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Table of Contents Volume 5, No. 7, November 9, 2005

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On the Cover: Clockwise from upper left: James Franco, Natasha Richardson, Buck Henry and George Segal; Philip Seymour Hoffman; Jeff Daniels; crowd shot on opening night

News Cover Story

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City Notebook 11 Jane Fishman Blotter

Cover Story 6

Diary of a Film Festival News bits from around town

12 Chuffed with the pleasure of words 13 From SPD reports

News of the Weird 14

Strange but true

Earthweek 15 This week on your planet

Culture Cuisine 20 Performing Arts 21

Cane Grinding at Oatland Island Spoken word events

City Notebook 11 Art Patrol

23 Exhibits & openings THoTHo Connect Savannah

Vibes Music Interview 16 Eric Culberson

17 Local gigs a la carte

Music Menu

Music Interview 16

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Connect Recommends 19 Concerts of the week Soundboard 24 Who’s playing and where

Now Showing 26

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Film All the flicks that fit

The 411 Week at a Glance

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Our best bets for cool stuff to do

Happenings 30 All the stuff, all the time

Performing Arts 21

Classifieds Weather 15 News from the sky Crossword Puzzle 37 Mental Fun Sudoku Puzzle

38 It’s all the rage

Classifieds 41 They call it “junk,” you call it “couch”

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56th Annual Veteran’s Day Parade What: The day’s events begin with a High School Color Guard Competition and Honor Guard Competition, followed by the annual Veteran’s Day Parade. When: Friday, Nov. 11. The color and honor guard competitions start at 8 a.m. and the parade starts at 10:15 a.m. Where: The competitions will be held at Forsyth Park. The parade will start at the intersection of Gwinnett and Abercorn streets and travel north on Abercorn to Liberty, west on Liberty to Montgomery, north on Montgomery to Broughton and east on Broughton to East Broad Street. Cost: Free.

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What: This annual show features the work of more than 300 artists and master crafters from more than 23 states. When: Friday, Nov. 11 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Savannah International Trade & Convention Center. Cost: $5.50.

Saturday Nov. 12

Cane Grinding Festival

What: Traditional cane grinding with music and children’s activities. When: Nov. 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Oatland Island Education Center. Cost: $5 per person ages 4 and up. Call: 898-3980.

Sunday Nov. 13

The Massing of the Colors What: The Military Order of the World Wars sponsors this event.

The local Savannah chapter brings all of the active duty military, veterans and patriotic youth groups in the area together to present their colors at a public event. When: Nov. 13 at 4 p.m.

Where: Southside Baptist Church, 5502 Skidaway Rd., just south Cost: Free. Call: Jack Marvin at 598-0082. of Derenne Ave.C

Reel Savannah Presents Murderball What: Played in armored wheelchairs, quad rugby is a no-holds barred, highly competitive, physically violent sport whose competitors are quadriplegics. In their own version of full-contact sport, they smash the hell out of each other in custom-made, gladiator-like wheelchairs. And they don’t wear helmets. When: Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $7.

SCAD’s 24 Hour Plays What: In the course of 24 hours, four new plays will be written, produced, designed, acted and directed. Therefore, we can’t tell you in advance what you’ll see when you attend, although parental discretion is advised. When: Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. Where: Mondanaro Theatre, 217 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Cost: Free.

Savannah Children’s Book Festival (all week) What: Presented by the Live Oak Public Libraries Foundation, this festival will feature workshops, When: Nov. 14-20. Where: readings and more.W Cost: Free. Call: 652-3605.

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Monday Nov. 14

Creative Minds: A Symposium of Ideas What: Thomas de Zengotita will present Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It. A writer for Harper’s and The Nation, de Zengotita is an expert of the effects of the media on individuality and society. When: Nov. 14 at 6:30 p.m. Where: Savannah Country Day School, 824 Stillwood Dr. Cost: $5 in advance, $7 at the door. Call: 961-8828 or visit www.savcds.org and click on “Creative Minds” for a registration form.

Whale of a Day What: Celebrate the return of the Northern Right whales to the Georgia coast. When: Nov. 12-13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Tybee Island Marine Science Center, 1510 Strand St., Tybee Island. Call: 786-5917 or visit www.tybeemsc.org.

25th Annual Novemberfest What: Dozens of items for sale. Homemade baked goods also sold, and barbecue dinners for $7. Boston butts will be available for $20. When: Nov. 12 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Where: Trinity Lutheran Church, 2391 Mercy Blvd. Call: 9254839. To place an advance order, call 844-8003.

A.W.O.L.’s Urban Journalism What: This performance uses spoken word poetry and hiphop to highlight important social issues. Proceeds will be used to open Savannah’s first Hip-Hop Resource Center and to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. When: Nov. 12 from 8-10 p.m. Where: Allure Hair Salon, 7010 Skidaway Rd. Cost: $10. Call: 238-3447 or www.awolinc.org.

Pianist Vassily Primakov in Concert What: Presented by Savannah Concert Association. When: Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre.

Cost: $35, $25 and $12.50. Call: 525-5050.

U.S. Army Field Band & Soldiers’ Chorus

Tuesday Nov. 15

What: The Armstrong Atlantic State University Department of Art, Music and Theatre is presenting this concert with the U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus. When: Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m. Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium. Call: 927-5381 weekdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for tickets.

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Friday Nov. 11

What: The Friends of Johnny Mercer celebrate the 96th anniversary of the famed composer and Savannah native’s birth. When: Nov. 13 at 2:30 p.m. Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre, Savannah Civic Center. Cost: Free. Call: 927-4328.

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Cover Story

CULTURE|

text and photos by Jim Morekis

Documentary:

Say it ain’t so. But there it is -- a still shot from Lumet’s upcoming 2006 Opening night, Sat., Oct. 26 release, starring none other than the How I do love that great old Variety talentless musclehead named after headline-writing style. It makes this old designer jeans. An audible wha? goes copy editor’s heart sing. up from the crowd.

As the eighth annual Savannah Film Then it’s time for the screening of the Festival opens, the entire block of new George Broughton in front of the Trustees Clooney flick, Good Theatre is sectioned off for a VIP Night, And Good party complete with open bar. A Luck. Clooney is our line of not-so-VIPs snakes around generation’s Paul the corner, waiting to get into the Newman -- a movie opening night gala. star with gravitas I walk up just in time to take and intelligence, a some photos of Sidney Lumet, real fighting liberal George Segal, Natasha from the old school.

Richardson and James Franco.

Alas, I’m disapRichardson is stunning. Franco pointed. In a nutlooks like he’s about 12. shell, the movie is It’s interesting how the stars rich in only two react when the flash bulbs start things: cigarette going off. Like sunflowers, they smoke and political instinctively face the cameras, pasmessages. In telling Paula Wallace at the festival’s sively arranging themselves in front the story of broadopening night of a blue accordion screen erected caster Edward R. for precisely this purpose.

Murrow’s feud with the right-wing Sen. I wade into the bar crowd in the Joe McCarthy in the ‘50s, Clooney middle of the street, and lo and behold cannot resist the urge to make direct -the first familiar face I see is that of really direct -- comparisons between the SCAD President Paula Wallace. She’s McCarthy era and our own Commander talking to well-wishers, relaxed and genCoo-Coo Bananas era. Less usually is erally having a good time. And rightly so more, and Clooney misses the mark.

-- the festival is off to a great start.

Whenever I see Paula Wallace in person, I’m always struck by the difThe Ape , Oc t. 30 ference between the legend and the I’m unavailable for Festival-going reality. Some people in town concoct the today. So here’s a guest entry from most absurd conspiracy theories about Connect Music Editor Jim Reed: Wallace, portraying her as some kind of “The directorial debut of James sinister evil mastermind.

Franco was shot on video and featured a Then you meet her. And instead of mostly no-name cast, but triumphed over biting your ear off and rotating her head such adversities, emerging as an intel360 degrees before vomiting green bile ligent comedy that makes no attempt to all over your face, she turns out to be hide its origins as a stage play written by this petite, graceful, soft-spoken Franco and Merriwether Williams.

Southern woman with no pretense.

“Franco is visibly nervous during his I see a few friends, but the merriment post-show Q&A at the Lucas. One uninis short-circuited when, as if prompted tentionally hilarious moment comes by some deep-seated genetic lemming when an audience member asks Franco instinct, the crowd wafts as one into the if, now that he’s directed his first indie Trustees Theatre to be seated. film, he’ll no longer concentrate on The tireless Danny Filson, festival making big-budget fare like the director, introduces Wallace, who in turn upcoming Spider-Man 3. introduces tonight’s guest of honor, the “‘Um... no,’ he chuckles. ‘I think I’ll great director Sidney Lumet. keep making big movies for big money I don’t envy Filson, who has to please as long as they ask me to.’” the two most fickle and demanding clienteles in the world -- Hollywood and Savannah. He copes by checking his T h e S q u i d a n d t h e W h a l e , Oct. 31 watch a lot and gently informing people Connect goes to bed on Mondays, so to move it along. As far as I can tell I can’t attend squat today. So here’s Jim Paula Wallace is the only person Filson Reed again, with a report from Sunday never presses to finish up quickly. night’s gala at the Trustees: Before Lumet accepts his award, “How do you define irony? Just we’re treated to the usual fawning career before noted film editor and sound retrospective. Wow -- what a career this designer Walter Murch strides onstage guy has had. He’s directed Kate to receive his Lifetime Achievement Hepburn, Al Pacino (twice), Henry Fonda Award for Sound and Editing, he waits (thrice) -- and Vin Diesel?

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behind the Trustees Theater’s massive screen while a compilation of clips from some of his most celebrated projects is shown.

“The irony? One appreciates little of his Oscar-winning aural craftsmanship -represented by scenes from such works as Apocalypse Now and The Conversation -- through the loud hiss permeating the montage’s low-fidelity soundtrack.

“Still, Murch gamely jokes that it’s disconcerting to watch his decades-long career flash before his eyes in reverse -a reference to the horizontally-flipped visual perspective of his backstage vantage point.

“Afterwards, the packed house is treated to a screening of writer-director Noah Baumbach’s latest effort, The Squid and The Whale, starring Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels (who also received an Achievement in Cinema Award for Acting after the film).

“This bone-dry comedy is widely known to have been based on the director’s own difficult childhood in Park Slope, Brooklyn during the mid-1980s. A wry and at times almost frightfully funny movie, it deals with the divorce of two successful New York City-based authors, and the unexpected stress this brings to bear on their teenage sons.

“The uncomfortable humor in the film is reminiscent of both Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums (which Baumbach co-wrote) and Todd Solondz’ Happiness. Based on this audience’s reaction, the film has the potential to crossover from an indie-cred sensation to a smash mainstream hit.”

Babs, Bobby Z, & the f-word T h e O w l a n d t h e P u s s y c a t , Nov. 1 This 1970 lark, screening at the Lucas, involves a culture clash between two of Hollywood’s oldest archetypes, the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold (Barbra Streisand’s Doris) and the fish-out-ofwater (George Segal’s Felix).

I’m struck by the young Barbra Streisand. I’d forgotten not only what a capable comedienne she is, but how truly gorgeous she was back in the day.

Then again, maybe I’m biased -- my wife shares a birthday with Babs.

At the too-brief Q&A session afterward, Segal and scriptwriter Buck Henry comment at length on Streisand’s unique starpower.

“She was always saying she was scared of being around live people,” Henry remembers. “I thought to myself, big deal, so what if she’s scared of live people. And then at one performance, at the end of a number I saw all these guys who didn’t have real lives advancing toward the stage like zombies.”

Segal echoed Henry’s observation.

“At the opening of Hello Dolly, Broadway was packed six deep like there was going to be a parade,” Segal recalls. “At that point I got it -- I finally understood that people just had this robotic thing of being drawn to her.”

Though The Owl and The Pussycat is based on a play, Henry tells us only three scenes made it into the film. He says one scene from the play -- in which Felix humiliates Doris in Central Park -- was kept in the film specifically because Buck Henry at the Lucas Streisand insisted on keeping it.

“I tried to take out that whole part where he makes her act like a dog on a leash. It offended me. I also thought that it would be too difficult to recover from that. But Barbra wanted it. As you can see, Barbra made that scene work.”

“Barbra made the scene work?” pipes up Segal in mock indignation.

Henry’s disappointed that the screening today features a poorly edited, censored version of the film. He describes one scene in which a carful of hooligans harasses Doris and Felix. In the unedited version, Doris gives the hooligans a profane piece of her mind, resulting in them leaving the car and chasing the couple on foot.

But instead all we see is Streisand telling them to leave her alone -- and the men inexplicably start chasing them.

Henry fills in the blanks: “I really wanted Barbra to use the word ‘fuck.’ I wanted to hear her say it in that accent. And she did, to these guys that stop her at Lincoln Center. There’s this long, very amusing paragraph where she says it just wonderfully.”

Alas, Babs saying the f-word is a thrill that will have to wait until another day.

Off to the side during the Q&A is Bobby Zarem, native Savannahian, noted film publicist and walking Rolodex for the Savannah Film Festival. Looking more like a Brooklyn shopkeeper than a movie impresario, the quiet yet ubiquitous Zarem gets a shout-out from George Segal.

“This is a great town to hang out in.

For us it’s like a vacation,” Segal says.

“And it’s all thanks to that man right there, the great Robert Zarem.”

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Producer (and master saxophonist) Harvey Ray is dashing as always as he introduces the cast and takes questions after the screening. He explains that coproducer Stratton Leopold actually had to leave early on during filming.

“Stratton was asked to return to L.A. to be a producer on Mission Impossible 3, which they say is going to be the most expensive production Paramount has ever made,” Ray says. “So I guess he had a pretty good reason to go.”

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T h e R e d T h r e a d , Nov. 2 Today I see the full-length feature film Red Thread, made entirely in Savannah through the auspices of SCAD and produced by local film mavens Stratton Leopold and Harvey Ray. The film is the story of an eccentric young maintenance man (Jonathan Irons) Phantom of the Opera , Nov. 2 who weedles his way into the life of I’m a moron. I show up for the Tamara (Jasmine Brook White), who’s a “director’s choice” surprise screening 15 veritable Roget’s Thesaurus of film minutes late. Not even standing room. cliches: a young beauty neglected by her “Not even for media?” I ask, doing my fiance (of course) and who works in a supercilious editor bit, flashing the “M” strip club (naturally), but as a cocktail badge around my neck. No, not even for waitress, not a stripper (needless to say). media, the nice girl at the Trustees says.

The cliches continue to fly as Billy With some time to kill before the introduces Tamara to his pet snakes (!)

Lucas screens the 1925 silent classic and takes her on a bike ride in the park -- Phantom of the Opera, my wife and I go wherein Tamara for an ice cream meets Billy’s and coffee at “friends,” the ducks Leopold’s. at Lake Mayer.

A sign on the The movie is door informs us technically outthat “Stratton standing, however.

Leopold is on Beautifully shot, location filming well-lit, masterfully Mission Impossible edited, Red Thread 3.” Harvey Ray will make a good wasn’t kidding. resume item for the After dessert huge and predomiwe mosey over to nantly local crew the Lucas Theatre associated with it. to catch The Harvey Ray, Jonathan Irons and Teddy Director and Phantom of the Sharkova Pashikov Writer Teddy Opera. As we walk, Sharkova Pashikov I wonder aloud what the surprise film - a girl, not a guy -- explains the genesis might have been. of the film: “The new Woody Allen,” answers a “I got the idea from the maintenance raspy voice at one of the outdoor tables. people where I lived,” she says. “I started Great. I only missed the new Woody asking them questions. Are they happy Allen. What a credit to journalism. doing what they’re doing? I started Turns out our al fresco informant is a asking them all about themselves.” producer of one of the Festival entries, So what’s a maintenance man’s life and he confesses to not being much of a like? According to Red Thread, it Woody Allen fan. involves letting yourself into a young “Not my cup of tea,” he says. “I woman’s apartment while she’s taking a walked out.” shower. I must be getting old. Is that We go to the Lucas. A line is already what the kids do nowadays? snaking around the corner. I meet Lucas The newsworthy item here, though, is Director Ken Carter outside.

Diana Scarwid, in a juicy role as the Carter tells me the Alloy Orchestra “is bawdy, nymphomaniacal property really the group that started it all,” manager of Billy’s apartment complex. referring to the new silent film revival.

People talk about Mommie Dearest Carter says the Alloy guys just arrived in all the time, like that’s the only thing town from their previous gig in she’s ever done. But not a lot of people Philadelphia with all their stuff packed realize Scarwid got the Oscar nomiinto a van like a teenage rock band. nation for Inside Moves, not Mommie Walking in, I see a Sergei Eisenstein Dearest. The girl’s got all-around skills.

DVD for sale. I comment to my wife Seeing this professional bite off this about how that Russian silent film role and chew it up with relish is a director is still considered one of the delight. She knows it’s a cardboard char- best moviemakers of all time. acter, knows it’s a cliche -- but blows it “This just fits in with my theory that out of the water all the same. every art form begins at its peak and Channeling Christian Slater, Irons goes downhill into entropy from there,” I does a good job in an impossible role as Billy. Overall, his character is pretty continued on page 8 likeable -- for a stalker.

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expound. “The first work of Western literature is The Iliad, and it’s still the greatest story ever written.� “Would you still think it was the greatest if it wasn’t the first?� my wife shoots back. Good question.

We take our seats in the rapidly filling theatre. The Alloy Orchestra’s array of instruments -- synthesizers, theremin, kettle drums, etc. -- sits in the orchestra pit at stage right. In the middle of the house are two cordoned-off rows of seats, guarded by a pair of young SCAD students in black Festival T-shirts.

George Segal and his wife approach.

But one of the SCAD kids won’t let them sit down. He’s all, “I’m sorry, but this section is for VIPs.�

Segal gets a little grin on his face.

Not a happy grin, but a “let’s try this again, shall we?� grin.

I read his lips as he quietly says, “I’m George Segal� -- not in an obnoxious way, but as a statement of fact. George Segal, Oscar-nominated star of stage and screen, two-time guest of honor at the Festival -- ipso facto VIP. Hello!

But the SCAD kid still doesn’t get it.

He motions again that the empty rows are reserved. On this kid’s planet, George Segal does not qualify as a VIP. I cringe in embarrassment -- embarrassed for Segal, embarrassed for the kid, embarrassed for my town. Is there anything Savannah can’t screw up? I think to myself as I sink lower in my seat.

Finally the kid walks off. Segal lifts up the cordon and he and his wife sit down.

According to Festival Director Danny Filsson, last year’s screening of Nosferatu was too big a hit to ignore. He tells the crowd tonight’s screening is a direct result of “students telling faculty they want more silent films, and they want them here at the Film Festival.�

Film prof Michael Chaney then introduces the flick, doing a funny riff on the similarity of his name and that of the Phantom’s star, Lon Chaney.

Michael Chaney is one popular professor. The students here in the theatre absolutely love this guy. That’s probably the kiss of death, of course. I give him another year here.

The Phantom begins, and the effect of the live orchestra is intense. It goes way beyond any experience you might have had with so-called “home theatre.�

With deep, rumbling basses, sinister organ lines and punctuating percussion, the Alloy Orchestra accompanies the onscreen action with a compelling yet unobtrusive audio portrait of the dastardly Erik and his subterranean machinations in the Paris Opera House.

We’re told later that the Orchestra has nearly 200 cues to hit during the ninety-minute film. They hit them flawlessly, and the result is magnificent. The silent film revival, I conclude, is worth the hype.

At the too-brief Q&A session, Roger Miller of the Alloy Orchestra explains their unique art: “We consider the movie our conductor,� says. He explains that the Orchestra composes and masters music for each scene individually, “and then we connect them all.�

Ken Winokur, also head of his own company, Box 5 productions, has actually bought the original negative of Phantom of the Opera. Turns out the studio that made the film, Universal, inexplicably let the copyright lapse in 1953, putting this incredible masterpiece into the public domain.

Winokur says his firm had to recreate the primitive “two-strip� Technicolor technique used for the masked ball sequence, and had to hand-color another gorgeous sequence where the Phantom’s red cloak waves in the wind atop the Opera House.

On the way back to the car, we run into our friend Alexandro Santana, local artist, aesthete and all-around fun guy.

I mention that I was always told that The Wizard of Oz was the first color film. “Yes, that’s what I always heard too,�

Alexandro says. “But obviously that’s not the case, is it?�

Sure enough, here’s a 1925 silent film using Technicolor, albeit an early version, to great effect. It’s true -- you learn something new every day.

The other Paula TV production panel, Nov. 3 I go to the Paula Deen panel out of journalistic duty. I don’t expect to enjoy it. But it turns out to be one of the best things I do at the festival.

The challenges Deen faced in getting her show, “Paula Deen’s Home Cooking,� on the Food Network were daunting. Her longtime producer, Gordon Elliott, explains: “At the time the Food Network had very smart chefs in starched coats telling people how to cook. It bored the pants off of me,� he says. “We immediately recognized Paula’s food as food people actually ate. The network had all these culinary people who thought Paula’s cooking was too lowbrow. I thought, shit, I eat it. I love it.�

Elliott is an old-school Aussie tabloid guy in the Rupert Murdoch mold. The former Current Affair host tells it like it is and doesn’t care if you don’t like it. He is yang to Paula Deen’s yin, the wind beneath her wings, as it were.

They make a great team, Elliott with his gruff down-underisms and Deen with her cackling laugh and self-described Wal-Mart and Goodwill wardrobe. “So is it the format or is it personality?� Elliott opens the panel rhetorically. “Ninety percent of it is personality.

Unless the viewer can have a relationship with the host, there’s no show.�

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Film acting workshop, Nov. 4 This panel, featuring George Segal and Diana Scarwid, will be hard-pressed to be more entertaining than the conversation of the SCAD students sitting around me in the Red Gallery’s folding chairs as we wait for it to begin.

“I’m going to see Requiem for a Dream this afternoon.”

“Oh, I saw that back when I was doing heroin.”

“Is it just me, or does this festival seem to be screening a lot of real downers?”

“That’s how indies are. The filmmakers think Hollywood is making such crap so they think they all have to have these big depressing messages.”

“I see their point, but who wants to pay $8 to be depressed?”

Then the panel comes out -- Segal, Scarwid, and some director chick I don’t know.

Segal and Scarwid are quite the pair, he as always in his hypercasual homeless-chic mode, and she looking dashing and movie-starrish in a pink ‘50s style hat.

Normally very reserved, Scarwid is in her element here, as a teacher. She goes on long riffs into the microphone with that warm, comforting, one-of-a-kind voice, Segal looking on in a state of respectful amusement.

“I taught myself not to rely on everyone else -- to arrive with my bags fully packed, because there’s often not much there to work with,” Scarwid tells

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Apparently, despite Deen’s personality the Food Network still didn’t think there was a show there -- though it wasn’t for lack of persistence on Elliott’s part.

Deen says the reason she got her show was because of one event: 9/11.

Hey, if Bush can use that as an excuse for everything, why not Paula Deen?

“It took a heartbreaking tragedy in our country,” Deen says. “All of a sudden we became vulnerable and frightened. This country needed some comfort.”

“Comfort” as in “comfort food.”

Elliott describes his post 9/11 breakthrough moment with the Food Network: “The head of the network was sitting at her desk eating mashed potatoes, gravy and meatloaf. She called me and said, ‘You know, I’m thinking about that Paula Deen show.’”

And the rest is history, as they say, with Deen all over the Food Network’s schedule, a reality show with her sons Jamie and Bobby come and gone, and another show for the boys in the works.

The reality show, Elliott explains, just wasn’t meant to be: “The thing about Paula is, she’s Mickey Mouse in her own Disneyland.

You don’t want to see Mickey doing the laundry and cutting his toenails, which is what you get with a reality show.”

However, Paula’s sons score so high with test audiences and their hand-held interest meters -- “those 35-year-old women just dial ‘em up everytime,” Elliott says lustily, like a pirate that’s found hidden treasure -- that the Food Network wouldn’t rest until the boys, too, had a show of their own.

The key to getting a network to give you a show, Elliott says, has nothing to do with how many viewers you can get.

It’s which viewers you can get.

“They don’t care if they get a five share. Hell, they don’t care if it’s a one share -- as long as it’s the right demographic.” The right demographic, he says, is the 18-35 age range.

An audience member asks why, with the Baby Boom set to retire, networks don’t instead focus on older viewers.

Elliott replies without missing a beat, “Because Baby Boomers are set in their brands. The 18-35 demographic are brand-switchers. That’s what advertisers are looking for.”

Indeed, the Paula Deen phenomenon appears to have everything to do with her

uncanny appeal across age lines. Even little children watch her show.

“The other night I was sitting in my bed signing a stack of pictures to send back to people who had written in,” Deen says.

“Almost all of them were for children who watch the show.”

Jamie and Bobby apparently cast the same kind of spell. But the two remain humble, and have their own explanations for their mom’s success: “We’re at the restaurant every day, and we see people who love Mom as a real person,” Jamie says. “There’s so much crap on TV, and they see this person that is a real person. She’s true to herself.”

Bobby Deen, paying his mom the ultimate compliment says, “my hero -sitting right here -- shows people that they can do anything they want, that the American dream is alive and well.”

Word. Paula Deen just had a supporting role in Elizabethtown and is set to launch her own magazine. The woman has her own Wikipedia entry, for gosh sakes. She’s the white Oprah.

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us. “You sometimes get a plate of crumbs as an offering, and you have to gladly eat one of those crumbs off the plate.”

But all is not drudgery.

“The only way to move forward, as an actor and as a human, is to keep giving and keep offering,” she says.

“As actors, we have the opportunity to touch massive amounts of people and change their lives. I see a cracked door, and I say to myself, I’m going to open it. I look on acting as my turn with the gift basket. How am I going to decorate this?”

Scarwid is a one-woman metaphysics machine. She can go on like this for hours, dispensing hard-won wisdom like a thin, blue-eyed Deepak Chopra.

At one point, Scarwid says of acting: “The deeper you go, the better you feel.

And the better you feel, the deeper you go.”

This proves too much for Segal to resist. He does a slow-burn, eyes-wide take to the audience, to much laughter.

“This one’s a real hypnotic, isn’t she?” he laughs.

Truth be told, Segal is no less metaphysical than Scarwid. He just frames it in more workaday terms.

“You need to build a wardrobe for auditions. Dress in such a way that you feel in control of yourself,” he counsels.

“Dress for the part and let them know who it is. They want you to tell them what that character is. You become a real actor at these auditions. You’re specific about what you’re doing there,” he says.

“We’re all our own specialists. There’s no one else like you.”

It’s heady, inspiring stuff. George Segal is telling me how to become a famous actor! I’m ready to chuck this whole newspaper grind and take a Greyhound to Manhattan.

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A student director stands and asks a question about dealing with actors. As is the case with every student director I’ve ever seen ask a question at these things, it’s less of a question than an extended summary of her own accomplishments.

Finally, she gets around to a brief interrogative statement: “What do I do about actors who just don’t want to rehearse?”

For once, Segal is taken aback.

“I’ve never met an actor who doesn’t want to rehearse,” he says simply.

Ending on a high note Capote a n d a f t e r - p a r t y , N o v . 4 Film festivals are about hype, and there’s been no shortage of that commodity at this one. But believe the hype about Capote. It’s that good.

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The film avoids the cheap shot of portraying the relationship as purely a homoerotic phenomenon. Instead, the script and Philip Seymour Hoffman’s amazing performance combine to make it clear that Capote’s relationship with the drifter is about Capote himself.

You’ve no doubt heard that Hoffman’s performance is a shoo-in for an Oscar nod. That’s true, but Oscar’s a devalued currency, isn’t he? Gwyneth for Shakespeare in Love, Pacino for Scent of a Woman. Don’t get me started on Braveheart.

Yes, Hoffman will likely get his Oscar, but not merely on the basis of his uncanny impersonation of Capote’s voice, mannerisms and facial tics. Unlike Jamie Foxx’s rote mimicry in the insipid Ray, this is an honest-to-God piece of acting here. Unlike Foxx, Hoffman is not content to channel his film’s namesake; he begins with an impersonation and builds his art on it from there.

After the film, my wife and I are in that dazed stupor you get after you see a particularly powerful film. We passively join the bustling crowd leaving the Trustees Theatre, all marching purposefully in one direction. We lack the willpower to resist, so we attach ourselves to this mass exodus like remoras to a school of fish.

Along the way, we encounter local jazz great Ben Tucker and his delightful wife Gloria -- as glamorous and charismatic a couple as you would see in Hollywood -- and walk with them for awhile, talking about the good old days at Hannah’s.

Turns out our crowd of pedestrians is not re-enacting Napoleon’s retreat from Russia after all. They’re hightailing it to a Festival party at the First City Club.

Once inside, it’s the classic “everybody who’s anybody” scene.

People are overflowing the balconies, the open bar is rocking as is the band, and we end up seeing a dozen old friends we haven’t seen in a long time.

I talk with my old chum Anthony Palliser, one of the world’s great painters, in town from Paris with his darling wife Diane.

Turns out Palliser -- who knows everybody -- has been hanging with George Segal and Buck Henry this week.

He says neither one has yet seen their recent Connect interviews. I make a note to get their addresses from Bobby Zarem and send papers pronto.

“Big” is in the room, he of Sex and The City fame. His real name is Chris Noth, but I will always know him as Big. And he is. Big, that is. Tall guy. Looks and talks exactly like the character.

In the press of the crowd, Film Festival Managing Director Len Cripe brings a well-dressed gentleman over to meet Big. The gentleman and Big talk briefly. The gentleman is in banking, probably a Festival donor of some type.

The banker dude is clearly stoked at his brush with stardom. He walks away grinning from ear to ear.

Len’s mama didn’t raise no fool.

My wife and I stay for awhile, then conclude the evening with an appetizer and another gin and tonic at Il Pasticcio.

I’m all movied out, I tell her. After Capote, there’s just no point in seeing any other movies for awhile.

Tomorrow, the final day of the festival, will just have to get by without me. ◗

Jim Morekis is editor in chief of Connect Savannah. To comment, e-mail us at letters@connectsavannah.com

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As part of the university's celebration of International Week, Armstrong Atlantic State University opened its International Garden Nov. 7.

The garden, now under development between Hawes and Solms halls, is now open for tours and is expected to be completed in spring 2007.

"The International Garden is designed to be an outdoor gathering place for members of the Armstrong Atlantic community," said Philip Schretter, AASU horticulturalist and designer of the garden.

The design of the International Garden features plazas representing the continents of Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America. Philip Schretter, horticulturalist for the university and designer of the garden, has begun planting trees, shrubs, and ornamentals native to each continent represented in the garden.

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On Nov. 1, Blessed Sacrament Catholic School held a unique celebration of the annual religious feast of All Saints Day. Children in grades Pre-K through 4 dressed in homemade saint costumes and paraded past other church communicants to celebrate the Catholic Mass in honor of all the Christian saints.

Jamie Boaen, 6, “This is just another way in chose St. Francis of Assisi as his saint which we as a school and a community celebrate our Catholic Identity,” says school Principal Lynn Brown. “It gives our students a great opportunity to learn about all the different Fourth grader Mary saints and the Katherine Hopkins great acts of selected St.Therese of selflessness Liseux and courage that went into their respective sainthoods.”

As part of the celebration, each student selected a saint and wrote a report on the life and times of that person. They then dressed as their chosen saint for the annual All Saints Day pageant.

Historians say the original festival was intended to coincide with the ancient Celtic New Year’s festival Samhain. Most historians trace the modern celebration of the feast on Nov. 1 to the eighth century A.D.

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Chuffed with the sheer pleasure of words AS FAR AS CHEAP thrills go, I’d rank words -- the way they’re spoken, twisted or manipulated -- right up there with a good custard pie or egg salad sandwich any day.

I’m constantly amazed how quickly new expressions can weasel their way into our speech patterns, sometimes when you least expect it.

Just out of the blue the other say I turned to someone and said, “I am totally chuffed at the way my garlic is starting to pop up in the garden.”

Chuffed? You know, satisfied, pleased, delighted. Chuffed.

I got this word from an English artist/gardener, Julia Barton, who earlier this year transformed the old jail in an installation for SCAD. Of course anything a Brit says sounds erudite, doesn’t it?

I learned this as a reporter when, chuffed from an interview with someone from the British Isles, I’d sit down to write the story, review my notes and realize they hadn’t said anything particularly brilliant. It was the sound of the language that was brilliant.

Take note, though. “Chuff,” as in to pass gas, is something entirely different from chuffed.

Another favorite of Barton’s was the word “crack,” and she wasn’t speaking of the cocaine derivative.

“We had a really good crack last night at the pub,” she offered as an example. A good laugh. A good feeling. I don’t think you always need the article, either. So you might be able to say, “We had good crack,” and still be within the bounds of good grammar (and the law to boot).

“Knackered” is another one of her words. It means worn out (and not necessarily from sex). “I was totally knackered after trying to explain the project to the scaffolding people,” Julia said more than once, followed by, “They just ask as if they don’t give a toss.”

Toss is easy to extrapolate from the sentence. So is “jot,” as in, “She’s not helping a jot.”

“Nick” takes a little work. “The shoes look to be in good nick,” could go many different directions, but she means in good shape.

Same with “Skip,” particularly amusing to our American ear. No matter how often Julia said it, we still giggle thinking of skip as the Dumpster.

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Same with jumper, as in, “Better wear your jumper, girls. It’s going to get chilly tonight.” We knew she meant sweater but it still took time to compute.

“Torch” -- for flashlight -- is also easy to figure out from context (“We need a torch to get back to the car”) and just as easy to start using.

So is African-American patois. After all, you hear something often enough, it begins to sound correct no many how rules of grammar it egregiously violates.

Most of the new forms center around the verb form, which is often placed at the end of the sentence or eliminated altogether.

These days when I say things like, “Why you don’t call me?” (switching the “don’t” and the “you”) or “How you know my name?” (leaving out the “do” altogether) or “When you going to come over” (who needs the “are”?), I don’t give it two thoughts.

Terrible? I suppose. We need that auxiliary verb. Or do we? Frankly it’s beginning to sound right without it. More than sound right -- there’s a certain pleasure in forming the words that way.

I’m also starting, I notice, to leave out the apostrophe, which is not so bad on paper since it’s so hard to remember

when to use it anyway. Speaking is another issue.

When talking about someone who passed away, I’ll say, more as a joke than anything, “He dead.” Now I hear myself saying, “I’m going over to Tom house” and “Where my keys at, anyway?” And, of course, the universal, “What up?”

As we hear from people trying to learn English, it’s not easy, mainly because so many words sound alike.

The other day in a library up North, I asked about information on Wales.

Instead I got 119 entries on whales.

That same trip to the old folk’s home visiting my mother I ran into Trudy, a woman I’ve come to know quite well. The first thing she said to me -- and the way I heard it -- was, “I’ve got AIDS.” AIDS? Trudy? In the old folk’s home?

Huh? What’s going on in this place?

“Oh, that’s horrible,” I said.

“Well, it’s not so bad,” she answered.

“I only need them to help me get dressed in the morning and into bed at night.”

She meant aides with an “e,” a much better kind. When I told her what I thought she meant, we had a good crack. ◗

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• A rape suspect is behind bars, thanks to a Crime Stopper tip. Thomas Johnson was arrested Nov. 3 for the Oct. 12 rape of a Westside teenager.

Because of the tip, detectives located the suspect at an Ogeechee Road inn where he was taken into custody.

Johnson had been the target of a nationwide manhunt by police and the local office of the FBI. It was suspected that Johnson had fled to Illinois to avoid capture. He did not resist arrest, other than giving a false name.

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• A woman called police “after she tried to break up a pushing match between a man and her sister at a local hospital.” The woman said the man turned on her and physically beat her, then fled. She was left with a large contusion over her left eye, a small scratch under her right eye and a large scratch on her left elbow. The woman refused treatment. Both women were asked to leave the hospital.

• An assistant manager of a local storage company called police to report that a storage unit at the business had been damaged. She said the woman had fallen three months behind on her rental bill and was advised her belongings stored in the unit would be auctioned if the bill was not paid. The woman’s gate code was changed, but the storage unit was found broken into.

• A Stiles Avenue resident told police she opened her door to air out her apartment and someone threw a glass gin bottle at her. The woman said “she was walking towards her door when a glass bottle crashed through it.” A piece of glass hit her in the head, causing a small cut on her forehead.

EMS dressed her wound. She could not identify the person who threw the bottle, but neighbors said a man threw the bottle after he visited the woman.

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• A man took his car to be repaired two months ago to a man he knows only as “Andre”. When it was time for him to pick the car up, Andre would tell him to go to various locations to pick it up. When the victim arrived, neither the car nor Andre would be there. The victim told police “he has not given Andre any money for repairs, because he could not find him to pay him.” He said he knows Andre is using the car “because he received a past-due notice for a parking ticket received during the time Andre has had the car.” He said he obtained a possible address for Andre, but could not locate him there.

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A MAN WAS CHARGED with kidnapping, aggravated sodomy and threatening a witness after he kidnapped and attacked a witness to his pending court case. Carlos Richardson was arrested Nov. 2.

According to detectives, Richardson took the victim to his mother’s residence, where he attacked and threatened her.

Once the victim was able to get free, she contacted SavannahChatham Counter Narcotics agents, who had arrested the man in February for trafficking in cocaine and marijuana. Richardson was free on $75,000 bond pending his trial. During the investigation of the kidnapping, detectives discovered a copy of the department’s case file in the trunk of the suspect’s car. Detectives believe this is how Richardson was able to obtain the witness’ identity. It is customary practice under the Rules of Discovery for the courts to direct the police department to share its case file with the defendant’s attorney prior to trial.

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Government in Action All four of the Seminole County, Fla. (suburban Orlando), judges who hear drunk-driving cases have routinely tossed out all challenged breath-alcohol readings since January (a total of more than 700), according to a September Orlando Sentinel story, because the judges believe the defendants should be given access to the machines’ computer code. (Without the readings as evidence, about half the DUI defendants go free.)

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says the machines are accurate and that, anyway, manufacturers protect the codes as trade secrets.

An Associated Press investigation revealed in September that $5 billion in Small Business Administration loans authorized in the wake of Sept. 11 was so poorly managed that businesses close to New York City’s Ground Zero went begging for money while thousands of businesses throughout the country got emergency loans by creatively describing how they were hurt by the Islamist-terrorist attacks. More than 130 franchised

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fast-food shops; dentists and chiropractors; a South Dakota radio station; a Utah dog boutique; and a Virgin Islands perfume shop were among those who got the mostly guaranteed loans. SBA admitted that it assigned some ordinary loans to the 9-11 fund on its own and generously accepted others’ 9-11 “qualifications.”

Great Art! Among the extraordinary exhibits constructed especially for this year’s Burning Man festival in late August in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert was Don Bruce’s and Tracy Feldstein’s “The Disgusting Spectacle,” a 23-foot-tall human head designed with a pulley and large hamster-type wheel that lets it pick its own nose. In a July interview in the San Francisco Chronicle, Bruce admitted that theirs wasn’t the typical artsy Burning Man project: “Ours is stupid.

That’s stupid with three O’s.”

The museum at Cherepovets, Russia (about 400 miles north of Moscow), recently introduced a collection of items

actually used by students for successfully cheating in school, including a pair of women’s panties on which logarithms and math formulas had been written upside down in black ink. Also on display: a sports jacket with (according to a September dispatch in the Chronicle of Higher Education) “enough secret mechanisms to keep a cardshark flush for decades” and a jeans skirt with 70 numbered pockets for cheat sheets.

Notorious performance artist Zhang Huan gave a live show of his booksthemed photo installation “My Boston” at the city’s Museum of Fine Arts in September, including burying himself under a pile of volumes, eating pages, and shimmying up a flagpole while weighted down with books. Zhang’s previous notable works include “Seeds of Hamburg,” in which he coated himself with birdseed and honey and sat in a cage with 28 doves. According to a Boston Globe reporter, some people “outside” the performance-art world might call Zhang a “crackpot.”

Readers’ Choice Probably the most notorious example of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s under-preparation for Hurricane Katrina was the over-ordering of 91,000 tons of ice cubes intended to cool the victims and their food and medicine. One now-famous truck, for example, picked up 20 tons of ice in Greenville, Pa., drove to a Carthage, Mo., FEMA facility, then to Montgomery, Ala., for a day and a half, then to Camp Shelby in Mississippi, then to Selma, Ala., then to Emporia, Va. (where it idled for a week to keep the ice frozen), and finally to Fremont, Neb., where the ice was put up for storage. (Update: On the day that Hurricane Wilma hit Florida in October, FEMA acting director David Paulison proudly noted that because of the over-ordering for Katrina, plenty of ice was on hand after Wilma.)

News From the F State In Homosassa, Fla., near Tampa, Ralph Padgett, 73, was arrested in October and charged with running down (on his riding lawn mower) estranged neighbor David Ervin, who was also on a riding lawn mower. And in nearby Zephyrhills, in October, retiree Bryan Toll became the third person this year to pay more than $200,000 for a manufactured home at the Betmar Village Mobile Home Park. (Well, it is an 1,800-square-foot double-wide, located next to a golf course clubhouse.)

Creme de la Weird In September, after law enforcement officers in North Carolina spotted a reportedly stolen ambulance and chased it through three counties until forcing it into a ditch north of Greensboro, they found the driver to be mohawk-hairstyled Leon Hollimon Jr., 37, who is not a medical professional but was wearing a stethoscope and with latex gloves in his

pocket. Strapped to a gurney in the back was a dead six-point deer, and according to witnesses cited by the Florida TimesUnion newspaper (Hollimon is from Jacksonville, Fla.), an intravenous line was attached to it and a defibrillator had been used.

Least Competent People Lawyer Cindy Baker’s client, Mike Koster, was charged with methamphetamine and marijuana possession and set for trial in October in Berryville, Ark., but he was also charged with possession of a bomb. Baker’s trial strategy was to downplay the latter charge by bringing the actual bomb into the courtroom as evidence, but the horrified judge cleared the building and put out a call for the nearest bomb squad, and according to a source for the Carroll County News, the bomb was taken away and detonated.

The judge also declared a mistrial and set a contempt of court hearing for Baker.

Clumsy People With Guns (All-New) The following people accidentally shot themselves recently: a Fond du Lac, Wis., man, in the abdomen, while using a screwdriver to dislodge a round from his pistol (August); a Nacogdoches, Texas, woman, in the foot while trying to kill a snake on her property (September) (and the same woman, again trying to kill a snake, shot herself in the other foot the next day); a Tennessee Highway Patrolman, in the leg as he holstered his pistol while chasing a fleeing suspect near Maryville (August); a teenage boy, in the leg while fleeing after robbing a food store in New Caney, Texas (August); a 33-year-old Milwaukee man, in the leg while fleeing after robbing a man on the street (October). And Danny Walden, Taylorsville, Ky., was shot by the rifle he had set up in his home as a booby trap to protect his 115 marijuana plants (October).

The Continuing Crisis In August, U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan placed ads in Colombian newspapers and magazines “ordering” certain leaders of the revolutionary group FARC to come to America and appear in his courtroom in Washington, D.C., to answer charges of kidnapping U.S. citizens. Hogan’s assistant said the law requires notification and that no one seems to have the secretive FARC’s address.

Italy’s highest appeals court ruled in March that a divorcing man would have to pay alimony to his ex-wife because he had refused to have sex with her for seven years as punishment for challenging him in a family argument. (Whatever point the husband was trying to make was not disclosed.) ◗

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More than 80 percent of the buildings along Nicaragua’s central Caribbean coast were damaged when Hurricane Beta roared ashore. Heavy rain bands from the late-season storm also drenched neighboring Honduras.

• At least 15 people in central and northern Vietnam were killed when Typhoon Kai-Tak lashed a 200-mile stretch of the country’s coastline. Heavy rains and high winds knocked down hundreds of trees, causing blackouts and blocking roads in Da Nang.

• Torrential rainfall from Cyclone 04B unleashed further flooding over parts of southern India that had already suffered from rainstorms during the preceding two weeks.

Etna Rumblings Frightened villagers near Sicily’s Mount Etna fled their homes as the famed volcano produced a series of strong tremors. The rumblings were the latest in several weeks of seismic activity that has shaken the slopes of the 10,990-foot volcano. Similar

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The South China Morning Post reports many more may have died without seeking medical help because the cost of treatment for their numerous stings is out of reach for most poor farmers. The newspaper says it is not clear what has led to the increase in wasp attacks, but some elderly villagers say that since the reforestation of the country in the 1990s, there have been more trees for the wasps to build their nests.

South African Blazes Large parts of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province were evacuated due to wildfires raging out of control in the south of the country. One of the largest fires was burning toward the coastal city of Port Elizabeth.

Wildlife Crisis The failed economic policies of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe have led to a crisis in Africa’s most densely populated wildlife sanctuaries. For the first time since Hwange National Park was established 76 years ago, pumps that provide water to wild game during the country’s hottest and driest months are silent due to neglect. Ample water lies just beneath the ground, but Johnny Rodrigues, chairperson of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, warns that up to half the animals at the park are in danger because the government has no foreign currency to import parts and fuel for the pumps.

Rodrigues warned that animal carcasses had started showing up near dry water pans in the last week or so. South Africa’s Getaway travel magazine announced it has launched a plan to rescue the pumps and supply fuel to them. ◗

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High fuel costs prevented Norway’s whaling fleet from catching the full quota of 796 minke whales over the summer and fall months. The fisheries and coastal affairs ministry announced that the 30 boats “culled” only 639 of the marine mammals. Ministry Deputy Director General Halvard Johansen told the French news agency, “The weather has not been good, and since oil prices have increased significantly, the whalers haven’t wanted to travel so far for such an unpredictable result.”

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An elderly man was killed and another person was injured when a moderate earthquake struck southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang region.

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• Twenty homes were damaged by a magnitude 5.4 quake that struck northern Peru’s Bagua Province.

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THE COVER IMAGE for the Eric Culberson Blues Band’s brand-new CD shows a closeup of a classic Fender guitar amplifier.

Weathered and scuffed, it’s hard to determine just how old the piece of equipment is, but it’s sure seen its share of hard travelling. The smooth finish which surrounds the input jacks is worn off, and the base of the amp is chipped and nicked from being dropped, set and dragged on countless stages.

The fabric grill which covers the four large speakers is a deep, rusty brown that’s common for vintage tweed amps.

Only this amp was never tweed.

“Some people can’t even believe that amp still works,” the guitarist laughs.

“We were out on the road a while back and it was givin’ me some problems. I found this mad scientist kinda guy who knew everything about old tube gear. When he saw it, he about passed out (laughs)! It’s a 1966 Fender Super Reverb. He acted like it was the Hope Diamond or somethin’. I bought it in ‘89 and it looked great. The front grill was originally silver and black, but it’s lived through so many years of cigarette smoke and bad bar air folks think it’s supposed to be tweed!”

With that in mind, it’s a wonder that the “thirty-something” Culberson (he’s guarded about his exact age) doesn’t look more haggard himself. He’s been breathing that same barroom air for close to two decades. A professional musician who makes a living playing and singing Chicago-style blues, he and his band have been on the road (in varying degrees) since the early ‘90s. And, while he’s famously burned through a handful of sidemen over the years, his own drive and dedication have remained a constant.

From the earliest days of his professional career, when his group was billed locally as both EROK and The EROK Trio (and could often be found plowing through as much jagged, angular alternative rock as straight-up blues tunes), through the release of his two internationally-acclaimed studio albums on the established Florida label King Snake

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Records (1996’s Blues Is My Religion and 1998’s No Rules To The Game), Culberson has thrown himself into his craft with a vengeance.

That attitude is likely responsible for his continued presence on our local music scene (and others far away). And – except for a few years there where it seemed like he was resting on his laurels and getting a wee bit too comfortable being the big fish in a relatively small pond – that determination has slowly led him into bigger and better things.

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Now, after seven years without new product, he’s releasing his first-ever live concert album, and it’s no exaggeration to brand it his finest record to date.

Recorded a year ago this week in front of a packed house in Lake Worth, Florida, Live At The Bamboo Room is an immensely enjoyable snapshot of a one of the most consistent local guitarists this area has ever seen. Over the course of ten songs (including soulful renditions of nuggets by Sonny Boy Williamson, Hound Dog Taylor, Otis Rush and Culberson himself), Eric and the rhythm section of drummer Stuart Lusk and bassist Rodney Smith take the listener on a guided tour of the past forty years of electric blues.

It’s a cross-section of material that seems designed to spotlight Culberson’s versatility on guitar. On the traditional “Catfish Blues” (popularized by the late Muddy Waters), the bandleader deftly vocalizes in tandem with his brash and confident guitar leads, only to unleash a psychedelic solo that recalls both Roger McGuinn’s synasthetic Coltrane-isms (“8 Miles High”) and the acid-washed British Invasion stylings of ‘60s phenom Peter Green.

In fact, Jimi Hendrix’s own “Manic Depression” is quoted obliquely, with Lusk’s rolling and tumbling trap fills instantly reminiscent of the great Mitch Mitchell’s work with The Experience.

Contrast this with the straight-ahead and rock-solid barrelhouse beat of “Gimme Back My Wig” (a Hound Dog Taylor barnburner). On this cut, Eric’s high-pitched, squealing slide guitarwork and non-stop chugging boogie rhythm propels the song to greater and greater heights. Culberson’s voice is perfect for a number like this. However, while gruff, declamatory boasting has been a strong suit of his for years, Live At The Bamboo Room finds the bluesman pushing his own limits, and reaching deep into himself for moments of emotion and soul that would have seemed forced in the past.

In fact the singer on this record sounds like a much different man than he did even a couple of years ago. And,

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business demands that artists continue to grow and evolve, or risk becoming superfluous. Culberson knows this well.

In fact, in a surprising development, he is considering revisiting some of his earliest material – including songs that have not graced his setlists for well over a decade. They’re edgier tunes, and more rock than blues, but Eric is confident they can fit in nicely with his current sound.

“We probably won’t even change ‘em too much. Just play ‘em like I wrote ‘em.

Songs like “God Is Good Food”... That’s not too far from a real heavy ‘70s funk blues. It’s a bit like the Chili Peppers, but the beat is still there, you know? I still have a box of old cassette tapes of that stuff from back in 1988, and I guess it’ll be like hunting for dinosaur bones.”

However, while Culberson and his band have the ability to enthrall music lovers across the country (as the enthusiastic crowd response on this new CD aptly demonstrates), the real test may be whether or not they can invigorate and grow their current local fanbase.

In this town, where he’s held court several nights a week for more than a decade, it’s very easy to simply take Culberson for granted. He’s ubiquitous in this area: the go-to guy for fiery blues guitarwork. He’s like the Kleenex of R & B. With the release of this album, however, it is relatively easy to make a strong case for his re-appraisal as a mature artist. This CD showcases a performer who has successfully absorbed the styles and tones of a wide variety of the classic blues axemen, and become adept and switching between approaches on the fly – without sounding like a he’s simply copping riffs.

He’s come to the point in his career where he’s conversant enough in the language of electric blues music to pick and choose what suits his mood (and the mood of the songs) best.

From the opening notes, he and his bandmates come out swinging, with a self-assurance that speaks to the years Culberson and Lusk have spent on stage, and in a van heading up and down the East Coast. Live At The Bamboo Room casts him and his facile trio in the best possible light, and could seemingly catapult them into another strata of the touring circuit and the blues world.

“I keep gettin’ e-mails and phone calls from people who love the album,” says Culberson. “When they’re happy with it, we’re happy with it and it doesn’t get any better than that.” ◗

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while at this point he still can’t lay claim to being a powerhouse vocalist, he takes greater risks, and that – more so than his fretwork – is what ultimately sells this CD. Culberson says he’s very happy with this aspect of his performance, but he knows he can always grow as a singer.

“Some of this stuff is rather eyeopening to hear,” he admits. “I know where I nailed it, and I can tell where I need to tighten up. ‘Cause I’m just a mockingbird sometimes. I mean it as a tip of the hat. I’m not trying to be B.B. King or Otis Rush... It’s all about respect.”

When asked what his favorite part of the new album is, Culberson laughs.

“I’m just glad we got the whole thing on tape! We almost didn’t make it. My bass player at the time quit the band about two or three weeks before the gig.

We had to get everything back up to speed in that short of a time and be able to make something that would stand up.”

And stand up it does. The saving grace was fill-in bassist Smith, an acquaintance of Eric’s who’d jammed with him in the past at a few Open Mic nights.

“He was a real nice guy and I knew he could do the job,” says Culberson. “In just two weeks he got in there and just killed.”

“It is kinda weird that he’s on the record but isn’t really in the band. But he’s got a straight job and can’t drop everything and get in the van for a few days at a time. I do think he’s happy to be a part of something like this CD, though.”

The group’s current bassist, Nate Saraceno, has been with them since not long after this recording was made, and Culberson is more excited about this lineup of the band than any one before.

“Since Nate joined, he’s gotten a workout with us. We’ve taken him all over the place. He’s turned out to be quite the accomplished bass player, and he’s gotten used to our style and developed a line of communication with us. That’s the most important thing besides physical talent. Now things are moving along very nicely, and we plan to stay on this path.”

And where will that path lead?

Culberson says that he and the two fans who bankrolled this project have formed a corporation to independently release this album, future studio CDs, and even a possible multimedia disc featuring live footage of this same concert.

“Creative control is a double-edged sword, but all of us are on the same page and it’s good to have Stuart who’s been with me for so long. We’re in a new phase with the band. We’re about to change gears. The material’s getting deeper, and we’re starting to lock in together on parts of our playing that we never have before.”

The notion of changing gears may be a timely one, as the entertainment

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Joey Allcorn’s Hillbilly Band

Mary Davis & Company

Retro country artist playing up the outlaw image with lazy drawls, baritone vocals, sleepy rhythms and some undertaker duds it looks like he swiped from Luke The Drifter. These guys channel the attitude of old-school punk into the format of vintage C & W, and are finally staring to draw some serious attention throughout the Southeast. The likeminded Last Train opens.

Fri., 10 pm, The Jinx.

Acoustic trio featuring vocalist Davis, frontwoman for the popular Wilmington Island-based Band In The Park. Laidback rock and pop hits.

Thurs., 7 pm, Baja Cantina (The Landings).

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Mama's Mojo Newly-minted local electric blues act featuring former members of both The Ignitors and Bluesonics. They pattern their highenergy style after that of artists like Taj Mahal and Tab Benoit (!). Fri., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar + Sat., One Hot Mama’s (Bluffton).

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Terrific Athens-based funk combo that leans heavy on the sort of danceoriented rhythms and jazz-tinged solos that James Brown and George Clinton pioneered. Sat., Locos Deli &

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Solo set of jazz and blues-inspired material by a The Weary Boys talented electric guitarist best known locally as a key Pub. member of the popular R & B show band The Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love.

Thurs., 10 pm, Molly MacPherson’s Southern rock covers and originals Scottish Pub. from veteran regional musicians. Fri. Sat., 9 pm, Gilley’s (Hinesville).

Reunion of three members of the fondly-remembered Deep South Band Founded in 1998, Indiegrrl is a forum who used to play out at the Holiday Inn for independent female musicians that on Hwy 204. They play traditional has become a haven for DIY country with tight vocal harmonies. Fri. Sat., 8 pm, The Sea Grill (Pt. singer/songwriters. They help with netWentworth). working, release compilation albums of standout acts, and sponsor regional and

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national tours like this one (the first of its kind in Savannah). This gigs showcases acoustic artists from around the Southeast, including: Lauren Fincham, Leslie Berry, Julia Carroll, Laura McLean, and local organizer Lauren Lapointe. Fri., 7 pm, The Sentient Bean.

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Aaron Raitiere Swampy blues/bluegrass guitarist from Kentucky inspired by John Prine, Howlin’ Wolf and Beck. He writes songs of “Love, life, booze, dogs, food, cars, people, places, booze, love, and other stuff.” Sat., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

The Serenaders Two vocalists (one dances, the other plays guitar) that busk on River Street.

Now they’re offering their unusual arrangements of popular covers in a club setting. Wed., 7 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar.

Randy ‘Hatman’ Smith Area guitarist/singer with a repertoire of dance-oriented beach, boogie and blues covers that he plays to sequenced accompaniment for a “full band sound.”

Fri. - Sat., 9:30 pm, Scandals (Tybee).

Strange Change Up-and-coming local “psychedelic” band playing their own works inspired by the classic rock of the late ‘60s through the mid-’70s. Fri., JJ Cagney’s.

The Train Wrecks Acoustic trio (featuring Jason Bible) offering spirited takes on rock, blues and Americana covers. Sat., 10 pm, Finnegan’s Wake.

The Weary Boys Austin, Tx.-based Americana band that’s equal parts Caarter Family pathos and Paul Westerberg grit (traditionals and originals). Wed., 10 pm, The Jinx.

Yancy & The Breakneck Quartet Great local group (with much potential for success) mixing alternative rock, soul and hip-hop influences into a positive, upbeat hybrid of rap, R & B and organic groove music. Fri., Locos Deli & Pub. ◗

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While most of the better area blues bands impress with their devotion to the art form and efforts at being as slick as possible, this local quartet achieves a similar goal through a different approach.

In broad terms, from the 1960s on, there’s always been two distinct schools of thought as far as blues bands go: either you aped the glitzy showmanship and refined air of, say, B.B. King, or you picked door number two, and played the more primitive blues typified by the Delta juke joints King worked hard to escape.

The only problem with such a didactic dilemma, is that it invariably leads to shucking and jiving at either end of the spectrum. Talented musicians buy into roles they’re simply not suited for – and there’s just as much to dislike about people dressing down in search of phony authenticity as there is people cloaking a raw repertoire in sharkskin and pommade.

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This triple-bill of uncompromising, harsh and noncommercial punkbased music is bound to be a balm to some and Subversivo a bomb to others, but that’s just the way it should be. JeWop is an agit-prop bass-and-drums duo from Florida which features the terribly talented Savannah native Adam Safer (formerly of the mid80s hardcore act Clownknife). Armadildo plays noisy, off-color satirical set pieces, and Subversivo! offers instrumental rock that’s based around seemingly unrelated genres like surf music, Klezmer, speed metal and film noir scores. Love ‘em or leave ‘em, these bands demand to be taken seriously on their own (admittedly difficult) terms. Sat., 10 pm, The Jinx.

Misty Berryhill Cancer Benefit This fundraiser for a local 32-year-old stricken with Stage II breast cancer features local bluesman Eric Culberson and his band. Proceeds from the show will go towards Berryhill’s medical expenses (she’s already had surgery and is undergoing chemo now). Additionally, her employer (Joseph’s Salon) is hosting a silent auction. Tickets are only $10 and are available at Joseph’s, 116 West Jones St. For more info, call 236-8515.

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A Few months back, this Savannah native (now residing in Jacksonville, Fl.) won the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Competition in Bangkok(!). He’s also enjoyed residencies at some of the most prestigious jazz education programs in the world.

Proficient on both the trumpet and the flügelhorn, he’s making a real name for himself as one of the new breed of jazzmen to watch, and for this free show will be backed up by three ace players (including bassist Delbert Felix). Fri., 9 pm, The Mansion on Forsyth Park.

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The Les DeMerle Band One of Florida’s finest swing jazz groups, this four-piece unit often gigs as an expanded group – sometimes swelling to almost twenty members. They’re based on Amelia Island (at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel), and have traveled as far as Singapore. DeMerle is something of a minor drumming legend – having worked extensively with trumpeter Harry James’ band (following in the storied footsteps of incredible talents like Buddy Rich and Louis Bellson), Wayne Newton (who actually conceded to marquee billing with him in Vegas), plus Sinatra and Sammy.

Bonnie has a versatile and thrilling voice, and this lineup will likely dip into some Latin jazz as well as pop standards – all of which she can handle with ease.

Call (843) 842-8620 for reservations. Fri. Sat., 7:30 pm, Jazz Corner (Hilton Head).

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For well over a year, Harrison, an Atlantabased troubadour, has curated a monthly showcase for poets at this downtown coffeeGypsse Yo house. Sadly, Kodac’s now passing the baton to a local poet who’ll build on what he started, but for his final appearance he’ll do a longer set of his own than usual, and expose Savannah audiences to the Albanian-born poet Jonida “Gypsse Yo” Bego.

She’s a published author who’s toured a celebrated one-woman show throughout the States and Europe, and something of a sensation in her new home of Atlanta. According to Harrison, “She takes women’s issues out of the bedroom and transforms them into global campaigns.” She’ll draw on works from Alien Anthem, her upcoming CD. Thurs., 7 pm, The Sentient Bean.

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This Saturday’s Cane Grinding Festival at Oatland Island has a new focus THERE ARE FEW THINGS more oldfashioned than a cane grinding. At Oatland Island Education Center, cane grinding is lifted to an art form every fall with an annual annual cane grinding festival.

But this year’s festival comes with a new spin -- it’s now the Cane Grinding and Harvest Festival. The festival will be held Saturday, Nov. 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Aromas of cane syrup, corn bread and other harvest foods will fill the air. “We try to make everything we do educational,� says Oatland Island Director Martha McIlveene. “We decided to take a different slant this year and focus on the harvest.�

That means more attention will be made to the bounties of the harvest -- especially apples.

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“We’re having an apple bake-off for anything apple,� McIlveene says. “We’re hoping to get a lot of entries.�

Local chefs will judge the competition, which is officially named the Anything Apple Bake-Off. There is an application form for potential competitors on the Oatland web site.

If the application form does not print, contestants can call the center and ask that a form be faxed to them. Entry forms must be submitted by Nov. 9 and all entries must be delivered to the judging area by noon on Nov. 12.

Judging will take place at 1 p.m. and winners will be announced at the Heritage Homesite Stage at 3 p.m.

Judging will be based on presentation, taste and originality.

Participants need not be present to win. “They can fix apple pie, apple crisp, apple butter -- anything as long as it has apples in it,� McIlveene says. “There will be a Best of Show award given in every category. There also will be first place and second place awards given. All entries must have apples,�

McIlveene says. “There’s a separate entry for apple recipes with cane syrup in them.�

There is a category for adults and a category for children ages 12-18. There also is a team category for a parent or grandparent and a child age 6-12, plus the separate cane syrup category.

Of course, the cane grinding will remain a major focus of the festival. Visitors can watch as the sugar cane is juiced and

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turned into cane syrup with a horse-drawn mill -- just as it was done 150 years ago.

McIlveene says the cane is cut the week before the festival. “Part of our staff actually goes to the farm and cuts the cane,� she says. “We’re very fortunate this year. We have an Americorps team at Oatland Island to build a marsh boardwalk. We have a team of 10 and they are going to the farm with a couple of staff members to cut the cane.�

Music will be provided by the Savannah Folk Music Society. There will be food and refreshment concessions and

fresh, hearth-baked corn bread, sugar cane, cane juice and cane syrup will be offered for sale.

Visitors also can give to others at the festival. The Second Harvest Food Bank will conduct a food drive, and anyone who brings non-perishable food items to donate will receive a free general pass for a future trip to Oatland.

Oatland Island Education Center is owned and operated by the Savannah-Chatham County School System and serves as a field study site. It also is open to the public for self-guided tours of the Native Animal Nature Trail that winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetlands and salt marsh habitats.

Visitors will see native animals, including wolves, black bear, cougar, bobcats and birds of prey. “It’s such a wonderful part of the school system,�

McIlveene says. “We served 21,000 kids last year. We also had 16,000 weekend visitors.�

Admission to the festival is $5 per person. Anything Apple Bake-Off contestants will be admitted free, as will children under 4. â——

The Oatland Island Education Center is at 711 Sandtown Rd. For information, call 898-3980 or visit www.oatlandisland.org.

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Spoken word events this weekend pour it on in imported and domestic varieties WHETHER YOUR TASTE IN POETRY leans towards imports or domestics, Savannah’s spoken word scene is offering an array of top shelf performers during two very different events this weekend.

In June of 2004, Harrison launched the Speaking Bean Slam at the Sentient Bean Coffeehouse, serving as emcee, performer, coordinator of featured performers and poets, and on-stage creativity mentor for the slam participants and aspiring writers in the crowd.

Harrison’s gravelly Southern voice seasoned each open mic showcase with a rich Southern flavor, before turning the stage over The Sentient Bean to artists reflecting a smorCoffeehouse, presenting gasbord of styles, influences, its final monthly and origins.

Speaking Bean Slam on “I’m especially impressed Thursday night, offers by the diversity of the people two featured out of town [Harrison] brought in to feaperformers. ture,” says Kelli Pearson, In December, the owner of the Sentient Bean.

Speaking Bean’s emcee, “His mission is to bring in Above, Kodac Harrison; below, people from diverse backDecatur, Ga., Gypsee Yo singer/songwriter and grounds, a whole range of spoken word artist voices from the poetry Kodac Harrison will hand scene.” over the mic to new host Harrison has showcased Rushelle Frazier. performers as varied as Thursday’s Speaking Rosemary Daniell, Mary Chi, Bean will be the final and Corey Hopps of local event with that name. spoken word/hip hop group “To end our run with A.W.O.L. during the a real bang,” Harrison Speaking Bean’s one-and-asays he will perform a half year run. longer-than-usual warmHarrison first met up prior to the open mic Gypsee Yo when she signed portion of the evening, up to fill a last-minute open and has invited critically mic slot at the Java Monkey acclaimed Jonida Beqo, Speaks event earlier this aka “Gypsee Yo,” as the year. featured artist for this “I heard her do one farewell celebration. piece,” says Harrison.

Gypsee Yo is a 25“Based on that piece I year-old writer and actor asked her to come back the being imported to next week as the featured Savannah from Albania -performer. She blew the by way of her current place away. She got a home in Atlanta. She standing ovation in the midcame to the United dle of her performance.

States seven years ago as an internaWe’ve had standing ovations before but tional college student majoring in thenever in the middle of the performance.” ater.

Gypsee Yo began performing spoken Her one-woman show “Sinners and word when she moved to Atlanta from Saints: The Women I Know”, won a Alabama this past April. “I’ve always Dell’Arte Diversity Award in 2004 from been a poet,” she says, “but there is a the American College Theatre Festival difference between being a poet and a and the Kennedy Center for the Arts. spoken word artist.”

Although Speaking Bean host She sees spoken word as an opporHarrison is a resident of Decatur, it’s tunity to integrate poetry and theater. hard to apply the “out-of-towner” label to “With spoken word, the emotional rethe Georgia native who has performed ward is much more intense because of off and on in Savannah over the last two the amount of connection you have with decades. the audience which you don’t have in A longtime singer songwriter who theater. With poetry you don’t really has toured nationally and internationally, know what they think of your work on Harrison in recent years has turned many an original song lyric into a moving continued on page 22 spoken word piece, and vice versa.

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the printed page. This is really the best The play is a series of spoken word of both worlds.” performances presented in the format of For her Savannah performance, a news broadcast, with each performer Gypsee Yo will perform “some eclectic serving as a news reporter. “Everybody works, not with one theme in mind as is responsible for writing his own piece,” much as a representation of what I care says Jordan. about. I definitely worry a lot about “Corey writes all of the individual secwomen’s issues, both for women living in tions together. I will be a street reporter, the United States and outside. It’s a luxinterviewing a woman from the audiury that I have that I can look at probence.” The show will also feature a lems universally. I can see that some weatherman, assessing the climate of problems persist regardless of culture or the Savannah community. socio-economic Saturday’s perstatus.” formance of “Urban The new host Journalism” is a of the Speaking fundraiser to supBean event, port AWOL’s upRushelle Frazier, coming hip hop will likely make history exhibition an appearance and performance at onstage on the SPACE Gallery Thursday. The in February. The Worcester, City of Savannah Mass., native has provided who has made AWOL with a grant Savannah her for the February home for the exhibit, but the past year has award requires a been writing po50 percent funding ‘Polo’ is a featured performer at the AWOL event etry and performmatch. ing spoken word AWOL has been for nearly 10 years, has published two a part of Savannah’s cultural scene since chapbooks, and was a member of the 1997 when they became the first regis2002 Worcester Slam Team that comtered hip hop and spoken word group on peted in the national slam competition. the campus of Savannah State Frazier hopes to spread the word naUniversity. Like Tony Jordan, some of tionally about the burgeoning spoken those initial student members are still word audience in Savannah. “There is a AWOL members who have remained in community here. I think we need to get Savannah, establishing professional cathat out to the touring poets who don’t reers and family lives. AWOL served as have a stop between Washington, D.C. the launching pad for many local spoken and Orlando.” word artists including Renazance and Outgoing host Harrison notes that Clinton Powell of the Spitfire Poetry the slam, or competitive portion of the Group, who regularly host spoken word event may be eliminated on Thursday events for youth and adults around due to time constraints, but performance Savannah. artists of every stripe are encouraged to Future plans for AWOL include estabsign up for the non-competitive open mic lishment of a cultural center for youth portion off the evening. that will utilize spoken word, hip hop, and theater as vehicles for “empowering people through art,” said DaVena Jordan, chairman of the AWOL board of directors.

For spoken word buffs with a taste Adults are encouraged to bring for domestic fare, this Saturday’s presyoung people age nine and older to entation from All Walks of Life, Inc. Saturday’s performance. For the price (AWOL) is sure to be a palate pleaser. of admission, ticket holders will be able “Urban Journalism” is written by locals, to see the play and also attend a wine performed by locals, and squarely conand hors d’ouvres reception, including a fronts conditions affecting Savannah juice bar for kids. ◗ teens.

Conceived and directed by local spoThe Speaking Bean Slam is Thurs., Nov. ken word artist Corey Hopps, “Urban 10 at 7 p.m. at The Sentient Bean Journalism” is “a play with poetic twists” Coffehouse, 13 East Park Avenue. according to Tony Jordan, one of Admission is free, but a hat will be AWOL’s founders who will perform a porpassed during Gypsee Yo performance. tion of the show, and who also serves as Urban Journalism, presented by the president of the organization. In all, AWOL, Inc., happens Sat., Nov. 12 eight performers, including two youth 8–10 p.m. Doors open at 7:45 p.m. members, have roles in the show.

Allure Hair Salon, 7010 Skidaway Road The piece “talks about urban issues Admission is $10 adults, $5 youth (rechere in Savannah — poverty, education, ommended for age 9 and over) racism, and socioeconomic issues in this city,’ said Jordan.

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Horne & Thistle Gallery -- Through December, a group show at this new gallery at 424 E. Oglethorpe Ave. features Gamble Moore, Craig Stevens, Arnold Desmarais, Mary Ellen McLaughlin, William Peterson, and Hillary Parker.

Alvida Open House -- Third annual event at Alvida Art Gallery, 7303-D Abercorn, features new work by Muriel Bono, Anne El-Habre, Jennifer Incorvaia and more, Sat. Nov. 12, 7 p.m.-until. Live music.

'Vessel' - New still life oil paintings by recent SCAD graduate Dana Richardson.

DeSoto Row Gallery, DeSoto Ave. at 41st between Bull and Whitaker St. Nov. 4-10.

Opening reception Nov.4, 6-8 pm.

‘Ties That Bind’ -- Watercolors by Savannah native Sonya Walker through Dec. 11 at the Beach Institute, corner Price & Harris. ‘the trouble with building here’ -- Julio Garcia’s series of studies on the encroachment of development on natural landscapes. Nov. 11-Dec. 2 at Atwell’s Art & Frame, 228 W. Broughton St. Opening reception Nov. 11 at 6 p.m.

Healthcare showcase -- Art work by local healthcare professionals is at Hospice Savannah Art Gallery Nov. 1-Dec. 31.

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JEA Art for November -- The art show at the JEA, 5111 Abercorn St., beginning Nov. 1 will feature the works of Savannah painter Emma Knight.

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‘A Celebration of Judaic Art’ -- Work by Vicki Stone and Raya Zorkine expressing Jewish life. Sept. 6-Oct. 31 at the Hurn Museum, 1015 Whitaker St. Closed Monday. Admission for adults if $4 and for students is $3.

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‘Unsuspected Outlaws’ -- Exhibit features pieces from more than 15 different artists and includes photography, painting, printmaking, video art, and more. Nov. 3-29 at Black Orchid Gallery, 131 Drayton St. Opening reception Friday Nov. 11, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

‘Presence’ -- Recent oil paintings and drawings by Savannah-based artist Erica Gajewski, Oct. 27-Nov. 10 at Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Opening reception 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10.

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‘RX: Mind Filter’ -- Paintings by Torrey Stifel on the subject of loss of control in our fast-paced society. At La Galerie Bleue, 3515 Montgomery St., Nov. 1-10.

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‘Syncretism’ -- One-night only exhibition explores the reconciliation of disparate beliefs, systems of thought, and forms of expression. 7-10 p.m. Nov. 11 at Starland Lofts, 2409 Bull St., between 40th and 41st. Features audio, video, installations, and performances.

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CHICKEN LITTLE ✰✰

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With its hand-drawn animation division boarded up and its profitable partnership with Pixar having crashed and burned, Walt Disney Pictures has taken the next step by creating its own fully computer-animated movie. Yet if Chicken Little represents the future of Disney animation, then the sky is indeed falling: This is as far removed from such old-school classics as Pinocchio and Beauty and the Beast as roast duck is from chicken gizzards. To be fair, this toon flick -- a frantic yarn about a diminutive bird (voiced by Zach Braff) whose warnings about an impending alien invasion are ignored by the other anthropomorphic animals in the town of Oakey Oaks -- has its moments, most of them arriving courtesy of a supporting character known as Fish Out of Water. A mischievous type who never utters a single word, he’s like a cartoon version of Harpo Marx, earning laughs through his aberrant behavior and perpetual cheeriness. But the central thrust of Chicken Little -- a standard “follow your dream” slog that on a dime turns into War of the Worlds -- is the same sort of hollow experience that has all but drained the traditional toon tale of its potency over the past decade-plus. And what do we make of the annoying character of Runt of the Litter, who’s known for his

JARHEAD ✰✰✰

It usually isn’t hard to tell a war movie from an anti-war movie. If the combat experience is presented as a rousing boys’ adventure in which the good guys stomp on the bad guys and clear-cut goals are met, then it’s a war movie (e.g. practically every WWII film ever made). But if the combat experience is presented as a murky affair in which objectives are unclear, the good guys die (or, worse, deteriorate mentally) and nothing tangible gets accomplished, then it’s an anti-war movie (e.g. practically every Vietnam War film ever made, with the obvious exception of John Wayne’s The Green Berets). Jarhead doesn’t quite fall under either classification. If anything, it’s the pioneer in a new genre: the antiwar-movie movie. With steadfast determination, it refuses to take sides, name names, push agendas or do anything that might potentially inspire the wrath of moviegoers, Oscar voters, Op-Ed editors, war hawks or pacifists. In adapting Anthony Swofford’s book, director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) and scripter William Broyles Jr. (Apollo 13) apparently felt that they had to be solely sympathetic to the travails of the foot soldiers -- in this case, the Marine “jarheads” who were dispatched to Iraq back in the early 90s to take part in the Gulf War. For the most part, they succeed, even though the structure of the piece is frequently problematic. In much the same fashion as Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant Full Metal Jacket, Jarhead opens stateside, as we see the basic training undergone by “Swoff” (Jake Gyllenhaal) as he attempts to mold himself into a military man of steel. There’s the verbally abusive D.I., the hazing by the other grunts, the rigorous workouts, etc.

From here, it’s off to the Middle East, where these young men -- pumped up by visions of macho exploits, bonding with their phallic rifles and whipped into a feeding frenzy by a screening of Apocalypse Now’s Wagnerian interlude (a scene whose absurdist elements completely elude the whooping Marines) -- are ready to kill countless Iraqis for God and country.

Only things don’t quite work out that way. Instead, their enemy turns out to be boredom, as days become weeks become months of endless waiting in the punishing desert heat, killing the time by tossing around footballs, repeatedly inspecting their weapons, and drinking lots of water to remain hydrated. And when Desert Shield eventually transforms into Desert Storm, there’s a risk, as one soldier notes, that the battle is so fast-paced that the U.S. jets will have already settled the score before the ground troops can even get within a couple of miles of the skirmish. Mendes’ film, therefore, is about warriors without a war, young men who have been primed to kill and are then denied that opportunity, leaving them antsy, unfulfilled and still ready to shoot their loads (the movie’s awash in masturbatory motifs). Jarhead does its best to remain apolitical through and through: One soldier (Lucas Black) who correctly states that the only reason we’re over there is to protect the oil is quickly silenced by another character who declares, “Fuck politics!” Yet the very nature of the piece insures that correlations can be made to the current debacle in the Middle East. Sam Mendes may have been reluctant to offend the war hawks, but history can’t afford a similar luxury: It’s too busy repeating itself to balk.

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the way from his own kid. The presence of Anthony Hopkins (who played the original, aging Zorro in the first film) is sorely missed, but Banderas and ZetaJones remain a sexy and spirited screen couple.

THE LEGEND OF ZORRO

Nicolas Cage, who throughout the past decade has been more grating than ingratiating, here delivers one of his better performances in a movie that mines much of the same emotional terrain as About Schmidt. A serio-comic piece written by Steven Conrad, this finds Cage cast as David Spritz, a Chicago TV weatherman whose lack of legitimate credentials hasn’t slowed down his career ascension. One of the final candidates for the weatherman position on the nationally televised morning show Hello, America, David realizes that if he lands the gig, he would have to relocate to New York City, a move that he hopes would bring his family back together. Gore Verbinski may have directed the smashes Pirates of the Caribbean and The Ring, but he’s clearly not planning on coasting the rest of his career: The man who previously gave us the only decent Home Alone rip-off

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It’s been seven years since the delightful swashbuckling adventure The Mask of Zorro hit theaters, and the lengthy interim suggests that this follow-up was largely an afterthought on the part of Columbia Pictures. Maybe so, but at least nobody can accuse this of being hastily put together to cash in on the success of the first film. Set approximately nine years after the conclusion of Mask, this finds Don Alejandro de la Vega (returning star Antonio Banderas) having trouble shedding his day job as Zorro in order to spend more time with his lovely wife Elena (Catherine ZetaJones) and rambunctious young son Joaquin (Adrian Alonso). But once Alejandro learns of a criminal plan that threatens not only California but the rest of the nation as well, he steps back into his role as the other Man In Black, receiving some unexpected help along

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(Mouse Hunt) as well as a loopy star vehicle that pissed off the masses (the Pitt-Roberts yarn The Mexican) has now tackled an affecting tale about a man who has trouble seeing the big picture because all of life’s little asides keep obstructing his view. The film’s sensibilities are just off-center enough to make it interesting, yet there’s always a tug of universal recognition in David’s travails.

outpost in outer space. Led by the gruff Sarge (The Rock), the outfit consists of the usual stock characters: reluctant hero, nervous novice, perpetual whiner, wisecracking black guy, monolithic black guy, and so on. And, of course, there’s a pretty lady scientist (Rosamund Pike) to mollify red-meat moviegoers by functioning as eye candy to go along with the expected quota of guns ‘n’ gore.

DOOM ✰✰

NORTH COUNTRY ✰✰1/2

Stating that Doom is probably the best of the numerous flicks based on a video game ranks as the feeblest praise imaginable, akin to noting that benign genital herpes is the best sexually transmitted disease to acquire, or that strawberry is the best tasting Schnapps flavor. Doom rips off Aliens at every turn (at least its makers steal from the best), as a group of military grunts find themselves combating vicious creatures at a manned

North Country is loosely based on a true story, and it’d be interesting if transcripts from the actual trials surrounding this tale were made available at the film’s screenings. That way, we could see for ourselves if the courtroom shenanigans were really as difficult to swallow as the ones that conclude this film. Inspired by this nation’s first successful sexual harassment lawsuit, the movie stars Charlize Theron as a single mom who

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returns to her Minnesota hometown and lands a job in the local mines. One of only a handful of women who work there, she has to contend with the incessant torment perpetrated by the yahoos who work alongside her, good ol’ boys who don’t believe that girls have any business laboring in the mines. Tired of their lewd taunts and cruel pranks, she decides to take the company to court, a decision that alienates her from practically everyone, including the women who abhor their own treatment but refuse to cause waves. North Country is directed

by New Zealand’s Niki Caro, and her primary asset is Charlize Theron, who again demonstrates (as if there was any doubt after Monster) that she’s a master thespian residing within a model’s body.

STAY ✰1/2

A pretty ironic title for a film that will be hard-pressed to keep audience members in their seats for even 15 of its pretentious minutes. This movie mind-bender stars Ewan McGregor as Sam Foster, a psychiatrist with a formerly suicidal patient as his girlfriend (Naomi Watts) and an intriguing new case study under his care. That would be Henry Lethem (The Notebook’s Ryan Gosling), a disturbed artist who plans to commit suicide on his 21st birthday.

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DREAMER ✰✰1/2

Taking a well-worn formula and adding some flavor through the rich characterizations of its leading players, Dreamer centers on the circumstances that transpire when horse trainer Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) and his young daughter Cale (Dakota Fanning) elect to nurse an injured race horse named Sonador (Spanish for Dreamer) back to health.

Planning to use the mare for breeding purposes until learning she’s infertile, the financially strapped Ben, with constant prodding by his daughter as well as his own crusty dad (Kris Kristofferson), decides to take a chance on prepping her for competition contention. Many child stars are either sloppily sentimental or coldly calculating, and while Fanning has occasionally veered toward the latter, she delivers her warmest performance in this picture.

ELIZABETHTOWN ✰✰

With Elizabethtown, director Cameron Crowe seeks to honor the memory of his father, who died of a heart attack in 1989.

It’s a noble endeavor but a disappointing movie, as engaging individual scenes fail to disguise either the slackness or superficiality of the piece. Orlando Bloom, nothing special but getting the job done, stars as Drew Baylor, a failed shoe designer who temporarily shelves his own

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Women will grab their tissues while males will roll their eyes. But In Her Shoes isn’t designed for any of these people; instead, it will attract viewers who have little use for societal labels and who anticipate a well-crafted blend of comedy and pathos.

Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette are Maggie and Rose, two sisters who have nothing in common except their shoe size. In this case, the ties that bind have been shredded down to a mere string, one which snaps when Maggie betrays Rose in an act of thoughtlessness.

Banished, Maggie heads to Florida to meet Ella Hirsch (Shirley MacLaine), the grandmother she only recently met.

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Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster), a recent widow catching a flight along with her six-yearold daughter, becomes frantic once the girl disappears during the course of the flight. The entire premise rests on the fact that no one else aboard the plane, from the crew to the passengers, ever once caught a glimpse of the moppet, thereby establishing in their minds Kyle as a woman who’s delusional and possibly dangerous. ◗

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Ever since winning that Oscar for Scent of a Woman (still the worst con job ever to snag a Best Actor statue), Al Pacino has elected to “Hoo-ah!” his way through almost every subsequent role. Pacino’s back in full manic mode in Two for the Money, a malnourished morality tale not dissimilar in structure to the other Pacino vehicles in which he serves as a shady mentor to a hot young actor. Here, he plays Walter Abrams, the head of a sports consulting firm who finds his protege in Brandon Lang (Matthew McConaughey), a former college football star permanently sidelined by a leg injury.

so does director David Cronenberg take a hatchet to the façade of Midwestern homeliness. After two men check out of their motel in the grisliest way imaginable, we jump to the home of Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen), a café owner with a devoted wife named Edie (Maria Bello) and two children. Tom’s peaceful existence disappears the night that a pair of murderous strangers bust into his diner. Tom kills the intruders, which leads to his national status as a hero. This widespread exposure brings more strangers to town - gruff mobster Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris) and his two flunkies. Viggo Mortensen, formerly a wretched actor who has matured in leaps and bounds these last few years, was a wise choice -- it’s impossible to read anything on his passive face, thus making it hard to gauge whether or not he’s telling the truth about his past.

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Amnesty International meets the third Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Sentient Bean Coffeehouse, 13 E. Park Ave. On Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 6:30 p.m., the chapter will present a free screening of the film Hotel Rwanda, followed by a discussion of the Rwandan genocide. Call Raymond at 898-3506.

Chatham County Democratic Committee meets the second Monday of each month. at 6 p.m. Call Joe Murray Rivers, chair, 2345969, or Janice Shay, 547-5212 or visit www.chathamdems.com.

Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. A public health approach will be used to address child sexual abuse.

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A public forum will beheld Thursday, Nov. 10 from 7-9 p.m. at the Coastal Georgia Auditorium, 305 Fahm St. Dr. Krista Wiegand and Dr. Barry Balleck of Georgia Southern University and Dr. William Daugherty of Armstrong Atlantic State University will speak and answer questions. Call 871-1401 or send e-mail to kwiegand@georgiasouthern.edu.

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For information, call Maxine Harris at 3520470 or 484-3222.

meets on the first Monday of the month at 5 p.m. in Room 3 of the Heart and Lung Building at Candler Hospital. Membership is open to anyone18 and older.

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Benefit with Jerry “The Ice Man” Butler The Savannah State University College of Business Administration and the Savannah Chapter of 100 Black Men will present national R&B recording artist Jerry “The Ice Man” Butler in concert on Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. at the Savannah Civic Center’s Johnny Mercer Theatre. Tickets are $40, $38 and $28 with proceeds benefitting scholarship programs. For tickets, call 651-6556 or visit www.savannahcivic.com.

Planned Parenthood

For information, call Maxine Harris at 3520470 or 484-3222.

Chatham County Democratic Women

meets the first Saturday of every month at 10 a.m. at the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum.

Promoting democracy one pint at a time -share politics while sharing a pitcher. This is an informal gathering of like-minded, leftleaners who may want to trade ideas, get more involved and just enjoy each other’s company. Meets the first and third Thursdays of the month at 7:30 p.m. at Coach’s Corner. For information, visit www.DrinkingLiberally.org or send email to august1494@excite.com.

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

will be available. Call Joni Shackley at 2368515.

National Council of Negro Women

meets the second Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. For info, call Megan Burgoyne at 3524052 or megan.burgoyne@ppfa.org.

Savannah Peace Coalition

will be held Saturday, Nov. 19 in Forsyth Park. The Old Savannah City Mission will prepare 3,000 Thanksgiving dinners.

Sponsors are needed and donations are sought. Also, volunteers are needed for Prep Week. Call 232-1979.

Sierra Club meets the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m., at the First Presbyterian Church, 520 E. Washington Ave. 351-7436.

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Speak Up! Local activist group focused on protesting the war in Iraq. Call Richard at 441-7167.

Auditions Lowcountry Ensemble Company is looking for actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, poets and others. Send e-mail to negroensemble@comcast.net.

Benefits & Fundraisers Benefit for Misty Berryhill Bluesman Eric Culberson will join Joseph’s Salon Monday, Nov. 14 from 6-9 p.m. at Il Pasticcio, 2 E. Broughton St. to raise money for co-worker. Misty Berryhill, who has had surgery for breast cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. A silent auction and cash bar

will be held Thursday, Nov. 10 from 6-9 p.m. at Savannah Station, 601 Cohen St. This is the Frank Callen Boys & Girls Club’s only fundraiser. The cost is $50 per person. The keynote speaker will be Paula Deen. Call 233-2939.

Give for the Gulf is a year-long, comprehensive Armstrong Atlantic State University initiative that will raise funds and provide community services for evacuees of Hurricane Katrina. Visit www.armstrong.edu/katrina.

Heart and Stroke Walk The American Heart Association will sponsor this benefit on Nov. 12. For info, send e-mail to Tom Campbell at tc8364@yahoo.com.

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Magnolia Manor Golf Scramble Magnolia Manor on the Coast will hold its annual golf scramble Nov. 12 at the Waterford Landing Golf Course in Richmond Hil. For information, call Rich DeLong at 756-4300 or 727-3383.

Omar Temple No. 21 Shriners Ball will be held Nov. 19 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Savannah Civic Center ballroom. Tickets are $30. Call Past Potentate Larry Jackson at 596-5491 or Daughter Eddie Lee Marsh at 659-8175.

Pancakes for PanCAN Breakfast will be held Saturday, Nov. 12 from 7-10 a.m. at White Bluff United Methodist Church. Allyou-can-eat pancakes, with proceeds benefitting the National Chapter of PanCAN, a program for people with pancreatic cancer and their loved ones. Tickets are $7 per person in advance, or $8 at the door. Call Joann Bishop at 596-8807.

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Applications are due Dec. 1. Visit www.savannahadfed.com.

Call for Entries Chatham County Chamber seeks musicians The Chatham County Chamber Group is seeking classically trained musicians. Call 232-2326.

Cultural Affairs Artist Roster The City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs is compiling a list of artists of all disciplines of the arts and humanities to include in a Savannah Artists Roster. Call Daisy Williams at 912-651-6417 or send an email to dwilliams@savannahga.gov and include: group and/or individual name, contact information, and discipline.

Two Pale Josephines is a boutique gallery/working studio on West Broughton Street that is looking for artists to consign work, especially clothing, accessories and textiles, plus home decor, painting and sculpture. Send email to 2palejosephines@bellsouth.net or call 232-4848.

Classes & Workshops AARP Driving Classes Classes will be held Thursday, Nov. 17 and Friday, Nov. 18 from 1-5 p.m. at The Marshes at Skidaway. Call Katie at 598-8998 or Chuck at 598-1011. Classes will be held Tuesday, Dec. 6 and Wednesday, Dec. 7 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Smart Senior at Candler

are held at The Art School Mondays from 79 p.m. and Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to noon.

Beginners are welcome. For information, call Lind Hollingsworth at 921-1151.

Adult Education The Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers, 1601 Drayton St., offers tutoring Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in basic literacy skills, GED preparation and computer training. Call 447-5711.

Art and Theater Classes at S.P.A.C.E. are being offered for children and adults at S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry St. For information, call 651-4248.

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Baby sign classes Savannah Speech & Hearing Center is offering Baby Sign classes for babies aged 6-12 months and their parents. The cost is $50, which includes materials. To register, call 355-4601.

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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. Call 819-8583.

Basic computer class 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.

Beginners quilting classes are held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Wesley Community Centers of Savannah, Inc., 1601 Drayton St. 447--5711.

Building a Home The UBuildIt office in Savannah offers free seminars. Call 236-1211.

Career Achievement Program St. Mary’s Community Center, 812 W. 36th St., an affiliate of St. Joseph’s/Candler, offers a program to help adults with math, reading and writing skills. Participants choose their hours between Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 447-0578.

Chatham County Aquatic Center offers open lap swim, water aerobics classes, swim lessons and competitive swim teams for all ages, home school programs and field trips for students on Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday. 6526793 or chathamcounty.org.

Church Music Seminar The School of Church Music located at 101 Bull St. offers specialized workshops to give practical help with almost every area of music ministry. Call 236-1566 or send email to scm@schoolofchurchmusic.org.

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classes cost $50 and lunch is included. Many classes are ongoing, running every month.

Payment is to be made two days prior to the class starting date. Call Anastasia at 4439678.

Coastal Scooters Classes 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 onroad 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 2325513 or visit Coastal Scooters at 418 W. Broughton St.

Computer Classes Basic introduction to computers and Microsoft Works offered at St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lutheran Church, Bull and 31st streets. Cost is $20 for the session and $20 for the text book. Pre-registration is required. Call 3550219.

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Free drawing classes for teens, adults and seniors are offered by the Savannah Art Association on Saturdays through October from 9 a.m. to noon at Armstrong Atlantic State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Fine Arts Hall. For information, call 897-5612 or 598-8217.

Drawing to Painting to Clay Classes with certified art teacher Carolyne Rodgers Graham are offered on an ongoing basis on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at

The Economic Opportunity Authority offers free computer classes 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.

Fannyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spanish Learning Center Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children are held at the Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Call 920-2171 or 220-6570 to register.

First Steps parent education program This parent education and support program is based at St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler. Call 8196910.

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

Free computer classes St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center offers free computer classes. Call 447-6605.

Free Tax School Liberty Tax, 6821 Waters Ave. near Eisenhower across from Burger King. Earn extra income after taking course. .Call 3523862 or visit www.libertytax.com. Small fee for books, but classes are free.

Inquiry Circle based on the work of Byron Katie offers immediate help when you need answers right away. No charge. Contact Ursula at 484-0134 or send e-mail to u.sterling@att.net. For information, visit http://www.thework.com/WhatisTheWork.as p.

Life Challenge Consulting When would now be a great time to engage yourself in life-changing strategies. Career; stress reduction; spirituality. Free initial halfhour consultation. Call Cindy Beach, M.S., at 429-7265.

The Live Oak Public Library offers free classes on using computers to access information at the Bull Street Library.

Call 652-3662.

Long Term Care Insurance will be discussed Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. at Smith Barney, 7402 Hodgson Memorial Dr., Suite 200. Call Kathleen Patterson at 6924613.

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 Monday from 8:30-9:30 a.m. and on Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at the Integrated Behavioral Center, 1121 Cornell Ave. The cost is $10 per session. Call 355-4987.

Mindfulness and Ordinary Recovery Indepth exploration of the 11th step.

Meditation and contemplation instruction provided as it applies to recovery and maintenance. Classes are held on Monday from noon to 1 p.m. or 7:30-8:30 p.m. Class fee is $12. 313 E. Harris St. For information, call Cindy Beach, M.S., 429-7265.

Multiple blessings is a four-week education course offered by Memorial Health and designed for the family expecting twins, triplets or more. Call Barbara at 350-3129 or visit www.memorialhealth.com.

Open Studio Nights

schedule, no pressure, just share the artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience. $5 a session. Held every Tuesday from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Savannah Art Association Gallery, above Belfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in City Market.

Painting Classes for beginners and studio groups for experienced artists/ Private studio in historic district. Professional instruction by MFA graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design. Oil and acrylic painting, charcoal, pencil and pastel drawing. $125 for six-week course or $75 a month for weekly studio sessions. Call 234-5737 for information and registration.

Palliative Care in a Hospice Setting is a seminar that will be held Nov. 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Effingham Hospital in Springfield. Call Elaine Schafer, Coordinator of Education, at 355-2289.

Parent and Teen Driving Course The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department will present a free two-hour parent/teen driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

Parenting the preschooler is a course offered by Telfair Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital at Candler. Call at 819-3368 or visit www.sjchs.org.

SSU Fall Open Campus Day will be held Saturday, Nov. 12 for prospective students. The day will begin at 9 a.m. in Tiger Arena. Call 356-2181.

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The speaker will be Dr. William Harris, who will discuss his third book, Wassaw Sound.

The cost is $13. For reservations, call Connie Metts at 748-8884.

at 801 E. Gwinnett offers business and computer classes.

children’s readings on Saturdays from 1-3 p.m. at Media Play. Call Antonio at 713-1470 or send email to Catscandance2@aol.com.

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The Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum is sponsoring an essay contest which is open to all 4th graders in Chatham County. The subject is the voyage of the S.S. Savannah.

Prizes will be awarded. Contest details (including deadline) have been sent to all public and private schools in the county.

Homeschoolers may contact Tony Pizzo at 232-1511 for information.

District 11 meets the 2nd Sunday of each month at 3 p.m. at the Silver Dollar Saloon on Hwy. 204 and Old River Rd. Please call for more info. 233-9800.

1511 Abercorn, ACBL certified duplicate bridge game every Wednesday at 1 p.m.

There is a $4 fee. Call Lynn Pierce at 3549739.

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will meet Thursday, Nov. 17 at noon at The Pirates’ House. The speakers will be Paul Kennedy, owner of Paul Kennedy Catering, and Madeleine Delong, owner of Elegant Gifts. $13. www.buylocalsavannah.com.

An investor education seminar will be held Wednesday, November 16 at noon and 7:00 p.m. at Smith Barney, 7402 Hodgson Memorial, Suite 200. Call Kathleen Patterson at 692-4613.

meets the second Thursday from 5:30-8:30 p.m. of the month at Books-A-Million. Bring your art, art books of interest, techniques, etc. to discuss and share with the group.

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Join other college-age Lutheran friends for fun and fellowship on the first and third Sundays at 5:30 p.m. at Ascension Lutheran, 120 Bull St. After dinner, the group will attend Reel Savannah screenings. Call 2324151 or send email to program@elcota.org.

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Tennis for munchkins, juniors and adults -summer camps, clinics, ball machine workouts. Call 961-9862.

Thinking of Starting a Business is a workshop that will be held Nov. 10 from 6-8:30 p.m. at the Small Business Assistance Center, 111 E. Liberty St. The cost is $40 if you pre-register and $50 the day of. Call 651-3200.

Ascension Lutheran Dinner and a Movie

Banner of the Nations Savannah meets Sundays at 10:30 a.m. at 12 Drake Dr. Call Frank Spencer at 352-2323 or visit the Web site at www.bannerofthenations.com.

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

Beach Historic Neighborhood Association

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.

meets monthly on the third Thursday at 6 p.m. Call 605-4471 for details.

UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium 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.

Clubs & Organizations AASU Sci-Fi Fantasy Club On Thursdays, the club sponsors free role playing. The club meets at 7:30 p.m. at the AASU Compass Point Club House and sponsors a laser tag team and bi-monthly

Beanhead Writers Group meets very second Saturday at 1 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. to critique works in progress and to discuss technique and marketing. Fiction and non-fiction, but no poetry.

Bike Night with Mikie every Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at The Red Zone Bar and Grill in Richmond Hill. Half of the proceeds of a 50/50 drawing go to the military for phone cards and other items.

Bridge club meets at the JEA

Chihuahua Club of Savannah A special little club for special little dogs and their owners meets one Saturday each month at 10:30 a.m. For information, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChiSavanna h/.

Civil Air Patrol is the civilian, volunteer auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force and is involved in search and rescue, aerospace education and cadet programs. Meets every Tuesday at 6 p.m. for cadets (12-18 years old) and 7 p.m. for adult members at the former Savannah Airport terminal building off Dean Forest Road. Visit www.gawg.cap.gov, send e-mail to N303WR@aol.com, or call Capt. Jim Phillips at 412-4410.

Clean Coast meets monthly on the first Monday at the Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Check www.cleancoast.org for event schedule.

Coastal Bicycle Touring Club of Savannah sponsors a ride every Saturday. Visit www.cbtc.org for a ride schedule and more information. Meetings are held on the first Monday of each month at Tubby’s Tank House restaurant in Thunderbolt at 6:30 p.m. 728-5989.

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John J. Dunn, Ph.D., is interested in hearing from people who want to participate in a bipolar support group. Call 692-1230 after 6 p.m.

Community Hymn Chorus

Birthplace Chapter of the Eighth Air Force Historical Society will hold its monthly dinner meeting Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 6 p.m. at the Mighty 8th Air Force Museum in Pooler.

Meets the 3rd Saturday of every month. 9610602.

All denominations are welcome to come together to make a joyful noise every Tuesday at 11:15 a.m. at White Bluff United Methodist Church’s Horton Hall, 11911 White Bluff Rd. Call Ronn Alford, Director of Music Ministries, at 925-5924.

Daughters of Destiny An ongoing seminar for women who want to make changes in their lives through spirituality and positive reinforcement meets every Monday at 7 p.m. at Daughters of Destiny

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First City Club Bert Tennebaum, president of the Chatham Steel Corp., will be the featured speaker Thursday, Nov. 10 at noon. Lunch costs $16.95. 238-4548 or www.firstcityclub.com.

Friends of Oatland Board of Directors meets every third Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.; general membership meeting follows at 7 p.m. at the Oatland Island Educational Center. Call Serena Nasworthy at 897-3060.

Friends of the Library meet the first Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at the Bull Street Library. Call 652-3655.

Georgia Christian Singles Memberships start at $25 and remain active until marriage. See website or call for local chapters. 1-800-869-2500.

Gold Wing Road Riders Association promotes education, safety and fun to motorcycle riders. Call Julian at 920-2700 or John at 858-5414 or visit chaptere2.tripod.com.

Goth Night Savannah A place to connect with fellow individuals who are interested in the music and art of the Gothic subcultures. We welcome musicians, bands, DJs, filmmakers, performance troupes, writers, clothiers, artists and artisans. Visit www.Goth-NightSavannah.com.

Harley Owners Group HOG meets the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the Mighty Eighth Heritage Museum. Call 925-5349.

Historic Savannah Chapter American Business Women’s Association will meet Nov. 10 at 6 p.m. at the Exchange on Waters. Judy McGovern will speak on financial management for women. For reservations, call 233-2838.

Historic Victorian Neighborhood Association holds its board meetings on the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion, Post 135, 1108 Bull St. between Park Avenue and Duffy Street.

These meetings are open to the public. For information, call 236-8546.

Hostess City Toastmasters Club For those interested in gaining confidence in public speaking. Meets Tuesday evenings, 7pm at 6206 Waters Ave, Rivers Edge Retirement Community. 355-5450.

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Oglethorpe Business & Professional Women’s Club

Learn to play Go

meets for lunch the second Tuesday of each month at 12:30 p.m. Call 966-3619 or visit www.obpw.org.

the game that will soon replace Chess as the intellectual strategy game par excellence., Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Books-A-Million on Abercorn. Call Greg at 232-7549.

Low Country Artists’ and Artisans’ Society sponsors a Country Textiles African American Quilt Making Guild. Call 447-1888.

Partners for Community Health is a group that meets every other month to discuss healthcare topics that impact the community. Call Dana Huffman at 350-6357.

Philo Cafe

at 2202 Norwood Ave. sponsors bingo every Tuesday and Friday starting at 7:30 p.m.

There is a $700 jackpot.

Philosophical sessions taking on a different topic each time at Barnes & Noble every Wednesday at 7:30 pm. Call 659-2930 or 4439267.

MOMS Club

Postage stamp meeting and auction

Loyal Order of Moose

for stay-at-home moms and their children.

Events include day trips, service projects, monthly Mom’s Night Outs, play groups, play dates, crafts events, a babysitting co-op, and other activities. For information, call Courtney at 921-1462, visit www.momsclub.org or send e-mail to momsclubofsavannahga@hotmail.com.

MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers)

Objectivist Society of Savannah

Salon for Women Seeking Change Lively discussion, laughter and fun. Call 2368581.

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Savannah Area Landlord & Real Estate Investors Association

Savannah Chess Club

Learn to be a real estate investor or landlord.

Group meets the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Midtown on Abercorn. The $20 guest fee will apply to your membership if you join.

Savannah Area Sacred Harp Singers The public is invited to come and sing early American music and folk hymns from the shape note traditionSavannah Area Sacred Harp Singers will meet Saturday, Nov. 12 from 2-4 p.m. at First Christian Church, 711 E. Victory Dr. This non-denominational community musical activity emphasizes participation, not performance. Songs are from The Sacred Harp, an oblong songbook first published in 1844. No experience needed. Books will be available for loan or purchase. For information call 655-0994.

Savannah Art Association offers affordable art workshops, social activities and a chance to display art in a downtown gallery. Drop by the gallery at 309 W. St. Julian St. above Belford’s in City Market or call 356-0249.

Savannah Brewers’ League Meets the first Wednesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. at Moon River Brewing Co., 21 W. Bay St. 447-0943. Call 447-0943 or visit www.hdb.org and click on Clubs, then Savannah Brewers League.

meets Monday at Books-A-Million from 7 to 11 p.m. Bring your chess sets. Call 631-0338 or send e-mail to geocities/savannahchessclub.com.

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States has a dinner meeting the fourth Tuesday of each month (except December) at 6 p.m. at the Hunter Club, Hunter Army Airfield. Call John Findeis at 748-7020.

Savannah Euchre Club Euchre is a four-handed card game in the same family as Hearts and Spades, a poor (but discerning) man’s Bridge. Call Katie at 308-9815.

Savannah Express Network Chapter of American Business Women’s Association meets the first Wednesday at 11:45 a.m. at the Savannah Golf Club on East President Street. RSVP to Laura McLaren at 236-6750, Ext. 14, or 898-9362.

Savannah Fencing Club offers beginning classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings for six weeks. Fees are $40. Some equipment is provided. After completing the class, you may become a member of the Savannah Fencing Club for $5 per month. Experienced fencers are welcome to join. Call 429-6918 or send email to savannahfencing@aol.com.

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meets biweekly at the Lion’s Den Lounge.

Call Brian at 234-2484 or ww.savannahobjectivists.org.

Members of Starfleet International and The Klingon Assault Group meet twice a month, on the first Sunday at 4 pm. at Books-AMillion and the third Tuesday at Chen’s Chinese Restaurant at 20 E. Derenne Ave. at 7:30 p.m. Call 692-0382, email kasak@comcast.net or visit www.roguephoenix.org.

is the oldest and largest national organization that celebrates Italian/American heritage for men and women. Call Dennis Piasio at 1-888674-2937.

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The purpose is to achieve wealth and success in personal and professional life and to share this wealth by mentoring others on the same path. Call 236-3660.

Speed Bump

An opportunity for men to discuss books, music, film and cultural issues in an intellectually stimulating and non-judgmental environment. Meets the third Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Sentient Bean Coffee House. 2318841.

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

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People who enjoy outdoor activities and are looking for adventure are invited to join. Visit www.savannahadventureclub.com for information.

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The Island Mothers of Preschoolers meets every first and third Wednesday at First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Child care is provided. Call Linda at 897-9632.

The Savannah Stamp Club meeting and stamp auction is held the second Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Grace United Methodist Church, 6412 Waters Ave. Call 354-8870.

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is dedicated to discussing and preserving the heritage of Italians and Italian-Americans.

Meets the first Tuesday at 2717 Livingston Ave. Call Carol Taylor at 925-4064.

Savannah Jaycees for young professionals ages 21 to 39 is a Junior Chamber of Commerce that focuses on friendship, career development and community involvement. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Dinner is included and there is no charge for guests.

Call 232-6682 or visit www.savannahjaycees.com.

Savannah Lions Club meets the second and fourth Thursday at 12:30 p.m. at the Savannah Golf Club. For information, call 355-6033.

Savannah Macintosh Users Group (SMUG) meets the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. See www.savannahmug.org.

Savannah Newcomers Club

Whitaker Street side. Rain date is Sunday, Nov. 13. .Call Denise at 234-7960 or Connie at 353-8384.

Southside Optimist Club is a civic organization catering to youth and community service projects that meets every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. at Taylor’s Restaurant inside the Days Inn on Mall Boulevard. Call Linda Lee at 695-7733.

Subbuteo Table Soccer meets monthly for tournaments and practice matches. For information, call 667-7204 or visit http://savannahsubbuteo.tripod.com.

Telfair Academy Guild

Savannah Port City Lions Club

is a program at Portman’s Music for people who were musicians as kids, but went on to pursue other types of careers. The cost is $95, which includes two hours of instruction each week for four weeks. The latest gear will be provided. Call 354-1500.

Savannah Ski Club For information, see www.savannahskiclub.com.

Savannah Stitch-N-Bitch meets every second Tuesday of the month from 6-8 p.m. at wild fibre, 409 E. Liberty St. All that is required is an interest in knitting or crocheting. Bring a project and join in the stitching, talking and munchies. Call 2380514.

Savannah Sunrise Rotary club

Tybee Performing Arts Society (TAPS) meets the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the old Tybee school All interested, please attend or send e-mail to ried793@netscape.com.

Weekend Warriors

Writers Unite!

Serious writers who want to read, do warmup writing, hold each other accountable, call 236-3660 and ask for Dana.

The Young Professionals of Savannah will meet Thursday, Nov. 10 at 6 p.m. at the Cobblestone Conch House. Guest speakers will be Caleb Parker, president of Crown Hospitality Group, Inc.; John Everette of The Savannah Mortgage Company; and Chris Benton, who with his wife launched The Homesteader, a publication for new homeowners. On Nov. 30 at 8 a.m., a breakfast round table will be held at the First City Club with guest speaker Chris Miller, executive director of The Creative Coast Initiative. For information, contact Jacob Cottingham at Jacob@thesouthmag.com.

meets every Thursday from 7:30-8:30 am at the First City Club in downtown Savannah.

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Dance

Savannah Toastmasters helps you improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly and supportive environment on Mondays at 6:15 p.m. at Memorial Health University Medical Center, Conference Room C. 352-1935.

at Islands Dance Academy. All levels welcome, including beginners. Challenging, rewarding and fun. Mondays at 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 7 p.m. at 115 Charlotte Rd. on Whitemarsh Island. Call Sue Braddy at 8972100.

Savannah Ultimate Frisbee

Ballroom Dance Party

meets every Tuesday and Thursday at 6 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. in Forsyth Park. Bring a white and dark shirt, water, cleats and a positive attitude. Visit www.savannahultimate.com for information.

will be held Saturday, Nov. 19 at the Islands Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Island Rd. The basic lesson starts at 7 p.m. and the social dance will be from 8-10:30 p.m. The cost is $6 for members and $10 for nonmembers. Beginners and singles are

Savannah Women’s Ultimate Frisbee Team will hold a free clinic Saturday, Nov. 12 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Forsyth Park on the

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meets the second Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

With the exception of the June and December meetings, the association meets at the Tybee Community Center.

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is dedicated to the preservation of the canal and its natural and historical features. Dinner meetings are the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the Fairmont Restaurant, 65 W. Fairmont Ave. Volunteer Saturdays are the second Saturday of the month from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the SavannahOgeechee Museum & Nature Center at 681 Fort Argyle Rd. (Highway 204) 2.3 miles west of Interstate 95. 748-8068.

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Do you enjoy exploring cool buildings and sites? Are you into architecture, planning or urban design? The society will investigate spaces in and around downtown. Celebrate the ordinary, the extraordinary, the overlooked, the neglected and the transcendent in Savannah’s built and natural landscapes.

Contact Ryan at leifmadson@hotmail.com.

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discusses education and plans and hosts social events and functions for singles throughout each month. Meets Sunday at 9:30 a.m. at White Bluff United Methodist Church, Room 22.

will meet Nov. 14 at 10 a.m. at the Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk Art, 1015 Whitaker St., to tour the permanent collection and the solo retrospective exhibition of Michael Banks, who has been featured in top folk art shows across the country.

Following the tour, a reception will be hosted for TAG.

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Single People in Christian Education (SPICE)

is open to all residents who have lived in the Savannah area for less than two years. The club hosts a monthly luncheon and program on the third Wednesday of each month at various area restaurants and sponsors tours, activities and events to help new residents.

Call 351-3171.

meets every first and third Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Ryan’s Restaurant on Stephenson.

For information, call 920-9081.

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welcome. Refreshments provided. Call Lora Wong at 925-7416.

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. Call 927-9439.

Shag-Beach Bop-Etc. Savannah

1) David Gray, “The One I Love”

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. No cover and club membership is not necessary. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or visit www.shagbeachbop.com.

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3) Sheryl Crow, “Good Is Good”

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4) Bonnie Raitt,“ I Will Not Be Broken” 5) Green Day, “Wake Me Up When September Ends “ 6) Death Cab For Cutie, “Soul Meets Body” 7) James Blunt, “You're Beautiful” 8) Coldplay, “Fix You” 9) Melissa Etheridge, “I Run for Life” 10) Fray, “Over My Head” (Cable Car)

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Savannah Danse Theatre presents this fundraising mother/daughter tea Saturday, Nov. 19 at The Tea Room, 7 E. Broughton St. Meet characters from The Nutcracker in Savannah. The first seating is at 10 a.m. and the second is at 11 a.m. The cost is $15 per person. Call 898-0361 for reservations.

Youth Dance Program 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.

Events Fall Youth Conference will be held Saturday, Nov. 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Nistorical Nicholsonboro Baptist Church, 13319 Old Coffee Bluff Rd. Activities and workshops, lunch and a soncert by Extreme Praise. Call 921-0566.

SGI-USA Savannah an American Buddhist movement for word peace, will hold an afternoon of music, poetry, dance and international food on Nov. 13 at 2 p.m. at the Frank G. Murray Community Center on Whitemarsh Island.

Call 898-8211.

Fitness A balanced life 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.

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.

Jade Lotus Tai Chi Group Classes are offered Saturdays starting Sept.

17 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Unity Church, 2320 Sunset Blvd. The cost is $8 or 10 classes for $80 for adults, $70 for students.

Drop-in rate is $10. All experience levels are welcome. Beginner instruction available for the first hour. Call Jeff at 352-7057 or email jadelotustaichi@yahoo.com

The Jewish Education Alliance Join Amy Levy at 9:45 am on Fridays 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 3558111.

Ladies Living Smart fitness club 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.

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.

Private Yoga Instruction Have you always wanted to try yoga but were unsure about participating in group

classes? Do you need a safe, gentle and effective method of creating radiant health, reducing and even eliminating stress, and increasing happiness and joy in your life?

Then consider learning the ancient and timehonored science of yoga in your own home.

Instruction will be tailored to fit your individual needs and help you create a daily, personal practice or allow you to feel more confident practicing in a group setting. The instructor is certified and thoroughly educated in the practical applications of yoga as well as its history and philosophy, and has taught group classes and private students for the past 10 years. For information or scheduling, call Hunter Leaf, 354-9274.

Savannah Yoga Center The only center in the area that brings in the world’s leading yoga teachers to conduct workshops. Located at 25 E. 40th St. at Drayton. Call Kelley Crane at 441-6653 for more info and directions or visit www.savannahyoga.com. Current class schedule is as follows: Monday, Mellow Flow Yoga, all levels, 5:30-6:45 p.m.; Tuesday, Beginners Basic Yoga, 6-7:15 p.m.; Wednesday, Flow Yoga-All Levels, 6-7:15 p.m.; Saturday, Flow Yoga-All Levels, 10-11:15 a.m. (no class Oct. 8 due to workshop). Drop-in rates are $12, Students with ID $10, active duty military/dependents with ID $8. Upcoming workshops include Yoga Master Doug Swenson on Nov. 16 and KIRTAN Indian Chant concert with David Newman “Durga Das” on Nov. 18. All workshops are held at Epworth Methodist Church, 2201 Bull St.

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.

Ultimate Yoga Workshop for all levels with Doug Swenson will be held Nov. 18 from 6-8:30 p.m. at the Epworth Methodist Church, 2201 Bull St. The doors will open at 5:30 p.m. The cost is $50 in advance or $60 at the door.

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 Wednesday 10-11:30 a.m., Friday 6-7:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to noon; Hatha Flow levels I and II, Tuesday 6-7:30 p.m. and Sunday 5-6:30 p.m.; Hatha Flow levels I and II Monday 6:30-8 p.m.; Vinyasa Flow-Power Yoga Saturday 910 a.m. and Thursday 6:30-7:30 p.m.; Mommy & Me Yoga Monday 4-5 p.m. for 5years old and up and Wednesday from 4-5 p.m. for 2 and 4-year-olds; Baby & Mommy Yoga call for schedule. Private instruction and gift certificates available. Whitemarsh Center, 115 Charlotte Rd. Cost is $12 for drop-ins and $75 for eight classes. Call 8980361.

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.

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Alpha Financial Management seminars A series of free seminars specifically designed for the LGBT community will be held. Attendees will learn about the tools needed to increase their wealth, protect their assets, take actions that are congruent with their own values, and to build a sense of financial and emotional security in life.

For information, call 353-9343.

First City Network Board Meeting Meets the first Monday at 6 p.m. at FCN’s office, 307 E. Harris St., 3rd floor. 236-2489.

First City Community Center and Library The FCN Community Center & Library is open Saturdays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Visitors are welcome to check out gay/lesbian books and obtain information on “Gay Savannah” businesses and happenings. www.firstcitynetwork.com. 236-CITY

First City Network’s Workforce project

A 12-step group for people with eating disorders and self-harm disorders. For information, call Brandon Lee at 927-1324.

Free blood pressure checks and blood sugar screenings 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.

HIV/AIDS and STD awareness training

Girls eat and socialize. Meets the 3rd Saturday of each month. 236-CITY.

Lesbian Therapy Group Share your thoughts, feelings and concerns in a safe, confidential environment that is facilitated by a licensed therapist the second and fourth Friday at 7 p.m. Spaces are limited. Call 352-2611.

Savannah Gay Business Guild meets the second Tuesday at 7 p.m. to offer a networking service of gay and gay friendly businesses, organizations and individuals.

For information, contact Kevyn Withers at kevyn@kevynwithers.com.

Standout is First City’s gay youth support group.

Meets every Thursday at 7 p.m. at the FCN Headquarters, 307 E. Harris St., 3rd floor.

Call 657-1966.

What Makes A Family is a children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Call 352-2611.

Health Community HealthCare Center 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. 310 Eisenhower Drive Medical Center. Call for an appointment at 692-1451.

Community Cardiovascular Council, Inc. offers free blood pressure checks Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 1900 Abercorn St. Call 232-6624.

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.

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. Call 231-8727.

Healthy Holiday Makeover will be presented Nov. 14 from 6:30-8 p.m. in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. The cost is $15. Call 819-8800.

Heart Disease and Diabetes St. Joseph/Candler’s Diabetes Management Center will hold a community education class Saturday, Nov. 12 at from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The cost is $10. Call 819-33368.

How to Cook a Turkey and Still Eat Healthy is a seminar Nov. 10 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn. Call 447-6605.

Keeping at risk individuals healthy 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. Contact DaVena Jordan at 2310123 or e-mail djordan@unionmission.org.

La Leche League of Savannah will hold an educational series meeting Monday, Nov. 14 at 6:30 p.m. in the Candler Professional Building, Room 508A, at 5354 Reynolds St. The topic is The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding. Call 897-9261..

Mammograms St. Joseph’s/Candler will be performing mammograms to screen for breast cancer in its mobile screening unit. Most insurance plans (with the exception of Blue Cross HMO) are accepted. Financial assistance is available to women who qualify.

Mammograms will be performed Nov. 10 and 22 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the St..

Joseph’s/Candler Medical Group in Rincon.

Call 354-9357 for appointments.

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

meets Sundays at 5:30 p.m. at AMF Victory Lanes, 2055 E. Victory Dr. 354-5710. meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 307 E. Harris St., second floor. For information, contact Mark at 441-4407.

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Memorial Health Bariatrics presents free informational sessions every Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Medical Education Auditorium.

Free. Call 350-DIET or visit bariatrics.memorialhealth.com.

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Health Department in Ludowici. Call 5422107 for appointments.

medical and surgical joint replacement. To register, call 350-3603.

Massage by Certified Massage Practitioner

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at your home, business or hotel in the Savannah and Richmond Hill area. He comes to you. Offers therapeutic and relaxing massage, Swedish massage, deep muscle, reflexology and energy balance.

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

Memorial Health blood pressure check are offered free every Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at GenerationOne. 3507587.

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Memorial Health CPR training 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 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 Hemophilia Clinic will be held Wednesday, Nov. 16 from noon to 4 p.m. at Backus Children’s Hospital Outpatient Center. Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285.

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

will meet Wednesday, Nov. 16 from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Cancer Institute Conference Room at Memorial Health. This group is for people whose lives have been touched by cancer. Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

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 StepOne Community Lecture Dr. Brad Heiges, an orthopedic surgeon, will talk about risk factors of arthritis of the back, back pain, its prevention and medical and contemporary options for spinal surgery on Tuesday, Nov. 15 from 6:15-7:30 p.m. at the Medical Education Auditorium at Memorial Health. To register, call Connie at 350-9378.

The Midwife Group 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 information on a certified nurse midwife-assisted birth, whether at a birth center or area hospital. Call 8264155.

Natural Family Planning Class will be offered by the Savannah Catholic Diocese on Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. The cost is $75 per couple. Call 819-3368.

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.

Lectures Eugene Ballard, Black Expatriate is a lecture that will be presented by Craig Lloyd Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at Hodgson Hall, Whitaker Street headquarters of the Georgia Historical Society. Call 651-2125 or visit www.georgiahistory.com.

Noted Anthropologist to Speak dr. Thomas de Zangotita, a contributing editor of Harper’s, will speak at Savannah Country Day School on Monday, Nov. 14.

He will discuss the effects of media on our lives. Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door. Call 961-8828. t

Readings & Signings A.W.O.L. -- All Walks of Life, Inc.

is a spoken word troupe that hosts an open mic night every third Sunday at the Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Free and open to the public.

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.

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.

Participants can talk about any book.

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.

Religious & Spiritual Chanted Office of Compline The Service of Compline, “Saying good night to God,” is chanted Sunday evenings at 9 p.m. by the Compline Choir of Christ Church Savannah (Episcopal), located on Johnson Square.

Christian Businessmen’s Committee meets for a prayer breakfast every Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. at Peggy Lynn’s Country Cooking, 3718 Ogeechee Rd. Call 964-4297.

Ekklesia, The Church Do church in a casual and relaxed setting on Saturday nights. Fellowship begins at 6 p.m., praise and worship at 6:30 p.m. in the BSU building on Abercorn between the Publix Shopping Center and the Armstrong campus. Call 596-4077.

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) meet Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 W. President St., Savannah. Call Janet Pence at 652-3496.

SGI-USA Savannah an American Buddhist movement for word peace, will hold an afternoon of music, poetry, dance and international food on Nov. 13 at 2 p.m. at the Frank G. Murray Community Center on Whitemarsh Island.

Call 898-8211.

Savannah Buddhist Sitting Group meets Sundays from 9-10:30 a.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, on Habersham Street at East Harris and East Macon Streets, on Troup Square.

Please arrive and be seated no later than 8:55 a.m. Sitting and walking meditation and Dharma talk or reading. All practices are welcome. Newcomers should contact Cindy Beach, lay ordained Soto Zen Buddhist, at 429-7265 for sitting instruction.

Unitarian Universalist Beloved Community Church Affirming the worth and dignity of every person. On Nov. 13, Dr. Margy Betz will present Thomas Merton: Healing Our Image of God. The church is located at the corner of Houston and Oglethorpe streets. Creating a Peaceable Kingdom is the curriculum for K-12 youth in the religious education program. Services are held Sundays at 10 a.m. Call 233-6284 or send e-mail to UUBC2@aol.com.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah A liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. On Nov. 13 at 11 a.m., the Rev. Joan Kahn-Schneider will speak from the topic, House Language. The church has moved to a temporary home at the Congregation Mickve Israel, 20 E. Gordon St. on Monterey Square. For information, call 234-0980, or send e-mail to uusav@comcast.net or visit www.jinglebellchurch org. The Uncommon Denomination.

Wildwood United Methodist Church invites you to its morning worship at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday followed by Sunday morning worship fellowship at 10:30 a.m. and Sunday School at 10:45 a.m. Wildwood UMC is located at 4912 Garrard Ave. east of the south end of the Chatham Parkway.

Tongues of Fire: erotic poetry

Woodlawn United Methodist Church

will be held the third Monday of each month from 8-11 p.m. at 800 E. Derenne Ave. Poets should stop by by 7 p.m. The fee is $5 general admission and $2 for poets. All are welcome regardless of race, sexual orientation or class. For directions, call 354-1678 or 352-2134.

Women’s Bible Study

Sunday school is at 9:45, worship at 10:50 a.m. and 6 p.m. 2502 Highway 80, Garden City. at the Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers. Call 447-5711 or stop by 1601 Drayton Street. ◗

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Regretfully offered for sale: 1978 Porsche 911 SC. Grandchildren have changed my priorities. Over $20,000 invested. Have owned car for 5 years. Asking $11,500.

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305 W Duffy St. New condo conversion.

Gracious entrance foyer to three residential units with 1 BR each. Separate street entrance to commercial unit with attached living space.

High ceilings, multiple fireplaces, w/d, dishwasher, hardwood floors, ch /a, private porch and off-street parking. Priced from $129,500.00.

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810 Maupas Ave. Baldwin Park at its best! Pride of ownership shows in this 3 bedroom, 2 baths home. This home has been completely renovated and offers many extras. An awesome kitchen with an island and maple countertops, living room with a wood burning fireplace, hardwood floors, brick construction, metal roof and a 1 car garage with ample off street parking. You will truly want to call this home. Offered at $229,500.

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Mid-Century Modern Masterpiece. Built in 1958 this sprawling split level home has vaulted ceilings, terrazzo floors, shag carpet and a redwood sauna. There is a spacious sunk-in LR w/FP, separate dining room and family room which overlook the rear garden. Two master suites, two additional bedrooms, 3.5 baths in over 4000 sq. ft.. Owner/Agent $525,000.00 Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty*

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1601 E 59 St Absolutely like brand new. Move in ready.

Totally remodeled brick home with very tasteful touches throughout. Offering 3 bedrooms, beautiful new bathrooms, tile floors, new carpets, and garage. Located on a very large private lot. Easy Living at just $137,500.

Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty*

101 W Broughton St. 299,000.

1187 sq.ft. with great views!

One bedroom/one bath condo.

Very spacious! Must see.

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519 E. 45th Street Wonderful family home in Ardsley Park with 4 bedrooms and 4 baths. Includes is a secret garden, bricked private patio, and an apt. rented for $900 per month. Totally restored to perfection!

Call for a private showing. Priced to sell at $560,000.

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515 E Huntingdon St. A free standing 2 story home, and a great buy in the Historic District. 2 bedrooms/1.5 baths, screened large porch overlooking the fenced courtyard. heartpine floors, 3 fireplaces and high ceilings. Move in condition! $223,900.

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321 Drayton Street.

An oasis in the middle of downtown! 2 BR 1 BA condo with wide plank hardwood floors, fully furnished kitchen, large bath, 2 fireplaces, ample closet space and private courtyard! All appliances, including washer/dryer, included. $210,000.00.

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912-604-8177 Re/Max Savannah 355-7711or visit www.SavannahGARealtor.com* 505 Pinecrest Court.

Southern Living in Pooler!

Beautifully designed and decorated, this 3 BR 2 BA is ready to move in, with brand new kitchen and updated baths, and a 16 X 20 covered terrace for outdoor entertaining. Home warranty included! $142,000.00 Shelley Carroll Lowther

912-604-8177 Re/Max Savannah 355-7711or visit www.SavannahGARealtor.com* 105 West Congress Street Suite B. Only commercial condo left in beautifully restored building.

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2033 SKIDAWAY RD- 2bd, 1ba, $650.00 317 W WALDBURG- Apart B 3bd, 1ba $ 800.00 2136 TEXAS AVE- Apart B 1bd,1ba, $495.00 1628 E 51ST ST- 3bd, 2ba, $1100.00

401 N. CROMWELL ROAD #R8 THE COMMONS 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo. French doors leading to screened porch, washer/dryer, kitchen nook. $875/mo.

2612 WHATLEY Unit 11- 3bd, 2ba, $1,000.00 2812 WHATLEY-3bd, 2ba, $1,100.00 3218 WOODLAWN – 3bd, 2ba, $1,100.00

19 EAST 63RD STREET 4 bedroom, 2 bath home approx. 2,700 sq. ft. Large rooms, balcony overlooking family room with fireplace, large kitchen next to sunroom, large fenced yard, patio with wet bar $1,700/mo.

204B WEST DUFFY 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. Open living room, kitchen area, central heat and air, washer/dryer. $650/mo.

315 WEST TAYLOR STREET 2 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath townhome, living room, kitchen with convection oven, side by side, washer/dryer, dining room with columns, garage parking, shared courtyard. $2,025/mo. Free months rent with 12 month lease.

501 EAST BROUGHTON STREET Parlor apartment. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath townhome, living room, furnished kitchen, deck, washer/dryer, 1 off-street parking space. Available December 1st. $1,500/mo.

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ISLANDS 103 OYSTER SHELL RD-3bd, 2ba condo-$995.00 4 TEAKWOOD RD- 3bd, 2ba, $1,375.00 115 SYCAMORE CROSSING- 3bd, 2ba, $1,100.00 32 MAPMAKER LN- 3bd, 2ba, appt only$900.00 15 ROPEMAKER COURT- 4bd, 2ba, $1050.00 110 SOUTH SHEFTALL- 3bd, 2ba, $1,100.00 32 HIGHPOINT- 3bd, 2ba, $1,150.00 (avail Oct) 40 BRYANWOOD- 4bd, 2 ba, $1,000.00 6 N CROMWELL- 3 bd, 2 ba, $1050.00

SOUTHSIDE 129 RED FOX- 3bd, 2ba, $1,250.00 11 OAKMOUNT RD- 3bd, 2ba, $1,375.00 10 PUTTERS PLACE- 3bd, 2.5ba, $1200.00 9 DELMAR- 3bd, 1.5ba, ($950.00) 165 GREENBRIAR CT- 3bd, 2ba, $850.00 2 RUSTIC LN -3bd, 2ba, $1050.00 31 BRISTLE CONE- 4 bd, 2.5 ba, $1375.00

WESTSIDE 5 WESTBOURNE-3 bd, 2 ba, $1175.00 25 FAIRGREEN -3 bd, 2 ba, $1175.00

HINESVILLE 703 OLMSTEAD-3bd, 2ba, $750.00 ( Appt )

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residence with some work.

Secure entry, hardwood floors, tin ceilings, and a great central location! $195,000.00.

Shelley Carroll Lowther

912-604-8177 Re/Max Savannah 355-7711or visit www.SavannahGARealtor.com* 114 Stockbridge.

Convenient and desirable Georgetown location!

3 BR 2 BA updates home is in move-in condition!

Run--- don’t walk! This one will not last long!

Shelley Carroll Lowther

912-604-8177 Re/Max Savannah 355-7711or visit www.SavannahGARealtor.com* PRICED WELL BELOW APPRAISED VALUE! Newly built Hallmark home in Southern Woods at Rice Mill is priced almost $20,000 below value! 4 BR 2.5 BA with wood floors, and new everything!

This is a must see! A great home at a great price! $299,900.00

230 BULL STREET #1 Spacious 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment.

Approx. 1,000 sq. ft. Great location. $1,200/mo.

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231A ABERCORN STREET 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. Living room, furnished kitchen, no pets, great location. $800/mo.

Jefferson Commons Be the first to own one of these six - 2 bedroom, 2 bath condos in the heart of the Historic District. Conveniently located close to SCAD. Features 4 fireplaces, spiral stair case, granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances.

Gated, off street parking. $196,000 each Alexander Grikitis 912220-1700 The Coastal Real Estate Group*

10 LEACH DRIVE 3 bedroom, 2 bath home in Paradise Park.

Living room with gas fireplace, hardwood floors, dining room, eat-in kitchen, washer/dryer connection, central heat and air, pet ok. $850/mo.

303B EAST HENRY STREET 2 bedrooms, 1 bath apartment, eat-in kitchen, washer/dryer connection, dishwasher, living room, bonus room, 2 offstreet parking spaces. $825/mo.

326 PRICE STREET 2 bedroom, 1 bath townhome, living room, dining room, furnished kitchen, hardwood floors, washer/dryer connections, courtyard. Available mid December. $900/mo.

1312 LINCOLN STREET 3 story, 3 bedroom, 2 bath apartment, living room, alarm system, washer and dryer. $950/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. (SCAD Students $650/mo.)

2314 BARNARD STREET 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, living room, kitchen with gas stove, hardwood floors, central heat and air, washer and dryer, small deck. $1,200/mo.

20 E. OGLETHORPE

W E L L home. Wood floors throughout, plaster walls and 4 fireplaces.

Located in an area of active restoration and growth. Great single family or convert to a duplex. $175,000 Alexander Grikitis 912220-1700 Coastal Real Estate Group*

518 East Duffy Street A beautiful newly redone home with 3 bedrooms, 1 bath. Kitchen has a sub zero fridge, dishwasher, honed granite countertops and travertine floors.

The rest of the house has original heart of pine floors, plaster walls in good shape, and 3 fireplaces. W/D included.

Currently rents for $1,000 month. $225,000 Alexander Grikitis 912-220-1700 Coastal Real Estate Group*

234-0606 4908 Bull Street Studio apartment with full bath, kitchen w/stove & fridge, utilities paid, off street parking. Close to Montgomery Hall. Pet friendly apartment. $500/mo.

1338 1/2 East Victory Drive Cute 1 BR, 1 Bath, Eat-in-kitchen w/stove & fridge, hardwood floors, window heat & air units, views of Daffin Park, steps away from Spin City, off street parking. Pet friendly apartment. $525/mo.

15 Berkley Place Large 2 BR, 1 Bath, separate dining area, hardwood floors, W/D connections, central H/A, total electric, off street parking.

Quiet neighborhood and close to Montgomery Hall. Pet friendly apartment. $625/mo. Available December.

702 Maupas Avenue Large 3 BR, 1 BA apartment in Baldwin Park with formal dining room, breakfast room, sun room, small bonus room, hardwood floors, cenral H/A, W/D connections, small backyard, off street parking. Pet-friendly apartment. $875/mo. Available midDecember.

14 -16 West 40th Street In the heart of the Starland District. Beautifully renovated 2BR, 1BA, with formal DR, refinished heart pine flooring, ceiling fans, new bathroom & kitchen with ceramic tile floors, C/H/A, total electric and security system. Separate laundry room, private courtyard and front and rear balconies. Petfriendly apartment. $875/mo. Currently under renovations.

Available January 2006.

320 East Victory Drive Corner of Habersham Street. Over 2,000 sq. ft. of spacious living, 3 BR, 2 BA apartment with fireplace in formal living room. Formal dining room, sun room, large kitchen with stove & refrigerator, breakfast nook with butler’s pantry, central H/A, W/D connections, parking in the rear. Pet-friendly apartment. $975/mo.

1112 East Victory Drive

17 East 33rd St.

518East Henry Street A duplex in the Historic District close to SCAD. Newly re-done and ready to move in to.

Two 2 bedroom, 1 bath units with W/D and all new appliances. In addition, this duplex has cedar closets, new carpet and parking in the rear. $235,000 Alexander Grikitis 912220-1700 The Coastal Real Estate Group*

bustle. Three +/- 5 acre lots available.

Lot 1 has a pond. Be the first to choose the one you want.

Call LaTrelle @ 658-7777, ERA Adams-Pevey Realty

826-2550. Prices starting as low as $35,000.

A-4295*

Large 3 bedroom/2 1/2 bath home with great room, heated sun room and large office/den.

Master bedroom has 2 walk in closets and master bath has double sinks with cultured marble vanity and separate water closet. 3 stall barn has tack, feed and tool rooms utilizing approx. 1440 sq. feet.

Pasture is approx 2 ? fenced acres and pond is approx 1/3 acre.

Call LaTrelle @ 658-7777 for your personal viewing of this lovely property.

Offered for only $324,900 H-New. ERA Adams-Pevey Realty

826-2550 *

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513 East 36th Street A charming 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath cottage nestled near a park. Offers the closeness of downtown without the price.

Recently renovated kitchen and baths.

Great for 1st time buyers or student rentals. $112,000 Alexander Grikitis 912220-1700 Coastal Real Estate

Custom country 3 bed/2bath home on 2 plus acres.

Second floor overlooking great room and cathedral ceiling. Front great room features a clerestory that illuminates the open great room. Upstairs master retreat has loft/study that can be converted into additional bedroom.

For your personal showing of this lovely property call LaTrelle @658-7777 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty

826-2550 $254,900 H-4309 *

Investors/First Time Home Buyers 3 bedrooms/1 bath in Desirable neighborhood. Eat in kitchen, separate Dining room, outside storage building and carport.

Owner is a licensed Real Estate Broker. H4201 Call LaTrelle @ 658-7777 $82,900 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty

826-2550 *

Beautifully appointed custom built Savannah Grey Brick 3 bed/ 2 bath home.

Hardwood and ceramic tile floors. 10 ft. ceilings with crown molding. Custom built cabinets and bookshelves.

Separate Dining Room.

22 x 33 all brick patio overlooking golf course with private Lagoon view. Many custom features set this home apart.

Call LaTrelle for a personal viewing @ 658-7777 H-4226 $289,500 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty

826-2550 * Beautiful low country on large wooded lot, large bonus, master on main has master bath with double vanities, whirlpool and walk in marble shower.

Kitchen has island, large pantry and bay window. Eating area and screened porch off of kitchen.

Call LaTrelle @ 658-7777 for your personal showing. $282,900

Great 3 bed/2 bath starter home in desirable Rincon neighborhood. Separate L.R., Den, And Country kitchen. Covered patio and large fenced yard.

Call LaTrelle for your personal showing @658-7777 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty

826-2550 H4262 $112,900 *

ERA Adams-Pevey Realty

826-2550 H-4310 *

R E D U C E D !

Beautiful view overlooking 4 th Tee, fairway and lake.

Foyer, Formal D.R., L.R. with f/place and cathedral c e i l i n g s .

3bdrms/2baths,bonus room with walk in attic.

Hardwood flooring.

Spacious master bdrm.

Jacuzzi/double vanities In master bath. Many extras H-4185.

Call LaTrelle@ 658-7777 $299,900

Welcome to the Country! Build your new home in the peaceful country. 4 lots with acreage between 5.05 and 7.52 acres. in Register, Ga., near Statesboro – Horses welcome - call today, don’t delay. Prices range from $28,000 to $42,000.

Plats are available in the office.

LaTrelle Pevey @ 658-7777 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty

826-2550 A-4239*

ERA Adams-Pevey Realty

407 East 34th Street Arts & Crafts details in this 3 bedroom, 1 bath

Staged for Country Pleasure; A welcome escape from the city

826-2550 * Reduced!

Reduced!

Stop renting! 3 bed-

D I room, 2bath double wide in sought after area, offers1680 sq.ft of living area, large lot , 1.61 acres, dining, and family rooms, home warranty and more. $79,999.

Call LaTrelle Pevey 658-7777, ERA Adams-Pevey Realty

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826-2550 H-4104* Staged for Country Pleasure; A welcome escape from the city bustle. Three +/- 5 acre lots available.

Lot 1 has a pond. Be the first to choose the one you want.

Call LaTrelle Pevey 658-7777,

626 East 53 rd Street Reduced!

Arts & Crafts lovers take note: charming 1939 bungalow awaits your loving hand! Many original features: oak & heart pine floors, 4over-1 windows, front porch & brick fireplace. With 3BR/2BA & 1634sf, it won’t last at this price! $214,500.

Katherine W. Oxnard, Keller Williams Realty C.A.P. (912) 704-3545/ 356-5001. katherineoxnard@kw.com www.kw.com.*

514-516 East Bolton Street SCAD rental-a-go-go!

Charming Victorian quadplex of fers 4500sf, strong rental history and a buildable side lot—for less. Property for sale next door: nearly the same price for half the space and no lot! $399,000.

Katherine W. Oxnard, Keller Williams Realty C.A.P. (912) 704-3545/ 356-5001. katherineoxnard@kw.com www.kw.com*.

ERA Adams-Pevey Realty

826-2550. Prices starting as low as $35,000. A-4295* Welcome to the Country! Build your new home in the peaceful country. 4 lots with acreage between 5.05 and 7.52 acres. in Register, Ga., near Statesboro ? Horses welcome call today, don?t delay. Prices range from $28,000 to $42,000.

Plats are available in the office.

Call LaTrelle Pevey 658-7777 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty

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314 West Penrose Drive Reduced!

Square footage to spare! Huge Brick Colonial offers 4226sf, 6BR, 3 full and 2 half baths, mother-in-law suite, eat-in country kitchen, barbecue pit, 2-car carport & fireplace. Hard to find this much room for the price anywhere on the islands! $375,000.

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409 Cranman Drive The best of both worlds: a well-built ’50s ranch with 21 st century updates! Many new features in this 3BR/1 bath home: roof, windows, siding, appliances, water heater, carpet and vinyl tile.

Huge garage w/ pulldown attic for storage, fenced yard and gorgeous live-oak lined street. A must see! $130,000.

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6007 Waters Avenue A jewelbox of a house!

Make this former Low Countr y parson’s house the cottage of your dreams. Original tabby exterior, 2BR/1 bath, new appliances incl. dishwasher & washer/dryer and a large fenced yard with shed make this great as a starter home or investment proper ty (currently rented for $700 month-tomonth). $90,000.

Katherine W. Oxnard, Keller Williams Realty C.A.P. (912) 704-3545/ 356-5001. katherineoxnard@kw.com www.kw.com*.

214 Virginia Avenue Charming Gordonston at it's best! This 2BR/1BA bungalow sits on a great corner lot and offers a den, office space, new HVAC and a dressing room off the master bedroom. Only 2 blocks from a great private park. With some minor TLC, you can make this your dream home! Just $175,000 Call Sheri or Sonja at 236-1000*

2210 Atlantic All American Bungalow Charming Baldwin Park bungalow, white picket fence and all!

This adorable home has been renovated and offers 2BR/1BA, wrap-around porch, marble accents, new kitchen appliances

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and much, much more! Large 60 x 100 lot is great for all kinds of entertaining. Truly a Gem! Make this your home for $124,900.

Call Lori Judge or Sheri Cermak 236-1000* Duplex Deal - 1113 East Park Ave. "Two" 2BR/1BA units ready for renovation. Live in one side while you rent the other.

Situated on a double lot in an active area of renovation. Asking $75,000 Call Lori Judge 484-1514 *

660 East 39th Street Renovated building on huge lot is a great opportunity for investors! Zoned R4 with 3 rental units will have you cash flowing immediately.

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Charming 3BR/1BA bungalow in the Eastern Victorian District is completely renovated and ready to move in. New fixtures, hardwood floors, central heat and air, electric and plumbing system.

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Secluded 65.55 acres gives you plenty of privacy. Great for the hunter who desires his very own hunting club.

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1992 Fleetwood manufactured 3 bed 2 bath home situated beautifully on 6.96 acres 2 of which are fenced in great for your animals!

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Workshed 20x20 w/concrete floor, and 40x40 carport. All this for only $79,000.

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10 + acres, pond, tack room, field room, arena, 4 completed stalls with 4 more available. Home has 3beds/ 3baths and approx. 2300 sq. feet; 9 ft. ceilings, hardwood flooring, surround sound, screened back porch and custom cabinets in kitchen. All for only $309,900.

Call LaTrelle Pevey 658-7777.

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3115 CASINO An adorable quintessential river cottage located in Historic Thunderbolt.

This home is open, bright, and airy and has been completely updated and offers you separate living/dining rooms, 2 or 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, a large updated kitchen, separate laundry room, storage shed with electricity and a well landscaped and fenced rear yard. It's oozing with charm and only a stone's throw from Historic River Drive. Don't even think twice, call me now! $179,900. Call William at 912-412-5517.

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138 Walz Circle Totally Redone Starter Home or Investment Property. New Roof, paint, tile flooring and door. 3br/1.5ba, eat-in kitchen, large yard.

Asking $126,500.

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1 Moss Hammock Lane One of few remaining lots at the Landings.

Corner lot in upscale neighborhood, custom Home plans available.

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Asking $185,900.

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311 W. Henry Completely renovated triplex near SCAD, with great rental history. Two cottages are 2BR/1BA units and one cottage is 3BR/1BA unit. All

Katherine W. Oxnard 3 Oglethorpe Professional Drive Savannah ,GA 31406 Mobile : (912) 704-3545 E-mail:katherineoxnard@kw.com Office: (912) 356-5001 Website: www.kw.com Fax: (912) 356-5101

3107 Waters Ave. Adorable 4BR/2BA brick bungalow in Ardsley Park.

Price includes bungalow and Ardlsey Park Coin Laundry business and building at 3107 Waters Ave. Live in bungalow while you run your own successful business! Won't last! $375,000 Call Judge Realty 236-1000* 307 Briarcliff Circle Windsor Forest Easy walk to Windsor Forest Elementary and Windsor Forest High School! 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, living room, dining room, den and family room. New carpet and garage has been converted into a nice family room. Two car carport and a fenced in backyard with metal storage building. Roof and AC compressor 1 year old and house is well above grade with no flooding problems.

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Call Betty Stevenson at 912-351-0510 or 912-224-5200.* Super Floor Plan 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths. Includes extra

lot. Midtown 2864 sq. ft. heated. 2 car garage &breezeway. $359,000 Asking price.

Call Betty Stevenson with Prudential at 912351-0510 or 912-224-5200 * 307 E 51st Totally renovated Ardsley Park home just steps from McCauley Park.

3 bedrooms, sunroom, fabulous kitchen with island is a cook's dream. Fenced yard, deck, off street parking. It's even wired for sound and has a new roof!

Reduced to $249,000.

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730 E 48th Ardsley Park Great opportunity to buy in Ardsley for less!

Adorable 3 bedroom bungalow with all the details such as wood floors, high ceilings and front porch. This one even has off street parking, a garage, and wonderful courtyard with fountain. A little love and care will make this bungalow fabulous!

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27 E 55th Large Ardsley home with 3 bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths. Open floor plan is great for entertaining, wonderful kitchen with Italian c a b i n et s , S i l e s to n e counters, and stainless steel appliances.

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18 E 41st Starland Design District Classic Victorian beauty with fully restored exterior in area of high interest and active restoration and new construction. Original details abound including restored standing seam roof, and heart pine floors. Buyer to complete interior.

Call Lisa Moore at 441-9314 or visit

2 1/2 YEARS IN BUILDING! Finished with the finest materials! Live in the elegant 3 story space plus a carriage house apartment or rent the garden level as a second apartment. This acclaimed jewel sets a standard!

Price includes rowhouse off square with walled courtyard, carriage house apartment, and nicely finished 2-car garage. $699,000. 547 E. Perry Street. 912-236-7840

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626 E. 53 rd St Arts & Crafts lovers take note: charming 1939 3BR/2 bath bungalow awaits your loving hand! Many original features: oak & heart pine floors, 4-over-1 windows, front porch & brick fireplace. A bargain in Ardsley! Offered at $214,500

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Superb Commercial space available for Sale or Lease, Located near forsyth park. Aprox. 1500 Sq.Ft, w/ lots of parking.Front and rear access, high traffic area.

Contact: 912-220-1020 Residential & Commercial development potential. 10,500 sq. feet lot!

734 E 48th Street Ardsley Park Coin Laundry Price includes 4BR/2BA brick bungalow at 734 E. 48th St. and Laundry Mat at 3107 Waters Avenue.

Live in bungalow while you run your own successful business! $375,000 Call Judge Realty 236-1000* 107 Whitaker St. Commercial space basement level. Brick walls and unfinished.

4764 sq.ft. in a great location corner of Whitaker and Broughton.

Great investment opportunity. $595000.

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517 East Harris Street FURNISHED, month to month rental and a great house. 3 story free standing home with enclosed porch, 3 bedrooms, one used for an excercise room, 2 fireplaces, 3 full baths, 2 half baths, 2 off street parking spaces and fenced and gated courtyard.

Move right in, everything you need is there. $1800 per month.

Call Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912 507-9800 * Wilmington Island 6523 Concord Road Adorable 3BR/2BA House, Large Fenced Back Yard, Hot Tub, 2 Car Garage $1800/month Call Judge Realty 236-1000.* 1315 S.E. 36th Street Newly Renovated 2BR/1BA House with Central Heat & Air, Washer/Dryer, Front Porch and much more! Move in today for only $625/month Call Judge Realty 236-1000* 409 East 58th Street Ardsley Park This adorable 2BR/1BA has been renovated and offers hardwood floors, new appliances, large kitchen and spacious back yard. Can be a 3 Bedroom if needed.

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925 E/ 37th Street Large commercial property. over 13,000 square feet. A lot of potential!

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this home. $850/month Call Judge Realty 236-1000* 13 East 58th Street Ardsley Park Great spacious 3BR/2BA home in beautiful Ardsley offers over 2,000 square feet of space. Can be made into 4 Bedrooms if needed. Home has been renovated and features new appliances and large, open f l o o r p l a n . $1,200/month Call Judge Realty 236-1000*

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Come view this finely appointed 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bath all brick home, sitting on a spacious lot across from the club. Cherry cabinets, trey ceilings, corian counter tops, cultured marble in baths, hardwood floors, ceramic tile and oversized 3 car garage. Surround sound speakers inside and out. Call LaTrelle for your personal viewing @ 658-7777. $291,900 H-4337

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ARDSLEY PARK; 3 bedroom. 1108 E. 51st St. Washer/dryer, fenced backyard, CHA, off street parking, $900/month. 596-1355.

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Apartments for Rent 319 East Waldburg St. Great location near Forsyth Park, SCAD, & Kroger. Newly renovated duplex, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, LR, Large kitchen, washer/dryer, H/W floors, Cen H/A, 2 F/P, Large back Porch, courtyard, and Offstreet parking. $1200.00 Contact: 912-220-1020, fvenetico@hotmail.co m* 138 W. 51st Street.

Newly renovated duplex, across SCAD's Montgomery Hall Bldg.

3 bedroom, 1 bath, Bonus Room, LR, kitchen, washer/dryer, H/W floors, Cen H/A, Courtyard & offstreet parking $850/month Contact: 912-220-1020 or 912-484-5181 fvenetico@hotmail.com *

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Front and back porches, washer & dryer hookup, off-street parking, courtyard and MUCH more. Must See! Please call 912247-8164. * SPACIOUS 1500 + Sq. ft. Gordonston Duplex for rent. 2 bedroom, 1 bath including all appliances and washer/dryer. Water also included. Very clean and in superb c o n d i t i o n . $375/deposit $750/rent.

2227 Alabama Ave. Call 912692-2201.

Historic District two bedroom, one bath, newly renovated, wood & tile floors, all appliances included, washer/dryer, dishwasher, CHA, security door & bars. Pets negotiable.

504-C East Duffy St. $820/month + security deposit. Water & trash included. Call 912-2478216.

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HISTORIC DISTRICT 1310 E. HENRY ST. Four Units Available 2-bedroom, 1-bath apartments, 1200 sqft, separate living room, dining room.

Completely remodeled with Central Heat/Air, Washer/Dryer furnished, dishwasher, fireplace, kitchens by Ikea. Off-street parking, 6-month to oneyear leases. $750/month William 912-412-5517 or Lazaro @ 912-2720382.

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Water included, $475/month.

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109 Carolina Cherry Court – Pooler New listing in a great community. Immaculate and shows like a model! This 4BR/2BA home features a split floor plan, separate living and dining rooms, a family room and bonus room. Loaded with upgrades including hard wood floors, corian countertops, a marble Master bath, and pre-wiring for surround sound in the family room. Located on a lagoon.

Won’t last long! $279,500.

SUSAN ASON 308-1681 or LORI COMBS 596-0288.

“Traditional Ardsley Home” Lovely restored home near Hull Park, 3BR/2BA, with fenced yard, large deck, Koi pond and detached workshop.

Perfect move-in condition! 717 East 56th Street. Offered at $229,000. Christi Oates, 695-5945.

“Desirable Isle of Hope” Florida style ranch home with marsh view, 3BR/2BA on 1/3 acre lot. Enjoy perfect peace and beautiful nature just 7 minutes from downtown. 7424 Hemlock Avenue. Offered at $225,000.

Christi Oates, 695-5945.

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2509 Alabama Avenue Cute bungalow style house with 3 bedrooms, 1 bath.

Includes separate living and dining rooms, hardwood floors, a fenced-in yard and detached garage. Renovated within the last five years. Owner/Agent $91,300.

Elizabeth Lee 844-4741.

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388 BELTED KING FISHER LANE Magnificent estate-sized lot on the 6th fairway of the Ogeechee Golf Club at the Ford Plantation.

Heavily wooded 2.93 acres priced far below appraised value.

Court order forces sale.

Price reduced.

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505 HARTRIDGE STREET A must see! Fantastic 2BR/1BA single family home in the Landmark Historic District. Vaulted ceilings, beautiful hardwood floors, gourmet kitchen, private back yard w/ deck, and offstreet parking. Walk to everything. Better than a condo at a condo price! $245,000. Nancy Krembs 657-4909.

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135 BULL RIVER BLUFF DRIVE Waterfront resort living at this price? Fabulous views of the pond, lagoon, marina, river and marsh!

2BR/2BA, new HVAC and kitchen appliances. 1st floor, no steps. Wonderful screened porch and deck.

Pristine condition. Hurry!

Won’t last! $179,500.

Nancy Krembs 657-4909 or Monica McGoldrick 667-7407.