Connect Savannah October 14, 2015

October 14 – 20, 2015

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Thursday / 15 Geekend

Your chance to interact with people taking the tech and creative industries by storm.

4-9 p.m Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street. $100-$250 geek-end.com

John Alexander Photography

Lecture: American Writers: Fitzgerald and Friends in Provence Andrew Vaught delivers this lecture as part of the SCI’s “Perspectives on Provence” series.

5 p.m Senior Citizens Inc., 3025 Bull St.

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The Accomplices EP Release Party

Light the Night 4 Friday / 16

Join the Armstrong team for the 2015 Light the Night walk to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

5 p.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St.

Dracula: Ballet With A Bite 4 Saturday / 17

Blood, fangs, and death are just a few of the things you will find in this favorite Halloween cult classic. Based on the novel by Bram Stoker, we see Count Dracula continue his seductive reign of terror with his Brides of Darkness in Transylvania. Featuring all new lighting and blood curdling special effects.

7:30 p.m The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $27-$47 Special: $10 Student Tickets with I.D. 912-651-6556. columbiacityballet.com/production/dracula/

The Accomplices are releasing their new EP, Mountain Buzz. Ticket also includes catered food (seafood gumbo, veggie tacos, sausage dogs) and your own commemorative printed goodie bag stuffed with a copy of the new CD. 7:30 p.m Georgia State Railroad Museum, 655 Louisville Road. $20 advance, $25 at door

Concert: A Classical Halloween

An evening of classical Halloween favorites. Join the Savannah Philharmonic as they journey into the macabre with a few of the following selections: Saint Saens’ “Danse Macabre,” Williams’ “Harry Potter Symphonic Suite,” Berlioz’s “Excerpts from Symphonie Fantastique,” and Herrmann’s “Psycho Suite.”

7:30-10 p.m Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. $16 to $75.

912-525-5050. lucastheatre.com/

Concert: Jesse Monkman and Isaac Smith

Mattress Dash

Great Ogeechee Seafood Festival

Costumed teams of five will race mattresses in a 150-meter dash for awards, prizes, and to benefit Sustainativity, a nonprofit dedicated to philanthropic investments in sustainability. Teams build a racing frame capable of holding a single mattress and one rider, while being pushed by the other four team members. Prizes and awards will be given out in these categories: Fastest Team, Greenest Racing Frame, Judge’s Choice and People’s Choice.

Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St.

This festival includes live music by Joe Nichols and many others, crafts, seafood and rides.

J. F. Gregory Park, Richmond Hill. $5-$10 info@goseafoodfestival.com goseafoodfestival.com

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Trinity’s Friday Lunchtime Concert Series blends local and regional musicians from very different genres and musical backgrounds on the stage.

12:15-12:45 p.m Trinity UMC, 225 West President St.

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Your chance to interact with people taking the tech and creative industries by storm.

9 a.m.-9 p.m Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street. $100-$250 912.447.8457. geek-end.com continues on p. 4

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Graveface Anniversary Party

Celebrate 4 years of Graveface at this free, all ages affair. On this evening you can look forward to (quiet) live music sets

by Dreamend, The Marshmallow Ghosts, Des Ark, and Hospital Ships; free tattoos gby Chloe Pinnock; shop discounts; tarot .readings and much more.

Graveface Records & Curiosities, 5 W. 40th Street.

Lecture: Seeing the Invisible: Racialized Power-Relations of Knowledge

Stranger Than Fiction: An Exploration of the Extraordinary in Old Savannah

See historical entertainment on the extraordinary ideas, beliefs and objects from the 1820s, including visualization of the supernatural, phantasmagoria, Frankenstein, animal magnetism and the court of death.

7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October Davenport House, 324 East State St. $22 in advance, $25 at door davenporthousemuseum.org

Free lecture by Dr. Jennifer Padilla Wyse, assistant professor of sociology. Lecture will incorporate a global perspective on how race, power and coloniality shape contemporary knowledge. noon Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn

Terror Plantation Haunted House

Red, White and Blue Barbecue

The barbecue helps raise funds for the families of fallen first responders. People will be invited to “donate for a plate.”

11:30 a.m.-5 p.m Ellis Square $15 minimum suggested donation

in Sleepy Hollow.

8 p.m.

Ampersand, 36 MLK Jr. Blvd.

9 a.m.-1 p.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. forsythfarmersmarket.com

Make Your Own Warhol

Gardening Session

Art Rise Savannah brings former master printer of pop artist icon Andy Warhol, Michael Enns, to Savannah for a free “Make your own Warhol” demonstration.

2-4 p.m.

Non-Fiction Gallery, 1522 Bull St. Free & open to public

Warhol Factory Party

Nutzo fall gala complete with music, dancing, the House of Gunt, and a silent auction to have your likeness screen printed in the original Warhol style by one of his original Master Printers.

Non-Fiction Gallery, 1522 Bull St. $47.99

Geekend

Presented by Collective Face Ensemble, Kiss of the Spider Woman revamps a harrowing tale of persecution into a dazzling spectacle.

8 p.m.

Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd.

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Graveface Fright Fest

Theatre: Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Forsyth Farmers Market

470+ people were too scared to finish the haunted house last year. All proceeds benefit the Alee Shriners.

Alee Shriner’s Temple, 100 Eisenberg Dr. $10 adults, $6 kids 12 and under

Theatre: Kiss of the Spider Woman

Savannah Stage Company presents this classic legend of the Headless Horseman

Concert: Vienna Boys Choir

Brasseler USA presents the Vienna Boys Choir in concert.

7 p.m Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods.

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Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $20 advance via savannahboxoffice.com, $25 day of, $50 VIP (only available in advance via savannahboxoffice.com) continues on p. 6

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Out of the Darkness Community Walk

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) will raise resources to fight suicide, honor those who have lost a battle to mental illness, and bring suicide and mental health conditions out of the darkness. Registration 9 am. Visit www. afsp.org.

9 a.m.-noon Tom Triplett Community Park, U.S. Hwy 80 Free with donations encouraged

Seersucker Shots! featuring Liza Wieland and Michelle Fleegel

Seersucker Live welcomes Liza Wieland back to Savannah and introduces Savannah’s own Michelle Fleegel.

7-8 p.m The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty St.

St. Vincent’s Tour of Homes and Tea

This event will include a self-guided tour of seven homes in the Savannah Historic District, along with the original 1845 Convent building at St. Vincent’s. Tea will be served on the grounds of the convent.

10 a.m.-4 p.m St. Vincent’s Academy, 207 E Liberty St. $45 912-236-6823

Terror Plantation Haunted House

470+ people were too scared to finish the haunted house last year. All proceeds benefit the Alee Shriners.

Alee Shriner’s Temple, 100 Eisenberg Dr. $10 adults, $6 kids 12 and under

Theatre: Kiss of the Spider Woman

Presented by Collective Face Ensemble, Kiss of the Spider Woman revamps a harrowing tale of persecution into a dazzling spectacle.

8 p.m.

Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd.

Theatre: Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Savannah Stage Company presents this classic legend of the Headless Horseman in Sleepy Hollow.

8 p.m.

Ampersand, 36 MLK Jr. Blvd.

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Tybee Comedy Revue

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Concert: Celli

Celli, a group of four Philharmonic cellists, aims to push the boundaries of traditional cello music by blending modern works and timeless classics into a program that resonates with all backgrounds.

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

Lecture: Flannery O’Connor’s Obituary

Nationally renowned poet Alexis Orgera on O’Connor’s legendary obituary, which was written by poet Elizabeth Bishop in 1964.

4 p.m Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Street.

Shark Tooth and Fossil Hunt

Find prehistoric Mako, Bull, Sand, Great White, Snaggletooth, and even the coveted Megalodon sharks teeth. Two designated zones to search: one for kids ages 2-6, and one for kids ages 7-12.

10 a.m.-4 p.m North Beach, Tybee Island. brian@staffordpromotions.com

Theatre: Kiss of the Spider Woman

Presented by Collective Face Ensemble, Kiss of the Spider Woman revamps a harrowing tale of persecution into a dazzling spectacle.

Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd.

Theatre: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Savannah Stage Company presents this classic legend of the Headless Horseman.

2 p.m Ampersand, 36 MLK Jr. Blvd.

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Comedy: John Cleese and Eric Idle

Britain’s living legends of comedy will blend scripted and improvised bits with storytelling, musical numbers, exclusive footage, aquatic juggling and an extended audience Q&A to craft a unique comedic experience with every performance.

7:30 p.m Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. savannahcivic.com

Stand-up comedy starring nationally known comedian and pianist, Jerry Farber. Turning the Tables Mayoral and alderman candidates 7:30 p.m participate in this conversation where Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horn. candidates and voters form conversation Sunday / 18 circles and listen to and learn from each BBQ, Brews and Bluegrass other. Presented by Emergent Savannah.

Family friendly event including a look at 5:30-7 p.m Isle of Hope Fire Truck and Memorial’s Creative Coast, 415 W. Boundary St. Angel Care 1 Childrens Ambulance. emergentsavannah.org Benefits Memorial’s Next Generation.

3-9 p.m Villa Marie Center, 6 Dolan Dr. $25 adults, $5 kids 5-17

news & Opinion Editor’s Note

by Jim Morekis

jim@connectsavannah.com

AMONGST ALL the other awesome content in this week’s issue, Jessica Leigh Lebos and I continue our “Challenge 2015” series of interviews with candidates taking on incumbents in this year’s City elections.

As you might expect, we’re getting a bit of pushback from incumbents who are demanding “equal time.” I understand their frustration, and I also have an answer. The name of the series of course should say it all: Yes, we are only talking to the challengers this year.

We are only talking to challengers for the following reasons: 1) We have concluded that the bulk of our readers agree there is a dire need for change and new blood. The logical first step in bringing change is to vote against incumbents in this year’s election.

And in many cases you have several challengers from which to choose.

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2) The City has its own webpage defending incumbents. On the taxpayerfunded City government site, specifically at www.savannahga.gov/facts, you’ll find a new page of Frequently Asked Questions timed to coincide with election season and addressing some specific issues which have become bones of contention.

I’m not a lawyer, but it doesn’t pass the smell test for me that taxpayers would have to pay for campaign propaganda supporting the record and platforms of current elected and appointed officials.

Does it pass the smell test for you?

3) We have limited resources. We have a very dedicated and capable but also very small, staff. Frankly it’s a minor miracle for us to even manage to talk to all the challengers, especially given the sheer number of them (itself another indicator proving point Number One above).

I’d love to have four or five more reporters. I’d love to have a lot of things I’m not going to get. It is what it is.

All that leads us to the obvious next question: Will Connect endorse specific candidates? That answer is no.

Since coming into this job about 15 years ago I’ve had a blanket policy of not endorsing specific local candidates for office.

My reasons are: 1) We believe our readers are capable of coming to their own informed conclusions about who to vote for.

My personal editorial philosophy is always to encourage 1) civic responsibility and 2) critical thinking skills. I don’t presume to tell our readers how to vote.

We aren’t a general interest publication and our readers aren’t run-of-the-mill. We assume a higher level of engagement.

2) Endorsements are obsolete. In 2015 it’s not only old-fashioned for media to advise their audience on how to vote, it’s actually pretty counterproductive.

Think about it: How many times have you used a particular media endorsement against a particular candidate?

I do understand and appreciate that some might not agree with my policies in this area. But they are what they are.

And in any event given the issues we’re facing, I think we all have more important things to worry about. cs

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District 2 issues are symptoms of a much bigger issue

Editor, There is way too much thoughtless talk about crime in Savannah and particularly from the challengers to Mary Osborne in District 2 in the recent interviews, Connect Savannah Sept 30-Oct 6.

There is one major crime in this city which trumps all others and that is the minimum wage set at $5.15 an hour.

If you think I’m exaggerating do the math and use your imagination.

A 40 hour week at $5.15 an hour would give you a monthly income of around $800. And now try to figure out how you could manage on that. Most of it would go towards rent.

Now try to work out how you are going to pay the utilities and food. I don’t know about you guys out there, but I for one would start selling drugs particularly if I had dependents to support.

And let’s face it marijuana is much better for you than pharmaceutical drugs, with their

often lethal side effects, and it is also now legal in a growing number of states.

But let’s look at the issue from another angle. The minimum wage for a garment worker in Bangladesh is the equivalent of $68 a month and the rent there is the equivalent of $35 a month.

If we compare then the spending power of the Georgia minimum wage and the Bangladeshi minimum wage they seem to be equal which says a lot about what the Georgia legislator thinks of its workers since Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries with the lowest minimum wage globally and the US is the richest.

Bill Durrence, who is running in the 2nd District, thinks that making beds in hotels is so unskilled it deserves to be paid the minimum wage everywhere. But a bed maker in California will get $9 an hour whereas only in Wyoming and Georgia will she get $5.15.

The point is that if you want a tourist industry, hotels need people to make beds and if a job is necessary it should be paid a

living wage. Anything less than that is criminal.

This constant babble about crime produces the two usual cliche “solutions” from politicians: more police and more jobs.

In my observations of police in my neighborhood, which is in the 2nd District, I have noticed countless trivial and non-threatening incidents that have brought massive police response of up to 5 or 6 patrol cars.

Also natural deaths being turned into crime scenes, innocent young men being stopped and harassed and incidents of blatant homophobia. On this evidence, do we need more of them on the streets?

As for jobs, both Bill Durrence and Andrée Patterson think the solution is importing young tech entrepreneurs.

What exactly is that going to do for the mass of poorly paid and unemployed products of a useless education system in our community?

In District 2 which has extremes of rich and poor, it is obvious that Durrence and

Patterson are only interested in the votes and interests of the well-off. Detric Leggett, on the other hand, has his roots in the community and wants to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

But as Durrence will tell him it can’t be done because “the state of Georgia has forbidden municipalities from changing the minimum wage.”

So now we realize that City Hall is incapable of changing anything. And this is an important lesson to learn.

City government, like all government, is run by and for the rich. In this period of increasing structural crisis and dysfunction, any well meaning elected official who wishes to improve people’s quality of life will fail unless he quits office and helps build a mass movement.

For those that rule don’t care what happens to any of us. They don’t care if there is increasing poverty and unemployment or a disintegrating infrastructure as long as they continue to make a profit.

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News & Opinion The (Civil) Society Column

Everyone loves a shaggy dog story

By Jessica Leigh Lebos

jll@connectsavannah.com

“You need another dog like a loch in kop,” sniffed my mother over Facetime, invoking the Yiddish term for a “hole in the head.”

She was right. The first dog already gave me enough tsuris (our family’s word for “troubles”) with her insulin shots and tendency to plunge blindly off stairs and walkways. Plus, the family zoo was full up with the several menopausal chickens, a sullen ball python and a chatty guinea pig.

But last winter, when friend Paul Rockwell pulled a tiny black puppy out

his backpack that he’d found behind a trashcan and plopped it into my palm, our menagerie expanded because, puppy breath. One Love Animal Rescue facilitated the adoption, and Dumpster Dog celebrated his legitimacy by eating the corners of every rug in the house.

We named him Ogeechee after one of our most beloved bodies of water, and though his markings and mismatched eyes suggested Rottweiler and Husky genes, he quickly morphed into a Suessian mutant with a long body, short legs and no swimming talent whatsoever.

“Oy,” my mother sighed when I held up a destroyed bathmat.

Geech indeed proved to be more tsuris than the rest of the animals combined. He dug up the daffodil bulbs and tried to bury one of the chickens alive. He has ingested parts of shoes, clothing, homework assignments, phone chargers, empty yogurt containers, snotty tissues and the stuffing out of his own fancy bed.

We’ve had success in curtailing his habit of stealing dirty socks, but he has maintained a propensity for “tasting” new people with his teeth.

He caused his most disturbing crisis last week when he leapt out the front door to greet me after work. As I was juggling

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“The way we treat animals and the way we treat people—it’s all connected.”

groceries and my giant purse, Geech ran into the street to taste one of the neighbors—right in front of an oncoming car.

There was a sickening thunk and a squeal of brakes and a piercing shrill that I realized was my own scream. In the

pulse that followed, I forced open my eyes, expecting carnage. Instead, I saw Geech running on his stumpy legs at full speed across the neighbor’s yards, his whorled back end disappearing towards 5 o’clock traffic.

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Our son took off barefoot after him, shouting. Dear neighbors Eileen and Wes Sessoms hopped on their bikes and combed the blocks. Family and friends soon joined the hunt.

Not being fleet of foot or calm of nerves, I did what I could: I sat down in the front yard and posted a hysterical missive to the 3200+ members of the Lost and Found Pets Savannnah Facebook page.

Hopes were not high. Even if he survived the bumper bonk in his adrenalized state, Geech would probably try to taste anyone who came near him, which might be interpreted the wrong way. And though he had a tagged collar and a microchip in his head, it was hard to imagine anyone from Animal Control chasing him down, what with their five officers to cover the entire county.

Also, Geech had been last seen a half mile away, boltng west across Bull Street, that definitive line that divides urban Savannah into east and west, middle class and impoverished, and yes, for the most part, white and black.

My husband and another first-responder friend, David Eichelbaum, kept up the search until almost midnight, calling Geech’s name through the blighted neighborhoods and overgrown lanes, peeking under sagging porches for a pair of mismatched glowing eyes.

Despite the fact that they were two middle-aged white dudes creeping around, folks here expressed kindness and concern—one gent even called later to say that he hadn’t seen our missing mongrel but had found some puppies if we were interested. Would we do the same for these neighbors if they came calling for their lost dogs over our back fences?

Though bouyed by the human compassion he encountered, Mark returned bereft for our pet and despondent over the poverty and poorly maintained streets that exist just a dog walk away.

None of us ate or slept much that night.

I obsessed over how many people shared Geech’s photo; a few total strangers even commented that they had gone out and looked for him. Even if Geech was gone forever, it was heartening to see such sympathy in the midst of the political drama and arguments over gun rights amidst actual gun fights.

We may not like each other sometimes, but we sure will rally behind a sweet furry face!

One helpful share came from Carol Williamson, who runs Speaking Loudly & Often for Animals, a page dedicated to educating Savannahians about animal protection legislation and monitoring its enforcement.

Currently creating momentum for a local ban on puppy mill pets sold at flea markets, Carol also works with a state initiative to combat dog fighting rings and helped officers in the Quacco Road bust

in 2010. Earlier this month, she met with Chief Lumpkin to discuss the proven connection between crimes against animals with those against property and humanity.

“Even if you don’t have empathy for animals, you have to recognize that the same people who do horrible things to dogs are capable of committing other serious crimes,” explains Carol, who adds that tips on animal abuse have exposed child abuse situations and led to drug-related arrests.

“The way we treat animals and the way we treat other people—it’s all connected.”

The chief agreed whole-heartedly and has asked Carol to share information with his officers in the many-pronged effort to get the city’s crime under control.

While she counts herself as a onewoman show, Carol collaborates with dozens of other local animal advocates with their own specific causes, from rescue work to feral cats to carriage horses. She also alerted me to a memo from the Dept. of Agriculture announcing that it would begin enforcing a 1999 directive to limit rescue groups from “pulling” animals from government shelters, a devastating turn for those who work to save thousands of animals a year from being euthanized.

Fortunately, a Change.org petition collected over 29K signatures in a few days, and the DOA changed its tune last Friday.

“The beauty of Facebook networking is that it gives us an arena to gather voices,” says the passionate retiree.

It can also yield humble miracles: The morning after Geech’s disappearance, photographer Catarina Teixeira, a complete stranger, messaged me that she might’ve glimpsed a black dog in Ardsley Park. We had already accepted the worst, and I doubted that Geech would have doublebacked across the railroad tracks after a night in unfamiliar territory. But we set out anyway, hollering his name.

“Is that him?” asked a couple walking their own twin terriers, pointing to a distinctive swirled tushy trotting down a lane.

A few minutes later, Geech was wriggling in our laps. As we rejoiced and succumbed to whole-body tongue baths, I thought hard about what Carol had said about the connection between animal welfare and Savannah’s systemic problems.

If paying attention to the fate of smaller creatures can help tackle crime and poverty, then the cooperation and caring that one doofus dog brings out might also serve as a barometer of our collective character, and we might actually be in pretty decent shape around here.

In any case, we’re so grateful to all who helped bring Geech home. Even if he is currently expressing his gratitude by tasting the cord to my laptop.

May our love for our pets help us extend our empathy to all of our neighbors, even the ones we have to cross uncomfortable lines to get to know. cs

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news & opinion challenge 2015

District 5:

Shaundra McKeithen

by jessica leigh lebos

jll@connectsavannah.com

Of all of Savannah’s aldermanic races, District 5 is shaping up to be the most, well, manic.

At a debate hosted by the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Right Museum Oct. 2, incumbent Estella Shabazz lobbed accusations of political partisanship at challenger Shaundra McKeithen, and moderators had a difficulty keeping the event on track.

Afterwards, alleges McKeithen, Shabazz’s husband, County Commissioner Yusuf Shabazz, flashed a gun inside his jacket at her. She filed a complaint with SCMPD last Friday and says she won’t participate in any more political events without proper security for fear for her safety.

A strategic planner, consultant and certified grant writer, McKeithen has worked in development for the City of Savannah, Chatham County and Gwinnett County.

Like many 2015 challengers, this is her first foray into politics but she attests that her skills can help alleviate District 5’s high crime and poverty rates as well as unite its far-flung southwestern neighborhoods.

So, first thing first, what went down at the forum?

Oh gosh, It was a horrible attack by Estella Shabazz. She only wanted to debate on me, she didn’t want to debate the issues of the 5th district. I didn’t feed into her negativity, and everyone there knows what happened.

Some of the attacks were about some things I put on Facebook, like when I was upset that my son had to dodge bullets during his football practice.

Any good mother would be upset that their 10 year-old is in harm’s way! So I was upset when I posted that this is the state that our leadership has gotten us into.

What is happening with the complaint against Mr. Shabazz ?

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Well. a lot of the people don’t want to speak up. We almost have the code of the streets going on right now in the middle of politics, where we’re supposed to have more astute and educated people that are participating in this exchange. Many of them will not come forward and say what they saw.

There’s a video but the witness is refusing to give it over to police so they can further investigate. So we’ve hit a stone wall.

But I’m still going to protect myself. I 10 have a meeting with one of the ladies from

McKeithen: “Step Up Savannah needs to step down the poverty rate or no more funding. No more of these feel good bridges to nowhere type investments. We need to invest in programs that really work.”

Safe Shelter who is going to help me file a stalking protection order.

I’m more passionate than ever that we need change. We don’t need people trying to hijack the political process. This is a democratic process and voters don’t want to hear how you personally feel about another candidate.

They want to know, “What are you going to do to improve the living conditions, the crime, the poverty, the drainage issues in the 5th district?”

What are you going to do?

Well, we have to unify the 5th district first.

There are so many neighborhoods that are not being represented. The only ones that are being adequately served are Feiler Park, Tatemville, Liberty City and maybe Hampstead, but anything south of Hunter Army Airfield is not being serviced.

People don’t realize that neighborhoods in the southwest like Bradley Point have the same issues that the inner city has—maybe the poverty rate isn’t as high, but they have crime, they have drainage problems, they need parks and community

centers for their kids, too.

When you take office, you make a commitment to serve everybody, not just the people who vote for you. Many of the people living over there don’t even know who their representative is.

Every neighborhood needs an association with a viable Facebook page and website so that people who don’t come to meetings can still be engaged. In my first 90 days in office, that’s what I would work on.

Then, the job of the elected presidents of those associations would be to bring me information and act as my roundtable.

They will be the people I took to when we’re looking at SPLOST dollars. We’re not just going to spend money in one place. We need to make spending fair.

Speaking of spending, any thoughts on the city’s recent acquisition of the fairgrounds in the 5th district? Is that project a good investment?

Well, I haven’t heard about it being a project. As of now, it’s just a purchase. I have not seen any plans for what made it necessary to buy the fairgrounds.

Nobody said, “We want to build a multipurpose complex or something and let’s find some land.” They just woke up one morning and had a meeting and said, “Hey, we should buy the fairgrounds.”

Who has done an impact study? Why are we making a 3 million dollar purchase?

They’re saying they’re going to build affordable housing, but who knows? Now we have a bunch of people in Feiler Park and Tatemville who don’t know how they’re going to be affected.

What if a developer comes in? What’s to stop someone from building half million dollar homes and tax these people right out of the area where they’ve invested their lives? Actually, I think that’s the reason they actually bought it.

Do you have any other ideas for economic development?

I started my career in economic development with the City of Savannah back in 1999. I worked on the plan to revitalize MLK Blvd. and Montgomery Street. I worked on a plan to revitalize Waters Avenue, but it was never implemented.

Back then, [former city manager] Michael Brown and Mayor Johnson and Mayor Adams worked tirelessly with other community organizations and government agencies and the school board to come up with concise solutions. Many of those plans have not been carried out.

We’ve had so many plans. We need to dust those off. We spent man hours, consulting money, design money. For those to just to be sitting on someone’s desk is a waste. If we had stuck to those plans, we’d be a lot further along.

For now, our non-profits have to be supported; they’re paramount. We need to give them all the support we can in order for them to be viable and sustainable.

Most non-profits start up with a budget of kind of nothing. They can’t afford to have a grant writer on staff. They can’t afford a strategic plan drawn up.

But the City of Savannah has access to those talents, so I would expand the community development office to include a grants management department that would be responsible for meeting with nonprofits and help write grants, which

would be administrated through the city.

It wouldn’t cost a dime in extra salaries, because when an organization is awarded federal or state money and even from foundations, it provides 20 percent towards administration throughout the grant cycle.

So if you have a $100K grant, $20K would just go back to the city. So we can have certified grant writers whose only job is to work with local non-profits. After an organization grew its budget, the city could pull back and they could hire their own people.

You know where this has worked? Gwinnett County. It’s the richest county in the state! I was over grants and contracts there, and between my budget and the Dept. of Education, those two departments netted a hundred million dollars a year. A year!

That money went to the city, and all we had to do is disseminate it. We had a grant administrator whose job it was to make sure it was being spent the way it was supposed to.

We could have that. This is the solution.

Of course we would evaluate every program that we are currently funding also.

Step Up Savannah needs to step down the poverty rate or no more funding. No more of these feel good bridges to nowhere type investments. We need to invest in programs that really work.

I’ve also already started working on a business coalition for this district. We’ll do a survey to find out what are the barriers to business development or opening up a business. What do you need to stay here?

Do you need streetscape? What incentives do we need? Can there be a tax break for opening a business in one of these areas?

My goal is for people to live, play shop and work in their district. There are all of those new developments and apartments in the southwest of area, out by 204 and I-95. We need to get those Gateway shops functioning again.

Why don’t we have more restaurants here or things for children to do in this district? The only things that we have are package shops, mechanics and predatory lending places.

Has there been anything positive that has come out of last week’s incident?

I was an unknown before this. Everything I’ve done for this city has been behind the scenes. That’s been Estella’s whole platform: “Y’all don’t know her, but you know me.”

That’s even more reason that people should vote for me, because she has not lived up to her promises to the 5th district.

Where is the economic development?

Where is the better quality of life?

I’m not going to back down. I’m not running for any other reason to make this a better place to live. cs

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District 6:

Zena McClain

The 6th District is rapidly changing, demographically and economically. Why do you think you’re better equipped to deal with those changes?

by jim morekis

jim@connectsavannah.com

Savannah voters might recognize Zena McClain’s name from her runs for Chatham County District Attorney. Her local law practice concentrates on criminal law, employment law and civil litigation. The Washington, D.C., native is a graduate of Howard University.

She is running for Alderman in the Southside’s 6th District, against longtime incumbent Tony Thomas.

Crime in the 6th District has exploded.

The citizens do not feel safe. When Tony Thomas was first elected in 1999 the major issue he ran on was flooding. He beat out a longtime incumbent. He’s fairly entrenched. However there are a lot of new people in the district, and this is the first time he’s had a considerable amount of opposition. That is a reflection of displeasure in citizenry in the district.

We’ve watched course of his behavior during his term. We’ve not been pleased.

The citizens are educated and the decision is ultimately theirs.

You ran for DA a few years back and have obviously an extensive legal background. Does that background prompt you to see the crime issue a bit differently?

What would you focus on in the district?

A lot of candidates, including the incumbents are taking a piece from the platform I was trying to advance eight years ago, which is to be smart about the crime issue.

It’s interesting that the current administration is taking up a lot of proposals of mine and now suggesting them. Things like Project Ceasefire which they have since renamed.

What does it really mean to be smart about crime?

Being smart about crime is twofold: First we must focus on the most serious violent offenders. Then we have to deal with the root causes of the problem.

Now, those are two things lacking with the current administration. It’s nice to know they’re saying they will focus in on that now since they have challenges in this race. And that’s good, but it’s a little too late.

The citizens are ready for a change. I don’t believe the Council has been focused.

They’ve not operated with a strategic plan or clear vision for city. And they have waited too long. It has had serious affects on safety and security.

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One fairly new development this election season is the enormous discontent across socioeconomic and racial lines.

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I’ve been talking about that issue for years.

You see it nationwide. Things have not gotten better for a lot of individuals in this city. There’s still a great divide. For the last eight years our city has been greatly divided.

‘Citizens are ready for a change.’

The citizens have watched our current administration, their behavior while conducting the business of the city. That is not a good reflection on savannah.

Citizens are ready for a change and they deserve that. They deserve a council that will be proactive and effective.

Where do you stand on the living wage issue? It’s complicated because state law prohibits a city from setting its own living wage higher than state minimum wage.

We need another approach. It’s easy for the current administration to claim those are jobs we are providing. But they failed to take on tough issues that are going to require more work.

We’ve got to be consistent. Bringing better jobs to the city—industries, corporations— is going to take some serious planning and aggressive lobbying. Both those things have been lacking.

Companies do study local issues and the types of leaders that represent a city.

Wasteful spending seems to be a big issue this election. The fairgrounds purchase, for example, really seemed to be the last straw for many.

People are looking at a number of things the City spent taxpayer funds on. I don’t believe the current administration has operated with strategic focus.

There’s no vision. We’ve spent millions of dollars on projects in my opinion makes no sense.

Yes they’re talking about developing mixed use neighborhood, and generally I think that’s a good idea for a distressed community, to provide decent living facilities where people can afford to live, and put different people with varying incomes.

At the same time that can result in an expensive venture for the citizens. You have to really sit down and plan and consider how this spending will affect our budget and what value it brings and whether or not citizens want it. The citizens who live in that district should have had more input as to the purchase itself.

I think it’s a good thing that the current admin is focusing more closely on issues they could have addressed within the last four years. The City has plenty of money.

The issue is how they prioritize spending.

When Council wanted a raise, it didn’t take them any time at all to vote themselves a raise.

Crime is very important, and education.

The public education system here is less than desirable. Specifically with reference to my district, my vision for my district is for us to have the safest neighborhoods and the best public schools. I think with that you will see a drastic reduction in the crime rate and the area will attract people like-minded people who want to live in a safe environment.

What you have now in the Sixth District are people leaving. Putting up for sale signs and leaving. That has increased over last four years. They can’t move those homes.

Especially in the Coffee Bluff area, you have many homes in the$300-400K range that aren’t selling, and people are concerned. Personally I’m not going to invest in a property where I don’t feel safe.

It wasn’t a wise expenditure of taxpayer funds. The amount of money we’ve spent and wasted with the Coffee Bluff fiasco, as I call it, is money the City will also continually have to pay for upkeep. It’s another reflection of the City’s prioritization of projects and how they spend taxpayer money.

Cost overruns have been a continuous problem with the City. Those are the things which actually bleed. And consultants! All this money on consultants. That contributed to almost $6 million. EMC engineering former city council member was voting on it and he worked for them.

I want to strengthen the City’s code of ethics policy, and make sure that policy is strong enough to cover the behavior of council members as well as individuals doing business with the City. cs

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District 6:

Stephen McElveen I’d increase the punishment. It should be the same with a repeat offender. We’ve got to make it so that the punishment deters the crime.

People also need to know that calling the police and reporting a suspicious person is not a crime. The police want that so they can keep track of what’s going on.

by jessica leigh lebos

jll@connectsavannah.com

A LONGTIME denizen of the Windsor Forest neighborhood, Stephen McElveen has worked in the tourism and home security industries as well as owned the Paint Store in Richmond Hill from 1995 to 2007.

He’s also a grandfather and an ordained deacon at his church. This is his first time entering the political arena.

Any other concerns you’d tackle if elected?

The overall monitoring of financial dealings of the city. I’m not sure there are eyes on the expenditures that there should be. I keeping reading about this study and that study, we spent four hundred thousand dollars here, six hundred dollars there. If those are being vetted the way they’re supposed to, I’m not convinced.

You’re a working man with a family. What made you decide to run for office?

When someone approached me about running for this position, it had never occurred to me to go into politics or anything of that sort. But the more I thought about it and the more I talked to my family about it, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I feel that it’s time for the incumbent to go.

Someone’s got to do something.

I am a Savannah native, which for me should be one of the primary qualifications for running. I spent a little time out of state, but I’ve basically spent my entire life as a Savannah resident. I moved to the 6th district in the early 80s, I raised my family here. My kids went to Windsor Forest Elementary and Windsor Forest High School.

So I’ve seen things develop over the years.

I’m a concerned citizen, I know the way it’s supposed to be, let me do it. I had a business in Richmond Hill for 15 years that I sold, so I have business experience.

I’m currently doing sales consulting for SafeTouch Security, and working in the security industry puts me at an advantage.

Out of all the people who are running, to the best of my knowledge, I’m the only one who has sat at the kitchen table with Mom and Dad who have been broken into and the kids can’t sleep and Mom is terrified. I’ve seen it happen, I’ve seen it in their eyes, I know the feelings of what they’ve been through.

What policies or programs would you implement to address crime in the 6th district?

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We have a lot of home-based crime here; things taken from cars in the driveways and such. People are concerned about who’s knocking on their door at 10 o’clock at night. We had an incident happen within a quarter of mile from where I’m standing in front of my house a couple of nights ago—someone knocked on a neighbor’s 14 door and when she opened it, the person

Any projects you’d like to spearhead?

Being new to politics, I don’t have any right now. My primary concern is getting elected and seeing that the police department is brought up to speed. That is the situation that never should have been allowed to happen. They’ve taken some steps to address it with the pay raises but there’s going to be a lot more work that’s going to have to be put into that.

My vision is for Metro to become the best police department in the country. I want officers from all over the country coming here to train. We should be a shining example, especially facing the things we’re facing. We have to have the people to support the police department and back them up and let the officers do their jobs without fear of reprisal.

What are your ideas for economic development?

McElveen: “I want officers from all over the country coming here to train. We should be a shining example, especially facing the things we’re facing.”

forced his way in, knocked her down and took her stuff. That’s what people are concerned about here.

I would be representing the 6th district; however, it’s a vote for the entire city.

There are some things that can be done in my opinion that are not currently being done.

For instance, repeat offenders. I would lobby for maximum sentences for repeat offenders. Anyone can make a mistake once, but if you make it again, we’re going to come down hard.

When I was raising my children, I told them if they did something wrong and I punished them for it and they did it again,

Anything you can do to make Savannah more business-friendly: Tax incentives, anything to attract new business. That is not only going to help economics, it’s also going to reduce the crime rate. It’ll help things all around, increase the tax base.

There’s almost no way to lose.

I would like to see more clean industry, IT companies, that kind of thing, as opposed to another paper mill. I don’t have anything against the paper mill, it’s historically done very well; it built the city into what we have today.

But we have the opportunity with the I-95 corridor to make an impression on those people traveling through. We have JCB, which is more heavy industry, but it makes a good impression when you go by. If

challenge 2015 we could line the I-95 corridor with clean industry, it would do nothing but attract people.

I believe that Savannah is one of the most beautiful places on the face of the earth. The historic district, springtime and the azaleas, Forsyth Park, is just so attractive. I would like to see tourism continue to grow and expand.

Tourism is a good, clean industry for us.

It adds to the revenue of the city, it provides jobs. It’s an almost no-lose situation.

Would you support a restriction on the number of hotels in the historic district?

I can without equivocation say that I would be for restricting certain types of buildings down there. Not having been privy to council and the powers that be and the Historic Savannah Foundation, I don’t know the details of what happened before.

But this is one of the things that would be important to me. Putting up a new four-story hotel right on the edge of the historic district? It’s got to be handled on a

case-by-case basis.

I don’t believe in zero-tolerance thinking, but I would be conservative with what is allowed down there.

What would you do differently than the incumbent?

I will not have had the opportunity to be complacent. I will represent the people of the 6th district with integrity and more of an idea of representation than personal enrichment. You can read between the lines there.

I’m more representative of the people who live in the 6th district. I’ve owned my house for 30 years. I’ve been married for 37 years.

I have two children that went to local schools. That gives me a perspective that the other candidates don’t have.

Law and order are my priority. People don’t need to be afraid to walk the streets, in the 6th district or anywhere in Savannah.

And I want to make sure Savannah is represented well on the world stage. cs

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District 6:

David Self

people who were at Bull and Oglethorpe when the driveby shooting happened right next to the Girl Scout Headquarters raised their hand and said, “Hey, I can’t wait to come back here!”

What the tourism people can’t tell us is how many aren’t coming back.

I do know how many people would come into my store and say something like, “We’ve come here every year for the past five years, but we saw last night there were six shootings. We wonder if we’ll ever come back again.”

So what did the City do? They put stickers on all the parking meters downtown saying, “Lock It or Lose It.” So now everyone who sees that is wondering if it’s even safe to park downtown!

If we don’t get a handle on crime, on people being robbed, on purses being stolen, that circulates. If I or you post something on Facebook saying, look what happened today in Savannah, well not all our friends live in Savannah. That message gets circulated way out of Savannah.

And people do read that. I have family members in California asking me what’s going on here?

by jim morekis

jim@connectsavannah.com

FORMER DOWNTOWN business owner David Self says he was prompted to run for office by the continuing crime issue, as well as his experience trying to deal with the City while working in the Historic District.

He is one of several challengers to longtime incumbent Tony Thomas in the Southside’s Sixth District.

You are going up against Tony Thomas, a very well-entrenched incumbent with a solid level of support.

He’s part of a bigger problem. I truly believe the entire City Council has failed this city, and he’s a part of it.

But here’s the thing: What if everybody in the district goes, well he’s done a pretty good job, it’s somebody else that needs to go. If every district says that, we’ll end up with same group we currently have.

The last two elections the incumbent in District 6 wasn’t challenged. He’s certainly got plenty of challenges this time around.

This is the first time I can remember all incumbents having so much opposition.

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People reach the boiling point. They reach a tipping point. It ties back to crime and the understaffed police department, that’s what people are curious about.

Then they’ve got $3 million to buy the fairgrounds, but we can’t afford to staff the police department? People are fed up.

The anger I’m hearing when knocking on doors is simply amazing. And it’s not always targeted at one individual but more often targeted at the whole entire group.

I had a conversation with the mayor recently. She commented something like, this is like nastiest race I’ve ever seen. And I told her people are mad! People are angry and don’t feel like they know what they need to know.

I’m passionate about it because I’m sick of it. It’s Dysfunction Junction down there.

I wonder if they bring in a consultant to see what they want for lunch. You can’t make this stuff up.

I believe in term limits. What’s the aggregate total for the ones on Council now? Something like 76 years? That’s crazy. I think they’re terrified of what may happen this election.

Worst thing is, people are saying if something doesn’t happen they’re moving.

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‘I wonder if they bring in a consultant to see what they want for lunch.

You can’t make this stuff up.’

When neighbors on the Eastside are putting bulletproof windows on their houses, and mothers are laying on top of their toddlers on the bathroom floor, you’ve got a very serious problem.

Almost alone among candidates, you have spoken out against Ben Carter’s influence downtown.

I had a business downtown in Wright Square. When Ben Carter came to town I didn’t embrace it. Soon my landlord came to me with a 30 percent rent increase.

I said I’m just not going to do it. I’m just not going to participate in that kind of greed. My business didn’t fail, as has been mentioned.

People downtown are up in arms with their heads exploding over what’s happened to property taxes. Obviously when purchase prices start going up your assessed value goes up. I work too hard for my money to give more of it away. The same theory applies to City taxpayers who work too hard to have a City government that just constantly wastes it.

I do understand the part about making Broughton better. But it was always their vision, not ours. Things that went on down there made me sick. Everybody gave Carter credit for those huge planters. I thought they looked like big ashtrays!

Do you support some kind of workDoes it seem like the appetite for around to state law so that there is expensive new projects is almost an some equivalent to a living wage in the addiction for this Council? Would you City of Savannah? support a moratorium on new projects?

I agree but the question is how we do it. We We can talk about project after project. should dig into it and find as many options Let’s talk about Coffee Bluff Marina. as we can.

I’ve heard till my head spins that we have But really, haven’t we talked about it all to have a living wage. We encourage new enough? I mean really. Let’s take action. businesses to come in and hire our folks, I would want to see a forensic financial audit of this City. What’s really behind the but they’re coming in paying salaries that aren’t helping the situation. closet doors.

It’s a reality of Savannah. We have to Where’s the money really going? It’s look at everything, turn every stone over going somewhere.

I’m not the smartest guy in the world but and follow the money.

I’ve never run for office, I’m not really a I’m smart enough to know there’s a probpublic speaker, I’m the first to say I don’t lem when there’s a shooting at Tibet and Middleground, and the official explanation have all the answers. But the bigger question out there is, What is it we don’t know? is “that’s really been a bad spot for years.”

And it still is? That’s the excuse? It’s What do you think of Stephanie Cutalways been like that? Therein lies the ter? Safe to assume you would like to problem. see a new City Manager?

Having run a business downtown, but If my memory serves me correctly, she also living on the residential Southside, where do you stand on the balance said she didn’t want the job to start with. I rest my case. between a healthy tourism sector and Would you propose to someone who said, quality of life for residents?

“Hey, just to let you know in case you were wondering, I’ll never want to marry you.”

We’re a city dependent on tourism. But Obviously common sense isn’t so comit still ties right back to crime. They may mon after all! cs report how tourism is up, up, up! But no one will ever convince me that any of the

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Do countries ever voluntarily give up territory?

It seems like an ironclad rule of geopolitics that countries never give up territory except under some form of pressure. In the last 100 years or so, when have countries actually gone out of their way to rid themselves of territory? The only example I’m aware of is Malaysia expelling Singapore from its federation. —Chris S., Tallinn, Estonia ESTONIA, eh? You guys know something about giving up territory. On August 6, 1940, the members of the elected assembly of Estonia petitioned the Supreme Soviet for admission to the USSR, in effect ridding themselves of their entire country. (The Soviets generously took them in.)

True, Estonia was then occupied by Soviet troops, and a couple months earlier the Soviet government had demanded the creation of an Estonian puppet government that then called for elections, which produced the pliant assembly mentioned above. Doesn’t that sound voluntary to you?

OK, one of your more blatant examples of being under pressure. My point is, just

because a change in sovereignty is nominally voluntary doesn’t mean it is. On the contrary, some form of political, economic, ethnic, or religious pressure lurks behind almost any division of a nation-state.

You mention Singapore. After it hooked up with Malaysia in 1963, disputes arose between the two sides, with violent riots in 1964 over Singapore’s failure to accord preferential treatment to ethnic Malays.

The result, in 1965, was like a high school breakup—depending on who you believe, either Singapore dumped Malaysia or Malaysia dumped Singapore.

Most of the major map recolorings not resulting from war over the past few centuries have arisen from the unwinding of dubious land grabs. These aren’t as common as they once were, because neither are land grabs. Then again, as the Ukrainians can tell you, they’re not a thing of the past.

Years ago, acquisitive empires finding themselves with more land than cash weren’t averse to trading the former for the latter. The U.S. was the beneficiary of several such deals, the two largest being the Louisiana Purchase (828,000 square miles for three cents an acre) and the acquisition of Alaska from Russia (586,412 square miles at two cents an acre).

Those were about as close to voluntary as these things ever are—the Russians, for example, concluded they couldn’t defend Alaska, so they might as well sell it for whatever they could get.

National territory isn’t sold much anymore, although the idea still comes up. In 2010 two German MPs seriously suggested that Greece consider selling several of its uninhabited islands to pay its national debt. The Maldives, a low-lying island nation threatened by rising sea levels, is considering purchasing land elsewhere to house its citizens if needed; Kiribati,

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Most cases of unloading territory in the past century are a consequence of decolonization, the premier case being India, voluntarily-but-not-really cut loose by the UK in 1947. Embarrassment at the imperial adventure having finally sunk in, the British didn’t charge the locals to get the subcontinent back, they just left.

Some might consider the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 a willful ceding of territory, but from a legal standpoint the UK’s 99-year lease just ran out.

A better example is Portugal’s return of the seaport of Macao, its former colony, to China in 1999. Unlike the British, the Portuguese had a treaty entitling them to manage and reside in Macao perpetually, but in the 70s Portugal formally renounced all overseas colonies and territories, meaning getting out of Macao squared with its overall policy. The fact that Portugal could no longer defend a tiny outpost half a world away no doubt also eased the pain.

Things didn’t go as smoothly when Portugal decolonized East Timor, in the Indonesian archipelago, in 1975. East Timor declared its independence, prompting Indonesia to invade. More than 100,000 died in the resultant conflict, which wasn’t fully settled until 2002, when East Timor became a sovereign state.

Some countries don’t cede territory, they just break up. Starting in 1991, Yugoslavia fissioned into what ultimately became seven nations, the ensuing civil wars and ethnic cleansings helping to destabilize Eastern Europe for more than a decade. Czechoslovakia fractured into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993 with considerably less drama.

The U.S. has willingly given up territory a few times over the last hundred years. The Philippines, won from Spain after the Spanish-American War, were granted independence in 1946. The

American-Mexican Chamizal Convention Act of 1964 ceded 630 acres of American territory in exchange for 193 acres from Mexico to settle a boundary dispute along the Rio Grande.

Similar treaties in 1970 and 2009 resulted in the net transfer of a couple additional square miles from the U.S. to Mexico.

Don’t expect to see larger transfers any time soon. The Torrijos-Carter Treaties of 1977 returned the Panama Canal Zone to Panama in 1999. Can you imagine trying to get that through Congress now? cs By cecil adams Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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Mother charged in drowning deaths of her two small children

Detectives of Savannah-Chatham Police are investigating the drowning deaths of two children at a residence on the 600 block of West 59th Street on Oct. 6.

At about 12:38 p.m. Metro responded to the residence after Jokeera Morgan, 26, called 911 “stating that she had drowned her two daughters, ages 18 months and 8 months,” police say.

“Responding officers immediately entered the residence where they located the children and began performing CPR. The two children were transported by ambulance to Memorial University Medical Center where they were pronounced deceased,” police say.

Morgan was arrested by SCMPD. She is charged with two counts of murder.

“This is an ongoing SCMPD investigation supported by the Division of Family and Children Services and the Chatham County District Attorney’s Office. Morgan is the mother of two other children who were not present during this incident,” police say.

Citizens aid arrest in downtown shooting; one suspect at large

Detectives arrested Darius Javon Black, 23, for attempted robbery of three that resulted in a shooting on Abercorn and East Bryan at 3:12 a.m. Sunday morning.

“Metro responded to the scene, where Andre Martinez, 21, and Bashari Dixon, 22, were subduing a male subject, later identified as Black. A second suspect fled the area,” police say. “Black broke away and attempted to run when a Downtown Precinct patrol officer followed. Black and the officer engaged in a brief scuffle before Black was detained.”

Units at Abercorn and East Bryan streets located Anthony Glenn Schmidt, 23, of North Carolina, suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot.

“Investigators learned that Schmidt, Martinez and Dixon were robbed by Black and another male suspect after leaving a nearby club. The second suspect reportedly displayed a gun as both suspects demanded the victim’s belongings,” police says. “The victims refused, resulting in a fight. Black allegedly obtained the gun and fired, hitting Schmidt. Martinez also was transported to MUMC with non-lifethreatening injuries.”

Investigators now seek a second suspect described as a heavy-set black male.

Road and charged with armed robbery.

Asim Simmons was arrested on the 100 block of Queen’s Retreat and charged with murder and armed robbery. Quamelius Lee, 20, is wanted for murder and armed robbery. He is a black male, standing 5-11 and weighing 140.

Police two Thursday shootings

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Three arrests in double murder

Detectives obtained four warrants and made three arrests in a triple shooting in September, on the 1400 block of Barnes Drive. The shooting injured Asim Simmons, 19, and claimed the lives of Jayquan Turner, 24 and Javon Wilson,19.

Emile Randolph, 32, who on Sept. 18 was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in this case, is now charged with murder. His warrants were served at the Chatham County Detention Center.

Tom Frazier, 18, was arrested at an apartment on the 11000 block of White Bluff

Detectives are investigating two shootings that occurred on Thursday night.

“At about 8:17 p.m. Metro responded to the 2100 block of South Fernwood Drive, where Jamal Porter, 20, was suffering from a gunshot wound,” police say.

Porter was reportedly outside of the residence talking on the phone when shots were fired from a dark colored car.

“At roughly 8:41 p.m. Metro responded to a shots fired call at Pendleton Street and Liberty Parkway. Gunshot victim James Smart, 36, had driven himself to Candler Hospital in a privately owned vehicle,” police say.

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Democracy Blues

Randy Richardson, 42, vying unopposed for the Riceville, Iowa, school board (having agreed to run just because he has two kids in school) failed to get any votes at all — as even he was too busy on election day (Sept. 8) to make it to the polls (nor were there any write-ins). To resolve the 0-0 result, the other board members simply appointed Richardson to the office. Riceville, near the Minnesota border, is a bigtime farming community, and registered voters queried by The Des Moines Register said they just had too much fieldwork to do that day.

Medical Marvels

Researchers recently came upon a small community (not named) in the Dominican Republic with an unusual incidence of adolescent boys having spent the first decade or so of their lives as girls because their penises and testes did not appear until puberty. A September BBC News dispatch referred to the boys as “Guevedoces” and credited the community for alerting researchers, who ultimately developed a drug to replace the culprit enzyme whose absence was causing the problem. (The full shot of testosterone that should have been delivered in the mother’s womb was not arriving until puberty.)

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• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed a federal lawsuit in California in September on behalf of an endangered crested black macaque that wandered up to an unattended camera on a tripod and clicked a selfie. The camera belonged to photographer David Slater, who claimed copyright to the photo even though “Naturo” actually snapped it. The shot might be valuable to Naturo since it has become viral on the Internet. (Though the photo was taken in Indonesia, New World Order Slater’s publisher is based Help • At a September convenin California.) wanted in tion on ethical issues involv• Jose Banks, now 40, US congress ing computers, a researcher filed a $10 million lawsuit at Britain’s De Montfort Uniin 2014 against the fedversity decried the developeral government because ment of devices that might jailers at Chicago’s highpermit human-robot sex. rise Metropolitan CorThough no human would be rectional Center failed “victimized,” the researcher to guard him closely warned that such machines enough in 2012, thus (some already in service) will enabling him to think he exacerbate existing “power could escape. He and a imbalances” between men cellmate had rappelled 17 and women and pave the way floors with bed sheets, but for more human exploitaBanks was re-arrested tion. One critic challenged, offering that a few days later. Still, he claimed that the such robots would be no more demeaning escape caused him great trauma, in addito women than, say, vibrators. However, tion to “humiliation and embarrassment” the researcher ominously warned that and “damage to his reputation.” (In Septhere may someday be robots resembling tember, the U.S. Court of Appeals turned children, marketed for sex. (A September him down. Wrote the judges, “No one has a USA Today dispatch from Tokyo reported personal right to be better guarded.”) that the company SoftBank had banned Recurring Themes sex, via its user agreement, with its new Many in conservative Jewish communi4-foot-tall human-like robot — even ties still practice the tradition of Kaporos though “Pepper” features nothing resemon the day of atonement, but the critics bling genitalia.)

— Thailand’s “Last Resort Rehab” at the were out in force in New York City’s Borough Park neighborhood in September Wat Thamkrabok Temple about 100 miles to protest the ritual’s slaughter there of north of Bangkok resembles a traditional 50,000 chickens. (A synagogue raises drug-detox facility (work, relaxation, money by “selling” chickens to members, meditation) — except for the vomiting. At who then have butchers swing the chickthe “Vomit Temple,” Buddhist priests mix a concoction of 120 herbal ingredients that ens overhead three times, thus transferring the owners’ sins to the chickens. are nasty, according to the temple’s methUltimately, the chickens are beheaded, amphetamine addicts interviewed for a supposedly erasing the humans’ sins. Prorecent Australian TV documentary. Said testers ask why not just donate money.) one, of the rehab agenda: “Vomiting is at 3 A judge refused to block the ritual but p.m. every day. Foreigners must vomit for the first five days. The vomiting is intense.” ordered police to enforce the sanitation laws governing the beheadings.

The serpentine queue extended for blocks in September in Lucknow, India, after the state government of Uttar Pradesh announced 368 job openings (almost all menial) — eventually resulting in about 2.3 million applications, 200,000 from people with advanced degrees (even though the $240/month positions required only a fifth-grade education, according to an Associated Press dispatch). About 13 million young people enter India’s job market each year.

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Recent Headlines From the Foreign Press “London Zoo Monkey-Keeper and Meerkat-Keeper ‘Fought Over LlamaKeeper’” (a British human love triangle, September, The Guardian). “Man Suffering From Constipation for 10 Years Has 11-Pound Stool Removed” (Chengdu, China, August, Central European News).

“Naked Spanish Clowns Anger Palestinians” (a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Jerusalem backfired, September, YNet News). “Swedish Porn Star Jumps Into Spanish Bullfighting Ring to Comfort Dying Bull” (Malaga, Spain, September, The Local).

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(1) In August, Che Hearn, 25, who police said had just shoplifted electronics items from the Wal-Mart in Round Lake Beach, Illinois, was picked up while on foot near the store. Police found that Hearn had actually driven his car to the Wal-Mart but that while he was inside shoplifting, a repo agent (who had followed him to the store) had confiscated it. (2) Astronaut Edgar Mitchell (the sixth man to walk on the moon) told a reporter in August that “my own experience talking to people” has made it clear that extraterrestrials are trying “to keep us from going to war” with Russia and that U.S. military officers have told him that their test missiles are “frequently” shot down “by alien spacecraft.”

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Peter Frederiksen, 63, a gun shop owner in Bloemfontein, South Africa, was detained by police in September pending formal charges after his wife discovered 21 packages labeled as female genitals in their home freezer. There was no official explanation, but one officer called them the result of “mutilation of private parts of a woman, cut out and kept as trophies.”

One was marked with the name of a woman, “2010,” and “Lesotho” (a kingdom within South Africa).

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As we share pimento cheese and pita points on Starland Café’s sunny patio, The Accomplices’ Matt Eckstine offers one of the most poignant observations I’ve heard in a while.

“Savannah’s a horrible place to come find a job,” he states, brushing away a friendly caterpillar. “It’s a beautiful place to come create a job, though.”

If anyone’s taken that mentality to heart, it’s The Accomplices. Just a few years into their time as a band, guitarist/ vocalist Eckstine, fiddle player/vocalist Colleen Heine, bassist/vocalist Zach Smith and drummer/vocalist Stan Ray have developed a rabid following, creating fresh ways to accommodate their audience through innovative DIY means.

When Savannah music venues became too small for their album release shows, The Accomplices began thinking beyond the bars and set out to create their own encompassing experience. They’ll do the same this weekend for the release of their new EP, Mountain Buzz.

For their self-produced bashes (which typically include dinner, a CD, swag, and a concert ticket in their reasonable entry fee), “being unexpected is a huge key,” Heine divulges. “It’s gotta be something that people are going to go, ‘Oh, they’re doing a show there?’ And that becomes a part of the draw.”

The band’s selected The Georgia State Railroad Museum to unveil Mountain Buzz. After the wild success of their May 2014 party for A Truck, A Train, An Old Dump Pile at Southbound Brewing (so successful that 150 people had to be turned away at the door due to capacity), the gang began seeking a large space that was homey and unusual. With a giant stage, rustic surroundings, and plenty of history, the museum is a perfect fit.

“Everyone’s always saying, ‘500 people, all-ages venue, when’s it going to happen?’” says Eckstine. “Well, here it is! Come on out if you’ve been complaining about it. It’s just about taking the initiative and hard work. I hope it’s a tipping point.”

So how does a local band afford such a spectacle? It’s all about the sponsors.

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Zach, Stan, Matt, and Colleen strike a pose after a successful gig at Pisgah Brewing Company in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Photo by Joye Durham

River Brewing to The Garage Savannah to Satchel, the folks making the event happen represent a vast array of local businesses and interests.

Maybe banner sponsorship and local music sounds like an unexpected pairing, but The Accomplices have created a pretty genius formula that benefits the band, the business, and the community at large.

“This gets local businesses invested in us,” explains Heine, “and this event makes it a community thing, not just an Accomplices thing.”

Think of it as a local, live Kickstarter.

“It benefits [businesses] to be a part of something.” says Eckstine. “It makes people feel good, and the people who are doing this, they truly believe in Savannah and the arts, and they believe Savannah is the thriving music scene in Georgia.”

Mountain Buzz is a delightful EP worthy of such a splendid affair. Recorded locally at Elevated Basement Studios, the fivesong CD is a fine example of The Accomplices’ blend of ease and technique. Fusing cheerful whimsy, fresh tempos, rich fourpart harmonies, and beautifully skilled playing, Eckstine and Heine believe it to be the first “real” Accomplices release.

“It’s not like, Matt Eckstine writing songs with a band or something,” Eckstine elaborates. “We really came together.”

The songwriting was a very natural process that happened during the band’s time touring in Western North Carolina.

“We’ve been touring pretty extensively in the Appalachian, Asheville, Knoxville area,” Eckstine says. “There’s just such good times up there, and it seems like that’s the place we’re doing the best.”

“I’d say the five songs on this EP all kind of came to life or developed during that time,” Heine agrees. “For example, the first track on the record, we actually wrote in Hot Springs, North Carolina right before our gig. And we played it that night!”

“I was riding in the car—and I’ve never done this before—I just wrote the song,” Eckstine remembers. “I heard it in my head and just wrote down most of the lyrics right there. The music came to fruition and was really inspired and created up in the mountains, and the waters run down the mountain and come right out the Ogeechee into our waterways; we put our Lowcountry flair on it.”

Though they’ve been gigging in the saturated acoustic music mecca, The Accomplices stand out in Asheville for their unique twists on traditional music.

Eckstine runs his acoustic guitar through an elaborate pedalboard; songs fizzle into transcendental, almost Pink Floydian

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“The things we let go on other records we got right on this one,” Eckstine says.

“We wouldn’t settle for anything less.”

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on this thing, because I believe in it.’ That kind of confidence coming at you while you’re in there, it makes you feel great, and he’s just good at that.”

The band’s looking forward to sharing the results of their hard work at the Georgia State Railroad Museum. Get ready to dig into seafood gumbo, veggie tacos, and sausage dogs, score a goodie bag with a CD and prizes from sponsors, and catch a mountain buzz of your own at the bar.

Eckstine is particularly excited for one of his longtime favorite bands, Folly Beach’s Dangermuffin, to kick off the show.

Though everyone will be getting down with those mountain vibes, don’t worry: The Accomplices aren’t leaving our swamps for the hills anytime soon.

“Someday I feel like the band is going to have a cabin up there, and we’ll go have retreats,” Eckstine says with a wry smile.

“Let’s have a Kickstarter for that!” CS

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In fact, Heine, who’s schooled in old time and folk music, created a lovely moment on Mountain Buzz’s title track: as harmonies intertwine and rhythms gallop, everything spirals out into the coo of Heine’s fiddle, turning atmospheric.

Effected guitars bubble up among fiddle strains before the song comes back up for air, reaching full speed for a big finish.

Eckstine grins with mischevious pride, talking about that cut.

“I’m a jammer guy,” he says, throwing his hands up in surrender. “I love The Dead and stuff. But that was Collen’s idea—she came up with the idea of a long jam section. Of all people!”

“It’s totally spacey and jam-y,” Heine agrees. “A few years ago, I would never have suggested that.”

Heine takes lead vocals on the breezy “Into the Blue.” There’s a sweetness and clarity to that track that’ll make you want to cast off into the autumn sunset.

“Matt called me in the middle of the day one day while driving out to Tybee and said, ‘I think I got a chorus, and you’re going to sing it, and here’s how it goes,’” Heine laughs. “It was just kind of like, this little nugget popped up in Matt’s head, and we took it from there!”

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They’re currently touring in support of the release of My Survival. Brimming in “hope, commiseration and passion,” it’s a heavy record, weighty with reverb and the heft of the drums.

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They’re heading our way with fellow Atlantans Drink & Destroy Crew (DDC). Raspy oi-punk studded in drum rolls, catchy guitar riffs, and unforgettable choruses, it’s sure to be a fun performance.

You gotta love the kind brotherhood between these old school fellas: Antagonizers recently announced that they’ll be breaking out an unreleased song by Boston hardcore legends Gang Green during their tour set. A gift from Gang Green, “If I Had Your Problems” seemed more suited for an Antagonizers set, and was given to them under the condition the band make it their own. Keep an ear out for that one!

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Blending hypnotizing technical chops with mesmerizing composition, Darrin Kobetich is an instrumental guitarist creating what he dubs “ambient delta raga thrash grass.”

When he first picked up the instrument, Kobetich was taken by the early metal of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin; a move to Weatherford, Texas led him to form his first real band, an instrumental trio. Playing in the tight lineup allowed Kobetich to experiment with improvisation. From there, he played in a handful of metal bands before joining thrash metal band Hammer Witch.

After Hammer Witch disbanded in 1994, Kobetich teamed up with his brother, Adam, to form an experimental metal band. Under the Amillion Pounds moniker, Kobetich began writing his first acoustic songs—it was the first step in an entirely new direction and career for the guitarist.

Channeling Middle Eastern and other world music, Kobetich began learning about bluegrass and mountain music. Nowadays, his impressively varied roots show through in his latest compositions: a touch of Appalachia there, a nod to Rush here, Kobetich’s incredible virtuosity should be a sight to see for any guitarist, experienced or aspiring.

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culture visual arts

Monet and American Impressionism: A radical point of view New exhibit is set to be one of Telfair Museums’ most unique and historic

Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926) Champ d’avoine (Oat Field), 1890 Oil on canvas, 26 x 36 7/16 inches Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida Gift of Michael A. Singer 1999.6

by jim morekis

jim@connectsavannah.com

OCT 14-OCT 20, 2015

SAVANNAH HAS NEVER before been graced by an original painting by Claude Monet, says Lisa Groves, executive director of the Telfair Museums.

All that changes when the exhibit “Monet and American Impressionism” opens with a huge gala soiree this Thursday night at the Jepson Center, which is hosting the show through January.

Four Monet originals will anchor the expansive exhibit, which also includes favorites from the Telfair permanent collection, such as works by Gari Melchers and Frederick Carl Frieselke.

“If you ask anyone on the street to name a famous painter, my guess is that Monet would be one of the top names to come up,” says Groves. “Monet was influential not only among his French peers, but was really responsible for introducing many Americans to Impressionism.”

Monet was one of the first painters to intentionally cultivate a sort of cult of personality. Many starstruck American artists of the late 1800s made the pilgrimage to Monet’s favorite part of the French countryside, Giverny, “wanting to breathe the same air as Monet, paint the same landscapes as Monet,” says Telfair Museums Curator Courtney McNeil.

“He had a great mystique about him, and he cultivated the persona of the brilliant, genius artist,” says McNeil. “Americans flocked to Giverny to be near him and to learn from him. But he never really encouraged Americans to be there—he sort of tolerated their presence.”

Groves says the work of the Americans, however, quickly became important in its own right.

“Certainly French Impressionists are more famous, but when you see the American artists in this exhibit side by side I think you’ll have new respect for the real quality of the work done by Americans during that time,” she says.

The signature painting of the exhibition is Champ d’avoine (Oat Field), a Monet work from 1890 which encompasses most of the central concepts to the movement known as Impressionism.

“This image is the inspiration for the 28 entire thesis of this exhibition. It ties it all

Claude Monet (France, 1840-1926) Waterloo Bridge, 1903 Oil on canvas, 26 x 92 in. (66 x 81.3 cm) Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Gift of Ione T. Staley, 60.057.000

together,” says McNeil.

“It’s a great demonstration of the key qualities of Impressionism: You have an outdoors, landscape subject. You see the strong focus on the effects of light and atmosphere, dapples of light and shadows.

You see rough choppy brushstrokes and unblended color,” she says.

“And you see off-center, unusual compositional choices, the asymmetrical composition that was the hallmark of Impressionists. It’s sort of a cropping effect often linked to the rise of photography.”

McNeil says Impressionism was “really radical when it made its debut. People were shocked and offended and appalled.”

Americans such as Melchers, Frieseke, Childe Hassam, and Mary Cassatt—also featured in the exhibit—quickly adopted Monet’s characteristic styles.

“For example, they almost never used any black paint in their work,” says McNeil.

“They were very interested in the effects of sunlight, of shadows, of strong diagonals.

Often you see really high, restrictive horizon lines.”

The exhibit takes up several rooms of the second floor gallery at the Jepson, with rough thematic guidelines anchored the four Monets themselves: Urban Impressionism, the allure of the French countryside, domestic settings.

The unique exhibit is a partnership between the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, Fla., the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, and the Telfair. These three museums are the only place to see the exhibit, and the Telfair closes out the run.

Groves explains the serendipity that led to the exhibit and the Telfair’s role in it.

“I happened to be talking to the

director of the Harn Museum and she mentioned they had recently added a Monet to their collection and they were working on building an exhibition around it,” she recalls.

“She said, ‘I know the Telfair has a real strength in American Impressionism and we’d like to borrow six of your paintings to be included in the show,’” Groves says.

“So I put my thinking cap on and said how about not only do we lend those six works to you, but we do this together and we also host the exhibit here as well.”

A number of events will happen in conjunction with the Monet show, including Free Family Days and this week’s opening event.

“We’ll have at least 1000 people in attendance,” says Groves. “It will easily be one of the largest events we’ve ever hosted.” cs

Monet Soirée: Oct. 15, 5-10 pm, Jepson Center. Reserve tickets at telfair.org/monet

Exhibit opens to public Fri. Oct. 16 Lecture Series: Oct. 15, Oct. 29, Nov. 3. All lectures 6 pm in Jepson’s Neises Auditorium. Requires online reservation and e-ticket.

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culture monty python!

And Now For Something Completely Different…

Monty Python’s John Cleese and Eric Idle head South

The whimsically

by anna chandler

anna@connectsavannah.com

OCT 14-OCT 20, 2015

Grab your dead parrot, your finest shrubbery (one that looks nice, and not too expensive) and get ready to silly walk your way to Johnny Mercer Theatre on Tuesday: the Pythons have arrived.

Eric Idle and John Cleese, two of the affable absurdists comprising legendary English comedy troupe Monty Python, have united for a rare United States tour.

A sensation throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s, the Pythons’ output, ranging from the sketch series Monty Python’s Flying Circus to timeless feature films like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and The Meaning of Life, are comedic masterpieces, crucially influential works in comedy, film and television.

While there have been some reunions over the years—most recently a 2014 live show—Idle, Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Graham Chapman (who passed away in 1989) have all led successful solo careers. But there’s nothing quite like getting the gang back together— even in twos.

The announcement of the Idle/Cleese show, named, with tongue firmly in cheek, “Together Again At Last...For The Very First Time” came as a bit of a surprise to 30 the public. When the Daily Mail reported

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a falling-out between Cleese and Idle over the success of Spamalot, Idle’s musical ode to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, back in 2011, it was widely believed that the longtime collaborators wanted nothing to do with each other.

That couldn’t be farther from the truth.

“That’s the Daily Mail,” Idle tells Connect bitterly. “They make things up, lie, and invent stories, and there’s almost nothing you can do.”

“The papers behave disgracefully in England,” he continues. “They had to even shut down a newspaper tapping everyone’s phones in liaison with the police. It was disgraceful, and they haven’t been punished at all.”

It’s an issue that Cleese has publicly criticized, much to the press’s chagrin.

“They hate John in England,” Idle says.

“He’s a real satirist; he’s fearless. They started to hate him, and it’s such a pity.

He’s a national treasure! They like Michael [Palin]—he’s nice. John actually speaks up, and they dislike him. They decided there was a spat, they paid people off...they do that all the time. You can only ignore them...it’s all just to sell newspapers.”

“There was never a fight,” he reassures.

“So, the spat continues successfully. If this is a spat, bring it on!”

Rather than hop on a madcap, lengthy mega-tour, “Together Again At Last” is an opportunity for the duo to travel the East Coast by car, taking in the scenery and

soaking up the culture.

“I’ve been on the big tour in a rock ‘n’ roll bus, played New England, Chicago, L.A.,” Idle says. “It’s nice to see the other parts of America. By going by road, you see so much more, and it’s so much nicer. You get to wander around, look at this, and that’s the great bonus of a tour like this.”

Really, though, Idle wryly discloses, “We came to Florida to try to find a Florida even older than we are!”

Flash back to their younger days. Terry Jones and Michael Palin met at Oxford University; meanwhile, Idle, Cleese and Graham Chapman were enrolled at Cambridge, performing with the Cambridge University Footlights. Cleese was an enormous influence on Idle.

“It was more like he was my hero,” Idle says with warm admiration. “He was a bit older, and he was absolutely magnificent.

He was an inspiration, and I just loved seeing what he did, because I’d watched a lot of comedy as I grew up, and he was just head and shoulders above everybody else, as he still is. He never let on he was funny. There was an anger about it, too, which was lovely and delightful.”

Idle, Palin, Chapman, Cleese, and Gilliam were writing for The Frost Report, a satirical show that aired on the BBC, when Cleese asked them all to become involved in a strange little show he called “Monty Python.”

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ese.

“He didn’t really need to come to us,” Idle says. “He could have done a solo show. But the interesting thing about John is, he didn’t want to do that.”

Built on sketches linked together by Gilliam animations, Monty Python’s Flying Circus was an absurd, surreal treasure.

Cleese and Chapman wrote together, as did Palin and Jones, but Idle preferred to write solo.

“I don’t think any gentleman should speak before lunch,” he says wryly.

Given their incredible legacy and lasting relevance, it’s wild to think the Pythons only had an active 14-year run; Matt Groening, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and Seth MacFarlane all cite the troupe as major influences. A love of the Pythons is passed from generation to generation; “spam” email gets their name from a particular Python sketch; “Pythonesque” can be found in standard dictionaries.

To this day, Idle is surprised when he’s recognized in the street. On this very tour, Cleese and Idle stopped at a Starbucks for a cup of tea, only to be surrounded by a gaggle of 16-year-old fans.

“I like the way parents pass it on,” Idle says. “It seems to be one of those things that went multigenerational.”

Perhaps Python’s lasting influence is due to its innate playfulness and steadfast refusal to play by the rules.

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“It’s anti-authoritarian, and there’s a certain silliness—it doesn’t take itself seriously,” Idle muses.

“A lot of American comedians want to be loved and laughed at, and I think that’s a mistake. I don’t think we made that mistake. English people don’t. It’s not gentle, and it’s quite silly and occasionally, it’s savage,” he says.

“And the other interesting thing about it is it’s written by all six of us, and there’s never been a show where the writers perform it all, and there’s no producers—we weren’t censored. It’s executive-free comedy.”

Idle has boasted an impressive solo career, including writing the immensely popular, Tony award-winning Spamalot.

With John Du Prez composing, fleshing out Idle’s basic ideas into a full-fledged production, Mike Nichols directing, “It was absolutely the most joyous thing I think I’ve ever done,” he says.

Most recently, he released an e-book, The Writer’s Cut, a Hollywood kiss-andtell novel from a male writer’s perspective.

Idle is lovingly referring to “Together Again At Last” as “an IKEA tour.”

“You rip it apart, screw it together, and you’re always missing a screw when you assemble anything from IKEA,” he chuckles.

“unforgettable sit-down comedy,” is a blend of “filthy songs,” solo bits, sketches, and banter between two legends.

“We do some classic bits, we do sketches, but we don’t do anything we’ve done for years and years,” Idle explains. “We do talk about them and do some sketches people don’t know, and they’re quite funny.”

The floor will also be open for Q&A. “The best one so far was in Sarasota, and they said, ‘What’s it like being amongst the youngest men in Sarasota?’” Idle laughs.

In the early days of Python, Idle and crew didn’t expect much success in the States; to their disbelief, the over-the-top English silliness was a total hit.

The skits didn’t wrap up neatly and boasted a brash aggression to them skewered by sharply clever wit and goofiness—it was unlike anything the U.S. had seen.

“Americans love Python; they just love it,” Idle says. “I don’t think Python has been on in England for 20 years. In America, it just keeps going on and getting bigger, and it gets younger and younger.” cs

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The Pythons in 1969: that’s Chapman, Idle, and Gilliam in the back row, with Jones, Cleese, and Palin up front.

The duo were inspired to tour together when Cleese released his memoir, So, Anyway… in 2014.

“It happened quite by accident,” Idle recounts. “They asked if I’d interview him.

I said yes; we booked The Alex Theatre in

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Glennville and sold tickets—which the bastards didn’t tell me—and it sold out!”

“We’ve got lots to talk about, and two hours flew by. It was that experience that encouraged him to suggest we do this.”

The show, touted as an evening of

John Cleese and Eric Idle: Together Again At Last…For The Very First Time

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culture living history

Can you handle the truth?

Davenport House thrills with ‘Stranger than Fiction’ living history by jessica leigh lebos

jll@connectsavannah.com

If you’re looking for spine-tingling tales, it doesn’t get more macabre than Savannah in 1820.

A fire had left half the city in ruins, there was no electricity, and almost a quarter of the population was dying of yellow fever.

It was also the year that artisan Isaiah Davenport built his Federal-style mansion on Columbia Square, and the chaos of the time imbues a certain solemnity to the

The expansive cast of the Davenport House’s living history show, which is based on actual events that took place in Savannah in 1820 and culled from newspapers and books of the time by playwright and documentarian Raleigh Marcell.

property, which was the first to be saved by the Historic Savannah Foundation and became a museum in 1963.

Almost every October since 2003, the staff of the Davenport House has presented a historical re-enactment of the yellow fever epidemic of the 1820s to provide context to its year-round programs—and also to amuse those looking for a ghoulish

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experience beyond the downtown’s ubiquitous entertaining (and unprovable) ghost stories.

“It’s the show we built our reputation on,” says museum director Jamie Credle.

“When people hear ‘yellow fever,’ they think ‘Davenport House.’”

This October, the enterprising historians have created an entirely new living history show, and it’s even creepier: “Stranger Than Fiction: An Exploration of the Extraordinary in Old Savannah” is based

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apparitions,” says Marcell, Professional tour who has co-produced the guide and show comuseum’s fall program creator Jamal Touré since its beginning. returns to the attic “We thought, ‘Why not with “The Other Half give them the rest of the of Savannah,” an explostory?’” ration of the enslaved The drama begins African experience inside the old Kennedy of the supernatural.

Pharmacy, where particiWhile slavery is often pants are immersed in a presented as a paralvisual and audio presentalel or separate from the tion narrated by Marcell. mainstream historiThe supernatural was on cal narrative, the Daveveryone’s minds in the enport House makes 1820s, which isn’t too dif- While slavery is often presented great effort to champion as a parallel or separate from the ferent than our current inclusivity. Told with mainstream historical narrative, cultural obsession with lively style and acute the Davenport House makes great accuracy, Touré’s popuzombies and vampires. effort to champion inclusivity.

Travelling shows that lar presentations have assuaged the appetite for been part of the October the otherworldly included programs since 2003.

“Animal Magnetism” (per“He’s always been the formed at the Savannah Theater in 1821 star,” commends Credle. for 75 cents,) and “Phantasmagoria,” a colFor “Stranger than Fiction,” Touré and lection of projections depicting skeletons, Marcell have teamed up once again to witches and skulls designed to scare folks highlight history’s fascinating elements out of their hoop skirts. and leave audiences with more than a “We forget how novel this must have few goosebumps. The 90-minute show is been—we are surrounded by images every recommended for those 12 and older, and day, but back then people were seeing these participants must be able to walk up and things for the first time and it was terrifydown stairs. ing,” regales Marcell.

It’s bound to thrill as much as accounts Also chronicled are the revolutionary of murderous apparitions on the squares, practice of hypnotism and the introducexcept that everything you’re going to see tion of the first solar microscope, which and hear is absolutely true. allowed people to view the unseen world of “This is not a haunted house. There are amoebas and bacteria for the first time— no ghost stories,” clarifies Marcell. a crowded universe deemed “Monster He adds with a grin: “But I can’t guarSoup.” antee you won’t want to look over your “Savannah was in touch with all of the shoulder as you’re climbing the candlelit biggest ideas of the day,” says Marcell. staircase.” cs After setting the scene in the pharmacy, the audience is led across the courtyard “Stranger than Fiction” presented by the Davenport into the candlelit corridors of the grand House house itself. Within the preserved rooms, When: 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays through actors play the parts of historic figures Oct. 31 debating the existence of ghosts and specters as well as musing on the nature of the Where: 324 E. State St. soul and the superstitious beliefs of the 19th Tickets: $22 advance, $25 door century.

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Savannah’s Lady Chablis is immortalized in a screenprint by Michael Enns.

IF YOU’RE NOT familiar with Andy Warhol’s Factory studio, imagine a silvery room covered in tinfoil, musicians and artists and drag queens all doing speed on a red couch, and an almost manic method of producing artwork going on in the background.

That’s the Factory, a (literally) shining icon of 1960s New York artistic splendor that spurred some of Warhol’s greatest accomplishments.

It’s that splendor that Art Rise Savannah is recreating at Non-Fiction Gallery on October 16.

The Warhol Factory Party is Art Rise’s first annual fall fundraiser and follows a screenprinting workshop hosted

by Michael Enns, a former artist at the Factory.

Come Friday night, Non-Fiction will be covered in tin foil just like the Factory, Twisty Cats (aka Peter and Blake Mavrogeorgis of Dollhouse) will perform as the Velvet Underground, and House of Gunt will perform a drag show.

Most enticing, the winner of a raffle at the gala will get the opportunity to have a photograph of any subject they choose be recreated Warhol-style by Enns himself.

Enns would love to tell you about his time at the Factory, but ask him about his work making screenprints, not about how well he knew Andy or if he ever ran into Lou Reed.

“People want some attachment to the artist and what the artist was like,” Enns says. “A lot has been written about the Factory, but not so much about the making of the art, so this is to enlighten people about the process.”

Enns started doing the workshops with a fellow Factory friend last year. He starting working there as a screenprinter at the studio in 1977, first part-time while he attended Parsons and then full-time in 1981.

A native Floridian, Enns hung out with A.E. “Beanie” Backus, an acclaimed landscape painter in Florida, who had a part in forging Enns’ connection with Warhol.

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“Andy liked to think of things as being mechanical,” Enns explains, “and in terms of the printmaking process today, it’s very done by hand, it’s a very old-fashioned sort of thing.”

Art Rise is all about making art magical, so a Factory-themed party is a perfect fit for the funky nonprofit.

“We were looking to be very wacky, so of course the idea of the Factory rose to the top,” says Clinton Edminster, executive director of Art Rise.

“We’re not looking for a gala that’s very snooty—we wanted a weird, funky, good time.”

Art Rise’s mission is twofold: providing financial stability for artists living in the community and making arts accessible for everyone in the community. The gala will raise funds to support Art Rise’s programs, like the Art March and the Savannah Art Informer, and in turn further their twofold mission.

“I’ve been impressed with the progress with all programs and their impact on the city,” Edminster reflects.

“We have to consistently keep up with our growth—growth is challenging, and we’re at a point where we need to grow at the correct pace and grow in partnership with the city. The city has grown in so many different ways, so we have to keep up.” cs

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“A friend of mine and I used to hang out at [Backus’] studio when we were young,” Enns recalls. “He was five foot tall, had this grandiose chutzpah that you would not believe. He entrenched himself with Andy inexplicably and started everything.”

The Factory’s name was coined because of Warhol’s preferred method of creating art: mass production in an assembly-line setup. Silkscreen printing helped him achieve that goal.

“Andy liked to think of things as being mechanical,” Enns explains, “and in terms of the print-making process today, it’s very done by hand, it’s a very old-fashioned sort of thing. It’s a bit time-consuming, and Andy liked thing done quickly. He demanded some sort of speed making the art, but it couldn’t always be that way.”

The prints originated from a Polaroid photograph where the subject wore makeup that verged on clownish, just to create the contrast needed for the print.

“There had to be this high contrast because we didn’t have Photoshop, so it was all done with makeup,” Enns says.

Fortunately, the workshop will go cover all the intricacies of silkscreen printing as done at the Factory, because Enns notes it’s easier said than done.

“Reading about it is pretty boring,” he says. “You start out with the photograph, then you make a negative, then you make a positive, then a halftone screen—it goes on and on. It’s a lot of negative/positive googly-gosh. It gets a little confusing for people, but we do a little step-by-step sort of thing, try to make the magic happen in front of people.”

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and infant mortality was high. How did early Savannahians deal with the ever present specter of their own demise? Through Nov. 1.

Owens-Thomas House, 124 Abercorn St.

Ex Voto Vintage Jewelry Trunk Show — Oct. 16-Nov. 20. The Grand Bohemian Gallery, 700 Drayton St.

The Optical Coloration of Solinglass — Through Oct. 16. grandbohemiangallery.com/. The Grand Bohemian Gallery, 700 Drayton St.

History, Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence — “History, Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence” explores three major themes of Lawrence’s larger oeuvre and specifically focuses on his graphic work.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Other Voices, Other Cities — “Other Voices, Other Cities” is an exhibition of works from an ongoing series by artist Sue Williamson that explores the definition of place to cities and citizens. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Make Your Own Warhol — Art Rise Savannah brings former master printer of pop artist icon Andy Warhol, Michael Enns, to Savannah for a free “Make your own Warhol” demonstration. Fri., Oct. 16, 2-4 p.m. NonFiction Gallery, 1522 Bull St. Monet and American Impressionism — The Jepson brings four paintings of French master Claude Monet to Savannah for the first time in the city’s history. Monet galvanized the work of countless artists as a founder of the French art movement Impressionism. Oct. 16-Jan. 24. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Plein Air — Friendly competition that allows artists to produce their best work in a 3-hour period. Proceeds from the event will benefit the event sponsor, the Savannah Art Association (SAA). $35 Sat., Oct. 17. savannahartassociation.com. Johnson Square Warhol Factory Party — Don’t miss this wacky-crazy-nutzo fall gala complete with music, dancing, the House of Gunt, and a silent auction to have your likeness screen printed in the original Warhol style by one of the original Master Printers who worked with him at the Factory. $47.99 Fri., Oct. 16. NonFiction Gallery, 1522 Bull St.

Continuing Exhibits The ART: of Cal Wood — A collection of abstract paintings at Zunzi’s 2 on view until the end of October. $1000 for 30” x 40” & 40” x 40 size paintings. Through Oct. 31. Z2, 9 Drayton Street.

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Biscuits, Beehives and the Boogie Man — Lisa Ocampo and Tiffany O’Brien show paintings with a fun, whimsical Southern Gothic theme. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St.

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The Book of Demons and Angels — The Book of Demons and Angels is a collection of drawings by Rob Hessler that depict the creatures of an imagined postapocalyptic world where our darkest faults and our purest virtues have taken physical form and are battling for control of the planet.

The Butcher Tattoo Studio, 19 East Bay St.

Work by Henry Dean is at the Cultural Affairs Gallery; see Lauren Flotte’s story about the exhibit online at www.connectsavannah.com

= CREEKS + FOLDS — Features installation panels, sculpture, works on paper and paintings from the Low Country to the Isle of Skye.

Through Oct. 30. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Eclectic Encounters — Telfair Museums houses more than 6,500 objects in its permanent collection. Eclectic Encounters gives an inside look to works that have not been seen by the public in over 10 years. The exhibit features pieces that cross time periods and art movements to reveal the wide range of the museum’s holdings. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Ed Jones and Daniel Smith — Ed Jones displays his sculpture and Daniel Smith shows his paintings. Opening reception October 22, 5:30-7:30pm. Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, 1352 Eisenhower Drive.

Floresco — Floresco is a solo exhibition of work by sculptor John Bisbee. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Imprint — “Imprint” is an exhibition by artist and SCAD alumna Naimar Ramírez that brings together existing and newly created works. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Irons for the Ages, Flowers for the Day — “Irons for the Ages, Flowers for the Day” is a large-scale installation

by Beijing-based sculptor Li Hongbo, who primarily uses handmade paper to create visually compelling and malleable sculptures that challenge the viewer’s perceptions of metamorphosis in sculpture. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

James Brooks — James Brooks (1906– 1992), formally considered an Abstract Expressionist, produced bright works marked by their vibrating tension between spontaneous form and controlled gesture. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Laura Berger — Laura’s work focuses on exploring our connections to ourselves and each other and the idea of finding novelty and adventure in everyday life. Through Nov. 1.

Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Luba Lowry and Marlene Nawrocki — The featured artists for October are Luba Lowry, a talented Savannah scene and portrait oil painter, and Marlene Nawrocki, a gold and silver contemporary jewelry artist.

Through Oct. 31. gallery209savannah.com/.

Gallery 209, 209 E River St. The Making of Dakota Jackson — “The Making of Dakota Jackson” is the first major museum exhibition of Jackson’s work and retrospective of the visionary furniture designer’s life. The exhibition profiles Jackson’s life and career and includes iconic works from his oeuvre, tracing the development from 1974, when he established his New York City design studio, to the present.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Mickalene Thomas at Giverny — The dazzling mixed-media works of Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) combine rhinestones with acrylic and oil paints to create compositions that often reference iconic works of art from nineteenth-century Europe. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Mortality and Mourning in Regency Savannah — Life was precarious in Savannah at the beginning of the 19th century. Yellow fever was a constant threat

Patricia J. Walker: Works from the Studio — Patricia J. Walker (1949-2015) was on the faculty of Georgia Southern University for 27 years. Indigo Sky Community Gallery, 915 Waters Ave. Powerful Expressions: Paintings

by Hessam Abrishami — The Grand Bohemian Gallery, 700 Drayton St. Prints from the Collection — This exhibit features approximately 40 European and American works dating from the 16th century through 1945 and includes works by Rembrandt, Cezanne, Degas, Renoir, Goya, and others. This exceptional exhibit includes original etchings, lithographs and wood engravings on paper by Rembrandt, Cezanne, Degas, Renoir, Goya, and others. The exhibit includes one of the most recognizable images in the world, Adam and Eve, by Albrecht Dürer. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St. Ray Ellis’ Drawings of Georgia and South Carolina — Ray Ellis is well known for his loose, evocative watercolors and impressionistic oils. In this show, we focus primarily on his works in pencil: quick idea sketches, preliminary drawings in preparation for works in watercolor and oil, as well as finished drawings, ends in themselves.

From the archives we have selected a group of drawings of the Georgia/South Carolina coast, Savannah scenes and a couple of images of Augusta National, Master’s Tournament. Each is framed in an archival mat with UV glass. Through Nov. 7, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

912-234-5530. info@rayellis.com. Ray Ellis Gallery, 205 W. Congress St. Ray Williams — Ray Williams is originally from Long Island, New York, and relocated to Savannah in 2007. He has done extensive work in wood carving, pen and ink, and bronze. His carving career began in the 1970’s when he received a beautiful set of chisels, picked up a book from the library, and he and his kids carved their first piece: a man’s face on a 4x4 post of white pine. Since

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then, he has carved and sold many pieces of art, including signs, faces, tables and other nautical pieces which are still on display at many local hotels and restaurants throughout Long Island. Through Oct. 31. savannahjea. org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Richard Law — Richard Law’s work reflects the experiences of his life. Through Dec. 31. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St.

Classes Beginning Metalsmithing — This is an introductory course to metalsmithing. The focus of this course is to introduce basic tools and techniques used by jewelers. Students will use both sterling silver and copper to create several pieces of jewelry. Basic soldiering skills will also be taught. Expect to get your hands dirty! $150/$140 city resident Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Beginning Oil Painting — This class, taught by Woody Cornwell, focuses on the fundamental techniques of painting with oilbased paint. Designed for those with a broad range of painting experience, this class will develop both beginning and continuing-level students’ skills using color, composition, and creativity. The subject matter will range from still lifes to old master studies and photographs. Students will explore techniques

from the basic understanding of “fat over lean” to imprimitura, grisaille, impasto, and alla prima. Members $175, non-members $200 Thursdays, 1-4 p.m.. telfair.org/jepson/.

Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Beginning Wheel Throwing — This introductory class will teach you the basics of throwing clay on the potter’s wheel. Trimming and decorative techniques will be taught to give each vessel its own flair. Students will work at their own pace and receive individual attention. $150/$140 city resident Tuesdays, 6-9 p.m. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Children’s Clay — This introductory clay class will teach young students the fundamentals of hand building and sculpture.

Students will work with coils and slabs and a variety of glazes. $85, $80 city resident Wednesdays, 3:45-4:45 p.m. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Clean Lines in Clay — Explore modern clean lines in ceramics with Irene McCollum.

Students will work on contemporary bottle forms as well as lids and plates. Wheel experience is needed for this class. $150/$140 city resident Mondays, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Enameling — This is an introductory course in enameling. Students will learn how

to create colorful surface designs on pre-cut copper pendants. $150/$140 city resident Tuesdays, 6-9 p.m. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Fall Art Classes — Includes classes for youth and adults, taught by gifted artists whose approaches range from the traditional to the contemporary. Learn basics of oil painting with Karen Bradley or Paul Scibilia, or get a real handle on acrylics with Lind Hollingsworth. Explore a contemporary classical approach to color and form with Jack Murphy or go back to the Renaissance with Paul Scibilia. Be brave and try a Portrait class with Karen Bradley. Or try one of our newest classes: Watercolor Basics with Ashley Garcia or Explorations in Mixed-Media with Tara Conway King. Mondays-Sundays, 9:30 a.m.-9 p.m.. 912-484-6415. info@thestudioschool@ gmail.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com/ art-classes.html. Studio School, 1319 Bull St. Handbuilding — Open to all skill levels.

This class will help develop basic skills in clay construction, glazing, and decorative techniques. Learn techniques such as extruding, coiling, and using slabs to make basic forms. $150/$140 city resident Thursdays, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Impressionist Still Life — This class will explore the use of color to create the illusion of light in oil paintings. Students will

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Popular Richmond Hill event features music and plenty of food

The Festival:

The Richmond Hill/Bryan County Chamber of Commerce will host the 17th Annual Great Ogeechee Seafood Festival Oct. 16-18 in J.F. Gregory Park (521 Cedar St.). The festival, which is being sponsored by Southern Eagle Distributing, will include live music, crafts, seafood, carnival rides, and feature a headline musical performance from country music singer Joe Nichols.

“What started as a small community fair has evolved into a regional festival that drew 35,000 attendees last year,” said Christy Sherman, executive director of the Richmond Hill Convention & Visitors Bureau. “Anyone who’s ever been to the Seafood Festival knows it is a wonderful celebration of Richmond Hill and the best coastal seafood you can find anywhere!”

Cost for the festival is $5 for Friday and Sunday for those 16 and older; $10 for Saturday. Children ages six to 15 may enter the festival for $5. Children ages five and under will be admitted for free. For more information visit www.goseafoodfestival. com.

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The Headliner:

Joe Nichols, who will perform Oct. 17 at J.F. Gregory Park, has released eight studio albums. Five of his songs have hit number one on the country music chart -- “Brokenheartsville,” “Tequila Makes Her Clothes e Fall Off,” “Gimmie That Girl,” “Sunny and F F 75” and “Yeah.”

About his new single, “Freaks Like Me,” Nichols says “It is about being unapologetically proud of who you are and not worrying about being cool or what the other p people think of you. I’m a traditional guy S and some people don’t think that’s necessarily cool, but that’s all right. I’m a freak 1 to some people, but that’s who I am, and 1 I’m proud of that.”

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Speaking of Fright Fest, a look at Savannah’s other movie history

by P.M. Goerner AS ANY daytrip through Savannah is enough to make clear, the city has always been an eminently ‘cinematic’ place.

The affecting local atmosphere, a tenuous collision of proud stone monuments and the foreboding swampland that teems between its cracks, has surely always ascribed the city a spellbindingly paradoxical character in the minds of locals and visitors alike—particularly, of course, those with a penchant for the phantasmic.

At the confluence of the city’s defiant stonework and the insatiable swamp, Savannah balances on a kind of surreal, mystical detachment from the outside world, a foggy cobblestone stage girded by those eternally half-drawn curtains of Spanish moss.

If that sounds like a fair setup for your kind of movie, you won’t find it very surprising that Savannah has been something of a film destination for some time longer

than most of the city’s newer generations of amateur paparazzi will remember.

Before Savannah became a place known far and wide for things like park benches and invisible pets, it was, to a few ambitious film directors at least, a hidden, secret place where hidden, secret things happened. Thusly, it was also a place where some pretty great (read: bad) B-horror and action movies were filmed.

Here, I’d like to take a quick look at a little bit of Savannah’s ‘other’ movie history, before the Glory days of 1989, when our swampy little ‘burgh was still cutting its teeth in the gory trenches of low-budget, ‘exploitation’ filmmaking.

In 1980, infamous Italian horror director Lucio Fulci was looking for his Dunwich. According to the script for the first film in his so-called ‘Gates of Hell’ trilogy, which would come to be titled City of the Living Dead, Dunwich was supposed to feel like a place that existed a bit beyond the pale of everyday reality, as close to the ‘spirit world’ as one might be compelled

to imagine. Fulci found his Dunwich in Savannah.

Most of the local shots in City take place on Factor’s Walk, the alley behind River Street that still cheekily sports a bit of the seedy image that once also defined the character of the old Riverfront.

Ludicrous waves of fog, the rhythmic strike of steps on cobblestone like a racing urban heartbeat, and, of course, a gaggle of famished zombies that make Edward James Olmos look like a Maybelline model all conspire in these scenes to offer the most impressively dramatic elements of a film that has otherwise come to be known as one of Fulci’s worst.

Fortunately, there’s an audience for that kind of thing these days (I’ll be the first to raise my hand), and anyone with an interest in a unique intersection of low-budget horror and local history is sure to find plenty to recognize and enjoy, including a few scenes in well-known local cemeteries.

While it’s pretty understandable that the Savannah Morning News has

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Squirm, tells the tale of a downed power line that infuses the local fishing bait population with a fearsome bloodthirst.

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Most of the local shots in City take place on Factor’s Walk, the alley behind River Street that still cheekily sports a bit of the seedy image that once also defined the character of the old Riverfront.

commercially-viable pair of ‘Billy-Bob Teeth’ (as likely pioneered by the film’s only memorable credit: future specialeffects makeup guru Rick Baker), the film truly represents the finest, most irresistibly commentary-worthy silliness that B-horror has to offer.

It’s quite unsurprising then, that Squirm eventually found its permanent home in the revered annals of perennial sci-fi-comedy favorite Mystery Science Theater 3000.

As there are few greater celebrations of the fun to be had while watching bad movies, MST3K offers what can be safely assumed as the finest viewing experience of Squirm available, and it remains free and legal for viewing anytime at the show’s online repository, (www.clubmst3k.com).

For an undeniably amusing look at Savannah in film ‘before we were famous,’ there aren’t many better options than these two B-classics, and further treasures certainly remain just under the surface (see: the delightfully shameless Italian Jaws ripoff Great White for starters). If you’re especially lucky, you just might still be able to catch someone in town who remembers ‘the worm movie.’

Considering the likes of Squirm, City of the Living Dead, and the entire wacky stable of early Savannah films to which they provide a welcome entrance, it’s safe to assume that anyone who claims that local history is boring just might in fact be a walking corpse in disguise. Here’s fair warning. CS

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Trick or Trot benefits: Local Charities Supported by Rotary, Georgia Rotary Scholarship Program, and other Rotary programs.

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presumably decided to omit a film with the working title of ‘The Gates of Hell’ from its own internet database of locally produced films, this kind of bad publicity is just the sort of thing to give any B-Movie fan in Savannah a solid reason to break out the popcorn bowl and gear up for some grotesque fun.

City of the Living Dead also sports a memorable new-wave-meets-baroqueclassical soundtrack by famed Fulci associate Fabio Frizzi, which you may just be lucky enough to hear spinning on vinyl at our own local B-horror mecca, Graveface Records and Curiosities.

Let’s rewind just a bit more now, to an even more humble time before fancy words like “reputation” or “qualifications” had come to burden Savannah’s modest local film industry. In 1976, a greenhorn director by the name of Jeff Lieberman arrived in Port Wentworth to create something that could only have always been destined for a lifetime of loving ridicule.

The result of Lieberman’s efforts, a film called Squirm, tells the tale of a downed power line that infuses the local fishing bait population with a fearsome bloodthirst usually reserved for…well, scary things.

The rest of the story is generally forgettable and unfortunately invested in the details of fishing bait, but the level to which this film takes its ‘B’ status to heart is downright inspiring nonetheless.

Featuring such memorable themes as ‘city boy in the country’ and ‘insane killer redneck,’ not to mention a very admirable application of what must be the first

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YOUR TOTAL GUIDE TO A VERY GRAVEFACE WEEKEND by anna Chandler

anna@connectsavannah.com

It’s vinyl and horror authority Ryan Graveface’s favorite month, and you know what that means: cobwebs, limited release records, and scary movies galore!

The coming weekend is packed with two big celebrations: we’ve broken it down to allow you your fullest experience possible.

4th Anniversary Party @ Graveface Records and Curiosities Free tattoos by Chloe Pinnock.

Okay, so as of press time, all the free— yes, free—tattoo spots are filled for Friday, but Pinnock, who owns her own tattoo studio in Canada, will also be inking folks on Saturday, October 17, at Graveface Fright Fest.

Graveface is immensely happy with the label and horror-themed designs that Pinnock, his Dreamend bandmate, concocted for the occasion.

“I said I wanted one full flash sheet of all my related logos, then we came up with one that’s all Halloween and horror specific,” he explains. “They’re all really simple designs, but effective—she killed it.”

Des Ark, above, perform on Friday in Starland Dairy; catch ‘80s gems April Fool’s Day and Nighmare on Elm Street 3 at The Lucas on Saturday. des ark photo by marc krause

Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

In the 1987 continuation of the Freddy Krueger saga, survivors who’ve been stalked by Krueger in their dreams learn to take control and fight back against the serial killer.

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Live music from Dreamend, The Marshmallow Ghosts, Des Ark, and Hospital Ships.

After problems with neighbors and a successful “Keep All-Ages Shows Alive at Graveface” Indiegogo campaign, Friday marks the shop’s big live music return. The day has turned into a true block party with sets from Graveface Records bands going down in the old Starland Dairy in Desoto Row. Graveface stresses that these will be quiet sets, including performances from his own project Dreamend, Graveface “house band” The Marshmallow Ghosts, Des Ark, and Hospital Ships.

“This is less ‘rock show at Graveface,’” he explains. “This is about community—let’s just all have a party. I’m forcing some bit of quiet; I’m not going to be taking chances with loud stuff until the winter.”

Des Ark is coming to town fresh on the release of their latest LP, Everything Dies; Marshmallow Ghosts, who release a special Halloween record annually, will have a new lathe-cut 7”.

Punk rock flea market.

From bones to vintage clothes to com42 ics to original art, Graveface has invited

April Fool’s Day

An island, a mansion, a murder: this 1986 thriller has it all.

The Monster Squad

the community to peddle their wares up and down Desoto Row. Pick up a perfectly unique piece to complete your Halloween costume, or select a ghoulish gift for a special someone.

Tarot readings!

Find out what the future holds with a private tarot session.

Discounts galore.

Scope out special sales throughout the shop, offered for one day only.

2015 Graveface Fright Fest

Friday was just a warm-up, y’all: Graveface has teamed up with The Lucas Theatre for a one-of-a-kind film festival!

Graveface has hand-selected an array of films for the occasion.

Count Dracula’s got an army of classic monsters—the Werewolf, the Mummy, the Swamp Thing, and Frankenstein’s monster— and they’re ready to take over the world. Watch a gang of young underdogs fight back!

From a Whisper to a Scream

Scarewaves

A brand-new film from Henrique Couto, Scarewaves will celebrate its Southeastern premiere at Fright Fest. Listen if you dare!

(Fake) horror trailers from locals like you!

Graveface invited the community to submit trailers for (fake) upcoming horror releases to preview between films. So far, he’s been quite impressed by the variety of work that’s been submitted.

“I’ve been trying to think of things to do between the movies because I want to do an intermission but still have something,” he explains. “It’s nice to know that these people exist somewhere around here who are actively making stuff.”

Prizes will be awarded to the best (or best-worst, perhaps) trailers. CS

In this 1987 camp gem featuring Vincent Price himself, the uncle of an executed murderess shares four spooky stories with a reporter. Director Jeff Burr will be present to sign autographs and answer questions!

Graveface Records & Curiosities 4th Anniversary Party

Return of the Living Dead (30th anniversary screening)

2015 Graveface Fright Fest

Graveface Fright Fest celebrates the 30th anniversary of Return of the Living Dead with a special screening. When a deadly gas is leaked into the air, the vapors cause the dead to reanimate, leading to mayhem throughout Louisville, Kentucky.

When: Friday, October 16, 6 p.m.

Where: Graveface Records & Curiosities Cost: Free, all-ages When: Saturday, October 17, 4 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre for the Arts Cost: $20 advance via savannahboxoffice.com, $25 day of, $50 VIP (special VIP seating area, limited Marshmallow Ghosts 7” lathe-cut, print of official Graveface Fright Fest poster, more; only available in advance via savannahboxoffice.com)

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Visit our website online at www.connectsavannah.com/ savannah/MovieTimes for daily movie times and trailers

multiplexes CARMIKE 10 www.carmike.com 511 Stephenson Ave. 353-8683

spotlight EISENHOWER savannah.spotlighttheatres.com/ 1100 Eisenhower Dr. 352-3533

\ REGAL SAVANNAH 10 www.regmovies.com 1132 Shawnee St. 927-7700

1901 E. Victory 355-5000

Carmike WYNNSONG 11 www.carmike.com 1150 Shawnee St. 920-3994

POOLER Stadium 12 www.gtcmovies.com 425 POOLER PKWY. 330-0777

ROYAL Cinemas POOLER www.royalcinemaspooler. com 5 TOWN CENTER CT. 988-4025

Indie venues Call or Visit the venue ‘s website for specific movies and times

Muse Arts Warehouse www.musesavannah.org 703 Louisville Rd (912) 713-1137

Sentient bean www.sentientbean.com 13 E Park Ave (912) 232-4447

SICARIO

THE MARTIAN

ooo Superior to both Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar and (by a smaller margin) Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity, The Martian will disappoint only those who were waiting for Marvin to show up at some point to wreak looney havoc. Perhaps not since Ron Howard’s 1995 Apollo 13 has a movie paid such loving tribute to star-struck visionaries and their egghead enablers, those brainiacs who work tirelessly to send them soaring past the heavens and just as feverishly toil to return them safely to the fold.

Matt Damon plays the title character— not a Martian per se, but an Earthling who becomes stranded on the planet after his team mistakenly believes him to have been killed in a freak accident. While his fellow astronauts, a dedicated group led by expedition captain Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain), hurtle back toward Earth—a journey that will take many months— Damon’s Mark Watney calmly assesses his situation and determines that if he can sufficiently secure the man-built outpost on the Mars surface and if he can not only ration his food but also grow some more, he might be able to survive long enough until the next U.S. rocket comes visiting in a couple years’ time. Or maybe not even that long, once the NASA suits realize that he’s in fact not dead (as reported by Lewis) and is very much alive. With NASA engineer Vincent Kapoor (Chiwetel Ejiofor) taking the lead, agency head Teddy Sanders (Jeff Daniels) exploring every option, and P.R. rep Annie Montrose (Kristen Wiig) waiting for instructions on how to handle the media, everyone becomes committed to

bringing Mark back home.

Andy Weir’s novel has been adapted for the screen by Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, TV’s Alias), and the film’s strength largely derives from the characterization of Mark Watney. As expertly brought to life by Damon, he’s easy to like and even easier to admire, as he employs his sense of humor to take the edge off his dire predicament, thus allowing him to rationally face challenges one step at a time. Yet despite Damon’s star billing and his face looming large—and alone—on the poster, this is hardly a one-man show like Cast Away (or a one-woman show like Gravity). Instead, the picture frequently cuts away from Watney, not only to focus on the various earthbound players as they argue, compromise and coordinate but also to check in on Watney’s fellow space travellers and get their take on the situation. Not surprisingly, everyone comes to the same conclusion: Like Damon’s Private Ryan, Damon’s Mark Watney is worth saving. The Martian, then, represents that other type of inspirational drama, one that moves us not through oversized action but through understated intelligence.

SICARIO

ooo I stand corrected, while simultaneously being floored by the development. It’s barely been a month since I decreed that No Escape was the most intense motion picture I’ve seen in 2015, and yet here’s Sicario storming through the gate and proving so potent that the Owen Wilson flick suddenly seems as incendiary as On Golden Pond by comparison.

An exaggeration? OK, a bit. But Sicario is nevertheless a Molotov cocktail of a movie, flaming fuels of helplessness and paranoia and scorching viewers’ nerves in the process. Like Steven Soderbergh’s Oscarwinning Traffic, it throws together Benicio Del Toro and the War on Drugs, and while it may not be as balanced and far-reaching as that bruising beauty of a film, it’s perhaps even more cynical—which of course is to say, more realistic—in its depiction of a battle in which there aren’t good guys and bad guys as much as there are bad guys, worse guys, and those few innocents caught in the crossfire.

Emily Blunt headlines as Kate Macer, an FBI agent whose take-charge, can-do demeanor in the field catches the eye of shady government operative Matt Graver (Josh Brolin), the sort of smarmy, fauxgood ole boy who thinks nothing of wearing flip-flops to important meetings.

Graver wants Macer on his team, to aid in tackling the drug crisis taking place along the U.S.-Mexico border—Macer accepts the assignment, even though Graver is keeping her in the dark a bit more than she would appreciate. But if she thinks Graver is a clandestine figure, he’s as open and transparent as Mary Poppins when placed alongside Alejandro (Del Toro), a shadowy figure who joins Graver and his team as they set about trying to ascertain the identity of a particularly dangerous drug kingpin.

“Nothing will make sense to your American ears,” Alejandro tells Kate. “But in the end, you will understand.” That proves to be an opinion, not a guarantee, and Sicario

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excels in the manner in which it keeps its intentions close to its chest. Kate Macer is, like all young law officers in the movies, an idealist, the figure audience members are automatically expected to rally behind. Yet while she does command the lion’s share of our sympathy, the picture, with its forceful script by Taylor Sheridan (a longtime TV actor making his writing debut), makes it clear that this is the type of poisonous war in which good intentions can get a person killed, and that the rules are made not only to be broken but to be ground into dust, like so much cocaine powder. With Kate representing the hero America thinks it probably deserves and Matt serving as the anti-hero America arguably needs, it’s up to Alejandro to throw in any hints of moral ambiguity. Del Toro, in a marvelous performance, conveys the shifty nature of his character, who can morph from seemingly conscientious to casually cruel without raising an eyebrow.

Director Denis Villeneuve, whose Prisoners slipped onto my 10 Best list for 2013, has again crafted a motion picture that shows people attempting to navigate gray areas while wondering whether the ends justifies the means. And as before, he has turned to the brilliant Roger Deakins to shoot his picture, with the renowned cinematography once again making extraordinary use of shadows. Also adding to the sense of unease that grips us at every turn is composer Johann Johannsson, a recent Oscar nominee for The Theory of Everything. Appropriately, his contribution feels less like a soundtrack and more like a funeral dirge – the sort of morose melody likely to back Charon as he ferries the war’s fallen across the Styx.

THE WALK

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ooo Released in 2008, Man on Wire told the amazing true story of Philippe Petit, a French high-wire walker who in the 1970s could always be found risking his life climbing and traversing high points of note (including Notre Dame and Sydney Bridge). When Petit learned of plans to construct the World Trade Center, he waited impatiently over the years for the Twin Towers to become a reality, at which point he and his supporters plotted to set up a line between the two buildings so that he could cross over with only a thin wire under his feet. Mixing modern re-enactments and interviews with awe-inspiring archival footage, the film proved to be a giddy watch and snagged the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Realizing this story was too great to keep relegated to the documentary graveyard – Man on Wire grossed $3 million, which is solid for a nonfiction feature but pocket change compared to multiplex moneymakers – director Robert Zemeckis 44 has responded with The Walk, a thrilling

dramatization of this historic event. With such titles as Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Forrest Gump, Zemeckis has shown that he’s one of those exemplary filmmakers who can wade knee-deep into dazzling effects work without ever losing sight of the piece’s pathos and humanity (The Polar Express was the rare time he failed), and this latest picture follows suit. It takes its time acquainting us with Petit (charmingly played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his comrades in arms, fellow visionaries who have all agreed to help him achieve his goal of spanning that imposing empty space between the two towers. It covers the preparations intently, taking care to dot every cinematic i and cross every celluloid t. Only then does Zemeckis hit us with the spectacle: The final half-hour, as Petit takes to the wire, is basically one sustained money shot, with superb effects conveying not only the sheer lunacy of the undertaking but also the determination of one man to achieve the seemingly impossible.

“Why do you want to climb the mountain?” someone asks the daredevils in the recent Everest, to which the response is the predictable “Because it’s there.” Petit might be expected to make a similar declaration but never does – a surprise, given the degree of arrogance he sometimes flashes. Like an Icarus for our time, he dares to skip across the sky, and anyone not familiar with the outcome will be anxious to learn whether he similarly gets burned.

THE INTERN

oo As a director, Nancy Meyers won’t ever be mistaken for one of the greats. An unfussy, straightforward filmmaker, she has no style to call her own, seemingly content if the actors hit their marks and their lines.

But as a screenwriter, she’s proven that she has wit and wisdom to spare, penning such sturdy efforts as Private Benjamin (her only Oscar nomination to date), the surprisingly rich Irreconcilable Differences (which was much more than just a movie about Drew Barrymore “divorcing” her parents, as the ads suggested), the delightful remake of The Parent Trap, and the underrated bauble The Holiday.

That many people (mostly men, natch) sneer at the mention of her name says less about her skills and more about an era in which romantic comedies are deemed even more useless than “torture porn” titles. As Meyers ages, so do many of her characters, as evidenced by more recent efforts like Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated and, now, The Intern.

The new picture finds Robert De Niro as the goodwill ambassador for the older generation—he’s Ben Whittaker, a widower who’s bored with his retirement until he spots an ad for a successful startup

company seeking a senior citizen to serve as an intern. Against underwhelming competition, he lands the job, and he’s assigned to serve directly under the company’s founder, a workaholic named Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway).

While Ben’s an immediate hit with everyone else at the office—he’s personable, funny, and full of sound advice—Jules opts to keep her distance, although it isn’t long before he’s broken through her defenses to such a startling degree that he’s soon sharing morning coffee with her stay-at-home husband (Anders Holm) and serving as a babysitter for their adorable daughter (JoJo Kushner).

The occasional Silver Linings Playbook aside, the deterioration of De Niro’s career has been swift and brutal, the result of too many bald lunges at sizable paychecks. So it’s nice to see him underplaying rather than overacting, delivering a relaxed, sympathetic performance and matching up nicely with Hathaway’s comparatively jittery character (strictly platonic, it must be noted; the always welcome Rene Russo provides the romance as the company masseuse).

The Intern features many humorous moments, several appealing characters and even some subtext about the lunacy of dismissing this nation’s elderly when their value to society still holds some currency.

Given all this, it’s a shame the movie isn’t a tad better.

Meyers’ greatest flaw as a writer is that, like Woody Allen 90 percent of the time, her stories and people live in a bubble of pampered privilege and tasteful décor, and this tends to lead to some rather rigid narratives with no room for unpredictable happenstances. Worse, the picture features a few embarrassing moments that suggest Meyers allowed her own 20-something intern to try his hand at scripting a couple of pages.

An overlong vignette involving a breakin is hopelessly contrived (though it does allow for some amusing chitchat regarding Ocean’s Eleven), while a couple of out-ofleft-field bits involving Ben’s erection are sophomoric and completely out of place.

Notwithstanding these limp developments, though, The Intern is dependable enough to earn a modest recommendation.

BLACK MASS

ooo Do mine eyes deceive me? Is that Johnny Depp delivering an actual performance in Black Mass, his first genuine example of emoting in many a year? And he’s doing it under a mountain of makeup, the sort of latex overload that generally provides him with carte blanche to do nothing more than mug shamelessly for the camera?

It’s nice to have the talented thespian with us once more, even if his stay proves

to be a short one (after all, he has both an Alice in Wonderland sequel and an umpteenth Pirates of the Caribbean yarn in the post-production stages). Practically unrecognizable with that bald pate and those blue-sky contact lenses, Depp projects ferocious intensity as real-life crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger, whose Trivial Pursuit claim to fame is that he spent over a decade as the #2 man on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, right under some fellow named Osama bin Laden.

Through this feature film—arriving a mere year after Joe Berlinger’s documentary Whitey: United States of America v.

James J. Bulger—we’re privy to the activities that lead to his wanted status, including murder and racketeering, and we watch as he builds an empire with the help of the FBI. Or, to be specific, with the help of one particular agent: John Connolly (Joel Edgerton), who grew up with Bulger in South Boston and has allowed his childhood admiration to seep into his honorable career and poison it.

Connolly urges his fellow agents (Kevin Bacon, Adam Scott and David Harbour) at the Bureau to allow Bulger to get away with minor offenses in exchange for damning information regarding the Italian mob competing against Bulger’s Irish faction.

Of course, Bulger has no intention of playing by the rules, and he manages to commit more and greater crimes while feeding the Bureau useless intel.

Indeed, it’s the presence of Edgerton’s character which allows Black Mass to play as more than just an also-ran in the “mob movie” sweepstakes. In many ways, Connolly is just as immoral as Bulger, ratting out informants (who, of course, are then killed) to stay in the gangster’s good graces and even putting their relationship above those he enjoys with his friends at the Bureau and with his own wife (Julianne Nicholson).

Edgerton plays the part with the right mix of braggadocio and unctuousness, strutting with a skewered sense of selfpurpose yet unable to completely conceal the flop sweat triggered by his underhanded moves. He provides a nice counterpart to Depp’s steely menace, and with both actors further supported by a stellar supporting roster (Benedict Cumberbatch as Bulger’s politician brother, Corey Stoll as a no-nonsense district attorney, Peter Sarsgaard as a twitchy small-time hood, and many more), Black Mass ably demonstrates that there’s still some life left in a genre that, just when we think we’re out, pulls us back in. CS

Happenings Drinking Liberally Every first and third Thursdays, 7:00 p.m.

A gathering of Liberals for an informal discussion of politics, the economy, sports, entertainment, and the world around us.

Free to attend. Food and beverages available for purchase. Free third Thursday of every month. (912) 341-7427. livingliberally.org/ drinking/chapters/GA/savannah. Tondee’s Tavern, 7 E. Bay Street.

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.

Turning the Tables Mayoral and alderman candidates participate in this conversation where candidates and voters form conversation circles and listen to and learn from each other. Presented by Emergent Savannah. Tue., Oct. 20, 5:30-7 p.m. emergentsavannah.org. thecreativecoast. org. Creative Coast, 415 W. Boundary St. Young Democrats Mondays at 7pm on the second level of Foxy Loxy, Bull Street. Call or visit the Young Democrats Facebook page for more information. Free ongoing. 423-619-7712. foxyloxycafe.com/. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St.

Auditions and Calls for Entries

Auditions for Armstrong Youth Orchestra Open to students enrolled in primary grades through high school and including Armstrong students (available for course credit). Auditions, by appointment, are in Armstrong Fine Arts Hall. To schedule an audition, e-mail: savaayo@yahoo.com. Info is also available at www.savaayo.org. AYO is sponsored in part by the Savannah Friends of Music, www.savannahfriendsofmusic. com ongoing. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/ index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Call for Applicants for “The Gift You Never Wanted” We are often given gifts that are unsightly, unseemly, or straight out of a nightmare.

Often these “gifts” stay with us, sometimes for the better. The gifts we never wanted take many forms, both physically and emotionally. In the end we have to ask—are gifts given for the sender or the receiver? For the exhibition The Gift You Never Wanted, Non-Fiction Gallery seeks works of art that explore the idea of the gift as a burden or a blessing. Artists of all media and practice are invited to submit to this open-ended theme. To submit to The Gift You Never

Wanted, please pay your application fee below and send between four and six images to exhibitions@artrisesavannah.org by midnight on November 7th. Exhibition dates December 18-January 2. Through Nov. 7. Non-Fiction Gallery, 1522 Bull St. Call for Auditions for Spamalot Please join us at auditions for our Winter Mainstage production of Spamalot!

Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” “Spamalot” retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. Did we mention the bevy of beautiful show girls? No need to prepare anything, we will provide all audition materials at the theatre! Mandatory jazz combination, optional tap combination. Be prepared to sing, dance and read from the script. Any students 18 & under will need a parent/ guardian to sign audition forms. All ages 7 & IN 2nd grade to 104 are welcome!

Call 912-238-9015 or email eventinfo@ savannahchildrenstheatre.org for more details! Mon., Oct. 19, 7 p.m. and Tue., Oct. 20, 7 p.m. savannahchildrenstheatre.org.

Savannah Children’s Theatre, 2160 East Victory Dr. Call for Creators for Shop Local Holiday Market Sulfur Studios is seeking local creators who would like to have a table at our 1st Annual Shop Local Saturday Holiday Market. The event will be on Saturday, November 28th from noon to 6pm. Creators will be chosen based on the quality and originality of their work - we are interested in showcasing a wide variety of media and techniques. If you are interested in participating please email us at sulfurstudios@gmail.com and include your name, contact information, a description of your work and a link to your website or attach 4-6 sample images.

Deadline to apply is October 15th. free to apply, $25 fee if accepted Through Oct. 15. 912-657-1122. sulfurstudios@gmail. com. sulfurstudios.org/opportunities/. sulfurstudios.org. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull Street.

Call for Participants in PTSD Study Are you a recent combat veteran experiencing psychological or emotional stress related to your combat? You may be eligible to receive first-line medication and talk therapy interventions with proven effectiveness. PROGrESS is a study looking to learn more about how to effectively treat recent combat veterans with PTSD. The therapies are not experimental. You will be randomly assigned to receive either psychotherapy, medication, or both. For more information about the PROGrESS study, please call 912-920-0214 ext. 2169. ongoing. Online only, none.

Call for Speakers for Geekend 2015 The theme of Creative Coast’s Geekend 2015 is Growth. All entrepreneurs,

Happenings is Connect Savannah’s listing of community events, classes and groups. Visit our website at connectsavannah.com to submit a listing.

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

developers, marketers, social media mavericks, technology enthusiasts, designers and other creatives are encouraged to apply to speak now. Geekend is looking for compelling cutting-edge content that is actionable and touches upon any one or several of the following topics: Design, Development, Mobile, Social Media, Marketing, Growth Hacking, Access to Capital, Sales, Management. The festival will take place October 15-17. Through Oct. 15. 912-447-8457. geek-end.com/speakers/ apply. thecreativecoast.org. Creative Coast, 415 W. Boundary St. Call for Volunteers for the Savannah Food and Wine Festival The Savannah Food and Wine Festival seeks volunteers to help fill various general and leadership roles for November 9-15. All volunteers must attend one of the orientation sessions scheduled for October 20 and 22 from 5-6pm at the Tourism Leadership Council Office. For more information about becoming a general volunteer and the application, visit www.savannahfoodandwinefest. com/volunteers.html. Through Oct. 22. briana@savannahfoodandwinefest.com. savannahfoodandwinefest.com. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

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

Oatland Island Seeks Memories and Recollections for 40th Anniversary Oatland Island Education Center is looking for memories of Oatland Island in honor of their 40th anniversary. People who were part of the Youth Conservation Corp that helped to build Oatland Island Education Center in the 1970’s. Great memories from field trips.

Special family memories of Oatland Island.

Send your photos and stories to memories@ oatland40th.org. Deadline is August 31. undefined. 912-395-1500. oatlandisland.org.

Benefits

12th Annual Savannah Golf Classic This event brings golfers together to compete on the green while supporting children and families in need throughout the Savannah area. Golfers can register as individuals for $125 or as a foursome for $500. Registration includes access to The Club, complimentary parking, gift bag, a yardage book, use of practice facility including range, personalized golf cart signs, lunch, and the 19th Hole Awards party. LSG will give out awards for first, second, and third place foursomes, the longest drive, and closest to the pin. Benefits the Lutheran Services of Georgia. $125/player Mon., Oct. 19, 12:30-6 p.m. 404-591-7067. ahood@ lsga.org. lsga.org/savannah-golf-classic/. theclubatsavannahharbor.com/index.php.

The Club at Savannah Harbor, #2 Resort Dr. $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.

Patrick’s Ride Cyclists from around the region will participate in the 14th annual Patrick’s Ride. Riders will depart from the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute (ACI) at Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah at 6 a.m. and arrive at the Riverwalk in Augusta around 6 p.m. Also known as the “Harvest of Hope Double Metric Century,” this 140-mile bicycle ride raises money for adults and children with cancer at the ACI and The Children’s Hospital at Memorial University Medical Center. Sat., Oct. 17, 6 a.m.-6 p.m. Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute (at Memorial Health Univ. Medical Center), 4700 Waters Ave. SCMPD Animal Control seeks Volunteers Savannah Chatham County Animal Control seeks volunteers to serve various tasks as needed by the shelter. No prior animal shelter experience is necessary. Newly trained volunteers will be authorized to serve immediately after orientation. Potential volunteers are asked to notify J. Lewis prior to orientation; though, walk-ins are welcome.

Volunteers must be at least 17-yearsold. ongoing. (912) 525-2151. jlewis01@ savannahga.gov.

United Way Mid-Campaign Rally Campaign Chair Toby Moreau, market president of BB&T, will report fundraising progress at the mid-point of the United Way campaign. The goal of this year’s United Way campaign is $9 million. Moreau will also recognize Loaned Associates and companies and organizations that sponsor them. The event is open to the public.

Each ticket is $10. Wed., Oct. 14. Monterey Square, Bull and West Wayne Streets.

Classes, Camps & Workshops

Advance Directives workshop Join social worker Sarah Copeland as she helps you complete the paperwork to make your wishes known when you are too ill or too injured to speak on your own behalf. Easy-to-follow guidelines and complementary booklets provided. Do the loving thing for your family now. none third Tuesday of every month, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

912.629.1045. hospicesavannah.org/.

Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. Advanced Creative Photography In this course, students will learn to hone the exposures using the Zone System, Gestalt principles, and basic composition rules. They will become confident with the manual mode and learn how to effectively

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use it for a better understanding of how the camera functions. PREREQUISITES: Creative Digital Photography $125 Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. and Wednesdays, Saturdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.. 912-651-2005. academics. georgiasouthern.edu/ce/programs/ personaldevelopment/digitalphotography/. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Advanced Mobile App Development This course is for developers with some iOS/Swift development experience who are ready to tackle more advanced topics.

Students will get hands-on experience with advanced development techniques including debugging and optimization. The course covers advanced security and privacy topics and more complex user interfaces.

This three-day workshop is geared toward people with some Apple iOS/Swift mobile programming experience who want to take the next step by building professional applications with more features and improved performance. Participants should have experience with Xcode, storyboarding and Swift. $1,695 per person Through Oct. 14, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Georgia Tech Savannah, 210 Technology Circle.

Art Classes at the Foundery Students will be taught academic drawing and painting techniques. Younger students will learn observational drawing and be encouraged in creativity, while older students will be introduced to more advanced techniques. An intermediate class for teens will be held on Mondays. The 7-11 year olds will be taught Friday afternoons.

Contact the instructor, Seth Fite, for more information. Ages 7-11: $150, Ages 12-15: $180 Mondays, 5:30-7:30 p.m. and Fridays, 4:30-6 p.m.. 513-295-7378. sethfite@gmail. com. The Foundery Coffee Pub, 1313 Habersham St. 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.

Beading Classes Offered every weekend at Perlina Beadshop, 6 West State Street. Check website calendar or call for info. 912-441-2656. perlinabeadshop.com.

Beading Classses at Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced. Call for class times.

912-920-6659. Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio, 101 N. Fahm St. 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.

Board Game Nights Bring your favorite board game or learn to play one of ours! Join our community of gamers and make some new friends 46 while having an awesome time. Guild

Hall members get in free, and nonmembers must simply purchase a $2 Day Pass. Saturdays, 7 p.m. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street.

Champions Training Center Offering a variety of classes and training in mixed martial arts, jui-jitsu, judo and other disciplines for children and adults. All skill levels. 525 Windsor Rd. 912-349-4582. ctcsavannah.com.

Chinese Language Classes The Confucius Institute at Savannah State University offers free Chinese language classes starting January 17. To register, please call 912-358-3160. ongoing. 912-3583160. confuciusinstitute@savannahstate. edu. savannahstate.edu. savstate.edu/.

Savannah State University, 3219 College St. Clay Classes Savannah Clay Studio at Beaulieu offers handbuilding, sculpture, and handmade tiles, basic glazing and firing. 912-351-4578. 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. 912897-7656. savannahaux.com.

Creativity Coaching Do you have a creative idea but don’t know where to start? Is it time to move forward with your project? Work with your very own creativity coach and learn how to blast through blocks, plan your time, and enjoy the richness of a creative life. See website for more info at www.laurenl.com/creativity_ coaching/ or contact Creativity@LaurenL. com ongoing. Online only, none.

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.

Krav Maga / Tactical Self Defense: Dynamic Defensive Tactics combines the Israeli self defense techniques of Krav Maga with tactical fighting concepts. This is NOT a martial art but a no nonsense approach to self defense. With over 37 years of experience, Roger D’Onofrio will teach you solutions, which are aggressive, simple and effective, to the violent situations of today.

Note: these are private sessions for adults only. ongoing. 912-308-7109. ddt_910@ yahoo.com.

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

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children held at 15 E. Montgomery Crossroad. Register by phone. ongoing. 912921-4646.

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: Mon-Thurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri each month, 9am-11am. Basic computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1pm3pm. Community computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3pm-4:30pm. ongoing. 912-232-4232 x115. savannahpha.com. savannahpha.com/NRC. html. Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. Knitting & Crochet Classes Offered at The Frayed Knot, 6 W. State St. See the calendar of events on website.

Mondays. 912-233-1240. thefrayedknotsav. com.

Leadership Skills for the FrontLine Manager Through this 8-week course, faculty from the University’s management, marketing and law fields provide hands-on training in core supervisory/managerial skills, devoting each 4-hour session to a single topic. Offered several times a year since 2000, this course also serves individuals who have been in a leadership role for a longer period but want additional knowledge and practical skills to improve their style or learn how to handle personnel issues. $750.00 per person / $800.00 after 8/26/15; Corporate Fee: $675.00 per person (4+ from the same firm) / $725.00 after 8/26/15 Wednesdays, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.. 912-478-5551. conted@georgiasouthern.edu. academics. georgiasouthern.edu/ce/programs/ professionaldevelopment/leadershipskills/. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Meeting Goals Through Focused Performance Management Focuses on how leaders can meet – and sometimes exceed – their short- and long-term results through careful planning, organizing and delegating. Topics include: designing and using scoreboards, the power and pitfalls of delegation, and providing feedback to teams and individuals. Students also use critical-thinking processes and a computer-based simulation to practice information analysis and decision-making in a competitive business environment.

Cost: $895. Register here: https://pe.gatech. edu/courses/leading-well-meetinggoals-through-focused-performancemanagement $895 Tue., Oct. 20, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. https://pe.gatech.edu/courses/ leading-well-meeting-goals-through-focusedperformance-management. Georgia Tech Savannah, 210 Technology Circle.

Music Instruction Georgia Music Warehouse, near corner of Victory Drive & Abercorn, offering instruction by professional musicians. Band instruments, violin, piano, drums and guitar.

All ages welcome. ongoing. 912-358-0054. georgiamusicwarehouse.com/. Georgia Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. Music Lessons--Multiple Instruments

Savannah Musicians’ Institute offers private instruction for all ages and experience levels in Guitar (electric, acoustic,classical), Piano, Bass, Voice, Banjo, Mandolin, Ukulele, Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Music Theory/Composition/Songwriting. 609 69th Street, Savannah GA. ongoing. 912398-8828. smisavannah@gmail.com. savmusiciansinstitute.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. Awardwinning Savannah author offers one-onone 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 912-9617021 or 912-667-1056. Serious inquiries only. ongoing.

A. Roper Studio - Voice Technique and Coaching Experienced and successful voice instructor is accepting students. Nurturing and collaborative studio. Services offered include strengthening the voice, range extension, relaxation techniques, and coaching through various styles of music.

Audition and competition preparation.

Located 15 minutes from downtown. Varies Mondays-Saturdays, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. 912-4840628. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

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

SAT Math Prep - Fall Classes This 6-week course focuses on thinking strategies and skill development needed for maximizing scores on the math portion of the SAT. $160.00 per person Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.. 912478-5551. conted@georgiasouthern. edu. academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ ce/programs/personaldevelopment/ satprepsavannah/. cgc.georgiasouthern. edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

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Short Story Writing Class The short story is an art form that encompasses all of the characteristics of great novels, including narrative and character. Students with some experience in fiction and nonfiction storytelling will use assigned readings, writing homework and workshop style critiques to explore various writing techniques. Upon completion, they will understand narrative structure and scenic writing, dialogue, character, place, word choice, rhythm and pacing and the art of revision. $200.00 per person Mondays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.. 912-478-5551. conted@georgiasouthern.edu. academics. georgiasouthern.edu/ce/programs/ personaldevelopment/writingclasses/. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

SHRM Learning System This course is offered in partnership with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) : the SHRM Learning System includes six modules to prepare students for the SHRM-Certified Professional and SHRM Senior Certified Professional exams.

Modules reflect the new HR practice and legislation in the SHRM Body of Knowledge and Experience. Following the 2-hour mandatory orientation, this 36-hour review course provides broad overview of HR management issues and core body of knowledge. $1040.00 / $1140.00 after 8/17/15; Member Feel: $965.00 / $1065.00 after 8/17/15 Mondays, 6-9 p.m.. 912478-5551. conted@georgiasouthern. edu. academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ ce/programs/professionaldevelopment/ shrmcert/. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/.

Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Smart Photography With Your Smartphone This class will teach you how to take better cell phone pictures, as well as how to share them on social media and e-mail.

Bring your smartphone so you can take

pictures and go through the process of transferring them in this hands-on class.

Students will be walking around and taking pictures at the Coastal Georgia Center, as well as the Visitors Center. Please plan to bring your iPhone or Android to class. $90 Mondays, Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m.. 912651-2005. academics.georgiasouthern. edu/ce/programs/personaldevelopment/ digitalphotography/. cgc.georgiasouthern. edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Tire Rack Street Survival Teen Driving School The Tire Rack Street Survival® program improves driver competence through hands-on experiences in real-world driving situations. Students will receive a short classroom session and then will learn, hands-on, how to manage everyday driving hazards, obstacles and challenges in a controlled environment on an advanced driving course to ultimately ‘arrive alive.’

Open to licensed and permitted drivers ages 15-21. Some insurance companies offer premium discounts to graduates. $75 per student Oct. 17-18. streetsurvival.org. Grand Prize of America Road Course, 2 Resort Drive.

Vibrational Energy Healing This workshop will introduce you to the healing power of energy. Learn the seven laws, the theory and principals of Vibrational Energy as well as learn hands-on healing bodywork sessions that you can share with friends and family. Experience and Awaken the healer within! (No bodywork experience necessary.) Advance registration required. 165.00 Sun., Oct. 18, 12-5 p.m.

912-658-7788. DiamondPath@ymail. com. diamondbodywork.massagetherapy. com. Diamond Bodywork and Massage, 1 Johnston Street.

Clubs & Organizations

Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes Classses for multiple ages in performance dance and adult fitness dance. African, modern, ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, gospel. Held at Abeni Cultural Arts studio, 8400-B Abercorn St. Call Muriel, 912-6313452, or Darowe, 912-272-2797. ongoing. abeniculturalarts@gmail.com.

Avegost LARP Live action role playing group that exists in a

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medieval fantasy realm. generallly meets the second weekend of the month. Free for your first event or if you’re a non-player character. $35 fee for returning characters. ongoing. godzillaunknown@gmail.com. avegost.com.

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

Business Networking on the Islands Small Business Professionals Islands Networking Group meets first Thursday each month, 9:30am-10:30am. Tradewinds Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Call for info. ongoing. 912-308-6768.

Chatham Sailing Club Friday evening social event at the clubhouse.

Meet Members and their families who all enjoy water based activities but whose prime interest is sailing. This BYOB event is free and all are welcome, but Membership is encouraged after several visits once interest is gauged!! We look forward to meeting you.

Fridays, 7-10 p.m. pranschkec3@gmail.com.

Young’s Marina, 218 Wilmington Island Rd. 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. 912-5961962. honorflightsavannah.org.

Historic Savannah Chapter: ABWA Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6pm-7:30pm. Tubby’s Tank House, 2909 River Drive, Thunderbolt. Attendees pay for their own meals. RSVP by phone. ongoing. 912-660-8257.

Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet Meets every Wednesday. Different locations downtown. Call for info. No fees. Want to learn? Join us. ongoing. 912-308-6768.

Knittin’ Night Knit and crochet gathering held each Tuesday evening, 5pm-8pm All skill levels welcome. Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m. 912-238-0514. wildfibresavannah.com/. 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.

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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. 912344-5127. New Covenant Church, 2201 Bull St. Safe Kids Savannah A coalition dedicated to preventing childhood injuries. Meets 2nd Tuesday each month, 11:30am-1:00pm. See website or call for info. 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. 912-447-0943. 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. 912-7487020. savannahnavyleague.us.

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 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.

Society for Creative Anachronism Meets every Saturday at the south end of Forsyth Park for fighter practice and general hanging out. For people interested in re-creating the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Free Saturdays, 11 48 a.m.. savannahsca.org. Forsyth Park, 501

Whitaker St. Savannah Story Games A group that plays games that tell improvised stories. Create an amazing story in just three hours, using group games with special rules that craft characters, settings, and conflicts.

Sundays at 6pm. free Saturdays, 6 p.m.. info@savannahstorygames.com. savannahstorygames.com. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street.

Savannah Toastmasters Helps improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment.

Mondays, 6:15pm, Memorial Health University Medical Center, in the Conference Room C. ongoing. 912-484-6710. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Savannah Veggies and Vegans Join the Facebook group to find out more about vegetarian and vegan lifestyles, and to hear about upcoming local events.

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Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671 Meets second Monday of each month, 7pm, at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. ongoing. 912-429-0940. rws521@msn. com. vvasav.com.

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

Concerts

13th Colony Sound (Barbershop Singing) “If you can carry a tune, come sing with us!”

Mondays, 7pm. ongoing. 912-344-9768. savannahbarbershoppers.org. Thunderbolt Lodge #693, 3111 Rowland Ave. Concert: A Classical Halloween Are you ready to dance with skeletons and ride on broomsticks with witches and wizards? Come prepared for an evening of spine-tingling, blood-chilling classical Halloween favorites. Join the Savannah Philharmonic as they journey into the macabre with a few of the following selections: Saint Saëns’ “Danse Macabre,” Williams’ “Harry Potter Symphonic Suite,” Berlioz’s “Excerpts from Symphonie Fantastique,” and Herrmann’s “Psycho Suite.” Tickets range from $16 to $75.

Fri., Oct. 16, 7:30-10 p.m. 912-525-5050. lucastheatre.com/schedule/a-classicalhalloween/. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Concert: Celli Celli, a group of four Philharmonic cellists, aims to push the boundaries of traditional cello music by blending modern works and timeless classics into a program that resonates with listeners of all backgrounds.

Enjoy an evening of movie, dance, and classical music that showcases the cello at its very best. $20 Sun., Oct. 18, 5 p.m. savannahphilharmonic.org. Ascension Lutheran Church, 120 Bull St. Concert: Jesse Monkman and Isaac Smith

Trinity’s Friday Lunchtime Concert Series blends local and regional musicians from very different genres and musical backgrounds on the stage. Fri., Oct. 16, 12:15-12:45 p.m. trinitychurch1848.org/.

Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. Concert: Roberta Rust Acclaimed pianist Roberta Rust performs at Armstrong and hosts a free master class the following day. Free Thu., Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/index. html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Concert: Vienna Boys Choir Brasseler USA presents the Vienna Boys Choir in concert. Sat., Oct. 17, 7 p.m. about. armstrong.edu/Maps/index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. The Love and Soul Experience Kimberly Gunn Music Presents The Love and Soul Experience every third Friday of the month beginning May 17th. There will be music, poetry, comedy, creative arts, and networking. Kimberly Gunn Music and friends will provide musical entertainment.

An event for ages 18 and up. $10 Admission $12 VIP third Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m. (912) 224-6084 or (912) 224-4461. kimberlygunn.com. The Eden Room, 1105 Stiles Avenue.

Dance

Adult Ballet Class Maxine Patterson School of Dance, 2212 Lincoln St, offers adult ballet on Thursdays, 6:30pm-7:30pm $12 per class. Call for info. ongoing. 912-234-8745.

Adult Ballet Toning Always wanted the body of a ballerina?

Well.. YOU CAN! Our class is designed to stretch, tone, and enhance your body to become healthier than ever. Join us and check out the calendar for dates to enroll. (this is apart of our fitness package of 10 classes for $80) $10.00 Mondays, 5 p.m.

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

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.

Argentine Tango Wednesdays, 7 p.m. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Lessons Sundays 1:303;30pm. Open to the public. $3 per person.

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Doris Martin Dance Studio, 8511-h ferguson Ave. Call or email for info. ongoing. 912-9257416. savh_tango@yahoo.com.

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. Back To The 80’s...Totally

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Awesome! Dance Show Our showcase, Back To The 80’s...

Totally Awesome!, is dedicated to the most totally awesome decade to exist.

Get ready to see big hair, leg warmers, and stone-washed jeans. 25$ Sat., Oct. 17, 2-3:30 p.m. 912-335-3335. contact@ dancesavannah.com. https://facebook. com/events/1454162814879124/. savannahtheatre.com. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. 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/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. 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. 7pm8pm. Private classes and walk ins available.

Synergistic Bodies, 7724 Waters Ave. ongoing. 912-414-1091. info@cybelle3.com. cybelle3.com.

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

Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Windsor Forest.

Dance: Dracula Ballet With A Bite Blood, fangs, and death are just a few of the things you will find in this favorite Halloween cult classic. Based on the novel by Bram Stoker, we see Count Dracula continue his seductive reign of terror with his Brides of Darkness in Transylvania. Featuring all new lighting and blood curdling special effects. $27-$47 Special: $10 Student Tickets with I.D. Sat., Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m. 912-6516556. columbiacityballet.com/production/ dracula/. savannahcivic.com. The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. 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.

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. 912-3353335. savannahballroom@gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing.com. Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

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. 912-652-6780. sdavis@ chathamcounty.org. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

FUNdamentals Dance Lesson Group dance lessons every Tuesday and Wednesday at 8pm. Tuesday: fundamental

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32 ___ En-lai 33 Crankcase container 35 The Sugarhill Gang’s genre 36 Highbrow monthly that’s the second-oldest continuous publication in the U.S. 39 William McKinley’s First Lady 40 Deletes 41 Baseball’s Vizquel 42 Result of rolling in the dough, maybe?

44 “The Chronicles of Narnia” monogram 45 In an abundant way 46 1978 hit song with notable letters

48 “Doctor Who” airer 49 Adam Sandler’s production company, named after two of his films 54 Comic strip frames 55 Nastygrams 58 3/4-time dance 59 “True dat!”

60 2015 Melissa McCarthy comedy 61 Duel preludes 62 Pigeon fancier on “Sesame Street” 63 Clod-breaking tool

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1 “I just realized I messed up” outburst 2 “Be Cool” actress Thurman 3 Spoon companion, in a nursery rhyme 4 Band on a sleeve 5 Toronto Maple ___ (hockey team) 6 Hand sanitizer target 7 ___-Seltzer 8 Wife of Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev 9 “___ Clown” (Everly Brothers song) 10 Palindromic name 11 Palindromic bread 12 Urgent care center alternatives 15 Barely open 17 End a call 20 2008 presidential candidate

23 Monitoring device in some 1990s TVs 24 “If ___ nickel ...”

25 Ephron and Dunn, for two 26 Stadium display where you’ll see couples smooching 27 “___ World” (“Sesame Street” segment) 29 Groom fastidiously 30 Word after ear or Erie 31 Copycatting 33 Iron source 34 Artist’s rep.

37 Some may be good to set 38 Movie like “Shaun of the Dead” or “Warm Bodies” 43 Prepare for editing 45 Classless?

47 Dermatologist’s concern 48 Challenge for a dog trainer, maybe 49 Icy pellets 50 Faris of films 51 “Call me Ishmael” speaker 52 Judi Dench, e.g.

53 “A Beautiful Mind” mathematician 54 Some Brit. statesmen 56 Fitbit’s was in June 2015 57 Corrosive cleaner

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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. 912-748-0731.

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

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

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

Kids Hip Hop and Jazz Mondays, 6 p.m. 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. 912-3353335. savannahballroom@gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing.com. Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.

LaBlast Dance Fitness 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 Wednesdays, 6-7 p.m. 912.312.3549. reservetodance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com.

Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Line Dance Party with Free Lesson Join us for our Monthly Line Dance Night!

Theresa Reed will be giving a FREE lesson before your night of fun and line dancing!

Ben’s Neighborhood Grill will be partnering up with us for appetizers and spirits!

8pm-10pm Admission: $10.00 per person $10 third Friday of every month, 8-10 p.m.

612.470.6683. salondebaile.dance@gmail. com. salondebaileballroomdancestudio. com/Events.html. salondebailedancestudio. com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive.

Line Dancing Take down Tuesdays. Jazzy Sliders Adult Line Dancing, every Tuesday, 7:30pm-10:00pm. Free admission, cash bar.

Come early and learn a new dance from 7:30pm-8:30pm. 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. 912-2728329.

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

Never Miss A Chance to Dance!

Show us your best moves at our free Modern Dance Workshop October 12th, 19th and the 26th. Wind down after a long day or come out for some classic fun! Don’t forget to bring your dancing shoes and see you there! Mon., Oct. 19, 6:15 p.m. https:// facebook.com/events/924995184242833/.

YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. Salsa Lessons by Salsa Savannah Tues. 8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Thur.

8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Sun. 5pm-6pm 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. 912988-1052. 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.

Events

The Accomplices EP Release Party The Accomplices are releasing their new EP, Mountain Buzz, and throw this party to celebrate. Ticket also includes catered food (seafood gumbo, veggie tacos, sausage dogs) and your own commemorative printed goodie bag stuffed with a copy of the new CD and special items from sponsors. $20 advance, $25 at door Fri., Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m. Georgia State Railroad Museum, 655 Louisville Road.

Amazing Scavenger Hunt Adventure Turn Savannah into a giant game board with this fun scavenger hunt adventure. Combine the excitement of the Amazing Race with a three-hour city tour. Guided from any smart phone, teams make their way among well known and overlooked gems of the city, solving clues and completing challenges while learning local history. Available 365 days a year, sunrise to sunset. Start when you want and play at your pace. Save 20%Only $39.20 for a team of 2-5 people after Promotion Code: CONNECTSAVANNAH. Only $39.20 for a team of 2-5 people after Promo Code: CONNECTSAVANNAH Mondays-Sundays, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.. 805-6035620. Info@urbanadventurequest.com.

UrbanAdventureQuest.com. Franklin Square, Montgomery and St. Julian Streets.

American Traditions Competition Fundraiser Specialty craft cocktails for only $5 each, delicious appetizers donated and prepared

by Billy’s Place. Entertainment by previous ATC Gold Medal winner and Savannahian Kim Michael Polote and magic by local magician Rudy B. Thu., Oct. 15, 5:30-7 p.m. billysplaceatmcdonoughs.com. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s, 20 East Perry 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/healing-aha/.

Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. City Council Meeting Every other Thursday, 2 p.m. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

PICKCommon Grounds Common Grounds is a collaboration of the Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Wesley Fellowship. We meet on Wednesday nights for open theological discussion on hot button issues. All are welcome regardless of faith background or where you are on your spiritual journey. We are open and affirming of the LGBT community. Order for Compline by candlelight is offered on Sunday nights at 8PM. Wednesdays, 8 p.m. facebook.com/commongroundssavannah.

The Foundery Coffee Pub, 1313 Habersham St. Fabulous Estate and Antique Auction Preview times Saturday, Oct. 17 from 11am-3pm and Sunday, Oct. 18 from 11am-1pm. Sun., Oct. 18, 1 p.m. 912-4439353. bullstreetauctions.com/. Bull Street Auctions, 2819 Bull Street.

Falloween Fall Festival Celebrate Fall with games, crafts and activities all focused around the season and Halloween. Bring a bag to Trick-or-Treat through the campground at 3:00 pm. $2 per child Sat., Oct. 17, 1-4 p.m. gastateparks. org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Graveface Anniversary Party Celebrate 4 years of Graveface at this free, all ages affair. On this evening you can look forward to (quiet) live music sets

by Dreamend, The Marshmallow Ghosts, Des Ark, and Hospital Ships; free tattoos

by Chloe Pinnock; shop discounts; tarot readings and much more. Fri., Oct. 16.

Graveface Records & Curiosities, 5 W. 40th Street.

Guided Tours of the Lucas Theatre for the Arts Learn the history of the historic Lucas Theatre on a 20-30 minute tour. Restoration, architecture, history of the theatre and of

early cinema. $4. Group rates for ten or more. School trips available. Tours are Monday-Friday 10am-5pm and must be scheduled. To schedule a tour, contact Megan Chandler at 912-525-5029 or mchandle@lucastheatre.com. ongoing. 912525-5023. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Halloween Crafternoon Join us for complimentary lemonade, cookies, and hot glue and work on your upcoming Halloween costume, or try a variety of different craft projects to help you add some spook to your Pumpkin Day celebration. We’ll also be showing Halloween Themed movies in our In-Store Theater. Sat., Oct. 17, 2-5 p.m. starlandiasupply.com. Starlandia Creative Supply, 2438 Bull Street.

Haunted Forest If you dare, wind through the haunted woods to experience the scary history of Skidaway Island. The Park Ranger will guide you into the graveyard and beneath ancient oak trees cloaked in Spanish moss. $5 Oct. 16-17. gastateparks.org/skidawayisland. gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Historic Savannah Foundation Gala Guests will enjoy an elegant evening featuring dinner and live music with many of Savannah’s most prominent community influencers, business leaders and dignitaries. $225 for members, $275 for non-members Sat., Oct. 17, 7 p.m. 912-2337787. terri@myhsf.org. myhsf.org. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Light the Night Join the Armstrong team for the 2015 Light the Night walk to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Fri., Oct. 16, 5 p.m.

Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Mattress Dash Costumed teams of five will race mattresses in a 150-meter dash for awards, prizes, and to benefit Sustainativity, a nonprofit dedicated to philanthropic investments in sustainability. Teams build a racing frame capable of holding a single mattress and one rider, while being pushed by the other four team members. Prizes and awards will be given out in these categories: Fastest Team, Greenest Racing Frame, Judge’s Choice and People’s Choice. Sun., Oct. 18.

Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Monet Soiree Celebrate Monet at this soiree. Lecture starts at 6 pm. Members free, non-members $15 Thu., Oct. 15, 5-10 p.m. telfair.org/ jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York 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. 1-866-666-3323.

6thsenseworld.com. 6th Sense Savannah Tours, 404 Abercorn Street.

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to raise resources to fight suicide, honor those who have lost a battle to mental illness, and bring suicide and mental health conditions out of the darkness. Registration is at 9:00am. To learn more, visit www. afsp.org. Free with donations encouraged Sat., Oct. 17, 9 a.m.-noon. 804-754-5387.

SAVOutoftheDarknessWalk@gmail.com. afsp.donordrive.com/event/savannah. Tom Triplett Community Park, U.S. Highway 80 West.

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.

Reclaiming Old West Broad Street: I-16 Ramp Removal Community Meeting The community is invited to learn more and share their thoughts about the proposed removal of the I-16 exit ramp and flyover at MLK Jr. Blvd. The meeting will begin with an open-house format at 5:00 p.m. A presentation will be given at 5:30 p.m., followed by time for interactive discussion with the project team.

Interactive three-dimensional models will more clearly convey how the new street network will function. 912-651-1482 Thu., Oct. 15, 5-7 p.m. eharris@thempc.org. reclaimingoldwestbroad.org. savannahcivic. com. The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Savannah State Homecoming Week Multiple events will take place on and near the campus. The week will be marked with music, lectures, networking events, a carnival, alumni gatherings and more. The celebratory theme, Legendary, is indicative of the university’s 125 years. Through Oct. 18. savstate.edu/. Savannah State University, 3219 College St. Savannah Storytellers Tall tales and fun times with the classic art of storytelling. Every Wednesday at 6pm.

Reservations encouraged by calling 912349-4059. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. liveoakstore. com/tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. Shire of Forth Castle Fighter Practice Local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism meets Saturdays at Forsyth Park (south end) for fighter practice and general hanging out. For those interested in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. 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. St. Vincent’s Annual Tour of Homes and Tea This event will include a self-guided tour of seven homes in the Savannah Historic District, along with the original 1845

Convent building at St. Vincent’s. Tea will be served on the grounds of the convent. $45 Sat., Oct. 17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 912-236-6823. svaga.net/. St. Vincent’s Academy, 207 East Liberty St. Stranger Than Fiction: An Exploration of the Extraordinary in Old Savannah This October, see historical entertainment on the many extraordinary ideas, beliefs and objects with which people in the 1820s would have been familiar, including visualization of the supernatural, phantasmagoria, Frankenstein, animal magnetism and the court of death. Attention will be paid to spiritual convictions of Lowcountry African Americans of the past.

Not suitable for children under 12 years old. $22 in advance, $25 at door Fridays, 7:30 p.m.. info@davenporthousemuseum. org. davenporthousemuseum.org. davenporthousemuseum.org. Davenport House, 324 East State St. Terror Plantation Haunted House 470+ people were too scared to finish the haunted house last year. All proceeds benefit the Alee Shriners. $10 adults, $6 kids 12 and under Fridays, Saturdays.. aleeshrine.com. Alee Shriner’s Temple, 100 Eisenberg Dr. Third Thursdays on Tybee Bring a chair, stroll the shops and grab a bite to eat while you enjoy outdoor entertainment amid the ocean breezes. third Thursday of every month. Tybee Roundabout, Tybrisa Street and Strand Avenue.

Under The Rainbow On Thursday nights come out to the coolest spot in Pooler for Under The Rainbow. Every week we will host a different event that will cater to those that play over, around and under the rainbow. Thursdays, 8-11 p.m.

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BBQ, Brews and Bluegrass Barbecue, Brews, and Bluegrass is a family friendly event and will feature activities for kids including a close-up look at the Isle of Hope Fire Truck and Memorial’s Angel Care 1 Children’s Ambulance, several inflatables and slides, face painting, arts and crafts, a rock wall, and much more. Proceeds benefit Memorial Hospital’s The Next Generation. $25 adults, $5 kids 5-17 Sun., Oct. 18, 3-9 p.m. Villa Marie Center, 6 Dolan Dr. Cowboy Carnival

A family, fun-filled day for buckaroos of all ages. Pony rides, bounce houses, prizes, food, chili cook-off, games, pumpkin and cookie decorating, petting zoo. Free with canned food donation for America’s Second Harvest Sat., Oct. 17, 12-4 p.m.

912-777-3717. brightlifeca@gmail.com. brightlifechiropractic.com. Bright Life Chiropractic, 2 Park of Commerce Blvd Ste D. PICKGeekend Geekend is your chance to interact with people taking the tech and creative industries by storm. Join us this October as the brightest geeks, designers, developers, artists, and all around technology-doers

flock to Savannah for several days filled with cutting edge speakers, fun-filled after parties, and amazing networking opportunities. $100-$250 Thu., Oct. 15, 4-9 p.m., Fri., Oct. 16, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. and Sat., Oct. 17, 9 a.m.-11 p.m. 912.447.8457. geekend@ thecreativecoast.org. geek-end.com. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street.

Graveface Fest III Sat., Oct. 17. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Great Ogeechee Seafood Festival This festival includes live music by Joe Nichols and many others, crafts, seafood and rides. $5-$10 Oct. 16-18. info@ goseafoodfestival.com. goseafoodfestival.

Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Here’s actor Bill Murray’s advice about relationships: “If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just say, ‘OK, let’s pick a date. Let’s get married.’ Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if, when you come back, you’re still in love with that person, get married at the airport.” In the coming weeks, Aries, I suggest you make comparable moves to test and deepen your own closest alliances. See what it’s like to get more seriously and deliriously intimate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Some firefighters use a wetter kind of water than the rest of us. It contains a small amount of biodegradable foam that makes it ten times more effective in dousing blazes.

With this as your cue, I suggest you work on making your emotions “wetter” than usual. By that I mean the following: When your feelings arise, give them your reverent attention. Marvel at how mysterious they are. Be grateful for how much life force they endow you with. Whether they are relatively “negative” or “positive,” regard them as interesting revelations that provide useful information and potential opportunities for growth.

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While still a young man, Virgo author Leo Tolstoy wrote that “I have not met one man who is morally as good as I am.” He lived by a strict creed. “Eat moderately” was one of his “rules of life,” along with “Walk for an hour every day.” Others were equally stern: “Go to bed no later than ten o’clock,” “Only do one thing at a time,” and “Disallow flights of imagination unless necessary.” He did provide himself with wiggle room, however. One guideline allowed him to sleep two hours during the day. Another specified that he could visit a brothel twice a month. I’d love for you to be inspired by Tolstoy’s approach, Virgo. Now is a favorable time to revisit your own rules of life. As you refine and recommit yourself to these fundamental disciplines, be sure to give yourself enough slack.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

We humans have put buttons on clothing for seven millennia. But for a long time these small knobs and disks were purely ornamental -- meant to add beauty but not serve any other function. That changed in the 13th century, when our ancestors finally got around to inventing buttonholes. Buttons could then serve an additional purpose, providing a convenient way to fasten garments.

I foresee the possibility of a comparable evolution in your personal life, Cancerian. You have an opening to dream up further uses for elements that have previously been onedimensional. Brainstorm about how you might expand the value of familiar things.

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innocence. If you can figure out how to shed a few shreds of your sophistication and a few slivers of your excess dignity, you will literally boost your intelligence. That’s why I’m inviting you to explore the kingdom of childhood, where you can encounter stimuli that will freshen and sweeten your adulthood. Your upcoming schedule could include jumping in mud puddles, attending parties with imaginary friends, having uncivilized fun with wild toys, and drinking boisterously from fountains of youth.

*Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell* is a BBC TV minseries set in the early 19th century. It’s the fictional story of a lone wizard, Mr. Norrell, who seeks to revive the art of occult magic so as to accomplish practical works, like helping the English navy in its war against the French navy. Norrell is pleased to find an apprentice, Jonathan Strange, and draws up a course of study for him. Norrell tells Strange that the practice of magic is daunting, “but the study is a continual delight.” If you’re interested in taking on a similar challenge, Gemini, it’s available.

com. J. F. Gregory Park, Richmond Hill.

Keller’s Country Weekend Live music by Tim Burke Band and Keith & Ross, amusement for all ages, face painting, and more. Free Oct. 17-18, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

Keller’s Flea Market, 5901 Ogeechee Road.

Latino Heritage Month Armstrong’s Hispanic Outreach and Leadership at Armstrong (HOLA) sponsors this monthlong celebration of Latino culture.

Festivities include a Spanish film festival, lectures, dance classes and more. For a full list, visit armstrong.edu. Through Oct. 15.

912-344-3050. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/ index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St.

Many astronomers believe that our universe began with the Big Bang. An inconceivably condensed speck of matter exploded, eventually expanding into thousands of billions of stars. It must have been a noisy event, right? Actually, no. Astronomers estimate that the roar of the primal eruption was just 120 decibels -- less than the volume of a live rock concert. I suspect that you are also on the verge of your own personal Big Bang, Libra. It, too, will be relatively quiet for the amount of energy it unleashes.

For now, you are excused from further work on the impossible tasks that have been grinding you down. You may take a break from the unsolvable riddles and cease your exhaustive efforts. And if you would also like to distance yourself from the farcical jokes the universe has been playing, go right ahead. To help enforce this transition, I hereby authorize you to enjoy a time of feasting and frolicking, which will serve as an antidote to your baffling trials. And I hereby declare that you have been as successful at weathering these trials as you could possibly be, even if the concrete proof of that is not yet entirely visible.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

One afternoon in September, I was hiking along a familiar path in the woods. As I passed my favorite grandmother

oak, I spied a thick, six-foot-long snake loitering on the trail in front of me. In hundreds of previous visits, I had never before seen a creature bigger than a mouse. The serpent’s tail was hidden in the brush, but its head looked more like a harmless gopher snake’s than a dangerous rattler’s. I took the opportunity to sing it three songs. It stayed for the duration, then slipped away after I finished.

What a great omen! The next day, I made a tough but liberating decision to leave behind a good part of my life so as to focus more fully on a great part. With or without a snake sighting, Sagittarius, I foresee a comparable breakthrough for you sometime soon.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Canadian author Margaret Atwood has finished a new manuscript. It’s called *Scribbler Moon.* But it won’t be published as a book until the year 2114. Until then, it will be kept secret, along with the texts of many other writers who are creating work for a “Future Library.” The project’s director is conceptual artist Katie Paterson, who sees it as a response to George Orwell’s question, “How could you communicate with the future?” With this as your inspiration, Capricorn, try this exercise: Compose five messages you would you like to deliver to the person you will be in 2025.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Every hour of your life, millions of new cells are born to replace old cells that are dying. That’s why many parts of your body are composed of an entirely different collection of cells than they were years ago. If you are 35, for example, you have replaced your skeleton three times.

Congratulations! Your creativity is spectacular, as is your ability to transform yourself. Normally these instinctual talents aren’t nearly as available to you in your efforts to recreate and transform your psyche, but they are now. In the coming months, you will have extraordinary power to revamp and rejuvenate everything about yourself, not just your physical organism.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

The coming weeks will NOT be a favorable time to seek out allies you don’t even like that much or adventures that provide thrills you have felt a thousand times before. But the near future will be an excellent time to go on a quest for your personal version of the Holy Grail, a magic carpet, the key to the kingdom, or an answer to the Sphinx’s riddle. In other words, Pisces, I advise you to channel your yearning toward experiences that steep your heart with a sense of wonder. Don’t bother with anything that degrades, disappoints, or desensitizes you.

Food Events

Red, White and Blue Barbecue The barbecue helps raise funds for the families of fallen first responders. People will be invited to “donate for a plate.” $15 minimum suggested donation Oct. 16, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Ellis Square, Barnard Street and St. Julian Street.

Olde Time BBQ and Hard Cider Tasting!

Waits and Co. from Savannah will bring their Alt Country/Americana sound and Rick Caldwell brings the BBQ. Tim Rutherford will provide tasting notes for the fundraiser. Tickets are available online at http://ashantilly.org under the Calendar – Upcoming Events or by calling Ashantilly. $35 Oct. 17, 5-8 p.m. 912-230-6962. ashantillycenter@gmail.com. ashantilly.org.

The Ashantilly Center, 15591 GA Hwy 99.

Wilmington Island Farmers’ Market The Wilmington Island Farmers’ Market is held every Saturday rain or shine from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. @ Islands Community Church located at 111 Walthour Road on Wilmington Island. Includes Artisans Market on the First Saturday of every month, guest chefs, local non-profit groups, special guests and musical guests, story time for kids of all ages, crafty corner on the last Saturday of the month, monthly Charitable Organizations, Healthy Kids Club, and shop with Chef. FREE 9 a.m.-1 p.m.. 912844-0920. wifarmersmakerpr@aol.com. wifarmersmarket.org/fall-schedule.html.

Islands Community Church, 111 Walthour Rd. Forsyth Farmers Market Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights.

Rain or shine. Free to attend. Items for sale.

912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com.

Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Honey Tasting and Body Care Samples + Store Tour Daily honey tastings and body care demonstrations. Come see honeybees in the observation hive or call 912.629.0908 to schedule a tour of the Bee Garden. Free Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m. 912-234-0688. jessie@savannahbee.com. Savannah Bee Company, Wilmington Island, 211 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

Prepare Sunday Suppers at Union Mission Local organizations are invited to sign up to prepare Sunday Supper for people who are homeless and live at Union Mission’s shelters for homeless people. Groups must sign up in advance and bring/prepare a meal, beginning at 2pm on Sundays. Call for information. ongoing. 912-236-7423.

Tybee Island Farmers Market Featuring a variety of produce, baked goods, honey, granola, BBQ, sauces and dressings, popsicles, dog treats and natural body products. The market is non-smoking and pet friendly. tybeeislandfarmersmarket.com.

Stephen Johnson, 206 Miller Ave.

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Armstrong Prescription Drug Drop-Off Armstrong Atlantic State Univ. hosts a permanent drop box for disposing of

unused prescription drugs and over the counter medication. In the lobby of the University Police building on campus.

Open to the public 24 hours/day, year round. Confidential. All items collected are destroyed by the Drug Enforcement Administration. ongoing. 912-344-3333. armstrong.edu. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/ index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Boosting Your Child’s Immunity This class will explore ways to boost your child’s immune system. It will include common sense strategies and how to incorporate Essential Oils into the mix. You do have to attend the Essential Oils 101 class as a prerequisite. There is no charge for this class and space is limited so please register early. Please call or text 912-6603871. This class is taught by Jill Whitfield.

Thu., Oct. 15, 7-8:30 p.m. The Midwife’s Mercantile, LLC, 125 Chatham Parkway, Suite 203.

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.

Free Hearing and Speech Screening Hearing: Thursdays, 9am-11am.

Speech: First Thursdays,. Call or see website for times. ongoing. 912-3554601. savannahspeechandhearing.org. savannahspeechandhearing.org/. Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St. Free HIV Testing at Chatham County Health Dept.

Free walk-in HIV testing. 8am-4pm Mon.-Fri. No appointment needed. Test results in 20 minutes. Follow-up visit and counseling will be set up for anyone testing positive. Call for info. ongoing. 912-644-5217. Chatham County Health Dept., 1395 Eisenhower Dr. Health Care for Uninsured People Open for primary care for uninsured residents of Chatham County. Mon.Fri., 8:30am-3:30pm. Call for info or appointment. ongoing. 912-443-9409. St. Joseph’s/Candler--St. Mary’s Health Center, 1302 Drayton St. continues on p. 54

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The secret life of the American teenager

By Your Pal Erin

psychicyourpalerin@gmail.com www.yourpalerin.com

JB was a high school bully who took pleasure in promising to kick your ass if you looked at her the wrong way. Why? Because she could and you fucking deserved it.

My rational, grown-up self understands that nothing happens in a vacuum. Her abusive behavior was most likely learned at home. But my inner 13 year-old is still terrorized by memories of her extracurricular slut shaming.

By slut, I mean me.

By shaming, I mean stalking me on four wheels—with her carload of upperclassmen friends in tow— from the front entrance of my middle school to the front door of my house, promising to pound the shit out of my skanky whore face.

When my parents met with my school principal demanding an intervention, he called bollocks on my story, insisting that nobody else in the school had reported problems with JB, so I must be making it up.

My rational, grown-up blood still boils at the atrocities that were condoned on his watch, most disturbingly, a girl who was pinned down and sexually assaulted on the back of a school bus after swim class while Boys Who Would Be Boys cheered for the assailant.

As I stew, enraged over everything I have just written, two thoughts come to mind. The first is that the local school board is the most fundamental form of American governance; one that is more concerned with girls’ hemlines and necklines than putting the kybosh on bully culture.

Second, we teenagers are America’s canaries in a coalmine. And as one who refused to succumb to a plethora of toxic environments, I can resoundingly say we are over-reactionaries for good

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reason. We have the adult common sense to understand exactly what’s wrong with society, but are granted no say in implementing change. The reason that we see these problems so clearly is because we are at their daily mercy.

Prime example: the 1999 Columbine school shooting in which two teenagers took the issue of bullying into their own hands, with devastating consequences.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold inadvertently aired the dirty little secret we all know —that kids like JB dominate our hallways, our doorways, our psyches.

Nowhere is safe.

Why? For some, our home life is so miserable that we have nothing to lose by punishing others for our pain. Getting expelled from school (like JB ultimately did), locked up in Juvie —even being tried as an adult and getting life in prison— is an upgrade from Coach to First Class.

Others of us are fed up with being at the mercy of things beyond our control.

We want passive grown-ups to pay attention… and for fucksakes, do something, already!

Either way, we’re mad as hell and we’re not gonna take it anymore.

Gun control issues being a given, how come we’re not talking about why shooters are so angry that the only thing that will help them feel better is to venture into public spaces and start shooting people?

It’s a question that I posted on my Facebook page last Monday in response to the city of Philadelphia being on “high alert” after a threat of violence at area schools.

I am taking it to the pages of The Ghost Dog Diaries in response to the North Arizona University and Texas Southern University shootings, just five days later.

It’s an essential question that must be addressed. Too many of our angry inner children are bringing their irrational adult bodies into classrooms and movie theaters and bible studies, demanding answers.

Get the lowdown on all the great events occurring in this week and next In Print & Online.

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Heart and Mouth Connection: 10 Things to Know--Inspiring Smiles Series The final talk in the 2015 Inspiring Smiles Series will present “The Heart and Mouth Connections: 10 Things to Know.” Studies have shown that the bacteria found in and around the periodontal spaces in your mouth are also found in the heart and other organs. Dr. Canfield will discuss more than just 10 things you should know, but rather things you can actively do to keep your mouth and heart in tip-top shape, adding to your complete healthcare agenda. Free to the public Tue., Oct. 20, 12-1 p.m. 912-3490472. sandflyfamilydental.com/. Sandfly Family Dental, 7360 Skidaway Rd., Suite H2.

Heartbeats for Life Meeting Come learn how powerful the foods are that we put into our bodies that can begin to clean out you arteries as soon as you eat them. Tue., Oct. 20, 6-7:45 p.m. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn 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.

Know Your Water What everyone ought to know about our drinking water (bottled, tap, distilled, reverse osmosis, filtered, alkaline and spring.) Are you paying thousands of money for water that is making you sick? Find out what water is best for your body. FREE Tuesdays, 7-8:15 p.m. 703-989-6995. oggisavannah@gmail. com. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. 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. 912-8979544. lllusa.org/web/savannahga.html.

Living Smart Fitness Club An exercise program encouraging healthy lifestyle changes. Mon. & Wed. 6pm-7:15pm Hip Hop low impact aerobics at Delaware Center. Tues. 5:30-7:00 Zumba at St. Joseph’s Candler African American Resource Center. (Program sponsors.) ongoing. 912-447-6605.

Planned Parenthood Hotline First Line is a statewide hotline for women seeking information on health services.

Open 7pm-11pm nightly. ongoing. 800-2647154.

Prepared Childbirth Class This course gives an overview of reproductive anatomy and physiology and explains the process of labor and delivery in simple, easy-to-understand terms. The four-week course includes a tour of the labor and delivery unit. This class is popular, so please register early $75 per couple Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 912-350-2676. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. The Savannah 7-Day Diabetes Repair If you are ready to take control of your life and health, call today, enroll in this 54 fun but intensive seven week program to

heal your body of diabetes. You will learn how changing can heal. You can reverse diabetes by following a new protocol, even if you have been diabetic for years.

Includes over a year of follow-up support. $450 Thursdays, Saturdays. 912-598-8457. jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga.org. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Sibling Preparation Class This class is for children 2-12 yrs of age that are expecting a new sibling in the next month. Activities include doing artwork, learning about new babies, basic baby skills such as proper holding and diapering, safety, reading a story and watching a video. There is a segment for the parents, as well. Fee: $ 20.00 per family (Cash, check or credit card). Space is limited so register early.

Call or text 912-660-1738 with your name, children’s name, their ages and contact information. This class is taught by Jill Whitfield. Sat., Oct. 17, 10 a.m.-noon. The Midwife’s Mercantile, LLC, 125 Chatham Parkway, Suite 203.

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. 912-547-6263. ongoing.

Savannah Pride, Inc. Organizes the annual Savannah Pride Festival and helps promote the well-being of the LGBT community in the South.

Mission: unity through diversity and social awareness. Second Tuesday/month. Call for location. ongoing. 912-288-7863. heather@ savpride.com. savpride.com.

Stand Out Youth A gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth organization. Meets every Friday at 7pm. Call, email or see website for info. Fridays, 7-9 p.m. 912-657-1966. info@standoutyouth.org. standoutyouth. org. Vineyard Church Office, 1020 Abercorn Street.

What Makes a Family A children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Ages 10 to 18. Meets twice a month. Call for info. ongoing. 912-352-2611.

Literary Events

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. African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Lecture: American Writers: Fitzgerald and Friends in Provence Andrew Vaught delivers this lecture as part of the SCI’s “Perspectives on Provence” series. Thu., Oct. 15, 5 p.m. Senior Citizens Inc., 3025 Bull St. Lecture: Flannery O’Connor’s Obituary Nationally renowned poet Alexis Orgera will speak about Flannery O’Connor’s legendary obituary, which was written by poet Elizabeth Bishop in 1964. Sun., Oct. 18, 4 p.m. Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Street.

Lecture: Living the Win-Win Leadership development experts will examine how to lead teams and organizations with integrity, maturity and an abundance mentality. The talk, which will include remarks followed by an interactive discussion, will focus on Stephen Covey’s life habit #4, which is to think win-win -- a foundational principle for leaders. Thu., Oct. 15, 8 a.m. Georgia Tech Savannah, 210 Technology Circle.

Lecture: Seeing the Invisible: Racialized Power-Relations of Knowledge Armstrong State University will host a free lecture by Dr. Jennifer Padilla Wyse, assistant professor of sociology. Presented by the Department of Criminal Justice, Social and Political Science, the lecture will incorporate a global perspective on how race, power and coloniality shape contemporary social processes of knowledge production and reproduction. Fri., Oct. 16, noon. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/ index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Seersucker Shots! featuring Liza Wieland and Michelle Fleegel Kick off your Saturday evening with a shot of literature. Seersucker Live welcomes Liza Wieland back to Savannah and introduces Savannah’s own Michelle Fleegel. Sat., Oct. 17, 7-8 p.m. thebookladybookstore.com/.

The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty 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.

Nature and Environment

Coffee with a Ranger Start your morning right by getting coffee and having a discussion with a park ranger.

Fridays, 8:30 a.m. gastateparks.org/info/ skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Dinner Time Watch as the ranger feeds the reptiles, leaping lizards, chomping turtles and snakes licking their chops. Sun., Oct. 18, 3 p.m. gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

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.

Elba Island Expansion Public Information Meeting Sierra Club Coastal Group invites the public to an informational meeting on Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of Elba Island into an LNG liquefaction facility capable of exporting 4 million tons of LNG per year.

The proposed conversion from import to export facility includes: new roads, 11 new buildings, hazardous material storage, 200+ tanker truck deliveries monthly, wetland impacts & 700%+ increase in carbon & greenhouse gas emissions. Presentation to cover proposed impact on local air quality, safety, traffic, quality of life & potential national increase in domestic gas prices.

For more info: Contact Karen (912-5962052) or karengrainey@bellsouth.net Free Thu., Oct. 15, 7-8 p.m. 912-596-2052. karengrainey@bellsouth.net. sierraclub.org/ georgia/coastal. fpc.presbychurch.net. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. Gardening Session Learn how to garden and harvest vegetables and herbs to bring home. Kerry Shay, an organic farmer and owner of landscaping company Victory Gardens, provides free instruction. First and third Saturday of every month. Free and open to the public third Saturday of every month, 8:30-9:30 a.m. charleshmorriscenter.com. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. Interpretive Center Scavenger Hunt Explore the museum with our dedicated park staff. Thu., Oct. 15, 3 p.m. gastateparks.org/ info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Knot Tying Learn some handy knots for everyday use!

Wed., Oct. 14, 2 p.m. gastateparks.org/ skidawayisland. gastateparks.org/info/ skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Walk on the Wild Side A two-mile Native Animal Nature Trail winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland, salt marsh habitats, featuring live native animal exhibits. Open daily, 10am-4pm except Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years.

Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912395-1500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland. org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. Wilderness Southeast A variety of programs each month including guided trips with naturalists. Canoe trips, hikes. Mission: develop appreciation, understanding, stewardship, and enjoyment of the natural world. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-236-8115. wildernesssoutheast.org.

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