishdancsav@aol.com.

New Mamas Club

A weekly Friday gathering of new moms and their babies. Practice baby & mom yoga, do a planned activity. Dream boards, affirmation writing, personalized aromatherapy and other projects. $20 per session. Six session discount. Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon. 912-704-7650. ann@douladeliveries.com. douladeliveries.com. erigosavannah.com. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street.

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. Tuesdays.. 912-547-6482. prasav.org. Wicklow Farm, Wicklow Ave. (behind Johnny Harris Restaurant).

Savannah Children's Museum School Year Hours

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

Savannah Children’s Book Festival Poster Contest Exhibit

Through Nov. 21. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Secret Santa

Savannah-Chatham CASA is currently accepting unwrapped holiday gifts at their office for children who have entered the child welfare system after suffering abuse and neglect. The gifts will be delivered to the kids as a special delivery from Santa. Through Dec. 12. savannahcasa. org/. CASA Savannah-Chatham County, 428 Bull St. 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. 912-395-1500. oatlandisland. org. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Urban Hope's 1st Annual Pee Wee Rodeo

Join Urban Hope for a fun filled day of all things cowboy and cowgirl. The Pee Wee Rodeo will introduce children to the fun and unique lifestyle of the rodeo. Children will be able to participate in rodeo events using a stick horse! There will also be pony rides, arts and crafts from Scribble Art Studio, farm animals and cowboy/ cowgirl demonstrations. $10-$15 Sat., Nov. 22, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 912-398-9811. cassie.beckwith@yahoo.com. urbanhopesavannah.org/#!pee-wee-rodeo/clun.

Red Gate Farms, 136 Red Gate Farms Trail,.

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 Numb Joke” --I can’t feel my sense of humor!

continued from previous page

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.

by matt Jones | Answers on page 53

©2014 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com)

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. 912-3522611.

Literary Events

Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

Meets last Sunday of the month, 4pm.

Call for info. ongoing. 912-447-6605. sjchs.org/body.cfm?id=399. AfricanAmerican Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St.

Community Symposium: Creating a More Ethical Culture in the Workplace

Armstrong State University and Savannah State University co-host this presentation about ethics and fraud in today's workplace. Thu., Nov. 20, 6-7 p.m. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Exhibit: Savannah Historical Maps and Prints

A selection of maps and prints from the collection of John and Virginia Duncan, tracing the growth and development of Savannah through the 18th and 19th centuries, on exhibit in celebration of the City continues on p. 50

Across

1 “Viewers Like You” network 4 It often follows http:// 7 Neopagan practice 12 1980’s Camaro 14 Subway Series stadium 15 B-ball 16 Makes the rounds at a restaurant 18 Karenina and Kournikova 19 Joke starting with “Did you hear the one about...” (part 1) 21 Key of Dvorak’s “New World Symphony” 22 Old web connection 25 “True ___!”

26 Irksome 30 Homer Simpson’s dad 31 Joke (part 2) 35 Impales 38 Attila the ___ 39 Public 40 Joke (part 3) 43 Verb suffix 44 Felix of “The Odd Couple” 45 German exclamation 48 Airport runway 51 Gulf War helicopter 54 Joke (punchline) 58 Gloved Garciaparra 60 Performing really well 61 Word before op or bomb 62 Ancient stories 63 Utah city near Arches

National Park 64 One-named “Monument” singer 65 Cause of Cleopatra’s demise 66 Hard to catch

Down

1 Like some prunes or olives 2 Bull breed 3 Solemn assent 4 “___ your Daddy?”

5 Got teary 6 Do the laundry 7 “___ Like About You” 8 Aegean Sea region 9 Assembly that selects a pope 10 1040 preparer 11 Jerk 13 Scottish family 14 Everest guide, often 17 Former Roxy Music member Brian 20 Brand known as Dreyer’s in the western US 23 Lyft competitor 24 ___ Plus 27 Actor Hawke 28 Went for a pitch 29 “Gold Digger” rapper West 31 Still undecided, on a schedule 32 “The buck stops here” prez 33 4 ___ Blondes 34 Night for celebration 35 “SNL” segment

36 “Private Dancer” singer Turner 37 Group with pitchforks and torches 41 “Looks like a nasty scrape...”

42 Road crew’s color 45 Sneeze sounds 46 Horse, to Maurice 47 “I ___ declare...”

49 Like some stews 50 “Breaking Bad” actor ___ Paul 52 MPH middle 53 Smashable bit 55 Ms. Kunis 56 “Dukes of Hazzard” deputy 57 50+ org.

58 “Weekend Edition Sunday” org.

59 “And what have we here!?!”

NOV 19-25, 2014

happenings |

49

Happenings |

continued from previous page

of Savannah's 225th anniversary in 2014.

Free and open to the public. Through Dec. 31. savannahga.gov. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

Harrison Scott Key

Key, a humorist, will bring his writing students to share new work. Wed., Nov. 19, 6 p.m. thebookladybookstore.com/. The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty St. Houses of Civil War America Book Signing

Hugh Howard, author of Houses of Civil War America, will host a book signing and a presentation at the Green Meldrim house. Books are available for purchase.

Free and open to the public Fri., Nov. 21, 4:30 p.m. gardenclubofsavannah.org.

Hugh Howard, author of Houses of Civil War America, will host a book signing and a presentation at the Green Meldrim house. Books are available for purchase.

Free and open to the public Fri., Nov. 21, 4:30 p.m. gardenclubofsavannah.org.

Green Meldrim House, 14West Macon St. Inland Rice Cultivation at Wormsloe

Presented by Alessandro Pasqua as part of the Wormsloe Foundation Lecture Series. $10 Sat., Nov. 22, 1 p.m. gastateparks.org/info/wormsloe/. Wormsloe Historic Site, 7601 Skidaway Rd. International Business 101

This introductory program is designed for those looking to work in international markets. There will be a panel of experts and a Q&A session following the program.

Register at wtcsavannah.org. Free Thu., Nov. 20, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 912-4479707. World Trade Center Savannah, 131 Hutchinson Rd. Lecture: The Media & Georgia's Environment

The Center for a Sustainable Coast hosts this forum, which will discuss the media's role in affecting environmental policies.

Reservations required. Sat., Nov. 22, 5-7 p.m. 912-506-5088. susdev@gate.net. thepirateshouse.com. The Pirate's House, 20 East Broad St. Rev. Saundra Stiles-Thomas Book Signing

Rev. Saundra Stiles-Thomas presents her memoir, "A Charge to Keep and a God to Glorify," and will participate in a meetand-greet and book signing. Free and open to the public Sun., Nov. 23, 4 p.m.

Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. Tea Time at Ola's (Book Club)

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

Treats to share are always welcomed.

Tea is provided. Call for info. ongoing.

912-232-5488. liveoakpl.org/. Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 East Bay St. Throwback Thursday Live!

NOV 19-25, 2014

Some of the best stories are the ones we've tried to forget. Come out to this fun event where local participants share journal entries from their school days.

There will be a raffle in which proceeds go to Muse Arts Warehouse. suggested $5 donation Thu., Nov. 20, 8 p.m. tbtlivesavannah@gmail.com. Guild Hall, 615 50 Montgomery Street.

Nature and Environment

Beaches and Borders Tour of Tybee Island

Wilderness Southeast hosts a 2-hour exploration of the salt marshes and beach on Tybee Island. Tour size 4-15 people; reservations required. Fee includes use of binoculars and spotting scope. $25, $15 for kids Sat., Nov. 22, 9:30-11:30 a.m. 912236-8115. Tybee Island, Tybee Island.

Dolphin Project

Dolphin Project's Education Outreach Program is available to speak at schools, clubs, organizations. A powerpoint presentation with sound and video about estuarine dolphins and their environment.

Age/grade appropriate programs and handouts. See website for info. 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 cash.

Businesses may also recycle items on behalf of EOA for credit. Drop off at EOA, 681 W. Anderson St. See website, email or call for info. ongoing. 912-238-2960 x126. dwproperty@aol.com. fundingfactory.com.

at www.humansocietvsav.org, and www. chathamsheriff.org. Operation New Hope is funded by the Humane Society and community donations. ongoing. chathamsheriff.org. humanesocietysav.org/.

Humane Society for Greater Savannah, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. St. Almo's

Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks on Sundays, 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at Canine Palace. Call for info. ongoing. 912-2343336. caninepalacesavannah.com. Canine Palace Inc, 618 Abercorn St. Religious & Spiritual 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 Walk on the Wild Side center is available for individual and group A two-mile Native Animal Nature Trail retreats, weddings and funerals. Visit winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland, salt marsh habitats, featuring Savannahzencenter.com for schedule and see us on Facebook. Soto Zen lineage, live native animal exhibits. Open daily, resident Priest Un Shin Cindy Beach Sen10am-4pm except Thanksgiving, Christsei. 912-427-7265 ongoing. The Savannah mas, New Years. Call or see website for Zen Center, 111 E. 34th St. info. ongoing. 912-395-1500. oatlandCatholic Singles island.org. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland A group of Catholic singles age 30-50 Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. meet frequently for fun, fellowship and Wilderness Southeast A variety of programs each month includ- service. Send email or check website to receive announcements of activities ing guided trips with naturalists. Canoe trips, hikes. Mission: develop appreciation, and to suggest activities for the group. ongoing. familylife@diosav.org. diosav.org/ understanding, stewardship, and enjoyfamilylife-singles. ment of the natural world. Call or see Center for Spiritual Living--Savannah website for info. ongoing. 912-236-8115.

All are invited to this Science of Mind wilderness-southeast.org. community. Recognizing the presence Pets & Animals and power of God within, and believing Low Cost Pet Clinic that this presence is in everything in the TailsSpin and Dr. Stanley Lester, DVM, universe, unifying all of life. Welcoming host low-cost pet vaccine clinics for students, military and seniors the second all on their spiritual pathway. Celebration: Sunday mornings. Location: Bonavenand fourth Wednesdays of each month. ture Chapel, 2520 Bonaventure Road.

5pm-6pm. Vaccinations: $12, ($2 is doMeditation at 10:30am Service at 11:00am nated to Savannah pet rescue agencies).

Childcare available in the "Funday School" See website for info. ongoing. tailsspin. com. tailsspin.com. TailsSpin Pet Supplies Sundays. cslsavannah.org.

Store, 4501 Habersham St., Habersham Village.

Operation New Hope

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

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.

Film: Courageous

A film by well-regarded Christian film producers Sherwood Pictures, "Courageous" is the story of four policemen courageous in their jobs but having trouble being good dads. The film explores how an unexpected community tragedy helps them grapple with their hopes, fears and faith to draw closer to their children and to God. Fri., Nov. 21, 7:30-9 p.m. 912-3551505. sarah_higherground@bellsouth. net. highergroundsav.org/. Higher Ground Baptist Church, 9120 Whitefield Ave. Guided Silent Prayer

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

A New Church in the City, For the City

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

A Bible book club for those wanting to read the Bible in one year. Open to all.

Book club format, not a traditional Bible study. All welcome, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, religion. Thurs.

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

Savannah Friends Meeting (Quakers)

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

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

During shares, participants take turns giving and receiving universal life force energy via Reiki and other healing modalities. Present at the shares are usually no less than 2 Reiki Masters. Come share with us on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month at the Sweet Water Spa in downtown Savannah. Sign up at Savannah Reiki Share or Reiki by Appointment on Facebook. Free ongoing, 7 p.m. and third Thursday of every month, 7 p.m.

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

Science of Mind Foundations Class

A ten-week course for enhancing a spiritual connection to a Higher Power., and for discovering emerging direction and purpose and how to make it happen. Taught by Rev. Wesley, with discussion, sharing and learning to grow. $20 each class Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.. 912-335-1905. cslsavannah@ gmail.org. cslsavannah.org. Center for Spiritual Living, 109 E. 52nd Street.

Service of Compline

A chanted service by candlelight held every Sunday night at 9pm. "Say good-

continued from previous page

night to God." Presented by Christ Church Anglican. ongoing. Independent Presbyterian Church, Bull Street and Oglethorpe Ave. South Valley Baptist Church

Weekly Sunday services. Sunday school, 10:00am. Worship, 11:30am. Tuesday Bible Study/Prayer Service, 6:30pm. Pastor Rev. Dr. Barry B. Jackson, 480 Pine Barren Road, Pooler, GA "Saving a nation one soul at a time." ongoing.

Sunday School Classes for Adults and Children

Classes available for adults and children ages two and up. First adult class is studying St. Paul's Letter to the Christians in Rome. Law and Gospel are clearly taught to believers - who then can use their knowledge in witnessing to unbelievers. Second class is studying the movie, "Facing the Giants", a 2008 American Christian drama centered on faith in our Heavenly Father's love. Children's classes are "Growing in Christ" and based on age appropriate lessons about the Gospel. Our new Two Year Old class incorporates every day events based on "We are in God's hands." Free Thursdays, 9:45-10:45 a.m..

912-925-4839. www.trinitylutheransavannah.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd.

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. Theology on Tap

Meets on the third Monday, 8:30pm10:30pm. Like the Facebook page: Theology on Tap Downtown Savannah. ongoing. distillerysavannah.com. The Distillery, 416

W. Liberty St.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah

Liberal religious community where people with different beliefs gather as one faith.

Sundays, 11am. Email, call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-234-0980. admin@ uusavannah.org. uusavannah.org. uusavannah.org. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. Unity Church of Savannah

Everyone is welcome. Unity of Savannah is not concerned with where people come from, what they look like, or whom they love – Unity is just glad that each person is here. Sunday 9:15am meditative service and 11:00am celebratory service show what the New Thought Movement is all about. Children’s church 11am service.

Unity loves all people, just as they are.

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

Weekly Spiritual Gathering

A spiritual gathering with artist Joanne Morton and friends on Wednesdays at 12:12pm in a different square in the Historic Distric of Savannah. This is a new Savannah ritual - a growing heart collective for those who are committed to living from their hearts, and believing in the collective power of law of attraction.

See website for each week's location.

Wednesdays.. magicpassionlove.com/

continues on p. 52

EN

LARGE MENT

Gentlemen, Put on Your GET ON TO Big Boy Pants, GET OFF You're Gonna Need Them.

Try it for free

912-544-0026

More local numbers:1-800-777-8000 Ahora en Español/18+ www.guyspyvoice.com

THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS GENTLEMEN’S CLUB PRESENTS

Call Savannah Age Management Medicine today at 925-6911.

Discover what the big life is all about www.priapusshot.com

! t e f f u B Free 12 NORTH LATHROP AVE SAVANNAH GA savannahscores.com • 233-6930

A Premier Gentlemen’s Club & Steakhouse

NOV 19-25, 2014

happenings |

51

Free will astrology ARIES

(March 21-April 19) Someone on Reddit.com posed the question, “What have you always been curious to try?” In reply, many people said they wanted to experiment with exotic varieties of sex and drugs they had never treated themselves to before. Other favorites: eating chocolate-covered bacon; piloting a plane; shoplifting; doing a stand-up comedy routine; hang-gliding and deep-sea diving; exploring the Darknet and the Deep Web; spontaneously taking a trip to a foreign country; turning away from modern society and joining a Buddhist monastery. What would your answer be, Aries? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to explore what you have always been curious to try.

The risks will be lower than usual, and the results more likely to be interesting.

TAURUS

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22) Naturalist Greg Munson says that many dragonflies are great acrobats. They are the “Cirque du Soleil” performers of the animal kingdom. Not only do they eat in mid-air, they also have sex. While flying, two dragonflies will hook up and bend into a roughly circular formation to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of their reproductive organs, thereby forming a “mating pinwheel.” I don’t expect you to achieve quite that level of virtuosity in your own amorous escapades, Leo. But if you’re adventurous, you could very well enjoy experiences that resemble having sex while flying.

VIRGO

Contrary to popular opinion, crime fiction author Arthur Conan Doyle never once had his character Sherlock Holmes utter the statement “Elementary, my dear Watson.”

For that matter, Humphrey Bogart never actually said “Play it again, Sam” in the film *Casablanca.* Star Trek’s Captain Kirk never used the exact phrase “Beam me up, Scotty.” Furthermore I, Rob Brezsny, have never before issued the following prophecy: “Deep sexy darkness and deep sexy brilliance are conspiring to bring you Tauruses intriguing pleasures that will educate the naive part of your soul” -- until now, that is.

At this juncture in the ever-twisting plot of your life story, I am most definitely saying just that.

Born under the sign of Virgo, Yuriy Norshteyn is a Russian animator who has won numerous awards. His *Tale of Tales* was once voted the greatest animated film of all time. But he hasn’t finished any new films for quite a while. In fact, he has been working on the same project since 1981, indulging his perfectionism to the max. In 33 years, he has only finished 25 minutes’ worth of *The Overcoat,* which is based on a story by Nikolai Gogol. But I predict that he will complete this labor of love in the next eight months -- just as many of you other Virgos will finally wrap up tasks you have been working on for a long time.

(May 21-June 20) Here are some thoughts from Gemini author Fernando Pessoa: “The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd -- the longing for impossible things; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else.” Can you relate, Gemini? Have you felt those feelings? Here’s the good news: In the coming weeks, you will be more free of them than you have been in a long time. What will instead predominate for you are yearnings for very possible things and contentment with what’s actually available to you. (Pessoa’s words are from *The Book of Disquiet,* translated by Alfred Mac Adam.)

CANCER

(June 21-July 22)

NOV 19-25, 2014

you don’t know about what you really need and the best ways to get what you really need. But you are ripe to become wiser in this subtle, demanding, and glorious art.

(April 20-May 20)

GEMINI

52

happenings | continued from previous page

by Rob brezsny | beautyandtruth@freewillastrology.com

The most important thing you can do in the coming weeks is learn how to take care of yourself better. What? You say you’re too busy for that? You have too many appointments and obligations? I disagree. In my astrological opinion, there’s one task that must trump all others, and that is get smarter about how you eat, sleep, exercise, relax, heal yourself, and connect with people. I can assure you that there’s a lot

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “Every saint has a bee in his halo,” said philosopher Elbert Hubbard. Similarly, some Libras have a passive-aggressive streak hidden beneath their harmony-seeking, peace-loving persona. Are you one of them?

If so, I invite you to express your darker feelings more forthrightly. You don’t have to be mean and insensitive. In fact, it’s best if you use tact and diplomacy. Just make sure you reveal the fact that there is indeed a bee in your halo. I bet you will ultimately be pleased with the consequences you stir up through your acts of courageous honesty.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Many people use the terms “cement” and “concrete” interchangeably, but they are not the same. Cement is powdery stuff that’s composed of limestone, gypsum, clay with alumino-silicate, and other ingredients.

It’s just one of the raw materials that is used to make concrete -- usually no more than 15 percent of the total mass. The rest consists of sand, crushed stone, and water.

Let’s regard this as a good metaphor for you to keep in mind, Scorpio. If you want to create a durable thing that can last as long as concrete, make sure you don’t get overly preoccupied with the “cement” at the

expense of the other 85 percent of the stuff you will need.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice,” writes Louise Glück in her poem “The Wild Iris.” I think that will be a key theme for you in the coming weeks.

There’s a part of you that is returning from oblivion -- making its way home from the abyss -- and it will be hungry to express itself when it arrives back here in your regularly scheduled life. This dazed part of you may not yet know what exactly it wants to say. But it is fertile with the unruly wisdom it has gathered while wandering. Sooner rather than later, it will discover a way to articulate its raw truths.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness,” said American humorist Josh Billings. I propose that we make that your motto in the coming weeks. It’s an excellent time to liberate yourself from memories that still cause you pain -- to garner major healing from past anguish and upheaval. And one of the best ways to do that will be to let go of as much blame and rage and hatred as you possibly can. Forgiveness can be your magic spell.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Denmark has been a pioneer in developing the technology to supply its energy needs with wind power. By 2020, it expects to generate half of its electricity from wind turbines. Recently the Danish climate minister also announced his nation’s intention to phase out the use of coal as an energy source within ten years. I would love to see you apply this kind of enlightened longterm thinking to your own personal destiny, Aquarius. Now would be an excellent time to brainstorm about the life you want to be living in 2020 and 2025. It’s also a perfect moment to outline a master plan for the next ten years, and commit to it.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20) Piscean actor Sir Michael Caine has had an illustrious career. He has won two Oscars and been nominated for the award six times in five different decades. But for his appearance in *Jaws: The Revenge,* he was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor. He confessed that his work in that film was not his best, and yet he was happy with how much money he made doing it. “I have never seen the film,” he said, “but by all accounts it was terrible.

However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” In accordance with the astrological omens, Pisces, you have permission to engage in a comparable trade-off during the coming months.

savannah-gratitude.

Sports & Games

Adult Coed Flag Football League

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

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. 912-3984014. savannahflipflop.com. Flip Flop Tiki Bar & Grill, 117 Whitaker St. Support Groups

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

continued from previous page

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/Youth Grief 101

A seven-week structured educational/ support group for children ages 6-17.

Offers support and coping tools, utilizing play and activity in learning to live with loss. Meets Tuesday evenings from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Call 912.303.9442 to register for next session which begins on October 14,2014. Registration is requested. Tuesdays, 6-7 p.m. Full Circle Center for Grief Support, 450 Mall Blvd., Suite H. 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. 912-355-7633.

Citizens With Retarded Citizens, 1211 Eisenhower Drive.

Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Assoc.

Meets regularly to discuss issues affecting the lives of polio survivors. Call or see website for info. Polio survivors and guests are invited. Free and open to the public. ongoing. 912-927-8332. coastalempirepoliosurvivors.org.

Connect for Kids

This group is for children who have a loved one with a life-limiting illness.

Wednesdays, 2-3 p.m. 912-350-7845. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Debtors Anonymous

For people with debting problems. Meets Sundays, 6:30pm at Unity of Savannah.

See website or call for info. ongoing. 912572-6108. debtorsanonymous.org. unityofsavannah.org/. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd.

to prevent or reverse heart disease and/ or diabetes. One Tuesday/month, 6pm.

Free and open to the public. Tuesdays.

912-598-8457. jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga. org. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St.

Free, volunteer-led support group for recovery from anorexia/restrictive eating and/or bulimia/binge/purging. Not a diet group, nor for those who struggle solely with overeating. Mondays, 7:30pm8:30pm. Email for info. ongoing. edasavannah@yahoo.com. Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church, 1008 Henry 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.

Eating Disorders Anonymous

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, 3:00pm-4:30pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-819-2224. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. Fibromyalgia Support Group

Second Thursdays, 5:30pm-6:30pm. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-8196743. sjchs.org. sjchs.org. Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5353 Reynolds Ave. Gambling Problem 12 Step Program

Twelve step program offers freedom from gambling. Meets weekly. Leave message with contact info. 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 912414-3827. ongoing.

Grief 101

A seven-week, adult educational group offering support and tools for learning to live with loss. Meets Tuesday evenings from 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Call 912.303.9442 to register for next session which begins October 14, 2014. Registration is requested. Tuesdays, 6-7 p.m. Full Circle Center for Grief Support, 450 Mall Blvd., Suite H. 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.

Head and Neck Cancer Support Group Meeting

This group is open to patients with cancers of the head or neck and their caregivers. Call or visit website for more information. Wednesdays, 2-3 p.m. 912350-7845. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Heartbeats for Life

Free support and education group for those who have suffered from or want

Klinefelter Syndrome/47-XXY Support Group

Legacy Group: For individuals with advanced and recurrent cancer.

Group addresses the concerns of advanced and recurrent cancer survivors from the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social aspects of healing. To register for a specific session and to learn about the group, please call Jennifer CurrinMcCulloch at 912-350-7845. ongoing. 912350-7845. Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute (at Memorial Health Univ.

Medical Center), 4700 Waters Ave. Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group

For patients with blood-related cancers and their loved ones. Call or see website for info. Located in the Summit Cancer Care office at the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute. ongoing, 5-6 p.m. 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.

National Alliance of Mental Illness

Weekly free support group for anyone with a mental illness on Tuesdays from 6-8pm at Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd.Call NAMI Savannah office, 912-3537143 for Family support group information and Family to Family classes. Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m. Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd.

Overeaters Anonymous

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.. 912-8444524. 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.

Parents of Children with IEP's (Individualized Education Plans)

For parents of children attending Chatham-Savannah Public School System who have IEP plans, to offer mutual support through the challenges of the

IEP process. Email for info. ongoing. amkw210@gmail.com.

Parents of Ill Children

Backus Children's Hospital sponsors this group for parents with a seriously ill child receiving inpatient or outpatient treatment. Case manager facilitates the meetings. Meets weekly. Call for info 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 at South Coast Medical Group, 1326 Eisenhower Dr, Building 1. Contact James or Lou at 706-413-3264 or email: admin@gaparkinsons.org for more information. Contact name: James Trussell Saturdays.. 706-413-3264. admin@ gaparkinsons.org. southcoastmedical. com/Search/search_details_locations. php?location=1. Southcoast Medical Group (Southside Savannah), 1326 Eisenhower Dr. Parkinson's Support Group

First Thursdays, 5pm-6:30pm, Marsh Auditorium at Candler. Call for info. ongoing. 912-355-6347. sjchs.org/. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. Prostate Cancer Support Group: Man to Man

This group is for prostate cancer patients and their caregivers. Meets in the Conference Room of the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute. Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m. 912-897-3933. memorialhealth. com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Pryme Multiple Sclerosis Support Group

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. continues on p. 54

Crossword Answers

NOV 19-25, 2014

Happenings |

53

Happenings |

continued from previous page

Rape Crisis Center

Assists survivors of rape and sexual assault. Free, confidential counseling for victims and families. 24-hour Rape Crisis Line operates seven days a week. 912233-7273. 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. Spinal Injury Support Group

Third Thursdays, 5:30pm, at the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-350-8900. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth. com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Spouse/Life Partner Support Group

Open support group for adults whose spouses or life partners have died. Meets Thursday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Thursdays, 11 a.m.-noon. Full Circle Center for Grief Support, 450 Mall Blvd., Suite H. 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, 912629-1089. 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. 912-819-5704.

Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. Teens With No One to Turn To

Help for people ages 11-18, or concerned parents of teens. Park Place Outreach Youth Emergency Shelter. Call or see website. ongoing. 912-234-4048. parkplaceyes.org.

Young Survival Coalition

NOV 19-25, 2014

Young breast cancer patients and their caregivers in the greater Savannah, Hilton Head, and Coastal Georgia area are invited to join this group. Meetings include presentations from local medical community and discussions. Meetings conducted in the Conference Room of the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute. Saturdays, 4-6 p.m. 912-8973933. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave.

54

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. 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. 912-232-6572. thedolphinproject.org.

ners, nurses, lab techs, and patient care techs. Non-clinical volunteers needed to to schedule appointments. Contact Stephanie Alston. ongoing. 912-443-9409.

St. Joseph's/Candler--St. Mary's Health Center, 1302 Drayton St. Now Searching For Hypnosis Volunteers

We're looking for volunteers to take part in a few short hypnosis sessions in order to examine and refine a few routines for an upcoming show in late 2015. We'll meet certain weekends in the upcoming months for quick, 1-2 hour sessions.

Nothing silly, just strange and fun. Visit caitlynnbelle.com to take the survey and we'll be in touch! Every other Saturday, Sunday, 2-5 p.m. caitie@caitlynnbelle. com. caitlynnbelle.com/. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street.

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 Good Samaritan Health Clinic olds with language development skills.

St. Joseph's/Candler's Good Samaritan Mon.-Fri., 9am-12noon. Call for info. onClinic in Garden City needs volunteer going. 912-447-0578. sjchs.org/1969.cfm. nurses, physician assistants, nurse prac- St. Mary's Community Center and Health titioners, Spanish interpreters and clerical Center, 812 W 36th St. Retired and Senior Volunteer Program staff. The clinic serves people without insurance and those whose income is less Share time and talents through the RSVP program of the Equal Opportunity Authorthan 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Call to volunteer. ongoing. 912-964- ity. Seniors 55 and older serve in various community organizations. Call for infor4326.

Historic Savannah Foundation Annual Meeting mation. ongoing. 912-238-2960 x123.

Thu., Nov. 20, 6 p.m. Mother Mathilda Ronald McDonald House Help in the "home away from home" for Beasley Park, 500 E. Broad.

Hospice Volunteers Needed in Chatham and families of hospitalized children. Volunother Coastal Counties teers needed to provide home-cooked Island Hospice, THA Group's nonprofit meals for families at the house. Volunteer hospice service, seeks volunteers for internships available for college students. patient socialization and caregiver Call or see website for info. ongoing. respite. Also seeking nonpatient contact 912-356-5520. rmhccoastalempire.org. volunteers who can contribute by providrmhccoastalempire.org/. Ronald McDoning services including, but not limited ald House, 4710 Waters Avenue.

Specialized Foster Care Services to, office work, crafting, sewing, light Lutheran Services of Georgia provides yard work, housekeeping, playing guitar Specialized Foster Care services for chilfor patients, and licensed hairdressdren in the custody of DFACS and Departers. Serving patients in Chatham, Bryan, ment of Juvenile Justice. We specialize Bulloch, Effingham, Liberty, Camden, Glynn, McIntosh, and Screven Counties in in placing children that are special needs including (a) sibling groups, (b) teens, (c) Georgia, and Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, children with physical, mental, developCharleston, Colleton Counties in South mental and behavioral disabilities, (d) Carolina. See website or email or call for commercially sexually exploited children. info. ongoing. 888-842-4463. kbuttimer@ We look for the best home to match the thagroup.org. thagroup.org.

Live Oak Public Libraries children’s needs. Lutheran Services seeks Volunteers needed to assist in a variety of to provide the best support for the child ways at its branches in Chatham, Effingand the foster family. LSG Foster famiham, and Liberty Counties. Call or see lies have been evaluated to ensure that website for info. ongoing. 912-652-3661. children in care will be provide a safe and liveoakpl.org. nurturing home that can provide care and Medical Professional Volunteers Needed attention to children’s medical, emotional, St. Joseph's/Candler's St. Mary's Health educational and social needs. ongoing.

Center, a free clinic serving the unin(912)228-7873. lmccrary@lsga.org. lsga. sured, seeks physicians, nurse practitioorg.

Stand-Up Paddleboarding

Lessons and tours. East Coast Paddleboarding, Savannah/Tybee Island. email or call for info. ongoing. 912-484-3200. eastcoastpaddleboarding.com.

Tutoring Volunteers Needed

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)

The Adult Community & Education Program at Royce Learning Center seeks 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. 912-354-4047. kmorgan@roycelc.org.

Urban Hope

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.

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 912236-0363 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.

*412 E. 50th: 2BR upstairs apt. $800. *1705 Stratford: 3BR/1BA $700 Several Rental & Rent-To-Own Properties.

GUARANTEED FINANCING STAY MANAGEMENT 352-7829

For Your Information INTRODUCTORY SPECIAL on Massage Therapy: $50/ hour includes deep tissue massage.

Call Charlie Dane LMT. 6203 Abercorn.

912-231-9298. www. savannahmassage.com

Jobs Help Wanted RN or LPN Part time Clinical Instructor for CNA and PCT programs *CNA clinical hours 8am-12:30pm for 6 days. *PCT clinical hours 6:45 am-12:45pm for 3 days/ week. Apply at 7160 Hodgson Memorial Drive Ste 103.

Phone 912-303-0445.

WEST SIDE FURNITURE

Has open positions for Sales and Collections.

Apply: 2324 Martin Luther King Blvd.

Real Estate Homes For Sale

HOME FSBO IN NOTTINGHAM: 3BR/1.5BA, brick home. Carpet throughout. Home in good shape. Asking $95,000. Call 912210-2745

1424 EAST 48th Street: 3BR/2BA, new metal roof. Large den. Just Reduced $229,900.

Tom Whitten, 912-663-0558. Realty Executives Coastal Empire 3555557

20 FLAGSHIP CT., Battery Point.

3/4 bedroom. Den. Great shape.

Deck. $164,900. Tom Whitten, 663-0558. Realty Executives Coastal Empire 355-5557.

BACK ON THE MARKET! No Flood Insurance Needed! 121 Wassaw Wilmington Island. 3BR/2BA, new roof, fresh paint, new laminate flooring. $119,900. Tom Whitten, 663-0558; Realty Executives Coastal Empire 355-5557

NOVEMBER ONLY * $350 DEPOSIT SPECIALS* SAVE YOUR $$$$$

*Credit Issues, Prior Evictions, Bankruptcies may still apply *Weekly & Bi-Weekly Commercial Property For Payment Options Available for Apts.

Sale Videos of properties RESTAURANT FOR SALE B Net Management Inc. American Chinese Restaurant For on Facebook Sale, South side area. Quick Sale.

Call after 2pm, 912-352-2205 or 2031 New Mexico Apt. B: 912-484-5938.

1BR/1BA Apt. Appliances. $700/month or $185/weekly Follow The Leader option payment.

2wks.

In Event Listings!

Check Out Week At A Glance deposit needed. and Happenings!

EssEntial information

2304 Shirley Drive: 3BR/1BA House, LR, DR, CH&A, kitchenw/appliances, carpet, vinyl, fenced yard $865/ month.

eveNts caleNdar music aNd live eNtertaiNmeNt listiNgs Photo galleries Blogs video curreNt & archive stories coNtests

5509 Emory Drive: 3BR/2BA house. LR, DR, hardwood floors, carpet, CH/A, laundry room, kitchen, fenced yard. $865/month.

ConneCtSavannah.Com

815 W. 47th Street Apt. B 2BR/1BA Upgraded model Apt. Appliances, central heat/ air, washer/dryer hookup, hardwood floors, recess lighting, carpet $650/month.

News, music, art & eveNts…

Classified

advertising

503-1/2 West 42nd Street: 2BR/1BA Apt. Appliances, central heat/air, washer/dryer hookup, hardwood floors, carpet $625/month.

PlaCement Reach Over 45,000 Readers Every Week!

• Call our Classifieds Department at

912-231-0250

• Ads Must Be Placed By 11am On Monday Prior to Publication • ALL Ads Must be PrePaid (Credit Cards Accepted) • Basic rate includes up to 25 words. www.ConnectSavannah.com

Off Westlake Ave. 2 & 3BR, 1 Bath Apts.

Newly Renovated, hardwood floors,carpet, ceiling fans, appliances, central heat/air, washer/dryer hookups. $575$695/month, utilities may be added to rent if requested.

912-228-4630 Mon-Sat 10am-5pm www. bnetmanagement.com *For Qualified Applicants* WE ACCEPT SECTION 8

103 COASTAL PLACE @ TIBET 2BD/2BA Apartment.

Eat-in kitchen, large LR, washer/dryer connections, new paint and flooring. 6 closets, all electric. $750 /month. 912-655-4303.

1223 ELLIOT STREET 3 bedroom/1 bath, Central Heat & Air, hardwood floors and ceramic tile. $725 rent/$725 Deposit. Call Dawn 912-661-0409 1Bedroom/1 Bath Apartment FOR RENT. Washer/Dryer, Central Air/ Heat, Partially furnished. $700/ Month. Mr. Gibbs pays all utilities.

912-352-3080 or 912-663-1257

NEWLY RENOVATED HOME: 1214 East 55th Street. 4BR/2BA. No pets. $995/month; $1,000 Security deposit required.

Available Nov. 3rd. Call 912-3232541

REDUCED RENT & DEPOSIT! 11515 White Bluff Road: 1BR/1BA Apt. w/d conn. $620/month, $500/dep.

Great Apt. Townhouse, 1812 N. Avalon St. 2BR/1.5BA for oly $695/month.

Nice location, 127 Edgewater Rd. 2BR/2BA, all electric, $795/month.

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

SAVANNAH'S HOUSE OF GRACE

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.

Call 912-844-5995

SPACIOUS ROOMS FOR RENT Newly renovated on busline.

2 blocks from Downtown Kroger,3 blocks from Historic Forsyth Park. $150/ week with No deposit. 8445995

2301 ABERCORN STREET 1 Bed, 1 Bath upstairs. $600/mo. RENT OR RENT-TO-OWN: NO PETS. Reese & Co 236-4233 Remodeled mobile homes, 3BR/2BA, in Garden City mobile 4 BEDROOM/2 BATH 2201 Alabama Avenue, 2 story, home park. Low down affordable total electric, real oak floors payments. Credit check approval. throughout, fenced corner lot. Call Gwen, Manager, at 912-964AVAILABLE NOW. $750/month 7675 Roommate Wanted plus deposit. 912-224-4135 SOUTHSIDE DUPLEX: 1223 East 53rd St. LARGE, Furnished room for 2BR/1BA $550/month plus $550/ •1BR Apts, washer/dryer rent. Utilities and washer/dryer deposit. One block off Waters included. $25 for water, included. Call 912-441-6105 Avenue, close to Daffin Park. trash included, $625/month.

Call 912-335-3211 or email: •2BR/1.5BA Townhouse Apt, adamrealstate@gmail.com. Days/ total electric, w/washer & Automotive Nights/Weekends. dryer $675. 912-927-3278 or Cars/Trucks/Vans EASTSIDE AREA, 2118 New 912-356-5656 Mexico. 3BR/1BA, LR, DR, FENDER BENDER ?? furnished eat-in kitchen, laundry & Body Work. room, carport, fenced yard. VERY NICE HOUSES FOR RENT Paint Reasonably Priced. Insurance Outside pet OK. $800/monthly, *5429 Emory Dr. 2BR/1BA $700. $775/deposit. No Section 8. 912- Call 912-507-7934, 912-927-2853 Claims. We buy wrecks. Call 912-355-5932.

352-8251 or 912-631-7644 FREE RENT - HANDYMAN Room for Rent SPECIAL. 2 bedroom/1 bath, CH/A, hardwood floors, fenced ROOMS FOR RENT yard, detached workshop. 2316 E. $75 Move-In Special Today!!

40th Street. 912-441-3495 Clean, furnished, large. Busline, GARAGE APT. FOR RENT: 2BR/1BA, central heat/air, utilities. $100washer/dryer plus patio. $475/per $130 weekly. Rooms w/bathroom month, $500/security deposit. $145. Call 912-289-0410.

Call 912-964-1268 AVAILABLE ROOMS: HOME FOR RENT: 1016 West 45th Street, Savannah. 2BR/1BA, LR, DR, Kitchen. $500 per month/$500 deposit. Call 912-330-0463

CLEAN, comfortable rooms.

Washer/dryer, air, cable, ceiling fans. $125-$145 weekly. No deposit. Call Ike @ 844-7065

LEWIS PROPERTIES 897-1984, 8am-7pm NEAR LAMARVILLE/LIBERTY CITY *1919 COWAN: 4BR/1BA $800 *1921 COWAN: 3BR/1BA $775 *1921 FENWICK: 3BR/1BA $775 *1932 FENWICK: 4BR/2BA $825 *All above have carpet, A/C/heat, kitchen appliances, washer/dryer hookup, fenced yard. References, application.

One-year lease minimum. Deposit same as rent.

None total electric, No smoking, pets negotiable.

FURNISHED APTS. $170/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

FURNISHED, includes utilities, central heat/air, Comcast cable, washer/ NEAR WHOLE FOODS dryer. Ceramic tile in *1512 GEORGIA: 5BR/3BA, very 1BR, kitchen furnished. $485/mo. kitchen. Shared Kitchen & large $1150. *2421 E. 40TH: 3BR/2BA, new plus deposit. No Section 8. Call Shared bath. Call 912-210912-234-0548 kitchen $1050.

0181, leave message *2001 E. 51ST: 3 or 4BR/1.5BA, new kitchen $895. 912-257-6181

Service Directory Child/Adult Services GOING OUT OF TOWN OR NEED A BREAK? We’ll take care of your loved ones while you’re away.

27 yrs exp. Call 912-352-4241.

Place Your ad online Reach Over Thousands of Potential Customers Every Day • • • • •

Employment Real Estate Vehicles Miscellaneous Garage Sales

www.ConnectSavannah.com

NOV 19-25, 2014

Announcements

55

oNE day oNLy! Sat. Nov. 22, 10am - 8pm PErForMaNCE LEvEL BaNd INStruMENt

20 to 50 %

% OFF RETAIL on New, Demo and

Shop Refurbished!

Up to 13 months of rental credit can be applied!

Fa-100 acoustic Guitar This budget conscious acoustic delivers the tone of more expensive instruments and comes with a 6mm padded gig bag.

$

61 keys, 104 voices, general MIDI and on-board lessons

SaLE

119 99 SaLE

dX1raE acoustic Guitar Solid Spruce top, HP laminate sides and back, and Fishman pickup

SaLE

PSrE243 Portable Keyboard

$

549

MaNy one-of-a-Kind

CLoSE outS!

$

199

Stop dreaming $ Start Playing Pack SaLE

Includes: Affinity Strat, Frontman 10G Amp, gig bag, tuner, instructional DVD, pics, strap, cable!

List $349

BIG SavINGS!

IN aLL departments!

Visit www.portmansmusic.com

Hardshell Guitar Case • Once in a life-time buy • Plush Lined

$

SaLE

49

for a complete list of Door Busters and our Holiday Gift Guide!

aaX 16" Bright Crash Cymbal

SaLE

List $99 - $139

$

99

vocal Mic Four Pack The Best Mic Deal We’ve Ever Offered!

Get 4 best-selling PROformance by Audio Technica P615 vocal mics and four 20’ cables.

door Buster Special

$

99

LIMIT 1 PER CUSTOMER • NO LAYAWAYS ON DOOR BUSTERS

Saturday Nov. 22, 10aM - 8PM

7650 abercorn St. • SavaNNaH • www.portmansmusic.com