Connect Savannah February 23, 2005

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Volume 4, No. 22, February 23, 2005 On the Cover: Photo illustration by Brandon Blatcher

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State of the Art

Jane Fishman 10 Shard-carryin’ at ‘The Gates’ City Notebook 12 News bits from around town Blotter 13 From SPD reports

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Non Sequitur 13 Our favorite cartoon News of the Weird 14 Strange but true Earthweek 15 The week on your planet

Vibes Music Feature 16 The Woggles Music Menu 17 Local gigs a la carte

City Notebook 12

Connect Recommends 19 Our picks from the local scene Soundboard 22 Who’s playing and where Connect Savannah

Culture Spoken Word 11 Our long overdue Poem of the Month Art Patrol 21 Exhibits & openings Personal Tech 24 The latest gadgets

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Corkscrew 29 Any Port in a storm

Music Feature 16

Film The 411 Week at a Glance

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Happenings 30 All the stuff, all the time Astroscope 32 What’s your sign?

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Classifieds Classifieds 36 They call it “junk,” you call it “couch” Crossword Puzzle 34 Mental fun

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Random Acts of Kindness What: In honor of February being National Random Acts of Kindness Month, the Tourism Leadership Council will conduct the second annual event at which free hot chocolate and doughnuts will be given away for one hour -- or while supplies last. When: Friday, Cost: Free.

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Thursday, Feb. 24 AASU Masquers Present God’s Favorite (all weekend) What: This Neil Simon comedy spins a contemporary slant on the story of Job.W Wh e n: Co s t: Feb. 24-27 at 7:30 p.m. (3 p.m. only on Feb. 27). Where: AASU’s Jenkins Theater.C General admission $8. Call: 927-5381.

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What: This ballet translates the images of Jonathan Greene’s paintings to the stage in a blending of dance, music and fine art. When: Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Lucas Call: Tickets available at the SCAD Box Office or charge by Theatre, 32 Abercorn St.C phone at 525-5050.

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What: As part of its 40-plus city national tour, Broadway and film performer Rachel Factor’s one-woman show JAP is coming to Savannah. A native of Hawaii who is of Japanese-American descent, Factor met a Jewish guy and is now an observant Jew. Her autobiographical show is filled with song, dance, humor and emotion. When: Thursday, Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. Where: Orleans Hall, 201 Barnard St. Cost: Tickets are $25, with reserved seating $36 and can be purchased by calling B.B. Jacob at 3547721. Credit card ticket orders can be placed by visiting www.rachelfactor.com.

Drama Bums present TiJean Blues What: Take a trip through the world of Jack Kerouac, the Father of the Beat Generation, in a play composed entirely from his writings and performed by the Drama Bums, a local theater group. When: Saturday, Feb. 26 and March 12 at The Sentient Bean, and March 4 and 11 at Cafe Mucha. All shows are at 8 p.m. March 12 is Kerouac’s birthday, so a celebration is planned. There also will be a question-andanswer session after the show. Cost: Free.

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What: This race offers a challenging off-road course for bicycle racers and runners.

The 4-mile trail winds through trees and obstacles along the historic SavannahOgeechee Canal at Oglethorpe Speedway Park. $1,000 will be paid to the top bicycle racer with hundreds of dollars in prizes awarded to other top riders and runners.

When: Sunday, Feb. 27. The 5k Trail Run begins at 8:30 a.m. The bicycle race beginners category begins at 9:30 a.m., the sport category at 10:30 a.m., the kids’ race at noon and the expert category at 12:30 p.m. Where: Oglethorpe Speedway Park on Cost: $20 entry fee, payable at registration, which closes a half Highway 80 in Pooler.C hour prior to the event start for each category. Kids’ bicycle race is free for all particiCall: 964-8200 or www.ospracing.net. pants under 16.C

A Festival of Hymns What: The combined choirs of White Bluff Presbyterian Church, Savannah Country Day School Honors Chorus and Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church will present Hal Hopson’s A Festival of Hymns. It features significant hymn writers throughout the ages, from the fourth century to the end of the 20th century, telling their own stories in the first person. A brass ensemble, timpani and handbells will be a featured part of the program. When: Sunday, Feb. 27 at 4 p.m. Where: Skidaway Island Presbyterian Cost: Free.C Call: 598-0151.

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What: This Polish adaptation of Ignacy Erazewski’s classic novel about the mythic origins of Polish statehood is set in the ninth century world of magic and pagan witchcraft, 100 years before the country’s unification and christening. This was a huge commercial hit in Poland, and it has been favorably compared to Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. This is the Southern premiere of the movie, which is in Polish with English subtitles. When: Sunday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $6. The box office will open at 6 p.m.

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What: New York-based vibraphonist/composer Lalo, a native of Savannah, fuses jazz with world music influences and a modern edge. When: Sunday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m.

Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave.C Call: 232-4447.

Monday, Feb. 28 AASU Student Juried Art Exhibition What: The annual exhibit is presented by the Armstrong Atlantic State University Department of Art, Music & Theatre. When: Opens Feb. 28 and runs through March 18. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Where: AASU Fine Arts Gallery.

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Psychotronic Film Festival Presents Battle Royale What: This is the theatrical cut of this controversial and violent film from Japan in which a class of troublesome ninth graders is sent to a deserted island with a few weapons and little food, and are forced to kill each other off until only one child survives. When: Monday, Feb. 28. Seating begins at 7 p.m. and showtime is at 7:30 p.m.

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Cover Story

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by Linda Sickler

Strokes of genius

Work by Maxfield Parrish, left; at bottom is work by John Steuart Curry

Masterworks from the New Britain Museum of

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American Art are on display at the Telfair NORMAN ROCKWELL, Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Hart Benton. Maxfield Parrish. Winslow Homer. And more.

Many more, in an exhibition entitled Strokes of Genius: Masterworks from the New Britain Museum of American Art on display at the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences through March 20.

“These are highlights from the collection of the New Britain Museum of Art in Connecticut,” says Hollis Koons McCullough, Curator of Fine Arts and Exhibitions for the Telfair. “It was one of the first institutions developed for the exclusive collection of American art.”

What today is the New Britain Museum was developed from the New Britain Institute, which was incorporated in 1858. It provided a library and reading room, as well as a setting for public lectures.

In 1901, an art room was added. Two years later, industrialist John Butler Talcott gave the institute 20 gold bonds for the purchase of original modern oil paintings.

More bonds were added to the Talcott fund in 1905, and by 1909, the first works of art were purchased. “They made the decision to collect everything from historical American art to contemporary works,” McCullough says.

The result is an amazing collection, and a fascinating exhibit for the Telfair.

“It is a really interesting show in terms of the diverse type of subject matter,” McCullough says. “Some are mixed media, but most are paintings,” she says. “It gives us a look not only at the way art has changed, but how the country has changed over time.”

The pieces are hung chronologically. “There was no other way to make sense of it,” McCullough says.

The show fills four galleries and demonstrates why the nearby Jepson Center, now under construction, is needed. “Getting this show into four galleries wasn’t a comfortable fit,” McCullough says. “We had to pack this show in. We’re desperate for more space.”

The first gallery features paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries, including the 1758 portraits of a couple painted by Joseph Badger.

“It was unusual for artists of this time to have any formal art training,” McCullough says. “He was a typical American limner with sort of a practical background.

What’s interesting to me is that normally with this kind of portrait, the couple would face each other. Here, they don’t.” (Both are seen facing to the left.)

One painting was created by Mather Brown, a descendant of Increase and Cotton Mather, New English Puritan ministers who are remembered today mostly for their narrow, intolerant views. Cotton Mather was a participant in the Salem Witch Trials.

Mather Brown went to London, where he studied with artist Ben West. “He did portraits of prominent Britons and Americans, including Thomas Jefferson,” McCullough says.

Brown’s 1790 portrait of Sir Richard Arkwright, an industrialist who invented the cotton spinning machine, can be seen at the Telfair. “It’s a typical grand manor portrait,” McCullough says.

Gilbert Stuart’s unfinished portrait of Jared Sparks, who wrote a history of George Washington, also can be seen. “It’s interesting to see a canvas in progress,” McCullough says. “Stuart developed the halfbust pose, which he used over and over.”

The first gallery also contains images from the Hudson River School of painters, plus Winslow Homer’s 1864 painting, Skirmish in the Wilderness. “It was done at a time when Homer was working for Harper’s Weekly covering the Civil War,” McCullough says.

“Most scholars think it depicts the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia.” she says. “It was a horrific battle.

There was so much undergrowth, it let in little light. The painting is extremely dark, not just because the forest is thick and not a lot of light is getting in, but also because it depicts a low point in American history -- the Civil War,.

Homer generally saw nature as antagonistic.”

The second gallery features paintings from the late 19th century, including a landscape by Henry Ossawa Tanner. “He is considered the most important black artist of the 19th century,” McCullough says. “It looks like a simple view of a homestead, but it is the home of a judge who was a famous abolitionist.”

One of McCullough’s personal favorites is The Moorish Prince, painted in 1897 by Elizabeth Norris. “She was an extremely talented artist who studied in Paris,” McCullough says. “American artists moved from the strictly familiar to being interested in different types of people. This painting shows a very noble Moorish man in traditional dress. It reflects an interest at the time in Orientalism -- interest in African and Middle Eastern cultures. Artists were not just looking inward, but starting to look at subject matter.”

The third gallery features artists who were working in the early 20th century. In the Choir by Edwin Austin Abbey was painted in 1901, but depicts a dreamy-eyed woman in 18th century dress.

“He was known for his illustrations that looked back to the English past,” McCullough says. “His work reflects the hankering of an industrialized America looking back to its roots in England.”

Childe Hassam was best known for genteel images of New York City, but paintings such as Ship Rigger’s Shop demonstrate that he spent his summers elsewhere, probably in Province Town on Cape Cod. “He was one of the most successful artists to use the Impressionist technique,” McCullough says. “He studied in Paris, which is where he was exposed to Impressionism.”

Willard Metcalfe’s Mountain Laurel might seem particularly at home at the Telfair. “Metcalfe was known as the poet laureate of the New England landscape.”

Another artist featured in the Telfair collection is Frederick Frieske. In the New Britain exhibition, an image of his daughter is seen. “This painting has a somber quality,” McCullough says. “Frieske was not well at this time.”

One of the most delightful images in the exhibition is The Imaginative Boy by Robert Henri. “He was one of the most influential 20th century artists,” McCullough says.

“We have a Spanish scene by him in the Telfair collection.”

The Imaginative Boy depicts a gypsy boy Henri came across in an encampment. “Childe Hassan would never have looked twice at a gypsy boy, but Henri really embraced all of American society,” McCullough says. “He was interested in immigrants and the everyday people he met on the street. He thought they all were worthy of painting.”

The fourth gallery is devoted to contemporary works of art, up through the 1990s. Some of America’s most beloved artists are represented here. ` Two of those artists demonstrate a touch of humor in paintings that are displayed side by side. “In this one, Thomas Hart Benton is painting an image of Denys Wortman,” McCullough says. “In the other, Denys Wortman, a cartoonist, is creating an image of Thomas Hart Benton. They’re collaborative self portraits.”

Maxfield Parrish’s Dusk is a preview of things to come. “The Telfair will have an extensive show of his work later this year,” McCullough says.

Grant Wood is best known for his painting, American Gothic, but his 1940 painting Sentimental Ballad was commissioned by a film studio. If the people pictured seem familiar, it is because they are some of Hollywood's most noted actors, including John Wayne.

While not as well known as American Gothic, Wood considered it to be his most ambitious project. “It shows his photographic, realistic style,” McCullough says. ◗

Strokes of Genius: Masterworks from the New Britain Museum of American Art is on display at the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences through March 20.

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Paintings by Morgan Santander@Starland Center for Contemporary Art TH E R E AR E N U M E R OU S V E R SIONS of modernism. The one I would uphold has its roots in early 20th Century European movements, like Cubism, that borrowed from the arts of Africa.

As the century progressed, however, what came to be known as Modernism in the U.S. and in Europe, took on an increasingly formalist manner, clothing its flat, reductive abstractions in an aesthetic of mystification. And what was eliminated or repressed in Modernism’s new sense of itself were elements of the imagination, of the poetic, the erotic, the dream, the unconscious and all of daily life itself.

But these did not disappear; they resurfaced as European Modernism’s own self-critique Surrealism. Although European in origin, there have probably been more poet-painter practitioners of Surrealism in Latin America than anywhere else, even if the artists would not always claim the label.

The reasons for this no doubt lie in Latin America’s awareness of the surreal

‘Red Sculpture Garden’ in daily life. The Colombian novelist, Gabriel García Márquez, has stated that "the rationalism of Europeans prevents them seeing that reality isn’t limited to

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It is in this context that Morgan Santander’s work should be situated. Born in Mexico City, Santander has retained that magical reality in his work, despite receiving his art education in the United States where the pressures to simulate cool, mainstream market solutions are very hard to resist.

And Santander seems also to have resisted the education and market pressure to find a style and then stick to it, to the point of selfparody and boredom. Max Ernst put this contradiction nicely when he said, "A painter is lost if he finds himself."

The exhibition is divided into two parts. The first is a series of large paintings that with their heavy black lines and luminous colors recall stained glass windows, the light flooding in through colored glass fragments encased in black lead supports. The second part consists of a number of black and white photocopied collages and related paintings, all created since the end of 2004.

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There is a rupture between the two Santander has chosen to recreate images parts. The earlier works, the large from the work of Mexican artist, Rufino paintings, are dense with images, the Tamayo, and the Spanish Surrealist, Joan space shallow, the figures almost disapMiro, and the landscape is taken from a pearing into abstraction and worked over Camille Corot. time in multiple layers of paint.

And it is from "The Master Builder" that In the recent paintings, the heavy the idea for the collages that fill two walls black contour line has gone, with the of the gallery was developed. Placing the space opening onto distant vistas, landoutsized black and white photocopied scapes with skies, buildings and trees, images within a landscape that might peopled with strange creatures. range from the Renaissance to the But this rupture turns out to be only in Hudson River School, renders them as approach. The central concerns remain sculptures to the viewer. the same: how The painting, to paint the "The Garden of figure, not as Love," which representation, takes its title but as perfrom a William ception; not as Blake poem, is distortion for based on one of expressionistic these collages. ends, but with An Italian landlyrical imagiscape appears nation. twice, the top While both version inverted, parts of the so that the sky exhibit share where the two the title, seams meet runs "Sculpture through the Garden", in the center of the earlier works, painting. Tall the figures are cypress trees less like sculppenetrate this tures than sky both from organic abstracbelow and tions, cavorting reversed from around founabove. There is tains and bird a walled, hillside baths. In the town in the recent works, bottom landthe figures are scape and small ‘Chicken’ distinct sculpfigures, perhaps tures, immobile in alien landscapes. "priests in black gowns walking their The first of the recent paintings takes rounds," hang upside down in the top its title from Ibsen’s play, "The Master reversed landscape.

Builder". But as in Bruegel painting "The Dominating and joining the two landFall of Icarus", and Auden writing his scapes is a large statue that recalls the poem on the same subject, it is not the prehistoric sculpture of the Venus of main narrative of the tale, but a philoWillendorf. This painting does not illussophical subtext, that is of interest to the trate the poem, but does present an artist; the incidental comes to the fore, image that touches on the poem’s the moment of human frailty, failure and a essential dreamlike logic, a mystery that is falling, rendered almost insignificant in the circular and that the viewer can willingly quotidian daylight. enter. Like the poem, the painting can be The foreground of "The Master Builder" endlessly reread. is dominated by two large statues of creaBut the painting departs from the tures, a male with a box for a head and a collage in some respects, and this then is female with a crescent moon head. They probably the value of the collages: not stand on red brick chimney stacks that that they should act as sketches to be emerge, not from a roof but from a field of reproduced exactly on a larger scale as grass and white flowers. paintings, but as a surrealist game that And it is here that the painting departs unlocks the artist’s perceptions. from the Bruegel or the Auden narratives For as Max Ernst put it, "everyone in which no human awareness surrounds carries within his subconscious an inexthe awesome occurrence of a boy falling haustible store of buried images", and in from the sky; in this painting, on the left, a Santander’s new departure, the poetic woman in a small group of people renpossibilities seem limitless. ◗ dered very slight in size compared to the ‘Sculpture Gardens’ is on display at the landscape and the statues, stands Starland Center for Contemporary Art, pointing to a figure in the far distance, the 2428 Bull Street, through Feb. 26. Hours: master builder, himself, climbing a church Thursday-Saturday 4-8 p.m. Closing spire. She calls our attention to the reception is Sat. Feb. 26, 6-9 p.m. moment before he descends to his death.

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A masterwork orange A visit to NYC to see Christo’s ‘The Gates’ NEW YORK CITY -- By now everyone bike-riders and bearers of briefcases -knows about “The Gates” project. In the people who traverse the same footCentral Park. About paths every day. artists Christo and We followed the river of color around Jeanne-Claude. No the Sheep Meadow, the Bethesda last names.

Fountain, the Belvedere Castle, the ice Everyone has a rink, the zoo, the lake. story, a tidbit, a With a public project covering over factoid. Her “red” hair. one million square feet -- 50 acres His penchant -- there were no lines, there was no for wrapping cans, waiting. bottles, islands. Their common birthday.

But there was conversation. With the Next June 13, Jeanne-Claude likes to billowing saffron, some seven feet up say, they will be 140 years old. from the sidewalk, we exchanged They don’t miss much, these two. stories.

They take no public money, financing everything from his drawings. They insist on paying their legion of workers, if only a quarter above minimum wage -and then go the extra mile to serve them breakfast and a hot lunch to boot.

They patrol the park obsessively to make sure none of the billowing pieces of saffron fabric interfere with branches or bird’s nests.

To resolve the problem of fabric A view of ‘The Gates’ in Central Park bunching up, they devised a low-tech, lightweight painter’s extension pole with a tennis ball on the There was a man from Berlin who end to catch and reposition any errant came to the gates, a woman walking cloth. three Maltese pups, another woman To meet complaints of nay-sayers from Brooklyn (“Bet you don’t get to protesting the waste and antics of wear that coat very often,” she said after silly artists, they counter with detailed I told her I lived in Savannah. “Heck,” I plans to recycle all the materials, the said, “I don’t even own this; I borrowed ripstop nylon fabric scheduled for it”) and a couple from St. Louis telling shredding into carpets, the aluminum everyone they could about their own corners to be morphed into house Forest Park, “larger than Central Park.” siding, the steel melted down, ready for Who knew? I said. new duty.

“We did,” the woman responded, “but They -- and the project -- are larger notice one thing: We didn’t get ‘The than life. The color of the fabric -- not Gates’ and they did.” unlike the orange of a pair of painter (or Like walking into a dark theatre and prisoner) pants I wore three days waiting for your eyes to adjust, the straight - chosen for pure joy. longer we stayed, the more we noticed.

The month of the project -- a leafless, Like how the workers with the poles freezing and usually dull February -- all would reach into their pockets to hand the better to see the color against the off something. sky. The couple themselves.

When I went to inquire, she gave me “I became an artist only for love of the same treasure -- a one-by-one-inch Christo,” says Jeanne-Claude. “If piece of saffron fabric from the billowing he had been a dentist, I would have pleats of color. A shard, if you will, from become a dentist.” the 16-day project.

As so, because “The Gates,” as with “We do it quietly,” she said, “so as all of their projects is about experiencing not to create a feeding frenzy.” the installation and not just reading Without thinking too much or too about it, we joined the parade of regular hard, we fell into the moment. And park visitors -- the dog walkers, joggers, lisa lane

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“Next week it’s a snow mobile,” Diane the art director said.

For the final trick, we watched a techie set up six white bowling pins, and waited for Pat to drop three bowling balls before getting a 10th-frame spare. Eager for mementoes and a sucker for shards, I broke the line and picked up a long and narrow purple segment, formerly part of a bowling ball.

Never a dull moment, we noticed another crowd forming around the stage door. First to emerge was Charlie Sheen, cute, polite, dressed in black.

“Go President Bartlett,” I said. But no one cheered.

Then, frozen to the bone, we left before seeing Tori Amos.

But reaching into the pocket of my borrowed coat, fingering the shards of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s fabric of saffron and Letterman’s purple bowling ball and posing as someone took a picture of me in my saffron-colored pants, I was satisfied. I was happy. ◗

Another Sad Silly Love Poem Life as a poet is no fun When you can’t be with the one you love Though you may find your greatest Muse in the trenches of your sadness Your most abstract thoughts in the Darkest of those lonely nights You curse the starry, blanketed sky For shining so brightly Condemn your bastardized heart For the longing Damn the sapphire days That cursed silkened skyline For the beauty Helps you remember The ache All your poems sound the same ‘Cause you feel the same way As the first day He told you he didn’t want you anymore But the words keep on bleeding From your ruptured heart Onto blank, white pages Until all that is left is Another silly sad love poem

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when the cold started ripping out our cheeks, we fell into plan B. Which is not hard to do in this city.

But since we didn’t want to return to a friend’s niece’s apartment -- spacious and a find, but above a 24-hour tire repair place and the sound of some hydraulic wrench sucking off lug nuts -- we headed for the Ed Sullivan theater and a chance to get on the Dave Letterman show.

No luck. After snaking around and through a series of poles and ropes, only to watch everyone in front of us get chosen, we headed for the Hello Deli, but not before exchanging phone numbers with Kevin, aka Dylan, a musician/production manager celebrating his 33rd birthday, who promised us free tickets to McReele, a Broadway show.

At the Deli, where we saw the show’s two trampolines, we stood in line with Letterman techies and ordered a corned beef on rye.

That’s where we met Diane, the art director, who alerted us to the night’s first ten-story drop -- about a dozen plastic colored bottles of soda. Just another art form, she said, thinking of Christo.

“Pat’s getting pretty good,” she said of the man who stands on the roof and does the tossing.

With that we joined a minor crowd behind barricades to watch streams of red, green and yellow paint sail through the air and splatter on the concrete.

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Coach’s & Cold Pizza The popular Thunderbolt sports bar Coach’s Corner will be the subject of a segment on America’s great sports bars on the ESPN2 show “Cold Pizza.”

Hosted by Savannah native Zvee Geffen, the “America's Favorite Sports Bars” segment is expected to air in about a month.

During the show, Geffen completes a ten-point ESPN2’s Zvee Geffen, center, flanked by Coach’s checklist on sports bars Corner owners Al Henderson, left, and John across the country that he visits, including: food, service, Travis sports action, bathrooms, and “his Majors, a soldier who recently returned abiblity to pick-up girls there.” home to Georgia from the frontlines in Iraq. At 22 years of age, he will be a quadriplegic for the Members of Savannah Women for rest of his life.

Peace, a chapter of the national "Make love, not war," was the message organization CODEPINK, gathered in of the event, says Molly Hall of Forsyth Park on Sunday, Feb. 13 to CODEPINK Savannah. create what they call a "visual spectacle" "We were trying to have something for peace. purely fun for peace, but also gather Everyone was asked to wear at least Valentines for Travis and honor the a touch of pink or red, and also were growing number of soldiers refusing to asked to make two Valentines to bring, fight in Iraq," Hall says. "It was a with a dollar or two to tuck inside each success." -- Linda Sickler one.

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The slate, in alphabetical order, is: • R.B. Baker, Pave Tec, Inc. • Shevon Carr, Savannah Technical College • John Coleman, Bonitz of Georgia, Inc. • Paty Daves, HRH Insurance • Dr. David J. Frost, Georgia Tech Savannah

• Debra Geiger, Hunter Maclean Exley & Dunn • Alfred C. Giannetti, MTC EAST Corporation • Charles Gordon, Statewide Healthcare, Inc. • Patrick S. Graham, Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport • Stephen S. Green, Stephen Green Properties, Inc. • Mark Hall, North Point Real Estate • William W. Hubbard, Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce • Dr. Thomas Z. Jones, Armstrong Atlantic State University • Doug J. Marchand, Georgia Ports Authority • Craig McGalliard, Atlanta Gas Light • Martin E. Melaver, Melaver, Inc. • Henry Monsees, Savannah Distributing • Howard J. Morrison, Jr., Lebanon Plantation • Helmut Peters, JCB, Inc. • C.B. Rathburn, III, Savannah Technical College • Roger Ross, Savannah College of Art and Design • W. Brooks Stillwell, III, Hunter Maclean Exley & Dunn • Cora Bett Thomas, Cora Bett Thomas Realty Company • Hart Williford, Morris Technology ◗

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He “became annoyed” when asked his name and was placed in the back of a police cruiser to be taken home. The officer spoke with his mother, who was surprised when the officer asked her to take custody of her son. She said “she thought he was in the house playing video games.”

utility bill, but “tried to hide it from the officer.” The bill had a different name than the man had given. The officer called the man’s wife and she said her husband’s name was different than the one he gave police and that he had a different date of birth. The suspect then admitted that his license was suspended for driving under the influence of alcohol and that he is a habitual violator. He was arrested.

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• An Oakland Drive resident was called by a telemarketer for a travel company who offered her a package deal on a trip and asked for bank account information. The woman later discovered that $149 had been removed from her checking account, even though she did not want the travel package. She called the company and was issued a refund check, but her bank would not honor the check, saying it was no good. The bank had already received another bad check from the travel company earlier that day. The woman will pursue fraud charges against the company through her bank. ◗

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• A man was charged with giving false information after a traffic stop. An officer noticed a car going 50 in a 35mile-per-hour zone and stopped the driver for speeding. The man gave the officer his insurance card, but said “he had left his wallet with his driver’s license in the bathroom.” The man gave the officer a name and date of birth.

When asked who the car belonged to, “he said it belonged to his wife.” He was asked if he had something with his name on it in the car. The man found a

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“Fireworks Explode in Pants, Burn Boy� (a January story in New Orleans’ Times-Picayune about an 11-year-old boy improvidently carrying bottle rockets in his pants while holding a sparkler). “Cleric Suspect Misses Hearing Due to Long Toe Nails� (a January Reuters dispatch from London, reporting that radical Islamic rabble-rouser Abu Hamza al-Masri found it too painful to walk to court). “Cops: Mom Used Hammer on Son Over Homework� (a January Associated Press report in which police charged a St. Louis woman with excessive supervision of homework, which allegedly also included pliers).

Sehnsucht restaurant opened in Berlin recently, catering to people with eating disorders, with a tasty cuisine for anorexics, to encourage weight-gain, but also serving bulimics, some of whom will quickly disgorge the tasty meal.

Frog farmers in the village of Bo Talo, Thailand, struggling with a glut in the local market, developed an export product for those who don’t require their frogs to be fresh: frog-ina-can (which they hope will catch on as chicken and duck sales falter because of avian flu).

The Japanese company Trane KK recently introduced the “lap pillow,� a large foam headrest, in the shape of a woman’s kneeling lower torso so that the target audience of men can rest their heads on “her� legs. It was probably created in response to an earlier product from the company Kameo of a pillow with a “man’s� arm extending downward, targeted for women to hug the arm as they drift off to sleep.

The Eternal Temptation The Roanoke (Va.) Times reported on Jan. 17 that a Wytheville police officer had to rescue a 9-year-old boy who, with time on his hands waiting for a school bus on a “bone-deep cold� morning, decided to find out what would happen if he licked a metal pole. While awaiting someone to bring warm water to free the boy, the officer and the kid had the following conversation: “Have you learned anything?� “Uh-huh.� “Are you going to do this again?� “Uh-uh.�

Cry the Beloved Kingpin In January, days after a crackdown by Mexican President Vicente Fox on corruption at the La Palma jail near Mexico City, a full-page ad appeared in the daily newspaper Reforma, supposedly placed by higher-profile inmates, who, according to the ad, were now suffering under “subhuman� conditions, treated “like dogs, like animals, like we are worthless ... scum of society.� What the government had done was to confiscate the drug lords’ and organized-crime leaders’ big-screen TVs, computers and cell phones (which they were using to retain control of their operations from behind bars), break up their prison rackets, and even end their personal pizza deliveries.

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Mainstreaming Sex Workers In 2002, Germany legalized prostitution, primarily for tax revenue and to make sex workers eligible for health care benefits, and at the same time, it specifically declined to exempt brothels from those places of employment at which the jobless might be required to work in order to maintain their benefits. In December, there was a press report of a 25-year-old unemployed waitress complaining that she had been called for an interview at a brothel and feared that if she declined the job, her benefits would be cut. Germany’s Federal Labor Office said it would not do that, but a Hamburg lawyer said there have been cases of unemployed female call-center workers being offered telephone sex-line jobs via the government.

Our Awesome Animal Friends A landmine-detection outfit in Mozambique has upgraded from explosives-sniffing dogs to giant African Hamster rats, according to a December Agence France-Presse dispatch, because the lighter, more plentiful rats have noses that are just as sensitive and don’t suffer dogs’ need for affection and constant reassurances. And Northern Arizona University Professor Con Slobodchikoff, who spoke to the Albuquerque Journal in December about his two decades of elaborate, patient, desert research, said that prairie dogs he has studied at three locations in the Southwest speak in different dialects but would likely understand each other, can even invent sounds for new things, and perhaps can even gossip.

In a tourist park next to the zoo in Chiang Mai, Thailand, handlers have toilet-trained seven elephants. In photos published in Bangkok’s The Nation in January and now available on the Internet, a 5-year-old elephant is shown using a giant white, Western-style concrete toilet as if he were human, including using his trunk to pull a cord to flush.

Recurring Themes: Michael Henson’s dog became the latest one to “drive,� after he pawed the gearshift of Henson’s idling truck, sending it through the front of the O’Reilly Auto Parts store in Springdale, Ark., in December. And Matthew Harper’s hunting dog became the latest one to shoot someone, stepping on a shotgun’s trigger and blasting Harper in the arm, near Upper Klamath Lake in Oregon in October. And Leana Beasley’s rottweiler assistance dog became one of the latest to save her client’s life by (as per training) nosepunching a telephone’s 911 button upon seeing Beasley suffer a grand mal

seizure and then barking furiously into the receiver (Richland, Wash., October).

Creme de la Weird Paul Kelvin Hardy, 40, was arrested in Martinsburg, W.Va., after he broke into a couple’s home on New Year’s Eve, robbed them of $540, held them at gunpoint for more than hour, and then, when he noticed a piano in the house, ordered the husband to play two songs while Hardy sang. After the songfest, Hardy suggested they order pizza and meanwhile began playing with his gun. The siege ended, and police were called, when Hardy joined a long list of people chronicled in News of the Weird for accidentally shooting themselves.

Not Cut Out for a Life of Crime Earmon Wilson, 44, walked in to police headquarters in Buffalo, N.Y., in January and confessed to two burglaries at his apartment house, even though he wasn’t a suspect; he said his conscience was bothering him, which is also what he said in October 1994 when he unsolicitedly turned himself in for robbing a Buffalo bank.

In Cincinnati in December, Ronald Godfrey pleaded guilty to a burglary, which he was forced to attempt alone because, according to a prosecutor, his brother James (also a burglar) refused to work with him, saying Ronald was too dumb. In the December burglary, Ronald accidentally hit himself in the head with a crowbar, splattering the scene with blood, which police traced back to him.

Readers’ Choice In a widely publicized move in January, Oklahoma state Sen. Frank Shurden proposed legislation to bring back the “sport� of cockfighting, which the state outlawed in 2002. To appease critics, Shurden, apparently serious, suggested that the roosters wear tiny boxing gloves instead of the razor cleats on their legs and also wear electronic-sensitive vests in order to record hits so as to non-lethally determine the winner of a match.

The Continuing Crisis A 29-year-old woman who was killed in a one-car crash on New Year’s Day in Rohnert Park, Calif., was “wearing� a live boa constrictor as a fashion accessory, which friends later said she liked to do.

And two hospitals affiliated with Duke University notified about 4,000 patients in January that they had accidentally “cleaned� surgical instruments in a petroleum-based hydraulic fluid (leaving them slightly sticky even though they were subsequently sterilized before use).

And Purdue University student Danlei Chen was arrested in January and charged with stabbing her husband during a sexual episode following the couple’s having watched the movie “Basic Instinct,� which has a famous similar scene. ◗

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Ongoing severe storms across parts of Venezuela and Colombia unleashed devastating floods and mudslides that killed at least 90 people and washed away more than 25,000 homes. The majority of the victims, many of them children, perished in shanty towns built near rivers that swelled from mountain runoff. The worst hit areas were the Colombian provinces of Santander and Norte de Santander, and Venezuela’s state of Merida. A disaster zone stretched from Venezuela’s Caribbean coast southwestward to the mountain valleys of the Colombian Andes.

Plumes of volcanic ash, soaring for several days from Indonesia’s Mount Egon, prompted officials to place about 2,000 nearby residents on alert.

Hundreds of villagers on the island of Flores were evacuated and will be housed in temporary shelters until the volcano subsides.

• Three volcanoes on Far East Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula roared to life with emissions of hot gas, steam and ash.

Shiveluch, Klyuchevskaya Sopka and Bezymyanny are among several volcanoes that produce eruptions on the geologically active peninsula. Ash from Klyuchevskaya Sopka, the highest active volcano in Eurasia, rained on the town of Klyuchi, approximately 20 miles away.

Hunters in Bulgaria were preparing to kill as many wolves as they could find during a hunt due to begin on Feb. 19. The event coincides with bitterly cold weather over the Eastern European nation, which has increased the number of wolf attacks on sheep and cows. “There are about 2,000 wolves in Bulgaria, while 200 are sufficient to maintain the ecological balance,” said Plamen Kolev, an official at the country’s forestry department. In addition to the wolves, hunters will be allowed to kill the canine’s close relative — the golden jackal.

West African Swarms Fresh swarms of desert locusts surrounded the Guinea-Bissau capital of Bissau for the second time in a month. The insects severely damaged some cashew plantations and other crops. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization warns that a new generation of desert locusts may soon spread across western and northern Africa.

South Asia Winter A second week of heavy rain, high winds and blinding snow created further misery for Pakistan and areas of Kashmir as the death toll from severe weather soared to over 500. Many of the victims died in northwestern Pakistan following a series of avalanches and landslides during the previous week. Heavy runoff and dam bursts in the southwestern province of Baluchistan killed 250 others. Snow and heavy rains triggered landslides in Indian-administered Kashmir, blocking the main north-south highway and leaving many without power.

South Sea Cyclones The Cook Islands, Samoa and American Samoa were threatened by two separate tropical cyclones that, at one point, appeared capable of merging into a pair of spinning vortexes. The eye of Super Typhoon Olav passed directly over Samoa’s Manu’a Islands, but precautions

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• Cyclone Nancy skirted Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, then lost force over colder water to the south.

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Earthquakes Northwestern China’s Uygur region was rocked by a magnitude 6.2 temblor that damaged hundreds of buildings in Wushi County.

• A predawn earthquake awakened millions of people in metropolitan Tokyo and other parts of eastern Japan. At least 27 people sustained injuries due to the shaking.

• Earth movements were also felt in the Sumatra-Andaman Island aftershock zone, Indonesia’s North Sulawesi, northeastern India, far western Germany, south-central Alaska and northeastern Arkansas.

Hemp Feed Banned Farmers in the tiny European principality of Liechtenstein will no longer be allowed to feed cannabis to their livestock. New rules against the practice will bring the country into compliance with the food standards of neighboring Switzerland, with which the country forms a customs union. The hemp plant contains a small amount of the mindaltering drug THC, which was found to be filtering into the milk of Liechtenstein’s dairy cows. Hemp will also be banned in the feeding of cattle, although there has not been any evidence that shows ingested THC can wind up in the meat of slaughtered animals. ◗

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A FEW YEARS back I received an irate letter from a reader taking me to task over what he termed my “arbitary (sic)” use of the English language – specifically when crafting the short, sharp, shocked blurbs that make up our paper’s Music Menu section.

To hear this fellow tell it, just because I was usually writing about popular music was no reason to flat-out make up words that don’t exist, or neologize (my term, not his) existing words to fit the bill.

Specifically, he was incensed by my repeated use of the term “nugget” to describe old, obscure, or otherwise unjustly overlooked tunes from a (presumably) Golden Age. Now, for the record, in rock parlance, nuggets – or Nuggets, as they’re sometimes referred to – are quite an established notion.

Coined by Patti Smith Group guitarist and music aficionado Lenny Kaye for use as the title of his early-’70s anthology of rare American garage band tracks from the pre-psychedelic era, it’s now unfortunately become synonymous with virtually any underappreciated side from a salient artist that never cracked the mainstream.

That’s unfortunate, because it can only serve to dilute the initial intent: namely, to salute those intrepid souls who scraped by in the mid-’60s, playing to half-empty dance halls, school gymns and armories.

Those idealistic and determined groups who saved up their meager gig money to record and press small runs of brittle, fuzzed-out 7-inch singles, all in the hopes of getting a little local airplay and making the jump from being regional kings to national jacks.

I mean, why not? The Kingsmen struck a type of gold with a barely decipherable, low-fi, ode to maritime travel called “Louie, Louie,” so why not anyone else?

Well, if there’s any band in the land that knows the true meaning – and value – of The Nugget, it’s The Woggles.

This Atlanta quartet began in the Classic City of Athens, Georgia in 1987, and immediately established itself as one of the leading exponents of the U.S. garage-rock revival scene. With a look, sound, stage show and attitude that was (admittedly and respectfully) cribbed from a halfdozen other groups – both existing and long-gone – they appealed to both the uninitiated and the well-versed.

To those out of the loop – who had never haunted flea markets and yard sales doing the sort of dusty, polyvinyl spelunking that for years was the prerequisite for earning even a layman’s degree in vintage garage rock – The Woggles’ matching outfits, ruffled bullfighter shirts, pegged slacks, shaggy hairdos and minimalist, pawn shop gear seemed as though it had emerged whole from some miasma of pop culture.

Then again, those of us who found such ephemera as beguiling as the bandmembers themselves, recognized their shtick for what it was: a glorious, carefully honed pastiche of audio/visual highlights from many of the best trashy, liquor-soaked groups of yore.

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But that didn’t stop both camps from loving this band like nobody’s business. Fact of the matter is, most of the artists The Woggles emulate (and celebrate) had something that most of their competition could never muster: passion. It’s what sets those rare and mostly-ignored sides apart from the tracks you’ll find ad nauseam on any number of Time-Life or Billboard compilations.

That same passion runs through everything The Woggles do. It’s what defines their sweaty, foot-stomping live sets. It’s what keeps frontman Manfred “The Professor” Jones climbing up on (willing) audience members’ shoulders at nearly each show from here to Japan, or dancing so hard that he injures himself.

It’s what keeps his oversized tambourine shaking much harder than required, and it’s what keeps drummer Dan “Electro” Hall pounding out relentless primal rhythms on his tiny, oystershell trap set – like some dapper cross between Ringo Starr and Moe Tucker from the VU. And it’s that same passion that no doubt fueled their decision to soldier on after the sudden and tragic death of their longtime guitarist George "Montague" Holton, welcoming former Guadalcanal Diary axeman Jeff “Flash Hammer” Walls into their fold.

In the end, it doesn’t matter that The Fleshtones were milking essentially the same act for a decade before The Woggles made their debut. It doesn’t matter that most of what they do has been done before in one way or another, by everyone from The Music Machine to The Leaves to Link Wray.

What matters is The Woggles are doing it now, and they’re doing it to death.

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Argyle Energetic and hard-to-peg local alternative band whose myriad of influences include dub reggae, ska and acid-rock.

Fri., (acoustic show), Locos Deli & Pub.

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Eric Britt Solo acoustic set from the frontman and main songwriter of regional alt.rockers Hazel Virtue. Wed., 6 pm, Tubby’s (River St.) + Thurs., Moon River Brewing Company.

Local impresario Cook now puts his stamp on the famously decadent era of prohibition. As usual, dressing up in period garb is encouraged, and along with a DJ spinning dance music of the time, there will be plenty of prizes awarded in a variety of themed contests. Thurs., 9 pm, Fusion/The Monkey Bar.

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Eat Mo' Music New instrumental quintet (trumpet, bass, drums, trombone and guitar) offering jazz, blues and funk grooves. It’s an invigorating approach that few local combos have taken over the past 2 decades. Sat., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar.

Hazel Virtue This melodic, regional modern rock act has strong ties to both Savannah and Charleston, and have been slugging away in the trenches for several years. At long last that seems to be paying off, with at least one local commercial FM station spinning their latest CD much more regularly than can usually be expected from such outlets. Recently stripped down to a 3-piece from a quartet, they seem poised for bigger things.Sat., Finnegan’s Wake (formerly O’Connell’s Irish Pub).

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The Hitmen Local electric blues band led by a guitar player known as “The Hitman.”Tues. (hosts Open Mic) - Wed. + Fri., Savannah Blues.

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This young but promising local band is about as unpretentious as Local modern punk trio they come. They that’s known for frenzied play slightly fuzzedtempo shifts, complex out pop-rock that’s screamo vocal arrangements Kyle Shiver a little bit punk and and dark, politically-motivated a little bit bublyrics. Wed., The Jinx. blegum. The happy-go-lucky mix of two scene veterans and two relative neoEnergetic acoustic guitarist and phytes makes for a refreshing dynamic. singer who doubles as frontman for local Recommended for fans of That Dog and Joan Jett. New local acts Master Blaster hard rock cover band The Long Awaited. expect plenty of rock and pop hits sung and Soap open this free show. Fri., 9 pm, and played with conviction. Mon., Starland CCA (2424 Bull St.) ALL AGES. Daiquiri Depot (Pooler) + Wed., 6:30 pm, Pogy’s (Richmond Hill) + Thurs., 9 pm, B Upstart regional emo band offering & D Burgers (Southside). originals and some covers (IINXS, Talking Heads, U2). Mon., Savannah Blues.

Kickass Atlanta group combining the matching outfit/same last name shtick of Politically-minded hardcore act based The Ramones with that group’s penin both Asheville, N.C., and the bizarro chant for short, sharp, melodic rock. musical hotbed of Johnson City, Throw in some loose, middle-period Tennessee. Wed., The Jinx.

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This local gutbucket blooze band recently crossed the streams to open for a national act at alternative rock room The Jinx, which should give you an idea of just how far from the average goodtime party band they are. Expect raw, unfettered, electric houserockin’ music.

Thurs., Savannah Blues.

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Sat., Savannah Blues.

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Swinging, swampy (and vaguely Cajun-flavored) blues and rock originals and covers feaHot Pink Interior turing one half of local duo Too Blue, and the in-demand rhythm section of Mike Walker and Jason Gecik. Fri., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar + Sat., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

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Keith Kozel & The Foxedos w/Whiskey Dick & The Prowlin’ Rooster

The Marshall Brothers Sibling acoustic guitar act, mixing original Americana material with likeminded covers from Dylan, Neil Young and Steve Earle. Featuring Stewart Marshall of The Stewart & Winfield Band.

Sat., 10 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House.

Superhorse frontman Kozel and his rotating collective of sidemen (featuring multi-instrumentalists Ricardo Ochoa and Seb Edwards) inaugurate a new monthly showcase of underground and counterculture talent in a relaxed listening room environment. The idea is to present local musicians in a format unlike that in which they normally perform.

Whiskey Dick’s rode-hardand-put-up-wet take on the outlaw country genre is at times racy, and at times tranquil, much like David Allan Coe or Kris Kristofferson. Little is known about the roots blues artist who calls himself The Prowlin’ Rooster – which may work to his advantage. Thurs., 8 Eat Mo’ Music pm, The Sentient Bean - ALL AGES.

Maurice & Doubleday Longtime area cover band offering a variety of danceable pop, rock and soul hits from the past several decades. Fri., 8 pm, Baja Cantina (Skidaway Village Walk).

G.E. Perry & James Gay Local electric guitar and mouth harp duo offering a nuanced take on the blues. Wed., 8 pm, Fusion/The Monkey Bar + Sun., 8 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar.

Stephen & Jeremy Riddle

Rarely-heard originals and esoteric covers from two brothers best known for their roles in local rock band Argyle.

Sat., 10 pm, B & D Burgers (Southside).

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Sun., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

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One of Savannah’s most celebrated bands, offering originals from their 2 above-average indie albums, and crowdpleasing modern and classic rock covers. recommended for fans of slick, female-fronted pop, like No Doubt or Avril Lavigne. Fri. - Sat., 9:30 pm, The Oyster Bar (Wilmington Island).

Malefactor (CD Release) Up-and-coming metalcore band out of Baxley. Together for 5 years, they are celebrating the release of their 4th fulllength CD, A Collection of Broken Dreams From The Common Man. They’ve opened for several big-name acts, such as Unearth, Meatjack and Damad. Sat., The Jinx.

This locally-based singer/songwriter paid his dues on the Northeastern folk scene, and has released 2 indie CDs of acoustic, blues-influenced rock and pop.

Also a member of The Back River Ramblers, his solo shows include a healthy dose of covers, as well as his own impressive originals. Wed., Fiddler’s Crab House (9 pm) + Fri., 7 pm, A.J.’s Dockside (Tybee) + Sun., 10 pm, Café Loco (Tybee).

Starchild These ultra-indie doom-rockers from the oddly undoom-like Waycross, Ga. kneel penitent at the altar of early Black Sabbath. Their über-heavy Orange amp sound owes an acknowledged debt to

the now-defunct Sleep, as well as the their celebrated labelmates High On Fire.

This is pounding, spooky, bone-crushing space metal for the fearless.

Sat., The Jinx.

Ti Jean Blues This play is based around excerpts from the late Jack Kerouac’s writings, including his classic On The Road. It celebrates his worldview and its influence on society as a whole. Presented by local theater group The Drama Bums, made up of SCAD staff and students. A discussion of the work will follow the free show. Sat., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean - ALL AGES.

Two Days of Freedom Emotional thrash from locals preparing to record their debut LP. Formerly known as Roswell, they play infrequently in town, yet have earned a solid and devoted following.

Wed., The Jinx.

The Vulgar Bulgars See Connect Recommends. Sat., 8:15 pm (dinner served at 7 pm), Temple Mickve Israel - ALL AGES.

The Wayside Riders Above-average Atlanta-based jam band that boasts two drummers and features former members of scene legends The Grapes. Sat., JJ Cagney’s.

The Greg Williams Band Blues and folk-based rock centered around Williams handful of original indie LPs. The band features a strong rhythm section (with a dedicated percussionist), fiery guitarwork, and great vocals. Fri., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

Tony Williamson & Jeff Autry See Connect Recommends. Sat., 7:30 pm, Randy Wood’s Concert Hall (Bloomingdale) - ALL AGES.

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which finds her achieving a sound closer to that favored by such prog-rock mainstays as King Crimson and Gentle Giant than the more straight-up approach of someone like the late Milt Jackson.

When she returns home, it’s usually for a solo recital. In the past, she’s packed this coffeehouse to the gills with friends, family, and plain old fans – who all walk away shaking their heads in disbelief at the dexterity and speed she displays on such a notoriously tricky instrument.

A few hours before this show (at 4 pm), she’ll be interviewed and play live on SCAD’s increasingly popular internet www.SCADRadio.org or radio station (w downtown at 1520 AM).

Sun., 7 pm, Sentient Bean - ALL AGES.

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This time around, luthier and promoter Randy Wood welcomes back Williamson (commonly regarded as one of the finest mandolinists alive today), and Autry (considered one of the top 5 flatpicking guitarists in America). Both are known for their stunning agility, timing and taste.

Tony was last in town to take part in Wood’s annual two-night Low Country Bluegrass Jam Session, which was easily one of the most enjoyable live music experiences I’ve ever had in Savannah. I can’t offer Randy’s venue or his choices in booking anything less than my highest recommendations. While most of his shows sell out in advance, that has less to do with widespread knowledge of his efforts than the size of his room, and the great word of mouth his efforts command.

This place is still the best-kept secret in the area despite my repeated attempts to preach the word. Do yourself a favor, and try this show on for size. It’s a cozy venue without smoking or alcohol, where everyone shuts up and lets the music take center stage.

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Hank Weisman runs The Savannah Folk Music Society, where he books a variety of eclectic, roots music acts through town on a regular basis. As a result, he’s often contacted by artists on tour in search of a fill-in show.

Such is the case with this interesting synagogue show by a folk combo.

Weisman says that once he learned of The Vulgar Bulgars’ open date he contacted Rabbi Arnold Belzer, and in short order the two had cooked up a gig for the group – and cooked up some ethnic delicacies for the audience as well.

Billed as an evening of “good food for the stomach and the soul,” the event begins with an old-fashioned New York deli dinner (corned beef, pastrami and tongue with all the trimmings), and is capped by a live show from a festive group known as Virginia’s premiere exponents of Klezmer.

Their repertoire includes classic tunes and time-honored The Vulgar Bulgars melodies, as well as contemporary, Klezmer-influenced originals. For those unfamiliar with this lighthearted style of acoustic dance music, it draws liberally from both Israeli and European folk, as well as from American blues and jazz, and traditional Balkan melodies. It’s an infectious, exhilarating blast of sacred hymns and hopped-up party music – often with Hebrew lyrics.

If you’ve never had the pleasure of attending a Klezmer concert, you don’t know what you’re missing, and now’s as good a time as any to introduce yourself to this most unusual genre.

The show itself is $10, but if you’d like to partake of the food as well, it’s an extra $8. Reservations for dinner are due by Wednesday the 23rd, so hurry! Call Lauree at 233-1547.

Sat., 8:15 pm (dinner served at 7 pm), Temple Mickve Israel - ALL AGES.

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Savannah has a long history of producing (or at the very least harboring) some truly noteworthy jazz artists. It would seem that Laura “Lalo” Friedman is on her way to joining that club. The Savannah native was turned on Lalo to the vibraphone in high school, and upon graduation, enrolled at the Berklee School of Music – graduating Summa Cum Laude.

Flush with that recognition, she relocated to New York City (one of the hubs of the professional jazz world), and since then, has made a modest name for herself as one of the more adventurous and fresh vibes players on the international scene.

She’s gigged with famed percussionist Cyro Baptista (S Sting, Cassandra Wilson), been featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition, and was dubbed “the Vibe Queen” by The Village Voice.

Then, acclaimed magazine Jazziz named her one of the “20 Fine Vibists” in the world, and she racked up hard-won endorsements from both mallet and instrument manufacturers.

As a player, she is steeped in tradition, but unafraid to steer her craft into uncharted territory. She’s experimented with electrifying her vibes, and treating them with various electronic effects,

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Flogging Molly, Hot Water Music, Riverboat Gamblers - Tremont Music Hall, Charlotte "The Epitaph Tour" w/Matchbook Romance, Scatter The Ashes, Motion City Soundtrack, From First To Last - Freebird Live, Jacksonville

Monday the 28th The Exies, Honestly - Amos' Southend, Charlotte Cattle Decapitation, Cryptopsy, The Autumn Offering - Thee Imperial, Jacksonville

Happy Hour Every Day ‘til 9:30 ✶ 2 for 1 Wells ✶ $1 Domestic Drafts Wednesday February 23

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Eric Culberson Blues Band

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Wayside Riders

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S.I.N. Night: $1 off everything (w/ pay stub)

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Brock Butler Open Mic Night w/ Zack Deputy 2 for 2’sday: 2 for 1 all night, & Free Pool

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Coming Soon: March 3- Eric Culberson Blues Band, March 5- Terrapin’s Jam Fest All-Star Tour (3 Bands In One Night), March 9- Voodoo Soup,

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Marcia Ball - History Center, Atlanta Shinedown, No Address, John Eddie - Smith's Olde Bar, Love .45 - Monkey Atlanta Business, Hilton Head Particle - Headliners @ Banana Angie Aparo Joe's, Columbia Cumberland's, Charleston Tim Conway / Harvey Korman "Together Again" John Eddie - Smith's Olde Bar, North Charleston Roy Clark Atlanta Performing Arts Center Angie Aparo - Georgia Hall, Sun Domingo - New Athens Brookland Tavern, Columbia Asylum Street Spankers - Tasty World, Larry Keel And Natural Bridge - The Athens Mission, Augusta Better Than Ezra - University Of Georgia, Lil' Brian Terry & The Zydeco Travelers Athens Wild Wing Café, Greenville Social Distortion, Street Dogs, Backyard Old Crow Medicine Show - Neighborhood Babies - Centre Stage @ The Plex, North Theatre, Charlotte Charleston Karl Denson's Tiny Universe - Visulite Theatre, Charlotte ◗

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‘HDX2: Two Generations of DeLorme’ -- Photographs by Harry H. DeLorme taken in the 1970s, with acrylic paintings

by Harry H. DeLorme, Jr. At the City of Savannah's Gallery S.P.A.C.E., at 9 West Henry Street, March 1 - March 31.

Opening Reception: March 4, 6-8 p.m.

Gallery hours: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.Call 912-651-4248 Recent Works -- Elysium Wine Bar on Chippewa Square hosts an exhibit of recent works by Washington, D.C. artists Dave Wix, Cory Deere, and Joe Karr.

'Private Eye for Private Peaches’ -- New works mixing graphic design, photography and painting by: Amy Wright & Jason Marz. Venus de Milo, 38 MLK Jr Blvd.

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‘Suzanne Jackson: Monoprints and Drawings’ -- An exhibition of work by SCAD painting professor Suzanne Jackson, Feb. 18-March 8, at Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St. Free and open to the public.

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Rebecca Kahrs Willis -- Hospice Savannah showcases new paintings by this acclaimed watercolorist March 7 – April 30 at the Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, located at Hospice House, 1352 Eisenhower Drive. Meet the artist at the opening reception, Tuesday, March 15 from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30p.m. at the gallery.

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‘Novel Ideas’ -- SCAD presents this exhibit Feb. 18-March 18 at the May Poetter Gallery in Poetter Hall, 342 Bull St. The show features illustrative and photographic work by SCAD students, alumni and faculty that reference literature and use the book form as an object of art. Artists include Carrie Christian, Bret M. Herholz, Stefani Joseph, Sarah Meyer, Colin Roddick, Jose Luis Silva and Cameron Lundy Woodall. The exhibition is featured on the March gallery hop, Friday, March 4, 5-7 p.m. The exhibition and gallery hop are free and open to the public.

‘Seven Steps to Scale’ -- Seven paintings

by Kevin Starr, a formerly Savannahbased artist now in North Carolina.

Through March 13 at Sapphire Grill, 110 W. Congress St.

‘Sculpture Gardens’ -- Recent large-scale paintings by Morgan Santander explore a wide range of iconography from the theatrical to abstraction. Santander is currently a professor of painting at SCAD. Through Feb. 26 at Starland Center of Contemporary Art (StarCCA) 2428 Bull St., 6-10 p.m. Free.

‘Shadow, Impression and Reflection: John Moore, Karim Ghidinelli, and Abezash Tamerat’ -- SCAD presents this exhibition of painting and sculpture Feb. 4-27, at the Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St. ‘Images of Southeast India’ -Photographs by Nigel Law at Rec Arts on Broughton Street through February.

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‘5 to Collect for 2005’ -- Hospice Savannah presents this exhibit through Feb. 28. This year's artists are, Betsy Cain, Allen Fireall, Larry Levow, Monica James and Meryl Truett. 1352 Eisenhower Dr. ‘Weave a Dream’ -- Portraits of local health advocates by John Zeuli are at the Starfish Cafe (formerly Bread & Butter Cafe), 719 E. Broad St., through February. Mon.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m.-1 p.m. ◗

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FEBRUARY 24TH AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee)- Live Music TBA B & D BURGERS (Downtown)- Live Music TBA (6 pm) B & D BURGERS (Southside)- Thomas Claxton (9 pm) BAY STREET BLUES- Karaoke BAYOU CAFÉ- Chief BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET- Live Music TBA BOGEY’S- Karaoke w/Ron CHUCK’S BAR- Karaoke (10 pm) CLUB ONE- Fetish Night w/DJ Shrapnel (Industrial, Darkwave, Synthpop & Techno) DJ’s PIANO BAR (Tybee)- Live Music TBA DOC’S BAR (Tybee)- Live Music TBA DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)- DJ Sam Diamond’s Karaoke DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)- Live Music TBA FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee)- The Back River Ramblers (7 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE- Eric Moore (10 pm) FUSION/THE MONKEY BAR- Chris Cook’s Roaring ‘20s Party (9 pm) HEADHUNTERS TIKI BAR (IBIZA NIGHTLIFE)DJ Bash (Top 40, Reggae, Hip-hop, Dance) THE HIDE-A-WAY (Middleground Rd.)- Live Music TBA

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 25TH AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee)“Georgia Kyle” Shiver (7 pm) AMERICAN LEGION POST #36 (Thunderbolt)Karaoke B & D BURGERS (Southside)- Live Music TBA (10 pm) BAJA CANTINA (Skidaway Village Walk)Maurice & Doubleday (8 pm) BAY STREET BLUES- Karaoke BAYOU CAFÉ- Live Rock Music TBA BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET- Karaoke BOGEY’S- Live Music TBA THE CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE- Karaoke (9 pm) CAVALIER COUNTRY CLUB- Live Country & Dance Music CLUB IBIZA (at IBIZA NIGHTLIFE)- DJ Cesar (Top 40 & Hip Hop) CLUB ONE- Local Cast CONGA CLUB- “S.A.V. Friday” w/Jeff Nice CRYSTAL BEER PARLOR- The Beer Parlor Ramblers (7:30 pm) DAQUIRI DEPOT (Pooler)- Live Music TBA DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn)- Karaoke DAQUIRI ISLAND (Pt. Wentworth)- Live Music TBA DJ’s PIANO BAR (Tybee)- Live Music TBA DOC’S BAR (Tybee)- Live Music TBA DOLPHIN REEF (Tybee)- Live DJ DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)- “World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)- Live Music TBA ELYSIUM WINE BAR- LIve Music TBA FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee)- The New Christy Alan Band (9 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE- Jim Marshall (10 pm) FOSTER’S PUB (Tybee)- Karaoke FUSION/THE MONKEY BAR- Live Music TBA THE GOLD CLUB- Wormbelly (10 pm)

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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26TH AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee)- Live Music TBA B & D BURGERS (Southside)- Stephen & Jeremy Riddle (10 pm) BAY STREET BLUES- Karaoke BAYOU CAFÉ- Live Rock Music TBA BENNY’S (Tybee)- Live Music TBA BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET- Karaoke BOGEY’S- Live Music TBA THE CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE- Karaoke (9 pm) CAVALIER COUNTRY CLUB- Live Country & Dance Music CHUCK’S BAR- Karaoke (10 pm) CLUB IBIZA (IBIZA NIGHTLIFE)- DJ Cesar (Top 40 & Hip Hop) CLUB ONE- Local Cast CONGA CLUB- “Latin Night” (DJ spins Salsa, Merengue, etc...)

CONGREGATION MICKVE ISRAEL- The Vulgar Bulgars Klezmer Band (7 pm dinner, 8 pm show) CRYSTAL BEER PARLOR- The Beer Parlor Ramblers (7:30 pm) DAQUIRI DEPOT (Pooler)- Live Music TBA DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn)- Karaoke DJ’s PIANO BAR (Tybee)- Live Music TBA DOC’S BAR (Tybee)- Live Music TBA DOLPHIN REEF (Tybee)- Live DJ

DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)- “World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)- Live Music TBA FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee)- The New Christy Alan Band (9 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE- The Marshall Brothers (10 pm) FINNEGAN’S WAKE (formerly O’CONNELL’S IRISH PUB)- Hazel Virtue FUSION/THE MONKEY BAR- Live Music TBA THE GRILL BEACHSIDE (Tybee)- Live Music TBA (1 pm) HEADHUNTERS TIKI BAR (IBIZA NIGHTLIFE)DJ Bash (Top 40, Reggae, Hip-Hop, Dance) THE HIDE-A-WAY (Middleground Rd.)- Karaoke HUC-A-POOS (Tybee)- Live Music TBA THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)- Dot Wilder w/The Norm Gagne Trio (7 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR- Eat Mo’ Music (9 pm) THE JINX- Starchild, Malefactor (CD Release), Tron JJ CAGNEY’S- The Wayside Riders KEVIN BARRY’S- Danny Doyle LOGGERHEADS (Tybee)- Live Music TBA MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS- Live Music TBA MCDONOUGH’S- Karaoke MERCURY LOUNGE- The Jeff Beasley Band (10 pm) MULBERRY INN- The Champagne Jazz Trio (8 pm) NV NIGHT CLUB (Sedah/Main Floor)- Street Heat w/DJ Getonup (Harlem, NYC) NV NIGHT CLUB (Nevaeh/Top Floor)- Live Music TBA THE OYSTER BAR (Wilmington Isl.)- Liquid Ginger (9 pm) PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)Gail Thurmond POGY’S BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill)- Live Music TBA (8 pm) RANDY WOOD’S CONCERT HALL

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FEBRUARY 27TH AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee)- Live Music TBA B & D BURGERS (Southside)- Live Music TBA (6 pm) BAYOU CAFÉ- Chief BENNY’S (Tybee Island)- Live Music TBA BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET- Live Music TBA CAFÉ LOCO (Tybee)- “Georgia Kyle” Shiver (10 pm) THE CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE- Karaoke (9 pm) CREOLE RED- The Doug Carn Quintet (7 pm) DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn)- Karaoke DJ’s PIANO BAR (Tybee)- Live Music TBA DOC’S BAR (Tybee Island)- Live Music TBA DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)- Live Music TBA FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee)- Randy “Hatman” Smith (3 pm) FUSION/THE MONKEY BAR- Live Music TBA THE HIDE-A-WAY (Middleground Rd.)- Karaoke THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)- Dixieland

FEBRUARY 28TH BAYOU CAFÉ- Chief BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET- Live Music TBA BLUEBERRY HILL- Karaoke DAQUIRI DEPOT (Pooler)- Thomas Claxton (10 pm) DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)- DJ spins Beach Music FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE- BN Trivia w/Artie & Brett THE ISLANDER (Wilmington Isl.)- Open Mic w/The Bandtastics THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)- Jam w/The John Brackett Quartet THE JINX- DJ Boo-Cock-Eye JJ CAGNEY’S- Greg Williams KEVIN BARRY’S- Tom O’Carroll MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS- Live Music TBA PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)Live Piano Music TBA SAVANNAH BLUES- Hush Money (9 pm)

SAVANNAH NIGHTS- Karaoke THE SENTIENT BEAN- Psychotronic Film Fest: BATTLE ROYALE (7:30 pm) WET WILLIE’S- Karaoke (9 pm) SUZABELLE’S- Live Piano Music TBA

TUESDAY MARCH 1ST AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee)- Live Music TBA BAY STREET BLUES- Open Mic Night BAYOU CAFÉ- Chief BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET- Live Music TBA BLUEBERRY HILL- Karaoke CAVALIER COUNTRY CLUB- Karaoke CONGA CLUB- “Sista Girl Tuesday” w/94.1-FM CREOLE RED- “That Darn Karaoke” (10 pm) DEB’S PUB & GRUB- Karaoke (11 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE- Live Music TBA (10 pm) FUSION/THE MONKEY BAR- Live Music TBA THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)- Masteller & The All-Stars THE JINX- Hip-Hop night w/DJ’s D-Frost & Selvis JJ CAGNEY’S- Open Mic Night w/Zack Deputy KEVIN BARRY’S- Tom O’Carroll MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS- Live Music TBA MERCURY LOUNGE- Open Mic Jam w/EROK PHAT KAT LOUNGE (at IBIZA NIGHTLIFE)Live Music TBA PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)Gail Thurmond SAVANNAH BLUES- Open Mic w/Hitman SPANKY’S (River St.)- Ansel Daniel STEAMER’S (Georgetown)- Karaoke TUBBY’S (River St.)- John Tumbri WET WILLIE’S- Karaoke (9 pm) SUZABELLE’S- Live Piano Music TBA NOTE: All Bands Scheduled Subject To Change

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HOT connection New technology offers new path to the Internet

CALL THEM POWER USERS of the Internet, literally. For the past 10 months, 115 families in Hoover, Ala., have been connecting to the Internet via the electrical outlets in their homes.

It’s a test of a technology that provides access to high-speed broadband services using the largely untapped communications capabilities of the nation’s power grid.

That technology, called broadband over power lines, or BPL, appears to have the support of the Federal Communications Commission. The agency last fall adopted rules to encourage its development.

While the technology works, it isn’t without bugs, says Leif Ericson, business development manager at Southern Telecom, which is conducting the test in Hoover, a dozen miles or so south of Birmingham, Ala. “In some cases, it was reliable,” Ericson says. “In others it was off-andon, depending on the technology.”

Southern Telecom is using first-generation equipment in its test. The results will be evaluated by the company, a unit of Southern Co., the Atlanta-based parent of Alabama Power, Georgia Power and three other electric utilities.

“The generation one technology isn’t commercially viable,” Ericson says. “You would have outages. The signal could not be received for a short period of time.”

Safety also is an issue.

“We don’t want to do anything that would create a hazard to delivering electricity to the end user,” Ericson says.

And so is security.

“You don’t want someone halfway around the world turning off your power grid,” Ericson explains.

Still, BPL technology has improved over the past 18 months.

“As far as generation two technology, we’re just now taking a look at it,” he says.

BPL allows for the transfer of data over medium-voltage power lines. The data then is transmitted to homes in two ways, both involving a modem. In one, Access BPL, the broadband user receives a wireless signal from a transmitter on a nearby power pole. In the other, Plug & Play, the user gets a signal through a modem that’s plugged into an electrical outlet.

Both methods are in limited commercial use in parts of Virginia, Cincinnati, Washington, D.C., and Hawaii.

In addition, Charlotte-based Duke Power recently announced that it’s expanding its trial from 500 homes to as many as 15,000 this year in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Rather than getting in the communications business themselves, many utilities, including Southern Co. and Duke Power, say they may link up instead with a partner, such as an Internet service provider, seeking to bypass the dominant local phone company or cable provider into consumers’ homes.

BPL has advantages over both cable and DSL Internet service. It allows for identical download and upload speeds. Unlike DSL, transmission speed isn’t affected by distance from a switching facility. Moreover, the digital data signal has the ability to go to every electrical socket in the house, giving it a certain ubiquity, as sockets are spaced 8 feet apart according to building codes, Ericson says.

BPL systems use devices that repeat the signal so it can travel the necessary distance. Inductive couplers then allow the broadband signals to bypass transformers that lower electric power from several thousand volts to the 120⁄240 volts used in homes.

The broadband signal and electricity travel on the same wire, but they’re on different wavelengths. “They don’t ‘see’ one another since they travel at different frequencies over copper or aluminum wires,” Ericson says.

However, amateur radio operators have raised interference issues with above-ground BPL modems, which the FCC sought to address in its October rules. In issuing those rules, the FCC cited two key purposes for boosting BPL: Extending broadband availability, particularly to rural and less-urban areas, since power lines reach everywhere; and enhancing competition where highspeed service already is available over cable and telephone lines.

The FCC also reasoned that the technology also could help utility companies better manage the power grid. For example, it could increase network reliability. One way to do that is to install monitoring devices that can detect and communicate outages on the grid.

“In some cases, if the electricity goes out in your particular neighborhood, we can’t ‘see’ that outage unless that failure is at a higher [substation] level,” Ericson says. “Today we rely on customers to alert us that the electricity is out.” ◗

Oscar Predictions

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Wings of DESIRE Will Scorsese finally win that coveted Oscar, or will Eastwood deliver a knockout blow?

Cate Blanchett, The Aviator; Laura Linney, Kinsey; Virginia Madsen, Sideways; Sophie Okonedo, Hotel Rwanda; Natalie Portman, Closer.

Prediction: Cate Blanchett, The Aviator.

This is the category for upsets (Marcia Gay Harden, Juliette Binoche), so keep an eye on Okonedo. This is also the category where they like to reward Pretty Young Things (Marisa Tomei, Mira Sorvino), so look out for Golden Globe winner Portman. But the race primarily seems to be between Madsen and Blanchett.

Madsen won the vast majority of critics' prize for her subtle turn, and this formerly forgotten 80s mainstay represents a great “comeback” story. Blanchett, a former Best Actress nominee for Elizabeth, is a hard-working professional (18 movies in the past six years!), and her exquisite channeling of Hollywood legend (and Oscar favorite) Katharine Hepburn should tickle the fancy of enough voters.

Preference: Virginia Madsen, Sideways.

Madsen delivers a lovely performance from first appearance to last, but even if she had sucked during the rest of the film, she would still deserve the award solely for the already-classic scene in which she and Paul Giamatti quietly yet passionately discuss the allure of wine.

Best Supporting Actor Alan Alda, The Aviator; Thomas Haden Church, Sideways; Jamie Foxx, Collateral; Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby; Clive Owen, Closer.

Prediction: Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby.

Church won practically all the critics' awards, but as one commentator previously pointed out The Aviator (cruelly but truthfully), when all is said and done, who is Thomas Haden Church except the guy who used to be on the sitcom “Wings?” Golden Globe winner Owen has an outside shot, as does Tinseltown veteran Alda. But Freeman, acknowledged by many as one of the industry's finest actors, has never won an Oscar despite walking off with countless films. It feels like it's his time. continued on page 26

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Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby; Taylor Hackford, Ray; Mike Leigh, Vera Drake; Alexander Payne, Sideways; Martin Scorsese, The Aviator.

Prediction: Martin Scorsese, The Aviator. Historically, the winner of the Directors Guild Award ends up winning the Oscar, which aids Eastwood immeasurably. But in recent times, the Academy has tended to make its own way in this category, with the winners differing twice in the past four years and thrice in the past nine. Everyone knows that Scorsese is criminally overdue for Oscar recognition, while Eastwood already has two statues for Unforgiven. On the other hand, Eastwood is a rarity -- a Republican who can think for himself and make informed decisions (his recent swipe at both the right and the left was dead-on) -- which helps explain why he's so beloved in liberal Hollywood and why they won't have any trouble bathing him in more accolades. A tough one, but I'll go with Scorsese.

Preference: Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby.

From an emotional Finding Neverland standpoint, I badly want Scorsese to win: I don't know if he'll ever make another movie as Academyaccessible as this one, and I don't want

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him to share the fate of Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks, two other exceptional directors who never won a competitive Oscar. But viewing the race with detachment, the premiere directorial feat of the year belongs to Eastwood, who adds layers of nuance to make a complex tale even more thought-provoking.

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WITH NO HOBBITS IN SIGHT, don't expect this year's Oscars to resemble one long siesta. Between The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King going 11-for11 and all the favored actors taking home statues, last year's shindig was, to put it mildly, short on excitement.

But this year? It's a brand new ballgame. With no money-generating behemoths in sight -- not one of the Best Picture nominees has cracked $100 million at the box office -- there's no opportunity for Academy members to vote with their wallets (see: dubious victories for Gladiator and Titanic).

And with the most honored film in the bunch earning the least amount of nominations (Sideways has won more Best Picture awards than the other four contenders combined, yet it’s only up for a total of five Oscars), there's no chance for voters to jump on the bandwagon of an across-the-board sweep (see: ROTK, Titanic, The English Patient).

These are just two of the factors that point to an unpredictable Oscar contest, one that could witness Martin Scorsese finally receiving his due or one that could bestow even more honors on Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood.

The 77th Annual Academy Awards will be presented at 8 p.m. Sunday, February 27, on ABC. Here, then, are the contenders in the big categories.

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Preference: Thomas Haden Church, Sideways. Freeman is worthy, and a win by Owen would probably get me off the couch. But Church's powerhouse portrayal -- at turns boisterous, witty, confident and tragic -- clearly deserves to win… even if he is the guy from “Wings.”

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Annette Bening, Being Julia; Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace; Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake; Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby; Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Prediction: Annette Bening, Being Julia.

Had the Academy done the right thing five years ago and awarded American Beauty's Bening the Best Actress citation over Boys Don't Cry's Swank, then Swank would be as much of a frontrunner this year as Jamie Foxx. But despite Baby's momentum, it's hard to see the Academy handing a second Oscar to a performer whose body of work is forgettable beyond Boys and Baby (The Next Karate Kid? The Core?). Not to mention, two Oscars would put her in the same class as Bette Davis, Spencer Tracy and Marlon Brando, to name just a few of the superstars to win more than once. For this reason, I'm gonna have to go with Bening: Her film was a mere blip on the 2004 movie scene, but she delivers a worthy performance, and many may want to further reward her for domesticating Warren Beatty. Upset Special: critical darling Staunton.

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Preference: Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby. With apologies to Foxx, Church and Madsen, this just might be the best performance in any category. Swank transcends the expected pluck and determination found in these sorts of underdog roles to create a shattering portrayal of a woman who's determined to make her own decisions, no matter what the consequences.

Best Actor Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda; Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland; Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator; Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby; Jamie Foxx, Ray. Prediction: Jamie Foxx, Ray. Aside from The Incredibles for Best Animated Film, this is the event's biggest lock. The only challenge comes not from DiCaprio (who will have more chances) but from Eastwood, who hand-delivers a career performance as Baby's crusty coach.

Preference: Jamie Foxx, Ray. Foxx's work as the late music legend is so astonishing, viewers would be forgiven for thinking that Ray Charles himself was playing Ray Charles.

Best Picture The Aviator (Miramax; Michael Mann, Graham King, producers); Finding Neverland (Miramax; Richard N. Gladstein, Nellie Bellflower, producers); Million Dollar Baby (Warner Bros.; Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenberg, pro-

ducers); Ray (Universal; Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin, Howard Baldwin, producers); Sideways (Fox Searchlight; Michael London, producer).

Prediction: The Aviator. Ray and Finding Neverland have no chance, but Sideways might yet surprise. Still, everyone knows this is basically a tug-ofwar between the Marty 'n' Clint shows. The film with the most nominations almost always wins Best Picture (18-for-20 the past two decades), which helps The Aviator. The fly-boy flick also bested Baby for the Golden Globe and the Producers Guild Award, two major feathers in its cap.

But how do we quantify that elusive property known as “buzz”? All the recent talk has centered around Baby, which also has the advantage of opening wide right after nominations were announced. It's possible the Academy will honor both films by handing Scorsese Director and Baby Picture (or Eastwood Director and Aviator Picture), but I'm going to predict it's The Aviator that will swoop down and snatch both prizes.

Preference: Million Dollar Baby. The Aviator cracked my 10 Best list, but the only movies that blew me away during 2004 were Million Dollar Baby and Sideways. I love them equally, but forced to choose, I'd give the edge to Baby, which stands as the summation of a great filmmaker's great career. ◗

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At least Hitch locates the romantic spark behind all those account-emptying checks being passed back and forth. A warm and witty comedy that unfortunately runs itself into the ground during its final act, the picture benefits immeasurably from the presence of Will Smith, who may or may not be a great actor but who is most assuredly a great movie star. He's at turns sly, suave and sexy as Alex "Hitch" Hitchens, who bills himself as the Date Doctor because of his ability to make a living by advising other men how to land the woman of their dreams.

An honorable man in a dubious profession -- he refuses clients who are simply out to get laid -- he finds his biggest challenge in the form of Albert (Kevin James), a clumsy, overweight accountant who's hopelessly under the spell of beautiful super-model Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta). But Hitch unexpectedly finds his own romantic inclinations rising to the surface once he meets Sara Melas (Eva Mendes). Mendes, who's always come across as a Jennifer Lopez who can't act -- no, wait, that would still make her Jennifer Lopez‌ never mind -- initially has trouble keeping pace with a leading man prettier than she is, but she ends up holding her own and even sneaking off with a couple of scenes. continued on page 28

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To say that the script for The Wedding Date is bottom-of-the-barrel would be too kind; this one was already decomposing under a mountain of mulch before “Will & Grace's” Debra Messing unwisely fished it out. Messing stars as Kat Ellis, a 30something woman whose neurotic impulses are obviously meant to be endearing but who instead comes off as something of a pill. Required to fly to England to attend the wedding of her loathsome sister (Amy Adams), Kat can't stand the thought of arriving without a boyfriend -- especially since her ex-lover (Jeremy Sheffield) will be there as the best man. So Kat does what any normal woman would do: She drains her savings account of $6,000 in order to hire a male prostitute to pretend to be her boyfriend.

Her stud of choice is Nick Mercer (Dermot Mulroney), who's somehow become a legendary man-whore -- articles are even written about him in glossy magazines! -- even though his musings on sex, love and relationships travel far beyond banal. Although the plot bears more than a passing resemblance to the tepid Jennifer Aniston vehicle Picture Perfect, this was clearly inspired by the success of such Brit-flavored confections as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bridget Jones' Diary. It's hard to gauge Messing's big-screen potential because her contradictory character is an impossible one to play. But Mulroney, who has a rakish charm that's been used well in other films (Lovely & Amazing, for instance), is simply terrible here: His slurred line readings, errant comic timing and glazed expression can't help but suggest that the actor got stoned before each and every take. And who could blame him?

HIDE AND SEEK ✰1/2

It’s becoming increasingly rote to review junky, generic thrillers like Hide and Seek: Critics would do well to simply cut-and-

paste their slams of last year’s Secret Window (this film’s doppelganger) and leave it at that. But let’s not stop with that Johnny Depp dud: If Hide and Seek were a math equation, it would read something like Secret Window plus The Shining plus What Lies Beneath plus Cape Fear plus The Sixth Sense plus May plus The Bad Seed plus Happiness multiplied by a high level of improbability and divided by a lack of any genuine scares. Robert De Niro, in full paycheck-gorging mode, is miscast as David Callaway, a New York psychologist who, after his wife (Amy Irving) commits suicide, moves upstate with their traumatized 9-year-old daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning). Still struggling to cope with the tragedy, Emily invents an imaginary friend named Charlie, and a subsequent string of disasters leads David to wonder whether Emily suffers from a split personality, whether another person is manipulating his daughter, or whether there’s a supernatural presence in their new home.

Hide and Seek contains the usual visual “scares” always found in this sort of nonsense, such as the cat that suddenly springs out of a closed closet (which begs the question: How did a cat get in a closed closet in the first place?). Equally daft is the dialogue credited to first-timer Ari Schlossberg, with the defining moment of unintentional hilarity arriving when, after it appears that Emily has mutilated all her dolls and drowned the family cat in the bathtub, David lays out his reason for not wanting to take her back to the city: “I’m afraid it might make her condition worse.”

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Talk about a house of flying daggers: The multiplex is filled with them once Marvel’s blade-wielding superheroine springs into action in this spin-off of 1993’s Daredevil (in which she appeared in a supporting role as the sightless superhero’s romantic interest). But while this lady in red often kicks it into high gear, the movie surrounding her rarely moves beyond a stroll.

It’s a blown opportunity, because Jennifer Garner has proven (through 13 Going On 30 and TV’s Alias) that she’s an ace at layering her physical prowess with emotional resonance. Yet here she’s basically required to walk around sporting a scowl, and attempts to explain what led to this dour disposition result in poorly conceived flashback sequences that further deaden an already lifeless film.

COACH CARTER ✰✰1/2

First, The Incredibles comes along and pushes the message that it’s OK — even advantageous — to be exceptional in America instead of conforming by dumbing down. And now here’s Coach Carter to nudge a similar theme about the importance of a solid education over all else, even (gasp!) sports. Coach Carter

works the usual underdog cliches fairly well as it tells the true story of Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), a high school basketball coach in California who manages to turn a team that won only four games during its previous season into a statewide powerhouse. But at the height of their success, with an unbroken string of victories, Coach Carter elects to bench the entire team once he discovers that most of his players are performing poorly in their classes.

THE AVIATOR ✰✰✰1/2

Rather than trying to cram an overstuffed life into one motion picture, Director Martin Scorsese and writer John Logan instead have chosen to focus on Howard Hughes’ anecdote-rich period from the late ‘20s through the late ‘40s. This time frame allows Scorsese ample opportunity to bask in the glow of his movie memories, as this was the period when the billionaire industrialist (played by Leonardo DiCaprio, whose emotional intensity makes up for his less-than-commanding physical presence) decided to try his hand at making movies.

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ✰✰1/2

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Local group meets regularly the third Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Sentient Bean Coffeehouse, 13 E. Park Ave. Call Raymond at 898-3506.

Bowling for Liberty Dollars Come join us in an afternoon of bowling fun to raise funds for the Libertarian Party in a quest to lower taxes, reduce government and protect our God-given rights. Bowling fundraising tournament on Saturday, Feb. 26 at 3 p.m. at Victory Lanes, 2055 E. Victory Dr. $30 entry fee includes bowling and shoes. $100 grand prize. Call 356-1149.

Chatham County Democratic Committee meets on the second Monday of each month. at 6 p.m. For information, call Joe Murray Rivers, chair, 234-5969, or Janice Shay, 547-5212 or visit www.chathamdems.org.

Hospital. The league is a statewide, non-partisan, non-profit, multi-issue organization that encourages citizen participation in government and takes action on public policy issues. membership is open to any citizen at least 18 years old.

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Regular weekly meetings are held Mondays at 9 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 7804 Abercorn in Oglethorpe Mall. Call 3083934 or visit www.no-debts.com/chathamlibertariansga.html.

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Coastal Democrats will meet Monday, Feb. 28 at 6:30 p.m. at Barnes Restaurant, 10201 Abercorn St. The speaker will be the Rev. James A. Nelson, author of Where Would Jesus Put the Sidewalks?: A Study of Faith and Politics, A Most Holy Alliance. The meeting is open to the public.

Connecting Savannah will meet Feb. 24 from 5:30-8 p.m. at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. Light refreshments will be provided at 5:30 p.m. and the meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Call 234-5230.

Fellowship of Reconciliation The oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in the United States meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave.

Regular meetings held on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m., at the First Presbyterian Church, 520 E. Washington Ave. 351-7436.

Speak Up! Local activist group focused on protesting the illegality of the war in Iraq. Contact Richard DiPirro at 441-7167 for more information.

Young Republicans of Chatham County will meet Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. at the Crystal Beer Parlor, 301 W. Jones St. A speaker will be there. The event is free and open to the public. Call Brad at 596-4810.

Auditions AASU Masquers Auditions

League of Women Voters

The Armstrong Atlantic State University Department of Art, Music & Theatre announces auditions for a production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire on March 6 and 8 at 6 p.m. in AASU Jenkins Theater. Those who are interested should bring a prepared monologue by Tennessee Willaism. Performances are set for April 21-30. Call Randy at 484-6110 for information.

The Savannah-Chatham chapter of the League of Women Voters meets on the first Monday of the month at 5 p.m. in Room 3 of the Heart and Lung Building at Candler

Performances of Roald Dahl’s The Twits, adapted by David Wood, will be held in May. This comedy features a mix of singing,

Food Not Bombs Feed the hungry and the homeless Sundays at noon in Franklin Square as part of a worldwide effort to encourage kindness in the place of violence. Cooking starts around 10 a.m. at The Blue House, 410 W. Duffy St. To volunteer, call 233-4461.

Auditions for The Twits

Benefits & Fundraisers Chef’s Cookie Challenge will be held Sunday, Feb. 27 from 5-7:30 p.m. at The Marshall House 45 Bistro Atrium, 123 E. Broughton St. Tickets are $40 and will be available at the door or in advance. For information or tickets, call Dawn Kaley at 2361471, Ext. 104. Some of Savannah’s finest chefs and caterers will create desserts with one special ingredient: Girl Scout cookies.

Guests will have the opportunity to sample these desserts and hors d’oevres, and vote for their favorite dessert. A cash bar will be available. Entertainment will inlcude a sneak peek of the Savannah Music Festival’s American Traditions Competition. All proceeds support programs for girls in the Girl Scout Council of Savannah district.

Classes & Workshops

policy for a period of three years. Classes will be held Thursday and Friday, Feb. 24 and 25, 1-5 p.m. each day at Sterne Agee in Skidaway Village. Call Katie at 598-8998.

AASU Chemistry and Physics Open House The Armstrong Atlantic State University Chemistry and Physics departments will host an open house Feb. 24 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in Room 1405 of the AASU Science Center. Call Todd Hizer at 921-5657.

Adult Art Classes are held at The Art School on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to noon. Beginners are welcome. For information, call Lind Hollingworth at The Art School, 921-1151.

Adult Education The Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers in collaboration with Royce Learning Centers and Hope House of Savannah offers tutoring every Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in basic literacy skills, GED preparation and computer training. Call 447-5711 or stop by the center at 1601 Drayton St. to register.

Adult Figure Studio is held every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon at The Art School, 74 W. Montgomery Crossroads, No. B-2. A variety of models and extended poses are available to artists who would like to pursue figure work. The cost is divided among participants, averaging $50 per 5 weeks. Call 921-1151 for more information.

Adult Pottery Classes

The Department of Architectural HIstory at the Savannah College of Art and Design will host its fourth biennial symposium on architectural history and contemporary practice, with 65 speakers from around the world.

Two keynote addresses will be presented, and there will be two tours and a plenary session to address the built environment and regional identity. For more information on the symposium series, a schedule of events, abstracts of papers and registration, visit www.scad.edu/

Don’t just re-glaze pre-made pottery, learn how to make and glaze your own personalized functional pottery or sculpture in these seven-week sessions. Classes cover hand building and glazing techniques and introduce historical and contemporary ceramic artists for inspiration. Small class size offers maximum attention and encouragement. Instructor is an established artist exhibiting her work internationally who formerly taught at Ohio State University and Denison University. Beginners, experienced, SCAD students and faculty all welcome. Call Krista at 313-5442 to register for morning or evening classes.

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This two-day, four-hours each day class focuses on refreshing driving skills, reviews the rules of the road and identifies areas where changes take place as we age. The cost is $10 per person. Upon completion, most insurance carriers may deduct up to 10 percent on certain parts of an insurance

provides quality art instruction for ages 6 through adults. Register now for afterschool classes. Classes provide a comfortable, non-competitive atmosphere for students of all levels. Classes are a great way to develop a portfolio for those interested in pursuing visual arts. Classes are

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to help adults with math, reading and writing skills. Participants learn through a computer software program, small group and individual tutoring and study books. Participants can choose their hours between Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The center is at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578.

Baby sign classes

Chatham County Aquatic Center

Savannah Speech & Hearing Center is offering Baby Sign classes for babies aged 6-12 months and their parents.

Communicate with your baby before you knew it was possible. Classes are offered in four-week sessions every month. Times vary.

The cost is $50, which includes materials.

To register, call 355-4601.

offers swimming lessons for all ages.

Classes are held Mondays and Wednesdays for ages 3 to 5 and 6 to 8. Adults and ages 9 to 12 meet Tuesdays and Thursdays. A variety of times are offered. Call 351-6556.

Babysitters training class St. Joseph’s/Candler Childhood Injury Prevention Program offers a class for boys and girls 11-15 who want to become babysitters. The cost is $35, which includes lunch and a training manual, plus certification on completion of the class.

Registration and pre-payment are required.

819-8583.

Basic computer class

Basic handgun training

Free Discovery Sessions are being offered

by Savannah Success Coaching at the International Center for Leadership and Coaching. Call 236-5051 to schedule a free session.

Eastside Concerned Citizens, Inc. Project Tomorrow Inc. is offering several classes and workshops.

The list includes sewing, crocheting, computer training, CPR and more. 232-5280.

The Economic Opportunity Authority

are held every Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Wesley Community Centers of Savannah, Inc., 1601 Drayton St. Register by calling 447--5711 or stop by the center.

is offering free computer classes for beginners in Computer Basics Level One plus the study guide program software for the Georgia High School Graduation Test.

Call Gloria Ferguson at 238-2960, Ext. 153.

Building a Home

FAFSA Day Seminar

The UBuildIt office in Savannah invites you to attend a free seminar to help you learn more about building your very own dream house. Call 236-1211.

The Office of Financial Aid at Armstrong Atlantic State University will offer a Free Application for Federal Student Aid seminar.

Counselors will assist participants will filing the FAFSA forms online. The seminars are free and open to the public. Bring tax information such as 2004 Federal Income Tax return, 2004 W-2s and records of untaxed income. Dependent students will need to bring their parents’ tax information.

Participants will need a PIN number from the Department of Education and are encouraged to apply for it prior to the session by applying online at www.fafsa.ed.gov. It takes three days to receive the PIN by e-mail. The seminar will be held Feb. 24 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the

Buy Local Savannah Business Seminar John Powers, director of marketing for Sullivan’s Administrative Managers, will present successful marketing techniques for small businesses on a tight budget on Thursday, Feb. 24 at noon at The PIrate’s House. The lecture is free to Buy Local members. Lunch is $13 and includes buffet, drink, dessert and tip. Log on to www.buylocalsavannah.com for online RSVP.

Career Achievement Program St. Mary’s Community Center, an affiliate of St. Joseph’s/Candler, is offering a program

Free Coaching Session and Assessment Free session for personal, career and professional development. Call Executive Leadership Coaching, 443-9860, or send email to Vicki@excellentcoach.com.

Free computer classes St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center offers free computer classes. Call 447-6605 for times, days and registration information.

Space is limited.

Memorial Health positive parenting class The cost is $10 per person and is most beneficial to parents of children less than 4 years. To register, call 350-9335.

Mindful meditation classes will be held on Mondays from 8:30-9:30 a.m. and on Thursdays from 6-8 p.m. at the Integrated Behavioral Center, 1121 Cornell Ave. The cost is $10 per session. Call 3554987.

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Future Women Entrepreneurs Have you been dreaming about opening your own business, don’t know where to start, what to do, where to get the money? If you are looking for that jump start and someone to hold your hand to the doors of success, don’t miss this aspiring businesswomen’s luncheon on Feb. 29 at 2:30 p.m. at Shoney’s Restaurant, 7920 Abercorn St. The cost is $20. Limited space, please call 604-1412 to make a reservation.

Grant Funding Workshop A workshop entitled Myths and Realities of Grants and Small Business Funding will be held Thursday, Feb. 27 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Conference Room of the Small Business Assistance Center, 111 E. Liberty St. The workshop is intended for individuals who have looked at grant funding to start a small business or organization. Topics include grant sources, criteria used in approving funding, preparing the grant proposal and grants geared to small business funding. The registration fee is $30 if prepaid and preregistered at least four days in advance. Thereafter, the fee is $40. Call 651-3200 or send e-mail to www.clee@sbdc.uga.edu.

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Home Buying Breakfast Workshop Thinking of buying a new home or upgrading? Don’t miss this informative workshop. Attendance will qualify you as a member of The HomeVisions Netowrk, which provides monthly mortgage payment assistance, as much as $200 or more per month for up to five years. These are funds that never have to be paid back. The program has no income or asset restrictions. The workshop will be held Saturday at 8:30 a.m. at Shoney’s Restaurant, 7920 Abercorn St. The cost is $12. Limited space available, so please call to make reservations. Call 1-888-264-1312.

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Beginners quilting classes

Discover Success Coaching

This parent education and support program is based at St. Joseph’s/Candler. To find out how you can help, call 819-6910.

offers free classes on using computers to access information at the Bull Street Library.

Call 652-3662.

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A 4-hour self-defense handgun course includes firearms safety and self-defense shooting at life-sized paper silhouette targets. Taught by a Georgia certified firearms instructor. $30, plus ammunition.

Various Saturday dates are available. 9215754.

Coastal Scooters is conducting classes that focus on road skills, safety and the proper maintenance of scooters. Classes are limited in size to provide personal assistance. Each rider is equipped with a TGB 49.5cc scooter and helmet. The class is three hours in length, consisting of classroom, field and on-road instruction.

Classes meet on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. or Sundays from 1-4 p.m. The cost is $40. To register, call 232-5513 or visit Coastal Scooters at 418 W. Broughton St.

First Steps parent education program

The Live Oak Public Library

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Eastside Concerned Citizens Inc. at 803 E. Park Ave. offers basic computer classes every second and fourth Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon. 232-5280.

Coastal Scooters Classes

Memorial College Annex Room 103 at AASU. Call 927-5272.

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Parent and Teen Driving Course

Spring Break Art Camp

UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium

The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department will present a free two-hour parent/teen driver’s course the last Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Day School, 4625 Waters Ave. Call 651-6653 or send e-mail to ccamire@savannahga.gov and request a registration form. The course is designed for 14-16 year olds and their parents. Advance registration is required.

This all-day, week-long camp for ages 4 to 14 is sponsored by the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs. Drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, mixed media and dramatics will be presented in individual and group projects. The cost is $100. The camp will be held daily March 14-18 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at S.P.A.C.E., located at 9 W. Henry St. Call 651-4248.

presents outreach programs that are interactive, with live animals, costumes and fun activities. Contact Stephanie Edgecombe at 598-2335 for reservations. “Turtle Tales” is a 60-minute outreach program that combines science and art for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students. Call Edith Schmidt at 598-2447.

Ten Star All Star Basketball Camp

Parenting the preschooler

Applications are now being evaluated for this summer camp that is by invitation only.

Boys and girls ages 10 to 19 are eligible to apply. Past participants have included Michael Jordan, Tim Duncan, Vince Carter, Grant Hill and more. Players from 50 states and 17 foreign countries attended the 2004 camp. For a free brochure, call 704-3730873.

Are you looking to start your own business, but don’t know where or how to start, or how to finance your dream? Attend the Vision Vibe Network luncheon on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Shoney’s Restaurant, 7920 Abercorn St. The cost is $20. Limited space is available, so please call 1-888-264-1312 to make reservations.

is a course offered by Telfair Women’s Hospital at Candler. Call at 819-3368 or visit www.sjchs.org.

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Savannah Art Association Life Drawing Drawing sessions will be held the first three Tuesdays of every month from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Savannah Art Association (located in City Market upstairs over Belford’s). The model is clothed. Bring your own drawing supplies. $10 per session for members.

Savannah Entrepreneurial Center at 801 E. Gwinnett offers business and computer classes.

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Tybee Island Marine Science Center offers hands-on classes for students of all ages from pre-kindergarten through adults.

Classes include microscope labs, squid dissection, guided beach walks and tours of the Science Center. Call 786-5917 or visit www.tybeemsc.org.

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Women’s Self Defense Free Seminar will be presented Feb. 28 and March 1 from 6-9 p.m. by the Rape Crisis Center. You must attend both nights. Participants will learn verbal and physical techniques that can be used by anyone regardless of age or physical condition. Wear comfortable shoes and clothes. Registration is required. Call 233-3000 to reserve a space.

Dance Adult Ballet Classes at Islands Dance Academy. All levels welcome, including beginners. Challenging, rewarding and fun. $10 per class. Mondays at 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 7 p.m. at 115 Charlotte Rd. on Whitemarsh Island. Call Sue Braddy at 897-2100.

Belly Dance Classes will be held Wednesday nights with beginners from 6:30-7:30 p.m. and advanced beginners from 7:30-8:30 p.m. and Sunday afternoons with beginners from 2-3 p.m. and advanced from 3-5 p.m. Small classes, lots of individual attention, mirrored studio on East 53rd St. Cost is $10 per class. Call Layla at 354-5808.

Concert/Dance with Bennie Anderson and the Drifters and recording artist/deejay Gary Bass will be hosted by Shag-Beach Bop-Etc. Savannah on April 1. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Innter City Night Shelter. Register for two free tickets each Monday night at Doubles, Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100

by John Delaney

Mars transits Capricorn from February 6 to March 20, 2005. Politicians, business leaders & government officials who used the transits of Nessus< in Capricorn from November 1999 to January 2005 & Chiron> in Capricorn from December 2001 to February 2005 to consolidate their power by any & all means both sufficient & necessary now sense that the shift in the winds does not favor them. As such, these indi-

ARIES - Evil bosses & power brokers will try to scare you by making you believe that what & who you don’t know can & will try to hurt you. While this may indeed be the case, Mars in Capricorn intuits that such individuals are most likely overplaying their hand in order to induce you to react. Don’t. Stand your ground. See if any of these cowards have the integrity to confront you faceto-face – unlikely!

TAURUS - Mars in Capricorn will exact a heavy price against those who use the law to scapegoat those whom they oppose for political or religious reasons – but only after such individuals have already perpetrated such injustices.

Therefore, be very careful how you express your opinions about politics & religion because the agents of the law will soon seek to redress & to eradicate all such acts of man’s inhumanity to man as thoroughly as possible.

GEMINI - The financial deprivation that you recently endured induced you to overachieve professionally; as such, bosses took notice & rewarded you accordingly. Now, Mars in Capricorn asserts that it is not deprivation which

threatens to undermine your security & success, but surplus. Notice how easily you get spoiled by luxuries & the good life. Develop a strategy where you fool yourself into being frugal.

viduals may take extreme gambles that threaten many lives to consolidate their power before the shift takes full effect. Soon thereafter, however, powerful opposition to such consolidation sets in with a vengeance, forcing such unscrupulous opportunists to use litigation & propaganda to command sanction & closure for their increasingly desperate measures. increase your power & influence. One danger: you can easily bite off more than you can chew. Don’t try to acquire that which you will be unable to defend.

LIBRA - Monitor employees in the workCANCER - Make that new start in your personal lifestyle by joining a church group, playing team sports, attending trade organizations or dating new romantic prospects (especially for those recently divorced). Mars in Capricorn warns that those partners, lovers or spouses from the recent past still wish to haunt you – which they will succeed in doing if you insist upon being a sitting duck or couch potato. Therefore, get a life!

LEO - Stay as far away as possible from criminal activity & criminals at your professional workplace. Mars in Capricorn signifies that sudden, widespread, collusive action will force everybody to take sides. If you don’t volunteer to wear the white hat, then a black hat will be assigned to you – at which point, you may wish you had a bandanna so that you could cover your face.

VIRGO - Mars in Capricorn confirms your strategy to make a bold power move to

< Nessus, named after the centaur whose bloodied & semen-stained shirt eventually killed Hercules, was discovered during the siege at Waco in April 1993 & named in 1997. Nessus bridges the gap in consciousness between Saturn & Pluto, forcing us to discard naivete about jealousy, anger, irrationality & evil in ourselves & in others so that we may cultivate the will & the stomach to evolve as a species.

place while you work remotely from home. Use “star appearances” to enhance a strategy utilizing cover stories, sting ops & stealth. Mars in Capricorn reminds you that sneaks & cheats are not only dishonorable, but they also think you are stupid! Well, let them.

SCORPIO - Bosses & power brokers who issue instructions that either effect considerable change or commence a lot of new business may do so illegally. Due to this complication, Mars in Capricorn requires that you recognize when it is illegal for you to follow these instructions. Protect your job, your legal status & your reputation.

SAGITTARIUS - Invest all windfall profits into paying down debt related to your home & mortgage – but don’t commence any new investments. Mars in Capricorn warns that the hand that gives can & will take away – especially if you

received money from a professional or political source which harbors active, contentious enemies.

CAPRICORN - List all the objectives that you want to achieve in the short run, then set out to do exactly that – and no more. Mars in Capricorn denotes that you must soon adjust to changing conditions. Conflict is indeed inevitable – but avoid starting any yourself.

AQUARIUS - Somebody behind the scenes of an institution who gives you a huge financial boost infuriates your hidden enemies by their strategic generosity.

Mars in Capricorn therefore demands that you act with considerable discretion & tact. Don’t make yourself a target – that is, more so than you already are.

PISCES - Powerful political & professional allies who support your most brilliant ideas will also suffer backlash from their enemies more than you will. Therefore, Mars in Capricorn reminds you not to go off like a loose cannon after you get what you want. Allies stood behind you – when they need you, stand behind them. ◗

> Chiron, named after the wounded centaur who sacrificed his immortality in return for the liberation of Prometheus (he who stole fire from the gods!) was the first centaur planet discovered back in 1977. Chiron, described as “the wounded healer” by Zane Stein & Barbara Hand Clow, bridges the gap between Saturn & Uranus, exhorting us to teach that which we most need to learn.

33 Abercorn St., beginning at 7 p.m. A drawing will be held each Monday at the club’s weekly social. For information, call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or to order tickets online, visit www.shagbeachbop.com.

Ongoing Classes at Ballet South Adult Beginning Ballet, Mondays at 10 a.m.

Stretch/placement Thursdays at 6 p.m. 5501 Abercorn St. Call 691-2900.

The Savannah Shag Club Savannah’s original shag club meets every Wednesday at the Holiday Inn Midtown at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free.

Shag-Beach Bop-Etc. Savannah hosts Magnificent Mondays from 7-9 p.m. at Double’s, Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. Free swing dance lessons are offered the first two Mondays and free shag lessons are offered the third and fourth Mondays. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or visit www.shagbeachbop.com.

Swing Dance Savannah

Youth Dance Program

Fitness A balanced life

Center for Wellbeing Hatha Yoga classes are offered Monday and Wednesday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Cost is $30 for four sessions or $50 for 8 sessions. 819-6463.

Chopra Center at Memorial Health Yoga Classes are held Mondays at 6:30 p.m. and Fridays at 5:30 p.m. at the Chopra Center and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. in Richmond Hill. The cost is $36 a month or $12 for walk-ins. 3502467.

Inside Moves Yoga/Pilates/personal training are available from Bobbie Kraft, 238-1785, e-mail address bwill01@bellsouth.net. Eight classes of yoga/Pilates is $80, four classes is $45 or drop-ins are $12 for a 1 1/2 hour session.

Personal training is $50 for a 1 1/2 hour session.

Inside Moves Hatha Yoga Eight classes are $80 and the first class is free. Classes are held Tuesday and Thursday from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on Habersham. Call 238-1785.

Jade Lotus Tai Chi Group Classes are offered Saturdays from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Unity Church, 2320 Sunset Blvd.

Drop-in rate is $10 adults and $8 for students or 10 classes for $80, $70 for students. All experience levels are welcome.

Call Jeff at 352-7057 or send e-mail to jadelotustaichi@yahoo.com

provides nutritional education and exercise to encourage lifestyle changes at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. at 5:30 p.m. Call 447-6605.

American Red Cross Blood Drive All blood and platelet drive participants from Monday, Feb. 28 through Thursday, March 17, will be entered into a drawing to win a one-night stay at the Hilton Savannah

DeSoto and dinner for two at Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub. The Savannah Donor Center is located at 25 Tibet Ave and is open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Wednesday and Friday from 8 a.m. to 3

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Lose Weight like Marc Merlis on Dateline. Safe, effective, reasonable cost. Researchers at the University of Connecticut found that people who used hypnosis lost 60 percent more weight than any other method. Call the Alpha Institute, 201-0071.

Pilates Classes are offered at the St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for WellBeing, Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Four sessions are $30, eight sessions are $50. Pre-register by calling 8196463.

Pregnancy Yoga Am eight-week session of Pregnancy Yoga will be held starting March 8 on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6-7:15 p.m. in midtown Savannah. Pre-natal yoga helps prepare mothers-to-be for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor and delivery. The instructor is Ann Carroll. Cost is $90 for once-per-week or $150 for twice-per-week for the eight-week session. Call Ann at 667-8877 for information on space availability or send email to ann@aikyayoga.com.

Tai Chi Classes are offered Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:30-11:30 a.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Suite 203, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Four sessions are $30 or eight sessions are $50. Call 819-6463.

Water aerobics at the JEA The Jewish Educational Alliance is offering aquatics classes. Call Shannon at 748-2393.

Yoga The City of Savannah, Leisure Services, Recreation Services Department, offers a yoga class on Saturday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Windsor Forest Center, 414 Briarcliff Circle. The fee is $10 per month for ages 14 and over. Call 921-2105 or 651-3650.

The Yoga Room Hatha Flow Level I Thursday from 10-11:30 a.m. and Friday 6-7:30 p.m., Hatha Flow Level II Tuesday 6-7:30 p.m. and Sunday 56:30 p.m., Open Flow Thursday from 6:30-8 p.m., Power Yoga Saturday 9-10 a.m. and Thursday 6:30-7:30 p.m.., Mommy and Me Yora on Monday 4-5 p.m. and Wednesday 46 p.m. and Baby and Mommy Yoga -- call for the schedule. 115 Charlotte Rd., Whitemarsh Center. Drop-ins $12 to $75 for eight classes Call 898-0361.

Yogalates Classes are offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler for WellBeing on Thursdays from 5:45-6:45 p.m. in Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. The cost is $30 for four sessions or $50 for eight sessions.

Call 819-6463.

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Student massage and yoga classes are offered at the Savannah School of Massage Therapy, Inc. Cost ranges from $20 to $30 for a one-hour massage and sessions are instructor supervised. Call 355-3011 for an appointment. Multi-level yoga classes are offered Monday and Friday at 5:45 p.m. Cost is $10 for drop-ins, $40 for a package card of five classes. Walk-ins are welcome. The school is located at 6413B Waters Ave. www.ssomt.com.

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The West Broad Street YMCA, Inc. presents its Instructional Dance Program in jazz and ballet for kids 4 to 18. $30 per month for one class and $35 per month for both classes.

Call 233-1951.

will offer the following health and fitness classes: Yoga- Join Amy Levy at 9:45 am on Friday’s for yoga. Fee is $35 per month, Water Aerobics, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 10:30 am. Fee is $42 a month for up to 16 sessions, Step Aerobics will be offered at the JEA on Thursday’s at 6:15 am.

Cost is $35 per month. Call Drew Edmonds at 355-8111.

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meeets the first two Mondays of the month from 7-9 p.m. at Double’s, Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. A new swing dance club is forming. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or www.shagbeachbop.com.

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p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Call 961-5758 to make an appointment.

www.chcsavannah.com, click on “New” and submit a short and simple form.

Community HealthCare Center

Got a drug problem? Need help?

provides free health care for those patients who live in Chatham County, are under 65, who do not have primary medical coverage, and who do not exceed certain financial thresholds. The Center is located at 310 Eisenhower Drive Medical Center. Call for an appointment at 692-1451.

Call the Narcotics Anonymous Helpline at 1800-334-3322.

muscle, reflexology and energy balance.

Pain treatment, cellulite reduction, long established business. Specials for women or couples. Gift certificates available. Call 8561534.

HIV/AIDS and STD awareness training

Memorial Health blood pressure check

My Brothaz Home, Inc., a local nonprofit HIV/AIDS organization, offers free HIV/AIDS and STD awareness training, risk reduction counseling and prevention case management to individual males and groups of males. Upon completion of the training, a monetary incentive and educational materials will be given to each participant. Call 231-8727.

are offered free every Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at GenerationOne. 3507587.

Dual Recovery Anonymous This 12-step program addresses all addictions and mental health recovery. Persons who are recovering from an addiction and a mental health problem can send e-mail to katkope@netscape.com for information. are conducted at three locations within St. Joseph’s/Candler. From 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 5:15-7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday, checks will be offered at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605 to make an appointment. Checks are offered every Monday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Smart Senior office, No. 8 Medical Arts Center. No appointment is necessary. Checks will be offered Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Mary’s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578.

Free hearing & speech screening Every Thursday morning from 9 a.m.-12 noon at the Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call 355-4601.

Gastric Bypass Surgery Session Memorial Health Bariatrics presents free informational sessions every Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Medical Education Auditorium with Dr. John Angstadt and other staff members, who discuss obesity and the surgical process. Free. Call 350-DIET or visit bariatrics.memorialhealth.com.

Georgia Smokefree Air Act The Community HealthCare Center is collecting signatures on a petition to amend the current bill to include the banning of all cigarette smoking in buildings where services to the public are provided; increase tax on a pack of cigarettes by $2; and require that proceeds from the increased tax be spent on health care treatment and research. To sign this petition, log on to

A Union Mission Inc. program that provides HIV/AIDS education and outreach through the use of free workshops, seminars and peer education. Free needleless testing is provided. Services are free to churches, clubs and shelters. Contact DaVena Jordan at 231-0123 or send e-mail to djordan@unionmission.org.

La Leche League Are you breastfeeding or planning to?

Information, education, encouragement and support are available free of charge to all women who are interested in breastfeeding through monthly meetings and over the telephone from La Leche League of Savannah.

Call the LLL of Savannah Help Line at 8979261. All series meetings are held in the Candler Professional Building, 5354 Reynolds St, Room 508A.

Mammograms St. Joseph’s/Candler will be performing mammograms to screen for breast cancer in its mobile screening unit. Mammograms will be performed March 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the St. Joseph’s Candler Medical Group in Rincon. .For appointments, call 354-9357. Mammograms will be performed March 2 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Joseph’s/Candler Medical Group in Pembroke. For appointments, call 653-2897.

FitnessOne provides American Heart Association courses each month to certify individuals in infant, child and adult CPR. The cost is $30. Call 350-4030 or visit www.memorialhealth.com.

Memorial Health group meditation sessions are offered free to the public every Tuesday from 5:30-6 p.m. on the third floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine.

Memorial Health heart risk assessment is held once a month at FitnessOne. The appointment takes about 40 minutes and the cost is $50. Call Midge at 350-4042.

Memorial Health SET Focus Group This is a program to encourage Sickle Cell patients ages 11 to 18 and their parents/caregivers to learn more about Sickle Cell disease. Call Donna at 350-5616 or Saundra at 350-3396.

Memorial Health Joint Replacement Lecture This free orthopedic lecture series is held the third Tuesday of each month from 6:157:30 p.m. in the Medical Education Auditorium at Memorial Health to educate the community about the risk factors of arthritis, the prevention of arthritis and medical and surgical joint repoolacement.

To register, call 350-3603.

The March of Dimes offers valuable information for women. www.modimes.org or 1888-MODIMES. 354-5900.

The Midwife Group/Family Health & Birth Center is offering a free program to women at any stage of pregnancy that includes free information on pregnancy, birth and parenting, an opportunity to talk to other pregnant women and informaiton on a certified nurse midwife-assisted birth, whether at a birth center or area hospital. Call 8264155.

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Osteoporosis Seminar St. Joseph’s/Candler will present a free community health seminar, Osteoporosis: One Label That’s Not Fashionable, on March 1 at 7 p.m. in Candler Hospital’s Marsh Auditorium. To register, call 819-3368 or visis www.sjchs.org.

Planned Parenthood Hotline First Line is a statewide hotline for women who want information on health services, women’s shelters, sexual assault services, crisis information, birth control, S.T.D.s, pregnancy options, and more. Open every night from 7-11p.m. 1-800-264-7154.

Sankofa Counseling Center offers specialized therapy groups, individual therapy, family therapy, couples therapy and training and retreats. There is a sliding fee scale and a $25 fee per group. Located at 8111 Waters Ave. Call 352-2611.

Stop Smoking Researchers at the University of Iowa combined 600 studies covering 72,000 people and found that hypnosis is the most effective way to stop smoking. For more info, call the Alpha Institute, 201-0071.

Wanted: CPR and First Aid Instructors The Savannah Chapter of the American Red Cross is looking for smart, motivated people interested in giving back to their community.

Call 651-5371 or send email to daled@savannahredcross.org.

Readings & Signings The Casual Poets Society holds an open poetry reading the second Saturday of the month at 4 p.m. at The Casual Reader bookstore, 1213 Highway 80. on Tybee Island at The Shops at Tybee Oaks. Call 786-7655.

Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club meets the last Sunday at 4 p.m. at the center, 1910 Abercorn St. 447-6605.

Hannah Savannah’s Favorite Tales The third addition to The Hannah Savannah Series for Children by Pamela Munson Steadman is now available in bookstores and gift shops. The author will be signing books at various places around Savannah for the next few months. The author is available for speaking engagements and school presentations. Call 233-1006.

Inspirational book club Wesley Community Centers offers weekly book discussions of life situations and complexities every Monday at 6:30 p.m. at 1601 Drayton St. All women and teen-aged girls are invited to attend. Stop by the center or call 447-5711.

The Islands book group discusses thought-provoking literature with a different theme monthly the second Monday at 7 p.m. at the Islands Branch Library, 125 Wilmington Island Rd. 897-6233.

Lunch bunch book group An open book discussion the fourth Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Barnes & Noble.

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Moondance Center Book Club Explore and discuss a new spiritually based book each month the third Monday of the month from 7-8 p.m. in Moondance Center.

236-9003. www.moondancecenter.com.

Page turners book group meets monthly to get the scoop on what other adults are reading at the Ogeechee Branch Library, 1820 Ogeechee Rd. Call 232-1339.

Reader’s theater meeting every other Thursday from 4-5:30 p.m. at the South Effingham Library in Rincon. This performance group is a free program for middle and high school students. Call Linda Bridges, children’s coordinator at 826-2222.

Tea time at Ola’s is a new book discussion group that meets the fourth Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 E. Bay St. Call Beatrice Wright at 652-3660. Bring your ideas and lunches. Tea will be provided. 2325488 or 652-3660.

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6 Leehall Drive . Southern Woods at Rice Mill for under $300K! This new home offers 4 BR 2.5 BA, LR, DR, and Family room with fireplace, deck, fenced yard 2 car garage and a bonus room.

The same model sells for $320K but owner is anxious!$299,900.00.

Historic District Bargain 317 East Huntingdon Lane .

Great 2 BR 1.5 BA town house in downtown Savannah at a great price!

Wood and tile floors down, with carpet up, a large living area with brick fireplace, enormous eat-in kitchen, and location, location, location. Needs some cosmetic updating, but a good solid home in the hottest area of town! $165,000.00. Shelley Carroll Lowther Re/Max Savannah 912-604-8177

105 West Congress Street Suite C. Third floor unit in Congress Street condominium is zoned BC-1 and ready for your home or office.

Restored in 2000, it is light and bright with wood floors, decorative ceilings, and exposed brick, and located just steps from City Market. $215,000.00 Shelley Carroll Lowther Re/Max Savannah 912-604-8177 savannahrealtor@comcast.net

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105 West Congress Street Suite A. Basement unit in new commercial condo conversion offers exposed brick walls, decorative ceilings, secure entry, and location, location, location!

Priced to sell and cheaper than rent!

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105 West Congress Street Suite B. Second floor unit in unique commercial condominium.

Features hardwood floors, high decorative ceilings, DSL, exposed brick walls and more.

Class A office space at an affordable price. $199,000.00 Shelley Carroll Lowther Re/Max Savannah 912-604-8177 savannahrealtor@comcast.net

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7 Mallor y’s Cour t Fabulous 3 BR 2.5 BA Georgetown home awaits you.

Open and spacious, this home of fers Pergo flooring, LR/DR combo, finished bonus with separate HVAC, 2 car garage and a large fenced lot. Priced to sell at $175,000.00 Shelley Carroll Lowther Re/Max Savannah 912-604-8177 savannahrealtor@comcast.net

savannahgarealtor.com 15 Pebble Road, Pooler, Ga. 4 bedrooms 2.5 baths , bonus room Mike Farmer Realty 912-429-3431 119 W. Whatley Street, Pooler 3 bedrooms, 2 Baths 1200 sq ft Convenient to schools and shopping large deck on back Priced to sell -$79,500 Mike Farmer Realty 912-429-3431 104 Olde Manor Lane, Guyton 3/2 2100 sq ft -- large lot. Well maintained.

Close to south Effingham schools. $169,500 Mike Farmer Realty 912-429-3431 6127 N. Hwy 119, Pembroke Horse farm -- 17 acres, stalls, corral. House has had major improvements.

2 miles from I-16 $154,900 Mike Farmer Realty 912-429-3431

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This 3 bedroom 2 bath home is located in Beautiful Bridgewater.

It sits on an oversized lot and backs up to woods. Call Amber to view this awesome home. $159,300.00 Amber Skaggs Remax Crossroads 748-8141 656-3029

Midtown/Eastside: 2136 Texas Ave. B- 1 bed, 1 bath, living room, eat-in kitchen,gas/water/sewer includedNO PETS- $465.00-KEY 623 Seiler Ave.- 2 bed, 1 bath, very nice brick homeNO PETS $650.00 1120 E. 71st Street- 2 bed, 1 bath, washer/dryer hookups, new paint, carpet- pets OK- $625.00 1616 Anderson Street- 2 bed, 1 bath, large backyard- pets OK$750.00-KEY 14 Little Country Place- 2 bed, 2 bath, central H/A, large yard, on quiet cul de sac-$650.00-APPT. 220 East 53rd Street- 3 bed, 2 bath, large fenced yard, very large attic for storage- Available 2/01/05$1,025.00-KEY 410 E. Hall Street- Luxury apartment in the Historic District,large single master suite, fireplace, hardwood floors, two-car garage and off-street parking, courtyard, some pets OK-$1,100.00 available 2/15/05-APPT. 416 E. Hall Street- Very nice 1 bed, 1 bath apartment in Historic District, off-street parking, courtyard, some pets OK-$700-KEY 508 Price Street-2 bed, 2 bath in Historic District, formal living room and dining room, screened porch, courtyard-$1,500-APPT.

Thunderbolt: 2610 Whatley Ave.-Unit 10-Mariner’s Square Apartments- 3 bed, 2 1/2 bath, hwd floors, bonus room- pets OK $1,000.00-KEY

Islands: 103 Oyster Shell- Unit D-2- 3 bed, 2 bath, upstairs, end unit at Bull River Shoals next to pool and tennis courts, All amenities provided- $995.00- APPT. Commons on Cromwell Apt D-6- 2 bed, 2 bath- back unit w/ wooded view- new carpet, paint, tile, appliances$900.00- KEY 218 Hampshire Road-3 bed, 2 bath in Wilmington Park Subdivision- 2 car garage, pets OK-$1,400.00-APPT. 5 Sea Palm Circle-4 bed, 2 bath, fireplace, garage, nice yard in quiet neighborhood, pets OK-$1,200.00-KEY 5 Sea Palm Cove-3 bed, 2 bath, 2-car garage, fireplace, nice yard in quiet neighborhood, pets OK- $1,250.00-KEY 13 Ropemaker Court- over 2,000 sq ft, two-story home in Battery Point- 4 bed, 2 bath, huge living room, fenced backyard, pets OK- Available 3/1/05 $1,150.00-APPT. 32 Mapmaker Lane-3 bed, 2 bath home in Battery Point with fireplace, fully furnished and washer/dryer hook-up-$900.00APPT. 105 Regal Court-3 bed, 2 bath in St. Andrews Place on Wilmington Island, garage, fireplace, privacy fence, some pets OK-$1,200.00

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2 Oyster Catcher Lane-3 bed, 2 bath in Battery Point, large family room, storage building-$950.00-KEY

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153 Lewis Avenue-3 bed, 2 bath, dock & floating dock on Horsepen Creek- $950.00-KEY.

Westside: 147 Darling Street-2 bed, 1 bath- APPT. $450.00 21 Stonelake Circle- OFF 17- 2 bed, 2 bath (master has whirlpool) 1250 + sq ft home built in 2003 overlooking lagoon$950.00-KEY

Southside: Perfect for a family seeking a prime location at an affordable price. 3 bedroom 2 bath home with cedar siding, eat in kitchen, fireplace in great room, loft bedroom could be used as bonus, patio, and more. Priced at only $122,900, this home will not last long. Call LaTrelle 658-7777 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550 H-4125

12502 Apache Ave. Unit #23- The River House at Bell’s Landing- Incredible 3 bed, 2.5 bath upstairs-downstairs townhouse, huge master suite, fireplace-NO PETS-$1,250.00- APPT

14 Pointer Place- Quailrun Townhouses- 2 bed, 2.5 bath, fireplace, small fenced-in backyard with storage area- NO PETS$795.00-KEY 145 Greenbriar Court- 3 bed, 1.5 bath, new ceramic tile and carpet, nice neighborhood, very large, shady, fenced backyard, pets OK- available 2/1/05-$900.00-KEY 9 Delmar Circle- 2 bed, 1 bath off Wilshire Blvd, quiet neighborhood, very nice fenced backyard, some pets OK- $850.00-KEY

Commercial: 3249 W. Bay St-Approx 1500 sq. ft. divided into 3 lg rooms, full bath-$750.00- SEE DANNY PETS: There is a $500 non-refundable deposit for up to two pets on all properties allowing pets.

SECURITY DEPOSITS: Same as one month’s rent.

203 EAST YORK STREET Renovated 1 bedroom apartment, full bath with tile, great windows, full of light, kitchen with separate eating area, living room with hardwood floors. No pets. $700/mo.

602 LINCOLN STREET PARLOR UNIT 2 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath townhome. Living room, dining room, eat-in kitchen with JennAir stove, dishwasher and trash compactor. Laundry room with washer and dryer. $1600/mo. 1/2 OFF first months rent.

12 WEST TAYLOR STREET APT#2A 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment near Monterey Square, Kitchen, Living room. $800/mo.

1600 HABERSHAM PLACE #28 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. Furnished kitchen, living room, tile floors, washer and dryer connections, central heat and air. $500/mo.

2006 WHITAKER STREET 3 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath apartment, gas fireplace, hardwood floors, ample closet space, deck and porches, off-street parking. $1800/mo.

17 EAST 37TH STREET UNIT#1 Renovated 1 bedroom, 1 bath condo, new carpet, kitchen with gas stove, stack washer and dryer, built-in microwave, loft, street gated, parking space. $825/mo.

214 A WEST PARK AVENUE 1 bedroom, 1 bath with clawfoot tub, furnished kitchen, hardwood floors, washer and dryer shared. No pets. $600/mo.

232 BULL STREET #2 Spacious 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, hardwood floors, furnished kitchen, high ceilings, great location. $850/mo.

3602 MONTGOMERY STREET Renovated 2 bedroom, 1 bath duplex, central heat and air, washer and dryer connections, all new appliances, carpet with off street parking. $750/mo.

1330 EAST 54TH STREET 3 bedroom, 1 bath home, living room, dining room combo, garage, hardwood floors, fireplace, stack washer and dryer, gas heat, central air, fenced back yard. Pets OK. $725/mo.

421 EAST ANDERSON STREET UNIT A 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, living room, kitchen, central heat and air, washer and dryer. $525/mo.

614 EAST DUFFY STREET Renovated 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo, kitchen with nice amenities, living room, washer and dryer, fenced yard, 1 off street parking space. $925/mo.

1332 HALCYON DRIVE 3 bedroom, 1-1/2 bath home on Skidaway.

Island kitchen with microwave and dishwasher, porch with deck, fenced yard, washer and dryer connections. Available mid March. $850/mo.

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9 17th Place For rent on Tybee at 17th Place near the pier and stores, resturants, 1 block for the ocean and 2 bedrooms/2 baths. Furnished beautifully. Hi celings, carpeting, sleeps 6 and $1200 per month, month to month lease. Has a porch and view from the porch. No pets, no smokers. Call 912 5079800 or 236-3095.

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1932 Greenwood Street, Savannah Remodeled, Updated bungalow -- 2/1 Close to schools, easy access to downtown and islands $69,500 Mike Farmer Realty 912-429-3431 New construction in Bridgewater to be completed end of February, 2005. Four bedrooms, 2 baths, a family room, a formal living room, a formal dining room, a bonus room, $209,050.00 Buy now and pick colors.

Amber Skaggs Remax Crossroads 748-8141 656-3029 New Construction in Bridgewater 4 Bedrooms, 2Baths, a formal dining room, and great room. Will be completed in January, 2005. Buy now and pick inside colors. $196,075 Builder will contibute $3,000.00 towards buyers closing costs.

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Tybee Island 2 bedroom/2 bath condo with loads of charm and only one block from the ocean! Walking distance to stores, restaurants and the pier. Totally furnished with everything you need, including phone, cable and washer/dryer/dishwasher. High ceilings, porch, and soooo much more.

Available beginning in March for $85 per night with a minimum of 3 nights. Cleaning is $75.

Call 912 236-3095 or 507-9800.

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$199,900 Cozy 3 Bedrooms, 1 _ Bath Bungalow With Hardwood Floors throughout Separate Living Room and Dining Room with large Kitchen, Detached Garage, cute garden with Pond and Picket fence in back

For More Information Call Dianne Kessler @ 663-2417

533 Oxford Drive, Richmond Hill $250,000 Well cared for one owner home with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths plus bonus room on _ acre lot. Very open spacious kitchen with Corian countertops, and glass front upper cabinets. Screen enclosed inground pool is very low maintenance. Hardwood floors in dining room, living room and hall. Great family home in a great neighborhood for only $250,000! Call Rich Brown at 667-2867 for your viewing today!

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Secluded 2.25 Acre Waterfront Paradise On Stocked lake, Built in 1870 With Heart of Pine floors, corner F/P in Dining Room, 3 B/R plus Bonus, Large Great Room with vaulted ceilings, large detached workshop and carport.

Conveniently located in Savannah. $225,000 For More Information Call Dianne Kessler @ 663-2417

250 Rice Gate $145,000 This 3 bedrooms 2 baths low country home features a bonus room that could easily function as an office or play room. The home also offers a private fenced backyard and the interior has recently been painted. All this and its close to Richmond Hill schools and shopping! Call Dianne @ 663-2417 at Tri County GMAC Real Estate for more information!

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4 bedroom 2.5 bath home, features inside columns, crown molding, bonus rm, walk in closets, French door, partially wooded lot, privacy fence, tray ceilings, desirable location, and more. Call LaTrelle 658-7777. ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550. H- 4105 $259,900.

Explore the Possibilities Secluded 65.55 acres outside of Rincon, off Ebenezer Rd. Great for Privacy, Hunting, and much more! Call LaTrelle, ERA AdamsPevey Realty. 912-8262550 or 658-7777.

A-3971 $224,900.

Can You spell C-O-U-NT-R-Y ? We Can! C Charming Countr y Front Porch, O - Old Fashioned Brick Fireplace, U - Unforgettable Country Kitchen N - Nestled on 5.62 acres, T - Touch of Color in 4 beautiful bedrooms, R - Rustic Cedar Siding, Y - Yes! This home could be yours. LaTrelle 6587777, ERA Adams Pevey Realty 826-2550 $250,000 H-4027

Family expanding? Try this “for size” Spacious 1864 square ft of living area in this 3 bedroom 2 full bath home…shows off this beautiful great room with resplendent hardwood floors, attached double garage, study, whirlpool bath, laundry room, great location, all on .61 acre deep lot.

LaTrelle 658-7777, ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550, H-3935

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# E Harris St Historic District new story home is getting close to comple tion All new and made to look old Hardy board exterior- wood floors and high ceilings- bedrooms- # baths State of the art kitchen and all bath rooms have ceramic tile Yard will be fenced for privacy and there will be parking spaces in the lane Call for your private showing Reduced!  -

Beautifully renovated 2BR/1BA Formal dining room, refinished heart pine floors, ceiling fans, new bathroom & kitchen w/ceramic tile floors.

Seperate laundry room and private courtyard.

C/H/A, total electric, security system.

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118 Marshview Rd. Gorgeous brick-ranch home w/great private yard. Features 3BR/2BA, LR/DR combo w/hdwd floors, den, breakfast area, laundry room, lots of closet space & storage. Ceramic tile in kit., laundry, & BAs. 2car covered carport & amazing covered inground swimming pool w/marsh view: $269,900.

Kevyn Withers: Mopper Stapen 912-547-4342

2309 Whitaker St. Grand Victorian in the heart of the Thomas Square District! Walk through the back door into a huge gourmet kitchen w/granite countered island! The DR features a fpl. &pocket doors leading into the LR w/yet another fpl. The MBR boasts a romantic balcony & MBA w/double showers, double vanities & a porcelain clawfoot tub. 2nd BA also has a claw-foot tub!

There are 2 more BRs w/flps. & yet a 4th BR downstairs. Home is completely internet/cable ready.

Gorgeous hdwd floors w/tons of trim & details. Delightful front porch & covered back patio!- $299,900 Kevyn Withers:Mopper Stapen -912-547-4342

327 Columbus Dr. This immaculate 4,000 sp. ft. home features 4BR/3.5BA, foyer into huge sep. LR/DR, gorgeous kit., den, upstairs office/dressing room w/2 huge cedarlined floor-to-ceiling closets, MBR upstairs for suite or apt. w/additional LR & kit. 2CG, hdwd floors, great corner lot w/great offstreet parking! $335,000. Kevyn Withers:Mopper Stapen 912-547-4342

103 John Wesley Way Emerald Pointe Subdivision This enchanting low country home in gated community features 4br/2.5 ba, living room w/ fireplace, open kitchen w/island, formal dining, & study.

Great wrap around porch and gorgeous heart pine wood floors throughout. Wonderful lot on lagoon with great view! $449,900

825 East Henry St. Investment property.

Huge duplex that also includes additional lot (827 East Henr y).

4BR/1BA up 3BR/1BA down. Completely renovated & ready to move in for only $219,900. Kevyn Withers:Mopper Stapen 912-547-4342

Forsyth Park Stunner Restored 1857 Italianate mansion on the park filled with period details, incl. 2 rentable units: English basement and carriage house. Gorgeous home, premier location! $2,150,000. 20 W. Gaston St. Katherine W. Oxnard, Mopper-Stapen, Realtors, (912) 7043545/238-0874, katherine @mopper-stapen.com

Cozy Victorian Cottage 3 bedroom/1 bath cottage 3 blocks from Forsyth! Pine floors, 9' ceilings, fenced brick courtyard, new W/D & storm windows.

Charming! $155,000.

1010 Jefferson Street.

Katherine W. Oxnard, Mopper-Stapen, Realtors, (912) 7043545/238-0874, katherine @mopper-stapen.com

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Adorable 2BR/1BA 1920 bungalow has it all: 9' ceilings, mantels, beadboard, fenced rear yard, central HVAC + loads of neighborhood charm. $134,500.

514 E. 38th Street.

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Newly-renovated duplex makes great rental property. Fresh and updated, w/ orig. wood floors and mantels. One tenant in place, $700/mo. Rent both for strong income! $189,000. 536 E. Waldburg St. Katherine W. Oxnard, Mopper-Stapen, Realtors, (912) 7043545/238-0874, katherine @mopper-stapen.com

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130 Van Nuys Blvd Available Now! 3-bedroom, 1-bath, Living room, eat-in kitchen, dining/family rooms, CentralHeat/Air. No smokers, no pets. Police discount available. $835/month plus deposit. 912-920-1936.

PARADISE PARK Available Now! 404 Dyches Drive 3-bedroom, 2-bath, laundry room, eat-in kitchen, Centralheat/air, garage. No smoking/no pets.

Police discount available. $900/month plus deposit. 912-920-1936.

223 BAILEE AVE, RINCON Reese Pines New 3 bedroom, 2 bath, garage, dishwasher, stove, carpet. $875/month.

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2 bed, 1 bath, $795/month Midtown at 521 E. 37th.

All new! DW, W/D, Central H&A. 8’x20’ deck. Parking.

SCAD welcome. Beautiful street.

Toll free 1-888-246-5652 Ext. 1. Ask for Chris Fully (and beautifully) Furnished 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 2nd floor unit; all appliances, W/D, 1400 sq.ft., grand wrap-around porches, 2 private decks; Classic National Historic Registry Bldg. $1,185/mo. 301 E. 40th. 912.201.0087

1-6 bedroom apartments Affordable apartments with price reductions.

Don’t miss an opportunity to get in on the savings. Great locations, nice and newly restored. All appliances including dishwasher, washer/dryer, central heat/air, hardwood floors, fireplaces, ceiling fans, bonus rooms and cable ready for high speed internet access. Long and short term leases available.

Pets welcome with pet deposit. $650-$1800 per month.

Call 441-5689 or 748-6632 or e-mail: Sheila_010_7@ hotmail.com.

ARDSLEY PARK Absolutely Beautiful!

Spacious Duplex apartment w/2-bedrooms, Fireplace, living room, dining room, sunroom, hardwood floors throughout, central heat/air. Washer/dryer connections.

Water/trash, lawn service paid. Available immediately. No dogs. $850/month, $850/Security. 1-800-579-1923

LOFTS ON DRAYTON Historic District, upscale 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment available. April 3. $1100.

Security entrance, W/D, dishwasher. Call 912-231-1001 Ext. 4

103 Oyster Shell Road-Unit D-12 This Beautiful 3 bed, 2 bath Bull River Upper End Unit Condo Overlooks Pool & Tennis Court. Gorgeous Colors, Pergo Floors In Majority of Unit, REF, D/W, Range/Oven, Washer Dr yer$995/month. Call Fox Properties @ 352-2747 1-4BR Apartments &Homes! Top quality, newly-renovated properties Pets welcome!

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Wireless Internet, Digital Cable & Water included $1275.00 Contact: 912-220-1020

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Under Contract .Restored 3BR/2BA Victorian farmhouse feels like the country. Beadboard, heart pine walls & floors all orig., w/ new HVAC, windows, baths & kitchen, + shady fenced yard w/ sep. studio. Positively bucolic! $143,500. 616 E. Park Lane.

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ARDSLEY PARK One-Bedroom Garage Apartment A/C, hardwood floors, water, Washer/Dryer included, of f-street parking, quiet/settled neighborhood. $450/month. 912-2335246, leave message.

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Desirable Coffee Bluff Area, 3 bdrm/2 bath, w/private fenced-in backyard, fireplace, and 2 car garage- no pets-$1,100 monthly, call for deposit info: Mike @ 657-9549

513 E. WALDBURG ST. Spacious, newly renovated with lots of storage, Washer/dryer, dishwasher and Central heat/air. A must see. $1100/monthly. Call James at 233-5908 or email barrantm@att.net

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DWELLINGS continued from page 41 Unfurnished Home for rent in Ardsley, 3 Bedroom, 2 1/2 Bathroom, pool, deck, central heat & air,alarm system, carpor t and fireplace. $1500 1-2 year lease. Available May 10th.

Call Dr. Boyd 236 3660 Beautiful House!

House or Rooms for Rent! Historic District 4-5 Large Bedrooms, Hardwood Floors, W/D. All New Appliances. Large Front and Back Yard, Second Floor Rear Deck.

Security System and Privacy Fence. Must See. Call 748-6063 or 604-8912 Victorian District 2 and 3 Bedroom Apts. Completed Renovated. Central Heat & Air, Small pets allowed. Many Extras.

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Office Space Entrepreneurs who want to take their business to the next level.

Need an office, an administrative assistant and a support network.

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Tired of High Prices looking for a place to stay, well your looking at the right Ad. Selling My 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath TimeShare in Brigantine, New Jersey, overlooking the Beach. Just 5 Miles from Beautiful Atlantic City.

Price $5000. Please call 912-961-9534.

Roommates Wanted Roommate wanted to share 2Bdrm/1 Bath.

Full amenities, W/D, CH&A, Hardwood

Floors. Utilities included, monthly flat rate $450. Call 238-4953.

ROOMMATE WANTED 2 Bedroom / 1 bath / full kitchen/ livingroom / diningroom /washer& dryer / garage /fenced yard / off street parking.

Great neighborhood, Great location Historic Baldwin Park ( Near Abercorn & Victory ) $500.00 a month + deposit Utilities included CALL JOHN @ 912-247-0877

BARNARD ST. Victorian District. 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, hardwood floors/high ceilings.

Newly renovated, new appliances, w/d hookups. $250/month, 1/2 utilities. Choose 1 of 2 available bedrooms.

Call Kevin @ 912-508-2469

DEPENDABLE, STABLE roommate needed to share new 3 bedroom, 2 bath mobile home with single male. $280.00 month + 1/2 utilities.

Call Wes at 961-6490 DOWNTOWN Male seeking male roommate to share downtown apartment. $375/month plus deposit (includes all utilities, Washer/Dryer) 912-3 41-0133, leave message.

2003 Harley Davidson V-ROD Showroom new condition, this “100th Anniversary Edition” V-ROD is loaded with extras and has less than 2,000 logged. It has been garaged and covered. Extra’s include tons of chrome, custom “Screaming Eagle” high-performance pipes and beautiful two-tone black & silver paint.

Asking price includes 2 helmets, full cover, travel luggage and more. $16,500 Call for an appointment: (912) 844-2947

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8 WEEKS-$320 13 WEEKS-$455 26 WEEKS-$650 Call Joan Lee @ 231-0250

Savannah’s

Two Big Locations

ADULT MAGS & NOVELTIES

355-1155

VIDEO RENTALS

840 East Derenne Avenue

Coolest Store In Town

(Between Waters & Paulsen)

• Over 1,000 DVDs in stock • Huge Selection of Adult VHS • New Titles arriving daily • Buy 2 DVDs-Get 1 Free • Guaranteed lowest prices • Adult Toys, Games & Gags • Bachelor and Bachelorette HQs • Smoking Accessories

6614 Waters Ave • 355-9610 (Waters at Stephenson)

10419 Abercorn Ext. • 961-5455 (Magnolia Plaza- Next to Sluggers)

Mon-Thurs. 10am-10pm, Fri-Sat 10am-12mid, Sun 1p-12m

Open ‘Til Midnight 7 days a week

www.connectsavannah.com

Call for Reservations for January Meeting

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Savannah Music Festival 17 DAYS! 85 EVENTS! THE WORLD’S FINEST MUSIC, INCLUDING: AMERICAN TRADITIONS COMPETITION DANIEL HOPE PLAYS MOZART, MODERN & MORE THE LEGENDARY BEAUX ARTS TRIO OREGON BALLET THEATER FAMED PIANIST RICHARD GOODE GAMELAN FROM INDONESIA THE MUSIC OF DVORAK, BRAHMS, GERSHWIN, WEILL, COPLAND, RAVEL AND OTHERS SOPRANO ARIANNA ZUKERMAN WORLD PREMIERE WORKS FROM URI CAINE & ROXANNA PANUFNIK AND SO MUCH MORE! CALL OR SEE WEBSITE FOR FULL SCHEDULE.

MARCH 18–APRIL 3, 2005 For information and Tickets: WWW.SAVANNAHMUSICFESTIVAL.ORG

or call 912 525 5050 Day Trips available from the Landings Saturday, March 19th and Friday, March 25 call Coastline Travel at (912) 234-7710

Major Funding for the Savannah Music Festival is provided by the City of Savannah