Connect Savannah July 31, 2019

JUL 31- AUG 6, 2019 NEWS, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

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WEDNESDAY 7.31 Mystery PFS Documentary Screening

Savannah PirateCon 2019

Might this be the most psychotronic feature-length documentary ever made?

It must be seen to be believed. The exact title remains a secret until showtime, so take a chance, buy a ticket and be pleasantly surprised. Presented by the Psychotronic Film Society.

8 p.m.

The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. $9

SAT 8.3

The yearly gathering of Pirates in downtown Savannah.

1-9:30pm Savannah Historic Distrcit

THURSDAY 8. 1 The Gourmet Seafood and Spirits Festival

This annual get together brings to Savannah a series of dazzling seafood and spirit events.

Through Sunday.

Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, 1 Resort Drive. gourmetseafoodandspiritsfestival.com/

Savannah Live!

CPL Playoffs Game One SUN 8.4

Your Bananas clinched the first half of the season and have guaranteed a home playoff game on Sunday, August 4th!

7 pm Grayson Stadium Daffin Park Tickets: https://bananas.isportstix.com/events

2-hour high-energy variety show featuring award- winning singers, dancers and band performing 60s, 70s and 80s pop music, rock and roll, Broadway, Motown, Stomp and comedy that’s fun for all ages.

8 p.m.

The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. $39 adults, $19.50 child savannahtheatre.com

FRIDAY 8. 2 Film: Amazing Grace

Shot in January 1972 over a 48-hour period in Watts’ New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, this stirring document captured the live recording of the greatest and most successful gospel album in history, Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace. Presented by CinemaSavannah.

6:30 p.m.

Savannah Cultural Arts Center, Corner of MLK and Oglethorpe Streets. $10, cash only

First Friday Fireworks

Celebrate the end of the week and the beginning of a new month with First Friday Fireworks, presented by Wet Willie’s. first Friday of every month, 9:30 p.m.

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Free info@riverstreetsavannah.com. riverstreetsavannah.com/event/ first-friday-fireworks

First Friday for Folk Music

Monthly folk music showcase hosted by the Savannah Folk Music Society in a friendly, alcohol-free environment.

August’s performer is Donna Frost. first Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m.

First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. $5 donation 912-401-1900. patmooneylcsw@bellsouth. net. savannahfolk.org

First Friday in Starland

A monthly art walk featuring galleries, restaurants, boutiques and more. first Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

Starland District, 40th and Bull.

Free

Odd Lot Improv: Friday Funnies

An improv comedy show in the style of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”

8 p.m.

The Loft on Liberty, 215 W. Liberty St. $10 oddlotimprov@gmail.com. oddlot.lol

Theatre: HAIR

It’s 1967 amidst the Vietnam War and a young tribe of hippies are questioning authority, fighting the establishment, dodging drafts, getting high, and living and loving in New York City.

Fri. & Sat. 7:30 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m.

Bay Street Theatre, 1 Jefferson St. $25

Vintage Market Days of Savannah

Vintage Market Days is an upscale vintage-inspired indoor/outdoor market featuring original art, antiques, clothing, jewelry, and more.

10 a.m.

Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, 1 International Dr.

SATURDAY 8. 3 7th Annual Savannah VOICE Festival The seventh annual festival will be in and around Savannah, offering music from opera, musical theatre and popular song.

Through Aug. 25 Westin Savannah Harbor, 1 Resort Drive. $25-75 855-766-7372. info@ VOICExperienceFoundation.org. savannahvoicefestival.org

Art on River Street

Local artists display and sell their art on the river. first Saturday, Sunday of every month, 10 a.m.

Rousakis Plaza, River St. Free

Everybody Gets Lei’d Hawaiian Charity Bar Crawl

Come dressed in your favorite Luau themed attire. Coconut bras, board shorts, bikinis, grass skirts, Hawaiian shirts, tank tops, floaties, and flip-flops are a must on this once a year classic.

4 p.m.

Vice Mojito Bar and Lounge, 109 W Broughton St, Unit B. $10-$15

Film: Dog Day Afternoon

Directed by Sidney Lumet, Dog Day Afternoon chronicles a unique bank robbery on a hot summer afternoon in New York City. Join SCAD Film professors for a Q+A after the screening.

7 p.m.

Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. Free for SCAD Card holders; $5 for seniors, students and military; and $8 for the general public.

912-525-5050. cdepue@scad.edu

First Saturday Hike

This moderately-paced, 3-mile hike will include a talk about the different ecosystems of the park. first Saturday of every month, 10-11 a.m.

Fort McAllister Historic Park, 3894 Fort McAllister Rd. $2 912-727-2339.

Forsyth Farmers Market

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

9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Forsyth Park

Front Porch Improv: Fun House

Fun House Improv is a never-seen-before improvised comedy show. It’s like a play, but without a script.

8:30 p.m.

Ghost Coast Distillery, 641 Indian St. $10, $5 with a student ID frontporchimprov.com

Kirsten Haffke Book Signing

Kristen Haffke signs copies of her book, “Willow and Oliver and the Missing Sock.”

2 p.m.

Punch and Judy, 4511 Habersham St.

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Odd Lot Improv: Saturday Shenanigans

Savannah for Morons: The Trolley Tour

The Randall Bramblett Band

World Breastfeeding Week

An improv comedy show in the style of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Followed by long form comedy.

8 p.m.

The Loft on Liberty, 215 W. Liberty St. $10 oddlotimprov@gmail.com. oddlot.lol Multi-instrumentalist Randall Bramblett may be known for playing on stage with rock’s legends like Bonnie Raitt, The Allman Brothers Band, Steve Winwood and Widespread Panic.

8 p.m.

Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne. $25, $30 premium 912-472-4790. info@tybeeposttheater.org

Rebekah Lingenfelser Book Launch Party

Georgia food writer and Food Network Star finalist Rebekah Faulk Lingenfelser is set to release her debut memoir titled “Some Kinda Good, Good Food and Good Company, That’s What It’s All About.”

5:30 p.m.

E. Shaver, Bookseller, 326 Bull Street. $10-$40

The tour is hosted by Danny and Johnny Moron, two local actors, comedians, and history buffs.

11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.

Visitor’s Center, 301 MLK Jr. Blvd. $33 savannahformorons.com The World Breastfeeding Week celebration will include a walk for breastfeeding awareness, photo booth, the 10th annual Big Latch On, and information on breastfeeding.

9:30 a.m.

Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave. gachd.org/bf

SUNDAY 8. 4 Art on River Street

Local artists display and sell their art on the river. first Saturday, Sunday of every month, 10 a.m.

Rousakis Plaza, River St. Free

Curator’s Tour of “Michael Kolster: Take Me to the River”

Assistant Curator Erin Dunn will lead a tour of the exhibition Michael Kolster: Take Me to the River.

3 p.m.

Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Free to members / Free with museum admission 912-790-8800. info@telfair.org.

Film: Frozen

With Frozen’s highly anticipated sequel coming out this November, you don’t want to miss your chance to watch the story from the beginning with Elsa, Anna, and Olaf.

3-5 p.m.

Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $5-$15 912-525-5050. cdepue@scad.edu. lucastheatre.com

John Conlee

John Conlee is a regular performer at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville and is best known for his song “Rose Colored Glasses.”

3 p.m.

Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street.

912-725-1118

Mississippi Vegan Four-Course Brunch Pop-Up

Mississippi Vegan comes to Savanna for a special four-course brunch pop-up featuring Timmy’s recipes utilizing local, organic produce and foraged ingredients.

10 a.m.

Fox & Fig, 321 Habersham St. 912-297-6759

MONDAY 8. 5 Hungry for History?: Tomochichi: Friend and Ally of the Georgia Colony Much remains unknown about how Tomochichi and the Yamacraws came to occupy Yamacraw Bluff as a community apart from the Creek nation. Roger Smith tells the story of a friendship with much larger implications.

3:30 p.m.

Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

Free and open to the public

Odd Lot Improv: Monday Night Madness

An improv comedy show in the style of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”

8 p.m.

The Loft on Liberty, 215 W. Liberty St. $5 oddlotimprov@gmail.com. oddlot.lol

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Smoke and mirrors of another election year

BY JIM MOREKIS

jim@connectsavannah.com

WE ARE now entering the Silly Season — election year for the City of Savannah — when nothing is quite as it seems, and when you should keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

For example, City officials are now boasting of a “tax cut” they are delivering just in time to become a part of their reelection campaigns.

But a closer look shows that it’s not what most of us might call an actual tax cut — including the state of Georgia, for one.

The expected downward adjustment of the City property tax millage rate from 13.8 to about 12.8 is actually a “rollback” as defined by state law.

The one-percent SPLOST is renewed by Chatham County voters every six years, and is up for renewal again this November, along with all seats on City Council.

That raises the stakes considerably, as the City of Savannah has become more or less totally dependent on SPLOST funds – its second-highest source of revenue after general City sales tax.

The political, pork-barrel nature of SPLOST is well-known, and was even a topic of frank discussion at last week’s City Council meeting.

The most obvious examples of this are the various community centers in each Alderman’s district. There looks to be five of these centers set to receive about $20 million in total funding – something a sitting City Council member can point to in their district as a reason to re-elect them.

This is essentially a euphemism for privately-held properties, mostly in West Savannah, which are to be purchased by the City through eminent domain.

Where are those properties?

You guessed it: in the area of the new Savannah Arena.

So while this round of SPLOST was supposedly not going to involve the Arena at all — a project which dominated the last round of SPLOST — we can see that, arguably, about a third of this round of SPLOST will also go to assist the Arena project.

Not all the news is bad of course, and credit should be given where it’s due.

City Council added a million dollars at the last minute to help fund the exciting “Tide to Town” urban trail system to enhance connectivity — sort of a mini version of the Atlanta Beltline, if you will.

The truth is that this election year “tax cut” will actually result in a higher tax rate than the City had just a year ago!

The new rollback millage rate will be above the rate from early 2018, prior to the Fire Fee fiasco.

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In other words, because of increased tax revenue, the City is adopting a specially calculated formula to balance the millage rate with the increase in revenue.

If City Council doesn’t adopt the lower, rollback rate, they are bound by state law to call the former millage rate a tax hike, and hold a series of public hearings about it — which they really, really don’t want to have to do in an election year.

(Rollback legislation in state law is intended to keep local governments from instituting a so-called “back door tax hike,” i.e., keeping the tax rate the same but increasing assessed property values.)

The truth is that this election year “tax cut” will actually result in a higher tax rate than the City had just a year ago!

You’ll recall that in the wake of the failure of the Fire Fee to pass, City Council raised property taxes last summer to the current 13.8 mill rate.

The new rollback “tax cut” — assuming City Council passes it — will actually be a higher millage than the pre-Fire Fee rate of 12.48 from early 2018.

The finalized list of projects to be funded by the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) is another example of the need to be wary of smoke and mirrors.

To be fair, City Council wisely evaluated that this round of SPLOST might not pass at all unless more attention is paid to vital infrastructure issues — the actual reason behind SPLOST in the first place, back in the mid-1980s.

However, when you look at some of those expenditures, you also have to wonder.

For example, no one would begrudge low-lying, economically disadvantaged West Savannah getting more relief from their constant flooding concerns.

So at first glance, the planned $45 million for the first phase of improvements on the Springfield Canal would seem to be a worthy investment.

But consider that in practice the Springfield Canal improvement will likely have the most impact on assisting the new Westside Arena/Canal District plan — itself already a huge sponge soaking up SPLOST funds.

A series of private developments in the area, including the one which will raze most of the historic Seaboard Freight Station, are probably prime beneficiaries of that $45 million in public money.

Another example: $10 million of SPLOST is set to go toward “City-Wide Blighted Property Acquisition and Redevelopment.”

They are kicking in $2.5 million for Grayson Stadium improvements, in the wake of the facility’s dramatically increased usage due to the runaway success of the Savannah Bananas.

Traffic calming has finally gotten on the City’s radar, as evidenced by the long-overdue but very welcome set of speed humps on 52nd Street between Bee and Waters, something residents have been begging for literally for decades.

In this round of SPLOST, one-way streets such as Whitaker and Drayton are set to be converted to two-way traffic.

At the core of the entire discussion of SPLOST, however, is the essential imbalance. The City of Savannah, by far the largest population base and largest economic driver in the county, by agreement only receives 39 percent of the total take from SPLOST over the six years.

Chatham County itself — not including the several other municipalities in it other than Savannah — receives about 28 percent of the take. Meanwhile, the county’s fastest growing municipality, Pooler, only gets 6.4 percent.

For SPLOST to continue to have majority support of the voters, it seems that the formula will have to be renegotiated in future installments. cs

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BY JEFF RAYNO NOBODY likes to pay taxes. The only consolation we may have is that everyone has to do it, and we’re hopefully all paying our fair share.

The anger is created when cracks appear in this system.

We have seen incompetence on the side of taxing authorities, favoritism for acquaintances, and good old-fashioned corruption. Sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint the reason for a lack of uniformity, but we inherently know it just isn’t right.

A document from the Faith, Justice and Truth Project was published on June 11, 2019, entitled: “Georgia Sales Tax Erosion: Big Retailers Are Not Paying Their Fair Share.”

Consider this: The report looked at Chatham County’s five Walmart stores and took information from Chatham County’s Comprehensive Annual Finance Report (CAFR).

In the period from 2008-2017, Walmart’s composite assessed value only increased by 11%. Oddly, other commercial composite values in Chatham County increased by 49%.

If Walmart had increased in value by 49%, then that would have translated into $23 million more in assessed value.

It begs the question, why is there such a disparity?

More curious are the cases of Gwinnett County and Cherokee County. In Gwinnett, the ten stores studied had a composite decline in value of 42%, but other commercial properties declined by 5%.

What is there about Walmart properties that make them lose value so quickly in comparison to other businesses? If Walmart had only a 5% loss in valuation, it would have brought $80 million more in valuation into the county coffers.

In Cherokee County the contrast is even more eye opening. The Comprehensive Annual Finance Report showed the composite of four stores declining in value by 17%, but the commercial sector in the county grew by 21%.

Again, even the most ardent Walmart supporter would have to wonder what was happening here. The net result in lost taxation for Cherokee County would be $20 million more in valuation.

All 159 counties across the state of Georgia are in desperate needs of funds to repair and upgrade infrastructure, provide affordable housing and recover from two major hurricanes that went through the area.

If they had access to this kind of reserve funding, it would have helped immensely.

It would also relieve the governments of over-taxing residential properties as a means of balancing their fragile budgets.

This is only one part of the “Walmart Conundrum.” In Part 2 of this inquiry, the report will claim that Walmart has not collected sales tax properly under the Internet Sales Tax Law that went into effect in 2018.

As a result, a third-party provider can sell on Walmart.com and there is no way for the person buying to pay a sales tax using the website. That means losses of sales tax in Georgia close to $82 million or more.

While the report only looked at Walmart and Etsy, one has to wonder what is happening over at Amazon.

Uniform taxation is the law of the land in Georgia, and under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, we have a duty to ask our representatives to look into this situation and correct it.

It is a prime example (no pun intended) of how state and local officials can work together on a revenue plan that levels the playing field on the commercial sector.

For mom and pop operations that run their own e-commerce sites, it takes away the unfair advantage some third-party stores had hiding under the Walmart umbrella. Everybody would collect sales tax and pay their fair share.

Big-box stores and corporations have happy faces, but behind them are lawyers who are not afraid to come down hard on any opposition from governments to their current tax payment strategies.

It will be a very public and very vicious battle. If the big-box stores lose, their prices might not be falling so much, but it is possible your tax bill will fall.

In that case, be sure to tell Walmart to have a nice day. They’ll need a reason to smile. CS Jeff Rayno is a recovering politician who doesn’t need an app to age. He does it every day organically, and he enjoys every step of the journey. He is also President of Stop Taxing Our People. Call 912-507-1901 or email Jeffrayno@ aol.com for more info.

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Congressman Carter’s performance casts grave doubts

BY DAVID KYLER LIKE MANY coastal Georgians, I was disturbed to learn that our Congressional representative, Buddy Carter, has reversed his pledge to stand against offshore drilling along our coast.

After saying he would uphold the position taken by the General Assembly in an official resolution opposing it, Carter then contradicted that promise by casting votes supporting the environmentally hazardous activities.

Many are perplexed that Rep. Carter

fundamentally flawed by compromised motives, indicating either extremely poor judgment, woefully deficient understanding, or outright deception.

According to press reports, Carter said he wants to allow offshore exploration and drilling everywhere in the Atlantic except along Georgia’s coast.

Yet, spills from operations in areas adjacent to South Carolina or Florida could readily contaminate coastal Georgia when sludge is transported by ocean currents.

Carter’s simplistic belief that our interests can be protected merely by exempting drilling areas off of Georgia’s coast reveals his fundamental ignorance of the functions and importance of complex marine ecosystems, not to mention our region’s dependent on them for recreational and

conspicuously silent about such factors in relation to the missions, budgets, and strategic readiness of Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield.

In fact, Carter’s vacillating opinion about the need to address human activities as the cause of climate disruption – despite compelling scientific proof and widely validated concerns – further substantiates serious doubts about the congressman’s comprehension and/or motives.

Another disconcerting example indicating Carter’s incompetency or politically compromised motives is his woefully misleading report about a recent tour of U.S. immigration facilities along the Mexican border, which depicted those detention centers in glowing terms – directly contradicting official evaluation by federal

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After saying he would uphold the position to oppose offshore drilling taken by the General Assembly, Carter then contradicted that promise.

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would betray his constituents by defying their clearly stated desire to protect Georgia’s ocean shores, tourism, quality-of-life and fisheries from the destruction of oil spills.

The congressman claims that his position has been consistent, because the measures on which he voted did not allow exemptions for one or another state, so he unconditionally supported exploring and developing U.S. offshore energy supplies.

But, especially in light of Rep. Carter’s membership on the esteemed House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, this position is indefensible because longendorsed scientific evidence overwhelmingly concludes that this crisis is primarily caused by the combustion of fossil fuels, which is a major source of heat-trapping greenhouse gases (GHGs).

Despite that, Carter continues to state his conviction that all energy options “should be on the table.”

Similarly, Carter’s participation in a June fund-raiser for him at the Capitol Hill Club, promoted as an “Oil & Gas Breakfast,” suggests a troubling conflict of interests that conspicuously violates his pledge to coastal Georgians.

The timing of that ill-considered event is also noteworthy, since it occurred soon before his controversial votes were cast in support of offshore oil exploration.

Even the congressman’s attempt to justify his offshore-drilling votes seems

commercial activities, quality of life, and protections provided by healthy tidal marshes that are vitally linked to the marine environment.

Moreover, contamination and degradation of national marine resources by fossilfuels – related to exploration, drilling, and GHG-emitting combustion – is a fundamental danger to both U.S. food supplies and coastal economic interests. Yet Carter seems to be unaware of, or defiant about, these realities.

Another realm of the congressman’s malfeasance and perplexing negligence has direct relevance to the importance of U.S. military operations in Georgia’s coastal district. Since 2003 the U.S. Department of Defense has advised federal officials, including the president, about serious threats to America’s national security posed by climate change.

The apparent absence of this fundamentally important reality in Carter’s thinking is especially troubling because the Pentagon has included climate-change impacts in defense planning for many years. DoD has repeatedly reported that the impacts of climate change are likely to increase the frequency, scale, and complexity of future missions.

Rather than acknowledging this overwhelming evidence by calling for actions to protect our military capabilities and national interest by reducing greenhousegas emissions, Rep. Carter has been

officials and numerous well-documented news reports.

Rep. Carter seems to be blithely unaware that the Inspector General of Homeland Security has issued a scathing report condemning those same facilities for unsanitary, deplorable conditions that violate basic, internationally-recognized human rights, that were – until now – exalted by the U.S. In general, for whatever reasons, Congressman Carter seems to be disturbingly incapable of objective observations, clear thinking, and analytical accuracy.

Not only is Carter’s competency in question, but these examples of his faulty performance cast grave doubt on his ability to exercise – and reliably act upon – independent judgment, beyond the reach of the dominant influence of his party’s dictates as well as related fossil-fuel industry and other corporate interests, whose campaign contributions are notoriously extravagant.

Accordingly, coastal Georgians are justifiably troubled because evidence strongly suggests that Rep. Carter’s ability to understand and dependably serve the public interest is seriously impaired. CS David Kyler is the executive director of Center for a Sustainable Coast, on St. Simons Island, Ga.

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SPD names new Assistant Chief

Savannah Police Chief Roy Minter announced Friday that current Maj. Lenny Gunther has been selected as the second assistant chief for the police department.

“Effective Aug. 4, Gunther will begin his role as assistant chief of the department’s Field Operations Bureau, heading the department’s efforts and initiatives to continuously reduce crime,” the department said in a statement.

Also recently named Assistant Chief was Stephenie Price, a 20-year veteran of the Kansas City (Mo.) Police Department who joined SPD in April. She leads the department’s Administrative and Management Operations Bureau.

“Maj. Gunther is 19-year veteran of the Savannah Police Department who knows our community and has the respect of the rank-and-file,” Chief Roy Minter said. “I am excited to be able to fill this position with someone with the experience, integrity and leadership skills that Maj. Gunther brings to the position.”

Gunther joined SPD in 2001 after serving eight years in the Army. He holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and a master’s degree in business organizational security management. He is a graduate of Leadership Savannah, the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s Leadership in Police Organizations Course, and the FBI National Academy.

During his time at SPD, Gunther has served in the Crime Suppression Unit, the Homicide Unit, Training Unit, Internal Affairs, Savannah Area Regional Intelligence Center, Gang and Gun Investigations Unit, Violent Crimes Task Force, End Gun Violence Initiative, and as the captain over the Southside Precinct. He is currently the major in charge of the Criminal Investigations Division.

Gunther will officially be sworn in at a ceremony at 2 p.m. Aug. 2 at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center.

Savannah Police seek Entering Auto, Auto Theft suspects

Savannah Police Southside Precinct detectives are requesting the community’s assistance identifying two suspects in an entering auto and auto theft investigation.

On Saturday, July 13, officers responded to a residence on Montclair Boulevard in regards to a vehicle that was entered and another that was stolen. The incident is suspected to have occurred the evening of July 12. The entered vehicle was left unlocked and the spare key to the stolen vehicle was inside the unlocked vehicle.

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The stolen vehicle was later recovered.

The suspects are described as black males in their 20s.

Savannah Police seek suspect in gas station wallet theft

Savannah Police Southside Precinct detectives are requesting the community’s assistance identifying a suspect who stole a wallet at a gas station earlier this month.

The incident took place around 2:15 p.m. on July 12, inside the BP gas station on the 10400 block of Abercorn Street. Surveillance footage captured video of the victim placing their wallet on the counter and a female suspect taking the wallet and exiting the business.

The suspect is described as a middleaged black female with blonde dreads.

During the incident, she wore a black headband, white and blue, striped shirt, jeans and black sandals.

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Sometimes a routine traffic stop (in this case, for an expired license plate) is the most interesting incident in a cop’s day. So it was on July 10 for Guthrie, Oklahoma, police officers. Around 11 a.m., they stopped a car driven by Stephen Jennings, 40, who had a friend, Rachael Rivera, 30, in the front seat, and a timber rattlesnake in a terrarium on the back seat. Jennings told police he had a gun in the car at about the same time they identified the car as stolen, reported KFOR. Upon further search, officers found an open bottle of whiskey (next to the gun) and a container of “yellowish powder” labeled “uranium.” “The uranium is the wild card in that situation,” Guthrie Police Sgt. Anthony Gibbs explained.

Jennings told police he was trying to create a “super snake” with the radioactive uranium. Charges for Jennings included possession of a stolen vehicle and transporting an open bottle of liquor. Because it was rattlesnake season, his valid hunting and fishing license absolved him of any charges related to the snake. Police are still trying to figure out what charges might be brought regarding the uranium.

Right Under Their Noses

Capitol Police in Montpelier, Vermont, discovered dozens of cannabis plants

growing in the flower beds along a walkway at the Statehouse on July 8. Police Chief Matthew Romei told NBC5 that it was unclear whether the more than 30 plants were marijuana or hemp, and they don’t know who planted them. But since there is no criminal case, officials don’t plan to have the plants tested. “It’s legal to cultivate, but there are limits on where you can do it, and the Statehouse flower beds certainly aren’t one of those permissible sites,” Romei said. “If there is a typical Vermont story, this is probably it.”

Secondhand High

Dr. Scott Dolginow, owner of Valley Emergency Pet Care in Basalt, Colorado, has noticed a new trend among his dog patients. He told The Aspen Times on July 11 that he’s seeing three to 10 dogs a week in his veterinary office with marijuana toxicity. No, they’re not toking alongside their owners around the fire pit. Dolginow’s theory is the dogs are eating human feces while on trails or camping with their owners and getting a secondhand buzz. Pet owner Rebecca Cole said her dog, Marty, started staggering, vomiting and urinating on the floor after hiking with her on a trail last spring. Cole took Marty to the vet, where “they said he was high. I couldn’t believe it because

I don’t have anything in my house.”

Dolginow said, “Most dogs will eat human feces given the opportunity.”

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-- When not just any old Motel 6 will do, check into The Haneda Excel Hotel Tokyu, near Tokyo’s airport, and ask for the “Superior Cockpit Room.” Along with two beds, a bathroom and a table, the room features a full Boeing 737-800 flight simulator that offers guests the experience of piloting a full-size jet. According to United Press International, the room rents for $234 per night, but for a 90-minute simulator session with an expert, guests will have to cough up another $277. (The simulator can’t be used without supervision.)

The room became available for booking on July 18.

-- Gen. Charles Etienne Gudin, one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s “favorite generals,” was killed by a cannonball on Aug. 22, 1812, during the failed French invasion of Russia. Posthumously, he got the star treatment -- a street named after him in Paris, his name carved on the Arc de Triomphe, and his heart removed and brought home to be placed in a Paris cemetery chapel. But on July 6, Reuters reported, a team of archaeologists found what they believe are his remains buried

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(ironically) beneath the foundation of a dance floor in Smolensk, Russia. Their first clue? Gudin had lost one of his legs below the knee in battle, and indeed the skeleton was missing its left leg. Scientists will compare the skeleton’s DNA with living descendants of Gudin’s to confirm their suspicions.

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In Turkey’s new Istanbul Airport, a first-time flyer had to be rescued on July 10 after she assumed the conveyor belt carrying luggage to the baggage sorting room was her path to the plane. The unnamed woman, juggling a carry-on and a shopping bag, stepped carefully up to the moving belt at the airport check-in and tried to climb on, but lost her balance and took a tumble. The Sun reported that airport personnel were quick to stop the conveyor belt and help her off.

Questionable Judgment

A. Janus Yeager, 49, of Dixon, Illinois, was arrested on July 9 as she motored toward home with an inflated kiddie pool on the roof of her SUV. CBS2 Chicago reported that Dixon police officers pulled Yeager over after being alerted that there were two children in the pool. Yeager told police she took the pool to a friend’s house

to inflate it, then had her daughters ride inside it “to hold it down on their drive home.” Yeager was charged with two counts of endangering the health or life of a child and two counts of reckless conduct.

Bright Idea

People in the United Arab Emirates depend heavily on expensive desalination for drinking water. But an Emirati businessman has a novel idea for providing fresh water to the Arabian gulf. Abdulla Alshehi wants to borrow an iceberg from Antarctica, EuroNews reported in May. For six years, Alshehi has been working on a plan to tow an iceberg, as much as 1.25 miles long and a third of a mile wide, the entire 5,500 miles to the UAE coast. He estimates the journey will take 10 months and the iceberg may lose about 30% of its mass, but Alshehi believes its presence could provide drinking water to about 1 million people for about five years. And that’s not all. “It’s expected that the presence of these icebergs may cause a weather pattern change (and) attract more rain to the region,” he said. A trial run this year will move a smaller iceberg, at a cost of $60 million to $80 million. Alshehi believes the cost of the larger project will be between $100 million and $150 million.

and ordered him to hit the floor, which he did. “I said, ‘Dude, what are you doing?’”

Nearly a year after chef Xiu Bin Wang, Adams told the Tampa Bay Times. Adams 33, was found dead in his room above held the man, Miguel Otero-Rivera, 49, at China Chef carryout restaurant in Brockgunpoint until police arrived, who arrested enhurst, Hampshire, England, police are him and charged him with burglary. When still trying to figure out how he died, Metro police led Otero-Rivera out, he told the News reported. He apparently suffered a pastor, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” For his part, “forceful blow” to the head, and officials Adams was just glad no one was hurt. “I first fingered Zhu Long Guo, a colleague at never thought I’d pull a gun on someone,” the restaurant who admitted to striking he said. “Hope the gentleman gets the help Wang with a ladle during an altercation. “A that he needs.” CS ladle was seized, and there was a thorough COPYRIGHT 2018 ANDREWS investigation,” Detective Constable Brad MCMEEL SYNDICATION Wanless reported at an inquest on July 11.

But the coroner could not make a definite determination: “I do not accept that there is a clear causal link between the admitted blow with the ladle and the death of Mr. Wang,” senior coroner Grahame Short concluded.

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Anna Chandler & crew play a farewell show. PHOTO BY ANDREW VON GOELLNER

GOODBYE FOR NOW, NANCY DRUID Anna Chandler set for move, but promises future local gigs

as a piece, and we’re just at, like, 10 tracks.

Which I think might be the sweet spot, but sean@connectsavannah.com I kind of want to see if anything else comes out. And when it feels right, we’ll go ahead and start recording,” she says.

SAVANNAH’S BELOVED Anna ChanThe songs have been in the works dler, a staple in the local music scene for since winter of last year, which was a many years, is saying farewell for the time particularly fruitful period for Chandler being. creatively.

She’s heading up to South Carolina to “The winter is a really productive time be closer to family, but will still be focusfor me, writing-wise,” she says. “I guess ing heavily on finishing up projects with things kind of slow down in Savannah in her two stellar bands, Nancy Druid and terms of shows. I’m a big fan of staying at COEDS. She’ll be having a bit of a going home, cozying up, and just writing. There’s away party August 2 at El Rocko, alongside something about that time of year where an incredible lineup.

I’m always really productive. I guess it’s “It’s the last show on the books at the kind of a hibernation.” moment,” she tells Connect.

Environment, Chandler says, plays a big “I’ll be moving back to the Carolinas part in what she writes and what direction in mid-August. We’ll definitely be back in a song can go in. town to play some more, but right now this “I think for me, it’s also the days being the last Nancy Druid show for a moment. shorter. Thinking about it now, I do coop But when fall comes back around, we’ll be up and write around that time, but I got right back at it.” my kayak around November so I was being Nancy Druid will, indeed, live on while really active and I was camping a lot. Going Chandler makes her move up to the Carosolo camping is always really helpful to me, linas. In fact, they’re planning lots of new just to get out and sit in silence. Sometimes material for the El Rocko show.

I journal, or sometimes I come back and The new material, she says, feels journal and songs come out of it,” she says. extremely cohesive and she’s hoping her “There’s a lot of the woods, a lot of walknew surroundings will help to inspire the ing through dark places alone. I think a lot direction of the songs even more. of it was camping alone in the woods and “I kind of want to take some time with just being alone in the sounds,” Chandler those songs. They feel really cohesive to me says.

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“I like camping alone a lot because it strikes up this really carnal fear. You can hear the animals rustling around you, and you really get in that survival mode. I think that’s a large theme on this album, not just in that way but also in terms of self preservation.”

The new Nancy Druid songs, she says, will be a good bit darker than the band’s previous efforts, and the lyrical content is significantly heavier.

“This new album is darker, and it’s a little more murky. The guitars are a little more angular. Greg Rettig has been playing guitar for me, and he’s got sort of a post rock/hardcore background,” she says.

“We played all the new ones back to back the other day, so we could sit with them for a minute. That was the first time I noticed the thread running through it,” Chandler says.

“There’s this vibe of self-preservation, there’s a fighter mentality, and there’s an aggression. I think it was coming from where I was at the time, but also a lot of what I was reading and what was going on in the world.” CS

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MUSIC FEATURE Nick Yaquinto performs during 2018 SVF

Maria Zouves and Education & Outreach Coordinator Chad Sonka gearing up for inaugural 5K

Co-founder Maria Zouves talks details on 2019 season

BY SEAN KELLY

sean@connectsavannah.com

FOR ALMOST two decades now, the Savannah VOICE Festival has been a mainstay in the city and become a major part of the arts culture in Savannah. This year’s season, which starts August 3, is no exception and promises a diverse and exciting offering of opera, musical theater, and pop.

This year’s unique season is titled ‘Heaven and Earth,’ and celebrates “the two realms in which we live, with shows about what’s beyond our physical nature as well as the earthly temptations of our humanity,” according to a press release.

It will be the festival’s seventh year partnering with the Westin Savannah Harbor as their venue.

Ahead of the launch of the three-week season, we spoke to co-founder Maria Zouves.

For those unfamiliar with VOICE Festival, explain what it’s all about.

Zouves: The thing about the festival that is so hard to say in an elevator pitch is that it’s not one thing. It’s a combination of things. The best way to describe it is that we serve the general good of vocal arts.

That means training singers from high school level on up through professional career, to audience development, to music development. We’re now writing our own opera. We’ve been saying lately that our capillaries are growing!

Now we have a new partnership with Hospice Savannah, working on music therapy. We have a memorandum of understanding with the Chatham County school systems. Our training programs are now seeing this wonderful evolution of the artists, who were with us 19 years ago, coming back as professional artists to star in our operas. It’s a one stop shop.

What’s the idea behind this year’s theme? I know there are some new and exciting elements this time around.

Zouves: I love the theme—it’s ‘Heaven and Earth.’ It’s kind of easy to see why we came up with that. Often times what I’ll do is I’ll look at artists we have who we’re nurturing. With deciding to do “The Little Prince” about basically this spaceman who comes down to earth, to “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” all the way to “I Pagliacci”— which is about earthy delights and temptations—you’ve got this duality of who we are as humans. We’re spiritual and yet we’re a slave to our desires. And I thought, “Well, it is heaven and earth.” This is who we are.

As singers, we’re the embodiment of our art and then you have the physicality of singing.

So on top of everything we’re doing, we’re holding a 5K! Why? Because sports and art are the same. All of this duality really lends itself to the theme.

That’s really amazing.

Zouves: We always have these talking points, and it’s like, “Okay, everybody.

We’re here in this moment. Let’s be mindful of it. Let’s not look ahead, let’s not look

There are some non-operatic elements in this year’s programming. A Frank Sinatra tribute, and a “Music of the 60s and 70s” show as well, to name just a couple. Tell me about that side of it.

Zouves: ‘Heaven and Earth’ is about the dichotomy, so you’ve got both spans. You take the rubber band and you pull it. We felt the music had to as well, so we’re going in a very esoteric direction with the operas.

“Dialogues of the Carmelites” is about as sophisticated and emotional as you can get. The composer wanted it done in the language of the audience, so it’ll be in English. It’s very much about life and death.

I thought, “This is perfect. We can swing that pendulum all the way in the other direction.”

We’re doing “Forever Plaid,” which is a review of the 1950s hits and barbershop pieces. It’s a fantastic show. And then you’ve got Frank Sinatra, and then the rock and roll 70s pieces. That’s a lot! I could do five years of just the 1970s and I wouldn’t run out of music. These singers are so diverse, so beautiful, and so talented. They love that repertoire. CS

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behind. Let’s just be in this moment and make music, and give our audiences something to be excited about.” Not just the music on the stage, but the process.

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Country legend John Conlee rolls on Songwriter and Grand Ole Opry member chats about music and the industry

BY SEAN KELLY

sean@connectsavannah.com

JOHN CONLEE has had an amazing career. Since the 70s, Conlee has delivered a consistent string of hits in the country music world—either as a singer, songwriter, or both. Best known for his songs “Lady Lay Down,” “Backside of Thirty,” and “Got My Heart Set On You,” Conlee is an artist who continues to tour and make records for the pure joy and love of his art.

Conlee is set to play the Mars Theatre in Springfield on Sun., August 4, and we chatted with him ahead of the show about his career and the country music industry.

You started playing when you were young, but you didn’t actually start out pursuing music on a career level— you were a mortician, right?

Conlee: That’s right. I was raised on a farm, so I made a living doing that during my growing up years. I went from that to the funeral profession, from there to radio, and from radio to music as a career. Music was always my main hobby growing up. It was the first thing I remember being attracted to as a kid, and it’d still be a hobby had it not turned into a career.

So at what point did you decide to really pursue music?

Conlee: Not until I got to Nashville—my last job in broadcasting, I spent seven of my nine years in broadcasting living in Nashville. Only when I’d been in town here in Nashville for three or four years did I start to write seriously and, in my spare time, pitch those things around

Then it just evolved into the opportunity to record.

Do you remember the first song you would’ve pitched around?

Conlee: Not really [laughs]. Nothing I pitched got picked up by anybody. They seldom were too interested in the song, but they always wanted to know who was singing. I was doing my own demos—I’d do simple demos with the guitar and my voice in the production room at the radio station. So they always wanted to know who was singing, but nobody was jumping up and down going, “Hey, let’s go into a studio and record” right off the bat.

It’s never over night; that’s my point. It took several years for a breakthrough.

That’s something a lot of people don’t realize: It takes a long time no matter who you are.

Conlee: It does. It’s never overnight. People pop up out of seemingly nowhere, but invariably they’ve been at it in some form or another for years and years to get to that point.

Did you have those periods of frustration when it wasn’t happening, where you questioned whether it was something you still wanted to pursue?

Conlee: Well, I was doing it because I loved it to begin with. That’s what I tell people— if you’ve got to do it because you love it, then you’re not wasting your time whether it ever works out commercially or not. So this would still be my hobby—I’d be singing around the house instead of onstage somewhere, had it not worked out into a career. I just got satisfaction out of doing music.

Sure, there are frustrations along the way when you’re pitching songs. “Rose Colored Glasses” was the fourth [single] release before it hit. The other three didn’t make. But that’s not unusual either, for it to fail before it succeeds.

The industry has changed immensely over even just the last twenty years. Do you like where you’re at in your career now—making records and touring for the love of it, and for your fans?

Conlee: Oh, absolutely. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. If I were just freshly arrived into Nashville, I probably wouldn’t pursue trying to become an artist in today’s music because I don’t relate to today’s music for the most part.

I terribly miss distinctive, crafted songs with distinctive melodies. I just wouldn’t be interested in doing it the way that people are forced to do it. They’re basically under the control of labels and industry people more than ever. There’s no artistry in that to me.

The funny thing is, I think what you do would be considered “too country” in the industry today. Which is a bizarre thing to say about country music.

Conlee: Oh, I know. Bill Anderson wrote a great song about that a few years back!

On the other side of the coin, the reason that it perpetuates itself the way it does is because some of the people doing the new music have an audience and some of them are filling stadiums. And that’s fine! Go for it. But I’m not interested [laughs]. CS

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MUSIC INTERVIEW

Donna Frost Singer and songwriter performs at First Friday folk series

BY SEAN KELLY

sean@connectsavannah.com

SINGER AND songwriter Donna Frost is on a musical journey. She’s made it her life’s work for decades now, having grown up in a musical family and learned instruments from a young age. She’s released a number of critically acclaimed albums and regularly tours throughout the country, but more recently she’s decided to use music as a force for good—working with foundations and organizations to spread positivity through art.

Frost is set to perform on Thurs., August 2 at First Presbyterian Church Stewart Hall, for the Savannah Folk Music Society’s “First Friday for Folk Music” series.

Ahead of her performance, we talked with Frost about her career so far and what it means to use her art to its fullest potential.

How did you get into music?

Frost: I grew up in a musical family, and my family sang gospel music. They were traveling on weekends before I was born, so they took off two weeks before I was born and two weeks after. I was in the car with them, going on gigs with my parents!

So whenever I was old enough to start singing, I did. My Aunt Mary was a piano player for them, and she also worked at RCA with Chet Atkins before marrying Felton Jarvis, who was Elvis’ producer.

When I was a kid, my aunt paid for me to take piano lessons. I bought a piano with my own money, and then took up guitar when I was 11. And of course, like everybody else, I grew up during Beatlemania. I remember watching them on Ed Sullivan and saying, “I want to do that.” I started taking guitar lessons when I was 11, and I’d go into my room after school and play along to my records. Stuff like Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins, James Taylor, Carly Simon. On top of Beatles and all of that. All of that was my influence. Jim Croce especially, because he was a storyteller. I wanted to be a storyteller kind of songwriter—I wasn’t interested in being a Music Row songwriter like most people aspire to be.

had our trials. So I try to give people some hope and encouragement [through music].

On that subject, I was intrigued by the work you’ve done with organizations like Music For Seniors. What has that been like, using music in this really fulfilling and sometimes therapeutic way?

Frost: Music For Seniors is based out of Nashville, and we do outreach programs to senior communities. I do about five or six programs for them per month, and a lot of my audiences for those are memory care.

Alzheimer’s and dementia patients. I see miracles daily when I play for these groups, because the old songs that you play for them connect with them. They can remember every word, even when they don’t know their name or who you are. When you start The thing that I love about all of that playing, it turns a switch on. music is the poetry in the lyricism.

I used to be with Musicians On Call, Even the protest songs from people like Joan Baez—it wasn’t aggressive, it was which went to hospital rooms and I’d play powerful and poetic. Do you find your- for patients there. I’d write songs for terminally ill kids, too. I have always been about self exploring those lyrical avenues? doing outreach programs, but in the last How do you approach the subjects you 10 or 15 years I’ve realized that I needed take on? to be doing something with my music to Frost: Nowadays, a lot of my songs come give back besides just putting it out there. from adventures on the road. There are a I wanted to do something to make a differlot of positive songs about life and getting ence in people’s lives and help others. CS older. My songs cover everything—people I meet or things that I’ve experienced in dif- Donna Frost @Savannah Folk Music Society’s ferent parts of the country. It’s Americana, First Friday For Folk Musician you know? I’ve overcome a bunch of things First Presbyterian Church Stewart Hall Thurs., August 2, 7:30 P.M., $5 suggested in life. Sometimes it would read like a bad country song if I wrote it out, but we’ve all donation

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Star Period Star @THE JINX

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Star Period Star is a band that has been fighting the good fight since 1994, with their signature brand of progressive post rock. The band has been likened to Sonic Youth and King Crimson, and the comparisons are certainly spot on.

They’re a really singular band with an incredible collection of songs spanning decades, and they’re not to be missed. They’ll be joined alongside Identikit and Hey, Chroma.

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Mississippi based rockers Magnolia Moon take cues from the greatest rock trailblazers in history, including bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. It’s a vintage-sounding, hard hitting musical experience that has made this band one to watch in the South. Don’t miss their Savannah show at Barrelhouse.

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TV Pole Shine is an amazingly unique and intriguing band. The New Orleans group features a drummer, percussionist, euphonium player, two sax players, a guitarist and a keyboardist. If that doesn’t pull you in immediately, you’ll be interested to know that they refer to their genre as “spasm funk.” That should be more than enough to let you know that you’re in for something really incredible.

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LIsten 2 Three @CONGRESS STREET SOCIAL CLUB

Local trio Listen 2 Three brings their mix of rock, blues and soul to Congress Street. The band formed in 2006 and has been touring nonstop ever since, winning over rock music fans in the process. Their debut album was released in 2009 and they continue to actively create and perform for audiences all across the East Coast.

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Tijuana Flats Gary Strickland, 6:30 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Claire Frazier and Steven Bryan, 7 p.m.

The Warehouse Eric Culberson, Rachael Shaner Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) 8 Mile Bend Duo The Wormhole Lilakk, Derpot, 9 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC

TRIVIA & GAMES

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

Coach’s Corner Trivia Dub’s Pub Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

The Jinx Human Jukebox Trivia, 10 p.m.

Service Brewing Company Trivia Night with Daniel, 6:30 p.m.

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

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

World of Beer Trivia, 7 p.m.

KARAOKE

Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

DJ

Little Lucky’s DJ and Karaoke

THURSDAY 8. 1 LIVE MUSIC

Bay Street Blues Hitman Blues Band Bayou Cafe Eric Culberson Band, 9 p.m.

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt, 6 p.m.

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

The Flying Fish Anne Allman and Michael Moody, 6:30 p.m.

Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant The Rod Brown Quartet, 7 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Seth Brand Duo, 7 p.m.

The Jinx DJs Kut Daily, Cristo, Durrty Martinez, Presyce, 9 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m.

The Perch at Local 11 ten Cyril Durant PS Tavern Live Music Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Gypsy Jazz, 7 p.m.

An intimate 100-seat venue featuring national touring artists.

TRIVIA & GAMES

PS Tavern Beer Pong Tournament, 10 p.m.

KARAOKE

Bay Street Blues Karaoke Blueberry Hill Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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

COMEDY

The Loft on Liberty Odd Lot Improv: Friday Funnies, 8 p.m.

Havana Nights: Gino Castillo & the Cuban Cowboys @VICTORY NORTH

Gino Castillo & the Cuban Cowboys take the Victory North stage for Havana Nights, a new monthly event featuring dancing and salsa music. Castillo is an award-winning percussionist whose band has garnered critical acclaim, and it’s sure to become a popular night in town as the residency progresses.

WED., AUGUST 7, 9 P.M., $20 Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m.

The Shrimp Factory Ford Natirboff Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Top Deck James Lee Smith, 6:30 p.m., James Lee Smith, 6:30 p.m.

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

Wild Wing Cafe Matt Hill, 7 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Josh Johansson The Wormhole Karaoke Night at The Wormhole, 10 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

B & D Burgers (Congress St.) Pop Culture Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

McDonough’s Trivia, 7 p.m.

Pour Larry’s Explicit Trivia, 10 p.m.

Southbound Brewing Company Riddle Me This?, 7:30 p.m.

KARAOKE

Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m.

The Jinx Karaoke, 10 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Rusty Rudders Tap House Karaoke World of Beer Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Wormhole Karaoke, 9 p.m.

COMEDY

Totally Awesome Bar Totally Open Mic, 8 p.m.

DJ

Little Lucky’s DJ and Karaoke Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Stafford’s Public House Open Mic, 9 p.m.

FRIDAY 8. 2 LIVE MUSIC

Barrelhouse South Magnolia Moon, 9 p.m.

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt, 6 p.m.

Club Elan Jantsen, DMVU, 9 p.m.

Dub’s Pub Voodoo Soup, 8 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge Nancy Druid, Bro Diddley and The Hips, Jezebel Heart, 9 p.m.

Foxy Loxy Shannon Labrie, 7 p.m.

Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant The Milkshake Quintet, 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Hextones, 9 p.m.

The Jinx Identikit, Star Period Star, Hey Chroma, 9 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m.

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Greg Williams Molly McGuire’s Squish Man Boogie Crew, 7 p.m.

Pour Larry’s DJ & Live Music Prohibition Bootleg Beats, 10:30 p.m.

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

Randy Wood Guitars Backline, 6 p.m.

Rusty Rudders Tap House Live Acoustic Music, 6 p.m.

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

Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m.

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BAR & CLUB EVENTS

UPCOMING SHOWS:

SATURDAY 8. 3

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DJ

Little Lucky’s DJ and Karaoke Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap Abe’s on Lincoln DJ Doc Ock

LIVE MUSIC

201 Tapas Lounge GenX 70s 80s 90s Party, 9 p.m.

Barrelhouse South Ike Stubblefield, 9:30 p.m.

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt, 6 p.m.

Boomy’s Liquid Ginger, 10 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge TV Pole Shine, 9 p.m.

Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant Mike Jones w/ Groove Centric, 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar FreeSpirits, 9 p.m.

The Jinx The Red Pears, The Grinns, Bero Bero, 9 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m.

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Jacob Evans Molly McGuire’s Nickel Bag of Funk, 7 p.m.

The Olde Pink House David Duckworth & Alisha Duckworth Pour Larry’s DJ & Live Music Prohibition Bootleg Beats, 10:30 p.m.

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

Rusty Rudders Tap House Live Acoustic Music, 6 p.m.

Ruth’s Chris Steak House Eddie Wilson Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m.

The Shrimp Factory Alex Bazemore Stafford’s Public House DJ Rudy Lui, 9:30 p.m.

Tybee Post Theater The Randall Bramblett Band, 8 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Claire Frazier and Steven Bryan, 7 p.m.

The Warehouse Ford Natirboff, Resting Beach Face

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Barrelhouse South Ben Lewis, 9:30 p.m.

Bay Street Blues Hitman Blues Band Bayou Cafe Ray Tomasino, 9 p.m.

Boomy’s Blues Night w/ Ben Keiser, 9:30 p.m.

Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.) Turtle and the Heads Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant Peter Hennis Band, 7 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Ray Lundy Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m.

Mansion on Forsyth Park George Evans, 7 p.m.

Rachael’s : Sports • Food • Fun Open Mic Night, 8 p.m.

Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Bill Smith Trio, 6:30 p.m.

Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m.

Southbound Brewing Company Boogaloo Bingo and DJ Miami, 7 p.m.

Totally Awesome Bar SCU Presents Sizzling Summer Showcase, 9:30 p.m.

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

White Whale Craft Ales Open Mic Music, 7 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Jason Courtenay and Uncle Buck, 7 p.m.

The Wormhole Open Jam, 9 p.m.

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Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) DJ Dance Party The Wormhole Basshole XIII, 9:30 p.m.

KARAOKE

WED, JUL 31

TRIVIA NIGHT WITH CHRISTOPHER GRIMMETT 9:00PM

FRI, AUG 2 NANCY DRUID // BRO DIDDLEY AND THE HIPS // JEZEBL HEART 9:00PM

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Bay Street Blues Karaoke Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

COMEDY

Ghost Coast Distillery Front Porch Improv: Fun House, 8:30 p.m.

The Loft on Liberty Odd Lot Improv: Saturday Shenanigans, 8 p.m.

Visitor’s Information Center Savannah for Morons: The Trolley Tour, 11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.

The Wormhole Comedy Planet: Minori Hinds and Aaron Chasteen, 8 p.m.

The Olde Pink House Eddie Wilson The Perch at Local 11 ten Susanna Kennedy Prohibition Bluegrass Brunch w/ Cory Chambers and Evan Rose, 11 a.m.

Tubby’s Tank House (River St.) Jeremy J Riddle, 6 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Greg Williams The Wayward Sunday Night Service, 9 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

Moon River Brewing Co. Trivia, 6 p.m.

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

KARAOKE

Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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

DJ

The Black Rabbit DJ Square One, 9 p.m.

Little Lucky’s DJ and Karaoke Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap

DJ

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Boomy’s DJ Basik Lee, 10 p.m.

Vice Mojito Bar and Lounge Everybody Gets Lei’d Hawaiian Charity Bar Crawl, 4 p.m.

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

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

Saddle Bags Bar Olympics

SUNDAY 8. 4 LIVE MUSIC

Bayou Cafe Don Coyer, 9 p.m.

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

Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant Eric Jones Trio w/ Teddy Adams and Cynthia Utterbach, 7 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Eric Britt, 7 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m.

Mars Theatre John Conlee, 3 p.m.

MONDAY 8. 5 LIVE MUSIC

Abe’s on Lincoln Open Mic, 10 p.m.

Bayou Cafe David Harbuck, 9 p.m.

Christ Church Episcopal Death By Aria I, 5 p.m., Death by Aria II, 7 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Wormhole Open Mic, 8 p.m.

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TRIVIA & GAMES

Club One Bingo with Dawn Dupree, 5:30 p.m.

The Flying Fish Trivia Night, 7 p.m.

The Jinx Music and Movie Trivia, 10 p.m.

KARAOKE

Boomy’s Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

COMEDY

The Loft on Liberty Odd Lot Improv: Monday Night Madness, 8 p.m.

White Whale Craft Ales White Whale Open Mic Comedy

DJ

Little Lucky’s DJ and Karaoke

TRIVIA & GAMES

Basil’s Pizza and Deli Trivia, 7 p.m.

Coach’s Corner Texas Hold ‘Em, 7 p.m.

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.

McDonough’s Bingo, 7 p.m.

Mellow Mushroom Trivia, 7:30 p.m.

PS Tavern Poker Rachael’s : Sports • Food • Fun Adults Only Trivia, 9 p.m.

Savannah Taphouse Trivia, 7 p.m.

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

The Wormhole Trivia, 10:30 p.m.

KARAOKE

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Fia Rua Irish Pub Family Movie Night, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY 8. 6 LIVE MUSIC

The Warehouse Hitman Blues Band, 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Chuck Courtenay

Blueberry Hill Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Rail Pub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Bay Street Blues Ben Keiser Band Bayou Cafe Jam Night with Eric Culberson, 9 p.m.

El-Rocko Lounge Reels, 9 p.m.

Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant The Claire Frazier Quartet, 7 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Anne Allman, 7 p.m.

The Jinx Hip Hop Night Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m.

The Ordinary Pub Jeremy J Riddle, 7 p.m.

Top Deck James Lee Smith, 6:30 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon

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201 Tapas Lounge 201 James Blackburn Drive Abe’s on Lincoln 17 Lincoln St.

The Flying Fish 7906 E. Hwy 80

B & D Burgers (Congress St.) 912-238-8315

912-401-0543 foxyloxycafe.com

Barrelhouse South 125 W. Congress St.

(912) 298-0071 ghostcoastdistillery.com

912-349-0525 abesonlincoln.com

912-238-8315 www.bdburgers.net

912-897-2009 www.flyingfishbarandgrill.webs.com/

Foxy Loxy Cafe 1919 Bull St. Ghost Coast Distillery 641 Indian St.

Basil’s Pizza and Deli 216 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant 107 W. Broughton St. Jazz’d Tapas Bar 52 Barnard St.

Bay Street Blues 17 E. Bay St.

The Jinx 127 W. Congress St.

Bayou Cafe 14 N. Abercorn St.

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub 117 West River St.

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s 20 E. Perry St.

Little Lucky’s 6 Gateway Blvd. E.

912-662-5576 barrelhousesouth.com

912-897-6400 basilsonline.com

912-236-6655

912-233-6411 bayousavannah.com

912-231-9049 billysplacesavannah.com

The Black Rabbit 1215 Barnard St. Blueberry Hill 546 Dean Forest Rd. 964-8401

Boomy’s 409 W. Congress St. 912-436-6660 boomysbar.com

Christ Church Episcopal 28 Bull Street

912-236-7777 www.jazzdsavannah.com

912-236-2281

912-233-9626 www.kevinbarrys.com

912-925-1119

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill 417 East River St. 912-341-8897

The Loft on Liberty 215 W. Liberty St. Mansion on Forsyth Park 700 Drayton St. 912-238-5158 mansiononforsythpark.com

Mars Theatre 109 S. Laurel Street

(912) 236-2500

912-754-1118 www.marstheatre.com

The Chromatic Dragon 514 MLK Jr. Blvd.

McDonough’s 21 E. McDonough St.

Club Elan 301 Williamson St. Club One 1 Jefferson St.

Mellow Mushroom 11 W. Liberty St.

Coach’s Corner 3016 E. Victory Dr.

912-898-0852 liveoakstore.com/mollymcguires

CoCo’s Sunset Grille 1 Old U.S. Hwy. 80

912-447-0943 www.moonriverbrewing.com/

Cohen’s Retreat 5715 Skidaway Rd.

912-232-4286 www.plantersinnsavannah.com

Congress Street Social Club 411 W. Congress St.

912-232-2994

912-289-0350 chromaticdragon.com

912-232-0200 clubone-online.com

912-352-2933 coachs.net

912-786-7810 cocostybee.com

912-355-3336

912-238-1985 congressstreetsocialclub.com

Dub’s Pub 225 W. River St.

912-233-6136 mcdonoughssavannah.com

912-495-0705 mellowmushroom.com

Moon River Brewing Co. 21 West Bay St. The Olde Pink House 23 Abercorn St. Ordinary Magic 1323 Bull Street The Ordinary Pub 217 1/2 West Broughton Street (912) 238-5130 www.theordinarypub.com/

El-Rocko Lounge 117 Whitaker St. Exclusives Bar & Grille 2003 Greenwood Street

Prohibition 125 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Fia Rua Irish Pub 10132 Ford Ave.

PS Tavern 11 W. Bay St.

912-495-5808

912-695-2116

912-459-4160 fiaruairishpub.com

Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.) 131 West River St. 912-644-7172 www.liveoakstore.com/fiddlersriverstreet

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Victory North Cabaret Series

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Rachael’s : Sports • Food • Fun 1190 King George Blvd.

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CULTURE THEATRE

BY SEAN KELLY

sean@connectsavannah.com

Clockwise from top: Christopher Stanley April Aguilera Cecilia Tran Arango Thomas Houston Romero Rivers Teresa-Michelle Walker Jarrett Parker LaDonna Watts PHOTO BY GEOFF L. JOHNSON

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MORNING STARSHINE Bay Street Theatre lets their ‘Hair’ down

THE BELOVED rock musical Hair wasn’t just ahead of its time, it was quite controversial. Its songs encapsulated the hippie movement and sexual revolution of the 60s as well as the anti-Vietnam sentiments shared nationwide, and became a statement of revolution and revolt from the traditional conservative values of the 50s.

The musical first appeared off Broadway in 1967, and made its way to Broadway the following year. It spawned a movie version in 1979 as well.

Hair featured several hit songs, including “Age Of Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In” and “Hair,” both of which became chart hits for The 5th Dimension and The Cowsills, respectively.

The musical sparked controversy upon its release, but it would ultimately prove to be a classic thanks to its radical subject matter for the time as well as the timeless music that spawned several hits.

It remains a popular show to this day, with Bay Street Theatre being the latest to tackle the powerful show. Their show upstairs at Club One will run for two weeks, starting August 2.

Ahead of opening night, we spoke with Bay Street Theatre’s Chris Stanley about the legendary show.

For people who are unaware, explain what this show is about. It has a very significant legacy.

Stanley: Yeah, absolutely. It’s interesting to me because I wasn’t as familiar with it before we started. It takes place in the late 60s and it’s this group of young hippies that are living their lives at a time when the Vietnam war is going on. I’m playing the character of Claude, who has been drafted and has received his draft card.

It’s one of the first musicals, as far as I know, that didn’t really have a very detailed and pinpointed plot. It’s kind of like some of the song cycle musicals that you see where there’s this loose plot.

They fine tune it more in the movie and then modify it a little bit, but I really like that you’re just kind of experiencing their lives in various periods and various ideas around that time. I think that with Claude, you get a little bit more of a timeline of events. He’s been drafted, and he’s struggling with whether or not to go.

This was a time when a lot of young men were burning their draft cards or moving up to Canada. That’s a sentiment shared with a lot of his friends, but he’s the one who’s struggling with, “Do I have a responsibility to be there? Do I have a responsibility to do my American duty?” It’s a really interesting show.

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Teresa-Michelle Walker, Cecilia Tran Arango, Chris Stanley.

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The songs in this show maybe are the most well-known aspect of Hair. Tell me about some of the songs and Bay Street’s approach to them.

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Stanley: Admittedly, when I first listened to the soundtrack, it kind of had to grow on me [laughs]. There’s “Good Morning Starshine,” and when I first heard the lyrics it was like, “What is this?” [laughs].

But as you get into the character and the spirit of the show, it really grew on me and now it’s one of the songs that I can’t get out of my head. I really wasn’t familiar with all of the songs, but of course knew “Age of Aquarius” and always heard the “Let the sun shine in” theme that shows up.

James Rado, the co-creator and writer, was a pretty talented musician. I went into this thinking that it was going to be pretty straightforward rock and roll music the whole way through, but there’s a lot of really interesting styles in there.

This was a time when a lot of young men were burning their draft cards or moving to Canada. That’s a sentiment shared with a lot of his friends, but he’s the one who’s struggling with, “Do I have a responsibility to be there?

Do I have a responsibility to do my American duty?”

There are acid rock songs, bluesy stuff, R&B—there really is a lot.

Stanley: Yeah. And the content that the songs address is a lot more edgy than I thought it would be. There’s the song “Colored Spade,” and Thomas Houston plays the character Hud in our version. It’s this

black character going over all of the derogatory words that you could call a black person. It’s a very touchy song. It deals with a lot of sensitive topics, so it’s a really interesting musical. The style of music, the lyrics, and the topics they cover—talking about homosexuality in the 1960s was pretty much unheard of.

Who’s in the cast of the Bay Street production?

Stanley: There are a few Bay Street veterans in this production. Travis Coles is in it, and Trey Norris is the stage manager but he got roped into being in it as well [laughs]. Thomas Houston is in the show, too. When I was at SCAD in 2001, I was in a production of Evida with this guy Jared Parker. He’s in the show now, so we’re acting together again after 18 years.

There are a lot of great folks in this show.

It’s a really great cast, and it’s one of those casts that immediately felt like a family within the first couple of rehearsals. That’s always a great feeling. CS

HAIR @BAY STREET THEATRE

Inside Club One, 1 Jefferson St. August 2-18, $25 Times and tickets at baystreettheatre.org

CULTURE LITERARY ARTS

Zach Powers launches a new book and a new season of Seersucker Live

BY ORLANDO MONTOYA

WRITER and literary arts proponent Zach Powers knows how to time a book launch.

Of course, the glacial speed of book publication at major publishers means that the liftoff of his new novel, centering on space travel, probably had less to do with the moon landing anniversary than with the pace of business.

But I’m sure the Savannah native will take it.

Powers clears the tower with an enchanting work of historical fiction, “First Cosmic Velocity,” at two Savannah events – just two weeks after “one small step” plus 50 years. That’ll be followed by a rocket fueled national book tour on Putnam Press, a bestselling company.

Yes, our very own Zach, a Seersucker Live co-founder, has entered orbit.

(And I promise that’ll be my last cloying rocketry allusion, tempting as it is to continue.)

“It’s a homecoming for me, it’s a homecoming for the book and doing a Seersucker event is a homecoming, too,” Powers says, noting that he left Savannah to take a job with The Writer’s Center in the Washington, D.C. area two years ago.

But again, owing to the slow pace of publication, he wrote the book in Savannah, mostly sitting at Gallery Espresso.

“My initial inspiration was a conspiracy theory that I invented,” he says.

Like all good conspiracy theories, Zach’s idea, the book’s central premise, relies on a kernel of truth, that being the secrecy that surrounded the Soviet space program. The Soviets wouldn’t announce a rocket launch unless it was successful. There were lots of horrible disasters.

Powers took that truth and went a step further. “First Cosmic Velocity” supposes that the Soviets groomed young sets of twins for their space program. That way, if one twin died in a disaster, as several do in the book, the other twin would continue on as a Soviet hero and the public never would know. The book really immerses you in the time and place.

But that’s not even the book’s best selling point. Powers creates a whole set of characters that grow with you in each chapter, including: Nadya and Leonid, twins separated from their families as kids to become cogs in the Soviet machine; the unnamed Chief Designer, a gulag-tested and morally challenged engineering supervisor; and Kasha, a magical dog.

Magical touches, like the dog, season the book, although Powers says, “Magic isn’t quite the right word. There are too many connotations with the word. But certainly, it does owe to the magical realism

of Haruki Murakami,” a beloved popular writer and an influence on Powers. It’s not ghosts and spells. It’s more like the “unbelievable but longed-for.”

Kudos to Powers also for making Nadya, a woman, the first person in space. He said he did it to emphasize the book’s fiction.

But it’s also female empowerment.

The first person in space was the Soviets’ Yuri Gagarin. How many of you forgot his name? Or that of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space? We didn’t remember their anniversaries.

In the end, “First Cosmic Velocity” comes across as a loving tribute to the sacrifices made by humanity in that most extraordinary of human endeavors, space travel, that actually mirrors one of the most ordinary of human endeavors, too, freedom.

Agency, having some control over your life, certainly is another book theme. It’s a great read.

Powers will appear at the latest Seersucker Live, a Savannah original, which Powers co-founded in 2010. It’s part book release, part variety show and part cocktail party. Expect unusual musical instruments.

“My dad has suggested that I bring my melodica because it has an accordion sound, like what you might hear in Russian music,” Powers says. CS

SEERSUCKER LIVE FEATURING ZACH POWERS, BEVERLY WILLETT AND BRANDI BENSON Friday, August 9, 7pm Cohen’s Retreat, 5715 Skidaway Rd.

ZACH POWERS BOOK SIGNING AND DISCUSSION Saturday, August 10, 4pm E Shaver Bookseller, 326 Bull St.

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CULTURE THE ART•BEAT OF SAVANNAH

L-R: From Peace Comes Joy, Hands of Elysium, Spark of Joy.

BY RACHAEL FLORA

rachael@connectsavannah.com

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YOU’D never know this just by looking, but the entire body of work in “Manifestations of Peace and Joy” was completed in just four months.

That pace is just a testament to Toni Hazel’s passion for his art.

“My work is a very spiritual journey; I love mixing spirituality with my art, and I used a lot of symbolism and a lot of things from my spiritual journey to enhance and maybe even decorate my work,” says Hazel.

Back in December, Hazel graduated from Georgia Southern and had plans to become a cartoonist and to teach English overseas.

“I wasn’t happy,” confides Hazel. “I started realizing that at the time, especially with a lot of things I was going through, my creative drive was dead. I needed a month to step back and just look back on what I actually wanted to do.”

During this time, Hazel found Julia 24 Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way,” which

proved to be a life-changing find.

“It opened my eyes to the idea of mixing creativity into a spiritual path,” he says.

“I always thought that spirituality had to have a religious vehicle, but the fact that this person was saying creativity is a spiritual path within itself was new for me.”

In “The Artist’s Way,” Cameron guides creative people to self-discovery through journaling and other exercises.

As Hazel journaled, he discovered another game changer: Hilma af Klint, the Swedish abstract artist.

“She is a pioneer of abstract art—her work predates Kandinsky,” says Hazel.

“She used spirituality in her art by connecting what she calls the High Masters, and the High Masters through her abstract paintings connect to the divine.”

Armed with Cameron and Klint, Hazel began painting and hasn’t stopped since.

The paintings use primary colors and geometric shapes to evoke a specific reaction in the viewer.

“Each piece has a geometric shape or symbolism that’s supposed to resonate that idea of peace and joy,” explains Hazel.

“When I put the design on it, I paint over the basic colors, almost like Jackson Pollock, but in a different way. I used my

feelings, but also understand the psychology of the colors I paint over it.”

In color theory, warm colors represent joy, where cool colors represent peace, and Hazel uses both strategically.

“I had to really think about color and also intuitively allow myself to put color over it,” says Hazel. “Once I put color over it, my job was to put order into that chaos, and that’s why geometric shapes are there—it’s to help me pull out those colors to manifest those feelings.”

Since creating this series, Hazel says he most frequently is complimented on his color usage.

“I do see myself as a draftsman, but I’m very happy that my color choice resonated with people and is expressive,” says Hazel.

“When I created this series, I wanted to make sure that the colors could help with both the viewer and myself manifest those feelings of peace and joy. My idea was that the viewer would look at the title of each piece and use that as affirmations or mantras they can repeat to themselves, and while they’re looking at the work, they slowly, visually, through meditation have those feelings manifest because the colors are working with it.”

After creating this series, Hazel hopes to work his way to pure abstraction, eliminating the figure completely from his work.

“In my head, there was a concept that art must have some kind of figure in the work to have some validation in it, for someone to relate to,” he says. “Other than Chicago or New York, or maybe New Mexico, most places would not look at abstract art as a valid work of art.”

Hazel believes that abstract art should be more widely embraced.

“I feel like in Savannah, maybe we should try to push more abstract art because I know here, realism is much more sellable,” he muses. “It’s understandable

because of the landmarks and tourism, but I would dare even say that because we’re growing and because we’re starting to get a very huge crowd in Savannah, maybe we can start challenging New York or Chicago and make something out of this.”

One way Hazel hopes to see that change is through helping other artists understand his process.

“Because I’m doing such a spiritual work process, I needed to hone into it, so I believe in my next series I’m going to work more with sacred geometry, more with shapes and symbolism, and especially more with color psychology,” says Hazel.

He’s even working on a technique and method he calls Abstract Spiritualism.

“I want to try to make a manifesto out of that to help other artists,” he says. “I used to study a lot of philosophy and affirmations and mantras because I feel those are very helpful with artists, especially with focusing, and I’m combining those, especially with automatic drawing.”

Automatic drawing, or stream of consciousness drawing, is a great tool to practice mindfulness.

“Using affirmation to repeat to yourself while you’re doing automatic drawing, it exercises your hands and your mind,” says Hazel. “You’re no longer thinking about making something, you’re just doing it.”

All told, this gamble paid off for Hazel, and he hopes to keep working and creating.

“I’m very in love with this—I want to keep this up,” he says. “The fact that I’m even going to challenge myself to be even more abstract and take out figurative art is a challenge for me that I’m willing to accept because I believe I can do it.” CS “Manifestations of Peace and Joy” is on display at the Sentient Bean through Sept. 3. For more information, visit sulfurstudios.org.

CULTURE VISUAL ARTS

QUESTIONS WITH Thomas Mizelle

BY RACHAEL FLORA

rachael@connectsavannah.com

WITH JUST a vintage magazine and a pair of scissors, Thomas Mizelle can work some magic.

The native Savannahian has always been interested in visual arts, and after going to school for museum studies, he picked up collaging in 2016 and hasn’t turned back since.

We spoke with Mizelle last week.

1. How did you get started collaging?

2. What do you use as your source material?

LIFE Magazine probably has the best content. Like the 50s, 60s and 70s—70s the most, because it’s the weirdest photography of food items. [The magazines] are pretty large, so you have a variety to work with, like larger and smaller formats.

I tend to go with Playboy as well because they have really good advertisements.

They’re geared towards men, so there’s a lot of men’s clothing or men’s fragrances— you get a little more variety with that.

3. What’s your method?

I tend to work on multiple projects at one time because I let things peak for themselves. I’ll sit and put it to the side and come back to it and be like, “Well, let’s tweak this a bit.” Or it’s done and I have to sit there and glue it down, which adds another layer of things get shifted or mistakes happen, and you have to go with it or it’s ruined. I don’t have the steadiest hand,

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and I’m kind of messy. That’s part of what it is. I accept it and I go with it.

I did a challenge to myself; I did a 30-day challenge where I did a collage every day. I got to 25 days and was like, I can’t do this anymore, I’m burnt out. I went out of town one weekend so I did three in one day. It wasn’t easy, but it wasn’t like I couldn’t.

Some days were just things slapped together, and that’s good enough. Other days, I’m really getting it and it turned into something I didn’t expect.

I started with that and eventually evolved to what I’m doing now. I’m doing plates and wood surfaces and mirrors. A lot of people responded really well to the plates, which is tchotchke stuff that people can connect to.

And mirrors—everyone wants to see themselves in art!

4.What’s your organization style like?

I have different methods. I have manila folders, in a folder, and those are for small pieces I’ve cut out. I have a binder—which, I probably need to get a bigger binder because it’s growing—and I have three stacked boxes of sheets just ripped out and stacked that I can eventually go through.

I can pull something from this and then go back through later and be like, I don’t need this. It’s a way for me to hone in on it, but also be able to clear it out if I don’t need it.

I don’t have a studio, so it’s all in our dining room.

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5. You recently had a show at The Rat on Bull. What’s next for you?

of an installation immersive type thing.

Then I’m working on a series that is men’s chests photographed with a white shirt and I collage on the shirt. It’ll be black and white, then color. I’m using a lot of my male friends as the subjects. My art falls into the gay-centric, queer-centric, stuff, so why not? I’ll utilize different body types—chest hair, no chest hair, tattoos. I have to shoot first, and then I’ll collage. That’s my next project in my head of what I want to do. CS

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I’ve always been into visual arts. I went to high school for visual arts at Savannah Arts. I went to college and got my BFA in museum studies, and I took a few basic classes and started doing collage. I didn’t get back into it until post-college. I started taking photographs, like going out and taking them, and getting them developed.

I was like, “What am I going to do with these?” It was like 500 pictures. I started brainstorming and said, “Well, I’ve always liked collage.”

I started cutting and cutting and cutting and making pieces. From there, I started collecting magazines and yearbooks and other miscellaneous items to collage with it, and that’s been it from there.

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I have an installation at PW Short General Store. That’s my whole mirror situation. I did a whole series of mirrors in their windows. After I did The Rat on Bull and the mirror thing, I was like, “Okay, I need to take a small break because I’ve been going since January.”

I have a few things in the works in the early stages. I’m eventually doing a collaboration with a friend of mine, kind

ART

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OPENINGS & RECEPTIONS ART NITE — Come enjoy some live music, good company and beautiful local art.

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Fri., Aug. 2, 6 p.m. artsonthecoast.org. ARTS OnThe COAST Gallery, 10750 Ford Ave., Richmond Hill.

BS3 — Bs3 by Troy Wandzel and Alexis Javier is a multi-sensory installation project.

The re-use and re-purposing of wood cutouts from the previous two iterations will show how the same material can be manipulated, installed, and exhibited in a variety of ways.

New elements will be added to provoke memory and potential passages that the work can travel. Aug. 2-10. sulfurstudios.org.

Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. CAROL F. COHEN AND ANGELA BEASLEY — Angela Maggioni Beasley and Carol Fleischaker Cohen, two friends from childhood, have spent their lives following their own artistic paths. Angela’s lifetime vocation of building and performing with puppets (Puppet People) began by sculpting in clay. Carol is an award-winning artist who introduced and encouraged artistic expression across three generations through her teaching. They have combined their creative energies and insights from their journeys. Aug. 1-30. savannahjea.org.

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CONTINUING EXHIBITS ABSTRACTS AND ANIMALS — Abstracts & Animals showcases the diverse talent of two local artists through a vibrant exhibit of art quilts. Through Dec. 31. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

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AINT-BAD: COLLABORATIONS — Collaborations focuses on a selection of artists whose work was part of the 20182019 publication of Aint–Bad Issue No.13.

Through Aug. 10. Laney Contemporary, 1810 Mills B. Lane Blvd.

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ART WITH MEANING — Come see the power and glory of Folk Art in the realm of each of the three categories that describe this meaningful art: Religious, Every Day, and Distressed. Through Oct. 15. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. BERTA FISCHER — Berta Fischer creates playful moments through exuberant use of color, light and whimsical form. Through Sep. 1. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

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BLACKEST NIGHT: A SURVEY IN BLACKNESS — Azikiwe Mohammed prioritizes the experiences, needs and subjectivity of people of color in America. Through Sep. 1. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

AMERICAN GULLAH COLLECTION — The “American Gullah Collection” by Sonja Griffin Evans is a traveling exhibit that depicts the unsung pioneers of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor and of America.

The story behind this culture’s creation is compelling. The Gullahs are descendants of West Africans who were forced to the colony through the trans-Atlantic slave trade. ongoing. regus.com. Regus, 100 Bull Street, Suite 200.

CAROL DUGGAR — Carol Duggar’s paintings are the result of a combination of her own photographic references, direct observation and her imagination. Through July 31. savannahjea. org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St.

ART ON RIVER STREET — Local artists display and sell their art on the river. Free first Saturday, Sunday of every month, 10 a.m. Rousakis Plaza, River St.

Work by Carol F. Cohen is featured at this month’s exhibit at the

THE CENTER IS EVJewish Educational Alliance.

ERYWHERE — Capucine Gros presents five key SOUVENIR SAVANNAH — “Souvenir Savanworks from her recent oeuvre, each intended nah” features antique Savannah tourism to enhance our awareness of those around souvenirs that highlight famous landmarks us. Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. as well as traveling mementos popular in the FOLKLORE — Folklore is a site-specific installation by Jessica Pope for the 2019 iteration of Telfair Museums’ annual Boxed In/Break Out project. Through Oct. 27. telfair. org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. MICHAEL KOLSTER: TAKE ME TO THE RIVER — Michael Kolster: Take Me to the River is a solo exhibition of contemporary wet-plate ambrotypes from the artist’s Rivers series. Through Sep. 29. telfair.org/jepson/.

Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. ON::VIEW RESIDENCY: LOOKS FOR LIFE IN AMERICA — “Looks for Life in America” is a project born out of Nina Farryn’s simultaneous obsession and frustration with Instagram and social media culture. Through Aug. 3. sulfurstudios.org. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. PAINTED LANDSCAPES: ARCHITECTURE AND NATURE — Chris D’Antonio’s pieces in this exhibition are oil paintings that he made when living in Savannah, GA. Phil Musen focuses on the play of sunlight and shadows mixed with the atmosphere of Savannah parks. Through Aug. 20. Starland Cafe, 11 East 41st St. SOURCE TO SEA: ANSLEY WEST RIVERS — Through photography, Ansley West Rivers bears witness to the state of water now, as time is pertinent to understanding the effects of change. Through Nov. 3. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

late 19th and early 20th century. Through Dec. 31. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

STELLAVERDE — In her fibers work, Jennifer Moss explores the intersection of traditional textile patterns and unexpected materials.

Through Sep. 22. Drive Thru Art Box, behind Green Truck Pub, 2430 Habersham St. SUZANNE JACKSON: FIVE DECADES — Telfair Museums proudly presents Suzanne Jackson: Five Decades, the first full-career survey and most comprehensive presentation to date for American artist Suzanne Jackson. Through Oct. 13.Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. THINGS — Sarmad Khazraji is the July featured artist for Gallery Espresso. The opening reception is July 18 from 6-9 p.m. Through July 31. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. THINK TWICE — “Think Twice,” is an exhibition by artists Carla Fernández and Pedro Reyes which features a metal pavilion designed by the artists as the container of their artistic practices, revealing their proximity and cross pollination. The recipients of this year’s Design Miami Design Visionary Award, Fernández’s and Reyes’ artwork brilliantly synthesizes a spectrum of influences — from Brutalism to Mexican indigenous culture to social progressive values — into a remarkable body of work. Through Sep. 1. scadmoa.org/.

SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

CARIBBEAN, LATIN AMERICAN, AND AFRICAN ART FROM THE 1980S AND 1990S — Featuring some of the best known Haitian artists of the day, including Denis Smith, Fortuné Gérard, and Prospère Pierre-Louis.

“Hoppin’” John Martin Taylor is offering part of his collection of folk art as he prepares to move overseas again. ongoing. PW Short, 414 Whitaker St. COMPLEX UNCERTAINTIES: ARTISTS IN POSTWAR AMERICA — Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America is an evolving exhibition grounded by works in Telfair’s modern and contemporary collection. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. i HELEN DURANT: IN THE MOMENT — Durant is informally trained honing her skills recording life through drawing. She has been experimenting with paint, torn paper, graphite, and found objects for most of her career. She found her voice in the ability to capture a fleeting moment expressing with gestures, energies and spirits of animals and people surrounding her. ongoing. Roots Up Gallery, 412-C Whitaker Street.

IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK: 200 YEARS OF WILLIAM JAY ARCHITECTURE — In the three short years between his arrival from England in 1817 to his departure for Charleston in 1820, William Jay changed the face of Savannah. In a time when many Americans sought to distance themselves from European influence and develop a national character of their own, a few, including Richard Richardson, Alexander Telfair, William Scarbrough, and Archibald Stobo Bulloch, still sought the classical elegance of the popular English Regency style. Jay delivered the luxurious showplaces they desired and also elevated Savannah’s civic life with a new theater, a design for the Savannah Branch of the Second Bank of the United States, and a new Customs House. . Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St.

MUSIC FEATURE

Harada takes the reins at Savannah Philharmonic Previous experience in the state keeps Georgia on his mind, he says

“After leaving Georgia in 2008, I always wanted to give back to this state. Finally, sean@connectsavannah.com this opportunity has arrived,” he said.

“I truly believe it’s fate that my first ever Maestro Keitaro Harada, a renowned Music & Artistic Director position with musician who most recently served as a professional orchestra is in the state of Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Georgia. I couldn’t have written this story Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops, for myself. There’s no perfect word or was announced as the new Music & Artisphrase that describes how excited I am for tic Director for the Savannah Philhartoday, and for the future of the arts in the monic in its 2020-21 season. city of Savannah.”

Harada has roots in Georgia, having Mayor Eddie DeLoach appeared at the spent time as Assistant Conductor of the press conference, praising Harada and Macon Symphony Orchestra. That played a calling the announcement a “big day for big part in sparking his interest for the job. Savannah.” He also stressed the impor“Exactly 144 days ago, on March 1, I was tance of having a dedicated venue for the conducting in Taiwan and received a call orchestra in town. asking if I would be interested in stepping “I think we need to begin with the idea at Savannah Philharmonic for their April of, ‘How do we really go about developing 6 concert,” Harada said at a July 23 press a place like [the hall] Charleston has?’” conference announcing the hire. “I had DeLoach said. a conflict on April 6, and I rarely cancel a “It’s something that I feel like we should prior engagement for a new opportunity.” have. Something that we can develop. I He decided to cancel his other engagedon’t know how long it would take, and I ment to fill in at Savannah Philharmonic, don’t know how we would do it. But I’m and explained that his love and appreciasure there are a lot of minds in here that tion for Georgia—as well as the opporhave that idea.” tunity to work with famed jazz pianist While no formal plans or ideas have Marcus Roberts—prompted him to take been confirmed or announced, the press the gig. conference marked perhaps the first time From there, the opportunity arose to a City offical had mentioned or acknowlinterview for the Music & Artistic Director edged the need for a purpose-built orchesposition. tra venue in Savannah. CS

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FOOD & DRINK EPICUROPEDIA

BY LINDY MOODY

AS A carpenter turned bee whisperer, Read Nichols, the owner of Savannah’s 28 Readee’s Bees, is a dedicated, hardworking

purist that started his small business over a decade ago.

He said it best when I sat down with him to learn all about the pure Southern gold he sells around town: “I got into it to serve the public the best honey in Savannah. The best!”

Although Nichols gained experience working with bees growing up in West Virginia, he got back into the bee business

while working at Hunter Army Airfield.

A co-worker who had worked with bees got with Nichols to transfer some bees onto his very own property on Wilmington Island.

From there things grew by the gallon of honey, which is easy to do when a producer takes as much pride in his product as Nichols does.

Within the first year of business, Readee’s Bees was accepted to sell his product at the Forsyth Farmers Market.

“I sold all of it the first day,” he chuckles.

“I started the bees out here at the house, and I got ten or fifteen hives out here, and it

was really good until the mosquito sprayer came,” Nichols recalls.

“Three years in a row they came and annihilated my bees, so I moved them over to South Carolina. Ever since then it’s been blasting off. We have over five hundred hives over there now, separated in maybe six or eight different lots.”

Readee’s Bees’ farm sits next to a wildlife refuge in South Carolina, which is why it produces wildflower honey—a type that can be said to be his signature.

Wildflower honey is the result of bees who come in contact with—as you probably guessed—wildflower nectar.

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“A lot of people Gallons of floral misunderstand natural honey line about honey, that the walls, ready to you put flavors in it. be poured into their You cannot flavor individual bottles honey unless you then labeled. All want to flavor it,” of Readee’s Bees’ he explains. honey is pure raw “The only flavors unprocessed honey.

I have are the 100% honey cinnamon and means just that, peach cream honey, nothing else is and that is it. The included. I ask other honeys are Nichols how he all actual natural achieves his pure nectars that come natural gold, and the off of the flowers answer is far from that the bees bring simple. back, they put it Getting truly pure into the hive, and honey into a bottle Read Nichols, above, runs his hives across the means controlling they turn it into honey. It takes one river in South Carolina, and supplies numerthe environment in bee to go get it and ous markets and clients in Savannah. which the bees live. bring it back to If the bees come another bee who transforms it into honey into contact with hummingbird feed, the and puts it into the hive,” Nichols says. processed sugar syrup can ruin the honey.

So if you buy orange blossom honey The bigger the property to keep the you can expect the natural flavor to come hives, the less likelihood interference from from the nectar of the orange blossom outside sugars can occur. Some farms have plant that was close to the bees’ home. at least fifty acres to ensure the utmost As for the rest of the honey sold by purity.

Nichols, he carefully sources the honey If you have ever purchased honey that from only the best grade A farms around crystallized soon thereafter, it is often the the country. result of buying impure honey. Nichols Tupelo, sourwood, blackberry, explains, “When one molecule of sugar blueberry, cotton honey, orange blossom, gets in a five gallon bucket, it is history.” clover, and buckwheat are the other types The boutique bee company has a few of honeys bottled locally. Each type has extremely unique and original products. its only subtle variance of texture, color, The jalapeño honey is extremely popular, and flavor. with its expertly balanced heat followed by The buckwheat I sampled was almost sweetness to cool down your palate. like molasses, thick and pungent, while The peach and cinnamon cream honeys the wildflower had delicate floral notes. are hand mixed by Nichols, and are a After his quick success at the Forsyth top secret recipe. The peach is made by Farmers Market, Nichols was given the combining a peach extract which results in opportunity to provide his honey to local a honey spread that smells like fresh peach restaurants and stores around Savannah. ice cream.

Going through the proper channels, For the bee pollen, according to Nichols, Readee’s Bees gained its wholesale license “The pollen comes off of the flowers, which through the Department of Agriculture. is balled up on the bee’s legs. We collect it He designed his own one of a kind also. The bee goes through a finger catch processing trailer, which was approved in the front hive, it [the pollen] drops down by the Department of Agriculture, to onto a tray, and we collect it everyday.” kickstart the growth of his business.

Since 2007, Read has been selling his To this day, Nichols works in that same honey at the Forsyth Farmers Market. And trailer where he hand pours every bottle of unless he is sick, you can find his booth on honey and hand cuts each square of honey- any given Saturday morning. comb. Nichols showed me his process.

He sources to several local restaurants Large wood frames stuffed with honey including The Grey, Husk, and Elizabeth comb, delivered directly from his South on 37th. But if you would like to find it in a Carolina farm, are brought to his processstore, try Brighter Day, Lucky’s Market, or ing property, where he perfectly measures Fresh Market. CS out each square and slices them before Find Readee’s Bees online at readees-bees.com packaging the dense rich comb into its individual container.

Inside the trailer sits an extractor where he places honeycomb to be rapidly spun and all of its sticky sweet syrup removed.

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FILM LOCAL CINEMA on Eisenhower, and one on Shawnee.

Warchol lost two of his own venues: the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery on Henry, replaced by the Savannah Cultural Arts Center, and the Muse Arts Warehouse.

“It was fabulous. That was a loss,” reminisces Warchol of Muse. “I hear they’re going to leave some structure to market this as a historic space, but they’re putting up some high end apartments to continue that gentrification.”

When Muse closed, Warchol moved to the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery on Henry, which was also demolished and replaced with the Savannah Cultural Arts Center.

The Jewish Educational Alliance has been a great partner with Warchol, and it’s also currently one of a handful of venues in Left: A still from “Amazing Grace.” Above: town that could be considered an arthouse The Savannah Cultural Arts Center, cinema.

CinemaSavannah’s new digs.

The Sentient Bean hosts the Psychotronic Film Society every week, and the Jewish Educational Alliance and the Savannah Cultural Arts Center are hosts for CinemaSavannah. esides places that occasionally host screenings, that’s kind of it.

However, there are plenty of regular movie theatres in the area, which Warchol says could be screening non-commercial films, but they aren’t.

“Nobody’s, I guess, adventurous or visionary enough to see that kind of investment because I can see they covet big releases in the amounts of screens they footage of the concert,” he explains. “It’s and I read some film magazines with have right now,” says Warchol. mostly focused on her singing, some faces.” reviewers who have similar taste [as me] “They could change one of those the“Amazing Grace” has received rave that I can trust.” atres or have somebody come and say, reviews but, interestingly, was not Coming from Poland, Warchol has a dis- ‘We’re going to be showing films that are endorsed by Franklin herself. She sued tinct advantage in having a cultural knowl- limited release, and we’ll try to advertise it producer Alan Elliott for using her likeness edge of foreign films. and have a nice setting,’ and I think there’s without permission in 2011 and then again “I’ve always had a passion for film, and an audience. But I’m glad they’re not doing in 2015. After Franklin passed away in coming from Europe, even though it was it because that’s where I step in!”

2018, the project got the green light. under communism, I realized I had seen a The need for arthouse cinema goes As CinemaSavannah moves into its new lot more films than an average academic,” beyond just a passion for film. digs, “Amazing Grace” is the perfect film he explains, “because unless they lived in “It makes people feel like, ‘I saw a great with which to start. a big city where they could go to foreign film’—it gives them pride that they are in “It’s a special film,” says Warchol. “It’s arthouse screenings, they had no access to a town where they could see it,” explains got enough attention and enough publicity them. Especially with Eastern Europe, I Warchol, “but also they can brag, ‘I saw a that I think people are anticipating it.” had so much more exposure and so much film that was nominated for an Oscar but I The Ben Tucker Theatre at the Savanmore knowledge.” saw it here way back before it was released nah Cultural Arts Center can hold up to When Warchol came to Statesboro in theatrically.”

400 people, which is a big difference from 1984 to teach at Georgia Southern, he Friday’s screening of “Amazing Grace” is former, smaller venues. found the film scene to be lacking. one such brag, particularly because of the Warchol has been running CinemaSa“I realized that it was kind of a culeffort it took to get made. vannah, or something like it, since 2003. tural desert, especially for films,” he says. “[Franklin] said the music stands on its The first iteration of the program was “What’s lacking is that kind of an arthouse own and speaks for itself, but maybe she a nonprofit which folded, but Warchol space, where you can show films that won’t hasn’t really seen it to appreciate that respicked it back up in 2008 and started it come to regular theatres. What I do is fill in toration,” wonders Warchol. under the current iteration. that gap.”

“The sound is pristine. I don’t listen to CinemaSavannah’s purpose is to screen While Savannah has become a cultural gospel music, but that album made me relifilms that aren’t mainstream. Warchol destination for visual arts and music, it’s gious. I’ll testify—if that’s how you pracbrings films, made both at home and not quite there yet with film, which is tice, if that’s what church is, I’m going.”CS abroad, that are receiving buzz within the partly thanks to the lack of theatres dedi“AMAZING GRACE” SCREENING film crowd. cated to non-mainstream theatre.

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“They are mostly new releases, and But even the mainstream film scene is Savannah Cultural Arts Center, 201 Montgomthere’s a selfish interest in bringing them struggling as of late. In the span of just a ery St. because I want to see them myself,” laughs few years, three major theatres in SavanWarchol. “I hear about them at festivals, nah have closed: one at Victory Square, one $10, cash only

CinemaSavannah celebrates move with the Queen of Soul

Local indie film group relocates to Savannah Cultural Arts Center with screening of ‘Amazing Grace’

BY RACHAEL FLORA

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TOMASZ WARCHOL first heard Aretha Franklin’s album “Amazing Grace” in the mid-70s.

The live album was a commodity in communist Poland, Warchol remembers.

He’d had to bring it in from abroad to listen to it.

“That was one of those revelations,” recalls Warchol, “one of those cultural moments for me that made me dream about coming to America.”

The album, recorded at Los Angeles’ New Temple Missionary Baptist Church over two days in 1972 at Franklin’s peak, remains the bestselling gospel album of all time.

Famed director Sydney Pollack filmed during the performance and realized later he hadn’t synchronized the audio to the visual, rendering it essentially forgotten until now.

“Amazing Grace” was released in April and is now the first film CinemaSavannah will screen at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center.

Warchol hasn’t seen the film yet, as is customary for any film he screens, but he says that doesn’t really matter.

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ONCE UPON A TIME IN… HOLLYWOOD

OOO (Out of four) Never in my moviegoing lifetime did I expect to see a motion picture that would make reference to 1970’s C.C. & Company, an increasingly obscure biker flick starring Ann-Margret and a post-Super Bowl Joe Namath.

Yet I apparently hadn’t counted on the film-geek knowledge of Quentin Tarantino and his ability to retrieve the movie from his bottomless memory banks; thus, plopped down in the middle of Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood, is a trailer for C.C. & Company that features Broadway Joe in all his, uh, thespian glory.

Tarantino is notorious for sprinkling pop-culture references in all of his films, whether they’re taking place in the Wild West or during World War II. With a movie that places “Hollywood” right there in the title, it’s guaranteed that the trivial pursuits will be working double overtime, with the auteur flooding every reel with shoutouts to the movies, television series, and stars of the selected era (chiefly the late 1960s).

There’s Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet on a movie-theater marquee (“Held over 8th month”). There’s Frank Sinatra’s Lady in Cement on a drive-in sign. There’s a poster for Bob Fosse’s Sweet Charity hanging outside a theater.

There’s Steve McQueen (Damian Lewis) hobnobbing at a party at the Playboy mansion. There’s the long-running series Mannix playing on a dinky black-and-white TV set.

And the Hollywood-insider bits continue with Tarantino’s penchant to cast once-familiar faces in supporting roles.

That’s the late Luke Perry of Beverly Hills, 90210 fame in one Western-show sequence, and portraying actor-director Sam Wanamaker is none other than the short-lived Spider-Man from ‘70s TV, Nicholas Hammond.

As a wet dream for movie buffs, TV aficionados, and nostalgists of a certain age, Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood clearly can’t be beat. But when it comes to anything more substantial, the picture is on shakier ground. Tarantino has decided to marry a real story with a reel one, not exactly an uncommon practice in cinema.

At the center of the fictional one are former leading man Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime friend and stunt double, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt).

Rick once enjoyed headlining a popular Western show (Bounty Law) but has since fallen on lean times, forced to appear as the guest-starring “heavy” in other actors’ hit series.

Career opportunities have similarly dried up for Cliff, who nevertheless remains content serving as Rick’s chauffeur, handyman, and all-around go-to guy.

Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood

While Rick prepares to portray yet another villain on yet another Western series (Lancer), Cliff becomes (platonically) involved with Pussycat (Margaret Qualley), a hippie who’s actually part of a larger commune.

It’s here where fact and fiction dovetail, as Pussycat and her fellow dropouts are all followers of Charles Manson (Damon Herriman). And who should live right next door to Rick Dalton but actress Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) and new hubby Roman Polanski (Rafal Zawierucha)?

With the “Polish prick” (as Steve McQueen calls him) usually away on business, a pregnant Tate keeps herself occupied by hanging out with friends and watching herself in such efforts as the Dean Martin spy spoof The Wrecking Crew. Meanwhile, Manson’s followers eagerly await word from their master, who of course has murder and mayhem on his mind.

The majority of Tarantino’s movies are long, but few suffer from flab — that’s not always the case here, as some of the scenes involving Rick’s work on Western sets could easily have been trimmed. The brightest moments involving this character are the ones that find Tarantino cannily inserting him into existing properties.

When someone states that he heard that Rick was up for the Steve McQueen part in the great WWII flick The Great Escape, we’re treated to an actual scene from the film, with Rick appearing as Hilts instead of the King of Cool. And when the gueststarring credits are flashed for an episode of The F.B.I., it’s not Burt Reynolds but Rick Dalton who’s been shoehorned into that slot between James Farentino and Norman Fell.

If some of Rick’s storyline feels extraneous, the same can’t be said for the sequences involving Cliff — all of Pitt’s scenes are gold, with two particularly standing out. One amusingly finds him getting into a tiff with Bruce Lee (Mike Moh) after he chuckles over the martial arts star’s assertion that he could cripple Cassius Clay.

THE LION KING

OO All filmmakers would find it a compliment to have their latest picture compared to Alfred Hitchcock’s excellent Psycho. Yet none would care to have their new movie compared to Gus Van Sant’s execrable Psycho.

Yet as The Lion King, Version 2.0, gets underway, memories of Van Sant’s failed experiment come flooding back. The entire opening sequence of the animals gathering at Pride Rock while “The Circle of Life” plays over the speakers is exactly the same in this CGI version as it was in the original 1994 old-school-animated feature.

But just as Van Sant eventually departed ever-so-slightly from the original material, so too do director Jon Favreau and scripter Jeff Nathanson. Yet even with minor modifications, this Lion King can never quite step out of the shadow of its predecessor, and many will write it off as merely selfabsorbed and self-congratulatory.

All the enduring characters return in photorealistic form, including the majestic Mufasa, his restless son Simba, and his conniving brother Scar. As before, a tragedy sends Simba scampering away, on the precipice of perishing until he’s rescued by the team of the meerkat Timon and the warthog Pumbaa. The Lion King remains a story of oversized Shakespearean actions, ambitions and emotions, channeling Hamlet as it looks at familial relationships.

Here’s the tricky part about covering this new take on The Lion King. If you’ve seen the original, it’s impossible not to compare and contrast, and this version falls short in practically every way. Those who have never seen the ’94 edition will be much more charitable in their assessment, although even they might be put off by the soullessness of the entire enterprise. The Lion King 2.0 feels like nothing more than a cash grab. Of course making money is the bottom line, but Disney’s pilfering of its past usually arrives with some imagination attached — check out 2015’s Cinderella as Exhibit A and 2017’s Beauty and the Beast as Exhibit B. The Lion King, on the other hand, feels like it was produced on a dare, or maybe because the Disney suits were feeling particularly arrogant. CS

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ACTIVISM & POLITICS

BREWS & VIEWS (JULY 2019) - FUTURE OF THE SAVANNAH CIVIC CENTER Wed., July 31, 5 p.m. Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 West Liberty Street.

DRINKING LIBERALLY Every first and third Thursdays, 7:00 p.m.

A gathering of Liberals for an informal discussion of politics, the economy, sports, entertainment, and the world around us. Free to attend. Food and beverages available for purchase. first Thursday of every month, 7 p.m. (912) 341-7427. livingliberally.org/drinking/chapters/GA/ savannah. Tondee’s Tavern, 7 E. Bay Street.

HUNGRY FOR HISTORY?: TOMOCHICHI: FRIEND AND ALLY OF THE GEORGIA COLONY Much remains unknown about how Tomochichi and the Yamacraws came to occupy Yamacraw Bluff as a community apart from the Creek nation. Yet his and his people’s presence there made all the difference to Oglethorpe’s success with the Georgia colony. Roger Smith tells the story of a friendship with much larger implications for intercultural relations nearly unprecedented in the story of British North America. Free and open to the public Mon., Aug. 5, 3:30 p.m. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

SAVANNAH AREA YOUNG REPUBLICANS Get involved. Meetings are the last Tuesday of every month (except for December) at 7:00pm. Contact number: (912) 657-9623 912-604-0797. chairman@sayr.org. sayr.org.

VICTORIAN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETINGS The VNA represents all residing, working or otherwise involved in the Victorian District and meets every second Tuesday of each month to the exception of the month of August. Meetings are held at The Mansion on Forsyth Park. Social starts at 5:30 p.m. and meetings start at 6 p.m. There is no fee to attend our meetings. For anyone using the Valet Parking at The Mansion, there is a $5. fee. MEMBERSHIP YEARLY FEES are: Individual $25. - Household (2 people) $40.

- Business $50. and Students $10. Free , 6-7 p.m. vnasavannahga2013@gmail.com. mansiononforsythpark.com. Mansion on Forsyth Park, 700 Drayton St.

AUDITIONS AND CALLS FOR ENTRIES

AUDITIONS FOR ARMSTRONG YOUTH ORCHESTRA Auditions for our spring session will be held January 9, 2019. Students who played in the Fall 2018 session, and who plan to remain in the same ensemble, do not need to re-audition in January. The January auditions are for new students, or students wishing to move to a different ensemble.

Choose your instrument from the list on their website - https://ayosavannah.org/ auditions/ -to see the audition requirements for applicable ensembles. Then, contact them via email at ayosavannah2004@

Mississippi Vegan Four-Course Brunch Pop-Up

Mississippi Vegan comes to Savanna for a special four-course brunch pop-up featuring Timmy’s recipes utilizing local, organic produce and foraged ingredients.

AUG. 4, 10 A.M.. 912-297-6759. FOX & FIG, 321 HABERSHAM ST. gmail.com to reserve an audition date and time, or with any questions you may have. . Armstrong Campus, Georgia Southern University, 11935 Abercorn St. CALL FOR ARTISTS FOR “A BOOK ABOUT LOVE” GROUP SHOW What is your interpretation of love? We think we know it until we must articulate it, sustain it, trust it and at some point, act on, in, or with it. While tales and experience and these days, social media roar the meanings of love to us, what does love look like to

YOU? We’re asking you to visually show us. The medium you use to express your interpretation of the theme is fully open.

We want the final image on a postcard, not the artwork itself. Read details on how and why on our website. Deadline Aug 6. $15 Through Aug. 5. 912-596-3873. tatiana@thestudioschoolsavannah.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com/artistcall. html. Studio School, 1319 Bull St.

CALL FOR AUDITIONS FOR MACBETH This is the final show of Savannah Shakes’ ten-show cycle that started upon their founding in 2015. The entire production concept will be inspired by the greatest moments and worlds in science fiction: Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien, Battlestar Galactica, Dune... the list goes on. Auditions will take place in two rounds. Sun., Aug. 4, 7 p.m. and Tue., Aug. 6, 7 p.m.

CALL FOR EARLY 19TH CENTURY DANCERS/REGENCY DANCING The Davenport House has a social dance program which meets most Wednesdays at 5 p.m. The Museum is looking for new participants in this free community activity. For information contact info@ davenporthousemuseum.org or call 912236-8097. . davenporthousemuseum.org.

Davenport House, 324 East State St. CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR 2020 LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM Leadership Southeast Georgia, a leadership development program for professionals in a 10-county coastal region, is calling for nominations for the class of 2020.

The program fosters relationships among leaders in the region and offers professional development related to critical leadership skills and issues such as conflict resolution, self-awareness, communication and strategic thinking. For more information, visit http://www.lsega.com/home.html. .

GIRLS ON THE RUN COACH TRAINING A Girls on the Run Coach believes in the inherent power within every girl. A Coach wants to leave a lasting impact on the lives of girls and the community. Coaches do not have to be runners. Girls on the Run teams meet twice a week for 10-weeks, followed by the end-of-season Celebration 5K. Head Coaches are given a meticulouslyprepared curriculum box with lessons and materials. Everything they need to work with the girls is provided. Sat., Aug. 3, 10 a.m. gotrcoastalgeorgialowcountry.org/coach.

Sylvan Learning Center, 340 Eisenhower Drive #10.

SINGERS NEEDED (PAID POSITIONS) : AUDITIONING NOW Singers: St. John’s Church in Savannah (Episcopal) has multiple openings for paid choral singers in the soprano, tenor, and bass-baritone sections. Rate is by call, competitive to the region and commensurate with skills and experience.

Rehearsals Wednesdays 7-9pm (SeptMay) and rehearsal/service Sundays 10- noon(approx), year round. Additional calls for Evensong rehearsals and services (Sept-May). Sight reading and/or excellent musicianship is needed; learning parts prior to rehearsal is required for staff singers. For audition times or questions, please contact sbranyon@stjohnssav.org or text 912-5724326. No prepared material is required to audition. Positions open until filled. . St John’s Episcopal Church, 325 Bull St. on Madison Square.

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SCI FANS FOR SENIORS DRIVE Members of the community who would like to donate a new box fan or make a cash donation to purchase a fan may come by SCI’s headquarters at 3025 Bull Street, Savannah between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday or donate on-line at www.seniorcitizensinc.org/give. . Senior Citizens Inc., 3025 Bull St.

CLASSES, CAMPS & WORKSHOPS

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2018 SUMMER BONANZA The program will expose young people to local government, cultural diversity, and positive role models. Strengthening academic development while providing safe, structured, and fun activities for youth is essential. Summer Bonanza meets once per week on Saturday mornings from 10 am – 1 pm at the Moses Jackson Center.

Saturdays, 9 a.m. (912) 663-4528. Moses Jackson Advancement Center, 1410B Richards Street.

BACHATA AND SALSA DANCE CLASSES New 4 week dance series, designed for absolute beginners to learn the fundamentals of Bachata or Salsa for social dancing! Bachata and salsa are fun dances from the Dominican Republic that can be found in cities all over the world, and is a great way to meet other people and enjoy amazing music. No partner or dance experience needed, just come and have fun! Special discount if you decide to do the salsa and bachata series together! RSVP via facebook or email. $40 for 4 classes, $70 for both bachata and salsa series . stephaniehmetzger@gmail.com. facebook. com/events/239285403377870/.

BASIC SELF DEFENSE Essential self-defense for adults. $30/ month Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6 p.m. fit912savannah.com. fit912savannah.com.

Fit912 Savannah, 428 Bull Street.

BEGINNING BELLY DANCE CLASSES Taught by Happenstance Bellydance.

All skill levels and styles. Private instruction available. $15 912-704-2940. happenstancebellydance@gmail.com. happenstancebellydance.wordpress.com.

BRAZILIAN JIU JITSU CLASSES Monday/Wednesday- Competition 5:30pm and Fundamentals at 7:00pm Tuesday/ Thursday- Fundamentals at Noon and Fundamentals at 5:30pm Friday- Private Lessons by appointment Saturday- Open Mat at 10:30am . Serg Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, 401 Mall Blvd.

BRIDGE LESSONS Learn to play bridge. BB2 Competitive Bidding: Monday, September 24@7:00PM. BB4: Play of the Hand/ Declarer/Play: Saturday, September 15@10:00AM. Intermediate/Advanced Workshops: Friday, September 14@10:00AM . 912-228-4838. bridgewebs.com/savannahclubs. Savannah Duplicate Bridge Center, 8511 Ferguson Ave. COCKTAIL CLASSES Congress Street Up hosts Cocktail Classes every Monday night at 6:30. Learn how to shake and stir like a pro. Learn all about the fancy tools we use and their fascinating history. Impress your friends and make your 34 co-workers envious. $35.00 Mondays, 6:30-8

p.m. 912.220.1249. kblack@historictours. com. facebook.com/pg/CongressStreetUp/ about/?ref=page_internal. Congress Street Up, 220 W. Congress St. CONTEMPORARY DANCE FUSION CLASS AT THE STUDIO IN THUNDERBOLT Join a classically trained dance teacher for a fun and challenging dance class. Focus on technique, choreography, and whatever else you would like to do! Opportunity to learn aerial hammock moves as well.

Every Sunday from 6-7pm $20. To reserve a space call/text 912-483-2109 or email ktoyogasurf@gmail.com .

COUNTRY TWO STEP GROUP CLASS Join us every week to learn how to dance to the classics and modern day songs of country music. All levels welcomebeginners to advanced. Each week will progress from the previous. First week is the top of the month and runs for 4 weeks. Sign up today! $40 for 4 weeks Thursdays, 7-8 p.m. 612-470-6683. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com.

Salon de Baile Dance & Fitness Studio, 301 US Hwy 80 SE. 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. You’re Invited To A Free Masterclass: 5 Steps to Turning Your Talents and Expertise Into A Successful Online Coaching Business (even if you have no idea how to get started!) See website for more info at www.laurenl.com/creativity_ coaching/ or contact Creativity@LaurenL. com . Online, ---.

DRUM FOLK: A RIDDIMIC RESCUE Join a new folk and funk cultural movement built within the classic traditions of GullahGeechee cultural legacy. Learn about juba, hand jive, ring play, ring shout, tambourine, riddimic movement, and vocalization along with the various regional drum legacies connecting national and international culture. $12 per 1.5 hour session Wednesdays, 7 p.m. nowgriot1@aol.com. sulfurstudios.org. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. DUI PREVENTION GROUP Offers victim impact panels for intoxicated drivers, DUI, offenders, and anyone seeking knowledge about the dangers of driving while impaired. A must see for teen drivers.

Sign in time begins 6:00-6:20 p.m. Panel starts promptly at 6:30 p.m. and ends at approximately 8:00 P.M. Fee is $40.00 money orders or certified bank checks only payable to DUI Prevention Group. Meets monthly, check the website. $40/session (912) 691-4905. info@duipreventiongroup. org.

EFFECTIVE CUEING FOR YOGA TEACHERS Adam Whiting returns to Savannah Yoga Barre with a workshop for 200+ hour yoga teachers. Friday, Aug 2 from 2:30-4:30, join Adam for Effective Cueing in Asana Classes. You’ll learn how to give clear and precise instructions to your students and earn 20 CEUs. Cost is $50. Sign up by July 19th, save $5. For more info, please call or email SYB. Adam will also be on hand

for 4 open classes during this weekend.

Please check online for more info. $50/$45 before July 19th Fri., Aug. 2, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

9122004809. info@SavannahYogaBarre. com. SavannahYogaBarre.com/workshops. savannahyogabarre.com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2132 E Victory Drive.

HIGH VIBE / LOW COST YOGA Join Melissa DeLynn for all-levels, beginner friendly Yoga classes. These classes are well-balanced, nourishing, and challenging with an emphasis on philosophy and spirituality. Expect to learn, heal, meditate and connect. $15 Wednesdays, 6-7:15 p.m. 706-614-4715. mdelynn@gmail.com.

WELMONT, 1930 Montgomery Street.

HISTORICAL WRITERS GUILD OF RICHMOND HILL MONTHLY WORKSHOP In addition to the regular meetings offered on the second and fourth Monday of each month as a writing feedback group, the Historical Writers Guild of Richmond Hill will begin offering its members a writing skills workshop on the first Monday of each month. This monthly workshop will address topics such as: show versus tell, conflict, how to build your story, fiction strategy and structure, characterization, and other topics as chosen by the group. The mission of the Historical Writers Guild (HWG) of Richmond Hill is to improve members’ writing skills and to help each writer become published.

Richmond Hill History Museum 11460 Ford Avenue Richmond Hill, GA 31324 7:00 p.m.

- 9:00 p.m. first Monday of every month. richmondhillhistoricalsociety.com/historicalwriters-guild.html. Richmond Hill Museum, 11460 Ford Ave. HYPNOSIS AND GUIDED IMAGERY Hypnosis, Guided Imagery, Mindfulness, Eft, will create neural pathways in the brain Because our brains are neuroplastic it has a positive effect and helps you to recover from anxiety, stress, trauma, and PTSD, It’s great for weight loss and to stop smoking.

Kind and compassionate care. 25 years experience. Call 912-927-3432. Website: www. Savannahypnosis.com. Facebook: Alpha Institute. .

JENKINS ATHLETIC CLUB SUMMER CAMP The camp runs Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Daily activities include game room, movies, basketball, dodgeball, kickball, swimming pool, field trips, arts and crafts, and more. To register, contact Billy Covington at bcovington@@vbjbc.com or billy@jenkinsathleticclub.com. Through Aug. 2. 912-713-3501. Jenkins Athletic Club, 6408 Waters Ave. JEWELER’S GUIDED OPEN STUDIO Join us for time to practice your skills and knock out some projects you’ve been dreaming up. Tuition includes access to the studio with support from Christina or one of her assistants. Students are responsible for their own materials. Prerequisite of Jewelry I or similar instruction from another studio. $30 Thursdays, 1-4 p.m.

912-289-8337. christina@dreamcatstudio. com. dreamcatstudio.com. Use our space to practice your skills and knock out your personal pieces. Tuition includes access to the studio with support from Christina or one of her assistants. Students are responsible for their own materials.

Prerequisite of Jewelry I or similar instruction from another studio. $30 Fridays, 6 p.m. 912-289-8337. christina@ dreamcatstudio.com. dreamcatstudio.com. dreamcat studio, Hover Creek RD. MUSIC LESSONS AND CLASSES: ALL INSTRUMENTS, ALL AGES Portman’s Music Academy offers private lessons on piano, guitar (electric, acoustic, classical), mandolin, ukulele, banjo, bass guitar, drums, percussion, voice, clarinet, saxophone (alto and tenor), oboe, flute, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, tuba, DJ, Pro Logic, Composition, Ear Training, violin, viola, and cello. Group classes for beginner piano and guitar. Music Adventures for ages 5 to 7. . 912-354-1500. portmansmusic.com. Portman’s Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. POWER SELF DEFENSE Join us for fun and fitness in the heart of downtown Savannah. Fit912Savannah offers fun, safe, friendly classes in yoga, self defense, dance, and fitness, with more classes coming soon! Have a question, want to register? Contact us at nfo@ fit912savannah.com! Located in the lower level of the United Way Building, 428 Bull Street, Savannah, GA (Enter via the red doors on East Wayne Street) Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7 p.m. fit912savannah.com. fit912savannah. com. Fit912 Savannah, 428 Bull Street.

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. SAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL’S BETH ROBERTS MASTER CLASS One of the most sought-after voice teachers in Manhattan and member of the voice faculty of Mannes College The New School for Music, Roberts gives her loving and interactive methods to singers in a lively Master Class setting as a part of the Savannah VOICE Festival.

Free Tue., Aug. 6, 1-2 p.m. 855-7667372. info@savannahvoicefestival. org. savannahvoicefestival.org/festival/ master-class-beth-roberts-voice/. Westin Savannah Harbor, 1 Resort Drive.

SUMMER READING PROGRAM Reach for the stars with Summer Reading Program at Live Oak Public Libraries!

Explore “A Universe of Stories” from June 1 through July 31 at your local library.

Enjoy great books and exciting activities all summer long. Visit www.liveoakpl.org for details. #LibrariesLiftoff Free and open to the public. Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 912-652-3600. communications@ liveoakpl.org. liveoakpl.org/events/srp19. liveoakpl.org. Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St.

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SUMMER SEA CAMP Kids 6-11 years old Morning and/or Afternoon Modules, After Care, Curbside Drop-off/Pick-up Summer FUN for the kids… designed to fit your schedule Choose a combination of days and times to fit your summer schedule. Each camp session runs Monday to Friday. Sign-up for all five days of a camp session, or any combination of days, mornings, or afternoon modules. Each day has two 3-hour modules: Mornings, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. & Afternoons, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. After care available from 4-5 pm for $10/day. $30 per module Mondays-Fridays, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. 912786-5917. brenda@tybeemarinescience. org. tybeemarinescience.org. tybeemarinescience.org/. The Tybee Island Marine Science Center’s summer Sea Camp is now accepting registrations online at www.tybeemarinescience.org. Designed for kids ages six to 11 years old, the educational camp offers weekday morning or afternoon modules, as well as whole day and full week options. Each module focuses on a different coastal critter and includes outdoor beach time in addition to classroom learning in a fun, relaxed setting. Modules are $30 each and after care is available for an additional fee. Members receive Sea Camp discounts based on their membership level. Sea Camp kicks off on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, and runs through Friday, August 2, including Independence Day. Each module is limited to 15 campers.

For a complete list of module topics or to

register, see the website. Through Aug. 2. tybeemarinescience.org/. Tybee Island Marine Science Center, 1510 Strand Ave. SURFING AND UKULELE LESSONS Surfing & Ukulele Lessons and surf camps. Tybee Surf Lessons, Tybee Island/ Savannah. Email or call Turner for more info 808-385-5364. TybeeSurfLessons.com. .

Tybee Island, Tybee Island.

TAI CHI The tai chi classes are open to the first 25 participants 60 years of age or older.

Wednesdays, 10 a.m. 912-877-0056. Senior Citizens, Inc. Liberty County Neighborhood Center, 800 Tupelo Trail.

WEEKEND YOGA IMMERSION WITH ADAM WHITING Join international yoga teacher Adam Whiting for 4 classes at Savannah Yoga Barre and take your practice deeper. Brick & Mortar Master Class 8/2 @ 5:45. All Levels Yoga Flow 8/3 @ 9:30. Fascial Freedom Flow 8/3 @ 12:00. Yin Yoga 8/3 @ 3:00. Sign up for any or all sessions.

Early Bird pricing thru 7/19. Priced from $18 - $49 per session. $18-$49 per session Fri., Aug. 2, 5:45-7:45 p.m. and Sat., Aug. 3, 9:30-10:45 a.m., 12-2 & 3-5 p.m.

9122004809. info@SavannahYogaBarre. com. SavannahYogaBarre.com/workshops. savannahyogabarre.com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2132 E Victory Drive.

ZONA ROSA WRITING WORKSHOP Become the writer you were meant to be: Join Zona Rosa, the internationally acclaimed, monthly Savannah-based writing

workshops founded and led by awardwinning author Rosemary Daniell. Over 180 Zona Rosans have become published authors. For information, contact Rosemary at info@myzonarosa.com. Also ask about the week-long, intensive Sixteenth Annual Zona Rosa Writing and Living Retreat,Tybee Island, July 22-29, 2017. . No physical address given, none.

CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS

ABENI CULTURAL ARTS DANCE CLASSES Classses for multiple ages in performance dance and adult fitness dance. African, modern, ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, gospel. Held at Abeni. For more info visit https://www.abeniculturalarts.com or call 912-272-2797. . abeniculturalarts@gmail. com. abeniculturalarts.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. . buccaneerregion.org.

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 Our mission is to further the art of beading and bead education within our membership and our communities. Visit website for more info regarding the next Bead-In Class or the next CBS Meeting! . coastalbeadsociety. com/coastalbeadsociety-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, and other fiber arts.

Meets at Oatland Island Wildlife Center (in the 2nd floor studio), first Saturday of the month (Sept.-June) 10:15am - 1pm. Visit website for more updates! . fiberguildsav. com. Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown Road GA. HOSTESS CITY TOASTMASTERS CLUB 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, 6:15-7:15 p.m. hostesscity.toastmastersclubs.org. bullstreetlabs.com. Bull Street Labs, 2222 Bull St. CONTINUES ON P. 36

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ONE MILLION CUPS Opportunity to polish your pitching skills while networking and making valuable connections. Pitch your idea/business in front of fellow entrepreneurs and get real-time constructive feedback. 2222 Bull Street, weekly Wednesday 9-10am, no charge, free coffee. www.1millioncups.com/ savannah Wednesdays. bullstreetlabs.com.

Bull Street Labs, 2222 Bull St. PROOFREADER’S WHISKEY CLUB Membership includes the first whiskey drink free, free monthly private whiskey tastings from various brands, 15% off the member’s bill for the year, and a personalized book

card including a list of 75 whiskeys in each chapter in the DeSoto library. Library series meetings will be the last Thursday of every month and include one free guest pass per member for the year. They will pick a book from the Edgar’s P&P library to hold their personalized book card which will be used to keep track of their progress on the whiskey list. $50 . eventbrite. com/e/proofreaders-whiskey-clubtickets-42943991635. proofsavannah.com.

Edgar’s Proof and Provision, 15 E. Liberty St. THE SAVANNAH CHINESE CORNER The Savannah Chinese Corner welcomes anyone interested in Mandarin language

or Chinese culture. Meets every Saturday morning from 10 am to noon. Check the Facebook group to see meeting location. . facebook.com/groups/ SavannahChineseCorner. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

SAVANNAH SACRED HARP SINGERS Savannah Sacred Harp Singers welcome you to join our monthly community singing on the second Saturday of the month from 2-4pm at Ferguson Avenue Baptist Church.

Sacred Harp is an American tradition of singing hymns in four part harmony. No particular religious affiliation is required or endorsed. All are welcome. No experience

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

“Dear Diary: Last night my Aries friend dragged me to the Karaoke Bowling Alley and Sushi Bar. I was deeply skeptical. The place sounded tacky. But after being there for twenty minutes, I had to admit that I was having a fantastic time. And it just got better and more fun as the night wore on. I’m sure I made a fool of myself when I did my bowling ball imitation, but I can live with that. At one point I was juggling a bowling pin, a rather large piece of sweet potato tempura, and my own shoe while singing Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir”—and I don’t even know how to juggle. I have to admit that this sequence of events was typical of my adventures with Aries folks.

I suppose I should learn to trust that they will lead me to where I don’t know I want to go.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

In his poem “Wild Oats,” poet W. S. Merwin provided a message that’s in perfect alignment with your current astrological needs: “I needed my mistakes in their own order to get me here.” He was not being ironic in saying that; he was not making a lame attempt to excuse his errors; he was not struggling to make himself feel better for the inconvenience caused by his wrong turns. No! He understood that the apparent flubs and miscues he had committed were essential in creating his successful life. I invite you to reinterpret your own past using his perspective.

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Even if you’re an ambidextrous, multigendered, neurologically diverse, Phoenician-Romanian Gemini with a fetish for pink duct tape and an affinity for ideas that no one has ever thought of, you will eventually find your sweet spot, your power niche, and your dream sanctuary. I promise. Same for the rest of you Geminis, too. It might take a while. But I beg you to have faith that you will eventually tune in to the homing beacon of the mother lode that’s just right for you. P.S.: Important clues and signs should be arriving soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

What would a normal, boring astrologer tell you at a time like now? Maybe something like this: “More of other people’s money and resources can be at your disposal if you emanate sincerity and avoid being manipulative. If you want to negotiate vibrant compromises, pay extra attention to good timing and the right setting. Devote special care and sensitivity to all matters affecting your close alliances and productive partnerships.” As you know, Cancerian, I’m not a normal, boring astrologer, so I wouldn’t typically say something like what I just said. But I felt it was my duty to do so because right now you need simple, basic, no-frills advice.

I promise I’ll resume with my cryptic, lyrical oracles next time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

Let’s check in with our psychic journalist, LoveMancer, who’s standing by with a live report from inside your imagination.

What’s happening, LoveMancer? “Well, Rob, the enchanting creature on whose thoughts I’ve been eavesdropping has slipped into an intriguing frontier. This place seems to be a hot zone where love and healing interact intensely. My guess is that being here will lead our hero to breakthrough surges of love that result in deep healing, or deep healing that leads to breakthrough surges of love—probably both.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Virgo figure skater Scott Hamilton won an Olympic gold medal and four World Championships. He was a star who got inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame and made a lot of money after he turned professional. “I calculated once how many times I fell during my skating career—41,600 times,” he testified in his autobiography. “But here’s the funny thing: I also got up 41,600 times.

That’s the muscle you have to build in your psyche—the one that reminds you to just get up.” In accordance with current astrological omens, Virgo, I’ll be cheering you on as you strengthen that muscle in your psyche during the coming weeks.

necessary. . Ferguson Avenue Baptist Church, 10050 Ferguson Ave. 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. scad.edu/admission/visit-scad/ daily-tours. scad.edu/. Savannah College of

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

What’s the story of your life? Psychologist James Hillman said that in order to thrive, you need to develop a clear vision of that story. How do you do that? Hillman advised you to ask yourself this question: “How can I assemble the pieces of my life into a coherent plot?” And why is this effort to decode your biography so important? Because your soul’s health requires you to cultivate curiosity and excitement about the big picture of your destiny. If you hope to respond with intelligence to the questions and challenges that each new day brings, you must be steadily nourished with an expansive understanding of why you are here on earth. I bring these ideas to your attention, Libra, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to illuminate and deepen and embellish your conception of your life story.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide,” wrote psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. I think that description fits many people born under the sign of the Scorpio, not just Scorpio artists. Knowing how important and necessary this dilemma can be for you, I would never glibly advise you to always favor candid, straightforward communication over protective, strategic hiding. But I recommend you do that in the coming weeks. Being candid and straightforward will serve you well.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Sagittarian poet Aracelis Girmay writes, “How ramshackle, how brilliant, how haphazardly & strangely rendered we are. Gloriously, fantastically mixed & monstered. We exist as phantom, monster, miracle, each a theme park all one’s own.” Of course that’s always true about every one of us. But it will be extraordinarily true about you in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will be at the peak of your ability to express what’s most idiosyncratic and essential about your unique array of talents and specialties.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Sometime soon I suspect you will arrive at a crossroads in your relationship with love and sex—as well as your fantasies about love and sex. In front of you: a hearty cosmic joke that would mutate your expectations and expand your savvy.

Behind you: an alluring but perhaps confusing call toward an unknown future.

To your left: the prospect of a dreamy adventure that might be only halfimaginary. To your right: the possibility of living out a slightly bent fairy tale version of romantic catharsis. I’m not here to tell you what you should do, Capricorn. My task is simply to help you identify the options.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

How many handcuffs are there in the world? Millions. Yet there are far fewer different keys than that to open all those handcuffs. In fact, in many countries, there’s a standard universal key that works to open most handcuffs. In this spirit, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I’m designating August as Free Yourself from Your Metaphorical Handcuffs Month. It’s never as complicated or difficult as you might imagine to unlock your metaphorical handcuffs; and for the foreseeable future it will be even less complicated and difficult than usual for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

People who sneak a gaze into your laboratory might be unnerved by what they see. You know and I know that your daring experiments are in service to the ultimate good, but that may not be obvious to those who understand you incompletely. So perhaps you should post a sign outside your lab that reads, “Please don’t leap to premature conclusions!

My in-progress projects may seem inexplicable to the uninitiated!” Or maybe you should just close all your curtains and lock the door until your future handiwork is more presentable. P.S. There may be allies who can provide useful feedback about your explorations. I call them the wounded healers.

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Art and Design, PO Box 2072.

STITCH AND BITCH Slow down and nurture your creative spirit in a constructive, casual atmosphere. Bring a project or enjoy one of our kits curated to focus on the dedicated process of craft: embroidery, knitting, needlework, or any of the fiber arts. All ages are welcome!

Cheeseboard + wine deals to be had.

Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m. foxyloxycafe.com.

Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St.

EVENTS

40 ACRES AND A MULE TOUR This is the story of Savannah and its significant role of promoting slavery throughout the South and it’s the story of the triumph over slavery through faith, culminating in a historic meeting in which the aspirations of 4 million African-Americans became distilled in a single phrase: “40 acres and a mule.” You will visit six of Savannah’s most historic squares as you learn the truth about crucial events that took place in the city between 1733 and 1865 that shaped the life and times of Savannah for years to come. Private tours only. $40 . 912-6594383. rumpel@40acresandamule.org.

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AUGUST BIRTHPLACE GENERAL TOURS $15 Thu., Aug. 1, noon. juliettegordonlowbirthplace.org/. $15 Fri., Aug. 2, noon. juliettegordonlowbirthplace. org/. $15 Sat., Aug. 3, noon. juliettegordonlowbirthplace.org/. $15 Tue.,

Aug. 6, noon. juliettegordonlowbirthplace. org/. Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, 10 East Oglethorpe Ave. AUGUST GIRL SCOUT TROOP EXPERIENCE Aug. 1-6, $13 8:45 a.m. juliettegordonlowbirthplace.org/. $13 Fri., Aug. 2, 8:45 a.m. Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, 10 East Oglethorpe Ave. AUGUST: OVER TEA CUPS: A GIRL SCOUT SENIOR/AMBASSADOR AFTERNOON TEA EXPERIENCE $20 Thu., Aug. 1, 3:30 p.m. juliettegordonlowbirthplace.org/. Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, 10 E Oglethorpe Ave. BACK2SCHOOL BACKPACK GIVE BACK Backpacks full of school supplies, including pens, pencils, notepads and more will be given to the first 200 families who check in at the Back2School Booth located outside of the flea market office. Sat., Aug. 3, 1 p.m. ilovefleas.com. Keller’s Flea Market, 5901 Ogeechee Road.

BUTLER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOCK DRIVE Butler Presbyterian Church’s second annual sock drive is underway. If anyone would like to contribute to this venture, please drop off new socks any size or color to Butler Presbyterian Church @ 603 West Victory Drive- Savannah, Georgia. All items will be contributed to members of the homeless community via the various shelters. The

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ACROSS 1 Kingdom 6 Abbr. followed by a date 11 TikTok, for one 14 “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” playwright 15 1980s Attorney General Ed 16 Head-smacking Stooge 17 British currency for entering a website?

19 “Blue Rondo ___ Turk” (Brubeck song) 20 Safe desserts?

21 Massage therapist’s subj.

22 Tuber in a sack 24 Adult ed. course 25 Before, to Longfellow 26 Provide diversion 28 Brazilian currency to be unearthed years later?

33 Dunderhead 34 Bus. alternative to a partnership 35 Sea on the border of Kazakhstan 36 “She Blinded Me With Science” singer Thomas 39 Run, old-style 40 Spray brand 41 Troupemate of John, Terry, Terry, Michael and Graham 42 Hot tub sigh 43 “Green Acres” prop 44 South Korean currency exceeding in frequency?

50 Not live

51 Exclamation of pain 52 Neither’s companion 53 Naomi of “Vice” 55 Tar’s tankardful 57 ___ Cat! (cat food brand that’s somehow still around) 58 Gas station offering 59 Multi-country currency sprung at the last minute?

62 Lupino of “Beware, My Lovely” 63 “If I Had a Hammer” singer Lopez 64 Brunch beverage 65 One complete circuit 66 Antique photo tone 67 Beyond full DOWN 1 Logic, for one 2 Plaza Hotel girl of fiction 3 Grandma, in Granada 4 Microscope component 5 ___ school 6 Artist who originated the term “stan” 7 “Sonic the Hedgehog” company 8 Octopus arm 9 “Just ___ suspected” 10 All out of shape, like a wrecked bike frame 11 Open mic participants 12 End of the world?

13 Fruit cocktail fruit 18 Goa garments 23 Inspector who knows the gold standard?

25 Craft-selling site 27 Cheese partner, for short 29 “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV” costume 30 Yale who helped found Yale 31 Language spoken in Vientiane 32 Pipe fitter’s joint 36 Morning moisture 37 Gold, in Rome 38 Dryer component 39 Exercise that’s easy to grasp?

40 MGM co-founder Marcus 42 Fed on 43 Cable streaming service launched in 2010 45 Surprise wins 46 Lack of foresight?

47 Have a hunch about 48 Formal informer 49 Chowed down on some grass 53 Sing the blues 54 Title girl of a Verdi opera 56 Pasta suffix, commercially 57 Blue-green hue 60 Ending for past or post 61 Night wear

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drive officially ends at the end of September.

Through Sep. 30. Butler Presbyterian Church, 603 W. Victory Dr. CHRIS TILTON Chris Tilton, co-principal of the Dewitt Tilton Group, will present “Metal Buildings: Modern Marvels? Businesses Turning to Budget-Friendly Options for State-of-theArt Appearances” at the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce’s August Power Hour Luncheon. 12 Tue., Aug. 6, 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m. tmock@savannahchamber. com. Grand Lake Club at Southbridge, 815 Southbridge Blvd.

CSPOT - JULY Join us to meet and greet local creatives at the Premier Craft Beer Bar in the historic district of Savannah, GA. Wed., July 31, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 912-233-1160. lauren@ clarkcreativedesign.com. facebook. com/events/696187890832474/. distillerysavannah.com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St. DRINKS AFTER WORK This group is for people that enjoy getting out mid-week, being social after work, and want to discover new places in the downtown Savannah area. Come have a cocktail, make new friends, and get over the hump. The group will meet on Wednesdays at various establishments throughout Downtown Savannah and nearby area. http://www.meetup.com/Drinksafter-work/ https://www.facebook.com/ groups/960991837322187/ Wednesdays, 7 p.m. drinksafterworksavannah@gmail. com. meetup.com/Drinks-after-work/ events/227656080/. distillerysavannah. com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St. DRIP AND PAINT $35 Fri., Aug. 2, 6 p.m. graceshuttleservice. com/. Grace Shuttle Service, Savannah.

THE EXCHANGE CLUB OF SAVANNAH In a rut? The Exchange Club of Savannah welcomes men and women like you to support, serve and encourage the best teachers, students, firefighters, crime fighters, leaders and organizations in our community. Check us out at savannahexchange.org or find us on Facebook. Mondays, noon. 912-441-6559. ddewitt30@yahoo.com. Savannahexchange. org. Exchange Club of Savannah, Carey Hilliard’s Abercorn across from Lowe’s.

FIRST FRIDAY FIREWORKS Celebrate the end of the week and the beginning of a new month with First Friday Fireworks, presented by Wet Willie’s. Free first Friday of every month, 9:30 p.m. info@riverstreetsavannah.com. riverstreetsavannah.com/event/first-fridayfireworks. Rousakis Plaza, River St. FIRST TUESDAY TOUR OF CITY HALL The First Tuesday Tour series gives an overview of the history, architecture, and art of historic City Hall. Participants will also hear stories about some of the City’s more fascinating characters and learn about their City government. The tour is free, but space is limited and registration is required, at savannahga.gov/FirstTuesdayTours. first Tuesday of every month, noon. 912651-6411. lspracher@savannahga.gov.

Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

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Stop by Ghost Coast Saturday August 3rd for local spirits, food, and music!

We’ll have Gainz Grill food truck bringing delicious eats and Ben Keiser Band bringing the tunes. See you there! Gainz Grill Food Truck 2-6 pm Ben Keiser Band 4-6 pm Sat., Aug. 3, 2-6 p.m. facebook. com/events/2146481552141788/. ghostcoastdistillery.com. Ghost Coast Distillery, 641 Indian St. GLOW PARTY! Glow Party at Premier NOW EVERY 1st Saturday of the Month! Come out and Enjoy Drink Specials ALL NIGHT & Free Giveaways ~ Cosmic Bowling starts at 10 PM! Dress to GLOW!! *21+ After 6 PM! FREE first Saturday of every month, 6 p.m.-2 a.m. 912-348-2739. sales@poolerbowl.com. facebook.com/ events/822534741456393/. PoolerBowl. com. Premier Bowl & Bistro, 4 Towne Center Court.

HISTORICAL WALKING TOURS WITH SAVANNAH TOURS AND TALES True tales of the Irish Americans, African Americans, and Native Americans of Savannah’s past. Join KT O’Brien, a native Savannahian, for a leisurely stroll through the serene squares of Savannah.

Frequent stops for seats and refreshments available. Reservations required for tours daily at 10:30am and 8:00pm 2hours $30. Private tours upon request. . savannahtoursandtales@gmail.com.

KIRTAN CONCERT WITH WYNNE PARIS Kirtan is the call/response chanting practice that is a big part of Yoga. One part singing, one part meditation and a bit of dancing together is a recipe for bliss (Ananda). The creation of bliss is both the practice and the goal of Yoga. Try kirtan as a way to experience that goal. Experience nor trained voice needed. No yoga. Music & singing only. Dress comfortably and bring your favorite sitting pillow or back jack chair. We will have a few chairs available for those who need them in order to participate.

Generosity Based - Suggested $15 Fri., Aug. 2, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 912-232-2994. info@savannahyoga.com. bit.ly/2Z6r7N7.

Ordinary Magic, 1323 Bull Street.

LA SCALA’S GHOST COAST DINNER La Scala is incredibly excited to announce our upcoming collaboration with Ghost Coast Distillery. We have curated a magnificent evening of authentic Italian cuisine, perfectly paired with handcrafted cocktails featuring Ghost Coast’s

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award-winning spirits. 100.00 Tue., Aug. 6, 6:30-9:30 p.m. facebook.com/ events/327196858232344/. La Scala Ristorante, 119 E 37th St. LIVE MUSIC Live music featuring local Savannah Legends in an ever changing rotation. All musicians are inspired by the Prohibition Era with a Modern Twist! Enjoy it with a craft cocktail from the Best Bar Staff in Savannah. Thursdays, 9-11 p.m. Congress Street Up, 220 W. Congress St. NIGHTLY SPIRITS GHOST TOUR Explore haunted bars, haunted buildings, and Savannah’s oldest area, all while having time to enjoy some tasty beverages along the way. Step back in time to the 1700’s to explore the parts of Savannah that most only dare to talk about. You’ll hear tales about the dead that haven’t quite moved on, visit some of the most haunted places in the city and get to know the spirits that haunt the locals…and the places that the locals haunt. $20 Fridays, Saturdays, 8:30 p.m. nightlyspirits.com/savannah-ghosttours/. savannahtaphouse.com. Savannah Taphouse, 125 E. Broughton St. THE ORIGINAL MIDNIGHT TOUR One of the spookiest tours in town. Learn about the untold stories of some of the most haunted locations here in Savannah Georgia. Guaranteed to give you a few goose bumps and an unexplained need for a night light. 33.00 . 1-866-666-3323.

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

RYT 200 HOUR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING INFO SESSION-SAVE UP TO $700 Want to deepen your yoga practice and start your journey towards becoming a certified yoga teacher? If teaching yoga is your dream, join us at one of the upcoming FREE YTT info sessions at our sister location, Ordinary Magic! Join us for a fun hour to find out more about of our YTT programs and see if they are a good fit for you. Come with questions or simply to learn more.

Bring an open heart and mind. Leave with more clarity about the direction your yoga practice is moving in and if our program is right for you. FREE Tue., Aug. 6, 6-7 p.m. 912-232-2994. info@savannahyoga. com. clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ ws?studioid=17857&stype=-8&sTG=23& sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000273&d ate=08/06/19. Ordinary Magic, 1323 Bull Street.

SAVANNAH PIRATECON Sat., Aug. 3, 1 p.m.

SCAD DAILY TOURS SCAD offers tours in Savannah, Atlanta and Hong Kong for prospective students and their families. Tours are available daily, excluding Sundays, and 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. For more information please visit, https://www.scad. edu/admission/visit-scad/daily-tours. .

SCAD Student Center, 120 Montgomery St. SHIRE OF FORTH CASTLE FIGHTER PRACTICE Local chapter of the Society for Creative

Anachronism meets Saturdays at Forsyth Park (south end) for fighter practice and general hanging out. For those interested in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. . savannahsca.org.

TEXAS HOLD’EM POKER Free point based poker! Beginners welcome!

Games at 6:30 pm and 9:00 pm. 0.00 Thursdays, 6:30-11 p.m. 912-988-1281. savannasocialmedia@gmail.com. facebook. com/201TapasLounge/. 201 Tapas Lounge, 201 James Blackburn Drive.

TWO HOUR WALKING GHOST TOUR Chilling stories & eerie properties that paved the road to this fascinating title. Pre-colonial ghost history, all the way up to the 21st century. The most complete picture of all of the human psychical and paranormal events that put Savannah on the map as the ghostly city of greatness. Presented by America’s Most Haunted City Tour. , 9 p.m.

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FESTIVALS

7TH ANNUAL SAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL Themed “Heaven and Earth,” the Savannah VOICE Festival is unveiling an impressive lineup for their 2019 season. The seventh annual festival will be in and around Savannah, offering music from opera, musical theatre and popular song. As a means of supporting their mission to build a sought-after Festival, SVF presents classical artists that not only shine in the operatic repertoire, but are able to display their versatility in many enchanting crossover happenings throughout the over 30 events. $25-75 Aug. 3-25. 855-766-7372. info@VOICExperienceFoundation.org. savannahvoicefestival.org. Westin Savannah Harbor, 1 Resort Drive.

“READY TO LAUNCH” BRUNCH & CAMP VOICE SHOWCASE After a week of training, see the stars of tomorrow as they share the stage with the 2019 Festival Artists in songs and scenes from classic musicals and operas.

The Festival kicks off with an educational wrap of Camp VOICE and an introduction to the season. This special brunch concert takes place in the picturesque Westin Savannah Harbor Pavilion. Buffet Brunch starts at 12:00 p.m. and the performance starts at 2:00 p.m. $45-$55 Sat., Aug. 3, 12-2 & 2-3:30 p.m. 855-7667372. info@savannahvoicefestival.org. savannahvoicefestival.org. Westin Savannah Harbor, 1 Resort Drive.

FIRST FRIDAY IN STARLAND A monthly art walk featuring galleries, restaurants, boutiques and more. Free first Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m. Starland District, 40th and Bull.

VINTAGE MARKET DAYS OF SAVANNAH Vintage Market Days is an upscale vintageinspired indoor/outdoor market featuring original art, antiques, clothing, jewelry, handmade treasures, home décor, outdoor furnishings, seasonal plantings and a little more. Aug. 2-4, 10 a.m. savtcc.com.

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