Connect Savannah February 22, 2017

FEB 22-28, 2017 NEWS, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY CONNECTSAVANNAH.COM

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EUROPEAN ENIGMA Saturday, March 4th at 7:30pm

Saturday, February 25th at 7:30pm

THE TAMBURTIZANS Saturday, March 11th at 7:30pm

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GORDON LIGHTFOOT Wednesday, March 15th at 8pm-

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Sunday, February 26th at 7:00pm

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WEDNESDAY 2.22 American Traditions Vocal Competition

Forum for showcasing tomorrow’s vocal talents and superstars.

Feb. 20-24 The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. americantraditionscompetition.com

Film: Virgins from Hell

Joe Bonamassa SAT.25

Joe Bonamassa is an American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.

8 p.m.

Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. savannahcivic.com/event/joebonamassa/

This whacked-out blast of ridiculous action finds an all-female motorcycle gang hellbent on revenge against a corrupt warlord.

8 p.m.

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

SCAD deFINE ART

Eighth edition of deFINE ART, featuring artist and color theory pioneer Carlos Cruz-Diez as honoree. All programming is free and open to the public.

Feb. 21-24 scad.edu/defineart

Theater: The Colored Museum

Presented by the SSU Players by the Sea. Reservations required. Part of the Savannah Black Heritage Festival.

8 p.m.

Savannah State, 3219 College St. Free

THURSDAY 2.23

QUILTCON east

Beyond the Piano

Pianist/song-writer Evelyn Davis shares an intimate evening of songs with improvisation, joined by compatriot Amma Ateria.

7:30 p.m.

Armstrong State, 11935 Abercorn St.

FRI-SUN

Explore all things quilting with vendors, lectures, workshops, demonstrations, social meetups, and a quilt show.

Feb. 23-26 Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, 1 International Dr. quiltcon.com

Carlos Cruz Diez Keynote

A-Town Get Down Countdown Kickoff

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Festival of Laughs w/ Mike Epps, Bruce Bruce, Rickey Smiley FRI.24

It’s a festival of laughs with these hilarious comedians.

8 p.m.

The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave.

Guests get a sneak peek of what to expect at the festival, with live music from Savannah’s funk and blues band, Missionary Blues and jazz singer Kim Michael Polote. The event will also feature raffles, giveaways, food, and more.

1 p.m.

Service Brewing Company, 574 Indian Street.

deFINE ART honoree Carlos Cruz Diez delivers a keynote speech.

6 p.m.

Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St.

Film: A Streetcar Named Desire

Elia Kazan’s steamy 1951 film classic.

7 p.m.

Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne $10

Fish Gotta Swim, Folks Gotta Eat Enjoy food and drink while browsing unique silent auction items.

Armstrong House, 447 Bull Street. $50

The History of Basketball

Presented by actor Clyk Cozart, former

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collegiate and ABA athlete Jim Dawson, former Globetrotter Larry ‘Gator’ Rivers, and sports publicist Keith Zimmerman.

7 p.m.

Saint Andrews School, 601 Penn Waller Rd.

Lecture: Women, Medicine and Hollywood on ‘Mercy Street’

Actor William Mark McCullough and Dr. Felicity Turner will hold a discussion of the PBS Civil War drama, ‘Mercy Street’ produced by Ridley Scott.

12:30 p.m.

Armstrong State, 11935 Abercorn St. Free

Southern Regional Press Institute

A two-day mass media conference for college students & media workshops for elementary, middle and high school students.

Feb. 23-24 Savannah State University, 3219 College St. 912-358-3378

Theatre: Peter and the Starcatcher

Peter Pan returns in this magical and hilarious adventure, presented by the SCAD School of Entertainment Arts.

8 p.m. Thu.-Sat., 7 p.m. Sun. Arnold Hall (SCAD), 1810 Bull St. $5 SCAD card, $10 non-SCAD students

Theatre: The Vagina Monologues

First performed off-Broadway by Eve Ensler, the show dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement in women’s experiences.

7:30 p.m. Thu. & Fri. Bay Street Theatre, 1 Jefferson St. $20 table seating, $15 general admission

Visions: An Odyssey in Black Dance

A Black History Month dance concert that takes a journey through history with African, Modern, Contemporary, Jazz and Hip-Hop dance.

7:30 p.m. Thu. & Fri., 3 p.m. Sat. & Sun. Muse Arts Warehouse, 703 Louisville Rd. $10-$20

FRIDAY 2.24 2017 Disc Dog World Championship Qualifier

At the event, pet food donations collected for Vets with Pets and VFW Post 660. Pet rescue One Love and Coastal Pet Rescue will be at the event with adoptable pets.

Feb. 24-26 Islands High, 170 Whitemarsh Island Road.

Free

Black Male Summit

Workshops and presentations will focus

on college and career readiness, professional image, relationships and peer pressure.

10 a.m.

Savannah State University, 3219 College St.

Glad to Be Here

Captain Donnie Cochran (ret.), former commander of the Blue Angels and SSU alumnus, will sign copies of Glad to Be Here, a memoir that focuses on lessons he learned as a pilot and commander.

2 p.m.

Savannah State University, 3219 College St.

One Small Voice: A Palette of Sound Savannah Children’s Choir will honor Stratton Leopold. The evening includes a performance by the Savannah Children’s Choir and a food and drink reception with Missionary Blues Band.

7 p.m.

American Legion Ballroom, 1108 Bull St. $35 savannahchoir.org/tickets

Potable Gold: Savannah’s Madeira Tradition

Patrons are oriented to the tradition of Madeira (wine) as it relates to the history of Savannah. Must be 21 years of age.

Reservations recommended.

5:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat. Davenport House, 324 East State St. $20

Theatre: The Addams Family

The weird and wacky family will come to life on the St. Andrew’s stage.

7:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat., 3 p.m. Sat. & Sun. Saint Andrews School, 601 Penn Waller Rd. $10 students, $15 adults

SATURDAY 2.25 Bucket List Show

The Savannah Theatre cast and band present a 2-hour show of the songs they’ve always wanted to sing but have never gotten to perform on stage.

8 p.m. Sat., 3 p.m. Sun. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. $37

Darin and Brooke Aldridge

Husband and wife duo bring a touch of the hills to their harmonies and musicianship.

8 p.m.

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Seuss Fest

This year there is a “Seuss Science Station,” a “Green Eggs & Ham Rhyming Maze,” a “Save the Trees Station with The Lorax” and a “Seusstastic Selfie Station,” complete with costumes and props.

10 a.m.

Savannah Children’s Museum, 655 Louisville Road. $7.50 for guests 18 months and older Do Fish Talk?

Dolphin Project and Fort McAllister Marina co-host lecture by marine scientist Dr. Damon Gannon about fish acoustics.

6:30 p.m.

Richmond Hill Museum, 11460 Ford Ave.

Doo Wop with a Twist

Featuring Joey Dee and the Starliters and Tommy Mara and the Crests.

7:30 p.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $30-$50

Echoes Walk III

Tour West Savannah’s Weeping Time marker and the Abbott-Sengstacke homesite with Jamal Toure of Day Clean Journey Tours.

10 a.m.

Augusta Ave. and Dunn St.

Tybee Island Mardi Gras

Family-friendly annual celebration begins with Christy Alan Band at 12:30 p.m., followed by parade at 2 p.m. and The Hypnotics at 2:30 p.m.

12:30 p.m.

Tybee Island visittybee.com

The Fabulous Krewe of Equinox’s Mardi Gras Bash

Dixieland jazz concert from the one-andonly Fabulous Equinox band and a VIP party with free cocktails, appetizers, party favors and a meet-and-greet.

7 p.m.

The Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne Ave. $25 for concert only, $45 for VIP d

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Forsyth Farmers Market

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

9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Forsyth Park

Laughs & Drafts

Hosted by Derick Marchel and featuring comedians Aaron Odom, Jerrod Smith, Evan Rollins, Dedrick Flynn, Tevin Williams, Ian Aber and Keegan Ray. 7-10:30 p.m.

Southbound Brewing, 107 East Lathrop Ave. $25

Race for Preservation

Historic Savannah Foundation’s annual Race for Preservation showcases five historic neighborhoods and two parks.

8 a.m.

Forsyth Park $25-$50 myHSF.org

Ranger Guided Bike Tour of Cockspur Island

This behind the scenes ride will focus on both the natural and cultural resources Cockspur Island has to offer beyond the fort.

1:30 p.m.

Fort Pulaski, US Highway 80 E.

Vintage Tour of Trailers on Tybee

The southeastern division of Sisters on the Fly will be down for Mardi Gras.

10 a.m.

River’s End Campground, Tybee Island.

SUNDAY 2.26 Frank Brannon

Atlanta singer/songwriter is a cousin of Flannery O’Connor who recorded criticallyacclaimed album Dance on the Wind.

4 p.m.

Flannery O’Connor Home, 207 E. Charlton St

Rockin’ Road To Dublin

Combines Irish dance, Rock-N-Roll, and Broadway theatre.

7-9 p.m.

Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. $29-$44

NEWS & OPINION EDITOR’S NOTE

Tea Party 2.0?

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THIS CONGRESSIONAL RECESS looks to be an interesting one, depending on where you are.

So far, most Republican representatives who have held town hall meetings have faced very angry and vocal crowds of mostly Democrats, defending Obamacare from repeal and attacking the Trump travel ban on seven majority Muslim countries, among many other things.

This week, Savannah Rep. Buddy Carter holds a town hall here, and we’ll be providing more coverage of it.

As I write this the day before the event, mobilization among local liberals is at a fever pace, and the event here promises to be overflowing with angry constituents.

The irony is that Carter is one of a few Republicans even holding town halls at all. Many of have decided, based on what they’ve seen so far, to avoid the bad optics and just not talk to their constituents in an open forum.

Which is of course the entire point of a congressional recess: To go home and talk to your constituents in an open forum.

Many pundits have compared the wave of liberal pushback at the town halls to what we saw with the rise of the Tea Party before the crushing 2010 midterm election, in which Democrats suffered grievous losses the party is still nowhere near recovering from.

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Then as now, the drama began with rowdy, unruly town hall meetings overflowing with angry constituents.

However, the big difference is that the Tea Party focused much of its ire on fellow conservatives. Some of the angriest town halls back in that day were the ones where Republicans got roasted by other Republicans.

And often, establishment Republicans went on to lose in primaries to Tea Party candidates, who for all their rowdiness had a remarkably cohesive message.

From Key West to Anchorage, every Tea Partier across America could rattle off the same short bullet point list of agenda items.

Democrats have no analogy to that yet.

They still lack a unifying, all-in, mutually acknowledged grassroots message.

The difference between the Tea Party and the Obama coalition is the Tea Party didn’t revolve around a single candidate.

Donald Trump’s first month in office feels more like a decade, and what’s next of course none of us knows. But so far it seems less than reassuring, to put it charitably.

However, for all his boundary-bursting outrages, Trump does represent the ultimate triumph of the Republican grassroots over the party establishment, the raison d’etre of the entire Tea Party movement.

Despite the success of the Women’s March and other rallies, liberals really have yet to have their Tea Party moment in the sense of a true grassroots victory.

Their grassroots pick, Bernie Sanders, was eschewed in favor of the most

establishment pick possible, Hillary Clinton. She went on to lose the so-called “Blue Wall” of the upper Midwest, the first time a Democrat had done so in decades.

(Spoiler Alert: The Russians didn’t force Clinton not to make a single campaign stop in Wisconsin.)

Unless the party can find a way to shore up that wall — whether by grassroots outreach or some other as-yet-undetermined strategy — you can rant on Facebook all day long for all the difference it will make in the 2020 Electoral College result.

The point being that protesting Republican officeholders is well and good and a great use of your freedom of speech and right to peaceably assemble. But sometimes, to form a viable opposition, you have to use that freedom of speech in talking to folks on your own side first.

If Democrats don’t spend some of this protest energy doing the hard work of rebuilding their own party around a unifying national message, they can probably expect more disappointment.

The Trump administration is extremely young at this point—as I write this, less than 800 hours old. So there’s still lots of time left before the 2018 midterms, right?

Not so much. That campaign will ramp up only about a year from now.

I’m hearing rumblings of local Democrats making a serious effort to recruit new young candidates, the most notable slot of course being against Buddy Carter himself—who incredibly was unopposed when he ran for reelection last year.

You can’t win if you’re not even on the playing field. CS

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Still plenty of fight left in battle to save downtown

Editor, There was a lot to like in your article in Connect about Ben Carter and downtown (“Ben Carter and the Unicorn”), but I was disappointed in your conclusion that essentially opined that all is lost for having actual residents live downtown.

We moved downtown from Virginia some three years ago, and I am acquainted with many other newly arrived downtown residents—so we are still coming. Indeed, one of the primary things that attracted us to Savannah was the remarkably livable downtown, which

many of us are working hard to retain.

While I share plenty of your concerns about the future course for Savannah, there are a number of emerging green shoots suggesting the beginnings of a slow turnaround that will help Savannah’s beleaguered downtown residents.

I point to the 29 September 2016 City Council meeting at which zoning changes to accommodate two hotels were turned down, complete with rhetoric about the need for concern about downtown residents and the proliferation of hotels.

There are also moves afoot to try and incentivize residential development downtown.

The proposed River East Hotel

complex – a resort-like monstrosity - west of the riverfront Marriott that required several zoning variances, was sent back to the drawing board with an array of issues.

The city-owned lot on East Oglethorpe Street is being offered for sale by the city with the specific proviso that a hotel will not be permitted there.

One has to start somewhere, and I submit that the aforementioned items suggest that start.

Of course I recognize that many downtown lots remain susceptible to hotel development by-right, but many entities in Savannah are working to ensure their design is appropriate and that variances are not

granted.

The uncontrolled proliferation of short-term vacation rentals downtown is indeed a problem for residential life, which the city now recognizes and is working to address.

The Downtown Neighborhood Association which specifically advocates for residents, is also working with other entities to help preserve the residential character of downtown.

So I believe all is not yet lost and would look to you and other media to help encourage the worthwhile fight for owneroccupied residences downtown rather than throw in the towel.

Robert B. Rosenwald

FEB 22-28, 2017

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NEWS & OPINION THE (CIVIL) SOCIETY COLUMN

Alternative Facts vs. a more complete reality

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a rising senior at Sol C. Johnson High, young Ulysses had no interest in transferBY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS ring to all-white Savannah High—until jll@connectsavannah.com Civil Rights activist W.W. Law came knocking.

“Mama didn’t want us marching or sitting IT’S EVIDENT that this brave new world in, but she respected Mr. Law,” says Bryant, has spawned a divergent reality, where the oldest of four boys. “He felt I was acapower fantasies become facts and denial is demically prepared and that I had the chara top diplomatic strategy (and also a river acter and mental stability to be first.” in the Middle East full of deported Muslim While Savannah didn’t see the blood immigrants.) and rage of other Southern cities during While the rest of us are over here eyethat year, he and his fellow African Ameriballing the cracks in the matrix and staycan students experienced other types of ing away from any dams, history continues aggression, white kids turning their backs to be hijacked and logical fallacy abounds. on them in class and knocking their books In a week of outrageous examples, one to the ground in the hallways. Bryant was nasty one hails from Illinois, where a local once clocked in the head with a plank durpolitical cartoonist used the framework of ing wood shop.

Norman Rockwell’s iconic 1964 portrait “It wasn’t so much a ‘glad to have you’of African American first grader Ruby type feeling,” drily recalls the gentleman Bridges being escorted to school during the who went on to a career heading up the first days of desegregation to draw a corsafety and security for the entire Savanrelation with Secretary of Education Betsy nah-Chatham school system.

“How Does This Pencil Work” DeVos, who In a stark contrast to Baffled Betsy’s met resistance recently when she tried to blank stare, there’s a photo of the 18 yearmince her way up the stairs for a photo op old future chief walking up the cement at a Washington, DC middle school. steps with a worried crease in his forehead This comparison paints DeVos as on that momentous day, one of the artiunjustly oppressed because her conservafacts featured in “From Enslavement to tive values are somehow “under attack.”

Emancipation,” a new exhibit opening Since it’s possible to misinterpret Norman this week at the Massie Heritage Center.

Rockwell references (*clears throat*), let’s Chief Bryant will lead the program on Feb. elucidate: Ruby Bridges was a little girl 24, preceded by walking tours of nearby who had to be physically protected from African American sites. hateful bigots because she was black.

The engrossing exhibit fills in 150 years Betsy DeVos is a rich grown woman who of local history with enlightening details, wasn’t welcomed by public school advofollowing African American education in cates because she’s bent on shunting tax Savannah from the days of Haitian immidollars away from them in order to further grant Julien Froumontaine’s school, a privatized religious agenda. which operated the city council passed So beware the whitewash of false laws in 1829 designed to keep enslaved equivalence. There’s a lot of talk about people from realizing the power of literacy.

Truth lately, the capital T signifying a Heroes like Mother Matilda Beasley collective reality backed up by facts. Yet and James Simms risked public whipour perception of Truth is easy to mess ping for teaching black children in secret around with, and even physics proves it’s during slavery, and Suzie King Taylor all subjective anyway. (Google “quantum and James Porter took up the mantle to entanglement”—gah!) demand public education via the FreedSeems like facts aren’t necessarily as men’s Bureau schools—of which the important these days as gaining control of Massie School served as briefly in 1865. the narrative, and the way to do that is to, Much of the Civil Rights-era portion of well, narrate. Pushing against the irony of the exhibit consists of recently discovered the DeVos cartoon—during Black History legal paperwork and other documentation Month, no less!—is the story of Ulysses pertaining to desegregation, noting the “Chief” Bryant, who knows something differences in class sizes and laying out the about the tumult of school desegregation ledgers of how black teachers were paid far right here in Savannah. less than their white counterparts.

After the courts mandated local schools These certified facts reminds how plito integrate in 1963, Savannah met the able history can be in terms of accepting minimal requirements by opening two of new information to form a more complete 8 its high schools to black students. Then truth, and how the more perspectives

Ulysses “Chief” Bryant was one of the first brave students to integrate Savannah’s public schools and will share his experiences at the Massie Heritage Center on Feb. 24.

we add to the narrative, the stronger it becomes.

The inclusion of African American history into Savannah’s metanarrative only completes and strengthens the experience of this place for all of us, and even lesserknown pieces are coming to light, thanks to the high schoolers of Deep Center’s Block-by-Block program. The young writers meet every week at the Carnegie Library on Henry Street—Savannah’s oldest, built by the black community over a 100 years ago—to research and preserve the stories of the Eastside neighborhoods.

So far they’ve reintroduced Civil Rights veteran Benjamin Van Clark back to the future as well as the almost-forgotten neighborhood known as Tent City, a selfsustaining black community complete with gardens that was destroyed to make way for public housing in the 1930s.

“We’re looking at history of self and community, exploring it, understanding it and owning it,” explains facilitator and author Trelani Michelle. “It’s about taking ownership of the narrative of where you live, then going back and adding to the dialogue.”

I love this, because it means our youngest citizens are making sure the stories

that matter to them are included every day, not just for one month a year. While the success of “Hidden Figures “and Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Underground Railroad” (anyone get their copy signed at the Savannah Book Festival?) have diversified the canon as of late, the facts of history must contain multiple perspectives if it is to represent human experience.

Just as school desegregation cannot be distilled to the image of one little girl, the story of Savannah can’t be truly represented by a lit-up statue of General Oglethorpe, handsome as he is over there in Chippewa Square. Nor will the narrative of America be simplified by those who would distort it for their own ethical gymnastics.

The best resistance is more stories, millions of them, told so many times that they finally break the dam and spill over into the mainstream we call Truth, never to be held back again. CS

“FROM ENSLAVEMENT TO EMANCIPATION” OPENING

When: 6:30pm, Thursday, Feb. 24 (walking tours begin at 5pm) Where: Massie Heritage Center, 207 E. Gordon St. Info: massieschool.com

NEWS & OPINION THE NEWS CYCLE

The real American carnage and how to stop it

MY WIFE’S parents visited from New York last year and they learned an important lesson that is second nature to many of us who live in Savannah: Green does not mean go.

At least not right away.

In our city, when the traffic signal changes to green it’s a reminder to keep your foot on the brake for five or even 10 seconds after the light has changed as cars hurtle through the intersection.

Despite having lived all over the country (My wife was an Air Force brat) they said they’d never seen anything like Savannahians’ relaxed relationship with red lights.

But now the trend may be catching on with young folks nationwide. A new study reveals, “Nearly 50 percent of drivers ages 19-24 reported driving through a light that had just turned red when they could have stopped safely, compared to 36 percent of all drivers.”

This finding comes from the AAA Foundation’s annual Traffic Safety Culture Index, released last week.

The headline of AAA’s press release is “Young Millennials Top List of Worst Behaved Drivers” and it finds 88.4 percent of drivers, ages 19-24, reported speeding, red light running, or texting behind the wheel in the past 30 days.

Folks in my age bracket (40-59) are no angels either, as 75.2 of us admitted to dangerous driving behaviors.

AAA’s latest study comes amid “American carnage,” of a type that was not mentioned in the inaugural address. And this

will drive like bullets.”

Driving 10 mph over the speed limit on residential streets may not seem like a big deal, until you consider how mortality rates increase with speed. A person hit by a car going 20 mph has a 5 percent risk of death.

People hit by cars travelling 40 mph will die 80 percent of the time.

For children and older people, the numbers are even more grim.

Mounting research confirms using a Complete Streets approach — to make streets safe and accessible for people who ride bikes, walk and use transit — reduces crashes for everyone, including drivers.

On four of Savannah’s “gun barrel” streets (Whitaker, Drayton, Henry and Anderson), which are very much residential — just ask the people who live on them — car crashes have increased every year since 2011, according to data from the Traffic Safety Research and Evaluation Group at the University of Georgia.

Drayton Street, in particular, has seen a dramatic rise from 69 crashes in 2011 to 169 in 2016. Thankfully there have been no fatalities. Yet. The good news, again, is we know exactly how to reduce crashes. Designing streets to discourage speeding will decrease fatal collisions. Modern bike lanes, pedestrian refuges and other design features can also offer more protection from distracted drivers, be they millennial or middle aged.

For the sake of people who live on these streets and the people who travel them, we should stop chasing the dragon of driver convenience.

We’ve been doing that since early last century and the consequences have been deadly. CS

FEB 22-28, 2017

BY JOHN BENNETT

john@bicyclecampaign.org

carnage is based in fact: U.S. traffic deaths rose to 35,092 in 2015, an increase of more than 7 percent and the largest single-year increase in 50 years.

Here in Georgia, fatal crashes increased 34 percent between 2014 and 2016.

Distracted driving is appropriately identified as a major contributor to the rising death toll.

“Drivers ages 19-24 were nearly twice as likely as all drivers to report having typed or sent a text message or e-mail while driving (59.3 percent vs. 31.4 percent).” according to the AAA study.

There’s no simple solution to distracted driving. Should the focus be on legislative remedies, law enforcement strategies, or technological measures? It’s about changing culture, too, as the name of AAA’s annual study suggests.

For many young Americans, handheld screens have been their constant companions for most of their lives.

When it comes to reducing speeding, the way forward is clear, it’s all about street design, and the need is critical. AAA reports 46.0 percent of drivers surveyed admitted having driven 10 mph over the speed limit on a residential street in the past 30 days, with 10.5 percent reporting they did so regularly or fairly often.

Young millennials were 1.4 times more likely to speed on residential streets.

Speeding is further encouraged when streets are designed like freeways, with multiple wide lanes. No matter what the posted speed limit or how many “radar hotspots” are announced on local radio stations, people drive at speeds that feel “right” to them.

To use a line I cribbed from a Marylandbased advocacy group’s Twitter account, “Design streets like gun barrels and people

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NEWS & OPINION COMMUNITY

A happier, healthier home

Expo offers practical ideas and solid advice for families from local experts

BY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS

jll@connectsavannah.com

ASTHMA, behavior issues, depression, diabetes, eczema, food allergies, obesity… there’s an alphabet soup of negative health conditions that are becoming increasingly more common in childhood.

The Journal of American Medicine reports that chronic illness in American kids and teens has more than doubled since the 1990s, adding higher numbers to the pot: One in six has a developmental disability. One in 13 has allergic reactions to one or more foods. One in 68 is on the autism spectrum.

According to the group Focus for Health, more than 33 percent of those childhood

Next week, she’s bringing together some of Savannah’s biggest names in natural living for the first annual Healthy Homes Happy Families Expo on Saturday, Feb. 25.

From non-toxic cleaning options to chiropractors to relaxation techniques, the day promises a wealth of information that’s easy to digest for frazzled parents.

“We definitely don’t want to overwhelm anybody,” says wellness expert Chelsea Dye, who will offer up easy, inexpensive fixes to remove hidden toxins from the kitchen, bathroom and laundry room.

“There are really short lists of things you can eliminate that can have a big impact immediately and in the long run, especially with kids.”

Dye recognizes that one of the hurdles to making changes is the belief that natural

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“You can’t ‘go go go’ indefinitely or you’ll burn out—and then what happens?

So taking care of your home and your children means paying attention to your own health, too.”

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chronic illnesses are caused by environmental exposure, and conditions like Type 2 diabetes and obesity have direct links to socioeconomic levels.

“There is an epidemic of chronic illness in children in what is supposed to be the most advanced country in the world,” says activist and advocate Kim Spencer, who has worked with over 300 families with sick kids, many of them with special needs.

“Something is not right.”

While many follow traditional medical advice that can include a pharmacopeia of expensive pills and an ensuing laundry list of unfortunate side effects, Spencer is part of the fast-growing movement to help parents reverse and prevent chronic illness in their kids through education, diet, and conscious consumerism.

“As an advocate, I get calls all the time from parents struggling with how to manage tantrums or what to feed a kid who’s allergic to dairy,” says Spencer.

“Last fall I got so many that I knew we had to do something local and get all those resources in one room.”

products are more expensive. She’s prepared to share her recommendations of affordable products vetted by the Environmental Working Group as well as her recipes for homemade soaps and cleaning supplies. But she says that simply getting rid of chemical air fresheners and swapping out vinegar for formaldehyde-laden fabric softeners are instant money savers, allowing for more investment in the pricier stuff.

“Many people start at this first level and realize the value, so we’ll also take a deeper look at improving air and water quality in the home with plants and changing shower filters,” she adds with the caveat that even small changes make a difference.

“You can go all the way and change out your mattress and get a filter for the entire house, but this is about baby steps. Even just taking away one toxin can help.”

Other speakers include Dr. Sheryl Kaufman, a behavioral therapist and the former principal of the Park Lake School, a special needs public school based in Morris County, New Jersey. Through her practice Educational Journeys LLC, Dr.

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issues.

“These aren’t necessarily diseases— these conditions are caused by stress,” explains the mother of two.

“You can’t ‘go go go’ indefinitely or you’ll burn out—and then what happens? So taking care of your home and your children means paying attention to your own health, too.”

As with every speaker, Dr. Hargrove will provide the “how” along with the “what”— incorporating healthy practices at home takes patience and plenty of trial and error.

Organizer Spencer knows from experience, having raised a son with autism who is now in mainstream high school classes and holds down an after school job.

“We tried out tons of different things and some worked, some didn’t, but we kept trying and he improved,” she says.

“If someone as severe as our son could be helped with cleaning out the chemicals and making changes in his diet, then I believe anyone can.”

The statistics show that almost everyone knows a child affected by ADHD, autism or another condition on the chronic illness checklist, and Spencer vows that the information at Saturday’s conference is accessible enough to create positive change for all families.

“These strategies can benefit sick kids and keep the healthy ones healthy,” she says.

“Sometimes one or two tweaks can make all the difference in the world.” CS

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Kaufman has guided dozens of local families through techniques for better time management, resolving homework struggles and reinforcing social skills and has plenty of practical strategies for parents dealing with behavioral issues.

Rounding out the morning will be award-winning pediatrician Dr. Ramon Ramos sharing observations on healthy parenting choices gleaned from his 36-year career. After a midday break, Brighter Day founder and certified nutritional consultant Peter Brodhead takes the stage to provide an overview of the delicious basics of healthy eating and how families can kick processed foods to the curb.

While the focus of the expo is helping parents with their kids, there is a major emphasis on self-care: After all, caregivers have to stay strong and healthy themselves if they’re going to be the best advocates for their families. Throughout the day there will be yoga sessions and relaxing ionic footbaths provided by A Major Difference, plus informal time to chat with vendors and other participants.

“If you’re new to this, it can be a learning curve. I call it the ‘season’ where you’re taking on and implementing a bunch of new information,” counsels Dr. Tassie Hargrove of Holistic Wellness of Savannah, who will discuss the importance of adequate rest and proper nutrition for all parents, especially those dealing with their children’s health issues.

“I’m amazed at what mothers do for their kids, reading the research, changing the diets, but it can come at a cost if they’re not getting the sleep and support they need.”

In practice since 1999, Dr. Hargrove has seen an uptick in thyroid problems and hormonal imbalances in mothers that parallel the epidemic in childhood chronic

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WHEN I walk around Lake Mayer sometimes, I find myself asking, “What the hell is that noise?”

Every now and then, the tranquility of ducks and sailboats is interrupted by what sounds like bees swarming, along with an auctioneer’s voice, fast and rhythmic: “Up and over the triple there in the back, playing it smart, doing the single, single, single! Two-thirty now, two-thirty left to go, working the right side of the track now….”

I investigated the ruckus. And I’m here to report that its source, one of the nation’s oldest tracks for remote-controlled cars, is celebrating a milestone.

The Phil Hurd Raceway, along with its sponsor, the Savannah-Chatham Off-Road Racing Enthusiasts, or SCORE, is now 30 years old.

Guys – and it’s mostly men and boys – have been gathering around a clay track there since 1987 to race little cars, RC buggies, whatever. Just don’t call them toys!

“You got to work on them all the time,”

says Alex Gilmore, 77, who’s been with the group since the start. “You keep the fluids changed in it, like the shocks. You change the springs, pistons, the weight of the oil, all that has to do with the handling of the car.”

These guys are serious. During a recent winter race, a three-day affair which drew about 160 entrants from all over the Southeast, racers arrived with campers and trailers decked out as “car repair shops,” complete with heaters, tools and televisions.

“Do you see how cold it is out there?” asked Jermaine Hayes, racing a “oneeighth scale” car on the coldest night of the winter so far. “While you guys are out there freezing, I’m just in here chilling, waiting for my turn. I stay warm.”

I learned that one-eighth scale refers to a car’s size, “truggie” refers to a truck and buggy hybrid and “nitro” refers to a gas-powered car, as opposed to a batterypowered car.

The gas racers, by the way, operate in teams, just like NASCAR drivers, with a pit crew underneath the viewing platform, waiting for the car to come in for gas during the race.

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Remote-controlled cars fly over humps and around curves at the 30-year-old Phil Hurd Raceway at Lake Mayer.

I stood in the noisy pit with Sean Pressburg, 16, who explained part of the club’s appeal.

“You meet new people and make good friends,” he says. “Some of us aren’t out here necessarily to win. We’re just out here to have a good time.”

You could’ve fooled me in the pit, where crews work the fluids so fast, like a magician’s card trick. Patrick Rossiter was

clearly out to compete. He brought his oneeighth scale electric buggy, lithium polymer, four-cell “with brushless technology.”

“You’ve got to be focused, stay in the game and stay relaxed,” he says. “It’s all about precision and endurance.” Rossiter has worked at hobby shops where cars are sold.

Also making a living in remote-controlled cars, Lance McDonald is the

booming voice whose auction-like calls, artfully delivered, are heard all over the lake on race days.

A former car stereo shop owner from Lake City, Fla., he is now a race director for four different race groups. He handled 10,000+ entries in 44 events last year, almost weekly!

But his organizational experience is just one reason racers like him. His calls have

“personality.” “You have to tell jokes,” he says. “If you don’t tell jokes, you’ll have a bland program.”

His voice pierces the air when there’s a wreck. Yes, “the agony of defeat” happens from time to time, injuries to car parts only. That’s part of the fun of watching.

I’ll definitely be at their summer race.

It’s the only noise I’ll want interrupting my walk. CS

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What happens to stuff confiscated at security checkpoints?

On a recent trip to the White House gardens, I had to pass through TSA-type metal detectors. It was a spontaneous visit and I had my Leatherman multi-tool on my belt.

The Secret Service confiscated it and told me I wouldn’t be able to recover it after the tour.

What happens to all the items taken away at these checkpoints, or at the airports? —Peter YOU’RE lucky they let you in at all. While you might not find any mentions of climate change or civil rights on the official website of the executive branch, you will see this: “Individuals who arrive with prohibited items will not be permitted to enter the White House.”

In practice, as you learned, most absentmindedly armed visitors—as well as those bearing purses or bags, lotion, makeup, or other miscellaneous no-nos—can just hand the offending items over to the agents. But don’t expect to get a claim ticket.

The White House site again: “No storage facilities are available on or around the complex.” Surely there’s enough petty cash in the budget to spring for a locker or two (this is a regular online complaint from the sort of people who regularly complain online), but we’re talking about the federal government here, and rules are rules.

And rule number one is that government officials can’t return items handed over to them. That’s apparently just how it is.

The stuff is classified as “voluntarily abandoned property”—you may believe your Leatherman was confiscated, but as the government sees it, you volunteered to surrender the multi-tool, since you had the option to turn around and walk home with it instead.

The methods an agency may use to dispose of these lawfully gotten gains are prescribed by the General Services Administration, the bureaucrats in charge of bureaucracy. Their regs affect almost all Americans, because they apply not just to the White House guards, who few of us regularly encounter, but to some far

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more familiar confiscators: our handsy pals at the Transportation Security Administration.

Though TSA employees don’t get to keep your goodies themselves (despite common misconception), the agency is permitted to retain abandoned property if there’s some official use for it—except, as per statute, “large sedans and limousines,” which wouldn’t fit underneath your seat or in the overhead compartment anyway. A large portion of the TSA’s haul is slated for what the federal code calls “abandonment and destruction.”

Most of the more valuable stuff, though, goes up for sale. Federal agencies aren’t allowed to turn a profit on your abandoned goodies, but nothing prevents the state where the airport’s located from making a buck, and there’s a thriving secondary market for this plundered booty at staterun surplus stores.

The TSA gathers up their haul periodically and ships it out for resale, and there’s a quite a load to ship—the “property custodian” at Newark, for instance, visits ten sites and gathers up more than 100 pounds of stuff daily, maybe twice that on holidays.

Some states give cops and firefighters first dibs on the loot, but usually it goes straight to the shelves, or is sold online through private companies like Govdeals. com, which says its inventory comes from “8,500 government entities.”

And what are these shops and sites peddling? Well, they’re overstocked with Leathermans, along with kitchen knives, baseball bats (tip: neither the scaled-down wooden collectibles nor the Wiffle-ball variety are allowed onboard), and many, many pairs of scissors.

You might even find a samurai sword or a replica WWII-era German submachine gun—yes, people who walk among us have

tried to bring those on planes.

What you won’t find, even though plenty get seized at airport checkpoints, are actual, working guns. The TSA maintains a blog, presumably intended to make the not entirely beloved agency seem more upfront and friendly, and here they disclose their weekly weapons haul.

In one week this January, for instance, the TSA found 70 guns (63 loaded, 18 chambered), and that seems to be a fairly typical number. These get turned over to local law enforcement, who may destroy them or resell them as they see fit.

Each new TSA post contains boilerplate language gently chiding forgetful airportbound gun owners, but it doesn’t seem to be working. One starts to understand why those agents can act so testy.

Of course, the White House and the airport aren’t the only entry points where the feds diligently empty your pockets. A lot of crap, for instance, was confiscated—sorry, abandoned—at the entry to last month’s inauguration festivities.

As at many large-scale events, umbrellas were prohibited (leaving George W. Bush to don a poncho as best he could), but a BBC employee reported that his colleague had to surrender a banana; according to a McClatchy article, other impounded items included two cans of Chef Boyardee ravioli and a tin of sardines, which one volunteer suggested might wind up as lunch for event staffers.

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Officers “responded to a welfare check in the Chapel Lakes subdivision at approximately 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18.

Arriving officers attempting to contact the residents heard a loud noise and an impact to the front door which officers believed to be a gunshot,” police report today.

Several attempts to contact the residents were unsuccessful. “Due to the nature of the call, the SWAT Team and Hostage Negotiation Team (HNT) were called to the scene. Negotiators made phone contact with the male resident of the home. In addition to the male, a woman and her three children were inside the residence. The male would not allow the woman or children to leave,” police say.

After negotiations reached an impasse, a decision to enter the house was reached.

SWAT entered the residence rescued the hostages and arrested the suspect. No one was injured in the incident.

“The children and mother were taken to a local hospital to be checked. The male, 31-year-old Kevin Reevey, was charged with Aggravated Assault and Possession of Marijuana and was transported to CCDC,” police say. More charges could be pending.

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Double homicide in Yamacraw; third victim has serious injuries Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating a triple shooting that occurred in Yamacraw Village.

“Officers responded to a 911 call of a shooting in Yamacraw Village at approximately 10:28 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17. Upon arrival officers located a three shooting victims inside an apartment,” police say.

“Two of the victims were deceased, a third was suffering serious injuries. The third victim was transported to the hospital by ambulance.”

The deceased victims have been identified as Tori Plummer, 35, and Erick Lawrence, 25. The third victim is Dennis Harris, 27.

The shooting does not appear to be random, police say. Police add that drugs appear to be related. The suspect(s) fled

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17-year-old shot, killed

Police are investigating the homicide of 17-year-old Tristan Gray that occurred on Savannah’s Eastside.

“Officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the area of Pennsylvania Ave. and California Ave. at approximately 11:56 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16,” police say.

“Upon arrival officers located a shooting victim. The victim, 17, was transported to the hospital by ambulance where he succumbed to his injuries.”

The shooting does not appear to be random, police say, adding that “The suspect(s) fled before officers arrived.”

Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police ask for the community’s help identifying a suspect in a theft at a Parker’s on Wednesday, Feb. 8 Officers responded to the 7200 block of Abercorn Street about 12:30 a.m. Reportedly, a suspect entered the gas station, asking a store clerk for a carton of cigarettes.

“Once the clerk set the carton down, the suspect snatched the items and ran out of the store. The suspect possibly fled in a white Mitsubishi Eclipse. No injuries were reported,” police say.

Investigators believe this same person may be responsible for several other thefts of Newport cigarette cartons at Savannah convenience stores.

The suspect is described as a white male in his mid-20s to early 30s. He stands 5-7 to 5-9 and weighs approximately 140 pounds. During the incident, he wore a blue baseball cap with red wording, glasses, a grey pullover sweater and a red shirt underneath.

Any information regarding the suspect’s identity should be forwarded to the SCMPD tip line at (912) 525-3124.

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by Oakland’s KTVU. Liang Zhao Zhang out” with Bart, her pet python, when he cleared almost $58,000 in base pay and climbed into one of the lobes. She couldn’t $162,000 in overtime, and other benget him out, nor could firefighters, but with efits ran his total income to $271,243. He lubrication, hospital emergency workers worked at San Francisco’s Powell Street did (thus avoiding an inevitable split lobe if station, a hangout for the homeless, who Bart had kept squeezing his way through). notoriously sullied the station 24/7 -- Iraqi forces taking over an ISIS (urine, feces, and needles, especially), base in Mosul in January reported necessitating overtime hours that finding papers from at least 14 apparently only Zhang was interIslamic State “fighters” who ested in working. In one stretch had tried to claim “health” during July 2015, he pulled problems, asking commandOK fine, 17-hour days for two and a half ers to please excuse them from you can have real combat (and martyrdom). straight weeks. your license One (a Belgian man) actuWrong Place, Wrong Time ally brought a note from a An Abbotsford, British doctor back home attestColumbia, burglar was sucing to his “back pain.” Five cessful in his Feb. 7 breakof the 14 were initiated by in at a home, but his getaway volunteers from France, a was thwarted by a snowfall that country that endures a perhapsblocked him in on a roadway. He deserved national reputation for eventually decided to ask a passbattle-avoidance. erby for help -- and inadvertently picked out a man (of the city’s Government Action 140,000 residents) whose house Legislators in Iowa and he had just broken into (and who Florida recently advanced bills recognized him from reviewing giving women who receive legal his home’s security camera footabortions up to 10 years (or longer, in Iowa) age). The victim called police, who to sue the doctor if the abortion winds arrested the man (and reported that it was up causing them “emotional distress.” the second residential break-in that night (Doctors in all states are already liable, in which the snowfall had foiled a burglar’s of course, for actual “negligence” in their getaway.) practice.) In the Iowa version (which the Des Moines Register reported would likely face amendments), even a signed consent

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Higher Math: The first robots to have survived journeys close to the “core” of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan (which melted down in a 2011 earthquake) returned a reading of 530 “sieverts” per hour. (Some scientists label just 4 Sieverts an hour fatal to half the people exposed to it.) Since the robots stopped short of the actual nuclear fuel, and since they only visited one of the three cores, the true danger of Fukushima remains unknown.

Priests Gone Bad

-- Prominent Tallahassee, Florida, pastor O. Jermaine Simmons, a community leader who ministers to the homeless and downtrodden, was rescued by police on Jan. 17, naked and hiding behind a fence after making a run for it when the husband of his mistress found the two in bed.

The husband, screaming, “I’m gonna kill him,” ran for his handgun, and the mistress summoned police, but by Jan. 30, all involved had declined to press charges.

Simmons, married with a son, is highly regarded for good deeds such as running a “cold night” shelter.

-- The decidedly uncelibate Catholic priest Don Andrea Contin, 48, of Padua, Italy, was accused by three women in December of having as many as 30 different lovers over the years, organizing “orgies” on church property, visiting a “swingers’” resort in France several times, making pornographic home videos of his trysts, “encouraging” one woman to have

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BY ALAN SCULLEY BLUES-ROCKER Joe Bonamassa has made a habit of having a specific musical direction or theme in place before recording many of his solo albums.

For his current studio album, Blues of Desperation, the concept came from Bonamassa’s long-time producer Kevin Shirley, who wanted the album to feature Bonamassa on guitar, bass and—here’s the twist—two drummers.

Bonamassa tell us he wasn’t sold on the drummer format when Shirley presented it.

“You’d probably have to ask the two drummers, Greg (Morrow) and Anton (Fig), and they’d probably say the same thing. ‘We don’t think this is going to work, frankly,’” Bonamassa says.

“And I didn’t think it was going to work.

But Kevin has this thing, when he hears something and he knows how to put the right people in the room to achieve that, that you cannot discount that for one minute. That’s why he’s a great producer.”

The presence of two drummers on Blues of Desperation isn’t quite as apparent as it is, for instance, on Allman Brothers Band albums, where that group’s tandem of Butch Trucks and Jaimoe tended to play different, but complementary patterns.

There’s some of that approach on Blues of Desperation, but more often Morrow and Fig sync up more closely and the result is the fat rhythms on many of the album’s rockers. On “This Train,” the crackling drum track recalls the beat Aerosmith used on “Back in the Saddle.”

A couple of songs (“Mountain Climbing” and the title track) have the kind of thundering beats Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham brought to that band’s music. The rolling drums on “Distant Lonesome Train” give the song a cool tribal blues feel.

“Well, the Allmans, that’s a different thing altogether,” Bonamassa says of the rhythmic approach of the new album.

“That’s more of a soup, where the way we approached this was two separate parts making one beat. And if you play each part ala carte, it would almost sound disjointed and not like drums. But when you come with the two parts, and you have a straight versus a swing, I mean, that’s when it really, no pun intended, that’s when it really starts to swing.”

The potent rhythms are a selling point on Blues of Desperation, but so are the meaty guitar riffs and leads and vocal melodies that turn tunes like “This Train,” “Mountain Climbing” (with its great

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The use of only bass and drums also brings out the best in Bonamassa, one of rock’s most acclaimed guitarists.

“These guys know the structures and they know what songs and what they don’t need.

I’m a riff guy. I know how to make bluesrock. So it’s the marriage of the two.”

Bonamassa is showcasing a good chunk of Blues of Desperation on his current spring tour. He using just one drummer live (Fig), but along with Michael Rhodes on bass, has added keyboards (Reese Wynans, formerly of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble), trumpet (Lee Thornburg) and saxophone (Paulie Cerra).

“Yeah, the shows have been going great,” Bonamassa says.“We’re doing a lot of stuff on the new album. We’re doing some stuff from the new album, some stuff from the old albums and all points in between.”

Touring is far from the only activity on Bonamassa’s agenda in the coming months—no surprise for this prolific artist who has released a steady string of live DVDs to go with his studio albums and done several side band and collaborative projects along with his own albums.

A CD/DVD set, Live at the Greek Theatre, was­released last year. According to Bonamassa, a show recorded on the 2015 “3 Kings” tour in which the guitarist honored B.B. King, Albert King and Freddie King with a show made up of songs by those three blues legends is also going to get released. “I’ve seen the DVD and it’s awesome,” Bonamassa says.

He also plans to release a DVD of his acoustic full band shows from 2015 at New York City’s Carnegie Hall.

“I think it’s going to come out probably (this year),” Bonamassa says. “You know, it’s just a documentation of a very special couple of nights and very special band.”

Also on the schedule is a fourth studio album with his supergroup, Black Country Communion. The project will come as a surprise to many fans of the group, which also includes former Deep Purple bassist Glenn Hughes, drummer Jason Bonham and Dream Theater keyboardist Derek Sherinian.

In 2012, it appeared Black Country Communion was finished after Bonamassa and Hughes got into a spat over the amount of time that would be devoted to the group.

Bonamassa didn’t address any specifics on the subject, only to say that issues that existed have been resolved.

“Yeah, it’s all good,” Bonamassa says. CS

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descending signature riff) and the notably bluesy, string-accented “No Good Place For The Lonely” into standout rockers.

The album also features several firstrate ballads in “How Deep This River Runs” (which has an epic feel), the ghostly “Drive” and the more acoustic and soulful “The Valley Runs Low.” The use of only bass and drums also brings out the best in Bonamassa, one of rock’s most acclaimed guitarists. He has plenty of room to work and not only does he deliver attention getting riffs, he builds extended solos into several songs (“No Good Place for the Lonely,” “Distant Lonesome Train”) that build tension and drama and seem far more crafted than they actually were.

Instead, much of the music—including the solos—was recorded spontaneously live off the floor.

“All of those were pretty much cut as they appeared,” Bonamassa said. “Some of the solos are first takes. Everything was just kind of it as it happened.”

The songs on Blues of Desperation suggest Bonamassa is doing some of the best songwriting in a career that now stretches back more than 25 years to when the Utica, New York native arrived on the scene as a pre-teen guitar prodigy playing some 20 shows with B.B. King by the time he was all of 12 years old.

But the real coming out party for Bonamassa, 39, came in 1995, as a featured member of the band Bloodline. That group, though, broke up after one album, and Bonamassa launched his solo career.

His first significant impact came with his sixth album, 2007’s Sloe Gin. The title song of that remains a cornerstone in Bonamassa’s catalog.

He has followed the Sloe Gin album with seven more studio albums, including such well received titles as The Ballad of John Henry (2009), Black Rock (2010) and Driving Towards the Daylight (2012).

But where Bonamassa, up to that point, included a good number of covers on most of his albums, he has focused on all-original material on Blues of Desperation and his 2014 album Different Shades of Blue.

And after writing his original songs on his own, these two most recent albums have seen him co-write with several seasoned tunesmiths, including James House, Jeffrey Steele and Jerry Flowers.

Bonamassa said the skills of his co-writers nicely complement his strengths as a songwriter.

“Well, these guys are song guys,” he says.

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THE ORIGINAL OC surf-punks Agent Orange returns with The Queers, Guttermouth, and The Atom Age

were fusing a style of their own on the East Coast. Born out of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Joe King (Joe Queer), Scott IT’S A PUNK rock bill for the ages.

Gildersleeve (Tulu) and Jack Agent Orange, The Queers and GutHayes (Wimpy Rutherford) and termouth have all performed in SavanKeith Hages honed a Ramonesnah individually over the years, but the influenced style of melodic popstacked touring bill is a first for our area. punk (so heavily influenced that Agent Orange came onto the scene in the band covered the seminal Fullerton, California in the late 1970s.

Ramones album Rocket to Russia range.

Agent O Formed by vocalist/guitarist Mike Palm, in full and released it in 1998) that bassist James Levesque, and drummer found vocal inspiration in the meloScott Miller, the band fused punk rock dies and harmonies of The Beach with surf influences and shades of heavy Boys. metal.

The band’s gone through a couple The trio broke out with “Bloodstains,” of breakups and lineup changes— a tightly-wound throat punch of a song. currently, King is the only remaining With a surf rock drum beat, Venturesoriginal member—but still dishes style guitar riffage, and a chorus built for out hits like “Punk Rock Girls” and cheering along—“Bloodstains! Speed kills! “Fuck the World” on the road.

Fast cars! Cheap thrills! Rich girls! Fine Of the four bands on the bill, wine!”—it would become the band’s defini- Guttermouth has most recently tive track. released new material. The Cali“Bloodstains” appeared on Agent fornia band, formed in 1988 by Orange’s self-released 7” debut in 1980 and vocalist Mark “Mercury” Adkins, eventually landed in the hands of Rodney guitarists Derek Davis and Scott Bingenheimer, a DJ at KROQ-FM. The Sheldon, bassist Clint Weinrich influential disc jockey added the track to (later replaced by Stever Rapp), and his 1980 compilation album Rodney on drummer Captain James T. Nunn, the ROQ, released on Posh Boy Records. released their first recordings in 10 Released among SoCal’s bustling hardcore years in 2016: “Got It Made” and scene, Agent Orange became a local favor- “New Car Smell.” The sounds may ite among skater punks. be new, but they hearken the ‘90s That’s just how The Jinx’s Gil Cruz, who sound the skate-punk goofballs booked the show, discovered the band. solidified 20 years ago.

The Atom Age. “I think I first heard them because they Rounding out the bill is The came free with a Thrasher Magazine subAtom Age, representing a new scription—they used to put out cassette generation of Cali punk rock. Formed in tapes,” he remembers. “Growing up, I 2008 in Oakland, the band found early For Cruz, being a fan and booking agent wasn’t really into punk rock, but one day influence in 1960s rock ‘n’ roll and R&B. has its perks. me and my buddy were skating and listenAfter years of touring and signing to “Three of my favorite punk bands are ing to Mötley Crüe. This dude comes up iconic DIY ska/punk label Asian Man playing The Jinx!” he grins. “For me, I and is like, ‘Listen to this.’ He gave us that Records, The Atom Age has honed a rolused to have to drive to Atlanta or Jacksontape. One side was Minor Threat and the licking sound with a six-member strong ville to see bands like Agent Orange. Now, other side was Agent Orange.” show. With two guitars, saxophone, organ, we can book them at The Jinx. It’s a very It was a gateway drug into punk rock for bass, and drums, it’s a dynamic perforfortunate job to have. It used to be there Cruz, who now books punk, rock ‘n’ roll, mance that’s earned them a well-deserved was no music in Savannah…[Jinx owner] and metal bands for a living. spot on a touring bill of seasoned pros.

Susanne [Guest Warnekros] and I used to “That was probably my downfall, for “I’m really excited for The Atom Age,” make road trips for show, and now, it’s just sure!” he jokes.

Cruz says. “They’re like Rocket From a six dollar cab ride.”

While Agent Orange was dominating The Crypt. And they wear eyepatches on Whether you’re a seasoned fan or have 20 the West Coast in the ‘80s, The Queers stage!” never seen the bands, Cruz encourages

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“Agent Orange, those dudes still shred, from the first time I ever saw them in my whole entire life to now,” he says. “It’s very rare that Savannah gets to see something this awesome.” CS

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The Fabulous Krewe of Equinox Orchestra Mardi Gras @TYBEE POST THEATER

National sensation and hometown favorites The Fabulous Equinox Orchestra are getting back to their roots! Louisiana natives Jeremy Davis and Clay Johnson will lead their dynamic band in a tribute to their home state tradition this weekend.

The party kicks off with a VIP Mardi Gras gala complete with complimentary cocktails, Cajun hors d’oeuvres, naturally, king cake. Attendees are encouraged to arrive in Mardi Gras fashion—purple, green, gold, or parade-ready costumes are welcome.

After the gala, head into the Theater to hear the best of the Great American Songbook as performed by the tremendously talented, always-entertaining Orchestra.

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A-Town Get Down Kickoff Party @SERVICE BREWING

It’s almost time to celebrate music and the arts at the annual A-Town Get Down, and the fest is throwing a party to get everyone in the spirit.

Service Brewing is a fitting spot for a kickoff bash—the festival has moved from its usual spot at the Charles H. Morris Center to Indian Street, just a couple blocks down from the local brewery. The A-Town crew has worked with the Savannah Department of Renewal Authority to create an artistic environment with food trucks, vendors, and even a shipping container entertainment area under the Talmadge Bridge for the big event on March 25. The kickoff takes place exactly one month prior to the festival.

While enjoying Service’s variety of brews ($12 for tasting and a tour), attendees will get a peek at what’s to come in March, plus live entertainment from Missionary Blues Band and Kim Michael Polote. Bring some cash for a raffle ($10 a ticket) for prizes like VIP tickets, group tickets, swag bags, posters, shirts, meet-and-greets with festival artists, and more. All proceeds from raffle sales go directly back into the community through art education programs in conjunction with Loop It Up Savannah.

Come hungry: the grill’s hot, and there will be meat and veggie options out on the Service patio for a suggested donation of just $5 a plate.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1-5 P.M., 21+

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Florida rockers The Groove Orient bring their experimental rock sound to Barrelhouse this Thursday. With deep grooves, jazz-inspired improvisation, and elements of funk, the band has become a favorite for jam band fans.

The band recently debuted a second EP, “Generation Y,” that continues to show off the technical chops and unpredictable arrangements of Orlando Weekly’s “Best Experimental Band” of 2014 and “Best Jazz Band” of 2015.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 10:30 P.M., FREE, 21+

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Whaleboat is dead, but a new project has risen from the three-piece shoegaze-inspired rock band’s ashes. Machine Dreams, a duo featuring Whaleboat songwriter, vocalist, guitarist and, at one point, bassist Brent Collins and Whaleboat drummer Sean Moloney picks up right where Whaleboat left off.

Collins always stood out for his knack for writing near-ethereal and dreamlike music, suspending the listener right before plunging into a wall of dense rhythm and heavy groove. His songs tend to be deeply melodic and catchy as hell while still having a refined air about them; the duo’s debut single “Soon” continues the tradition.

Machine Dreams is joined by Gainesville, Florida’s Time for the show. The experimental/future-pop project creates an immersive electronic experience.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 10 P.M., FREE, 21+

Faux Ferocious, Soft Option, Goth Brooks @EL-ROCKO LOUNGE

Faux Ferocious returns! Nashville’s rowdy and reckless punk ‘n’ rollers are heading back our way with their blend of garage and psych kicked up by fuzzy distortion walls and vocals.

Their debut album, Cloning the Rubicon, was released in 2016 to a slurry of praise and new fandom. Savannah last saw ‘em at The Jinx during Savannah Stopover; fans of Wavves, Ty Segall and Natural Child will be all about it.

The band’s on tour with The Soft Option, a Calgary, Alberta-based rock ‘n’ roll band.

Samford Justice of Breakers and Kewl will open the show with a set of country tunes performed under the moniker Goth Brooks.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 10 P.M., FREE, 21+

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WEDNESDAY 2.22

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.

LIVE MUSIC

Barrelhouse South VuDu Shakedown, 10 p.m.

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

Bayou Cafe Thomas Claxton, 9 p.m.

Boomy’s Eric Culberson Band, 10 p.m.

Casimir’s Lounge Cory Chambers, 7 p.m.

CO/Savannah Cocktail Company VuDu Cocktail Acoustic Open Mic Night, 7 p.m. coffee deli Acoustic Jam, 7 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge Sweet Megg and the Wayfarers, Happy Hour w/ Anders Thomsen, 6 p.m.

Five Oaks Taproom Eric Britt, 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar CC Witt, 7:30 p.m.

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Ray Tomasino, 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 Open Mic, 9 p.m.

DJ

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

The Jinx Live DJ, 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

Carnival Bar Theatre Downtown Delilahs w/ Love Bites Cabaret, 10 p.m.

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

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

FRIDAY 2.24 LIVE MUSIC

KARAOKE

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

Hercules Bar & Grill Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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

Mediterranean Tavern Karaoke hosted

by K-Rawk, 8 p.m.

Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

COMEDY

Totally Awesome Bar Weird Wednesdays Open Mic Comedy, 9 p.m.

DJ

Little Lucky’s DJ Mixx Masta Matao SEED Eco Lounge DJ Cesar, 10 p.m.

THURSDAY 2.23 LIVE MUSIC

Armstrong State University Beyond the Piano, 7:30 p.m.

Barrelhouse South The Groove Orient, 10:30 p.m.

Basil’s Pizza and Deli Lazaretto Creek, 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.

Casimir’s Lounge Cyril Durant, 7 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge Machine Dreams, Time, 10 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Danielle Hicks Duo,

CC Witt @JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR

The Lyn Avenue frontwoman performs a solo acoustic gig to brighten up your work week. Head to the cozy, upscale Jazz’d to escape into Witt’s memorable melodies and country refrains.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 7:30 P.M., FREE 7:30 p.m.

The Jinx Scaryoke, 10 p.m.

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

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

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

Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Eric Britt, 6 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Jon Lee’s Apparitions, 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry, 5 p.m.

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

The Wormhole Open Mic, 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.

KARAOKE

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, 9 p.m.

Flashback Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Jukebox Bar & Grill Karaoke & Throwback Jams, 8 p.m.

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

TRIVIA & GAMES

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

KARAOKE

Bay Street Blues Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Blueberry Hill Karaoke, 7 p.m.

The Islander Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Little Lucky’s Karaoke

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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.

Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Tubby’s Trivia, 7 p.m.

World of Beer Trivia, 7 p.m.

American Legion Ballroom One Small Voice: A Palette of Sound, 7 p.m.

Barrelhouse South The Movement w/ Ben Lewis and the Kind Dub, 7 p.m.

Basil’s Pizza and Deli Christy & Butch, 7 p.m.

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

Casimir’s Lounge Laiken Williams, 9 p.m., Tradewinds, 9 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge Faux Ferocious, Soft Option, Goth Brooks, 10 p.m.

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

Flashback Moss City Groove, 9 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar The Fundamentals, 9 p.m.

The Jinx The Woggles, COEDS, The Lipschitz, 10 p.m.

Jukebox Bar & Grill Outlaw Gypsy, 9 p.m.

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

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

Ruth’s Chris Steak House David Duckworth, 8 p.m.

Savannah’s Music City Bar and Grill Jack Love and the Woodside Way Band, Live Music Siciliano’s Tavern The Reverend’s Midnight Revival Songwriter Series ft. A.M. Rodriguez, 10 p.m.

Tijuana Flats Gary Strickland Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Jon Lee and the Hextones, 6 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Diana Rogers The Warehouse Epic Cycle, 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Thomas Claxton, Bill Hodgson, Super Deluxe, 5 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Clear Daze, 9:30 p.m.

The Wormhole The Go Rounds, 9 p.m.

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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.

The Islander Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Jukebox Bar & Grill Karaoke & Throwback Jams, 8 p.m.

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

Melody’s Coastal Cafe and Sandbar Cantina Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Rachael’s 1190 Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

COMEDY

The Savannah Civic Center Festival of Laughs w/ Mike Epps, Bruce Bruce, Rickey Smiley, 8 p.m.

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DJ

Southbound Brewing Company Laughs & Drafts, 7-10:30 p.m.

Club 309 West DJ Zay Congress Street Social Club DJ Basik Lee, 10 p.m.

Doubles Nightclub DJ Sam Diamond, 8 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge DJ D-Frost Hercules Bar & Grill DJ Little Lucky’s DJ Sweet Treat Melissa Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ C-Rok, 10 p.m.

Tree House DJ Phive Star

DJ

Doubles Nightclub DJ Sam Diamond, 8 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge DJ Precisa Little Lucky’s DJ Sweet Treat Melissa Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ Pieces, 10 p.m.

Tree House DJ Phive Star

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Abe’s on Lincoln DJ Doc Ock, 9 p.m.

Carnival Bar Theatre Downtown Delilahs w/ Love Bites Cabaret, 10 p.m.

Club One Drag Show

Carnival Bar Theatre Downtown Delilahs w/ Love Bites Cabaret, 9 & 11 p.m.

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

SUNDAY 2.26

SATURDAY 2.25

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

Bayou Cafe Don Coyer, 9 p.m.

Congress Street Social Club Voodoo Soup, 10:30 p.m.

Fannie’s on the Beach Christy Alan, 2 p.m.

Flashback Open Jam, 5 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Jason Bible, 7 p.m.

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Ben Keiser, 7 p.m.

The Olde Pink House Eddie Wilson Tybee Island Social Club Sunday Bluegrass Brunch, 12:30 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Thomas Claxton, 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry, Phantom Wingo, 1 p.m.

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

Barrelhouse South Charlie Fog Band, 10 p.m.

Basil’s Pizza and Deli Joe Jarka, 7:30 p.m.

Bayou Cafe Magic Rocks, 10:45 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.

Congress Street Social Club Eric Culberson, 10 p.m.

Flashback Luke Lander Band, 9 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar The Hextones, 9 p.m.

The Jinx Scott Kelly of Neurosis w/ Dead Oak, 10 p.m.

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

Lucas Theatre for the Arts Doo Wop with a Twist, 7:30 p.m.

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

Randy Wood Guitars Darin and Brooke Aldridge, 8 p.m.

Savannah’s Music City Bar and Grill Live Music, Sonic Shockwave Service Brewing A-Town Get Down Festival Countdown Kickoff, 1 p.m.

The Tybee Post Theater The Fabulous Krewe of Equinox’s Mardi Gras Bash, 7 p.m.

Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Lulu the Giant, 6 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Diana Rogers The Warehouse Rachael Shaner, Jubal Kane, 2 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Jason Courtenay Duo, Chuck Courtenay, Bill Hodgson, Bethany and the Southside Boys, 1 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Brandon Reeves, 9:30 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

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

KARAOKE

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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

DJ

Boomy’s DJ Basik Lee, 10 p.m.

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Exclusives Bar & Grille Open Mic Poetry Night, 7 p.m.

MONDAY 2.27 LIVE MUSIC

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

Bayou Cafe David Harbuck, 9 p.m.

Cohen’s Retreat Monday Munchies and Music, 5:30 p.m.

The Jinx Agent Orange, Guttermouth, The Queers, Atom Age, 8 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon

KARAOKE

Applebee’s Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Bay Street Blues Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Doodles Karaoke, 9 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

Blowin’ Smoke Southern Cantina Team Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

The Britannia British Pub Bingo, 8 p.m.

McDonough’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Bingo

KARAOKE

Boomy’s Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

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

Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

COMEDY

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Molly Mondays, 10:30 p.m.

DJ

The Jinx DJ Lucky Bastard, 10 p.m.

Little Lucky’s DJ Mixx Masta Matao SEED Eco Lounge DJ Pieces, 10 p.m.

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LIVE MUSIC

The Warehouse Jonathan Hill, 8 p.m.

The Wormhole Open Mic, 8 p.m., Open Mic, 6 p.m.

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Bayou Cafe Jam Night with Eric Culberson, 9 p.m.

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The Jinx Hip-Hop Night, 11 p.m.

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Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Open Mic The Sentient Bean Tongue: Open Mouth and Music Show hosted by Melanie Goldey, 8 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Hitman Blues Band, 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Chuck Courtenay, 5 p.m.

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CoCo’s Sunset Grille Trivia, 7 p.m.

Congress Street Social Club Trivia, 10 p.m.

Fia Rua Irish Pub Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

Mediterranean Tavern Battle of The Sexes Game, 9 p.m.

Mellow Mushroom Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

Savannah Taphouse Trivia, 7 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Trivia, 9 p.m.

The Wormhole Trivia, 10:30 p.m.

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Blueberry Hill Karaoke, 7 p.m.

Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m.

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

The Rail Pub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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‘Wundercamera: Savannah’ breaks the fourth wall between art and the art viewer

BY RACHAEL FLORA

FEB 22-28, 2017

rachael@connectsavannah.com

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THE RELATIONSHIP between a museum and its visitors has long been a point of fascination with artists.

“Photographers have always loved photographing museums,” says Klaus Wehner, the London-based artist behind “Wundercamera: Savannah.”

The Jepson Center’s latest exhibition, hanging now through May, presents all aspects of the museum experience, from guards watching over the artwork to the ephemeral nature of passing through the museum and everything in between.

Wehner, or “Museum Clausum,” as he titles his work, has brought a collection of twelve artists’ examinations of exhibition spaces, all photographs.

“This show really has two themes, photography and the museum,” explains Wehner. “The juxtaposition of these different approaches really also brings up how interpretive the camera is.”

This is Wundercamera’s third round, the first two taking place at Pitzhanger Manor Gallery and House and at the Manchester Metropolitan University’s Holden Gallery. Wehner chose the Jepson because of its link to a historic house, the Telfair Academy.

Much of Wehner’s inspiration comes from the Soane Museum in London, which was originally Sir John Soane’s home before being converted into a museum.

For his museology project, Wehner photographed both the Soane Museum and the Owens-Thomas House in Savannah, noting that since Soane was inspired by the designs of William Jay, there are many architectural similarities between the two spaces.

“There’s always this effect that if you take a photograph of a true historic location, the photograph looks like an old photo. There’s this element of time I’m playing with,” Wehner muses.

The passage of time is a major theme in this show. The two videos in the gallery are of a time-lapse video of people in the Soane and a compilation of clips that are put together to look like a live CCTV feed.

Wehner’s photography from the Soane creates a restricted feeling—the camera peeks around corners and through posts to see the artwork. His work at the Telfair and the Owens-Thomas House uses a long exposure to show how people pass through the spaces.

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“Mummy Masks,” from Andy Freeberg’s “Guardians.”

Matthew Pillsbury also works in long exposure photography to show the movement around the Louvre Museum in France, creating a hectic scene around the Mona Lisa that Wehner estimates had an exposure time of about fifteen seconds.

Wundercamera also plays with the truth of photography.

“It’s questioning the veracity of photography, just a total kind of questioning of photographic truth,” Wehner says.

Richard Ross’ photographs from his “Museology” collection show stuffed animals in storage at various museums, like a rhino enclosed in a glass case at the Field Museum in Chicago, or parrots covered in tarps at the Museum National D’Histoire Naturelle in Paris.

“Here this project makes the most obvious what is happening in the whole exhibition,” Wehner says. “The museum, which is usually the active observer, becomes the

passive object of observation and of collection. He focuses on the things that are wrong; these are stored and covered.”

Wehner’s fascination with museums has been years in the making, but Wundercamera didn’t begin until he started his practice-based Ph.D. in England and did his project on museums.

“When I finished, I realized, I have all this research. This has to be an exhibition,” he remembers.

“I think museums are very important kinds of spaces,” he says. “They are, so to speak, preserving history, telling history.

But this whole discipline of museology in academia has really also examined and deconstructed this and is showing that museums are very subjective, of course, in the history they present.” CS ‘WUNDERKIND: CAMERA’ IS AT THE JEPSON CENTER THROUGH MAY.

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“I travel the planet, I’ve just come from many countries and the United States anna@connectsavannah.com where 51% of the population has vaginas and aren’t able to have agency over those BEFORE a thousand knitting needles vaginas. We know that one out of every started clacking in the creation of pink three women will be raped or beaten in her pussy hats, before the world had heard of A lifetime – so we know we have a long way to Day Without a Woman, before presidential go before vaginas are liberated.” candidates were dismissing sexual assault Over the years, the Monologues have as “locker room talk” on national TV, one been produced locally by SCAD, Armproduction put vaginas centerstage. strong, and The Bay Street Theatre, and Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues 2017’s directors JinHi Soucy Rand and Valdebuted in 1996 after Ensler interviewed a erie America Lavelle are excited to bring 200 women about their views on sex, relait back. tionships, and violence against women.

“I think the urge to talk about vaginas The conversations transformed into a and how we’re feeling is certainly stronger show featuring a variety of women speak than ever,” says Lavelle. “The pieces are frankly and openly about their experiences so timeless because they’re really almost discovering, exploring, reclaiming, and poetic.” living with vaginas.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, It’s a piece about agency, about educathe need for the Monologues’ return was tion, about a near-spiritual experience of quite prevalent to Rand. discovering and embracing oneself with “We had decided that we would produce power, humor, tenderness, and pride. the show before we were aware of who the Today, it still shocks and delights, as rel- president would be,” she shares. “But durevant as it was 21 years ago. ing the campaign season, the current pres“I would like to believe that the play is ident brought the subject up through his outdated and irrelevant but sadly it isn’t,” life and lifestyle, and I like to think that’s Ensler told The Guardian last year. the main point about the show itself: ‘Let’s

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cut to the chase. You want to talk about vaginas? Let’s talk about vaginas!’ The acceptance, encouragement and tolerance for violence against people who identify themselves as women in the world is absurd and the statistics have not gone down by much.”

The Vagina Monologues is always performed in the month of February in conjunction with V-Day, a movement created by Ensler to end violence against women and girls.

Representatives from Savannah’s own Rape Crisis Center of the Coastal Empire will be at both performances to share their mission, and local artists and vendors will be on-site peddling their wares with a portion of proceeds going to the organization.

A branch of Agape Empowerment Ministries will also collect feminine sanitary products to distribute to homeless women in Savannah.

“This year, we have at least a 16-person cast and we have more members of the cast that have never done it,” says Rand. “Some have never even seen it, and a lot of our cast members are not from the theatre community—they’re

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The Vagina Monologues returns to Bay Street Theatre

from other walks of life and professions.”

(Full disclosure: The author is performing a role in the ensemble.)

In its 21 years, The Vagina Monologues has grown, bringing new voices into the fold. In 2005, Ensler added “They Beat the Girl Out of My Boy,” a piece written from the perspective of a trans woman. Travis Coles took on the role in a Bay Street Theatre production some years ago.

“We had reached out to the trans community and couldn’t find anyone at the time who could perform the piece, but I thought it was important to include it,” Coles says. “You gotta be careful with it as an actor—you’re trying to avoid doing a caricature of it to do the genuineness of the monologue. And that one is, toward the end, kind of scary. It was important to include that monologue, especially in that period of time as trans rights have come more to the forefront.”

Performing that year was Coles’ first exposure to The Vagina Monologues.

“It honestly gave me more of an understanding of the trans community because even though I’m a gay man, until I was 21, I’d never met someone who was trans. And now that I’ve known many, many more people, it gives me more of an understanding and appreciation.”

When Lavelle first experienced the show at SCAD, she found a sense of connection.

“The first time I saw it, I remember saying in my head, ‘Oh thank God someone else is thinking these things that I’m thinking, too!’” she says.

Lauren Schwan is one of several actors who has never seen the show; at first, the vivid text was a shock.

“I was reading the script lying in bed alone, terrified,” she laughs. “It’s amazing, the power of bringing people together in a show like this—you’re not the only one who feels that way or felt that way, and now you’re finally speaking it out loud.”

“It’s so taboo that it feels good,” Rand says. “Most people will get certain revelations from performing in these or coming to be a part of the audience.”

“I think these monologues need to continue the conversation,” she adds. “These are real life experiences. I feel like even saying The Vagina Monologues, sometimes just the words make somebody uncomfortable—[it’s] taking a lot of the anger and sadness and a lot of the awkwardness and making something artistic out of it that we’re lucky enough to present. And the purpose, I think, is to make people more comfortable talking about vaginas.” CS

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ENSLAVEMENT TO EMANCIPATION: THE STRUGGLE FOR EDUCATION — The exhibit traces Savannah’s African American education history from the nineteenth century clandestine schools until the early sixties when schools were integrated. From 5:00 to 6:30, tour guides will provide walking tours that focus on Savannah’s African American History. Advance booking required. This will be followed by exhibit ceremony and presentation by Chief Ulysses Bryant at 6.30 pm.

Thu., Feb. 23, 5 p.m. Massie Heritage Center, 207 East Gordon St. ABRAHAM BROWN — Brown’s work is an assemblage of different media and subject matter. Reception Feb. 24, 6-8 p.m. Through March 1. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St.

CONTINUING EXHIBITS ABSTRACT MEETS REAL — Come experience the diametrically opposed styles battling to achieve the message. Through March 5. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. ALT-AI — Telfair features selections from Alt-AI, an exhibition that explores artificial intelligence and machine learning through art. Presented works at Telfair include Gene Kogan’s “Cubist Mirror,” which transforms the viewer’s image into the style of a cubist painting, as well as Melanie Hoff and Druv Mehrotra’s “Dopplecam,” an app that matches your photograph with an image pulled from the Internet. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St. ARTCADE — Featured works include Londonbased Robin Baumgarten’s ingenious, internationally-exhibited “Line Wobbler,” an abstract dungeon crawler game played with a spring controller and a 15-foot-long LED strip.

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DEFINE ART STUDENT SHOWCASE AND OVERSATURATED — This year will feature jury selected works from painting, printmaking and photography on the second floor and “Oversaturated”, curated by Ben Tollefson, on the first floor. Through Feb. 24. Alexander Hall Gallery, 668 Indian St. 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.

Work by Abraham Brown is featured at Gallery Espresso, with a reception this Friday evening.

LOW COUNTRY CALLINGS: GOIN’ WITH THE FLOW — This exhibition of large-format acrylics by Carol Lasell Miller comprises a narrative of Savannah’s maritime community in portraiture, with vital and vivid almost-lifesize portrayals of those who live and work here on our waterways. Through April 2. shipsofthesea.org. Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.

NANCY LEBEY SOLANA — Nancy Lebey Solana’s watercolors are in honor of her father, Clifford, who spent the last six weeks of his life in Hospice House. Through March 31. hospicesavannah.org/. Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. NEW BEGINNING YOUTH EXHIBIT — Each year, The Links organization partners with the Savannah Black Heritage Festival to expand and increase art activity. Over 200 entries were received from eight middle schools and six high schools based on the 2017 Black Heritage Festival theme “Focusing on the Future: Acknowledging Echoes from the Past”.

Artwork mediums include watercolor, acrylic, oil, mixed media, clay and fibers. Through Feb. 24. Cultural Arts Gallery, 9 W. Henry St. NICK CAVE — This exhibition of Nick Cave’s work is the largest ever presented in Georgia, including work shown in the Southeast for the first time. Jepson Center, 207 W York St. 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, 121 Barnard St. RE-EMBODIED: FROM INFORMATION TO SCULPTURE — Featuring Heather DeweyHagborg’s unnerving portrait sculptures based on DNA information extracted from

materials that people leave behind, like chewing gum or hair. Courtney Brown and Sharif Razzaque’s “RAWR! A Study in Sonic Skulls” builds upon scans of a hadrosaur to create a sculpture that allows participants to recreate the sounds of an extinct creature. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. RECONSTRUCTING THE NARRATIVE: ILLUMINATING SAVANNAH’S CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY — Using archival and historical photographs from the Jim Crow era and the Civil Rights Movement in Savannah preserved in the W. W. Law Collection, Trice Megginson rephotographed the original, depicted locations. The historical images are then pinned onto the contemporary views.

Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

SIP: A CERAMIC CUP SHOW — This year’s exhibition features over 200 functional, handmade ceramic mugs, yunomi and more from clay artists across the nation. Through Feb. 24. Non-Fiction Gallery, 1522 Bull St. THE STORYTELLER RETURNS: PRINTS

BY ELMER RAMOS — The work in this show is process driven, and equal parts monoprint, screenprint, drawing, and collage. Consisting of shapes that bridge the divide between representational and nonrepresentational—a distinction unique to each viewer—to form a concise yet ambiguous narrative. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. WUNDERCAMERA: SAVANNAH — Exploring the often funny, strange, and intimate relationships between audiences and art, the works in Wundercamera: Savannah focus on different aspects of museum and gallery culture, all interpreted through the lenses of contemporary photographers. Through May 14. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

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DEFENDING the Cookie Title

The Girl Scouts’ famous treats inspire sweet competition jll@connectsavannah.com

EXACTLY 100 years ago, Girl Scouts of America founder Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low heralded another brilliant idea.

The forward-thinking Savannahian had already established her pioneer organization for young women five years before, and it was time to raise some funds.

The troops began peddling cute packets of homemade cookies locally to help pay for their outings and activities, eventually recruiting the city’s popular Gottlieb’s Bakery to keep up with demand when sales went national in 1936.

Girl Scout cookies now pull in more than $800 million a year, and the girls in green continue to forge Daisy Low’s mission of independence and civic leadership by

tapping America in the sweet tooth.

“When you buy Girl Scout Cookies, you’re supporting life-changing experiences for girls and providing a way for them to learn business literacy, leadership skills, to travel, go to camp and learn the value of community service,” says Sue Else, CEO of Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia.

Buying a few boxes (or, er, cases) of Thin Mints and Samoas every year is an enduring tradition, and local chefs take it even further during National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend, taking place Feb. 24-26.

The “ful-crumb” (tee hee!) of the celebration is the culinary competition, when area restaurants and bakeries offer

“When you buy Girl Scout Cookies, you’re supporting life-changing experiences for girls and providing a way for them to learn business literacy, leadership skills, to travel, go to camp and learn the value of community service.”

up their most creative and delicious takes on recipes using at least one of the seven varieties of Girl Scout Cookies. New to the contest this year are the graham cracker marshmallow S’Mores as well as separate categories for full-service restaurants and specialty spots like ice cream shops and restaurants.

Over a dozen establishments have signed on and will feature the confections on their menus throughout the week, and the winners will be determined by a combination of public vote and scores doled out by a panel of local foodie experts, including Chef Jean Vendeville of Savannah Tech’s award-winning culinary program, Jeff Hewitt of Visit Savannah and Steve Parnell of Little Brownie Bakers, the company that produces the Girl Scouts’ famous treats.

Whether the chocolatey-peanut butter flavors of the ever-popular Tagalongs will

Savannah Coffee Roasters’ Lori Collins (center) was presented the trophy for the Girl Scout Cookie Culinary Competition last year by the Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia CEO Sue Else (left) and intends to defend the sweet title. PHOTO COURTESY OF GSHG

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seduce the most palates or if the judges favor the lemony delicacy of Savannah Smiles is anyone’s guess.

Savannah Coffee Roasters took home the trophy with its Trefoil-layered iced tiramisu in 2016, and the reigning champ intends to defend the title.

“We are definitely in it to win again this year,” avows owner and executive chef Lori Collins, who oversees the spacious café and bakery on Liberty as well as a new location in the Design Center shops at the corner of Waters and Mall Blvd.

In spite of her appreciation for complex flavors, Collins gravitated to the understated Trefoils for last year’s entry, alternating the shortbread cookies with layers of Kahlua-infused marscapone, then blanketing the confection with ganache and serving it with cream coffee sauce and chocolate-covered coffee beans.

“I wanted to use something that didn’t necessarily have a dominating flavor,” explains the third-generation pastry chef who has continued to serve a version of the recipe in the café ever since.

“The cookies melted nicely into the dessert—it was perfect!”

Savannah Coffee Roasters qualifies as both a restaurant and a bakery, and Collins and her chefs will enter both categories with a couple of tasty innovations that will hold up to the plate. “That’s what I’ve been thinking about this second year, that it has to be served easily,” she notes.

Though she admits to getting caught up in the hype of the new S’Mores—“I love the idea of them, it’s so Southern”—she hints that she’s been feeling more influenced by the desserts of her native Australia.

“We’re doing something completely different this year. It won’t be anything anyone has ever seen. I can’t give any more clues but it’s divine!”

Taking part in the Girl Scout cookie contest not only feeds Collins’ competitive side but nourishes her passion for women’s rights.

“I think the Girl Scouts organization is a wonderful part of Savannah and America,” says the businesswoman, who participated

in the Scout-like group St. John’s Ambulance as a girl in Australia.

“Empowering women is so important, particularly from a young age.”

Collins is committed to doing her part to further Daisy Low’s legacy of leadership and hopes her cookie contest recipes endure as long as the tradition itself.

“I don’t want to do a novelty. I want to make things that people want to eat,” says the cookie boss, adding with a laugh, “I take dessert very seriously.” CS Eat your way through Girl Scout Cookie Weekend at these participating restaurants, then vote for your favorite at gshg.org: Barracuda Bob’s Pirates House Cotton & Rye Corleone’s 700 Drayton @ the Mansion Papa’s Barbeque & Seafood Savannah Coffee Roasters Boomy’s 40 East Grill (Statesboro) Flashback (Richmond Hill) Leopold’s Ice Cream Ordinary Pub River House Seafood The Shrimp Factory

FOOD & DRINK COMMON CONNOISSEUR

Good Greens: Eat better, not less

Owner Kelly Grenchik wanted to show people that “real food can be satisfying and still be good for you”

Wilmington Island shop offers healthy food to-go and for delivery

LET’S BE honest, healthy food does not always have a good rep. People think that being health-conscious means their stomachs will perpetually growl and their choices are limited.

Even for those striving to eat better, clean eating may be considered a chore.

Preparing fresh and whole ingredients is truly time consuming.

On top of that, we all have places to be and not enough time to get there. It’s definitely easier to grab food at a drivethrough than cook it at home.

So listen up: If you are always on the go and determined to eat healthy, Good Greens was created just for you.

CONTINUES ON P. 34 Owner Kelly Grenchik wanted to show people that wholesome eating it’s not about eating less or dieting. “Real food can be satisfying and still be good for you.”

“The bottom line is, people are busy.

Everything is to go. That is why fast food is so popular.” So Grenchik established Good Greens, in June 2016, to provide fast food that is in fact good for you.

“I wanted it to be convenient and fast so it is not a hassle to eat healthy.”

Grenchik and her husband have always been self-proclaimed foodies. After spending years in the corporate world, working a full-time job, she decided that it was time for a career change.

As someone who is extremely healthconscious, Grenchik chose to establish Good Greens as a way to educate the community and supply nutritious food that is accessible to everyone. As a business owner, she also had the bonus of setting her own hours, thus providing a healthy work/life balance.

Good Greens is one of those Savannah gems that you may not find unless you are looking. It is located on Wilmington Island, on the right side of the Mercer Plaza, facing the CVS drive-through, across the street.

Green railings and a simple black awning, displaying the company name and logo, border the door that says, “Healthy fare to go.”

Grenchik established Good Greens, in June 2016, to provide fast food that is in fact good for you.

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Grenchik looked downtown for spaces, however, she ultimately chose her current space on the Islands. “I have lived on the Island for about 15 years. It is a great small community with an intimate setting,” she says.

The Good Greens space is about 400 square feet and is primarily a kitchen with one high-top table and stools. Positive affirmation quotes, like “you can never have too much happy,” are scattered about the walls.

A hand-written menu, that changes weekly, is also posted. The bright space is truly set up for the convenience of stopping in and grabbing something healthy on the fly.

Good Greens offers fresh leafy greens, whole grains, seasonal farm-fresh vegetables, organic proteins, homemade dressings, handmade sweet treats and

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scratch-made soups. Each item is prepared

by Grenchik daily and packaged in recyclable containers, ready to go when customers stop by.

Grenchik aims to incorporate different textures like crunchy, creamy, and chewy into her salad mixtures.

She found that it was important to choose petite dark leafy greens, like baby kale, rather than water-based lettuces, like iceberg, as they are more filling.

We have all had a leftover salad that gets soggy by the time we bring it home. However, with specific leafy greens, grains and dressing on the side, a Good Greens salad is made to last 3-4 days in the refrigerator.

This allows for much more flexibility and convenience than typical salads.

The educational aspect of the business is the most rewarding for Grenchik. “It’s been fun teaching people how to build a good salad.”

As a way to disseminate her knowledge to customers, Grenchik offers recipe cards for homemade dressings and salads. “It’s all about sharing information,” she says.

We all recognize that knowledge is power and showing people how to make nutritious food at home is a great way to build a healthy community.

She also mentions that some of her customers have never heard of grains like

So listen up; if you are always on the go and determined to eat healthy, Good Greens was created just for you. quinoa or never tried leafy greens like kale.

For them, Grenchik says, “Just put your fork in it, you will like it!”

She has certainly turned picky-eating skeptics into health-food believers.

As a “quantity eater,” Grenchik wants patrons to know that they are getting a lot of bang for their buck. While the salads are between $10-12 each, the portions are generous and she encourages people to split them in half.

Each salad is garnished with fine ingredients like organic chicken and Atlanta goat cheese as well as farm fresh fruits and veggies. Grenchik always offers a variety of seasonal fare, with vegan and vegetarian options.

When I stopped in to grab my salads, I was delighted to see that Grenchik was wearing yoga pants and sneakers just like me. It was a testament that she not only understands someone, like me, who is constantly on the go, but she is in fact on the go herself.

REALLY GOOD PIZZA

After having a pleasant chat about Good Greens’ cheerful space, Grenchik reached inside a refrigerator and handed me a few clear containers with spicy corn and black bean salad, bulgur with chickpeas and a cashew energy bite.

I was also given a rectangular cardboard box with a Good Green staple inside, the Harvest Bowl. Each item was available instantly and I brought everything home in a hand stamped Good Greens paper bag.

The bulgur salad with chickpeas had cucumber, fresh dill, lemon, red onion, pepper and olive oil. The dill, an under-utilized herb in my opinion, provided a bright vibrancy that complimented the chewy and tender grain.

The corn and black bean salad had a spicy and refreshing zest. It was made with fresh ingredients like onion, pepper, corn, black beans, and cilantro with a chipotle sauce. My husband and I shared it and I took the leftovers to work the next day.

The showstopper was the Harvest Bowl,

made with kale, spinach, quinoa, roasted sweet potatoes, apple slices, dried cranberries, walnuts, goat cheese and homemade balsamic vinaigrette.

The salad’s ingredients were layered on top of the lettuce, instead of mixed together, to ensure maximum freshness.

Dessert was a moist cashew bite, sweetened with date and combined with cashews, cashew butter, cinnamon, lemon zest and sea salt. It was an appealing nugget, delicately sweet with tings of salt.

Quite honestly, I want the recipe because it satisfied my sweet tooth while adhering to my diet.

So here’s the deal, although grabbing something fresh and healthy on-the-go is beneficial, Grenchik offers delivery to those that can’t make the trip to Good Greens. She will personally deliver to any place downtown, mid-town and the Islands, with one day’s notice.

Furthermore, Beetnix carries Good Greens’ salads in their refrigerated section. So there is no excuse to not eat healthy!

In the future, Grenchik plans to join the Savannah Food Truck movement and why not, she already has the commissary!

The “eat better, not less” campaign is sweeping our nation. Good Greens is on board, are you? CS

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Beyond the grotesque miscasting of Damon, The Great Wall proves to be a spectacularly stupid movie.

THE GREAT WALL

/ Perhaps not since Roman centurion John Wayne ambled up to Jesus on the cross in The Greatest Story Ever Told has an American actor looked so uncomfortably out of place as Matt Damon in The Great Wall.

Set in 11th century China, the film posits that an army of warriors has been tasked with protecting the nation—indeed, the world—against the monsters that periodically rise up and destroy everything in their path. As in Little Shop of Horrors, these so-called Taoties are mean green mothers from outer space, and as in Jeepers Creepers, they only awaken from their slumber at set intervals to wreak havoc.

The Chinese forces are comprised of nothing but brave warriors and smart generals, but even they’re helpless against these marauding monsters. But wait! Just when everything seems hopeless, along comes Matt Damon to save the day!

Hold on, you interject. An American in 11th century China? But of course, my sluggish friend! After all, The Great Wall is a co-production between the U.S. and China, and while it’s all well and good that it’s based on Chinese history and on Chinese legend (e.g. the Taoties), that just ain’t gonna sell in Butte, Montana, Biloxi, Mississippi or Bumfuck, Maryland.

So enter a Yankee doodle dandy in the form of Matt Damon, cast as a mercenary who ends up helping the Chinese help themselves.

Now, I imagine Damon isn’t supposed to be playing an American, but with that pronounced Boston accent, it’s impossible to accept him as anything but. Damon is one of those actors too stubbornly modern to convince in any period before the 20th century, and in The Great Wall, he seems as organic to the era as would a MacBook Pro. Beyond the grotesque miscasting of Damon, The Great Wall proves to be a spectacularly stupid movie, and it’s a shame to see the great Yimou Zhang attached to such shameless hucksterism. After all, the director’s 1991 Raise the Red Lantern

remains one of the great foreign-language imports of the past few decades, and other stellar credits include Ju Dou, Hero and To Live.

This new feature might as well be called To Sell Out: It boasts little of the lyricism of his past efforts, and the visual effects employed to bring the creatures to life are embarrassingly gaudy and unconvincing. The movie may already be a box office hit overseas, but all in all, it’s just another brick in the wall of cinematic stinkers.

FIST FIGHT

/ Aggressive in its insistence on being as awful as possible, this flagrantly unfunny film centers on the conflict brewing between two teachers at a high school where the students spend more time masturbating in the bathroom stalls and drawing penises on the blackboards than in cracking open textbooks. Mr. Strickland (Ice Cube) is the scariest teacher on the premises, while Andy Campbell (Charlie Day) is the wimpiest.

After Andy snitches on Strickland in regards to an altercation with a student (an ax was involved), the latter educator finds himself without a job. Angered, he challenges Andy to fisticuffs immediately after the school day ends.

The remainder of Fist Fight involves Andy doing everything in his power to get out of the fight, including bribing a student to lie about the ax blow incident and planting drugs in Strickland’s satchel.

Along the way, he receives poor advice from a fellow teacher (tedious Jillian Bell) who’s obsessed with sleeping with students and the coach (Tracy Morgan) who’s obsessed with sleeping with the students’ moms. Compounding Andy’s stress is the fact that his wife (JoAnna Garcia Swisher) is set to give birth at any moment and his daughter (Alexa Nisenson) has a musical competition that he simply cannot miss.

Ice Cube is a reliable screen presence, but he can do nothing with a film as utterly devoid of entertainment value as this one.

Day, generally an acquired taste anyway,

is insufferable as the whining teacher, and it’s hard not to root for Strickland to beat the living hell out of Andy. And when he’s through, maybe he can go after this rancid film’s creators as well.

FIFTY SHADES DARKER

/ There are at least 50 reasons why Fifty Shades Darker is almost every bit as awful as Fifty Shades of Grey, the 2015 box office smash that centered on the relationship between BDSM-lovin’ billionaire Christian Gray and mousy college student Anastasia Steele.

Based on the second book in E.L. James’ bestselling phenomenon, this one finds Ana (Dakota Johnson) now working at a Seattle publishing house and Christian (Jamie Dornan) attempting to woo her back into his life.

The major liabilities of the first picture have been neatly carried over into this latest endeavor, beginning with the fact that the general prudishness permeating throughout American society makes it impossible for Hollywood to produce an honest, provocative or explicit film about S-E-X and have it receive an R rating.

Therefore, like its predecessor (also R), this one will only titillate basement-dwelling fanboys who will illegally download it lest they be mocked for actually watching it and arouse bored suburban housewives who made the mistake of marrying dullards who are awful in bed.

It’s a vanilla picture that fancies itself daring and erotic, but as is par for the course in stateside flicks, the penises are kept sheathed while the boobies bounce all over the frame.

The casting of Johnson and Dornan also continues to hurt, as they have yet to muster any mutual chemistry.

Fifty Shades Darker attempts to add some narrative heft in the second half with an incident involving a wayward helicopter, but it’s a purely melodramatic device that brings to mind a lesser episode of Dallas, the sort in which Miss Ellie, Pam, J.R.

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and the rest of the Ewing clan anxiously await news regarding the whereabouts of Bobby.

On the show, it would probably make for a three-episode arc; here, it lasts all of 15 minutes, making its insertion especially pointless.

Some unintentional laughs help in getting through the rest of this mess. I love how circumstances—specifically, sexual harassment by a grab-‘em-by-the-pussy boss (Eric Johnson)—force Ana to get instantly promoted from book reader to fiction book editor, whereupon she attends a company meeting and schools the Luddites on the wonders of the Interwebs.

And I chuckled at seeing the poster for the Vin Diesel flop The Chronicles of Riddick hanging in Christian’s childhood bedroom. Granted, Universal Pictures is the studio behind both the Riddick and Fifty Shades series. But The Chronicles of Riddick? Not even Pitch Black but The Chronicles of Riddick? C’mon, Universal, not even Vin Diesel would own a poster of The Chronicles of Riddick!

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER TWO

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// In today’s seen-it-all world, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find action films that actually deliver on the action.

Most of it is so stylized, so choreographed, so CGIed, that the chances of audience adrenaline being satisfactorily pumped has fallen significantly.

So maybe it was a resigned attitude that led to 2014’s John Wick being hailed in some quarters as a modern action classic.

Personally, it seems inconceivable to me that the Keanu Reeves picture could be so highly praised when the mere existence of two recent action spectaculars, the 2011 Indonesian effort The Raid: Redemption and its 2014 sequel The Raid 2, makes John Wick look like outtakes from Driving Miss Daisy by comparison.

As I wrote in my review, “John Wick feels as if it should have starred Chuck Norris back in 1986. This is the sort of film where you can practically see the assistant director on the side telling each bit player cast as a killer when to join the scene, since there’s no logical reason why their characters wouldn’t gang-rush Wick at once rather than stagger-step their entrances.”

Yet here we are with John Wick: Chapter Two, which is more of the same, only Super-Sized. Running 122 minutes (its predecessor ran a more manageable 96 minutes), it features more action, more gunplay, more gore, and more tedium.

Reeves is again suitably taciturn as the former assassin who, just when he thought he was out, gets pulled back in, and the criminal world created for the first picture—a landscape in which there exists neutral-zone hotels in which no blood may 36 be spilled – retains its unique appeal.

Fist Fight: Ice Cube is a reliable screen presence, but he can do nothing with a film as utterly devoid of entertainment value as this one.

But the action is as repetitive as a record attempting to get past a scratched portion, as Wick spins around a flunky, punches him a couple of times, then shoots him in the head—by my count, this happens approximately 854 times over the course of the film.

Still, gun fetishists will adore this film, as more time is spent lovingly mulling over the characteristics of individual weapons than on anything else.

THE COMEDIAN

/// The bad news regarding Robert De Niro is that the actor has backed away from his 2016 claim that he’d like to punch Psychopath-in-Chief Donald Trump in the face — a shame, since a bout between Raging Bull and Raging Bullshit sounded like a guaranteed good time.

The good news, though, is that he’s also backed away from delivering grotesque performances in unwatchable atrocities – well, for one picture anyhow.

De Niro, whose 2016 vehicle Dirty Grandpa placed high on countless 10 Worst lists (mine included), has occasionally stirred from his paycheck-snatching stupor to remind viewers that the talent within can still be stoked from time to time. It was on view in 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook, it was on tap in 2015’s The Intern, and it’s on display in The Comedian.

Directed by Taylor Hackford (Ray) and co-written by a quartet that includes producer Art Linson (The Untouchables) and veteran scribe Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King), The Comedian is a ragged but often uproarious piece about Jackie Burke (De Niro), a struggling stand-up comic best known for his starring role on an inane sitcom from an earlier decade. As his agent (Edie Falco) is kept busy trying to find anyone who will hire him, Jackie ends up befriending Harmony (Leslie Mann, typically excellent), a single woman dealing with her own set of issues.

A two-hour seriocomedy that could

stand being trimmed by about 15 minutes, The Comedian benefits from the nice rapport between De Niro and Mann, the contributions of a knockout supporting cast (including Danny DeVito, De Niro’s Midnight Run co-star Charles Grodin, and, in a nice nod to their Scorsese collaborations, Harvey Keitel), and hard-edged humor that isn’t afraid to go for the low blow.

De Niro is in fine form here, particularly when he’s taking no prisoners in his standup routines. I’d say let’s wait and see what he does for an encore, but the track record suggests he’ll be back to churning out dismal duds in no time. For the moment, though, it’s nice to see him deserving cheers rather than jeers.

THE SPACE BETWEEN US

/ If you want to learn about life on Mars, you can either groove to David Bowie or sit through The Space Between Us. It’s not really much of a choice. If it’s been determined that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then this daft film clearly hails from that planet with the foul-sounding name.

A teen flick that registers less as “YA” and more as “why bother,” The Space Between Us at least has its heart in the right place. That would be inside the body of 16-year-old Gardner Elliot (Asa Butterfield), who becomes the first human born on Mars after his astronaut mom (Janet Montgomery) pops him out and subsequently dies on the operating table.

Raised on the Red Planet by sympathetic astronaut Kendra Wyndham (Carla Gugino), Gardner longs to visit Earth, even though the change in atmosphere would threaten to enlarge his heart and destroy his bones. Nevertheless, with the approval of Nathaniel Shepherd (Gary Oldman), the head of the space program, Gardner is allowed to briefly visit our planet—at which point he takes off to find the father he never knew. Along for the cross-country trek is Tulsa (Britt Robertson), a grouchy

high school girl who doesn’t believe he’s from Mars but elects to help him anyway.

The opening act on Mars is stridently lackluster, and the picture only picks up slightly once it crash-lands on Earth.

There’s some modest amusement in watching Gardner approach each new discovery, and Butterfield sells these moments perfectly.

But any sense of wonder quickly gives way to a tired and tepid romance between a dying boy and the girl he thaws, and the central mystery—the identity of Gardner’s father—is not only apparent from the start but also introduces some sleazy undercurrents into the tale. Those looking for quality cinema might want to stick with the Oscar contenders currently glutting theaters and maintain a safe distance from The Space Between Us.

GOLD

// Just because a movie is Oscar bait doesn’t mean that members of the Academy will necessarily take the bait. Sometimes, they’re able to recognize right off the bat that it’s an awards imposter — fool’s gold clearly not worthy of Oscar gold.

Gold is such a film. Opening in L.A.limited release at the tail end of 2016 to give it that air of importance (i.e. Let the rubes blanketing the rest of the country wait!), this finds director Stephen Gaghan, writers Patrick Massett and John Zinman, and producer-star Matthew McConaughey unearthing a real-life scenario — a 90s-era scandal centering around a Canadian mining outfit – and turning it into yet another celluloid cautionary tale about capitalism and corruption.

Worthy subject, dry delivery – at least The Founder, another recent title that failed to click as Oscar bait, made a similar saga juicy and easily digestible.

To portray Kenny Wells, an eagerbeaver prospector who teams up with a geologist (Edgar Ramirez, acting like he just woke up from a nap) to look for gold in them thar Indonesian hills and jungles, McConaughey contributes his usual livewire intensity, even if he often lets his pot belly and semi-bald palate (both acquired for the role) do their fair share of the emoting.

But the story as presented is airless and uninvolving, even with Gaghan working overtime with his stylistic choices.

While trying to emulate the go-for-broke excesses of The Wolf of Wall Street, American Hustle and The Big Short, the helmer frequently mistakes breathless effort for actual achievement.

The maxim states that all that glitters is not gold, and that’s certainly true. In the case of Gold, it’s more like a shattered disco ball, promising dazzlement but delivering only a few fleeting glints of illumination. CS

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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.

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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.

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AUDITIONS FOR ARMSTRONG YOUTH ORCHESTRA Open to students enrolled in primary grades through high school and including Armstrong students (available for course credit). Auditions, by appointment, are in Armstrong Fine Arts Hall. To schedule an audition, e-mail: savaayo@yahoo.com. Info is also available at www.savaayo.org. AYO is sponsored in part by the Savannah Friends of Music, www.savannahfriendsofmusic.

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American Traditions Vocal Competition

American Traditions is a forum for showcasing tomorrow's vocal talents and superstars, and to celebrate the diverse repertoire of standard, classic American music.

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Interested parties should complete the online application at www.savannahga. gov/sya. The application deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday, March 31, 2017. Savannah Youth Ambassadors (SYA) is an intensive leadership training institute for high school students living in Savannah, GA. SYA is open to all rising 9th – 12th graders that reside within the incorporated city limits of the City of Savannah. Participants will be chosen through a selective application process.

Space is limited to 50 participants. Through March 31. 912-651-6520. No physical address given, none.

CALL FOR ARTISTS TO TEACH AT STUDIO SCHOOL The studio school in downtown Savannah seeks qualified artists interested in joining the team during spring and/ or summer sessions 2017. Seeking artists to present

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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.

SAVANNAH STOPOVER BAND POSTER COMPETITION Savannah Stopover & Sulfur Studios invites artists to create posters inspired by the bands taking part in this year’s festival.

Artists are invited to choose a band from the confirmed lineup at (savannahstopover. com/lineup) The top 18 posters will be featured in a pre-festival exhibition at Sulfur Studios on March 8th. The top ten will be moved to Ships of the Sea for the Festival Opening Night Event on on March 9th, and weather permitting, will remain on display throughout the weekend. free Through Feb. 27, 1-2 p.m. 912. 231. 7105. info@ sulfurstudios.org. savannahstopover.com/ poster-competition. sulfurstudios.org. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. 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.

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BENEFITS

BOURBON AND WINE TASTING Sip classic and contemporary bourbons and wines, provided by United Distributors, at Johnnie Ganem’s famous Rebel Room and support SCI’s Senior Companion Program.

This is an opportunity for the established bourbon and wine drinker as well as the “new to bourbon” taster to check out the latest samplings. $20 advance, $25 door Tue., Feb. 28, 6 p.m. johnnieganem.com.

Johnnie Ganem’s Package & Wine Shop, 501 Habersham St. FISH GOTTA SWIM, FOLKS GOTTA EAT Enjoy food and drink while browsing unique silent auction items provided by local businesses such as 24E. Proceeds benefit Fish Gotta Swim, a program that engages middle school students to learn about water quality in their own backyard. Presented by Wilderness Southeast. $50 Thu., Feb. 23.

912-236-8115. naturesavannah@gmail. com. naturesavannah.org/about/event.

Armstrong House, 447 Bullstreet.

PANCAKE BREAKFAST FUNDRAISER The Kiwanis Club of Skidaway announces their pancake breakfast to benefit Savannah’s at-risk youth. $10 advance, $12 door Sat., Feb. 25, 7 a.m. Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church, 50 Diamond Causeway.

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

FEB 22-28, 2017

AERIAL SILK CLASSES Try something different this year by improving your strength and flexibility all while suspended from aerial silk fabric. All levels, all ages, and all beginners welcome.

Class will go over basics and provide challenges for those more advanced.

Classes every Friday. Fri., Feb. 24, 5:30-7 p.m. 954.682.5694. Elyse.theSTUDIO@ yahoo.com. thestudiosav.net/schedule.html. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. 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. BEGINNING BELLY DANCE CLASSES Taught by Happenstance Bellydance.

All skill levels and styles. Private instruction available. $15 912-704-2940.

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BRIDGE LESSONS Competitive Bidding (BB2), Saturday, February 4 at 10AM. Defensive Signals (BB5), Monday February 6. They are 4 week classes. Intermediate and advanced workshops continue on Fridays at 10AM. Savannah Duplicate Bridge Center, 8511 Ferguson Ave, Sandfly. Also, games are held in the afternoon and/or evening almost every day. There is something for players at all levels. Check our website for fees and schedules of games and other classes. ongoing. 912-228-4838. bridgewebs.com/ savannahclubs. Savannah Duplicate Bridge Center, 8511 Ferguson Ave. CAREGIVING 101 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.

COASTAL AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY GENERAL CLASS LICENSE This is a great way to obtain or upgrade a ham radio license. Classes will be every Thursday evening for 4 weeks, with a VE test session the 2nd Saturday after. Thu., Feb. 23, 6 p.m. whitebluffpc@bellsouth. net. White Bluff Presbyterian Church, 10710 White Bluff Rd. 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. DOING BUSINESS IN BELGIUM The round table discussion will give attendees the opportunity to hear from Belgian Consul General William De Baets and President of the Belgian-American Chamber of the South Anton Mertens.

Thu., Feb. 23, 9 a.m. World Trade Center Savannah, 131 Hutchinson Rd. 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.

EVERY DAY IS YOUR DAY Presented by motivational guru Keith Brown, “Mr. I’m Possible.” Part of the Savannah Black Heritage Festival. Wed., Feb. 22, 6 p.m. savstate.edu/. Savannah State University, 3219 College St. FAMILY LAW WORKSHOP The Mediation Center has three workshops per month for people who do not have legal representation in a family matter: divorce, legitimation, modifications of child support, visitation, contempt. Schedule: 1st Tues, 2nd Mon, 4th Thursday. Call for times. $30 912354-6686. mediationsavannah.com.

FANY’S SPANISH/ENGLISH INSTITUTE Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children held at 15 E. Montgomery Crossroad. Register by phone. ongoing. 912921-4646.

GUITAR, MANDOLIN, OR BASS GUITAR LESSONS Emphasis on theory, reading music, and improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. ongoing. 912-232-5987.

HOUSING AUTHORITY NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER Housing Authority of Savannah hosts classes at the Neighborhood Resource Center. Adult literacy/GED prep: Mon-Thurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri each month, 9am-11am. Basic computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1pm3pm. Community computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3pm-4:30pm. ongoing. 912-232-4232 x115. savannahpha.com. savannahpha.com/NRC. html. Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. JEWELRY 2 You’ve got basic soldering skills down and are ready to try some experimenting.

Focused on design execution, learn to successfully combine your skills into pieces that require multiple soldering operations, forethought, and planning. Make beautiful, wearable pieces that you love to put on day after day. $150 Thu., Feb. 23, 6:309:30 p.m. christina@dreamcatstudio.com. dreamcatstudio.com/. dreamcatstudio.com. dreamcat studio, Hover Creek RD. 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.

OSHA 7100: INTRODUCTION TO MACHINERY & MACHINE SAFEGUARDING This seminar is designed to increase the participant’s knowledge and skill in proper machine safeguarding techniques, and to highlight the benefits of guarding various types of machinery. It is the employer’s responsibility to identify and select the safeguard necessary to protect employees and others in the work area as well as provide appropriate training in safe work practices. Knowing when and how to properly safeguard machinery can reduce or eliminate the potential for accidents and injuries. Mon., Feb. 27, 8:30 a.m. Georgia Tech Savannah, 210 Technology Circle.

OSHA 7105: INTRODUCTION TO EMERGENCY PLANNING This seminar is designed to assist companies in protecting workers from emergencies in the workplace. This seminar will briefly cover issues such as chemical spills, severe weather, fire, workplace violence, and homeland defense.

Additionally, this program will cover the plans required by OSHA to deal with these issues. This is a six hour seminar with the first four hours dedicated to Emergency Action Plans and general site safety and the remaining four dedicated to Emergency Response Plans (ERP). Tue., Feb. 28,

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8:30 a.m. Georgia Tech Savannah, 210 Technology Circle.

PARTNER ACROBATIC INVERSIONS: FOUNDATIONS AND TECHNIQUES Fun and challenging inversions for building an acro practice, taking it to the next level and beyond. Learn, play and balance using drills and developing skills that will grow with you for years to come. All levels welcome. Limited space available. $30 per person pre-registration by February 18th. $35 after February 18th. $40 at the door. Sat., Feb. 25, 3-6 p.m. jack@ cloudbreakpt.com. https://facebook.com/ events/410932915914133/. thestudiosav. net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. 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.

POLE FITNESS CLASSES Pole dancing is a beautiful artform, and a combination of dance, flexibility and gymnastics. Pole dancing has quickly become one of the most popular forms of fun and exercise for women. It can help you lose weight, gain beautiful muscle tone, make you stronger than ever and build confidence like no other form of exercise can. Join us on Tuesday nights and get fitter and stronger than you’ve ever been, with this amazing full body workout. Schedule TBA $20 Every other Tuesday, 7-9 p.m. 912-9881052. Mediterranean Tavern, 125 Foxfield Way. P.R.I.D.E. DRIVING COURSE The free, two-hour driver education program is designed to help teens ages 14, 15, and 16 – along with their parents and guardians – to learn more about driving behaviors and laws. Registration by a teen and at least one parent or guardian is required. Mon., Feb. 27, 5:30 p.m. 912-350-1532. ramiram1@ memorialhealth.com. Professional Development Center, 3401 Edwin Street.

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

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian reveals the beauty of geometry in her mirrored mosaics.

SCAD deFINE ART

SCAD presents the eighth edition of deFINE ART, featuring renowned artist and color theory pioneer Carlos Cruz-Diez as honoree. Taking place Feb. 21-24, 2017, deFINE ART highlights emerging and established artists and visionaries.

All deFINE ART programming is free and open to the public.

FEB. 21-24 DOWNTOWN SAVANNAH, DOWNTOWN. SCAD.EDU/DEFINEART. collaborative studio. Services offered include strengthening the voice, range extension, relaxation techniques, and coaching through various styles of music.

Audition and competition preparation.

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

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

SAMBA SAVANNAH DRUMMING WORKSHOP Learn Afro-Brazilian rhythms with drumming instructor Andrew Hartzell. All ages. $10 Sundays, 2:30 p.m. starlandiasupply.com.

Starlandia Creative Supply, 2438 Bull Street.

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. 323-539-

1760. DANCEHOWIWANTTO@GMAIL. COM. DANCEHOWIWANTTO.COM. salondebaileballroomdancestudio.com/.

Salón de Baile Dance & Fitness Studio, 7068 Hodgson Memorial Dr. SAVANNAH STARTUP WORKSHOP SERIES Entrepreneurs will participate in interactive workshops and mentor sessions designed to walk them through best practices in planning and launching their product. The interactive program will help entrepreneurs identify and vet their target customer segments, articulate the value proposition, make financial projections, and prepare them to meet with investors. Tuesdays, 10 a.m. atdc.org/uncategorized/2017savstartup-bootcamp-schedule. Creators’ Foundry, 415 W Boundary St. SOUTHERN REGIONAL PRESS INSTITUTE A two-day mass media conference for college students & media workshops for elementary, middle and high school students. Feb. 23-24. 912-358-3378.

savstate.edu/. Savannah State University, 3219 College St. YOUTH AERIAL SILK CLASSES Come fly with us and take your practice to new heights. Improve strength and flexibility to flow through poses, all while suspended from silk fabric. Classes every Friday.

Limited space, please pre-register online Fri., Feb. 24, 4:30-5:30 p.m. 954.682.5694. elyse.theSTUDIO@yahoo.com. thestudiosav. net/schedule.html. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. 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

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CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS

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 America, hosting monthly solo/autocross driving events in the Savannah area. Anyone with a safe car, insurance and a valid driver’s license is eligible to participate. See website. ongoing. buccaneerregion.org.

BUSINESS NETWORKING ON THE ISLANDS Small Business Professionals Islands Networking Group meets first Thursday

each month, 9:30am-10:30am. Tradewinds Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Call for info. ongoing. 912-308-6768.

CHATHAM SAILING CLUB Friday evening social event at the clubhouse.

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

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

Young’s Marina, 218 Wilmington Island Rd. 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

912-920-2255

48 W. Montgomery Cross Rd. Ste. 103, Parrot Plaza

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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.

R/C CAR CLUB RACE The SCORE R/C club will be having a competitive race at Phil Hurd Raceway inside of Lake Mayer Park. Typical classes are 1/10th and 1/8th scale off-road cars, buggies, and trucks. Practice starts at 9AM and the driver meeting begins at 11:45AM. The public is welcome to come watch.

This event is pending weather, please see www.PhilHurdRC.com for schedule updates. $15 for the first class and $5 for each additional (Less if you’re a club member). Sat., Feb. 25, 11:45 a.m.-5 p.m.

SCOREatPhilHurdRaceway@gmail.com.

PhilHurdRC.com. Phil Hurd Raceway, Lake Mayer Rd. SAFE KIDS SAVANNAH A coalition dedicated to preventing childhood injuries. Meets 2nd Tuesday each month, 11:30am-1:00pm. See website or call for info. ongoing. 912-353-3148. safekidssavannah.org.

SAVANNAH BREWERS’ LEAGUE Meets 1st Wednesday of the month, 7:30pm at Moon River Brewing Co. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-447-0943. hdb.org. moonriverbrewing.com/. Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St. SAVANNAH AUTHORS WORKSHOP If you’re a writer, and you’re serious about it, Savannah Authors Workshop is looking

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for you. We exist to encourage good writing.

We meet twice a month in the relaxed atmosphere of a private home (Baldwin Park area). Our third annual Anthology has just been published. We are looking for new members. Come as a guest to our next meeting (Wednesday, September 21) and see how you like us (sorry: no poets).

Contact Christopher Scott, President: cscott630@yahoo.com for more details and directions. ongoing. No physical address given, none.

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.

Mondays.

SCAD DAILY TOURS SCAD offers tours in Savannah, Atlanta and Hong Kong for prospective students and their families. Tours are available daily, excluding Sundays, in Savannah, Atlanta,

and Hong Kong. Tours allow prospective students an opportunity to view classrooms and administrative buildings, galleries, residence halls and dining facilities and see where our students live, learn and prepare for professional careers. Free MondaysSaturdays. https://scad.edu/admission/ visit-scad/daily-tours. scad.edu/. Savannah College of Art and Design, PO Box 2072.

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 GUILD The Waving Girls Chapter of the Smocking Arts Guild of America the fourth Monday of the month at the Coastal Center for Developmental Services, Eisenhower and Seawright Drs. in Savannah, at 6:30 pm.

Visitors are welcome. Refreshments will be served. Each month the chapter presents a program related to smocking or fine sewing. along with a “show and share” opportunity to see members creations. More information contact l.elkin@comcast.net.

Free fourth Monday of every month, 6:30 p.m. 912-658-4271. l.elkin@comcast.net.

Coastal Center for Developmental Services, 1249 Eisenhower Drive.

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.

CONCERTS

80S AND 90S GOSPEL CHOIR COMPETITION Savannah Choirs and musicians compete to rearrange gospel music by artists such as John P Kee & Kirk Franklin. Part of the Savannah Black Heritage Festival. Fri., Feb. 24, 6 p.m. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/ index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. AMERICAN TRADITIONS FINALS

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ACROSS

1 Baker’s buy 6 Group of periods 9 Pet sounds?

13 Threepio’s mate 14 McDonald’s Corporation mogul Ray 15 “Dog Barking at the Moon” painter Joan 16 Maintain the same speed as 18 Tree of Knowledge garden 19 Converse with the locals in Rome, e.g.

21 NBC show since ‘75 24 Lilly of pharmaceuticals 25 Undersized 26 Size in a portrait package 28 It keeps going during the Olympics 31 “You’re not ___, are you?”

32 Guy with a lot of food issues?

33 “Chandelier” singer 36 What regular exercise helps maintain 40 Layer of lawn 41 Mid-sized jazz combo 42 Blue material 43 Clunky footwear 44 Home of Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” 46 Muhammad Ali’s boxing daughter 49 Soundless communi-

cation syst.

50 U.K. tabloid, with “The” 51 “Hmmm ... I’m thinking ...”

56 Contends 57 What each of the entries with circles reveals 61 To be in France 62 Lago contents 63 Country divided since 1948 64 Hair band of the 1980s 65 He played Clubber Lang in “Rocky III” 66 Gift on the seventh day of Christmas

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1 Chatter away 2 Poet’s palindrome 3 Brunched, say 4 Absorbs, with “up” 5 Unbelievable cover?

6 “CHiPs” costar Estrada 7 Bread at an Indian restaurant 8 Eight, to Ernst 9 Audrey Tautou’s quirky title role of 2001 10 Chamillionaire hit that doesn’t actually have “Dirty” in the title 11 Lose one’s mind 12 Cher’s partner 14 “The Bridge on the River ___” 17 Hit with a barrage 20 Concede 21 Exchanges

22 Cheesy chip flavor 23 Bridges of film 27 “Stacks of wax” 28 Cabinet contents 29 Departed 30 “Entourage” agent Gold 32 Werewolf’s tooth 33 Long haulers 34 Onetime Trooper and Rodeo maker 35 John who was Gomez Addams 37 Acquired relative 38 Dove noise 39 Abbr. stamped on a bad check 43 Place for supplies, sometimes 44 “Back in the ___” (Beatles song) 45 The gold in Goldschlager, e.g.

46 What “-phile” means 47 Curly-tailed canine 48 Like xenon, as gases go 49 On the ocean 52 “Taken” star Neeson 53 Caltech grad, perhaps 54 Letter-shaped bolt link 55 Site with the tagline “Discover the expert in you” 58 Glass on the radio 59 “Steal My Sunshine” band 60 “___ Boot” (1981 war film)

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Join the final contestants as they compete for the top honors and prizes. $35 general, $50 premium Fri., Feb. 24, 8 p.m. savannahtheatre.com. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. AMERICAN TRADITIONS MASTER CLASS Spend the afternoon with our judges as they work with contestants to perfect performances of selected ATC songs.

Free and open to the public Fri., Feb. 24, 3 p.m. savannahtheatre.com. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. AMERICAN TRADITIONS QUARTERFINALS The scond half of the 28 contestants compete with three songs in hopes to advance to the semifinals. $30 all day pass Wed., Feb. 22, 4 & 7 p.m. siumc.org/.

Skidaway United Methodist Church, 54 Diamond Causeway.

AMERICAN TRADITIONS SEMIFINALS The remaining contestants compete for a spot in the finals as they sing their next set of three songs. $30 Thu., Feb. 23, 4 & 7 p.m. siumc.org/. Skidaway United Methodist Church, 54 Diamond Causeway.

AMERICAN TRADITIONS VOCAL COMPETITION American Traditions is a forum for showcasing tomorrow’s vocal talents and superstars, and to celebrate the diverse repertoire of standard, classic American music. Through Feb. 24. americantraditionscompetition.com. savannahtheatre.com. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. BUCKET LIST SHOW The Savannah Theatre cast and band present a 2-hour show of the songs they’ve always wanted to sing but have never gotten to perform on stage. With a cast of such diverse musical interests, the wide variety of selections make a fast-paced, entertaining production of solos, duets, quartets, instrumentals and full-cast numbers. $37 Sat., Feb. 25, 8 p.m. and Sun., Feb. 26, 3 p.m. savannahtheatre.com. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. JOE BONAMASSA Joe Bonamassa is an American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. Sat., Feb. 25. savannahcivic.com/event/joebonamassa/. savannahcivic.com. Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. REWIND! Rewind back to the first time that you pushed play. 8 singer/dancers and a live band perform a fast moving production that features 2 hours of the music of your lifetime. Whether you heard it first on vinyl, 8-track, cassette or CD, the awardwinning Savannah Theatre cast revisits over 40 years of Top 40. $37 Fri., Feb. 24, 8 p.m. savannahtheatre.com. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. STREETCORNER SYMPHONY Street Corner Symphony is an a cappella group based out of Nashville, Tennessee.

They became internationally known in 2010 after becoming runners up on Season 2 of NBC’s all vocal competition, The Sing-Off. These southern gents quickly won over SingOff judges Ben Folds, Shawn Stockman, and Nicole Scherzinger and an NBC primetime 42 audience after demonstrating their unique

laid back, yet dynamic style of a cappella.

The group consists of two brothers; Jeremy Lister and Jonathan Lister; along with Adam Chance, Kurt Zimmerman, Kaleb Jones and Mark McLemore. Adults $30, Seniors/Military $25, Students/Children $15 Sat., Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m. 843-521-4145. defurman@uscb.edu. uscbcenterforthearts. com/. USCB Center for the Arts, 801 Carteret St.

FOOD & DRINK EVENTS

ALL YOU CAN EAT MUSSELS Make your Tuesdays “Ruesdays” at Rue de Jean in Savannah with ALL YOU CAN EAT mussels! Choose from 6 different flavors and enjoy baby greens salad, bottomless pommes frites, and warm bread all for just $24. One order per guest.

Reservations suggested. 39ruedejeansav. com/reservations $24 5-9 p.m.. ruedejeansavannah.com. holycityhospitality. com/39-rue-de-jean-savannah/. 39 Rue de Jean, 605 W Oglethorpe Ave. 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. merrin.slocombe@bethesdaacademy.org. bethesdaacademy.org. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson 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 MondaysFridays, 10 a.m.. 912-234-0688. jessie@ savannahbee.com. Savannah Bee Company, Wilmington Island, 211 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

INDUSTRY NIGHT AT SOUTHBOUND BREWING COMPANY Bring in proof of service industry employment (pay stub or biz card), military

ID or Gulfstream badge and receive 10% off your tours & tastings admission. Admission includes six 6 ounce samples, a guided tour and a souvenir 6 pack of one of our year round beers OR Southbound koozie. $15 | 10% off with proof 912-667-0033. natalie@ southboundbrewingco.com. Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. 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.

SECOND HELPING Enjoy pay-what-you-like pints of Sweetwater Brewing’s Second Helping IPA to benefit local hospitality industry fixture James Gray. theordinarypub.com/. The Ordinary Pub, 217 1/2 West Broughton Street.

TYBEE ISLAND FARMERS MARKET Featuring a variety of produce, baked goods, honey, granola, BBQ, sauces and dressings, popsicles, dog treats and natural body products. The market is non-smoking and pet friendly. tybeeislandfarmersmarket.com.

Stephen Johnson, 206 Miller Ave. WINE SAMPLING Sample the variety of wines Lucky’s Market has to offer. luckysmarket.com/ savannah-ga/. Lucky’s Market, 5501 Abercorn St.

HEALTH

ARMSTRONG PRESCRIPTION DRUG DROP-OFF Armstrong Atlantic State Univ. hosts a permanent drop box for disposing of unused prescription drugs and over the counter medication. In the lobby of the University Police building on campus.

Open to the public 24 hours/day, year round. Confidential. All items collected are destroyed by the Drug Enforcement Administration. ongoing. 912-344-3333. armstrong.edu. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/ index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. 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. FAMILY TO FAMILY CLASS Free 12 week course for family and caregivers of individuals with mental illness. Meets once a week for 2 1/2 hours.

FREE Mondays, 6-8:30 p.m. 912-441-7724. dianebreeder@omcast.net. Wilmington Island United Methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island Rd. 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.

MAYBE YOU’RE NOT SICK, YOU’RE THRISTY Are You Sick of being Sick? Learn the first step in helping your body get on the road to healing itself. Every Tuesday we will educate you on the dangers of bottled, tap, reverse osmosis, distilled, spring, and yes even bottled alkaline water. See this eye opening demonstration for your safety and for your health. We will serve Kangen water, test your water and give you a sample to take home if you qualify. NO CHARGE Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m. 703.989.6995. oggisavannah@

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gmail.com. goodh20.yourbodyiswater.com.

Nuts About Savannah, 14045 Abercorn St.(Savannah Mall).

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. RACE FOR PRESERVATION Historic Savannah Foundation’s annual Race for Preservation exposes runners, spectators, and the Savannah community to the importance of preservation. It showcases five historic neighborhoods (Landmark, Victorian, Thomas Square Streetcar, Ardsley Park-Chatham Crescent, and Parkside) and two historic parks (Forsyth and Daffin). $25-$50 Sat., Feb. 25, 8 a.m. myHSF.org. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park 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

FIT KIDS FEST The Junior League of Savannah’s 5th Annual Fit Kids Fest promotes overall wellness for K-8 students. Children of all ages are invited to learn more about the importance of growing a fit body and mind. Together, we can improve our children’s health awareness and encourage a healthier, happier lifestyle. Free Sat., Feb. 25, 1 p.m. parks. chathamcounty.org/Parks/SportsFacilities/ JenniferRossSoccerComplex.aspx. Jennifer Ross Soccer Complex, 7221 Sallie Mood Dr. GLORY STORY HOUR This hour will help your child become fascinated and engaged in the Story, to the point that they will be excited to learn.

We will not only tell the story, but enact parts of it, so they will want to share it with their family & friends. Saturdays, 10 a.m. pearlerivers@yahoo.com. Heavenly Books and Gifts, 77D W. Fairmont Ave. 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.

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.

SEUSS FEST Museum educators will lead the group with Seuss stories, games and activities. This year there is a “Seuss Science Station,” a “Green Eggs & Ham Rhyming Maze,” a “Save the Trees Station with The Lorax” and a “Seusstastic Selfie Station,” complete with costumes and props. $7.50 for guests 18 months and older Sat., Feb. 25, 10 a.m.

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. CONTINUES ON P. 44

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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. 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. GLAD TO BE HERE Captain Donnie Cochran (ret.), former commander of the Blue Angels and SSU alumnus, will sign copies of Glad to Be Here, a memoir that focuses on lessons he learned as a pilot and commander. Fri., Feb. 24, 2 p.m. savstate.edu/. Savannah State University, 3219 College St. THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR? ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S ABOLITIONIST EVOLUTION Presented by Dr. Jonathan Bryant of Georgia Southern University. Part of Senior Citizens,

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19)

My astrological radar suggests there’s a space-time anomaly looming just ahead of you. Is it a fun and exotic limbo where the rules are flexible and everything’s an experiment? That might be cool. Or is it more like an alien labyrinth where nothing is as it seems, you can hear howling in the distance, and you barely recognize yourself? That might be weird. What do you think? Is it worth the gamble? If so, full speed ahead. If not, I suggest a course correction.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Someone on Reddit.com asked readers to respond to the question, “What is the most liberating thought you’ve ever had?”

Among the replies were the following six: 1. “If new evidence presents itself, it’s okay to change my beliefs.” 2. “I get to choose who’s in my life and who isn’t.” 3. “I am not my history.” 4. “You can’t change something that has already happened, so stop worrying about it.” 5. “I am not, nor will I ever be, conventionally beautiful.” 6.

“I don’t have to respond to people when they say stupid s--- to me.” I hope these testimonies inspire you to come up with several of your own, Taurus. It’s a perfect time to formulate liberating intentions.

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It has been a while since I told you that I love you. So I’m doing it now. I LOVE YOU. More than you could ever imagine.

And that’s why I continue to offer these horoscopes to you free of charge, with no strings attached. That’s why I work so hard to be a playful therapist and an edgy mentor for you. That’s why I am so tenacious in my efforts to serve you as a feminist father figure and a kindly devil’s advocate and a sacred cheerleader. Again, I don’t expect anything in return from you. But if you would like to express your appreciation, you could do so by offering a similar type of well-crafted care to people in your own sphere. Now would be an excellent time to give such gifts.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

“I like the word ‘bewilderment’ because it has both ‘be’ and ‘wild’ in it,” says poet Peter Gizzi. I propose that you go even further, Cancerian: Express a fondness for the actual experience of bewilderment as well as the word. In fact, be willing to not just tolerate, but actually embrace the fuzzy blessings of bewilderment. In the coming weeks, that’s your ticket to being wild in the healthiest (and wealthiest) ways. As you wander innocently through the perplexing mysteries that make themselves available, you’ll be inspired to escape formalities and needless rules that have kept you overly tame.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

Are you familiar with psychologist Carl Jung’s concept of the shadow? It’s the unflattering or uncomfortable part of you that you would prefer to ignore or suppress. It’s the source of behavior about which you later say, “I wasn’t acting like myself.” Jungians say that the shadow hounds you and wounds you to the degree that you refuse to deal with it. But if you negotiate with it, it leads you to beautiful surprises. It prods you to uncover riches you’ve hidden from yourself. I mention this, Leo, because any shadow work you do in the coming weeks could generate rather spectacular breakthroughs.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

You could make a vow like this: “Between now and April 15, I will be relentless in getting my needs met. I will harbor a steely resolve to call on every ploy necessary to ensure that my deepest requirements are not just gratified, but satiated to the max. I will be a dogged and ferocious seeker of absolute fulfillment.” If you want to swear an oath like that, Virgo, I understand. But I hope you will try a softer approach -- more like the following: “Between now and April 15, I will be imaginative and ingenious in getting my needs met. I will have fun calling on every trick necessary to ensure that my deepest requirements are playfully addressed. I will be a sweet seeker of unpredictable

Inc.’s winter lecture series. $6 Wed., Feb. 22, 1:30 p.m. seniorcitizens-inc.org. Senior Citizens Inc., 3025 Bull 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. LECTURE: CREATING THE PERFECT PLACE TO SLEEP

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fulfillment.”

uncommon aptitude for the domestic arts.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

How would Buddha ask for a raise or promotion? How would Jesus tinker with his career plans as he took into consideration large-scale shifts in the economy? How would Confucius try to infuse new approaches and ideas into the status quo of his work environment? Ruminate deeply on these matters, dear Libra. Your yearning to be more satisfyingly employed may soon be rewarded -- especially if you infuse your ambitions with holy insight.

How would Joan of Arc break through the glass ceiling? How would Harriet Tubman deal with the inefficiencies caused by excess testosterone? How would Hildegard of Bingen seek more emotional richness on the job?

I suspect you would benefit from acquiring a new bedroom name, my dear. But should I be the one to give it to you? I’m not sure. Maybe you could invite a practical dreamer you adore to provide you with this crazy sweet new moniker. If there is no such person to do the job (although given the current astrological omens, I bet there is), I’ll offer the following array of amorous aliases for you to choose from: Wild Face . . . Kiss Genius . . . Thrill Witch . . . Freaky Nectar . . . Boink Master . . . Lust Moxie . . . Pearly Thunder . . . Peach Licker . . . Painkiller . . . Silky Bliss . . . Slippery Diver . . . Swoon Craver.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Soon I’ll be off on my first vacation in 18 months. At first glance it might seem odd for an astrologer like myself to have selected two Sagittarians to be my housesitters. Members of your sign are reputed to be among the least home-nurturing people in the zodiac. But I’m confident that by the time I return, raccoons won’t be living in my kitchen, nor will my plants be dead or my snailmail stolen or my TV broken. The current astrological omens suggest that most of you Centaurs, at least for the foreseeable future, will display an

The near future will be mutable, whimsical, and fluky. It’ll be serendipitous, mercurial, and extemporaneous. You should expect happy accidents and lucky breaks. Your ability to improvise will be quite valuable. Do you believe in lucky numbers? Even if you don’t, yours will be 333. Your sacred password will be “quirky plucky.” The cartoon characters with whom you will have most in common are Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner. The place where you’re most likely to encounter a crucial teaching is a threshold or thrift shop. Your colors of destiny will be flecked and dappled. (P.S.: I suspect that an asyet-undiscovered talisman of power is crammed in a drawer full of junk.)

Treat your body like a sublime temple, please. And regard your imagination as a treasured sanctuary. Be very choosy about what you allow to enter in to both of those holy places. This strategy is always a wise idea, of course, but it’s especially so now, when you are extra sensitive to the influences you absorb. It’s crucial that you express maximum discernment as you determine which foods, drinks, drugs, images, sounds, and ideas are likely to foster your maximum well-being -- and which aren’t. Be a masterful caretaker of your health and sanity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

What would your best mother do in a situation like this? Please note that I’m not asking, “What would your mother do?” I’m not suggesting you call on the counsel of your actual mother. When I use the term “your best mother,” I’m referring to the archetype of your perfect mother. Imagine a wise older woman who understands you telepathically, loves you unconditionally, and wants you to live your life according to your own inner necessity, not hers or anyone else’s. Visualize her. Call on her. Seek her blessings.

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Respiratory Therapy Department Head Doug Masini will give an overview of the most common disorders, dyssomnias, and discuss the controllable aspects of sleep hygiene. Fri., Feb. 24, noon. about. armstrong.edu/Maps/index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. LECTURE: PRESENTING THE CIVIL WAR: WOMEN, MEDICINE AND HOLLYWOOD ON ‘MERCY STREET’ Actor William Mark McCullough and Dr. Felicity Turner, an assistant professor in the History Department at Armstrong State University, will hold a discussion of the PBS Civil War drama, “Mercy Street,” produced by Ridley Scott. Free Thu., Feb. 23, 12:30 p.m. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/index.html.

Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St.

NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT

COFFEE WITH A RANGER Start your morning right by getting coffee and having a discussion with a park ranger.

Fridays, 8:30 a.m. gastateparks.org/info/ skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

DO FISH TALK? The Dolphin Project and Fort McAllister Marina are co-hosting a fascinating lecture by marine scientist Dr. Damon Gannon about fish acoustics. Be amazed and entertained by all the fish chatter below the water surface. All ages welcome. No charge for lecture. Donations are welcome. Menu and bar available. Sat., Feb. 25, 6:30 p.m. thedolphinproject@gmail.com. Fish Tales at Ft. McAllister Marina, 3203 Ft. McAllister Rd. 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.

FUNDAMENTALS OF BEEKEEPING Participants will learn about the fascinating world of the honey bee and the art of urban beekeeping. Classroom training covers honey bee biology, package bees, colony management, the urban backyard, and much more. Students will have opportunities to return to Oatlands bee yard (apiary) to learn about smoker use, hive inspections and honeybee Do’s & Don’ts. Sat., Feb. 25, 8 a.m. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. RANGER GUIDED BIKE TOUR OF COCKSPUR ISLAND This behind the scenes ride will focus on both the natural and cultural resources Cockspur Island has to offer beyond the fort. The tour will also give visitors a firsthand look at some of the damage caused

by Hurricane Matthew and the National Park Service’s recovery process. Bring your bike, helmet, and a sense of adventure. Sat., Feb. 25, 1:30 p.m. Fort Pulaski, US Highway 80 E. 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.

WRUU AFTERNOON CRUISE WITH BULL RIVER CRUISES Enjoy an afternoon exploring the beautiful Georgia coast with Bull River Cruises.

Guests will be welcomed aboard a comfortable excursion vessel as they embark on a 1 1/2 tour of the Wilmington River and surrounding waters. Feel free to bring along a picnic lunch to enjoy. Wine and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided.

Knowledgeable tour guides will be available to answer any questions you may have about plants and animals we find along the way. $30 Sun., Feb. 26, 2-3:30 p.m. 540550-0656. takissinger@gmail.com. https:// eventbrite.com/e/wruu-afternoon-cruisewith-bull-river-cruises-tickets-31692915363. hogansmarina.com/home.html. Hogan’s Marina, 36 Wilmington Island Rd.

PETS & ANIMALS

2017 DISC DOG WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIER Did you know that dogs can fly? Frisbee dogs, flying dogs, disc dogs; it doesn’t matter how you refer to them, it’s going to be a lot of fun for both competitors and spectators. At the event, pet food donations will be collected for Vets with Pets and VFW Post 660. Pet rescue One Love and Coastal Pet Rescue will be at the event with adoptable pets. Free Feb. 24-26. 912-656-5788. courtney.hester@ tailsspin.com. https://facebook.com/ events/1275533779177061/. Islands High School, 170 Whitemarsh Island Road.

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.

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com. TailsSpin Pet Supplies Store, 4501 Habersham St., Habersham Village.

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

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.

FASTING AND PRAYER: THE RIGHT WAY Call to register. Bible and notebook needed.

912-228-2634 Feb. 23-25, 2 p.m. Heavenly Books and Gifts, 77D W. Fairmont Ave. 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.

JESUS YESHUA Holidays and plans for 2017 underway for young adults and college Christians.

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

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,

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Samba Savannah Drumming Workshop

Learn Afro-Brazilian rhythms with drumming instructor Andrew Hartzell.

ALL AGES. $10 SUNDAYS, 2:30 P.M. STARLANDIASUPPLY.COM. STARLANDIA CREATIVE SUPPLY, 2438 BULL STREET.

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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.

SUPPORT GROUPS

AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP MEETING - ISLE OF HOPE FOR TODAY Find comfort and understanding for 46 families and friends of alcoholics. AFG is

an anonymous fellowship seeking to find serenity for those impacted by the effects of alcoholism. Free Mondays, 7-8 p.m. savannahalanon.com. St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 2 St. Thomas Ave. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS For people who want or need to stop drinking, AA can help. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. Free to attend or join.

Check website for meeting days/times, or call 24 hours a day. ongoing. 912-356-3688. savannahaa.com.

ALZHEIMER’S CAREGIVER AND FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP For individuals caring for Alzheimer’s and dementia family members. Second Monday, Wilm. Isl. United Methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island Rd. Second Thursday, Ruth Byck Adult Care Center, 64 Jasper St. Sponsored by Senior Citizens, Inc. Call for info. ongoing. 912-236-0363 x143.

AMPUTEE SUPPORT GROUP Open to all who have had limbs amputated and their families or caregivers. Call for info. ongoing. 912-355-7778.

BACK PAIN SUPPORT GROUP Second Monday of every month,7:00pm.

Denny’s Restaurant at Hwy. 204. Everyone is welcome. For more info, contact Debbie at 912-727-2959 ongoing.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP For traumatic brain injury survivors and their caregivers. Third Thursdays, 5pm. In the gym of the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial. ongoing. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS GROUP Tuesdays, 5:20pm at First Presbyterian Church. For survivors and caregivers.

Call for info. ongoing. 912-844-4524. fpc. presbychurch.net. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP For anyone living with, through or beyond a cancer diagnosis. First Wednesdays, at Lewis Cancer Pavilion. Call for info. ongoing. 912819-5704. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP This drop-in, one-hour support group provides a safe place to connect with other family caregivers who truly understand each others’ feelings, needs and concerns. Exchange practical information on caregiving problems and possible solutions, and learn about resources available in our community. You’re not alone. fourth Monday of every month, 1:15 p.m. 912-629-1331. edelcaregiverinstitute.org.

Edel Caregiver Institute, 6000 Business Center Drive.

CHILDREN’S GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Seven week structured educational support group for children 6-17. Support, coping tools, utilizing play and activity to learn to live with loss. Free of charge. A service of Hospice Savannah, Inc. Call for dates. ongoing. 912303-9442. Full Circle Grief and Loss Center, 6000 Business Center Drive.

THE COASTAL EMPIRE POLIO SURVIVORS ASSOCIATION The Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association will meet Saturday at Suite 143-B. The speaker will be Dr. John T. Prather, foot and ankle specialist, of Chatham Orthopaedic Associates. Polio survivors and guests are invited. For information call 912-927-8332.

Sat., Feb. 25, 10:30 a.m. L.I.F.E., Inc. (Living Independently for Everyone), 5105 Paulsen Street, Suite 143-B. CONNECT FOR KIDS This group is for children who have a loved one with a life-limiting illness. Wednesdays, 2-3 p.m. 912-350-7845. memorialhealth.com/.

Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. DEBTORS ANONYMOUS For people with debting problems. Meets Sundays, 6:30pm at Unity of Savannah.

See website or call for info. ongoing.

912-572-6108. debtorsanonymous.org. unityofsavannah.org/. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd.

EATING DISORDERS ANONYMOUS Free, volunteer-led support group for recovery from anorexia/restrictive eating and/or bulimia/binge/purging. Not a diet group, nor for those who struggle solely with overeating.

Mondays, 7:30pm-8:30pm. Email for info. ongoing. edasavannah@yahoo.com. Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church, 1008 Henry St. ESSENTIAL TREMOR SUPPORT GROUP For those with the disease, care partners, family and caregivers. Managing the disease, treatments and therapies, quality of life.

First Thursdays, 3:00pm-4:30pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-819-2224. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT GROUP Second Thursdays, 5:30pm-6:30pm. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-819-6743. sjchs.org. sjchs.org. Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5353 Reynolds Ave. GAMBLING PROBLEM 12 STEP PROGRAM Twelve step program offers freedom from gambling. Meets weekly. Leave message with contact info. ongoing. 912-748-4730.

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Jobs Drivers Wanted FLAT BED TRUCK DRIVER NEEDED: 7 yr. MVR. Clean record. Previous experience helpful. Call 912-655-5579.

Help Wanted HELP WANTED - Residential Cleaning. Will drug test. Call for appointment on Monday-Friday from 9am to 6pm. Good work ethic needed. Serious Inquiries Only.

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We are currently hiring experienced warehouse workers to unload containers in the Savannah, GA area.

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• Accompanies customers on test drives and provide information about the features of the vehicle.

• Seamlessly transition customer to Store Manager to close sale.

• Makes daily calls to past customers, internet leads, and referral agents to generate more business.

• Utilizes multiple networking avenues such as social media, bird dogs, past customers, mailers, etc. to increase sales.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Required • High School Diploma/GED • 2 years of sales and/or customer service experience • Computer literacy to include Data Entry • Current state Driver’s License • Must be able to pass all preemployment screens

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SENIOR LIVING AT IT’S BEST FOR AGES 50 & BETTER Shared community living for full functioning seniors ages 50 & above. Nice comfortable living at affordable rates.

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