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Clint Eastwood’s documentary, “Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way” screens in honor of his 100th birthday. 7 p.m. savannahjazz.org https://www.wsav.com/savannahjazzfestival/
Two Tides will be breaking up the event into four 2 hour windows with presale reservations to eliminate crowding and keep everyone safe. Glassware will be available during each window, delicious eats by BowTie BBQ & Kitchen Vixen, music by DJ Press Play & Swamptooth Bluegrass, and of course, Festbier. 12-8 p.m. Two Tides Brewing Company, 12 West 41st St.
THURSDAY 9.24
Savannah Cabaret
WEDNESDAY 9.23 Savannah Jazz Festival: Movie Night
Savannah Cabaret
The Historic Savannah Theatre is reopening on Sept. 24 with a high-energy variety show with a live band, singers, dancers and aerial artistry. They will only seat 25% of the capacity for safe distancing in the audience. -26, 8 p.m. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. $39 adults, $19.50 child 912-233-7764. savannahtheatre.com
Savannah Jazz Festival: Blues Night
Featuring Willie Jackson and the Tybee Blues Band and Eric Culberson with Dolette McDonald. 7:30 p.m. savannahjazz.org https://www.wsav.com/savannahjazzfestival/
Zoomerang! Game Show
Zoomerang is an online game show that you play from home. Contestants from the audience (that’s you) are chosen to join forces with a comedian to compete in a live, interactive, online game to win silly prizes. Everyone who attends has the chance to play, and it’s fun for all ages! 8 p.m. Front Porch Improv, 210 W. Victory Drive. frontporchimprov.com
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Oktoberfest at Two Tides
Free HIV Testing
In observance of National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NGMHAAD), free, confidential HIV testing will be offered from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, September 25th at the First City Pride Center at 1515 Bull Street. A rapid HIV test will provide results in one minute. The event is sponsored by Project POWER (Protecting Ourselves With Every Resource), a Coastal Health District Initiative to stop the spread of HIV, sexually transmitted diseases, and to encourage a more open dialogue between partners. 2-7 p.m. 4 First City Pride Center, 1515 Bull St.
Latin Caravan FRIDAY
Front Porch Improv: Hot Takes Talk Show
In a world consumed by uncertainty, fear, and probably drought because 2020 hates people, Hot Takes is here to remind you that it’s the dumb little things that matter most. Tune in for opinions you didn’t ask for on topics you didn’t think mattered. Join Matt Nickley and Chris Williams as they mine the depths of audience submitted concerns such as, “Is gum candy?” or “Can I find true love on Tinder?”. 8 p.m. Front Porch Improv, 210 W. Victory Drive. frontporchimprov.com
Savannah Cabaret
The Historic Savannah Theatre is reopening on Sept. 24 with a high-energy variety show with a live band, singers, dancers and aerial artistry. They will only seat 25% of the capacity for safe distancing in the audience. Sep. 24-26, 8 p.m. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. $39 adults, $19.50 child 912-233-7764. savannahtheatre.com
Savannah Jazz Festival: Latin and Classic Night
Featuring music by Latin Caravan and the Savannah Jazz Orchestra All-Stars with Cynthia Utterbach. 7:30 p.m. savannahjazz.org https://www.wsav.com/savannahjazzfestival/
SATURDAY 9.26 Bulldogs, Beer and BBQ
Join us Saturday, September 26th for the kickoff of the Georgia Bulldogs football
season! We will be streaming the game both inside and outside. Lawn games, fall line brewery, Cohen’s BBQ. Bring your favorite picnic blanket or chair and grab a seat up front! 3 p.m. Cohen’s Retreat, 5715 Skidaway Rd.
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 912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com
Fort Pulaski Fee Free Day
Visiting a national park is even better when it’s free. Several days throughout the year have been designated as fee free days at your national parks including Fort Pulaski National Monument. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Fort Pulaski, US Highway 80 E.
Front Porch Improv: Fun House
Fun House is a never-seen-before improvised comedy show. Using audience suggestions the cast will create original comedic scenes and games. It’s like a live choose-your-own-adventure novel come to life. 8 p.m. Front Porch Improv, 210 W. Victory Drive. frontporchimprov.com
Islands Farmers Market
Enhanced social distancing between vendors. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Islands Farmers’ Market, 401 Quarterman Dr. facebook.com/islandsfarmersmarket
The Historic Savannah Theatre is reopening on Sept. 24 with a high-energy variety show with a live band, singers, dancers and aerial artistry. They will only seat 25% of the capacity for safe distancing in the audience. Sep. 24-26, 8 p.m. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. $39 adults, $19.50 child 912-233-7764. savannahtheatre.com
Savannah Jazz Festival: Spicy Jazz Saturday
Featuring music by the Savannah Jazz Veterans Band, the Savannah Jazz Hall of Fame Band and Ceremony, Jazmin Ghent, Buckwheat Zydeco Jr. and the Ils Sont Partis Band, Emmett Cohen Trio, and Wycliffe Gordon. 3 p.m. savannahjazz.org https://www.wsav.com/savannahjazzfestival/
SUNDAY 9.27 Savannah Jazz Festival: B-3 Sunday
Featuring Dave Potter Quartet, Brian Miller, Ike Stubblefield, Stephanie Nakasian and the Savannah Jazz Orchestra All Stars, David Sanchez, and Pat Bianchi. 3 p.m. savannahjazz.org https://www.wsav.com/savannahjazzfestival/
MONDAY 9.28 Tybee Island Farmers Market
Featuring a variety of produce, baked goods, honey, eggs, BBQ, sauces and dressings, popsicles, dog treats and natural body products. Artisans are also featured each week. The market is nonsmoking and pet friendly. We are right behind the Historic Tybee Lighthouse. Visit the website for more info. 4 p.m. 30 Meddin Drive, 30 Meddin Drive. tybeeislandfarmersmarket.com
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LAST WEEK, social media lit up locally with photos and video of the arrival of the CMA CGM Brazil to the Port of Savannah, as if the massive container vessel were another tourist attraction. The breathless coverage and commentary had the tone of a major celebrity visit to town. Which I suppose it was. The largest-ever ship to visit Savannah, and anywhere on the East Coast for that matter, is indeed newsworthy — though there’s room for disagreement as to whether it’s good news or bad news. There’s no doubt that enormous container vessels such as the 1200 foot-long CMA CGM Brazil are impressive technological feats. The entire process of getting a ship that large nearly 20 miles upriver to its berth and out to sea again, through a growing major tourist destination both ways, is difficult, detailed, and fascinating. But as always with any great technological achievement, the most important question isn’t how was it accomplished, but what will it be used for? In this case, the CMA CGM Brazil and ships like it are used to bring in mostly cheap consumer goods, mostly from China, as is the case with nearly all the traffic into the port of Savannah. Those consumer goods make their way into enormous warehouses nearby, often euphemistically called “logistics centers,” for which hundreds of acres of forest have been clear-cut. From there, the goods go via truck and train elsewhere around the country, making profits for the multinational companies such as Dollar Tree or Home Depot that sell them — but not much actual profit for the people of Savannah. The truck congestion in West Chatham is so intense that major infrastructure costs are incurred just to accommodate the traffic, in an area also seeing major residential growth. The Jimmy DeLoach Parkway in Pooler is, in practical terms,
The CMA CGM Brazil arriving at Savannah. PHOTO COURTESY OF CMA CGM
essentially a thruway for 18-wheelers to and from the port — a very expensive service road. The congestion and pollution concerns overflow, literally, into Effingham County, now the site of political struggles between pro-development forces and residents there and in West Chatham fearful of the loss of more quality of life. Shipping and maritime adventure have always been part of Savannah’s history. But when James Oglethorpe first arrived here nearly 300 years ago, the Savannah River was only about 18 feet deep. Now, after many rounds of dredging deeper and deeper by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, it is nearly 50 feet deep. The dredging has dramatically changed the entire ecosystem in and around the port of Savannah. Hundreds of acres of marsh have been salinated out of existence. The Savannah National Wildlife Refuge has diminished in size with each round of dredging. Not only is Georgia’s indigenous marsh one of the most unique ecosystems on the planet — our coast has the longest contiguous marsh in North America — it serves as an important natural buffer for hurricane storm surge and torrential rainfall. The more of it is destroyed, the more vulnerable this major tourist destination is to those threats. Where does all the dredge material go? For the most part, it’s dumped right next to the river, in “dredge spoil areas.” I’ve walked on a spoil area before — it’s like visiting the surface of an alien planet. You can see them from River Street or from the Savannah Bridge; they’re the high berms just across the channel from downtown. These dredge spoil areas have been called by some biologists the single largest
mosquito breeding ground in North America. Tybee Island gets some dredge spoil for “beach renourishment” — to replace sand mostly eroded away by increased currents at the mouth of the Savannah River due to…. you guessed it… deepening the river. That’s not all! The science of hydrodynamics means that the deeper a river is dredged, the more the river’s speed of current and volume of flow increase exponentially. This dramatically, and inevitably, erodes the banks of the river. Much taxpayer money has already been expended on shoring up seawalls all along the Savannah River channel, on both sides; this expense will only increase with time. And this isn’t even getting into the issues of human trafficking and narcotics trafficking, which are drawn like magnets to large container ports like ours…. Anyone voicing these concerns and criticisms will probably find themselves in a minority, of course, and subject to the usual charges of being “against progress,” an “environmentalist wacko,” etc. As more and more people move to Savannah from other states and metro areas around the country, the local population will care less and less about the ecological damage, as newcomers arrive with no memory of how things once were. For them, a big container ship really is a tourist attraction. It hardly seems fair to hold them responsible for decisions made, for better or worse, long before they got to town. But they should know the enormous price Savannah pays so that the rest of America can enjoy those cheap consumer goods, and so we can post those awesome photos on Facebook. CS
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Savannah-Chatham County moving to hybrid in-person/virtual learning
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learning will attend two days per week, and continue with virtual learning the other three days of the week. At this time, BY KRISTY EDENFIELD bussing will not be provided. Virtual learning will continue to be an option for all students until the end of the BACK TO school looked different this school year, and those students will be year for Savannah-Chatham County Pubtaught by the teachers who elect to conlic Schools teachers and students, as all tinue virtually. returned virtually due to coronavirus. The Board was resoundingly clear that With COVID cases and deaths continuno teacher will be forced or pressured to ing to increase, in July the School Board return to in-person teaching, and all will voted unanimously to the virtual start. be given the option to continue virtually. Even though the Community TransiDistrict staff who choose to work in-pertion Index remains in the red zone, last son will have the option of on-site childWednesday, after administration precare for employees whose children are currently enrolled sented plans to in SCCPSS schools. begin a phased Those students plan to open will be particibuildings at pating in their 42 schools, the academics while Savannah-Chatheir parents are tham County working. School Board Parents who passed a resoluchoose the intion that in part person hybrid says: must agree in “Board of writing that their Education does children will wear hereby acknowlface coverings, edge and approve practice physithe actions taken cal distancing by by the Superhaving a 6-foot intendent and distance between administrators in Graph of hybrid and vitual options classmates/people preparation for at all times, engage the phased hybrid in regular hand washing for 20 seconds or return of students to school and the refrequent hand sanitizing, and avoid sharopening of school buildings for the puring objects with other students. pose of providing educational services.” Schools will conduct temperature The School Board also authorized checks and ask CDC-based screening quesSuperintendent Ann Levett to modify the tions before students are allowed to enter plan if there is a decline in public health the buildings. conditions which would put students and Students who return might have a difstaff at greater risk due to coronavirus. ferent teacher, and they will be required The Board made it clear that no teacher to self-quarantine for 14 days if they are would be forced to do in-person teaching, and the phased-in approach would be sub- exposed to COVID-19, or live with someject to constraints of time, building capac- one who tests positive for COVID-19. Any child who develops or displays ity, staffing, and public health. The phased plan outlines tentative dates symptoms of COVID-19, will be asked to be out of school for a period up to 14 days. and phases of reopening the buildings for Parents have had a mixed reaction to the parents who choose the in-person hybrid. phased-in plan. The first tentative return date is Oct. 5 Holley Morris says it is too early to open for the least independent learners, grades the school buildings and she will keep her pre-K to 2nd, and transitional grades 6th children home. “I have a lot of family that and 9th. are doctors and nurses, some work here The next phase of the plan has a tentative return date of Oct. 26, and includes all in Savannah on Covid units, and this is no joke. Add with the flu season, and there is other grades not covered in phase two. Students who enter the in-person no telling what will happen.”
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“I spoke to both of my children, and neither are ready to go back for two days to wear masks all day and never really get into a routine while at school,” she says. Morris says that she has not had a lot of issues with virtual learning. “When this all started I made a choice to be as positive and upbeat as possible, for not only myself but for the kids. I make sure that even when we do encounter small issues that we all brush it off and adapt to the situation. I didn’t go into virtual learning thinking we would all get it perfect right from the start, but we did go into it excited, adaptable, and willing to learn. It all comes down to the attitude you project and that will affect the kids and the teachers,” she says. “My 6th grader actually likes the extra help her and her classmates get with virtual learning. All of her teachers have been present, are always available on chat to help, and if they see the kids are struggling they will schedule a one on one zoom to help with whatever is going on. My 1st grader is thriving and thank goodness his teacher doesn’t expect them all to sit still and not move. She dances and engages and makes the classes fun while teaching.” Leslie Glunts Guthrie has had a different experience. “I plan to send my kids back because they are not getting what they need online. Science classes are hands-on experiences which are not possible in a virtual setting,” she says. “In addition, as a working parent, it’s impossible to make sure that they are doing what they’re supposed to be doing. There are too many distractions at home and they don’t focus as well. My job is constantly disrupted by kids calling needing help, cannot find assignments, no internet, etc. Teachers are messaging and I am not always able to respond because I am at work and then things get missed.” She concludes, “I spend hours trying to help the kids play catch up and make sure stuff isn’t missed daily. And just when we think we are good, we find more that was missed. For my mental health, and that of my family, they need to go back.” Heidi Sanchez says, “until our area sees a significant and consistent decrease in transmission rates, we’ll continue to utilize the virtual option for our daughter. With the devotion of her teachers, we’re finding our way through 5th grade. It’s not always easy, and we’d much prefer to be with our caring Montessori community in person, but we’re making it work because it is simply what is safest for our family and for our community.” “We say this while acknowledging that it is a privilege to do this. Our community would be best served if those of us speaking from any place of privilege — our children have no special needs, our children are in a safe and loving space every day, we can meet the nutritional needs of our
family, we have access to technology, etc. — proceed with patience in the virtual option and allow students without any of those advantages to return to learning in-person first. This is the only way of making inperson learning an equitable solution for all of SCCPSS’s students.” CS
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The Board resolution passed 8-1 with Tonia Howard-Hall being the dissenting vote. Here are some comments from School Board representatives: Tonia Howard-Hall, District 8 “As many of us are aware, this is a Pandemic, not an Epidemic. The three reasons that precluded my no vote are as follows: 1) my conscience, 2) the science, and 3) parent and teachers survey data indicating that transmission has not slowed enough to allow in-person learning to resume. As the School Board has resumed with in-person meetings, we are governing by wearing masks and being protected by plexiglass petitions. I find it very difficult to send a child into an environment that is not as safe as the one by which we’re governing.” Michael Johnson, District 7 “I was in favor of the amended resolution to be able to give families and staff options for what is right for them. We talk about how each child and classroom are different, so we need to ensure we continue to give options for all families and all staff. We also need to respect each other’s position on whether or not they want to be in person or remain virtual.” David Bringman, District 6 “I supported this resolution because we are a district built around choices for our students. This resolution allows families and teachers that feel it is safe to return to schools that option. It also allows the district to begin the process of implementing safety protocols that will be a part of the educational system for the foreseeable future.” Connie Hall, District 3 “My vote signifies that I am supportive of faculty and staff who wish to return to in-person teaching at this time with the understanding that they are required to follow all safety protocols. Students in grades pre-K - 2, 6th graders, and 9th graders, and students with disabilities will be welcomed to return in proportion to faculty and staff availability. We will closely monitor the health outcomes of these cohorts to establish whether we move forward with expansion to Phase II or return to an all virtual setting.”
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“IN the North, at least.” I was glad to read this phrase in Jeneen Interlandi’s “The Pandemic in Fall and Winter” in the Sept. 20 New York Times. It was inserted, parenthetically, in a prediction that COVID-19 cases will increase as cold weather drives people indoors. Here in our part of the world, of course, the opposite is mostly true and it’s nice to see that fact acknowledged. In Savannah, it’s the summer weather that drives people indoors. Or to the beach. So many people have been flocking to Savannah’s beach this summer, the City of Tybee Island is keeping lifeguards on duty through an unspecified date in October. Lifeguard season typically concludes in September, but Interim Fire Chief Matt Harrell told WTOC-TV they will stay in their stands past the end of the month because, “the beach is consistently crowded.” On Sept. 21 the National Weather Service in Charleston reported a reading of 59 degrees at the Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport, the lowest temperature since May 14. That’s sleep with the windows open weather and reminded me of the spring, the mildest I can remember in nearly 25 years living in Savannah. The delightful weather coincided with the beginning of the pandemic and a significant increase in people seeking the physical and mental health benefits of walking, running, biking, and rolling. Even as restrictions were lifted and the brutal heat and humidity descended on Savannah, people kept at it, though maybe a little earlier in the day or later in the evening. The Robert Espinoza Running Trail in Daffin Park remains as busy as I have ever seen it. Bike Walk Savannah intends to quantify what seems to be a sustained increase in recreation and active transportation, and is seeking volunteers to assist with its twice-yearly bike and pedestrian count, which continues through Oct. 10. “These counts help the City, County and Coastal Region Metropolitan Planning
Construction of Phase 2A of the Truman Linear Park Trail, which runs from Lake Mayer Community Park north to DeRenne Avenue, is nearing completion.
Organization plan for and create safer places for people to bike and walk. By doing these counts twice a year, we are able to help document patterns in behavior and support the construction of things like buffered or protected bike lanes and separated paths,” said Caila Brown, executive director of Bike Walk Savannah. The organization has undertaken bike and pedestrian counts at locations around the county for almost a decade, providing valuable data on walking and biking patterns over time. Brown said the count earlier this year immediately revealed a trend. “In our springtime counts, we noticed that a lot of the usual suspects — people who have biked the same route to work, or students going to class — were absent. Instead we saw families out riding bikes or walking around their neighborhood, enjoying the outdoors,” she said. “Many people have returned to working from their offices, while other essential workers have never left, so I assume that our fall numbers will reflect a higher rate of obvious commuters. But I hope that with the cooler weather rolling in, Savannah residents will continue biking, walking and rolling around their neighborhoods. It’s one of the best times of the year to do it!” Since the spring, Savannahians have at least one more place to ride bikes, whether for transportation or recreation. New bike lanes on Wheaton and Liberty streets from the Truman Parkway to Montgomery Street provide a much-needed link between downtown and neighborhoods to the east. The new bike lanes were completed in April, with little fanfare.
One of the most highly anticipated local mobility projects, Phase 2A of the Truman Linear Park Trail, is nearing completion. The multiuse path links Lake Mayer Community Park with DeRenne Avenue, and is being constructed by Chatham County. The City of Savannah is seeking funding for the next phase, which will extend the trail north from DeRenne Avenue and connect with the Police Memorial Trail. When fully constructed, the Truman Linear Park Trail will link 827 acres of existing park land in Chatham County by connecting Lake Mayer — part of the Bacon Regional Park Tract, which consists of approximately 750 acres — to Daffin Park. The completed trail will provide an ADA accessible, off-road/shared use path, and includes lighting, cameras and emergency call boxes. While some may regard the trail as a recreational amenity, it will also provide a significant transportation function, providing connections to everyday destinations. For instance, a Memorial Health employee who lives as far south as Montgomery Cross Road could commute to work on the trail, using Reuben Clark Drive to access the hospital campus from the east. “Along with the two parks, this trail will connect multiple neighborhoods and provide a wonderful place for recreation, separated from traffic. It also will create a major north-south corridor that will help people commuting by bike,” Brown said. CS To volunteer for Bike Walk Savannah’s bike and pedestrian counts, visit https://bikewalksavannah.org/volunteer
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The case of Kadijah Pendergraph and Nathaniel Harvey, Jr.
BY BRITTANY HERREN
THE brittle silence of the night was broken with a triptych of commotion that startled sleeping residents of the quiet Summerside neighborhood on February 4, 2020. Gunshots. Crash. Crying. As Savannah Police Department officers followed the trail, there was no time to take notice of the broken glass and shell casings. As they made their way down a sodden ditch to the blue, Mitsubishi Montero stranded at the bottom, it became more and more apparent the scene that was about to become ingrained in their minds for eternity. In the backseat, a newborn baby and a man, and in the driver’s seat, a woman hunched over the wheel. The infant’s cries were the only signs of life in the vehicle and once removed, the SUV that was showered with impact marks from multiple bullets quickly transformed from a chariot that protected an innocent and unharmed life to the scene of a double homicide. Both 24-year-old Kadijah Pendergraph and 22-year-old Nathaniel Harvey, Jr. were dead and according to the case’s detective, Raymond Mercer, two things were known: Both victims had been fatally
Kadijah Pendergraph
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role of man to play God and it is certainly not the role of citizens to play judge and executioner. Whether it’s a drug deal turned sideways or a gang war stemming from something as innocuous as an insult on Facebook, at some point, we have to stop looking at these incidents as people who played stupid games and won stupid prizes. (Note: None of that in any way is to insinuate that this was the case here). When people feel empowered and, worse, entitled to kill, we all lose, whether we play the game or not. That baby certainly didn’t choose to participate. Right now, not much is known beyond the obvious at the crime scene. Those
shot and while Nathaniel was the intended target, Kadijah was simply collateral. This is the part of the story where too many in Savannah start to drift off. Why was Nathaniel the target? Why was Kadijah with him, while watching someone else’s baby? While these are all questions that police and especially Detective Mercer had to answer, they are not the details that as citizens we should be compelled to speculate. Two people were killed and an infant narrowly escaped injury or worse, death, because of yet another shooting in Savannah. Savannah doesn’t just have a gun problem; it has a vigilante problem. It is not the
connected to the incident or who may have information avoid law enforcement like the plague. Detective Mercer is already working on his sixth homicide case before he even got a chance to close out this case. I asked him what is was going to take. His reply? Just someone coming forward to corroborate some information. Seriously, even just one person. CS Brittany Herren is Acting Director of Crime Stoppers of Savannah-Chatham County. If you know something, call Crime Stoppers of Savannah-Chatham County’s 24/7, anonymous tip-line at 912-234-2020 or go online to SavannahChathamCrimeStoppers.org and click ‘Submit Online Tip.”
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A man identifying himself as Jesus Christ appeared before Rickergate court in Carlisle, England, on Sept. 15 after being arrested by British Transport Police on suspicion that he did not buy a ticket to ride a train from Edinburgh to Carlisle. When asked to state a plea, the man replied, “There is a not guilty plea; I don’t need to plead,” the News & Star reported. In response to a request for his address, he said: “No fixed abode, or Yellow House, Albion, Mauritius.” The bearded defendant wore a hood and a green blindfold throughout his hearing; he was returned to custody as prosecutors considered his case.
The Passing Parade
Windermere, Florida, fifth-grader Ian Golba, 11, visited the principal’s office on Sept. 15 after his teacher asked him to remove his Hooters face mask. “She said it was not appropriate for school and I asked her why and she said if you really want to know why go ask the principal,” Ian told WESH. The principal at Sunset Park Elementary School backed up the teacher, asking Ian three times to remove the mask, which he did. But Greg Golba, Ian’s dad, wants to know what the problem was. “I don’t think it’s offensive at all. It’s just a restaurant,” Greg said.
Compelling Explanation
Tarrant County, Texas, Sheriff’s Deputy Jay Allen Rotter, 36, called 911 on Aug. 26 to report that his girlfriend, Leslie Lynn Hartman, 46, had shot herself in the head with his duty weapon as they shared a hug in their bedroom, telling the dispatcher “she is done” and he “would have stopped her if he could have,” according to Denton police. But as police investigators analyzed physical evidence and Rotter’s electronics over the following weeks, they came to identify Rotter as a suspect, leading to his arrest on Sept. 14, reported NBC5. According to the arrest affidavit, the deputy had been active in a chat room called Discord that night, where he posted that he had “just sent a 9 millie in this ... hippie,” and phone and computer records showed the two had been arguing about the shooting of a milk carton in the backyard before the alleged murder. Rotter was charged with murder and tampering with evidence and is being held on $1.15 million bond in the Denton City Jail.
Inexplicable
Jimmy Senda of Racine, Wisconsin, takes a walk along the beach on Lake Michigan every morning, where he collects “sea glass and random stuff -- because I like to do artwork at home with the stuff that I find,” he told FOX6. On Sept. 15, he came across a curious package, “wrapped in aluminum foil, and around it, it had a pink rubber band,” he said. “Curiosity got to me, so I popped it open and it looked like a chicken breast,” but on closer inspection, he determined, “it was a brain.” The package also contained flowers and paper with what appear to be Mandarin characters printed on it. Senda called police, who turned the package over to the Racine County Medical Examiner’s Office and later announced the brain was “not consistent with a human brain,” although they were still trying to determine what kind of animal it came from.
Government in Action
Ocean Township, NJ, listed the home of 89-year-old Glen Kristi Goldenthal for sale Sept. 9, foreclosing on the property because Goldenthal owed 6 cents on back taxes. The tax shortfall had accrued to more than $300, triggering the sale, which alerted Goldenthal’s daughter, Lisa Suhay, in Virginia. NBC New York reported the outraged Suhay began calling everyone in the township’s office to explain that her mother suffers from Alzheimer’s. Suhay took care of the debt, but for her mother, “(T)his isn’t over ... She’s called me dozens of times in the last 24 hours,” asking about her house and where she’s going to live. Mayor Christopher Siciliano was apologetic, but Suhay remained incensed: “Shame on anybody who can’t think far outside the box enough to come up with six cents in an office full of people.”
Bright Idea
A commuter boarded a bus between Swinton and Manchester, England, on Sept. 14 sporting what one fellow passenger thought was a “funky mask” until it started to move. The face mask turned out to be a live snake, wrapped around the man’s neck and over his nose and mouth, the BBC reported. “No one batted an eyelid,” a rider said.
Fashion of the Times
In response to the pandemic, French fashion house Louis Vuitton announced it will release a protective visor Oct. 30 in its stores worldwide that Vogue reports is “the most luxurious take on a plastic face shield that we’ve seen to date.” The LV Shield is trimmed with the designer’s monogram and gold studs engraved with the logo. It doubles as a sun visor, changing from clear to tinted when exposed to sunlight. Although a price has not been set, Vogue estimates it to be somewhere between the cost of a typical Vuitton hat, $700, and sunglasses, $800. CS
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JAZMIN GHENT brings sax virtuosity to Savannah Jazz Festival Florida-based saxophone star chats ahead of performance
ON Sat., Sep. 25, Jazmin Ghent will take the stage at the Savannah Jazz Festival. It won’t look like any of the 38 jazz festivals to come before it, and it certainly won’t look to Ghent like any performance she’s ever had before. The show will be a limited capacity in-person performance, with a live stream taking place via WSAV. Though it’ll be a first for all involved, it’s the latest in a long line of shows and critical acclaim for Ghent—who has garnered some serious praise over the last few years for her brand of jazz music. “With COVID happening, everything’s been postponed this year. I was so excited because there were many opportunities happening, but then COVID happened. So I’m definitely looking forward to the festival. Very much so,” Ghent tells Connect. For Ghent, like so many other touring musicians, having that component removed from her daily life has been a bit jarring. “That’s something that brings joy to all of our lives. I think I didn’t appreciate being able to travel and being able to perform; this gave me a whole different perspective,” she says. That joy of performing started in middle school, after she’d grown up listening to jazz through her parents. “I always had the sound of jazz in my ear. They named me after jazz, and they had hundreds of CDs. So by the time I got a saxophone, I was really just trying to mimic these things that I’d heard,” she says. “Near the end of middle school, I went to a Jamie Aebersold camp and that’s when I was introduced to standards. I started listening to Gene Ammons, Stanley Turrentine, and Hank Mobley. I really liked the character of their sounds.” Fast forward several years, and Ghent says she had a real breakthrough moment in the last couple of years that really solidified her passion for jazz and the decision to pursue it as she’s begun to. “I’ve had a few gigs that are ingrained in me— good and bad experiences. Last year, I played in Australia on the Dave Koz Cruise, and that was really a turning point,” she says. Ghent says she also had a shift in mindset that has allowed her to embrace her musical identity more fully as of late. “I was one of those people where if I met someone, I wouldn’t even tell them I was a musician or that I played music. There are a lot of assumptions made about musicians,” she explains. “But then I had to realize that this is such a huge part of who I am as a person. It’s definitely something that I’ve been embracing.” CS
JAZMIN GHENT @SAVANNAH SAFE JAZZ FESTIVAL 2020 PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
Sat., Sep. 26, 5:10 P.M., streamed live from Ships of the Sea Museum at WSAV.com/savannahjazzfestival
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MUSIC SAVANNAH JAZZ FESTIVAL
Emmet Cohen: a jazz lifer
New York-based pianist readies his first in-person performance since the pandemic BY SEAN KELLY
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JAZZ PIANO GREAT Emmet Cohen is among a new generation of musicians in the genre, and he’s certainly taking it by storm. That’s not to say he hasn’t acknowledged the greats before him, though. In fact, he’s done a series of albums that feature legendary jazz musicians in collaboration with him, bridging the gap between the keepers of this sacred musical language. It seems to be a full circle for Cohen, who has literally been playing piano since he can remember. “I started at 3 years old, playing Suzuki method, classical piano,” he tells Connect ahead of his Savannah Jazz Festival performance on Sat., Sep. 26. “I found jazz along the way, and fell in love with the sound and feeling of swing as well as the improvisatory aspect. I realized it’s something that really spoke to me, and I did a lot of discovering along the way.” That discovery led Cohen into a career, which he cultivated after years of study and devotion to the music. He went from doing weekly jam sessions at a club near his house in West Orange, New Jersey, to playing around Miami while studying at the University of Miami with the great Shelly Berg. From there, his career took off in a big way and he begun touring around the world—playing to audiences all over the States, in Israel, in Italy, in Japan, and countless other cities. Jazz being a language in itself, he found audiences all over the globe that understood what he was doing, and just as music alone can do, it bridged any cultural barriers in a major way. “Traveling is about discovering the different cultures of the world, and going to them without expectations. I think that’s 14 what jazz has taught me,” he says. “There
are different customs and ways of living. When you go to Japan, the audiences receive the music very differently than if you go to Italy, for example. And Italy receives music very differently from, say, Detroit. And these are three of my favorite places to play.” Those experiences, he says, has unavoidably informed not just his growth as a player but also the compositional aspect of his music. “We’re all a product of our experiences, and one of the biggest things that being a
professional musician has allowed me to do has been to expand my horizons,” he says. Cohen has recorded a number of albums, some with greats like George Coleman, Ron Carter, Benny Golson and Tootie Heath through his Masters Legacy Series releases. He’s also done solo albums and an album with his trio. The writing process for all of his projects vary immensely, given the fluid nature of jazz and the spirit that it involves. “Jazz is like any other language. There’s a million dialects, there are inside jokes,
mannerisms that mean certain things, and there are things that mean one thing in one part of the world and another in a different part. There’s really no way to quantify that sort of thing, but I can say that your language develops as you learn more, grow, and discover who it is you are,” he says. CS
EMMET COHEN TRIO @SAVANNAH SAFE JAZZ FESTIVAL
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Isaac Smith - Young Or Old [2017]
It’s perhaps more challenging to stand out as a solo artist than it is to stand out as a band. When you’re a singer/songwriter, it’s a lot easier to be pigeonholed and put in a box in terms of the way people perceive you musically. As a band, with many personalities present and more flexibility with how you market yourself, you can create a persona and a perception around the name and the style. With solo artists, your name is the band name. There are assumptions made too often about what a singer/songwriter does and what they offer. Of course, there are great singer/songwriters who shatter these assumptions and offer music that is beyond the scope of what people expect in that wheelhouse. Most of that comes down to great storytelling and an ear for production and the pushing of sonic boundaries. Isaac Smith has both of those things in spades. The local artist’s 2017 album, Young Or Old, succeeds in feeling like a band record rather than an album that focuses around one guy and what that one guy is doing. There’s a solo-Springsteen vibe present in regard to the edginess of the guitars and the dips towards anthemic stadium-oriented rock refrains, but it’s also all kept nicely in check and doesn’t get too bombastic. A great example of this is the excellent “To Call You Mine,” which is just spacious enough to have been overproduced if he
let it, but he doesn’t go there. Instead, the delay-soaked lead guitar plays it cool in all the right moments and the drums provide a slightly off-kilter rhythm that makes this a really unique song. Lyrically, Smith is at times abstract and at times direct like all the best lyricists should be. It’s a definite standout song that knows it’s place, which is important on a record. “Call It Quits” is a song that could work incredibly well on modern rock radio but also in the Americana landscape, as it seems to ride the line between both worlds really well. Smith has a slight southern drawl in his voice, which works very well on a song like this. There’s also some really brilliant space here in the second verse, when moments of nothing but drums and bass provide a really impactful platform for layering guitars and keys when the chorus hits. “Say Goodnight” is a surprise, but a great one. It’s really soulful—horns, Wurlitzer, and all—and it does that really well. The melody is unbelievably well crafted and it’s clear that Smith isn’t trying to recreate something but rather put his own stamp on a style that he genuinely loves. This is a testament to how good he is as a songwriter. And man, that falsetto is something else. Overall, I’d recommend this record to anyone who might feel a little tired of the at times overcrowded world of singer/ songwriters. This is a welcome refresher and a sonically pleasing outing from a truly great artist. CS For more on Isaac, visit isaacsmithmusic.com
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MUSIC THE BAND PAGE
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ERIC CULBERSON @PLANT RIVERSIDE DISTRICT AMPHITHEATER
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Local guitar legend Eric Culberson takes the Plant Riverside Amphitheater stage, with decades of virtuosic playing under his belt. He’s had albums on the Billboard blues charts, and has garnered stellar reviews in all the major blues magazines. There’s a reason he’s widely hailed among guitarists and blues lovers, so you’ll just need to head down to Plant Riverside and see for yourself. FRI., SEP. 25, 7 P.M.
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THE PURPLE MADNESS @COACH’S CORNER
This will definitely be a show not to miss! The Purple Madness is a premiere tribute to the Purple One himself, the late legend Prince. Expect all of the hits and deep cuts from the albums you love, and a show unlike any you’ve likely seen around here. Wear your mask and get out to the Coach’s Sound Garden for this incredibly special night. FRI., SEP. 25, 7 P.M., $20
JD MUSIC GROUP @STARLAND YARD
The great JD Music Group plays at Starland Yard, bringing their unique fusion of soul, blues, funk, rock, and more along with them. These are some of the best musicians in town, making this your chance to witness a phenomenal night of music at a great location. There’s nothing like a Sunday evening outdoor show! SUN., SEP. 27, 6 P.M.
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‘If it was any fresher, it would still be in the field’
Front Door Produce delivers produce straight to you
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of days, and then onto the store’s floor for a couple of days, you are looking at six to eight days before buyers get the produce.” Smiling, Hunter explained to me, “There is a good feeling when you give a box of vegetables from the farm, and you make everybody smile.” He partnered up with Mathis with the idea that Front Door Produce would act as the milkman used to act and maybe bring back simpler times. He elaborated, “I feel like no one is going to out customer service me. No one is going to give you fresher produce than me.So that is the reason we are doing it.” If you live within twelve miles of the pick-up site at 6730 Waters Avenue (where Howling Hound used to be), it costs only $17 for delivery to your home. Hunter is even willing to smudge the twelve mile rule a bit because customer service is so important to Front Door Produce: “I hardly ever turn anybody down. Even if it is fourteen or fifteen miles, I take the box. And if it is too far, I sometimes give them the option to meet me halfway.” Other cities are not as lucky as Savannah in price, but the price is still lower than competing stores. “My box would be between $25-$35 every week at the grocery stores, and I can get rid of one for $70 delivered.You can basically buy two boxes from me for the price of one that you have to go get, and people have picked and touched Savannah (and a little beyond). As Front the produce,” Hunter explained. Door’s motto goes: “If it was any fresher, it Each Front Door Produce box contains would still be in the field.” approximately 16 to 20 pounds of mixed, Southern Valley is a woman-owned fam- super-fresh produce. Crops vary from ily business that maintains and operates items such as tomatoes, squash, onions, three farms in Georgia, Tennessee, and okra, bell peppers, corn, green beans, Yucatan, Mexico. The Yucatan farm supcucumbers, jalapenos, cabbage, poblano ports Southern Valley’s ability to grow pro- peppers, and even citrus. Hunter told me duce year-round. Front Door likes to throw in an occasional Traditionally, Southern Valley grows orange or something unique to surprise and transports their produce all across the eaters and make each box even more colUnited States and Canada. Consumers do orful than it usually is. Every Monday not buy directly from Southern Valley, but morning Front Door is given a choice of the now through the new partnership Front available Southern Valley fruits and vegDoor Produce, Southern Valley is available etables, then the delivery company selects through the farm-to-home service. what to put in each box. Availability is Instead of going to a big-box store and based upon season and locality. selecting produce that has gone from the If you feel like escaping home quaranfarm to a middleman broker to a storage tine for a bit, customers can schedule a facility and finally to the store, Savanpickup and get their box in person on Frinah locals can have the produce delivered days from 10 a.m. to noon. directly from the farm to their front door. Since starting Front Door Produce only By cutting out both the middleman and a few short months ago, Hunter and Mathis long turnaround times, you get better have been able to grow their business sucquality food at a lower price. cessfully. Currently they are averaging 250 According to Hunter the process is boxes per week and still growing, so I sugsimple: “If [Southern Valley] pick and pack gest getting in line while you can. it on Wednesday, I can get it on Thursday. Due to the continual growth, SavannaPeople get[the Front Door Produce box] on hians can even find produce from the Front Friday or Saturday. There are a few that I Door-Southern Valley partnership in sevdeliver on Thursday because I want good eral restaurants around the city. CS customer service. It is cheaper and you For box prices in your area and more informaare buying six to seven days of shelf-life, because the way it normally goes from the tion on the farm-to-home delivery company, farm to the distribution center for a couple visit front door produce.com or Instagram of days then back to the store for a couple @frontdoorproduce
DELIVERY groceries and meal kits have been the way of the future for several years. The quick and easy service became popular even before our world faced its current pandemic, but because of the existing state of affairs, no-contact orders and deliveries have really taken flight. Alternatively, there is often no better way to get seasonal and fresh food than at the farmers’ market. By purchasing straight from the farmer, consumers get the best quality food that is sustainable. Unfortunately, visiting a busy farmer’s market is not always ideal if you are trying to avoid crowds. Front Door Produce is a Savannah solution that combines the best of both worlds. The new service delivers a large box of farm-fresh produce to your door, and is available in Savannah as well as some neighboring counties. The price is half of what you would pay in store, which makes the service even more desirable. Creators Brad Mathis, whose family owns Southern Valley Fruit and Vegetable, and local Brad Hunter teamed up to create Front Door Produce. The concept is simple: fresh, straight from the farm seasonal produce delivered to homes all around
CULTURE THE ART•BEAT OF SAVANNAH
8-12-2020, acrylic on newsprint.
Todd Schroeder’s work confronts issues of our time BY RACHAEL FLORA
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AS WE approach a contentious election season, we’re reminded that art is political. Art has the power to change minds, and if you want to get really meta with it, the creation of art can be a rebellion in itself. For painter Todd Schroeder, his abstract work carries an inherently political meaning. “There’s a lot of stuff about abstract paint that certainly is decorative, and there’s a thing about it now with pouring paint and housewives are doing it,” says Schroeder, “but I also think that it’s still radical in that it ruffles people’s feathers. People get really tied up in this idea of what something is about, what it means. There’s a political aspect of abstraction that I’m also interested in.” Of course, Schroeder has never been the kind of artist to shy away from politics. Some of his earliest work was drawings of Time Magazine covers, including one of Oliver North, a conservative commentator
from the 80s, and one of Manuel Noriega, a former dictator of Panama. The renderings of the covers, omitting the words and including only the picture, were fairly straight-forward and almost ridiculous in their presentation. Those covers would, perhaps unconsciously, inform more of Schroeder’s later work, the newspaper project. He uses pages of the New York Times as a canvas, blowing dots of paint onto the pages in a precise shape. The pieces began as a reaction to the 2016 election; Schroeder remembers feeling “flabbergasted” at Trump’s win and needing an outlet to express that. He turned to the Times, both Trump’s hometown paper and his “nemesis,” to serve as the backdrop on which to paint “ha ha ha” in dots. “No matter what the page was, I’d pull it out and blow ‘ha ha ha’ on top of it, which was sometimes really funny and sometimes really not funny at all,” remembers Schroeder. He made about five to 10 pieces every Sunday, but as time went on and the presidency became less funny, Schroeder shifted the series to be more objective.
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being nihilists, even if they claim to be; I think it’s a way of restarting.” If you don’t immediately associate Schroeder’s work with punk movements, the work is also accessible through the comfortable symmetry of a grid system, where the X is a nice focal point for the eye. He’s also interested in layering, which is evident in some recent work. In one painting, Schroeder taped off an X and painted around it, subverting the ground and creating a neat effect. “It becomes this formal play on figure and ground as well, because that X is actually the ground,” he muses. “There’s this formal tension of the line popping through or looking like it’s laid on top of this, but it’s also the same colors you see around.” Another piece is four sheets of paper, each with one printed letter that collectively spell the word “shit,” making a literal Acrylic and screen print on paper. pile of shit. For Schroeder, who moved to New York “What I’m excited about is the embedCity the day after graduating from Ohio ded joke, but also the elegance of it, the University, the choice of paper was fairly austereness of it—but it’s a pile of shit,” says simple. In those days, reading the Times Schroeder. “That quite clearly represents a was a bit of a ritual for him. lot of what I think about.” “Depending on what era of my life I was Currently, Schroeder is working on two in, I would get the newspaper every mornbodies of work: a show in Craig Drennen’s ing and get on the subway,” he recalls. project space called “Spanish Is Hard” that “Then there was the ritual of Sunday plays with language, and a PDF show for morning. My wife and I would get the Sun- Abrir Galería, run by his former student day paper on Saturday night, then wake up Gonzalo Hernandez. and spend the day reading the New York For the PDF show, Schroeder riffs on his Times.” Times series by using a site that compiles Schroeder is equally inspired by grids, the front pages of daily newspapers all over which is fairly evident in the structure of the world. He downloads the PDFs, runs the dots on the newspapers. That moment them through Adobe Acrobat and changes of realization for him came on a road trip small things about the page. For this series, with his wife, as they drove on the hilly ter- he ventured beyond the Times, using his rain of Highway 40. From the passenger own hometown newspaper, the Toledo seat, Schroeder noticed the traffic signs, Blade, as well as a few others. pre-LED lights, were comprised of lightAnother way he’s shifting the newspabulbs. He drew it in his sketchbook, and per series is by replacing the “ha ha ha” the idea stuck in his head. It took root when motif with that of a heart. The heart motif he realized that he could tie the grid to originated when Schroeder painted the existing work he was making. symbol on T-shirts, then soaked the shirt “It seemed to me that the connection of in epoxy resin to harden and then break the grid to the history of modernism and them. Schroeder thinks of the broken people like Agnes Martin and Sol LeWitt, it heart shirts as a kind of protest sign, even felt like an interesting place to play within putting them on sticks. that,” Schroeder says, “but also to underThe hearts also appear on copies of the mine those a little bit, or bring some kind Times, as Schroeder has picked back up the of pop or anti sensibility to it to play with series beore the election. The heart symbol the forms. It was one of those serendipiis a reference to John Coltrane’s album, “A tous things that triggered something about Love Supreme,” which marked a stylistic ideas I had in my head already.” change for the musician—and maybe one Akin to the grid structure is the X symfor the artist, too. bol, which Schroeder also uses with an eye “[The album] is about being open, opentowards its inclination towards the anti. ing up your mind to experience, fighting He was inspired by Malcolm X’s autobiagainst your tendency to see things as good ography and the idea of X representing a and/or bad,” explains Schroeder. “That starting place that unified people. inspires to me work within that, to push The X is also, to Schroeder, very punk. and explore those ideas for myself and “It’s something you think about in terms also be able to present those things to the of early punk rock music or anti moveworld.” CS ments,” he says. “I think that anti moveFollow Todd Schroeder on Instagram at ments are a very positive thing as opposed to a negative thing. I don’t think of them as @toddschroeder0 19
CULTURE VISUAL ARTS
QUESTIONS WITH
Guy Flagg BY RACHAEL FLORA
rachael@connectsavannah.com
IN HIS creative process, Guy Flagg is inspired by just about everything, possessing an innocent love for everything in this world. Originally from upstate New York and recently back to Savannah after a stint on the west coast, Flagg works in fabrication and likes bringing his drawings and paintings into three dimensions. His work features unique shapes and bright colors, a very identifiable style that sets him apart. Flagg is also behind the Tabernacle, an up-and-coming artist studio on Montgomery that will hopefully have screenprinting and fabrication classes. We caught up with Flagg last week.
1. How do you feel about coming back
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Man, this is such a loaded question! I came back because I was trying to establish my own business and I was about to buy into a shop with a couple guys and knew it would dominate a lot of my time and separate me from my parents a lot. I decided to do it here and be present with my folks. The community has changed a bit, too. My priorities have shifted quite a bit since I’ve been back. I’ve shifted a lot of the way I interact with this city, which has made me really open up. It’s shutting a lot of doors, but it’s also opening so many, especially in trying to attach myself with a creative community. The way I’ve shifted my focus has opened up a really beautiful part of this town that I wasn’t open to before, and I’m really enjoying it. My folks in upstate New York worked for civil and social justice organizations. I was involved with after-school programs and art programs my entire life, and I’m plugging into that scene here. Like The Pull Up Savannah where it’s open to everyone but just seeing young entrepreneurs, a lot of people of color trying to do things and create community. It’s fantastic, and I’ve only just begun.
2. Tell me about the art you create.
Guy Flagg’s work is bright and geometric, creating a visual language across whatever he creates. PHOTOS COURTESY OF GUY FLAGG.
What I have in the makes is a plethora of large to small beautiful shapes that I got laser cut out of steel and I’m having them bent so they’re wall hanging shapes with a shelf, and they’re powder coated and painted bright colors so they interact with the wall and the space, but they’re now a functional piece of furniture. My pieces start as experiments on what kind of visual language I’m working with, and then how that then becomes something that could be functional but look really fun and playful at the same time. If you see these weird shapes and this color palette, this is Guy’s work. I’m trying to create a visual language that is Guy. I also manage an art space called the Tabernacle; it’s in the former Holy Ghost Tabernacle Church on 60th and Montgomery. I have a screen print studio and risograph printer. The idea of having a print studio and a painting area where I can do a drawing and have a design, and if the shape really resonates with me, I can take the shape to my wood shop and make a shelf or a bench or something, in that same visual language that is just in 3D. And then that object can be interacted with by people. Since I was little, I was obsessed with architecture. I was always trying to figure out, “Yeah, I draw these things, but what are they going to do in a space?” Taking it from two dimensions, I always see that as a beautiful exercise, but for me it’s not really finished until it becomes something a little more three-dimensional.
3. What are you inspired by?
So many things! It’s everywhere. I focus on the tiniest weirdest things, like walking into a room and maybe I’ll look at the door handle and there’s a weird logo on the bottom of it and I’m like, “What the hell is that?” It’s the inquisitive mind, playfulness and curiosity, that of a little kid. This world is such an amazing, beautiful place. If you
bring that into everything you interact with, everything is unbelievable. It’s just being in awe by bits and pieces. That’s why I like to take those tiny little things and make them really big, like kid blocks and toys. We don’t have to complicate these things. I really appreciate minimalist art that really hits hard in your heart for some reason. Why does one shape on a piece of paper or in a room feel so good sometimes? Because it’s one thing just demanding your attention for what it is. There’s so much good stuff in this world. I do get jaded—I get angry, sad, unhappy. I am a man in this world, and I am also fragile. That is something I’m okay with. The less you hide from the feelings of this world, the more you’re okay. It’s being someone who’s present to be like, “Look, you don’t have to be positive right now, and I still want to be your friend.”
4. How much time are you able to spend on creating art?
It’s been a really heavy year. I’m riding the concept of the Field of Dreams: “If I build it, they will come.” My resources, monetarily and time-wise, have really been spent on starting the foundation of creating space to do these things, like my art studio. Getting the screen printing studio set up, getting the risograph printer, finishing my carpentry and fabrication studio. So when those things are done, then I can just be in
them using them. It’s been a year of trying to find downtime between working and being tired and being emotionally overwhelmed with all the things that have been going on recently to try and carve out time to get all those things done. I haven’t really painted in a month and a half, but it’ll come. I’ll make time for it again. My cup runneth over of emotions that I would love to pour into pieces of artwork, but there will be a time for that. I see that things have been moving forward in a really positive direction, but when I’m in it, I just feel like I’m fucking spinning tires.
5. What are your goals?
I want to do more collective art projects. I want to have people submit pieces of work and I want to print zines and publications. I want to do more raffles and be part of more community-based small business organizations and pushing each other to do their stuff, because them being strong makes the group strong. I want the Tabernacle to be a space where I can run screen printing workshops or things of that nature. I would love to make product out of my wood shop and teach weekend classes. I like the idea of the creative community just helping each other, the idea of having a small art collective. I feel like people come to this fantastic art school and then they just leave because there aren’t these things here. I understand maybe there is a creative community, but in other cities it’s a little more polished, so it seems more attractive. Why not make that here? This is Savannah, this is the creative scene. It’s about people that exist here and the network we create. CS Follow Guy on Instagram at @blamblamblam
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“BATTLE OF THE ALTERNATIVE BANDS”
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Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
New documentary shows importance of musical friendships to his life and career
FORMER PRESIDENT Jimmy Carter is known today as a resilient advocate for human rights and free and fair elections, a seemingly ageless 95-year-old cancer survivor who builds houses for Habitat for Humanity in his spare time. But back in the day, Carter was the first president to embrace the support of rock ‘n’ roll, jazz, gospel, and country musicians, not just on the campaign trail but as friends. ‘Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President’ is a new documentary from Shoreline Productions that uses vibrant archival footage and brand-new interviews to paint a portrait of this often-misunderstood chief executive and Georgia native. His friendships with Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Gregg Allman – all of whom appear in interviews for the film – weren’t cynical endorsements, but extensions of Carter’s own musical taste. The film hits TV on demand in October. We spoke to director Mary Wharton and producer Chris Farrell. A wonderful thing about the film is it shows how funny Carter actually is. Mary: He’s mischievous too! Bob Dylan makes a point of saying near the end of the film how multi-faceted Carter is. He was a naval officer, a president, a serious, intelligent man. And then you watch the sheer joy Carter experiences when he’s around musicians playing. It’s just another layer. Chris discovered this connection Carter had to the music of the time. And he thought it could make a great film. I never knew that about Carter.
The scene where Dizzy Gillespie calls Carter onstage to sing “Salt Peanuts” with him wouldn’t happen today. Chris: Today, there’s typically a calculus involved in any decision in politics. Will it get me votes? Will it get me in trouble? But the thing you see about Jimmy Carter is he didn’t enjoy gospel or jazz or rock ‘n’ roll because it would get him votes. It’s just who he is. That’s another example of his moral courage. Mary: People have an image of Carter as this fuddy-duddy Mr. Rogers type. But he’s up there singing “Salt Peanuts” and just cracking up! He’s always willing and able to make fun of himself. People are used to celebrity endorsements today. But at the time, Carter’s friendships with rock and country artists weren’t guaranteed to be popular. Mary: One thing we want to get across with the film is how much times have changed. When Jay Z went to visit the Obamas, nobody made a big deal of it. Here was a guy whose career was originally built on representing his experience as a former drug dealer, and it wasn’t a problem. But back in the ‘70s, when Gregg Allman was arrested for cocaine after Carter had formed a friendship with him and the Allman Brothers, most politicians would have seen it as career suicide to keep associating with him. It was a major risk for Jimmy Carter to voice support for Gregg during a moment of crisis. But Carter didn’t worry about whether it would cost him votes – to him, it was the right thing to do to stand by a friend. CONTINUES ON P. 22
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1 Maggie Gyllenhaal’s brother 5 Tallahassee’s st. 8 Earthy yellow shade 13 Fix text 14 “___ Boot” 15 Weasel out (on) 16 “You’d think Band A would hold up, but it’s flimsy. Band B wins” 19 Like some computer errors 20 Blood type for just over 6% of the U.S. pop. 21 They follow B 22 Unable to work, perhaps 24 CPR pro 26 Comp. storage sites 27 Forever, it seems 31 “Charter” tree 33 Diamond Head locale 35 “Band B wins, since Band A only has a tolerance for booze” 39 Wash against, as the shore 40 Cutesy-___ 41 Four Holy Roman Emperors 43 “Drop Band A on Band B? Band B wins, no contest” 46 1920s design style 47 Suffix for orange or lemon 48 Gaelic tongue 49 “Ben-___” (movie
classic) 51 Shaker ___, OH 53 Furthest degree 55 Fertile Crescent locale 57 Golfer Aoki 59 Did some diamond inspecting? 64 “Band B wins, because it’s pointy and doesn’t digest well” 67 Early actress Langtry 68 Dir. opp. WNW 69 “Scientific American Frontiers” host Alan 70 Didn’t dine out 71 “Slippery When ___” (Bon Jovi album) 72 Spotted
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1 Constantly napping member of The Wiggles 2 Song from Sarah McLachlan’s “Surfacing” 3 Highland Games garb 4 “At Last” blues singer ___ James 5 Prez on the dime 6 Kitschy ‘70s plug-ins 7 Part of AARP 8 “___ the fields we go ...” 9 “Mad Money” network 10 Job search insider 11 Spurred (on) 12 Hull wreckers 15 Stringy cleaner 17 Footballer Manning 18 “Isn’t that something?”
23 ___ Lobos 25 California/Nevada attraction 27 The whole thing 28 Burrito add-on, for short 29 Fashionable sandal 30 Drive-thru drink with a plastic dome 32 Villainous surname in the Super Mario Bros. series 34 Request to the dealer 36 Manufacturer of electronics for kids 37 What automobile interiors may drown out 38 Geologic time periods 42 Sault ___ Marie Canals 44 Candle type 45 He might heal your hamster 49 “Se ___ español” 50 “___ wisely” 52 Reptilian warning 54 Clueless response 56 Obesity drug Orlistat, over the counter 58 Not too many 60 Business degs. 61 Stripper’s fixture 62 “The Neverending Story” author Michael 63 Jimmy of meat products 65 Half of an eternal balance 66 Movie studio filming site
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Tell me about the timeline of the interviews. Gregg Allman of course passed away in 2017. Mary: Gregg is the only interview we didn’t do. That was done for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Our writer, Bill Flanagan, knew the interview existed and the Hall of Fame kindly allowed us to use it.
We interviewed Jimmy twice, for twohour long interviews. A real highlight of this whole experience was the private audience we had with the Carters, to show them the final cut, before COVID struck. We watched the film with them at the Plains High School. It was important for us to get their stamp of approval on the film.
How did you get an interview with the famously reclusive Bob Dylan? Mary: Bill Flanagan had interviewed Dylan before, and had a great relationship with his manager. Bill wrote a very convincing letter requesting an interview. Chris: Pinning Dylan down to a specific time and place was its own challenge,
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19):
“It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.” Author Barbara De Angelis made that observation. I offer it up to you as a fun challenge. During the coming weeks, you may be strongly tempted to be different on the outside than you are on the inside. On the other hand, you’ll have the necessary insight and valor to remain unified. In fact, you may ultimately create more congruence between your inside and outside than you have in a long time.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” Fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin made that observation, and now I’m conveying it to you just in time for the season when you’ll need it most. Please note that I am *not* predicting you’ll be devoured by dragons from within. In offering you this oracle, my hope is that you will: 1. acknowledge the existence of metaphorical dragons; 2. locate where they hang out in your inner realms; 3. study them and get to know them better; 4. devise a strategy for dealing with them safely.
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“Don’t let them tame you,” advised flamboyant Gemini dancer Isadora Duncan. Who did she mean by “them”? The mainstream critics, who might have wished she cultivated a less maverick style? Her managers and handlers, who may have wanted her to tone herself down so she could earn maximum amounts of money? Her friends, who cringed when she did things like dancing on a table wearing an evening dress at a party? In accordance with astrological omens, Gemini, I invite you to take a survey of what influences might wish you were more docile, mild, or manageable. And then meditate on how you could consistently express the healthiest kind of wildness.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
In the Yoruba religion of *Ifà*, the English word “heart” has two different meanings and words. So says Yoruba priest
Awó Falokun Fatunmbi. The first heart is the organ that pumps blood through our bodies. It’s called *okàn*. Within the *okàn* is the second heart: a power center that regulates the flow of emotions. It’s called *ègbè*. I believe your *ègbè* will be exceptionally strong and clear and generous in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Your capacity to feel deeply and truly will be a gift to all those with whom you share it. It will also have the potential to enhance your appreciation for your own mysterious life. Wield your *ègbè* with glee and panache!
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Ancient Greek philosopher Plato observed, “Do not train children to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” The same principle applies to all of us adults who are committed to the goal of life-long learning. And according to my astrological analysis, it will be especially useful for you Leos to keep in mind during the coming weeks. It’s time to energize your education! And here’s the best way to gather the new teachings that are important for you to know: Follow what amuses your mind.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Christian author Frederick Buechner writes, “We are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves, and I believe that to love ourselves means to extend to those various selves that we have been along the way the same degree of compassion and concern that we would extend to anyone else.” Let’s make his thought your keynote for the next two weeks. Now is an excellent time to take a journey through your past to visit all the other people you have been. As you do attend to this poignant work, be generous with each of your old selves. Forgive them for their errors and praise their beauty. Tell them how much you love them. Thank them for how they have made possible the life you’re living now.
let’s say. We adopted this we’ll-believe-itwhen-we-see-it attitude. But we stayed packed and ready to go, anywhere, anytime, for the moment we got word. When it happened, Dylan was so generous. He stayed and talked a lot longer than we expected, and came prepared with what he wanted to say about Jimmy. CS
BY ROB BREZSNY
beautyandtruth@freewillastrology.com
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Seventy-nine-year-old Libran poet Robert Pinsky has had a triumphant life. He has published 19 books, including his own poems and essays, as well as translations of Italian and Polish poetry. For four years he served as the United States Poet Laureate. To what factors does he attribute his success? Here’s one: “Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper has always been strong in me,” he testifies. He’s referring to the primitive arts-and-crafts projects he enjoyed while growing up. In accordance with astrological omens, I encourage you, too, to get in touch and commune with the primal roots of the things you love to do. Reconnect with the original expressions of your passion for life.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
“A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world,” wrote occultist Aleister Crowley. Author Gore Vidal agreed, saying, “Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else’s is the wrong one.” All of us can perpetually benefit from this counsel. And it will be especially healthy for you to heed during the next four weeks. Humility will be a superpower. Blessings will flow your way if you don’t need to be right all the time. As you refrain from regarding your own opinions as God’s holy decrees, you will generate good fortune for yourself.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
“It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.” Author Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that. I’m passing it on to you because I suspect you now possess the power to claim this rare gift. In the coming days, you don’t have to engage in endless evaluations of the numerous possibilities. You don’t have to risk falling victim to overthinking. Your clear, strong gut hunches will tell you exactly where you need to be and how to get there.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Novelist Henry Miller was in many ways a quintessential Capricorn. He described himself as being “in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.” Feelings like those are why your astrological symbol is the mountain goat that’s always climbing higher, questing toward the next pinnacle. At your best, you’re determined to keep striving for the brightest, the strongest, the truest. Sometimes you overdo this admirable imperative, but mostly it’s a beautiful quality. You are hereby authorized to express it with maximum wisdom and eagerness in the coming weeks.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
“Go catch a falling star,” wrote poet John Donne (1572–1631) in his poem “Song.” “Tell me who cleft the Devil’s foot,” he went on to say. “Teach me to hear the mermaids singing.” He wasn’t being literal, but rather was indulging in poetic fancy to stretch his readers’ imaginations. I’m offering you the spirit of Donne’s poem, Aquarius, because you’re ripe to transcend your limited notions about what’s plausible and implausible. If you allow yourself to get extravagant and unruly in your fantasies, you may crack through shrunken expectations and break into a spacious realm of novel possibilities.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
I don’t suggest you indulge daringly in sensual pleasures, cathartic exchanges of energy, and intoxicating pursuits of relief and release. The pandemic mandates us to be cautious about engaging in unmitigated bliss—even though the astrological omens suggest that if now were a normal time, such activities would be well worth focusing on. How can you resolve this dilemma? Possibilities: 1. Experiment zestfully with your live-in steady or spouse. 2. Get a COVID-19 test with a potential playmate, and if you both test negative, celebrate boisterously. 2. Round up a dazzler with whom you can generate rapture via Zoom. 3. Fantasize about delightfully gracious debauchery. 4. Go solo.
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