Connect Savannah December 21, 2016

Dec 21-27, 2016 news, arts & Entertainment weekly connectsavannah.com

Do You Hear What I Hear?

Santa’s made a list & checked it twice.

Now find out what’s been naughty or nice in our 2016 Music Year In Review

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Alexandro Santana Theatre Year in Review Mmm, Macarons It takes a village to make a cover: James May of Black tusk channels his inner santa on location at Rody’s Records.

Santa suit courtesy of Justin Kent of Odd Lot and JinHi Soucy Rand. Photo by Geoff L. Johnson.

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Wednesday 12.21 2016 Skatefest

Public ice skating at the Savannah Civic Center. Session times vary. $7 per person, skate rental included.

Dec. 16-Jan. 1 The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $7 912-651-6615. savannahcivic.com

2016 Skatefest Daily

Public ice skating at the Savannah Civic Center. Session times vary. $7 per person, skate rental included.

Dec. 16-Jan. 1 The Savannah Civic Center 301 W Oglethorpe Ave. $7 912-651-6615 savannahcivic.com

Bethesda Farm and Gardens Stand

Coastal Jazz Association presents the 41st Annual Christmas Jam Film: The White Reindeer WED 12.21

DEC 21-27, 2016

This B&W Finnish horrorfantasy is not about Christmas exactly. It’s the tale of a newly wed woman who goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but winds up turned into a white reindeer that is also a vampire.

8 p.m.

The Sentient Bean 13 E. Park Ave. $7

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SUN 12.25

This fun holiday event is a homecoming concert that brings many local and regional jazz singers and musicians to the same place — Savannah, Georgia. Special food and beverage menus will be offered by 700 Drayton Restaurant.

5-8 p.m.

Mansion on Forsyth Park 700 Drayton St. $30, $25 advance online or at Portman’s Music Superstore, Rodys Audio Warehouse, & Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant eventbrite.com/e/ christmas-jazz-jam-tickets-27516325069

Each week, this popular organic farm stand, managed by Bethesda students and staff, sells fresh produce, seasonal vegetables, herbs, free range eggs, a variety of plants, goat milk soap, firewood and more. In addition, 100 percent grass fed ground beef in various quantities are available at the farm stand, which is raised and distributed by Bethesda Academy’s Cattle & Beef Operation.

Specialty cuts are also available.

3-5 p.m.

Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. merrin.slocombe@bethesdaacademy.org. bethesdaacademy.org

Common 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. 8 p.m.

The Foundery Coffee Pub, 1313 Habersham St. facebook.com/commongroundssavannah

Film: The White Reindeer

This B&W Finnish horror-fantasy is not about Christmas exactly. It’s the tale of a newly wed woman who goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but winds up turned into a white reindeer that is also a vampire.

8 p.m.

The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. $7

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Film: Love Actually Thurs 12.22

For Girls Night Out at the Movies, watch this romantic comedy with the lovable Hugh Grant. Admission gets you a glass of wine and a pack of hankies.

7 p.m.

Tybee Post Theater 10 Van Horn. $10 Home for the Holidays Adoption Special

2016 Skatefest

Thursday 12.22

Trinity Church Christmas Eve

Public ice skating at the Savannah Civic Center. Session times vary. $7 per person, skate rental included.

Dec. 16-Jan. 1 The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $7 912-651-6615. savannahcivic.com

Public ice skating at the Savannah Civic Center. Session times vary. $7 per person, skate rental included.

Dec. 16-Jan. 1 Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $7 912-651-6615. savannahcivic.com

Come for a casual and meaningful holiday worship experience. Stay for fun family photo booth style pictures provided by Rich Burkhart Photography.

5:30 p.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 W. President St. Free 912-233-4766

Austin Quattlebaum

Saturday 12.24

Austin Quattlebaum makes his annual return home for the holidays.

8-11 p.m.

Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. $5-10 sliding scale donation 912. 231. 7105.

Film: Love Actually

For Girls Night Out at the Movies, watch this romantic comedy with the lovable Hugh Grant. Admission gets you a glass of wine and a pack of hankies.

7 p.m.

Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horn. $10

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A Festival of Lessons and Carols

An evening of scripture readings and music ranging from traditional European to modern American.

7 p.m.

Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 W. President St. Free 912-233-4766

Forsyth Farmers Market

Austin Quattlebaum Homecoming Concert Thurs 12.22

Austin makes his annual return home for the holidays. Come out for an intimate acoustic concert at the thriving arts community of Sulfur Studios.

8 p.m.

Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. $5-10 sliding scale donation 912. 231. 7105 info@sulfurstudios.org

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Sunday 12.25 2016 Skatefest

Public ice skating at the Savannah Civic Center. Session times vary. $7 per person, skate rental included.

Dec. 16-Jan. 1 Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $7 912-651-6615. savannahcivic.com

Coastal Jazz Christmas Concert

Annual Christmas concert that brings many local and regional jazz singers and musicians together.

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Come for a casual and meaningful holiday worship experience. Stay for fun family photo booth style pictures provided by Rich Burkhart Photography!

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Mansion on Forsyth Park, 700 Drayton St. $25 advance, $30 day of coastaljazz.org

Monday 12.26 2016 Skatefest

Public ice skating at the Savannah Civic Center. Session times vary. $7 per person, skate rental included.

Dec. 16-Jan. 1 Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $7

$7 912-651-6615. savannahcivic.com

Holiday Evening Tours by Candlelight Listen to early 19th century music. Taste short bread and cider. Hear the story of early 19th century holiday celebrations from lively, trained docents.

Dec. 26-30 Davenport House, 324 East State St. $12 advance, $15 door

Tongue: Open Mouth and Music Show hosted by Melanie Goldey

A poetry and music open mic with an em-

Holiday Evening Tours by Candlelight phasis on sharing new, original, thoughtful Listen to early 19th century music. Taste short bread and cider. Hear the story of early 19th century holiday celebrations from lively, trained docents.

Dec. 26-30 Davenport House, 324 East State St. $12 advance, $15 door

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The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave.

Tuesday 12.27

This B&W action drama takes place in early 90’s Japan and Taiwan, but was intentionally shot to resemble classic Hollywood crime films of the 50’s and 60’s.

8 p.m.

The Sentient Bean, 13 Park Ave. $7

2016 Skatefest

Public ice skating at the Savannah Civic Center. Session times vary. $7 per person, skate rental included.

Dec. 16-Jan. 1 Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave.

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Three-year nonprofit funding phaseout is the devil in the details 4.

by Jim Morekis

jim@connectsavannah.com

AT THIS week’s meeting, City Council will hopefully put a bow on a Christmas present of sorts to the citizens of Savannah: Restoring planned funding to arts and social services agencies.

The contentious Dec. 8 meeting, in which dozens of community members lined up to implore Council and new City Manager Rob Hernandez not to go through with the planned 2017 cuts, was an exercise in civic engagement and responsibility.

And unlike most of these affairs, it apparently wasn’t a Pyrrhic victory: The weight of public opinion swayed Mayor DeLoach and Council to direct Hernandez to find a way to restore the funds.

Power to the people, indeed. It was nothing short of inspiring.

Now, as with everything, the devil is in the details. You’ve got to find the funds in order to restore them.

To that end, Hernandez and City staff came up with a menu of five options, four of which tweak the 2017 municipal budget to restore the budget cuts to cultural organizations and social services organizations.

The options are: 1. Adopt the Dec. 8 budget with budget cuts intact, i.e. the null option.

2. Delay an additional 20 percent Freeport Inventory Tax Exemption. This retains the current 20 percent exemption but would cost about $800,000 in revenue.

3. Increase the property tax millage rate, i.e. the “you want it, you pay for it” tax hike option.

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Delay or cut various bureaucratic studies involving strategic and economic planning, IT upgrades, and “rebranding” initiatives.

5. Further increase borrowing from the reserve fund, i.e., run up the credit card even more and jeopardize Savannah’s bond rating.

Any regular reader of this column will quickly suss that I myself would be in favor of Options 2 or 4.

That said, strategic planning and the like are extremely vital, especially in our current struggle to balance the tourist economy with quality of life issues.

And there is also a very urgent need, as Hernandez has identified, to modernize Savannah’s ancient IT infrastructure (I’m talking to you, six-month-behind utility bills). This I think is paramount.

But there are many creative ways to formulate strategic plans, and to conduct salary studies, and to “rebrand” (I can help do that for free!).

If arts and social services organizations can be told to be more creative in managing their budgets, we can tell government to do the same. Goose, gander, etc.

However, the most controversial portion of this menu of options isn’t any of that.

It’s in the fine print, at the end of the City Manager’s memo: “The Council also directed that we modify our nonprofit grant programs to limit funding to a maximum period of three years, with a gradual phase out during the threeyear period.”

That may sound harmless, but in my opinion could be nothing short of disastrous.

I fully support the idea that nonprofits should have a diversified funding stream,

and shouldn’t rely too much on taxpayers.

But this clause comes uncomfortably close to comparing arts and social services nonprofits to welfare recipients, who just need a helping hand until they can stand on their own two feet, etc., etc.

Culture and Social Services aren’t victims in need of help. They are ongoing, continuous investments we make as a community to make our community work better and be more enjoyable for everyone.

At the granular level, in my experience asking a small local nonprofit to phase out City grants and rely purely on corporate donors in the Savannah area is a recipe for disaster.

Almost a third of our city is below the poverty line. Most nonprofits in town famously must rely on a very small, finite number of entities with deep pockets: Gulfstream, Landings residents, a handful of philanthropic families.

Savannah is still a small market, and the pool of non-government funding is still a small and shallow one.

Factor in the apparent trend that every year the United Way seems to subsume more of the local fundraising universe into its own bailiwick, and you see that a “three-year window” to phase out funds for some groups could be more akin to a slow walk to the gallows.

(As for federal grants for arts and social services: You may have heard that a new president was elected! One very unlikely to support these kinds of funding efforts.)

I would urge citizens who go to City Hall Dec. 22 to ask Council to support Option Number 2 or 4, and urge Council and City Manager Hernandez to reconsider the proposed three-year phaseout. cs

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Take closer look at agencies and their staff salaries

Editor, Regarding your recent column, “Budget battle is only just beginning:” Some of the very points you make in complaining about the proposed city budget could be made about various arts, cultural and social service agencies themselves. Many of the agencies’ executives receive what some would consider excessive salaries.

In several areas, multiple agencies provide overlapping

services. One could argue that some have staffs that are larger than necessary. These agencies and their boards have a fiduciary responsibility to their donors and grantors to operate in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

In the case of some of the agencies, one can conclude that their budgets can easily absorb the proposed cuts.

For example, I find it hard to have sympathy for Second Harvest being cut $9,000. Their total budget is over $6 million and they will still receive something like $30,000 from

the city.

The total compensation of Second Harvest’s 55 person staff exceeds $1.2 million. My guess is they will survive the proposed cut.

In a more balanced editorial, you could mention salaries and other organizational information about the agencies being cut. Maybe you could start with a review of the Savannah Music Festival and their director’s salary.

It would help to get a proper perspective if the cuts were to be presented as a percentage of the agency’s total budget. It

would also be fair to note what the city’s contribution will be after the proposed cuts.

Lastly, I thought your comments about the separation package for Ms. Cutter were a little over the top. Long-term employees receive these types of benefits all the time.

She did an excellent job taking over the mess created by the previous city manager and deserved what is essentially a performance bonus. As a percentage of the total city budget the amount is insignificant.

Neil Johnson

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DEC 21-27, 2016

News & Opinion The (Civil) Society Column

The joy of giving

By Jessica Leigh Lebos

jll@connectsavannah.com

DEC 21-27, 2016

‘Tis the season of dutiful generosity, but let’s be honest: Not all giving is equal.

Tacking on an extra couple of hundies to some massive charity’s end-of-year plea just for the tax return isn’t nearly as magnanimous as quietly handing out coats and socks to the homeless. And not to be judgey, but the selfless benevolence of delivering toys to underprivileged children gets diminished if you’re going to humblebrag about it all over your Facebook page.

To keep our munificent motives in check, we can refer to the great 12th century sage Maimonides, who actually set up an eight-level metric to gauge the honorability of charitable donations. This ladder of good deed degrees supposedly leads all the way to heaven, or at least away from the narcissistic abyss.

The first rung starts with doling out alms, but doing so while complaining about how all these poor people just need to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and if they don’t have boots then they should’ve thought of that before they got poor, OK? Sad! The next step involves donating with a beneficent smile, but being a cheapskate about it. Oh, you’re hungry, little street ruffian? Here’s a quarter and a slightly chipped Altoid. And my leftovers from Ruth’s Chris for your mangy dog!

On up the elevator of righteousness, there are stipulations about giving only after when asked, offering before being solicited and not revealing one’s identity to the recipient of the contribution. Anonymity for both the giver and the beneficiary holds the second-highest regard (but tossing apple pies at the food bank in a balaclava probably doesn’t count.)

One way to keep it humble is to bequeath in numbers. The lovely folks of the charity collective Joined in Giving definitely aren’t looking for any glory, but I don’t think they’ll be docked points on the virtue scale if I tell you about them.

Their approach to philanthropy also packs more power than individual gifts: Every month, JIG members put in $25 and vote on one of two proposed local nonprofits to receive the $700+ windfall. More than 30 afterschool programs, arts and cul10 ture organizations and senior services have

The good folks of the collective Joy in Giving have donated over $20,000 to local non-profits and also throw the best potlucks.

been awarded grants, including Deep Kids, Savannah Youth City, Georgia Legal Services, King Tisdell Cottage Foundation and the West Broad Street YMCA, and others on the budgetary chopping block. JIG has spread out more than $20,000 since the group began meeting in 2013.

“You’ve heard of investment clubs, where people pool their money together to profit from the stock market?” asks cofounder Mike Freeman.

“It’s like that, except we’re investing in our local community.”

Mike, his wife, Chris Neal, and their partner in social justice Jan Elders conceived the idea after efforts to sustain a small offshoot of the Universalist Unitarian church faltered. Faced with a modest pile of leftover funds, they streamlined their mission into a 501c3 and invited some friends to join.

“We had wanted to focus on being more action-oriented anyway, and we realized that we could do a lot more good with our pledges instead of paying rent,” explains Jan, who grew up in the days of segregation and has been using her superpowers for justice ever since. “This way, nothing goes anywhere but into the pockets of the people that we’re trying to help.”

The monthly meetings start with a potluck hosted at members’ homes, and December brought out a festive crew to Mary Landers’ and Stewart Dohrman’s Parkside bungalow.

“Are you here for JIG?” asked their son Ty, peering out on the porch after my rap on the front door. “You’re the first one here.”

It seems I had misread the email and arrived a half an hour early, which would have been awkward except that Mary and Stewart’s easygoing graciousness extends to refusing to let inadvertently rude guests feel uncomfortable. (Maimonides doesn’t

mention good intentions marred by adultonset farsightedness, but I’m sure it would rank low.)

In spite of my faux pas, the family amiably welcomed me into the kitchen, where Mary was chopping cilantro for a giant udon noodle salad with eggplant and mango. (Among her many skills, Mary’s potluck game is particularly on point.)

I helped with the preparations by opening a bottle of wine, and we raised a toast before the arrival of the rest of the group, which Stewart called “a lot of sharp people with good hearts.”

They’re also polite enough to show up at the correct time. The house soon filled with laughter and covered dishes as the hosts’ older son, Van, played some beautiful tunes on Robin Gunn’s old baby grand piano. Everyone’s favorite children’s librarian Sha Dishong showed up in a festive polka-dot sweater, followed by Suzanne Donovan, bittersweetly spending her last night in town with JIG before moving to Minnesota.

“This group offers a look at our local non-profits in an intimate way,” mused the former Executive Director of Step Up Savannah, which happened to be one of the evening’s contenders. (Normally representatives from potential beneficiaries aren’t present for the debate, but Suzanne put in her notice months ago.)

After marveling over Mary’s salad and angling for seconds on the spanakopita, everyone adjourned to the living room to get down to business.

“It’s gonna be hot competition tonight!” vowed Jan as we cleared our plates. “I get very passionate when I’m presenting.”

Her charge was the Tybee Island MLK Celebration, a fairly new tradition that includes a procession, an essay contest and year-round consortium that she called

“the island’s only human rights organization.” Member Liz Juno took up the call of Step Up, laying out the agency’s work in affordable housing, job training and other economic assistance.

Everyone listened intently to both presentations, gauging how their donation would benefit the community. I was truly impressed by the depth of the discussion—not only by the line of questioning around each organization’s operations but the fluency in the factors that contribute to Savannah’s perpetual poverty and its stubborn pockets of cultural homogeny.

“I always learn so much from this group, they’re so interesting and so much fun,” agreed three-year JIGger Rene Patton, who drives from Richmond Hill to attend the potlucks every month. “It helps me understand the world around me.”

In the end, Jan’s fiery advocacy won the hearts and minds of the room, and everyone attacked the dessert table with the satisfaction that $700 would make a significant impact on the January parade’s tiny budget.

The checks are written from one nonprofit to the other, no individual identities involved. JIG has also begun an End Poverty fund that will soon offer microloans that can be used to start a business or go back to school—thus achieving Maimonides’ highest level of gift-giving of all: Helping others become self-sufficient so that one day they might become a benefactor.

It’s the true origin of the famous adage about teaching somone to fish instead of giving them one, which I’d always believed was attributed to Jesus up until I just looked it up.

No matter, the spirit is the same, and I suppose that’s the point. Happiest Holidays and a season of kindness, compassion and contentment to all! cs

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The Rayners: Writing as real-world therapy

Former DEA agent draws on experience for the couple’s books

By Orlando Montoya

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CYMBALTA, Lexapro, Effexor. Honestly, these things sound like characters from He Man. Zoloft, Celexa, Prozac.

Popular anti-depressants, they work for many. But, for a time, retiree Gordon Rayner took these medications without much success.

A former drug enforcement agent, the man who set up Savannah’s DEA office in 1974 and a fluent Spanish speaker who spent decades tracking down traffickers in Mexico and South America, he suffered recurring nightmares stemming from a 1969 shootout.

“It was putting it into a zombie state,” he says of the “alphabet soup” of pills he shuffled through. “It wasn’t curing me but I didn’t give a damn because it was like floating.”

Gordon and his wife of 60 years, Ella Mae, moved to Savannah six years ago from North Carolina to be closer to their daughter. The way Ella Mae tells it, Gordon’s PTSD took the form of unexplained scowls and her having to walk on eggshells.

“He didn’t talk about much of what was going on in his life,” Ella Mae says.

So she encouraged him to write about his experiences. It turned into a 12 page

journal. “It’s just my thoughts, real people,” he says of that first, unpublished foray into writing.

It went into a drawer. And then something happened. So did his depression.

Not totally. But he was scowling less. “It certainly was cathartic for my system,” he says.

So Gordon decided to see if he could get even better by writing more. He fired up the laptop and a book came out.

This time, he worked with Ella Mae and wrote less about violent topics and more about their shared family adventures doing the nation’s business.

It was the couple’s first book, “Foreign Service, Family Style,” a memoir of their years together, with kids, in Paraguay.

It drew on Gordon’s intrepid career on the front lines of America’s drug wars.

“I enjoyed his job as much as he did,” Ella Mae says.

Gordon helped the Paraguayan government establish drug laws at a time when cocaine was sold legally in stores. His work helped convince Asuncion to extradite the Mafioso Auguste Ricord “The French Connection” to the United States.

The family shopped in Montevideo, hosted parties for resident Yankees and ran into all kinds of bumps on South American roads. Divertido! Delicioso!

“I’m sort of adventurous and into everything,” Ella Mae says. “The kids all have learned to be like that.”

Gordon fought marijuana-running shrimpers during their first stint in Savannah. He always wrote reports about these things and had to unlearn decades of “government speak” when he started writing as therapy a few years ago.

He and Ella Mae credit the writer’s group at Senior Citizens, Inc. for help and encouragement on that front.

“It doesn’t matter if what you write is coherent, intelligent or published,” he says of what happened when typing freed his mind. “The act of writing itself is a treatment.”

The couple followed the Paraguay memoir with a work of fiction about terrorists and genetically modified bulls, called “Taurus, Taurus, Taurus.”

And a third book, continuing on the “national security fiction” theme, this time set in Mexico, is on the way.

As for the depression, Gordon says it comes and goes, but is much better now. “I don’t have nightmares about it anymore,” he says.

Maybe we all can find some therapy in this thing that we do, the Rayners, my Connect friends and I, staring at a page, for hours, crafting stories.

“The therapy worked because I couldn’t stop him from typing,” Ella Mae says. “He finally found a reason for living, really.”

Find their books at The Book Lady and E. Shaver Bookseller. cs

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Did Martin Luther, founder of the Protestant Reformation, instigate the Holocaust with his anti-Jewish writings, including his infamous On the Jews and Their Lies?— Curious in Colorado DID Martin Luther instigate the Holocaust? Call me a traditionalist, but I figure that accomplishment can stay on Hitler’s rap sheet. What we can safely say, though, is that (a) yes, the father of the Reformation did express starkly antiSemitic sentiments in print and at great length<emdash>in the treatise you name, he explicitly advocates the persecution of German Jews, saying at one point “We are at fault in not slaying them”—and (b) the Nazis couldn’t get enough of it. Luther hardly invented anti-Semitism, but as a towering presence in German culture, he proved very useful in legitimizing the aims of the Third Reich.

Always opposed to the practice of Judaism—he couldn’t understand why anyone would take a pass on the Christian promise of salvation—Luther initially adopted a honey-not-vinegar approach toward its adherents. His 1523 treatise That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew condemned the

Catholic Church for its mistreatment of Jews—not for humanitarian reasons, mind you, but because he felt it made Jews less likely to convert. On the basis of this position, a Jewish advocate solicited Luther’s aid in 1537 after Jews had been banned from the state of Saxony; Luther, by this time seemingly enraged at the failure of his conversion efforts, vehemently refused to intercede.

Luther’s anti-Semitism reached full boil with the 1543 publication of On the Jews and Their Lies—basically a 65,000word blast of what nowadays we’d call hate speech. After roundly condemning Jews as prideful, deceitful, indolent blasphemers, “possessed by all devils,” Luther sets forth a program of action: he calls for the burning of synagogues; forbidding rabbis from teaching; banning Jews from owning homes; denying them legal protection; confiscating their texts and money; and setting them to manual labor.

This diatribe wasn’t a one-off, as Luther followed it up with further, equally combative treatises and a later series of anti-Semitic sermons before his death in 1546. And its arguments weren’t ineffective—a reprint helped stir up a Frankfurt pogrom in 1614.

In his classic The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer argues that here Luther had basically drafted the blueprints for the Holocaust, concluding that his “advice was literally followed.”

We have no proof the young Hitler was aware of Luther’s anti-Semitic writings (the strongest stuff had been omitted from some editions of Luther’s collected work), or that they had a formative effect on his thinking; thus we can’t draw a direct line from Luther to Hitler to the Holocaust.

However, it’s broadly true that Luther contributed to the culture of anti-Semitism that was especially virulent in Germany (although hardly unknown elsewhere—for example in Russia, where Luther had no comparable influence). And by the 1930s at least, the Nazis were well aware of Luther’s anti-Semitic work and used it to justify their actions. On the Jews and Their Lies was displayed prominently in a glass case during the Nuremberg rallies, and Nazi bigwigs regularly cited Luther as a kindred spirit. “No judgment could be sharper,” Heinrich Himmler said of Luther’s writings against the Jews; “With Luther,” according to Hans Hinkel of the Reich’s Propaganda Ministry, “the revolution of German blood and feeling against alien elements of the Volk was begun.” Bishop Martin Sasse, prominent in the pro-Nazi German Christian movement, published a collection of Luther’s anti-Semitic writings, noting with satisfaction in its preface that “on November 10, 1938, on Luther’s birthday, the synagogues are burning in Germany” and calling Luther “the greatest anti-Semite of his time.” Nazi newspaper publisher Julius Streicher, who had received a first edition of On the Jews and Their Lies from the people of Nuremberg as a birthday present, referred to that work in his own defense while on trial in the same city after the war: “Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants’ dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the prosecution.”

Luther’s defenders emphasize that his prejudice against Jews was theological, rooted in their refusal to embrace Christianity, rather than strictly racist. But the relentless vigor with which he hammers away at “these base children of the devil,

this brood of vipers,” suggests more than a purely doctrinal bone to pick. As noted Lutheran scholar Eric Gritsch pointed out, Luther’s description of how Jews’ collective guilt for their supposed sins “still shines forth from their eyes and their skin” certainly implies some racial component to his animus.

In Luther’s example, Shirer suggests, Hitler found a traditional justification for not just anti-Jewish policy, but also for authoritarian rule; he contends that Luther’s own “passion for political autocracy ensured a mindless and provincial political absolutism” in German society.

The Nazis organized Luther Day celebrations, calling Luther “the first German spiritual Führer,” and enlisted his teachings to support the idea that German exceptionalism and anti-Semitism were inseparable. We have no reason to think Luther would have approved of the Holocaust. But—and this is always the danger with rabble-rousers—he set his followers on the path. 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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news & Opinion blotter 2016 Sav/Chatham County Crime Stats through Sunday December 18

Homicide Total

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(21 solved)

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Man arrested for phoning in death threats to police

Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police arrested a man Dec. 14, “after he made threats to kill officers through phone calls to the Emergency Communications Center,” police report.

The SCMPD Emergency Communications Center received “several erratic phone calls on Dec. 13 from an unidentified caller making threats to local law enforcement. In one of the phone calls, the caller threatened to kill officers. Investigators were able to locate the residence where calls were made from,” police say.

Robert Williams, 57, was identified as the occupant of the residence, in the 100 block of Millen Street. Officers conducted surveillance of the home before utilizing SWAT Team members to serve a search warrant on the home. The phone that made the calls was located inside the residence.

Major Richard Zapal, Criminal Investigations Commander said of the arrest, “The job of a police officer is difficult enough today. Now they often worry about their safety. Six Georgia law enforcement officers have been shot in the past two weeks.”

He added, “If anyone makes an overt threat to any of our police officers, we will utilize the necessary resources to bring this person to justice and eliminate the threat to our officers.”

Williams, who police say has a history of terroristic threats, is charged with felony terroristic threats and acts.

Arrest for knifing on Congress

Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police detectives arrested Mosheh Underwood, 23, in the 500 block of Amaranth Ave, Dec. 15, for entering a tobacco shop and attacking a clerk on Dec. 8.

He is charged with one count of aggravated assault. Additional charges may be pending.

Investigators believe Underwood entered the business, located in the 100 block of East Congress Street, at approximately 10 p.m. and chose items to purchase.

“As the cashier attempted to assist the suspect, the assailant attacked the cashier with a sharp unknown object. The cashier was able to seek aid outside of the store before the suspect fled,” police say.

Robert Williams

The victim was transported to Memorial University Medical Center with nonlife threatening but serious injuries.

Pedestrian killed on Bay

Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police responded to a wreck on Bay Street near Kenilworth Street, that resulted in the death of pedestrian, Lessie Owens, 70, at about 6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 17.

Investigators believe Owens was walking toward the north side of Bay Street near Kenilworth Street. At the same time, Stephen Hammond, 31, was driving east on Bay Street in a 1993 Chevy S10 Blazer. Hammond struck Owens. Hammond remained on-scene waiting for first responders.

Detectives believe low visibility may have been a factor in this incident.

January 1, 2017

Police urge safety when meeting sellers from online ads

SCMPD “urges citizens to make safety the highest priority when buying and selling goods advertised online,” police report, in the wake of numerous instances around the country of people being robbed when they meet to purchase items advertised on sites like Craigslist. The public is reminded of the following safety tips: Use police precincts as meeting places.

Avoid meeting to buy or sell items alone.

Always advise a friend or loved one of your plans to buy or sell items.

Arrive early and position yourself to observe and evaluate your surroundings and individuals you are scheduled to meet.

If something makes you uneasy, leave immediately.

Buyers and sellers always should meet in public highly populated places during daylight or business hours.

Always take a working cellular phone to alert police of emergencies.

Never invite strangers into your home and avoid entering their residences.

Avoid posting personal info online.

Have several adults present when selling items difficult to remove from your home.

Keep valuables out of view.

Be leery of purchasers attempting to use cashier’s checks. These may be counterfeit. cs

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news & Opinion News of the weird LEAD STORY

Radical dentistry was on display in November in London’s Science Gallery, where installations offered “art-science collaborations” — including Taiwan artist Kuang-Yi Ku’s “Fellatio Modification Project.” Former dentist Ku, complaining that textbooks on mouths tragically underregard their value in sex, created (the ordinary way) a custom retainer for the client’s mouth but then added rubber “bumps” and “cones” and “ribs” and “ripples” that might be pleasing to a partner.

Suspicions Confirmed

Evolution, according to scientists, likely explains why some “prey” develop defense mechanisms to avoid “predators,” i.e., the prey who fail to develop them are unable to procreate (because they’re dead), but a team of scientists from Sweden and Australia recently concluded that something similar happens in a species of fish in which males mate basically by huge-appendaged rape. Growing nine generations of the species in the lab, the researchers concluded that the females who can avoid the “rapist” evolve larger brains than those who fall victim.

(Researchers, loosely speaking, thus concluded that as males grow bigger penises, females grow bigger brains to outsmart them.)

Recurring Themes

Whistleblower goes to jail; responsible industry executives make millions.

Long-time Mississippi environmental activist Tennie White is 27 months into a 40-month sentence (for “falsifying” three $150 tests in her laboratory), but highranking executives at the Kerr-McGee chemical conglomerate made millions on the case White helped expose: leakage of cancer-causing creosote into communities, including White’s Columbus, Mississippi, neighborhood. A detailed investigation by TheIntercept.com in November noted the executives’ brilliant response to the 25,000 creosote lawsuits nationwide: put all the liability into one outlying company (eventually going bankrupt) but selling off, highly profitably, the rest of the firm.

Compelling Explanations

Texas is among the most enthusiastic states for jailing low-income arrestees who cannot pay a money bail, especially during devastating family hardships, and the four Houston bail magistrates are particularly harsh, according to a recent report of the Texas Organizing Project. After hearing one financially overwhelmed woman beg sarcastically that $1,000 bail is “nothing” next to her other bills, unsympathetic magistrate Joe Licata shrugged, “It’s nothing to me, either. It’s job security.”

Pervert — Or Not

208 mph (but they got him, anyway). (6) Different languages spoken by children in Buffalo, New York, public classrooms: 85.

Hardly Need a Breathalyzer

(1) Michelle Keys, 35, among those joyously caught up in Iowa’s upset win over highly ranked Michigan in football in November and celebrating that night in Iowa City, was slurring and incoherent and told police she was certain she was standing in Ames, Iowa (120 miles away), and had just watched the “Iowa State - Arizona” game (a matchup not played since 1968). (She registered .225) (2) A 38-year-old woman was arrested in Springwood, Australia, in November when police Merry her car at 3 a.m. at an Christmas! stopped intersection — with a children’s swing set wedged onto the roof of her SUV. (She had shortly before mistakenly driven through someone’s back yard and through the swing set.) (.188.)

(1) When police in Port Orange, Florida, arrested Anthony Coiro, 76, in November, he admitted that he had a stash of “crazy” pornography, some featuring children.

However, he adamantly insisted, “I’m not a pedophile. I’m just a pervert,” adding, “a law-abiding pervert.” He faces 52 counts. (2) In November in Osaka, Japan, an unnamed arrestee apparently had his sexual molestation charge (against a woman on a crowded train) dramatically downgraded. “Actually,” the man indignantly told the judge, he is not a pervert but just a pickpocket (a lesser crime).

The victim had testified that the man had brushed against her for “3 seconds” and not the “30” she originally told police.

Weird Quantities Recently in the News

(1) Price tag for one round of a 155mm projectile shot from the Navy’s USS Zumwalt: $800,000. (2) Trees killed in California by the now-5-year-old drought: 102,000,000. (3) Recent finding of “water” farthest from the Earth’s surface: 621 miles down (one-third of the way to the Earth’s “core”). (4) Odds that Statistics Lecturer Nicholas Kapoor (Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut) said he played against in buying a $15 Powerball ticket: 1 in 913,129 (but he won $100,000!).

(5) Speed police calculated Hector Faire, 19, reaching in an Oklahoma police chase:

Perspective

“Sexually-based offenses,” a TV show intones, are “particularly heinous,” but to the small Delaware liberal arts Wesley College (according to the U.S. Department of Education) even an accusation of sexual misconduct is so heinous that there was no need even to interview the alleged wrongdoer before expelling him.

(An informal meeting did occur, but only after the investigation was completed.)

The expulsion occurred even though the victim herself had not originally accused that particular student. The expelled student’s offense was to have helped set up video for a consensual sex encounter that was (without consent) live-streamed. (The Department of Education accepted a settlement in which Wesley agreed to revamp its code of student rights.)

Recent Alarming Headlines

• “Man Mixing LSD and Cough Syrup Saves Dog From Imaginary Fire” (WNYTTV, Albany, N.Y.), 10-15-2016). (Panicked, he had first sought help from neighbors — who were unpersuaded by the sight

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• Apparently the plan by a 33-year-old unlicensed, un-car-registered driver in Perth, Australia, in November to keep from being stopped by police was to print “POLICE” in large, “official”-looking letters on the sides of her white Hyundai, using a blue dry-erase board marker. (She was, of course, quickly stopped by police.)

• A woman in a quiet north Minneapolis neighborhood told reporters she became fearful after seeing a large swastika spraypainted on a garage door down a nearby alley (just after election day!). (Problem: The base “X” of the correct design has “hooks” that should always extend to the right, clockwise; three of the Minneapolis “artist’s” awkwardly hook left.)

The Passing Parade

(1) In November, a court in Christchurch, New Zealand, ordered the local police to “undo” the 493 bottles’ worth of liquor they had recently poured down the city’s drain after raiding an unlicensed bar. The court said the police must pay a pumping company to recall the hooch because of environmental regulations. (2) In November, the Littleton, Colorado, city government, faced with the need to “blot” sticky tar on 120 streets whose potholes it was filling, bypassed expensive “detackifiers” in favor of stuffing toilet paper over the tar, causing the streets to have a trickor-treat look.

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DEC 21-27, 2016

“2016 is the year of growing pains,” announces Matt Collett.

The co-owner of The Garage Savannah and seasoned drummer should know.

Shaped by the Savannah scene since he was just a kid playing in heavy rock bands, Collett has witnessed the tidal nature of his hometown music scene time and again.

Some years, the chemistry is just right: a crop of devoted individuals brimming with ideas and song, open doors at a vari16 ety of venues ready to book original music,

local bands touring, touring bands playing locally, Savannahians recording and distributing music by Savannahians, patrons shelling out the cover charge and dancing all night to local music.

And some years, it’s just not.

Savannah’s a transitional town, and sometimes, the real highs are followed by real lows. Collett isn’t alone in his sentiment that 2016 was a pivotally odd year in the music scene. Club promoters have reported strangely low turnouts. Key players have uprooted and moved out of town.

And the nation’s future looms large and menacing over the creative community.

So why aren’t we seeking shelter in song? What can we do to make 2017 a great

year for local music? Connect spoke with the folks fighting hard within Savannah’s scene to find out.

Closing doors

As downtown Savannah continues to market itself as a travel destination, small businesses in the entertainment industry have been directly affected.

“We lost so many music venues in the last year, and so many venues trying to push something different,” sighs Steven Baumgardner a.k.a. Basik Lee, MC, DJ, singer-songwriter, and longtime host of Hip-Hop Night at The Jinx.

In 2016, several downtown venues, including Hang Fire and Ampersand, closed their doors as the buildings they occupied went on the market. In 2017, Dollhouse Productions, Blake and Peter Mavrogeorgis’ recording studio and venue space, will be taken over by a new tenant. As of press time, Blake told Connect that the future of Dollhouse in Savannah is yet to be determined. Off Victory Drive, historic Johnny Harris Restaurant was demolished, forcing the Savannah Songwriters Series to a new location and

dissolving a tradition (the series spent the rest of 2016 at Tybee Post Theater and will move to The Sentient Bean in 2017).

Strangely, as Kayne Lanahan of Savannah Stopover observes, “There are less options, but it doesn’t seem like having fewer options has made the options that are left do really well in our experience.”

And as big business moves in downtown, big changes are coming with it.

“Musicians are up in arms, because lots of these places don’t have their own PAs, and they’re not paying more to their musicians,” Baumgardner observes. “As for DJing, it’s always been competitive, but it’s a hard sell to these new venues, especially smaller ones opening up and fighting these huge corporations. Small businesses are going through hell. If you’re feeding tourism, wouldn’t you want to feed into what makes downtown different, not the same?”

With tourism as the focus of downtown culture, musicians have found that many patrons have less of an interest in paying a cover to see live music.

“You go out of town, and you can charge covers,” says Miggs, a local rapper and musician who’s lived in Savannah for the

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past decade, toured frequently, and will move to Philadelphia in the new year with his partner, visual artist Lauren Schwind.

“In Savannah culture, we can’t charge a big cover, or at all. What that means is there’s less of a turnout. How can we make the most money out of this?”

“Obviously, we’re in some sort of transition,” says Collett. “When it comes to what Jon Waits calls ‘menu venues,’ the menu venue bands—the Big E’s, the Eric Culbersons—they’re all displaced from their homes. When I was growing up, Mercury Lounge was Culberson’s place, and now, it’s Barrelhouse and has become the place for bands that used to play Locos. The Jinx is way more inclusive now, basically everything there used to be in a heavy genre. It seems like a rebirth downtown that hasn’t quite taken yet.”

The Jinx, consistently voted Best Live Music Bar in Connect’s Best of Savannah awards, has broadened its horizons.

“The bar almost books itself,” says Gil Cruz, who handles booking at The Jinx. “I just wish people would come out more. I always book things people say they want,

things, each gets smaller.”

Stopover has taken notice of this and pared down on their year-round bookings in 2016. “It’s harder to get people’s attention if you’re always trying to get their attention,” she says.

Away they go

2016 was one of those years that saw numerous influential contributors moving away from Savannah. Colleen Heine and Zach Smith of The Accomplices, Ryan McCardle of DIY record label Furious Hooves, which released a compilation of all-local tunes, STAY RAD SAV, this year, electronic music wizard and effects pedal builder Ross Fish, and a slew of SCAD students active in the DIY scene, including the majority of The Bomb Shelter Records crew, graduated and moved away.

Members of Triathalon—whose 2016 EP “Cold Shower,” released on Broken Circles Records, was a critical darling—moved, and the jazz/math/prog band Culture Vulture flew the coop to pursue bigger things in L.A. Meanwhile, back on the home turf,

“It’s harder to get people’s attention if you’re always trying to get their attention.” and thought it would be a good turnout, and people just don’t show up.”

Savannah-born Baroness, who received their first Grammy nomination this year, played their first “hometown” show in years at The Jinx in December 2015, setting the course for a 2016 studded with big shows like Skeletonwitch, Savannah’s own Black Tusk, promoting their criticallyacclaimed album Pillars of Ash between tours, Damad’s reunion, and more.

Those big-ticket shows pack the house, but Cruz notices that audiences aren’t necessarily taking a chance on something new, like when lesser-known touring bands come through.

“I wish people would realize that, yeah, Savannah is smaller than Atlanta or New York or Chicago, but our music scene is really, really awesome,” says Cruz. “People are not taking advantage of what we have here.”

“I feel like [in places like New York], the scene is a higher art form, to be respected and really participated in,” says Collett, “whereas around here, it’s kind of seen as an annoyance or a background feature. I’d like to see the scene elevated, respected.”

Lanahan suggests that as Savannah grows, there might just be too much to do in the evenings.

“You can only cut the pie in so many pieces,” she observes. “As you slice more

many bands dissolved, including Kylesa, juggernauts who have been redefining the international metal and heavy music scene for 15 years. Having fewer booking options makes it difficult for promoters to create unique bills; ideally, bands play less frequently so they pack the house when they do take the stage. Cruz notes that the dissolution of a large percentage of Savannah’s punk bands makes it hard to round out a bill when The Jinx gets a great touring act in the genre.

“We’ve lost a great amount of talent,” says Baumgardner, “and most will all say the same thing: they love the city, the community, the energy is great, they have so much love for how the artists are with each other here. It’s just that fight of finding your niche and being able to sustain with it.”

For Miggs and Schwind, leaving Savannah was a difficult but necessary decision.

Miggs got his musical start with the collective Word of Mouth, going on to join the Dope Sandwich crew, and spent years bringing touring acts to Savannah and invigorating the scene with his visual art and musical talents.

“Savannah is a great city for nurturing artists,” he points out. “I feel we’ve definitely been nurtured here and been able to explore what works for us. As far as ‘the

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market,’ the external aspect of making art, we need to figure out the best way to survive in the industry, and Savannah is not the big playing field for that.”

“There were two quotes I heard this year that really resonated with me, being very true about Savannah,” Schwind shares.

“One, ‘In Savannah, you learn to live with less.’ That resonates, because you learn to live by smaller means here, and I think that plays into the other that someone else, an artist, stated: ‘We need to stop buying each other’s work. We need to not be the only ones supporting each other.’

How does Savannah help support each other and its artists?”

“It breeds the question of how do we support the movement, the community, as opposed to supporting the individual?”

Miggs poses. “Because if we’re all artists ourselves, we can’t sustain our own community without breaking out into the outside commerce.”

“We need buyers,” affirms Schwind. “Can the people who live here afford to invest in artists?”

Community festivals, like Statts Fest, bring local artists together for a good cause and invigorate the scene. Photo by geoff l. johnson

A national concern

Bookers have noted a sense of apathy and lukewarm turnouts in Savannah in 2016; some, like Lanahan and Peter Robaudo of Savannah Stopover, think the part of the problem might not be localized.

“This year has been a tougher year, and I definitely think that this being an election year has affected it,” says Lanahan. “Just in the last six months, even—it’s been like, everybody’s psyche and focus is on that.

Even on social media, [promotion] is hard, and nobody’s in a very good mood. It’s kind of like this weight that hasn’t really lifted.”

The way the election brought alt-right ideology out of the depths of the internet and into the mainstream has posed a terrifying threat against DIY venues and queer safe(r) spaces across the U.S., including venues right here in Savannah.

2015 kicked off with a thriving DIY community spread throughout the Victorian Historic District and Thomas Streetcar Historic District. Any night of the week, there was a stacked punk show, an experimental music exhibition with live visuals from local artists, intimate acoustic concerts—you name it. Many venues closed before the summer as their buildings were sold or the occupants themselves moved away, but the young DIY community is tough and deeply passionate. QuoLab, which moved into a bigger space in 2016, had a successful year of growth, and several individuals felt compelled to open their homes and start DIY venues of their own as others began to close.

Then, on December 2, Ghost Ship, a warehouse in Oakland, California caught fire, killing 36 musicians and concertgoers.

The devastating loss prompted a national dialogue on safe spaces for queer folks,

“It’s going to be an uphill battle. The question is, who’s willing to fight for it?” musicians, and artists. It also inspired a call to action in alt-right internet forums: shut down your local DIY venue.

“The Oakland warehouse fire occurred in a radical leftist commune rife with HIV, drugs, and alternative lifestyle degeneracy,” a thread on the website 4chan decreed. “These communes are known as ‘DIY spaces’ to the bums, anarchists, and drug addicts who populate them.”

“These places are open hotbeds of liberal radicalism and degeneracy and now YOU can stop them by reporting all such places you may be or may become aware of to the authorities, specifically the local fire marshel [sic],” read a post.

“Watch them and follow them to their hives. Infiltrate social circles, go to parties/events, record evidence, and report it. We’ve got them on the run but now we must crush their nests before they can regroup! [Make America Great Again] my brothers and happy hunting!”

Soon, lists, addresses, and photos of venues were posted to the threads. Listings on DoDIY.org, a cornerstone DIY music site that helped connect bands and venues, were shared so that the venues could be targeted and shut down (DoDIY.org’s

founder deleted the site’s entire contents on December 8 as a safety measure). Venues across the U.S. began deleting all signs of life from the Internet and cancelling any upcoming shows.

Days after the original posting, QuoLab was listed.

“I don’t think people realize the seriousness of this,” an anonymous local DIY promoter shares. “How our scene, and people’s lives, could be directly affected by this. For some reason, there are people in this world filled with confusion and hate and feel the need to attack others. I don’t know why, but what they’re doing is making an impact, and we’re doing our best to stop it.”

As a queer safe(r) space that booked a variety of genres of music, fused audio and visual art in eclectic billings, welcomed new artists to share their work and grow, opened its doors as shelter in literal disaster (Hurricane Matthew) and in daily comings and goings, offered workshops, and boasted a great zine library, QuoLab was essential to Savannah. Its second year of The World’s Smallest Music Festival was a bustling success, and the community around the space was growing. But after being targeted, the space’s facilitators have made the decision to bring QuoLab’s legacy to an end.

“QuoLab is closing its doors as a public art space in order to focus on ways to better serve the community in 2017,” its facilitators told Connect. “We thank you for your support and look forward to what the future holds.”

What can you do to support your local DIY scene in these uncertain times? One local DIY booker has a few tips: “Do not share the address of any DIY venue to anyone you don’t know and trust. [Don’t] use the venue name in posts or pictures of the outside of the venue. If possible, refrain from posting anything having to do with our DIY venues.”

So what now?

“It’s still going to be an uphill battle,” says Baumgardner. “The question is, who’s willing to fight for it?”

Across the board, there is a call to look inward toward community collaboration.

Collett, who’s recorded a scope of local talent this year at The Garage Savannah, including La Scrilla (the Savannah rapper’s latest music video, “Lyra,” has over 73,000 YouTube views), Hot Plate, and Clay Hodges’ EP, wants to see more artists working together.

“I’ve been thinking about doing a collaboration of all-Savannah artists,” he suggests. “How cool would it be to get everyone together in a space, mix all the bands up, everybody do a single? That’s something I’ve always wanted to do.”

In the age of social media oversaturation, Baumgardner suggests artists and

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Kylesa went on indefinite hiatus this year. PHOTO BY ADRIANA IRIS BOATWRIGHT

promoters get back to human interaction, handing out flyers and telling people about their shows like Dope Sandwich did back in the day.

“One thing to remember in the early Dope Sandwich stuff, we were trading shows within the city, playing with people doing completely different genres, giving back, collaborating, and that’s another thing I think a lot of up-and-comers still don’t get—they think there are lines or places they can’t go and cross, and as a music community, we all gotta really support each other,” he urges. “I know it’s hard for us to all go see each other all the time— we’re all working—but make a healthy effort for that.”

“We are bands, promoters, etc. just need to keep on grinding,” says Jeffrey Tosh, who lost his long-running DIY venue, The Erasery, this year. “I wanted to show that a house could be more than just a house—it has the potential to be a showcase, a stage, a frame unique upon itself, a safe place where, no matter what you were after, for that night, you could come and be comfortable, entertained and hopefully inspired in quality way…what I truly sought was to inspire, either musicians to be better, or individuals to get off their asses and rise to the challenge of either forming a band or opening up their own space.”

As Miggs and Schwind reflect on their Savannah memories, they mention unique local festivals like TASTE, Square Fest and Urban Arts Festival that brought locals together and suggest bringing back smallscale celebrations of that nature to reinvigorate the community.

2017 is already showing a lot of potential. In the New Year, venues will be able to apply for a permit allowing people aged 18-20 into live performances; The Wormhole expects to kick off 18+ shows starting in January.

Opening up that age gap could allow for a sea change in Savannah music culture.

Plus, there are new venues on the way:

SOUTHSIDE’S NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY HQ!

The Stage on Bay, a 1,000-capacity venue, will be an all-ages establishment bringing in big names like Marshall Tucker Band, Mark and Ted Broussard, and Corey Smith. CEO Charlie Schmitt is a longtime music biz guy with plenty of industry connections; in addition to the classic rock and country gracing The Stage, he looks forward to hearing suggestions from the community on what kind of shows they’d like to see. Speaking with Connect, Schmidt shared that he looks forward to bringing a variety of genres to Savannah—particularly more indie acts—and offering affordable concerts to people of all ages. The Stage will also book local bands and pair them with touring acts whenever possible (about 50 percent of the time, Schmidt estimates—it all depends on whether the touring act has built-in support).

Some other fun news for 2017: Cusses is coming back! Catch them Friday, February 10 at The Jinx for a homecoming show.

Catch all the shows, as many as you can.

Host one, if you can.

Feel compelled to make some noise yourself? Gather some friends and jam.

Scour Craigslist for instruments. Rent from your local music store. Play open mics (find ‘em in Connect’s Soundboard listings). Buy local albums. Blast them with the windows down. Sing loud, sing proud.

“We’re in a city where everywhere you are, somebody has some kind of dope superpower,” says Miggs. “To be in that energy—even if you’re not the type to go around, perform at shows—even the more reclusive artists feed off that.”

“The desire to create something, anything is here, right in this city, with these people,” says Tosh. “It mostly bubbles constantly and slowly below the surface, but it peeks its head out often enough to keep us living here as artists and thinkers. When it rises, we go on noticing that it hasn’t left us…and likely never will. It lends itself to hope. And that is the very best of a thing.”

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Turn up for the holidays with Asheville, North Carolina’s Dr. Bacon and Jacksonville, Florida’s own Anton Laplume Band.

Dr. Bacon plays what they’ve dubbed “Appalachian Funk Rock,” blending soul, jazz, rock, blues, hip-hop and folk into a funky stew using electric guitars, resonator guitars, harmonica, bass guitar, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, drums, trombone, kazoo, and more.

The band’s 2015 EP “The Kreature” shows off the band’s mountain roots with bootstompin’ rhythms, quick pickin’, and harmonies. Gypsy-swamp tones meet Man Manstyle absurdity on tunes like “Don’t Feed The Kreature,” while a certain harmonious tenderness bubbles to the surface on “Orgrassmo.”

The Anton Laplume Band dishes out funk with deep grooves and jazzy flourishes for the jam band set. The show marks their Savannah debut, so head on down to Congress and give the Florida fellows a warm welcome.

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Coastal Jazz Christmas Concert @The Mansion on Forsyth Park

Finish Christmas Day with a new tradition!

Every year, the Coastal Jazz Association of Savannah celebrates the season with a big homecoming concert featuring local and regional jazz singers and musicians.

This year, the show features rhythm guitar player and Coastal Jazz Association President Howard Paul, Eric Jones on piano, Quentin Baxter on drums, Mitch Hennis on bass, and Savannah vocalist Gina Rene. Guest musicians include Kirk Lee, Robin Sherman, Jaran McCarr, Phillip Whack, Peter Hennis, and Robert Saunders.

The big bash is a wonderful way for musicians, friends, and family to reconnect while everyone’s home for Christmas, and it’s all for a good cause—proceeds go toward two jazz scholarships, given annually to local college music majors studying in jazz programs.

The 41st concert and 20th that the Coastal Jazz Association is involved in, the concert and jam session is a two-part affair: first up, a group of musicians will play special compositions and the following jam session opens up the floor to invited artists. Whether you’re a regular or newcomer, you don’t want to miss it.

Snag your tickets online via coastaljazz.org or pick them up from Portman’s Music Superstore, Rody’s Audio Warehouse, TailsSpin in Habersham Village, or The Magic Puppet in The Savannah Mall.

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Clouds & Satellites Acoustic Sessions @Foxy Loxy

Savannah’s Clouds & Satellites released one of the best EPs out of Savannah in 2016 and filled out their live sound with a five-piece lineup, complete with keys. Hearing those tunes stripped down at the coffee shop will be a perfect finish to a busy year.

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The Shrimp Factory Justin Morris Tijuana Flats Gary Strickland Vic’s on The River Diana Rogers The Warehouse Eric Culberson Wild Wing Cafe @Sundown, Bill Hodgson, Groovetown Assault, 5 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) High Velocity, 9:30 p.m.

The Wormhole Acoustic Happy Hour, 6 p.m.

Live Music

Barrelhouse South Earphorik, 10 p.m., Bay Street Blues Hitman Blues Band, 9 p.m.

Bayou Cafe Thomas Claxton, 9 p.m.

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Thea, piano/vocals, 6 p.m.

Boomy’s Eric Culberson Band, 10 p.m.

Cocktail Co. VuDu Cocktail Acoustic Open Mic Night, 7 p.m. coffee deli Acoustic Jam, 7 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge Happy Hour w/ Anders Thomsen, 6 p.m.

Five Oaks Taproom Eric Britt, 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Jason Bible, 7:30 p.m.

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Cory Chambers, 7 p.m.

Rachael’s 1190 Jeremy Riddle, 10 p.m.

The Sandbar Open Mic, 9 p.m.

SEED Eco Lounge Latin Music Night, 9 p.m.

Tree House Wobble Wednesday Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Jubal Kane, 8 p.m.

White Rabbit Wobble Wednesdays w/ CLVLND Wild Wing Cafe Brandon Reeves, 5 p.m.

The Wormhole Acoustic Happy Hour, 6 p.m., Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Trivia & Games

The Chromatic Dragon Geeky Trivia Night, 8 p.m.

Dub’s Pub Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

The Jinx Rock n Roll Bingo, 10 p.m.

Rachael’s 1190 Team Trivia, 8:45 p.m.

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia, 9:30 p.m.

World of Beer Trivia, 7 p.m.

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Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

Hercules Bar & Grill Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9p.m.

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Totally Awesome Bar Weird Wednesdays Open Mic Comedy

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Thursday 12.22 Live Music

Barrelhouse South Custard Pie, 10 p.m.

Basil’s Pizza and Deli Jan Spillane, 6:30 p.m.

Bay Street Blues Hitman Blues Band, 9 p.m.

Bayou Cafe Eric Culberson Band, 9 p.m.

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals), 6 p.m.

Fannie’s on the Beach Christy and Butch, 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Laiken Love Duo, 7:30 p.m.

The Jinx Scaryoke, 10 p.m.

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Matt Eckstine, 7 p.m.

River House Stan Ray Rocks on the Roof At Sundown

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Coach’s Corner Trivia, Movies & Music Trivia, 8 p.m.

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Quattlebaum! Second Annual Homecoming Show @Sulfur studios

Savannah’s Austin Quattlebaum is home for the holidays and is back at Sulfur Studios for an intimate acoustic concert. Refreshments are included in the cover charge. thursday, december 22, 8 p.m., $5-10 sliding scale donation The Shrimp Factory Jason Bible Sulfur Studios Austin Quattlebaum, 8 p.m.

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Totally Awesome Bar DJ Basik Lee, 10 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Rachael Shaner Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry, 5 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Acoustic Thursday, 6 p.m.

The Wormhole Acoustic Happy Hour, 6 p.m.

Trivia & Games

The Britannia British Pub Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

McDonough’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

Mediterranean Tavern Butt Naked Trivia with Kowboi, 7 p.m.

Melody’s Coastal Cafe and Sandbar Cantina Trivia Pour Larry’s Explicit Trivia, 10 p.m.

Totally Awesome Bar 80s and 90s Trivia, 8 p.m.

Tybee Island Social Club Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

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Applebee’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Blueberry Hill Trivia and Karaoke, 7 p.m.

The Chromatic Dragon Karaoke Night, 9 p.m.

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

Doodles Karaoke Thursday & Saturdays, 9 p.m.

Flashback Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Jukebox Bar & Grill Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Mediterranean Tavern Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Rachael’s 1190 Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

Rusty Rudders Tap House Karaoke Savannah’s Music City Bar and Grill Karaoke, 8 p.m.

World of Beer Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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Congress Street Social Club DJ Blackout, 10 p.m.

Little Lucky’s DJ Mixx Masta Matao Mediterranean Tavern DJ Kirby Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ Cesar, 10 p.m.

Bar & Club Events

Club One Drag Show, 10:30 p.m.

SEED Eco Lounge Daas Unterground Thursdays, 10 p.m.

Friday 12.23 Live Music

Barrelhouse South A Very Bacon Christmas: Dr. Bacon w/ Anton Laplume, 9:45 p.m.

Basil’s Pizza and Deli Christy Alan Band, 7 p.m.

Bayou Cafe David Harbuck, Greg Williams Band, 8 p.m.

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals), 6 p.m.

Congress Street Social Club DJ Square One, 10:30 p.m.

Fiore Italian Bar and Grill Anne Allman, 6:30 p.m.

The Funky Brunch Cafe Bottles & Cans Jazz’d Tapas Bar The MS3, 9 p.m.

The Jinx Jason Bible, 10 p.m.

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Susanna Kennedy, 7 p.m.

Mansion on Forsyth Park Tradewinds, 9 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Flying Bacon Cheeseburgers, 10 p.m.

Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Espina Trio, 6:30 p.m.

River House Ricky Standard Rocks on the Roof Hitman Ruth’s Chris Steak House David Duckworth, 8 p.m.

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Bay Street Blues Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Blueberry Hill Karaoke, 7 p.m.

The Islander Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Jukebox Bar & Grill Karaoke Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Rachael’s 1190 Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

Sunny’s Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke/ DJ, 10:30 p.m.

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Bar & Club Events

Abe’s on Lincoln DJ Doc Ock, 9 p.m.

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Saturday 12.24 Live Music

17 Hundred 90 Restaurant Gail Thurmond, 6:30 p.m.

Bayou Cafe David Harbuck, Greg Williams Band, 8 p.m.

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals), 6 p.m.

Casimir’s Lounge Jackson Evans Trio, 9 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge DJ Precisa The Funky Brunch Cafe Willie Jackson Blues Band The Jinx Hitman Blues Band, 10 p.m.

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Justin Morris, 7 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Hitman Blues Band, 10 p.m.

The Olde Pink House David Duckworth & Alisha Duckworth Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Espina Trio, 6:30 p.m.

River House Ricky Standard Rocks on the Roof Virtue Band Savannah’s Music City Bar and Grill Live Music, 8 p.m.

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Abe’s on Lincoln Open Mic with Craig Tanner and Mr. Williams, 9 p.m.

Bayou Cafe David Harbuck, 9 p.m.

Cocktail Co. Monday Night Live, 8 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon Wild Wing Cafe Jason Courtenay Duo, Ray Thomasino, 1 p.m.

The Wormhole Acoustic Happy Hour, 6 p.m., Open Mic, 8 p.m.

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17 Hundred 90 Restaurant Gail Thurmond, 6:30 p.m.

Aqua Star Restaurant (Westin Harbor Hotel) Equinox Trio Jazz Brunch, 11:30 a.m.

Bayou Cafe Don Coyer, 9 p.m.

Mansion on Forsyth Park Coastal Jazz Christmas Concert, 5 p.m.

The Olde Pink House Eddie Wilson

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Boomy’s Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

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McDonough’s 21 E. McDonough St. Savannah-Downtown

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Year In Review:

Theatre by anna chandler

anna@connectsavannah.com

DEC 21-27, 2016

At a national and social level, 2016 was a year of significant loss. Here in Savannah, the theatre community lost two vital stages—Ampersand, the downtown restaurant/bar/venue that acted as Savannah Stage Company’s mainstage, and Muse Arts Warehouse, a treasured haven for creative expression that has served the community for seven years.

Muse’s closing, set for this coming February, will be a particular blow because it has been home to so many different performing arts groups. While most of them have already secured new venues – Collective Face Theatre Ensemble, for example, will stage shows in Savannah State University’s Fine Arts Auditorium – the bigger struggle of finding affordable, accessible, stable theatre venues in Savannah remains.

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On December 7, the community mourned as Sheldon Pinckney, a Savannah Theatre cast member of 12 years, passed away. The Savannah Theatre ambassador was a light for many, and his memorial service at the Theatre, complete with a marquee reading, “Sheldon Pinckney: A Life Spectacular,” was a beautiful representation of the many lives the Savannah native touched with his kindness and talent.

Through a trying year, the Hostess City’s thespians prevailed to present stellar seasons of drama, comedy, musicals, and classics. From Savannah Shakes’ Vietnam-era Henry V to Savannah Stage Company’s innovative adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, our stars challenged and inspired audiences of all ages.

As new stages are sought, 2017 may take some creativity—and as anyone who’s sat in their audiences knows, Savannah’s actors, actresses, and behind-the-scenes gurus have a wealth of that. Here, our local stars reflect on the most memorable, touching, and compelling moments of 2016 under the spotlight:

Savannah Stage Company’s The Scarlet Letter

Savannah Stage Company’s Romeo and Juliet

“A couple of my colleagues make the trip to Savannah (they live in Hilton Head) to support me in the shows. One of the women I work with brought her husband to see Romeo and Juliet. He is not a theater-going guy, but after the show he couldn’t stop talking about how much he liked it. Now every time I see him, he asks when the next show is. It’s a great feeling to spark an interest of theatre in someone who never had it before.” – Ashley Cook, Resident Company Member and Assistant

Director of Education, Savannah Stage Company “What I remember most of the 2016 theatre season was working closely with David Poole and The Collective Face Ensemble on Death of a Salesman and winning Best Actor in Connect’s “Best of Savannah.”

– Eric Salles, The Collective Face Theatre Ensemble

A tender moment in The Wizard of Oz

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Armstrong’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

“It’s been a great year for me with Savannah Shakes. Playing Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing and the Chorus in Henry V at Muse Arts Warehouse before it closes has been an absolute delight. It’s been a wonderful space to work in and I couldn’t have picked better shows to say goodbye to my favorite Savannah venue.

Audience response to what we’re doing has been a great pleasure to behold. It’s just so good to see Savannahians embracing and getting excited for Shakespeare. We look forward to ‘shaking’ it up in 2017!” – Travis Spangenburg, Savannah Shakes ““It felt like a lot of moving parts lined up for the Savannah Stage Company’s

The Collective Face’s Death of a Salesman

production of The Wizard of Oz. The musical has always been a tremendous influence within our company, and a source of inspiration to our director, Jayme, so the stakes were high for us. Being our most ambitious show to date and our first musical production as a company, having rehearsed through 100 degree days and bad air conditioning, it was our greatest journey yet, and it was worth every step.

The show was a high watermark for our company, selling out every night to an audience that braved the heat to see our show. With the closing of the Ampersand at the end of the month, it was an honor to say goodbye to the loyal venue with our best performance as a company to date.

Armstrong’s Taming of the Shrew

Wherever SSC goes from here, we’ll always have that Emerald City.” - Jack Butler, Savannah Stage Company “Each night during the opening moments of this summer’s The Wizard of Oz, as Toto would begin barking, I would watch as the audience’s eyes would search for the dog. I would try to catch the moment when they would realize the woman behind the piano, Company Member Ellen Sherrod, was voicing Toto.

I would watch them realize this production was truly “like they had never seen before.” That this was going to ask more of them and engage them a way that the typical theatre experience doesn’t. As Artistic

Director, my job is to fulfill this mission of this company, and those moments let me know we are on the right track of encouraging growth through imagination and bravery.” – Jayme Tinti, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Savannah Stage Company “My fondest memory of this year was from Taming of The Shrew at Armstrong.

It was my first time dressed up as a man, especially involving facial hair. My fake mustache fell off during one of our scenes but myself and one of my cast mates made it seem like part of the show. Moments like that between actors are what transform us from coworkers to a community.” – Olivia Quillman, actor, Armstrong State Univ.

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Breaking the codes Artist Alexandro Santana deconstructs the currency of culture

by Jessica Leigh Lebos

jll@connectsavannah.com

DEC 21-27, 2016

Ultimately, it all comes down to the little porcelain monkey.

The ghost-faced creature with simian features peering out from the promotional materials for artist Alexandro Santana’s multimedia installation “Numismatic” figures prominently in the show itself. However, dialing in on its significance can be as circuitous as, well, chasing a monkey.

But it’s worth keeping up.

Eccentric, charming, flamboyant and fashionable, Santana has been a fixture on the Savannah art scene since his arrival in 1993, parlaying his double degree in architecture and fine arts from the Rhode Island School of Design into first a design career then as a full-time painter.

He imbues his work with a calculated complexity fed by a lusciously-hued aesthetic, an international upbringing (Spain and the Dominican Republic, mostly) and an affinity for obscure postmodernist French philosophers.

Following a creative lodestar that has led from classical technique to abstract relief to beyond the confines of the canvas, Santana reinvents himself every few years.

While he contributes regularly to group exhibitions (most recently the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home Art Benefit and Sulfur 28 Studios’ “Modern Celebrity”), his

last solo show was in 2013. Those expecting to see the wildly-colored, subtly sexual abstract creations of “Lollipop” were in for a surprise with “Numismatic,” which debuted at a former car wash-turned-temporary gallery space at 421 Jefferson Street last Saturday.

Employing the artist’s latest skill acquisition of videography and filmmaking, the work is more explicit in its intention and more demanding in its intellect, questioning the meaning of art, identity and reality itself.

“Numismatics is the study of currency, paper money and the like, but what currency represents is value,” explained Santana a few days before the show, the garage’s bay doors rolled open to the morning rain.

“This show is about the entrenched cultural codes around gender, sexuality, and identity

Alexandro Santana has created a theater of the avant garde and absurd with the use of film, canvas and one little monkey. Photos by jon waits@jwaitsphoto

and how their value is arbitrarily chosen.”

The installation features 20 videos that have been looped and collaged with original camerawork, old film noir clips and found footage that hold up traditional roles and assumptions in order to shred them.

The images are sometimes comedic and often confounding, skewering our collective clichés.

“The guy in the jacket is the boss, the lady in the fluffy dress is the whore—all of these codes of behavior are being questioned and deconstructed,” he continues with a thoughtful drag off a cigarette.

“If we stop trusting them and present them as pure aesthetic and artistic information, we can reinterpret them and question their validity.”

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Echoing the videos being projected onto the blank concrete block wall are about a dozen paintings—surrealistic stills captured from the films then stretched over large canvases and painted with “tuttifrutti”-colored letters, an alphabet soup of absurdity meant to further disrupt passive social norms around texted language.

“We stare into these little black boxes, looking at letters all day,” exclaimed Santana, who still uses a flip phone.

“We’ve lost the ability to look at things as they really are.”

The Dadaesque scope of “Numismatic” extends to the room itself, arranged as a 19th century salon with antique furniture and garish chandeliers, adding another layer of critique: “Each chair, every piece represents a moment that was bound by its social and cultural codes, most of which no longer apply.”

The same can be said for the relationship between art and spaces, which is evolving rapidly in a city of gentrifying real estate: The installation—touted as an “art happening” rather than a premiere—takes place in a building between identities, in a neighborhood that boasts both high rents and subsidized housing.

Commercial realtor Beth Vantosh approached Santana about turning the recently-vacated Carspa into a provisional gallery as a creative way to bring attention to the 3200 sq.-foot listing and provide an unorthodox outlet for the artistic community.

“We’re using space to showcase art and art to showcase space,” says Vantosh, who imagines a restaurant or tech start-up as possible lessors. “This concrete box is hosting an example of thinking outside the box.”

In this case, as well as in Will Penny’s light projection on the Judge Realty building on Abercorn, the real estate agent serves as more of a collaborator than a benefactor,

offering a particular location and contributing to the vision of the project. It’s a trend that could translate into a meaningful force in the challenge of retaining Savannah’s creative and cultural vibrancy.

“It’s important that the business community take an active stance in supporting local art, especially in the face of the recent budget cuts,” says Vantosh, who sits on the boards of Art Rise Savannah and the Savannah Development & Renewal Authority. “We have to set the example.”

Saturday’s happening also displayed work by sculptor Stephen Angell, grounding the multi-sensory experience, and the same question was on the lips of the collectors and the curious: What the hell does the monkey have to do with any of this?

That little white face appears throughout the show, stretched across several canvases and displayed alone, spotlit on a pedestal. If you look closely, it can be glimpsed momentarily as part of the set decor of one of Santana’s films. When the image came up randomly during the process of capturing the still images, its odd, slightly confused expression became the symbol of show’s entire statement.

“The monkey doesn’t understand cultural codes. He is the question mark, an icon of perplexity,” mused the artist in his raspy Spanish accent. Bringing the process full circle, he named the monkey Guido Bruck, after the Viennese scholar of numismatics.

“The monkey is literally the arbitrary becoming meaningful. And that’s what all these cultural codes are: Arbitrary.” cs ‘Numismatic’ is on display 11-5 through Dec. 23 Contact the artist at alex.santana912@gmail. com or search his films on Vimeo.com. For more information on 421 Jefferson Street, go to vantoshco.com.

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Openings & Receptions

Sip and Shop — Fri., Dec. 23. grandbohemiangallery.com/. The Grand Bohemian Gallery, 700 Drayton St.

Continuing Exhibits Face to Face: American Portraits from the Permanent Collection — Spanning the period from the American Revolution to World War II, the paintings in this exhibition demonstrate the broad range of American portraiture found in Telfair’s permanent collection.Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St. Fiber Guild of Savannah — The Fiber Guild of the Savannahs is a group of fiber artists who meet regularly to share inspiration and techniques using a wide variety of fiber-related arts. Spinning, weaving, dyeing, quilting, knitting, basketry, rug making, paper manipulation, needle felting, and crocheting are just some of the crafts its members explore. Through Dec. 31. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Gestalt: An Installation by Chris Nitsche — Through early January, Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum will be presenting a large interactive installation by local artist and SCAD professor Chris Nitsche, and a selection of his preliminary sketches will be on display in the Museum atrium. The installation takes the shape of a ship’s hull - 75 feet long, 8 feet high, built in sections with access gaps to enable visitors to walk through the inside of the hull. Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.

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Grand Divertissement à Versailles: Vintage Photographs by Bill Cunningham — This exhibition features exclusive images from the 1973 fashion show known as the Battle of Versailles. This showing of Cunningham’s 65 historic images and an original program — on loan from the private collection of Nancy North, a model in the famed fashion show — illustrates the moment that American design houses became the international arbiters of style and showcases Cunningham’s unique perspective on this epochal event in fashion history. Through Feb. 5, 2017. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

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Guests, Strangers and Interlopers — Subodh Gupta’s work engages with otherness and ambiguous identities through the evocative use of found materials and objects. It invites the viewer to consider their subjective responses to self and others.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Holiday Employee Group Show — Not only do they serve you coffee with a smile, but the employees behind the veil have major

Last week to enjoy the unique 3D light installation by Will Penny at Judge Realty.

talent to showcase. Through Jan. 2, 2017.

Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. I Have Marks to Make — One of Telfair’s longest running community programs, 22 years strong, I Have Marks to Make showcases the therapeutic power of artmaking.

The exhibition features artwork by individuals of all ages with disabilities or in rehabilitation from injury or illness. More than half of the works in the exhibition are created in Telfair’s outreach sessions to health and wellness organizations throughout the community.

Through Jan. 1, 2017. telfair.org/jepson/.

Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. If We Must Die... — The installation showcases two unique sculptural works by the Jamaican-born artist — the “of 72 project” and selections from “Invisible Presence: Bling Memories” — installed together for the first time. Ebony Patterson is acclaimed for her ability to ascribe meaning to adornment.

Through Jan. 1, 2017. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Mixed Greens, Farmer’s Almanac — Through Dec. 31. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Objectified: Still Lifes from the Permanent Collection — Objectified considers the traditional genre of still life as represented in the works of Telfair Museums’ permanent collection. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St. Reach:Trees — Whether the tree is wooden, organizational or mathematical, the small works in this show by local Savannah artists will show a wide breadth of style, applications and narrative. Through Dec. 23.

Location Gallery, 417 Whitaker St. Robert Moran Isley — Robert Moran Isley is best known for his out-doors (pleinair) pieces, but all his paintings display a similar loose brushstroke and an exquisite understanding of light and composition.

Through Dec. 31. Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr.

Intersection — Will Penny will use manipulated light and motion graphics on the prominent facade of 347 Abercorn St. to reflect a theme of environment, economy and energy. Through Dec. 28. judgerealty.com/.

Judge Realty, 347 Abercorn St.

Small Works — Small Works is an annual juried exhibition of artwork by SCAD students, alumni, faculty and staff. All works are for sale and measure 18 inches or less in all dimensions. Gutstein Gallery, 201 E Broughton St

Mind’s Eye — Mind’s Eye by Cara Griffin is an exploration of the interplay between one’s internal perception and external projection of reality. This body of work uses rudimentary geometry, intentional space, and loosely applied paint strokes to imitate portraiture. The paintings ultimately represent the inherent tension in the search to shape that which is (un) familiar. Through Jan. 9, 2017. Starland Cafe, 11 East 41st St.

Through Law’s Eyes: Select Works from the W.W. Law Art Collection — The collection represents the life work of W. W. Law and includes photographs, papers, books, art, music, and artifacts. Curation of the collection is a multi-year project under the Research Library & Municipal Archives department. Through Jan. 1, 2017. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St.

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French macaron shop opens new location on Paulsen Street

CHRISTMAS is the time of year where we gather friends and family, don ugly sweaters, gift ornate presents, sing cheerful carols, sip creamy eggnog and indulge in holiday confections.

Five years ago this month, best friends Amy Shippy and Laura Hale decided to partake in the holiday spirit by hosting a ladies night cookie exchange. What they didn’t realize was the cookies that Shippy made would be an instant success, leading the friends to become the owners and executive pastry chefs of Marché de Macarons.

Marché de Macarons, meaning Market of Macarons, serves scratch-made French Macarons, an almond-flour and meringue based cookie with toothsome fillings.

Amy Shippy (left) and Laura Hale (right) are best friends and owners of Marché de Macarons. Photograph by Krisztian Lonyai

feet and everything. I had no idea they were hard to make, I just used the recipe.”

Given that her cookies were the talk of the party, Hale begged Shippy for the recipe.

“Come on over, we’ll make some together,” Shippy cheerfully beckoned.

While their first batch failed, Shippy and Hale’s efforts were eventually rewarded as they made batch after batch of perfect flavorful French macarons. Soon, the busy bakers discovered that they had containers of cookies and no one to eat them.

The entrepreneur in Shippy said, “I think we can sell these!” So the twosome passed out the cookies at their kids’ travel soccer game, leaving there with 18 dozen pre-orders.

“We have a business!” Shippy declared.

Shippy and Hale used the money from their soccer sales to lease a kitchen on Skidaway Road, sharing it with a couple that owned a catering business. Using their

At Marché de Macarons, customers can find a collection of macarons sporting vibrant colors with playful flavors. Photograph by Maria Whiteway

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Shippy and Hale have a few charming local shops, one on Hilton Head Island and another on Abercorn Street, next to the Lucas Theatre. Additionally, as of November 28, the two business partners closed their Eisenhower location and relocated to Paulsen Street in the former Savannah Squeeze space.

From that first day of making French macarons for the cookie swap to finding their newest location, Shippy professes that every part of their journey has been “fortuitous.”

“We have been blessed.”

Shippy, a mother and wife who simply enjoyed cooking for her family, found herself excited about that Christmas cookie swap five years ago. After much deliberation, she chose a French macaron recipe from her favorite blog solely because they “were very pretty.” She did not know that these sweet treats were extremely finicky and required skill to perfect.

“They all came out right the first time,

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personal kitchen equipment in this space, the two bakers struggled to turn over profits during the first 11 months.

Then, unexpectedly, Marché de Macarons began receiving community recognition and press.

“People got excited and unbeknownst to us, we had a cookie business that started as a hobby.”

After spending six months in the modest space on Skidaway, Shippy and Hale were told that they could no longer co-lease that kitchen. Incidentally, while Shippy was dropping off her sons at Taekwondo, she noticed that One Love Jamaican Restaurant on Eisenhower had closed.

“We ended up moving our space there and the Department of Agriculture was able to certify our kitchen.”

One year later, Shippy and Hale decided to take their business downtown, renting a small display case in a cupcake shop.

Given that their French macaron sales were exponentially higher than the shop owner’s baked goods, they amicably parted ways with the storeowner.

So, in an effort to find a downtown location of their own, Shippy and Hale stumbled upon Tier Luxury Cakes’ “for lease” sign in the window on New Year’s Eve in 2012.

The macaron bakers signed the lease the next day and opened their current Abercorn location on New Year’s Day in 2013.

In November of this year, the two best friends found themselves looking, yet again, for a new location, given that the Einsenhower lease ended and the rent increased. After a full day of searching for available rental spaces, Shippy stopped by Savannah Squeeze for a smoothie.

The juice bar owner mentioned that they would be relocating to the Bikram Yoga Studio at Habersham Village and rebranding their business to more than just healthy drinks.

Without hesitation, Shippy seized this adventitious opportunity.

The French Macaron, not to be confused with the macaroon, which is a coconut haystack, has a shell that is made from stiff egg whites and almond flour. At Marché de Macarons, everything, including the almond flour, is made from scratch.

In fact, the two Savannah locations have bakeries where macarons are made daily.

Homemade creams, jellies, chocolates and caramel are sandwiched between two circular shells that are airy with a delicate crunch.

“Nothing comes from a jar.” The caramel is simply sugar, butter, cream and salt. The jelly filling is purely strawberries, pectin and sugar.

At Marché de Macarons, customers can find a collection of macarons stained in vibrant colors with playful flavors. Some daily flavors like bananas foster, salted caramel, Tybee turtle and blackberry lavender, remain constant. while seasonal flavors like gingerbread, bourbon eggnog and candy cane can be found during the holidays.

To Shippy, getting to work with her family and best friend, while making cookies everyday, is sheer “fun.” Even after all these years, she is still humbled each and every time someone compliments her cookies. “That doesn’t ever get old.”

When Shippy found out that a French macaron franchise is coming to Downtown Savannah, she confidently stated, “I do what I do, which means I do the best that I can. I use the best ingredients and the best quality. (French macarons) are the only thing that I do, so they better be pretty good because if not, then I need to figure out another product.”

“We are local. We are homemade.” cs Check out their new location at 5002 Paulsen Street or order online at marchedemacarons. com

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Happy Birthday, Louis Pasteur!

Brewing was central to his great scientific contribution

By Raymond Gaddy

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IT’S THE time of year to celebrate the birth of a man who has brought understanding and clarity to the world. Happy Birthday, Louis Pasteur.

You may best know Pasteur from the process that bears his name, pasteurization. Thanks to Pasteur and this process milk, wine, canned goods and other foods we consume everyday are safer to eat and drink.

Perhaps you also know that Pasteur was the man who proved that microbes and bacteria, and not spontaneous generation, were the cause of disease and spoilage.

What you might not know is that that proof came though the study of beer.

You see Pasteur was a proud Frenchman. He was born in the small town of Dole, France on December 27, 1822.

Though he didn’t distinguish himself by

being a particularly good student, particularly in chemistry, he eventually found a place as a physics professor.

A colleague convinced him to work with him on some chemistry courses but it was family tragedy that led to his work on infections disease.

Pasture lost three children to typhoid fever.

Wanting to understand this disease set Pasteur on the path to rewrite our understanding of the world.

However, it was his pride that led to his work in beer fermentation.

When the French lost the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 Pasteur directed his disappointment and frustrations into taking over the pride of the German people, beer.

In his book Studies on Fermentation:

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The Diseases of Beer, Their Causes, and the Means of Preventing Them, published in 1876 Pasteur relates, “Our misfortunes inspired me with the idea of these researches. I undertook them immediately after the war of 1870, and have since continued them without interruption, with the determination of perfecting them, and thereby benefiting a branch of industry wherein we are undoubtedly surpassed by Germany.”

Pasteur was angry at the Germans and wanted the French to take over their beer industry, that didn’t happen but what did was even better.

Spontaneous generation was the idea that certain forms would generate out of inanimate matter, maggots form dead flesh, fleas from dust, bees from the entrails of a young bull (I kid you not), or bubbles and alcohol from wort and grape juice.

Building on the work of Francesco Redi, Charles Cagniard de la Tour, Theodor Schwan and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Pasteur’s experiments showed that spontaneous generation was nonsense and that there was a new world of microbes, bacteria, viruses and yeasts to be explored.

Pasteur’s work not only ignited the scientific world but the beer world as well.

Jacob Jacobsen who headed up Carlsberg Brewing was so impressed by Pasteur’s work he founded the Carlsberg Laboratory which focused on the scientific exploration of beer and brewing processes.

This lab eventually discovered and identified many of the various yeasts that cause fermentation in beer including Saccharomyces pastorianus, named in honor of Louis Pasteur.

This holiday when you are feasting with family and friends make sure you add a toast, whether it’s with wine, beer or milk, to Louis Pasteur and wish him a very happy birthday. cs

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Rogue One isn’t your father’s Star Wars, your mother’s Star Wars, or even your own Star Wars.

ROGUE ONE

/// Rogue One comes equipped with the subtitle A Star Wars Story, but let it be known that this isn’t your father’s Star Wars, your mother’s Star Wars, or even your own Star Wars. It’s a different strain of space opera insofar as it lacks the light touch and breezy action of the previous seven pictures in the franchise (I refuse to count that awful Clone Wars cartoon flick).

That’s not necessarily a bad thing. While Rogue One never comes close to matching the heights of the series at its most dazzling (basically, Episodes IV and V, with honorable mention to Episode VII), it’s still a worthy addition to the canon, neatly circling back on the story to right before A New Hope opens.

It follows Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) as she’s tasked to snatch the plans for the planet-destroyer – the Death Star, of course – that the evil Empire is building.

Jyn has a personal stake in the matter – her father (Mads Mikkelsen) had a hand in its creation – and she bands with a steely Rebellion operative (Diego Luna), a blind Force follower with Zatoichi-like skills (Donnie Yen) and other assorted heroes to fulfill a mission that’s imperative to the survival of the resistance.

The employment of CGI to bring back younger versions of characters remains extremely creepy and unconvincing (see also Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy and Robert Downey Jr. in Captain America: Civil War), and there’s probably one seat-shaking battle too many.

In most other respects, from the addition of engaging new characters to the

answering of lingering questions from 39 years ago, Rogue One will keep the faithful satisfied until the next adventure hits the multiplex.

LA LA LAND

//// As effervescent as the finest bottle of champagne, La La Land is an intoxicating motion picture that should particularly please anyone whose heart skips a beat whenever Fred dances on the late show or Judy sings on TCM. More than just a godsend to film fans, though, the picture also has the power to capture the spirits of viewers who don’t even particularly care for musicals.

A large reason for that all-inclusive embrace is the casting, as director Damien Chazelle has selected two stars who could enchant audience members of any age.

Chazelle’s past pictures as writerdirector were 2009’s jazz-infused Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, so named after characters in Jacques Demy’s musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (a heavy influence here as well), and 2014’s Whiplash, which won Oscars for film editing, sound mixing and supporting actor J.K. Simmons.

Clearly, Chazelle harbors a musical affinity, and that’s nowhere more apparent than in this latest effort, the sort of oldfashioned entertainment where ordinary folks suddenly break out into song and dance.

Initially, it appears that neither protagonist has much reason to tap their toes.

Mia (Emma Stone) is an aspiring actress whose auditions invariably end in “Don’t call us, we’ll call you” declarations, while

Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) is a talented pianist whose insistence on playing experimental jazz gets him frequently bounced by club owners who only want him to perform covers of soothing standards.

Mia and Sebastian first encounter each other in heavy traffic, and it’s antagonism at first sight. Subsequent meetings, however, lead to an eventual thawing and then a starry romance.

If there’s one area in which La La Land doesn’t take its cues from Old Hollywood, it’s in the ferocity of the character conflicts. When, for instance, Mia and Sebastian inevitably fight, it feels raw and real, forcefully removed from the make-believe of the film’s artifice.

And yet that dichotomy proves to be a smart choice on Chazelle’s part, as it allows every victory to be more savory, every defeat to be more painful, every compromise to be more bittersweet.

The songs are a uniformly strong lot, with Justin Hurwitz providing the music and the team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul supplying the lyrics (John Legend, who appears in a supporting role, also contributes one tune). In fact, the technical merits are basically a laundry list of award-worthy contributions, from Linus Sandgren’s cinematography to the production design

by David Wasco.

Yet it’s the dynamic duo in front of the cameras that really sells this package, with Gosling and especially Stone marvelous as two kids poised to take on the world with that proverbial spring in their step and that archetypal song in their heart.

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COLLATERAL BEAUTY

/ December is a breeding ground for Oscar-bait movies, but Collateral Beauty takes an even greater lunge at the gold than similar films. I daresay it’s not gonna happen: The closest this train wreck will get to Oscar is if some guy with that name makes the poor choice to go see it during its theatrical run.

Boasting a premise that could only conceivably work with better scripting and the sort of honest sentimentality that a director like Frank Capra could have pulled off, this wince-worthy drama centers on Howard Inlet (Will Smith), a company head whose 6-year-old daughter died two years earlier.

His gloom is threatening the future of the company, so his three best friends, who also happen to be his three best co-workers, try to find a way to shake him out of his stupor (as one compassionately complains, it’s been two whole years, so why is he still grieving?!).

Whit (Edward Norton), Claire (Kate Winslet) and Simon (Michael Pena) come up with an icky plan: Knowing that Howard has been blaming the concepts of Love, Time and Death for his misery, why not hire three actors to play those abstractions as physical manifestations?

And why not film those thespians pretending to be Love (Keira Knightley), Time (Jacob Latimore) and Death (Helen Mirren) interacting with Howard, digitally remove them from the footage, and then have Howard declared mentally incompetent since it will look like he’s merely a crazy guy talking to himself?

Wow. That’s supposed to be the tactic that will make audiences line up behind Whit, Claire and Simon? Even Wall Street’s Gordon Gecko would find such a grotesque maneuver beneath him, but in the script by Allan Loeb (whose credits include two Jennifer Aniston stinkers, The Switch with Jason Bateman and Just Go With It with Adam Sandler), nothing anybody does is ever considered out of line (that extends to another “good” character breaking into a mailbox in order to steal some letters).

Worse, all three friends have problems that coincidentally can be aided by the three performers (Simon has an incurable disease and is facing Death; Whit wants his little girl to Love him; Claire wants a baby but Time is running out), but the resolutions to all three plot threads are insipid and uninspired.

Mirren has a few amusing moments as an actress so conceited that she thinks she should play all three abstractions, but everyone else is hamstrung by the odious, idiotic or irrational characters they’re playing.

As for Smith, earning an Academy Award nomination for The Pursuit of

La La Land is an intoxicating motion picture that should particularly please anyone whose heart skips a beat whenever Fred dances on the late show or Judy sings on TCM. Happyness was the worst thing that could have happened to his career. Since then, he’s been obsessed with snagging an Oscar and has largely been wasting his talents on humorless roles that suppress his natural buoyancy and charisma. But after Seven Pounds and now Collateral Beauty, even a Wild Wild West sequel is starting to sound good.

JACKIE

/// That Natalie Portman delivers a tremendous performance as Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie is to be expected. What’s less certain is if the movie surrounding her will be a tediously respectful biopic, a factually challenged piece of fiction, or a movie that moves to its own beat without ever taking its eye off the ball.

Happily, it’s the third option, with director Pablo Larrain and writer Noah Oppenheim employing a choppy structure that actually benefits the film. With an interview with a reporter (Billy Crudup) serving as anchor scenes, the rest largely recalls that awful period when the First Lady lost her husband – and the nation lost its leader – on that fateful November day in Dallas.

The picture synchronizes with her dazed rhythm, and we catch glimpses of Bobby Kennedy (Peter Sarsgaard) sharing in the grief, Lyndon B. Johnson (John Carroll Lynch) maneuvering in the background, and the pre-MPAA Jack Valenti (Max Casella) being typically weaselly.

Jackie makes no pretense at being a comprehensive biography – instead, it’s more like a few carefully selected pages from a bestselling tome, enough to whet the appetite without completely satisfying it.

OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY

// Kate McKinnon, who just this year won an Emmy Award for her role-playing on Saturday Night Live, was the breakout star of this summer’s Ghostbusters remake, but her subsequent roles are proving that filmmakers aren’t quite sure how to employ a talent as dynamic and idiosyncratic as hers.

She’s certainly up to any challenges thrown her way, but her characters in both Masterminds and now Office

Christmas Party don’t really allow her to strut her stuff – instead, both films lazily opt to partly define her character by her flatulence.

That McKinnon still manages to draw all eyes to her is a testament to her skills – that’s particularly true in Office Christmas Party, since she’s cast as the humorless human resources manager who learns to loosen up before the end credits roll. She’s not the main foil in the film, though: That would be Jennifer Aniston’s character, a CEO who tells her brother (T.J. Miller), the head of one of the company’s branches, that she may have to shut down his office as a cost-cutting measure.

In an effort to save the branch, he and his chief employees (among them Jason Bateman and Olivia Munn) decide to throw an extravagant party in the hopes of luring a potential client (Courtney B. Vance).

Look, you pays your money, you knows what you’re going to get. Office Christmas Party isn’t good; it isn’t bad. It’s just… there.

The actors are appealing, the gags occasionally inspire a smile (but not a single gut-busting laugh, which even the critically lambasted Bad Santa 2 managed to produce every once in a while), and when you wake up the next morning, you won’t recall a single thing about it. In that respect, it’s like a real office Christmas party, but blessedly without the attendant hangover.

NOCTURNAL ANIMALS

// Tom Ford, the fabulously successful fashion designer, first tried his hand at filmmaking with 2009’s A Single Man, an art-house effort for which he ambitiously served as writer (adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel), director and producer.

Ford’s sophomore effort, Nocturnal Animals, matches his first picture in terms of its visual vibrancy and solid performances, but it has opted to replace its beating heart with a leaden paperweight. It’s also a rudderless affair, merging two tales that never properly link up.

In one, Susan Morrow (Amy Adams), unhappily married to a womanizing lout (Armie Hammer), receives a manuscript in the mail from her ex-husband Edward Sheffield (Jake Gyllenhaal). The film’s

other narrative thread is the story that Susan reads, a harrowing tale about a family (Gyllenhaal, Isla Fisher and Ellie Bamber) terrorized by vicious rednecks while stranded in the middle of nowhere.

The story-within-a-story is cruel rather than clever, with Ford (working from Austin Wright’s novel) more interested in tastefully (tastelessly?) laying out nude corpses than in providing anything more substantial than a threadbare version of Death Wish. What substantially elevates this portion is Michael Shannon, who’s typically off-kilter and intense as a detective who wants to see justice done by any means necessary.

The other narrative largely wastes Adams’ formidable talents but nevertheless maintains interest with its look at a woman reflecting (via flashbacks) on the disintegration of her previous marriage and coping with the roiling emotions regarding the people in her life. Unfortunately, this ends in calculated ambiguity that plays more like airless affectedness.

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

/// The year-end awards season began in earnest a few days ago with the National Board of Review’s selection of Manchester by the Sea as Best Film of 2016. This one is the sort of understated, under-the-radar drama that can use all the help it can get to stand out in an increasingly overcrowded marketplace.

Casey Affleck, Ben’s often overshadowed lil brother, has been excellent before – in 2007 alone, he delivered a remarkable performance in his sibling’s powerful Gone Baby Gone and earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – but his work in this picture is revelatory.

He stars as Lee Chandler, a janitor/ handyman who returns to his Massachusetts hometown following the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler).

Soon after arriving, he learns that Joe has placed his son Patrick (Lucas Hedges) in his care – Lee balks at the news, since he wants to return to his lonely existence in Boston while Patrick wants to remain in Manchester-by-the-Sea. As Lee tries to figure out the proper course of action, he’s forced to come into contact with both his ex-wife Randi (Michelle Williams) as well as Joe’s former wife Elise (Gretchen Mol).

A grouchy uncle and his flippant teenage charge – it sounds like the perfect set-up for an inane sitcom starring Charlie Sheen and some precocious flavor-of-the-month brat. Instead, writer-director Kenneth Lonergan has fashioned a film that cuts close to the bone, with gentle humor only occasionally serving as a buffer against the harsh realities of these characters’ lives. CS 37

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Happenings Activism & Politics

Green Party of Chatham County People, Planet and Peace over Profit!

Meets Saturdays and the first Tuesday of every month. Join the Facebook group, @ ChathamGreens, to find out about upcoming local events. ongoing. No physical address given, none.

One of the Guys Guys, have you found yourself in a social rut, or just have a need for the art of conversation? Make a change in 2016.

The past decade a diverse group of guys have been getting together about every two weeks to share dinner and opinions on just about any topic. No membership requirements or dues. Just an open mind and willingness to expand your friendship base. For more information visit us on Facebook at Savannah Men’s Club, or if you prefer, email details/questions to savannahmensclub@gmail.com. ongoing.

Downtown Savannah, downtown.

Saturdays with Alderwoman Shabazz Residents in Savannah’s 5th District are invited to meet with their Alderwoman every 4th Saturday of the month. Residents may come with specific issues and concerns, or just to meet their representative on Savannah City Council. District 5 runs roughly west of Bull Street and north of 36th Street, and also includes newly developing areas of the City in the southwest quadrant of Chatham County. Free and open to the public. fourth Saturday of every month, 2-4 p.m. 912-651-6410. Shabazz Seafood Restaurant, 502 W. Victory Dr. Savannah Area Young Republicans Get involved. Contact is Michael Johnson, via email or telephone, or see website for info. 912-604-0797. chairman@sayr. org. sayr.org. Call or see website for information. Free ongoing. 912-308-3020. savannahyoungrepublicans.com.

Savannah Libertarians Join the Facebook group to find out about upcoming local events. Mondays. Facebook. com/groups/SAVlibertarians.

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

DEC 21-27, 2016

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 38 of Music, www.savannahfriendsofmusic.

com ongoing. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/ index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Call for Applicants for TEDxSavannah The theme for the May 19 TEDx is “Bridge,” and applicants will be asked to explain how their TEDx talk will tie into that subject. Each talk must be no longer than 12 minutes, and talks of lesser length are encouraged. TEDxSavannah is looking for speakers who can use the theme to address issues relevant to Savannah and, most importantly, offer solutions or calls to action. Applications will be accepted until Jan. 15. Selected speakers must be available for an orientation and rehearsals on March 6 and March 25, April 29 and May 18. Go to tedxsavannah.com for a link to a speaker application and speaker guidelines.

Speakers cannot promote a business or endorse products during their TEDx talk.

For questions or to learn about sponsorship opportunities, email tedxsav@gmail.com.

Tickets for TEDxSavannah go on sale March 20, and as in past years, will be held at The Jepson Center. Through Jan. 15, 2017. lesley.conn@gmail.com. telfair.org/jepson/.

Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Call for Applications for Cuyler Community Improvement Association Scholarship The Cuyler Community Improvement Association, Inc. Scholarship is to provide support for persons whose residence is in the city limits of Savannah, GA. $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to three candidates. The applicants must be registered, in at least their second semester of study with an accredited college, university, or technical school pursuing the study in a medical field. Must have a 3.5 or above scholastic average (transcript).

Application submission deadline is January 31, 2017. Applications are available by emailing Pamela C. Jones at pamelac47@ yahoo.com. Subject line: Medical Scholarship. Through Jan. 31, 2017. Online only, none.

Call for Artists for Boxed In/ Break Out Telfair Museums is looking for local artists to activate 6 windows at the Jepson Center. Boxed In/Break Out will highlight the work of an artist, through public display, promotional materials, and an artist talk. In addition to museum-supported promotion, the artist will receive a $1000 honorarium.

The application deadline is Monday, January 16, and the installation runs from April 7 to October 15. Through Jan. 16, 2017. telfair. org/boxed2017. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Call for Artists for What Is Your America “This is not my America” is becoming a common refrain in this new post-election reality. Sulfur Studios wants to hear from artists, just what is your America and where is your place within it? Is your America

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a place for all? Do you live in a bubble of your own making, and what are your blind spots? What are your hopes/fears for the future of your America? How is your America perceived locally, nationally and globally? Artwork in any media will be considered for this juried exhibition to be held Feb. 8-19, 2017. Selections will be made by guest jurors Jeremiah Jossim and Stephanie Raines. Through Jan. 21, 2017. sulfurstudios.org. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. Call for Auditions for the Downtown Delilahs Dance Cabaret The Downtown Delilahs dance cabaret are holding auditions for several upcoming shows. To set up an audition, contact Jade Bills at 912-272-7601. Through March 31, 2017. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

Call for Entries for Vignette Savannah Are you a student living fabulously in a studio apartment or a creative with an efficient yet stylish workspace? Maybe you’re renewing your space after Hurricane Matthew, decorating your home for the holidays for the first time, or just want to share the character & charm of your historical home? Whatever your space, Vignette Savannah would love to feature you. Vignette Savannah is a web presence that features the most creative and eclectic living, leisure, and work spaces in Savannah.

Tell us about yours at vignettesavannah@ gmail.com, and check us out in the weeks to come at vignettesavannah.com. ongoing.

Downtown Savannah, downtown.

Call for Jesus-Yeshua Production Club and Video Crew Contact Brenda Lee at 912-236-3156 or at revbrendalee@yahoo.com for more information. ongoing. Online only, none.

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.

Religious Ethnic Artists Needed Religious ethnic (JESUS-YESHUA) artists and musicals needed for upcoming season.

A classical accompanist and conductor for sacred music and gospel singers needed.

Contact Reverend Brenda Lee (912) 2363154; email: revbrendalee@yahoo.com ongoing. No physical address given, none.

Tell Us Your Ghost Story?

Organization seeks to document your first hand experiences with psychical phenomenon for analysis and potential

investigation. Our investigators have reputable credentials and long time investigation training and connections with the top minds and researchers in parapsychology field research and other areas. We are especially interested in Chatham and neighboring counties with special emphasis on Savannah itself and the Historic District. Interviewees should be comfortable with video documentation of themselves and events w/privacy level negotiated beforehand. ongoing. amchclub@yahoo.com. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

Benefits

$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.

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.

Classes, Camps & Workshops

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

912-677-3983. epiphany.indiemade.com.

Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio, 101 N. Fahm St. Beginner Bridge Lessons Free beginner bridge lessons are held in the afternoon and/or evening almost every day. There is something for players at all levels. Class dates: Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28.

Check the website for fees and schedule of games and other classes. bridgewebs.com/ savannahclubs. Dec. 26-Jan. 2. 912-2284838. Savannah Duplicate Bridge Center, 8511 Ferguson Ave. 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.

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The free one-hour class is designed to raise awareness of the importance of selfcare by exploring the physical, emotional, psychological and social components of caregiving. Learn tips to deal with the many challenges and gain useful information on community resources. Led by an experienced clinical professor and seasoned caregiver, any person finding themselves in the role of family caregiver would greatly benefit from this free class.

Free fourth Monday of every month, noon.

912-629-1331. edelcaregiverinstitute.org.

Edel Caregiver Institute, 6000 Business Center Drive.

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, ---.

Divas & Pumps: Adult Heels Dance Class Divas & Pumps is a dance class teaching walks, struts, freestyles, and choreography to hits by our favorite Divas. Come get your life every Wednesday at 7:30. $15 Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. 323-5391760. DANCEHOWIWANTTO@GMAIL. COM. DANCEHOWIWANTTO.COM. salondebaileballroomdancestudio.com/.

Salón de Baile Dance & Fitness Studio, 7068 Hodgson Memorial Dr. 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.

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

Holiday Evening Tours

by Candlelight

The program features the home by candlelight.

Listen to early 19th century music. Taste short bread and cider. Hear the story of early 19th century holiday celebrations from lively, trained docents. At the end of the evening will be a demonstration of early 19th century dancing. $12 advance, $15 door Dec. 26-30. davenporthousemuseum.org. Davenport House, 324 East State St.

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

Guitar, Mandolin, or Bass Guitar Lessons Emphasis on theory, reading music, and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. ongoing. 912-232-5987.

Holidays on the Homefront Children’s Day Camp Enjoy WWII era holiday activities, lessons, art, and fun. Outside activities weather permitting. Lunch and all activities included. Ages 6-12. $30.00 Wed., Dec. 21, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 912-988-1832. education@ mightyeighth.org. https://facebook.com/ mightyeightheducation/. mightyeighth. org/. Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, 175 Bourne Ave. 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.

Life Challenge Coaching

In an environment of patience, nonjudgement and compassion, we will explore the source of your challenge, the beliefs that hold your challenge in place, and discover & enact healthy and healing life changes. For appointment, contact Cindy Un Shin Beach at revfugon@gmail.com, or Text (only) to 912-429-7265. ongoing. Online only, none.

Music Lessons--Multiple Instruments and Styles Savannah Musicians’ Institute offers private instruction for all ages and experience levels for Guitar (electric, acoustic, bass, classical, jazz), Piano, Flute, Banjo, Mandolin, Ukulele, Clarinet, Saxophone, and Voice as well as Music Theory/ Composition/ Ear Training.

We teach public, private and home school students as well as adults at all experience levels. Located at 15 East Montgomery Crossroads in Office #205 near White Bluff Road, Savannah, GA. ongoing. 912388-1806. 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 Voice-Coaching Pianist with M/degree,classical modern jazz improvisation, no age limit. Call 912-9617021 or 912-667-1056. Serious inquiries only. ongoing.

R&B Soul Adult Line Dancing The R&B Soul line dance group Savannah Show Stoppers are conducting line dance classes every Monday night at the West Broad St. YMCA and every Tuesday nights at the John Delaware Center. Both classes starts at 6:30. Lamont Hunter, the founder of the Savannah Show Stoppers, is the Instructor. Donations Mondays, 6:30-8 p.m. and Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. 912-220-7712. hlamont70@yahoo.com. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. Reiki Treatment Reiki relaxes & rejuvenates; promotes emotional & physical healing; reduces neuromuscular & arthritic pain. E-mail request for appointment/ Fee base at revfugon@gmail.com, or Text (only) 912429-7265 ongoing. Online only, none.

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

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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.

Sass & Swag Adult Hip Hop Sass & Swag is a high energy, adult hip hop dance class. Learn hip hop grooves you can take to any party or club, and learn a choreographed routine to today’s hottest hits. Mondays at 7:30 pm. $15 Mondays, 7:30 p.m. 323-5391760. DANCEHOWIWANTTO@GMAIL. COM. DANCEHOWIWANTTO.COM. salondebaileballroomdancestudio.com/.

Salón de Baile Dance & Fitness Studio, 7068 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Youth and Teen Aerial Silk Classes Youth Class ages 8+. Teen Class ages 11+.

Learn to dance and work with Aerial Silks and Hoop while suspended in the air. Weekly classes held on Fridays through the month of September only. Very limited space available, reserve your spot and register online today. $20/class $75/September package ongoing. 954.682.5694. elyse. thestudio@yahoo.com. thestudiosav.net. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave.

Clubs & Organizations

DEC 21-27, 2016

1 Million Cups 1 Million Cups (1MC), a program of the Kauffman Foundation, is seeking entrepreneurs to share their new business ideas with a weekly audience. Participants receive feedback and exposure with the opportunity to strengthen their idea and gain connections in the Savannah community.

1MC meets every Wednesday at the Creative Coast 9-10a. Apply to present online: www.1millioncups.com/Savannah Free Wednesdays, 9 a.m. 1millioncups. com/savannah. Creators’ Foundry, 415 W Boundary St. 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. 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 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 40 America, hosting monthly solo/autocross

Fire & Wine

Half priced bottles of wine, campfires in the courtyard, marshmallows and s’mores kits.

Saturdays, 7-11pm. 912-401-0543. info@foxyloxycafe.com. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St.

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. Coastal Bead Society Coastal Bead Society monthly meetings, 12 noon on the third Friday of the Month at the Coastal Georgia Center, 303 Fahm Street, near SCAD. All beaders are welcome. ongoing. wyrnut18@gmail.com. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Fiber Guild of the Savannahs A club focusing on weaving, spinning, basket making, knitting, crocheting, quilting, beading, rug hooking, doll making, and other fiber arts. Meets at Oatland Island Wildlife Center, first Saturday of the month (Sept.-June) 10:15am. Mondays, 10:30 a.m. fiberguildsavannah.homestead.com/. Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown Road GA.

Historic Flight Savannah A non-profit organization dedicated to sending area Korean War and WWII veterans to Washington, DC, to visit the WWII Memorial. All expenses paid by Honor Flight Savannah. Honor Flight seeks contributions, and any veterans interested in a trip to Washington. Call for info. ongoing. 912-5961962. 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.

Low Country Turners A club for wood-turning enthusiasts. Call Steve Cook for info at number below. ongoing. 912-313-2230.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1:00pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-7864508. American Legion Post 184, 3003 Rowland Ave. Philo Cafe Discussion group that meets every Monday, 7:30pm - 9:00pm at various locations.

Anyone craving good conversation is invited. Free to attend. Email for info, or see Facebook.com/SavannahPhiloCafe.

Mondays. athenapluto@yahoo.com.

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

RUFF meets the last Friday of each month at 10am to protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and related senior issues. Parking in the rear. Free to all Seniors ongoing. 912344-5127. Savannah Tree Foundation, 3025 Bull Street.

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. The Savannah Chinese Corner The Savannah Chinese Corner welcomes anyone interested in Mandarin language or Chinese culture. Meets every Saturday morning from 10 am to noon. Check the Facebook group to see meeting location. ongoing. https://facebook.com/groups/ SavannahChineseCorner. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

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 Club This is a new club for the board game “go” (igo, weiqi, baduk). For places and times, please call John at 734-355-2005. ongoing.

Downtown Savannah, downtown.

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.

Carey Hilliard’s (Southside), 11111 Abercorn St. Savannah Newcomers Club Open to women who have lived in the Savannah area for less than two years.

Membership includes monthly luncheon and program. Activities, tours and events help you learn about Savannah and make new friends. Ongoing sign-up. savannahnewcomers.com. ongoing.

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

Savannah 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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Toastmasters Toastmasters International is an organization which gives its members the opportunity to develop and improve their public speaking abilities through local club meetings, seminars, and contests.

Regardless of your level of comfort with public speaking, you will find a club that is interested in helping you improve your speaking abilities. Free Tuesdays, 6-7 p.m. hostesscity.toastmastersclubs.org. thincsavannah.com. Thinc Savannah, 35 Barnard St. 3rd Floor.

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.

Waving Girls--Smocking Arts Guild of America The Waving Girls welcomes smockers and all those who create fine heirloom items.

At each meeting there is an opportunity to learn and share our work. The group makes over 100 “wee care” gowns for memorial hospital each year. fourth Monday of every month, 6:30 p.m. 912 536 1447. debcreation@hotmail.com. smocking.org.

Coastal Center for Developmental Services, 1249 Eisenhower Drive.

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.

Events

2016 Skatefest Public ice skating at the Savannah Civic Center. Session times vary. $7 per person, skate rental included. $7 Through Jan. 1, 2017. 912-651-6615. savannahcivic.com. savannahcivic.com. The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Bonaventure Cemetery After Hours Savannah’s only after-hours cemetery story event! See this great Victorian with Shannon Scott and all of the intrigues from bootleggers to murderers and those loved, lived and are now part of these immortal story grounds. $35.00 Saturdays, 5-8 p.m.

912-319-5600. shannon@shannonscott. com. zerve.com/shannonscott/BonCemAH. savannahga.gov/cityweb/cemeteriesweb. nsf/cemeteries/bonaventure.html.

Bonaventure Cemetery, 330 Bonaventure Rd. Common 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

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in our community. Check us out at savannahexchange.org or find us on Facebook. Mondays, noon. 912-441-6559. ddewitt30@yahoo.com. Savannahexchange. org. Exchange Club of Savannah, 4801 Meding 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. Holiday Evening Tours by Candlelight The program features the home by candlelight. Listen to early 19th century music. Taste short bread and cider.

Hear the story of early 19th century holiday celebrations from lively, trained docents. At the end of the evening will be a demonstration of early 19th century dancing. $12 advance, $15 door Dec. 26-30. davenporthousemuseum.org. Davenport House, 324 East State 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

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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. Drinks After Work This group is for people that enjoy getting out mid-week, being social after work, and want to discover new places in the downtown Savannah area. Come have a cocktail, make new friends, and get over the hump. The group will meet on Wednesdays at various establishments throughout Downtown Savannah and nearby area. http://www.meetup.com/Drinksafter-work/ https://www.facebook.com/ groups/960991837322187/ Wednesdays, 7 p.m. drinksafterworksavannah@gmail. com. meetup.com/Drinks-after-work/ events/227656080/. distillerysavannah. com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St. The Early 19th Century Holiday Story The house will present tours emphasizing the celebration for an early 19th century holiday season similar to ones the Davenports would have known in their fine home on Columbia Square. Through Dec. 31. davenporthousemuseum.org. Davenport House, 324 East State St. The Exchange Club of Savannah In a rut? The Exchange Club of Savannah welcomes men and women like you to support, serve and encourage the best teachers, students, firefighters, crime fighters, leaders and organizations

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

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

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. 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.

912-988-1052. Mediterranean Tavern, 125 Foxfield Way.

Fitness

$8 Community Meditation Classes Join us for breath work, guided meditation, and yoga nidra, a deep relaxation technique to relieve stress, quiet the mind, and find the calm within. All proceeds support local organizations. $8 Sundays, 6-7 p.m. 912349-2756.

Al-Anon Family Groups An anonymous fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics. The message of Al-Anon is one of strength and hope for friends/family of problem drinkers. Al-Anon is for adults. Alateen is for people age 13-19.

Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. check website or call for info. ongoing.

912-598-9860. savannahalanon.com.

Ballet Body Toning Ballet Body Toning is a ballet inspired workout designed to improve balance, flexibility, and use body resistance to strengthen core, legs & booty. This workout is low impact and scorches major calories and teaches you basic ballet! Call to make a reservation before class. This is a semiprivate class so space is limited! $10.00

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Wednesdays, Sundays, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

732.232.3349. FitnessFoodWine@gmail. com. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. Beach Body Workouts with Laura MONDAYS at 6:15 PM at the Lake Mayer Community Center $5.00 per session Mondays, 6:15 p.m. (912) 652-6784. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

Beastmode Fitness Group Training Train with this elite team. A total body program that trims, tones and gets results.

Personal training options available. See website for info. Meets at West Broad YMCA. 5am-6am and 8pm-9pm. ongoing. beastmodefitnessga.com. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. Beginning Pole Fitness Pole fitness is a fun and flirty way to get in shape! Taught by Pole Dance America National Professional Champion Sabrina Madsen, you’ll learn the basics of pole dance in a safe and welcoming environment. Gain strength, balance and confidence. Beginner Classes are open to all shapes and sizes and are for ladies only (men welcome at our Intermediate Class). $25 for drop-in or $100 for a package of 5 classes Tuesdays, 8-9 p.m. 801.673.6737. info@firstcityfitness.com. firstcityfitness. com/pole-fitnessparties.html. First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Blue Water Yoga Community donation-based classes, Tues. and Thurs., 5:45pm - 7:00pm. Fri., 9:30am-10:30am. Email for info or find Blue Water Yoga on Facebook. ongoing. egs5719@aol.com. Talahi Island Community Club, 532 Quarterman Dr. Dance DynaMix Dance DynaMix is a choreographed dance fitness class inspired by funky hip hop and sleek jazz moves! No dance experience required. Call 732.232.3349 to reserve your spot ahead of time, as class space is limited. Stay after class for a 30 minute stretch to wind down for the weekend with! $10.00 Wednesdays, Fridays, 10-11 a.m. 732.232.3349. FitnessFoodWine@ gmail.com. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. Fitness Classes at the JEA Sin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba. Prices vary. Call for schedule. ongoing. 912-355-8811. savj.org.

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savannahjea.org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Free Caregiver Support Group For anyone caring for senior citizens with any affliction or illness. Second Saturday of the month, 10am-11am. Savannah Commons, 1 Peachtree Dr. Refreshments.

Free to attend. Open to anyone in need of support for the caregiving they provide. ongoing. savannahcommons.com.

Free Yoga for Cancer Patients St. Joseph’s/Candler’s Center for WellBeing offers Free Yoga for Cancer Patients every Monday from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. in Candler’s Heart & Lung Building, Suite 100. The very gentle movements and breath work in this class will give you much needed energy, it will make your body feel better, and it will give you a mental release. This class is free to cancer patients. Mondays, 1:30-2:30 p.m.

912-819-8800. sjchs.org/. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. Functional Training Class Celebrate fall with a Saturday morning workout class. All levels welcome. A smooth mix of cardio and strengthening exercises.

Call Kara 912-667-0487 if interested. ongoing. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

Get Excited and Move This program is designed to combat the effects of Parkinson disease for Savannah/ Chatham-area people and their caregiver.

The activities are designed to enhance and improve muscular strength, and endurance, coordination, agility, flexibility, speed work, and voice command. $10 a month Mondays-Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. and Tuesdays-Thursdays, 10:3011:30 a.m. 912-376-9833. psgsav@gmail. com. Anderson-Cohen Weightlifting Center, 7230 Varnedoe Drive.

Dude’s Day at Savannah Climbing Coop Thursdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climbing Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Every Thursday men climb for half price, $5. See website for info. Thursdays, 2 & 10 p.m.

912-495-8010. savannahclimbingcoop.com.

Savannah Climbing CoOp, 302 W Victory Dr. Hiking & Biking at Skidaway Island State Park Year round fitness opportunities. Walk or run the 1-mile Sandpiper Nature Trail (accessible) the additional 1-mile Avian Loop Trail, or 3-mile Big Ferry Trail. Bicycle and street strider rentals. Guided hikes scheduled. $5 parking. Open daily 7am10pm. Call or see website. ongoing.

912-598-2300. gastateparks.org/ SkidawayIsland. gastateparks.org/info/ skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Kung Fu School: Ving Tsun Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) is the world’s fastest growing martial arts style. Uses angles and leverage to turn an attacker’s strength against him. Call for info on free trial classes. Drop ins welcome. 11202 White Bluff Rd. ongoing. 912-429-5150.

Living Smart Fitness Club St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center offer the Living Smart Fitness Club, which is an exercise program to encourage healthy lifestyle changes. On Mondays and Wednesdays the classes are held at the

John S. Delaware Center. On Tuesdays, the classes are held at the center, at 1910 Abercorn Street. Classes include Zumba (Tuesdays) and Hip-Hop low impact aerobics with cardio and strengthening exercises (Mondays/Wednesdays).

Mondays, Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. and Tuesdays, 5:30-7 p.m. 912-447-6605.

Delaware Recreation Center, 1815 Lincoln St. Mommy and Baby Yoga Mondays. Call for times and fees or see website. ongoing. 912-232-2994. savannahyoga.com. savannahyoga.com/.

Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Pilates Classes Daily classes for all skill levels including beginners. Private and semi-private classes by appointment. Carol Daly-Wilder, certified instructor. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-238-0018. savannahpilates. com. pilatessavannah.com/. Momentum Pilates Studio, 8413 Rerguson Ave. Pregnancy Yoga Ongoing series of 6-week classes.

Thursdays. A mindful approach to pregnancy, labor and delivery. Instructor Ann Carroll. $120. Call or email for info. ongoing. 912-704-7650. ann@aikyayoga. com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Pregnancy Yoga Classes Pregnancy is a transitional time when many physical and emotional changes take place. Pregnancy Yoga is about honoring these changes in ourselves, our body and our baby. Yoga strengthens the rapidly changing body and increases the ability to relax, and helps to prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and motherhood.

Pregnancy Yoga classes are offered as a 6 week session on Thursday evenings from 6pm – 7:15 pm. The class is suitable for all stages of pregnancy and no prior yoga experience is necessary. $120 - six week session Thursdays. 912-704-7650. ann@ douladeliveries.com. douladeliveries.com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Qigong Classes Qigong exercises contribute to a healthier and longer life. Classes offer a time to learn the exercises and perform them in a group setting. Class length averages 60 min. Any level of practice is welcome. $15 ongoing. qigongtim.com/.

Renagade Workout Free fitness workout, every Saturday, 9:00 am at Lake Mayer Park. For women only.

Offered by The Fit Lab. Information: 912376-0219 ongoing. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads.

Richmond Hill Roadies Running Club A chartered running club of the Road Runners Association of America. Monthly training sessions and seminars. Weekly runs. Kathy Ackerman, 912-756-5865, or Billy Tomlinson, 912-596-5965. ongoing.

Ladies Day at Savannah Climbing Coop Wednesdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climbing Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Every Wednesday women climb for half price, $5. See website for info. ongoing. 912-

495-8010. savannahclimbingcoop.com.

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

Handicapped League: Saturdays, 1pm.

Singles at the Sarge: Sundays, 10am.

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

Savannah Striders Running and Walking Club With a one-year, $35 membership,free training programs for beginners (walkers and runners) and experienced athletes.

Fun runs. Advice from mentors. Monthly meetings with quality speakers. Frequent social events. Sign up online or look for the Savannah Striders Facebook page. ongoing. savystrider.com.

Turbo Kick Cardio Workout Lose calories while dancing and kick-boxing.

No experience or equipment needed. Tues. and Thurs. 6pm, Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton Wed. 6pm Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. $5 ongoing. 586-822-1021. facebook.com/turbokicksavannah.

Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors Free for cancer patients and survivors. The classes help with flexibility and balance while also providing relaxation. Located at FitnessOne, on the third floor of the Memorial Outpatient and Wellness Center.

Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays, 12:45 p.m. 912-350-9031. memorialhealth.com/.

Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Zumba Fitness Isn’t lifting weights and running on the treadmill boring? Come join Sheena’s Zumba Fitness class and have fun while burning calories! The class regularly has 75+ participants that know that Sheena is the best Zumba instructor in Savannah!

So show up early and see you soon!

Free with YMCA membership Tuesdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. 912-354-6223. https:// facebook.com/ZumbaFitnesswithSheena/. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Habersham Branch), 6400 Habersham St. Zumba Fitness (R) with April Mondays at 5:30pm, Thursdays at 6:30pm.

Nonstop Fitness in Sandfly, 8511 Ferguson Ave. $5 for nonmenbers. call for info. ongoing. 912-349-4902.

Food & Drink Events Ongoing

Bethesda Farm and Gardens Stand Each week, this popular organic farm stand, managed by Bethesda students and staff, sells fresh produce, seasonal vegetables, herbs, free range eggs, a variety of plants, goat milk soap, firewood and more. In addition, 100 percent grass fed ground beef in various quantities are available at the farm stand, which is raised and distributed by Bethesda Academy’s Cattle & Beef Operation. Specialty cuts are also available. 3-5 p.m.. merrin.slocombe@ bethesdaacademy.org. bethesdaacademy. org. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson

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Ave. Fire & Wine Half priced bottles of wine, campfires in the courtyard, marshmallows and s’mores kits. 912-401-0543. info@foxyloxycafe.com. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Forsyth Farmers Market Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights. Rain or shine. Free to attend. Items for sale. 912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave. Happy Hour 39 Rue De Jean favorites at happy hour prices! Enjoy $4 house wine, $4 well

cocktails, $8 daily cocktail feature, Moules en Six Preparations for $8, $8 1/2 dozen raw oysters, and more. Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 5-7 p.m.. 912-721-0595. holycityhospitality.com/39-rue-de-jeansavannah/promotions/. holycityhospitality. com/39-rue-de-jean-savannah/. 39 Rue de Jean, 605 W Oglethorpe Ave. 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. Garden tour available March through October. $3 per person. Must call ahead. 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

Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19)

NPR’s Scott Simon interviewed jazz pianist and songwriter Robert Glasper, who has created nine albums, won a Grammy, and collaborated with a range of great musicians. Simon asked him if he had any frustrations -- “grand ambitions” that people discouraged him from pursuing. Glasper said yes. He’d really like to compose and sing hip-hop rhymes. But his bandmates just won’t go along with him when he tries that stuff. I hope that Glasper, who’s an Aries, will read this horoscope and take heart from what I’m about to predict: In 2017, you may finally get a “Yes!” from people who have previously said “No!” to your grand ambitions.

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what we already know,” writes poet Charles Simic. I would say the same thing about a lot of art, theater, film, music, and fiction: Too often it presents well-crafted repetitions of ideas we have heard before. In my astrological opinion, Leo, 2017 will be a time when you’ll need to rebel against that limitation. You will thrive by searching for sources that provide you with novel information and unique understandings. Simic says: “The poem I want to write is impossible: a stone that floats.” I say: Be on the lookout for stones that float.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

For a bald eagle in flight, feathers are crucial in maintaining balance. If it inadvertently loses a feather on one wing, it will purposely shed a comparable feather on the other wing. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this strategy has metaphorical meaning for your life in 2017. Do you want to soar with maximum grace and power? Would you like to ascend and dive, explore and scout, with ease and exuberance? Learn from the eagle’s instinctual wisdom.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

During the campaign for U.S. President in 1896, Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan traveled 18,000 miles as he made speeches all over the country. But the Republican candidate, William McKinley, never left his hometown of Canton, Ohio. He urged people to visit him if they wanted to hear what he had to say. The strategy worked. The speeches he delivered from the front porch of his house drew 750,000 attendees and played an important role in his election. I recommend a comparable approach for you in the coming months, Cancerian. Invoke all your attractive power as you invite interested parties to come see you and deal with you on your home turf.

In August 2012, a group of tourists visited the Eldgja volcanic region in Iceland. After a while, they noticed that a fellow traveler was missing. Guides organized a search party, which worked well into the night trying to track down the lost woman. At 3 a.m., one of the searchers suddenly realized that she herself was the missing person everyone was looking for. The misunderstanding had occurred many hours earlier because she had slipped away to change her clothes, and no one recognized her in her new garb. This is a good teaching story for you to meditate on in 2017, Scorpio. I’d love to see you change so much that you’re almost unrecognizable. And I’d love to see you help people go searching for the new you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

“Poetry is a way of knowledge, but most poetry tells us

Armstrong Prescription Drug DropOff 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

beautyandtruth@freewillastrology.com

Humans have drunk hot tea for over two millennia. Chinese emperors were enjoying it as far back as the second century B.C. And yet it wasn’t until the 20th century that anyone dreamed up the idea of enclosing tea leaves in convenient one-serving bags to be efficiently brewed. I foresee you either generating or stumbling upon comparable breakthroughs in 2017, Taurus. Long-running traditions or customs will undergo simple but dramatic transformations that streamline your life.

“What you do is what counts and not what you had the intention of doing,” said Pablo Picasso. If I had to choose a single piece of advice to serve as your steady flame in 2017, it might be that quote. If you agree, I invite you to conduct this experiment: On the first day of each month, take a piece of paper and write down three key promises you’re making to yourself. Add a brief analysis of how well you have lived up to those promises in the previous four weeks. Then describe in strong language how you plan to better fulfill those promises in the coming four weeks.

Health

by Rob brezsny

*The Economist* magazine reports that if someone wanted to transport $10 million in bills, he or she would have to use eight briefcases. Sadly, after evaluating your astrological omens for 2017, I’ve determined that you won’t ever have a need for that many. If you find yourself in a situation where you must carry bundles of money from one place to another, one suitcase will always be sufficient. But I also want to note that a sizable stash of cash can fit into a single suitcase. And it’s not out of the question that such a scenario could transpire for you in the coming months. In fact, I foresee a better chance for you to get richer quicker than I’ve seen in years.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

and pet friendly. tybeeislandfarmersmarket. com. Stephen Johnson, 206 Miller Ave. Wine Sampling Sample the variety of wines Lucky’s Market has to offer. luckysmarket.com/ savannah-ga/. Lucky’s Market, 5501 Abercorn St.

In 2017, you will be at the peak of your ability to forge new

alliances and deepen existing alliances. You’ll have a sixth sense for cultivating professional connections that can serve your noble ambitions for years to come. I encourage you to be alert for new possibilities that might be both useful for your career and invigorating for your social life. The words “work” and “fun” will belong together! To achieve the best results, formulate a clear vision of the community and support system you want.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Capricorn writer Edgar Allan Poe has been an important cultural influence. His work appears on many “mustread” lists of 19th-century American literature. But during the time he was alive, his best-selling book was not his famous poem “The Raven,” nor his short story “The GoldBug,” nor his novel *The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.* Rather, it was *The Conchologist’s First Book,* a textbook about mollusk shells, which he didn’t actually write, but merely translated and edited. If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, 2017 will bring events to help ensure that your fate is different from Poe’s.

I see the coming months as a time when your best talents will be seen and appreciated better than ever before.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

“My goal is to create a life that I don’t need a vacation from,” says motivational author Rob Hill Sr. That’s an implausible dream for most people. But in 2017, it will be less implausible than it has ever been for you Aquarians.

I don’t guarantee that it will happen. But there is a decent chance you’ll build a robust foundation for it, and thereby give yourself a head start that enables you to accomplish it by 2019. Here’s a tip on how to arouse and cultivate your motivation: Set an intention to drum up and seek out benevolent “shocks” that expand your concepts of who you are and what your life is about.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

The birds known as winter wrens live in the Puget Sound area of Washington. They weigh barely half an ounce, and their plain brown coloring makes their appearance unremarkable. Yet they are the avian equivalents of the opera star Pavarotti. If they weighed as much as roosters, their call would be ten times as strong as the rooster’s cock-adoodle-doo. Their melodies are rich and complex; one song may have more than 300 notes. When in peak form, the birds can unleash cascades at the rate of 36 notes per second. I propose that we make the winter wren your spirit animal in 2017, Pisces. To a casual observer, you may not look like you can generate so much virtuosity and lyrical power. But according to my analysis, you can.

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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. Blood Pressure Screenings St. Joseph’s/Candler’s SmartSenior offers blood pressure screenings on every Monday from 10 AM to Noon in the SmartSenior office, #8 Medical Arts on 836 E. 65th Street. No appointment is necessary; the screenings are free and open to the public. For more information, call (912) 352-4405. ongoing. St. Joseph’s/ Candler Medical Arts Building, 836 E. 65th St. Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association The Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association will meet at 10:30 am at the Lewis Cancer Pavilion, 2nd floor, room 203, 225 Candler Drive on the Candler Hospital campus in Savannah. Polio survivors and guests are invited. For information call 912927-8332. fourth Saturday of every month, 10:30 a.m. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. 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 Hearing Screenings The Savannah Speech and Hearing Center offers free hearing screenings every Thursday from 9-11 a.m. Children ages three years old to adults of all ages are screened on a first-come, first-serve basis by a trained audiology assistant. If necessary, a full audiological evaluation will be recommended. Free and open to the public Thursdays, 9-11 a.m. 912355-4601. speechandhearingsav.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. Hypnosis, Guided Imagery and Relaxation Therapy Helps everyday ordinary people with everyday ordinary problems: smoking, weight loss, phobias, fears, ptsd, life coaching. Caring, qualified professional help. See website or call for info. ongoing.

912-927-3432. savannahypnosis.com.

La Leche League of Savannah A breast feeding support group for new/ expectant monthers. Meeting/gathering first Thursdays, 10am. Call or see website for

location and other info. ongoing. 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 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.

Kid’s Happenings

Healthy Kids Club The Healthy Kids Club’s mission is to educate and inspire children to take part in their local farmers market while enjoying nutritious foods and empowering their families to make healthy choices at home. Saturdays, 9:15-9:45 a.m. wifarmersmarket@aol.com. Wilmington Island Farmers Market, 111 Walthour Rd. Junior Aquarist Have you ever wondered what goes on behind-the-scenes at the aquarium? Now is your chance to experience a day in the life of an aquarist. The UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium invites children ages 10-15 to spend the morning learning how to care for aquarium animals alongside aquarium staff. Register by December 14, 2016 by contacting Kayla Clark, kayla270@uga.edu or at (912) 598-3345 $22 Wed., Dec. 21, 9 a.m.-noon. 912-5983345. kayla270@uga.edu. marex.uga. edu/calendar/2016/12/21/. UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium, 30 Ocean Science Circle.

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

Savannah Children’s Museum, 655 Louisville Road.

Toddler Time Bring your 2-4 year old to enjoy stories, games and learning designed just for them.

Each week there will be a different naturebased theme. $5 parking Thursdays, 10 a.m. gastateparks.org/skidawayisland. gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Toddler Tuesdays at Oatland Island Wildlife Center Toddlers 6 months to 4 years, and their adults. Themed programs--story books, singing songs, finger puppet plays, crafts, guided walks, up close encounters with Oatland animals. Preregister by 4pm Monday. $5 children. Gen. Admission for adults ($5 or $3 for military & seniors) Tuesdays. 912-395-1500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd.

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.

Savannah Pride, Inc. Organizes the annual Savannah Pride Festival and helps promote the well-being of the LGBTQI community in the South.

Mission: unity through diversity and social awareness. Second Tuesday/month. PO Box 6044, Savannah, GA 31414. 501c nonprofit. ongoing. info@savannahpride.com. savannahpride.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. 912-288-1034. info@standoutyouth.org. standoutyouth.

Crossword Answers

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. Last Sunday of every month.

912-447-6605. sjchs.org/body.cfm?id=399.

African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Historical Writers Guild The HWG will endeavor to offer a variety of programs for both published and unpublished writers to promote historical fiction and creative non-fiction. All compatible and cross-genre works to historical writing are welcome. HWG is also open to hobbyist writers to enjoy a relaxed and fun environment. Annual dues $20 fourth Monday of every month, 7-9 p.m. 713907-8627. hwg.rh@comcast.net. Richmond Hill Museum, 11460 Ford Ave.

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.

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.

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.

Pets & Animals

Low Cost Pet Clinic TailsSpin and Dr. Stanley Lester, DVM, host low-cost pet vaccine clinics for students, military and seniors the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. 5pm-6pm.

Vaccinations: $12, ($2 is donated to Savannah pet rescue agencies). See website for info. ongoing. tailsspin.com. tailsspin. com. TailsSpin Pet Supplies Store, 4501 Habersham St., Habersham Village.

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Operation New Hope allows inmates to train unadoptable dogs from the Humane Society for Greater Savannah. The goals of the program are to decrease the recidivism rate among Chatham County inmates, help inmates learn a new skill, and help previously unadoptable dogs find loving homes. The graduated dogs are available for adoption can be viewed at www.humansocietvsav.org, and www. chathamsheriff.org. Operation New Hope is funded by the Humane Society and community donations. ongoing. chathamsheriff.org. humanesocietysav.org/.

Humane Society for Greater Savannah, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. St. Almo’s Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks on Sundays, 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at Canine Palace. Call for info. ongoing. 912-234-3336. caninepalacesavannah.com. Canine Palace Inc, 618 Abercorn St.

Religious & Spiritual

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12-Step Recovery Eucharist/Holy Communion 12-Step Recovery Eucharist/Holy Communion is offered at 8:00AM every fourth Friday of the month at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 34th St & Abercorn, Savannah. Everyone is welcome. fourth Saturday of every month, 8 a.m. 912925-4609. alan.phyllis@att.net. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 34th & Abercorn Sts. Band of Sisters Prayer Group All women are invited. Second Tuesdays, 7:30am-8:30am. Fellowship Assembly, 5224 Augusta Rd. Email or call Jeanne Seaver or see website for info. “The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hands of the Lord.” (Prov. 21:1) ongoing. 912-663-8728. jeanneseaver@aol.com. capitolcom.org/ georgia.

Buddhist Meditation Everyone is welcome. Experience not necessary. Visit our website for location, meditation periods and classes. savannahzencenter.com. Individual instruction upon request. Email Cindy Un Shin Beach at revfugon@gmail.com for more information. ongoing. Online only, none.

Catholic Singles A group of Catholic singles age 30-50 meet frequently for fun, fellowship and service.

Send email or check website to receive announcements of activities and to suggest activities for the group. ongoing. familylife@ diosav.org. diosav.org/familylife-singles.

Gratitude Circle in the Squares Gather with others to share gratitude.

Everyone welcome. Park next to Bull Street Library. Wednesdays, 12-12:30 p.m. 917-676-4280. facebook.com/ savannahgratitude. liveoakpl.org. Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St. Guided Silent Prayer Acoustical songs, 30 minutes of guided silent prayer, and minutes to receive prayer or remain in silence. Wednesdays, 6:45-8:00pm at Vineyard Church, 615 Montgomery St. See website for info. ongoing. vineyardsavannah.org.

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Call for Artists for What Is Your America

“This is not my America” is becoming a common refrain in this new post-election reality. Sulfur Studios wants to hear from artists, just what is your America and where is your place within it? Is your America a place for all? Do you live in a bubble of your own making, and what are your blind spots? What are your hopes/fears for the future of your America? How is your America perceived locally, nationally and globally?

Artwork in any media will be considered for this juried exhibition to be held Feb. 8-19, 2017. Selections will be made by guest jurors Jeremiah Jossim and Stephanie Raines. Through Jan. 21, 2017. sulfurstudios.org. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St.

for young adults and college Christians.

Contact Reverend Brenda Lee @yahoo.com or call (912) 236-3156. ongoing. No physical address given, none.

Jesus-Yeshua Birthday Celebration Carols, food, fun and games. Sun., Dec. 25.

Praise, Christmas food, music, dance and drama. Contests: 1.) Catering- festive table of finger foods (only). Tables skirts must reach the ground on three sided. 2.) Floral arrangements (Theme: JESUS-YESHUA Birthday) 3.) Poster contest for 2017 ages 8-13, 14-18, 19-adult. Sun., Dec. 25, 12-3 p.m. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave. Maritime Bethel “Sundays on Thursdays” worship at the Fellowship Assembly. Plenty of parking for large trucks. Free Thursdays. 912-220-2976.

The Fellowship Assembly of God Church, 5224 Augusta Road.

A New Church in the City, For the City Gather on Sundays at 10:30am. Like the Facebook page “Savannah Church Plant.” ongoing. Bryson Hall, 5 E. Perry St. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Courses are now being offered at the new Savannah Extension of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Full course loads for both Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees will be offered. Apply now at www.nobts. edu to start classes this winter. ongoing.

912-232-1033. revwasson@gmail.com.

Savannah Baptist Center, 704 Wheaton

Street.

Psychic Medium Your Pal, Erin Ready to reconnect you with your loved ones who’ve passed and your own inner knowing? I’m here to help. Let’s all work together to create the amazing new life you truly desire, releasing old situations that no longer serve you. Readings available in person and by phone. 60 minutes, $65.

Group readings of 5 or more, $30 per person for 20 minutes. Get your personalized, 45 minute prerecorded “Tuesday Tune-Up” emailed to your inbox for just $45. Visit www.yourpalerin.com for more information or contact psychicyourpalerin@gmail.com today. ongoing. Online only, none.

Read the Bible in One Year A Bible book club for those wanting to read the Bible in one year. Open to all. Book club format, not a traditional Bible study. All welcome, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, religion. Thurs. 6:00pm-7:00pm.

Call for info. ongoing. 912-233-5354. Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, 622 E. 37th Street.

Savannah Friends Meeting (Quakers) Un-programmed worship. 11am Sundays, third floor of Trinity United Methodist Church. Call or email for info.

All are welcome. ongoing. 636-2331772. savannahquakers@gmail.com. trinitychurch1848.org/. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. Savannah Reiki Share During shares, participants take turns giving and receiving universal life force energy via Reiki and other healing modalities. Present

at the shares are usually no less than 2 Reiki Masters. Come share with us on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month at the Sweet Water Spa in downtown Savannah.

Sign up at Savannah Reiki Share or Reiki by Appointment on Facebook. Free ongoing, 7 p.m. 440-371-5209. Sweet Water Spa, 148 Abercorn Street.

Service of Compline Enter the stillness of another age. Gregorian Chant sung by candlelight at 9:00-9:30 p.m. every Sunday night by the Complne Choir of Christ Church Anglican. Come, say good nigh to God. All are welcome. ongoing.

Christ Church Anglican, 37th and Bull.

South Valley Baptist Church Weekly Sunday services. Sunday school, 10:00am. Worship, 11:30am. Tuesday Bible Study/Prayer Service, 6:30pm. Pastor Rev. Dr. Barry B. Jackson, 480 Pine Barren Road, Pooler, GA “Saving a nation one soul at a time.” ongoing.

Tapestry Church A church for all people! We don’t care what you are wearing, just that you are here.

From the moment you walk in until the moment you leave, Tapestry is committed to delivering a creative, challenging, straight forward, and honest message about the role of biblical principles in your life. Come experience an environment that helps you connect with God and discover his incredible purpose for your life. Join us every Sunday morning 10AM at the Habersham YMCA. Sundays, 10 a.m. tapestrysavannah.com. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Habersham Branch), 6400 Habersham St. Theology on Tap Meets on the third Monday, 8:30pm-10:30pm. Like the Facebook page: Theology on Tap Downtown Savannah. ongoing. distillerysavannah.com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St.

Special Screenings

Film: Love Actually For Girls Night Out at the Movies, watch this romantic comedy with the lovable Hugh Grant. Admission gets you a glass of wine and a pack of hankies. $10 Thu., Dec. 22, 7 p.m. tybeeposttheater.org. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horn.

Film: The White Reindeer This B&W Finnish horror-fantasy is not about Christmas exactly. It’s the tale of a newly wed woman who goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but winds up turned into a white reindeer that is also a vampire. $7 Wed., Dec. 21, 8 p.m. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave.

Sports & Games

Adult and Junior Tennis Clinics On Thursdays. Intended for a class size of 4-8 students. Buy four classes, get the fifth class free. $15 per class ongoing.

912-201-2000. westinsavannah.com. theclubatsavannahharbor.com/index.php.

The Club at Savannah Harbor, #2 Resort Dr. Adult Coed Flag Football League 8x8 Coed Flag League. Play adult sports, meet new people. Sponsored by Savannah Adult Recreation Club. Wed. nights/Sun. mornings, at locations around Savannah. $450. Minimum 8 games. Ages 18+. Coed

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DECKHAND ON TUG BOAT: $11.00 per hour. 40-80 hours weekly, Full time. Drug screen & physical, live near Savannah. www.bibliainc. com to apply. PHONE: 912-2327342

B Net Management Inc. For pictures & videos of properties *Credit Issues, Prior Evictions, Bankruptcies may still apply 803 A, 803 B & 807/809 Paulsen St. 2BR/1BA, kitchen

w/ appliances, central A/C, hardwood floors, carpet, LR, W/D hook ups. $600-$675/month.

503 W.42nd St: 2BR/1BA Apt.

off MLK. Carpet, tile floors, laundry hookup, kitchen w/appliances, ceiling fans, large rooms, secured entrance. Downstairs unit. $645/ month.

2528 Bismark Ave. 2BR/1BA,

Newly renovated, Carpet & hardwood, appliances, LR, W/D hook ups $695/month.

912-228-4630 Mon-Sat 10am-5pm www. bnetmanagement.com WE ACCEPT SECTION 8 *For Qualified Applicants with 1+ years on Job.*

EXP. RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICIAN & 1 & 2 BEDROOM APTS. & HELPER NEEDED. Must have valid ROOMS FOR RENT driver’s license. Local company.

Westside / Eastside Call 912-604-9649 Savannah: 37th, 38th, & PART-TIME MANAGER: Exp. in 42nd Streets. Adult Living. management required. Jumping Furnished, all utilities Jacks Family Fun Center, 5918 incl.

Washer/Dryer on Ogeechee Road. No phone calls!

Pay based on experience. Must premises, cable TV, WiFi/ Internet. $130-$200/weekly. work weekends.

Requirements: Pay stubs/ID. Call 912-677-0271

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DUPLEX: 1115 East 53rd Street.

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3 Bedrooms/1.5 Baths, single DUPLEX: 1219 East 53rd Street. wide, private lot, no pets $575/ 2BR/1BA $590/month plus month plus deposit. No Section 8. $590/deposit. Two blocks off (912) 234-0548 Waters Avenue, close to Daffin Park. Call 912-335-3211 or email adamrealstate@gmail.com. Days/ SECTION 8 WELCOME Nights/Weekends. *55 S. Parkwood: 3BR/2BA $1,075 DUPLEX: 1219 East 55th Street. *2220 Mason: 4BR/1.5BA $1,100.

2BR/1BA $590/month plus *1518 Grove St. 3BR/1BA $800. $590/deposit. Two blocks off *34-1/2 Altman Cir. 1BR/1BA $600.

Waters Avenue, close to Daffin *2208 Utah: 3BR/1BA $850.

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GEORGETOWN AREA: Newly SOUTHSIDE: #3 Welwood Drive. renovated 3BR/2BA house. 3 bedroom/2 bath, furnished Beautifully decorated, hardwood kitchen, laundry room, carport, floors, new appliances, fenced fenced backyard, outside-pet ok backyard, 2-car garage. Great w/deposit. $975/month + $900 school. $1200/month plus $1200/ deposit. Available January 1. 912352-8251 dep. Call 912-656-1310

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Furnished Efficiency Apt. includes utilities, electricity, gas, garbage/ water. 1yr. lease & security deposit. $700/month. Close to Savannah Mall & Armstrong State University. 912-429-2073

LEWIS PROPERTIES

SPECIAL! 11515 White Bluff Rd. 1BR/1BA, all electric, equipped kitchen, W/D connection. Convenient to Armstrong College. $695/ per month.

897-1984, 8am-7pm *2012 Greenwood: 2BR/1BA House $750. *430A Lawton: 3BR/2 Full Baths $775. *All above have carpet, A/C/ heat, kitchen appliances, washer/dryer hookup, fenced yard. References, application. One-year lease minimum. Deposit same as rent. None total electric, No smoking, pets negotiable.

207 EDGEWATER RD. Southside near Oglethorpe Mall. 2BR/2BA $975/month, $500/deposit.

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VERY NICE HOUSES FOR RENT *1421 East 56th: 4BR/1BA, Central heat/air $930/month. *9319 Dunwoody Dr: 3BR/1.5BA, Central heat/air $975/month. *5621 Betty Drive: 2BR/1BA $740/ month. Call 912-631-7644, 912507-7934 or 912-927-2853 (No calls after 9pm)

Room for Rent ROOMS FOR RENT $75 MOVE-IN SPECIAL ON 2ND WEEK Clean, large, furnished. Busline, cable, utilities, central heat/air. $100-$130/weekly. Rooms with bath $145. Call 912-289-0410. *Paycheck stub or Proof of income and ID required.

624 MONTGOMERY STREET. Downtown. Furnished, all utilities.

Clean, quiet, nice room on bus line. $140 & Up per week. 912247-5404

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Room available, across from SSU. Shower, toilet, sink included in room, washer/dryer available. $145/week. $100/dep. $25/mo. cable. 912-844-3990 or 912-6559121

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Paint & Body Work.

Reasonably Priced. Insurance Claims. We buy wrecks. Call 912-355-5932.

CLEAN, comfortable rooms.

Washer/dryer, air, cable, ceiling fans. $125-$145 weekly. No deposit. Call Ike @ 844-7065

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